Man Digs Up Village Chief's Boxwood and Gets Punished, Says Bluntly That in Future He'll Check Who Owns a Stump Before Digging It

The man really had some nerve: he dug up the village chief's boxwood and was punished. The man said: "In future, even when digging up a stump, I'll have to check who owns it."

As the saying goes, even when you beat a dog, you must consider its owner. In what you say and do, you should hold back a little and not act recklessly just because you feel like it, otherwise the one who ultimately suffers is yourself. What's more, some things are not yours and cannot be forced, and you certainly should not resort to improper means to get them, otherwise what awaits you is a free lunch.

That said, there are still people who refuse to believe it, and you could say they knowingly head for the tiger's mountain despite knowing tigers live there. Sure enough, here there really was such a person, and you could say he had plenty of nerve, secretly digging up at night a century-old boxwood from our village chief's home. Yet faced with ironclad evidence, he ultimately obediently admitted how he had dug up the boxwood, and he also received more than ten days of education. In front of the police, he admitted he had been caught and said that in future, even when digging up a stump, he would have to check who owned it.

It turns out this person was Huang Erwa (nickname) from our village's Malu group. Already past 40, he still has not found a wife, mainly because he is lazy and fond of eating and drinking well without working, and no one is willing to live with him. So he idles about all day, has planted several hundred plots of Gastrodia elata, and whenever he sells some for a bit of money, he takes it to play cards and drink. You could say he has no small amount of nerve!

Sure enough, the day before yesterday he had just come out of the detention center, because he had secretly dug up a century-old boxwood from the village chief's home. Recently in the city, boxwood stumps have been very popular with stump enthusiasts. Digging up a good boxwood stump can easily sell for several thousand yuan, and this temptation stirred his heart, so he shifted his sights to the village chief's boxwood, which had no way of escaping disaster.

Because the boxwood was right in the village chief's courtyard, it was within the family's line of sight every day. So as soon as it was discovered missing, they immediately called the police. Two days later, both the stump and the man were quickly recovered, which was also something the bold Huang Erwa had not expected. It is believed that this kind of education can make him hold back a little.

Likewise, such problems may occur around every one of us. As for such problems, what I want to say is, do not do foolish things that harm others without benefiting yourself; there is no meaning in it. Moreover, things that are not yours should not be touched casually; one should be kind and honest in life. Wouldn't you agree?