There is an old man named Liu in Yuanjia Village . He is a lonely old man with no children.
According to the villagers, Old Man Liu was also a handsome young man when he was young. At that time, the matchmaker who proposed marriage almost broke the door of his house, but he didn't like Old Man Liu at all.
Why is this? As this old man Liu said, it's not that he doesn't like her, but actually he doesn't want to marry her because he already knew his destiny. To him, marrying a wife and having children means committing evil and harming others.
When Old Man Liu was young, he worked as a long-term worker for a rich man's family. His main job was to drive a cart, that is, a carriage for the rich man's family.
This rich man has a fortune teller friend who often visits his home. Every time the fortune teller comes, the rich man asks Old Man Liu to take care of him. Old Man Liu is also eloquent and always takes care of the fortune teller. It must be comfortable, and the fortune teller is also very satisfied with Old Man Liu.
On this day, the fortune teller called Old Man Liu over before he left. He told Old Man Liu that he was destined to have a calamity. In this calamity, his fate was relatively large and he could not die, but he would still have a narrow escape. , climbed out from the pile of dead people.
In addition, he will be inseparable from this carriage to the end of his life. Even when he gets old and dies in the end, he will die under this carriage. He must pay attention to this carriage in the future and hide away when he finally sees it. Focus.
When Old Man Liu first heard this, he didn't believe it at all, but he still politely sent the fortune teller away. However, something happened a few days later that convinced him of what the fortune teller said.
On this day, the rich man asked Old Man Liu to catch up with the carriage and bring back all the wheat in the field on the west hillside of his home. It was best before dark to avoid being stolen at night. He also asked Liu Old man, I brought a few more day laborers to help.
Just like that, more than ten of them caught up with the carriage and set off. The wheat in this field on the west hillside had been harvested yesterday and had been packed into sacks. All they had to do was load all the wheat onto the carriage and transport it back to the rich man's house.
There was quite a lot of wheat. The group worked until dark and pulled several carts back and forth before they finished transporting the wheat.
Something happened during the last trip. There were only a few sacks of wheat left in the last trip, and the workers quickly loaded the carriage. After loading the wheat into the cart, the group of ten people got on the carriage and headed back.
It was already dark at this time, and the mountain road was not easy to walk. When they happened to reach the edge of a cliff, something suddenly jumped out of the woods, which frightened his horse.
Ten people were dragged down the cliff together by the frightened horses. When Old Man Liu woke up, he discovered that all nine day laborers on the carriage were dead, and he was the only one who came back alive. .
Maybe it was because of his good luck. When he fell, he happened to fall on a day laborer. There was also a day laborer above him who was killed by a carriage. He escaped the disaster because he happened to be sandwiched between the two people.
At this time, Old Man Liu remembered what the fortune teller said. Didn't he just crawl out from the pile of dead people? It’s still a narrow escape! From that day on, he believed everything this fortune teller said.
After this incident passed, he immediately resigned from his long-term job at the rich man's house and stopped working. He was really scared, because the fortune teller also told him that he would eventually die under this carriage, so he did not dare to drive a carriage for the rich man's house anymore. Maybe he would die under this rich man's house that day. The family carriage exits.
From then on, old man Liu became obsessed with talking about carriages and hid at home all day long, never leaving the front door for fear of encountering carriages on the road.But having said that, in those days, there were really not many families with carriages. In their entire village, only the rich man's family had one, and the rest were gone. But even so, he still didn't dare to go out.
It is precisely for this reason that he knows that he may be gone one day, so he does not dare to marry and have children. Besides, it is difficult to feed a family by hiding at home all day long without doing anything. people.
Occasionally when he had to go out to do something, he would ask in advance whether the rich man's carriage would go out today. If the rich man's carriage went out, he would never go out.
Even if he goes out, he will only take the mountain trails, never the main roads. As long as he can pass the carriage road, he will not go. To put it simply, he is afraid of death.
