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Xu Hengbing has contracted two fish ponds at the end of the village in recent years. At noon this day, he was sticking fish with wire mesh in the fish pond. At his feet was a small wooden boat, and there were already many fish in the cabin.

The larger ones are placed in one cabin, and the smaller ones are placed in the other cabin.

He has already made up his mind. After a while, he will pull the big fish and small fish back to the village to sell them. If the village can't sell them all, he will go to the next two villages to sell them. He should not worry about selling them.

Because it's New Year's Eve! Who can buy some fish?

Even if the big fish is reluctant to buy it, the small fish for ancestor worship should always be bought, right?

Usually, small fish can't be sold at a high price, but this is approaching the Chinese New Year, but small fish sell better, and the price can be higher. A small fish the size of a palm, whether it is crucian carp, carp, or bighead carp, can at least Sell ​​it for five bucks.

He planned to bid ten yuan first, but if he really couldn't sell it, he would lower the price.

Who made the custom here, it is necessary to have a fried fish as a bowl of fish for ancestor worship during the Chinese New Year!

No matter how poor people are, they will not be reluctant to prepare a bowl of fish for their ancestors when they worship their ancestors.

Xu Hengbing was busy on the small wooden boat and his forehead was sweating. Suddenly a woman with a child came to the shore and shouted to Xu Hengbing on the boat, Hengbing! Hengbing!!

Xu Hengbing turned his head in surprise and saw that it was his wife and son, so he straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, and asked loudly, Why are you calling me? I'll go home for dinner later, you don't need to call me. !

But the woman on the shore continued to shout: Stop for a moment! Get the boat over here, hurry up! Hurry up!!

What's the matter? I'm busy!

Xu Hengbing frowned and asked.

Woman: What are you busy with, hurry up and row the boat over! I have something to tell you, hurry up!

Xu Hengbing, who is nearly forty years old, is not as aggressive as he was a decade ago. Although he is upset, he still dares not not listen to his wife's words.

There is no way, women in rural areas these days call for divorce at every turn, and if they are a bit more yin, they don't even call for divorce, they just run away with someone, or disappear by themselves.

Anyway, there are many job opportunities in the city. As long as you have hands and feet, you can find a job to support yourself in the city, and even live a better life when you are young.

Because of this, men in rural areas generally lose their prestige.

Strict control of wives has become a common phenomenon.

In this respect, the backbone of the rural man is almost broken.

Even a fool like Xu Hengbing has become like this now.

Stopping his work temporarily, Xu Hengbing rowed the small wooden boat to the shore, stepped onto the shore, pouted, and asked, What's the matter? Will it be too late when I get home?

The woman in front of him, his wife was with him a few years ago.

A second married woman.

But Xu Hengbing sold her iron to marry her, because since his mother passed away, he was the only one left in his family.

Day by day, year after year, he was really fed up with the taste of living alone.

He needs to do the cooking and do the laundry by himself. Usually when he is alone at home, if he doesn't make some noise, the house will be so quiet that he can hear needles falling, especially when night comes and he is in the village If he was wandering around, he would be very envious when he saw other people's houses brightly lit and laughing.

When he came home alone and looked at the darkened house, the cold pot, the cold stove and the cold bed, he felt very uncomfortable.

Who likes days like this?

Since then, he has had a goal in his life that he really wants to achieve - to marry a wife.

Succession is not what he wants most.

The main thing is to find someone to spend time with.

Then, within a few years, he really married the woman in front of him.

In other words, on the day of the wedding, the woman's ex-husband came to their house to make trouble, and wanted to remarry this woman, and even brought their daughters with them.

That day Xu Hengbing went crazy, grabbed the kitchen knife at home and chased after the man. He didn't care whether the woman still had a relationship with her ex-husband, or why the woman wanted to marry him Xu Hengbing, whether there was love or not, it didn't matter. !

He was just fed up with being alone.

Anyway, he is married to this wife.

That was the last time he had gone crazy in the past few years.

It was a big joke in the village, and many people watched it lively.

But Xu Hengbing didn't care.

Anyway, he drove this woman's ex-husband away, and he successfully lived a married life with this woman. The woman was also in good spirits, and even gave him Xu Hengbing a son.

Since then, Xu Hengbing has changed.

It's like changing a person, becoming a special family member.

If there is an opportunity to make money nearby, such as helping other people build houses and sell coolies, he will rush to do it, so he can earn extra money to subsidize his family.

Some people in the village were unwilling to plant the fields, so he also contracted it. At present, including his own land, he has grown more than ten acres of land.

In addition, he also contracted two fish ponds at the end of the village.

Not only because he wanted to earn more money, but also because he heard people say that when children grow up, eating more fish and shrimp can supplement calcium, which is good for the body.

He cherishes his present life.

As his son could walk, he began to worry that the people he had offended in the village before would take revenge on his son and bully his son on weekdays.

For this, he was worried.

After all, when he was young, he knew how much he had done in the village to steal and bully others.

Once again, when he was drinking with a friend, he heard the friend say that there was a child of a few years old who was grabbed by a middle-aged woman and threw it to the ground, and the child was literally smashed and disabled.

reason?

Just because the woman had a grudge against the adults of the child's family.

After hearing that, Xu Hengbing was very scared.

He was afraid that Xujiacun would also take revenge on him and take his anger out on his son.

So, after thinking about it, he abruptly changed his way of being a man.

I usually smile when I see everyone in the village, and they all take the initiative to say hello.

If anyone needs help, he will be enthusiastic to help.

Occasionally, he even sent a fish to the villagers he had offended badly. No one knew why he became like this. At first, it really scared a lot of people, thinking that he was holding back something bad, the weasel gave the chicken New Year's greetings , everyone has heard of it.

Xu Hengbing never explained why he did that.

He just insisted.

Over time, his reputation in the village really improved.

Everyone praised him as a prodigal son after his predecessors, and he really got better.

Are you still in the mood to fish here? Did you know that Tongdao Xu's family from your village has all come back, drove five good cars, and brought several bodyguards!

The woman frowned and whispered the news to Xu Hengbing, glaring at him worriedly, Would you like to go to their house today to apologize? I heard that you have offended their house before, and even fought with that Xu Tongdao. He even broke one of his brother's arms later, is there such a thing? I heard that he is now the richest man in the province...