Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu made a military order with Dabao, and they were responsible for moving Dabao's mother's bones to the ancestral grave of Dabao's family, so they quickly rode their bicycles back to Huangling Village to fulfill Dabao's wish to let his mother go home.

Wang Jicai got up early in the morning and went to the cornfield with a hoe. Wang Jicai's wife was sitting at home with an old woman in Huangling Village who often introduced people to people.

Wang Jicai's wife took out Wang Jicai's good cigarettes and tea to entertain the matchmaker, and planned to find a daughter-in-law for the boss Wang Hongbing first.

Wang Jicai's family is much better now. Since Wang Hongbing and Wang Hongyu went to work as workers in the Dabao factory, their monthly income has been more than 10,000 yuan. The standard of living of the family quickly improved a lot. I bought a few bags of white flour and rice and put them there to eat slowly, and then prepared some cornmeal, coarse and fine grains matched with each other, and then grew some vegetables by myself, and this life was delicious.

The most important thing in the life of ordinary people is to eat, as long as the problem of eating is solved, they will feel very happy in this day. The others are slowly remade, and if the others can't be done, they are living in the cowshed and horse pen, as long as the stomach can be filled, it will be satisfied.

This is because the common people in the rural areas are hungry and frightened! They have been hungry from before liberation to the early days of the country's reform and opening up. It was only in the middle of the reform and opening up that it slowly improved. Therefore, Wang Jicai and his wife watched Yueyue's two sons get back a large stack of money, and there were rice and white noodles on the ground, and the two old faces full of sorrow and sorrow and wrinkles and tightly locked brows gradually relaxed. They saw hope in their days, and felt that as long as their two sons worked hard in Dabao's factory, the family would slowly become rich!

Wang Jicai, who never liked to sing, also hummed and sang a little song on the way to the crop field with a hoe on his shoulder. At this time, he bumped into Wang Laibao, who was also carrying a hoe on the ground.

Wang Laibao saw Wang Jicai from a distance, so he quipped: "Brother Jicai, this time is going to be a stretch, you can also sing!"

Wang Jicai smiled and said: "It's okay recently, the two sons who are not angry have gone to work in his nephew's factory, and the wages they pay are quite a lot, so you don't have to worry about buying some rice and noodles!"

Wang Laibao said: "That's good! People live with stuttering, as long as they settle down with food, their hearts will be much more steady." Didn't there be a saying in the past, called 'Don't panic when you have food in your hand!' Everything else is easy to accommodate, but this stuttering is a meal that is indispensable, and if you don't eat for three days, you will be finished. So just settle down and let the rest take care of it. With such two good sons, you can earn money back, and you will be rich in a few days. ”

This Wang Laibao was a dazzling star in Huangling Village more than 20 years ago, and he was the first to build a two-story house when the whole village was in tatters and hungry. The intestines that made the whole village envious were green. However, he is also a controversial figure. While people were envious, they also made a negative evaluation of the source of funds for his two-story building.

The people in the village thought that this money was disgraceful, and it was a small western-style house built by selling his daughter, causing his son-in-law to hang himself, and two grandsons who lost their parents. People privately said, "Can you spend the money, don't you have nightmares at night?"

However, as the saying goes: "In the world of flowers, there are no wonders", no matter what others say, Wang Laibao doesn't care at all, he only cares about money. His point of view is: "Money is the boss, say a thousand things and ten thousand, without money you are a poor bastard!"

Therefore, he did not pay any attention to the death of his son-in-law and the fact that his two grandsons became orphans. On the contrary, when he heard that his son-in-law hanged himself because he had exhausted his property and still could not find his daughter-in-law, a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, so that he no longer had to worry about his son-in-law coming to his house to ask for someone. In the future, he will be able to comfortably consume the silver that he has exchanged for his daughter's body, without worrying about the trouble of someone coming to him.

Wang Laibao lived the life of a rich man for several years, and his girl sent back money every once in a while. The family does not have to worry about food and clothing, lives in a spacious and bright small western-style building, goes out to the ground and hums a little song, marries a daughter-in-law to his son and has a grandson, and the family lives like a fish in water.

However, there were unforeseen circumstances, and only eight years later, one day, he received a call from his son-in-law Zhao Sanjiang in the south, saying: "His daughter loves flowers and died!" This sudden bad news came, and Wang Laibao's family was suddenly knocked from the clouds to the bottom.

Wang Laibao was anxious to ask again and again on the phone, but his son-in-law just said: "I am sick and dead." "What kind of illness is it? Why did he die so soon? Why didn't he say anything when he was sick? Did he stay in the hospital? Did he die in the hospital? Or did he die at home?" Wang Laibao raised a series of questions, and his old son-in-law just said that it was too late to go to the hospital, so he died at home. The others were vague and hung up the phone without saying a few words.

