In 2000, Qingsong, the overlord of Peking University, took his wife, who was also a teacher at Peking University, and made a decision: to abandon the original "iron rice bowl" and return to the hidden mountains and forests. This has surprised countless people.
This poor family, with his own strength, admitted to the Peking University Department of Politics undergraduate and Peking University law graduate students, relying on reading to achieve life curve overtaking, why did he give up the Kangzhuang Avenue in front of him and make such an amazing choice?
What really happened?
In the 1960s, Wang Qingsong was born in the countryside of Luoyang, Henan Province, and his family had been farmers for generations. For students in the cold door, reading is the only opportunity to change their lives, and Wang Qingsong is no exception.
After graduating from high school, he was favored by the Xinyang Prefectural Committee Confidential Bureau and became a member of their Secret Bureau.
People who can enter this secret bureau not only need to have a super memory, but also have to be innocent, and they cannot be cadres, and it is precisely these 3 points that Wang Qingsong meets.
However, the "iron rice bowl" of this civil servant was not yet hot, his heart began to be restless again, and in the third year of the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1979, he made a major decision to study hard, changing his future life path - giving up the civil service establishment and taking the college entrance examination.
Fate always favors everyone who strives, and Wang Qingsong successfully became a member of the Department of International Politics of Peking University as a member of the Department of International Politics of Luoyang City, when he was only 22 years old.
There were 58 people in the class that year, but the 22-year-old Wang Qingsong became their big brother, perhaps because of his previous work in the prefectural committee, Wang Qingsong carried the habit of "cadres" on himself, wearing suits and shoes every day, and his behavior style was "board and eyes". But this does not prevent him from being deeply liked by his classmates, after all, he is responsive to his classmates' requests.
Even Tang Shi, who was 6 years younger than him, once joked:
With a sense of stability in the hands and feet, naturally we respect it more, and even when I go to bed at night, I have to be light-handed and in awe.
In the early 1980s, it was rare to be able to read until high school graduation, not to mention being able to attend a prestigious university, and after graduating from undergraduate, staying in school to continue his studies and pursue a master's degree in law, Wang Qingsong can be said to be a model of a noble son in the cold door, and it is also the proud son of heaven in the hearts of many people.
In 1985, the country set off a boom of "Qigong health", Wang Qingsong, who had learned martial arts since childhood, took advantage, he felt that this was a rare opportunity, so he combined what he learned with the ancient Qigong health theory, transformed into a "Qigong master".
The training course he founded, despite charging tuition at 10 yuan per person, was crossed by tens of thousands of students from all over the country, and he earned 3.5 million yuan, which was an astronomical amount for most people in an era when 10,000 yuan households were "luxury goods".
This choice was an extremely successful speculation on his part. On the campus of Peking University, Wang Qingsong has become a "star teacher", and its popularity is no less than that of the current Internet celebrity teacher.
Opening health classes outside the school to generate income for the department, Wang Qingsong became a fragrant feast in the department.
"Health Qigong" not only allowed him to gain fame and fortune, but more importantly, during this period, he met his love.
Her name is Zhang Mei, she is 12 years younger than Wang Qingsong, graduated from the Beijing Foreign Chinese College, and teaches in the English Department of Peking University. With the mentality of watching the hilarity, she walked into Wang Qingsong's "health class", who had thought that she would catch herself for a lifetime.
With a beautiful appearance and a good temperament, Wang Qingsong fell in love with her at first sight.
Therefore, he took advantage of the class to walk to Zhang Mei's side, and used the "skill" to just gently pat her on the shoulder, at that moment, it made Zhang Mei's heart warm, and she fell in love and could not extricate herself.
Lang has a concubine intention, the two get married, and naturally it will come to fruition.
In the early 1990s, the heat of "health qigong" "subsided", and Wang Qingsong's status in school also declined. Wang Qingsong made the second choice in his life - to study for a doctorate.
