In 2003, the doors of a shanghai prison slowly opened. An old woman with white hair and a stooped figure came out of it.
She spent 18 years of darkness inside the walls of her cell, and by the time she saw the sun again, she was already human.
No one will remember that she was the richest woman in Shanghai who was the star-studded woman; no one remembers the flashy years when even the mayor saw her.
In 18 years, people and things have changed too much.
She went from being the richest man to a prisoner of the order, her husband cheating on the nanny, her daughter committing suicide in shame and anger, she had no money and no power, and she did not know where the road ahead was.
This old woman was Wu Shengming, the former richest woman in Shanghai.
How did she become the richest woman from a small nanny? And why did you go to jail when your life was brilliant? After 18 years, will life continue to sink or be reborn after being born into nirvana?
The rich and the desperate
In the winter of 1933, Wu Shengming was born in Shengzhou City, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province.
As the saying goes, the family is in business, and it is not rich for three generations; but this Wu family has been passed down from generation to generation, but one generation is richer than the next.
At that time, there was an old street in Shengzhou City, where the rice mills, medicine shops, and cloth shops were all the properties of the Wu family. It can be said that the family is big and envies others.
It is reasonable to say that Wu Shengming was born in such a rich family, which must be the pearl in the palm of the family.
But Wu Shengming's father is an uncompromising second ancestor, and his greatest hobby is to linger in the land of fireworks and willow lanes, and he has no regard for his wife and daughter.
When Wu Shengming was 4 years old, her mother, who had no hope of marriage, finally had enough of such a life, so she left her daughter and eloped to Taiwan.
The wife put a green hat on herself, and the father was naturally very angry, and this evil fire could only be sprinkled on his daughter Wu Shengming, so the life of the little rich woman was even more difficult.
The arrival of the stepmother is even worse. The stepmother regarded Wu Shengming as a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, and a pestle wherever it was.
When Wu Shengming was 12 years old, her stepmother used the excuse that Wu Shengming was in conflict with her fate, so she sent her to another family as a child bride.
Wu Shengming looked at the lights in the courtyard and was very panicked.
She knew she was going to marry someone she had never met before and start another life in the hands of others.
In order to get rid of the fate of being arranged, Wu Shengming decided to flee.
She claimed that she wanted to buy some rouge gouache for use at weddings; because she was young, no one in the family doubted it.
The crowds in the downtown area were so crowded that Wu Shengming took the opportunity to get rid of the servants and stepped on the train to Shanghai with the money to buy rouge.
A tortuous marriage
Detached from the identity of the rich lady, Wu Shengming began to accept the ordinary life.
The money in his hand gradually ran out, and Wu Shengming worked as a nanny in a family in Shanghai, earning money to supplement himself.
This family in Shanghai thinks that Wu Shengming has good taste and meticulous work, but he is also very fond of it.
After saving some more entanglements, Wu Shengming said goodbye to the life of a nanny and went to Xi'an to join his uncle as an officer.
In his uncle's military camp, Wu Shengming spent his girlhood.
The girl is affectionate, and here she also meets her first love - a military doctor named Yu Ping, and this ignorant love gives Wu Shengming the first taste of love.
However, when talking about marriage, he was opposed by his uncle.
Parents are gone, uncles are like fathers. Wu Shengming's uncle wanted to introduce her to his lieutenant.
Wu Shengming did not comply, so his uncle sent An order to Send Ping to Zhenjiang, thousands of miles away.
The road is far away, and this unformed first love comes to an abrupt end.
Wu Shengming broke up with his uncle in anger and returned to his hometown in Shaoxing with his savings.
In Shaoxing, Wu Shengming used his savings to open a department store, and although the life was simple, it was also full.
It's just that there is an apprentice named Zhang Siyuan in the repair shop opposite, who fell in love with Wu Shengming at first sight and chased after him.
Wu Shengming is seven years older than him, and the two people who fall in love will inevitably suffer some gossip, so Wu Shengming has always maintained a calm and rejecting attitude towards Zhang Siyuan's crazy pursuit.
Time is the most merciless to women. Day by day, Wu Shengming changed from a young girl to an unmarried woman of nearly 30 years old.
When Wu Shengming was 28 years old, Zhang Siyuan gave her a beautiful ladies' bicycle. After so many years of unremitting pursuit, Wu Shengming's cold heart finally dissolved, and also allowed the two to smoothly step into the palace of marriage.
Shanghai big sister big
In the early days after marriage, it is also a harmony between husband and wife, and the small days are harmonious and full.
