The man's name is Luo Chen, he lives in Yichang, Hubei, is a full fishing enthusiast, as long as he is free, he will carry a fishing rod to the river to fish, and there has never been a shortage of fish at home for more than ten years.
Two years ago, Luo Chen's wife He Xiaofen found a ruby ring in the belly of a fish he caught, He Xiaofen was going to sell the gem, but Luo Chen stopped her.
Luo Chen returned the gemstone ring to the owner, and He Xiaofen was also very glad for her husband Luo Chen's move afterwards.
One night two years ago, Luo Chen went to wash his clothes when he came back from fishing, and not long after he was busy here, He Xiaofen hurriedly ran over and said excitedly: "Husband, look at what this is? The stone on this ring is so beautiful!"
He Xiaofen held up a ring and handed it to Luo Chen's eyes, with an excited face: "Husband, to be honest, is this a surprise you gave me? I can't see that you are quite romantic! I know that if I stuff this ring into the belly of the fish, if I don't deal with those fish, I really can't find it!"
Luo Chen looked at the gem ring in He Xiaofen's hand with a confused expression.
This ring is not big, it looks like it is made of sterling silver underneath, it has been slightly oxidized, and the ring surface is a blood-red gemstone, which looks very beautiful.
At first, Luo Chen didn't react, and when he saw the ruby red on the ring clearly, he was completely stunned.
Hurriedly asked, "Wife, you said that this ring was found from the belly of a fish?"
He Xiaohua was also stunned when she heard his words, and asked puzzledly: "What? Didn't you put this ring in? This gem looks very valuable, how much did you buy it?"
After that, He Xiaohua put the ring on her hand and admired it carefully.
When Luo Chen heard this, he smiled bitterly: "This ring is not only valuable, it is simply sky-high, about one or two million!"
"One or two million"?
He Xiaohua shook her wrist when she heard this, and was startled by Luo Chen's words.
She looked at Luo Chen and said with a smile: "Husband, what are you kidding? You said that this ring is worth one or two million? Do you have so much money to buy it? I think it's about the same as one or two hundred."
Luo Chen shook his head and said, "I didn't say that this thing is mine! I do know the origin of this ring, but it really wasn't bought by me, and it wasn't put into the belly of the fish, and I wonder how it could be in the belly of the fish!
When He Xiaofen heard Luo Chen say this, he was immediately deflated!
She asked, "You said you didn't buy this gemstone ring?" and how do you know where it came from? You confused me, what the hell is going on?"
Luo Chen shook his head and said, "Although I don't know how this gemstone ring got into the belly of the fish, I know its origin, you listen to me."
Luo Chen took off the gem ring from He Xiaofen's finger, took it in his hand and looked at it for a long time, then he opened his mobile phone, flipped out a photo in the album, and said to He Xiaohua: "Do you see if this photo is like this gem ring?
He Xiaofen looked at the photo on Luo Chen's phone and asked, "Husband, how can you have this photo of the gemstone ring?"
"I took it at noon today, I was going to talk to you about it in the evening, but I didn't expect this gemstone ring to fall into our hands, I'll tell you what's going on!"
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Seeing that his wife was interested in this gemstone ring, he told him about today's events.
This morning, Luo Chen went fishing by the river early in the morning!
Not long after fishing, he saw a group of people coming from the other side of the river, and several of them were still wearing wetsuits, looking at the posture of preparing to salvage something.
As soon as these people got out of the water, Luo Chen's side naturally couldn't continue fishing, as soon as they stirred up in the water, the fish were scared away, how could they fish?
Helpless, Luo Chen could only close the pole.
Although the fishing friends who came together around were very dissatisfied, the other party seemed to be very polite, especially for them to buy a few packs of cigarettes, and the courtesy was still very thoughtful.
After Luo Chen closed the rod, a young man walked over, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and gave it to Luo Chen, and said with a smile: "Brother, I'm really sorry, I'm bothering you fishing!
As the saying goes, if you don't hit a smiling person, everyone else is so polite, and he won't hold on to it.
Luo Chen didn't smoke, so he waved his hand and politely refused: "Brother, I'm not in good health, I've quit this, you fanfare, are you going to prepare to catch fish? I see that you have brought so many fine nets, I can remind you, this river is not allowed to use such a thin net, you are a desperate net!"
When the young man heard this, he smiled bitterly and said: "Big brother, you have misunderstood! We are not fishing, but some valuable things have fallen into the river! Find someone to come and salvage, these fine nets are used to intercept the water flow below, so that the things will not be washed away by the current during the salvage."
"Thank you eldest brother for your understanding, then you are busy first, I have to go and explain to a few brothers over there."
With that, the young man departed.
Looking at the back of this person's departure, Luo Chen looked puzzled, what is this fanfare salvage?
Is it a phone? or a wallet?
Luo Chen's doubts didn't last long, after he packed up the fishing tools, the river was already full of people, and from the discussions of these people, Luo Chen finally knew the cause and effect of the matter.
It turned out that these people were not salvaging mobile phones or wallets, but salvaging a gemstone ring, which is not an ordinary treasure, and is said to sell for two million!
