After I started making money, I wanted to give back to my hometown, so I built a primary school in the village. I covered the teachers’ salaries and the school’s many expenses every year. Three years later, the villagers accused me of pocketing 150 yuan per child for their meals. They surrounded the school gate and demanded a refund.
“That’s 150 a month. With 200 kids in the school, that’s 300,000 a year. You’ve made 900,000 in three years!”
“You bitch! If you don’t pay up today, I’ll cut out your kidneys and sell them!”
When I refused, they smashed up the classrooms and beat the volunteer teacher unconscious. Even the students who were usually so well-behaved joined in, cursing me.
“Who asked you to build a school here? We don’t even want to study! You ruin everything!”
“Get out of Yangjia Village! We don’t need your fake charity! Without you, we’d have been making big money at work long ago!”
To save the teaching equipment and the volunteer teachers, I was forced to kneel down and sell my company to pay off their debts. Later, I went to the neighboring village to build a school and develop the area. They got down on their knees and begged me to come back...
