"I remember the spring many years ago, when I hadn't cut my long hair, I didn't have a credit card without her, I didn't have a home with 24-hour hot water..."
Ten years ago, two peasant brothers made a song "In the Spring" that spread across the country, telling the story of grassroots to the public.
Grassroots also have spring.
Qiao Baofeng was once one of these thousands of ordinary people, from being overstretched to sitting on the "Rag King" of tens of millions, he only took a few short years. If the story stops here, I believe that he will become an idol of countless grassroots, and he will no longer have to sing the song that no one cares about.
Unfortunately, he could not stay in that "spring".
As the saying goes, it is easy to cut down trees and difficult to plant trees, and it is easy to make a fortune for losers.
From a rich man with a wealth of tens of millions to a prisoner with nothing, he spent less than 20 years.
Why? Isn't there spring in the grassroots? How did Qiao Baofeng start his family step by step, and how did he step by step into a desperate situation?
Qiao Baofeng
Thousands of ordinary us
If you have to use four words to describe Qiao Baofeng's home, it must be - the wind and rain.
In 1970, a young boy fell to the ground in a poor peasant family in Henan Province, the third son of the Qiao family, and two older brothers before him.
Although he was very poor, but everyone was trying to live, but unfortunately the good times did not last long, shortly after his birth, the pillar of the Qiao family, Qiao Father, fell, and the burden of the whole family fell on Qiao's elder brother alone.
Rooted in darkness, but yearning for light, but the more you yearn for light, the more you have to extend your roots to the darker underground.
Since there is no way to make too much money on the right way, Brother Qiao has set his sights on driving a "black car", why is it a black car?
Because Brother Joe has neither a regular driver's license nor a formal passenger procedure.
In order to make more money, Brother Joe even risked being caught by overloading, and once he actually stuffed 15 people in a small van!
Instead, is it you, dare to sit?
This is really too outrageous, Joe's car was stopped by the traffic police without accident, this does not check do not know, a check frightened!
The driver in front of him is not only overloaded, but also does not even have formal procedures for regular driving and passenger loading.
Sure enough, Brother Joe was sentenced to prison, and the family was once again isolated.
Fate is playing tricks on you like this, even Qiao Baofeng himself could not imagine that such a family could eventually cultivate multi-millionaires.
His family situation must be at the bottom even among ordinary people, poor, backward, and bereaved.
Each of these three words is so heavy that people plead bitterly: Fate, let me go!
Living in such a family, the two words of poverty have left a deep scar in Qiao Baofeng's heart since childhood.
Closed and barren, short of food and clothing, the pain brought to him by childhood is too much, and it really responds to the sentence: The wolf shed tears when he saw it.
He secretly made up his mind that he would never live such a hard life again.
In the spring
"If one day I have nothing to rely on, please leave me behind, in that time..."
Beijing, a beautiful and cruel place.
Beijing's high-rise buildings and lights are not charming, but "random flowers gradually want to charm the eyes", countless people have lost themselves in the prosperity of big cities, and finally the bamboo basket is empty.
15-year-old Qiao Baofeng followed his second brother to this legendary big city, and became a part of the North Drift at a young age.
His family was poor and could not afford to read, so he had no culture and no skills, but fortunately he still had some strength, so he followed his second brother to a sand and gravel field in Changping, Beijing, to sift sand for people.
In the dust of the sand and gravel field, Qiao Baofeng seemed to see his own future - there was no future.
The work is dirty and tired, and every day like an old scalper, but with the lowest wage, even if you come to the big city? Change places to suffer!
His feet were on the concrete floor, but his eyes were looking up at the stars.
You can't make a few bucks by sifting sand! Think of some other way.
I heard that the scraps on the construction site were not cheap, so he moved the idea of these waste products, picked up these discarded scrap materials and sent them to the waste station, but he did not expect that the staff would not say anything and accept them all according to the order.
He also said that in the future, these waste products were picked up and sent over, which made Qiao Baofeng overjoyed, these waste products were everywhere on the construction site, and at that time, Beijing was also under construction, and the construction of civil engineering was in full swing, and these waste products could be seen everywhere!
While fate closed a door for him, it also opened a window for him.
He knew that his spring was coming!
He seized this opportunity and took his second brother to pick up "rags" in Beijing, even doing a better job than his own job, earning much more than sifting sand.
