In 2015, Li Shitong, a young man from Linzhou, Anyang City, Henan Province, married a black African girl, Tina. After marriage, Tina followed Li Shitong to live in Linzhou and gave birth to a mixed-race son to Li Shitong. In Linzhou, Tina opened an English training school, started a business and became rich, and now that 7 years have passed, are their marriage still happy? This issue of The World Figure Ji will take everyone into Li Shitong's transnational marriage.
Lee Shi Tong and Tina
Li Shitong was born in June 1987 in Xiaozhai Village, Hejian Town, Linzhou County, Anyang City, Henan Province, to parents who have been farmers for generations. As the only son in the family, Li Shitong's parents had high hopes for him and provided him with education from an early age, hoping that he could learn and succeed. And Li Shitong also lived up to expectations and has always been an excellent student in the class.
In June 2005, Li Shitong took the Henan college entrance examination, and finally he was admitted to a university of his choice with excellent results, and the whole family had high hopes for him. In order to support him in college, his father also began to work outside the home, and he could only come back once a year.
In 2009, after graduating from university, Li Shitong joined a construction company in Beijing as a bidder. Although the work is hard, there is also a lot of income every month. But since graduating from college, his parents have been urging him to find someone to marry. But Li Shitong is usually busy with work and does not have much opportunity to meet new girls.
It wasn't until a friend party in 2014 that Li Shitong met Tina, the girl who haunted him.
Tina
Tina was born in 1994 in Harare, the capital of the African country of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe was originally a relatively developed African country, but due to inflation problems, the country's currency depreciated and development regressed for decades.
However, Tina was born into a political family, her parents are government officials in Zimbabwe, from an early age, Tina received a good education, when she was in college, Tina received Chinese, so she developed a beautiful yearning for China.
In 2014, at the age of 20, Tina graduated from college and immediately flew to Beijing, China. When she first arrived in Beijing, Tina had no friends, and it took a lot of effort to find a job, which was to work as a foreign teacher at a training institution. After doing this job, Tina slowly met a lot of friends, and because Tina was enthusiastic and cheerful, she would party and play with a large number of friends every weekend.
Tina and Lee Se-tong
She and Li Shitong also met at a gathering of friends. The first time he met Tina, Li Shitong felt that this African girl was different. Although she is dark-skinned, she is warm and cheerful, and she is not at all restrained. More importantly, at the banquet, Tina took the initiative to greet Li Shitong, and the two also added contact information to each other.
After this meeting, Li Shitong will chat with Tina on his mobile phone when he has time, but because Li Shitong's English is not very good, Tina's Chinese is also very general. So in order to chat, the two people also downloaded a chat software on their mobile phones. The two men talked on their phones for a month and finally showed up.
One day in September 2014, Li Shitong took the initiative to invite Tina to have a meal with him, and at the dinner table, the two of them talked a lot. At the time of checkout, Li Shitong wanted to go up and open the money, but Tina offered to propose the AA system. This made Li Shitong feel that Tina was an unusual girl.
After getting along, Tina also felt that Li Shitong was a man worthy of trust, in her eyes, Li Shitong was mature and stable, with a kind personality, and the most important thing was that Li Shitong was particularly good to her.
Over time, both people developed a fondness for each other, but as a traditional Chinese man, Li Shitong was still a little shy, and he did not dare to express his inner thoughts to Tina, but was desperate to be good to Tina, and these Tinas were all in his eyes.
One day in October 2014, Tina took the initiative to find Li Shitong and said a Chinese to Li Shitong: I love you, Li Shitong hugged Tina when she heard this sentence, and responded to Tina in English: i love you!"
Tina and mother-in-law
In this way, a Henan guy and a black African girl began to fall in love, when Li Shitong was 27 years old, he knew that this love was not easy to come by, and more importantly, he had already thought about marrying Tina. But he was afraid that his parents would reject his marriage, and he didn't know how to confess the relationship to his parents.
However, Tina first confessed her feelings to her African parents, and at the beginning, Tina's parents were very opposed to this relationship, hoping that Tina would return to Zimbabwe from China early. But Li Shitong did not give up on Tina, and every time he chatted with Tina's parents through video, trying to make his parents-in-law like him. Over time, Tina's parents agreed with their feelings.
After that, Li Shitong finally plucked up the courage to explain his feelings to his parents, but his parents almost fainted when they heard that their son had found a black girlfriend. Li Shitong's mother once said: "I heard that he found a foreign daughter-in-law, and at that time we were a bit unable to accept it, worried that there were differences in living habits and culture." ”
At this time, Li Shitong himself was also very embarrassed, but Tina did not retreat, but took the initiative to talk to Li Shitong's father on the phone, using his own Chinese and father-in-law to confess his love for Li Shitong.
