Chapter 77: The Evil Stepmother is Ready to Be Evil to the End (9)
For a long time, Li Da's dreams were like a storybook. He would finish it tonight and continue it exactly the next night.
In the dream, he was already a second-rank official in the court. The emperor valued him very much. He was successful in officialdom and was no less successful in love.
His wife gave birth to a pair of children for him, who were smart and loved by everyone. During her pregnancy, she also took the initiative to take in three beautiful concubines for him to serve him.
In his dream, he had a mother who doted on him extremely since he was born. His mother was gentle and kind, and never scolded him harshly. He was a treasure in her mother's hands.
Li Da began to look forward to the arrival of night more and more every day, so that he could talk to his gentle mother in his dreams and teach his children archery and horse riding.
The dream was so beautiful that one day, while picking herbs, Li Da couldn't help but tell his dream to Li Er and Li San.
"You dreamed that I became a high-ranking official?" Li Da looked at the two of them in disbelief.
Li Er: "Yeah."
Li San: "Yeah."
Li Da's heart suddenly exploded, as if something had come true.
He began to believe that what he dreamed of was real. Otherwise, how could he explain that Li Er and Li San also had the same dream?
Li Da insisted in his heart that only if something really existed could three people have the same dream.
"Brother, what's wrong with you recently? If the third sister hadn't given you a handful of herbs before you came in yesterday, you would have been beaten by her yesterday," Li Er was busy picking herbs, but he didn't forget to care about Li Da.
Li Da was immersed in the beautiful moment in his dream when the illusory figure made chicken soup for him. Li Er's words were like a sharp thorn, puncturing the beautiful bubble and shattering it.
"I'm fine, just take care of yourself," Li Da said coldly.
Seeing him like this, Li Er stopped asking questions. He suddenly seemed to remember something and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
At night, Li Da hurriedly washed up and went to bed. Soon he entered the familiar scene again, but this time when he entered, he saw the gentle mother lying on the ground with a knife stuck in her chest, and the person holding the knife was him.
He was so panicked that he didn't know what to do. He knelt in front of the figure and cried like a child.
"Mom, I didn't mean it."
"Mom, I didn't mean to kill you. I don't know why the knife was out of my control."
"Mother, woo woo woo,"
…
"Brother?"
"Brother?" In the middle of the night, Li Er and Li San were sleeping soundly when they were suddenly awakened by Li Da's scream. They opened their eyes and lit a candle, only then they discovered that there were tears on Li Da's face. They shouted several times but failed to wake him up.
Li Er simply pinched Li Da's nose. After a while, Li Da couldn't breathe and woke up.
Li Da opened his eyes and saw the dim room. He immediately buried his head in the quilt and burst into tears. He killed his loving mother...
Seeing this, Li Er and Li San blew out the candles and lay down to continue sleeping.
On the other side, Muyan was lying on the bed and saw Li Dada crying, and rolled her eyes in disgust.
Maruzai: "If this goes on, he will go crazy!" The mother who has been with me since I was born and cared for me so much, finally died in my hands. It is understandable that she is not crazy.
"He's the only one going crazy, what's going on with the other two?"
Wanzai said quickly, "The other two are not suitable for the disease, what else can it be."
Mu Yan suddenly sat up from the bed and patted her thigh, "Change Li Er's dream for him."
Wanzai was puzzled: "Change to what?"
Mu Yan chuckled a few times, her voice was very cunning, "Change it to your favorite one."
Maruzai: ...He doesn’t want to understand.
Since that night, Li Da has dreamed of the bloody scene and those beautiful pictures every night, appearing alternately in his dreams.
As time went on, Li Da himself could no longer distinguish between dreams and reality, and his mind began to blur. Every day, he was like a puppet, being taken to the mountains by Li Er and Li San, picking herbs by muscle memory.
"Second brother, what happened to eldest brother?" Li San asked while picking herbs.
Li Er raised his eyelids and glanced at Li Da quickly, then said nonchalantly, "You must be scared."
"What should we do then?" Li San asked worriedly.
"It will be fine in a few days, it's okay," Li Er said as he applied the medicine.
He didn't have much time to care about Li Da's affairs. He dreamed last night that he lost all the business he had run for more than ten years.
