Liu Erlang is an idle man in the same state.

He is in a very bad mood these days, his wife is getting lazier and lazier, sleeping lazily every day, and he is very short-tempered. used to be a very dignified and virtuous person, but now he has become unreasonable. The rice is not easy to cook, and sometimes Liu Lao Er can't swallow the dishes he makes. The two children are often scolded by his mother, and even Liu Lao Er can't listen to it. But as soon as he said a few words, the two quarreled and complained.

On this day, Liu Erlang couldn't help but call his wife to his side and asked her: "What's wrong with you? I'm busy outside all day long, and when I get home, not only do I have to eat the cold pot and cold stove, but I also have to listen to your nagging and scolding children. If you do this again, then you really can't live this life. ”

The lady Zhang was very impatient, her small eyes widened, and she said, "I'm not feeling well, and you still expect me to cook for you." You should come back and take care of me, you hang out all day, you don't take good care of the house, and you have the face to talk about me!"

Liu Erlang doesn't have a proper occupation, just helping out outside and looking for some short-term jobs to do. The money earned is sometimes more or sometimes less, but it is barely enough to support the family. If it weren't for Liu Erlang earning this amount of money outside, their family would have to drink the northwest wind. Liu Erlang is not the kind of person who is domineering, although he felt that what the lady said was too hurtful, but he did not ridicule him, but frowned and said: "I don't quarrel with you, I just want to find out what's wrong with you? Don't you think you have a problem? I think you used to be good, but now you suddenly become like this, what the hell is this?"

Zhang stared at him, and then said: "You mean that I have fallen into an evil spirit? Why am I wrong, why do you see that I am wrong, don't I cook for you? Do you need to curse me like this? Do you want me to die early, so you can take another young and beautiful ......?"

Liu Erlang sighed, no longer willing to listen to her nagging, stood up and slammed the door and went out.

As soon as he went out of the door, he heard Ma Lao Liu's scolding next door and his Hun family's begging for mercy, and he knew that Ma Lao Liu was beating his Hun family again.

This Ma Lao Liu, like Liu Erlang, is out to help others and earn some change to support his family. Ma Lao Liu was not a person who liked to beat women before. On the contrary, he has a good personality and is really hardworking at home. His wife sometimes can't look past it, saying that he is busy outside, so don't be busy when he comes home, and have a good rest. The housework was done by his wife, but Ma Lao Liu just laughed and continued to be busy.

But that was already in the past, and now I don't know when it started, Ma Lao Liu became extremely irritable. Beat and scold at every turn, and beat more and more hard. On two occasions, he even directly beat him to death and fell to the door. The neighbor reported to the official, but the official came, and when he saw that he got up and was not injured, he didn't bother to care, and left after saying a few words. Seeing that the yamen didn't care about housework, of course the neighbors didn't bother to take care of it, including Liu Erlang.

But this time was different, Liu Erlang saw Ma Lao Liu grabbing his Hun family's hair and directly hitting her head against the pillar, causing blood to splash on his Hun family's forehead. At first, he screamed, but then he was like a puppet and let him hit him. Liu Erlang was taken aback, this is going to kill people. Hurriedly rushed over and grabbed Ma Lao Liu's hand, pulled it away vigorously, and yelled: "Are you crazy? If you kill someone, you will pay for your life. ”

Ma Lao Liu threw his daughter-in-law to the ground. Before being pulled away by Liu Erlang, he also kicked the lady.

After Liu Erlang pulled Ma Lao Liu away, he squatted down and probed his daughter-in-law's snort, and found that he was still breathing, and even heard a faint sound of ouching, so he breathed a sigh of relief. Pointing at Ma Lao Liu, he said: "I don't care if you beat your daughter-in-law, then if you beat someone to death, I will have one less brother." I don't want to go to the Dharma field to give you a guillotine meal, have you heard?"

The two of them are helping out together, and they live next door neighbors, and they have always had a good relationship, like brothers of the opposite sex. Hearing what Liu Erlang said, Ma Lao Liu spat on the ground angrily and said: "This woman can't fight if she doesn't fight! Lao Tzu is tired and tired outside, and when she gets home, she doesn't even cook, she lies on the bed and sleeps, do you think she should be beaten?"

Liu Erlang couldn't cry or laugh, and said: "How can you be like this, if you don't cook, you will beat her to death? I remember that you were not like this before." In the past, when you came back, you had to take the initiative to help her cook together, but she wouldn't let you do it, and you weren't happy. What's wrong with this? I just came out of the house, and I don't cook. I asked her why she was weird these days, but she scolded me instead, and I simply came out angry. Out of sight is clean, or let's find a place to drink two cups and go to extinguish the fire. ”

Subsequently, Liu Erlang said to Ma Laoliu's mother, who was bold enough to come out to see the situation: "You get your daughter-in-law to the bed, find a Lang Zhong to show her, see if it is broken." It shouldn't be a big deal. ”

Her mother-in-law was a little stupid, and looked at Ma Lao Liu and Liu Erlang in a daze when she heard this. When Ma Laoliu's son and daughter-in-law were beaten by Ma Laoliu, his mother didn't dare to come out to persuade her, and then she saw that Ma Laoliu had stopped, so she had the courage to come over and help her daughter-in-law into the house.

