life struggle

Speaking of burial alive, it is also well-known in the local area. It has been passed down for nearly 50 years and has become a model for the elderly to educate their children. It is also the worst metaphor for those who do not honor their parents. Whoever gets the reputation of being buried alive, relatives and friends No one makes friends with the neighbors, and hides away. 【 】

In the neighboring village, there is Mr. Zhou, who has a good family background and is also a rare big family. He is upright, generous, good at giving to his neighbors, and has a high prestige. Everyone respectfully calls him Mr. Zhou.Mr. Zhou has six sons and three girls. Among them, Zhou Ping, the youngest, spends his time doing nothing, eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. He has made friends with some bandits and dubious people.Mr. Zhou put him in "confinement" many times, but he refused to change after repeated admonitions, and he would not get better for a few days. His bad habits were hard to change, and he caused trouble everywhere.Later, someone told him about a family relationship and married a daughter-in-law.The daughter-in-law, Mrs. Li, is from a rich local family. She is dignified, well-educated, gentle and virtuous, and has a son, which is a very good thing in an ordinary family.But Xiao Wu's habits and habits for many years have not changed because of his beautiful wife and beloved son.Mrs. Li often tried to persuade him to act, but it was ineffective. He often punched and kicked Mrs. Li when he disagreed with each other.Mrs. Li was helpless, her body was covered with bruises twice in three days, and she carried the child back to her mother's house. He followed her to her mother's house and either scolded or beat her, making her mother's family restless.After a long time, no matter how much he was wronged, Mrs. Li dared not go back to her mother's house.Mr. Zhou sees all this and feels pain in his heart. He is often bedridden with anger.

Mr. Zhou feels that it is really a scourge, corrupting the family style and family style, making everyone worry and fear, and sooner or later it will bring disaster to the family.After many days of repeated consideration and fierce ideological struggle, I finally gritted my teeth and made up my mind to get rid of this scourge.One year in the middle of winter, the cold air hit people, and the snow fell too much. Every family turned off the lights early and went to bed.Mr. Zhou was very contradictory. He felt cold in his heart. He smoked dry cigarettes and paced back and forth in the room, thinking over and over again about Xiao Wu's affairs. What should he do? Soft, but not removed, I am sorry to the ancestors, the folks in the village, and the future generations, and I cannot explain it to the world. There is no way out for this.He stopped suddenly, turned to the child's mother and said, "Liu his mother, prepare a rope and two shovels for me. Except for Xiaowu, call all the other five sons. I have something important to do." Do"

"Father, it's so late, what do you want these things for? You can't talk about it, do it again?"

"Don't ask, you will know when the time comes, this matter is very urgent and cannot be delayed."

Xiao Liuniang had no choice but to go to the courtyard and prepare the shovel and rope, and then notified her son.

"Brother, what's the matter, it's snowing so hard, you've called us all here?" the eldest son Zhou Chun asked eagerly as soon as he entered the door.

At this time, Mr. Zhou was lying on the bed facing the inner wall, smoking continuously, without saying a word.Zhou Chun asked three times, but Mr. Zhou never even looked at it.

After a while, the second child Zhou Xia rushed over, shook the snow on his body and asked, "Brother, what's the matter, what's the matter with our eldest, you asked us to come so late?"

"I don't know either. I asked just now. We didn't say a word. Let's see what's going on when everyone is here." Not long after, other people arrived one after another.

Elder Zhou finally turned around, got up, yelled at Xiao Wu, stared at Xiao Wu fiercely with wide-eyed eyes.That look made Xiao Wu shudder, goosebumps all over his body, and he couldn't help but panic all over, and lowered his head.Mr. Zhou glanced at everyone seriously, took a sharp puff on his cigarette, let out a deep breath, and said in a buzzing voice: "Mother, son, go to another room, I have something important to say to the five of them."

Xiaoliu Niang is a typical women's family, men are not allowed to listen, it must be a major issue between men, women are not allowed to inquire and intervene, so they went out without saying a word to the little daughter Zhou Qiao's house in the side room Yes, close the door gently.

Seeing her mother coming, Zhou Qiao asked in surprise, "Mother, why are you still up so late? What are you doing here?"

"Look at how mysterious you are. It's snowing so heavily. Except for Xiao Wu, you have called all five of your older brothers. They don't know what's going on, and they won't let me listen."