After that, Li Shitong took Tina back to her hometown in Henan several times, and as soon as Tina arrived at Li Shitong's house, she began to do housework, and she was polite and enthusiastic about her in-laws, which made her mother-in-law's impression of her improve a lot, and finally she could only agree to the fact that they were together.
Li Shitong and Tina are married
On November 2, 2015, Xiaozhai Village in Linzhou, Henan Province, ushered in a special wedding, which attracted the attention of the villagers of Ten Mile Eight, because it was a transnational marriage, which was very novel in this village, and many people here had never seen black Africans, and they all wanted to come and see the liveliness.
On the same day, Li Shitong wore a suit to marry his African wife Tina, on the day of the wedding, Tina's relatives and family also came from Africa to attend their wedding, at that moment, Tina was very happy, he finally married a Chinese man, which was actually a wish she made the moment she came to China.
After getting married, Li Shitong and Tina returned to Beijing to work, but both of them are ordinary migrant workers, and it is too difficult to put down roots in Beijing. They felt that this was not the way to go, so they decided to return to Linzhou to start a business after consultation. The entrepreneurial project is English language training.
Tina and Li Shitong communicate
Because Tina's mother tongue is English, and the local education level in Linzhou is backward, there are almost no foreign teachers here, and there are many problems with the students' oral pronunciation, and Tina's arrival will inevitably provide a lot of help to these children.
Before the end of 2015, the transnational marriage of Tina and Li Shitong received a lot of media attention, not only that, their transnational marriage was also made into a program by CCTV, and the response after broadcasting was very good, so that Li Shitong and Tina's fame was also getting bigger and bigger, and the locals in Linzhou knew the idea of Tina wanting to open an English training class.
In April 2016, Tina and Li Shitong quit their jobs in Beijing, and they returned to Linzhou together to start a business. Due to the relatively large things that need to be prepared for entrepreneurship, Tina is pregnant and inconvenient to participate, and a local middle school in Linzhou also issued an invitation to Tina, hoping that Tina can come to the school as a temporary English teacher.
Tina gives lessons to the students
In this way, Tina became a foreign teacher in Linzhou No. 1 Middle School, every day she had to give English lessons to students, for students in small counties, they were very excited to see foreign teachers, every time they went to Tina's class, the whole class of students listened to the lectures very actively, and also interacted with Tina frequently, and the English scores of these students also improved rapidly.
In order to support her son's entrepreneurship, Li Shitong's mother sold more than 3,000 chickens in the family and made more than 200,000 for her son, hoping that the entrepreneurship of her son and daughter-in-law could succeed.
After getting the money, Li Shitong rented a two-story façade room, and all the procedures for decoration planning were completed by him alone. In order to be able to open the business as soon as possible, Tina also comes to the training class every day after work to plan the opening with her husband. The so-called husband and wife partner, the work is not tired. The training school was soon opened thanks to the efforts of the couple.
Tina English School opened
In June 2016, Tina English School finally opened in Linzhou City, Tina also completely quit her job in Linzhou No. 1 Middle School and returned to the training class, because Tina and Li Shitong already have a lot of fame in Linzhou, their training class was also quickly filled with students.
And for these students, Tina lectures very seriously, she holds up her belly and does not work too hard to teach the students, and those students have made significant progress in their grades after taking classes in the training class, under such a virtuous circle, Tina and Li Shitong's life is getting better and better.
Tina is in class
In August 2016, Tina gave birth to a mixed-race son for Li Shitong, although this son has dark skin, but Li Shitong loves this son very much, and Li Shitong's mother is inseparable from taking care of the mixed-race little grandson. In short, the arrival of this child has added a lot of happiness to Li Shitong's family.
In 2017, Tina opened the Wanda Branch of Tina English School in Anyang City, and in order to let the children receive professional oral language teaching, Tina brought her relatives in Africa to Henan and let them work as foreign teachers in the English school.
In 2020, the outbreak of the epidemic, the entire training industry suffered a lot of impact, Tina English School was forced to close, helpless, Tina's relatives can only return to Africa.
Tina herself and Li Shitong returned to the countryside of Linzhou, and the two of them continued to open a chicken farm in the countryside of Linzhou, and their lives were very prosperous.
Today, Tina's mixed-race son is 6 years old and has taken kindergarten classes in Linzhou City. And Li Shitong also bought a house in Linzhou, and the couple's life was very lively. Although sino-African transnational marriages have always been controversial, it can be seen that Li Shitong's marriage is very happy.