Originally Posted by
kidd
The article just said He Sheng was framed by a rich guy, but why did the rich guy frame him?
There is actually no explicitly-stated connection between the rich guy who framed him and the reason why the rich guy did so.
But here are 2 lines (in the sequence they appeared in the story) that you will find helpful:
(1)
他的未婚妻给财主少爷娶了去做继室.
His fiancee had been taken by the son of the rich man as his second wife, for the first wife had passed away.
(2)
他从牢里出来之后,知道这一切都是那财主少爷陷害.
After coming out of jail, he found out that he had been framed by the son of the rich man.
Therefore, a logical reading would eventually lead to this conclusion: That the son of the rich man framed He Sheng because he wanted to marry He Sheng's pretty fiancee.