"No matter what industry you are engaged in in the future, you only need to do two things well. One is your profession, and the other is your character. Professionalism determines your existence, and character determines your connections. The remaining
The key is to persevere and remember to never forget your original intention."
"Stab...stab..." The three members of the Yan family stood in Zhou Wenzhong's hall without saying a word, waving their hands to apply cement on the wall.
"No matter what kind of work you are engaged in, you must do it, love it, and excel in it. Quality is the foundation of your career, and skills are the foundation of your career. As long as you work hard and strive for excellence, you will definitely be able to achieve a shining life."
"It's pricking... it's pricking..." The three members of the Yan family felt their temples tingling. Zhou Wenzhong spoke endlessly, just like Tang Monk reciting sutras.
"You three must learn the spirit of model workers, the spirit of labor, and even more, the spirit of craftsmanship."
Yan Bugui turned his head and asked: "Comrade Zhou Wenzhong, can we go home and have a drink of water?"
"Of course not! I'm talking to you about the spirit of work right now! Can you be allowed to leave without authorization during the meeting? Keep working!"
Zhou Wenzhong has been indoctrinating the Yan family for more than 2 hours. Seeing the three people scratching the cement wall with dejected expressions, I felt angry. How could there be such unreasonable people like them in New China?
People who seek progress.
"Ton tons tons... burp..."
Zhou Wenzhong drank the tea in the jar, burped and closed the enamel lid.
"The so-called...this...choosing one thing for the rest of your life is about the spirit of persistence and concentration. Doing one thing with concentration is about the spirit of striving for excellence. Not being able to settle for even the smallest detail is about the spirit of meticulousness. Thousands of things are hammered into one thing, and it is about the spirit of meticulousness.
It is the spirit of pursuing excellence.”
"Stab it..."
Zhou Wenzhong took out a match and lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, saying: "There is an ancient saying that says, there is no rush to be first in the running water, but the rush is to rush forward. Don't misunderstand the meaning of this sentence. Don't rush to be first.
It’s not that we don’t strive for progress, but that we respect the laws of nature. We don’t destroy the balance, we don’t lose the big because of the small, we don’t lose ourselves, just like running water, we don’t compete for precedence, but we accumulate our own strength bit by bit, and wait for the long flow of water.
Explosion. In other words, we are not only..."
"Dong dong dong dong..."
There was a rapid knock on the door, and Zhou Wenzhong had not yet stood up from the stool. He saw Yan Bugui, a little old man, running out of the main room, walked to the door of the small courtyard, and opened the door.
"Sister-in-law of the Yi family is here. Do you have anything?"
The aunt first looked at Yan Bugui, who was covered in dust. Then she walked into the yard and asked Zhou Wenzhong anxiously: "This cart of yours is still idle at the moment. Can I use it?"
"speak."
"The old lady in the backyard passed out on the bed. I called her for a long time but didn't wake her up. I slapped her face with cold water but there was no response. I want to use your trolley to take the old lady to the hospital for a check-up."
Zhou Wenzhong stood up and scolded: "Auntie, although you are older than me, I still want to criticize you a few words today. The deaf old lady is the elder in our courtyard. Now she suddenly fell ill and fell into a coma, let alone use it.
You should use a streetcar or even a bicycle made by the street! You actually asked me to discuss such a big matter? Just take it and use it! You must not delay the old lady's condition!"
"Okay...thank you, thank you..."
Zhou Wenzhong turned his head and shouted into the room: "You two, hurry up and help the aunt send the old lady to the hospital. You really don't have any eyesight."
When the Yan brothers heard Zhou Wenzhong's words, they felt as if they had received an amnesty order. They put down their knives and ran out of the house. They took their father's arm and ran towards the backyard with their aunt.
"Can you help me?"
The eldest mother who had almost run to the front yard turned around and shouted: "No!"
Zhou Wenzhong sighed, shook his head and closed the courtyard door.
"You must never die in the backyard room, that's my room! If you want to die, die in the hospital. Their medical workers don't think it's unlucky."
"Dong dong dong..."
"Did you forget something?"
Zhou Wenzhong shouted and saw no one answered. He opened the door again and saw Zhou Deming standing outside the courtyard with a gloomy face.
"This is from March."
Zhou Wenzhong took the two large black cards handed to him, checked them and put them into his pocket.
"Do you have anything else to do?"
Zhou Deming took a deep breath and asked: "When will I go to the street office to apply for house donation?"
"The days are still long in the future, let's take our time."
Zhou Deming quickly blocked the wooden door that was about to be closed with his hand, and wanted to stick his head out to look into the small courtyard, but Zhou Wenzhong blocked his view with his body.
"Is it because I haven't had time to talk to you in the past few days, so you think I'm very idle?"
Zhou Deming quickly took back his hand blocking the door, took two steps back and said, "No matter what, your mother and I have supported you for so many years. Your mother told me what happened to the Yanbu family that day.
"
"Then what? Did you two ask my opinion when you gave birth to me? I begged you to give birth to me? Are you talking to me about sacrifice now? Isn't this what you as a father should do? In this world
The world is full of hunger, poverty, war, and disasters. You can't even stand on your own, and you brought me into this world without my consent. If you give birth, you must support me, and if you raise me, you must support me.
Teach. You are rushing to have a child without thinking about anything. This is a very irresponsible behavior on your part. To put it bluntly, you are selfish and want instant comfort and enjoyment regardless of the consequences."
