Zhang Xiaosheng's ancestors were hunters who hunted for a living for generations, and all they ate was killing rice.

Afraid of retribution for killing too many lives, the ancestors made a rule: when you come back from hunting, you must buy a carp and release it.

In his father's generation, the public family stopped hunting, and in order to support the family, he became a butcher who killed pigs and cattle.

At that time, I was poor, and I often ate the last meal without the next meal, and I couldn't follow the rules handed down by my ancestors.

So one night, while his father was asleep, he suddenly snorted like a pig when he was killed, and in a few moments the man was gone.

Zhang Xiaosheng always remembered his father's affairs, and he was afraid and hateful in his heart, but he couldn't find a partner if he wanted to take revenge.

Because of this, his mother gritted her teeth tirelessly for him to go to school, hoping that he would find a good job after graduating from college in the future and no longer engage in a livelihood related to killing.

However, after Zhang Xiaosheng graduated from college and joined the work, he found that his salary was not much, and he was still angry, and he only relied on work, let alone buying a house, and even struggled to support his family.

So, I simply resigned and went back to the small county town of my hometown to start a business.

Maybe it's because of the hatred hidden in his heart, Zhang Xiaosheng has always planned to be a butcher, and subconsciously always wants to kill more pigs.

But now the pigs are directly sent to the slaughterhouse, and he has no chance to start at all, so he can only open a pork shop and sell pork.

And now the market for pork is very good, the risk is small, and it is more profitable than going to work.

Seeing that no matter how much she persuaded her, her mother couldn't change Zhang Xiaosheng's decision to open a pork shop, so she could only sigh, "Eating and killing rice is the life of your old Zhang family." ”

However, after compromising, he told Zhang Xiaosheng, "You don't stop your mother from opening a pork shop, but you must abide by the rules set by your ancestors, and after selling pork every day, you will buy a carp and release it." ”

Zhang Xiaosheng is not afraid of heaven and earth, he can't wait to meet his father, and he can just find that thing to take revenge.

But in order not to worry her mother, she could only agree to her proposal.

So every day after selling pork, I will go to the river to find Li Ergou, who fishes every day, to buy a wild carp.

No way, my mother said, the carp farmed in the vegetable market has no spirituality, and it must be wild.

Zhang Xiaosheng didn't want to worry a lot, Li Ergou on the dog day simply regarded him as a big wrongdoer, because he had just released the fish the day before yesterday, and he could catch the fish again the next day.

And that guy doesn't know what luck he has taken recently, for more than ten days in a row, there are almost no fish less than ten catties of fish caught, all of them are big fish.

Especially yesterday, the red-tailed dragon whiskers and the big carp with golden scales were forty pounds.

If it weren't for the beautiful appearance of the big carp, I couldn't bear to let Li Ergou sell it in a restaurant to eat, and I was really reluctant to spend money to buy it.

In the end, it took the money for the whole pork ribs to buy it from Li Ergou.

Dog's mouths are crooked.

Seeing that the pork was almost sold again today, Zhang Xiaosheng reluctantly went to the river again, planning to buy a small fish for everything today.

As soon as I arrived at the river, I saw that the riverbank was full of people, talking in the direction of the river.

Zhang Xiaosheng was a little puzzled, and looked at the eyes of the crowd and found that there were two search and rescue boats in the river, and the people on the boats were holding a big net to salvage something in the water.

"Uncle, what are you doing here, surround so many people?" Suspiciously, he walked over and asked a familiar uncle.

The uncle stretched out his hand and pointed into the river: "Li Ergou was dragged into the water by a big fish, and the search and rescue team is fishing for him." ”

Zhang Xiaosheng was taken aback and said in disbelief: "No, what a big fish, can you drag people into the water?" ”

The uncle frowned and said, "It is estimated that a big fish of one hundred and eighty catties can have so much strength, and there should be no such big fish in our river." ”

"Yes, it's too evil, there used to be a ten-pound fish that was considered big, but I don't know what's wrong recently, the size of the fish is bigger than the other, I heard that Li Ergou caught a forty-pound big carp yesterday, and sold it to the young man who sold pork and released it."

Without waiting for Zhang Xiaosheng to speak, another aunt next to him who was watching the excitement followed.

Zhang Xiaosheng was a little speechless, feeling that he bought fish and released it and released his fame.

However, his aunt's words reminded him that when he was a child, there was no pollution in the river, and there were not many fishermen, and there were not many big fish in the river.

