The heavy and intense harvest lasted for a month, and she was so caught up in the tedious work of the fields, the fields, and the stove, and the boundless fatigue of the heavy work made her sleep for half the night. However, as soon as the wheat harvest was over and the heat wave came, she fell into that strange state again and became more obsessed. During the lunch break, she was lying on the kang in shorts and shorts, and she couldn't help but moan when she thought of her grandfather's big hands and hairy beard and mouth. As usual, on the fifteenth day of the first month, Grandma went to the Sanguan Temple to burn incense, kowtow and go to the vigil, begging for the gods for her two sons who were in danger. At lunch on the 15th day, she didn't leave immediately after serving the meal to her grandfather, but stood in the corner of the table and leaned sideways and said, "Dad, you like to drink in your own house, how troublesome is it to go to other villages to drink in other people's houses?" Lu Zilin couldn't help palpitating when he heard the word trouble, and forced a smile and said: "There is no opponent for drinking at home!" I drank and had a good time with my friends. The daughter-in-law said, "When my mother is not in the house, you go out in the dark, and I am alone in the house...... Afraid...... I'll open the door for you...... It's inconvenient......" Lu Zilin blushed and buried his head to eat, and only after the burning on his face subsided did he turn his face sideways and say, "Oh, oh, I'm not going out." The daughter-in-law took the opportunity to say, "If you want to drink, drink in our house, and I'll fry two dishes for you." Lu Zilin opened his mouth wide and forgot to swallow his food, and his surprise was no less than when he stirred up the wheat grass from the porridge bowl, and he said casually in a complete panic: "That's good...... That's good!"

That's what happened that night. Lu Zilin sat in front of the stone table in the courtyard and shook a fan, and on the low bluestone table was a pot of wine and a brass wine cup. After the sound of frying oil in the stove room stopped, the daughter-in-law brought four plates of stir-fried vegetables on a wooden plate, and it could be seen in the moonlight that they were scrambled eggs, vinegared bamboo shoots and melons, roasted tofu and cold mung bean sprouts. The daughter-in-law put the dishes on the stone table and stood next to them and asked, "Dad, can you taste it and see if it is salty?"

"Hmmm! This egg is not salty, it is not bland, and it is very tender!"

"Do you want to taste the bamboo shoots?"

"The bamboo shoots are also crispy."

"Would you like to try boiled tofu again?"

"Oh! This tofu is numb and spicy, so beautiful!"

She didn't ask about the taste of the fourth dish, so she grabbed the flask and poured the wine cup full of wine: "Dad, stop drinking and eating." Then he lifted the wooden plate leaning against the side of the stone table and retreated to the stove, and washed the pots and dishes. After cleaning up, she went back to the Xiawu and washed her face with cold water, wiped the hot sweat on her neck, pulled her hair and walked out of the door of the Xiawu again, stood at the door and asked, "Dad, what else do you want?" Lu Zilin drank wine and shook the fan leisurely with the vegetables, the full moon sprinkled a courtyard of bright light from the top of his head, and his daughter-in-law's every move and word proved to him his premonition, especially when he smelled the new powder fragrance of his daughter-in-law, couldn't he see through this explicit and clumsy trick after half a generation of women? The only obstacle is the handful of wheat straw. The act of stuffing the bowl with wheat straw and the signal emitted today, as well as the extraordinary hospitality, made it impossible for him to explain these two diametrically opposed actions. He has met women who have been half-pushed, and he has also met women who have been chaste and refused resolutely, and all his experience in this area cannot be used to solve the contradictory behavior of his daughter-in-law. In order to get to the bottom of things, he said to her, "You come here and talk to Dad, who wants to talk to people when he drinks." The daughter-in-law said hesitantly, "What does that look like, it's a joke...... but she still walked over and sat opposite. Lu Zilin said: "You accompany your father to have a drink." The daughter-in-law waved her hand again and again and said that she thought the wine was too spicy, but she stood up and poured a full glass of wine and handed it to Ah Gong. Lu Zilin couldn't help but touch his daughter-in-law's fingers when he took the small wine cup, but the daughter-in-law not only did not dodge, but then grabbed Ah Gong's wrist with her left hand, which naturally used him as an excuse to let him stabilize the wine cup, which made his judgment basically come into contact with the truth of the contradictory behavior, and at the same time made a final decision. He said to his daughter-in-law, "You don't drink, you eat food." You should also try your stir-fried dishes!" The daughter-in-law mustered up the courage to use chopsticks and ate a small bite of bamboo shoots. Lu Zilin further agitated and said: "You can try the cold bean sprouts again." This time, the daughter-in-law stretched her chopsticks to the bean sprouts plate more freely. When she put the bean sprouts in her mouth, she vomited and vomited, and she was stunned by the stone table. She ate wheat straw. Lu Zilin stuffed the wheat straw into the bean sprout dish when she went back to the Xiawu to wash her face and rinse the powder. The color of wheat grass and mung bean sprouts is exactly the same in the moonlight. Lu Zilin threw the chopsticks onto the plate with a loud noise, stood up and said sharply: "Learn the rules!" You're the one who eats grass!"

