Guo Wanying, the fourth lady of Shanghai Yong'an Department Store, has a wealthy family, her father Guo Biao is a rich businessman who made her fortune by selling fruits, and her mother is Miss Qianjin of the rich merchant Ma family.
Guo Wanying's childhood was spent abroad, living a life of fine clothes and food, and was a child who was raised by wealth in the traditional sense.
Due to the influence of Western education, Guo Wanying exudes a noble temperament throughout her body. Later, he followed his father back to Shanghai, and because of the language barrier, he finally went to the Chinese and Western Girls' School to study.
When she graduated from The Chinese and Western Girls' School, Guo Wanying was eighteen years old, which was the best age in life, and she could have become a young grandmother by relying on her own family, but she felt that her fiancé was as vulgar as others, resolutely gave up her noblewoman life, and decided to go to Beijing to open up her own world and career.
In Beijing, Guo Wanying became a student in the Psychology Department of Yenching University, and it was here that she met her true love, Wu Yuhua.
At the age of 25, Guo Wanying and this like-minded man got married, and the period after marriage was as happy as ever, but this happiness did not last long, and the mercurial husband actually lived with a widow behind his back, Guo Wanying knew that there was no quarrel or dispute after he knew it, but just found the widow's address and said: I came to take my husband home. After that, Wu Yuhua never looked for the widow again.
Guo Wanying, who was educated in the West, felt that she should not become a housewife, so she relied on her own knowledge and family to open a clothing store, specializing in the customization of some high-end clothing, because in the war years, people's requirements for clothing were low, so the clothing store business deteriorated, fortunately, her husband and German friends could barely maintain these businesses by doing some medical equipment business.
In the 1950s, due to the turmoil of the times, her husband was beaten into a rightist and was greatly hit, so he died in prison soon after, and left Guo Wanying with a debt of 140,000 yuan.
At that time, all family property was confiscated. Guo Wanying and her children had to squeeze into the middle of a 7-square-meter house and had to brush the toilet in order to pay off their debts. In order to maintain an elegant posture, Guo Wanying is still wearing a cheongsam, many people do not understand, she said: "This is what people should look like." ”
In the face of the critical blow of life, Guo Wanying did not collapse, but chose to operate with her heart.
She made rouge from falling flowers, smeared it on her lips, smiled, and even wore a clean and tidy cheongsam when she brushed the toilet.
Despite the devastation of life, she has always maintained decency.
Her face was weathered, but she still looked pampered.
Later, someone commented on her: "There is forbearance and benevolence, everyone is still beautiful; flowers blossom and fall, and golden branches and jade leaves are undefeated." ”
The so-called good life has always needed to be run by itself.
People who treat life with heart will not be disappointed by reality.
In her later years, Guo Wanying got her retirement worker certificate as she wished, and spent the rest of her life at home while holding her grandson at home.
A person's fate is good or bad, not only depends on the key contained in the mouth at birth, whether it is gold or silver, whether it is copper or iron.
Rather, it depends on how it will look at and treat life in the days to come, in the ups and downs of life.