In 2013, in the selection of "the most beautiful Henan Xinxiang people", a blonde Ukrainian woman was elected with a high vote, which attracted widespread attention.
Not only that, in 2014, this Ukrainian beauty was also selected by Henan Province as one of the "Top Ten People Who Touched the Central Plains".
At that time, the comments given to her by the organizing committee were:
"There are families in the distance, from the Black Sea, the faces of Westerners, Chinese filial piety."
She is Najia, a Ukrainian foreign daughter-in-law who married in 1998 to the countryside of Xinxiang, Henan.
The transnational love affair of Ukrainian girls
Born in Kiev, Ukraine's capital in 1976, Nadya says that Ukraine is a country rich in beautiful women, and Nadya is no exception.
When she grew up, she had fair skin, a tall figure, and big eyes, and she looked like a standard Ukrainian beauty.
In 1996, at the age of 20, Nadya was admitted to university and went to study at the Odessa Food Engineering College in Ukraine.
Perhaps it was providence in the darkness, Zhao Peng and Najia were both born in the same year, and later came to the same academy to study.
It is also here that Nadya meets the love of her life, and the two will also start a transnational relationship.
However, in the same year, he did not have a different life, compared to Najia, who had a better family, Zhao Peng was born in the countryside of Xinxiang, Henan, China, to a poor family.
His parents are laid-off ordinary workers, and there is a younger sister below, in order to grow up to have a career, Zhao Peng has been very diligent and self-motivated since he was a child.
With his efforts, Zhao Peng won an opportunity to study abroad in Ukraine.
In 1995, Zhao Peng left his hometown alone and went abroad for the first time to study at the Odessa Food Engineering College in Ukraine.
When he first came to this foreign country, Zhao Peng also suffered a lot, and he tried to overcome the differences and difficulties in language and culture, but he often felt lonely when he was wandering in a foreign country.
Unconsciously, a year passed, and just then a Ukrainian girl named Nadya appeared in Zhao Peng's life.
Although he and Najia were born in the same year, Zhao Peng was one year older than her, but the fate was sometimes so wonderful.
After seeing Nadya for the first time, Zhao Peng was attracted to this beautiful Ukrainian girl.
Nadya
Nadya is very curious about the mysterious ancient country of the East, and often exchanges Chinese culture with Zhao Peng, and from Zhao Peng's mouth, she also learns more about China that she does not know.
Najia's appearance was like a warm sun, which warmed Zhao Peng's heart and also dispelled his loneliness in a foreign country, and slowly Zhao Peng began to pursue Najia passionately.
Later, because the two often exchanged in class, the two slowly produced a spark of love, and soon fell in love.
In Zhao Peng's eyes, Najia is beautiful and generous, gentle and kind, and often greets him warmly, which makes Zhao Peng, who is in a foreign country, very moved.
And Zhao Peng's hard-working, down-to-earth personality and thoughtfulness also made Nava gradually fall in love with this self-motivated oriental boy.
The two fell in love and became the envy of everyone in school as a transnational couple, but when Nadya's parents learned that their daughter was in love with a Chinese guy, they were very opposed to the relationship.
First of all, because Ukraine is so far away from China, Nadya's parents don't want her to marry far away, but want her to stay around.
Secondly, after understanding Zhao Peng's family background, he felt that Zhao Peng's family conditions were not good, and he was in the countryside with low productivity.
If the daughter travels across the ocean to marry, she will worry that she will not see the future with Zhao Peng, and she will be easily wronged and suffer, coupled with inconvenient transportation, and it will be troublesome to return to Ukraine.
Despite this, the two young people did not retreat in the slightest, and Nadya was determined to defend her love.
In order to make her parents accept Zhao Peng, she often argued with her parents on the basis of reason and quarreled.
Zhao Peng also visited Nadia's parents many times, hoping to impress them with sincerity and persuade them to agree to their daughter being with him.
The persistence and stubbornness of the two finally impressed Nadya's parents, and finally agreed to this difficult transnational love.
There is no remorse for righteousness, and he marries China far away
In 1998, Zhao Peng and Najia ended their good time in college and successfully graduated.
The two were also about to face a parting, whether to go back to China together or to go their separate ways, and the question began to plague both of them.
