Zhao Zhuang Village has an ancient well that is a thousand years old. In recent years, rumors have spread that the well possesses divine powers: all you have to do is throw in a livestock animal, and a woman will climb out. The bigger and more valuable the animal, the more beautiful the woman who emerges. Hearing this, farmers from nearby villages who can’t find wives and wealthy merchants looking for second wives flock there without end. Sure enough, whenever an animal is thrown in, a beautiful woman climbs out. Driven by greed, Shen Fengqi, the village’s peerless beauty, drugs her younger sister, wraps her in a dogskin, and throws her into the well, only to accidentally expose the scam. It turns out the well’s matchmaking miracle is just a scheme devised by the village to sell women for profit…6
