Although life is very short, but in fact, there are decades, in the process, there will be a series of unpredictable changes, an ordinary person may gradually go to glory, a talented person may also suddenly fall.
There was once a very famous young girl, she was already well-known in the country when she was only fourteen years old, and was regarded as a talented literary youth, she appeared in the Great Hall of the People, participated in the award ceremony of the "National Top Ten Literary Teenagers", was also interviewed by CCTV News, and also visited Japan as an outstanding student representative.
Her future can no longer be described as bright, it should be said that she is radiant, her name is Pang Xiuyu, a veritable genius, but behind these experiences, there is an incomparably tragic story.
This story tells us that before we reach the end, everyone has a chance, and genius can be easily lifted up to the sky or easily destroyed.
On December 6, 1979, in an ordinary family in Tianjin, a baby girl fell to the ground.
This is not unusual, and in the seventies and eighties of the last century, the idea of son preference was still more serious, and this child was not particularly pampered, but because there was only one child in the family, her parents still raised her as an heir.
The conditions of the Pang family are very general, her father is a worker, and her mother is a typical full-time wife, who only stays at home all day to do housework.
At that time, the occupation of workers was still good and quite stable, so although the family was not rich, they were still getting by.
However, the Pang family's usual eating and drinking, home furnishings, etc. are very shabby, not because of saving money, but because the money is used elsewhere - to buy books.
Everyone has their own ideals, Pang Xiuyu's father is no exception, although he does not have enough talent and conditions, and finally can only compromise with reality to become a worker, but his ideal from childhood is to become a writer, so he has been buying a lot of books.
This "large number" is not a little, but more than ten thousand copies, and these things are stuffed in almost any corner of their home.
Pang Yi has passed the age of blood, he is unwilling and recognizes the reality, almost all such parents, especially Chinese parents, will habitually pin their expectations on their children, like a kind of inheritance.
At that time, because of the reform of the national education examination and other systems, it became a prosperous road to get ahead through reading, so everyone squeezed in, and many gifted "prodigies" emerged from it.
As soon as these prodigies became famous, they received widespread attention, and were written in large books, which made the common people envious, and Pang Yi naturally did the same, so he made up his mind to "cultivate" his daughter into an outstanding prodigy.
Once his plan began, he could not stop, even if Pang Xiuyu was just a few years old at this time, not old enough to start reading, when others were taken care of by their parents at home, Pang Xiuyu was forced to start reading, memorizing poetry, learning arithmetic...
In short, Pang Yi formulated an incomparably strict plan, he clearly defined what his daughter should do at what age, to what extent, and how long to do it every day, this plan is even accurate to every minute, and there is no moment of idleness.
Poor Pang Xiuyu has to bear more than ten times more pressure than her peers at a young age, and it can be said that other people's children have just learned to walk, and she will learn pole vaulting.
In childhood, she had almost no time to play, as long as she did not eat and sleep, or studied, learned this and that, and if her father's tasks were not completed on time and in quantity, she would be severely punished, which made her cautious and walking on thin ice for a long time.
Of course, although this kind of devilish training is painful, but the effect is definitely there, Pang Xiuyu can already recognize and write all the words in kindergarten, and he can also skillfully apply arithmetic, and he has also memorized a lot of ancient poems and ancient texts in his head, far away from the starting line to pull others away.
By the time she began to enter elementary school, the other children could not compare with Pang Xiuyu, and she had already become familiar with what the teacher taught, which made her classmates around her a great admiration.
The teacher felt that she was undoubtedly a genius, but they did not know how many days and nights of pain and suffering Pang Xiuyu had paid behind this, and Pang Yi only saw the envious eyes of others, yes, his daughter was a genius, what a face-saving thing.
So the bane was buried from then on, pang Yi said that he had read many books, but he did not know that there was an idiom called "picking seedlings to promote growth".
Worldly vanity not only did not make him see reality clearly, but made him more convinced that his method of education was right.
So Pang Xiuyu began to "create" from elementary school, she under her father's rules, to write a lot of articles every day, because this is a "writer" must go through the way, if you do not know how to write or lack of materials, then go to read those Chinese and foreign tomes, from which to find inspiration.
The reason why great writers can use words to move people is because of their own experience and the expression and feeling of emotions, but Pang Xiuyu, who is about ten years old, still knows nothing about many things in this world.
So she was forced to write a lot of empty words, but as long as it looked like a "very high-level" article, her father would approve and praise.
With the passage of time, Pang Yi could not wait to start submitting her daughter's works to major publishing houses, as a primary school student, Pang Xiuyu's literary foundation is still too deep, so her articles were soon published in many newspapers and magazines, and the awards in those composition competitions were even softer, which made her a leader among peers and even older students.
With the influence of young talent and the trend at that time, Pang Xiuyu's fame gradually began to grow, especially under the deliberate promotion of her father Pang Yi, she frequently appeared on various TV programs and participated in various interviews, so that more and more people saw such a "talented female writer".
At least at that time, Pang Xiuyu was indeed the focus of attention, she not only won the title of "National Literary Top Ten Literary Teenagers" in one fell swoop, but also was entered by the Tianjin Writers Association and became the youngest member in the history of the Tianjin Writers Association.
After this, Pang Yi directly collected some of the articles that his daughter had previously published, and contacted the publishing house in the form of an anthology to print and publish them, called "Hope".
After the book was published, the famous Chinese literary master Mr. Ba Jin even wrote a letter to the little girl to encourage her, and the famous educator Lei Jieqiong wrote an inscription for her, which for a time raised the gimmick to the peak.