After all, China was still developing at that time, and all aspects of the economy were still relatively poor, and Zhao Peng certainly knew that Nadia's parents did not want their daughter to suffer with them.
On the other hand, her parents are also worried about whether Zhao Peng will really be good to their daughter, and they are skeptical of Zhao Peng's sincerity.
But at this time, Najia did not hesitate in the slightest, she felt that her husband sang with her wife, even if her family discouraged her, Najia did not hesitate to leave her hometown and returned to his hometown in Xinxiang, Henan province with Zhao Peng.
In china at that time, except for the big cities, it was almost impossible to see the shadows of foreigners, let alone Zhao Peng's rural hometown, so Najia's arrival caused quite a stir in the village.
The villagers were very curious about the face of this Westerner with deep facial features and fair skin, and when they heard that there was a foreigner in the village, the villagers all stopped to watch.
And Nadya also in this simple countryside, feel the friendliness and enthusiasm of the Chinese people, after a period of time together, Nadya fell in love with this simple and warm country.
Not long after, Zhao Peng and Najia were greeted by the villagers' blessings, and the two walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand and held a grand wedding in the countryside.
On the day of the wedding, the villagers of the surrounding ten miles and eight villages rushed to join in the fun, which became the big news in the local area, and it is said that there were reporters who went to interview.
After the wedding, considering that there was no possibility of development in the countryside, in order to give Nadya a better life, he decided to take Nadya back to Ukraine to do business, mainly selling small Chinese goods.
A year later, Nadya gave birth to her first child in Ukraine, the child became a Ukrainian citizen, and with the crystallization of love, Zhao Peng also worked harder to make money.
After another year, the second child was born, and Najia herself was very fond of children, but the burden on Zhao Peng's shoulders was also heavier.
After having children, the cost of all aspects will be greater, Zhao Peng considers that it is difficult to maintain a life for small business, and the pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and he begins to plan another way out.
Later, with the help of friends, he was lucky enough to find a job as a business translation representative for a unit in a ukrainian company.
The main thing is to help Ukrainian enterprises and Chinese investment enterprises to exchange and negotiate to promote cooperation between the two sides, which is the most suitable for Zhao Peng.
Under his efforts, Zhao Peng helped the company win many projects, not only got a lot of remuneration, but also accumulated some network resources.
In 2003, two years after China's accession to the WTO, Zhao Peng seized the opportunity to set his sights on cross-border trade.
After consulting with Najia, he decided to resign and rely on the accumulated network resources to return to China to start a business, and opened a trading company in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, mainly engaged in auto parts.
Relying on years of hard work and accumulated contacts in Ukraine, Zhao Peng soon opened up the market in Eastern Europe, and the company also operated well, and its income was several times higher than before.
The company is getting better and better, Zhao Peng is getting busier and busier, just opened the Eastern European market, and soon he slowly expanded his business territory and did business in West Asia.
In just a few years, Zhao Peng has ridden the spring breeze of the World Trade Organization, and his business has become more and more prosperous all the way, and he has also accumulated tens of millions of net worth, and he has never forgotten his commitment to Nadia's parents.
From having nothing to starting a successful business from scratch, Zhao Peng used his own efforts to work hard and work hard for his family to create a happy and beautiful future.
Nadia's parents have also looked at this Chinese son-in-law differently since then, knowing that their daughter has not looked at the wrong person, and the second elder is finally relieved.
After her husband's successful entrepreneurship, Nadya slowly put her focus back on the family and took on the task of taking care of her children and in-laws.
In 2006, Zhao Peng and Najia felt that the current economic conditions were slowly comfortable, so they considered having another baby, and soon welcomed their third son.
The husband died early and was left alone
Zhao Peng's career was successful, his family was full of wives and children, and he became the envy of everyone in the village, but what everyone did not expect was that such happiness did not last long.
Due to the perennial hard work, often running around to socialize, working overtime day and night, coupled with irregular life, Zhao Peng's body began to have a serious overdraft.
At first, Zhao Peng just felt that he had too little rest time and didn't care too much, so every time he was uncomfortable, he simply took some medicine to deal with it.
However, with the deterioration of the situation, Zhao Peng became more and more unable to work, and his body became more and more overwhelmed, and finally fell ill.
When Najia learned about it, she was worried that her husband would have an accident, so she immediately sent Zhao Peng to the hospital for examination, but she did not expect this investigation, but gave this happy family a sunny thunderbolt.
