Under the influence of China's traditional culture, everyone pays attention to returning to the roots. People who do business outside will buy land in their hometown. With the passage of time, land ownership has changed. In the era of privatization, countless landlords continue to exploit the survival of working people, and farmers have been living in dire straits. So is the landlord really as written in the book?
Huang Shiren and Zhou Bapi are both typical representatives of the landlord class, and they both come from literary works. Zhou skinned from "Midnight Cockcrow". He is not tall, but he is furtive and full of thoughts. Zhou Bapi is a typical rich peasant with a lot of land at home. In order to cultivate the land, he hired a group of long-term workers.
When Zhou peeped into the contract with the long-term workers, it was stipulated that the workers must get up and work after the crowing. How dare the workers talk about conditions? But Zhou peeping is still not satisfied. In order to make the long-term workers work more, he even went to the henhouse to wake the workers up in the middle of the night. Long-term workers in vulnerable groups dare not be ignored.
In addition to squeezing working hours, Zhou Pipi also limits the food intake of long-term workers. He often cooks porridge for long-term workers and mixes sand into it. The workers dared to speak out in anger, so they made up a jingle to scold him: when they walked into Zhoujiamen, there were two bowls of porridge; There is rice in the bowl, and it shines on people.
The most hateful thing is that there is an old lady in her seventies in the village. Because of the three-inch golden lotus, she walks unsteadily. She planted some gourds, watered them every day, from spring to summer, from summer to autumn, and picked them whenever she saw them. Zhou skinned it in the middle of the night and stole it. The old lady asked him for a theory. He kicked her away and the old lady rolled under the wheel and died on the spot.
In the article, Zhou Bapi was a bully who was shouted at by everyone, but everyone who read the book gnashed his teeth. In addition to exploiting the working people, Zhou Bapi also colluded with the Japanese and Puppet, and he also had a set of "criminal laws" that specifically tortured people. So, is there really a person in history who stripped last week?
The prototype of Midnight Cockcrow is Zhou Chunfu, a native of Fuxian County, Liaoning Province. The author Gao Baoyu claimed that he was a long-term worker in his family, so he told the true story. At that time, no one would speak for a bully landlord With the change of social environment, Meng Lingqian, Zhou Chunfu's great grandson, could not believe this fact, and he began to run around looking for the truth.
In 2006, Meng Lingqian found a long-term worker, Wang Yiqi. He said: the Lao Zhou family has many hands, and all five sons are engaged in farm work. Everyone is diligent, smart and can earn money. Wang Yizhen was impressed by Zhou Chunfu. He has heard some history of their family.
The Lao Zhou family came from the late Qing Dynasty, and their family business was passed down from generation to generation. When I arrived at Zhou Chunfu's house, I basically lost all my possessions. All started from scratch. Their family has more than 200 acres of land and is very rich. However, Zhou Chunfu is not harsh. He never scolds them, but they eat dry food (rice) and meat on holidays. That is, the Lao Zhou family is very economical, and the long-term workers eat the rest of the rice and stay.
Judging from Wang Yizhen's words, although Zhou Chunfu is a landlord, he is not a bully. He earned all his wealth by himself. According to Meng Lingqian's investigation, although Gao Baoyu has also done some long-term work, "Cockcrow at Midnight" was written by someone. He only went to school for a month, where he could write. It was only because of the need at that time that the "midnight rooster crowed" came into being.
In fact, Zhou Chunfu is just an honest farmer. In order to improve the credibility, this will "apply" some of Zhou Chunfu's deeds to Zhou Pipi, like a chicken crowing in the middle of the night, just inspired.