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    A man brings home blowfish to feed his hungry family after three years of poor harvests left them with little food. Remembering their suffering, he plans to poison them with the blowfish so they do not have to starve anymore. However, his wife cooks the blowfish for so long that the poison is removed. The family eats and survives. The man is relieved but also dismayed that he cannot even provide an easy death to end their suffering.

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    A man brings home blowfish to feed his hungry family after three years of poor harvests left them with little food. Remembering their suffering, he plans to poison them with the blowfish so they do not have to starve anymore. However, his wife cooks the blowfish for so long that the poison is removed. The family eats and survives. The man is relieved but also dismayed that he cannot even provide an easy death to end their suffering.

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    A man brings home blowfish to feed his hungry family after three years of poor harvests left them with little food. Remembering their suffering, he plans to poison them with the blowfish so they do not have to starve anymore. However, his wife cooks the blowfish for so long that the poison is removed. The family eats and survives. The man is relieved but also dismayed that he cannot even provide an easy death to end their suffering.

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    A man brings home blowfish to feed his hungry family after three years of poor harvests left them with little food. Remembering their suffering, he plans to poison them with the blowfish so they do not have to starve anymore. However, his wife cooks the blowfish for so long that the poison is removed. The family eats and survives. The man is relieved but also dismayed that he cannot even provide an easy death to end their suffering.

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    BLOWFISH

    Wang Renshu

    He learnt about this from someone and Remembering his resolve to end the
    decided to make the move. family’s suffering, he quickened his steps.
    Even from a distance he could see the
    Somehow he got a basket of blowfish and glistening eyes of his children waiting
    carried it home quietly. outside; then he heard a chorus of their
    voices welcoming him home.
    Three successive years of disastrous
    harvest left him with barely enough grain “Why, not dead yet?” he thought aloud
    to pay the landowner and little to feed his softly.
    family of five. It had been excruciatingly
    difficult for him, all alone, to pull the “Pop! We’ve been waiting for you to eat
    family through from last winter to early together!”
    spring. Now, all that was left was hunger.
    “Oh!” He now knew.
    But how could he let his family suffer
    hunger? The family scrambled to the table and ate
    with gusto. They hadn’t had any fish for
    When his family saw him back with a full so long and every tiny bite tasted
    basket, they all jumped for joy, as if he delicious. Afterwards, he lay in bed
    were an angel. quietly and soon fell asleep, waiting for
    the Dark Angel of Death to descend.
    The kids met him at the door, half
    dancing. The blowfish, however, had been cooked
    for so long its poison had all disappeared.
    “Pop, Pop! What is it? Let’s eat it!” So the family lived and would have to
    suffer hunger again, day by day.
    At this tears welled up in his eyes.
    He woke up and sighed: “Why is it so
    “Eat,” he mumbled, terrified by his own hard even to ask for death?” And tears
    voice, terrified for the lives of his kids; his welled in his eyes.
    heart nearly froze.

    He told his wife to cook the fish and then


    left on the pretext of an errand. Not that
    he didn’t want to die himself, but that he
    didn’t want to watch with his own eyes
    how his family would die. So he wanted
    to stay away for the time being.

    It was well past noon and he was still not


    back. The kids had been pleading with
    their mother for the fish.

    Now, his wife, who had been through a lot


    with him and loved him dearly, would
    never let the kids eat or taste anything
    before he had the first bite.

    By the time the sun began to set in the


    west, the blowfish was still being cooked
    in the wok. It was then that he came back
    home, as if walking on air, dreading each
    step, his mind filled with pictures of his
    family, all dead, sprawled here and there.

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