She is Yuan Shikai's granddaughter, she doesn't need to bring cash when she goes out, her shopping is "zero yuan purchase", and she is followed by bodyguards to open the way for her and carry things, which is a veritable daughter.
But after the family fell into the clouds, she fell into the clouds, became an ordinary woman, had to work with her hands, and at the age of 69, she made some money by buying the original shares, so she opened a restaurant in Tianjin and became a proprietress .
Until she was 84 years old, she was still running around and working hard for her livelihood, this was once the daughter of the old society named Yuan Jiaqi, who fell from the peak to the trough, and if she was anyone, she would probably have feelings of unwillingness and resentment when she experienced such a contrast.
So, did she ever resent and regret when she was running for life?
Octogenarian's restaurant
In the beautiful city of Tianjin, there are many buildings before the reform and opening up, all kinds of exquisite small western-style buildings, walking here, as if coming to Moscow in the last century.
Among these small western-style buildings, there is a Western restaurant called "Suis", and the proprietress who runs this shop is an 84-year-old man named Yuan Jiaqi.
In 2008, the reporter came to this restaurant and wanted to interview the proprietress of this restaurant, and when they entered the store, the first thing they saw was clean and tidy tables and chairs, and an old woman who was working on a rickety.
According to the old lady, she is the proprietress of the place, and she has been running the shop for decades, and she likes to wipe down the facilities when she has nothing to do, these are her memories.
Yuan Jiaqi said that this store was opened when she was 63 years old, and it feels like it opened yesterday, and 15 years have passed in the blink of an eye.
The old lady's back is now bent, her face is the marks left by the years, and the calluses on her fingers are the traces left by life.
She sometimes cooks for her customers, and the old lady puts the rosemary into the pot neatly, and after the flavor comes out, she skillfully puts in the beef, and after dozens of seconds, turns it over, and finally pairs it with omelette and pasta, and the meal is ready.
Yuan Jiaqi looks skillful and focused in cooking, as if she was born to be a cook, but in fact, she used to be a young lady who does not touch the spring water with her fingers.
Old Social Thousand Dollars
Yuan Jiaqi is the eldest granddaughter of Yuan Shikai, in that era, the Yuan family was a powerful and wealthy family in society, and the family did not favor sons over daughters, on the contrary, my grandfather liked girls very much.
However, everything in the world was a double-edged sword, and my grandfather's preference was only to use them as a tool to cling to power, and most of the women in the family were married to the Manchu dynasty.
Yuan Jiaqi's father died early, and she has been living in the house of her second aunt who has no heirs, if the Yuan family is a "birdcage", then the aunt's house is the vast sky.
Her guardians have all received open education abroad, so she is also encouraged to learn English and business management knowledge.
Yuan Jiaqi lives with his aunt and uncle, and there are 37 servants in the family, and three people pick them up and drop them off just to go to school.
She didn't have to bring money at all when she went shopping, she just let the car go home if she saw it, and there would be a special person in the store to come to the door and withdraw money directly from the account room.
At that time, Yuan Jiaqi didn't know anything about the price of goods, in other words, she didn't need to know at all, she had lived this kind of rich life for thirteen years, and she couldn't deny that this life was very happy.
Later, because her guardian went abroad and could not take care of her, she could only return to the Yuan family again, and her grandfather asked her to learn feudal etiquette, and ordered her not to show up to go to school, and only hired a teacher for her.
The glory of the Yuan family did not last long, and a few years later, the Yuan family gradually declined, living by pawning the objects of the family, and it was also at this time that the Yuan family married a merchant.
In 1956, the Yuan family completely fell to the bottom and became ordinary civilians, and she and her husband came to live in the countryside with their children.
Source: Global Online
She has never seen the scene here, she was bitten by mosquitoes when she slept at night, and she could only dig wild vegetables nearby and eat steamed buns if she didn't have anything to eat.
After eight years of living in the countryside, she thought of a good way to earn her work, she and her husband planned to start a business, opened a factory in the village, she worked as an accountant, and in this way, she survived the hardest days.
In 1973, Yuan Jiaqi returned to her hometown, looking at the place where she had lived, she sighed that over the years, I understood that money is not important, what matters is the ability to survive, and to be able to live in any predicament, this is a kind of ability.
Yuan Jiaqi carefully recalled the rich life in the first half of his life, although he was happy at his aunt's place, but now that he thinks about it, that life is a bit like the walking dead.
Return to Tianjin Kaixi Restaurant
After the reform, 63-year-old Yuan Jiaqi went to Shenzhen, where she lived for six years, bought some original shares, and with these stocks, she earned 700,000 yuan, after which, she returned to Tianjin with the money.
If ordinary people have 700,000 in the era, their first thought should be to "lie flat", but Yuan Jiaqi did not, and at the suggestion of her relatives, she opened a Western restaurant.
Yuan Jiaqi said that this restaurant has been open for 15 years, and her efforts are indispensable behind its efforts in such a competitive catering industry over the years.
Source: Hot News
Over the years, she has declined many entrepreneurs who want to join, and Yuan Jiaqi understands that only her own family is the best, and although she makes money by splitting up, her reputation will also decline.
For so many years, she has been accustomed to hard work, and even instilled in her children the idea of struggling with their own hands, she said that the family will not raise idlers, the Yuan family is already a precedent, and she doesn't want the children to go down the old road.
In the past ten years, she has helped more than 20 children, and each child has 5,000 donations a year.
She said that she did not regret her original decision, and when she left the Yuan family, she was ready that she would never look back for the rest of her life.
When the reporter was interviewed, her granddaughter said happily that she was going to go abroad after graduating from university, but now she was selected to volunteer in the mountains.
In this regard, Yuan Jiaqi firmly said to his granddaughter that he should not study abroad, but first go to the disaster area to understand the people's livelihood.
Source: Hunan Daily
Yuan Jiaqi's life is very exciting, the setbacks of life can't defeat her, even if she is old, she has to rely on herself to live, she doesn't want to be a woman who has nothing to do, she thinks that women can also hold up half the sky.
She said that she is now a "win-win household", she has her own career, and she also has the right to speak in charity, and she does not need to look at anyone's eyes.
Resources:
1. Hot news: "Yuan Shikai's granddaughter, she doesn't bring money to buy things, she goes out with bodyguards, and she is still opening a Western restaurant when she is over eighty years old"2021-10-6
2. Hunan Daily: "The Legendary Life of Yuan Shikai's Granddaughter" 2010-1-5
3. Global Online: "84 years old is still working hard" 2008-7-22
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