The Han family relied on a widowed mother to manage five children, and it was really the most difficult family in the nearby streets, but with the help of neighbors and relatives in the countryside, it was also smooth sailing, so the Han family has been conniving at Meng Xiaoxing and those aunts who came to the capital to fight the autumn breeze.

Now the five children of the Han family have all grown up, the youngest Han Chunming also has a temporary job, the eldest two children Han Chunsong and Han Chunxue have also started a family, and the other two Han Chunsheng and Han Chunyan have also moved out to live alone, so Zhou Ming is really comfortable now, at least one person can have a spacious room.

Opening the window next to the desk and looking at the quiet old courtyard outside, Zhou Ming felt a kind of warmth of fireworks in the world, which was much more interesting than the trivial things in "Love in the Courtyard".

Opened the old-fashioned lamp on the desk, then picked up a book on the table, and found that it was a "Encyclopedia of Ancient Porcelain Types", Zhou Ming suddenly looked at it with great interest.

Zhou Ming was attracted by the content of the book, and then unconsciously forgot the time, and Han's mother in the other room saw that her little son had not slept yet, and hurriedly urged, "Chunming, you have to get up early to go to work tomorrow, hurry up and go to sleep!" ”

"Mom, I see."

Zhou Ming put down the books in his hand, put out the lamp, and then listened to the summer cicadas outside the courtyard, and slowly fell asleep on the bed covered with a mat.

At four o'clock in the morning, Han's mother woke up her sleepy son, forced her son to eat breakfast, and then urged her son to go to work.

Cleaning the streets is really hard work, especially tedious and all year round, and in the winter you have to get up early to clear the snow on the streets, which is really not a torture that ordinary people can endure.

Zhou Ming worked hard in the cleaning group, his diligence captured the love of colleagues and neighbors, looking at the sweet and diligent Zhou Ming, no one can really hate it.

"Chunming, some of my garbage is too heavy, you come in and help me." An aunt went out to look at Zhou Ming and said.

"Okay!"

Zhou Ming walked into this small courtyard with a smile, and then saw a big dustpan next to the main house, which was full of abandoned muck, and thought to himself that it was no wonder that this aunt would run out for help.

Zhou Ming didn't say anything, he ran forward and carried the dustpan full of muck out of the courtyard, and after dumping it in the garbage truck, Zhou Ming turned around and returned the dustpan to his aunt again.

"Chunming, thank you so much today." The eldest aunt took the dustpan in surprise.

"Auntie, you're welcome, just say something in the future."

"Hehe, definitely."

"Smack!"

Suddenly, there was a sound of things breaking from inside the courtyard, interrupting the surprise on the aunt's face, "Damn stinky cat!" What is this shattering? ”

Seeing the eldest aunt turn around and return to the courtyard angrily like a Sichuan opera, Zhou Ming also followed the eldest aunt in a daze, and then saw that a vase in the main house was broken.

Zhou Ming looked at the bottom of the bottle in the middle of a pile of fragments, which turned out to be the payment made during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and said to the aunt who bent down to pick up the fragments, "Auntie, let's come!" ”

"Huh? That's embarrassing. The aunt said that she was embarrassed, but her hand had already stopped.

"Hehe, it's okay."

Zhou Ming took off his overalls with his hand, revealing the small vest on his body, and then carefully picked up all the fragments of the vase onto the overalls, and finally picked them up directly in his pocket.

"Auntie, can I throw it away for you?"

"Good! Thank you Chunming. ”

"Hehe, auntie, you're welcome."

Zhou Ming carried a bag of vase fragments, then gently put them in the garbage truck, then turned his head and smiled at the aunt who sent him to the door, and pulled the garbage truck back to the sanitation group by himself.

Zhou Ming waited anxiously until he got off work, and then returned to the courtyard with a bag of vase fragments, and as soon as he returned to his room, under the surprised gaze of Han Mu, he took out all the vase fragments little by little.

"Chunming, what are you doing there?"

"Mom, that's a good thing."

"Humph! I think you're not just a street sweeper, you're also a rag picker. "I couldn't understand her son's operation, so Han's mother turned around and went to cook.

Zhou Ming now not only knows how to appreciate treasures, but also provides antique restoration skills in the system, and takes out the tools he prepared in advance, Zhou Ming is very patient to splice these vase fragments little by little, which feels much more interesting than the jigsaw puzzles of later generations.

