The source of this article is the public number: Ji People
She is Sheng Xuanhuai's granddaughter-in-law;
She was the great-granddaughter of the late Qing dynasty courtier Ren Daorong;
Her father-in-law was Sheng Enyi, the first loser of the Republic of China;
She is Ren Zhifang, the "first beauty on the beach".
When the money is gone, how she helped her husband make a comeback in Japan is related to her "cleanliness habits".
In 1918, Ren Zhifang was born in Shanghai.
Her great-grandfather served as the governor of Shandong during the Guangxu dynasty, and was a colleague of Li Hongzhang; His father was a late Qing dynasty official, who served as the vice minister of finance of the Beiyang government.
Such a prominent achievement has also made the Ren family a veritable scholar and a famous family.
Under the cultivation of her father, Ren Zhifang, who was already intelligent and studious, was able to write poetry in her cardamom years, and her pen and ink were once the famous works that were competed for among the celebrities of Shanghai Beach at that time.
She looks beautiful, dignified and gentle, beautiful appearance, slender body, Gu Panshenghui, everywhere she goes is like a glorious cage, and exquisite willow eyebrows with cool makeup, but also shows an elegant temperament, with its own classical charm, elegant temperament, can be described as stunning, between the hands and feet is full of everyone's boudoir style, was praised as the first "white rich beauty" on the beach that year.
Zhifang's reputation is outstanding, and the suitors almost have to break the threshold of the Ren family, but Ren Zhifang's father still has no intention of letting go, and there are many people who want to climb the relationship with the Ren family, but they are all politely rejected by the Ren family. Ren's father loves his daughter very much, and when looking for a son-in-law, he not only considers his family lineage, but also pays attention to the character and talent of the other party.
At the age of 22, Ren Zhifang was entrusted by her family to attend Sheng Xuanhuai's funeral. During this time, he met Sheng Yuyou. Sheng Yuyou is the grandson of Sheng Xuanhuai and the sole inheritor of the Sheng family's estate. After Sheng Yuyou first met his cousin Ren Zhifang, he fell in love with his cousin at first sight, and as a teenager, he identified his lifelong love.
When he grew up, Sheng Yuyou was an upright, hard-working and studious person, and had a prominent family lineage. Naturally, it has become the goal of many girls. But his dedication was not shaken by anyone.
In the blink of an eye, Sheng Yu mailed to the age of marriage, and he confessed his admiration for his cousin Ren Zhifang in front of the elders, so he immediately went to the matchmaker to ask for relatives.
Among the many men, the Ren Sheng family was originally in-laws, and the Ren family's parents had a good feeling for Sheng Enyi's son Sheng Yuyou, who had just returned from studying abroad. The parents of the two families did not have the consent of their children, so they made a family affair without authorization.
But Ren Zhifang has her own ideas on the aspect of mate selection. On the one hand, she agrees that parents have a certain power over the choice of husband, but at the same time, she also believes that marriage without good feelings is not sustainable.
Therefore, the parents of both sides found a way to create an opportunity for the two to meet. Since the social atmosphere at that time was not very open, it was okay to meet, but not to get too close. The final plan was for her mother to accompany Ren Zhifang to the dentist and wait for the car near the Cathay Cinema. Sheng Yuyou went to Cathay Pacific to watch a movie accompanied by his family, and when they passed, the two looked at it from a distance, but there were too many people in the Sheng family, and Ren Zhifang did not see clearly. Sheng Yuyou looked at her from a distance, heartbroken, affectionate, loved for ten thousand years.
Later, the two families let them meet again, and the location was set at the movie theater. Interestingly, on the day of Ren Zhifang's blind date, she was released by Sheng Yu. Ren Zhifang walked on the way home, her heels were faintly sore, and the chagrin in her heart became more and more intense. Ren Zhifang returned home angrily, just thinking of telling her parents that she would not marry the man, but before she could say anything, she was "sealed" by the living room full of gifts. Originally, what Ren Zhifang did not know was that she had not met the legendary "fiancé", but the other party had already seen her and was "in love at first sight".
After that, Sheng Yuyou took her out to play, and the two people began to fall in love like ordinary lovers. After a few months of getting along, Ren Zhifang couldn't find a single fault from Sheng Yuyou, and the two people were incomparably compatible from personality to hobbies.
In this way, the two families naturally prepared for the marriage. Coupled with the fact that both men and women are highly valued by the family, this led to the unprecedented grand wedding. For their wedding, many people are also very much looking forward to it, so their wedding at that time attracted much social attention.
At that time, the wedding was held at Paramount, and a famous drama team was invited to come over, and there were many people who came to congratulate Daoxi, and the banquet was held for three days. During these three days, Paramount was much more lively than usual, and officials and giants did not want to miss this rare opportunity to connect with the Sheng family, and the bustling section of the entire Shanghai was blocked for a while, which was simply unheard of.
Sheng Yuyu and his wife's life after marriage were happy and happy, but he did not want his father Sheng Enyi to be infected with the bad habit of gambling, and he lost nine times out of ten, and the poor Sheng family's property was instantly destroyed. Subsequently, in response to the call of the proletarian revolution to "donate assets and make a communist revolution", the Sheng family donated tens of millions of family wealth and went from a once-prosperous magnate to a poor person without rice to cook.
