Chapter 7: Wang Million is quietly acting
In the morning, when Songshan Manor was waking up from the darkness of dawn, when the surrounding area was still shrouded in dark mist, when people's eyes could not distinguish the scenery fifty steps away, Wang Million had already boarded the ox cart, and they, an old cow, a broken ox cart, and an old coachman who was even older than the ox cart, carried Wang Million alone, this rich man who was once unbeatable, and left the world-famous Songshan Manor sourly.
From the extremely rich to the extremely poor, the blow is too big, too vicious, too severe, and most people die because they can't accept this terrible fact. In particular, this fact must be completely exposed in front of the villagers who have always known you well, and you will have to endure a ruthless trampling and cynical abuse by the villagers, which is really ten times more painful and frightening to the person concerned than the disaster itself. This is the degree to which human words are terrifying.
Therefore, when Wang Million woke up from the horror, he also had to thank Wu Shuang for letting him leave Songshan Manor early in the morning, which was really the most beneficial protection for him to avoid the terrible words of others and the sting of cold eyes. Almost all the way out of Songshan Manor, their ox cart did not meet half of their acquaintances, which made Wang Million's desperate mood somewhat lucky.
Yes, that's the way the strange human heart is. Sometimes the best way to comfort a person who has suffered a great calamity is to forget and snub.
What a huge disaster! What a cruel reality, which is plausible overnight, and what a terrible result -- the law of the jungle will always be the unchanging background color of the rivers and lakes.
Once, like many rich people, when he sat in a brisk and luxurious carriage and enjoyed the scenery that was disappearing outside the window, they always had to take the rich man's pretended exclamation and express their sincere admiration and false envy to the poor man sitting on the broken cart pulled by the old ox on the side of the road: "Oh my God! How relaxed, how natural, how pleasant, I really want to change my carriage with him!"
Now, there may be a certain luxury carriage galloping by, and the rich people in it also let out the same ironic emotion when they saw Wang Million's current situation.
Who are they satirizing? Maybe their future self.
The old cow's steps have always been very slow and steady, and it will not run a little briskly because of how strong Wang Wan's sorrowful mood is, so that the people sitting in the car will temporarily forget their troubles in the fierce swing. From this we can be sure without hesitation that Lao Niu is a kind and honest gentleman, and that he will not use false tricks to deceive people's happiness, nor will he please his master with his humble words. It is not only honest but also very kind, it never complains about the whip of its master, and it never pays lip service to its master for its love, all of which people feel too deeply from its industrious figure. At the same time, Lao Niu is still a calm gentleman, a man who will not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, which we can see from the reaction of the whip that was viciously drawn on it at the time. It will never grovel to you just because you have mastered the terrible whip, nor will it be frivolous if you are dissatisfied with it and look self-defeating. At most, it will calmly and abruptly stop its solemn steps and pull a bubble of in front of you, so as to do a total-for-tat humiliation of your usual arrogant spirit.
If you say it's callous, you're misinterpreting this traditionally silent thinker, and two examples speak for themselves. When the bull smells that the cow is near, no matter how fierce your master's whip is, and how strong the rope that ties his nose is, it is all useless, so the old cow is so mad, so that he runs towards the cow without hesitation.
What is it? This is the power of love.
This is understandable to human beings, because people know that the power of love can always be overwhelming. Secondly, whether it is a prosperous and peaceful day, or a day of frequent disasters. While the old cow was eating the grass, it would suddenly raise its big head, which had always been sentimental, and look around, as if it were making a shocking prediction of the glitz and glamour of the world in front of it, and the suffering in the future.
The ox cart was jolting listlessly on the road, and at this moment, the thoughts in Wang Million's mind were like the ridges on the flat field in front of him—a thousand things. He was like a seriously ill man, drooping his heavy head, looking at his legs coiled on the ox cart, wearing silk and satin trousers, and quietly immersed in his thoughts; and the old man who drove the ox cart, he was definitely a loyal slave, because there was a huge Songshan manor, a big family with hundreds of servants, and now in the face of gains and losses, at the juncture of interests, only this old man who drove the ox cart was willing to fight with Wang Million to the end.
What a noble virtue this is -- wealth cannot move one's heart, and coercion cannot change one's temperament. On the contrary, those who remained in Songshan Manor, although they would have the honor to wear gold and silver in the future, stood in front of this old man, they were still as small and humble as lying on the ground wriggling hair; for the greatness of the old man, these people did not dare to meet the old man's eyes, and they felt too pitiful in comparison!
The old man looks very old, and we should not estimate the old age of an old man, just as we should not estimate the number of trees in a primeval forest, that is an offense, that is a disrespectful blasphemy.
His dry cheeks were sunken in his mouth, so that his shriveled chin looked sharper, his snow-white eyebrows were drooping on his eyelids, and his eyelids were dry and tired, as if they would stop looking out at any moment. But all this is not an abomination, on the contrary, it is so kind, because human grandparents will have such moments! As long as the grandchildren and grandchildren who have love for their grandparents will be full of sympathy and respect for this old man.
The old man's coarse cloth garment had been washed to its original colour, and was nailed up and down, but fortunately it must have been warm for him to wear, for it was so clean. Yes, poverty is a hardship that people at the bottom can hardly get rid of, but cleanliness is the dignity and dignity that any poor person can grasp independently.
The times call for heroes, and heroes shake the times. The greatness of people is often created by the environment, and this trip, this old man who drove the car, for the group of people in Songshan Manor, his actions were destined to be a great feat. This is an indisputable fact, just like our nation, there are always so many heroes who come forward in times of crisis!
When people are in a state of extreme grief and indignation, there are often two states in their brains: one is a blank state of chaos, and the other is a state of contemplation that is deep in memories. And now Wang Million's thoughts are the latter, and his thoughts have returned to the past twenty years ago. However, these past events are as complicated as a tide, and only the painful slap in his heart is still fresh in his memory.
This slap often woke him up in the middle of the night.