After the hasty meal, the two of them checked out and left, and Zhou Ding took Ling'er to the south of Suzhou City.

Five miles south of the city, there is a Tianjiazhuang, and Tianjiazhuang has a Tian Xiucai.

Tian Xiucai is 50 years old this year, and has four sons under his knees, all of whom have started a family and have separated.

Zhou Ding was outside Tianjia Village, and he casually found an old man who enjoyed the coolness, took out fifty copper coins, and asked him to tell the story of the Tian family!

During this period, the salary of an adult strong man is only 20 yuan a day, and if you talk about the Tian family, you can get 50 yuan, why not?

It is not the first time that the old man has told outsiders about the affairs of the Tian family, and the head of what he said is:

Tian Xiucai's biggest regret in his life is that he failed to be lifted.

The eldest and third of the Tian family are a little smarter, a long time ago, Tian Xiucai was quite partial to the eldest and the third, and Tian Xiucai's wife was even more eccentric.

The second child of the Tian family has a simple character, a stupid brain, and admits death.

The second daughter-in-law of the second family is a traditional woman with a kind heart, 'husband at home, married and husband', and thinks that her husband's approach is right!

After the separation, the second child still helped his father and mother to farm, his brother to farm, and his younger brother to farm.

Slowly, the father and mother used the excuse that they were getting older and didn't want to go to the field, and then, the eldest found a job in the city and didn't have time to go to the field.

The second child took his son, who was only ten years old, to help this big family farm!

When he couldn't help, the second child wanted to ask the fourth child for help, and the fourth child's attitude was very resolute: "Second brother, we have already separated, it's okay to take a hand, but people don't do it themselves, isn't it too stupid for you to do this?"

Our family has a total of 50 acres of land, my father and mother left 10 acres of the best paddy fields, the eldest brother and the third brother, each of whom is also 10 acres of good paddy fields, what about the two of us? Ten acres of sloping land per person, catch up with the rainy year, can have seventy percent of the family's income, catch up with the drought year, and there is not much left after paying taxes!

You help them farm every year, have they ever given you a pound of grain? Don't say give, even if you borrow it, can you lend out food?

You take your ten-year-old son to help others farm the land, but the son of someone else's family is like a young master, pampered! ”

The second child scolded the fourth child at the time: "The nephews of the eldest brother's family are studying, they are all brothers, where can you have so many cares, you are not willing to help; Pull down, don't worry about me! ”

The fourth child left angrily: The eldest brother's son wants to study, doesn't your son want to study?

After a long time, the second family is getting poorer and poorer, and they can't open the pot all year round, just like that, after eight years of stumbling, the eldest son is eighteen years old, the eldest girl is sixteen, the younger son is fourteen, and the youngest daughter is thirteen.

A family of six, all dressed in rags, huddled in two shabby grass houses, living on wild vegetables

But Tian Xiucai and his wife, the eldest and the third family, think that the second child is so poor because he is not angry!

Last winter, the second child went to the mountains to hunt, accidentally broke his leg, and borrowed money from his father to treat his leg, but his father didn't borrow it, but borrowed money from his brother, but his brother didn't borrow it!

Why not borrow? 、

Because they know that the second child can't afford it!

Even so, the second child did not complain about his parents, did not complain about his brother, his leg was lame, and he could only rely on his son and daughter to pick up the burden of supporting the family.

Even so, this spring, his parents and his brother still asked the second family to help with farming.

The second child has a grudge for the first time, and I have become a cripple, how can I help you farm?

The eldest said, "You're lame, don't you still have a son?" ”

The second son was stupid, he really wanted his son to help them farm, and the second son was angry:

"Brother Lobby is twenty-two years old, and even his son is several years old, why don't you come to farm? The third cousin is seventeen years old, and he has already married a wife and had children, why don't he come to farm? I help you with the farming, do I owe it to you? ”

The eldest and third have always said: "If your family can't study, you should help us work, you should be a cow and a horse for us, and when our son is in high school, you also have glory, you actually want to pick a son, but you are against you!" ”

The second son's attitude is very resolute: even if it is said that the sky is broken, it will not be for them to farm in vain!

The second child dragged a crippled leg and resented at home. And the eldest and third, even Tian Xiucai's wife, came to the third door at every turn to scold him, scolded him for being unfilial, and scolded him for having no way to teach his son!

The second child broke his leg, and the family's money was spent, and he didn't give his father and mother pension money last year.

Because the second son's son didn't give them farming, Mrs. Tian came to the second child's house and took away the only property of the second child's family, four old hens!

After this incident, the two sides turned against each other!

Zhou Ding asked, "How is the fourth child of the Tian family doing?" ”

The old man replied: "Although the fourth child has not read, he is an understanding person, and he is also very capable, and his family life is very prosperous, and he should give the old man a lot of things during the New Year's holidays, and he is a famous filial son in the village!" ”

The two thanked the old man, and after leaving Tianjia Village, Zhou Ding asked: "Ling'er, do you think who is right and who is wrong in the affairs of this family?" ”

Ling'er said in an atmospheric manner: "Naturally, it's the fault of the eldest and third, how can they be so bad?" Tian Xiucai is not right, they are all their own sons, how can they favor one over the other? ”

Zhou Ding shook his head: "None, none!" “

Ling'er asked: "Brother Ding, what do you mean, isn't it too bad for the eldest and third to be bad??" ”

Zhou Ding****: "The eldest and the third, have you ever harmed others?" ”

"Nope!"

Zhou Ding said lightly: "This shows that they are not born evildoers, and until now, these two people will not feel that they are wrong!" ”

"If it's not the eldest and the third who are wrong, then who is it? Is it Tian Xiucai and his wife? ”

"Although Tian Xiucai and his wife are eccentric, they are not too much."

"Brother Ding, what do you mean? Is the wrong person the second? Why? ”

Zhou Ding said slowly: "Poor people, there must be something hateful!" Although Tian Xiucai doesn't like the second and fourth children, he is not too mean to the two of them, why is the fourth family's life prosperous, and the second family's life is so miserable? ”

"Brother Ding, why do you say?" Ling'er solved.

"What a head, what a hat! If the second child starts from the separation, just like the fourth child, and only does what he does, today's ending is completely different!

If Tian Xiucai can't take care of the field, he can rent it to others to farm, and the rent he gets is enough for the two old people to eat.

The boss will not regard himself as a landlord because he has hope, and become a waste with low eyes!

The third child will not pretend to be sick every year because the boss is red-eyed, maybe he will live better!

What about the second family? If you use this energy to rent other people's land, your life will not be worse than that of the fourth child, at least, you will not be poor and have no meal, and a family of six will be crammed into two thatched huts! ”

What Brother Ding said made sense, but he felt that it was not quite right, Ling'er pondered for a long time and asked, "In that case, isn't it too impersonal?" ”

Zhou Ding smiled: "The second child of the Tian family is full of human feelings, but in the end, because of this human touch, his father and mother were infamous for being unkind, and the eldest brother and third brother became wicked people who oppressed their brothers, and their own family was even more miserable!"

And what about the fourth? People give the old man some food during the New Year's holidays, and there should be a lot of filial piety, and the whole village, who dares to say that he is impersonal?

Brothers, settle accounts, and the ancient Ming Xun is also! ”

Ling'er in the original play is too benevolent, the real world is very cruel, Zhou Ding can't let Ling'er live in a fairy tale all the time!

(To be continued.) )