But Ren Zhifang was not discouraged, because she firmly believed that as long as the country developed, their wealth would soon return.
With her encouragement, Sheng Yuyu decided to go abroad to find a job. He traveled to Singapore, Indonesia, the United Kingdom and other places, but found nothing.
Eventually, Sheng Yuyou set his sights on the place where his younger brother Sheng Yudu started his business---- Japan. So, he told his wife what he thought and asked Ren Zhifang what he thought.
Ren Zhifang unconditionally supported her husband's decision and accompanied her, and her actions deeply touched Sheng Yuyou.
Ren Zhifang has received a high-quality and good education since childhood, is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and also loves cleanliness. Her room had to be cleaned spotlessly, the sheets had to be changed every day, otherwise it would be difficult to sleep at night, and the food she ate had to be exquisite and tidy, sometimes even hours later, the servants were asked to change it and wash it.
When you go out to eat, the knives, forks, bowls and chopsticks are all brought by yourself, even if you eat with your friends, you will not change for this reason. She may also know that going out is very torturous, so like the ancient official misses, she basically rarely goes out to play every day.
After Ren Zhifang got married, she still maintained the habit of extremely loving cleanliness, and at first the Sheng family was quite unaccustomed, but after gradually getting acquainted, she also slowly recognized Ren Zhifang's extreme habit of loving cleanliness.
Before, Ren Zhifen's family had money, and loving cleanliness was not a matter for the rich people at that time, so the Ren family would never be dissatisfied with her because of this kind of thing. At that time, the Sheng family was also rich, and naturally did not care about this.
But after the change, the two who used to hug before and after going out, and the servants and servants are now poor couples.
Miss Qianjin, who once had ten fingers that did not touch the spring water of the sun and could not see a little dirty, took off her favorite cheongsam in the late years, put on a coarse cloth linen, and seamlessly transformed into an ordinary and simple woman, silently and toiling, taking care of the children at home every day, washing and cooking and changing the sheets. Everyone else was amazed at her transformation, and even a sarcastic voice came into her ear, but she ignored it completely.
To make a living, they set up a morning stall on the streets of Japan to make money.
As a result, in the streets of Tokyo, Japan in the 1960s, people could see a well-dressed, gentle-looking middle-aged woman every day, busy in front of a large oil pot in an apron, and her husband was busy kneading dough with his hands and feet, and entertaining guests.
Ren Zhifang gave full play to her "cleanliness", always maintained the cleanliness of the fritter stall, aprons, rags and other applications, all washed and replaced in time, never contaminated with oil splashed during the cooking and frying process.
The "excessive" cleanliness made her fritter stall stand unique among the many food stalls, which aroused the favor and hygiene of diners in her breakfast stall, and the business got better and better.
In 1968, the couple opened a very small restaurant: the New Asia Hotel.
Because they could not afford to help, the chores were personally handled by the two couples. The chef hired by Xinya is Wu Guoxiang, a famous chef in Shanghai, who made sauce pig's trotters, braised paddling, shrimp tofu, braised pork wings, etc. The taste is extremely beautiful, and people who have eaten it are all addicted, and the small steamed buns he made are even more thin and tender, biting open a bag of soup...
The soul of a restaurant is the taste, which holds the customer's stomach and says everything. Soon, their restaurant was expanded for the first time. After the business became more and more prosperous, their lives finally got better again.
Their stores continued to expand and they opened branches in Japan, and their lives gradually became richer. However, in a few years, they went from having nothing to the peak of the industry, becoming billionaires, and once again recreating the myth of the Shengjia family.
Sheng Yuyou and Ren Zhifang, two young masters who came out of the old society, after experiencing the hardships at the lowest level, started from scratch in the new society with their own efforts and laid a new family business.
When her life improved, she still "spent a lot" to support others. As long as there are relatives and friends who come to ask for help due to difficulties in life, Ren Zhifang will lend a helping hand, and she also hires a large number of Chinese students to work in restaurants.
International students in other people's stores are generally paid 800 yen per hour, while their stores are 1,000 yen per hour. Although she didn't need as many labor, she decided to hire more than twenty international students to provide them with work-study opportunities.
As their careers flourished, the couple invested in a number of restaurants.
With the rise of Japan's economy, Ren Zhifang's catering group also grew in size, and became a catering enterprise covering the whole of Japan, and later went out of Japan, returned to China, and came to Southeast Asia, and even had branches in Europe and the United States, which made Ren Zhifang a well-known billionaire in the 1990s.
At that time, Ren Zhifang returned to China to invest, which made her rely on her own hands and returned to the position of rich, and also let the China, which was walking in the rapid economic development at that time, see the story behind this successful woman, and her experience also encouraged many Chinese entrepreneurs at that time to break out of their own careers.
In the later years of Ren Zhifang's life, a reporter interviewed her, and they were very curious about how Ren Zhifang's mood changed from a famous woman in Shanghai to an ordinary person and a billionaire.
Ren Zhifang smiled gently. She is a person, and it is good to have a strong heart. If an ordinary person had experienced the first half of her life, she might have wanted to crash to death.
From a famous lady, a rich young master, a Shanghai celebrity with fine clothes, to a proletariat who has nothing, and then to a self-made billionaire, the founder of Factor Group, ren Zhifang and his wife's life is not legendary.