"Qingqing, I heard that you gave Xiao Qiu'er and Xiao Xu two yuan per day each?"

Tian Damu pretended that his ankle hurt, so he asked his old father to call Tian Qingqing over and asked.

"Well, coax them to work." Tian Qingqing said with a smile.

"Qingqing, you see that your uncle's feet are like this, you can't do anything. Otherwise, you can bring me some medicine, and I'll sell it to you. is also like Xiaoqiu and them, they sold it to you for money, and you gave me two yuan a day. ”

Tian Qingqing didn't expect Tian Damu to make such a request to him, and he had no idea for a while.

Refusing him, he is now sitting on the kang with nothing to do, selling medicine does not need to act, paying money with one hand and medicine with the other, this job is really suitable for him.

Promise him, he is a gambler, and I don't know how many gambling debts there are outside. In case the drug addiction comes up and limps to the casino, it is not impossible to lose all the money from selling drugs. Not to mention that he lost money, it also contributed to his gambling vice. The main thing is that my hard work is not in vain?!

Now his father Tian Dalin has taken over his grandfather's water picks and carried water for the old yard. If you don't educate this fourth uncle, when will your father's water pick be left behind?

Besides, educate him, just as he asked, let him do something, give him some money, and be a helper of his own, isn't it?!

Seeing that Tian Qingqing was speechless for a long time, Tian Damu said again: "You can give me one dollar a day." As long as I have something to do and don't feel lonely. It's the third day, and my ankle doesn't hurt much anymore. It's time to stop this errand of scooping water back and forth, right?! You can't let your uncle just count the purlins on the roof. ”

Tian Qingqing smiled: "Uncle, you can do things, and there will be in the future." This time it's our children's business, and you're an adult, so you're involved. As he spoke, he climbed up to the kang and looked at the three large bowls on the table.

At this time, the water in the three large sea bowls had changed: the empty sea bowl in the middle did not pour a spoonful into it. But there was a bowl of water. On the left or right, only a few remain.

"Uncle, do you know what's going on?" Tian Qingqing pointed to the sea bowl in the middle and asked.

"This is the water droplets that fall when scooping water back and forth, and they gather a little into a lot." Tian Damu said disapprovingly.

"Yes, that's true." Tian Qingqing said, the words changed, and he pursed his lips a little aggrievedly, frowned and said, "Uncle, I have been running here for the past three days." Can you tell me that gambling is really fun? ”

Tian Damu pondered for a while and said, "Actually." Gambling is not fun at all. When you win. When you are happy, when you lose, you are annoyed and regret that you should not have taken this path. ”

"But why do you keep going?"

"My uncle used to lose, and he always wanted to get back the money he lost and win him again. Just wash your hands and don't gamble. ”

"Are there any of you who gamble and get rich by gambling?"

Tian Damu thought for a while: "Not yet." Everyone has won and lost, and after playing the cards for the past two or three years, it has not yet been shown who is the big winner. ”

"You can't show it." Tian Qingqing changed his appearance just now, and said seriously: "Ten bets and nine losses." None of the gamblers are winners. It's like the water in this big bowl," he said, gesturing to the water in the middle bowl. "As you said, the water here is formed by droplets of water that fall when scooping water back and forth. That's exactly what happened. But it also illustrates a problem. Nothing is subject to human will. You try to scoop the water from one side to the other, but some of it ends up falling into the empty sea bowl in the middle.

"It's like gambling. In gambling, there are winners and losers. When you scoop water out of the sea bowl, then the sea bowl is a loser; Conversely, the bowl you pour water into is a winner.

"Everyone who gambles wants to win, and no one thinks about losing. But there will always be winners and losers at the poker table.

"If you win today, you will be happy, and you will feel that you should celebrate, so you will invite you to the restaurant, smoke and drink good wine, and have a good time. Tomorrow if someone else wins, they will also have a good time.

"If we compare the money you lose to the water in the middle of the sea bowl, after a long time, the people who participate in gambling will not actually have a winner, but those restaurants, restaurants, shops, chess and card rooms, and other places of entertainment and consumption will get benefits, and they will be the ultimate big winners. This is the true meaning of the so-called ten bets and nine losses! Uncle, are you right? ”

Tian Damu sneered: "Where is there such a strict zhòng, in fact, I only give two cents to the chess and card room one night." ”

Tian Qingqing: "For a person, two cents is not much, but everyone who participates in gambling gives him two cents a night, and his money is like water in this sea bowl in the middle. And your gambling money, whether you lose or win, is like the water in the bowl of the sea on both sides, less and less. ”

Tian Damu just smiled "hey, hey, hey", and didn't nod or shake his head.

"Rotten wood can't be carved!" Tian Qingqing suddenly said such a sentence in his heart.

