Old Man Ma pointed at Ma Bomin and cursed, "You beast, for a woman, you even abandoned your own parents. Don't forget, we gave you your life, and every bit of your life belongs to us."
Ma Bomin looked at Old Man Ma, a trace of irony on his calm face. "Didn't you take back my life a long time ago?"
Old Man Ma was stunned and looked at Ma Bomin with a frown, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Am I talking nonsense?" Ma Bomin cleared his throat and raised his voice. "When I was eight years old, you sold me to an old bachelor in Sandong Mountain as your son in order to save food for the eldest and third sons. From then on, I was no longer your son."
Old Man Ma didn't expect that his father would remember this incident. He was furious and cursed, "Didn't you come back later? What did we need from you?"
Ma Bomin said, "My old bachelor fell to his death in the mountains, so I ran away. I didn't dare go home because I was afraid you would sell me again. I hid in a cave in the back mountain. I starved when I had nothing to eat, and I endured when I was sick. It was Xiaomei who found me and saved her food rations every day to support me. That's how I survived. Xiaomei gave me my life.
Later I went home, but did I ever eat a good meal? I was less than nine years old at the time, and I did more work than my eldest brother every day, but I didn't even eat half as much as my eldest brother and third brother. Whether it was Chinese New Year or other festivals, when you made clothes for my eldest brother and third brother, did you ever think about having a son like me, Ma Bomin? Now you tell me you're filial to your parents? Ridiculous!
This was also the reason why he built a new house immediately after getting married and let Xiaomei live alone. He didn't want to have anything to do with this family, let alone Xiaomei.
The villagers were talking in low voices, and some recalled what happened back then. They did remember that Ma Bomin had been away from the village for a whole year, and the Ma family had never mentioned anything about him. Then, suddenly, Ma Bomin came back, and he had changed. He was darker and thinner, and didn't like to talk much. He didn't react at all to the insults from Old Lady Ma.
It turned out that Ma Bomin was sold by his family at that time.
It's quite sad to think about it. If every household hadn't been having a hard time at that time and Ma Bomin hadn't had nowhere to go, he would have definitely returned to this home.
Now that something like this has happened again, how can he swallow this anger?
Although Mrs. Ma and Mr. Ma were not greedy for money, they valued their lives more. Seeing that Ma Bomin was serious, they immediately became scared and quickly took out the passbook at home.
When the third son Ma Bochang and his wife saw the eldest son take out the passbook, their eyes turned red. They stepped forward to stop him and tried to snatch the passbook, shouting that the money on the passbook was promised to him to buy a house in the county, the money belonged to them and could not be given to Ma Bomin.
Ma Boli felt chilled and disheartened when he heard this. These two old guys were so cruel.
Ma Bomin watched them making noise with a cold eye, feeling nothing except that it was ridiculous.
Finally, the passbook returned to Ma Bomin's hands. There were only 5,300 yuan in it. They couldn't get any more. They had already spent the money on food and couldn't vomit it out even if they wanted to.
Ma Bomin took the passbook and asked Qian'an, "Will paying back the money offset their crimes?"
An shook his head, "No."
The two old guys were dumbfounded.
Ma Bomin curled his lips and smiled lightly, "Then take him away. I'll sentence him as I see fit."
In this situation, the sentence will not be very severe. Ziyi said that on purpose to scare them. In fact, even if they don't pay back the money, they will at most be sentenced to a few months of labor reform.
But at their age, a few months of forced labor would be enough to teach them a lesson.
Ma Bochang also did not escape. He participated in the occupation of other people's property and was also sentenced to several months of labor reform.
The elder of the Ma family and Ma Bochang were taken away. Ma Bochang immediately hired a few people with money to tear down the house in front of the whole village.
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