"Hey! Pick up the rags! ”

"I'll go! You scared me to death. An arrogant voice interrupted Zhou Ming, who was addicted to pasting, and Zhou Ming looked at the owner of the voice with a resentful face.

"Humph! Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Su Meng shook his ponytail, but in Zhou Ming's eyes, he was not cute at all, "Han Chunming, have you done something wrong?" ”

"Su Meng, I don't have time to chat with you, let's go and play by myself!"

"Han Chunming, you actually drove me away?" Su Meng's eyes widened in shock.

"Su Meng, can you not get so close to me?" Zhou Ming looked at "Little Pepper" Su Meng with a wry smile, "I'm a street sweeper now, don't affect your reputation." ”

"Han Chunming, I hate you!" Su Meng stomped around angrily and left Zhou Ming's windowsill in one go.

Looking at Su Meng, who was like "Little Pepper", Zhou Ming shook his head boredly, he didn't have the patience to chat with the child here, and he still felt that it was more interesting to repair the vase by himself.

drove away the annoying "little pepper" Su Meng, Zhou Ming once again forgot a little bit to repair the vase, and when Han's mother made the meal, Zhou Ming only completed one-fifth, it was really too difficult to repair the antique, this is a tedious and boring professional process.

"Chunming, don't play there, come and eat."

"Good! I'm coming. ”

Zhou Ming put down the vase fragments in his hand, then got up and went out to wash his hands, and directly took the stick noodles on the table and ate them, Han's mother fried a shredded potato and a plate of pickles, and there were almost no oil stars, but Zhou Ming ate it extremely sweet.

"Chunming, I seem to have heard Su Meng coming from the backyard just now?"

"Well, I drove you away."

"Huh? Don't you like to play with her the most? Why did you suddenly become so fast? ”

"Mom, Su Meng is a willful little girl, I don't think it's interesting to play with her at all."

"Bastard, you're getting too fast," Listening to her son's vain explanation, Han's mother shook her head with a wry smile.

"Hehe, Mom, people change." Seeing Han's mother's wry smile, Zhou Ming knew that he needed to explain clearly, "In the past, I was ignorant and didn't think that the wayward Su Meng was cute. ”

"Hey! You're getting weirder, kid. ”

After dinner, Zhou Ming returned to his table again and got busy, and worked until more than nine o'clock in the evening, and then went to sleep at the urging of Han's mother.

Zhou Ming has been busy for three days before he repaired this vase, and looking at the almost perfect vase with the naked eye, Zhou Ming suddenly felt a sense of pride.

……

Today is the first day of his salary, with his pitiful eighteen yuan, Zhou Ming went directly to the grocery store to buy a bottle of Erguotou, which cost Zhou Ming two cents a piece, but Zhou Ming was very distressed.

Then Zhou Ming went home again, gave the remaining sixteen yuan and eight cents to Han's mother, and then took the vase he had repaired, and went to his master Guan Lao's house with the bottle of Erguotou he had just bought.

"Hey! This is your visit! Looking at Zhou Ming who ran over, Old Man Guan was very unhappy.

"Old man, as soon as I got paid, I bought a bottle of wine to honor you, why are you still unhappy?"

"Humph! You've been working for a month, and then you think of me, can I be happy? ”

"Old man, I'm going to sweep the streets, and I'm usually very busy, so I don't have much time at all."

"Excuses! You're all an excuse. ”

"Hey, old man, what do you think I'm doing?" Seeing that it was difficult to make Old Man Guan understand, Zhou Ming took out his magic weapon.

Old Man Guan looked up inadvertently, and couldn't help but take the vase with a bright eye, and then kept stroking and appraising, and soon he showed a regretful expression.

"Chunming, this is a good thing," Old Man Guan didn't care about sulking with Zhou Ming, but looked at Zhou Ming compassionately, "It's definitely a blue and white vase from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was broken like this." ”

"I came across this pile of debris the other day and tried to fix it myself."

"Stinky boy, you've definitely been secretly studying for a long time, right?"

"Haha, you've seen it all over the time." Zhou Ming put the second pot head on the table.

Old man Guan has always loved wine as his life, but he didn't look up, it's not that he doesn't like this bottle of two pots, and the blue and white vase in his hand is too precious.

"Chunming, see you're doing well, take this snuffbox to it!" Old Man Guan was in a good mood, and then took out a snuffbox and put it on the table.

