From then on, Wei Xiaoman kept the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva at home and regarded himself as a layman. Her husband, Zhu Youneng, didn't like it very much, but he didn't object to it either. He only objected to Wei Xiaoman's burning of incense, saying that it made the smoke rise and yellowed the things in the house.
Wei Xiaoman also listened to her husband and stopped burning incense, but continued to worship the Bodhisattva morning and evening. After all, the Bodhisattva statue is made of wood. During the rainy season, in order to prevent the wood from getting moldy, she would move the Bodhisattva statue to the venue to bask in the sun on sunny days. She was very pious.
In the early autumn of one year, it started with a beautiful sunny day. After an hour, dark clouds rolled in, lightning flashed, and heavy rain began. Wei Xiaoman, who was weeding in the vegetable garden, rushed back immediately. There was a basket of boiled vegetables hanging to dry on the right side of the yard in front of the house. On the left side of the dishes, there was a statue of Bodhisattva that was ready to bask in the sun. Now it was soaked by the rain, but she snatched the statue of Bodhisattva home first, and then collected the basket of blanched vegetables.
In her heart, Bodhisattva is the most respected. But can the Bodhisattva protect her? She believed it, but her husband did not. In the third year of marriage, the family got into trouble.
Zhu Youneng heard from someone at the kiln that Wei Xiaoman would get some vegetables from the garden every now and then and transport them to the city on a farm truck to sell them, but he would sell the vegetables cheaply to a vegetable vendor.
He was an honest man. In addition to giving enough money to sell vegetables, he sometimes gave Wei Xiaoman an extra dollar or two. He said that it was not easy for a woman to bring vegetables to the city from such a far away countryside. With a little money, I'll subsidize your ride fare!
Wei Xiaoman also sympathized with the man and said that it is even more difficult for you to run a small business. No matter whether it is sunny or rainy, you squat at the vegetable stall. You get up early and work late at night all year round. You have to squat for more than ten hours a day. What if I can't do anything. .
She insisted on returning the one or two dollars that the man put into his hand, but the man refused to accept it. Wei Xiaoman was embarrassed to repeat the pushing and pushing action again, and said with a smile, these two yuan are considered extra, I will give you more vegetables tomorrow to make up for it! Because they spoke politely to each other, others noticed that the man had a good relationship with Wei Xiaoman. Once word spread, the rumor changed.
Some people speculated that they must have an improper relationship between a man and a woman. Otherwise, why are the man and woman so sticky? Somehow this word reached the kiln, and the kiln master Zhu Youneng heard it. He didn't believe it at first, and then the more he thought about it, the more he became suspicious, and the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became. He also tried to find some self-righteous reasons: My wife is so beautiful and loved by everyone, it is difficult to talk about that kind of thing. Besides, sparrows do not make noise in the empty forest. Now that it has been spread, it may be true. But after all, he was not caught, and it was inconvenient to question his wife.
Zhu Youneng doesn't talk much, so his nickname is "Menggu". He had an idea in his mind, and when he got home at night, he didn't say anything to his wife. In addition, his wife had her period that night, so he was not allowed to get involved and could not get involved. Everyone sleeps separately on the bed. Zhu Youneng always cared about what he heard during the day, so he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
The next day, Zhu Youneng pretended to go back to the kiln, but secretly followed Wei Xiaoman. Wei Xiaoman got some vegetables and took the village's agricultural vehicle to the city. As usual, he gave a snakeskin bag of vegetables to the man setting up the vegetable stall, and asked him to pay two yuan less for the vegetables.
The man refused and insisted on giving me the full amount of money. In order to refund him two yuan, Wei Xiaoman still felt embarrassed to be seen pushing him.
She walked out of the market, bought two yuan worth of steamed buns from outside and threw them at the man's vegetable stall. The man hadn't reacted yet, but when he did, Wei Xiaoman had already walked away with a smile.
But all this was clearly seen by Zhu Youneng, who was following her on a rented motorcycle. He cursed angrily, you bastard, it turns out you have a wild man outside. You are reluctant to buy steamed buns for me, but you are willing to buy them for wild men. Men eat. See if I don’t deal with you.