In fact, at that time, Pang Xiuyu's situation was already very unsatisfactory, her language was certainly not bad, but other subjects were simply not the same, even so, she still had to be arranged by her father to attend the signing party of "Hope", and face countless admirers as a "big celebrity".
But she didn't really understand anything at all.
However, the reputation is still good, even if the partial subject is serious, Tianjin Experimental Middle School still admits Pang Xiuyu to junior high school with too good literature.
But at this time, she had no way to study seriously, because at that time, her name spread almost all over the country, becoming the driving force for all parents to spur their children, inviting her to be interviewed by the media, schools, and countless individuals, which also made her fall into endless confusion.
In 1994, Pang Xiuyu went to Beijing and was honored to accept the award ceremony of "National Top Ten Literary Teenagers" in the Great Hall of the People, and then accepted a special report from CCTV News.
She didn't seem to be a child or a student, and the life she was supposed to be going through at this age was completely shattered by the glitz of adulthood.
As Pang Xiuyu grew older and more sensible, she felt more disgusted and afraid of this "puppet" identity, you know, she was already an out of place among her classmates, fame made her lonely and isolated, but her language was good, other subjects, especially science, had fallen into the point of almost complete ignorance, which made her normal learning career difficult.
Fish and bear paws cannot be combined, let alone for a fourteen-year-old girl, how can she bear the weight of fame, interviews, learning, and genius?
In the end, she was still an ordinary child, and she could not come up with the corresponding strength to maintain this life, so in the second year of junior high school, Pang Xiuyu collapsed and dropped out of school.
After dropping out of school, there was no new article published, her attention naturally dissipated quickly, for Pang Yi, the "great efforts" he had been making were in vain, he was furious about it, constantly beating and cursing his wife and daughter after drinking all day, and finally had an affair with other women outside, which completely broke the family.
After that, Pang Xiuyu began to live a poor life with her mother, although it was difficult, she always felt much better than in the past, but the fate was uncertain, and soon after her mother suddenly suffered from diabetes, the family's money was taken away by her father, for her mother's illness, Pang Xiuyu had to go out alone to make money.
And reality once again hit her fiercely, Pang Xiuyuman thought that with her literary talent and celebrity status, finding a job is a very easy thing, but the society has long changed, no one knows what kind of celebrity she is, only knows that her academic qualifications are only junior high school graduates.
"Genius girl" Pang Xiuyu has been beaten to the point of exhaustion, in order to live, she finally fell into a small restaurant to serve dishes, she thought it was already very painful, but did not expect that there is a bigger tragedy waiting ahead for this unworldly girl.
After working in the restaurant for a while, Pang Xiuyu met a frequent customer, this middle-aged man always likes to talk to Pang Xiuyu, and in private, he often reveals that he is willing to provide her with life, for her to go to college, etc., and Pang Xiuyu, who is as simple as a blank paper, easily believes him.
But this trust was exchanged for a drunken rape, Pang Xiuyu cried and forced the man to marry himself home, the man reluctantly agreed, so they quickly formed a small family.
Pang Xiuyu no longer works because the man will pay her monthly living expenses, so she has three children for the other party, and she was 19 years old when she gave birth to the first child.
A man's attitude has always been ambiguous, and every time he mentions marriage, he always uses all kinds of excuses to prevaricate.
It wasn't until three years later, when his wife came to the door, that Pang Xiuyu knew that the man he had entrusted wholeheartedly to already had a family, and he was just a little third who was raised.
The man left ruthlessly, leaving only a little monthly child support and a heavy burden of three children, and the money was soon cut off.
Pang Xiuyu can't even feed herself, talking about supporting a large family, she has no academic qualifications, no social experience, no survival skills, frankly speaking, she is useless.
So she could only sell the old house in the original family, which was also the only property left by her father, to make a difficult living, and after the money ran out, she desperately wrote a letter of help to the Tianjin Newspaper Group, which she knew before.
She could have used this to find a job to make a living, but all she asked for was a man who could raise the children for her, and she had no self at all, and could only pin everything on others.
Of course, Pang Xiuyu found this man as he wished, he was more than fifty years old, the financial situation was very good, generously took on all the daily expenses of Pang Xiuyu's family, but Pang Xiuyu was not like a wife at all, she had to serve each other wholeheartedly every day, doing housework, chores, cooking, and calling the man "boss", like a hired nanny.
When Pang Xiuyu also talked about marriage to this person, he was unwilling to accept the three oil bottles beside her, and the two sides quarreled countless times over this matter, and finally the man left her and disappeared in a fit of anger.
Such things repeat themselves again and again, as if to foreshadow something, these men, almost without exception, have the shadow of Pang Yi, they are very selfish, irresponsible, rigid, and will only act according to their own wishes, while Pang Xiuyu always steps into the trap, because her whole life is shrouded in the shadow of her father.
Pang Xiuyu did not know what love was, because her father had never given her such a thing, Pang Yi did not consider it from the perspective of his daughter, but forcibly arranged a whole life for her own selfishness, and even withdrew halfway through, leaving her at a loss for the remaining half of her life.
When the reporter came to her again and asked her why she did not rely on her own efforts to work, Pang Xiuyu replied:
"I don't know how to work, I feel like I can't take on the burden of the family, I just want to find someone to marry and live in better conditions."
There are not so many geniuses in the world, let alone artificially created, and when everything is settled, the geniuses who are picked up will only fall into a situation where even ordinary people are inferior.