The Devil of Alabama

In people's imagination, the devil is a terrible monster with red hair and green eyes, but the devil in the legend of Alabama in the United States is different. He looks no different from ordinary people and loves to travel everywhere, but he likes the most The thing to do is to separate loving couples and couples. Wherever he goes, he turns the husbands and wives there against each other, and the men and women in love part ways. Wherever the devil goes, soon, there will be some inexplicable strange things between men and women there. Either he forgot her birthday, or she was unfaithful to him. It won't be long before the couple who were originally in love like fish and water will fight and finally break up. After the devil achieves his goal, he laughs "haha", and then goes to another house. He breaks up the marriage and laughs all the way.

　　The devil's "work" has been going very well, but one day, he met a newlywed couple living in the valley. They loved each other so much that the devil tried his best, but he couldn't separate them. After a few days, the devil had to give up this pair of men and women who were loyal to love.

　　The devil continued his journey along the road in dismay. This was his first unfavorable apprenticeship. On the way, the devil met a strange barefoot woman. The barefoot woman looked at the devil for a while and asked suspiciously, "Mr. Devil, what happened? Are you sick or what?"

　　"Neither," said the devil. "I wanted to break up the newlyweds in the valley just now, but they were too in love for me to separate them."

　　"Really?" said the barefoot woman, "Listen, I can do this for you, but I've always wanted a pair of shoes, and if you can give me a nice pair of shoes, I'll help you break up that couple." The devil agreed, saying that if she could really help him achieve his goal, he would go to town and buy her the most expensive pair of shoes. The barefoot woman smiled and said, "No problem, just take your shoes and wait at the crossroads in town tomorrow night."

　　The next morning, the barefoot woman baked a mouthwatering apple cake and hurried to the newlyweds' house in the valley. When she got there, she saw that her husband was picking cotton in the fields, and his clothes were already wet with sweat. The barefoot woman stepped forward and asked with a smile, "Can I visit your wife at your house? I just moved to the valley and want to get to know the neighbors." The husband agreed and pointed in the direction of his home with a smile.

　　The barefoot woman arrived at the front of the house, and the new wife invited her into the house. The barefoot woman brought apple cakes as a door-to-door gift, then found a stool and sat down, and then the two women chatted. The barefoot woman kept complimenting the things in the house, saying they were "the most beautiful things she had ever seen": the kitchen, the cups and plates, the furniture, and even the big cock outside the house. The more the wife listened, the more delighted she became, and gave the barefoot woman a bucket of freshly picked blackberries.

　　"It's nice, everything in this house is so good," said the barefoot woman, "but you know what's the prettiest thing in this house? That's yourself." The new wife smiled embarrassedly, her face red, and said, "Oh, no, how can I be beautiful, my husband is much prettier than me."

　　"Yeah, yeah, he's good looking," said the barefoot woman, "but if he could get that ugly mole off his neck, it would be even more perfect."

　　The wife sighed and said, "Yeah, I know, he's also ashamed to talk about it, but I'm used to it now."

　　The barefoot woman said, "You don't have to force yourself to get used to it, why don't you try to cut it off?"

　　The wife was taken aback and exclaimed, "I can't do that, he'll bleed to death!"

　　"No, he's not going to die!" Then, the barefoot woman gave her a face, "I'll tell you what to do - tonight you take a razor to bed, and when your husband is asleep, you use the razor to cut that thing off, move fast, and then put some cobwebs on the wound to stop the bleeding, he won't feel anything at all, and he won't know what you've done to him, he'll sleep peacefully until dawn, I'm sure, He will appreciate everything you do for him!" The wife finally agreed to try it, and thanked the barefoot woman again and again...

　　The barefoot woman said goodbye and went out to find the husband again. The husband was still busy in the field, and the barefoot woman said to him, "Young man, you are so diligent!"

　　"Yes, ma'am," said the husband, "I don't care about hard work, because the harder I work, the happier my beautiful wife will be, and to me she is everything to me." The barefoot woman "giggled" laughed: "Yes, I think so, but I heard that she seems to have another heart in her heart." When the husband heard this, he immediately stopped what he was doing, stared at the barefoot woman, and asked reproachfully, "What do you mean by that?"

　　The barefoot woman said mysteriously, "It's like this, I heard that she's been dating other men in town these past few nights, you have to be careful, beware of her being unfaithful to you." The husband listened and clenched his fists angrily: "Go away, you ugly witch! I don't allow anyone to say that to my wife!" The barefoot woman shrugged, turned and walked away, nagging as she walked: "Then you'll just wait and see. See how she treats you."

At night, the barefoot woman tiptoed up to the newlyweds' house and hid behind the kitchen, and she saw from the window that they were making their beds and getting ready to rest. Although the husband loves his wife very much, he can't forget the words the barefoot woman said in his mind. He didn't say a word to his wife all night. Later, the wife went to bed and lay beside him. He ignored it and pretended to be asleep.

　　After midnight, the wife woke up and saw that her husband was fast asleep, so she took out the razor from under the bed and moved it slowly towards her husband. She put the razor on the big mole on her husband's neck and was about to cut it off. Just then, the husband suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed her wrist with his pliers-like hands. He cried hoarsely, "I already knew what you were going to do! That barefoot woman Said you were going to kill me so you could pair up with that wild man, didn't you?"

　　The wife argued tearfully: "It's not like that..." But the husband kept shouting: "I don't want to hear anything, get out of my house, do you hear? Get out and never come back!" The wife cried, packed up her things and left, her heart was broken, and the newlyweds were separated from each other and never had a chance to see each other again.

　　It was also on this night that the barefoot woman came to the intersection as promised to meet the devil. When she got there, she saw that the devil was already waiting, holding a pair of beautiful new shoes in his hand, and the devil said, "Here, take your shoes."

　　The barefoot woman laughed: "Then, Mr. Devil, do you know who I am?" As soon as the words fell, the barefoot woman's figure gradually dissipated like smoke. Under the bright moonlight, standing in front of the devil turned out to be His own wife, Mrs. Devil!

　　The devil cried out, "What the hell are you doing?"

　　"Sir, for so many years, I have been wanting you to buy me a new pair of shoes, but you are so stingy that you have never bought me!"