Walking into a cesspit, the best evil widow wants to stand up

In late September in the south, although it is a little cool in the morning, it becomes stuffy after the sun comes out.

On the winding road, a carriage was climbing the slope with difficulty. In front of the carriage was a tall horse with a young man sitting on it, leading the way. This was Captain Li.

Sitting in the carriage were Magistrate Xu and his wife. The situation they saw along the way was even more severe than the last time they came. As they walked out of the county town, they saw beggars staggering from time to time. When they walked to the outskirts, there was not even any grass left in the fields.

Suddenly, Captain Li saw that something was wrong ahead, so he stopped and raised his hand. The driver behind him saw this and quickly tightened the reins and stopped.

Seeing the carriage suddenly stop, County Magistrate Xu couldn't help but wonder, he poked his head out and asked, "Li Dong, what's going on?"

"There is an old man lying on the road ahead." After saying that, Captain Li also jumped out of the car.

I saw an old man lying in the middle of the road, wearing a gray coarse cloth that was so patinaed that it was almost impossible to tell the color, and his face was on the ground.

Before he got close, Captain Li smelled a sour odor. Enduring the nausea, Li Dong turned the old man over.

He saw that the old man's lips were cracked and bleeding. He touched his lips with his hand and found that he was still breathing. Li Dong's heart was relieved immediately.

"Old man, old man, please wake up!" Captain Li held the old man in his arms and pressed his philtrum.

After a long while, the old man slowly woke up, murmuring: "Water...water..."

Li Dong quickly untied the water bag from his waist and pulled out the cork. The old man gulped down several big gulps before he recovered his breath.

"Is there anything to eat?" the old man asked hoarsely.

"Old man, I still have a piece of steamed bun here~" County Magistrate Xu walked up to the old man, took out a piece of steamed bun and handed it to the old man. The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, snatched it away, and began to devour it.

"Cough cough..."

Perhaps he ate too fast and the steamed bun was dry, so he choked the old man and started coughing violently. Captain Li saw this and quickly handed him the water bag. The old man drank two more sips of water and finally recovered.

After eating a piece of steamed bread, the old man looked much better and he had some strength. Captain Li helped him sit down on a stone in the shade by the roadside.

"What a kind-hearted person! It's not easy to get food these days. You are really the Bodhisattva Guanyin if you are willing to give food to strangers. Thank you so much." The old man clasped his hands together, tears streaming down his face.

"Old man, why are you here? Where are your family?" County Magistrate Xu asked with concern.

"Those evil creatures are such unfilial sons!" When he said this, the old man beat his chest and stamped his feet.

It turned out that the old man's name was Liu Wu. His wife had passed away. Liu Wu could weave baskets to earn some money, and he raised three sons and one daughter on the five acres of barren land at home.

The eldest daughter got married with eight taels of silver as a dowry, and Liu Wu added a few taels of silver that he had saved with great effort to help his three sons get married one after another. However, the wives these three sons married were more powerful than the last.

In the past few years, Liu Wu was in good health and could earn some money by weaving baskets. Everyone was nice to him on the surface. But two years ago, Liu Wu went up the mountain to cut bamboo and broke his right hand and left leg.

Because he was afraid of spending money, he just randomly found some herbal medicine to apply on himself. Unexpectedly, his bones were dislocated and he failed to straighten them and apply the medicine in time. Now his hands are painful and he can't use any strength, and his legs are lame.

His hands and feet were effectively useless, and from then on, he could no longer do farm work in the fields, let alone go up the mountain to cut bamboo and weave baskets.

Fortunately, his son and daughter-in-law still had the patience to give him food. But after a long time, they became impatient and instigated their brothers to separate.

The old man has a lame leg and now has to depend on their moods for food. His daughter married in the next town, but their family is not well off either, so she has to depend on her husband's family. She can't go home more than twice a year and has no time to take care of her father.

These brothers wanted to divide up the family property, but none of them wanted to take their old father with them, so they just gave away their old father. The people in the village were angry but dared not say anything.

The village chief went to the house and talked about it, but the daughters-in-law threw a tantrum, saying that the village chief was going to force them to death. They also said that the village chief was just talking big and that if they had the ability, they should take the children back home and raise them.

Every day, they would come to the door and curse at the other person's ancestors. It is said that it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain, let alone a few shrews. From then on, the village chief didn't dare to come to the door.

These daughters-in-law were even more demanding. When they were happy, they would give the old man a bite of food, and when they were unhappy, they would leave him hungry.

Since the drought last year, there has not been much food in stock. His sons simply don’t even give him food to eat, and when they go to knock on the door to ask for food, they are driven out.

At first, some neighbors gave them food, but as the famine lasted for so long, they couldn't even take care of themselves, let alone give food to outsiders. They had no choice but to knock on their sons' doors again.

Several daughters-in-law said, "Dad, there is not much food at home. How can you be so ignorant at your age?

You are so cruel that you have the heart to compete with your grandson for food. Besides, you won't live long, so you might as well leave the food for your descendants." Then he drove him out again.

The people in the village saw that he didn't care about other people's sons, so they felt helpless. What's more, if they cared for a day, others would blame them. They all avoided him like a plague.

Finally the old man had no choice but to drag his crippled legs and disabled hands out to beg, but these days, everyone had a hard time and ran into obstacles everywhere, so he could only move along the main road.

I thought it would be better once I got to the county town, but there was nothing on either side of the road. Due to the continuous drought, even the weeds had withered.

The water that was finally begged for was finished, and before reaching another village, he collapsed on the road. This was the scene at the beginning.

"How can this be possible? Old man, why don't you report this to the authorities when your son is so rebellious and unfilial?" Li Dong said indignantly.

"Ah~"

The old man sighed: "They are all my children and grandchildren. I can't bear it. Besides, my daughter-in-law is right. I am old and don't want to drag them down."

"It's really pitiful how pitiful the parents are..." County Magistrate Xu sighed. No matter how unfilial their children are to them, parents still care about them.

It is true that one rice feeds a hundred kinds of people. Some people's parents are still alive, but they do everything they can to avoid supporting them, while some people want to support their parents but they are no longer there.

"My husband, the sun is getting hotter and hotter. Let's go quickly!" Dong was sweating profusely. She fanned herself with a fan and thought to herself, "I should have brought Cui'e with me earlier."

"Okay, let's go now!" County Magistrate Xu responded, and turned to ask the old man: "Old man, where is your home?"

After receiving the old man's affirmative reply, Xu, the county magistrate, knew that the village was also under his jurisdiction, so he felt relieved and ordered Li, the captain of the police, to send him back.

Remind him to take the official badge, find the village chief to clearly identify himself, and give him a stern order that he must not abandon the elderly in the future, eat whatever is available at home, and the government will visit them from time to time. If they commit the same offense again, they will be thrown into jail.