The Matthew Effect of Poor Children and Rich ChildrenZhang Baotong 2018.8.31

Once, four or five young men broke into their house with kitchen knives in their hands, saying that their son owed them 70,000 yuan and that they must pay it back today, otherwise they would cut off one of their son's hands. My mother and wife were frightened, so they kept saying good things to others. As soon as Tie Dan inquired, he learned that these people were from underground money banks, specializing in borrowing usury from others. Tie Dan wanted to call the police, but his wife wouldn't let him call the police, saying, "It's useless for you to call the police, and the police can't do anything to them, on the contrary, they will poison their son." He also said, "This kind of person is a thug specially hired by people to collect debts, can you afford to provoke it?" Hearing this, Tie Dan said to the gang, "You go back first, I will call my son back and ask clearly, if we really borrowed your money, we will not eat or drink, and we will pay you back if we smash the pot and sell iron." ”

The son has not been heard from for more than ten days, which has made the Tie Dan couple and his mother restless, and they talk on the phone all day long. However, his son's mobile phone has been turned off, and others have said that they have not seen their son. Half a month later, a relative called them and told them that Tie Dan was now at their house. Tie Dan and his wife called their son back from a relative's house and asked, only to know that their son asked several friends to call him to drink, and when he drank too much, he cheated Jinhua from others, and lost more than 30,000 yuan at once. Because he couldn't borrow money, he found a friend to borrow from someone else's loan shark. But after two or three months of hard work, people asked him to pay back 70,000 yuan. As soon as he heard about the amount of money, he was so frightened that he ran outside, not daring to go home. As soon as Tie Dan heard it, he knew that someone was digging a hole for his son, otherwise, his son would not dare to give him such a big hole, let alone borrow usury. Originally, Tie Dan wanted to delay it again, but he still didn't dare to delay it, because if it was delayed for a day, it would increase a lot of interest. So, I searched all my relatives, friends and relatives and acquaintances, begged my grandfather to tell my grandmother, and borrowed 70,000 yuan to pay back the money.

The 70,000 yuan borrowed from others, plus part of the money borrowed by his wife and himself when they saw a doctor has not been repaid, Tie Dan almost owes a total of 100,000 yuan to others. However, the room leak happened to be rainy. A few days ago, the engineering company issued a notice that the people who wanted to live in the bungalows were going to relocate, because the engineering company was going to demolish the bungalows and build a high-rise building. The area of the house is more than 90 square meters. Each household has to pay 130,000 yuan for the purchase of the house. The reason why I had to pay 130,000 yuan for the purchase of the house was because the bungalow did not belong to the private property of the household, but the property of the People's Engineering Corporation. When they heard that a tall building was going to be built, many people were elated and excited. Because after the building is built, a 90-square-meter house can be sold for 500,000 yuan.

However, when Tie Dan heard the news, it was as if he had heard a thunderbolt from the sky. One is that they can't sell the house, and if they sell the house, their family can only live on the street. Moreover, after the house is divided, it will cost 40,000 or 50,000 yuan for casual decoration, and you have to borrow money from others. Over the years, he has borrowed too much money from others, and he can't pay back the money quickly when he borrows money, so he is scared when he sees people, just like a mouse sees a cat.

That afternoon, Tiedan's best friend Yi Guangming came to his house and said that he had taken a fancy to a new Toyota, more than 200,000 yuan, but the money in his hand was still 50,000 yuan, and he asked Tie Dan to return the 50,000 yuan he borrowed from him. Tie Dan was immediately a little dazed when he heard this. He pondered for a long time, and then said in a pleading tone to see if he could give him another half a year and a year. At that time, it will definitely be returned with interest. Because there is an unwritten rule of borrowing money locally, that is, you must give people two cents of interest. This is true whether it is a family member or an acquaintance. Yi Guangming saw that Tie Dan was about to postpone again, his face immediately sank, and said, "At most, I will give you half a year, it doesn't matter if you give you money or not, when it comes to October 1, you have to give me the capital no matter what." Tie Dan agreed with great gratitude, and then, he invited people to have a meal with good food and drink, and gave them a pair of Furong King cigarettes, so that they could be regarded as sending them away.

After sending them away, my wife complained, "It's not your family's fault, if your family took out 20,000 yuan to contract this façade, don't say whether we do business or not, even if we rent out this façade, you can easily earn 40,000 or 50,000 yuan a year." With these forty or fifty thousand, won't we solve everything?" Hearing this, Tie Dan was even more irritable in his heart, so he started a fire and said, "You have said this hundreds of times, is there still an end? Where did I steal 20,000 yuan from those poor people in my family?"

Tie Dan is getting older day by day, but his worries are still increasing day by day. But he is not hopeless. He is now looking forward to the day when he retires, and when he retires, he will be able to get a retirement salary of 2,000 yuan, and his wife will also be able to get a pension of 1,700 yuan. Together, the two are three or four thousand dollars. With these three or four thousand retirement salaries, their monthly living is no longer a problem. It's just that you owe so much to others, and you have to pay them off slowly. However, he was only fifty-two or thirteen years old, and he was still seven or eight years away from retirement. And the children's work and marriage, as well as the major events of demolition, buying a house and paying back the money to others, are like several mountains pressing on his head, which are placed in front of him, so that he can't get around and can't hide. He didn't dare to think about these things, and when he thought about it, he felt like he was going crazy.

Since the spring of this year, the students of the Agency's Iron High School have colluded with each other to hold a party to mark the 35th anniversary of their graduation. Hearing the news, Tie Dan was so worried that he couldn't sleep. Because he has attended class reunions, this kind of gathering is nothing more than an occasion for those who have a successful career and mix well to show off and perform, and also an occasion for those like him to show their ugliness and shame when they are down. Therefore, he didn't want to show his ugliness and embarrassment in front of his classmates, and he didn't want to be a foil for those who had achieved fame like Chen Gang.

However, Chen Gang called him several times and said that he wanted to meet him and his mother, because the classmates of the Railway Engineering Office were scattered all over the country to build railways, and many of them had settled in other cities, and they had not seen each other for twenty or thirty years. Since Chen Gang's family moved to Hefei, they haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. He wanted to see Chen Gang, but he was afraid to see Chen Gang. Because Chen Gang is like a mirror, it will make him feel even more depressed and inferior. The more people have low self-esteem, the more they are afraid of losing face.

This made him feel very conflicted, because he heard from his classmates that Chen Gang is now the vice president of the Railway Engineering Corporation, a leading cadre at the deputy bureau level, with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan and a living allowance of 6,000 yuan per month. Li Aixia was also transferred to the Engineering Bureau Hospital, and she is still working as a head nurse. But their daughter went abroad two years ago to study for a doctorate at a prestigious university in the United States.

Tie Dan thought that his family and Chen Gang's family used to be neighbors of the same unit, and they were classmates, and their academic performance was comparable, but because they had good parents, they had a smooth life and almost no major disasters. And because of his poor family and the early death of his father, every step of his life is difficult and bumpy, so he has almost been stuck in the quagmire of life in the past few decades, and the more difficult and deeper he goes. Therefore, Tie Dan can only sigh: This is fate!