Tiger Lady decided to marry Xiangzi, a moneyless and powerless coachman, and when Fourth Master Liu learned of this news, he was extremely reluctant. In his opinion, Shoko is indeed good, but whether he is a son-in-law or a son, he is too far away.
"A stinky cart! I have been running around all my life, fighting in groups, kneeling over iron ropes, and after teaching a countryman's head and daughter to move away with the property? Not that cheap thing! Even if there is, I want to get it from Fourth Master Liu! Liu Si has been a fart-crashing person since childhood! ”
From Liu Siye's language and life experience, it can be seen that he is an old churros of society who loves to take advantage and has a good face, and is extremely selfish and cold- and mercenary.
A dirt bastard with a "font size"
Fourth Master Liu thought that he was still a great figure, after all, his life experience was there. He was a figure who transitioned from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and when he was young, he served as a treasury soldier, set up a casino, bought and sold people, and let go of the Yama King's account. And we look at his life experiences in the pre-Qing Dynasty.
What is a treasury soldier is the soldier who manages the silver treasury of the household department. In the late Qing Dynasty, politics was chaotic, corruption was rampant, the fattest official was the official of the household department, as a small Treasury soldier also followed a lot of light, the way for them to get rich was the Treasury Itself, and the means was to "guard and steal from themselves."
The Qing Law stipulates that treasury soldiers must be naked to prevent theft. But the Kurmen had a way, they hid the silver in their anus.
In order to steal silver, some people have been doing training since they were teenagers, first smearing eggs with sesame oil and stuffing them in, slowly finding duck eggs, goose eggs, and finally iron eggs, which can clip up to 8 iron eggs, which is equivalent to stealing 50 taels of silver.
In the winter, it is simpler to steal, take the teapot in, put the silver in the teapot, and when you go out, even if you pour the teapot to the sky, you can't pour the silver, because it is cold, the silver is frozen.
Speaking of casinos, casinos in the late Qing Dynasty were all over the city, and because of the protection fee paid to the commander-in-chief Yamen, generally no one caught gambling, but there were exceptions. When the three conditions are met, the servants will act. Which three conditions?
First, the children of the rich or the rich bureaucrats from other provinces who have entered Beijing;
Second, gambling at home, not involving others;
Third, there must be contradictions within gamblers.
As long as these three conditions are met, the servant gate will move in the middle of the night. The gamblers were arrested in the classroom and claimed to be in court at dawn and that they would be "punished with a big punishment." Usually, caught gamblers will ask for forgiveness, either write an IOU, or pay bribes on the spot, seeking private interest.
In the Qing Dynasty, the purchase and sale of human beings was explicitly prohibited, but some gangsters carried out this evil activity. Usually, they take advantage of the desperate situation of the poor, collude with buyers, and try to drive down prices.
Some traffickers also use deceptive means to encourage others to sell their wives for profit, or to abduct young children. Some organized trafficking groups even gang up, or openly loot women, or collude with officials to trafficke in human beings.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many outlaws who engaged in this "business", colluding with foreigners and selling their compatriots overseas to become "piglets". Those Chinese who were trafficked overseas worked as coolies, and finally they were squeezed out of their blood and sweat and died in a foreign country, while the traffickers made a windfall.
In the Republic of China, this "industry" not only did not collapse, but also became more rampant, developing into a "mature" industry with a clear division of labor, and there were special jargons, such as selling boys called "moving stones" and selling girls "picking mulberry leaves".
Yama's account is also a usury, which is nothing more than a kind of profit-making loan that uses the poor people to engage in.
Judging from the types of "work" that Liu Siye has engaged in, it is basically an illegal "profiteering" industry, and there is basically a phenomenon of collusion between officials and businessmen. Fourth Master Liu has also clashed with people in it and been arrested, according to him, he has fought in groups and kneeled on iron ropes.
The "group fight" in Liu Siye's mouth is not a mutual fight between three or five people who do not look good, but it is very likely to involve a civil weapon fight.
"Kneeling iron rope" is a kind of punishment in the Qing Dynasty, "as the name suggests, kneeling on the iron rope, as the prisoner in the picture above is tied to a wooden frame with his hands tied to a wooden frame, and his knees are kneeling on a chain, which will cause blood and muscle acidity, and may leave sequelae."