After the doctor's examination, he told Najia that Zhao Peng's body was diagnosed with advanced liver cancer due to long-term fatigue and overwork.
At that time, Nadya heard this bad news and almost fainted, and this result was a fatal blow to this happy family.
She did not expect to struggle with her husband for many years, her career had just improved and lived a good life for a few years, but it had become such a result, and the three children were still so young, what if Zhao Peng really encountered an accident?
We all know that the fatality rate of liver cancer is very high, and the difficulty of treatment is even more difficult, not to mention that Zhao Peng is already advanced.
But Nadya never wanted to give up, no matter what the final result was, as long as there was a glimmer of hope, she would not let go.
Since then, Najia has taken Zhao Peng around looking for authoritative doctors to treat patients, and in less than a year, they have run to countless hospitals, and they have almost lost their homes in order to treat diseases.
However, after about a year of treatment, Zhao Peng finally did not overcome the disease, in November 2007, Zhao Peng died of liver cancer due to worsening, ending his life at the age of 31.
Zhao Peng and Najia's parents almost had a nervous breakdown after learning the bad news of his death, and they could not accept this cruel truth.
Seeing her dead husband, Nadya sat paralyzed on the ground in fear and cried, at this time she was devastated, like a lost soul, the whole skin washed her face with tears in a trance.
The three children are still young, and the in-laws have just experienced the pain of losing their children, at this time Nadya does not know what to do, whether to continue to stay in China, or to take the child back to Ukraine to live?
And Nadya's parents also hope that their daughter will return to their side, but after thinking about it, Nadya feels that at this time, she takes the child away and flies away, what about the two old people?
So the kind Nadya finally told her parents in Ukraine that she had decided to stay in China to take care of the family for the sake of her children and in-laws.
Zhao Peng's parents were very touched after learning of Najia's decision, but it was really too hard to look at Nadya, who was still so young, and to raise three children.
The second elder was intolerant, they said that if Nadya remarried, they would not stop her, and they said that they would give her all their property as a dowry, and only hoped that she could start a new life.
They said to her:
"Nadya, whether you remarry or keep the family, our two elders support you, in our hearts, we have long regarded you as a daughter-in-law, and we only hope that you can be happy and happy."
Hearing her in-laws' words, Nadya also said to them with tears in her eyes:
"I don't want money, as long as you and your children are healthy is my greatest wish, I will stay in China to take care of you, and when the youngest child grows to 18 years old, I will consider returning to my hometown." 」
After dealing with her husband's affairs, Najia returned to Ningbo, Zhejiang Province with her three children, and still lived in the 40-square-meter small house where she and her husband had struggled together.
Because her husband's company was no longer functioning, Nadya was forced to transfer the company to someone else, and she kept a job as a translator at the company.
Relying on this meager salary to support the family, getting up early to cook, sending her children to school, and going to work, Nadya repeats this life every day, trying to run the family.
It is very difficult to run a home on the meager income of a person, not to mention that now only Nadya is left alone.
Coupled with the fact that three children were studying, serving her in-laws and the family's food and clothing, Nadya had to work harder.
After a day of working outside, dragging her tired body home, Nadya also had to guide the children's learning, teach them to learn Chinese, fortunately, the three children are very sensible, giving her great comfort.
"The most beautiful Xinxiang people", it is truly deserved
Najia carefully takes care of this family every day, works hard to maintain the family's life, and keeps this home in an orderly manner, Zhao Peng's parents look at it with both pain and relief.
Although Zhao Peng's death made the second elder very painful, seeing that Najia was working so hard, they considered introducing Najia to her relatives again, hoping that she could have a dependency.
But in the face of the second elder's proposal, Najia did not hesitate to refuse again, she thought it was good to be alone with a child, and she did not want the second elder to worry about her marriage.
The helpless in-laws had to give up, but watching the children getting bigger and bigger, the 40-square-meter room became more and more crowded, and they could only barely make the floor on the ground.
The second elder was very unbearable, so he pooled some money and planned to change them to a larger residence.
But the kind Nadya once again euphistically refused, she hoped that the second elder would save as a pension, thinking that the house was small and not important, as long as the family was safe and secure, they would be satisfied.