"Mom, there must be something wrong with my university, I don't know why, I always feel that my university is a bit abnormal during this time, I often go to the small river in the south of the village, sometimes for an entire afternoon, I don't know what is there. "

"Oh, it's not all because of your fifth brother. His heart is not clean all day long, and he can't lift his head when he goes out. I'm afraid he will sulk in a place by the river where there is no one, so he should go to rest."

"Maybe so, I hope I won't get sick from boredom, mother, go to bed early." The two talked for a while, then turned on the lamp and fell asleep.Don't they know that on this snowy night, in this family, a major event is about to happen quietly.

Seeing Xiao Liuniang leave, Mr. Zhou said sternly and deeply: "Now, you have seen and heard what Xiao Wu did. Not only did he harm many villagers, but even his own wife and children He didn't let him go, he was even worse than a beast. If he let him go, the whole family would be destroyed by him. The villagers dared not speak out, they were very afraid, and they said everything behind their backs, which was really unbearable. During that time, I didn’t even dare to go out, and I was afraid all day long, lest he would do something insane and immoral one day, which would harm others and benefit myself. What should I do? I have no choice but to assume that I don’t have this son and remove him from the family to avoid immorality. These days, I have prepared a home for him by the small river in the south of the village. I call you here today to send him to him The place where he should go. You should take care of his child Zhou Shibo in the future and raise him well."

When everyone heard it, they all understood that it was the old man who wanted to get rid of Xiao Wu.Although Xiao Wu has done a lot of evil and everyone hates him, but at this point, Yuqing is a brother and sister, and since ancient times, there has been no such thing as Lao Tzu uniting with his son to kill his son.Everyone was stunned and trembling all over. It was difficult to accept it for a while, and they always felt that something was wrong.

The boss Zhou Zhong trembled and said slightly: "Brother, you can't do this. No matter how good or bad Xiao Wu is, after all, he is your own son, so he can't do such a murderous thing anyway. What's more, in the future, Mrs. Li What should we do? We can't just watch Xiao Wu die."

"Yeah, Daddy, it's too cruel to do this. Even though Xiaowu did something that hurt the folks and family members, after all, no one was killed. Even so, it's better for us to send it directly to the government to deal with it than to deal with it ourselves." Ah." The third child, Zhou Xiao, persuaded Mr. Zhou excitedly.

After hearing this, Mr. Zhou didn't speak for a long time. He lowered his head and pondered for a while, took a puff of cigarette, coughed twice, and said, "What you said has some truth, and I've thought about it, but you should know that the world is in turmoil all day long. Yes, the government is in darkness, and the government pursues it. Not only our whole family will be implicated, but also our family will be ruined. The children and grandchildren will be inferior for several lifetimes and cannot hold their heads up. Those who have been sentenced and killed by the government for generations will be ignored by the world. The taste is not something ordinary people can afford."

Zhou Ren, the second child who was squatting on the ground and listening quietly to smoke, suddenly stood up, "In our place, fame and reputation are the most important. One generation, the next generation. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. I think our big idea is correct and we should do this. After all, doing it ourselves can win everyone’s respect, clean up the family tradition, and set an example for future generations.”

"Don't talk about it, this matter is settled like this. Taking advantage of the heavy snow outside, I will do it without anyone noticing tonight, so as not to disturb the government and the villagers in ten miles and eight villages." Several sons We all know that the old man has a bad temper. The things he decides are all things that have been carefully considered and determined. taste.

Mr. Zhou gently got out of bed, put on cotton boots, cotton clothes, and a cotton cap, and opened the door, "Take the rope and shovel, and go to Xiao Wu's house together, so and so, call Shang Xiao Wu to the village south small house." By the river." Everyone stood up, holding their belongings, and followed behind Elder Zhou silently.

The cold wind was howling outside, piercing the ears, exhaling into ice, the cotton-like snow was dancing wildly in the cold wind, the branches were shaking constantly, and the sound of bumping and beating each other was endless, which was creepy.The snow is half a foot thick.

After leaving the courtyard gate, Zhou Zhouxiao and Xiao Liuzhou and the two supported Mr. Zhou, one foot deep, one foot shallow, and walked forward slowly.Passing through two alleys, I came to the door of Xiao Wu Zhouping's house at the crossroads in the center of the village. There was a faint light in the courtyard, and I heard beating, scolding and crying inside.Elder Zhou signaled Zhou Zhong to come forward and call for the door. "Bang, stick, stick, Zhou Ping, open the door, Zhou Ping, open the door, I am your big brother Zhou Zhong."