The daughter-in-law woke up from the initial fright, and suddenly realized what was going on with the wheat grass in the bean sprouts, and she was so humiliated that she wanted to cry but couldn't cry, listening to the footsteps of her grandfather to the landlord's house, followed by the sound of the door latch closing rapidly. Before she knew it, she slipped off the stone and fell to the ground, her hands clutching the hem of her chest, her head hanging down, realizing that she would never be able to stand up. Her limbs were numb, she shivered with cold, and her upper and lower teeth rattled. She felt a warmth in her neck, and when she touched a handful of blood with her hand, she realized that her lip had been bitten and she began to feel pain. She raised her head and begged for the sky, and a full moon deflected to the west side of the ridge, still full of bows, still bright. She lowered her head, saw the messy cups and saucers and bean sprouts mixed with crushed wheat grass, silently put away the chopsticks and plates, went to the stove to wash, and then returned to the house. She thought of a rope and a door frame where she could hang a rope, and when she took out the rope for her shoes and combined the five strands into one, she stopped her hand to tie the knotted collar, and couldn't tell whether she had lost her courage or changed her mind, and stuffed the rope under the kang mat again......

She stopped talking from this night, she didn't say a word about what Grandma told her to do, and when she was done, she went back to the foot of the house and shook the spinning wheel, the terrible thing was that in the melodious and slow hum of the spinning wheel, the scene of Grandpa holding his shoulders and pinching his milk when he was drunk still reproduced in front of him, and the strange feeling of being pinched and pinched by the hairy hawthorn mouth arched also occurred in the body, and she silently let that feeling happen and disappear, looking forward to that feeling to stay longer...... This mute life lasted for three or four months, and in late autumn and early winter, she had nothing to do but cook, and sat cross-legged in front of the spinning wheel from morning till night spinning thread. It was after breakfast, and she had just spun five cotton twists and had just connected the sixth thread to pull out the thread, when suddenly a string of sparks burst out from a certain part of her body, and there was a softness that had melted into water, forcing her to throw away the spinning wheel shaker with her right hand, and the cotton twist with her left hand, and her arms involuntarily hugged her chest, melted like ice, and fell in front of the spinning wheel like a snow-capped mountain collapse, and her whole body twitched and trembled. She hoped that this beautiful shiver would never disappear until she died, but suddenly she heard a rattling sound in her head, like the sound of cotton threads breaking, so she jumped up and ran out of the house, ran out of the street, ran to the village alley, and rushed straight into the Bailu Security Center where Ah Gong worked......

Lu Zilin took the three packets of Chinese medicine handed over by the minister, but he didn't get up immediately, he wanted to further explain the grievances to his in-laws, Mr. Leng, but he couldn't speak, and he couldn't think of a suitable word to relieve himself of embarrassment. Don't say it, it's too wronged, and I'm worried that Mr. Leng will identify him as a grass-eating beast. Mr. Leng indifferently inspired him and said, "You go back and decoct the medicine first." Lu Zilin finally didn't open his mouth, and went out with the medicine bag. Mr. Leng sent it to the door and said, "If you have any movement after taking the medicine, you can tell me." ”

