Chapter 704: A Little Help, a Little Help, a Lot of Help
Bai Yunxi waved her hand, letting the tenants do their own work. She and her son walked in the fields with their heads down.
Watching the people carrying water to irrigate the fields with sweat on their foreheads, there were shouts, voices, and occasional quarrels.
Being in it, this is actually the life of the lower-class people, the fireworks of the market.
"We all know that tenants are hard-working, but people of each class have their own survival rules. If they do not interfere with each other, everyone can live in peace. If you intervene, it will only bring endless trouble to yourself, and there will be no benefit."
Bai Yunxi said, looking at the doubtful eyes of the second child,
"To put it bluntly, you can't let people ask you for things at will. If you ask for things too many times, you will develop a habit. At that time, whenever they encounter difficulties, they will subconsciously ask you for help. We are tenants, not parents, and we must distinguish this point."
Bai Anyan: "..."
They are the bosses, isn't it their duty to help tenants solve their problems?
If we ignore people who come to our door to ask for help, wouldn’t it seem too heartless?
Listening to the second son’s voice, Bai Yunxi was silent for a moment,
“The weather is too extreme now, and I don’t know how long it will last. If it doesn’t rain for another month, even if everyone tries their best to water the crops, the grain production will still decrease. At that time, both tenant farmers and villagers will face the problem of hunger. If they come to borrow grain, what will you do?”
Listening to his mother’s question, Bai Anyan was stunned and was silent for a long time before speaking.
“…If we lend it out, everyone will follow suit. We don’t have enough grain to borrow.”
If we don’t lend it out, we will definitely offend people. In short, we will not be in a good situation.
Thinking of this, Bai Anyan pursed his lips and couldn’t help but think of the fact that grain prices rose due to rumors of war the year before last. His face suddenly turned bad.
If you ask him how to solve it, Bai Anyan’s brows are twisted into knots, and he doesn’t know how to solve it.
Bai Yunxi looked at his tangled eyes and twitched his lips helplessly. If possible, she would rather take the trouble to cultivate the next generation than let this group of naughty kids challenge her nerves.
"You are right. When a natural disaster occurs, everyone has no food. As long as you open a mouth and borrow food, the rest of the people will be able to break down the door of our house. If you dare to resist at that time, someone will dare to rob you. Bandits appear in troubled times. Once people are hungry, they can do anything."
"And you are a simple and honest character. You can't bear to see others in trouble and always want to lend a hand. This habit must be changed. You can help for a while, but not for a lifetime. Help in emergencies, not in poverty. This is the wise saying left by our ancestors."
Bai Yunxi wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, took the fan handed by Wen You, and gently waved it.
"Mom, what I said is not ruthless, but a way of survival. You are not a savior, you can't save the world from suffering, and your only responsibility is to protect your family."
"If you can't even protect your family, how can you talk about other things? In a prosperous era, people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are few disputes. Once in a chaotic era, only the strong can survive, and only those with strong hands and a hard heart can stand firm and protect their families."
Listening to his mother's teachings, Bai Anyan was shocked and looked a little embarrassed.
He learned a lot of ways to deal with the world from his mother, and thought he had made progress. Unexpectedly, when encountering things, he is still easy to be soft-hearted. He can't bear to see people look pitiful in front of him, and always wants to lend a hand.
In fact, he also knows that being soft-hearted can easily lead people by the nose, and it is easy for people with ulterior motives to take advantage of him, but sometimes, he just can't control it.
Although his mother said that he was soft-hearted, in fact, he was not strong enough and couldn't control the situation.
When he went out today, he asked his mother to remind him again and again, and finally it was his mother who came forward to help him solve the embarrassing situation, and he felt guilty in his heart.
If he had a tougher character, he would have scolded the troublemakers without knowing the reason, just like those gentry, and then beat them with fifty sticks.
When there was a problem with the land, no matter how the tenants begged, they would remain indifferent. In the past, he only thought that the landlords and gentry were cold and heartless, and had no human touch. Now that he has also stood in the position of the landlord, he admired their unmoved expressions.
In the past, he only thought that those gentry relied on their land to be arrogant and arrogant, and they bullied the poor, which was really hateful.
Now he also wants to have that intimidating momentum. If he becomes a young master who is feared by others, he will not need his mother to remind him of everything when he walks among the tenants in the future.
"Mom, I will work hard. I don't know why, I will be soft-hearted when I see them begging me with bitter faces."
Bai Anyan looked guilty. He will soon be a father. If he can't stand up, he will definitely be laughed at by his children.
"Because you have also come from poverty step by step, you understand their difficulties best. But some people just take advantage of this point of yours, take advantage of it, pretend to be pitiful and pitiful to gain sympathy."
They are landlords, and most of the people they face are poor. Everyone has their own difficulties. They can't take care of them even if they have three heads and six arms. In the end, there is no other ending except being resented and turning against others.
"Apart from anything else, there is a famous saying from our ancestors that can save you a lot of trouble, 'a little bit of rice is a favor, a big bit of rice is a grudge', you should engrave these words in your mind."
A little bit of rice is a favor, a big bit of rice is a grudge?
How can helping others also cause hatred?
Bai Anyan looked dazed, a little bit unable to change his mind, but he knew in his heart that what his mother said was right.
In the past, he never thought about these things, with the mentality of helping as much as possible, but he didn't expect that there would be so many twists and turns.
"Mom, if we don't help them, what if they say we are unkind and ungrateful?"
Looking at the distressed look of Lao Er, Bai Yunxi turned to the main road at the end of the field and prepared to leave.
"For example, if you really encounter a disaster, you have to help everyone together, and it is best to have the government take the lead. The people are afraid of the government's majesty and dare not make trouble. If you set up a porridge stall to give alms, the victims will overturn your porridge stall."
"Hungry people are irrational and will not reason with you. Some people will find ways to make trouble and find faults in order to eat more. They say that you are seeking fame and reputation, and you don't care about the lives of the victims for fame, or that the porridge is not thick enough, and there is no food to satisfy hunger."
"You have done a good thing, but you are wrong. You want to withdraw, but you are guilty because you have been guessed. If you continue to give alms, are you upset? Are you angry?"
Bai Yunxi said, looking at Lao Er's face that was pale with fear, and she shut up.
Was this bear kid scared by her?
Turning to look at Wenyou who looked calm, Bai Yunxi raised an eyebrow, "Wenyou, what do you think?"
"Aunt Bai is right. We must not be the first to do something. Whoever does it will die sooner."
Wenyou glanced at Bai Anyan and spoke coldly.
Bai Anyan: "..."
Is it so difficult to do good things now?