The setting of "Dragons" has many similarities with "Harry Potter", for example, the male protagonists have stayed at relatives' houses since childhood, and life is not easy.
But the difference is also clear. Harry Potter stayed at his aunt's house, and Lu Mingfei stayed at his nominal uncle's house.
In the early stage of the Harry Potter story, his aunt and uncle were not good to him, but in Lu Mingfei's eyes, it seemed that only his aunt was not good to him, and his uncle was actually okay.
As for why his aunt hates him, Jiang Nan seems to have given two clear answers in the original book:
Lu Mingfei's perspective: If you don't love, everything you do is wrong.
Auntie's perspective: Lu Mingfei's mother is a university professor, I'm so jealous.
These two answers do not grasp the essence of the problem, Jiang Nan, like Zhou Mushroom, often constructs character contradictions, but cannot grasp the root of the contradiction, so the characters are painful and the reader cannot understand them.
The problem of Lu Mingfei's uncle and aunt's house is actually quite complicated, but it is very realistic, I am going to write it in multiple parts, and today I will focus on a "small thing".
1. What is the contradiction between Lu Mingfei and his aunt?
First memorize a paragraph of Ma Zhe to calm down: What is the contradiction?
Answer: Contradiction is the unity of opposites of things.
Applied to the relationship between the aunt and Lu Mingfei - the aunt and Lu Mingfei were originally two passers-by who had nothing to do with each other, but because they both had the relative of Lu Gucheng (uncle), the two of them were linked under one roof and became a "unity of contradictions".
Therefore, "it's wrong to do anything if you don't like to do it", "Jovini is a university professor, I'm a housewife" are not the focus of contradictions.
As a passerby, it is natural for an aunt not to love Lu Ming; Are the female professors and aunts in the world jealous?
In the final analysis, uncle is the "connecting point" between Lu Mingfei and his aunt, and his uncle determines the relationship between Lu Mingfei and his aunt, so his uncle is the core point of the conflict between Lu Mingfei and his aunt.
So, what role did the uncle play in the "new family" after the arrival of this nephew?
Second, the fox fake Huwei and the two foxes.
In order to enlighten Lu Mingfei, Senior Brother Chu told him a bitter past in his childhood.
But the effect was terrible, because Lu Mingfei also encountered a similar situation, but the end was much worse than him.
To summarize briefly:
Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei both beat up the students who humiliated their families; Then Chu Zihang's mother rushed to the hospital and humiliated the other party again;
The aunt rushed over and pressed Lu Mingfei's head to apologize to the other party, and she had to do duty for the other party.
Now the question is: why are the two families so different in dealing with similar incidents?
The original text gave a very superficial answer: the aunt wanted to pay less for the medical expenses, but Su Xiaoyan didn't care about money at all.
But is the difference between the two of them only in their attitude towards money?
Let's go back to the fight between Lu Mingfei and Chu Zihang.
Although there is a difference in the reason for the fight between the two and their age, to put it bluntly, both of them were minors at the time. And the two didn't beat each other to death or maim anything.
Juvenile brawls usually do not go to the police station or the courts, and are usually mediated by the school.
So, the attitude of the school is very important.
Although I have not experienced anything similar before, some of my relatives and friends have experienced similar situations
The logic is simple: both parents put pressure on the school.
The injured party demands that the school expel the injured party or severely punish the beating party; The beating party wants the school to be a big thing and a small thing.
It is not difficult to see that the school has a lot of authority to deal with such incidents, and there is also a lot of room for discretion.
So in the middle school I attended (which is also a private school), many "school bullies" and "level bullies" were not withdrawn, while many students who were bullied transferred to schools in obscurity.
Back to Auntie. The aunt asked Lu Mingfei to apologize to the other party and be on duty to pay less for the medical bills.
"Medical expenses" is actually a euphemism, because the expenses incurred by the other party are objective, how much is how much, and it is impossible for the other party to let you pay less.
Therefore, the "medical expenses" here actually include the "mental damage expenses" paid to the other party, which is the money that needs to be paid to the other party in the process of private settlement.
To put it bluntly, the level of "private expenses" is related to the "energy" and attitude of both families.
Insulting Lu Mingfei, the kid has a few catties and taels in the family, and the original book doesn't say it clearly, but the children who dare to cause trouble in the "Dragon Family" universe are the more powerful ones in the family.
And this product was originally a student of Shilan Middle School, and the setting of Shilan Middle School is that everyone is either rich or expensive, if there is no maintenance fee from Lu Mingfei, the child of Lu Gucheng, a clerk, will not be able to afford to study in this school.
So we can make a hypothesis: What will happen if the aunt is like Su Xiaoyan, rushes over and scolds the other party's son for not being in good health and can't win the fight, and then throws the other party's medical bills in the face?
Obviously, the other party will be furious, and then use the relationship to clean up Lu Mingfei's house.
To put it mildly, they are determined to go to the school and ask the school to expel Lu Mingfei through personal connections, money and bribery, or at least a major demerit.
And unless the Lu family also does this to fight the other party, it must be Lu Mingfei's bad luck in the end.
Of course, being demerited or expelled was not even a sprinkling of water for the later "road gods", but human beings have no historical hindsight.
To put it mildly, the other party may even reach out to the work of Lugu City, and the ghost knows if there is anyone above.
And Su Xiaoyan's confidence in daring to insult the other party with a tooth for a tooth is obviously not that "her son's genes are better than the other party" and that she herself is sharp-toothed, but that her current boss Lu is richer than the other party's family, and he can settle a series of troubles that the other party may potentially cause.
Lu Mingfei said to Chu Zihang: "Your mother is so superior! ”
The superior der, is the stepfather superior.