After the poor woman was helped up, she still couldn't forget the weak voice that said to her husband: "Husband, I was wrong, I will never dare to ...... again"

This made Liu Lao Er very sympathetic, how can they all be people, and the gap is so big? His daughter-in-law is fierce like a dominatrix, why is she so obedient and well-behaved as no one's daughter-in-law. But then again, in the past, his daughter-in-law was not like this, but she was more virtuous than Ma Laoliu's daughter-in-law.

Liu Erlang took Ma Lao Liu and walked a few streets, and came to a tavern where the two of them often came to sit down and drink.

The two of them complained about their daughter-in-law, and they were talking angrily, when they suddenly saw a man sitting next to them, put their chopsticks on the table, and came over and said: "My daughter-in-law is also suddenly weird, you say, did they discuss it to anger us?"

Liu Erlang and the two turned their heads to take a look, and saw that it was a man in his early twenties, who lived in their back alley, and both of them knew each other, but they were just nodding friends.

In ancient times, neighbors came and went a lot, so there were not a few familiar faces, but they didn't come and go. Now seeing that he took the initiative to talk and talked about the same topic, he suddenly felt a little sympathetic.

Liu Erlang drank a little high and greeted him, "Brother, you bring the food." Let's drink together. - Your daughter-in-law is angry with you too?"

The man brought his food and wine, sat down and said, "No, it makes me angry enough, so come out and drink some wine." ”

Liu Erlang and Ma Lao Liu asked in unison, "What's wrong with your daughter-in-law?"

The man sighed and said, "My daughter-in-law is just lazy, so I admit it." But I didn't expect her to be even more intense now, and even the food had to be delivered to bed. After the delivery, I have to smash the plate and smash the plate, beat and scold the child. I put up with all this, and the most annoying thing is that she won't let me touch it. She always said she wanted to sleep, don't let me bother her. If you think about it, the horses bought by the daughter-in-law you married let me sleep and let me fight, which is justified. If you don't let me have sex with her, what do you say I am marrying this daughter-in-law?

The two couldn't help but burst out laughing, and after laughing, Liu Erlang suddenly thought of something, touched his chin and said: "Yes, my daughter-in-law doesn't seem to be very happy to do this kind of thing, every time I ask her for a long time, and then she is like a dead person, and she doesn't have the feeling she used to have at all." ”

He turned his head to look at Ma Lao Liu: "What about you, is your daughter-in-law in the same room with you?"

"She dared not to. Ma Lao Liu said indignantly. Then he smiled and said, "But I haven't done that with her in months." I've really made some money in the past few months, women, it's boring to sleep for a long time, and I still have to change my taste. So found a new one outside. Any questions?"

Liu Erlang said in a deep voice: "This means that your daughter-in-law probably doesn't want to do it with you, but you don't want to do it with her yourself, so you don't feel it."

Ma Lao Liu frowned and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

Liu Erlang said: "Don't you think the daughter-in-law of the three of us has fallen into some evil?"

"What do you mean?" both asked him at the same time.

"You say, if they hadn't fallen for evil, how could they suddenly become so weird. I don't know if you two feel a feeling, but anyway, I feel like my daughter-in-law is a different person, and she is not as dignified and virtuous as before. ”

After Liu Erlang's reminder, the other two people glanced at each other, and both nodded slowly, Ma Lao Liu said: "It's indeed a little strange, what's going on? Is it really evil? Why don't you invite a Taoist priest to do a ritual?"

The man shook his head and said, "I don't think so, I had this idea before, but I didn't think about the question of whether my daughter-in-law was evil, I just thought that my room was weird, as if there were often some invisible things wandering." I often hear some strange noises, so I'm worried that the house is haunted. So I invited the monks of Puji Temple to come to my house to see what was going on. When he came, he looked around and said that my house was normal and not haunted. He didn't have to do it, otherwise it would cost money. I thought to myself that the monk still didn't work, and I had to find a Taoist priest. So after sending him away, he went to the Taoist temple to find a Taoist priest, this Taoist priest is quite good, I heard that people often catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits in the vicinity, and the money spent is really a lot. When he came, he immediately saw that there was something really going on in our family, so he helped me do a ritual, and it was really strange that after doing that ritual, all the movements I heard were gone."

Liu Erlang said: "What's the matter with your daughter-in-law?"

"It's only a matter of three months. I thought my daughter-in-law was weird at the time, but I didn't think about it that way. Since the Taoist priest came, I thought I would let him see it by the way. So I told the Taoist chief about it, and after reading it, he said that my daughter-in-law was not evil, but seemed to be sick. Because he saw that my daughter-in-law was plagued by a disease, which could only be cured by a decoction, and his spells had no effect. After listening to it, I was skeptical, how can there be a difference between illness and other ghosts, this is obviously fooling people. But what he said was serious, and it didn't seem like a lie. If you don't talk about it, I'll really forget about it. Why don't we go find someone and show them?"