Chen Hansheng lives in Lidian School and shares a room with a classmate named Chen Zaomin. Chen Hansheng is looking for a partner so that he won't be too lonely. The room was small, almost only a bed, and there were some lumps of coal under the bed, which was black. Although Chen Hansheng frowned, he still didn't think about it.

Chen Zaomin is an orphan who came out of a lonely home, several years older than Chen Hansheng, although he looks very honest, his personality is a little eccentric, even a little reckless. As soon as Chen Hansheng moved in, he assigned Chen Hansheng which places were used by him and which places were used by Chen Hansheng, and told Chen Hansheng that his place could not be occupied. Chen Hansheng is not the kind of child who loves to compete with others, and he doesn't care about Chen Zaomin, he just wants to have a place to sleep.

After a long time, Chen Zaomin saw that Chen Hansheng was easy to speak, so he gradually had a good impression of him. The two children also talked more.

Although Chen Zaomin is an orphan, he doesn't like others to say that he is an orphan, as if saying that he is an orphan means that he has no parents. Once, a student grabbed a table tennis racket with him, but the student didn't grab it, so he scolded Chen Zaomin, saying that he was an orphan with no father and no mother. Chen Zaomin was so angry that he blushed and had a thick neck, and fought with that classmate on the spot. It wasn't until the teacher came to persuade and criticized the classmate that Chen Zaomin slowly dissipated his anger. Since then, no classmate dares to say that Chen Zaomin is an orphan. But although it is not said, almost all the students in the class know that Chen Zaomin is an orphan, and he is an orphan with a strange temper. After Chen Hansheng felt this, he never touched this sensitive point of Chen Zaomin, and remembered a sentence that his grandmother once taught him, don't hurt your feet when you beat people, and don't talk about your shortcomings.

Chen Zaomin became more and more fond of Chen Hansheng and taught Chen Hansheng to learn to play table tennis. Chen Hansheng was originally an idle man, and when he heard that he was taught to play table tennis, Chen Hansheng was very happy. After a few games, Chen Hansheng became obsessed with table tennis. I heard that there is a Zhuang Zedong who can play table tennis in China, and he won a championship in the world of table tennis, and he is very yearning, and he gradually became obsessed with playing table tennis. As soon as the class ended, Chen Hansheng ran to the table tennis table and snatched the racket as fast as he could. In order to grab time, Chen Hansheng even shortened the time to eat, and went to grab the racket as soon as he put down the bowl.

The school's table tennis room is located in the middle aisle hall of the house in the teacher's dormitory, and when students are on vacation or not in class, Chen Hansheng and Chen Zaomin go to play table tennis. Soon, Chen Hansheng, who later learned to play table tennis, played better than Chen Zaomin, and felt that although Chen Zaomin was tall, he was not flexible when he played.

In order to show his kindness to Chen Zaomin, whenever Chen Hansheng wants to eat, he always takes out the good things he brought from home for Chen Zaomin to eat. Gradually, the relationship between the two is getting better and better, and Chen Zaomin sees Chen Hansheng more and more as a little brother.

Chen Hansheng is small, and once he finally snatched the racket, but was snatched by the classmate who was called the little bully. Although Chen Hansheng is small, he is not a child who is afraid of things, he stretched out his hand to grab the racket, but he didn't expect that the little bully relied on his big size, not only did not give it, but also kicked Chen Hansheng, Chen Zaomin, who was standing on the side and watched, went over to strangle the little bully, and said, why do you bully the small with the big? If you don't give him back the racket, I will kick you too! Although the little bully has long known that this Chen Zaomin is a fool and has a stupid spirit, he is not afraid of him, and the two of them will start to move. That Chen Zaomin was really a fool who was not afraid of things, he kicked the little overlord in the leg, and kicked the little overlord on the spot. Xiaobawang's father is a commune cadre, after hearing about this, he immediately came to the principal and asked the principal to expel the student, the principal said that the student was an orphan who was taken care of by the government, and the little overlord's father was still unwilling, and said that he would let Chen Zaomin write a review. Seeing that the situation was serious, the principal reprimanded Chen Zaomin and asked Chen Zaomin to write a review.

