Preface
In 1994, Wu Jihong, who scored 712 points in the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Chinese People's University, became the pride of his family and the pride of all the villagers in that small village.
In everyone's eyes, Wu Jihong's future is limitless.
But no one expected that Wu Jihong, who was supposed to have great ambitions after graduation, cut off contact with his family, gave birth to 6 children in a small village, and became a peasant woman in a mountain village, and her life was extremely difficult, and the children couldn't even wear shoes.
So what happened to make this former lady of heaven fall here?
Wu Jihong's experience
In 1974, Wu Jihong was born in an ordinary family in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, and his parents both made a living from farming, so the family background was not good.
Wu Jihong is the second oldest in the family, and compared with other brothers and sisters, Wu Jihong has always been among the best in learning since he was a child.
Therefore, the Wu family's parents also pinned their hopes of getting ahead on their second daughter Wu Jihong, and they also supported them in their studies.
But farming alone could not fundamentally improve the family's life, so the Wu family's parents decided to go to Guangdong to work with other people in the village.
Seeing that his parents were leaving, Wu Jihong resolutely decided to go to Guangdong with his parents, even if he settled in Guangdong, Wu Jihong's grades were still very good.
Being in a foreign country, Wu Jihong won the love of the teachers of the Guangdong school with her excellent results, and she did not fall behind in her studies because of the transfer.
The days passed, and Wu Jihong finally waited for the day of the college entrance examination.
In 1994, 20-year-old Wu Jihong took the college entrance examination in Guangdong, and finally was admitted to the Chinese Renmin University with an excellent score of 712 points, and was admitted to the archives management department of the university.
In those days, it was not easy to produce a college student, let alone a prestigious university like Chinese People's University.
For a time, Wu Jihong received attention from all sides, not only her parents were proud of her, but even the villagers in her hometown in Ganzhou were also proud.
In everyone's opinion, the Wu family's parents have finally come out, and with such an excellent daughter, it will definitely be a good day to eat and drink spicy food in the future.
Not to mention that the villagers think like this, even Wu Jihong's parents think like this, they have never worried about Wu Jihong's future life, and even put all their hopes on Wu Jihong.
In this way, Wu Jihong embarked on the road of studying in Beijing with everyone's hopes.
After entering the university, Wu Jihong still studied hard and did not delay a day.
At that time, if you are admitted to a good school like Renmin University, you can be assigned a job after graduation, and you also have a great advantage in taking the civil service examination.
With such a good employment environment, the family is full of expectations for Wu Jihong, and has never even doubted Wu Jihong's future after graduation.
After entering the university, although Renmin University is a place full of talents, Wu Jihong still won the Lantai Scholarship with only two places, which is enough to see how good Wu Jihong was back then.
But what Wu Jihong didn't expect was that she actually caught up with the system of the country at that time when she began to choose her own job.
Wu Jihong struggled to find a job
In 1996, the former Ministry of Personnel issued the "Interim Measures for the Allocation of College Graduates and Above by the State", which meant that the "iron rice bowl" was broken.
This news was a big blow to many college students at that time, and Wu Jihong was no exception.
However, Wu Jihong soon sorted out his mood, thinking that with his ability, even if the state does not assign jobs, he can still get a good job.
As a result, Wu Jihong continued to complete his four-year college studies.
In 1998, Wu Jihong graduated from Renmin University and actively participated in the wave of job search.
I thought that with the graduation certificate of Renmin University in hand, I should be able to find a good job, but I didn't expect Wu Jihong to repeatedly hit a wall in his job search.
Immediately afterwards, Wu Jihong traveled to many places one after another, and was constantly looking for jobs in Beijing, Guangdong and even Tianjin, but the results were still not ideal.
But the difficulty of finding a job did not defeat Wu Jihong, but made her more and more frustrated.
Next, Wu Jihong decided to prepare for the civil service exam, after all, Wu Jihong has always been a "scholar" in the exam since he was a child.
In fact, Wu Jihong scored very well in the written test in the civil service examination and successfully entered the interview.
Unexpectedly, he hit a nail in the interview, and Wu Jihong failed to be admitted.
For a while, work became a problem, and Wu Jihong didn't dare to tell his family, for fear of his family
Worry about yourself.
The death of my father was a huge blow
On the other hand, Wu Jihong's father died, but the family hid the news in order not to affect Wu Jihong's job search.
After Wu Jihong couldn't find a job in Beijing for a long time, he wanted to go home first.
After returning home, Wu Jihong learned that her father had left, and she didn't even see her father's last face, and Wu Jihong couldn't bear it in an instant.
Just because, since he was a child, Wu's father loved Wu Jihong the most, and Wu Jihong experienced the blow of work and the blow of the civil service examination, and he was not beaten down.
But Wu's father's death was like the last straw that overwhelmed her.
Wu Jihong didn't stay at home for long, so he went south to Guangzhou to work.
In 2000, in a factory in Shunde, Guangdong, Wu Jihong met a junior high school classmate, and the two opened the conversation box for a while and became friends.
Maybe it was because she met her fellow countrymen in a foreign land, or maybe it was because Wu Jihong's silent heart finally met someone who was willing to care about her.
After a short time together, the two confirmed their relationship and entered into marriage.
Soon, Wu Jihong became pregnant and gave birth to a child, and after getting married, Wu Jihong didn't go out to work again, thinking that life would go on like this.
