Chapter 133: Cognitive Limitations
Actually, this point about the boy is not good; it’s not something to learn from, because the more foolish he is, the more likely he is to be suspected.
After all, no one can be with someone twenty-four hours a day. If you overthink things for a moment, wouldn’t that lead to a misunderstanding?
He had just returned home not long ago when Jiushen’er called the boy saying the accounts were incorrect and asked him to come over.
Hearing this, the boy smiled. He felt fortunate that he had returned home to raise pigs; otherwise, things would have become even more ridiculous over time.
When the boy arrived at the media company, Jiushen’er told the boy to let him calculate it. The boy took a pen and notebook and organized it line by line.
Not long after, Jiushen’er told the boy to stop calculating and to just throw the ledger away.
Perhaps in Jiushen’er’s eyes, this was very loyal. He didn’t argue about the incorrect accounts and even discarded the ledger.
But in the boy’s heart, this matter truly chilled him. Not to mention Jiushen’er’s words that the money earned from the bar would all go to the boy, even if he had said to split it equally or to pay the boy a salary, it wouldn’t have come to this. This is because the bar’s business at the time was tilted, and the business was not very good. Moreover, many of the customers were Jiushen’er’s buddies and friends or people he wanted to get to know. They would order extra dishes, and some who didn’t want to drink would ask the boy to buy alcohol from next door without charging extra. In the end, even the small change had to be waived.
Let’s say the boy didn’t pocket a single cent from this, and yet he’s still causing trouble. If the boy truly wanted money, would it be this troublesome? Wouldn’t he be able to get tens of thousands in compensation if he were crippled? The surgery alone cost over a hundred thousand, and the steel plates and screws in one leg cost over forty thousand. Would he care about a few hundred or a thousand on the bill? Even if it were ten thousand or a hundred thousand, do you think he would have embezzled it?
From this point on, the boy decided he would never again inconvenience himself to help anyone. He would no longer help even his best friends. This truly angered him.
The boy’s days of raising pigs at home were also not peaceful. When he used to do live broadcasts, his brother-in-law would sometimes call him when he was short on money, and he transferred red envelopes to him a few times. Furthermore, when buying a house, the boy had suggested to his family to help with some of the money. During those years when his brother-in-law had no money, the boy let him live at home for several years.
Now that the boy is crippled and owes so much money, his brother-in-law often tells him, “Younger brother, you need to be more mindful. You should do something properly. When I was your age, my nephew was already several years old.”
However, what he didn’t mention was that the boy’s nephew was raised at the boy’s home, and at that time, the boy’s parents helped a lot with watching and raising him.
Logically, the brother-in-law shouldn’t speak to his wife’s younger brother like this. But the boy’s parents were very good people, treating the boy’s brother-in-law like a son. They completely spoiled him to the point where he couldn’t distinguish between right and wrong. How can you speak to the boy like that? If the boy is unwilling, how will your father-in-law and mother-in-law treat you later? He’s incredibly foolish.
Furthermore, during a drinking session, he went on and on, saying to the boy, “I’ll give you twenty thousand yuan, help you out. From now on, be more mindful. Among the people in our family, you and your older cousin from Auntie’s family are the ones I look down on the most.”
Originally, the boy had always been happy-go-lucky and didn’t take anything seriously. After these words were spoken, the boy was truly furious. “Is it over? I’m not saying anything, and you’re still going on and on! I don’t need your help, and you’re already scolding me before you’ve even helped! What good will come of it if you do help? I don’t need you.”
Seeing the boy getting angry, the brother-in-law said irritably, “You’re something, younger brother. Fine, you have ambition.”
The boy’s father was constantly trying to appease both of them. The boy, afraid of making his father difficult, softened his tone and said, “Come on, brother-in-law, younger brother drank too much. What I just said was a bit excessive.”
He then clinked glasses with his brother-in-law and drank it all down in one go. From that day on, he never drank with his brother-in-law again.
What kind of person is he? His own family treated him well, and he treated him like an older brother. When people are down, they step on them. Forget about it being his brother-in-law; even if it were his biological father, with the boy’s disposition, he would still turn hostile.
Afterwards, the boy told his parents, “If he gives us money, no one in our family is to accept it, and you’re not allowed to secretly take it for me. If I find out, I will definitely turn hostile.”
The boy’s parents knew the boy’s temper. Once he became serious, his words were truly resolute and unquestionable.
This is very similar to how words become law in the cultivation world.
On the other side, the piglets being raised were obtained by the boy’s mother from the boy’s maternal uncle’s older brother.
Originally, when the boy’s live broadcasts were going well, his older brother told him, “Develop well, younger brother. When you’re doing better, help Big Brother.”
Now he’s saying, “You need to be more mindful. What’s the use of going out and making those kinds of friends every day? I’m only doing this out of concern for my second aunt. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t bother with you.”
Although the boy remembered what his older brother said, he wasn’t angry because when the boy was hospitalized, his older brother worked during the day and then lay on a small folding bed at the hospital to keep him company and guard him at night. After a few days, his back pain condition flared up. He also fell and tripped from a ladder while helping the boy’s family with work. The boy clearly understood things.
Later, as he expected, his older brother only said it a few times and then stopped. Although the words were very annoying, the boy didn’t hold a grudge.
People are animals who are greedy for money. When you have money, everyone is nice to you and treats you like family. When you don’t have money, even your mother glares at you with annoyance, because they call being broke “no promise” and being rich “ability.”
People are made into neither humans nor ghosts by this concept, with their ridicule of poverty and praise of vice being so rampant. Where are normal people to be found?
Normal people are in wealthy families, because only the children of wealthy families are educated with the correct outlook on life and methods of making money.
But the children from poor families are told to work hard, while at the same time being scorned for having no money and no ambition.
As the old saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes; a rat’s son can dig holes.
This is like a rat giving birth to a rat and then blaming its child for not becoming a dragon!
They don’t look for reasons within themselves, but rather tell their children that it’s enough to be stable, happy, healthy, and safe.
At the same time, they say to their children, “Look at so-and-so from so-and-so’s family, they’re doing so well, and then look at you.”
Of course, this cannot be blamed on parents, because their understanding is limited, and their thoughts are simple. They think that life will get better simply by working hard.
The reality is that working hard isn’t even enough to buy a decent house. However, parents don’t think that far ahead. They will only tell you, “Look at so-and-so’s family, they made a down payment, bought an apartment, got married, and then did this and that.”
What parents don’t consider is that paying a mortgage and raising a child and a wife, a salary of a few thousand yuan can crush a grown man, making him afraid to rest or spend money recklessly.
After more than ten years of repayment, the mortgage is just finished, and they have to start preparing betrothal gifts for their child, and money to buy a house for their child. Then they continue working. In the meantime, they cannot get seriously ill or die prematurely, otherwise, all their efforts will be in vain, and the child cannot be properly arranged.
This path is clearly problematic, like a vicious cycle, even if some people say that struggling for a lifetime at least leaves a house for the child.
But this house is meant for when you’re gone and your son is older. What use does he have for this broken house? He doesn’t have the ability to make money, and even if the house is sold, he’ll just be spending his inheritance away.
Cognitive limitations dictate the life direction of all poor people.
