Volume 1 Chapter 007: Natural Disaster
Liu Zian's voice was trembling. He said that his third aunt had two sons, the older one was the same age as him, and they were visiting here these days. But somehow, that night, his cousin got drunk and went crazy. He rushed out and beat everyone he saw, and ended up falling down accidentally. It just so happened that there was a long nail where he fell, and it went straight through his skull, and he died without even a scream.
I said this kind of thing seems like a coincidence, but it's actually not uncommon. Our family has received several similar cases before.
Liu Zian did not refute me, but continued to speak in a daze: "The next day at noon, my brother fell from the balcony and died." His voice was trembling, and his body was shaking violently. "He was only five years old, and his neck was broken. It was such a tragic death!"
I was silent for a while, wondering if the ancestors of the Liu family must have done something unscrupulous, which is why their descendants kept getting into trouble.
Liu Zian's eyes were red. "Ever since my brother and cousin got into trouble, my grandmother has been devastated. She's been yelling and swearing every day, and she wants to pull my cousin's body out of the coffin and grind it into ashes."
I felt cold at heart when I heard this: "What's wrong with this old woman in your family? Isn't the granddaughter her blood? Even though the person is dead, they still want to grind his bones and scatter his ashes. How vicious is that!"
Liu Zi'an looked embarrassed and said that there was a reason for this. His grandmother believed that the deaths of her two grandsons were caused by her cousin and that it was her cousin's evil ghost who was seeking revenge.
"This old woman is really sick! Why don't you send her to a mental hospital?" I wanted to curse when I heard that. What kind of rotten person is this?
Liu Zi'an's face turned red and he said that someone came to the house later and stopped the old lady.
I was moved and asked who was coming. He said he didn't know exactly.
All they said was that this man was about fifty years old, tall and thin, with neatly combed hair , wearing glasses, and had a bookish look on his face, like a scholar. The Liu family was very respectful to this man, and even his grandmother came out to greet him in person.
"Later, on my way to see my brother's remains, I suddenly fainted and lay in bed for several days. After I woke up, my father assigned me a task and asked me to take people to deliver a coffin."
Next thing I knew, this idiot brought the coffin to my house!
"Can...can you give me something to eat..." Liu Zian said this, a little out of breath, and licked his lips.
I saw that his face was yellow and his lips were chapped, and he was indeed in a state of mental fatigue, so I said, "Since you have a good attitude in explaining your situation, you just wait!"
I went into the kitchen and cooked him a bowl of noodles, of course boiled in plain water, with just a little oil and salt. At this time, Uncle San also got up, washed his face, came to sit in the main room, and told me to untie the rope on Liu Zian.
I brought the noodles over and put them on the table, untied the man named Liu, and brought him a chair so that he could sit down and eat.
The man was indeed very hungry, and he wolfed down the boiled noodles. But when he was almost done, he suddenly remembered something and said with a pale face, "This...this oil..."
I was stunned for a moment, then realized what Liu was thinking. I smiled strangely and said, "How is it? Doesn't it taste good?"
The man surnamed Liu almost vomited at that time. Fortunately, after I explained it to him, he wiped the sweat off his face with a pale face.
While Liu Zian was eating noodles, I told Uncle San what I had just heard. Uncle San pondered for a while and asked, "Isn't this little girl your biological child?"
Liu Zian was stunned for a moment before he realized that his uncle was talking about his cousin Liu Nan. He kept saying, "Yes, she is a relative!"
"Is it that your old lady is mentally ill?" Uncle San asked in confusion.
I couldn't help but laugh . It turned out that I was raised by my third uncle. Even our tone of voice is very similar.
Liu Zian quickly said that her grandmother was fine and was in good health.
"So is there something hidden?" Uncle San narrowed his eyes and stared at Liu Zian. To be honest, he looked a little scary.
Liu Zian was hesitant at first and was unwilling to speak, but after I went to the kitchen, he immediately agreed to talk.
"This matter...this matter is related to my second aunt." Liu Zian said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"I don't know the details, but I heard that when my second uncle was young, he took some money from his family and started a business with a few friends. Although the business didn't succeed in the end, he brought back a woman from outside."
Liu Zian's second uncle was named Liu Wenxuan, and the woman he brought home later became Liu Zian's second aunt. Liu Zian was already seven or eight years old at the time, so he still remembers this incident.