Hearing this, Luo Chen finally understood why these people went into the water to fish for things with such fanfare! If his things fell into this river, not to mention that it was worth two million, even if it was two hundred thousand, he would drain the river water to find it.
Since there was excitement to see, Luo Chen was not in a hurry to leave, just watched the salvage by the river.
Not to mention, it's also a pleasure, and it's not the same as the experience of fishing.
He watched for more than two hours, and the salvage work in the river was not over, and seven or eight people wore diving suits to go down and get nothing.
Later, it was suggested that the river should be drained directly, which might be a little more likely, after all, if something as small as a ring falls into the mud, even if you put on a wetsuit, it will not help, and you will not be able to find it next door.
After hearing this suggestion, the host did not procrastinate, and directly found someone to block the upstream, and when the water flow became smaller, several pumps were brought in to drain the water that could not flow away.
Fortunately, the river is not very large, and the water flow becomes smaller after the upstream is blocked, so it is relatively easy to drain it.
Just as the main family was arranging for someone to pump water, a middle-aged man came to the river with an old lady and asked her where the ring had been thrown.
The old lady directly said that the ring was thrown in the river, and if you want to find it, you can go to the river to catch it, but she can't care about it, and she doesn't want to care about it.
Although the middle-aged man is very angry, he is helpless.
Luo Chen was also very curious when he saw this scene, and after inquiring, he learned something that was not very secret.
It turned out that the gemstone ring in the river was actually thrown by the old lady.
Speaking of which, this old lady is quite pitiful.
Although she has three sons and a daughter, none of them are filial, the old lady is over sixty years old, the three sons don't care, and the daughter also pretends not to see it.
At first, Luo Chen thought it was the old lady's own problem, it was okay to say that one son was not filial, but the four children were not filial, so there were some problems.
Later, Luo Chen learned that this was not the old lady's own problem, some people who knew her said that the old lady was a very good person, and she had never heard that she had blushed with others, and when several children had not yet started a family, they were also very good to her and her children.
The reason why this is the case is said to be due to the division of family property.
When the old lady's husband died, she left a suicide note, which recorded the distribution of property in the family, whether the daughter got married, and the three sons.
I don't know what the reason is, which leads to the uneven distribution, the three sons turn against each other, and no one refuses to support the elderly wife alone.
It's as if you would suffer if you pay a little more.
At this point, Luo Chen can probably guess that the inheritance left by the old lady's husband is probably divided according to the contributions of the three brothers, which may or may not be equally divided.
But no matter which one it is, even if it is evenly divided, there will be some small problems, and they want to occupy more points for themselves, or they are not satisfied with what they have been allocated, which will cause conflicts.
For example, if two pieces of land are exactly the same, with different locations and different values, if they are both the same area, they will definitely compete for more value.
If no one wants to suffer between brothers, there will definitely be contradictions.
Just last month, when the old lady was picking up stones in the field, she accidentally dug up a box, and there was nothing else in the box, but a gemstone ring.
For this ring, the three sons fought hard, and no one let anyone, they all wanted to keep the ring alone, and they didn't want to give it to anyone else.
The old lady knows the temperament of her three sons, and she doesn't have any hope that they will support themselves, the family property was a curse before, and now this ring is also a curse, no matter what she does, it is wrong, the three brothers don't want others to take more, they all want to share a little more.
The old lady was so angry that she threw the ring into the river.
After the three sons knew about the quarrel, they hurriedly found someone to come to the river to fish, whoever caught this thing was whoever caught it, so the three brothers did not give in to each other, and the young man Luo Chen met in the morning was the youngest son of the old lady.
After knowing the cause and effect, Luo Chen also sighed in his heart, sometimes brothers and sisters, for money, will really turn against each other.
Even if you divide it evenly, some people will not be satisfied.
The three brothers worked by the river all morning without harvest, and then they directly printed out the photo of the gemstone ring and issued a reward, if anyone could find the ring in the river, they would directly give a prize of 50,000 yuan.
As soon as this news came out, the people around were suddenly gearing up, and they all threw themselves into the mud to find it, slowly groping in the mud like touching a screw.
The attraction of 50,000 yuan is still quite large, and for many people it is almost a whole year's salary.
Luo Chen was no exception, he also went down to the river to look for a few hours.
Later, he didn't get anything before leaving, saying that he didn't regret it, it was fake, but Luo Chen also knew that there was so much silt in the river, and trying to find a small gemstone ring in it was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.
He didn't expect that this gemstone ring would be swallowed by the fish in the river and caught by him.
Isn't that a coincidence?
He Xiaofen asked, "Then what should we do with this ring? Will we sell it? No one knows that the ring is with us anyway." ”
Hearing this, Luo Chen waved his hand and said, "No, I heard others say that this ring is precious! If we sell it, it will definitely attract the attention of those who are interested."
"Besides, this ring is not ours in the first place, if it leaks out and the family knows about it, it will be troublesome!"
He Xiaofen asked with some distress: "What should I do then? I can't sell it, I can't keep it forever!"