A few months later, Qiao Baofeng quit his job at the sand and gravel yard, and at this time he finally had his first savings in life, which he used to buy his first car, the Type 28 bicycle.
Later, from bicycles to flat tricycles, the means of transportation were updated and iterated, and his wallet became more and more drummed.
A janitor at a cement company told him that he would make more money by selling cement bags to factories that make fireworks.
Qiao Baofeng will be suspicious, did not think that the director of the factory actually recycled at a high price of 2 cents and 61 pounds, you must know that these bags were sold to the acquisition station at a price of two cents before!
Qiao Baofeng made 10,000 yuan by selling cement bags, and later he used this money to acquire a piece of land and became a well-known "rag king".
Become a millionaire at the age of 19 and a multimillionaire at the age of 30.
It is both a pile of waste and a "golden mountain and silver mountain", strong execution, insight and perseverance plus a little cleverness, may also need some luck, is the only way for him to succeed.
At this point, he seems to have broken the shackles of fate and completed a magnificent turn, but unfortunately, the restrictions brought by the original family are often invisible, and something is deep into the bone marrow and difficult to remove.
He had not read any books, had no culture, and later became rich, so that his thinking went directly to a misunderstanding: having money is everything.
Thinking that with money, others will look up to him; thinking that with money, you can use money to solve everything; thinking that with money, there is nothing to restrain yourself.
When he went out to buy something, he slapped the money on the table with a kind of arrogance, and I believe that at that moment he was satisfied—he would never be looked down upon again.
We have so much to expect the approval of others that we have finally learned that the world is our own and has nothing to do with others.
If you want not to be looked down upon by others, you must first look up to yourself in your heart, and in the deepest part of his heart, he still lives with the poor and scared little boy, so he is so eager to show his wealth.
Having money is both his luck and his patheticity.
If he had no money, he would not have been imprisoned for the next 19 years, and it was precisely because of this arrogance that he ignored everything and was solipsistic that led to the tragedy.
The material is full, but the consciousness has not kept up, the ancients cloud: virtue is not worthy, there will be disasters, probably this is the meaning of it.
"Home" with 24-hour hot water
The spring breeze is proud of the horseshoe disease, and the Chang'an flowers are seen in one day.
19-year-old Qiao Baofeng returned to his hometown and took his mother back to Beijing to enjoy the blessings, at this time he was so beautiful, as if he had won the title, he was happy and happy, no, even happier than that.
After all, it is still an old man's home, the most unable to let go of the children's lifelong events, the mother is not idle in the village, for him to find a woman named Li Jiamin in the same village as a wife.
Li Jiamin is the favorite type of daughter-in-law of the older generation: gentle and virtuous, loyal and honest, obedient and filial piety.
Without any emotional basis, how can we talk about liking? Isn't this just an arranged marriage, Qiao Baofeng really has no interest in the woman in front of him.
However, he was also a very filial person, the order of his parents, the words of the matchmaker, he was not good at sweeping away his mother's happiness, and at that time Li Jiamin was already pregnant.
Is it necessary to bear the name of being unfaithful and unrighteous?
What to do?
Qiao Baofeng, who has always taken the unusual path, finally touched the red line of the law this time, but at this time he did not think so.
He found someone to get a fake marriage license, and finally he could even call him to pass the pass, he originally played the crooked idea of repentance, but Li Jiamin could not pick out a single mistake whether he was a wife or a daughter-in-law, and he did not want to divorce after a long time.
Have a decent home, have a good wife who can cook hot dishes and hot meals, and don't have to worry about the family's affairs, just make it up!
Feed and drink lust.
Qiao Baofeng was not a stable person, and soon he was with a woman named Zhang Yanying.
After Qiao Baofeng had money, he always wanted to pursue excitement and challenge some ordinary people to experience life, although Daqing had been dead for more than a hundred years, he couldn't resist his heart that wanted to take three wives and four concubines!
Why can there be only one woman? Moreover, he has a fake certificate, which should be regarded as a single person, which makes him less and less aware of the law.
Zhang Yanying initially urged him to divorce and marry her, but later found that Qiao Baofeng treated her as well as the original match, buying a car, buying a house, pocket money, love, and her wife should have it, so she gradually accepted the identity of the second house.
