Content introduction: In the late 1970s, in the almost isolated Zhuang and Yaoshan villages, one day a man named Lin Zhengqi suddenly came, claiming to be a medicinal material purchaser from a medicinal material store in Hong Kong. He came to the home of Hu Jinsong from the Laowe team of the commune to inquire about the local medicine. Lin Zhengqi fell in love with Hu Jinsong's eldest daughter Dajiao, who had just graduated from junior high school and stayed at home, and got married.
Soon, Dajiao became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. However, due to historical reasons, Dajiao and her daughter could not go to Hong Kong with Lin Zhengqi and stayed with her parents' family. Only Lin Zhengqi returned to Hong Kong and promised to pick them up after meeting the policy of settling in Hong Kong with a relative visa after seven years.
With the reform and opening up, Hu Jinsong and his wife started a small business of porridge and rice dumplings at a food stall on the Wei River. Soon they made some money and bought a small house to open a shop. The days became more and more prosperous day by day, and they became famous small upstarts in the entire township.
A few years later, Dajiao and her daughter followed Lin Zhengqi to Hong Kong. Shaona also followed her brother-in-law to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. Lin Zhengqi helped her rent a stall in Shenzhen and start a business selling clothes. Lin Zhengqi and his wife set up a cosmetics company in Hong Kong. Within a few years, Shaona became richer and richer, and met Zhou Wenjie, a local whose parents ran a clothing factory. Shaona also met Wenjie when she went to Wenjie's parents' clothing factory to purchase goods. Soon, the two of them started talking about getting married.
After becoming prosperous, the two sisters did not forget their hometown. They came back in the late 1980s and donated 300,000 yuan to the nursing home in the township, and also contributed money to build roads in the villages. In the 1990s, Lin Zhengqi and Dajiao's cosmetics business was booming, getting better and better, and they were quite famous in Southeast Asia. The same was true for Zhou Wenjie and Shaona. After taking over the clothing factory, they not only expanded their business, but also entered real estate.
During this period, Shaona sent her teaching brother Lizhong and his sister-in-law to teach in a primary school in Shenzhen. She also helped her second brother Lixin open a car repair shop in his hometown town. In the late 1990s, Lixin's family also went to Shenzhen.
After 2000, Hu Jinsong and his wife got old and returned to their hometown from Shenzhen. They built a new house in the old house and a large hotel on their own land. Soon they both died one after another. Lin Zhengqi and Dajiao were prosperous in Shenzhen and established a cosmetics group company. Lin Zhengqi became the chairman. Zhou Wenjie and Shaona also prospered in the clothing and real estate business and established a real estate group company. Zhou Wenjie was the chairman, and the clothing company was completely managed by Shaona.
Decades have passed, time flies, and people get older. Dajiao settled in Hong Kong and seldom returned to her hometown. Only Shaona went back to the village to donate money to build an ancestral hall. She also returned to the village every Spring Festival to set up more than a dozen tables for free meals for the villagers and gave red envelopes to the elderly.
This is an epic of group struggle spanning more than forty years, recording the wanderings, struggles and transformations of small and medium-sized people in a big era. They used the unique tenacity and shrewdness of mountain people to carve out a world in the hot land of Shenzhen. They also redefined the meaning of home in the struggle between their foreign country and their hometown.
Purpose: The tenacity and shrewdness of the people from the mountains who bravely created the world in Shenzhen during the reform and opening up