"Under the eastern fence of picking chrysanthemums, leisurely see the South Mountain." This is Tao Yuanming's poem, and it is also the life that many people yearn for at present.
In today's fast-paced era, many people are exhausted in order to live, shouting to escape from the north and Guangzhou, and return to a slow-paced life.
However, it also takes a lot of courage to slow down your life, and if you don't have enough wealth, it is very difficult to live a slow-paced life, and gradually, escaping from the north has become a luxury.
However, there is really a god who has retreated to the countryside after the freedom of wealth, and he is the elder of Tencent, the programmer Wei Zhen. After he became famous, he went to Anhui to build his own farm and lived a pastoral life of growing vegetables and drinking tea every day, which made people envious.
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Wei Zhen was the earliest Internet entrepreneur in China, graduating from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2003 with a degree in computer science. He took his girlfriend and entered Huawei as soon as he left school and became a programmer.
After a year of joining Huawei, Wei Zhen felt that this job was not suitable for him, and he jumped to Tencent in 2004.
At that time, Tencent was not yet an Internet giant, still in the preparatory stage of listing, many people around wei Zhen advised Wei Zhen to think about it again, but Wei Zhen was determined to work at Tencent, saying that this would be a challenge.
After entering Tencent, Wei Zhen was only one of more than 600 programmers, but soon because of his strong work ability, he was promoted to become Tencent's CTO and was fully responsible for technical work. Wei Zhen became the boss of programmers and one of tencent's elders.
In 2007, Wei Zhen decided to find a new challenge, he left Tencent and started an entrepreneurial journey with friends.
Wei Zhen keenly grasped the trend of the rise of the Internet, discovered the lack of children's cyberspace, and soon founded Taomi Network Company, based on the children's network market, in which he mainly did software development work.
Under the leadership of Wei Zhen, Taomi.com flourished, and with the help of explosive products such as The Sail and Moore Manor, it soon became the leading company of children's Internet.
Only three years after its establishment, Taomi Network was successfully listed, and Wei Zhen gained fame and fortune and realized his wealth freedom. However, Wei Zhen himself felt that the pressure of working in Shanghai was too great, making people tired, and his son's academic performance was not good, often the countdown in the class, Wei Zhen saw that his son's learning pressure was too great, his heart was very uncomfortable, and his wife was also estranged because of the common time.
After struggling for a while, Wei Zhen felt that he had earned enough money, so he gradually retreated and wanted to return to the countryside.
Just when people thought that Wei Zhen wanted to show his ambitions, Wei Zhen resigned and left Taomi Company. There have been speculations that the Tencent elder may want to return to Tencent or find new challenges, but Wei Zhen's approach has surprised everyone.
In 2017, Wei Zhen said that he had earned enough money and wanted to leave Shanghai with his wife and children and live in seclusion in agriculture and forestry.
This news caused an uproar in the society, and many people felt that Wei Zhen was crazy and abandoned the glory and wealth of Shanghai to live in seclusion in agriculture and forestry, which made it hard to imagine that no one would give up chasing fame and fortune, and money would never be enough.
It takes a lot of courage to give up everything that exists and start over, but this is also Wei Zhen's charm, which can afford to put it down, and he knows the truth of contentment and happiness.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > under the east fence of the chrysanthemum, leisurely see the South Mountain</h1>
Wei Zhen was also worried at first that he would not adapt to life in the field, and when he proposed this decision to his wife, his gentle wife was very supportive of his decision, and the two hit it off.
Wei Zhen and his wife took their son to Zipeng Mountain in Hefei, Anhui Province, and quickly finalized the residence, which was the school of Zhang Shusheng, the former governor of Liangguang.
When Wei Zhen began to rebuild the school, he still retained the acute child of Internet work, often arranging work according to the rhythm of life in Shanghai, but his wife longed for tranquility and casualness, and when she was tired, she would take a break, and the two often quarreled over it.
However, the environment will affect people, and with the constant persuasion of his wife, Wei Zhen has gradually slowed down and begun to enjoy a slow-paced life.
It took the two men two or three years to transform the academy into a farm and charter nearly 200 acres of land.
Wei Zhen likes gardening, his wife likes agriculture, they have built a hundred acres of farms and orchards, as well as more than a dozen acres of flower fields, every tree and every grass in this manor is carefully planned by Wei Zhen and his wife.
Wei Zhen's requirements for gardening are very high, he has repeatedly sought out a design company to design his own garden, but he is not satisfied with the design company's plan, and he has spent a lot of money for this.
Wei Zhen finally decided to fight in person, he felt that only he knew what he wanted, so he joined hands with his wife to transform the manor's garden art style, and finally met his requirements.
After this, Wei Zhen began to carefully cultivate his own garden, planting a large number of precious varieties in his garden, and the flowers were blooming, which was a beautiful landscape in the manor.