However, this road was not as smooth as the original "Health Qigong", and what awaited him would be a succession of blows.
He applied for the doctoral student of Professor Tang Yijie of the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, who had thought that although he had won the first place in both the single subject and the total score, he was rejected by Professor Tang Yijie at the interview stage. He didn't give up, and the next year he transferred to the law department, and he still did.
At this time, after encountering a series of blows, he was extremely annoyed and continued to teach in Peking University, but at this time, he gradually had new plans in his heart.
In 1994, Wang Qingsong and Zhang Mei moved to their parents-in-law's hometown, where they bordered Beijing and Hebei, where they rented more than a dozen acres of land, planted vegetable crops, raised chickens and ducks and other poultry, and initially lived a self-sufficient life.
Life there is comfortable, the only inconvenience is that there is a 5-hour commute time from Peking University, such a back and forth, stay up for a day or two can, in the long run, who can stand it?
The husband's career suffered a low point, and the wife Zhang Mei's career was also frustrated one after another, and she could not continue.
Teaching at Peking University, Zhang Mei has not been rated as a lecturer for 5 consecutive years, and later, the rise of electronic teaching, the school requires teachers to learn computers, but she not only has no feeling for computers, but even resists it.
In 1998, Zhang Mei finally couldn't stand it and resigned and left her teaching position, and 2 years later, Wang Qingsong also left Peking University.
Without a job, where would their lives go?
Wang Qingsong hated the vegetables watered by pesticides and fertilizers, and together they took the millions of savings accumulated over the years and contracted 2,500 acres of barren mountains for a lease period of 50 years, where they lived a Tao Yuanming-style secluded life.
In order to create his own paradise, Wang Qingsong found someone to build a reservoir, and also built a soil embryo house by the lake, as soon as he went out, he could see the lake and mountains in front of him, which was really not quiet.
There was no Internet, no telephone, food was grown by myself, and because there was no electricity, at night, it was illuminated by candles, and it was not until many years later that solar lamps were used.
Away from the crowd, breathing fresh air, looking at ancient books, the only tool to understand the outside world is the radio.
But in the eyes of the villagers, they are "outliers". If you don't do a good Peking University teacher, you have to come to this countryside to cultivate land, is it a brain watt?
Don't say that the villagers don't understand, Zhang Mei's parents are even more angry about their decisions. Whenever others asked about the latest situation of his daughter and son-in-law, he always used a sentence to prevaricate them: "They have gone abroad", after all, he felt that he could not afford to lose this person.
In order to create a green and pollution-free environment, Wang Qingsong and his wife can be said to be hard work and expensive.
After living there for a few years, Wang Qingsong and his wife felt that the place where they lived now was not "quiet" enough, and they spent another four or five hundred thousand yuan and moved into the deep mountains. They filled in two high ravines and laid loess soil to make terraces.
In addition to the salt they bought, the rest are their own green organic vegetables, drink mountain spring water, even wash clothes and wash their hands and brush their teeth instead of soap and toothpaste, but with grass and wood ash and soap pods instead.
Over time, they are already disgusted with the outside world, and their "cleanliness habits" have become more and more serious. Once, when Wang Qingsong went to run errands at the bottom of the mountain, he brought food and water and a futon on his back, so he came back from the mountain and still felt uncomfortable.
And those who were curious and wanted to step into their "paradise" to find out, they were all turned away, so to strangers, even their father-in-law and mother-in-law came to visit the mountain, they were very resistant, they arranged the second elder in a room 15 meters away from where they lived.
In one of their words:
People who come outside eat fertilizer grain, have a smell on their bodies, and can't disperse for three days, which is really too serious to pollute us.
You can grow your own food and make your own use, but what about having a baby?
Zhang Mei was pregnant at the age of 35, she lived in the mountains for a long time, she was used to "self-delivery", even giving birth to a child was no exception, she not only did not go to the hospital for routine obstetric examinations, but also Wang Qingsong personally completed the birth.
