I sold grilled fish in the 70s!

Chapter 224 River of Death

Go away! What are you doing here, you damned drunkard, causing such a ruckus? Everyone in the village knows there's a hereditary alcohol allergy in my family, so we all stay far away from alcohol. Why would I be drinking any good wine?

Hahaha! If you were drunk, would you be spouting nonsense here? Everyone here today knows how good friends we are! Whenever I'm short of money, you always lend it to me the moment I ask.

Not only that, but whenever I borrow money from you and need to write an IOU, you always give me a bottle of fine wine to drink first. That's why I consider us to be very close, best friends!

You all know that the only criterion for becoming my good buddy is good liquor. So, the reason you said something like that to me today must be because you've had too much to drink, right?

Those around them shook their heads, because in their minds, Leilei's parents were very honest and upright people. They would never be as addicted to gambling as Li Leilei! Moreover, he not only gambled but also loved to borrow money from others everywhere.

However, he never returned the money he borrowed from others, and what's even more puzzling is that those who had borrowed money from Li Leilei would mysteriously disappear for a period of time.

When the missing person reappeared, he began to act erratically. He claimed that a large water monster lived in the river where everyone usually washed their clothes. He said that if everyone threw a lot of paper money into the river, the water monster would stay in the river and stop bothering the villagers.

Therefore, around the time of Qingming Festival and the Ghost Festival, many villagers would bring paper money to the riverbank to burn it as offerings to the large water monster living in the river. They believed that doing so would make the water monster spare the entire village.

However, to their surprise, ever since they threw large amounts of paper money into the river, some young men and women in the village have chosen to commit suicide by jumping into the river for various reasons.

The village chief once bravely jumped into the river and saved a woman who had just jumped in. Only after he repeatedly asked her why she had jumped into the river to commit suicide did she finally answer him.

I have a sum of money worth over ten million yuan stored in the underworld. Yesterday, a little ghost from the underworld suddenly appeared in my dream. He told me about this and said that if I wanted to get this huge sum of money, I should go to the river where we often scatter paper money.

If I jump down with all my might, I can smoothly reach the underworld and obtain this huge sum of money. Not only that, I can also be reincarnated with this fortune. In my next life, I can be born into a very wealthy family and no longer have to suffer this poverty.

Oh no! Really? You chose to jump into the river and commit suicide because of such a strange dream?

Have you ever thought about how heartbroken your parents will be after you die? Do you know that the most painful thing in the world is for parents to bury their children?

Haha! Village chief, do you think my parents would be heartbroken because of my death, given how they've always treated me?

As soon as the girl finished speaking, a crystal-clear tear quietly rolled down her cheek.

Girl, what's wrong with you? Why are you so distraught? Why did you choose to leave us in such a violent way?

That's because you and Dad always scold me for being a money-loser! You're always complaining that it would have been better if I had been a boy! Then there would be three sons in the family!

Ah! You brat, you're not going to be upset about this, are you? It's perfectly normal for us to say these kinds of things, isn't it? Look at other people's parents, don't they often scold their daughters in front of them, calling them a money-loser?

Look at them, they're still living perfectly well, aren't they? How could they choose to end their lives over something so trivial like you!

Girl, although we always scold you behind your back for being a good-for-nothing, your father and I know in our hearts how much you have silently sacrificed for our family. And you always take care of your grandmother without complaint.

Yes, yes, yes! If we're talking about who's the most filial to Grandma in this family, then it has to be you. No one can take that credit from you.

But I am a woman who will marry into another family after I grow up. What's the use of being too filial to my grandmother? No matter how filial I am, I can't get rid of the prejudice my grandmother has always held against me.

The girl's mother wept bitterly when she heard that her beloved daughter had chosen to end her life because of something she and her husband had said unintentionally.

My dearest daughter! As you know, your father and I are both uneducated people, and we say things without thinking before we speak.

So you don't even know when or what you said might have offended someone. That's the most important reason why your father and I, no matter how poor we are, have to tighten our belts to send you and your two older brothers to school.

Yes, yes, yes! Warm girl, think carefully about how many girls in our little village can go to school?

Don't take your blessings for granted! Do you know how many people are laughing at you behind your back for your suicide attempt? When your father and mother sent you and your two older brothers to school, how many villagers gossiped about them behind their backs?

Some even go so far as to say your father and mother are a bit out of their minds! They'll spend money to send such a worthless child to school. And ten years later, won't you still be wearing a bright red wedding dress and marrying into someone else's family, becoming someone else's daughter-in-law?

Upon hearing the village chief's words, the woman immediately hugged her mother, who was squatting beside her, tightly.

Waaaaah! Mother, I am such an unfilial daughter! I shouldn't have had the thought of leaving this world because of a strange dream!

No! You seem to be a well-read person, how could you believe in such superstitions? Money is something you can't take with you when you die! Besides, does the underworld really exist?

Why do we have no memory of what happened before we were born? Is it because we really drank Meng Po's soup before we were reincarnated?

But before, I had countless thoughts of ending my own life, but then I thought about how my parents would feel because of this.

But when you're heartbroken, you banish that terrible thought.

But for some reason, this time...