Three years of youth in the town, great and hidden changes
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “ Attack wave finance” (ID: jinbubo), the author attack wave.
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In 1985, 25-year-old Yu Minhong graduated from Peking University.
However, this is not a good news for him to celebrate.
At the age of 18, Yu Minhong, who participated in the college entrance examination for the third time, finally got admitted to Peking University. The mother was happy to kill the pig and slaughter the sheep, so as to treat the more than a thousand papers he had written in three years, the texts and words that he had stayed up late. At that time, everyone thought that the young boy in the Jiangyin countryside would have been a leader since then.
This was originally an important milestone in his life.
But until the day he graduated, Peking University left him with inferiority, confusion, and despair.
Because the juniors got tuberculosis, he stayed in school for more than a year. After graduating, I stayed in school and taught. After three years, I was still as poor as I was when I was studying.
It’s a good idea to buy a hoe. It’s still a quilt and a washbasin picked up by a flat load.
At this time, his classmates and friends have already traveled to the United States and Canada. At that time, being able to study abroad is almost a symbol of success.
Fortunately, at this time an American university expressed its willingness to admit him and offered a 3/4 scholarship. At this time, Yu Minhong can go abroad to study as long as he can withdraw $5,000.
But this $5,000, he can’t borrow it.
Unfortunately, Yu Minhong began to work part-time outside the school, 20 blocks per hour, teaching English, a little bit of this $5,000.
But in 1990, in the autumn rainy autumn, Yu Minhong was drinking wine with friends at home, but he heard his name from Peking University’s high-pitched trumpet.
Since Yu Minhong taught the class privately, it seriously affected the teaching order and publicly dismissed Yu Minhong, an English teacher. After three days of continuous broadcast, the cable TV was broadcast for half a month, and the penalty was locked in the triangular window for one and a half months.
In 1991, Yu Minhong left Beijing University.
The second day of the departure, the dormitory was taken back by the school. He dragged his family to take a squad and rented a house like a guerrilla. He gave up the rent to the landlord’s children to replace the rent.
Three years of college entrance examination, three years of inferiority, three years of graduation, and three years of part-time work.
Three years is like the thickness of a circle of life rings. Yu Minhong, 28, has lived in three years and again and has nothing to do.
This time he plans to go to the road to advertise, make free speeches, and give his training classes to earn money to support the family.Through this poor years.
The young man did not know at the time that in the next three years, the god of fate would stop teasing and honing him.
In the winter of 1993, he built the “New Oriental” in a bungalow in Xisanqi, northwest corner of Beijing, with his accumulated students and experience. After only 6 years, the name officially grew into the overlord of the Chinese foreign language training market.
From him, you can see the cruelty of fate, but more is the unique tenacity of a young town.
In a life that seems to be filled with mediocrity and disappointment, calmly squatting, pushing the day forward and pushing up.
This is the story that young towns are telling about life.
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What is the town youth?
This question is too difficult to answer. Because almost every Chinese person has the shadow of a young town.
The 40-year-old electrician, Master Liu, came from a small town in Hubei and worked for a lifetime. By chance, a customer asked him to cooperate to open a store, and the other party was responsible for the business. Master Liu was responsible for production. By relying on the borrowed 100,000 yuan to start the fund, Master Liu sent advertisements every day in more than 100 groups on the mobile phone. Schools, government, and smart homes did everything. He has calculated that he has suffered a bit in the past two years and can return to the book in a year or two. It is not necessary to go to the store without having to work hard.
Xiao Wen, 22, is a manicure in the sea. Sit down and chat with her and learn that she is from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province. She only has a college degree and has studied nail art in the local area for one year. “Want to come to the big city, see the world,” I came to Shanghai to find the job. A monthly salary of 2,500, according to the number of guests, and live with other employees, usually have benefits. She said that her dream is to go back to her home to open a small nail shop and raise an orange cat. But it doesn’t matter if it can’t be realized. It can be done by spending money with parents to play around.
I always love to ask people, what dreams do you have? What do you want to do if you don’t think about money?
In the town youth, I always get the most similar but true answer.
Open a small shop, buy a house, buy a house for your parents, buy a car, get married, take a family lover and go out for a few laps.
Then what?
Have a good life, take care of your parents, and spend time with your family.
Simple and practical.
Yu Minhong said in an interview that he never thought about going to Beijing University. When I started the training class, I didn’t even think about running a training empire. I have a model of my own.
It’s pure, I’ve thought about it better, I want my family to be better, I want to be young and do more things, and I’ll try more opportunities. Then bite your teeth and run up.
The town youth is like this. The Chinese are just like this.