The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2082 Liu Laoshi

In Gude County, Xiangzhou, Liu Laoshi returned home gloomily.

Just as the door was closing, Mrs. Liu's sharp voice sounded inside: "You came back so late, did you go to whore someone else, or did you go to find that unlucky mother of yours?"

Liu Laoshi held the door bolt tightly with his right hand, his fingers almost twisted. After five breaths, he slowly let go of his hand, turned around, glanced at his mother-in-law, and walked slowly towards the west room.

"Why don't you dare to speak?" Mrs. Liu crossed her arms and looked at her husband with contempt.

Liu Laoshi had a sullen face and ignored his wife.

Mrs. Liu felt an unknown anger in her heart and said angrily: "Stop! What do you think of me? I gave you two cents today. Are you still there? Take it out and let me see!"

Liu Laoshi stopped at the door of the West House and said helplessly: "Buy some steamed buns to eat."

"Which store's steamed buns and what kind of fillings are they?"

"Of course it's from Zhang Baopu. It's not like you don't know that I like to eat his steamed buns." Liu Laoshi said impatiently.

"Ha, what a big joke. Today I went to the market to ask. You didn't buy buns at all, but bought four big steamed buns! You are quite good at eating. You eat four steamed buns at noon and you don't even have food. Can’t we just grab some grass on the roadside and eat it?”

Liu Laoshi's face suddenly turned red, and he suddenly turned around and asked, "Are you still stalking me on the street?"

Mrs. Liu sneered and said: "I just looked at you as if you had lost your soul today. Before going out, you asked this and that. I was relieved when I heard that I was not going to the north. Didn't you just go to the north to see your mother? Yes. What are you afraid to say? I have been unlucky for eight years by marrying you. After a few days of good times, you gave all your spare money to your mother, and you didn’t even give any to our mother’s family.”

Liu Laoshi's face turned red with anger, he banged the door frame and said: "You will receive all the money from the workshop. If you don't go, I won't get a penny. You only give me two penny a day. In addition to eating, I don't get a penny." What should I give to my mother? What should I give to my mother’s family? Whenever something breaks, who do you go to if I don’t fix it?”

Mr. Liu smiled coldly and said, "Then let me ask you, what's the matter with the medicine you owe Bao Yuetang?"

"Don't go too far!" Liu Laoshi growled and stepped into the house.

Ms. Liu glared, rushed into the west room, pointed at Liu Laoshi and cursed: "Am I too much? Can you try to scold me again? I can't tear off your foul mouth! It's been eight lifetimes of bad luck to marry into your family." The dowry is not much, and there are not many benefits. All the family's money is used to support the old woman! If I hadn't driven her to the old house two years ago, our family would have become a ruin! "

"Stop talking." Liu Laoshi's voice suddenly became deeper.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Liu relented and said proudly: "Stop talking? You also know how to deal with losses? Do you think that how much of our family's money has been wasted by your mother? You can do the math yourself! Doctors and medicines in the city The doctor is so amiable when he sees you, he almost treats you as the God of Wealth. What doctor and medicine hall didn’t know about you! That old immortal didn’t know you in his previous life! I know what kind of virtue I have accumulated, and I have taken all kinds of medicine, but I can’t even smell it! That old man is half-dead all day, but you can live better than anyone else. I give you two cents a day, but you insist on it. The old man has lived for two years, and the medicine hall will give you medicine on credit. You are really familiar with it. From tomorrow on, I will only give you a penny."

"How dare you!" Liu Laoshi turned around suddenly and glared at Mr. Liu.

Ms. Liu smiled nonchalantly and said, "What can I not dare to do? I have a wife and children who don't know how to take care of them. They are miserable all day long. I only know how to take care of them until they die. What should I not dare to do?"

Liu Laoshi's eyes were full of anger and sadness, and he cursed loudly: "You are still shameless! Since you married me, when have you suffered any hardships? From the second month after marrying, you have been in control of your monthly salary. , you'd better say that it's not easy for your parents to raise a daughter like you. They deduct half of the money every month and buy meat, cloth and fruits during holidays. It’s a missing New Year’s Day. There are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year. You can go back to your parents’ home for three hundred days! You divide the remaining money into three parts. One part is said to be saved. I haven’t seen where to save it until now. ! You said you would use it yourself and keep the rest at home. How much can you use to treat my mother? If you don’t even spend half of it on my mother, do you have any conscience? "

"What did you say? Say it again!" Mrs. Liu was furious, with her hands on her waist, looking like a tiger or wolf.

"I just said it! If you say it again, it's still the same, what can you do to me! I've had enough. I will take my mother back today. If you dare to beat and scold her again, I will divorce you!" Liu said honestly He rushed out quickly.

Mrs. Liu was so angry that she was dizzy and cursed loudly: "You heartless person! If you really bring that old immortal back, I will die in front of your house!"

Liu Laoshi disappeared out the door without looking back.

The sky was overcast, with lightning and thunder, wind but no rain.

Not long after, Liu Laoshi carried an old woman through the gate, walked around the screen wall, and saw Mrs. Liu sitting by the well.

Ms. Liu got up in a hurry and cursed: "You old fool, you haven't done enough harm to our family, why do you have the nerve to come back? Our good family makes you so troubled, why don't you die! If you don't die, Our family is not doing well! At first, our family listened to me, but since you became ill, they have no regard for me anymore!"

After Mrs. Liu finished speaking, she rushed forward to scratch Mother Liu.

Mother Liu's hair was dry and sparse, her face was covered with brown patches, and her breathing was weak. When she saw her daughter-in-law rushing towards her, her soul was half frightened.

"roll!"

Liu Laoshi raised his leg and kicked his wife in the stomach.

Liu never thought her husband would kick her. She was caught off guard and fell backwards, hitting the ground heavily.

Liu Laoshi was stunned for a moment, slowly put his mother down, watched her stand up, and rushed to help his wife.

Liu stupidly let her husband help her up. After a while, she suddenly scratched Liu Laoshi's face desperately, crying while scratching.

"You beast! You actually beat your wife! You have no conscience, you actually hit me! I worked hard for this family, but you actually hit me!"

Liu Laoshi hurriedly covered his face with his arms and kept retreating to the inner room.

Liu Laoshi retreated into the inner room, panting and holding the door frame, and said with red eyes: "Carry that old woman back now, and pretend that what happened today didn't happen! If you dare to let her come back again, I will not let you enter this house!"

Liu Laoshi hid in the house, with scars all over his face, and said nothing.

"Are you a man or not? I'll ask you one last question. Will you choose me and the child, or that old man? If you don't choose today, I'll die in front of you!"

Liu Laoshi found the bronze mirror, looked at the wound on his face carefully, touched it with his hands from time to time, and made a hissing sound.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Liu Laoshi's eyes became more and more sad. No matter how his wife yelled outside, he turned a deaf ear.

At this moment, a plop sounded in the yard.

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