In 1980, Chen Sheng, due to his poor family background, relied on the whole village to raise money to go to Peking University.
Unexpectedly, after graduation, he actually sold pork and opened a "butcher school", and he was also nicknamed the "butcher" of Peking University.
Later, Chen Sheng started a business with the money from selling pork, and became a well-known rich man, earning nearly 1.1 billion in just three years.
In order to repay his kindness, Chen Sheng returned to his hometown and voluntarily invested 200 million yuan to build 138 villas.
But Chen Sheng's actions did not win the gratitude of the villagers, but scolded, and even made him dare not return to his hometown for several years.
So, what happened in between, and how is he doing now?
01
In the 60s of the last century, Chen Sheng was born in Guanhu Village, Suixi County, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and his family was very poor.
But God did not favor the family, and when Chen Sheng was 12 years old, his father died in an accident on the construction site.
The death of his father made this already dilapidated home even more unbearable, in order to feed and clothe several children, as well as to go to school, Chen Sheng's mother could only do several jobs by herself.
In order to live up to his mother's expectations, Chen Sheng could only study hard to Xi, and he could always come back with a good score of first place in every exam.
Soon it was the year of Chen Sheng's college entrance examination, and he walked into the examination room with the expectations of the whole family.
When it came time to check his grades, Chen Sheng found that his score was not enough to get him into the university of his choice.
After thinking about it again, Chen Sheng took the initiative to tell his mother that he wanted to repeat it.
And her mother is not the kind of stubborn person, she saw that Chen Sheng was so resolute and told him, don't worry about the family's money.
After a year of unremitting study and Xi, Chen Sheng was finally admitted to Peking University.
When the admission letter was sent to Chen Sheng's house, he and his mother hugged each other excitedly.
But if Chen Sheng really went to study at Peking University, his mother alone would not be able to afford it.
At this time, Chen Sheng's mother was so anxious that she counted and counted the money on hand, but she couldn't make up enough money for Chen Sheng's schooling.
Seeing his mother like this, Chen Sheng's younger brothers and sisters were also very anxious, and they proposed to quit school and work to make up for Chen Sheng's living expenses and bus expenses.
Chen Sheng's mother was very relieved to see the children like this, but she didn't want to exchange the future of one child for the future of another.
After a while, the neighbor's grandmother took a wrinkled wad of money and handed it to Chen Sheng's mother, saying that this child was the first person in our village to be admitted to Peking University, and she wanted the child to go to school for everything.
Immediately afterwards, more and more people in the village came to Chen Sheng's house, and each of them handed Chen Sheng's mother a handful of money, and encouraged him to study hard and Xi so as not to disappoint the whole village.
It turned out that the village secretary knew the news of Chen Sheng's admission to Peking University for the first time, but considering that Chen Sheng's family might not be able to raise money, he mobilized the villagers to raise funds for him.
Chen Sheng and his mother, who learned the ins and outs of the matter, were indescribably grateful and moved in their hearts.
In the end, under the eyes of his parents and fellow villagers, Chen Sheng left his hometown and came to Beijing.
02
In the past few years at Chen Sheng University, he has worked hard to learn Xi, not only learning his professional courses very solidly, but also often using his spare time to learn Xi knowledge of other majors.
In 1984, Chen Sheng successfully graduated from Peking University, and he was assigned to work in the General Office of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee with outstanding abilities.
Two years later, he was promoted to work in the Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee Office, and the family was very happy.
But with a fixed life and a fixed job every day, Chen Sheng felt a little bored.
At that time, many people in the same office with him quit their jobs to go to the sea to do business, and they all gained a lot of money.
Seeing that the people around him were so successful, Chen Sheng couldn't help but feel a little envious, so he also went to the sea to do business in 1990.
With his flexible mind, in just a few months, Chen Sheng earned hundreds of thousands.
As he got bigger and bigger, he began to be dissatisfied with the status quo and set his sights on the real estate industry again.
He spent all the money he earned over the years on real estate entrepreneurship, and in 1993 he founded his first company, and in three years Chen Sheng made the company a leading real estate company in Zhanjiang.
Chen Sheng, who is doing well in the real estate business, has pondered other industries.
At that time, Chen Sheng was partying with his friends, and his friends brought the local specialty roast pig to everyone to taste it together, and everyone's response was very good, Chen Sheng immediately decided to invest in the local pig.
So, in 2004, Chen Sheng began to officially breed and sell local pigs, and he personally experienced every link.
Finally in 2007, Chen Sheng's "No. 1 Soil Pig" brand officially entered the market.
Under the leadership of Chen Sheng, the reputation of the "No. 1 Soil Pig" brand became more and more resounding, and two years later, Chen Sheng founded the first butcher school in the country, and he was also affectionately called the "butcher" of Peking University.
03
Chen Sheng, who has a successful career, has never forgotten the help of the villagers to him back then.
In 2011, Chen Sheng invested 200 million yuan to build a new type of village, and not only that, but he also paid out of his own pocket to build villas for 220 villagers in the village for free.
In order to enable everyone in the village to change the status quo of poverty, Chen Sheng started from the source and taught them how to raise pigs and how to grow vegetables.
But Chen Sheng's kindness did not usher in the understanding of the villagers.
Since 2011, when they learned that the villa was going to be built, there were various complaints from the villagers.
In 2018, when the villa was completely completed and ready to be divided, the villagers began to become more and more "shameless", some people wanted the biggest and best house on the grounds that they had lent Chen Sheng's mother a lot of money, and some people said that they had more children and wanted two more villas.
The greed of the villagers has also been reported by many media, and Chen Sheng bluntly said that he does not dare to return to his hometown now, for fear of being chased by everyone for a house.
Later, fortunately, with the support of the local government, the villagers stopped making trouble, and finally decided the right to live in the villa by drawing lots.
Although the division of the house brought Chen Sheng a lot of troubles, he did not forget the hometown where he was born and raised, and still tried all kinds of ways to bring the villagers to get rich.
In 2019, Guanhu Village was transformed from a poverty-stricken village into a provincial-level model village for poverty alleviation.
epilogue
For so many years, Chen Sheng has never forgotten the villagers who helped him, and now that he is rich, he feels that he should shoulder the burden on his shoulders.
In order to make the villagers live a good life, Chen Sheng built a new countryside, built villas, and built schools.
Finally, I hope that each of us will not forget to give back to our hometown and those who have helped us.