The Matthew Effect of Poor Children and Rich ChildrenZhang Baotong 2018.8.31

Tie Dan and Chen Gang's family have been neighbors for many years, and Chen Gang's father is the director of the Agency. Tie Dan's father was an UNRWA worker, but he was killed while removing a squib during a construction project. Originally, there was some difference between the lives of the two families, but the difference was not too big, but in this way, the life of the Tie Dan family fell all of a sudden. Tiedan's mother only relies on a pension of more than 20 yuan to support her three children, which is not enough, so Tiedan's mother has to rely on washing clothes for workers on the construction site, doing odd jobs outside, and earning a little money to subsidize her life.

By the age of seven, Tie Dan and Chen had just started school, and both of them were placed in the first grade class of the Agency's Railway Children's Primary School. The two neighbors became classmates again. Chen Gang is the child of the director of the engineering department, neatly dressed, able to speak, and seems to be very smart and sensible, which is very popular with the teacher, so the teacher appointed Chen Gang as the class leader.

However, because his mother gets up early and returns late all day, he goes out to work, so how can he have time to care about him. Therefore, as soon as he got out of school, he would play four corners in the compound of the family area, play marbles, or run over the wall to catch birds and dig eggs in the woods outside the family compound. Sometimes, I have to follow my mother to pick up cinders, dig wild vegetables, fish sweet potatoes, and pick up soft ground. Therefore, not only are the clothes worn out, but they also often make their faces and bodies black and dirty. Therefore, the teacher was very unhappy when he looked at it, and often said that he was a child who picked up cinders. Hearing the teacher say this, his classmates even regarded him as a poor and happy joke. Although he is not short and sits in the last row of the class, even the classmates who sit in the first row dare to laugh at him casually and bully him.

Children without fathers are already timid, and when they are bullied by their classmates, they are even less courageous. Therefore, when his classmates bullied him, he never knew how to fight back, always lowered his head and avoided others. But Chen Gang never bullied Tie Dan, and often brought Tie Dan to his home to do homework together. Chen Gang's home is very clean and tidy, and it is also very generous, not only with cabinets and sofas, but also with a radio and a big alarm clock. Chen Gang's mother is very beautiful, has some culture, and is also very kind to Tiedan. Once, Chen Gang's mother gave Tie Dan a piece of fruit candy. Iron Egg has never eaten fruit candy, not even seen it. He thought the fruit candy was so sweet, it was the best thing in the world. Later, when he went to the store to buy salt, he saw that fruit candy, a penny a penny. I thought, when he has money, he will buy a lot of fruit candy and eat enough at once.

Once, a classmate bullied him and said, "Your dad let the cannon blow him up." He said that he could bear to be bullied, but this sentence made him very sad and felt intolerable. Because he knew that it was because his father was gone, his mother would go out to work all day long, and he would be bullied by other classmates. The classmate used these words to humiliate him, he was poking him in the heart with a knife, and he decided to take revenge on that classmate.

So, one afternoon, he found that the classmate's mother had gone out, but the door was not locked, so he went into the house, and then came to the bedside and lifted the pillow where his mother was sleeping. Because his mother's money was always under the pillow. Sure enough, there was a purse under the pillow. He opened it and saw that there was a dime in it, and he took it and left.

He went to the store, bought five cents of candy, hid in a place where no one was and ate it slowly, and felt very happy and very sweet. In order to make this feeling last a little longer, he only bought himself five pieces of candy a day, so that he could eat fruit candy for ten days. However, it didn't take long for the aunt in the store to tell his mother about the fact that he came to the store every day to buy candy. Because the people in the family courtyard are looking down all day long, and they are very familiar with each other.

His mother called him home from the school playground, and then, as soon as the door was closed, she picked up a bamboo stick and hit him on the ass with all her might, making him howl like a pig. After beating for a while, he asked, "Where did you get the money to buy candy?" Tie Dan didn't want to say, but he couldn't stop his mother from beating him with a bamboo stick, so he said that he took it from a classmate's house. Hearing this, Tie Dan's mother cried and scolded, "You don't study well at a young age, and you have learned to steal." Then, he picked up the bamboo stick and whipped it desperately on the iron egg's ass.

Chen Gang's mother heard the cry of the iron egg next door, so she came over and knocked on the door vigorously. However, Tie Dan Ma didn't open the door until she was tired, so she stopped and opened the door. Chen Gang's mother saw that Tie Dan's buttocks were marked with red marks, so she said bitterly, "What do you think you have beaten the child into?" Tie Dan's mother cried and said, "I raised an ignorant animal and lost all my face." ”

After beating the iron egg, the mother took out five dimes from her wallet and asked him to return it to others and apologize to them. Tie Dan felt very embarrassed, but he was still forced by his mother to follow his mother to the same school. As soon as my mother entered the house, she cried and apologized to the mother of her classmates, saying that she had raised an ignorant child and took your family's money, which made her feel very embarrassed and sad. Then, let Tie Dan return the money to his mother and bow to his mother to apologize.

This matter soon became known to many classmates, and some people said that he was a thief in front of Tiedan, so that he didn't dare to look up in front of his classmates for a long time. He even hated his mother a little, thinking that if Chen Gang's mother had encountered this, he would not have beaten his son like this, let alone caused a storm in the city, so that his classmates and teachers would know. He had never seen Chen's mother beat Chen Gang, or even seen her scold Chen Gang, what he saw was always Chen's mother distressing and loving her son. Therefore, he often thinks that his fate is not good, and he was not born in the Chen family, so he is envious of Chen Gang's good life.

However, Tie Dan's academic performance is not bad, and he is on par with Chen Gang in every exam. The two of them are either Chen Gang is the first, or Tie Dan is the first. Because of his outstanding academic performance, when he reached the third grade, no one bullied him anymore. By the end of the fourth grade, he had been at the top of his class in his studies, and he had a secret love for a girl in his class. The girl was the prettiest girl in the class, quiet, singing and dancing, and her father was the director of the Agency's mechanical factory.

The girl's name is Li Aixia, she is beautiful, but her studies are average, so Li Aixia admires Tie Dan very much and likes Tie Dan very much. Because Tie Dan not only has good academic performance, but also looks tall and handsome. The two have been tacitly in love with each other until after graduating from junior high school, and their classmates began to go to the countryside. Because Tiedan's father was injured at work, he did not go to the countryside, so he was taken care of as a repairman in the UNRWA transport team.

At first, the situation of Tie Dan was not bad, but by the time of reform and opening up, the transport team was separated from the engineering department and had to engage in independent contracting. The leader asked Tie Dan to come up with a contract fee of 20,000 yuan, so that he could be assigned a façade room, which happened to be facing the street, and the area was not small, with an area of more than 40 square meters, which could be used to repair cars and do business. However, Tie Dan has just joined the work, and his salary for a month is only 24 yuan, where can he get 20,000 yuan?

The iron egg really couldn't be taken out, so the façade had to be given to others. Because the unit had been separated from the engineering department and could not come up with the money to engage in contracting, Tie Dan suddenly became a laid-off unemployed person. In order to make a living, Tie Dan had to work for others to repair cars.

After Chen Gang and Li Aixia and other classmates went to the township for two years, they either entered the engineering office to work, or contracted some stores or factories in the engineering department, and their careers began to flourish.