I am kind and the world treats me desolate, and I am usually willing to let the world make me crazy
What does it look like when an otherwise good person is oppressed or bullied to the limit?
One day in March 1957, a boy was born in a poor peasant family in Yichuan County, Shaanxi Province, and his father named him Dong Zhen, a name that carried his father's good expectations and revitalized the Dong family.
But the expectation is beautiful, the reality is indeed cruel, since Dong Zhen remembered, he has been constantly subjected to the white eyes and rebukes of the people around him, as if even if he did nothing, he had committed a great crime.
But why is all this?
An insurmountable fate
This starts with Dong Zhen's ancestors, it turns out that Dong Zhen's grandfather was once a local large landowner, it is said that half of the fields in the village were once their family's, and after liberation, such a Dong family naturally became a typical example of being hit and liquidated, not long after Dong Zhen's grandfather died, and Dong Zhen's father has been swallowing his anger and survived, and later married a daughter-in-law.
But the family composition is not good, it has always been buckled on the body of the Dong family, pressing them breathlessly, and the same is true after Dong Zhen was born, the children in the village did not play with him, and often bullied him, and he could not resist, and after his father knew it, he could only sigh helplessly and tell him to endure.
The word forbearance has almost become the most word Dong Zhen has heard and used since he was a child, and gradually he began to be silent like his father, but the more the father and son are like this, the more they are regarded as waste by the people around them, and they are more and more despised and bullied.
Dong Zhen's father's desire to revitalize the Dong family seems to have failed, so let's live a lifetime like this, at least you can still eat, at least you have a place to live, at least you are still alive.
They think like this and live like this, but what they don't expect is that even if they live like this, they can't live it anymore.
Lost everything
In 1991, a great drought swept through the entire northwest, and grain was not harvested in many places, as was the village where Dong Zhen's family was located, and Dong Zhen's mother also fell ill in this year, which made the already difficult Dong family even worse, Dong Zhen's father took out all the family's savings to see his wife, but in the end he was invited out of the hospital because of insufficient money, Dong Zhen and his father could only watch their mother and wife leave in pain.
Just as the so-called "house leak coincides with overnight rain", just when the father and son have not yet come out of the grief of losing their loved ones, an even greater suffering comes to them.
One day, Guo Baocai, the brother-in-law of the township chief, came to the Dong family, and the father and son naturally greeted each other with a respectful smile, but this Guo Baocai gave an ultimatum to Dong Zhen's father and son without saying a word, asking them to move away from their homes within three days, and he wanted to requisition their family's land to set up a factory.
Facing Guo Baocai who wants to make himself homeless, Dong Zhen's father and son finally did not give in this time, they expressed their refusal, they dared to refuse themselves, this is simply disrespectful to themselves, Guo Baocai heard that Dong Zhen's father and son did not agree, he was furious, and immediately let a few attendants brought with him, beat Dong Zhen's father and son violently, and finally put down cruel words, let them move away quickly, otherwise the next time will not be so easy.
After being beaten, Dong Zhen's father and son chose silence and compromise, they silently packed up their things, moved to their own fields, set up a grass hut, and lived in.
Not long after, Dong Zhen's father, who had just experienced the pain of losing his wife and lost his residence, fell ill, and Dong Zhen could only take care of his father while working, but his father never got better as soon as he fell ill, and soon passed away, and before he died, Dong Zhen's father kept muttering "go home".
Both parents died, his home was gone, Dong Zhen finally didn't want to swallow his anger anymore, especially his father's "go home" before his death made Dong Zhen more determined to get back his own home.
He wrote a letter of complaint to sue Guo Baocai, who had occupied his home, but when his letter arrived in the township, it was confiscated by Guo Baocai's brother-in-law who was the head of the township, and Guo Baocai beat Dong Zhen severely and overturned the grass hut in his field.
No more retreat
That night, the heavy rain was pouring, Dong Zhen covered his face and cried, he didn't know why he was always so unlucky, was it because of his ancestral origin? But is this something he can change? He and his parents swallowed their anger all their lives, and they lived like no longer people, but those villagers became more and more contemptuous and contemptuous of them, for a long time, he raised his head, his eyes were full of hatred, and he roared up to the sky, as if he had completed a fission.
The next day, Dong Zhen went to the market to buy a brand new kitchen knife and a bottle of white wine with the little money he had, and he walked to his parents' grave, and no one noticed that he had been there all day, and he did not know what he said, until after nightfall, he picked up the brand new kitchen knife on the ground and walked into the village without looking back.
At this time, Guo Baocai's factory was also officially opened, and the family was also celebrating with a banquet, relatives and some people who tended to be inflamed, praising and laughing, they all drank a lot of wine, and no one noticed when a cold figure walked in.
Guo Baocai's two cousins were the first to see the comer, it was Dong Zhen who had just taught him the day before, they opened their mouths to be an output to Dong Zhen, but at this moment Dong Zhen was like killing gods, only to see his brand new kitchen knife slashed through, directly chopping these two people to the ground, at this time everyone was frightened, and Dong Zhen seemed to turn into a killing god holding a sharp blade, he walked to everyone covered in blood, and another knife, one of his closest neighbors was cut down by him, at this time, people finally reacted, they fled each other to hide, Guo Baocai's township chief's brother-in-law hid under the table and shivered, Dong Zhen saw Guo Baocai, he chased after him with a kitchen knife, Guo Baocai looked at this Dong Zhen has long lost his arrogance in the past, he can only dodge while begging for mercy, but in the end he was still cut down by Dong Zhen's knife, looking at Guo Baocai who fell in a pool of blood, Dong Zhen wielded one knife after another, it seems that his grievances and heartache in this half of his life have converged on this knife.
On this night, the old and young of the Guo family were hacked and killed by Dong Zhen, and there is no accurate number of specific people, and Dong Zhen fled before the police arrived, and to this day, his whereabouts are still a mystery, some people say that he has already committed suicide, some say that he was caught by the police and has been shot, and some people say that he has changed his name and lived somewhere else, but either way, there is no reliable evidence to prove it.
Dong Zhen was still like his name in the end, only not revitalized but shocked.
epilogue
Dong Zhen is indeed unfortunate, but this is also inseparable from him and his family, if they can not always swallow their anger may not have Guo Baocai's such arrogant and wanton behavior, although he is not born a villain, but he is also an ignorant person, when he and his family suffered unfair treatment, he did not think of using the right way to solve it, but embarked on another extreme road, perhaps, Dong Zhen may have other ideas after that, but that night, that rainy night, He just thought of that fierce and decisive idea.
And the rest of the people in this village can be said to be the real evil interpretation of human nature to the fullest, they bully and instigate people is not enough, and in the end they also paid the price, Guo Baocai's family and his township chief brother-in-law are like this, as the saying goes, everything must have a degree, leave room for others, is to leave room for yourself, otherwise, things will be reversed.