After a while, there was a sound from the courtyard door, and Xiao Wu came out, with the loudest voice and the loudest movements, shouting: "Brother, what's going on, it's making people unable to live, the child is crying, the wife is making trouble, and I can't live in peace all day long. It's a cold day, what's more chaos."

"Xiao Wu, open the door, we have something to do with you, come out."

"Wait a minute, I'm getting dressed."

After a while, Zhou Ping opened the door, looked outside, and was dumbfounded. Why were there six snowmen standing outside, four older brothers, one younger brother, and the old man, "What are you doing here? Why are they all here?"

"Zhou Ping, there is an extremely important thing to do at the small river in the south of the village tonight. If it is too late, it will be too late. All six of you must be there." Elder Zhou looked at his son, full of helplessness, anger, and hatred. At the same time, he was reluctant and sympathetic, but the matter had come to an end, he was calm and calm, and said to Zhou Ping solemnly and peacefully.

"It's getting late, so as not to have long nights and dreams, let's go quickly." Zhou Lao said.Seeing the situation, Zhou Ping felt doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he followed them to the outside of the village.

Although the river is not very far away, due to the thick snow and slippery road, Mr. Zhou can still walk for a while on the last journey to send his son off.Walking, slowly, Zhou Zhong, Zhou Ren, and Zhou Xiao held the rope tightly in their hands, and walked behind Zhou Ping, forming a semi-surrounding Zhou Ping, Zhou Ping didn't care.

When he was less than ten meters away from the river, Mr. Zhou stopped suddenly and shouted, "Zhou Zhong, take Zhou Ping down for me."

The three of Zhou Zhong heard the words and stepped forward at the same time.Zhou Zhong hugged Zhou Ping's waist with both hands. Zhou Ren flicked the rope from the side and wrapped it around Zhou Ping's neck. When Zhou Ping was struggling to lift his leg, Zhou Xiao bent down and wrapped the rope around his left leg, and pulled hard. Zhou Ping fell down in response. land.The three of them were so fast that they could not cover their ears. Before Zhou Ping could react, they were so sleepy that they couldn't move on the ground.

"Brother, you, you, what are you going to do?" Zhou Ping, the second monk of Zhang Er, asked hoarsely without thinking.

"You should be clear about what you are going to do. I tell you that today I am going to bury you alive." Elder Zhou turned his back to Zhou Ping. He did not want to see Zhou Ping's struggling and painful movements, and said deeply.

"What's wrong with me, are you going to bury me? I'm your son!" Zhou Ping said eagerly earlier.

"You are unfaithful and unfilial, corrupt the family style, do a lot of evil, harm the villagers, immoral, beat your wife and abandon your children, affect the descendants, it is difficult to raise your head, and you have done countless bad things. The villagers see you as if they are hiding from the plague god. My brothers dare to be angry and dare not speak out. Wives, children, and the whole family are afraid. If you are not eliminated, you will be sorry for your ancestors, your folks, and your descendants. From now on, you are no longer my son, let alone their brothers. Remove from the family." Zhou Lao said harshly, telling the whole story, so that he could die clearly.

"Brother, although I'm a little muddled, it's too inhumane and cruel for you to do this. Don't read it if your flesh and blood are hindered. Besides, I still have children. I beg you, let me go. From now on, I can live my life in a down-to-earth way." Zhou Ping begged bitterly.

"If I knew this earlier, why was it too late? Zhou Zhong, I've already dug his grave five meters ahead, so hurry up and lift him up and send him over there." Elder Zhou said.

"Brother, the fifth brother already knew he was wrong. Give him a chance. After all, he is your son and our brother." Zhou Zhong and the other brothers said.

"Give him enough chances, has he given others a chance, will I forgive him, will others forgive him? Don't say anything, do it."

Zhou Zhong and the others are still hesitating. You say you want to scare and frighten, but it’s okay. If you want to be serious, it’s really difficult for a while. After all, this is Lao Tzu uniting with his son to kill his son. This is something that has never happened since ancient times.

Seeing that they hesitated and stood still, Mr. Zhou sternly shouted: "Zhou Zhong, do you want me to do it myself?"

Zhou Zhong and the others knew the old man's temper, and it seemed that they didn't understand. They had no choice but to drag Zhou Ping into the grave, shovel up the frozen soil, and make Zhou Ping disappear in hoarseness and despair, and get the sad end he deserved.