Have you ever heard that the dream of life is "to wipe out of Asia and go to the world"?
In the eyes of ordinary people, watching a basketball game, most of them go to a certain team or a certain star player, but at the end of 2017, many people actually went to a "cleaner" to watch the ball game.
The cleaner has appeared more than once in the camera of a CBA basketball game.
His daily job is to stand outside the field with a towel, stare at the field, if there are sweat stains and stains on the floor, he will see the stitches rush to the field to remove, and then quickly run back to the field.
Of all the "cleaners," he was the one who did the fastest and the best.
As a result, his figure of bending over and wiping the floor was noticed by netizens who loved to watch the game, and everyone affectionately called him "Brother Rubbing".
After wiping the floor red, he said in an interview that he wanted to go to the NBA in the future to wipe the floor.
It's a dream that an ordinary person has, not so ordinary and a little unusual.
Unexpectedly, a year later, the NBA League Public Relations Department actually threw an olive branch to him.
This young man's name was Meng Fei. His profession, like his name, was too ordinary to be ordinary. However, in his ordinary post, he has a big dream.
What kind of force supports this young man to make wiping the floor his life's work, and like a dark horse, constantly breaking people's stereotypes about "cleaners" and becoming a winner in life that everyone expects?
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In 1993, Meng Fei was born into an ordinary family in Hanzhong, Shaanxi.
Probably because of his energy, his family did not force him to follow the growth trajectory of ordinary people, go to school, go to college, and then find a job. On the contrary, when Meng Fei was 15 years old, he had just finished high school, and his parents sent him to the Shaolin Temple to learn art.
This short two-year experience of learning martial arts quickly cultivated Meng Fei's spirit of being able to endure hardships, and also made a qualitative leap in his physique.
When he returned from the Shaolin Temple, Meng Fei grew a body of tendon meat, which also allowed him to easily pass the army's physical examination.
So the 17-year-old turned around and threw himself into the barracks again. As soon as he joined the army, he was assigned to the Shenyang Field Army, which was more than 2,000 kilometers away from his home, and it was the first time he had been so far away from home.
Military life is very hard, but Meng Fei has never given up, he quickly grew from a recruit egg who did not know anything when he first entered the army to a veteran who said one thing or the other, but he was still as energetic as when he was a child.
After retiring from the army, Meng Fei crossed most of China and came to Shenzhen to work.
As a result, I met the job that changed my life - the floor mopping worker on the basketball court.
Don't think that the mopping work sounds easy, but it is actually not simple to do.
Anyone who has watched a ball game knows that a ball game has 40 minutes to go down, and there can be a 130-second break between each bar. The mopper can only play on the field at each break, and it cannot affect the game itself.
If it is time to wipe it off, it will not only be counted as not finishing the work, but it will also be driven down by the referee.
Meng Fei's first game was the Four Nations Basketball Invitational Tournament.
Relying on the brute force he had honed from his childhood martial arts training and military camp, he stubbornly carried the whole game.
However, the area of the basketball court is too large, and the time reserved for the floor cleaners is too small, and after the work, Meng Fei feels that he is going to be tired and collapsed.
However, this contact allowed him to learn about the profession of wiper for the first time and also began his career as a mopper.
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Starting as a volunteer at the Shikoku Men's Basketball Invitational Tournament, Meng Fei began to reside in the basketball arena and became a professional floor cleaner.
At first, his wiping level was always a little worse than others, and when everyone else had finished wiping, he looked up and found that he had only just wiped half of it, and whenever he encountered a big game, he would be more strict about time.
Therefore, Meng Fei began to come back and think for himself, how can I improve the speed and wipe fast and well?
He first directly improved his running speed, practicing sprinting every day, from the original 20 seconds and 15 seconds to 10 seconds and 6 seconds step by step, until he became the fastest wiper in the whole field.
He also made full use of his good physical strength, every time the referee whistled, he immediately rushed to the field, completed the task of wiping the floor at the speed of 100 meters sprint, and turned the basketball court into his own training ground again and again.
However, after such a long time, Meng Fei found that his endurance was not enough, and he was obviously out of breath after the game, and when it was over, he was even more sore and back pain, which required further adjustments in training.
