The second uncle is wealthy, but there is no one to toast when he eats in the village, and his smoke is always missed
My name is Zhong Song, and I was born in the countryside of a small county.
In recent years, our family has welcomed a wealthy relative, my second uncle. He bought a property in the county and also owned two properties and a shop in the city.
Every time he returned to his hometown during the Chinese New Year, the second uncle always drove back in a luxury car, dressed in a suit and leather shoes, generously gave red envelopes to the children, and often sent some expensive gifts.
I thought that having a rich second uncle in the countryside was something to show off, but because of his existence over the years, our family's life has not been easy.
Sometimes, we even hope that the second uncle will not come back, he can live freely outside alone, but when he comes back, it only brings us and grandpa some trouble.
Especially in recent years, there seems to be one person who is always missing when holding happy events in the village, and that is my second uncle. At all kinds of banquets, no matter which table he chose to sit at, few people were willing to toast him.
Even when drinking with others, everyone simply clinks glasses and has no superfluous words. Some even deliberately avoid him when they smoke and show no mercy.
Perhaps this makes some people wonder, because as the saying goes: "The poor have no one to ask in the downtown area, but the rich have distant relatives in the mountains." "It stands to reason that the village should be more enthusiastic about the rich second uncle, but this is not the case.
This may stem from the second uncle's series of behaviors, which directly led to everyone's strong dislike for him.
According to the villagers, many years ago, when I was not yet born, my second uncle did something extremely infuriating.
At that time, the second uncle did not like to engage in farm work, nor did he want to work, and he was eager to obtain some personal benefits through some unscrupulous means.
The story goes back more than 30 years, when several families in our village planted a large field of watermelons. When the watermelons were ripe, they waited for someone to come and buy them, but a week or two passed, and no one dared to approach them.
The reason is that after the watermelons of those families were ripe, the second uncle colluded with a few friends in the town and planned to buy them at a low price, forcing those families to sell them to him. However, because the ** was too low, the people in the village firmly disagreed. In anger, the second uncle stood directly in the watermelon field, stopped outsiders, and forced those families to sell it to him at a very low **.
One of the families insisted on not compromising, but one morning, they found that the watermelon field seemed to be unharmed, and when they looked closely, they saw that all the watermelons had been punctured with firewood. Even if the watermelon is delivered for free, no buyer dares to come.
Although they didn't witness it with their own eyes, everyone knew that all this was related to the second uncle. Since then, the second uncle's reputation has plummeted.
However, this was more than thirty years ago. At that time, the second uncle was still very young, not even under twenty years old. As time passed, everyone gradually forgave the second uncle.
About seven or eight years ago, the second uncle underwent earth-shaking changes, from a person who did nothing to a successful person who drove luxury cars and wore suits and leather shoes.
Every time he returned to the village, the second uncle always generously gave gifts, and the packaging was high-end, saying that it was some natural food that was good for the body. In addition, he handed out business cards to people, claiming that he had industries all over the country and focused on the health industry.
During that time, the second uncle packaged himself extremely cleverly, claiming to lead everyone to get rich together. The first people who followed him were taken to stay in five-star hotels, taste high-end food, put on suits and shoes, listen to expert lectures, and even have the opportunity to travel abroad.
For a time, the second uncle's reputation became famous overseas. In addition, the first batch of people who followed him tasted the sweetness in the countryside and experienced an unprecedented life.
After returning to the village, these people preached the success of the second uncle, saying that he was different from the past and was eager to lead the whole village to get rich together.
Subsequently, many people in the village and in the town who did nothing regarded this opportunity as a turning point in their lives, and followed the second uncle to embark on the road of development in the big city.
Once, it was necessary to pay 3,000 yuan to follow the second uncle to join his company. At that time, the second uncle kept inviting people to join, including me and my father, as well as my aunt, who were frequently invited.
My father and I both took a firm stance that this was not a good thing. We know that pie doesn't fall from the sky. However, my aunt has been a housewife for a long time and has long been eager to prove herself by earning money, so she did not hesitate to invest 3,000 yuan in the family's living expenses.
Gradually, more and more people joined the second uncle's company one after another, like a snowball. However, when everyone was intoxicated with the dream of getting rich, the news of the company's sudden announcement of its collapse completely shattered this beautiful dream.
During this year, many people in the village and town not only did not make money, but also continued to invest money after joining the company, ranging from tens of thousands to more than 100,000 or 200,000.
The collapse of the company caused everyone to point their grievances at the second uncle and ask him to return the money. However, the second uncle could only cry and claim that he was also a victim, and all the money invested was now lost.
For a while, the second uncle changed from a successful person in the eyes of the people in the village half a year ago to an object that everyone spurned. Everyone called him **, and gradually, more people began to dig up what he wasn't doing.
Some people even reopened the events of his year to condemn him.
Subsequently, the second uncle rarely returned to his hometown and disappeared for a long time.
However, two years ago, I heard that the second uncle re-emerged and set foot in the elderly industry, often taking the old people to travel all over the country.
During the trip, the second uncle's company will invite professional teachers to teach them, and after class, they will start to sell products. Usually, the second uncle will also take these elderly people for physical examinations, and then sell them so-called healthy food in a targeted manner.
No matter what the second uncle sells, in the eyes of everyone, he is always a villain who does not learn and specializes in harming others and benefiting himself.
In the past two years, everyone's life doesn't seem to be getting better, but the second uncle's life seems to them to be better than most.
Every New Year's holiday, the second uncle will drive back to his hometown in a luxury car. Last year, the ancestral hall was renovated, and the second uncle donated 30,000 yuan alone. However, his good deeds were later returned by the people of the village, who were not even willing to engrave his name on the merit tablet.
Aside from this incident, the people in the village seem to keep their distance from the second uncle. Especially in the past two years, my grandfather didn't want to see my second uncle, and my father was cold to him.
Last year, during the Chinese New Year, a family in the village held a happy event, and almost everyone in the village participated. However, at the wine table, the second uncle sat there, everyone pushed each other's glasses and changed glasses, and toasted each other, but they didn't seem to want to see the second uncle, treating him as air, and no one wanted to talk to him.
Even if the second uncle took the initiative to toast, everyone only symbolically clinked glasses and took a sip, and then they were no longer willing to communicate with him. Even after eating, everyone sat in the courtyard and chatted, someone stood up and smoked, everyone had a share, but when they arrived at the second uncle, they deliberately missed him and handed the cigarette to the next person.
Faced with these situations, the second uncle could only smile bitterly. People are complex, and he wants to succeed on the one hand, and to be recognized by the people of the village on the other.
He tried to ease relations with everyone, but no one wanted to accept him. The second uncle once asked me if everyone hated him, and I nodded.
He asked again if I hated him, and I shook my head and said, "You're pretty good to me."
After that, the second uncle lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, spit it out slowly, and then said that if he had led everyone to make money, would everyone still hate him.
I am silent on this statement.
Seeing that I didn't say a word, the second uncle raised his head and said, it seems that it is still a matter of money, and what everyone hates is not his character, but because he did not lead them to make money.
I finally opened my mouth and said that there were indeed people who hated him because they were jealous of the money he made, and there were people who resented him because he didn't lead them to profit.
However, most people's resentment with you mainly stems from the fact that you often take actions that harm the interests of the majority for personal gain. Perhaps, if one day you really do something good for everyone, maybe people won't hate you so much.
However, the second uncle had a different opinion on this, and he still insisted on his own opinion, and I chose not to argue with him anymore.
About the second uncle, I don't know what everyone thinks? What is it that makes everyone really hate him?