After returning to his residence, Zhou Zichen immediately contacted a big V he knew - Cang Shui.
Cangshui has a certified account on the most well-known public platform in China. He is somewhat famous and has hundreds of thousands of fans. He often collects money to do things for others. Zhou Zichen usually acts as a troll on the Internet and posts. His tasks are all from Cangshui.
Got it here.
Cang Shui: What’s wrong?
Zhou Zichen: I have something to trouble you.
Group leader: What's going on?
Zhou Zichen: Make some news.
He told the whole story to the group leader.
After Cang Shui was silent for a while, he replied: There are too many such things in China. I'm afraid simply posting a post will have no effect. It has to be implemented, but this requires money...
Zhou Zichen: I understand. How much does it cost?
Cang Shui: One hundred thousand yuan is almost enough for something like yours...
"Okay, I'm going to find the money now and I'll contact you when I get it together!"
Zhou Zichen readily agreed that one hundred thousand yuan would have been an astronomical figure for him in the past, but now, he is confident that he can earn it soon!
Looking at the time, he realized that it was almost twelve o'clock. Zhou Zichen quickly put away his thoughts and prepared to make lunch.
But just then, the phone rang.
Caller: Boss Li.
This Boss Li is a contractor who takes jobs everywhere. Zhou Zichen has been working with him for several years.
Zhou Zichen quickly answered the call, "Brother Li."
Boss Li: "I received a job. A client's old house needs to be renovated. All the old things inside need to be cleared out. The work is very tight. It needs to be done now. Come to the old place quickly. I'll wait here.
With you."
"In such a hurry? Okay, I'll be there right away..."
Zhou Zichen didn't want to do this kind of work anymore, but the work was so urgent, and it would be difficult for Boss Li to find someone. Boss Li had helped him a lot in the past, so he agreed with the idea of helping.
He took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Wang Xiaotao.
"I'm here to work. I have to go now. I don't have time to make lunch. You can go out to the restaurant to eat. Remember to come back early to study after eating..."
Before he could finish speaking, he left the room and rode his motorcycle towards the usual gathering place.
When they arrived, Boss Li and three coolies were eating bread. The three people usually worked with him and knew Zhou Zichen.
Several people said hello, and Boss Li threw a hot dog and a bottle of water to Zhou Zichen, "We are too pressed for time, let's deal with it first, and let's have a good meal in the evening."
Zhou Zichen opened the bread and ate it, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I had several talks with that customer before, but nothing was settled. Seeing that it was almost time for decoration, I really couldn't delay it any longer, so I accepted it. You said this person is the same. I was not in a hurry before and had to wait until the decoration was almost done.
Then I remembered that he was in a hurry. Didn’t he know how to prepare in advance? The two-day work required us to finish it in one day..."
"I'll go! Time is too tight..."
A few people finished eating the bread quickly. Boss Li opened the bread and headed north with three coolies. Zhou Zichen followed quickly on a motorcycle.
The client's house is in an old community. The decoration is very simple without any design. The things in the house are only available in the last century. Even the gas stove in the kitchen looks like it has been used for more than ten years.
It must not have been used for a long time, and there is a layer of dust on it.
Boss Li said that this house belongs to the client's parents. It has been vacant since his parents passed away. This time, he planned to rent it out after renovating it.
This kind of work is very simple for them. They have done it a lot before. After Boss Li assigned tasks to a few people, he went straight to the kitchen with the tools to dismantle the gas stove and the like.
Zhou Zichen was responsible for cleaning the living room. He took a look outside and found that there was also a pile of things on the balcony. He went over to take a look and found that in addition to some debris, there were about twenty large and small things on the balcony.
Flower pot, obviously, the client’s parents used to like to raise flowers and plants.
He was about to return to the living room when he suddenly made a sound. He found that one of the flower pots looked a bit strange. It was very small, about ten centimeters in diameter and eight centimeters high. It was a celadon-glazed porcelain, and the celadon glaze on the wall had peeled off.
The traces are very old.
Zhou Zichen picked it up and looked at it, and he suddenly screamed in his heart, and his face was dumbfounded. What the hell is this a flower pot? It is clearly an incense burner. Not only does it have three short legs at the bottom, but there are no flower pots on the bottom wall.
holes.
Because he had earned some money by picking up leaks in the morning, he subconsciously focused his attention and used his mutated eyes to scan the surface of the green glaze incense burner. Unexpectedly, this scan almost made him jump up in shock. He discovered that this incense burner
When looking at the surface under magnification, many brown death bubbles appeared...
"I'll go! It's an old antique!"
Zhou Zichen's eyes almost went straight. Judging from the color of the death bubbles, this incense burner was at least from before the Yuan Dynasty. He quickly cleaned out the soil in the incense burner and found that the tire wall inside the incense burner had been in contact with the soil for a long time.
, the soil-eating condition is so serious that the original color of the carcass can no longer be seen.
"I don't know if it's from a private kiln or an official kiln. If it's from an official kiln, it's worth a lot of money..."
Zhou Zichen twisted his neck and shouted toward the kitchen: "Brother Li, the landlord doesn't want anything in the house?"
Boss Li shouted in the kitchen: "The landlord said I don't want them anymore..."
"Earn it!"
