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  Comrade Xia Qiushi was delivering water when the ground floor building was being tiled. The tomb occupied an area of about 30 or 40 square meters, and outside, a crowd of people were standing in a circle watching the commotion. After receiving tea and snacks, they considered it a rest. On the rooftop, laying tiles were local bricklayers, with a bamboo ladder leaning against the side to climb up. Seeing that today's work would be finished, one of the bricklayers planned to come down and drink some water. Just as he was on the ladder, his foot slipped, not very high, only about 3 or 4 meters, "thud" sounded, and the whole person came tumbling down.

  Someone fell down and a crowd gathered around. The bricklayer patted the dirt off his body, stood up by himself, and smiled as he said: "It's nothing, it's nothing..."

  Apart from his body shape being a bit dazed, everyone at the time thought that nothing was wrong with him. He also took over the bowl handed over by Comrade Xia and poured a mouthful of water down, only to hear a "plop" sound. Xia Qiushi saw a bloody mist rising in front of himself, and then the bricklayer fell to the ground again.

  The man died that afternoon, and didn't even make it to the hospital. The bricklayer was around the same age as Xia Lao, and was considered an uncle figure in the family. With the pillar of the household gone, all that's left is a widow and orphan who can only cry out to heaven. As for Kong Lao Da himself, he didn't behave very well, and after such a big incident, he still had the nerve to bother with his own family's trivial matters. He just took a quick look and then left, but that night, the bricklayer's wife and son were kneeling in front of Kong Lao Da's new house, wearing mourning clothes and crying out for justice. The crowd of onlookers was huge, with people packed in three layers deep.

  They made a fuss all night, and the village sent people to mediate, but it was useless. When something happens that involves human life, Kong Lao Da becomes the party at fault. The person who died was working for your family, after all. They negotiated that night. This side insisted on compensation, 50,000 yuan, not a penny less. What about Kong Lao Da? He still felt wronged. You're here to help me out, aren't you? I didn't hire you or anything. When something happens, I'm also very distressed. How about giving a few thousand yuan as consolation? I've got to get busy early tomorrow morning anyway.

  The whole night was dismissed, and the Kong family's tomb relocation ceremony tomorrow might be deserted. The date has been chosen and cannot be changed, everything remains the same. Those who were crying and making a fuss were also persuaded to return home. The mediators indicated that they would discuss it thoroughly, but that bricklayer's wife is also a ruthless character. She probably wouldn't have been satisfied even if she had gone back quietly at dawn... She secretly carried two buckets of manure and climbed up the Kong family's tomb mountain...

  The next day, the Kong family went up the mountain to take a look. This guy had made a mess of both the new and old graves, which were emitting a foul odor that was unbearable. On top of the mound of Kong's ancestors' graves, someone had dug a large pit, in which floated authentic farm fertilizer. The expert invited by the Kong family immediately walked away with a dark face, muttering to Old Man Kong for a long time, essentially saying that he couldn't salvage this situation, and that their ancestors had been treated like this, so why bother moving the graves? They might as well wait for disaster to strike.

  This matter has now escalated, and Kong Lao Da feels that he has been doing well outside for the past two years. After this incident, how could he dare to give up? According to reason, one should return what is owed, but what's the use of talking reason with a rural woman? Now, the Kong family has gathered a large crowd and gone to the bricklayer's house to demand justice.

  The bricklayer's family was on this side, and at that early hour, it was time to mourn. Seeing the Kong family coming over with a fierce atmosphere, without saying a word, they overturned tables, smashed bowls and chopsticks, and their mouths became even more filthy. They cursed, saying the bricklayer deserved to die, that he had brought misfortune to their family, that the woman was vicious, and that they would curse eight generations of his ancestors. The cursing escalated into a fight.

  Two gangs of people, both with a grudge, clashed in a fierce fight, leaving some injured and others covered in blood. In the end, Kong Lao Da was still fuming and went inside to flip over the bricklayer who was still lying on the doorstep. He also made a threat: "You want money? I'll give you as much as you want, but this bricklayer will never have a good life after falling to the ground. Today he disrespected my ancestors, tomorrow he'll be disrespecting his own husband's grave."

  That afternoon, Old Kong really sent someone to deliver 50,000 yuan and a mediation letter, and the village also dispatched cadres to serve as witnesses.

  In those years, 50,000 yuan was a huge sum of money. To put it simply, with that amount, you could buy several houses in the provincial capital. Let me do some simple math for you: at that time, the purchasing power of 50,000 yuan was incredibly strong. The monthly salary of an urban worker was only around 80 yuan, and a farmer's annual income was less than 500 yuan. This 50,000 yuan was an astronomical figure at the time. Although Kong Lao Da had been struggling to make ends meet for years, he was speechless in front of this large stack of renminbi. The woman didn't even understand the concept of 50,000 yuan.

  This isn't to say that the poor have short tempers, she was originally just a simple housewife, and the villagers all had complaints about the Kong family's affairs, but who had the guts to speak up when it came to money? Following some people's whispers in her ear, taking advantage of this opportunity, the woman declared that this matter would be settled like this, anyway she got her money back, and she was the first to take action today, just wait and see if the Kong family dares to do anything to her again!

