Less than a year after Liu Yuchuan left home to work, his wife, Li Xiaoru, had gotten involved with Sun Daguo from their village. When Yuchuan returned, he couldn't take the shock and lost his mind. Xiaoru pretended to treat him, but she and Sun Daguo stripped Liu Yuchuan and held him over a large basin of scalding water to steam him. Poor Liu Yuchuan was tormented by them like this until he died with a grudge. Just a few days later, Xiaoru married Sun Daguo and even had him move into her home as her live-in husband. Liu Yuchuan's mother saw them together every day, but when her second and youngest daughters-in-law tried to persuade her and complain about the situation, she magnanimously said that for the sake of her eldest son's children, her own grandchildren, she couldn't sue her eldest daughter-in-law and make her return the house that belonged to her son...
