There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

The Eastern Suburb Waste Collection Station mentioned by Zhao Dashan is three to five hundred meters to the east of the small courtyard. Before going to the capital, Zhang Guoqing also sold there two or three times when there was a lot of garbage at home.

Why do you say that you have been there two or three times over the years? In addition to those who come to collect broken items, there are also households that can be repaired if they are broken, so they will continue to use them.

Back then, Zhang Guoqing vaguely remembered every year-end cleaning, the cold winter months carrying the tattered past, the old man was sitting on a chair, drinking tea and reading the newspaper, looking very comfortable.

After so many years, I don't know if the old man is still living in poverty in a shabby house, or if there is still a black and white endgame in Yaxing?

Pulling the cart closer and closer to the scrap yard in the eastern suburbs, the big yard that was always neat and tidy in my memory disappeared, the big locust tree was gone, and the dirt was potholed...

Xiao Wu, bro?

It is said that Zhang Guoqing was pointing to the side of the gate to recall the past to Zhou Jiao, when a voice sounded. He immediately turned to look at the young man in front of him.

Well, Zhang Guoqing is sure he doesn't know this person!

Little Fifth Brother, I'm Zhang Le.

Zhang Guoqing suddenly woke up, the old man was surnamed Zhang, he had seen this child before, but he was a kid at that time, he did not expect to be so old, he immediately smiled and said: The old man retired?

Zhang Le grinned happily and nodded repeatedly, Yeah, it's been more than three years since I retired, and I took over my grandfather's job, and now it's just me and Aunt Yu staying here.

Xiao Lezi, I didn't expect you to grow up so big and still work. If you didn't say this, I would have thought you were young. When I saw you last, I remembered that my family was safe.

Little Fifth Brother, you still remember me. Hehe... Hearing what he said, Zhang Le was even more delighted. He really didn't expect Zhang Guoqing to still remember his childhood.

You must know that being able to get close to him is the most boastful thing for young people like them. This is Brother Xiaowu, not to mention the elderly at home, even the little red soldiers will call that Zhang Xiaowu is from our county.

A few years ago, there were group fights in the neighboring county and city. If they met and were picked on, as long as they said that Zhang Guoqing from XX County was their brother, hehe, it would be fine.

Zhang Guoqing didn't know this, and looked at the young man in front of him with a funny smile, If you don't mention your name, I really can't tell it's you, have you married a wife?

This hit Zhang Le's Achilles' heel, and he blushed shyly, My grandma is inquiring. Brother Wu, where are you going with your sister-in-law with the cart?

Zhang Guoqing burst into laughter immediately, and was clever enough to call Zhou Jiao's sister-in-law right away. This kid, he likes it! winking.

Zhou Jiao gave him a sideways look, and said with a smile, We want to come over and see if there is any waste wood here, and buy some back for the old man to spend the winter.

Sister-in-law, you've come to the right place. Let's go, we just built a few warehouses last year, and this is the sixth largest purchasing station in the entire provincial capital.

If you go to other buying stations, you won't find even a single piece of wood except broken glass bottles. Almost everyone in our county is dual-employee. No one sells firewood in the village below. They will go to the nearby purchasing station to buy some broken wood and paper before the winter.

Zhou Jiao and Zhang Guoqing looked at each other and smiled, they really came to the right place.

From Zhang Le's mouth, they also learned a little bit more. Every Wednesday, the purchasing stations in other counties and cities will ship all their inventory here.

Here is the highway leading to the provincial capital, along the way there are the largest paper mills and refineries in the province, and there are six purchasing stations and warehouses here.

There are a total of six staff members in the purchasing station, and two shifts are implemented. Working here is also very easy. Except for the delivery of inventory every Wednesday and the arrival of people from the provincial capital on weekends to pick up goods, there is basically no work. You can just guard the door at ordinary times. The monthly salary is 23 yuan.

For example, now, apart from Zhang Le and a young man, there is another one who is said to be on leave for business and come back in the afternoon. Even Zhou Jiao envied this job. If she didn't go to the capital, she would be happy to work in such a place.

Unlike some purchasing stations in the capital, once you enter the yard, there is not a lot of debris piled up in the open space in the front yard. According to Zhang Le, they usually sort out the various waste products and store them in storage.

The warehouse is the large warehouse in the yard next to the wall and behind it. Red national flags are hung on the roof of each house, and portraits of Mao Zedong are hung on the door.

Hmm, very much the same thing.

Collapsed old furniture, scattered broken wood, old newspapers, broken books, and plaques were put together; in another adjacent warehouse, broken bottles, enamel washbasins with a big hole, broken liner Kettles, rough porcelain sea bowls that have been broken into eight petals, etc., are placed together with broken porcelain and Buddha statues...

It is really ready for paper mills and refineries!

Brother Zhang, it's okay to let them come by themselves? There are a lot of reactions in it...

Okay, what are you worrying about, this is little fifth brother. Can little fifth brother like these rags? If he wants it, he can use it to come to our place? There are people in the capital who hug his thighs.

I'm not worried.

Do you know what is the most convincing thing about Little Fifth Brother? His righteousness! He won't embarrass us, don't worry, can you hide things in just a thin short sleeve this summer?

Let me say, why are you so relieved to let them break wood and paper by themselves?

Okay, come with me to the house to pick up some comic books for other children. I remember that the eldest son of Xiaowu brother's family will hold comic books when he is only a little old.

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Zhang Guoqing in the warehouse heard the whispers outside, shook his head amusedly, and patted Zhou Jiao, You are inside by yourself, I will chat with the children first, hurry up.

Zhou Jiao nodded knowingly.

The huge warehouse is full of all kinds of things, all kinds of books, paintings, porcelain, furniture, plaques, Buddha statues, etc., piled up in a mess, and the smell of gray is not good.

Zhou Jiao walked around first, and found that there are so many things here, and even let her find a chamber pot with a broken bottom. Do you think someone copied this thing?

Is it because there are some landscape paintings on it?

She picked a corner where books were piled up and rummaged around, thinking that even though she couldn't take it out on the surface, it didn't mean I couldn't take it out, hehe, it's posted now.

After searching for a while, Zhou Jiao quickly discovered that the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny. There seems to be a lot of things, except for gold and silver jewelry, there is really no shortage of antique calligraphy and paintings.

It's a pity that not all pieces are genuine, and there are imitations everywhere. Even cherished calligraphy and paintings are only popular goods, and I am so happy that I am chilled by the cold water of reality.

In desperation, due to the tight schedule, she no longer bothered to bother her eyes. When she saw small things that were slightly passable, she put them in the space first, especially some so-called banned books.

After looking for it, each warehouse has a door more than one meter wide on the side, which is convenient for internal transportation between warehouses. She thought that she had almost rummaged through everything here. Especially if you collect too much in one place, it is easy for people to find out, it is better to go to other warehouses to find it.

Just as she was a happy little hamster in the last warehouse, she was suddenly taken aback, there was actually a back door here.