Liu Dafu had a leg broken by Liu Dacai. Harboring deep resentment, Liu Dafu secretly obtained rat poison and poisoned Liu Dacai to death, leaving one of the Liu brothers dead and the other crippled.
Because there was no evidence, Liu Dafu told the farm manager that his older brother had accidentally ingested the rat poison. The manager, not wanting a murderer who had killed his own brother to be associated with his farm, chose to believe Liu Dafu’s story. Liu Dafu killed his own brother but was neither arrested nor sentenced. However, because his leg was broken, the younger Liu brother could not perform heavy farm labor, and the work points he earned were not enough to support himself. A few months later, crushed by the hardships of life, he was tormented to death.
When Liu Dacai died, Liu Dahua was already driven out of the house by Yan Xiaoyang. Not long after, Yan Xiaoyang’s prison term ended, and his application to leave the farm was approved. He left the farm as he had wished and returned to the county seat he had been away from for so long.
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