A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

Hu Dahai glanced at Hu Wangfei and thought to himself, "This guy really can only do technical work in the future. He's really bad at interpersonal relationships."

However, since he had nothing else to do anyway, and considering that Hu Wangfei had been quite diligent lately, he decided to teach him a lesson. So Hu Dahai explained:

"I did this for several reasons: First, I gave the brigade leader face, and now everyone knows that his words do carry weight. Plus, with this half pack of cigarettes, he will definitely give me some help in the future."

"Secondly, I have demonstrated my strength to everyone. When it comes to buying fish, only I can do it; no one else can. From now on, they will only sell fish to me more reliably, and even if someone else talks about buying fish, they won't believe it."

"The third, and most important, point is that there's a saying, 'Don't pursue a desperate enemy.' If I push them too far, do you think they'll want to retaliate? Once their home is destroyed, they'll have nothing to lose and might actually fight me to the death. It's easy to dodge a spear in the open, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark. This will be a huge hidden danger for me. But now that I've caught the fish, they can at least catch their breath and won't come after me to fight to the death."

"In the end, this fish costs 13 cents, and I can resell it for 30 cents, making a profit of 17 cents. Why wouldn't I make that money?"

Upon hearing Hu Dahai's explanation, Hu Wangfei, Bao Yuanshan, and the others were all dumbfounded.

Hu Wangfei, in particular, had an incredulous look on his young face: "Holy crap, Dad, I really didn't expect that you could pull off such a small thing and kill three birds with one stone!"

Bao Yuanshan was also impressed: "Dahai, your brain is really sharp now. How come I can't think of that?"

Finally, under the strong intervention of the brigade leader and the strong pressure from all those demanding money.

The Zhang family was willing to sell all their fish to Hu Dahai for 13 cents.

The family could be described as humiliated as they pushed a cart to deliver all the fish to Hu Dahai's doorstep.

Along the way, everyone pointed and whispered about them:

"Look at the Zhang family, they've really harmed themselves and others. They're incompetent, yet they put on a show of being capable when they're not."

"Yeah, I heard that Hu Dahai was angry about this, so he lowered the price for buying fish to 13 cents."

“The Zhang family members are not good people to begin with. Look at Zhang Yuzhen, she’s like an emperor at Hu Dahai’s house every day. She doesn’t do any housework, and even her bra is washed by Hu Dahai.”

"Such a thing is true. The Zhang family is really shameless. If my daughter-in-law were like that, I would slap her across the face in a heartbeat."

"That's because Hu Dahai used to be easy to talk to. Now Hu Dahai has finally stood up for himself."

Unconsciously, people started talking about Zhang Zude and later about Zhang Yuzhen.

Zhang Yuzhen and the others heard these words, and they were both ashamed and angry, their faces turning red with rage, yet they were helpless.

When all the fish arrived at Hu Dahai's place, Hu Dahai did not come forward. Instead, he asked Hu Wangfei to collect them. The standard was the same: the same type of fish that had been collected before must be collected now. The inferior ones were not accepted.

Seeing that his job was about to begin, Hu Wangfei worked extremely hard, and all the fish underwent a rigorous inspection.

No animals that are even slightly wilted, slightly injured, or small.

In the end, after Hu Wangfei's manipulation, the nearly 1,000 jin of fish was reduced to just over 850 jin.

This really shocked Zhang Zude and the others.

Zhang Zude was about to start swearing when his father stopped him.

"No, Wangfei, I'm your sister-in-law. You're going a bit too far." At her mother's prompting, Zhang Yuzhen pulled Hu Wangfei aside and said, "It's one thing to be strict with others, but how can you be so strict with your sister-in-law!"

Hu Wangfei looked at Zhang Yuzhen: "Didn't you keep clamoring to separate the family? How come you remember you're my sister-in-law now? Besides, even if you hadn't separated from us, I would still treat everyone the same. Otherwise, how can I face all the villagers who come to sell fish?"

Hu Wangfei's words immediately drew cheers from the onlookers:

"Good, Wang Fei truly lives up to his reputation as a scholar. He speaks with culture and acts with fairness! He will surely have a bright future!"

"Zhang Yuzhen is really out of her mind. Did she even marry Hu Guanbao? Hu Guanbao is such a jerk. He can't even control his own wife. She's always running back to her parents' house!"

Even the captain touched the half-pack of Zhonghua cigarettes in his pocket and said, "Yuzhen, stop talking, everyone will laugh at you. The fact that they're willing to take your fish is already a huge help."

After being told this by everyone, the Zhang family was worried about incurring public wrath and had no choice but to compromise.

More than 850 catties of fish were sold for 112 yuan.

The Zhang family didn't even have time to handle the money before distributing it to the people who came to ask for it back. In the end, only one yuan was left.

Clutching that one yuan coin, the four members of the Zhang family were on the verge of tears on their way back, their faces ashen.

"Damn it, it's all Hu Dahai's fault! He must have told them not to take my fish!" Zhang Zude said angrily, placing all the blame on Hu Dahai.

Mr. Zhang scolded, "What time is it? You're still blaming others. If you ask me, blame yourself. You didn't even understand anything, yet you told us you understood everything."

"Alright, alright," Zhang's mother stepped in to smooth things over again, but this time she wasn't completely biased towards Zhang Zude. Instead, she advised him, "Zude, you really need to find a way to make money. Otherwise, you'll never find a wife."

Zhang Zude waved his hand impatiently without answering.

Meanwhile, Zhang Yuzhen became anxious: "Father, Mother, what about my house? Look, I haven't given you any money yet. If we don't have money, we won't be able to finish building the house! Even Guan Bao will scold me!"

However, although everyone heard Zhang Yuzhen's words clearly, no one answered her question directly; they all pretended not to hear them.

Mr. Zhang wanted to speak several times, but clutching the large sum of one yuan in his hand, he kept his mouth shut each time. He truly felt powerless to do so.

In that instant, Zhang Yuzhen suddenly felt very lonely, as if she had been completely excluded by her family.

It seems that my family members don't really care about me; they only care about the money I give them and the various forms of help I provide.

That night, as Zhang Yuzhen lay in bed thinking about how to face Hu Guanbao, her parents were also in bed discussing her situation.

Mr. Zhang said, "We still need to give Yuzhen an explanation, otherwise if she really doesn't care about us, there will be no one to take care of Zude in the future."

Zhang's mother said, "Don't worry about her. It cost us so much to raise her. Besides, how can we take care of her? We don't have any money. Are we supposed to borrow money to have them build a house? And with all this commotion about buying fish, no one will lend us money now, right?"

Mr. Zhang pondered for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution, and was just about to go to sleep.

Suddenly he noticed the veins on his arm and seemed to remember something.

He said, "How about we sell our blood tomorrow? If the two of us do it once, we should be able to earn several tens of yuan. At least we can get through this problem. Otherwise, if we can't explain it to Yuzhen, she'll be hostile towards us in the future."