Seeing that Nadya is so strong, the second elder is unspeakably touched in his heart, after all, it is not easy to live with a few children, and the second elder will always secretly stuff money to help Nadya subsidize the family.
But every time Nadia will think of a way to stuff the money back of the second old, Zhao Peng's parents are very distressed about her, and they also think that it will be easier for her to take her children back to Ukraine to live.
After all, the three children are Ukrainian nationals, back home, she and the child can enjoy some welfare subsidies, but also have parents to help, at least not as hard as in China alone.
The old couple only has one child, Zhao Peng, and if Nadya takes the child back to Ukraine, they must have no one to rely on, but they feel that it is worth it.
Nadya's mother-in-law, Sun Shuxiang, even thought that if she had nothing to rely on, she would go to a nunnery not far from home and spend the rest of her life with the Buddha.
But they did not expect that their daughter-in-law Najia has always been inseparable from them, never thought of leaving China with children, and even raised children alone, which is full of endless gratitude.
Nadya's dedication allows us to see the strength and kindness of a single mother, whether it is work life or what difficulties children encounter in learning.
Nadya has always faced difficulties, without the slightest complaint, and is always full of hope for life, positive and optimistic, such a spirit is indeed admirable.
As the children grew older, Nadya's efforts paid off, and all three children were excellent, not only with excellent grades, proficient in English, Chinese and Russian, but also often won awards in various competitions.
The second eldest Zhao Dandan and the third Zhao Weijia, with their mixed-race looks, were invited by a children's clothing company to be small models, often appearing in advertising albums.
The young age also subsidized a lot of the family, and the child's understanding made Nadya very pleased.
Whenever the New Year comes, Najia will also bring her in-laws and in-laws to Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and celebrate the New Year with the children.
The family is too small to have a bedroom, the children will give the bedroom to the grandparents, and several brothers will fight to make the floor.
Under the care of Nadya for more than ten years, the second elder finally came out of the pain of losing his son, and this once shaky home is now slowly on the right track.
Whenever the neighbors mentioned their foreign daughter-in-law, Nadya, the eyes of the two elderly people were full of pride.
They felt that it was Nadya's kindness and strength that made this nearly broken home come out of the haze, feel the warmth again, and let the two old people soothe the pain.
In April 2013, Henan Xinxiang launched a campaign to select "the most beautiful Xinxiang people", and when Zhao Peng's parents saw this activity, they immediately thought of their daughter-in-law Najia.
In order to thank Najia for her efforts, Zhao Xicai and Sun Shuxiang signed up for this activity and recommended their daughter-in-law Najia to the selection organizers.
After hearing Nadya's story, the organizers were very touched, so they put the story about her in the newspaper, and soon with the publication of the newspaper, her story became more and more known to the world.
In the subsequent voting, Nadya was finally elected with a high vote and was named the "most beautiful New Townspeople", which can be said to be deserved.
As Najia's deeds spread more and more widely, in January 2014, Najia was successfully elected as one of the "Top Ten People Who Touched the Central Plains" held in Henan Province.
At the scene, Nadya and her eldest son and father-in-law attended the award ceremony, when the host told her story.
Thunderous applause rang out from the stage, and countless viewers burst into tears, all touched by this strong foreign woman.
At that time, the award speech given to Nadya by the organizing committee was:
"There are beautiful people in the distance, from the Black Sea, the faces of Westerners, chinese filial piety."
It's a very high rating, but for Nadya, she also deserves this honor.
When the host asked her acceptance speech, she just said lightly:
"Ukraine is my hometown, but China is also the hometown that raised me, I love my motherland, and I love Xinxiang even more"
In 2015, Nadya has decided to settle in China for a long time, after all, China is the root of the children, in order to facilitate the children to live and study better in China in the future.
Nadya took her children to the public security department and decisively changed the Ukrainian nationality of the three children to Chinese nationality, and they finally became Chinese.
More than twenty years ago, because of love, this girl from Ukraine, Nadya, came to China against all odds.
More than twenty years later, her husband died young, and she raised three children in pain, took on the family, and transformed into a strong mother.
From 23 to 45 years old, in these 22 years, Nadya has supported the warmth of a home with the strength of a woman, and soothed the pain of the two elderly people with gentle care.
She brought China's filial piety to the extreme, poured out her fanghua, and guarded it alone, touching Xinxiang and also touching China!