My family has lived in a small fishing village on the edge of the Wujiang River for generations, and I was born here.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water.

Every family in the village is a fisherman.

At that time, there was no such thing as a fishing ban period, and the fish and shrimp in the river could not be caught, although the income was not much, but it could always be mixed with food and clothing.

My mom and dad were fishermen, and they went out on the river every day, but somehow, they came in faster than anyone else. When everyone in the village lived in a mud house, our family had already built a spacious and bright red brick house, and the villagers could only listen to the radio, but our family had already watched the TV.

When I was a child, I didn't know this, but I thought my parents were lucky enough to catch more fish than others.

Later, I vaguely heard that my parents seemed to be doing other things for a living, and there was more than one way to make money. It's just that they don't seem to be honorable to make a living, or they may be taboos, and others only talk about it behind their backs, and they never say it on the surface.

At first, I asked my parents, but when they mentioned it, they glared at me and didn't let me talk too much.

Over time, I naturally didn't dare to ask.

I only remember that every time my parents went out on the boat, my mother-in-law was scared, and in private she often persuaded my parents to stop, saying that they would make dead people's money and damage their morality, and sooner or later they would be punished.

When I was a child, I couldn't understand my mother-in-law's words, and by the time I did, it was too late.

When I was eight years old, my parents left the boat as usual, and they left home in my sleep and never returned.

My mother-in-law and I waited for days to come back with an empty fishing boat, no fish and no one on board.

My mother-in-law hugged me and cried all day long, saying that retribution was coming, and she persuaded them to stop early, and now she gave her life in order to make money.

After another half a month, my parents' bodies floated ashore.

Dad's limbs were mutilated by the river, and only his torso remained. The mother was gnawed beyond recognition by the fish and shrimp, and her bones were clear.

Instead of sympathizing with them, the people in the village made irresponsible remarks behind their backs, saying that they had built a red brick house for nothing, bought a television set for nothing, and in the end they did not even leave a whole corpse, but filled their stomachs with the fish and shrimp in the river.

Later, there were a few scoundrels who were usually idle in the village, who simply ran to my door, shouting that my parents were making unclean bad money, and that they would be punished if they stayed in their hands.

They also pointed at my nose and cursed, saying that if I didn't give them all this bad money, I would die in the water like my parents.

The mother-in-law was so angry that she picked up her shoulder and went to fight with them, but they kicked her to the ground and hit her head and bleed.

They broke into my house and robbed me of everything valuable, and I tried to stop them, but my mother-in-law held me in her arms.

She cried and told me that her parents not only fished during their lifetimes, but also fished corpses on the river, earning dead people's money, which was the most unfortunate and lowly business, but the money came quickly. The people in the village looked down on this business, and they were jealous that they could make money, and now they saw them die tragically, and they were happier than if they were rich.

The mother-in-law also said that in the future, she should study hard, go to middle school, take the university entrance examination, and find a decent job, don't be looked down upon like her parents, and don't go back to this small fishing village after making money.

I firmly remembered my mother-in-law's words and vowed to study hard, find a job to get ahead, fight for my mother-in-law, and let her live a good life.

But in the end, I still couldn't do it.

Before I finished junior high school, my mother-in-law left.

She couldn't stand the fact that the people in the village were chewing the root of their tongues in the ground every day, poking her backbone, and they couldn't stand those scoundrels coming to the door every once in a while to ask for money and grab things.

When I was fifteen years old, my mother-in-law joined the river.

Mother-in-law's water nature is good, usually it is okay to soak in the river for a day and a night, in order to seek death, she tied a stone pendant to her waist.

My only relative in the world is gone.

From then on, I left the village, took the last thousand yuan that my mother-in-law hid in the crack of the wall, and went to the county seat to beg for a living.

On the day I left, I vowed to mix up and return to the village in the future, and settle accounts with those scoundrels.

But on the third day of entering the city, I met a boss at the station who said that he wanted to take me to do business and make a fortune, he cheated me out of all my money and left me alone in the cold and windy streets.

I was really desperate, so I finally found a small restaurant to play lotus, 500 yuan a month, and I was in charge of food and housing.

The guys who worked together in the restaurant saw that I was young and had a poor background, and they usually took good care of me.

There was a sister named Xiaomei, who was three years older than me, with big eyes that seemed to be talking, very white skin, and two sweet little dimples when she smiled. She was the best for me and often bought me snacks to eat.

Since I was a child, no one has ever felt so sorry for me, and I decided at that time that I must marry Sister Xiaomei as my mother-in-law in the future.

But such a beautiful girl, there are so many people who think about her.

There is an old customer who often comes to the store to eat, it is said that he is the owner of a nearby garment factory, and every time he comes over, he asks Xiaomei to serve him by name, and sometimes he can eat a bit, and he will quietly give Xiaomei a few tips.

Later, the boss and Xiaomei became more and more familiar, and gradually moved their brains, and one night, the fat boss who was drunk and flushed suddenly grabbed Xiaomei's hand and dragged her into the bathroom in the box.

Xiaomei didn't obey and struggled desperately to resist.

She screamed so loudly that the whole restaurant heard it, but no one dared to help her, because no one dared to offend the fat boss.

I was outside the box, listening to Xiaomei's heart-rending cry, and somehow, I suddenly remembered the scene when my mother-in-law was beaten and cried by those scoundrels in the village.

At that time, I knelt beside my mother-in-law, and told that the heavens should not be right, and that the earth should not be spiritual.

When I think of those things, I suddenly feel blood gushing up!

I kicked open the door of the box and rushed into the bathroom, only to see Sister Xiaomei being pressed under the fat boss, her pants were torn and dragged down, and her white thighs were bleeding.

I scolded angrily and pushed the fat boss to the ground, Sister Xiaomei quickly got up from under him, lifted her pants, and ran away with her hair scattered.

The brothers of the fat boss in the box immediately surrounded me, blocked me in the bathroom, punched and kicked, I was kicked to the ground, and I fainted in pain for a while.

In the middle of nowhere, I heard the fat boss say, "Throw him into the river to feed the fish!" ”

Immediately afterward, I was carried by a group of people, thrown out of the second-floor window of the hotel, and thrown into the river downstairs of the hotel.

There was a pop, and I didn't know what was going on, and my last thought before I fell unconscious was that I thought I might be going to die. Mom and Dad died in the water, and I actually died in the water, and I really answered the words of the scoundrels in the village - I suffered the same retribution as my Mom and Dad.

But I didn't die in the end.

I don't know how long it took, I woke up to the sound of water waves, and when I opened my eyes, the first person I saw was Sister Xiaomei, who was soaking wet.

When she saw me wake up, she burst into tears, she dragged me to the shore, took off my wet clothes, took me in her arms, and warmed me with her hot body heat.

Sister Xiaomei told me that I had been floating in the river all night, and she chased along the river all night before she fished me ashore in my dying.