This is a true story that takes place in Liucun, his hometown, and in order to protect the privacy of the parties, the characters in the story are pseudonyms).
Speaking of which, that was twenty years ago.
In those years, in my hometown of rural northern Henan, it became popular to go to the city to work. Some talented people in Liucun, my hometown, have previously opened a brick kiln factory in our local area to burn bricks and tiles for construction, and they have rich experience in this area.
Later, due to poor management, most of the brick kiln factories went bankrupt, so they chose to work in the Jiangnan area, mainly in some brick kiln factories near Nanjing and Suzhou in Jiangsu Province, driving bulldozers or engaged in billet making. In the past few years, almost everyone's pockets have been bulging, and they have earned some yuan.
Of course, there are also those who have not made money, and Li Erhu, who is nicknamed the "wicked man" on Liucun Front Street, is the most typical one.
This Li Erhu has been pampered and lazy since he was a child. When I was a little older, I became addicted to gambling and mahjong again. Not only gambled in his hometown, but also gambled to work in Nanjing, so his monthly salary income was often beyond his means, and he often borrowed debts.
There are two flowers, one on each branch.
Liu Qingtong, a native of Liucun Backstreet, and Li Erhu are small, honest and honest farmers, kind and hardworking. In 2000, Liu Qingtong was introduced by Fa Xiao Li Erhu and went to a brick kiln factory in Nanjing to drive an excavator. Because of his hard work, he made some money. After having enough money, Liu Qingtong was especially grateful to his recommender Li Erhu, and often invited Li Erhu to drink and eat.
The root of the bane was quietly planted at this time.
Once drinking, both of them drank high. Li Erhu took advantage of the drunken heat, pretended to shed tears, and proposed that his son, who was going to college, had no money to pay tuition, so he asked Liu Qingtong to lend him 3,000 yuan to tide over the difficulties.
At that time, although Liu Qingtong had long known that Li Erhu had a bad reputation in this regard, and the money lent out might be meat buns and dogs, but he couldn't stand Li Erhu's seemingly sincere crying, and he was grateful that he was his own hair and recommender, so he agreed to the matter on the spot.
Later, after Li Erhu took Liu Qingtong's money, he also swore on the spot and made an oath, promising that he would return the money to Liu Qingtong before the New Year, that is, before the Spring Festival of that year.
Unexpectedly, in the Spring Festival of 2000, on the evening of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Erhu drank too much wine and drunkenly carried two pounds of dim sum fruits to Liu Qing's house. Liu Qingtong was very happy, thinking that Li Erhu came to repay the money as promised, and hurriedly asked his wife to stir-fry and drink hot wine to entertain him.
Unexpectedly, at the banquet, Li Erhu not only did not mention the matter of repaying the money, but also repeated the old trick, and once again cried with tears in his eyes that he had no money for his relatives to leave for the New Year, and wanted Liu Qingtong to lend him another 2,000 yuan.
At this point, Liu Qingtong finally understood that he was kind enough to raise a white-eyed wolf. was unceremoniously rejected Li Erhu's unreasonable request on the spot, and as a result, there was an unhappiness in the wine field.
Li Erhu also used the strength of the wine to scold and scold when he left, saying that as long as Liu Qingtong stopped lending him money in the future, the money he owed Liu Qingtong in the past would also be written off from now on.
After this incident, Li Erhu returned to Jiangnan to work, and when he saw Liu Qingtong again in the kiln factory, he really didn't care anymore, and he didn't mention anything about repaying the money. Liu Qingtong said that the two families planted the seeds of hatred in their hearts.
Although Liu Qingtong is honest, he is actually like a mirror in his heart.
He knew that the reason why Li Erhu didn't bird himself was because their Liu family was a single family in Liucun, and he only had a daughter who married out of town and a minor son.
