Chapter 918 All Appearances of All Living Beings
"Normalization ()"
Wu Zhongyuan's ears and eyes were clear, and he could hear clearly what the people in the room were saying. He originally just wanted to scoop some water for the chickens to drink, but he accidentally forgot to pick up the water ladle so that they could see and hear the conversations in the room. , hurriedly poured the water from the gourd into the sink of the chicken coop, then a whirlwind blew, and took the opportunity to throw down the gourd.
No one in the room looked carefully and just thought the ladle was blown by the wind. Only the little daughter saw it clearly and kept shouting that she had indeed seen the ladle filling the sink.
I don't know if anyone in the house came out to see Wu Zhongyuan at the end, because he left first, through the wall, and returned to the village streets to continue wandering.
Not far away, he found another mule. The rope that tied the mule was wrapped around a wooden stake. Although there was still a lot of water in the water tank, the mule could not reach it. Seeing this, Wu Zhongyuan went over to help the mule tie the rope around the wooden stake. The rope was bypassed, and he could not see others mistreating livestock, whether intentionally or unintentionally, whether it was livestock or poultry, it was their fate to be slaughtered and eat meat, but they were absolutely weak. Even if they could not escape their fate, they would still be alive when they were alive And try not to abuse them, after all, they have no room for resistance.
It is very common in rural areas to enjoy small gambling during festivals. Wu Zhongyuan can clearly sense where there are many people, and he follows it. There are a room full of people playing a card game called Tractor. The game is not big. But it should be enough for detention, because gambling amount of more than 1,000 yuan is enough for detention.
The essence of gambling is luck, trying to get something for nothing. It's okay to just lose a little money. The most terrible thing is that it will make people lose their motivation to be down-to-earth and work hard to get rich. Sometimes you can win thousands of dollars in one hand, which can be used in the factory. After working hard for a month, it will make people feel that working hard is meaningless, and it is easy for people to develop the habit of indolence and indolence.
You can also see a lot of truth by watching people play cards. It doesn’t mean that you have to forcefully pull the truth even though it doesn’t make sense. Take this card game as an example. There are two betting methods: clear and black. Clear means knowing that you have something in your home. You have a good idea of what cards you want, and then you place your bets. Black means that he doesn't know what kind of cards he is playing, has no idea, and just bets. Black bets one dollar, Ming has to bet double, because the former has a greater risk, while the latter has a smaller risk. If you want to get the same return, the party with the smaller risk must invest more.
Seeing the big from the small, we can find that high returns must be accompanied by high risks, but we must pay attention to the fact that high risks do not necessarily bring high returns. Wu Zhongyuan stayed in his room for more than an hour, and after observing, he came to the conclusion that the more Those who make black bets lose more miserably. What does this mean? This shows that it is very foolish to take risks and make big gains with small gains. You must not place your destiny on luck, and stay away from financial management and investment that involve gambling and speculation.
There were many people playing cards next door, but these people were not playing cards, but smoking and drinking tea. They were not drinking tea from small teacups, but from large enamel jars, and the tea they drank was not good tea. They were a group of farmers. The workers are getting together to discuss which construction site to work in next year.
Since many people smoked and the door was closed, the room was smoky. Wu Zhongyuan didn't want to stay longer, but after thinking about it, he stayed and listened quietly.
It was boring at first, but the more he heard about it, the more frightened Wu Zhongyuan became, because the income of migrant workers was far beyond his imagination. In his impression, migrant workers were all vulnerable groups, poor people who were owed wages, and their wages were very low. Low, but after listening to these people’s conversations, I found out that the wages of migrant workers are not low. They are roughly divided into small workers, large workers and skilled workers. The small workers’ salary is 160 a day, and the big workers, that is, bricklayers can get 260. , while the steel workers and scaffolding workers each earn more than 300 a day.
What is this concept? In total, small-time workers can earn around 5,000 a month, and large-scale workers can earn more than 7,8,000, or even over 10,000. Such wages are actually far beyond those of office workers in the city. Those who consider themselves urbanites The office workers really have no right to look down on others.
However, giving and receiving are always equal. Without exception, these people have thick calluses on their hands.
The bones of the hands and feet are deformed to varying degrees, and the condition of the internal organs is not good, especially the lungs and liver. The blackening of the lungs is certainly related to their smoking, but the fundamental reason is their poor working environment, whether it is cement or white dust. All are poisonous.
The main reason for liver problems is that they don't eat well. Most of the food sold in the city contains pesticide and hormone residues. If you eat this kind of food for a long time, your liver will be damaged. Also, the quality of drinking water is not good. Tap water is disinfected with chlorine dioxide. After cleaning the water, and chlorine itself is poisonous, do you really think that boiled tap water is the best drinking water? If so, who would spend money to buy mineral water.
In addition, their poor health cannot be entirely attributed to their working environment and diet and drinking water. Their own living habits are also a large part of the reason. Most of these people drink alcohol for a long time, and they drink mostly cheap blended liquor, which can cause damage to the liver. bigger.
