Although the Liu family lived a relatively wealthy life, he did not hire long-term laborers like other wealthy landowners to have ordinary people farm for him, so he had no conflicts with ordinary poor farmers.

However, he never expected that his younger brother, Liu Hechang, would secretly be jealous of his brother's success.

When the national situation became more serious, Liu Hechang used the government to suppress his brother, Liu Hecai, who originally belonged to the middle peasant class, was defined as a rich peasant and suffered many unfair treatments.

In the end, Liu Hecai's land was divided up, his house was forcibly seized, he died in depression, and his second wife ran away.

Only his first wife was left to raise their five children, but she soon fell ill from overwork and died.

At this time, Liu Hechang was complacent and did not care about the plight of his elder brother's family. He even took the opportunity to insult his nephew Liu Pu and abused his power in the village to mistreat them, making Liu Pu's life very difficult afterward and planting the seeds of hatred in his heart.

However, he knew he was too weak to take revenge, so he carefully hid himself.

This concealment lasted for many years.

This year, after a long period of hard work and secret training, Liu Pu finally felt that he was capable of taking revenge.

So he chose a day to start sharpening his knife.

While he was sharpening the knife, one of Liu Hechang's grandsons saw him and asked him why he was sharpening the knife. He bluntly said that he wanted to kill his whole family.

When the child told Liu Hechang about it when he got home, his family thought it was a joke and didn't take it to heart.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, Liu Pu broke into Liu Hechang's house and murdered all 15 sleeping family members.

When he returned after killing the man, his two half-sisters noticed that he was covered in blood because he was using a flashlight.

In a moment of desperation, he killed his two younger sisters as well.

The next morning, after discovering the tragedy at the Liu family's home, the villagers immediately reported it to the police.

The police quickly identified Liu Pu as the murderer, but could not find any trace of him.

Two days later, villagers found his trail in the mountains, but by then he had already hanged himself from a tree.

No one expected that he would seek revenge in a way that resulted in both sides suffering heavy losses!

It is said that because Liu Hechang's family died so tragically, the people in their village dared not go out at night after that, and they could not even sleep soundly. For a long time, people had to stay at night to keep watch, for fear that someone would break in.

The incident had a significant impact afterward, especially after it made the news. The local government took the lead in disciplining some of the officials involved.

After all, if they hadn't colluded with Liu Hechang to distort the facts, Liu Hecai wouldn't have been able to go from a middle peasant to a rich peasant, and instead ended up in this predicament.

It wasn't just Xingzi County; other counties across the country also began to investigate again after reading the newspapers, looking for families whose class status had been wrongly defined back then.

The incident had such a significant and frightening impact that it made some ordinary people reflect on whether they had been too ruthless in their treatment of landlords, rich peasants, and even people in cowsheds, and whether they would face retaliation from them.

Some people, believing it's better to be safe than sorry, didn't dare to do anything openly afterward, simply ignoring it, which inadvertently made life a little better for some.

This matter spread widely in the capital, and some people even wondered if they had offended anyone, especially children, since everyone knew that children could hold grudges for many years.

Many families even forbade their children from becoming Red Guards, fearing resentment and retaliation.