Chapter 34 Chapter 32 A Labor Problem That Is Widespread

At the door, the animals stopped again, still a little timid.But Shoufa led the way into the garden without any concern.They tiptoed to the house, and the big animal stretched its neck and looked in from the dining-room window.There were five or six farmers and five or six pigs of the highest rank sitting around a long table.Sitting in the seat of honor at the top of the table is Napoleon.The pig looked very comfortable sitting on the chair.The host and guest are happily playing cards.Then everyone paused for a while to toast each other.A large wine jug was passed around the table, and the large wine glasses on the table were filled with beer again.No one noticed the surprised faces looking in from the windows.

Mr. Pilkington, owner of Foxwood Farm, rose to his feet with his tall drink in his hand.He said he would like to invite everyone here to drink.But before he toasted, he felt compelled to say a few words. Long-running suspicions and misunderstandings are finally over, he said.For him, it was a desirable thing, and he believed it must be for the rest of the audience.There had been a time--though neither he nor anyone else in the room approved of such sentiments--there had been times when the venerable owners of Animal Farm were treated by their human neighbors--he didn't want to use the word "hostility" Words—perhaps it should be said that they are somewhat suspicious of neighbors.There have been unfortunate incidents and misconceptions.There was a feeling that something was wrong with a farm owned and managed by pigs, and that it would have an unsettling effect on the area.There are many farm owners who, without investigation, have concluded that on such a farm there will be an unhealthy trend of debauchery and lawlessness.They fear that this ethos will have an adverse effect on their animals and even their employees, and they are nervous.But all those doubts have now dissipated.Today, he and several of his friends visited Animal Farm and inspected every inch of the farm with his own eyes.What did they see? Not only were the production practices state-of-the-art, but they were also disciplined and well-ordered, and farmers anywhere should be an example.It can be said that the lower animals of Animal Farm do more work and consume less rations than any animal in the area.He believed his conclusion was correct.He and the partners who came here to visit saw many unique things here with their own eyes today.They are ready to introduce these advantages to their own farms at once.

Pilkington said that, before concluding his remarks, he wished to emphasize once again the friendly feeling that had developed between Animal Farm and its neighbours, and should long endure.There has never been, nor should there be, any conflict of interest between pigs and humans.They have common goals and difficulties.Isn't the labor problem a common problem today? Everyone can see that Mr. Pilkington is going to tell everyone a quip that has been prepared in advance, but before he can say it, he laughs so hard that he doesn't say it for a long time Come up with a word.He groaned for a long time, the flesh on his fat chin turned red, and finally said this sentence: "If you have some lower animals to deal with, we also have to fight against the lower class!" This sentence is full of wit The words caused a roar of laughter.Once again Mr. Pilkington congratulated the pigs for the low rations, long hours and unrelenting strict management he had seen on Animal Farm.

Finally he asked both host and guest to stand up and see if their glasses were filled. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Pilkington, "gentlemen, let us toast to the prosperity of Animal Farm!" There was a loud cheer and stamping of feet in the dining room.Napoleon was overjoyed.He left his seat, went round the table, clinked glasses with Mr Pilkington, and drank what was in his paws.When the cheers died down, Napoleon, who was still standing, said he, too, had a few words to say. Napoleon's speech was not long every time, and this time his speech was also very short, but he made the main points of the conversation very clear.He said he was equally pleased that the era of suspicion and misunderstanding was over.Rumors had long circulated—rumours, he had reason to believe, deliberately spread by malicious enemies—that he and his colleagues had some kind of subversive, even revolutionary point of view, that they were conspiring to inflame their neighbours. Several farm animals rebelled.Nothing could be further from the truth than these rumors.Whether it was past or present, their only desire is to live in a peaceful environment and establish normal business relations with their neighbors.He is honored to be in charge of the farm, which, he added, is a cooperative venture.The deeds of the estate kept in his hand were in common ownership of the pigs.

He said that he believed that the suspicions of the past had disappeared, but that some reforms had been made in the routines of the farm not long ago in order to enhance mutual trust with neighbors.It used to be a silly convention for farm animals to call each other "comrade".It is forbidden to call it like this in the future.In addition, the farm has a strange tradition whose origin is now obscure.That is, every Sunday morning all members procession in the garden past a pig skull nailed to a wooden post.This ceremony will also be cancelled.The skeleton has been buried.Plus, visiting guests may have seen a green flag atop the flagpole.If so, they may have noticed that the white hooves and horns that used to be painted on the flag are now gone.Now up is a solid green flag without any image.

Napoleon said he had only one disagreement with Mr. Pilkington's very good and friendly speech.Mr. Pilkington used the name "Animal Farm" throughout his speech.Mr. Pilkington certainly did not know—for it was he, Napoleon, who had first announced it—that the name Animal Farm had been abolished.From now on, the farm has resumed its old name "Manor Farm".He believed the original name was correct. "Gentlemen," concluded Napoleon, "I would also like to invite you all to a toast. My toast is the same as Mr. Pilkington's, but with a different name. Fill your glasses first. Gentlemen." , my congratulations are 'Congratulations on the prosperity of the manor farm'."

As before, there was another burst of enthusiastic cheers in the hall; the hosts and guests drank their glasses to the bottom.Now the animals who were watching the scene outside seemed to see something strange going on in the house.What had become of the faces of the pigs? Clover's old, dim eyes swept from one pig's face to another.Some faces have five chins, some have four, some have three.But what is merging and changing? At this moment, the applause stopped, and the host and guest picked up the cards again, continuing the interrupted game.The animals peeping out of the window also left here quietly.

The animals hadn't gone twenty yards when they stopped suddenly; they heard uproarious noises coming from the house.They hurried back and looked in from the window again.It is true that there is a violent argument going on in the house.Some shouted loudly, some slapped the table, some stared at each other suspiciously, and some angrily denied it.The cause of the quarrel appeared to be the simultaneous showing of the ace of spades by Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington. Twelve throats screamed angrily, and it was no longer possible to tell which was a human and which was a pig.Now it is very clear what has changed in the pig's face.The animals outside the window looked at the pig first, then at the human, and vice versa, first at the human and then at the pig, but they could no longer tell the difference between a human and a pig.