Archaeological work is so hard. By the time the excavation of the Mawangdui Han Tomb was completed, it was already June 1975. Professors Zhou Ming and Chen Jianxin said goodbye to their colleagues in the Hunan Museum and prepared to return to the capital after more than four years.
"Chunming, have you enjoyed your visit to Changsha this time?" Chen Jianxin looked at Zhou Ming with a smile.
"Yes! Professor, seeing the national treasures being protected and discovered one by one, I feel proud in my heart."
"Haha, all our archaeologists feel this way." Professor Chen Jianxin smiled and nodded.
"Thank you, Professor, for giving me this opportunity." Zhou Ming looked at Professor Chen Jianxin with a grateful expression.
"Chunming, let's stop being so polite." Professor Chen shook his head disapprovingly, and then suddenly became filled with emotion, "If it hadn't been for your care back then, I might have been unable to bear the pressure and committed suicide. ”
"Professor, there will always be times when the clouds clear and the sky clears up, so you don't need to be too depressed."
"Chunming, what you said makes sense. My will is much stronger now, all thanks to you." Professor Chen Jianxin said in agreement.
"Haha..." Zhou Ming felt a little embarrassed when he heard Professor Chen Jianxin's thanks again.
"Chunming, I heard that a large ancient tomb was discovered in Xi'an last year. I plan to apply for travel to Xi'an when I return to the capital. Are you willing to go with me?"
"Go! I must go with you, Professor." Zhou Ming's eyes lit up and he said immediately.
"Well, when my application is responded to, we will go to Xi'an together." Professor Chen Jianxin nodded with satisfaction. After nearly four years of getting along, he has become accustomed to Zhou Ming as his assistant.
For Zhou Ming, it is the safest thing to follow Professor Chen Jianxin everywhere for archeology. At least he does not need to think too much about disguise, because the Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' College Students are in a three-year system, and he was in 1973. I've already graduated.
Now that I have been specially recruited as an assistant researcher by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, I don’t need to think about assigning work. I plan to wait until the college entrance examination is resumed before taking the exam for a serious graduate student to enrich my knowledge and resume and get rid of it. The shackles that workers, peasants, and soldiers college students put on themselves.
Just when Zhou Ming and Professor Chen Jianxin were about to leave Changsha, an unexpected situation suddenly occurred. The Beijing TV station wanted to interview the Mawangdui archaeological team, and Professor Chen Jianxin and Zhou Ming were both one of the key targets of this interview.
"Comrade Han Chunming, I heard that you are a first-generation worker, peasant, and soldier college student?" a female reporter from a Beijing TV station asked Zhou Ming.
Zhou Ming looked at the old-fashioned camera and the microphone that had long been in the museum. It felt very chronological, and once again made Zhou Ming feel like traveling through time and space.
"Yes! I am the first generation worker, peasant, and soldier college student." At this time, Zhou Ming was wearing a clean and tidy gray tunic suit, looking capable and sunny.
"Comrade Han Chunming, according to our Beijing TV station's understanding, you followed Professor Chen Jianxin to Mawangdui, Changsha to participate in archaeological work. You have always been fighting on the front line, raising your hands and shoulders with the fellow villagers here. Do you feel too much? Too hard?"
"Our archaeological policy is protective excavation. In order to protect our national treasures, this hard work is really nothing." Apart from the initial confusion of time and space, Zhou Ming quickly regained his composure and responded to these reporters' questions. , Zhou Ming talked eloquently, “In the nearly four years since I came to Changsha, what impressed me most was Professor Chen Jianxin and Teacher Xiong Liren. They are the wise men on the front line of archaeology. It is their rich archaeological knowledge and experience that The thousand-year-old female corpse and the burial objects in the Mawangdui Han Tomb have been best protected."
The TV crew who came to interview the archaeological team did not expect that Zhou Ming would be so calm and humble, and his image was very different from that of the disgraced archaeologists. Instead, he gave people a sunny and optimistic feeling.
"Classmate Han Chunming, I heard that you are from the capital?"
"Yes! I am a native of Beijing. I have loved antiques since I was a child. I was fortunate enough to be able to work for the State Administration of Cultural Heritage while I was in college. I was even more fortunate to participate in the archaeological excavation of the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha."
"According to our Beijing TV station's understanding, you are only twenty-two years old this year. Do you have a plan for your life?"