Chen Zaomin was forced to write a review, but he felt aggrieved and felt sad because he didn't have his parents in charge.

Seeing Chen Zaomin so sad, Chen Hansheng felt very sad, and said to Chen Zaomin, "It's all my fault, it's me who caused you trouble." ”

"It's none of your business. Chen Zaomin said, "I just think there are too many unreasonable things in this matter." ”

"Don't you really know who your parents are?" Chen Hansheng asked with concern.

Chen Zaomin shook his head and said, "If I knew who my parents were, I would have recognized them a long time ago, and I would have asked them why they didn't want me!"

Chen Hansheng is a very sympathetic child, and he can't wait to become a Monkey King to help Chen Zaomin find his parents.

Because of this incident, Chen Zaomin became depressed, and often stood there alone in a daze.

Although Chen Hansheng is still young, he is a sentimental person, and when he saw Chen Zaomin stunned there, he was also in a very bad mood, and even followed Chen Zaomin to be stunned, so that Chen Zaomin wanted to come over to comfort Chen Hansheng, saying that he was just in a bad mood, and that his affairs had nothing to do with Chen Hansheng. In order to illustrate this point, Chen Zaomin sometimes dragged Chen Hansheng to play table tennis.

When they got to the table, the mood of the two people slowly changed, and they were very active and happy.

However, at night, when it was time to go to bed, the two of them were in a bad mood again. Of course, Chen Zaomin was sad because he couldn't find his own father and mother, and he was also sad about the fate of his orphans, but Chen Hansheng was sad not because of this, but because he was homesick, his grandmother and all his relatives at home. Two people who were in sympathy with each other burst into tears as they spoke.

That morning, when Chen Hansheng and Chen Zaomin were talking in bed, someone suddenly knocked on the door, and then came in the school teacher and a cadre-like person, that person was the leader of the orphanage, and he was the one who sent Chen Zaomin to the school to study. But now, he said that he and Chen Zaomin found an opportunity to enter the factory, and he wanted Chen Zaomin to enter the factory as an apprentice and become a national worker in the future.

Chen Zaomin couldn't let go of Chen Hansheng, so he said, "I don't want to be an apprentice now, I just want to study." ”

The leader, who had always cared about him, said, "After this village, there will be no more this shop, and I may be transferred away one day, and if I am transferred, I will not have a chance to help you find a job." If you can't find a job, you may have to go to the countryside to produce in the future. ”

The principal and everyone present hurriedly persuaded Chen Zaomin to accept this arrangement.

Chen Zaomin had no choice but to start packing up his things, and the fate of the orphan who couldn't help it, coupled with the relationship he had just established with Chen Hansheng, made him cry involuntarily.

Chen Hansheng saw him crying, and he also shed tears. The reluctance of the two children infected everyone on the spot. But it is also very rare to let Chen Zaomin have a chance to enter the factory as a worker.

Chen Zaomin thought about it for a long time, and finally took out a small mirror that looked at his face from his luggage, handed it to Chen Hansheng, and said, "Hansheng! I really don't have anything to give you, so just send this and keep a souvenir! If you want to miss me, just use this mirror to look at yourself, and maybe you can see me in the mirror." ”

Chen Hansheng nodded, tears still falling.

Chen Zaomin turned back step by step and broke up with Chen Hansheng to say goodbye. This final breakup scene has remained in Chen Hansheng's mind until one day several decades later, Chen Hansheng accidentally saw Chen Zaomin because he was a national worker back then, and later not only found a daughter-in-law to start a family, but also had children, so he began to feel that Chen Zaomin's choice back then was right, and felt that there are many good people in this world.