Full text of "粜米"

Original text

The Wanshengmihang River pier is dotted with open-top boats from the countryside. The boat was loaded with new rice, which weighed the boat down very low. The vegetable leaves and garbage along the sides of the ship were surrounded by white foam, which rippled and filled the gap between this ship and that ship.

Going up from Hebu is a street where only two or three people can walk side by side. Wansheng Rice Shop is on the other side of the street. The morning sun slanted down from the broken open-tile ceiling, and the light pillars fell on a few old felt hats swinging outside the counter.

Those people wearing old felt hats came out of the boat early in the morning. When they arrived at the pier, without even breathing, they came to the counter to divine their fate. "Five pieces of brown rice, three pieces of grain," the gentleman in the rice shop answered them weakly.

Some of them squandered the rice they ate, sold their poor cattle, or borrowed four and five cents to pay rent; some stepped forward and were imprisoned in detention centers. , two corners and three corners, reluctant to pay for their meals, some indulge in gambling, hoping that the domino dice will work, and win ten or eight yuan a game.

Some came to put in good words and cancel the lease to the landlord, preparing to become a clean pauper; some fled and quietly climbed onto the fourth-class train bound for Shanghai.

The article "Selling Rice": This is an excerpt from Ye Shengtao's famous book "Three or Five Dou More Harvest". It tells the story of farmers in old China who sold rice after a good harvest. Although the price of rice fell, they I have to bear the pain of selling at a low price.

Extended information:

Mr. Ye Shengtao's "Collecting Three or Five Dou More" is set in the old China in the 1930s. At that time, the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River were deeply oppressed by the three mountains. Today's world is certainly different. Nowadays, society has the support of the government, and information and logistics are relatively mature. We hope that the low price of grain and the harm to farmers will not happen again.

"An Overharvest of Three or Five Dou" tells the story of the tragic fate of farmers in old China who suffered from bumper harvests and disasters, from selling rice at the Wansheng Rice Shop in Hebu to shopping on the street. Different places and different scenes.

The novel depicts a group of farmers in the south of the Yangtze River in old China in the 1930s who struggled to make ends meet at a loss, but in the good years they suffered even more tragic misfortunes than in previous years. It vividly reveals the reality of the rapid bankruptcy of rural areas in old China under the oppression of the three mountains, which indicates that farmers will surely embark on the road of resistance.

On the surface, the novel is written that the harvest that year was better than in previous years, and the lives of the tenant farmers in the southern water towns can be improved. However, from the side, it reflects the suffering and difficult living conditions of the people due to excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and expresses the appreciation for the working people. Deep sympathy and disgust and resentment towards those in power plundering people’s wealth and anointing.

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