readsfreenovel Chapter 250: Little Girl (2)
Chapter 250: Little Girl (2)
"Xiaochun and I were really angry and wanted to laugh. I said, kid, you came all the way here just to do this. We thought you were gone and were scared to death. We asked her why she suddenly wanted to come out to earn money. She stuffed the two bags of money into Xiaochun and me, and wrote something on a piece of paper to tell us that she had been eating and living in our house for free and asked me to be a free teacher. She didn't feel good, so she wanted to come out to earn money to pay for Xiaochun and me accommodation and tuition. This silly child..."
Wen Zhuomo smiled bitterly, rubbed his face vigorously with his hands, and continued: "We were talking, and at the end, she suddenly grabbed my and Xiaochun's hands and begged us not to chase her away, but to let her see the world and learn here. When she has a promising future, she will definitely repay us."
"As soon as we heard it, we knew that someone in her family must have said something bad about her, and she took it to heart. Otherwise, why would she have such thoughts out of the blue? Nothing happened in the previous half month. When we asked her who said that, she refused to say. She only said that no one said anything bad about her, and that her family told her not to ask for favors from others casually, and that she had to pay them back."
"She then asked Xiaochun and me if she would look down on me because she was from the countryside and her family was poor. Xiaochun and I answered that of course not, no matter whether she was from the countryside or not, or whether her family was poor or not, we would not look down on her. All people are born equal, and no matter what the reason is, it is not a reason to look down on others. This child...it's not that she doesn't believe in Xiaochun and me, but she doesn't believe in this society. She replied to me again, and we will never forget it for the rest of our lives."
"What did Xiaoru say?" Situ Ningzhai asked anxiously.
Wen Zhuomo wiped away a tear and replied: "She said... Grandpa Wen, Grandma Shi, you are right, the world should be like this, but people are not dead like the world, they like to change, and it is impossible to do so. I don't understand why rich people look down on poor people? Is it wrong for us to be poor? We also want to be rich, but we work hard every day, where do we have time to think about how to become rich? In the eyes of rich people, are poor people just country bumpkins who have never seen the world? Are poor people just good-for-nothing garbage? Do poor people live a painful life and never have a chance to turn over? Is the fate of poor people always like this and can never be changed? Should poor people eat and dress poorly?"
"These questions are too profound. We really didn't know how to explain them to her at the time. How could she think of these things when she was so young? It would be too painful for such a small body to bear such profound thoughts." Wen Zhuomo covered her face and cried, bursting into tears.
"We looked at her at the time and really couldn't answer, so we could only remain silent. She continued to talk to us by writing notes. The more she talked, the more sad we felt and a little ashamed," Shi Yanchun continued.
"She said that Premier Zhou and Chairman Mao, who were shown on TV, advocated saving food and being frugal. We should think about how hard it is to get a meal and how hard it is to make a living. So we should not be so extravagant and should be more frugal. But many rich people are so extravagant. They cook a table full of chickens and ducks for meals. They cook so many dishes even if there are not so many people. They throw them away after a few bites. They have to transport a vegetable from across the sea. The rich have used up all the oil for China's planes and cars. The rich are wasting social resources and eating up our country like insects. We poor people don't despise the rich for their extravagance and waste, but the rich have the nerve to say that the poor have never seen good things. What's the logic behind this?"
Shi Yanchun smiled bitterly, "The yaya worm she was talking about is a woodworm. That worm will burrow into the wood and eat it, making a yaya yaya sound. She didn't know what to call it, so she just called it a yaya worm. I was surprised that she already had such a concept."
"Xiao Ru also said that if the way to judge whether a person is a country bumpkin is to determine how many good things he has seen, then everyone in the world is a country bumpkin, whether they are poor or rich, except for God. Because people's eyes are only a little higher than the ground, they can only see the scenery within a few dozen meters in front of them, and they can't see farther. Since they can't see so much, how can they say that they have seen the world?"
"Rich people laugh at poor people for never being on an airplane and having never seen the world. But do rich people know how to dig potatoes? Of course not. To us poor people, rich people are also unsophisticated. They can't even do something as simple as digging potatoes. They are just like fools. But God is at the highest place and is so big that he can see everything in the world. He can see things of both the poor and the rich. This is what it means to be truly worldly-wise."
"You tell me, is this child smart? She was only nine years old when she said these things, and no one told her these things. She thought about them and learned them all by herself. For a long time, she was actually a guiding light for me and Brother Mo, and she gave us a lot of inspiration."
Yun Zhonghe and Situ Ningzhai both looked very serious, as if they were lost in thought. Yun Zhonghe nodded and said, "At such a young age, he has developed dialectical thinking without any guidance, and his thinking logic is very strict. He is indeed very smart."
Wen Zhuomo cried for a while, then recovered a little. He spoke again: "Yes, she is too smart, but she is too smart. She has been worrying a lot since she was young, and now she is depressed. The depression has penetrated into her bones. When I saw her, I really couldn't stand it and wanted to cry. It would be fine if she could speak, and she could curse people to vent her anger, but she can't speak. If she has any grievances, she can only bite her teeth and swallow them."
"She also said that she knew there were good rich people, but more rich people thought that poor people were annoying, timid like rats, dirty like garbage, and useless like waste, and should be eliminated. She thought that bad-hearted rich people should be eliminated because such rich people are useless to the world. If there are fewer rich people, other people will have more money and everyone will be happier, but if there are fewer poor people, the world will become unhappy because many things are done by the poor and the rich can only enjoy. The meals in the restaurant are cooked by the poor. Without the poor, we can't eat anytime and anywhere. The streets are swept by the poor. Without the poor, there would be garbage everywhere. The goods in the shopping malls are moved by the poor. Without the poor, there would be no shopping malls to visit. The houses are built by the poor who do coolies. Without the poor, everyone would be outside in the rain."
"The most important thing is that rice and vegetables are grown by the poor. Without the poor, we can't eat. In summary, the poor are useful and the rich are useless. The world will be fine without the rich, but without the poor, everything will be terrible."