The woman's name was Baimei, and she was very beautiful. However, there were many rumors at the time that Baimei was a wild woman brought up by Liu Wenxuan from a mountain, and no one even knew who her parents were.
As soon as Liu Wenxuan returned home, he said that he wanted to marry Bai Mei. Because of this, the Liu family was in an uproar. Liu Wenxuan's mother, the old lady of the Liu family, wanted to kick Bai Mei out immediately, saying that she was a foxy woman who seduced her son. A family of status like the Liu family would never let such a wild woman into the family.
Under the circumstances at that time, Liu Wenxuan was determined to marry Baimei, and declared that he would not marry anyone else. He knelt at the door with Baimei for a whole day and night. Later, the old lady of the Liu family felt sorry for her son, and under the persuasion of the old man of the Liu family, she finally agreed to the marriage reluctantly.
After Bai Mei married into the Liu family, she usually stayed at home, never leaving the front door or the back door, and would just smile and not say anything when she met visitors. The old lady of the Liu family always hated this daughter-in-law and never came to see her.
One summer, Liu Wenxuan's fourth brother was admitted to high school, and the Liu family celebrated. Liu Wenxuan's aunts and uncles all came to celebrate together.
After the family dinner, my fourth brother suggested going to the nearby Baili Mountain. Everyone was in high spirits at the time, so they all agreed to go. Finally, my two uncles and three aunts took my fourth brother and several cousins and set off. Liu Wenxuan wanted to take this opportunity to take his wife to relax and spend more time with his family.
Seeing her husband's sincere feelings, Baimei could not bear to refuse and agreed. But when they reached the foot of the mountain, Baimei was so frightened that she stepped back repeatedly and refused to go up the mountain.
Liu Wenxuan knew that his wife was a little nervous because it was her first time going out, so he comforted her and said it was okay. But Bai Mei refused to go and tried her best to stop others from going up.
At that time, the uncles and aunts had already had a lot of complaints about the daughter-in-law because of the old lady of the Liu family. Several of them immediately turned black and said that this woman was really a bummer, and asked Liu Wenxuan to take her back quickly.
Bai Mei cried and begged everyone not to go, but no one listened. Liu Wenxuan's fourth brother was also unhappy and complained that his brother should not have brought his sister-in-law with him.
Liu Wenxuan had no choice but to take Baimei back home.
Unexpectedly, an accident happened in the evening of that day. A horrific landslide occurred in Baili Mountain. All the Liu family members who went to the mountain for hiking were buried in the mountain, and no one returned.
When the news came back, the old lady of the Liu family went crazy and cried and screamed, calling her fourth son by his nickname, and then shouting, "Brothers and sisters, you died so tragically!" Finally, she rushed into her daughter-in-law's room like a mad woman, cursing her daughter-in-law as an evil ghost, saying that she was the one who cursed her brothers, sisters and son to death, and she wanted to beat her to death to avenge them.
Although Liu Wenxuan and Old Man Liu stopped them later, the rumors spread. In addition, Baimei's behavior on that day was indeed abnormal, as if she had predicted the landslide in advance, so the rumor spread, and everyone began to fear her, viewing her as a poisonous snake and scorpion, thinking she was an ominous person, and avoiding her as much as possible.
After this incident, the old lady of the Liu family was like a madman, cursing Bai Mei every day at home, saying that she was a damned person, a reincarnated evil spirit who came to harm the Liu family. She asked her son to drive this woman out immediately.
Liu Wenxuan was a coward by nature, and was caught between his mother and his wife. He became silent and only buried his head in his room reading.
Bai Mei's life at home became increasingly miserable, and no one in the Liu family had a good face towards her. Only the old man of the Liu family was very caring towards his daughter-in-law, often saying that this matter had nothing to do with Bai Mei, and if Lin'er and the others had listened to Bai Mei's advice, this terrible disaster would not have happened.
With the care of Mr. Liu, Baimei was able to survive at home. Later, Baimei became pregnant, and Liu Wenxuan was overjoyed. He devoted all his attention to taking care of his wife. Mr. Liu was also happy and often went to see the young couple.
Later, Baimei successfully gave birth to a baby girl, who was named Liu Nan by Mr. Liu. After having a child, Liu Wenxuan stopped caring about other matters and stayed at home every day to take care of his wife and daughter and study. His life began to become stable.
But when Liu Nan was one year old, something happened.
