My name is Gao Xiaoman and I live in a single-parent family. More than 10 years ago, my father, Gao Dajun, ran away without a trace in order to avoid debts because of a failed business, and he did not see anyone dead or dead for so many years.

In the years when my father's life was booming, my family's life was indeed much better than others, and I didn't worry about food and clothing, so I could be regarded as a well-off family.

After my father disappeared, my family's life plummeted, and my mother had to clean up the mess left by my father in addition to working to maintain the lives of our mothers and sisters, 3,000 this year, 5,000 next year, and there are always unfinished accounts.

I was a director's child when I was a child, and I knew that my mother was very poor, and in addition to school fees, I rarely asked my mother for money in order to satisfy my childlike interest.

My talent for "business" was developed in these difficult days. Since the third grade of primary school, I have learned to earn money, although it is not much, but it is enough to satisfy children's desires, such as buying a poop candy or a small toy.

The place where my house is located is called Laquan, and it is a prefecture-level city. The old building where my family lived was neither in the city center nor in the suburbs, it was neither lively nor deserted. The antique market in the city of Suksen used to be not far from my house.

The "first pot of gold" in my life was bought from this antique market.

I remember very well that in the first semester of the third grade, the school held a sports day, and one of the events was shuttlecock kicking. At that time, I didn't buy this kind of thing in the store at all, and I couldn't bear to disturb my busy and hard-working mother, so I begged Liu Xiaoling, who was at the same table, to get one for me.

Liu Xiaoling is a gentle and docile little girl, although she was not happy with my request, but she reluctantly agreed. The next day, she handed me a brand new shuttlecock, saying that her mother made one for her when she made it for her. To thank her, I gave her the three dollars I had saved.

At the sports meeting, I won the runner-up in the shuttlecock kicking project book, which was regarded as an honor for the class, not only the school awarded me a certificate, but the head teacher also took out ten yuan from the class fee to reward me.

After the sports day, the shuttlecock lost its effect, and I wanted to put it on the shelf, but when I pinched it with my hand, I felt that it was hard and hard to be sewn into it by two pieces of blue coarse cloth, and I couldn't help but want to see what was inside, so I tore open the two pieces of coarse cloth sewn the shuttlecock when I went to the toilet, and found that there were two copper coins inside.

The two coins looked as big as the current pennies, crudely shaped, and I didn't recognize the words on them, so I put them in my pocket.

Towards the end of the first semester of the third grade, one Sunday morning, my mother asked me to go out to buy vegetables, and I happened to pass by the antique market, where I saw a lot of people selling things, and there were a lot of copper coins, so I thought of those two copper coins.

I walked over to an old man in sunglasses with trepidation, and there were many objects in front of him, which I only thought were novel, and I hardly knew anything but the pile of copper coins.

"Doll, what do you want to order?" The old man in sunglasses was very enthusiastic, "Do you want to buy or sell?" ”

"I ...... I have two copper coins, will you accept them? "The first time I talked to someone about business in my life, my heart couldn't help but beat.

"Yes, but I have to look at something, did you bring it?" The old man in sunglasses asked.

"My family...... It's not far from here, I can get it right away. I said.

The old man in sunglasses nodded, with an unfathomable look.

When I got home, I pulled the two copper coins out of the drawer, trotted all the way to the old man in sunglasses, and handed him the copper coins.

The moment I took the coin, I saw the old man's hand shake slightly.

"Doll, this thing isn't worth a lot of money." The old man took the copper coin in his hand, sandwiched it between his legs, looked around alertly, and asked me, "How much are you going to want?" ”

I shook my head, because I really didn't know how much those two copper coins were worth.

"Well, how about giving you fifty?" The old man turned his head to look around alertly, lowered his voice and said, "Fifty is not a lot, I think you are quite honest, I don't lie to you!" ”

I nodded.

I almost trembled with excitement when I took the fifty dollars from the old man, but I knew that I couldn't make a fool of myself in this place, so I resisted the excitement and turned away.

"Wait!" As soon as I turned around, I heard the old man whispering to me behind me, and I thought he was going to regret it, and my heart was so nervous that I was going to die.

"Doll, bring it to me if you have something in the future." Turning around, the old man smiled and said to me, "Don't look for others, they are all liars." ”

I nodded.

"Remember, my name is Wu Mazi." Then the old man said, "Don't tell anyone about this today, you know?" ”

I nodded mechanically again.

Since then, I have started my "antique" business, and many of my classmates will bring all kinds of copper coins from home to trade with me, and the copper coins that I have sold are at least five or six hundred, and I know a little bit about them.

Because of the needs of "business", I have a preference for history, which has led to a serious bias in mathematics and physics since junior high school, barely maintaining mathematics, physics and chemistry, and politics and history are not bad. When I was in high school, I knew that I had no hope of studying science, so I chose liberal arts with great interest. After the college entrance examination, my score was just over the second line, and I knew that it was impossible to fly away with this score.

The unsatisfactory grades were not the most disturbing, but what made my mother angry the most was that I was actually admitted to the Department of Archaeology of Suquan College.

"Who still studies archaeology now?" After checking the admission results on the Internet, my mother was furious, "Are you going to live by digging graves in the future?" ”

To be honest, I also deliberately filled in the archaeology major, but I didn't expect my mother's reaction to be so fierce.

It was a happy event to be admitted to university, but my mother kept counting me down, and I felt depressed.

Time has passed, and Wu Mazi no longer set up a stall, but washes his hands in a golden basin and spends his days at home. This old thing cheated me out of a lot of good things, and when he saw that I was becoming more and more shrewd day by day, he didn't dare to play tricks in front of me, but became a year-old friend with me.

In order to avoid my mother's fall, I rode a bicycle to the outskirts of the city to chat with Wu Mazi.

Wu Mazi's home is close to the edge of the city, and the courtyard of the house is surrounded by two-story small buildings, except for the west side for himself and his family to live in, all the others are rented out, and the rent will not be less than in a year.

When I went, Wu Mazi was leaning on the rocking chair at the gate with a large set of keys in his arms and napping. I tapped the bell, and the old man opened his triangular eyes alertly.

"Hey, look at your frowning, did your daughter-in-law run away with someone?" Wu Mazi bowed and pointed to the bamboo chair beside him for me to sit down.

"Hey, it's hard to put into words!" I leaned back on the bamboo chair and sighed about my troubles.

"What's there to worry about?" After listening to me, Wu Mazi said nonchalantly, "You have the talent to eat the bowl of antiques, what's wrong with studying archaeology?" I look just right! ”

"What is not gifted." I said helplessly, "It's not the money that makes trouble, if it wasn't for the ...... back then."

"Don't mention the things of the past!" Wu Mazi was afraid that I would tell me about his deception of me, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "If you really want to eat this bowl of rice, the knowledge in it is still deep, and it is far from enough to rely on your current ability." ”