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Chapter 59 A set of books, a TV series, and an attitude towards life
From this day on, Long Bisheng determined his goal, and began to firmly move towards his own path, step by step.

After the start of the new semester, Long Bisheng's hard work in training has not weakened at all. His fearsome hard work that even tortured himself has moved everyone, and no one dares to laugh at him anymore—although no one laughed at him in the past, they inevitably talked about "that idiot in dormitory [-]" in a mocking tone behind his back. What's more, since the beginning of the new semester, his level has gradually begun to catch up with the average level. Everyone can see that with his current level of hard work, at least he will no longer be the bottom of the school.

While his training attitude drove the [-] dormitory (the name of the [-] dormitory's "livestock dormitory" has been finalized), it also stimulated the training enthusiasm of other players in the school.

During the day, he spent almost all his time on training except for cultural courses. In the morning, he completed the basic training with other students, and meticulously followed the training courses arranged by the coach. At noon, when the others were taking a nap, he was as energetic as a calf. Instead, he sprinted back and forth on the playground.

When he can't do training, he is also using various methods to enrich his spiritual world. He followed Dai Guangming to read a book. He followed Hu Dang to watch the live broadcast on the video hall in the day of the game. Discussing various details in the game with others in the same bedroom, and sometimes even because of the differences in the views, they quarreled with others ...

The people in the [-] dormitory each have their own characteristics. Dai Guangming loves reading very much. He has a clear mind and often has his own unique views on things. He has a gentle personality and is at ease with the situation. Long Bisheng is gentle on the outside, but has an unyielding fortitude in his heart. Although their personalities are different, the atmosphere in the [-] dormitory is the best in the school.

Unknowingly, another year has passed. During this year, the results of Long Bisheng's hard training have finally begun to show. He is improving almost every day, and his confrontation with Li Jie in the game has also begun to win and lose. He has finally shown his value on the court. With the offense, you can also directly hit Long Bisheng with a long pass to let him ferry to create opportunities for teammates-at least no one thinks he is a burden anymore.

He has gradually matured and become full of confidence. Although his academic performance can only be regarded as middle-level in the whole school, he has begun to show his talent in Chinese and English, especially the latter. Now he can even speak English to communicate with other people. In Ding Yu's words, even if he is thrown to Europe alone, as long as he has cash, he can live alone in Europe for a long time!

In terms of Chinese, he also began to have a strong interest. Dai Guangming loves reading very much, and he reads very miscellaneously. Sometimes he likes to read those big classics that he would not like to read at his age. The two bookstores in the entertainment center are his favorite places to go in his spare time.

Under Dai Guangming's recommendation, Long Bisheng had already finished reading "The Ordinary World". When Dai Guangming put this book in front of him for the first time, he was immediately attracted by the title.

"Ordinary World", isn't he living in an ordinary world?Long Bisheng never thought about what kind of great person he could become. He always thought of himself as a small person, but this did not prevent him from pursuing his ideal.

After reading a few pages, he was immediately attracted by this book. Sun Shaoping, Sun Shaoan, Tian Runye, Tian Xiaoxia, Jin Bo, Jin Xiu, Sun Lanxiang, Sun Yuhou, He Xiulian, Tian Fujun... and other vivid characters appeared before his eyes.

From this book, he came into contact with a word that he hadn't thought of before-love.

The subtle relationship between Sun Shaoping and Hao Hongmei, the impossibly fruitless bitter love between Tian Runye and Sun Shaoan, the lingering love between Sun Shaoping and Tian Xiaoxia that surpasses ordinary men and women, the plain and simple love between Sun Shaoan and He Xiulian, and the platonic love between Jin Bo and a Tibetan girl all deeply touched his heart.

What Long Bisheng admired even more was the hero Sun Shaoping’s attitude towards a life of suffering. Under the harsh environment, he regarded suffering as life’s training for him. He was not afraid of all kinds of difficulties and went against the current, just like a piece of stubborn iron.
From childhood to now, my path has never been smooth sailing, but as long as I learn the spirit of Sun Shaoping and work hard to overcome one difficulty after another, can't I shine my own light?
He was almost hungrily watching this set of old Mr. Lu Yao's painstaking efforts, and his whole body was deeply immersed in this ordinary world. He laughed and cried with their laughter. When he saw Tian Xiaoxia sacrificed to save the children who fell into the water, he hid in the bed and cried.

"Damn it, what's wrong with you, Aaron!" Dai Guangming, who was sleeping on Long Bisheng's upper bunk, asked in surprise.

"Tian Xiaoxia is dead..." Long Bisheng said sobbingly.

No one laughed at him, everyone of them read the book under the strong recommendation of Dai Guangming, and when they saw Tian Xiaoxia's death, they were not much better than Long Bisheng is now.

In addition to this set of books, there is another thing that touched Long Bisheng's heart, a TV series "The Happy Life of Poor Zhang Damin".

If the hero Sun Shaoping in "The Ordinary World" embodies the Chinese people's indomitable spirit when they face the hardships of life, regards suffering as training, and pursues the spiritual realm, then the hero Zhang Damin in "The Happy Life of Poor Zhang Damin" embodies the optimistic spirit of the Chinese people when they face the difficulties of life.

Compared with Sun Shaoping, what Zhang Damin pursues seems to be at a much lower level. He doesn't ask for much. If the family can live smoothly and live in peace, that's enough.As he himself said: “Three things I like to watch most in my life—my son eats milk, my wife eats chicken drumsticks, and my mother eats ice.” Unfortunately, even though his requirements are so low, bad luck has befallen him one after another. Sensible also has the most tragic fate—first, his fiancé suffered a car accident on the eve of his wedding, then he got leukemia, and his old mother suffered from dementia—no matter which of these things happened in any ordinary family, it would bring disaster to the family, but his family was all affected, but even so, Zhang Damin still maintained his infinite love for life and incomparable optimism.

"What is happiness? People are still alive, that is happiness!"

Although the things they pursue are high and low, but Sun Shaoping and Zhang Damin have one thing in common—no matter how many hardships life will give them, they will always grit their teeth and endure it. As long as there is such a little bit of joy and happiness in life, they will infinitely magnify it—Long Bisheng feels that he should learn this attitude towards life.

Think about it, compared with other students, I, who can be said to have no strengths other than my body, have been able to get to where I am now, isn't it because of my strength to face difficulties and grit my teeth?If I had easily bowed my head in the face of difficulties, I'm afraid I would have been eliminated by the school long ago, right?

This set of books and this TV series have given Long Bisheng a positive attitude towards life and let him know that in this world, hard work and facing reality are the necessary conditions for most people to succeed. There are indeed some people in the world who have enviable talents and conditions and can succeed without much effort—but they are a minority after all.

(End of this chapter)