"True learning, true heart, true work" Wu is cooking exquisite food with his "three flavors of real fire" in the back kitchen of a Western-style fast food restaurant in Huanggang, Hubei Province, and is also interpreting his own different new life!
Bitter, unclear troughs of life
"Brother, try it, this is a good thing!" In 2014, 22-year-old Wu came to Fuzhou with only 20,000 yuan in savings, full of pride in "wandering the rivers and lakes", looking for opportunities. Unknown to life and no business experience, he began selling some electronics on Student Street with a few newcomer friends. Although the benefits are not large, they are enough to ensure a basic livelihood. However, Wu, who always fantasizes about "getting rich overnight", often complains about working hard but not making money, feeling that such a life is getting farther and farther away from his dream. A gathering of friends cast a bitter veil over his youth. That day, after pushing the cup and changing the lamp, he was drunk and instigated by the so-called "jianghu brothers", he came into contact with and smoked drugs for the first time.
"That fluttering feeling made me slowly forget about the difficulties in my career, and gradually eroded my harmonious family." Wu later recalled. However, at that time, he did not choose to turn back, but after spending all his savings, he resolutely embarked on the road of no return to sell and smoke. The handcuffs and cold gavels were not only freedom, but also knocked Wu's bitter youth!
Bitter, inexhaustible mental journey
"Knock knock..." came an untimely knock on the wall in the 205 cell. Since entering prison, Wu has "frozen" his heart, but whenever he encounters unhappiness, he vents his emotions in this way. Negative pessimism, isolation and extremism are the evaluations given to him by the prisoners. "What makes an originally optimistic young man step by step away from the sun?" With such doubts, Wang Jianguo, who was a police officer at the time, began to "visit the road". From Tonggai to his fellow villagers to Wu's family, the police searched for the bits and pieces of his life one by one, and carefully formulated a series of "attack" plans. Every time after the night education, the police would always find Wu to start a "spiritual dialogue", from daily life to personal interests, from entrepreneurial experience to past families, step by step knocking on Wu's heart. As the conversation deepened, the police found that every time he talked about food, Wu's eyes always flashed, and occasionally many imaginative ideas popped up. At a traditional festival food production meeting organized by the sub-prison district, Wu "first appeared" to fully demonstrate his understanding and talent for food.
"Stepping out of this wall, maybe I will choose to start my new life path through dining." Regarding the future, Wu has his own vision. However, there is a lonely figure on the road to dreams! It turned out that in the more than one year of imprisonment, Wu cut off contact with his family, had no family letters, no telephone, even if he met with family affection, he "avoided it", in his opinion, because of his loss, he was shameful to his family, he had no face to face it, and he was even more unwilling to face it. "Under heaven, there are no parents who do not forgive their children, even if they make a big mistake, as long as they are willing to change, you are still their good son!" When the police handed the family letter to Wu with his own hands, he did not forget to instruct: "There is also an invoice for paying the fine, and the family has not given up on you, they all hope that you can successfully reduce your sentence, and hope that you will return home as soon as possible!" At that moment, Wu's long-sleeping heart finally rippled.
From that day on, Wu changed his view of his family, slowly began to face up to his transformation life, and was determined to be a different self. In order to better promote his reform, the police constantly encouraged him to use his sentence as a semester and read more books, especially business management books, so as to lay a solid foundation for re-entering the society in the future. After a thousand turns, this bitter heart road finally has an end, the iceberg has melted, and what greets him is the dawn of a new life!
Hot, unquenchable entrepreneurial passion
"Out of his comfort zone" Wu, who completed his sentence in 2021, resolutely decided to go north to pursue his dream after returning home for a short reunion with his family. More than seven years of prison life not only made Wu deeply understand that freedom is hard to come by, but also made him develop a good habit of bearing hardships and standing hard work. Delivering food and working as an apprentice, in order to quickly integrate into society, he chose to start from the basics and accumulate experience for future entrepreneurship. However, due to the epidemic, the business of his Western-style fast food restaurant was not ideal, and the owner reduced its business hours in order to reduce costs. This made Wu, who only received an apprentice salary, even more stretched, but he was not discouraged at all, but felt that he had more time to read and study. He searched for many courses online and used his spare time to study online. The time of the newborn quietly flows through the sweat and crosses the keyboard...
"Transfer of our store" At the beginning of the new year of 2022, Wu, who returned to his hometown and returned to the city, saw four eye-catching big characters at the door of the store. "Hey, I don't know when this epidemic is a head" Years of losses have finally made the owners of fast food restaurants no longer insist. "Is it looking for a new job, or..." Wu fell into deep thought. The sun is always after the storm, adhere to their original intention, with diligence and wisdom to open a new life..." In those years, the "teachings of the prison garden" haunted the heart at this moment, it was like a flame, shaking, burning!
The "Crackling" shop has reopened with simple renovation and careful planning. After careful consideration and with the consent of his family, Wu finally took over the small shop. Distributing flyers, conducting promotions, free home delivery, sweat soaking his clothes but unable to extinguish the enthusiasm in his heart; Building a member group, joining e-commerce, engaging in live broadcasting, he put all the e-commerce knowledge he learned in prison and online, speechless, and exerted the blood and passion of youth!
"From today onwards, our community will temporarily implement lockdown, please consciously isolate at home and cooperate with the work of the community..." Just as the small shop was gradually on the right track, the community adjacent to the small shop suddenly implemented a lockdown. Looking at the busy volunteers, looking at the medical staff doing antigen tests in the scorching heat, when the scene on the screen happened around him, the shock deeply touched Wu.
"Being grateful and having love in your heart is the right life!" When the teachings of the correctional police echoed in his ears again, Wu not only opened the door of the small shop to provide free resting places for volunteers, but also opened the door of love, providing 100 free packages for medical workers and volunteers every day. On the road to entrepreneurship, because of the blessing of love, sprinkled with sunshine, fragrant all the way!
Sweet, endless new transformation
Dreams belong to those who are prepared, but also to those who love! Because of the high requirements for food quality and continuous innovation in product research and development, coupled with enthusiasm and sincerity, Wu has won a large number of fans, and the small shop has gradually become a check-in place for office workers and surrounding neighbors to eat, gather and relax. Soon, he had a second branch, good reputation and reputation, also recognized by the brand headquarters, so he successfully became the brand's general agent in Hubei.
"Thank you! Officer Wang, my achievements today are inseparable from your concern and help from all the police officers in the sub-prison district over the years. My hot pot restaurant is about to open, if you have the opportunity, I sincerely hope that you can come to visit and share the joy and happiness of my new birth! ”
Today's Wu is cooking an authentic Chinese "traditional taste" and a new life path with sincerity as the staple food, supplemented by bravery, hard work, and love and tolerance!
Source: Fuzhou Prison
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