He began to add long-distance running on top of sprints, and insisted on doing 100 sit-ups, lifting 100 barbells, practicing 100 parallel bars every day... In addition, when he is fine, he will practice marathons.
Once, he went to a marathon and got a good result of 3 hours and 46 points.
After such a "self-masochism", Meng Fei obviously improved his endurance, and the task of wiping the floor that usually takes 6 seconds to complete was completed in just 4 seconds, and even the referees and players present could not help but praise "So fast!" ”。
However, don't think that Meng Fei is over like this, he is tirelessly absorbing new knowledge like a schoolboy.
For basketball, it took him only a few months to go from layman to mastery. During this time, he constantly watched videos and materials about the cleanliness of the stadium and learned about the performance of experienced caddies on the field.
In every game, he also did not forget to seize the opportunity to take the initiative to communicate with the on-site host and referee, so as to help him better judge the starting time, accurately find the point, and quickly erase it.
The process of active communication also brought him more information, such as which athlete is more likely to sweat, which athlete likes to use his hands to shake sweat... All of this invisibly helped him to improve his own wiping work.
It is this spirit of hard work and refusal to slacken off that makes Meng Fei quickly become the most eye-catching mopping worker on the field.
When people watch the athletes in the field sweating and fighting fiercely, there is always a person who stands silently on the side, and whenever there is a midfield vacancy, he will bring a towel to the field for the first time and wipe the ground spotlessly.
He himself seems to be just like his towel, no ordinary, but when he gets to the playing field, he becomes the biggest "killer", killing all the sweat and stains.
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The serious Meng Fei let everyone see it, and his opportunity came.
When the CBA summed up the 2014-2015 season, Meng Fei's name appeared on the honor roll. With his excellent work and conscientious attitude, he became the first mopper to be named.
And people also found that in addition to the original fierce basketball game, there is such a professional degree is not inferior to the player's mopping worker, in order to express their love for him, the name "rub brother" is not shy.
In a short period of time, he was invited to the CBA to wipe the floor of dozens of teams - to know that the entire CBA is only 19 teams, which is equivalent to Meng Fei alone, but wiped half of the entire CBA.
Shandong team captain Sui Ran even excitedly interacted with Meng Fei on Weibo, inviting him to provide venue cleaning services and sending him one of his own jerseys after the game, which reads "Ordinary things are not ordinary, it is worth learning" to express respect.
However, in this process, some people have been questioning Meng Fei, especially when others asked What Meng Fei's ideals were, and he replied that he was going to the NBA to wipe the floor, he received almost all-out ridicule.
A mop, still want to go to the NBA?
However, Meng Fei's spirit and Meng Fei's deeds soon spread throughout the country, and even the NBA heard about him and really came to take the initiative to invite.
Chinese basketball player Wang Zhizhi told Meng Fei: "Many Americans have not believed in the progress China has made over the years. You are the best example of a rebuttal of prejudice. I'm sure when Americans see firsthand the focus you put on mopping the floor on the field, they find the answer to China's rise. ”
For Chinese basketball players like Wang Zhizhi, it is almost a lifelong wish to enter the NBA.
For Meng Fei, going to the NBA to wipe the floor is not the biggest ideal in the career?
Perhaps, Meng Fei in 2013 did not think that he could go abroad because of the ground, let alone think of his own today.
With the growing fame, Meng Fei gradually no longer needs to rely on the floor to make money, he has appeared on a lot of variety shows, won a lot of attention, and also participated in job search programs such as "One Stop to the End" and "It's None Other Than You".
Unexpectedly, after listening to his experience, the bosses at the scene were very interested and threw olive branches one after another.
In the end, Meng Fei accepted a job at an Internet company in Beijing, and the other party gave him an annual salary of 200,000 yuan.
And he used to only get 5,000 yuan a month.
In China, many people do mundane jobs and pay meagre wages.
But from sanitation workers on the street, to cleaners hanging from the glass outside high-rise buildings, to cleaners in businesses and units— every ordinary person has his own dream.
The dream of "Brother Rub" is more like a microcosm of the ideals of all ordinary people.
He let us know that as long as we do our best in our field, we can realize the value of life.
Author: Tea Nine
Editor-in-Charge: Blue Orange
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