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In January 2020, a short video of a rural woman making smoked goose suddenly became popular on the Internet.
The woman in the video is smiling and acting neatly, and the smoked goose looks fragrant and delicious. Many netizens in the comment area commented: "If you can marry this wife, this life is enough!"
As everyone knows, this woman's life can be described as ups and downs: she has just reached the age of 30, and she has already experienced childbirth, divorce, entrepreneurship, and bankruptcy;
The smiling face in the video was also behind her young children, elderly parents, and high debts.
She is the hero of our story today - Shen Dan, from a single mother to tens of millions of Internet celebrities, from a debt-rich company boss, and now, she is interviewed by CCTV and has become an officially recognized "Wuyi Mountain business card".
What did she rely on to "counterattack" step by step?
"Left-behind children" out of the mountains
In 1987, Shen Dan was born in a remote village in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province.
Like other children in mountainous areas under the "wave of migrant work" in that era, Shen Dan was also a "left-behind child". For most of Shen Dan's childhood, her parents worked outside the home, and there were only young her and elderly grandparents at home.
Despite the hardships of life, many years later, Shen Dan always recalls his childhood and still misses that carefree time.
As Shen Dan grew up, she looked at her aging grandparents and took the initiative to start housework. Due to the poverty of his family, Shen Dan in middle school took advantage of the winter and summer vacations to go to the town to do odd jobs to fill the family.
At the age of 19, Shen Dan failed the college entrance examination, and Shen Dan, who knew that he had no talent and energy to study, made a decisive choice:
Go to work in other places!
A few days later, the young Shen Dan embarked on the road of leaving his hometown to work.
According to Shen Dan's recollection, when she left home, she had very little luggage, only two old clothes, and the 200 yuan that her mother stuffed her.
Although the days of part-time work are hard, in order to have a better life for himself and his family, Shen Dan, who has been "used to hardships and hardships" since childhood, still insists on working for two years.
At this time, Shen Dan, despite his strong appearance, often felt lonely and tired inside. She didn't know when this boundless part-time job life would come to an end.
The appearance of a man gave her hope in life.
It was another young man who, like her, had left his hometown to work in other places.
At this time, Shen Dan was in her early twenties, she needed spiritual support, she needed emotional comfort, the two young people who were dry and burning quickly fell in love, and after falling in love for a while, the two also entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
After Shen Dan succeeded, he often used himself as an example in the live broadcast to advise young girls not to entrust themselves to unworthy people.
Soon after marriage, the man chosen by Shen Dan had lost patience with Shen Dan, and the life of the two was full of trivial quarrels, and he no longer spoke sweetly to Shen Dan as he did before marriage, but instead was indifferent and complained again and again.
At this time, Shen Dan was already six or seven months pregnant.
Shen Dan, who has been independent and strong since childhood, felt that his former love had disappeared, so he did not hesitate to choose divorce with a big belly.
At this time, Shen Dan was only 23 years old.
A "working girl" who returned to her hometown
In 2011, Shen Dan's daughter was born, and she named her daughter "Coco". During the confinement period, Shen Dan's only nutritional products that no one took care of him were a few cartons of milk sent by a friend.
Shen Dan, who has a child, is even more motivated when he works part-time.
In order to give her daughter a better life, Shen Dan, who has always acted decisively, did not hesitate to send the child back to his hometown, and he still stayed to work, and Xiao Coco also became a "left-behind child".
Shen Dan, who is down-to-earth and hardworking, soon paid off, and for the next year, she had to work two jobs a day, often so busy that day and night were reversed.
In just one year, Shen Dan earned more than 60,000 yuan.
As the economic situation slowly improved, Shen Dan finally made up his mind to end his part-time job and start a business.
With the support of his family and friends, Shen Dan raised the first start-up capital and opened his own tile factory.
Shen Dan, who had just started her business, did everything herself, measuring the size of the construction site, moving building materials, and even when there were not enough people, she put on her work clothes and put on it herself.
Subsequently, Shen Dan opened her second factory, and her and her daughter's life is getting better and better.
But the good times didn't last long, just when Shen Dan's career was booming, the hammer of fate smashed heavily on her again.
In desperation, Shen Dan had no choice but to sell the factory and house, and took on a huge debt of up to 800,000 yuan.
After five years of hard work, in exchange for a debt, the huge pressure crushed Shen Dan's body, and she was admitted to the hospital.
After being discharged from the hospital, watching his efforts return to the original point overnight, Shen Dan, who was in pain in his heart, took his daughter back to his hometown in Wuyi Mountain, hoping that the mountains and rivers of his hometown could soothe his broken heart like he did when he was a child.
And the turning point in her life quietly began.
The "loser" of nirvana rebirth
On the way back to her hometown, Shen Dan posted her first Douyin, and she named her account "Homesickness".
At that time, the selfie video titled "I always want to cry when I remember" only had a few thousand likes, and the frustrated Shen Dan did not expect that this short video platform would become the "cradle" of his comeback and nirvana.
Shen Dan, who had just returned to his hometown, chose to ignore it in the face of countless gossip. After that, the once prosperous "little female boss" returned to the fields and worked as hard as before.
At the same time, Shen Dan will also use short videos to record her life in her spare time: the scenes of daily farming, the growth record of her daughter, and sometimes, she will also take videos of her cooking process and post them on the Internet.
As the days passed, the smiles on the faces of Shen Dan and her daughter became more and more, and the balance of fate finally tilted slowly towards her.
Once, Shen Dan filmed the process of a mushroom blooming and posted it on Douyin, and in just one day, it received nearly 3 million likes.
All of a sudden, Shen Dan became popular, and the video of her cooking was also discovered by netizens, and many netizens left messages, saying that they wanted to ask where to buy the same agricultural products.
The raw materials used by Shen Dan for cooking, dried bamboo shoots, bacon, etc., are all made at home. As Shen Dan grew in popularity, she slowly realized that this could be a business opportunity.
Shen Dan came up with the idea of starting a business again, but this time, her eyes returned to the place where she grew up.
She began to carry small baskets, collect agricultural products door-to-door, and opened an online store, which was quickly snatched up.
Shen Dan knew that this time, she was on the right track.
I was originally a "mountain"
Now, Shen Dan's agricultural products company has become a large enterprise with an annual income of tens of millions, and her agricultural products have also gone out of the small countryside and flown to the tables of people all over the country.
Shen Dan not only realized her "counterattack", but also drove the economic development of the entire countryside and solved the employment problem of hundreds of people in her hometown.
From a debt of 800,000 yuan to a net worth of tens of millions, she has stepped on the top of the mountain and fallen into the abyss, both of which have benefited her a lot.
Shen Dan's commendable point is that she never succumbs to fate. Along the way, despite experiencing setbacks and betrayals, she never gave up her yearning and pursuit of life.
Now she has already become her own "mountain", and she does not need to rely on anything.
Resources:
- Li Yu Shen Dan: From a single mother to tens of millions of Internet celebrities, all the way to counterattack and live into a legend[N].China Women's Daily,2023-03-17.
- Zhang Zi Shen Dan: Counterattack all the way to live as a "mountain". People,2022-11-26.