The man who as to live.

in #writing7 years ago

The story a man with two wife’s in a village, the first wife give birth to two female children when the second give birth to a boy and two girls. The man is an herbalist at is looking a male child that he can hand over the business to but the first wife started trying all the way possible to hunt the boy, suddenly the boy be can to fall sick always and the family keep moving around to save the boy life.


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One day the boy use is teeth to remove naked electric wire, and they suddenly brought the light he fell down inside the big drum of water that he was standing on, the father stand up and open the drum asking him “are you still alive, you that you should have die since you now use your teeth to cut naked wire”.

The family was just tried about the boy sickness then he fall sick again his father told his wife let us burial this boy alive or we take him to the river for fish to eat him up, the mother started crying that she can’t kill her only son and took him the other side of their village to her brother place. The mother went back to the village without the boy the father ask about the boy the mother said is die, the man said that is good that the boy cannot live.
After eight year the woman went to the village to begin the boy to their village, the father ran away when he saw the boy very healthy and strong the man look at the boy and said you are still living in the world the other wife voice out and said you again you still living about two years after the second wife die when she confessed all she is doing.

After that the man told them you want to kill the boy, the only son that I can lend over my property to the boy left the village when to another village so that they won’t kill him but go to is village once a year, his father die after fifteen years for the second wife. The boy is enjoy is life with his mother and his sister. When the boy now living in Lagos with his wife and three children. The boy lost is mother last year buried, the boy which is now a man and his own sister a living happily.