No matter how lucky Li Ergou is, he shouldn't be able to catch more than ten catties of big fish every day.

This is indeed evil.

"Alas, the fish in the river seem to be fine, and they haven't caught anyone after fishing for a long time, and Li Ergou is afraid that he won't survive."

The uncle sighed and said with some regret.

"If you can't live, it's good to be able to catch people, but I'm afraid that people won't be able to catch them, and you can't even do funerals."

The aunt echoed.

Zhang Xiaosheng frowned when he heard this, and he always felt that Li Ergou was not as simple as being dragged into the water by a big fish.

"Quick, look, it's caught!"

The uncle suddenly pointed to the small boat in the river.

Looking up, the search and rescue personnel on the ship really picked up a humanoid object.

The boat quickly approached the shore, and when people saw what was fished out, almost all the onlookers shrank their pupils: "This is ......!" ”

caught,

It's a skeleton!

The skeleton is still fresh,

There was still a trace of flesh on Bai Huahua's bones, like the residue left after being eaten by terrible creatures.

Judging from the clothes on the skeleton that have become strips of rags, this is Li Ergou.

"Fish eat people!"

The crowd of onlookers was eerily silent for a few seconds, and soon someone screamed.

The timid people were even more frightened and squatted on the ground and began to vomit, not daring to look at the skeleton again.

Zhang Xiaosheng was also shocked in his heart, but he didn't expect that the one who boasted to him yesterday that he could catch a big fish was because he had a secret wine bait, and today he died tragically like this.

"Whoa!"

Suddenly, there was a splash in the middle of the river, and then a huge fishtail two meters long jumped out of the water, and then quickly sank to the bottom.

This scene seems to be like the big fish telling the crowd that Li Ergou was eaten by it.

"Oh my God, there are big man-eating fish in the river!"

Many onlookers saw this scene, which made the crowd panic instantly.

The people fled away from the riverbank, fearing that the terrible fish would suddenly burst out of the water and drag them into the water to eat.

Zhang Xiaosheng frowned, and followed the crowd to retreat into the distance, such a big fish, is it really a fish?

You know, this is a river, not the sea, and there shouldn't be that big fish.

"Everyone, don't watch anymore, go home quickly, don't talk nonsense when you go back, the public will deal with it."

The search and rescue personnel were from the public family, and although they were all shocked by the big fish, they still shouted to the crowd of onlookers.

Zhang Xiaosheng heard the meaning of the public family, they were afraid that people would spread the word and make a bad noise, and there would be rumors that would panic the entire county.

This kind of excitement is still not good, Zhang Xiaosheng took a deep look at the place where the big fish was small, and returned home.

"What's wrong? Didn't you get a fish release today? ”

After returning home, her mother saw that Zhang Xiaosheng's face was wrong, and hurriedly asked.

Zhang Xiaosheng shook his head and told what he saw by the river.

"Retribution, this is retribution."

When the mother heard this, she was first shocked, and then said again and again.

Zhang Xiaosheng didn't agree with what his mother said, this matter could never be as simple as retribution.

"Mom, don't you know, there are more and more big fish in the river recently, and Li Ergou has an accident again today, I'm afraid that no one will dare to go fishing again in the future, and the release of life can't continue."

did not directly refute his mother, Zhang Xiaosheng said.

The mother was stunned for a moment and said, "The river is dangerous, of course you can't go again, or you will start going to the temple tomorrow to burn incense?" ”

Zhang Xiaosheng was a little speechless, and said in his heart that it was not over yet, so he would ask for Buddha instead?

"Okay."

I don't want to disobey my mother's kindness, so I can only nod and agree.

Because there were too many onlookers about Li Ergou, it was difficult for the public to hide the big fish, so they arranged a big boat for a few days that night to catch the huge fish.

The incident was also broadcast live on the news, presumably to calm people's panic.

However, it was as if the fish had disappeared, and several large boats searched for a long time with carpets, but they did not even see its shadow.

I don't know why, Zhang Xiaosheng always faintly felt that Li Ergou's death was just the beginning, and bigger things would happen later.

But think about it, anyway, the public has already intervened in this kind of thing, and it has nothing to do with me, so let's sell my own pork honestly.

Take a bath and sleep.

Early the next morning, I went to the slaughterhouse to pick up the pre-ordered pork.

However, as soon as he opened the door of the pork shop, before he could cut the pork, a strange old man came.

Behind the old man, there was also a young woman wearing a mask.