And the Li family is a big family in Liucun, Li Erhu has five brothers, and he is the second. Among them, although Li Quanduo is not tall, he belongs to the temper of hemp straw, and he loves to play with kitchen knives when he comes up.
knew it, but Liu Qingtong still couldn't swallow this breath, and as soon as he thought of it, he closed the door and drank alone. Everyone did not expect that this resentment finally broke out on Chinese New Year's Eve in 2003.
That night that all Liucun people could not forget, was actually as dull as other Chinese New Year's Eve nights.
After Liu Qingtong and his son Liu Dayong had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, they couldn't help but think of the old incident three years ago, and the alcohol got into their brains, and they couldn't help but cry again.
Although his son Liu Dayong is not yet an adult, he is tall and strong, and he can't help it anymore when he sees his father's nest strength, and he is about to go to the back street to find Li Erhu desperately with a kitchen knife from the kitchen. What's worse is that Liu Qingtong's brain was hot at that time, and he relied on the strength of wine, so he went to the front street to settle accounts with Li Erhu!
As the saying goes, those who are horizontal are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of dying. Although Li Erhu was domineering, he was really scared when he heard that Liu Qingtong and his tall son traveled through most of the village together and smashed the door of his house with a kitchen knife, so he plugged the gate from the inside, and let the father and son scold outside the door, and they didn't dare to come out.
Maybe that's what people often sayAt the stall where Li Erhu was hiding at home, Li Quanduo, the fifth brother who was separated by a wall from his house, couldn't help it, and jumped out of the gate with a kitchen knife and scolded the father and son of the Liu family. Unexpectedly, Liu Dayong, who was quick-eyed, snatched the kitchen knife, waved the knife to scare Li Quanduo, saying that it was none of his business and letting him go home.
Li Quanduo has always been a master who eats soft and does not eat hard, and when he put his neck horizontally, he greeted Liu Dayong who was holding a knife, and shouted and scolded: "Little rabbit, borrow your guts, see if you dare to cut Lao Tzu and try!."”
Liu Dayong, who was angry from the side of the gall, was actually a hard stubble in his bones, and while he was drinking, he slashed down, hitting the major artery in Li Quanduo's neck, and the blood splashed high on the high telephone pole outside the door of his house. Li Quanduo let out a long sigh and died on the spot!
That night was extremely terrifying, and many farmers in his hometown of Liucun heard Li Quanduo's terrible ...... before he died
At that time, Li Erhu's wife heard his brother's screams, went out to check, and Liu Dayong, who was killed with red eyes, slashed his mouth, and the blood flowed.
As soon as Liu Dayong saw his life, he hurried home with his father Liu Qing, hurriedly packed up the soft at home, drove a three-horse car to his parents, and fled along Putai Road, and since then he has been like a yellow crane ......
Six years later, the police department searched for clues and arrested Liu Dayong and his father in Yantai, Shandong Province, according to a ** information that had frequent contact with Liu Dayong's aunt's family. At this time, Liu Dayong had married a wife and had children in Yantai, like a big family.
Because Liu Dayong was under the age of 18 at the time of the murder and was a minor, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later commuted to 15 years.
Li Quanduo's wife, after his tragic death, has remarried to another country. Leaving a son on a leash, he lives with his elderly grandfather in the countryside.
After the bloody case, the villain Li Erhu was in a panic all day long, and he died of illness within a few years, and he was not yet sixty years old when he died.
Just 3,000 yuan actually harmed three families. To this day, the farmers in their hometown of Liucun still sigh when they talk about this old incident
If Li Erhu could keep his promise and repay the money in time;If Li Quanduo could not be angry and go out that night;If Liu Dayong and his father hadn't drunk that night, they hadn't ...... on impulse
But how can there be so many ifs in this world?
At this point, a sigh!
end– vernacular proseAbout the Author
Bei Guoyu, Master of Arts, member of the Municipal Writers Association, middle school Chinese teacher. He has published a number of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, totaling more than 100,000 words.
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