"I will dedicate my life to our archaeological cause and let our Chinese civilization stand on top of the world again."
"Bah bang bang..." The TV station staff present could not help but be infected by Zhou Ming and clapped unconsciously, "Comrade Han Chunming, what you said is so good."
"Haha, it's just my opinion, not worth mentioning." Zhou Ming couldn't help but blush when he heard the reporter's praise.
"Comrade Han Chunming, thank you for accepting our interview today." The female reporter and photographer both shook hands with Zhou Ming.
"Comrade, you're welcome."
After finishing the unexpected interview, Professor Chen Jianxin and Zhou Ming didn't take it to heart and directly boarded the train back to the capital.
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The capital was much more lively at this time, because educated youths had begun to return to the city in 1975. In the original play, Han Chunming returned to the capital during this time.
As soon as they returned to the nearby streets, many neighbors who knew Zhou Ming were surprised. They thought for a long time before they remembered that this was Zhou Ming, and then they all looked over curiously.
"Chunming, I heard that you have joined the work?" Uncle Guo looked at Zhou Ming in surprise.
"Yes! Uncle Guo, I started working in 1972, doing archaeological work at the State Administration of Cultural Heritage."
"Ah? You're still working! We thought you were let go." Uncle Guo's eyes widened in shock.
"Haha, I went to Changsha, Hunan to participate in archeology." Zhou Ming already knew what kind of character Uncle Guo was, so he didn't dislike him too much.
"Ah? Changsha, Hunan? Is it Mawangdui where the corpse of a thousand-year-old woman was found?"
"Shout! Uncle Guo, have you heard about it too?" Zhou Ming looked at Uncle Guo in surprise.
"Hey! Recently, newspapers have been reporting about Mawangdui Han Tomb every day. Is that thousand-year-old female corpse really not rotten?"
"right!"
Because Zhou Ming's appearance reminded the Hunan Museum in advance and did not allow them to open the female corpse for open viewing, and it has been kept in a constant temperature environment for protection, so the outside world is very curious about the thousand-year-old female corpse.
"Ah? Are you so promising now?" Uncle Guo looked at Zhou Ming blankly, feeling that all this was incredible.
"Uncle Guo, I'm going home first."
"Ah? Then go back quickly!"
Around 1972, Zhou Ming suddenly disappeared from the courtyard. After many neighbors realized it, they curiously asked Han's mother. Then they heard that Zhou Ming had been specially recruited by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage to work in other places. At that time, Many neighbors didn't believe it at first, and they all speculated that Zhou Ming must have made some serious mistake and was immediately dismissed from Peking University.
It’s just that no one thought that Zhou Ming was really specially recruited by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and participated in the Mawangdui Han Tomb that caused a lot of commotion recently. This is a very remarkable thing. The courtyard saw Han Chunming coming back again. The pot exploded.
"Mom, I'm back."
"You brat, you're finally back." Mother Han looked at her little son in surprise, feeling more energetic than when she came back last time. "Are you still going this time?"
"Not necessarily! Our job is to conduct archaeological excavations everywhere."
"Well, let's take a rest now!"
"Mom, it's okay! I'm not tired."
"Haha, I'll call your brothers and sisters back in a minute, so our whole family can have a good celebration."
"Okay! This is my salary over the past few years. Mom, please keep it!" Zhou Ming took out his salary and handed it to Han's mother.
"Ah? So much money?" Mother Han took the wad of bills in surprise.
"Haha, I'm an assistant researcher, and my salary is not low."
"Haha, mom saved it all for you and will keep it for you to get a wife later."
"Mom, now is the period when my career is on the rise. Marrying a wife will affect my progress." Zhou Ming shook his head with a wry smile.
"Silly boy, you know how to say stupid things. You are already twenty-two this year."
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Speaking of Cheng Jianjun, he was quite unlucky. In order to be recommended to go to college, he deliberately pretended to be ill and fled Fangshan County. As a result, all the workers, peasants, and soldiers graduates after graduation were assigned to their original units again, and then Cheng Jianjun returned to his original unit. He returned to Fangshan County, where he had been away for three years, and became a grassroots cadre at the location of the educated youth center.
For Cheng Jianjun, this is just a matter of stealing the chicken and losing the rice, and then waits for death in the new job and fishes all day long. He doesn't care about work at all, but is more interested in girls. , has already had several girlfriends in Fangshan County, which has inadvertently made his own reputation infamous.