"you!"
Zhou Deming had just raised his finger to point at Zhou Wenzhong, and before he had time to curse, Zhou Wenzhong stepped forward and grabbed his wrist, put his shoulder under his armpit, and successfully completed an over-the-shoulder throw. Then...
I saw the blue sky and the land, and my last line of sight was parallel to the bricks on the ground in Zhou Wenzhong's courtyard.
"Bang! Bang!"
The first sound was the sound of Zhou Deming landing, and the second sound was the sound of Zhou Wenzhong closing the small courtyard door with his foot.
Only then did Zhou Deming feel pain in his back. Before he could even open his mouth to hum, his face was stepped on by Zhou Wenzhong's cement-covered sole.
"Don't always point your finger at people. This is a very bad behavior. As you get older, you should know more about propriety. Remember?"
Zhou Wenzhong crushed Zhou Deming's face back and forth with the sole of his left foot, leaned down and asked again: "When someone asks you something, you should answer it. This is a kind of politeness, remember?"
"Hmm..." Zhou Deming lay flat on the ground, holding Zhou Wenzhong's feet with both hands, and made a mosquito sound with his nose.
"If you recognize your mistakes and correct them, you are still a good comrade."
Zhou Wenzhong raised his feet, walked to the place where five bricks were stacked, sat down, lit a cigarette and watched Zhou Deming sort out his clothes.
"Tell me, I'll give you 1 minute. You have at least 3 words to say. Da!"
Zhou Wenzhong held a cigarette in his left hand and placed it on Erlang's lap. He held the open pocket watch in his right hand and looked at the beating second hand on the dial.
Zhou Deming blurted out without thinking: "The house can be donated to you at any time. As long as you nod, we will go to the street to do it now."
Seeing that Zhou Wenzhong not only didn't open his mouth to respond, he didn't even raise his head.
Zhou Deming added: "I will definitely give you the 960 yuan you asked for before. I can give you the money first, and then we move. You should feel relieved now, right?"
Zhou Wenzhong blew out a puff of smoke and said: "Huh... there are still 15 seconds."
Zhou Deming swallowed his breath first, then bravely said: "I will give you the house and money, as long as you let Wen Xin and the others go. After all, they are also you..."
"Click! Time's up."
Zhou Wenzhong stood up from the bricks and walked forward with his hands behind his back. Zhou Deming quickly followed.
The two of them walked into the main room. Zhou Wenzhong raised his finger and pointed to the square painted with lime on the top of the west wall.
"The sledgehammer is at the base of the wall. You go above this wall and smash out a large window with a length and width of 2 meters."
Zhou Deming took a sledgehammer, stood on the bench, swung it and smashed it.
"Dong...dong..."
The muffled sound made Zhou Deming tremble a little, and Zhou Wenzhong ran out of the door.
"You're blind! You should knock off the top two layers of bricks first. I've already done the "crossing the wood"."
Zhou Deming turned to look at the ground in the courtyard. There was a wooden mold that was nearly 2.5 meters long. Cement and sand were used to make a cement stone strip with a thickness of 15 centimeters. There were also two long iron rods in the middle.
"Hurry up and knock off the 2.4-meter brick, and then stuff the "crossing wood" into it first, and then smash it down. You are not afraid that the whole wall will collapse and bury you in it. I still feel sorry for my house."
Zhou Wenzhong muttered a few words and trotted two steps towards the courtyard wall to help him. He kicked his left foot on the wall and jumped up. He grabbed the top of the wall with both hands and pulled it up hard. He climbed up to the 3-meter-high courtyard wall in a breath.
He spread his legs and sat down against the courtyard wall.
"Don't look at me! Smash your wall! Can't I sit on the wall and stare at the passers-by? If you smash the wall and the bricks fall and hurt the passers-by, all you will pay is my money!
You are such an old person, and it doesn’t make me worry at all. Why are you so stunned! Hurry up!"
It's a good thing that Zhou Wenzhong didn't say these words. Zhou Deming himself was timid. Now that he said it, he felt like the wall would collapse at any time. The joints of the hands holding the hammer turned white.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!" Every time the sledgehammer hit, Zhou Deming felt that it was falling on his heart.
Zhou Wenzhong sat on the courtyard wall, waving to passers-by.
"Hurry up, man, they are smashing the wall in this room. Don't hurt you again."
"Run quickly, sister-in-law, before your feet are hit by falling bricks."
"Two little comrades in red scarves, let's go somewhere else to play first. We are smashing the wall in this room"...
"Dang bang..." Several green bricks fell to the ground, and the light reflected on Zhou Deming's clothes through the gaps in the wall. Zhou Deming breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhou Wenzhong walked along the courtyard wall, squatted down holding the eaves and shouted: "Look at the bricks above, what's going on now?"
"same as before."
Zhou Wenzhong jumped off the courtyard wall and walked into the house. There were seven layers of bricks above the smashed bricks on the wall. At this time, they did not collapse together because the bottom was hanging in the air.
"This time you use a small hammer and slowly sew along the edge. You need to smash 2 layers of bricks in total, which is 24 bricks. Put the "crossing wood" in first, and then you don't have to worry about the bricks above falling off. Finally,
You can confidently and boldly smash out the windows within the white line."
"knew."
"Is Wen Zhong busy?"
Hearing the inquiry, Zhou Wenzhong walked out of the main room, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it for Uncle Sun who came over.