He started those businesses from a small stall. After he had his first dream, he continued to run them every night, and his business grew bigger and bigger.
Last night should have been the day he became the richest man in the country, but unexpectedly, all his businesses went bankrupt and he was left with a mountain of debts.
Li Er was worried for the whole afternoon, and couldn't wait to fall asleep at night, hoping to turn the situation around. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, he was pushed into a familiar place.
"Sir, you are here again,"
When Li Er saw the waiter's face, he suddenly remembered where he was. He was sold to that restaurant because he owed debts.
He pushed the waiter aside and tried to run out, but was surrounded by a group of burly men...
For half a month, Li Er dreamed of that restaurant, and the things he once feared the most finally happened.
During the day, when he was picking herbs, the scenes in his dream played in his mind so realistically that he couldn't get rid of them no matter how hard he tried.
"Second brother, what's wrong with you?" Li San saw Li Er stunned and patted his shoulder and asked.
Li Er came back to his senses and glanced at Li San. He then realized that Li San's hand was on his shoulder. He took a step back and shook off Li San's hand.
"Pick yours and don't touch me," Li Er scolded.
"Oh," Li San turned around and went back to picking his own herbs. He didn't know what happened to his eldest and second brothers during this period. One of them was stupid and always said something he couldn't hear clearly, while the other was always highly alert and would be scolded if he touched him.
Before Li San's doubts were resolved, Li Da and Li Er became completely unconscious.
Li Da kept muttering that he didn't kill anyone and he was not the murderer.
Li Erze acted as if someone was trying to harm him all day long, and was full of hostility towards anyone who approached him, especially Li Da and Li San who slept on the same bunk bed with him.
The two were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night and were often beaten by Li Er who suddenly woke them up from their dreams.
That night, Li Er was awakened again. Seeing Li San and Li Da sleeping next to him, he picked up his pillow and covered Li San's head with it.
Li San was covered by a pillow, his suffocating hands clawing at the air. Gradually, his struggling movements became weaker and weaker, and his whimpering sounds became quieter and quieter until they disappeared.
Li Er saw that no one was moving, and a smile of surprise and relief appeared on his face. He turned around and covered the sleeping Li Da...
When the county officials came to the Li family's backyard, Li Da and Li San had already stiffened, and Li Er was huddled in the corner, trembling all over.
When the county magistrate was trying the case, Li Er suddenly went crazy in the court. The subsequent coroner's investigation results came out and found that the two people died in the same way as Li Er said when he went crazy. The murderer was confirmed to be Li Er.
The county magistrate, considering that he was not in his right mind, sentenced him to life imprisonment and spared his life.
On the day the case was finally heard, a villager reported that a skeleton had been found in the river, with only bones left after being eaten by fish.
The county magistrate had no way to investigate and left the case as an unsolved case.
Such a big case happened in Lijia Village all of a sudden. Everyone in the village was waiting to see what would happen in that house. They hoped that one day the woman in the yard would go crazy like Li Er.
But they waited year after year, and not only did they not see the people in the house go crazy, but their lives became better and better.
They couldn't understand why the woman's life was getting better and better without the three sons of the Li family picking herbs for her.
What they wished for never happened, and this year there was a drought, and they couldn't even fill their stomachs. A group of people surrounded the Li family's door, trying to break in and steal food, but they were beaten before they even opened the door.
Since then, the red wall has been crowded with people. No one dares to force their way in, and they can only tiptoe and smell the scent.
After the drought was over, the village was hit by several heavy rains, and there was no food to be found.
At night, the whole village decided to besiege the house. When people are extremely hungry, they are no different from evil spirits.
A group of people carried wood as thick as their waists and broke open the vermilion door.
The crowd rushed into the place they had wanted to enter for many years but had never been able to.
It was just a group of people who searched for half the night but didn't find a single grain of rice.
There was nothing there except an empty house.
The group of people came back empty-handed and, in a fit of rage, demolished the luxurious house completely.
After venting their anger, the group of people walked out of the house where only a red wall was left. They still had nothing to eat and could only hope that it would not rain again, otherwise they would starve to death.
At this time, Muyan had already started her travel journey with the money earned by the three Li brothers over the years.
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