If you were given two options, one with an annual salary of one million, one with a monthly salary of 1050, or just an assistant, which would you choose?
Ten years ago, this Chongqing boy gave up his job with an annual salary of one million yuan, came to a remote village in Hengshan County, Hunan Province, took a monthly salary of 1,050 yuan, and became a village official in the village, he was Qin Yuefei.
Some people say: Qin Yuefei, are you stupid in reading and reading, don't do high-paying jobs in the city, run to the countryside to suffer, a good hand of cards, stunned is to let you play a mess, is it worth it?
He squatted in the field with a cigarette in his ear and smiled and said: It's worth it!
In 2017, Qin Yuefei, who was called "Brother Yale" by the villagers, won the touching Chinese and became a male god in the hearts of many people.
However, no one will know that this male god once lived in the basement, nibbled on expired bread, and worried about money.
In 1985, in a small mountain village in Chongqing, Qin Yuefei's arrival made the poor family mixed.
In order to give their children better educational resources and environment, the couple decided to sell their house in Chongqing, and the family moved to Beijing to live a life of North Drift.
Every day, my mother sent Qin Yuefei to the school gate before dawn. In order to reduce her husband's work burden, she has to work several jobs a day.
Although the days of the North Drift are difficult, but the family has survived, the good intentions of the parents, Qin Yuefei looks in the eyes, remembers in his heart, he can do, only to achieve excellent results to repay them.
After graduating from high school, Qin Yuefei, who had a full TOEFL score, was admitted to Yale University in the United States, and he even won a full scholarship of $46,892 per year from Yale University.
At that moment, almost everyone felt that Qin Yuefei's life had leapt to another height, and the future was bright.
After all, Yale has walked out of five presidents, 19 U.S. court judges, 16 billionaires, and 20 Nobel laureates, and at every level, Qin Yuefei's fate will be changed by Yale University.
Entering the university, do you think Qin Yuefei can let go of himself?
In college, Qin Yuefei's grades are still among the best, and he not only completed two majors in economics and political science, but also obtained a bachelor's degree in arts.
In the context of high education and excellent results, Qin Yuefei walked out of the school, waiting for him were countless companies, throwing olive branches to him, willing to hire him with an annual salary of one million.
Seeing that from here on, the curve overtakes, realizes the counterattack of the cold door students, and moves towards the peak of life.
However, after graduation, Qin Yuefei made a decision that surprised everyone and gave up his million annual salary to return to China as a village official.
Qin Yuefei's decision made many friends in the same window think straight, some people said that he wasted his high diploma, failed to live up to the good intentions of his parents who had worked hard to provide him with education, and even put a hat of filial piety on him.
Qin Yuefei did not think so, every summer he would go to the countryside to support teaching, see the expectations of the parents in the village for their children, let him remember the expectations of his parents for himself, so Qin Yuefei made such a decision, with his own meager efforts to help those who need help.
He said: Forget the label of Yale University, in order to make yourself better forward, people can not forget the original, if you can not help more people like their parents, let them live a good life, that is the real overkill.
This seemingly simple and simple sentence gave this utilitarian world a resounding slap in the face, and worldly success could not replace his obsession with ideals.
In 2011, 26-year-old Qin Yuefei took a green-skinned train and came to Helan Mountain Village in Hengshan, Hunan Province, with this obsession.
He lives in a mud-brick house built in the village in the 1950s, with only a plastic film on the roof, and every time it rains heavily outside, it rains lightly inside the house.
Qin Yuefei, who carries the double degree certificate of the top world famous school, has no aura, no establishment, no social security, and can only be an assistant to the village director, with a salary of 1050 yuan to assist the village director and deal with trivial work.
In his opinion, this is not bad, and what bothers him is how to integrate himself into the villagers and gain their trust.
On the first night of his appointment, because the weather was very hot, Qin Yuefei, as usual, was ready to take a bath, and after the villagers saw it, they questioned whether he was dirty in the countryside and said that he wasted water.
This made Qin Yuefei realize that if he didn't change, he wouldn't be able to enter the lives of the villagers, let alone achieve the purpose of coming here.
So, he changed into liberation shoes, old T-shirts, and even learned to smoke, like the villagers put cigarettes in his ears, always carrying a lighter in his pocket, and when he saw which villager wanted to smoke, he quickly took it out and lit it.
Qin Yuefei's change, coupled with his trademark smile and affinity, made the villagers gradually accept him.
After gaining the trust of the villagers, there was a major event in front of Qin Yuefei, waiting for him to complete, that is, to build water conservancy facilities.
