1998, Peking University teacher Wang Qingsong and his wife Zhang Mei also inherited the yearning for seclusion. Both of them resolutely resigned, hiding in the mountains and forests, without modern facilities, and dealing with outsiders. Since then, they have lived a life of sunrise and sunset.
However, after 10 years, they spent 3.5 million savings and decided to move out of the mountain for their son to contact the society.
0 1 Peking University decided to live in seclusion after failing the exam.
Wang Qingsong has been a teacher since childhood. At that time, he was admitted to Peking University with the first place. He seems to have an extraordinary talent in learning, and his academic performance in Peking University has always been among the best.
Wang Qingsong's greatest advantage is his super memory. He can remember a passage of ancient Chinese without punctuation, and he can recite 500 telephone numbers a day. With a super memory, he passed five levels and stayed at Peking University to teach after graduating from college.
Wang Qingsong, who works in a school, has a lot of leisure time, but he doesn't waste it. So he used this time to explore new things everywhere.
In the 1980s, there was a health care craze in China. With a keen sense of new things, Wang Qingsong used his spare time to study health care and even started a health care class.
His health class attracted many people to sign up for study, so Wang Qingsong earned a lot of tuition fees, and a few years later, he also earned about 3.5 million pounds.
He and his wife Zhang Mei met because of a health class. They like each other, leave each other's phone numbers, and then keep in touch. With the deepening of contact, their feelings are getting better and better. Later, they decided to get together and get married.
After marriage, Wang Qingsong continued to take the doctor's exam. In the first year, I applied for Mr. Tang's Ph.D., with the first subject and the first total score. But because it doesn't matter, he didn't go through the back door. Such a high score was rejected, but he didn't get discouraged and continued to take the exam the next year. This time, I applied for the law major of Peking University, and my results were still excellent, with the first subject and the first total score. But I don't know why it was brushed off again this time.
After two setbacks, Wang Qingsong was a little disheartened. Failure in the exam has always been his heart disease, but I don't know why.
At the same time, his wife, Zhang Mei, who teaches at Peking University, has been frustrated repeatedly because of her job title evaluation, and she is also struggling to cope with the personnel relations in the school.
Wang Qingsong, who has been in contact with the way of keeping in good health all the year round, came up with the idea of seclusion in the mountains. When he discussed with his wife, he didn't expect her to be very supportive.
So they left the Peking University campus together and came to Zhang Mei's hometown, a mountainous area at the junction of Beijing and Hebei.
Wang Qingsong's seclusion.
They rented ten acres of land near the old house and planted vegetables and various fruit trees in the land. When they didn't quit their jobs at first, they ran back and forth between Beijing and the mountains, but after a long time, they found it too troublesome and time-consuming. In order to concentrate on farming in mountainous areas, they had to both quit their jobs.
Wang Qingsong and Zhang Mei gave up their enviable jobs as teachers in Peking University and went to the countryside to farm, which caused speculation and discussion among the villagers. Many of them think it's insanity: they gave up their good jobs and went to the mountains to be farmers? That's insane.
However, they didn't care about the gossip in the village. In 2000, Wang Qingsonghua contracted 2,500 mu of barren hills for 200,000 yuan. Because there are many contracted land, they are simply too busy to come over, so they have to hire more than a dozen villagers to help them work irregularly.
Their life in the mountains is very simple. In order to preserve their health, they almost reject all advanced inventions in society. They hardly use electric lights and have no access to the Internet. They only light candles in the dark and rely on radio to get outside information. Even when the farmers they hired came to help, they were asked not to bring any advanced modern equipment, or they would be fined 200 yuan!
They live a life of almost isolation. They are also self-sufficient in life, unless they seldom deal with people. They eat anything they grow. Even plant ash and Gleditsia sinensis were used to wash clothes. They don't buy any, for fear of going out and polluting their living environment.
If their friends want to come, let them park their cars outside the mountain and make this barren mountain a place isolated from human civilization.
They really live an isolated life, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, away from the noise and irritability of the city, and living a stable and practical life.
For the sake of my son, I decided to repay the society.
During her seclusion, Wang Qingsong's wife gave birth to a son for her. In order to avoid being disturbed by outsiders, even Wang Qingsong delivered the baby himself. After his son was born, he never came into contact with the outside world again. It is these things in the mountains that he deals with every day. He plays with mud, talks to pigs, cattle and sheep, and doesn't even have a playmate.
Mr. and Mrs. Wang Qingsong's education for their son is limited to books, and he is not allowed to go to kindergarten. They do enlightenment education at home, let their children work with them in the fields in the morning, read and write in the afternoon, and teach their children to learn traditional culture, such as San Zi Jing, Hundred Family Names and Thousand-Character Works.
However, long-term isolation has left their son ignorant of all social civilizations. Once a friend came to see them with a camera. When their son saw the camera, his eyes were full of surprise and confusion: "What strange thing is this?" what can I do? "
When a friend picked up the camera to take his picture, the son instinctively hid back. As soon as the flash lights up, he starts to cry!
My friend felt embarrassed and explained over and over again: this is a camera, which is used to take pictures, and the photos taken can be kept for a long time.
What their son told him seemed incomprehensible, just like a civilization separated for centuries.
After watching their son's performance, Mr. and Mrs. Wang Qingsong were very moved. Plus, his friends have been urging him: if this continues, it will really ruin the child's future. He should not know nothing about the material of modern civilization, otherwise how can he adapt to this society in the future? Are you going to be a savage all your life in this mountain area?
After their friends left, they also thought deeply about their son's future, and decided to repay the society for his son and let his children get in touch with modern civilization.
It has been 10 years since they lived in seclusion in the mountains and decided to go out. During this period, in order to maintain the reclamation and management of barren hills, they basically spent the previous income of 3.5 million.
04 written at the end
As the saying goes, "the big ones are hidden in the world, and the small ones are hidden in the mountains." During their ten years of seclusion, Mr. and Mrs. Wang Qingsong put it mildly for the sake of paradise in their hearts, but actually for the sake of escaping social responsibility. As teachers of Peking University, they could have taught and educated people in their posts and trained more outstanding talents. However, one failed in the exam and one failed in the professional title evaluation, so as to avoid the entanglement of personnel and avoid people.
Perhaps I want to express my dissatisfaction with society in this way. Choosing to live in seclusion does not show their noble sentiments, but just shows that they are afraid of taking setbacks. One or two setbacks can crush their fighting spirit?
Now, Wang Qingsong and his wife have decided to move out of the mountain area and return to the society, so that their children can receive a better education. This is undoubtedly a very favorable decision for the child's growth, and it can also make the child adapt to this society as soon as possible, otherwise, when he grows up, he will really be completely divorced from social civilization!