The only fly in the ointment is that several of Wu Shengming's children either had miscarriages or died prematurely; it was not until she was 41 years old that she came late to get a daughter.
After having his daughter, Wu Shengming had a new motivation to struggle; in order to give his daughter a better quality of life, Wu Shengming closed the grocery store and went to the sea to do business.
At this time, coinciding with the domestic reform and opening up, Wu Shengming, who had a business acumen, opened a trading company, bought fashionable goods such as stockings, umbrellas, cosmetics and other fashionable goods from Guangdong, and then shipped them to Shanghai, Jiangsu and other places to sell at high prices.
These fashionable items quickly attracted the love of consumers, and Wu Shengming would be snapped up every time he bought them. In this way, Wu Shengming's company is getting bigger and bigger, and the profit of receiving goods is getting higher and higher.
After entering the 1980s, Wu Shengming has become Shanghai's leading millionaire woman.
Even when the mayor of Shanghai saw her at that time, he took her hand tightly and said, "You are the eldest sister of Shanghai Normal University, and your ability is very strong!" ”
How rich was Wu Shengming at that time?
In 1984, on Wu Shengming's daughter's 10th birthday, she chartered the top hotel in Shanghai and hosted a banquet for her entire class, costing nearly 200,000 yuan for just one meal.
At that time, in China, ten thousand yuan households were very rare people.
It is also this extravagant life that inflates Wu Shengming's desires, causing her to fall into the abyss of sin, and eventually the building is ruined.
The family was destroyed
In 1985, Wu Shengming opened a new deal.
She bought a batch of high-end cars in Japan, then split them into parts and shipped them to China, and then assembled them into whole vehicles for high-priced sales.
These high-end cars were extremely rare at the time and were quickly snapped up.
And this time alone, the income is as high as millions of yuan, at this time Wu Shengming has long been complacent in the desire for profit, has forgotten that the business has touched the red line of smuggling.
It wasn't until a pair of silver handcuffs locked Wu Shengming's hands that the cold touch pulled him back to reality, but unfortunately it was too late to talk about regret at this time.
Due to the excessive amount of money involved, Wu Shengming was directly sentenced to a suspended death sentence; after a series of appeals, it was changed to indefinite life.
Prison life is extremely difficult, but what is even more difficult is that the things outside the high walls are human.
After Wu Shengming went to prison, her husband sent a divorce agreement to her hand.
It turned out that in less than a year, the husband had cheated on his nanny; the love that had promised to get through the difficulties was torn apart overnight.
What makes Wu Shengming even more devastated is that the only daughter could not withstand her mother's imprisonment and her father remarried, and committed suicide on the day of her 16th birthday.
Wu Shengming, on the other hand, did not know this belated bad news until two years after his daughter's death.
Wu Shengming, who lost her only support, had no hope in life in an instant, and she wanted to end the rest of her life several times, but a suicide note from her daughter pulled her out of the ghost gate and gave her the strength to reverse her life.
A multi-millionaire after his release from prison
What exactly was written in her daughter's suicide note?
She cried blood, telling her mother to live seriously; after she got out of prison, she opened a nursing home and became a useful person to society.
Her daughter's words gave Wu Shengming the courage to live, and also made her work hard to accept the transformation and actively face the new life.
Finally, in 2003, Wu Shengming, who had undergone nine commutations, regained his breath of freedom.
After being released from prison, Wu Shengming could only find a job cleaning toilets.
But she did not allow herself to fall because of her identity gap. On the contrary, she carefully cleans the public toilets every day, and also plants a variety of green plants in them with ingenuity, so that the original smelly public toilets are wafted with a faint fragrance.
With day after day of hard work, Wu Shengming was awarded the title of "Excellent Cleaner of the City" and received an interest-free loan fund of 100,000 yuan.
Using this loan, Wu Shengming once again embarked on the road to business.
She learns the breeding techniques of the black-bone chicken, humbly consults every professional; from breeding, promotion to sales, she is hands-on in everything.
Wu Shengming's counterattack deeds were quickly teleported away, and her black-bone chicken business was getting bigger and bigger.
Then she planted orchards, built a sightseeing base, and with the way of doing business that she had heard since childhood, Wu Shengming became a multi-millionaire again from a prisoner.
And she did what she had promised her daughter - under the funding of Wu Shengming, one nursing home after another rose on the ground.
Here is her love, but also the hope of her 16-year-old daughter.
In this life, Wu Shengming has walked through thousands of rocks and valleys, and has experienced the special honors and valleys of life.
He has worked as a nanny, a cleaner, the richest man and a tycoon, but he has found his own direction when he returns home in life.
What do you think about such a life?