Originally, Tang Chen thought that Zeng Yujie, who was a rich second generation, would not be able to see the lives of the people at the bottom.

However, he forgot that this is the information age, and as long as you have the heart to understand, the life at the bottom of China is not a secret.

"Hey, do you think I don't understand this?" Zeng Yujie seemed to see through Tang Chen's thoughts, and said as if talking to himself, "Although I haven't tried to live a life of lack of food and clothing since I was a child, it doesn't mean that I don't understand - I once went to the mountainous areas of western Fujian to teach, where the roads were impassable, and we had to walk for more than two hours before entering the village......"

Tang Chen didn't speak, but he was a little surprised in his heart. This is understandable, the best way for the rich to experience the life of the poor is to teach. However, as far as Tang Chen knows, this is also determined by the special geographical structure of Fujian Province. "Eight mountains, one water and one field" is the best portrayal of Fujian Province. Even now, because of the impassable roads, many mountain villages are still in a relatively closed environment, and people's lives are still the same as they were a few decades ago, and time seems to have stood still here. Those houses built with earth, as well as the earthen houses of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The young people of the village have gone out to do business, and only some old people are left at home. The farmland was barren and overgrown with weeds.

Poverty is not terrible, but what is terrible is knowing that poverty does not want to forge ahead.

Because Tang Chen can be regarded as a child who has experienced poverty since he was a child, he really has a unique opinion on poverty. As the crab catcher said, if you catch a crab, you will definitely cover the bamboo basket with one, but if you catch a group, you don't need to cover it. Because one crab will climb up and run away, if two or more of them want to climb up, the others will stretch out their claws and pull it down.

Why do knowledgeable people have to desperately detach themselves from the bottom of society? It is because of this: where there are fewer resources per capita, it is more difficult for people to be simple.

At the bottom of life, ignorance, ignorance, jealousy, and bad behavior are not simply verbal attacks, but facts to a great extent. Some people say that under the line of life and death, cannibalism and injury, under the line of rich and poor, it is bleak and difficult. Even if they are brothers and sisters, if they encounter interests on the life and death line at the bottom, they will be broken, and even cannibalism.

Tang Chen once heard his parents talk about such a thing, the last batch of internal resignation substitutions in their factories that allow their children to take over, the so-called internal retirement replacement, in fact, the succession is that after the parents retire, the children will go through the formalities and enter the parents' original work unit to work, replacing the vacant places, but they do not have to continue to do the original work of their parents. In the late seventies of the 20th century, with the abolition of the system of going to the mountains and going to the countryside, a large number of unemployed young people appeared in society, and in order to solve the problem of children's employment, the trend of succession became more and more intense. With the reform of the employment system, it was not until the late eighties that this succession system was gradually abolished.

That year, in order to snatch the qualification of this successor, a family of brothers beat each other almost every day, one of them was beaten into a concussion and admitted to the hospital, and the other two were poisoned in the food of the other yesterday, causing a human life!

Tang Chen was extremely shocked at that time, and he couldn't understand why his brother could be ruthless for a job that was not very good? Later, Tang Chen understood how enviable such a job was in the era of big pot rice.

It was also from this incident that Tang Chen knew that the original life of extreme poverty was too easy to expose the evil in human nature, and the primary goal of struggling at the bottom of life was to live, for the sake of petty profits, he could break his head and bleed, and for the sake of direct interests, he could disregard human life and cause death.

When a person's material deprivation is so extreme that he can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, self-esteem and face become luxuries, and unscrupulous means become animal instincts. At the bottom of society, those dark sides are more real and three-dimensional, all the intrigues and deceit have been magnified countless times, in order to live, in order to obtain more survival resources, so many people have lost their bottom line and their personalities are distorted. Poverty is often associated with low self-esteem, and once the inferiority complex ferments to a certain extent, it is crazy to hate the rich, take revenge on the society, and do not hesitate to defy the law for their own selfish interests.

Tang Chen also once read a book, which recorded that an interdisciplinary team at Harvard had done a psychological tracking study: In the case of poverty, what kind of changes will occur to people's way of thinking? Thousands of reports have been tracked to show that the attention of poor people will be overly occupied by scarce resources, causing an overall decline in cognition and judgment, and will lead to imperfection of personality, and in the process of competing for resources, there will be all kinds of irrational violence or other negative behaviors.

More than 2,000 years ago, Guan Zhong said: "Enough food and clothing to know honor and disgrace, Cang Liao is solid and knows etiquette." Tang Chen doesn't think that money is the standard by which everything is measured, nor does he think that poverty itself is shameful, but he firmly believes that the idea of solidifying himself as the lowest class and dying of poverty is extremely shameful and terrible - you don't want to stand up, no one can help you.

The reason why the bottom society is not worthy of nostalgia is because of material scarcity and the need to constantly face the torture of human nature. But you must know that you should never torture human nature, because human nature cannot stand the test.

This kind of thing was also common in the old days of Fujian Province, and for a long time, various villages in Fujian Province would actually fight for water sources, and even cause deaths. Although it may not be accurate, it does have its truth. The best solution is to get out of poverty.

There is no place that is doomed to poverty, and there is no place where feng shui is doomed to poverty. People can change the environment, as long as you want to change, nothing can stop you. However, in today's rural China, it is not uncommon for people to fight for a little homestead and field, fight and even kill people. All this stems from jealousy, they themselves are poor, so they can't see that others are better than them. Poor people gather together to keep warm, to count others, and to enjoy it.

Many people living at the bottom will not think about relying on their own ability to fight for a better future, but just want to compare, as long as everyone is not doing well, they will be fine. But as long as you are a little restless and a little bit of a tendency to get rid of the bottom, then you are the target of public criticism. As the old saying goes, "the poor have a good conscience", many people scoff and don't want to admit it, but the fact is that human nature really can't stand the test.

Tang Chen was surprised that Zeng Yujie could actually see such a deep level.

didn't have time to think about it, Zeng Yujie had already taken the breakfast takeaway, and said to Tang Chen: "Tang Chen, come and have breakfast!"

Tang Chen looked at the back of this courier brother riding an electric donkey, and felt a little emotion in his heart.

It seems that he is only the same age as Zeng Yujie and himself. But due to various reasons, he became a takeaway brother, but Zeng Yujie was destined to have no worries about food and clothing.

Isn't it fair?

It may seem unfair, but it is also the driving force for society to move forward. The most fearful thing is not that you are poor, but that you know that you are poor, but you don't work hard.

(End of chapter)