When Liu Siye mentioned this punishment, not only did he not have the color of fear, but he also enjoyed it quite "." At that time, he knelt on the iron rope, his brow did not wrinkle, he did not shout a spare life, he had to carry the matter of eating the lawsuit, and therefore he had his own so-called "name" in the jianghu.
In the Republic of China era, he found that the era of "soil chaos" and robbery had passed, and with the rise of the times was the oppression of warlord bureaucrats, so Liu Siye found that "the power of the patrol police is getting bigger and bigger", which is also the reason why he opened people and depots.
Born as a local gangster, in the chaotic world, according to his life experience of doing some illegal livelihoods, he has the qualifications and skills to deal with the poor, such as strength, heart, means, communication, brand name, etc., he has it.
Therefore, he knew when to loosen and when to tighten, and he could squeeze the coachman to death, so that even if they had all their strength, they could not escape the palm of his hand.
That is to say, how could Fourth Master Liu, who has always been accustomed to earning money from the poor masses, let the poor give a pot to the end? Do you want to collect the money together? For Liu Siye, who has been mixed with society for a lifetime, it is simply an "insult" to his life, bullying the poor all his life, and finally letting the poor be bullied.
Just at this point, leaving aside the fact that Tiger Girl is dead, even if Tiger Girl is alive, Shoko and Tiger Girl don't want to fish half a bit of oil and water from him.
Some people say that he has a smell of big brother in the jianghu, sorry, but the contemptible people can't agree with this statement. The coachman can live in the man and the depot for free, but he can't pay the car, and he still throws you out of the door like a broken kettle, and doesn't even give you a roll.
When Xiangzi is physically good, he is still like a person, even if he bought his own car, Liu Siye can still let him live for free, that's because Xiangzi still has the value of use, and when he is idle, he goes to help take care of the car factory's car, wipe the car, inflate, dry the rain cloth, grease...
The courtyard and the doorway are always clean, even if the tiger lady scolds him, he always listens not to argue, and Xiangzi knows the grace map, and also gives him some small favors, such as a box of foreign fire.
Such an incident can only show that the so-called jianghu qi in his body is nothing more than a temporary expedient measure. There was no free lunch in his place, and everything was for profit.
Therefore, when Tiger Lady made her marriage to Shoko clear at his birthday party, it was like facing the provocation of the poor, he would never give in, and even the scum would not be left for them.
The cold and selfish father has more than one Liu Fourth Master
The novel "Camel Shoko" can be said to be a history of the degeneration of human nature. In the novel, for the characters who are extremely hostile to society, such as Hu Yu and Liu Siye, it is a retaliatory ending. And for the poor and poor, such as Xiangzi, Xiaofuzi Laoma, etc., there is no good ending.
From the perspective of human nature, they all fell from the beautiful ideas they once had, and finally fell into the abyss.
With good wishes, Tiger Girl marries herself to Shoko by means of seduction. Moreover, thinking of squandering hundreds of pieces of ocean in his hand, he also returned to the people and depot with Xiangzi, hoping to eventually inherit Liu Siye's rice bowl.
However, the reality is that Liu Siye does not want her to get married, and hopes that she will help him take care of the depot for the rest of his life. However, Tiger Girl insisted on marrying Xiangzi, and he disregarded the father-daughter relationship and drove away Tiger Girl, who had lost its use value, which also indirectly led to the fate of Tiger Girl's life, and died tragically in the poor people's compound.
For Liu Siye, who only has money in his eyes, the ending of forcing his daughter to die may not be surprising. But for the once poor and industrious second strong son, he finally forced his daughter Xiaofuzi to die.
In order to meet the needs of the family, the second strong son first sold Xiaofuzi to an officer. When the officer abandoned Xiaofuzi, he urged Xiaofuzi to sell himself to meet his daily needs. When selling herself could not meet the needs of the second strongman, he simply sold her to the "white house" to become a prostitute, which directly led to the death of Xiaofuzi.
The same father, rich or poor, the fate of Tiger Girl and Xiao Fuzi is the same. To borrow a phrase from Zhang Ailing, "In this time of chaos, individualists have nowhere to go."
Lao She's character settings for Liu Siye and The Second Qiangzi all show the cruelty of the times. In such a cold and chaotic era, almost no one can escape, and in the end, no one can get what they want.
In summary, from two aspects, it explains the reason why Fourth Master Liu could not give up his property to Tiger Lady and Xiangzi. For reference only.