Who knows, after just five years of marriage, her husband had an affair outside, and even insisted on divorcing Wu Jihong, no matter how Wu Jihong pleaded, it couldn't change the result.
Then, the husband took the children of the two away, and Wu Jihong could only divorce and return to her hometown in Ganzhou.
But it didn't take long for Wu Jihong to find out that she was pregnant again, and she was reluctant to go home with her ex-husband and her daughter, so she wanted to go home to find her ex-husband to remarry.
But her father-in-law was the only one left in the family, and Wu Jihong couldn't contact her ex-husband at all.
This incident brought a lot of blow to Wu Jihong, and she didn't want to stay at home and cause trouble, so she left home without saying a word.
After leaving home, Wu Jihong's heart was like ashes, and her belly was already big at this time, and her life was even more difficult than before.
At this moment, someone introduced her to the family surnamed Deng in the neighboring town, and the conditions of the Deng family were a little poor, and it was precisely because of this that the other party was in his thirties and had not found a wife for a long time, so he accepted Wu Jihong to marry in with a big belly.
And it is very difficult for Wu Jihong to be alone with a big belly, even if she finds a partner again, it is difficult to find her, so Wu Jihong and the Deng family hit it off and got married.
After marrying into the Deng family, Wu Jihong rarely communicated with outsiders, and even at home, he rarely spoke, and his sense of existence was very low.
After Wu Jihong gave birth to a child, she gave birth to 4 children with her current husband one after another.
In the days that followed, Wu Jihong put all his thoughts on the family, taking care of the children, the elderly and cooking, and there was nothing else in life except firewood, rice, oil and salt.
In the eyes of the local villagers, they all think that Wu Jihong's life is very hard, and they also think that she has mental illness, but because she usually doesn't talk much, she attracts more attention.
Originally, the conditions of the Deng family were poor, and with so many children to raise, the whole family of nine relied on Wu Jihong's husband to support them.
The pressure on this family has skyrocketed, and the economic conditions can only ensure that the family can barely have something to eat, and the life of the subsistence family can barely survive.
No one in the village knew about Wu Jihong's own situation, and even Wu Jihong's family had never seen him.
Not to mention the people in the village, even the Deng family has never seen Wu Jihong's family, and Wu Jihong has rarely mentioned his family and his past for so many years.
Even Wu Jihong's husband said that he had only heard that Wu Jihong had gone to college in Beijing before, and he did not know anything else.
Since marrying into the Deng family, Wu Jihong has never worked again, nor has he been anywhere else, just doing housework day after day.
With the passage of time, Wu Jihong, like countless rural women, has aged a lot under the complicated housework and firewood, rice, oil and salt.
Moreover, the changes in the outside world are rapid, and Wu Jihong has not been in contact with the outside world for a long time, and has long been derailed from society.
In 2017, a teacher was shocked to learn about Wu Jihong because she went to the countryside to alleviate poverty, and she couldn't believe that the top students who graduated from the Beijing People's Congress had such a difficult life.
But the fact is that when the teacher arrived at Deng's house, he found that Wu Jihong's real life was even more difficult than he imagined.
Wu Jihong and her current husband's five children all look thin overall, and some of them even have no shoes and can only go barefoot.
After the news that Wu Jihong graduated from Renmin University was revealed, the alumni of Renmin University expressed their shock, and even Wu Jihong's former head teacher was incredulous.
No one would have imagined that Wu Jihong would become a rural village woman, and even gave birth to 6 children before and after.
Although the outside world's evaluation of Wu Jihong is mentally problematic, when the reporter talks to Wu Jihong, Wu Jihong has no problem in expression.
But when it comes to his family, Wu Jihong hasn't contacted them for many years, and he doesn't even want to mention it in words.
In desperation, the reporter still helped Wu Jihong find her family, Wu Jihong didn't seem to have a strong concept of family, and her sister didn't have too much emotion when she stood in front of her.
I haven't seen her for many years, Wu Jihong has changed a lot, although the days are hard, but she is very calm in her heart.
In 2017, Wu Jihong's homeroom teacher An Qingfu took his classmates and some alumni to Jiangxi Xiushui to visit Wu Jihong.
Wu Jihong was still very happy when the classmates met, and even saw that the head teacher Wu Jihong finally showed excitement.
Over the years, no one knows that Wu Jihong has lived such a difficult life, everyone cares about her, and Wu Jihong is also an alumnus to talk about it.
Later, Wu Jihong's life was much better, and with the support of the government, the family lived in a new house and their living conditions improved a lot.
And Wu Jihong also has new furniture and electrical appliances at home because of the visit of alumni, and he also has a new mobile phone and computer.
You must know that whether it is a mobile phone or a computer, Wu Jihong has never owned it for many years, and the Deng family only has a mobile phone, which is Wu Jihong's husband's.
In contrast, Wu Jihong finally saw a good hope, and began to contact his family, and everything was going in a good direction.
Resources
China Search - 8 months after the revelation of a big girl who gave birth to 6 children and fell into extreme poverty: moved into a new house of 170 square meters and will go to work in the archives
The Paper - Wu Jihong, a graduate of the National People's Congress, once became a low-income household due to changes, and now a family of nine has moved into a new home
Wu Jihong - Baidu Encyclopedia