I also heard this story from my mother today. The old lady quoted scriptures to recall this old incident, just to teach me to be as kind as possible when dealing with others. Doing business emphasizes the importance of being friendly and making money, but ordinary people need to treat others with sincerity. A little good deed from the bottom of their hearts can sometimes turn bad luck into good luck and keep the family safe.
It happened during the special era when the epidemic was in full swing. On the street where my grandma lived, there lived Dr. Cai’s family. My mother remembers that Dr. Cai was a physician at the Railway Hospital at that time. He was a gentle and fair-looking person, and he was particularly humble and courteous. Mrs. Cai is recognized by the neighbors as a beauty. She is tall and slender and has very fair skin. What particularly impressed my mother was that Mrs. Cai always liked to wear long skirts or old-style cheongsam no matter the season. Vaguely, my mother felt that Mrs. Cai was a little out of tune with the aunts and aunts on the street.
Dr. Cai's family only has an only daughter, who is the same age as my mother. She was once a classmate in elementary school. Later, the movement broke out and everything entered a state of chaos and disorder. Dr. Cai's family was among the first to suffer.
According to information obtained by the neighborhood committee, Mrs. Cai’s family has overseas connections, and her uncle was a senior military officer who fled Taiwan with the Kuomintang. This crime was fatal at the time! My mother watched with her own eyes, Lao Niu, the eldest sister from the neighborhood committee, leading a large group of people to break into Dr. Cai’s home. Then the street fell into dead silence. My mother expected to hear quarreling, scolding, and wailing, but she didn't expect everything to be completely silent. The whole street was eerily quiet.
I don’t know how long it took, but the onlookers saw Lao Niu and his party taking Mrs. Cai away. When Mrs. Cai walked out of the house, her hair was cut into a long and short side, and a long dark gray cotton cheongsam she was wearing had a long slit torn from the shoulders to the buttons. My mother still remembers that Mrs. Cai is so white! The shoulders exposed in the night were extremely dazzling.
Perhaps anticipating the terrible things that would happen next, Mrs. Cai committed suicide on her first night in custody. She jumped out of a six-story window of a nearby middle school and died on the spot without leaving a single word. After receiving the news, Dr. Cai hurried to collect the body, leaving only his twelve-year-old daughter at home alone. In the evening, Dr. Cai still hadn't come back. Lao Xie, the lover of Sister Niu from the neighborhood committee, cooked a bowl of noodles at home and brought it to the daughter of the Cai family. The girl was devouring noodles when Dr. Cai broke in.
Lao Xie and his daughter were surprised to find that Dr. Cai, who had always been polite and rarely spoke loudly, was extremely drunk. With red eyes, he staggered into the room and saw Lao Xie there. He rushed forward in a few steps, grabbed Lao Xie's neck collar, and stretched his other hand to his waist to fumble.
When her daughter saw this, she was so frightened that she burst into tears. Dr. Cai vaguely caught a glimpse of the bowl of noodles on the table. He was stunned for a long time, and then dragged Lao Xie out of the door and drove him away. Dr. Cai died mysteriously early the next morning. It was Lao Xie who helped Cai's daughter take care of her parents' funeral arrangements and temporarily stored the ashes in Babaoshan, despite everyone's opinions. Not long after the funeral arrangements were settled, the Cai family’s daughter was picked up by a woman who claimed to be Dr. Cai’s cousin. My mother never saw her again.
Until one day five years ago, a woman took a real estate agent to see Dr. Cai's old house. My uncle still lived in his grandma's house. He recognized the woman at a glance as definitely Dr. Cai's daughter. With ivory-like skin and a unique temperament, my uncle looked at her as if he was from another world.
After the Cai family's daughter moved away, one day Sister Niu from the neighborhood committee called a meeting of neighbors and characterized Dr. Cai and his wife as "extremely cruel and current anti-GM" Taiwanese ghost children . The reason was that the Cai family's daughter had visited her home before she left. I expressed my gratitude to Lao Xie. She told Lao Xie that her father, Dr. Cai, took a large number of antibiotic pills before his death, and then drank a lot of spirits. He was using his professional knowledge to seek death. But according to Dr. Cai's original plan, he was to kill Sister Niu's whole family before the fatal reaction occurred, so that everything would be over.
It was precisely because he saw the noodles cooked by Lao Xie for his daughter on the table that Dr. Cai awakened a thought of compassion under his anger, and finally put down the butcher knife and eliminated the murderous intention without causing a greater tragedy.
There is nothing weird or shocking about this story from beginning to end, but after listening to it, I felt that the coincidences of fate and fate in it were mysterious and mysterious, similar to Zen magic. We often say, "A good man has a safe life." Perhaps this sentence is not just a simple blessing. Good people sincerely and without any hope of kindness and dedication, silently resolve disasters and disperse suffering, but good people themselves are often unaware of it, and they just live a sincere and kind life, and have peace for the rest of their lives.