After all, without work, who doesn't want to be lazy as a rice bug? Women always have to find someone to lean on, don't they? Qiao Baofeng is her best backer.
But in the desire to fall, indulge in enjoyment, if the woman is only like a silk rose to rely on the tree, how to talk about the self?
Losing oneself will only slowly become a man's possession, and it is strange that many women regard this possessiveness as a symbol of true love, which is really strange!
How can only two rooms open a harem? In the ancient emperor's harem, there were three thousand beautiful women, and I Qiao Baofeng must have at least three rooms to look like an "emperor".
In 1995, Qiao Baofeng and fellow villager Liang Zhonghui were together.
So far, Qiao Baofeng has done six marriage certificates, one marriage certificate for each person, one divorce certificate for each person, and when someone asks about it, he said that he divorced the last one.
Liang Zhonghui saw that his first two wives were living a good life, and they did not care that he already had a family and became his third room.
Most of the women around Qiao Baofeng are attracted to money, and Qiao Baofeng himself understands this truth, and uses materials to make the women around him more and more secure, and he has tried and tried repeatedly.
The four formed a strange community of destiny under this relationship, and Qiao Baofeng's three aunts and wives not only knew each other, but also got along very harmoniously, and even often played cards with Qiao Baofeng's mother.
And Qiao Baofeng finally lived the dream of the emperor life, which is the happiness of rich people! He has finally become a puppet of money, and the capital behind him controls his every move, but he has long been unable to extricate himself, deeply immersed in it and enjoyed it.
He did not know that this absurd fairy day would become a sharp blade that would ruin his life, that this seemingly beautiful picture would send him to prison with his own hands, and that those who ignored everything would eventually be ignored by all.
The big dreams on earth are empty
What do people want when they have money?
The answer is: fame and fortune and more money.
How can a young and promising big boss be related to waste collection! The title of "King of Rags" is too ugly, and he always feels that collecting waste is inferior and humiliating in his bones.
He forgot that in the past, he had collected waste everywhere with his eyes shining on the construction site, rain or shine, and the bricks that had brought him great wealth were rejected by him.
If it's not called "Rag King", what is it called?
Qiao Baofeng thought about it and decided to do steel business, and later changed his name to "Steel King", which sounds so grand!
But after all, the steel business is not so easy to do, he is not very familiar with this field, equivalent to starting over, it is too expensive!
So Qiao Baofeng once again took a crooked road, even if he broke the law in the past, he was not punished? Not to mention that they have money, they certainly don't dare to do anything with me, it's a big deal to break the money and eliminate the disaster!
So Qiao Baofeng trusted the relationship to help him steal electricity in the public circuit, this theft is one year, one theft is 9 million degrees, and one theft is 5 million electricity bills.
The Power Bureau quickly investigated Qiao Baofeng's steel plant and ordered it to close.
Qiao Baofeng is not a person who suffers losses, after all, he has been in the business field for so many years, who touches his own interests, no matter who he is, even the director of the electric power bureau must fight back.
Somewhat unknown!
He rushed into the office of the director of the Beijing Electric Power Bureau with his thug bodyguards and threatened the director to restore power to the steel plant.
Can this kind of IQ really earn tens of millions from scratch?
The director immediately called the police and arrested Qiao Baofeng, who finally took the same path as his eldest brother, and the police directly found out that he was guilty of bigamy and punished several crimes.
The young Qiao Baofeng was eventually sentenced to 19 years in prison, and the best years of his life were dedicated to prison, which made people sigh.
I don't know if Qiao Baofeng can figure out where he lost in prison?
Poor people think of change, but he will stop at nothing to "change", even at the expense of violating the bottom line of morality and law, and finally personally sent himself to prison.
"I remember the spring many years ago, when I hadn't cut my long hair, I didn't have a credit card, I didn't have her, I didn't have a home with 24-hour hot water, but I was so happy, although I only had a broken wooden guitar..."
The original teenager who regarded "garbage" as a treasure is gone, and the biggest enlightenment brought to us by Qiao Baofeng's story is that people must not be selfish but lose their true self.
If he still had that simple heart, he would not have come to this day if he had only made the waste recycling plant bigger and bigger, and had not moved other crooked thoughts.
But every step of life counts, and from the moment he got a false certificate, it was doomed to his present end.
He didn't know—laying flat on the ground like a grassroots was also a gesture.