Chapter 22: The Sorrowful Generation

In Liu Lang's previous life, he had heard his father say that when he was a child, he had to do housework when he was less than five or six years old, and when he was seven or eight years old, he had to help take care of his brother, and when he was more than ten years old, he went out every day to pick up briquettes and pick up wood to supplement the family.

In the era when Liu Lang's father lived, there were several children in every family, and the eldest child was often more than 20 years older than the youngest child, for example, Liu Lang's father and Liu Lang's uncle were sixteen years apart, you must know that his grandfather was only sixteen years older than his father, so to speak, his father, as the eldest brother, was actually equivalent to his father.

The adults in the children's family naturally can't manage it, then they can only take the big ones with the small ones, but one or two is fine, if there are three or four, then they can only be stocked in a wild state, just like Liu Lang's uncle, who goes to school every day and finishes school, and has food at home, he will deal with it, and he will stand up without food, and he will not die of hunger anyway, and the clothes on his body are all worn by his brothers, as for the children's learning, where will anyone care?

But when it came to Liu Lang's generation, the situation was different, and the country began to implement family planning at the same time as the implementation of reform and opening up, and the words that often appeared in the newspapers were "good family planning, and the country will provide for the elderly.........

Well, whether to support the elderly or not is a matter of decades later, and now the problem is that every family has become a child, and the status of this child has soared immediately, and all family members regard this child as a baby, and the family relationship in the whole society has changed dramatically.

In Liu Lang's previous life, after the nineties, a term "post-80s" appeared in society.

The older generation is full of ambivalence about the "post-80s" generation, and more of them are a certain kind of dissatisfaction and anger, they think that this generation is selfish, ungrateful and ungrateful and full of rebellion, and in their mouths, this generation seems to have become a degenerate generation.

Although Liu Lang's generation is an only child, he has also experienced great social changes and development since he was a child, and he has also felt the social upheaval between the planned economy and the market economy, and the tremendous changes in society have brought a huge contradictory impact to the minds of this group of young people whose world outlook has not yet been cultivated, and this is a characteristic brought to them by the times, and it is by no means impossible to summarize with a "post-80s" generation.

At the same time, the pressure on this generation itself is by no means imaginable by the older generation, and it is not obvious now, but after twenty years, this generation is first facing the pressure of employment, and thirty years later, as an only child, they are facing the pressure of supporting their families, and at the age of forty or so, their parents are beginning to get old, and they have to bear the pressure of providing for their parents alone?

Before being reborn, he and his wife raised a daughter, and this daughter is also like a pearl in the palm of their hands, as long as they can provide various resources for their daughter, although there is also pressure, but the well-off level can still be maintained, but the parents of both of them have entered the old age, even if the four old people have a salary and do not need much help from the husband and wife, but once someone gets sick, it will be fatal, at that time, the two of them have to take care of the children and the elderly, this pressure can simply crush people, imagination will make Liu Lang shudder, but then they can only stand up straight and use all their strength, because no one will help you, this is the "responsibility" entrusted to them by history, and it cannot be shirked at all.

Therefore, in Liu Lang's view, although his generation is now regarded as the pearl of the palm by his parents and grandparents, and he is labeled as "post-80s" and "degenerate generation" in the process of growing up, but when these people grow up, they are destined to become a "sad generation".

There was a commotion in the auditorium, and it took half an hour for the three teams to barely stand up, and the organizers were sweating profusely from the children.

"Come, you follow me to the stage first!"

The one-year-old to two-year-old team was first brought to the stage by the organizers, and there were about 20 children, and Liu Lang was among them.

"Listen, every group of six children will compete according to my orders, and the fastest one will get a prize!"

The one who took the lead said.

There was a huge stall on top of the altar, twenty meters long, and everyone was standing on one side, and on the other side there were a lot of toys, what blocks, what jigsaw puzzles, and pencils, erasers, and so on, about a dozen things.

"The first competition is to see who walks the fastest, only walk over the carpet and get those toys and it belongs to the children, okay, you six parents put the child on this side, and then let the other parent go to the other side, let your child climb over as fast as possible!"

This person uses a crawl, because in his eyes, even if children are about one year old can already walk, they will still use crawling, the most familiar way of progress, and there are children about two years old who will really be proficient in walking on two legs.

In fact, when the parents put their children on the carpet, three of them instantly fell on all fours and sat there like puppies looking around, while the remaining three children were standing, just trembling and unsteady.

"Son, come up to grandma!"

"Baby, come to Grandma's side, Grandma will give you candy to eat!"

On the other side of the carpet, six parents clapped their hands and screamed loudly to get their children's attention.

The six little ones first stopped in place, and they all looked at the parents in front of them.

"Child, go to your grandma!"

"Baby, get to your mother!"

Parents here try their best to direct their children's attention to the other side.

This worked, and the six children turned their heads and finally saw their relatives on the other side, but the next reaction was different.

Three of the children began to climb over, but after only two steps they stopped, looking ahead and back, as if they were making another decision.

One of the children also climbed a few steps, but he didn't seem to have a very good relationship with the grandmother opposite, so he turned around and climbed back.

The other two children stood up and walked forward, but obviously the strength was insufficient, just out of the five or six cloth on the "poof" sat on the ground, one child was fine, sitting on the ground a little overwhelmed, but the other child immediately cried, he cried so that the two children who were crawling forward also cried, snot and tears flowed down together.

"Come, come on, come on!"

"Baby, don't cry, I'll give you toys!"

The cries of children and the shouts of parents mingled, and the scene was chaotic.

It took five minutes for the first child to climb to the other side, where a staff member placed a pile of toys in front of the child, who looked at it a few times and picked up a box of erasers.

"Kid, erasers aren't worth much, take this!"

The parents obviously didn't like it, and put a small box of building blocks in the child's hand, but the child was very temperamental, and pushed the building blocks, but still recognized the eraser.

"Alright, this eraser is yours! Go backstage and give you a certificate in a moment!"

A staff member led the family backstage.

It took more than ten minutes for this group to complete the competition, and two children were really unable to complete it, and in the end they were carried to the other side by their parents, and they also got the prizes, but they couldn't choose by themselves.

Then came the second group, and the same was true for these children, who had been making noise for a long time before finishing the game.

Liu Lang looked at these children from behind, and he couldn't cry or laugh, presumably he was like this back then.