Not long after, two more people came in outside. They were visiting. They were also two middle-aged men. After entering, they took out cigarettes and distributed them, and then chatted with everyone. These two people had no calluses on their hands and their skin tone was better than the people in the room. .
After listening to a few words, I found out that these two people were bathers in the bathhouse. They both took home more than 100,000 yuan this year. This conversion is equivalent to seven to eight thousand a month, which is far higher than that of a petty bourgeois clerk sitting in the office and drinking Starbucks.
However, all their money was earned through hard work. Modern young people generally lack the spirit of hardship and always hope to obtain the maximum benefits at the minimum cost.
When a group of men gather together, the topic of chat will eventually turn to women. When they go out for half a year or even a year, there is always something they can't hold back. What everyone talks about is who was caught or fined for doing something. He paid five thousand yuan, but they all felt sorry that he had to work for nothing for a month.
What everyone worries about is money, but Wu Zhongyuan knows that three generations of this person's descendants are finished. Now is the era of big data. Once you have been punished by public security or criminal punishment, your criminal record will be left behind, and you will never be able to get a clean certificate, which will affect your descendants. Employment and progress are actually more than this. Modern people need to use ID cards no matter where they go. They will use them to buy tickets and accommodation, and all travel records and accommodation records are permanently retained in the internal network. , if necessary for handling the case, you can check it at any time, but it is not allowed to be transmitted externally. However, who doesn’t have a good friend in the relevant department? If you really want to check, the accommodation and travel records from more than ten or twenty years ago can be retrieved, so when doing any Before doing anything, you should think about whether you can bear the worst outcome. If you can bear it, then do it, and vice versa.
Wu Zhongyuan was not an elegant person, but he was not a vulgar person either. He didn't like what everyone was talking about, so he returned to the street and continued to wander. It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and there were matchmakers on the street leading young people around. He was more interested in the custom of blind date, so he followed a young man to the woman's house.
Halfway through, I met a group of people. In the crowd were two quarreling women, one fat and one thin. The fat one was scolding the thin one, and the scolding was unpleasant, as if she was trying to seduce her man. While swearing and crying loudly, they just said that this was not the case at all. The onlookers all supported the fat woman and helped her to scold the thin woman. They just said that the thin woman's family is a migrant, and there is no need for a man. If they don't follow the rules of women and are dishonest, their whole family will be kicked out.
Wu Zhongyuan stood outside the crowd and watched for a while. He was basically sure that the thin woman was wronged, but he did not take action. There were too many similar things, dozens or hundreds of them may happen every second, and he could not help. Everyone.
After watching the excitement for a while, the young man he had followed had gone far away from the matchmaker. Wu Zhongyuan had nowhere to go. Seeing that the village committee office was not far away, and the stove pipe on the window was still smoking, he went there. went.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any official business on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, but there is indeed official business here. There are several construction workers in work clothes sitting in the office, as well as several villagers. The old man who speaks should be the village chief.
After listening for a while, Wu Zhongyuan roughly understood what everyone was talking about. These construction workers seemed to be engaged in wind power generation. In the next year, they would build power generation towers on the land of these farmers. This involved land occupation issues and they were negotiating.
The negotiation between the two parties did not go very smoothly. The village head was responsible for explaining the policies to the villagers and proposed that the compensation standards should be unified, with an annual compensation of 800 yuan per mu of land.
However, the villagers did not recognize this compensation standard. They only said that so and so received how much money, which was far more than 800 yuan. So and so also received more, and the specific amount was taken. In short, they thought that the compensation amount given by the other party was not enough.
In the end, they broke up unhappy, and only the village chief and the construction workers were left. Through their conversation, Wu Zhongyuan realized that it was not the villagers who were talking nonsense, but that someone had indeed taken more money. The construction workers complained that the village chief was not reliable in his work, and that the companies that paid more money could not keep their mouths shut, and they would talk nonsense when they got an advantage.
Wu Zhongyuan grew up in the countryside. He knows the situation in the countryside best. There are no secrets in the countryside. Zhang San told Li Si that the whole village would know it before dark.
Wu Zhongyuan was not interested in such trivial matters and did not want to hear any more, so he went out and walked from house to house. There were many foods in modern times that were not available in ancient times. Among other things, peanuts were not available. Although oranges and apples were available, they were not as popular as in modern times. It was delicious. He picked up a few handfuls of peanuts and apples, eating them in a deserted place while planning where to go.
He didn't really want to stay in the village anymore, but construction hadn't started in the city yet, and he wouldn't be able to see much if he went there. Moreover, although he grew up in the countryside, he had never observed the various aspects of life and all living beings from a bird's eye view. It is impossible to see all the photos in a short while, and he has relatively ample time. He can observe for a few more days from the countryside, so that he can see more comprehensively and objectively...