The daughter-in-law refused to take the medicine. Lu He's decoction of Chinese medicine was served to his daughter-in-law in a small yellow bowl, and the daughter-in-law said, "I'm not sick, what do you do by drinking that bitter water?" Lu He coaxed her and said, "Nourish your body." Instead, the daughter-in-law said that it was poison and wanted to poison her so that her grandmother could get out of her eyes. Lu Zilin listened in the Ming Hall of the upper room, so he waved his hand to Lu He's and signaled not to force her, and waited for her to talk about it after her madness had passed. It seems that the daughter-in-law's madness is a burst of madness and a burst of good, which is paroxysmal. Sure enough, the daughter-in-law quieted down after a while, and when Lu Heshi sent the medicine again, she drank it in one go, and after drinking a pot of cigarettes, she fell asleep soundly, and shouted loudly and affectionately in her sleep: "Dad, hug me tightly, hug me tightly!" Lu He glanced in through the crack in the window, and his daughter-in-law was naked, her hands tucked between her legs, twisting and rolling on the kang. She walked into the landlord's house and said to Lu Zilin: "This shameless thing has prostitution. Lu Zilin's heart was temporarily relieved, and he no longer needed to prove his innocence to the Lu He family, so he said: "I have long seen that the reputation of this disease is not easy to explain. Lu He said: "A woman with this disease will be fine as soon as she sees a man, and she will not be able to take any medicine." Lu Zilin acquiesced and did not speak. Lu He said: "You go to the city to look for Zhaopeng, kowtow and kneel to pull him back, sleep with that shameless goods for the night, and keep a doll." Lu Zilin said, "Where are you going to find it?" Lu He said: "You go and inquire quietly, and ask Zhaohai if you may be able to find out where his brother ......lives," Lu Zilin said: "I'll see after these three pills." ”

The daughter-in-law took three doses of medicine and fell asleep all day and night for four days. Mr. Leng stopped taking the medicine for two days, wanting to see if he was still crazy after the medicine was gone. Later that day, the daughter-in-law came to her senses and grabbed a broom and swept the yard. Lu He looked at her elegant sweeping action from the window of his house, and his heart was hot. At this time, Lu Zilin walked into the yard, and his daughter-in-law glanced at her grandfather, and suddenly became arrogant, raised her broom with a quack smile and said, "Dad, I'll help you get on the kang when you're drunk." Lu Zilin blushed suddenly, and quickened his pace into the landlord's house. The next day he went into the city to look for Lu Zhaopeng.

The daughter-in-law is more seriously ill this time, and there are more times when she is crazy every day, and there are fewer good times. Lu He had to call in a neighbor woman to help her with hard medicine. The daughter-in-law has not improved, and she is becoming more crazy every day. Lu Zilin came back after five days of walking, and quietly told Lu He in complete disappointment: "Zhaopeng and the Bai family woman have lived to a good match!" Lu He said: "It's okay for big women and small wives!" You're going to have to get him back and pacify this one, too?" Lu Zilin said: "I can't find his trace at all." He then whispered to Mr. Leng about the process of going into the city to find Zhaopeng, to show that he had done his best to his daughter-in-law, and naturally he could not mention the fact that Zhaopeng and Bai Ling got married privately. At the end he said, "You put the medicine under weight." Mr. Leng remained silent and handed Lu Zilin a pack of medicine. After taking this medicine, the daughter-in-law woke up dumb, and she opened her mouth but did not make a sound. Lu Zilin frowned and asked in a deep voice, "This medicine is probably too heavy?" Lu He blinked and said, "Light medicine doesn't cure the disease!" Lu Zilin felt that the woman didn't understand what he meant at all, and still groaned and said, "Only Brother Leng dares to take such a heavy medicine!"

The daughter-in-law no longer shouted, no longer went crazy, no longer spun and weaved, didn't even sweep the yard and cooked, didn't eat a mouthful of food for three days and two days, just climbed to the water tank and scooped cold water to drink, and then became emaciated day by day, shaped like a skeleton, and died on the kang on the night of the ninth day of the winter solstice. When the women in the neighborhood were undressing the deceased and changing into a shroud, they smelled a foul smell and found that her lower body was rotten and soaked with pus and blood......