Years later, in the face of the hustle and bustle of the city, Wang Qingsong, a former Peking University teacher, will recall the eleven years he and his wife spent weaving in the mountains.
One
Wang Qingsong was born in Luoyang in 1962, and his family had been engaged in farming for several generations. The ordinary family situation made Wang Qingsong's father have no high expectations for him, as long as he finished his studies as an ordinary child.
However, this father underestimated his son, and unlike other children, Wang Qingsong's academic hegemonic attribute is not only the ability to learn, but also the crushing ability and cognition.
From primary school to middle school, Wang Qingsong has excellent subjects and can be completed before school for homework. In Wang Qingsong's eyes, he has his own unique experience in understanding the discipline and knowledge.
During that time, Wang Qingsong returned home to play, making the father once suspect that his son was too greedy. However, Wang Qingsong was able to get back a full score in each final exam, which made his father wonder.
When he was in high school, Wang Qingsong's understanding of the knowledge system was even more profound, and he was proficient in the textbooks of the same grade after reading it several times, and then he looked for the senior grade to continue learning, until the college entrance examination Wang Qingsong was at the peak of knowledge storage.
In 1979, the society had already restored the college entrance examination system, and Wang Qingsong took this opportunity to enter the law department of Peking University with the first place in the liberal arts department of Luoyang.
Such a result can be said to be Guangzong Yaozu, Wang Qingsong's father was like a dream when he received the admission letter, how did he not expect his son to be admitted to Peking University. Subsequently, Wang Qingsong also appeared in the newspaper and became a local celebrity.
In the four years of studying at Peking University, Wang Qingsong's grades are still stable, belonging to the best in the crowd, and gaining many friends and followers. Later, Wang Qingsong was admitted to the graduate school of the university and stayed directly to teach after graduation.
Whether he is a student or a teacher, Wang Qingsong is an excellent person, and the students cultivated by his subordinates are outstanding beings.
However, at this time, Wang Qingsong had doubts about the meaning of his life, and he did not know what kind of life he wanted.
The level of knowledge and cognition far beyond that of ordinary people made it more and more difficult for Wang Qingsong to endure a regular life, as if living in such an environment, his soul would be restricted.
In 1984, sportsmanship flourished in society, and many people joined in to discuss how to strengthen their bodies. And this happened to open Wang Qingsong's "second spring", during which Time Wang Qingsong was madly obsessed with "martial arts", and even shortened his job for this purpose, and also made study classes to teach, making a lot of money, which made the school very unhappy.
In the eyes of outsiders, Wang Qingsong is getting more and more off track, even reaching the level of madness. However, only Wang Qingsong himself understood that some people spent their entire lives following the rules and did not look at the world outside themselves until the day they left.
One day, Wang Qingsong held another class outside the classroom, and when he looked down, he found that a girl was very attractive, this was a girl from the Beijing Foreign Chinese College, not only behaved demurely, but was even more fascinated by what Wang Qingsong said.
This female student is called Zhang Mei, the two people meet and hate late, and soon after adding contact information, they established a romantic relationship and quickly married.
So far, Wang Qingsong's life is complete, with achievements, careers, honors, savings, and married to the people he loves.
For Wang Qingsong, his life has reached a critical point, and he will only continue to explore the dreams in his heart, although it is not understood by ordinary people.
Two
Because of the neglect of Peking University's affairs, Wang Qingsong had long been ostracized by many leaders, and he applied for a doctorate in the Department of Philosophy at that time, although his results were excellent, he was not admitted. And Zhang Mei's side is not smooth, did not get the title of lecturer.
The double whammy of school and career made the couple more and more tired of society.
One evening, Wang Qingsong and his wife were walking in the park, and when the years were quiet, the two saw billowing black smoke coming out of a large chimney. This sight immediately ruined the couple's interest in walking, and they hurried back home.
In the evening, Zhang Mei thought that what she wanted was the kind of life of male cultivators and female weavers, with her own manor, where she could grow fruits and vegetables.
The next day, Zhang Mei told Wang Qingsong about such a thought, who knew that the two people felt sorry for each other, and they both thought that such a life was what they wanted.
All the thoughts converged to one point, and the two people had the idea of "seclusion", away from the noise of the crowd and car exhaust, and living a free life.
In the summer, Wang Qingsong and Zhang Mei traveled to Chuxi, Fujian Province, and just arrived there, they were attracted by the natural scene of the blue sky and green space, so that they could experience a kind of invigorating, they wanted to become the wind, blowing from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, also like turning into clouds, fluttering in the blue sky.
Here, the couple met a Norwegian couple who used to be in the financial industry and now live in seclusion here to open a small farm, cutting off their former lives.
Around the farm, there are countless flowers, all planted by the husband and wife, who can drink pure milk every day and tell stories to their children at night, which makes Wang Qingsong and his wife more determined to live such a life.
In 1994, Wang Qingsong and his wife Zhang Mei returned to Zhang Mei's hometown, where they rented dozens of acres of land, planted crops and vegetables, and raised many livestock.
