After briefly listening to the villagers talk about the situation of the Li family, I casually asked the old lady of the Li family what the relationship was like with her son and daughter-in-law before her death.

After all, the reason for this case is obvious, the old lady of the Li family came back to take revenge after her death, it must be caused by the accumulation of resentment during her lifetime, and an ordinary rural old lady, what deep hatred and hatred can she have until her death is still resentful, and she dies unstable? It was most likely related to family relationships, but after listening to my questions, the answers given by the villagers surprised me.

According to several villagers, the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the Li family are well-known filial sons in the village, although the eldest son is not as capable as the second son, but he has always been practical and capable in the village, he does not smoke or drink and has almost no vices, and he works diligently every day to make money and make a living.

When it came to the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family, the villagers even picked the thumbs up, and heard someone praise: "The daughter-in-law of the Li family is really a once-in-a-lifetime good daughter-in-law, virtuous and capable, and can speak well, especially to the old lady in the family, which is extraordinarily filial." Usually the eldest of the Li family goes out to work, and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family serves the old lady alone at home, eating and drinking, serving with feces and urine, and the people in the village can see it......"

Later, Lou Jianguang and I asked deeply, and learned that the old lady of the Li family was suffering from a leg disease before her death, and she could occasionally come out to yo with crutches a few years ago, but her condition has become more and more serious in the past two years, not to mention walking, she can't even get off the kang, so she can only paralyze on the kang every day.

However, even so, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family is still serving diligently, without any complaints, and even when villagers pass by the door of the Li family, they often see the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family drying the dirty bedding and clothes replaced by the old lady in the yard, but there is no dislike and resistance on the face of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family, which is really moving......

As the saying goes, there is no harm if there is no comparison, and when the eldest son's family is mentioned, the villagers inevitably mention the bad of the second son's family. According to them, the second son moved to the city after his early career, and started a business, at first when the old two members of the Li family were alive, occasionally the second son would come back to pick up his parents to live for a while, and then the old man of the Li family took the first step, the old lady was lonely and helpless, so she divided the family, and gave the two sons the continuation of the old couple who had saved all their lives and the land property to the two sons, counting on the two sons to be able to provide for their old age. He has never taken his old mother to live in the city once, but he has been here a few times, but every time he was expelled from the house by the angry boss after a big quarrel.

Every time after a quarrel, the neighbors around them asked, what's going on? Why did the brothers fight? The eldest couple is bright, and they don't care about what 'family ugliness should not be publicized', so they told the villagers about the ugly thing that the second child did not remember the old love and did not serve the old mother but came to fight for the family property.

When it came to the second child in the family, the villagers were scolding and regretful, and they were unhappy with the old lady and the eldest of the Li family several times, and so far I and Lou Jianguang also knew about each other, so I didn't continue to delay after thanking him, but hurried to the Li family.

The people in the village are enthusiastic, as soon as they heard that we are here to be the Li family's 'ordinary affairs', many of them are enthusiastic to guide us, escorting us all the way to the Li family, when we enter the courtyard to look in the middle hall, we see that the Li family is sitting by the stove for breakfast, the two husbands and wives are all haggard and ugly, and the dark circles on their faces are extremely heavy, obviously they have not slept well during this period of time by those strange things.

Before we entered the middle hall, the enthusiastic villagers rushed in first and explained our origin to the eldest of the Li family, and the two of them were so excited for a while that they hurriedly greeted us and called "master" and respectfully invited us into the middle hall.

After a little clarity, the two of them became even more enthusiastic, especially when it came to the deceased old lady, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family couldn't help wiping away her tears, and choked up: "When my mother-in-law was here, the two of us were obedient to her, serving her with and urine, and didn't dare to have the slightest neglect, why is she now gone, but she still wants to treat us like this?" What did the two of us do? ”

The husband comforted: "Okay, don't cry, I'm afraid that we did something bad when the old lady was alive, and now my mother is blaming us ......"

The daughter-in-law said again: "If my mother-in-law blames me in person, I will admit it, but what is this called?" What did we do wrong? Now I can't even sleep peacefully every day, and my home doesn't look like a home......"

Seeing that Da'er's emotions were a little out of control, I hurriedly persuaded: "Don't worry, don't we just deal with it, there is always a way to solve it." ”

After I finished speaking, I looked at Lou Jianguang, who had been sitting on the side and didn't speak, this kid not only didn't listen to us well, but actually played with the big flower cat nested on the head of the Li family.

Seeing me looking at Lou Jianguang, the couple also looked over, and the eldest daughter-in-law finally smiled with relief and sighed: "This cat was raised when the old lady was there, and it has been more than ten years, and its legs and feet are not good." Now the old lady who raised it since she was a child is gone, and it's quite pitiful to have such an old cat left......"

The husband nodded beside him, and seemed to be in tears because he remembered his dead mother: "Who said it wasn't, when my mother left, it was better for it to follow along, so as not to leave me pitiful, nesting on the kang every day to see things and think about people, I'm afraid it will be as uncomfortable as us......"

"That's not going to work!"

When the daughter-in-law heard this, she was so frightened that she ran to the kang, hugged the old cat into her arms, hugged the cat tightly and said, "Don't mess around with the surname Li, this cat was raised by our mother since childhood, even if my mother is gone, we have to serve it until the end of the day." ”

After hearing this, the husband quickly nodded and said yes, as if he was also a little moved by his wife's stubbornness.

That night, in order to facilitate the investigation of the case, Lou Jianguang and I simply lived in the Li family, and it happened that after the old lady died, the vacated east house has been idle, and after the eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family cleaned up a little, Lou Jianguang and I directly 'moved in' with our bags.

Inevitably treat us slowly, the husband of the Li family also specially prepared big fish and meat and good wine at night, which simply made Lou Jianguang, who was covered with a straw curtain in the ditch and frozen overnight, and I drank a little high unconsciously, and the Li family talked about it for most of the night, and then fell asleep comfortably on the hot kang head, and completely forgot the purpose of this trip for a while.

However, this sleep was not as comfortable as we imagined, and when I slept until about two or three o'clock in the second half of the night, I finally had an out-of-phase, and if I listened carefully, it was a series of gentle strange noises that I could barely notice at first came from outside, and the strange noises became louder and louder, and became more and more urgent, and finally woke me up from my deep sleep.

I stretched my waist and wanted to get up in a daze, but before I could sit up, a hand reached out from my side, grabbed my shoulder and pressed me back on the kang, I turned my head to look, and vaguely saw Lou Jianguang quietly waving his hand at me, signaling me not to make a sound......

Lou Jianguang's face was solemn and extremely ugly, I woke up at once, and then I saw Lou Jianguang, who was pretending to be asleep on his side, quietly raised his finger and pointed to the window, I followed the direction of his finger, and vaguely saw that the closed curtains were shaking slightly, if a breeze was blowing, but there was a trace of air flow in the room.

Before I understood what Lou Jianguang meant by pointing to the window, I heard Lou Jianguang make a very small sound-

"Look at the cracks in the curtains, someone is watching us."

Hearing this, my heart tightened, so I hurriedly looked through the gap between the two curtains, and with the swaying of the curtains, I saw a small half of a strange face faintly exposed outside the gap, and a round eye was shining with a faint blue light, and it was looking straight into the room, which made me panic, and at this time, the sound like knocking on the door became louder and more urgent......