Qingben beauty

Chapter 12
Gu Mingyuan's simple house is not big, only a dozen square meters, with a table in the corner as a dining table, and a large bookshelf made of rough wood, filled with all kinds of books.

Gu Mingyuan put the small coal stove next to the dining table outside the door, found a piece of plastic sheet from nowhere and put it in a corner of the simple room, and made a small bed for me to sleep on.

Although it is only one meter wide, it is a real bed!

What's more, there is a thick new bedding on it.

Although this way, the room looks more crowded, but for me, that one inch of land is already paradise.

This area is already at the very edge of the city, and the people who lived there were still rural residents at that time, and there were no rich people.

After I moved in, Gu Mingyuan told the neighbors that I was his granddaughter. Although the neighbors were a little puzzled, they didn't ask any further questions. Some of them saw me in the wasteland and gave me some clothes.

I have been working in the countryside since I was a child. Apart from other things, I am in good health. After a high fever for one day, the fever subsides. On the third day, I went out with Gu Mingyuan.

Gu Mingyuan had a scooter, and when he stepped on the pedal, the chain creaked and creaked. When I sat on that scooter, I felt my heart tremble when I heard it, and I was afraid that the chain would break directly.

It wasn't until Gu Mingyuan stopped the car and laughed at me staring at the chain with my arms folded and without blinking, that I regained my senses.

Gu Mingyuan smiled and said: "Don't think this guy's voice is not good, but it works. When I go back, I will teach you how to fix it. Now, come, come down, we are going to start working!"

Work!

I quickly jumped off the cart, and looked around nervously.

I have known since I was a child that you can only eat if you work, but there is no work that I can do in this city. When I tell people that I can work, eleven out of ten times I am kicked out. Boom and boom...

However, I looked and looked, and I didn't see any place to work, except for a garbage station in front of me.

I looked at Gu Mingyuan in confusion.

"It's here." Gu Mingyuan pointed at the garbage station and smiled: "You look through the garbage can every day, but you don't know the correct way to check it. Today, let me tell you, there are many treasures in the garbage."

I was very puzzled: "Isn't garbage just unwanted things? How can there be treasures?"

Gu Mingyuan smiled, took me to the garbage station, and said, "What about this, grandpa taught you the first knowledge, do you know what it means for him to be arsenic and my honey?"

My eyes widened, my face full of bewilderment.

These words are more difficult to understand than Mandarin!
"It means that what is poison to others may be honey to me. Of course, this should be reversed. It means that what is honey to others may be poison to myself. In the end, in fact, it means that you should not just look at things on the surface. The same thing and the same thing mean completely opposite effects to different people. Therefore, don’t envy others when they are rich and powerful. Your own life is right."

Gu Mingyuan paused, looked back at my bewildered appearance, chuckled lightly, patted my head and said, "I'm impatient, this is too difficult for you."

I stared blankly at him and said, "Does that mean that those old clothes and shoes in the trash can are very important things to me?"

Gu Mingyuan was stunned for a moment, laughed twice, then patted my head and said, "Smart boy, that's what it means! Come on, grandpa will take you on a treasure hunt, and see what treasures those stupid people have lost!"

Gu Mingyuan led me to open the door of the garbage station, and then hooked out a pile of garbage with an iron hook. Before squatting down to search, he gave me a pair of gloves, and gave me a mask, and taught me to put it on.

The garbage in the garbage station is far more complicated than that in the garbage can, and even the smell is stronger.

But there are masks and gloves, plus I have been rummaging through the trash can for so long, these are no obstacles for me at all.

In just a few minutes, I was attracted by what Gu Mingyuan taught.

Gu Mingyuan taught me how to identify iron wire and copper wire. All metal, no matter what its original form, was picked up into a big bag.

Then there are all kinds of paper products.

Ordinary discarded cardboard boxes are folded and folded first and then tied with ropes. Newspapers and some magazines are also picked up and tied with ropes.

As for the books, Gu Mingyuan would open them first and take a look. Some books were carefully placed aside, and the others were bundled together with the others.

Among the paper products, Gu Mingyuan cared most about those crumpled letters.

As long as those letters were turned out, Gu Mingyuan would carefully smooth out the letters, and then put them into a black bag that he carried with him.

We searched at that garbage station all morning, guessing that there was nothing left, Gu Mingyuan took me, loaded the packed things onto the flatbed truck, and then stepped on the flatbed truck to the next garbage station.

On the way, Gu Mingyuan bought four big meat buns and divided two of them for me to eat.

The next dumpster is in the middle of a nice block of houses, and it's got more stuff than the previous one too.

But at first glance, you can tell that the metal and cardboard inside have been picked up.

A man in his 40s with a big bag was still standing at the door. When he saw us coming, he said with a smile, "Old man Gu, did you come here again? Old Li picked up some good things, and I don't know who lost them." I brought out a big bag of clothes, all made of woolen cloth, and they are probably new.”

Gu Mingyuan stopped the car, smiled at the man and said, "That's his blessing."

"This?" The man saw me and pouted at Gu Mingyuan.

"My granddaughter." Gu Mingyuan said lightly.

The man raised his eyebrows and smiled at Gu Mingyuan: "I'm leaving, this place belongs to you."

After the man finished speaking, he winked at me, smiled maliciously, turned around and left.

I jumped out of the car and followed Gu Mingyuan.

After so many days in the city, I know a little about the world of homeless people. Even picking up trash and digging through trash cans have their own places.

Gu Mingyuan's main site is the garbage station in front, and this place should belong to others. However, Gu Mingyuan used some methods to get them to agree to search again after they finished searching.

But they are all rummagers, those people have rummaged, what else can be left?

I don't understand.

Gu Mingyuan looked at me and said with a light smile, "Forgot what I told you? Find out the letters first. Those letters are too small, and they read them impatiently. As for the others, follow me and I will teach you slowly."

I followed Gu Mingyuan into the garbage station.

In the garbage station that has been rummaged twice, there is nothing that can be picked up at first glance. If you want to find something, you have to squat inside and rummage little by little.

Gu Mingyuan said the letter, so I concentrated on looking for it.

With the experience of the last garbage station and Gu Mingyuan's explanation, I have gained some experience.

Some of those who throw away letters are thrown out by cleaning up the sundries at home. Books and letters are all in bundles, but there are also people who throw away letters as soon as they receive them.

This kind of letter is thin and small, and it is very inconspicuous, and most of it is mixed in food scraps, and most people will not bother to find it.

There are quite a few such letters in this garbage dump.

After one afternoon, I found more than a dozen such letters.

As for Gu Mingyuan, he searched and found a pot made of black mud with a mouth missing.

At that time, Gu Mingyuan was very happy, and said excitedly to me: "Xiaoqing, you are really grandpa's lucky star. When you came, you actually found this kind of thing."

At that time, I didn't know why Gu Mingyuan was so excited about a broken pot. It was not until many years later that I understood his mood at that time.

(End of this chapter)