When Zhu Youneng saw that his wife had returned, he was still suspicious and said: If you hadn't had your period, maybe you and that wild man would still have something to do today. snort! He felt that there was no need to follow his wife anymore, so he went to a hardware store on the street with a wave of resentment, bought an ax and carried it on his body. When he left the store, he muttered, Wei Xiaoman! Wei Xiaoman! I treat you well, I support you, and even build a new house with your parents. If you can't live with me like this, I will kill you when I get home tonight. Gritting his teeth, Zhu Youneng reached out to touch the ax while grumbling.
That morning, Zhu Youneng returned to the kiln. Instead of gesticulating and telling the employees how to work as usual, he found a grindstone and dipped it in water to grind the ax until it was sharpened very quickly and shimmered with cold light. . An employee who was picking bricks from here to there came back and asked him what he was doing sharpening his axe. Zhu Youneng replied prevaricatingly: "Ci Chai!"
But no one saw him actually chopping firewood with an ax. What is puzzling is that the kiln for burning bricks and tiles is not burned with wood or other fuel, but with coal. Where is the need for an ax to chop wood?
Someone discovered that when the sun went down that day, all the employees had left, but Zhu Youneng was still staying at the kiln. If normal times, he would have gone home to pamper his thin-skinned and tender wife.
In fact, Zhu Youneng had his own plan. He wanted to wait until it got dark and under the cover of night, then go home and chop his wife to death to relieve the hatred in his heart. That way, after committing the crime and sneaking back to the kiln, he could still pretend not to know and get away with it.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, there was a layer of dark clouds in the sky and there was no starlight, so it was naturally so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. It was a good time. Zhu Youneng left the kiln and hit the road in the dark. He passed through several fields based on his impressions, climbed mountains and downhill slopes, and soon arrived in front of his house. He found that the door was ajar, leaving a relatively small door. The gap was wide enough for a man of average height like him to slip in without pushing the door open.
At this moment, Zhu Youneng was in the dark outside the house. He slowed down and moved forward on tiptoe, because he saw the back of his wife Wei Xiaoman swaying inside the door by the candlelight inside, and he felt a backlog in his heart. He had been resentful for so long that it almost drove him crazy.
He rushed into the door with a single stride, raised the ax in his hand, and slashed hard at the neck of his wife, Wei Xiaoman, who had her back turned. Flapping - making a sound like a falling woodpile. Zhu Youneng saw a steady flow of blood in a daze. He was worried that he would be exposed, so he immediately dragged his wife's body towards a corner of the hall.
At this moment, he was panicked and frightened, so he went out with his ax and hurried back to a hut in the kiln at night. There is a bunk inside. Where can he sleep on it? Tossing and turning, he didn't even blink until dawn.
He thought over and over again and decided that it would be better not to stay at the kiln and kill someone himself, lest the villagers find out and report the case. The police came to handle the case and found the kiln to arrest him for interrogation. Therefore, staying here was a good idea for his hiding. It was not safe, so he simply left the kiln early in the morning before any employees came to the kiln.
Where to hide? During the day, he wandered around in the public square. As a murderer, it was his first time to kill someone. He must have looked wrong. Most people would be able to detect it. It would be even more troublesome if he encountered the police. So Zhu Youneng left the kiln and did not go down the mountain. Instead, he went into the dense forest and hid in an abandoned cave dwelling where he had burned kilns in his early years. It was relatively spacious, but very dirty. There were piles of wild animals and excrement, which was very smoky. He had to make do.
He planned to hide here during the day, go out of the cave and go down the mountain at night, rush to Jinse City, escape by train to other places, and make a living by his kiln-burning skills. However, fate is not as good as fate. Before dark that day, he was arrested by Shiniuling Police Station.
The strange thing is that someone seemed to have discovered Zhu Youneng. Several police officers went directly up the mountain and into the dense forest. They pulled Zhu Youneng out from hiding in an abandoned cave dwelling and handcuffed him. What's going on?
