Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 13 Anger arises from the heart, evil arises from the courage

"Come on, kill someone!"

A shout made Chen Mo move, and he saw an old figure staggering over from outside the hospital, protecting Lu San, crying and shouting: "Come here, come quickly, Brother Mo I’m going to kill someone.”

With shouts and shouts, nearby houses also lit up their lights.

Not long after, many neighbors came in their clothes and formed a circle outside the courtyard, pointing at Lu Sanniang and his wife.

"Why are Lu San and Aunt Lu in Brother Mo's yard?"

"Why is Brother Mo holding the knife? It's not to kill someone, right?"

Listening to the neighbors' comments, Mrs. Lu cried even more sadly: "My son, you just came to borrow some food. If you don't want to borrow it, you won't. But you beat me like this and even kill me." It’s simply unreasonable.”

Lu San, who was being protected by her, stretched his neck and shouted: "Brother Mo hit someone and wants to kill me. I'm going to die from the pain."

The appearance of the couple made some villagers who didn't know what was going on immediately accuse Chen Mo.

"Brother Mo, aren't you just borrowing some food? Even if you don't borrow it, you can't hit people. It's really outrageous."

"Brother Mo, how could you do this? Aunt Lu is already very old. What if you injure Lu San and leave her with Hu'er?"

"Brother Mo, if you still have food at home, just lend it to Aunt Lu. It's not easy for the folks in the countryside."

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"That's not the case. Uncle is not such a person." At this time, Han Anniang got dressed and walked out of the house. She anxiously explained to everyone, "Brother Lu is not here to borrow food at all, and we are all so late." Fell asleep."

"Nonsense, my son is obviously here to borrow food. Brother Mo refused to borrow it and even beat me. I was outside the hospital and could see clearly." Mrs. Lu insisted that her son was here to borrow food.

"Aunt Lu, you have to speak with your conscience." Han Anniang was obviously not good at reasoning with others, and her eyes were red with anxiety.

Madam Lu said without blushing, "I'm just speaking out of conscience, but it's Brother Mo. No matter how you say it, I'm still your elder. Even when Da Lang is still here, you have to call him Third Brother Lu." , It’s not like you, Brother Mo, are out of food. I smelled the aroma of meat outside your house a few days ago.

The folks in the village are just using it as an excuse to eat and pay it back next year. They don’t show any affection at all. They beat my son like this. The folks have to make the decision for me and my mother. "

"mother."

Mrs. Lu and Lu San hugged each other and cried so hard that they burst into tears.

Many of the neighbors who were watching had also borrowed food from Chen Mo, but they were all rejected. When they heard Madam Lu's words, they immediately felt empathy and started to accuse Chen Mo even more:
"Brother Mo, you are going too far. We have been neighbors for so many years. It is not easy for Madam Lu and her family. Why is it like this?"

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Han An's face turned red with anger, tears welled up in her eyes, she pointed at Mrs. Lu and said, "When did we not show affection? Third brother Lu has borrowed food many times before and after, and the slave family lent it to him twice, but When did he pay it back?"

"Nonsense, when did you lend me food?" When he spoke, Lu San felt guilty, but seeing so many villagers there, Brother Mo did not dare to mess around, and immediately denied Han Anniang's loan with confidence. The fact of own food.

"Lu San, do you still have a conscience?" Han An's mother angrily called Lu San by his real name.

"Oh, look, everyone, Mrs. Han was exposed by my son, and she became very angry. She clearly didn't lend me food, but she wrongfully accused me of borrowing it. There is no way for me to do it. Everyone has to make the decision for me and my mother, no? The law is alive." Mrs. Lu immediately started to roll around.

"How could you wrongly accuse someone?" Han Aniang was completely angry and cried, wiping her tears and sobbing.

"Sister-in-law, go in and let me come."

Chen Mo helped Han An Niang into the house, but Mrs. Lu thought Chen Mo was going to "escape" and immediately shouted: "You are not allowed to leave. You must pay compensation for beating my son like this."

Chen Mo will definitely not leave. This is his home, where is he going?

He said: "Okay, you said you came here to borrow food, then tell me, who came to borrow food with a kitchen knife?"

As he said that, Chen Mo picked up the kitchen knife on the ground and came to the neighbors. They were all from the same village. Whose kitchen knife belonged to them? The women in the village were well-connected.Sure enough, some women looked at it and recognized it as Lu San's kitchen knife.

Lu San was a little confused. He glanced at Madam Lu, as if wondering what to do next.

Naturally, Mrs. Lu couldn't stop me from this. She frowned and said, "My son was beaten by you last time. This time I brought a kitchen knife to defend myself, but I didn't expect that I would still be attacked by you."

"Then please explain again, why do you have to borrow food when everyone is asleep, and why do you come with a kitchen knife in the middle of the night?" Chen Mo said.

The crowd fell silent. According to common sense, this really doesn't make sense.

Lu San also imitated Mrs. Lu and said, "I'm so hungry that I can't sleep. Can't I get up and borrow some food?"

In fact, he had promised Wang Xi to go hunting in the mountain the day before yesterday, but he was already too hungry and had no energy. If he followed him up the mountain tomorrow, he was afraid that he would never come back, so he discussed with Mrs. Lu to steal some food from Chen Mo's house after Chen Mo fell asleep. Eat some food to fill your stomach.

After borrowing food several times, he roughly guessed where the Chen family's food was hidden.

Chen Mo laughed angrily: "The public is right and the mother-in-law is right. In this case, report it to the official and let the adults in the yamen judge."

The crowd fell silent again. As the saying goes, people do not fight with officials. For ordinary people, as long as it is not a life-threatening matter, they do not want to have anything to do with the officials.

When Mrs. Lu saw that something was wrong, she immediately rolled to the ground and cried: "Brother Mo is bullying others, I can't live anymore, I can't live anymore."

When the others saw Mrs. Lu's pitiful appearance, they couldn't bear it and acted as peacemakers.

"Brother Mo, please forgive me if you have to. You can give Mrs. Lu some food and forget about it."

"Yes, we have been neighbors for so many years."

Seeing that the situation had turned to her side again, Mrs. Lu had tears in her eyes: "Son, are you okay?"

"I'm in pain, I can't breathe." Lu San coughed violently.

"My son!" The mother-in-law cried bitterly and hugged each other.

"Okay, okay, let's play like this, right?"

Chen Mo finally saw that the two women came prepared.

Lu San came in to steal food, and Mrs. Lu was showing off outside the courtyard. Once she was discovered, she screamed at the top of her lungs, waking up the neighbors, and then pretended to be pitiful and turned against the guest, which immediately covered up the fact that her son had come to steal food.

It's not even possible to blame her son.

Chen Mo was angry in his heart, holding a hatchet, and walked towards Lu San step by step.

"What do you want to do?" Lu San's face changed drastically when he saw Chen Mo approaching with a knife.

"Brother Mo, don't be impulsive." The neighbors shouted.

"Brother Mo is going to kill someone, Brother Mo is going to kill someone." Madam Lu was not afraid of Chen Mo at all. Instead, she shouted even louder and protected Lu San.

"go away."

Chen Mo kicked Mrs. Lu far away, raised the hatchet in his hand, and struck down hard.

"Uncle, don't"

Inside the house, Han Aniang was so frightened when she saw this scene that she ran out in a panic.

(End of this chapter)