Slaves are always just looking for someone to complain to. As long as this is the case, this is the only way. One day, he met a wise man.
"Sir!" he said sadly, tears streaming down from the corners of his eyes. "You know. The life I live is simply not a human life. I don't necessarily eat one meal a day, and this meal is just sorghum skin. Even pigs and dogs don't eat it, and it only has a small bowl..."
"This is really pitiful." The wise man said sadly.
"That's right!" He was happy. "But the work is day and night without rest: carrying water in the morning and cooking in the evening, running around in the morning and grinding noodles at night, washing clothes in sunny days and opening umbrellas in rainy days, burning the steam stove in winter and fanning in summer. In the middle of the night, you have to simmer white fungus, wait on the master and make money; the first dollar never ends No points, sometimes even whipped..."
"Alas..." The smart man sighed, his eyes were a little red, and he seemed to be crying.
"Sir! I can't cope with this. I have to find another way. But what way?..."
"I think you will get better... "
"Really? I hope so. But I feel a lot more comfortable after I have expressed my grievances to my husband and received your sympathy and comfort..."
However, within a few days, he became dissatisfied again and still looked for someone to complain to.
"Sir!" he said with tears, "you know. The place I live in is worse than a pig's nest. The master doesn't treat me as a human being; he treats his pug even better. Tens of thousands of times..."
"Damn it!" the man shouted, surprising him. That man is a fool.
"Sir, I live in a shabby hut. It's damp, dark, and full of bed bugs. I bite them hard when I sleep. The smell is strong in my nose, and there are no windows on all sides..."
"Don't you want your master to open a window?"
"How can this be done?..."
"Then, you take me Go and see!"
The fool and the slave went outside his house and started smashing the mud wall.
"Sir! What are you doing?" he said in shock.
"I'll open a window hole for you."
"This won't work! The master will scold me!"
"Whatever!" He still smashed it .
"Come here! The robbers are destroying our house! Come quickly! They will break a hole later!..." He cried and rolled on the ground.
A group of minions came out and drove the fool away.
Hearing the shouting, the owner slowly came out last.
"A robber was coming to destroy our house. I shouted first and everyone drove him away together." He said respectfully and triumphantly.
"You are good." The master praised him.
On this day, many people came to express condolences, including smart people.
"Sir, this time because of my merits, the master praised me. You said before that I will always get better, which is really prescient..." He said happily as if he was very hopeful.
"Isn't it..." The wise man also answered him happily.
The wise man symbolizes the defender of the feudal ruling class. On the surface, he sympathizes with the suffering of the slaves, but in fact he gives them mental anesthesia. The fool symbolizes the resolute resister of feudal rule. The slave is a victim of the feudal ruling class. He symbolizes those people in a sick society who are ignorant and do not know how to resist, such as Ah Q.
Lu Xun said in the "Inscription" of "Weeds": "I love my weeds, but I hate the ground on which I use weeds as decoration." This "ground" is the society that produces weeds. "Twenty Wild Grasses: Wise Men, Fools and Slaves" writes about the different attitudes of different people in this society. The author criticized the "smart people" who maintained the old society, satirized the "minions" who were dissatisfied with this society but actually maintained it, and praised the "idiots" who fought resolutely against the old society and wanted to destroy it. This article is short and concise, clear and concise, with profound implications. It is an excellent article in "Weeds".