"The north wind blows, the snowflakes drift" When this familiar melody sounds, it will evoke memories for many people. The names Yang Bailao, Huang Shiren, and Xi'er are familiar to everyone. In that tragedy that happened in the old society, the landlord Lao Cai used cruel and inhumane means, causing the poor people to suffer a catastrophe.
However, it is said that people who owe money and do not pay it back are hateful, but some people put forward another argument: If it is natural to repay debts, then Yang Bailao owes money and does not pay it back, it is wrong in the first place, why is it Huang Shiren who bears the infamy?
First of all, we need to take a look at how to deal with the behavior of not paying back the money owed in the current society. At present, the state has begun to vigorously crack down on and rectify the behavior of "old scoundrels."
What is a lai? To put it bluntly, it refers to those who deliberately owe money and do not pay it back, avoiding debts. People in this group are often frustrating and helpless. There is a popular saying in society, called "The one who owes money is the uncle, and the one who borrows the money is the grandson." Although it is a joke, it aptly describes the complex and heavy entanglement between the non-payment of debts and the debtor.
When it comes to "owing money", this problem is indeed not unusual, and the creditor should have collected the debt, but in this well-known story, Yang Bailao was characterized as a poor "victim" group, and Huang Shiren, who was owed, was the "exploiting class" in everyone's eyes. Is it accurate to apply the definition of "old lai" in today's society? The answer is: no. Because each era has different characteristics, the relationship between Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren represents the class struggle of that era, which cannot be measured by the laws and morals of today's society, and Huang Shiren's debt collection of Yang Bailao is completely out of a cruel oppressive way.
The story takes place in the context of an era of "cannibalism". Why?
Because China at that time had been in the so-called "old society" for a long time, and the rich class had no reason to treat the poor, Yang Bailao, as a representative of the toiling masses, lived a life of begging for a living from the exploiting class represented by Huang Shiren, struggling to survive, and enduring their oppression.
So, where does this squeeze come from, we need to get a general idea based on the content of the story.
Speaking of Huang Shiren, he is a veritable "landlord", he leases the land to Yang Bailao, makes Yang Bailao his tenant, and pays him rent every year.
Although it is natural to rent land and pay rent, the way to collect rent is Huang Shiren's final say. How to collect rent, how much to collect, this method does not exist in the market at all, it is all given by the exploiting class, even if it is sky-high, in order to have land and survive, the poor people can only grit their teeth and accept it.
Yang Bailao in the story, himself is old, under the control of such an "unequal treaty", he works hard every day, cultivates crops, and the sweat beads of his busy sweat fall to the ground and fall eight petals, even if he is tired and tired, in the end, every year the family can not save any surplus grain, and all the harvest must be stepped up "filial piety" to the landlord Huang Shiren.
In this way, as a leaseholder, the creditor Huang Shiren can sit back and enjoy the success, he doesn't have to do anything, as long as he can bully and squeeze the tenants, he can enjoy the glory and wealth.
Therefore, to sum up, no matter how hard the exploited and oppressed class like Yang Bailao is, it is the landlord class that ultimately feeds them, providing them with food, drink, and entertainment, and wearing gold and silver, while the poor themselves are still poor people who do not have enough food and clothing.
This was the injustice that existed in that era. It cannot be applied to the modern society's "more work, more pay, equal pay for equal work", let alone the theory that "it is the uncle who owes the debt, and it is the grandson who owes the debt".
What was even darker for that era was that in addition to the exploitation of money such as the grain harvest, there was also the exploitation of personality and personal freedom. You must know that in that era, the exploited class like Yang Bailao had no freedom at all, and they were almost equivalent to slaves, being "manipulated" by their masters at will.
The poor and hard life made Yang Bailao's wife seriously ill. Their daughter Xi'er is still young, and Yang Bailao is the only laborer in the family.
But the misery is biased towards the hard-working people, and it didn't take long to support it, and when she couldn't eat enough for a long time and looked down on the doctor, her wife still died of illness. This is even worse for this impoverished family.
In order to handle the funeral for his wife, Yang Bailao, who had no money at home and a bunch of debts, had to beg the landlord Huang Shiren, which also became a "good excuse" for Huang Shiren to force Yang Bailao's father and daughter later.
At this time, Huang Shiren did not show embarrassment for him, but changed his face of bullying people in the past, took out 5 pieces of ocean from his arms, and handed them to Yang Bailao. Why did he do that?
It turned out that Huang Shiren was not generous, and the landlord class was also accustomed to this method of casting a long line to catch big fish to further control the tenants in their hands.
He didn't borrow these 5 oceans in vain, although it was natural to borrow money to repay debts, but Huang Shiren calculated clearly, the annual heavy land rent has weighed down Yang Bailao's family, barely making ends meet, and now with these money, the money lent out is usury, and Yang Bailao can only become more and more unable to repay, and he will never be able to pay off his debts.
Because Huang Shiren "played a good calculation", Yang Bailao, who finished his wife's funeral, was even more overwhelmed.
It's not that he doesn't know that this money, rolling out of the sky-high interest, coupled with the high rent he faces every year, in this way, he can only roll more and more in the future, and the more he owes, what should he do!
However, this was the general situation faced by the poor who were exploited and oppressed in those days, and who could escape it?