Zhou Ming picked up a snuff box, and then carefully identified it, "Heh! Boy! ”

"Huh! What do you think? It's a good thing, right? ”

"Yes! It's just too good, it's imitation too good. ”

"Imitation? I think you're talking nonsense. ”

"Hehe, old man, the Republic of China imitates the broken things of the Qing Dynasty, and you are willing to take it out to fool your apprentices."

"Shout! I haven't seen you for a month, but I'm good at it! ”

"Hehe, old man, don't fool me with being a child anymore."

"Okay! I'll leave this blue vase for a few days to play with, and I'll give you this snuffbox. ”

"Old man, you're still slamming the door like this." Zhou Ming looked at Old Man Guan with a resentful expression.

"Shhhh My own son is reluctant to give him a real guy, will I give it to you? ”

"Old man, if I marry a little lazy cat in the future and become your grandson directly, are you willing to leave all the treasures to me?"

"Chunming, do you want to marry a little lazy cat?" Old Man Guan looked up at Zhou Ming in surprise.

"Yes! I know that you have the most old babies, and you can't watch the fat water flow to the fields of outsiders! ”

"Well, then don't call me master from now on, just call grandpa."

"Hey! Grandfather. ”

"Haha, good grandson, you finally figured it out." Old Man Guan also touched Zhou Ming's head in surprise.

……

Zhou Ming has always understood the truth of God's reward for hard work, and soon his work attitude and achievements were fed back, and in the Beijing street sanitation evaluation, Zhou Ming won the title of personal pioneer @ entry standard @ soldier.

"Chunming, you are so amazing, I really didn't expect to put a big @Wei @ star on our street." Director Liu looked at Zhou Ming in front of him in surprise.

"Director, I still need to work hard."

"Well, it's good to be humble." Seeing Zhou Ming so modest and competitive, Director Liu couldn't help but be a little surprised, "Chunming, the neighbors in the area you are responsible for have unanimous praise for you, and think that you are the most outstanding cleaning worker. ”

Cheng Jianjun's mother also works in the street office, and when she saw Zhou Ming, who was praised by Director Liu, her heart was very complicated, and she couldn't help but think of her eldest son Cheng Jianjun, and she didn't know what hardships he suffered in the ravine and ditch of Fang@ Mountain.

"Zhou Ming, look at what this is?" Director Liu looked at Zhou Ming in front of him and became more and more satisfied, and then handed over an application form.

"An application recommending a university application?"

"That's right! This year's just implemented the worker@farmer@soldier@college student system@degree, you are a quota specially approved by the superior leaders. ”

"......" Zhou Ming really wanted to say that he could not refuse, he would rather continue to sweep the street, "Thank you, director!" Thank you Leadership. ”

"Well, God rewards hard work, and the leader will not treat you badly."

"Yes! Director. ”

At this time, Cheng Jianjun's mother's eyes were about to erupt into fire, she was really jealous this time, feeling that her son Cheng Jianjun was much stronger than Zhou Ming, and now he can only eat soil in the ravine.

The other staff of the street office also looked at Zhou Ming with envy, it was really tempting to be able to go to college without examination at the age of seventeen.

Only he knows the suffering in Zhou Ming's heart, even his mother may not understand him, after all, they don't have Zhou Ming's God perspective.

Seeing that he had only been working as a street sweeper for a year and was taken over by another young man, Zhou Ming returned home with a wry smile, and then told Han's mother about his recommendation to go to college.

"Chunming, do you mean it really?" Han Mu looked at Zhou Ming in surprise.

"Yes! After this summer, I can go to Peking University to register at the beginning of the school year. ”

"Great! This is really a great joy for our family. Han's mother couldn't suppress her surprise, and then she smiled and arranged, "I'll ask someone to let your brothers and sisters come back in a while, and I'll go buy some meat, and our family will eat dumplings today." ”

Looking at the surprised Han mother in front of him, Zhou Ming felt like he had eaten Coptis chinensis, and then sat at the desk alone, looking at the blue sky outside the window and smiling bitterly.

"Han Chunming, I heard that you were recommended to go to college?"

"Yes!" Zhou Ming didn't need to look up at all to know that it was "Little Pepper" Su Meng.

"Huh? So why do I think you're not happy at all? ”

"I don't like to study, I like to sweep the streets, can't I?" Zhou Ming said angrily.

"Virtue! It's cheap and good. Su Meng sneered, then turned around and left sourly.

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