In the final analysis, Su Xiaoyan and her aunt are both housewives, and they are essentially "female foxes" who can't solve external problems on their own, and their confidence is better than that of the men behind them
Su Xiaoyan has a real "big tiger" behind her, so she can "fake the tiger";
And behind the aunt is another "male fox" who is even more cowardly, so the aunt is submissive in front of outsiders.
But the "male fox" also has what he can and should do, but he doesn't.
ps: Some people will definitely ask what the little fat man Lu Mingze will do if he encounters this situation.
Answer: The basic handling idea should not change, the mother and son still have to apologize to others, but the aunt will definitely fight for it, there should be no need to do it on duty, and she will comfort her son when she goes back.
3. Invisible uncle.
In fact, there is a very paradoxical question in Lu Mingfei's fight incident - why did the aunt go to the other party to deal with the matter instead of the uncle?
There seems to be a very superficial answer to this question: Lu Mingfei only told his aunt.
So the question is, why did Lu Mingfei tell his aunt instead of his uncle?
The answer seems to be very simple, because the uncle is likely to still be at work, so the aunt directly pulled Lu Mingfei after hearing it.
The question arises again, does my uncle know about this? What is his attitude and opinion on this matter?
Uncle he obviously knew about it, but his thoughts were not directly described in the original text, but we all know the result-
Uncle didn't do anything, he didn't say anything, and Lu Mingfei didn't say anything to his uncle and aunt after that.
In fact, what made Lu Ming the most sad about the whole thing was not the rumors spread by his classmates, but the attitude of his uncle and aunt's family.
The aunt and the little fat man Lu Mingze not only did not comfort him, but poured salt on him, and the uncle was like an air man.
A lot of times, not taking a stand is a statement.
A group of us who are not related to Lu Ming still feel bitter for him, doesn't my uncle think that there is anything wrong with my aunt's handling of it?
In fact, he knew very well that Lu Mingfei was not doing well at his house, otherwise he would not have given him more money when Lu Mingfei went out to run errands and buy things.
But this scumbag money can't be said to be a drop in the bucket compared with the alimony given by my brother and sister-in-law, but it can also be said to be better than nothing.
In fact, Lu Mingfei's arrival had some negative effects on Lu Gucheng's family
Lu Mingze was forced to share the bedroom with his cousin;
Auntie not only has to cook more meals but also settle the school for him, in fact, Lu Mingfei was also worried about applying for school later.
And the uncle emmm ......I really can't see what he has paid for Lu Mingfei's growth.
Returning to this incident, we learned about the whole incident through Lu Mingfei's narration, but what if we open this matter from the perspective of an aunt?
First of all, is my aunt willing to take Lu Mingfei to apologize to others?
Nonsense, who wants to apologize to someone for nothing? Who has nothing to do to find a scolding?
Lu Mingfei only remembered that his aunt scolded him and his aunt asked him to apologize, but in fact, the other party must have scolded him and his aunt together, and the aunt also had to constantly apologize to the other party and compensate for the smile, and finally had to pull the other party on the issue of medical expenses.
Did my aunt do something wrong, why did she suffer from this "flying disaster"?
Auntie didn't have any obligation to take care of Lu Mingfei's affairs, and Lu Gucheng should take care of her relatives by herself.
Now that my aunt is in charge of my relatives' affairs, but it is obviously very rough and simple and problematic, what should my uncle do?
The normal uncle's operation should be to tell his daughter-in-law that in the future, she should not worry about Lu Mingfei's affairs, he will take care of it, and the aunt will cook everyone's meals at home.
Then the uncle comforted Lu Mingfei, and then went to talk to the parents of the students who were beaten, and dealt with the whole matter again.
But the uncle didn't do anything, not only did he not go to re-talk with the other party's parents, but he also didn't talk to Lu Mingfei, and even indulged his wife and son to continue to verbally bully Lu Mingfei.
In fact, the uncle probably complained to the aunt about the way she handled the matter, and the aunt's reaction was simple: next time you can take care of this kind of thing, I don't care.
Then the uncle was silent, and he was more worried about being involved in such a bad thing than his nephew's pain, so he never interfered with his aunt's behavior, as if he were just a man who was "afraid of his wife".
In fact, my aunt had long understood that my uncle would not really interfere in any of Lu Mingfei's things, such as cooking, packing luggage, going to school to wipe his ass, and later choosing a school.
So she directly dragged Lu Mingfei to apologize, instead of waiting for her husband to come back.
This kind of man is not uncommon in real life, they "outsource" their family responsibilities to their wives, as if they should help him with all the "housework" as long as they give him money.
But "housework" is endless, "the old man is sick" and "the child is in trouble" are completely random events that fall from the sky, and it is difficult to estimate how much energy and emotions are worth in dealing with these events.
This is also one of the important reasons why the aunt hates Lu Mingfei, because she is the only one who bears the negative and bad things of the child.
Of course, the uncle didn't hate Lu Mingfei so much, because Lu Mingfei's unlucky things were dealt with by his aunt, he only needed to come out to put the elders' scores when Lu Mingfei was "glorifying the whole village", and gossip when he was fine.
Lu Mingfei's arrival had no impact on his life, and he had more money to buy a car to show off.
So how could my uncle hate Lu Mingfei? How could my aunt not hate Lu Mingfei?
Of course, the reason why the aunt hates Lu Mingfei is more than that, and she will talk about this issue later.
However, no amount of reason should be a reason for the aunt to treat Lu Mingfei harshly, and there is no blood feud between the aunt and Joveni.
Even if there is a deep feud in the sea of blood, not everyone will treat other people's children harshly.
If Lu Mingfei really watched "Stealing Stars in September", he would know that he would not be as good as the orphan next door who was raised by an alien enemy......
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