There is such a story in Weixian County, Shandong Province during the Qing Dynasty. A man and a woman were childhood sweethearts. Due to the financial difficulties of the girl's family, the girl refused to be educated by a squire and fled into a nunnery, taking the Buddhist name Hui Neng. The man was disheartened and entered the monk's temple, where his Buddhist name passed away. At a temple fair, the two met unexpectedly and their feelings could not be suppressed. In the dead of night, they were talking about their years of bitterness under the locust tree in the backyard, but they were caught by the squire and turned away to the county government. Weixian County Magistrate Zheng Banqiao tried the case, and the squire said that all the witnesses and material evidence were present. Zheng Banqiao saw that these two people did not look like cunning people. After listening to their stories about their experiences, he knew that they had no choice but to enter Buddhism. Zheng Banqiao took action and sentenced them to return to secular life and get married.