Zhou Zichen punched hard and grinned happily.
He didn't expect that when he went out to do a job, he would encounter such a good thing, and he couldn't be more excited!
Then, he put the incense burner away, walked back to the living room, and started working. When he finished work in the evening, the living room was in a mess, all the floor tiles were smashed, and even a third of the whitewash on the wall was cleaned.
one.
After coming out of the house, Boss Li offered to invite everyone to dinner, but Zhou Zichen refused. Xiao Tao was still at home, so he was worried and hurried back to his residence on his motorcycle.
"Brother, you are back."
Wang Xiaotao is washing rice and preparing to cook dinner.
Zhou Zichen took out the green-glazed incense burner from his pocket, placed it on the table in the living room, and shouted: "Don't buy the rice, let's eat it outside."
Wang Xiaotao looked at the incense burner curiously, "Brother, what are you doing with the incense burner? Burning incense?"
"Burn incense! This is an antique..."
"antique?"
Wang Xiaotao looked at it for a long time, but didn't notice it at all. He curled his lips and said: "If the dean knows that you spend money randomly, she will definitely scold you, so you should just cook and eat at home."
Children from poor families have been in charge of their own affairs for a long time. Wang Xiaotao has been sensible since he was a child and knows how to save his life.
Zhou Zichen patted the back of his head and said, "Why don't you tell the dean and grandma where she can go? Let's go! My brother is happy today and will take you to have a big dinner!"
He pulled Wang Xiaotao out of the rental house.
I said it was a big meal, but I actually found a Sichuan restaurant and ordered four dishes, two meat and two vegetarian. It was definitely not good, but it was much better than the food in the orphanage. Wang Xiaotao devoured it, eating only the rice.
Had four bowls.
Zhou Zichen felt distressed when he saw it. Although the dean's grandma never let the children go hungry, due to the economic situation, there was always very little food and water. None of the children in the courtyard were fat, and they were all skinny.
no.
Zhou Zichen secretly vowed to ensure that the children in the courtyard would not have to worry about food and clothing, and they would all live a good life!
Never thought,
As soon as he thought of the dean's grandmother, the dean's grandmother called him. She must have been worried because Xiaotao hadn't gone back so late.
Zhou Zichen was so shocked that he almost jumped up on the spot, and then secretly cursed himself for negligence. He should have taken the initiative to tell the dean's grandmother earlier.
With an anxious mood, she answered the phone and said, "Grandma dean, please ask Xiaotao. He is with me now. Don't worry. He has been very nervous about his studies recently. I plan to let him be with me."
Stay for a few days so that I can give him some extra lessons."
The dean’s grandma believed it and said, don’t push him too hard. He is still young, so don’t exhaust his brain.
She has always been like this, treating the children in the courtyard as her own children. Therefore, the children who come out of the courtyard, no matter how well they do, will treat her as if they are their own relatives.
The two chatted for a long time before Zhou Zichen hung up the phone.
As a result, Xiao Tao on the other side heard a muffled voice: "You actually lied to grandma..."
But before he could finish speaking, Zhou Zichen's big slap fell on his little head, "You know what the heck! How could I be lying? This is a white lie! If you let her know that you were expelled from the school,
Besides, you’re going to be so angry. I’m warning you, this matter is only known to you and me. If she hears the slightest bit of news, be careful, I will beat your ass!”
Xiao Tao's face became bitter at that time, "But what if I hadn't leaked it?"
"Kill your ass as usual..."
The next morning.
After Zhou Zichen had breakfast, he rode his motorcycle to the client's old house.
Because the client was so pressing, several people didn't even have time to talk and chat, so they worked in a hurry. As a result, they worked for five hours without a break or even time to eat lunch. Finally, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the client came over.
Before, several people had cleaned up the old house.
The client was very satisfied with the results of their labor and happily paid the fee.
Then, Boss Li invited Zhou Zichen and the others to have a meal in a restaurant. Because Zhou Zichen had something to do, he ate some hastily and found an excuse to return to his residence. Then he took the celadon incense burner to Yangmao Antique Market.
Because of the previous transaction, Zhou Zichen went straight to that ancient porcelain shop.
When the employee surnamed Li saw an acquaintance coming to the door, he immediately greeted him with a smile, "Here he comes again, are you still selling this time?"
Zhou Zichen nodded and said with a smile: "Please invite the old man down."
"Okay, I'll go and invite you right away."
After Zhou Zichen was settled, Xiao Li climbed up to the second floor. After a while, the old man came down from the second floor.
"People feel good when happy events happen. Little brother, you look good, so you must have something good." The old man glanced at the non-woven bag in Zhou Zichen's hand, smiled and sat down opposite Zhou Zichen.
"It's okay, please take a look."
Zhou Zichen smiled faintly, took out the green-glazed incense burner from the cloth bag, and carefully placed it on the coffee table.
Seeing how careful his movements were, the old man's heart moved slightly. He picked up the incense burner and looked at it carefully. It took longer than the time it took to identify the two cultural relics last time. He looked at it for more than ten minutes before carefully putting the incense burner down.
"What a pity, what a pity..."
The old man sighed: "This celadon-glazed incense burner would be valuable if it were well preserved. It's a pity, it's a pity..."