"Why don't we just exchange it for a bounty? Didn't you say that you would find it and give you 50,000 yuan?"
Luo Chen thought for a while and said: "This ring was lost by the old lady, we can't give it to anyone, we may offend the other two, I think this thing should still be returned to the old lady, the thing is hers, we can't care what she does." ”
He Xiaofen had no choice but to agree to Luo Chen's method.
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For the next few days, the group searched the river for 24 hours.
Luo Chen didn't go fishing, but quietly inquired about the old lady's address, and after the old lady went home, he quietly found the old lady.
"Young man, are you looking for me?"
Looking at Luo Chen, Chen Feihui showed a smile in his eyes.
Luo Chen smiled when he heard this: "Auntie, I am looking for you for some things, you see that it is inconvenient to enter the house to talk about it, this matter is indeed more important."
Chen Feihui looked at him for a while before saying, "I know why you came, let's go into the house and talk about it!"
Luo Chen was stunned when he heard this, he looked at Chen Feihui, a little surprised.
Does she know where she came from?
After entering the house, Chen Feihui asked him to sit down, and said to himself: "You are looking for me for that gemstone ring!"
Luo Chen nodded when he heard this, and said in surprise: "Auntie, how do you know that I am here for that?"
Chen Feihui said: "Of course I know, because the thing is what I put in the belly of the fish."
"You put the ring in the fish's belly?"
This time it was Luo Chen's turn to be unexpected.
Chen Feihui nodded and said, "That's right, I put it."
"And what about the river?"
Chen Feihui was very calm, and said directly: "I also threw a ring in the river, this one my daughter-in-law saw, I don't dare to throw another one, it's not worth much, it's just a few thousand yuan."
Luo Chen's mind turned sharply and asked, "Why did you do this? What do you want to put the ring in the belly of the fish? Auntie, aren't you afraid that I will sell the thing?"
When Chen Feihui heard this, she sighed and said, "You will come to me, I didn't expect it, and if you give you something, you naturally want to sell it."
Chen Feihui didn't say it's okay, but when he said it, he was even more confused!
He and Chen Feihui are not related, how could she give such a valuable thing to herself?
Luo Chen asked honestly: "Auntie, what you say makes me even more confused, why are you doing this, we don't know each other!"
Chen Feihui smiled when she heard this: "Young man, you married my daughter, what do you say is our relationship?"
"It's for my daughter, not for you."
Luo Chen was surprised, he asked, "Auntie, what are you kidding, how can my wife be your daughter?"
Chen Feihui didn't refute when she heard this, but got up and went to another room to get a file bag, took out a piece of paper from it and handed it to Luo Chen, and said: "You should know that a year ago, your wife He Xiaofen saved an old man and gave her some blood transfusion, this is an appraisal report, it says, your wife He Xiaofen is my daughter, there will be no mistake." ”
Luo Chen took the document and looked at it, completely stunned!
He Xiaohua knew about saving people a year ago, but he didn't know that person was Chen Feihui.
He looked at Chen Feihui and asked, "Auntie, what's going on?"
Chen Feihui sighed and told a past incident from many years ago.
It turned out that Chen Feihui's three sons and one daughter were not her own, but her adopted children, and Chen Feihui was her biological daughter, who was lost more than 30 years ago.
If it weren't for an accident a year ago, she wouldn't have known that He Xiaofen was her daughter.
Later, although she quietly did a paternity test, she did not dare to recognize her.
She felt ashamed of He Xiaofen and didn't dare to say it, after all, she had not fulfilled her responsibilities as a mother for more than 30 years.
Later, she inadvertently dug up a gemstone ring in the ground, and after knowing its price, she wanted to leave the ring to He Xiaofen.
However, after several adopted sons knew about this, they always wanted to get the ring, but Chen Feihui was angry, pretending to throw the ring into the river where Luo Chen fished every day, and took advantage of the chaos to stuff the real ring into Luo Chen's fish belly.
As long as Luo Chen went home to deal with these fish, he would definitely find out.
What Chen Feihui didn't expect was that Luo Chen actually found her by the vine.
Knowing the cause and effect of the matter, Luo Chen was silent for a long time, he knew that He Xiaofen was an orphan, but he didn't expect that Chen Feihui would be her mother.
Luo Chen took the appraisal report and left! He planned to show He Xiaofen, and if she was willing to recognize her, he wouldn't mind bringing her over.
Two days later, Luo Chen took He Xiaofen to Chen Feihui's residence.
As soon as she met, she hugged Chen Feihui and cried: "Mom, how did you know me! Do you know how much I miss you all these years?"
Chen Feihui patted her back, also teary-eyed.
Later, Chen Feihui still gave the gemstone ring to He Xiaofen, but her three adopted sons were not found, and they all gave up!
Luo Chen didn't say anything, after knowing Chen Feihui's situation, he knew that Chen Feihui was not doing too much.
It is said that nurturing grace is greater than giving birth, but they obviously failed to do it! It is no wonder that Chen Feihui would arrange it in this way.