In 2018, on a CCTV interview program, an 85-year-old grandmother was dressed fashionably, her makeup was exquisite, her speech and demeanor were crisp and neat, the conversation content was very clear, and her thinking was very meticulous, completely unlike the 85-year-old man. More energetic than many of our middle-aged people 4 or 50 years old.
But who would think from her mental outlook that she was once the richest man in the country in the 80s, and at the age of 53, she was imprisoned for crimes due to ignorance, sitting for 18 years. He was 72 years old when he was released from prison.
From the age of 72 to 85, what did the grandmother go through? Why did she come out of prison and appear so wonderfully?
Today, let's talk about the legendary grandma Wu Shengming.
In 1933, in a family that had been doing business for generations in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, a little girl was born.
The little girl's name is Wu Shengming.
However, before she could know the world, because of her father's temperament, her mother could not see hope in her father, so she left her father and 2-year-old Wu Shengming and remarried to Taiwan.
I thought my mother was gone, and my father loved me.
Who knew that his father was still a person with no sense of responsibility, and he left his hometown after handing Wu Shengming over to his grandmother. Although his father later returned with a woman named "stepmother", Wu Shengming was brought up by his grandmother.
Wu Shengming, who lacks the love of his parents, was bullied by his friends from an early age, which made Wu Shengming develop an independent and rebellious personality.
When Wu Shengming was 12 years old, her stepmother sent Wu Shengming to be a child bride.
The unwillingness and rebellion in Wu Shengming's bones did not compromise on this, and he kept waiting for the opportunity to escape.
In 1949, 16-year-old Wu Shengming found an opportunity, secretly took some money at home, and fled to Shanghai alone.
When Wu Shengming ran out of the little money she brought from home, she thought about how to make money, at least to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Soon, the clever and industrious Wu Shengming found his first job: working as a nanny for a military sister-in-law.
But when she was young, she didn't want to be a nanny for the rest of her life.
Unwilling to be mediocre, Wu Shengming left Shanghai and came to Xi'an at the age of 18 to join his uncle who was an officer.
In Xi'an, 18-year-old Wu Shengming met her first love. The first love is a soldier from Jiaodong, Shandong.
Wu Shengming, who had just opened his heart, thought that this time he met someone who truly loved each other and could be entrusted with life, and his marriage could be arranged by himself. But, once again, experiencing the injustice of fate.
The uncle had arranged for one of his attendants from Wuxi to give wu shengming. When he discovered Wu Shengming's love affair, he simply came to a trick of "beating mandarin ducks with sticks" and used his power to transfer Wu Shengming's first love boyfriend away.
Wu Shengming was very disgusted by his uncle's tyranny and forcible interference in her marriage. She wanted her own destiny to be arranged by herself.
She did not listen to her uncle's advice, and after a big quarrel with her uncle, she left Xi'an again. I don't know if this departure is a blessing or a curse? If you go according to your uncle's arrangement, there may not be so many setbacks in this life.
Wu Shengming, who left Xi'an, has traveled to Beijing, Nanchong, Zhengzhou and other places, and has also done a lot of work.
In 1962, a man named Zhang Siyuan spent ten years to show his faithful love for Wu Shengming, experienced two marriage proposals, and finally embraced Wu Shengming. The two married and formed a family.
Wu Shengming finally has his own home, and this marriage was decided by himself.
It's just that this loving little couple has worked hard for many years, and Wu Shengming has had four painful experiences of miscarriages, but he has been unable to complete the wish of the two little two mouths to have a baby.
When they were discouraged and wanted to give up, in 1975, Wu Shengming, who was already 42 years old, finally became pregnant.
In that year, Wu Shengming gave birth to their daughter Zhang Yan.
The birth of his daughter made Wu Shengming finally let go of the psychological burden of many years. She decided to go to sea to do business.
A family has been in business for generations, and since childhood, watching the family busy with business, this business gene in the bones began to play a role at this time.
In 1978, Wu Shengming officially went to the sea to do business, from opening a commissary to operating a restaurant and shop, the business was getting bigger and bigger.
Wu Shengming's business sense is very sensitive, and he can always grasp the market development trend in time.
Later, he also persuaded her husband to take out their savings, borrow another 15,000 yuan, open the first trading company, wholesale radios from Guangdong, and sell them in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Zhengzhou, Henan, Nanchong, Sichuan and other places.
In the 1980s, it was the early stage of the implementation of the mainland's reform and opening up policy, and Wu Shengming earned a lot of money after mastering the dividend period. After several years of hard work, it has been worth tens of millions.
The 1980s were an era when "ten thousand yuan households" were scarce. But at this time, Wu Shengming already had tens of millions of assets and became the richest man in the country at that time.
According to this development trend, Wu Shengming's future should be family happiness, family wealth earn more and more, and become the happiest woman in China.
But one thing that left her family in ruins. Everything that came before was in vain!
Everyone should learn and understand the laws of the country. It is precisely because Wu Shengming lacks the study of the law that he has done something illegal and criminal.
In the summer of 1985, Wu Shengming got 48 imported high-end cars through special relations, which were transported into China by disassembly and sold according to parts, and then sold through assembly, and Gao Li obtained millions of yuan.
That year, Wu Shengming also obtained high-grade fabrics worth 5.8 million yuan through illegal organization.