Just like this, decades have passed, and he is still safe and sound. Old man Liu knows in his heart that the reason why he has been safe and sound these years is because he is very careful in everything. Therefore, even after such a long time, he still pays great attention to his behavior every time he goes out. Before, he still had to ask if there was a carriage passing by. He would only go out after confirming that there was no carriage.
As we said before, every time before he goes out, he actually asks whether the rich man's carriage will go out today. What if it is a carriage from other places or passing by? Of course he couldn't find out about these things, so he would take the alleyways when he went out. That's why. However, there were no carriages in the villages near them, so as long as he kept an eye on the rich man's carriage, he would basically be safe.
This year, Old Man Liu's sister suddenly passed away due to illness. His nephew, dressed in mourning, personally invited him to his home to see his mother for the last time. Old Man Liu couldn't shirk this kind of thing. Even if he didn't want to go out anymore, he had to find a way to do it.
However, when he saw his nephew rushing to pick him up in the car, his face darkened. He lost his temper and scolded his nephew, "Don't you know?" I never ride in a carriage. Drive this carriage away quickly and don't let me see it, otherwise I won't go today.
To be honest, it is basically known to everyone here that Old Man Liu does not ride in the carriage, because Old Man Liu always says to everyone he meets that he will die under the carriage in the end. Let everyone pay attention. When nothing happens in the future, Never ask yourself to go out. If you ask yourself, you won't go.
Many people also knew about this, so many people did not even mention the word carriage in front of him. Of course his nephew also knew about it, but as soon as his mother died suddenly, he forgot about it in his anxiety. He thought to himself that if he drove the carriage to pick up his uncle, he could go faster and let his uncle do it. Going by carriage, the journey would not be too tiring, but who knew it would be self-defeating and cause a pain point for my uncle.
In the end, Old Man Liu drove his nephew away and asked him to drive the carriage first, and he would arrive later by taking the path. No matter how anxious he was, he would not do this carriage.
After seeing the carriage leave, Old Man Liu was still very worried. He waited for about half an hour until the carriage left before he decided to leave. He might have been a little anxious today. Before leaving, he didn't ask if the rich man's carriage would go out today.
After Old Man Liu left the village, he walked directly onto a path in the mountains. Anyway, it was this small road that he often walked. It was difficult even for a unicycle to cross it, let alone a carriage, so he felt more at ease walking on this road.
However, after this road reaches the end, it happens to intersect with a major road. In front of it is a small river with a bridge on it. People traveling between the two places walk on the bridge because this bridge is the only passage connecting the two places. , the building is also relatively wide, so carriages can pass over it. If it were normal times, Old Man Liu would never be able to cross the river, nor would he be able to walk to the bridge at all.
But today, he really had no choice. To go to his sister's house, he had to cross this bridge.But the good thing is that this time is the dry season, and the water in this small river has basically stopped flowing, so Old Man Liu decided to cross the river under the bridge, so that he could avoid the sudden passage on the bridge. carriage.
He was really afraid of what would happen. Just as Old Man Liu walked to the middle of the river, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind. He quickly turned his head to look, and just saw a big car coming from the other end of the bridge. The carriage, by this time the carriage was already on the bridge. He recognized the carriage at a glance. It was the carriage belonging to the rich man's family.
After seeing the rich man's big carriage coming, Old Man Liu panicked. He hurriedly hid under the bridge, but it was better that he didn't hide. He had just hid under the bridge when the carriage passed by him. Above the head, I heard the wooden bridge break with a click. The carriage, plus a full load of goods, crashed down at once, directly falling on Old Man Liu.
Just like this, Old Man Liu had been careful all his life, but he still could not escape his fate. In the end, he was crushed to death by the carriage, and he died under the carriage he had driven.
Before he died, Old Man Liu also figured out that this might be his life. He always thought that he would die under the carriage, which meant that he would be crushed to death by the carriage, so he went under the bridge when he saw the carriage. Hiding, who knows, the fortune teller said that he would die under the carriage, not just being crushed to death by the carriage, but also being crushed to death by the carriage. If he could have figured out this problem earlier, maybe he would not Hide under the bridge.
Life is like this. In many cases, you can't hide even if you want to.