Could it be that he was playing the piano to the cow - this thought was in vain?

In the memory of his previous life, the fourth uncle Tian Tatsuki was a gambler. Married once and has a daughter. Later, he lost all his family and owed a lot of gambling debts. Creditors often come to the door with IOUs to ask for them. As long as the fourth aunt is persuasive, she will be beaten severely. The fourth aunt couldn't stand it anymore, divorced him, and left with her daughter.

Tian Damu still does not repent, as long as he has a little money, he will gamble. If you don't have any money, you steal it. made the neighborhood guard against him like a thief. Once, my mother threw an urn of wheat, which she suspected had been stolen and sold by him.

After Tian Miaomiao joined the work, as long as she went home, she chased after her to borrow money. Tian Miaomiao saw that he was pitiful with one mouthful, so he gave him three heads and fifty pieces. But the mother said: This kind of person does not owe pity, and he loses how much money you give him.

When Tian Miaomiao died, he was not yet fifty years old, and he was already obscene like a little old man. I don't know what happened to him.

Tian Qingqing saved him this time, firstly, he wanted him to take on the housework in the old courtyard and liberate his father Tian Dalin's labor; The other is for the sake of family affection. Memories of past lives play a big role in it.

The second aunt Tian Dongyun owes the original owner's sister a life, and she will never get along with her in this life!

Grandma Tian Lu turned to her daughter, listened to and believed partially, abused her mother, and hurt herself. For the sake of her being a father and a mother, I don't give her the same.

The fourth uncle, Tatsuki Tian, has just come of age, and his attitude towards himself and his family is relatively neutral. That's why he was included in the solidarity object. Huā struggled to save him.

Tian Qingqing didn't give up, and he had a plan to compare his future life to an ancient story and tell him it.

"Fourth uncle, listen, there is no shadow screaming in the trees outside."

"Nonsense. This hasn't passed the wheat mile, where is the shadowless wow? After the wheat has a mile. ”

"I sound like it is. And Du is calling. ”

"The more I talk about it, the more outrageous it becomes, Du is later than Wuying's wow."

"Do you know why Du came out later than Shadowless?"

"Who knows? The insects, insects, birds, and birds in nature should come out when they should come out! ”

"I know, do you want to hear it?"

"Then you can say it."

So, Tian Qingqing told him: "A long, long time ago, there was a newlywed couple, the husband was hardworking and capable, working in the field; His wife was gentle and virtuous, ingenious and skillful, and spun hemp at home.

"My wife is a good needleworker, especially shoes, and she can't break them with a dense hemp rope. Take it to the market and sell it, and the supply exceeds the demand.

"The two husbands sang with their wives, and the small days were moist and sweet.

But the good times didn't last long, and the husband was instigated by a group of fox friends and dog friends, and became involved in gambling, and never had the heart to work in the fields again.

"Their land is barren, and the weeds are taller than the crops. The wife persuaded her bitterly, but her husband turned a deaf ear and agreed well in person, but turned around and still gambled; At first, I still had some scruples, although the yang was contrary to the yin, but I could still listen to my wife's words to some extent.

Later, when the wife persuaded him again, the husband scolded him sharply, and then he added his fists and feet.

"My wife didn't listen, and she couldn't beat me. In the old era of the 'Three Principles and Five Constants', wives could not choose to divorce like women today, but could only go against the grain, make as many shoes as possible, and sell them on the market to subsidize the family.

The wife's tolerance and concession were exchanged for the husband's intensification, and the wife could only swallow the bitter water in her stomach and support her heartbroken home with her thin shoulders.

The wife fantasized in her heart that her husband would one day find out his conscience, wake up, and live happily ever after being a loving husband and wife with herself.

As time went by, her husband's gambling addiction grew, and he finally couldn't make ends meet, so he sold his furniture and even paid off his gambling debts. The wife was heartbroken, working day and night with tears in her eyes, and she still couldn't afford her husband's gambling.

Later, when their family was in four corners, his wife took out the jewelry she had married, sold it for money, and prepared to buy hemp to make shoes. I never thought that I was accidental, and my husband stole it out as gambling money, and soon lost it, and owed a lot of gambling debts, and also bet my wife as gambling money and lost.

"Creditors come to the door with IOUs and deeds of sale to force debts.

"The wife asked her husband, 'What is the money from the sale of my jewelry?'

"The husband said, 'Bet.' ”

"My wife said, 'There is no hemp, what do you tell me to make shoes from?' As she spoke, she went crazy all of a sudden, and she shouted sadly: "No hemp! No hemp! "Ran under a big tree and hanged himself.

The husband came to his senses at this time, but it was too late, and he was ashamed and shouted three times: "Bet! Bet! Bet! "When he came to the tree where his wife hanged herself, he hanged himself to death...... (To be continued)