Wei Zhen was very satisfied with his achievements, and every day he had to take time out to appreciate them, and seeing that his wife often took the children to "waste" the flowers and plants in the manor, he did not get angry and quarreled with his wife.
His wife was also very confused, but it was just flowers and plants, and it was enough to waste it and plant it.
Wei Zhen felt that his years of preferences and painstaking efforts were not valued by his wife, and he ran back to Shanghai overnight.
In desperation, the wife discussed with Wei Zhen to build another playground for the child, distract the child's attention, and protect the garden, and Wei Zhen returned to the manor.
Wei Zhen personally started to create amusement design for children, seesaws in the playground, slides are built by Wei Zhen with wood day and night, the child likes this new playground, Wei Zhen's hard work is not in vain.
Not only that, Wei Zhen also consulted with his wife to build dozens of acres of pasture and raise a lot of small animals
。 Wei Zhen exerted his ingenuity, organically combined the pasture and the farm, used animal manure as fertilizer for crops, and then fed animals with fruits, forming a complete industrial chain and basically achieving his own self-sufficient life.
Harvesting melons and fruits every day, planting crops, feeding small animals, playing with children in the playground, and drinking tea with his family in the evening makes Wei Zhen very relaxed.
The slow pace of life allowed Wei Zhen to discover something he had neglected before, that is, the company of his family.
When he was in Shanghai, Wei Zhen had to work hard every day, socialize everywhere, and spend very little time with his family, but in his "Valley of the Wind Manor", Wei Zhen could stay with his family every day, and the family got along harmoniously, romantically and warmly.
Behind this beautiful pastoral life, it is Wei Zhen's serious and responsible attitude towards everything and his unremitting pursuit of life.
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With the joint efforts of Wei Zhen and his wife, every part of the Valley of the Wind Manor is full of charming scenery, and Wei Zhen will stroll in the manor every day in a daze, enjoying the slow life, feeling that this is a meaningful life, because this life has realized the freedom of life.
And Wei Zhen's son, under the influence of his father, also changed his impatient personality, began to enjoy life easy-going and quiet, when he went to school in Hefei, he also had to return to the manor every week for the weekend, and his birthday wish was to live on the farm in the future.
Moreover, the son often brought his classmates to the manor to play, Wei Zhen did not refuse at all, plus the manor was originally built quite well, and soon received attention from the outside world.
Wei Zhen not only invited his friends to the manor as guests, but also received strangers' visits, and the reputation of the Wind Valley Manor spread throughout the north and south of the river, and the tourists who came to play were endless.
The manor gradually became busy, Wei Zhen and his wife could not allocate time to go to the farm to collect crops, Wei Zhen played his old business, wrote a program that could automatically side dishes, and greatly reduced the workload of the two.
Wei Zhen also endured the pain of cutting love, and built several log cabins in the garden for tourists to live.
However, whether it is receiving tourists or building a garden homestay, these are contrary to Wei Zhen's original intention, and Wei Zhen, who is busy, finally suspended the opening of the manor and began to live a dull life again, only open for two months every year, holding a thank you meeting to invite people to play.
During the epidemic, the isolated Valley of the Winds Manor reopened, and Wei Zhen distributed the vegetables, melons and fruits he planted to the surrounding residents free of charge to help them live.
Today's Wei Zhen still enjoys a beautiful and peaceful pastoral life, he did not set off again after success, but drank tea and planted land every day, experienced the tranquility of life, and felt the inner peace.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > much more talk</h1>
Many people have asked Wei Zhen why he chose such a life, the conditions in the countryside are not at all comparable to Shanghai, why should he abandon the beautiful life in Shanghai and come to the countryside to "suffer".
Wei Zhen always smiled and said, "Shanghai is too fast, people can't calm down, very anxious, how good it is here, calm and free." ”
People understood that Wei Zhen's ambition was to return to the hidden mountains and forests, and there had always been a "distant field" in his heart, so he could leave everything behind when he became famous and pursue inner peace.
There are many netizens on the Internet who believe that with Wei Zhen's ability, he does not contribute to society, but enjoys life by himself, and is a selfish person.
However, there is a saying in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that "everyone has their own aspirations and comes from different sources", which means that everyone has their own ambitions, and do not force others.
Everyone's yearning for life is different, some people are full of enthusiasm, running for the prosperity of the country, some people are chasing fame and profit, running for wealth all their lives. However, there will always be people who yearn for a plain life, just like Wei Zhen, who realized their ideals in the countryside and lived a plain life.
No matter what way of life, there is no right or wrong, and we should not force others to change our way of life.
Nowadays, when people talk about escaping from the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou, don't they also want to pursue a slow-paced life?