People's daughters have flowers to wear, my family has no money and can't buy them, so I pulled a two-foot red head rope and tied it up for my Xi'er", in the Yang Bailao family, which was poor to the limit, in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, it is said that every family should put firecrackers to make dumplings, sit on a delicious meal, and celebrate around the table, but because he is penniless, he reluctantly takes the red thread for his daughter as a red head rope, and it is also counted as a New Year.
However, the new year did not change the fate of this poor man. "On the set, I weighed back two catties of noodles, for fear that the owner would see it, and I held it in my arms for four or five days ......Happy New Year", from this singing, we can also deeply feel the embarrassing situation of Yang Bailao's family at that time.
Pity them for their year-round work, but on Chinese New Year's Eve, they have to hide and fold to save two pounds of noodles, which can be regarded as eating a Chinese New Year's Eve meal.
However, the tragic situation did not end there, and before the first month, Yang Bailao's family suffered another catastrophe. Because the debt calculated by Huang Shiren before was a sky-high price that he couldn't afford, but the cunning landlord Huang Shiren wanted to take this opportunity to make things difficult for Yang Bailao.
A few years ago, he ordered Yang Bailao to pay off all his debts at the end of the month, not only the principal, but also the high interest.
However, Yang Bailao, who had been busy selling blood and sweat for a year, came to Huang Shiren's house with 7 yuan and 5 oceans saved by gritting his teeth, but he was pressed by Huang Shiren step by step, knowing that he could only repay the money now, but he had already prepared a "deed of sale", which means that since you can't pay off your debts, sell your daughter and pay off your debts.
This is clearly a conspiracy that has been prepared, because Huang Shiren saw that Yang Bailao's daughter Xi'er looked like a flower and jade, and he was young and young, and he had long wanted to find a boss for himself. In this way, he and his family forced Yang Bailao to sign and sell Xi'er to him.
Things have developed to this point, after losing his wife, he was coerced to sell his daughter, and Yang Bailao, who was like ashes, could no longer find a way to save him.
That's right, if you don't say that the era of "cannibalism", how can the poor have a place to reason, they can only bear the oppression of the exploiting class, and they have to endure it, and they have to endure it, and they have to endure it. After returning home, feeling that he really couldn't live, Yang Bailao chose a hundred, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, he committed suicide by drinking brine.
In this way, poor Xi'er became an orphan girl at a young age, her parents died. What's even more shameless is that the next day, that is, on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the inhumane landlord Huang Shiren, despite Yang Bailao's breath, sent someone to rush into Yang Bailao's house to rob him, and forcibly took Xi'er into his house.
The helpless Xi'er has become a tool that Huang Shiren manipulates at will, and she is a living victim in that stupid era.
Since then, Xi'er, who was forced to become Huang Shiren's concubine, was bullied in the landlord's house. God is pitiful, and in the end, Xi'er, who couldn't stand it, finally chose to fight for her life.
Fortunately, the villagers were very kind, they sympathized with the plight of Xi'er and Yang Bailao, and in the process of escaping, the second aunt and others in the village gave her a lot of help so that she successfully evaded the pursuit of Huang Shiren's family. However, the sad thing is that the escaped Xi'er was pregnant with the villain Huang Shiren's child in her womb, and when she fled to the deep mountains and old forests, finally, no one could find her anymore.
Xi'er, who hid in the mountains and forests, gave birth to the child, but unfortunately, because of congenital deficiencies, the child died at birth. The huge grief and the inability to live a normal life in the mountains made Xi'er young and soon turned white.
A dramatic turn happened, and since then, the white-haired Xi'er survives alone in the mountain, because there is a temple enshrined in the mountain, and sometimes some melons and fruits and incense are offered.
If we want to talk about how these poor people who have been extremely oppressed by fate, the times and the exploiting class can turn over, it will have to change with the times. Fortunately, Xi'er's misery did not last forever, and two years later, the Eighth Route Army finally arrived here, and the landlord bourgeois exploiting class represented by Huang Shiren was duly punished and rescued from them many oppressed ordinary people like Yang Bailao and Xi'er.
Finally, a new era has arrived, and the toiling people have seen hope. Due to the governance of the Eighth Route Army, these tenants who were burdened with "sky-high" rents were treated fairly and justly, and Xi'er, who fled to the mountains, also received due attention.
The Eighth Route Army rescued her and helped her return to a normal life.
In the end, the hateful landlord Lao Cai Huang Shiren, because of his many evils, was finally judged by the people, and he was shot in public, and his life was used to atone for all the evil deeds he had done.
Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and Xi'er returns to the crowd, her hair gradually turning back to black.
Therefore, the debt relationship between Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren, in the era in which they lived, on the surface, it was Yang Bailao who owed Huang Shiren money, but in actual analysis, it was a trap specially set up by the landlord class for the poor.
In the cruel old society, there was no such thing as "equality" between people, just like the two of them, it was a complete class antagonism, and in order to break the class antagonism, it was necessary to establish a correct social system, that is, the necessity of overthrowing the old society and building a new China.
However, the current social situation cannot be compared with the past on the same page, and if many people today use this as an excuse to borrow money and not repay it, and the debts are justified, then they are ignoring the law and morality.
I hope that we can all deeply understand the hardships of the toiling masses in the old society and understand their plight. As for the relationship between "borrowing" and "owing", we should not unreasonably apply the past and leave excuses and sophistries for debts. After all, in this just social environment, those who are in arrears of wages and do not repay their debts are deliberate behaviors after all, and should be given a correct understanding and repay the justice and compensation that the debtors deserve.