Give you a dollar, would you like to be a horse?
I've even given you a job, don't you even give me a begging girl?
A housekeeper bought a boy to make a "horse" for his little young master with a disability in both legs for one dollar a day.
After some careful selection, he chose a boy who was physically strong and had some intellectual disabilities.
The boy carried the little young master to school every day. The little young master studied in the classroom while the boy could only crouch in the middle of a group of donkeys.
After class, the young master ordered the boy to play horse racing games with other students on his back. At first, the boy was slightly ahead. But soon, he ran harder and harder, and finally fell to the ground overwhelmed. Watching the other students run farther and farther, the little young master kept waving the whip in his hand to make the boy get back on his feet. There was no way, the boy had to struggle and stand up again.
After returning home, taking a good bath for the little young master, and rubbing his back, the boy finally got today's reward, a dollar. On the way home, he ran and shouted happily. He wanted to announce to the world that he could make a dollar a day.
The boy carried the little young master on his back to the competition. The little young master waved his whip, propped open the boy's mouth with his hand, and drove him forward like a horse. In order not to lose this one-dollar-a-day job, the boy struggled to get up even if he fell to the ground. Constant failure, constant challenge. In the end he won.
In order to reward him, the little young master bought him an ice cream. But the boy did not eat it, but gave ice cream to a beggar boy. It turned out that the boy had been silently fond of the girl, often sitting on the side of the road secretly watching him. After the little young master discovered this secret, he said that he also liked girls. But the boy said the girl was his. The little host said that the two of them could share the girl's love together. The boy did not agree. When the little master saw this, he threatened the boy and said, I have even given you a job, won't you even give me a girl begging for food?
The boy left angrily, leaving the little young master behind. No matter how the little young master scolded, he did not come back, this was the first time he resisted.
The next day, in order to get revenge on the boy, the little young master let him carry himself to the girl, and then gave the girl a lot of money. The girl's eyes were filled with tears of gratitude. At this moment, the boy was very sad. He desperately suppressed the tears flowing out. He suddenly understood that he could not give the girl anything and that his only salary of one dollar a day was still given by the little young master. Seeing that the little young master was constantly humiliating himself, the boy directly left him and left. At this time, the young master was helpless, the boy was gone, and his life could not take care of himself, so he let him chase the boy hard, hugged his legs tightly, tripped him to the ground, and then quickly climbed on his back. Once again, he yelled out at the boy. This time, the boy did not resist.
In this way, after a while, the boy had put on the saddle, put on the reins, and became a real "horse". No feelings, no thoughts. At this time, the little young master found the girl again and asked her if she wanted to ride his horse, and the girl shook her head. But then the little young master dropped a coin, and the girl saw it and immediately ran up and picked it up. Then he threw them all the way, and the girl picked up three people all the way back home. The little young master and the girl went back to the room, leaving the boy alone to boil water outside, as if everything had nothing to do with him. When he saw the little young master come out of the room, he finally couldn't help but cry.
The story comes from an Iranian film: The Boy in the Saddle.
Iran, a country of war and conflict. Under the shadow of war, the humanity of the rich and the poor is distorted and alienated, and gradually evolves into animals.
The poor man's representative boy, Gia, is an orphan who survived the war. Living in an abandoned steel pipe, the dust almost buried his face. In this encounter, he gradually alienated into a man who had no hope and only wanted to be a horse. The real sadness is that he himself does not feel sad about the things that make us feel sad and unwilling to do anything, because as long as he eats grass and lives humbly, like a horse, everything else can be abandoned.
The little young master represented by the rich man was actually a poor child. His mother died in the war, and he himself lost both legs in the war. Not only that, but his father was no longer by his side, and the sound of his crying was no longer audible. He said: Mom, where are you? Why abandon me? He wished he could have a horse or a donkey who could run. His father then decided to find a boy who was strong enough to run like a horse or a donkey to be the young master's mount. The reward is one dollar a day. In their village, there were as many wandering children as the ruins of the war, and after repeated selection, the young master chose Gia.
There are many things in the world, when human nature is tested, please insist on protecting it a little more!