These acts of speculation and fraud are the crime of smuggling.
In 1986, Wu Shengming's behavior was discovered by the police and he was arrested and imprisoned.
After trial, Wu Shengming was sentenced to death with a two-year suspension of execution.
On the first day of his imprisonment, Wu Shengming did not tell his young daughter, but lied to her that she had gone to Hong Kong to do business and could not return home for several years.
The daughter who does not know the truth writes to Wu Shengming every year.
Wu Shengming received a letter from his daughter and was full of expectations for the future, hoping that he would get a commutation of sentence through actions.
As a result, Wu Shengming's performance in prison changed from a suspended death sentence to life imprisonment, and then to 18 years in prison.
However, Wu Shengming did not tell his daughter the news of his commutation, but the husband's brother told his daughter the news of the initial death sentence.
The husband eloped with his nanny to Anhui province the year Wu Shengming was imprisoned, and the two divorced. The ex-husband sent his daughter to the eldest brother's house in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, for foster care.
Because of a slip of the tongue, the eldest uncle told his daughter about Wu Shengming's sentence to death and imprisonment.
The daughter's previous experience of her father's cheating has caused psychological trauma to the destruction of the family, and now the only mother who loves her will also go to the end of the road. The daughter who has no life to run for the head actually commits suicide by drinking pesticides. He was only 16 years old.
Before her death, her daughter wrote a letter to Wu Shengming. In fact, at that time, the daughter had already drunk the pesticide, and when she was found, she could not be rescued. She asked her classmates to help write the letter with her last wishes.
The daughter mentioned in the letter that she hoped that Wu Shengming would be able to help the homeless elderly and children in the future.
Wu Shengming sent one letter after another in the next 2 years, but did not receive a reply from his daughter. Wu Shengming finally learned that his daughter had committed suicide two years ago.
Originally, her daughter was the only spiritual pillar she worked hard to reform and strive to get out as soon as possible. The pillar was gone, and Wu Shengming felt that there was no point in living.
Just when she was about to commit suicide with a blade, she was fortunately discovered in time and stopped.
Perhaps it was heaven's favor for Wu Shengming, and her daughter's last letter actually became the source and motivation for her future efforts.
On July 28, 2005, Wu Shengming, who was already 72 years old, finally released from prison after completing his sentence.
At this time, Wu Shengming had no husband, no children, and no relatives to pick her up. Before she was imprisoned, the leaders of the streets of Zhengzhou City, where her company belonged, came to greet her.
What can the old man do now?
Fortunately, the street gave her a job cleaning toilets in the public toilets in the community, and arranged a small house of 18 square meters for her next to the toilets.
With a job and a place to live, Wu Shengming had a little warmth in his heart. She knows that she is still a loved person, and she has not been abandoned by society!
Since you have done it, you must do it well. She works hard and takes things very seriously. In 2004, he was rated as an excellent cleaner in Zhengzhou.
But the heart of business buried in the heart was stirring again.
Because of Wu Shengming's special deeds, under the reports of many local media, many people have known Wu Shengming, learned the story of her transformation from the richest man to a prisoner of the order, and also knew her hope to fulfill her daughter's last wish.
In October 2004, through a friend's connection, a Shanghai businessman took the initiative to contact Wu Shengming and was willing to invest money to cooperate with Wu Shengming to help those who were homeless.
Some people with other plans cheated money under the guise of cooperating with Wu Shengming. In September 2005, a man named Zhang Jingqiang cheated Wu Shengming of more than 900,000 yuan that he had painstakingly borrowed.
If you want to cry without tears, you will be wise through one thing. In the future, Wu Shengming did not dare to accept the so-called cooperation of others at will.
In 2006, it came to the state's tax-free support policy for agriculture. As a result, Wu Shengming, who is 73 years old, has successively opened a fruit technology company, an agricultural company, a chicken farm, and a restaurant. He also went to the countryside to rent land and opened a garden, and personally planted grapes in the field.
In 2010, the owner of an elderly apartment learned about Wu Shengming's situation and personally invited her to be the dean and manage the apartment.
Wu Shengming finally started the cause of old-age care services according to his daughter's last wishes. But for running a pension community, Wu Shengming has her ideas: this matter is to complete her daughter's last wishes, but the goal is not to make much money on the elderly, but to complete the upgrading of the relevant industrial chain, to commercial pension, through commercial channels to make money.
When she was on the CCTV program in 2018, Wu Shengming said that she now earned tens of millions again, and she did not feel how successful she was, at least compared with the previous prices, and now these tens of millions of assets are only a number! In addition to the change in the value of money, there is also a change in the values of life.
Earning wealth again through hard work only proves that the elderly can also live a wonderful life. Recently, Grandma Wu Shengming also opened her own self-media platform account. She didn't lose to the young at all.
Later words:
1, people, whether young, or getting old, mentality is the most important. Even if the age number is older, the mentality she can always be very young. Mindset can determine a person's health. And healthy, deaf, eyesight, can put on the right high heels, take a few cat steps, at any time to go where they want to go, these ways to live wonderful! 、
2. When we encounter the trough of life, think about Wu Shengming's encounter and her not succumbing to age and difficulties, we will be relieved, and everything can start again. Remember, it is always you who beat us!