On the first day of the new year, the matchmaker came to the Liu family with a bag of clothes and 20,000 yuan in cash, saying that the Zhu family was going to break off the engagement.
Aunt Liu asked: "Okay, the wedding date has been decided, why do you want to break off the engagement?"
The matchmaker said displeasedly: "Don't ask me what your old man does."
After saying that, he threw the money on the table and left angrily.
As soon as the matchmaker left, Aunt Liu burst into tears. While she was crying, she scolded Mr. Liu, saying, "Why don't you, old man, die?" No one in the village has received subsistence allowances, and no one has appealed. Only you can, go and appeal.
You are so capable that you found the county magistrate. You helped the whole village receive subsistence allowances, but you offended Village Chief Zhang. Do you still want to live in Zhangping? You old man doesn’t want to live in this life.
If you die, don't harm your son. Now that the third child's wife is gone, the eldest brother and the second child are already bachelors. Do you want the third child to be a bachelor too?
Liu Lao Mei was scolded by his wife until he was speechless. His heart was as sharp as a knife when he thought that the daughter-in-law whom the third son had finally found was gone again. Later, several of his sons also came to complain about Liu Lao Mei's fault, without even looking at it.
With our family status, why should we fight with Zhang Baojun? Look, this is just the beginning, we will suffer from it in the future.
At night, the more Liu Moi thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt, and the more he regretted it, and he couldn't fall asleep. At midnight, he held a rope in his hand and came to the window of Zhang Baojun's house. Seeing that the window was lit, he said loudly: "Zhang Cun
Sir, I am Mr. Liu, I did something wrong, I offended you, old man, I will apologize to you."
Zhang Baojun snorted coldly in the room and said: "You are right, you did the right thing, the county magistrate supports you, how can you be wrong? I don't dare to ask you to apologize, otherwise you will tell the county magistrate tomorrow that I bullied you."
You, I'm afraid I can't bear it."
Liu Lao Mei knelt down outside and said, "I know I was wrong. I don't dare to sue you anymore. Please let my family go. I kowtow to you."
As he spoke, he kowtowed, and his head hit the stone of the foundation with a loud bang. His forehead was bruised and his face was stained with tears.
Zhang Baojun snorted and said nothing. Zhu Xiaoyun said in a sharp voice: "Is it wrong to know now? It's too late. If I had known today, why bother?"
With that said, he closed the window with a "bang" sound.
"I can't live, I can't live." Liu Laomei murmured to himself and came to the tall gate of Zhang Baojun's house. There was a peach tree with a crooked neck in front of the gate. He threw the rope in his hand up to the trunk and tied it.
A slip knot was tied at the lower end, and he stretched his neck in. When his legs were retracted, the rope became tighter and tighter around his neck. He felt that he couldn't breathe out, but he still tried hard to retract his legs. He was afraid that if his legs were stretched out,
Then, like a strangled dog, it will catch its breath and die.
When people found him at dawn the next day, he had shrunk into a small, shriveled ball of flesh. From a distance, he looked like a tree knot hanging on a tree.
The next day, Zhang Baojun heard that Liu Lao Mei had hanged himself in front of his house, and he was still a little scared. Although he was bold and arrogant, he was not stupid. He knew that the country now talks about harmony, and as long as someone dies, it is a big deal.
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On the one hand, he let out the news that the third child of Liu Lao Mei's family had an affair, and he hanged himself after quarreling with his wife and couldn't think about it. The old man was dying and wanted to disgust himself. He couldn't die there, so he hanged himself in front of his house.
What bad luck.
On the other hand, he sent his wife Zhu Xiaoyun back to her parents' house to persuade her niece's family: Your family is going to break off the engagement, so why did you choose the first day of the Lunar New Year? Isn't this a deliberate embarrassment to the Liu family? Now something big has happened, Liu
I can't even think about hanging myself. Maybe your family will be sued and your fellow villagers will stab you in the back.
The Zhu family was also a poor family with no knowledge, so they immediately panicked. Zhu Xiaoyun gave them an idea and asked the matchmaker to go to the Liu family to negotiate a match and resume the marriage.
The matchmaker was a classmate of Zhang Baojun, and he had a very close relationship. He went to the Liu family and said that the Zhu family sympathized with the Liu family's poor third child and would not cancel the marriage, but the condition was that they would bring Liu Lao Mei back to see how he could be buried.
, I will never go against Zhang Baojun’s family again.
Aunt Liu and her three sons, although they felt that Liu Lao Mei was resentful for his death, he was already dead and could only think of the living. After some discussion, they agreed. The matchmaker then brought the clothes and 20,000 yuan that he had brought yesterday.
The yuan was brought back to the Zhu family.
Yesterday, the Liu family had visited Mr. Yin Yang, and the burial was scheduled for six o'clock today.
"You bitch, why are you talking so much nonsense? Why don't you come back?" The woman was talking cheerfully when a man in the room cursed angrily.
"Now you're saying I'm smelly. Why didn't you think I'm smelly when you fucked me just now?" The woman scolded back, smiled coquettishly at the two of them and said, "The man in my family is uneducated, which made the two eldest brothers laugh."
At this time, the door opened loudly, and a tall and thick man rushed in with his upper body naked. He grabbed the woman's clothes and pulled them inside. When the woman came out just now, she just covered her arms and did not button her buttons. When the man pulled, the woman
As soon as she broke free, she broke away from the red woolen coat and the small jacket inside. The woman, naked, screamed and fled into the back room. The man chased her back with the clothes.
Li and Lu walked out of the canteen with embarrassed expressions. Thinking of Liu Lao Mei's tragic experience, they became angrier. Li Wei said angrily: "This Zhang Baojun is so abominable, we must not let him go."
Lu Xuemin sighed and said: "But from what we know, although Liu Lao Mei committed suicide in front of his house, they cannot be held criminally responsible. What's more, Liu's family is not held accountable, and we have nothing to do."
Li Wei said: "Let's go to Liu's house and have a look."
The two of them followed the sound of sad music and came to Liu's house.
The Liu family is a low and narrow mud house with four low and narrow mud houses. It is surrounded by a courtyard wall, which is also made of mud. There are signs of repairs in several places. The gatehouse is also made of adobe. On the wall outside the gate, there is a white paper.
On the paper, Liu Lao Mei’s date of birth and death, as well as the time of May 7th, were written on it. This was equivalent to the farmer’s obituary.
The two of them walked into the yard following an old man carrying a roll of yellow paper.
The yard was quite large and messy. There was a row of earthen stoves built under the wall of the west courtyard. There was a charcoal fire in the stoves. There was a large pot on each earthen stove, and vegetables were cooked in the pot.
There was a large group of people busy in the yard, some were chopping vegetables, and some were washing rice. All the fallen snow turned into mud under their feet, and muddy water flowed everywhere in the yard.
The two followed the old man into the main room. There was a dark coffin placed against the wall of the main room. There was a broken mat in front of the coffin, with two couplets pasted on it. The first couplet was the time of Liu Lao Mei's birth, and the second couplet was the time of his death.
, the banner has the four small characters "End of life". In front of the dilapidated banquet is a square table, with a tablet written on white paper on it, and six plates of various fruits made with white flour.
The three sons of the Liu family knelt on both sides of the altar table, returning gifts from time to time to those who came to deliver paper.
After Li and Lu saw the old man in front of them put down the paper, they knelt on the straw mat in front of the table and kowtowed. After standing up, they bowed and bowed again. They also kowtowed to Liu Lao Mei's memorial tablet, and Liu Lao Mei bowed.
The three sons returned the gift numbly.
At this time, with a cry of "Dad——", a girl in black rushed in from the door.