The whole family immediately fell into grief, Wang Laibao's wife cried to death, and after a while she turned her back on her breath, and his son quickly called the village doctor to wait by his mother's side.

Wang Laibao was ready to quickly lead his son to the south to mourn. The two of them made hastily preparations and set off. From Huangling Village to the county seat, the county seat does not have a railway station, and from the county seat to another county seat 120 miles away, before you can get on the train, it takes two or three days on the road.

When he arrived at his son-in-law's house in the south, Wang Laibao asked to see his daughter, and the son-in-law told him that he had been cremated.

Wang Laibao's brain exploded when he heard this, so he asked, "Why don't you wait for us to come and burn people?"

At this time, the people of the son-in-law's family gathered around and said: "This is the custom here for us, we can't leave it at home for too long, and we have to be cremated in three days." ”

Wang Laibao said: "But you just called me, isn't it only the third day today, why didn't you wait for us to come and be cremated?"

The son-in-law said, "When I called you, it was already the second day of death. ”

Wang Laibao asked again: "Why did you call the next day when everyone died, and why didn't you call us when you were seriously ill?"

The son-in-law said: "When I was seriously ill, I was just busy giving first aid to people, and I didn't bother to call you at all. ”

Wang Laibao asked again, "What kind of disease does my daughter have?"

His son-in-law said: "She suddenly had a stomachache, and we didn't know what was wrong, so we asked a doctor at home to see her, but the doctor died before she could save her!"

Wang Laibao asked to see a doctor, but the people in his son-in-law's family stopped him from seeing him. Wang Laibao was full of suspicion and wanted to inquire around, but his son-in-law specially sent a few descendants to watch his father and son, just eat and drink to entertain, but he didn't let them go anywhere. As soon as they went out, they were followed.

One night, Wang Laibao slept until midnight and secretly got up, went downstairs, slipped out of the alley, and saw that the lights were still on at the mouth of the alley, there were people doing business, and a few people were sitting and chatting next to them.

He heard these people whispering one after another, a middle-aged woman who was doing business said: "Zhao Sanjiang beat his wife to death, the neighbors listened, the fight was fought all night, Zhao Sanjiang beat his wife without knowing what to take, and beat his wife all the time in pain, "Ahh

An older man said, "If you have two stinky money, you will do all the things that are not virtuous!

The middle-aged woman who was doing business said: "I heard that his wife's maiden home is far from here! There are two or three thousand miles away, and they are from a small poor ravine in the north, and when they come, they will be wrong." ”

The older man said again: "His previous wife died unknown, this is the second wife, and he beat him to death?"

The middle-aged woman said, "I heard that I'm good again, but I don't like this." This woman is also dead-eyed, and finds that he doesn't like it, and asks him for money to leave him, and she still doesn't leave, but wants to reason with him, no, the theory has to cost her a life! She is thousands of miles away from her mother's home, and she doesn't even have any relatives around her, so who will call the shots for her? Her family doesn't even know how she died. ”

When Wang Laibao heard this, he felt that the world was spinning, and he slowly squatted down. Then he came to the street and asked where the public security bureau was, but they didn't understand him, and he couldn't understand them. It took a lot of effort to finally find the Public Security Bureau under the guidance of a warm-hearted person and report the case.

The people from the Public Security Bureau soon arrived at his son-in-law's house, but the body had been cremated, the scene had been completely destroyed, and there was no evidence, so the matter was closed.

This incident soon spread in Huangling Village, and almost none of the people in the village expressed sympathy after hearing it, on the contrary, they all felt that it was a kind of retribution!

Since then, Wang Laibao's steady flow of wealth to his family has been completely exhausted. , he was no longer angry in the village.

Now when the people in the village see the two-story building again, they feel different, it seems to have been built by the flesh and blood of Wang Laibao's daughter and son-in-law, and every wood and brick there is not wood and bricks, but the bones and muscles of his daughter and son-in-law. It's a little creepy to look at!

And Wang Jicai is following in the footsteps of Wang Laibao, and has been a loyal fan and apprentice of Wang Laibao for several months, but the ending of the matter is very similar to the tragedy, and the two of them have received the same retribution.

Today, the two of them met again on the way to the crop field, so they simply stopped on the road and said a few words, Wang Jicai did not hold Wang Laibao as warmly and affectionately as before, sat down on the side of the road, and handed Wang Laibao a cigarette and lit a fire.