Such a return to the primitive life makes Zhang Mei and Wang Qingsong feel a kind of refreshment and satisfaction, in their hearts, this is a kind of tranquility that is different from urban life, no one fights between people, no good or bad.
In 1998, Zhang Mei quit her job to take care of the estate. Subsequently, Wang Qingsong also resigned from Peking University and became a "hermit" with his wife.
The two men spent 200,000 yuan to rent 2,500 acres of barren mountains for 50 years, and have been isolated from the world ever since.
According to their own ideas, Wang Qingsong and Zhang Mei fired a batch of green bricks and tiles and built an ideal hut in their hearts.
Their practices were considered "neurotic" by the local villagers, and the teachers of Peking University resigned to become farmers in the countryside, which is indeed difficult for ordinary people to understand.
Zhang Mei's family was even more strongly opposed to this, so much so that Zhang Mei's relatives asked about Zhang Mei's husband and wife, and her father was ashamed and said that they "went abroad."
Three
After entering the pastoral life, the couple can finally start to create their own home, they throw away the exquisite clothes they wear in the city, leaving some warm and sweat-absorbing cotton clothes, although it does not look good, but this is more in line with the identity of the hermit.
They then brought in carpenters and built a small reservoir and dam, and stopped the spring in the ravine to form a small lake, and the two of them lived in the adobe house they had built.
The furnishings in the house are very deserted, only some simple furniture, old stoves, one of the few that is a little poetic, is that the moon can be seen through the window of the cottage at night.
Outsiders will never understand that this peaceful freedom is the couple's lifelong pursuit and that they will feel happy.
In the days that followed, Wang Qingsong and his wife built this barren mountain little by little and planted crops such as millet, peanuts, and so on. There is also a vegetable garden, planted with beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and will be self-sufficient for everything that is needed for daily diet.
A few years later, Wang Qingsong's resignation from Peking University and his return to the countryside was known to the public, and some reporters visited here specifically to try to dig out unknown reasons from the couple.
However, when the reporter saw Zhang Min and Wang Qingsong, something in their hearts was touched.
Zhang Min is dressed very plainly, and her demeanor has the charm of a mature woman, even if she stands there without moving, it is beautiful like a painting.
From her body, the reporter felt another kind of purity and cleanliness, completely unable to feel the traces of time, let alone the temperament of urban people.
Pastoral life is not boring in the eyes of Zhang Mei and his wife, making a variety of colored dishes, whether it is stir-frying, cold mixing or cooking, let people feel a pure delicacy, when the original taste of food, as if it can penetrate people's souls.
When you are bored, the couple will go to the mountain together to bask in the sun, feel the air tide blowing overhead, and the breeze will blow all over your body.
Of course, pastoral life also has troubles, Zhang Mei said that the trouble in the field is to pull grass, because there is no weeding supplies, so it takes a lot of physical strength to pull one by one, pulling people's hearts.
After living in the mountains, Zhang Mei seems to have only once been out of the mountains because she had to make up her documents, and even if there were big troubles in other days, she would find a way to solve them.
When Zhang Min was 30 years old, she gave birth to a son, and she did not ask for a doctor, and wang Qingsong delivered the baby. At first, Wang Qingsong was afraid that something would go wrong after that, who knew that his wife and children were physically good, and their recovery was amazing.
The arrival of the son has added another liveliness to this pastoral family, and the husband and wife will often take their son "Xiaoyu" to climb the mountain to let him bask in the sun, and the nutrition is even more complete.
For the education of their children growing up, the couple is even more important, both of them are highly educated, personally teaching mathematics, Chinese, English, plus the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names" and other foundations of traditional Chinese studies.
Zhang Mei said: In terms of learning efficiency per unit of time, the son can reach 2 times that of children in schools in the city. Art and music have no teachers, worse than the children in the city.
Xiaoyu's life is very simple, studying in the morning, herding sheep in the afternoon, coupled with the fact that parents attach great importance to the training of their son's physical fitness, so Xiaoyu's physical fitness is far stronger than other children of the same age.
Xiao Yu also said: "These sheep are my childhood playmates, and I have never felt lonely. ”
After Wang Qingsong resigned from Peking University to live here, 11 years have passed, and the former barren mountain has also developed to a certain scale, during which the couple has also spent 3.5 million yuan in savings.
Once, a rich classmate of Wang Qingsong saw a picture of his disheveled face and cried a lot, thinking that his old friend had suffered a change before he had fallen here, and he also clamored to donate a sum to him to prevent his family from suffering so much.
Now, after spending 11 years in the mountains, the couple has also decided to return to society, and Wang Qingsong said that he will let his son contact society, learn modern knowledge, and create more possibilities in the future.
summary:
Today, the couple has returned to normal life, but the specific information is very low-key, not too much display, but Wang Qingsong sold a lot of vegetables grown after he came out of the mountain.
In the city, there must be many people who yearn for a pastoral life, but due to social pressure, they dare not and do not have the capital to try.
Wang Qingsong and his wife are brave and persistent, and they have no interest in how others see themselves, and their future lives are still peaceful.
For how to live, what kind of life is good, everyone has their own ideas, only afraid that some people always live in the expectations of others and lose themselves.