Chapter 954 The Prodigal Son Returns to Xu Hengbing
Xu Hengbing has contracted two fish ponds at the end of the village in recent years. At noon that day, he was gluing fish with a wire mesh in the fish pond. There was a small wooden boat under his feet, and there were already many fish in the cabin.
The big one is put in one cabin and the small one is put in another cabin.
He has already made a plan. He will bring the big fish and the small fish back to the village to sell them in a while. If the village can't sell them all, he will go to the next two villages to sell them. There should be no worries about selling them.
Because it’s the Chinese New Year! Who can’t afford to buy a few fish?
Even if you are reluctant to buy a big fish, you still have to buy a small fish for ancestor worship, right?
Normally, small fish cannot be sold at a high price, but as the Chinese New Year is approaching, small fish are easier to sell and the price can be higher. A palm-sized small fish, whether it is crucian carp, carp, or bighead carp, can at least be sold at a high price.
Sell it for five yuan.
He planned to bid ten yuan for it first, but if he couldn't sell it, he would lower the price.
Who told us that it is a custom here to have a fried fish to make a bowl of fish during the Chinese New Year?
No matter how poor a family is, they will not be reluctant to prepare a bowl-headed 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 holding a child came from the shore and shouted to Xu Hengbing on the boat at the top of her voice: "Hengbing! Hengbing!!"
Xu Hengbing turned around in surprise and saw his wife and son. 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."
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But the woman on the shore continued to shout: "Stop! Please row the boat over quickly! Hurry up!"
"What's going on? I'm busy!"
Xu Hengbing asked with a frown.
Woman: "What are you busy with? Hurry up and bring the boat over! I have something to tell you, so hurry up!"
Xu Hengbing, who is nearly forty years old, is no longer as angry as he was a dozen years ago. Although he feels unhappy, he still dare not disobey his wife.
There is no way, women in rural areas these days often call for divorce. The more sinister ones don't even call for divorce, they just run away with others or disappear alone.
Anyway, there are many job opportunities in the city. As long as you have the hands and feet, you can find a job to support yourself in the city, and even live a better life.
Because of this, men in rural areas generally lose their prestige.
Strict wife control has become a common phenomenon.
From this aspect, the backbone of rural men has almost been broken.
Even a fool like Xu Hengbing has become like this now.
Temporarily stopping what he was doing, Xu Hengbing rowed the small wooden boat to the shore, stepped on the shore, curled his lips and asked, "What's the matter? Can't you wait until I get home later?"
The woman in front of him was his wife a few years ago.
She is a second-married woman.
But Xu Hengbing betrayed her and married her, because since his mother passed away, he was the only one left in his family.
Day by day, year by year, he was really fed up with living alone.
He has to do the cooking and the laundry by himself. Usually when he is at home alone, if he doesn't make some noise, the house will be so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. Especially when night comes, he is in the village.
When wandering around, he would feel particularly envious when he saw other people's houses with bright lights and laughter.
When he returned home alone and looked at the darkened house, the cold pot, the cold stove, the cold bed, he felt very uncomfortable.
Who would like to live like this?
From then on, he had a goal that he wanted to achieve in his life - to marry a wife.
Continuing the family lineage is not what he wants most.
Mainly he wants to find someone to live with him.
Then, a few years later, he actually married the woman in front of him.
It is said that on the day of the wedding, this woman's ex-husband came to their house to make trouble and wanted to remarry the woman. He even brought their daughters with him.
Xu Hengbing got mad that day, grabbed the kitchen knife at home and chased after the man. He didn't care whether the woman still had feelings for her ex-husband, or why the woman wanted to marry Xu Hengbing. Whether there was love or not, that didn't matter.
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He just had enough of living alone.
Anyway, he is determined to marry this wife.
That was the last time he got angry in the past few years.
It was a big joke in the village, and many people watched it.
But Xu Hengbing didn't care.
Anyway, he drove this woman's ex-husband away, and he successfully married this woman. The woman was so proud that she even gave birth to a son for him, Xu Hengbing.
Since then, Xu Hengbing has changed.
It's like he has changed as a person and has become more caring about his family.
If there was an opportunity to make money nearby, such as working hard to help others build a house, he would rush to do it in order to earn extra money to support his family.
There was someone in the village who didn't want to farm their land, so he contracted it. Now, including his own land, he has more than ten acres of land cultivated.
In addition, he also contracted two fish ponds at the end of the village.
Not only did he want to make more money, but he also heard people say that when children are growing, eating more fish and shrimp can supplement calcium and is good for the body.
He cherishes his current life.
As his son started to walk, he began to worry that the people he had offended in the village would come back to take revenge on his son and bully his son.
For this reason, he was worried.
After all, he knew very well how many sneaking and bullying things he had done in the village when he was young.
Another time when he was drinking with a friend, he heard the friend say that a child of several years old was grabbed by a middle-aged woman and slapped to the ground, so that the child was disabled.
reason?
Just because the woman had a grudge against the adults of the child's family.
After hearing that, Xu Hengbing felt very scared.
He was afraid that Xujiacun would retaliate against him and take out his anger on his son.
So, after thinking about it, he suddenly changed the way he behaved.
I usually smile and say hello to everyone I see in the village.
If anyone needs help, he will enthusiastically help.
Occasionally, he would send a fish to a villager he had severely offended. No one knew why he became like this. At first, many people were really shocked, thinking he was holding back something bad, like a weasel giving a chicken a New Year greeting or something.
, everyone has heard of it.
Xu Hengbing never explained why he did what he did.
He just persisted.
As time went by, his reputation in the village really improved.
Everyone in front and behind praised him as a prodigal son who had really changed for the better.
"Are you still interested in fishing here? Do you know that Tongdao Xu and his family from your village have come back, driving five good cars and bringing several bodyguards with them!"
The woman frowned and told Xu Hengbing the news in a low voice, giving him a worried look, "Why don't you go to their house today to apologize? I heard that you had severely offended their family before, and even fought with that Comrade Xu.
He started a fight and later broke his brother's arm. Is that possible? I heard that he is now the richest man in the province..."