Qin Yuefei took the villagers, on the one hand, applied for a special fund from the government, on the other hand, he took a green-skinned train out of the village to solicit sponsorship.
Who would have thought that this outing would introduce 800,000 sponsorship funds to the village, but the money was still not enough.
Therefore, Qin Yuefei used his salary and only savings to build new rural areas.
This year, coinciding with the drought in Hunan, the income of villagers in other villages has dropped sharply, and only Qin Yuefei's village has not only not been affected, but also has a particularly good harvest, and his foresight has preserved the lifeblood of the whole village.
With the initial construction bearing fruit, Qin Yuefei began to carry out a series of new rural reforms in a big way, building roads, expanding nursing homes, introducing digital education equipment, and providing school bus safety and security.
He worked for the welfare of the villagers, and the villagers trusted him
In 2013, the county and township people's congress election, 3547 villagers participated, they voted 3027 votes to Qin Yuefei.
At that moment, he was happier than when he got the acceptance letter from Yale University, and this happiness was not in how high his status was promoted, but in his own actions, he really entered the hearts of the villagers, who also regarded Qin Yuefei as a relative and affectionately called him "Brother Yale".
After the three-year term expired, the organization wanted to promote Qin Yuefei to give him the opportunity to be promoted and raised.
Who would have thought that he had made a "stupid" decision again, and took the initiative to ask Miao to continue to be a village official in the more remote and poor Baiyun Village.
He said: I must understand what kind of bittersweet and bittersweet people in the most ordinary people in my own country have in their lives, and what kind of joys and sorrows and sorrows they have in their lives. Then use what you have learned to change and make your country better.
In Baiyun Village, Qin Yuefei saw tea trees planted by local villagers and used ancient methods to squeeze oil.
In foreign countries, camellia oil is a high-end edible oil, which can not only stir-fry vegetables, but also skin care and hair care.
So he led the villagers to change their lives with technology and the Internet, so that they could make more money. He did not receive anything about the imparting of this experience.
In 2015, Qin Yuefei registered a black soil wheat field public welfare organization, and he tried to gather students who graduated from Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Tsinghua, Peking University and other famous schools and were willing to contribute to rural construction to build a new countryside.
Just as Qin Yuefei said: The vitality of young people should have the countryside, the things in the fields and the peasants are related to the homeland, and it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish.
He fully excavated the local special products, with Internet marketing thinking, so that those natural gifts and artificially polished gifts to the world.
Camellia oil, bud valley roast, nectar, seedling embroidery, under the packaging of black soil wheat field, presented to consumers with a delicate and elegant appearance.
Li Da Niang at the head of the village smiled with 4,000 pieces of January, and Uncle Wang of the village committee was happy to be soft because of the packaging.
Qin Yuefei offered a high salary for each small partner who participated in the black soil wheat field, but he still held a salary of more than 1,000 yuan.
It is not difficult to do one thing, it is rare to persist, it is not difficult to persist, it is rare to persist to the end.
However, there were not many people red, and Qin Yuefei could not escape this law.
In 2018, two years after the trial operation of the black soil public welfare wheat field, an article entitled "Seven Questions Qin Yuefei" came out, which tried to take the title of Qin Yuefei's most beautiful village official and even discredit him.
In the end, the black soil wheat field public welfare responded, and Qin Yuefei was innocent.
In the face of these negative voices, Qin Yuefei has never stopped doing things for the villagers, helping to transform nursing homes, building a digital platform for schools, and lifting poor villages out of poverty.
Since 2016, the black soil wheat field set up by Qin Yuefei has provided more than 20 million yuan for the local poor areas.
And the amount of agricultural products he helped sold was to bring them nearly 20 million yuan in sales.
In 2020, the new crown epidemic has affected all walks of life, and the black soil wheat field is no exception, but Qin Yuefei still established a more than 600 mu oil tea planting base for the poor village in Huayuan County, Xiangxi Prefecture, and also helped the poor households in the village, generating a net profit of 1.1 million yuan for the village collective.
It can be said that the improvement of the villagers' living standards, Qin Yuefei is indispensable.
Qin Yuefei got rid of poverty for the people, and the villagers also gave back to him in their own way, they gave Qin Yuefei a pair of insoles, the left foot said peace, the right foot wrote happiness, the insoles are not worth a few dollars, but it is the driving force for Qin Yuefei to continue to walk.
From village officials to black soil wheat fields, Qin Yuefei underestimated the complexity of rural society, whether it was human sophistication or attitude towards the world, which Yale University had not taught him.
Qin Yuefei's life is like his Weibo signature: down-to-earth, hard work and prosperity. That's what he said and that's what he did.