"Cai Xiaoli, I heard that you are going back to the city?" Cheng Jianjun looked at Cai Xiaoli with a wicked smile.
Cheng Jianjun has always coveted Cai Xiaoli. As soon as he returned to Fangshan County, he continued to pursue Cai Xiaoli, but Cai Xiaoli did not give him any chance, which made Cheng Jianjun puzzled.
"Yes! We, a few educated youths, will go together the day after tomorrow." Cai Xiaoli said with a forced smile.
"Oh? Is the work settled?"
"Not yet! We'll talk about it when we get ready to go back to the city." Cai Xiaoli wanted to get rid of Cheng Jianjun's entanglement.
"Haha, do you want me to help you think of a solution?"
"No need! I just went back to the city to take a rest. Actually, I'm not too anxious to find a job."
"Well! If you figure it out one day, just come to me, Cheng Jianjun."
"Haha, definitely." Cai Xiaoli said calmly.
When Cai Xiaoli discovered Cheng Jianjun's letter from home, she thought she could get some benefits from Cheng Jianjun. When Cheng Jianjun graduated from college and was arranged to return to Shan County again, Cai Xiaoli was still a little happy.
But Cheng Jianjun's next magical operation completely shocked the educated youths in the educated youth spot and Cai Xiaoli, because many educated youths who felt that there was no hope of returning to the city began to give up on themselves. Then Cheng Jianjun seduced these female educated youths on the condition of returning to the city, and then Cheng Jianjun kept going. Changing girlfriends has become an open secret in several educated youth spots in Fangshan County. Many educated youths sneered at Cheng Jianjun's behavior.
Su Meng is also facing a job search recently. Her parents have been thinking of ways to help Su Meng, but despite many good words from many people, there has been no progress. This is because job opportunities are so rare now.
"Mengmeng, I heard that Han Chunming is back?" Teacher Su looked at her daughter Su Meng in confusion.
"I don't know! Dad, I have lost contact with him a long time ago."
"Ah? That's not right! I remember that you and he always played well, right?" Teacher Su had a confused expression on his face.
"Dad, that was all in my childhood."
"Mengmeng, I heard that Han Chunming is now working in the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. This is a good organization. Do you want to find a way to let him introduce you to it?"
"Dad, you think too highly of Han Chunming. He has no luck at work!" Su Meng was very disdainful of her father's proposal.
"Huh? There's no loss in giving it a try. Maybe it can be done?"
"Dad, I'm not interested in the Cultural Relics Bureau. I still want to go to the Children's Palace."
"Hey! Okay! I'll think of a way for you." Teacher Su was helpless for his daughter.
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Zhou Ming went to the grocery store and bought two bottles of wine and some Beijing snacks, and then came to Mr. Guan. The last time Zhou Ming came to take a break, he hadn't seen him for more than two years.
"Old man, my disciple is back to see you." Zhou Ming put the wine and snacks on the table.
"Brat, what did you call me?"
"Haha, grandpa, when will my wife come back?"
In fact, when he asked Mr. Guan to marry Guan Xiaoguan to him, it was really Zhou Ming who was deliberately joking with Mr. Guan. After all, he and Guan Xiaoguan were not very familiar with each other, and he didn't know if she was really as beautiful as in the original drama.
"Yeah! That's pretty much it." Hearing Zhou Ming call him grandpa, Mr. Guan showed a satisfied smile, "The little lazy cat is studying abroad! At least she should graduate!"
"Haha, does she know about her marriage to me now?"
"Yeah! I've already written to them."
"Haha, then they must be strongly opposed to it!"
"You brat, how come you know everything?"
"Hey, you are an old god, and I am a little god who is better than the old one."
"Don't be poor! Tell me what you have learned in the past few years." Mr. Guan laughed and cursed, and then became concerned about Zhou Ming's archaeological knowledge.
Next, Zhou Ming introduced Mr. Guan to his situation in Changsha, Hunan, and described the excavation process of the Mawangdui Han Tomb. Mr. Guan was excited to hear this.
Although he has been in this world for six years now, Zhou Ming still has a very clear plan for his future. This time he will definitely shine in the archaeological career.
In Zhou Ming's current view, since the system arranges for him to travel continuously, he should try a different life, experience different world conditions, and bloom his own different fireworks.
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