In the couple's expectations, the child grew up day by day, but never left this deep mountain, knowing nothing about the outside world.
When he was 3 years old, Xiaoyu drove the sheep all over the mountain, and he innocently gave each sheep a name and became a veritable "goat commander".
Parents are Kochi elements, naturally the child's learning will not fall behind, Xiaoyu was 7 years old, Zhang Mei took the language, mathematics, external courses, to give him lessons.
Studying every morning and herding sheep or cattle in the afternoon, he was more physically strong than the children in the city because he often did farm work.
However, when a friend suddenly visits with a camera, his son Xiaoyu is first frightened and then has curiosity about the camera in his eyes.
"Mom and Dad, what is the outside world like?"
The son repeatedly asked, curiosity about the outside world, touched the softest part of Zhang Mei and Wang Qingsong's heart, they began to think about their choices, will it affect the future of their sons?
Coupled with wang Qingsong's life in the deep mountains and old forests for more than ten years, not only spent 3.5 million, but also almost "0" income, in order to maintain the operation of the barren mountains, at least 200,000-300,000 yuan per year.
If because of his own choices, delay the child's life, this is too selfish, after all, every child is the weakness of the parents, he has to think, what kind of life should be given to the child?
Once, Wang Qingsong's rich friend learned of his situation, traveled thousands of miles into the mountains to visit, saw him disheveled and ragged, and cried when they saw him:
You are a grand doctor of Peking University, why have you become like this, you are short of money to tell me, I will help you, how can not let you suffer here.
Wang Qingsong politely refused the kindness of the rich friend, once upon a time, both of them were graduates of Peking University, and now, one is brightly dressed and has become a rich man, and the other is ragged and has become a farmer.
This visit of friends completely shook the couple's secluded hearts. In order to return to society, Wang Qingsong also did his "homework".
He contacted Tang Shizeng, an old classmate who works at Xinhua News Agency, and invited him to his paradise, and sure enough, Tang Shizeng's news report attracted the attention of netizens, and Peking University Affiliated Elementary School even expressed its willingness to accept his son Xiaoyu for free.
In 2011, the couple sold their assets in the mountains, ending an 11-year seclusion and leading their 7-year-old son out of the mountains back to the city.
From Tang Shizeng, Wang Qingsong felt the magic of the Internet, he planned to sell the pollution-free agricultural products he planted, but the price was 10 times that of similar vegetables, and he even planned to write a book called "New Peach Blossom Garden" or "Original Ecology" to record his hermit life over the years to impact the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The matter should have ended successfully in this way, but in recent years, Wang Qingsong's family has "disappeared" again, and there has been no news so far.
In March 2020, in a video by Wang Qingsong's friend Tang Shizeng, we learned the reason why Wang Qingsong disappeared from the public eye again.
It turned out that after Wang Qingsong walked out of the mountain, he was interviewed by the media, attacked Peking University, angered Peking University, and had no hope of his son Xiaoyu enrolling in school.
Since then, he and his family have retreated back into the "shell" again.
Perhaps years of "seclusion" have long made Wang Qingsong unable to cope with this complex society.
From the social elite to the bottom of the social survival can not adapt to the survival of society, the end of their husband and wife is lamentable.
Some people say that Peking University's cultivation of people like Wang Qingsong who only escapes reality and does not contribute to the country is a waste of national resources.
Some people also say: If the couple had gritted their teeth, tried to face difficulties calmly, and did not choose to live in seclusion in the mountains and escape, whether it was for their own future or the future of their son Xiaoyu, the trajectory of life would be very different, even if they could not become the elite of the people, they would not be reduced to the bottom.
I don't know whether Wang Qingsong and his wife at this time ever regretted their choice at the beginning? Unfortunately, there is no time machine in this world, and there is no regret medicine, and after missing the rare opportunity, it is difficult to step on the right track of return.
Author: Do not fly
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