  The bricklayer followed suit and buried him according to procedure, but this matter didn't end there.

  In just a few days, the bricklayer's grave was dug up again, and the coffin and burial objects were pulled out and discarded in the wilderness. Another noisy argument ensued, but no one could provide evidence that this was done by the Kong family. After the quarrel, they refilled the grave again. Not long after, the grave was dug up once more, and this time it was even more extreme: the bricklayer's corpse had a rope tied around its neck and was dragged out, hanging from a ancient pine tree in front of the grave...

  Things have come to this point, it's no longer a matter of two families' grievances. The Kong family has many people, five brothers and children taking turns guarding their own grave. The bricklayer's widow has few people, can't do it openly, and can't do it secretly either. In just one month, the bricklayer's tomb was destroyed three times, causing unrest among all the villagers.

  Then, mediation, the village stepped forward. At that time, Xia Lao Liu was still the militia captain of the village, and he had a big temper, spoke straightforwardly, and had quite a reputation in the past, but since his son Xiao Yi changed his name to Qiu Shi, he didn't want to go out anymore, and his heart was getting worse.

  The two parties had agreed to meet at the village office building, but before they even entered the room, they started fighting again. After finally calming down and taking their seats, the scratches on each other's faces were like those from a cat's claw, all red and swollen from anger.

  The village chief at the time was a useless soft egg, only knowing how to be a good person and pretending to be a peacemaker, but no one bought it. The two sides quarreled again, and after a while, they provoked Comrade Xia Liu, who ran downstairs and found two kitchen knives, throwing them on the table: "Come on, you each take one, whoever kills the other will be considered settled, today no one can leave this door. What's the point of looking for trouble? Lin Zhi Sao, Kong Lao Da has already compensated you, and you've signed the mediation letter, so that matter is over." He turned to face Kong Lao Da: "You're still making a fuss with a woman, don't you know how to let people vent their anger? Are you going to throw away your life for nothing? Don't you fear being haunted by ghosts at midnight?"

  Kong Lao Da still wanted to quibble and twisted his neck saying: "Someone died, didn't I already pay compensation?"

  Xia Laoliu grabbed the kitchen knife on the table and jumped onto the table in one swift motion. With one hand, he grasped Kong Lao's collar and shouted to Xia Qiushi outside: "Go back and tell your mom that I'll send some money over this afternoon for you to take Kong Dajie away! Today, I'm going to buy his life!"

  He raised his hand and slashed down with a knife. Kong Lao Da didn't know this man was really going to chop, so he subconsciously blocked it with his arm. With a "ka" sound, the muscles on the back of his hand suddenly split open like his mouth, revealing white bones inside. This time, Kong Lao Da was truly scared. He knew that if he hadn't blocked that slash, it would have been aimed at his neck. Xia Lao Liu's knife was really intended to take his life!

  There's an old saying: the cunning are afraid of the stupid, and the stupid are afraid of those who don't care about their lives. In the past, Xia Lao Liu was notorious for being ruthless. This Kong Lao Da went out for two years thinking he'd become a big shot, expecting everyone to give him some face when he returned. But today he got knocked down, and this one move not only stunned Kong Lao Da but also left the woman opposite him dazed. The moment she saw what happened, her face turned white with fear, and the entire room fell silent.

  Xia Laoliu raised his knife again, and Kong Lao Da began to plead with a sob: "Sixth Master, Sixth Master spare my life, I'll let it go, just let it go..."

  Of course, Xia Lao Liu paid the price for this matter. First, he was stripped of his position as militia captain, and then he was detained in a police station for half a month. Everyone knew that it was just going through the motions, and finally paying some money would settle the matter.

  That's settled for the living, but what about the dead? That's just getting started!

  The bricklayer died suddenly, accidentally. At the time, someone said that the ancestral tomb of the Kong family was not good and would cause trouble. Within a month, three times, people were forced to remove it, all done by members of the Kong family, with Kong Lao Da's son present each time.

  The first to show unusual symptoms was Kong Lao Da's son, Xiao Kong. At first, Xiao Kong had an itchy palm, and they thought it was just a skin rash caused by poison or dampness, so they applied some ointment. After a few days, blisters started appearing on his palms, one after another, the itchiness was unbearable. Later, his whole body began to itch, wherever he scratched, the skin would peel off, and then the flesh underneath would continue to itch. In just one month, there were no more good spots left on his body.

  The bricklayer's widow's family wasn't doing much better, first they raised a pig for half a year and it died, then the chickens, hanging in clusters, later on even the dogs and cats at home didn't escape, not even the widow herself and her son. The mother and son both had fevers, starting with low-grade fevers, initially during the day they were still okay but would have an onset at night, but these past few days both daytime and nighttime started to burn, they've gone to the hospital so many times it's unknown how many, just no use.

  At that time, the dogs in the village would bark non-stop every midnight. Some people said they heard quarreling sounds on the highway when they got up at midnight, while others said they heard someone crying loudly behind the mountain. Anyway, it made the whole village uneasy and no one dared to go out at night.

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