The two families of Zhang Hu and Kong Wen are typical of the incompatibility of water and fire in the village. The 57-year-old Zhang Hu has a mean personality, and a heart harder than iron is hidden under his thin body, and the people in the village often feel tricky as soon as they deal with him, so Qi Qi gave him the nickname "Iron Rooster".
As a neighbor, Kong Wen is the complete opposite of Zhang Hu, 52 years old, he is short and round, always smiling, and he has always been fair and thoughtful in his actions and words in the village, and he is loved by acquaintances.
The living conditions of the two families seem to be the same. Zhang Hu's family is a family of four, and the only daughter has married out, leaving his 26-year-old son to work in the village-run factory. Kong Wen also has a similar family, a family of four, a daughter is married, and a son works in a factory in the county seat.
However, the difference in the fate of the two families is determined by their very different styles of doing things. Zhang Hu drowns his sorrows with wine all day long, and his mean personality makes him not get along with his neighbors for many years; The wife had no choice but to shake her head helplessly.
When I was a child, I lived in the school and didn't share my meals with others, and I didn't pay for food at work, etc., all kinds of dirty behaviors made people lose their popularity. In contrast, Kong Wen treats people sincerely, sticks all the things around, and sends his heart every time there is a happy event in the village, so the reputation of the two families is very different.
Zhang Hu has loved to take advantage of others since he was a child, and he often sees the difficulties of others and does not help, but takes the opportunity to seek small profits. For example, several old classmates recalled that during the school stay, the classmates shared each other's meals, but Zhang Hu always hid his own dishes and waited for others to eat them before eating them alone.
Later, no one even asked him to go with him to eat.
I analyze that this is inseparable from the environment in which he grew up. It is said that Zhang Hu's parents are in average condition and have several children to raise. In order to save more money for his siblings, Zhang Hu was taught to save money since he was a child, so he developed a miserly character.
In addition, the children's life was difficult at that time and there was a lack of care and training, and Zhang Hu's altruistic feelings were not well developed.
The neighbor Kong Wen is different, his family conditions are better, his parents take good care of him, and he has been instilled in him since he was a child, and he has been instilled with fairness and integrity, and he cannot see profit and forget righteousness.
A few years ago, Kong Wen's father was sick and hospitalized, and several families in the neighborhood spontaneously pooled money to help pay for medical expenses, and Kong Wen has always been in mind about this matter. Later, he worked part-time to earn some money, and he would often visit and sponsor some elderly people in the neighborhood who were not well-off.
It can be seen that a good family education and environment have made Kong Wen grow into an upright and righteous person.
This is the social root of the formation of the characters of Zhang Hu and Kong Wen, and it also lays some reasons for future disputes.
That year, the townspeople wanted to demarcate the vacant homestead in the village and use it for a fee. As soon as Zhang Hu heard that he wanted to pay the money, he immediately waved his hand and said that his family did not lack that small piece of land, so he didn't need to ask for it.
His neighbor Kong Wen, considering that it might come in handy in the future, simply registered the vacant land in his name as long as he paid a small fee every year.
Time flies, and the past ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. Kong Wen's son was getting married, and the two families began to discuss building a new house. Zhang Hu has always been accustomed to doing his own thing, and he didn't communicate with Kong Wen at all, so he started construction and started building his own two-story building.
Kong Wen's wife could only ask the village cadres to come forward to dissuade him at this time. However, since Zhang Hu has taken advantage, how can he easily spit it out? He said with strong arguments that he only took a little less of the vacant land allocated by the government, and it was not too much.
After some ideological negotiations with the village cadres to no avail, they had no choice but to call Kong Wen, who was working in the field, to inform him of the incident.
Kong Wen was extremely angry when he heard this, he was already respected for his integrity and righteousness. At this time, this tiger openly encroached on his foundation to build a house, which was really unacceptable to him. For a while, he also considered finding his own family gate to help deal with Zhang Hu.
Zhang Hu forcibly occupied Kong Wen's homestead of more than one meter and finally succeeded, but he never thought that this thing, which seemed to be completely profitable for himself, actually buried the endless consequences of the family in the future.
Ten years later, the fates of the two families contrasted. Kong Wen's eldest son has a successful career, has married and had children, and the family has been happy for three generations. And Zhang Hu's son has not married a daughter-in-law so far, and the father and son are living in difficulty.
The causes and consequences of this are really worth pondering.
Zhang Hu's deeds of encroaching on the neighbor's foundation are well known in the village. Over time, outsiders have a worse impression of Zhang Hu's family, who already love to take advantage of small advantages. Later, when Zhang Hu went on a blind date for his son, the other party's family inquired which girl's girl was willing to get on this boat? After several attempts to no avail, Zhang Hu's father and son could only live a sad life, and they became poorer and poorer.
On the other hand, Kong Wen's benevolence and righteousness won him the universal respect and gratitude of the villagers. People called him a gentleman with a good heart. This played a great role in promoting Kong Wen's son to marry a decent girl's daughter in the future.
Later, there was a huge divergence in the fate trajectories of the two families, which shows that karma is obvious.
As the old saying goes: There is no way to bring good and evil, only people invite themselves. Zhang Hu has grown wise by eating a trench, which also provides a warning to our lives.