What is the background of Vanka s life?

In his dream, Vanka saw a warm kang on which sat his grandfather, with his legs drooping, reading his letter, and loaches walking around the kang, wagging their tails ......At this moment, Vanka felt someone tugging at his hair, and then scolded, "Vanka, did you steal the ink?" Vanka opened his eyes suddenly, and saw that the boss was pulling his hair, still yelling loudly

You kid is so bold that you dare to steal ink! Tell me, do you dry with ink? Yes?!

What do you ask? Say it! ”

Then the boss dragged Vanka to the backyard, beat him with a belt, and warned him: "If you dare to do this again, be careful that I starve you to death!" Go wash my clothes now, and don't eat tomorrow morning."

Vanka endured the pain, washed his clothes, the sky was white, and it was dawn. The men all got up, and one of them said maliciously, "You boy is bold enough, I'm afraid you're going to see death tomorrow."

After eating at noon, except for Fan Ka washing dishes in the store, the other guys were basking in the sun outside the door. After a while, I saw the guys all running in, holding an envelope in their hands: "Vanka, your letter is here!"

Vanka put down his bowl and was about to grab the letter, when one of the men said, "You go and fetch wine for us first, and I'll give it back to you when we get back." Van Kati put on the wine bottle and rushed to the tavern as fast as he could, but he didn't expect to meet the proprietress halfway, "You beast, you stole ink last night, and today you went to the tavern to drink, you are simply lawless!"

As he spoke, he kicked Vanka to the ground, and Vanka fell down with a "plop", the wine bottle shattered, and the glass slag pierced into his leg, which hurt his heart. When he got back to the shoemaker's house, the men had long since dispersed, and he opened the envelope, only to find it empty.

At night, Vanka thought that if he stayed here any longer, he would die. So, while everyone was asleep, he climbed from the first-floor corridor to the backyard, climbed over the backyard wall, and ran straight in the direction of the countryside. The sky was still clear during the day, and now it was snowing heavily, and Vanka was wearing only a thin and shabby dress, which made him shiver from the cold.

In this way, Vanka walked and walked, walked and walked, and before he knew it, he had come to the countryside. He could no longer walk, and fell into the snow, and at about the same time, his grandfather, seeing that it was snowing heavily, put on a sheepskin jacket and came out with a kerosene lamp, and inadvertently found Vanka lying on the snow.

When the old man saw his grandson, he couldn't help but be surprised, so he carried him back to the old man's house. The old man's family was very kind to Vanka, and they took pity on this poor child, and Vanka lived happily ever after.

In the context of the oppression under the rule of the tsars, the life of the poor family.

Miserable life under Tsarist Russia.

Mistreatment was brutally abused. Tragic encounter. Cruel and brutal. Selfish and barbaric.