Chapter 253: The Boatman's Tale (7)

The night was already very deep, and everything in heaven and earth was wrapped in the dark night, which seemed very vast and vigorous.

In the dark night, in the direction of the North Star, the faint light of the stars in the sky, blinking their eyes, looks quite commendable.

Cheng Hanyun heard Pu Songling's story, the personal experience of his neighbor, and suddenly seemed to have refreshed his three views, and his heart was full of many questions, and he saw Pu Songling listening to the two of them drinking tea, so he said very politely:

"The experience of this neighbor told by the old-timers is indeed very touching. In fact, in many cases, as a member of society, it is often difficult for us to understand the suffering of many other vulnerable groups in the society, just as I can't understand why this Chen Qichun is reluctant to give up these crops every day, and only after he has to do his daily things hard before returning home, so that he will die tragically under the cliff in the dark night, which may indicate that each of us needs to seriously care about those who really need help around us. Their suffering should not only be borne by themselves, but should be shared by people like the rich people of Ximenqing, who occupy a lot of resources in our society, but most of these rich people like Ximenqing are the kind of people who are very stingy, taking the resources created by the working masses of society, and they are all poor and luxurious to their families, but they turn a blind eye to the disadvantaged groups with high social mountains. On weekdays, it is not bad to occupy other people's wives and daughters like a rich man like Ximenqing, and it is more difficult for them to take on the social people who match their resources than to ascend to the sky, which is the root cause of the tragedy of the boatman Zhang Fangcheng and his neighbor Chen Qichun, and the other reasons are more or less in the final analysis one of the direct fuses."

Haozi listened to it, and agreed very much with Cheng Hanyun's point of view, but he also had his own thoughts, so he could only hear him say:

"Since ancient times, many people have thought that the weak in society are caused by their own reasons, but in fact, this is not the case, just like Liu Bei in the Three Kingdoms period is also a straw mat from the background, Zhao Kuangyin was actually a gangster at the beginning before he became the emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang even participated in the White Lotus Sect, that is, before the Ming Sect, in fact, he was a monk, and even became a beggar for a while. This Genghis Khan Temujin was actually almost self-made. If these people had not conformed to the general trend of the times and the different historical expectations of the people of Li for different historical periods, they would have come into being in the torrent of history. This shows that the real reason why these weak people are suffering so much is because they are actually afraid to get out of their own crude oil circle, but the original circle has been monopolized by those rich people like Ximenqing in many ways. In such a circle controlled by the rich man of Ximenqing, all the people are on par with the rich man of Ximenqing, and they are all chasing the wealth of the society, but in the end, the wealth of the society often enters the hands of these rich people of Ximenqing in various ways, and the poor people are still living in a very difficult environment, and it is always difficult to get rid of their hard work, and they are still poor and destitute." TXT Book House

Runzhi listened to the thoughts of the two, and did not make too many comments, just smiled, and motioned to this old Mr. Pu Songling to continue, after all, these views are so uneven, in fact, it is not meaningful to express too many opinions, but after thinking deeply about some events, the influence of some voices at this time is bound to be much greater.

Pu Songling saw that the three of them had stopped to drink Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao tea, so he said:

In fact, the Chen family suddenly lost the pillar of the family, and the economic resources of the Chen family were cut off in an instant, and even firewood, rice, oil and salt were difficult, so they had to borrow money from some people's relatives and friends in time to survive, so that they were in high debt, owed others a lot of silver, and became a very well-known standard of extreme poverty in the local area. After Qiu Dexing knew about this incident, almost on the day of Chen Chu's accident, after learning such news, he resolutely gave it to this poor family first without hesitation. Using the funds in the 77 plan, all the funeral expenses of the Chen family were covered. Some funeral-related merchants saw that the clothes worn by Chen Qichun when he died were so tattered and unsightly, and even some of the clothes were much better looking and of much better quality than the clothes when Chen Qichun died, and the quality was much better, and after the Chen family became outdated, they immediately began to owe a lot of money to others, and because Qiu Dexing came forward to help the Chen family's mother and son take care of the funeral, these merchants were subject to some of the most basic costs, which can be regarded as some sympathy for such people. So the overall cost of the rest is not high. This makes the basic life of the Chen family can be maintained, but the two old people in their eighties of the Chen family, because they are old and sickly, often need to spend a lot of money, and the Chen family has no money to take out to see a doctor, and gradually it is not enough to even buy rice. So you can only kneel down and beg the owner of the rice shop to do well in some local rice shops, and temporarily pay the cost of rice on credit for a few months, and the natural people agreed out of sympathy when Zhekai opened, but as time increases, these rice shops have begun to use various reasons, that is, the family is no longer allowed to pay on credit, and the owner of the rice shop is afraid that the family will not be able to pay back their rice money in the end, so their business will not be in vain? ”

Pu Songling let out a long sigh, as if sighing at the misfortune of the reigning family, only to hear him continue:

In the end, the family had to sell the only house at a low price, but the price of housing in the countryside is so cheap, in fact, the people who bought it are local farmers, because the house is really dilapidated, and crumbling, and there is a danger of collapsing at any time, and it is only bought to be used as a pigsty for raising pigs, so the price is also very low, and the money to buy a dilapidated house can only only maintain the purchase cost of the Chen family's rice for about half a year. Seeing that the days are passing day by day, the rice that was bought before the last bit has begun to gradually bottom out, from cooking very soft rice, to cooking porridge, and then mixing with a lot of chaff that is not porridge, the family is on the verge of dying of starvation."