Chapter 109: The Spirit of Life
It took Yan Liqiang more than an hour to run more than ten times back and forth from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain to fill the two jars of water in the latrine.
In less than an hour, a lot of water was sprinkled on the mountain road, and Yan Liqiang's arms, because they had been carrying water to the mountain peacefully, so even if he passed the Mabu Pass and practiced the Yijin Washing Pulp Sutra, at this time, his two arms, as well as the muscles on both sides under the squeaky socket and the two big tendons, were also hot, sore and painful, and he could hardly lift up.
Seeing that the two tanks of water were full, Yan Liqiang did not rest for a moment, and immediately put on a mask, gloves, headscarf, and a smock that he had made, took a bunch of tools, and began to clean the toilet diligently.
First sweep, then rinse with water, then use the brush to brush harder and harder, and finally rinse, then brush......
Yan Liqiang did it very seriously, not letting go of a corner, not letting go of a little dust, and the whole person was doing it with all his might.
The Huo deacon in the gray clothes hall thought that sending Yan Liqiang here to clean the latrine was a punishment for Yan Liqiang, but what Huo Deacon didn't know was that in his previous life, what had always inspired Yan Liqiang to go further and further in the workplace was actually two stories and characters related to toilets.
The story of Noda Seiko is estimated to have been heard by many people, Noda Seiko's first job after graduating from university was to clean the toilet and clean the toilet in a hotel, but in the end she became the Minister of Posts of Japan at the age of 37, and the beginning of this woman's life and reversal of fate was in the toilet - the story of calmly scooping water from the toilet bowl that she had cleaned and drinking happened to this woman.
The second toilet related figure who inspired Yan Liqiang was Hans Wahl, the founder of the German Waal company. Before Hans Wahl, there was probably no one in the world who thought that it was possible to make money by running a public toilet and using it for free, but Hans Wahl did it, and it was this person who changed the image of the public toilet in the eyes of everyone, and made the public toilets he ran into unique works of art, and made them into advertising platforms for international brands and many luxury goods to settle in, and he easily earned 300 million yuan at a young age.
When I first heard these two stories, the spirit of Seiko Noda and Hans Wahl to do things to the extreme deeply shocked Yan Liqiang and had a profound impact on Yan Liqiang, and his later success in the workplace was inseparable from this spirit.
In these two people, Yan Liqiang realized one of the most important truths in life, that is, the success of life, in fact, does not lie in what you do, but in how you do, the former, many times may not be chosen by people, fate will sneer at you at this time, and the latter's choice, but in everyone's hands, even if it is to wipe the toilet, when you can wipe the toilet to scoop out the water from it with a clear conscience to drink, the sneer of fate will become a smile, or even a laugh, and the illusory future is in your hands。
A woman who was born in a poor family and didn't go to school for a few days and can only make pickles can finally become an old godmother!
A man who was born into an imperial family and has the richest empire and hundreds of millions of people in the world may also end up becoming Song Huizong!
Lao Gan Ma and Song Huizong, who is the successful person?
So, it doesn't matter what a person does, what really matters is how well you do. No matter how lowly and boring the job is, as long as you can do the job in a way that everyone can admire, you can succeed, and you can't succeed if you don't want to, this is the way to life.
Yan Liqiang is going to stand up for his life in the Sword God Sect in this thatched toilet on the Tianqiao Peak of the Sword God Sect!
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Before dawn, when Yan Liqiang finished cleaning the entire latrine, his whole body was soaked with sweat and he felt a little out of strength, and when he left, he even used a linen cloth to wipe his footprints clean, leaving no trace.
When leaving Tianqiao Peak with those tools, Yan Liqiang even felt that his steps were a little floating, just these few hours of continuous work like a machine, it was even more tiring than ordinary people doing a day's work, and it was estimated that Yan Liqiang was the only one who could turn a job of cleaning the toilet into heavy physical work.
