1983: The Fish in the Reed Marsh Are So Plump

[Period] [Farming] [Slow Life] [Fishing the Lakes] [Hunting in the Mountains] [Fishing in Jiangnan] [Funny Everyday Life in a Big Rural Family] [Comedy] In 1983, Cheng Xiaodong was reborn. Overnight, he went from being a vain, image-conscious fool who was easy to deceive to a man of few words. All he did every day was fish, catch pheasants, wild ducks, and weasels, and help keep the household running... His several sisters-in-law thought he had become taciturn overnight because the fishing fleet had fired him and he was taking it hard. They worried he might do something rash and fretted over him every day. No one knew that Cheng Xiaodong had returned reborn to repay his debt to them. In his previous life, his sisters-in-law had scraped together money to help him get married. His youngest sister-in-law remarried a bachelor from the village, but unable to endure his domestic abuse, she jumped into the river and died. His second sister-in-law went to work at a construction site to pay off his debts. She fell from a building and died. Because of his gambling debts, creditors came to seize his eldest sister-in-law’s brick house. When she tried to stop them, the crowd beat her to death. After that, his two nieces and one nephew became strangers to him, and he spent the rest of his life consumed by guilt. Thankfully, he had been reborn, and everything could start over. With seven mouths to feed and a hard life ahead, he began hunting in the mountains and fishing the lakes. As the days went by, before he knew it, they had enough to eat, got electricity, built a tile-roofed house, and bought a motorcycle. He raced through life with sparks flying, shaping the times around him...