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When Yan Liqiang returned to the small col below Tianqiao Peak, Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng were still practicing boxing in the courtyard of their "Tianqiao Er", boiling their bodies, seeing Yan Liqiang coming back with tools, exhausted, passing by the path outside their yard, Gu Zexuan and Zhao Huipeng stopped all of a sudden.
"Hey, Liqiang, you can't have already cleaned the latrine on Tianqiao Peak, right?" Gu Zexuan walked to the fence of their small courtyard, held the fence with his hand, and looked at Yan Liqiang curiously, "I was still talking to Zhao Huipeng just now, why haven't you gotten up to exercise, it turns out that you have already gone out......"
"Well, just cleaned ......"
"What time did you go after cleaning so early?"
"I went there at about two o'clock in the morning......"
Gu Zexuan's mouth opened wide all of a sudden, "So early, there is no provision to clean the latrine on Tianqiao Peak so early, anyway, as long as you finish cleaning it before noon today, as long as no one on Tianqiao Peak goes to the Gray Clothes Hall to sue you......"
"Haha, I'll finish it early, feel at ease, and then I can squeeze out some time to do something else during the day!" Yan Liqiang smiled and waved his hand at Gu Zexuan, "I'm covered in stinky sweat, go take a shower first, change my clothes......"
Not far from Yan Liqiang's yard, there is a clear stream and a small stream, which is convenient for bathing, but the stream is a little cold, but with Yan Liqiang's body, he can also bear it.
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Just when Yan Liqiang returned to the small mountain pass, on Tianqiao Peak, a person had already come to the door of the thatched toilet that Yan Liqiang had just cleaned, and the moment the person walked into the thatched toilet, the whole person's eyes widened in surprise, and overnight, the entire thatched toilet suddenly became extremely smooth, so clean that it was almost unpleasant, and even a little peculiar smell could hardly be smelled.
That person hesitated for a moment, feeling very embarrassed to destroy such a clean and clean environment, and felt guilty, this latrine was cleaned so clean and tidy today, it definitely took a lot of effort, could it be that the sect master and the elders of the first cadre were going to Tianqiao Peak to inspect today?...... The man muttered in his heart, and for a moment, he stood at the door of the latrine, struggling whether to go in......
After a while, a few more people came behind, and like the first person, the few people who came behind saw this clean and new latrine, and for a while, they were also stunned, a little dumbfounded, and hesitated at the door.
"What are you guys doing here?" Just when a few people didn't know whether to go in or not, a cold drink came from behind a few people, and when they heard this voice, the Tianqiao Peak disciples who gathered at the door of the toilet all quietly shrunk their necks.
A man with a bare head, but a full beard, who looked to be in his fifties, wearing a casual yellow-brown robe, with most of his belly exposed under the robe, walked over with eyes like copper bells, "Aren't you too idle, if you are free, go to the refining cave below today to practice a few hundred catties of pear blossom steel for me......"
"Hall Master, this ...... Is it true that the sect master or a few elders are going to come to Tianqiao Peak to check today?" said a guy standing at the door of the toilet with a smile on his face.
"Fart!" The bald man scolded directly, and his saliva sprayed on the faces of several people, "If the sect master and elders are coming, how come I don't know, Sun Weizhen, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"Then hall master, look here, I remember the last time Elder Gao came to our Tianqiao Peak, and he beat us, saying that although all the men on Tianqiao Peak are men, don't be too sloppy, Elder Gao said that he will come to check next time......"
A few people got out of the way and let the bald man walk to the latrine, the moment he saw the situation in the latrine, the bald man was also stunned for a few seconds, and then the man thought about it and waved his hand, "It's okay, the sect master and a few elders won't come to check today, it is estimated that the people who cleaned today came early, clean it up, don't make a fuss, how to use it......"
As he spoke, the man was the first to walk in, and several disciples outside the latrine looked at it, and then followed suit......