On the street in Washington, a Chinese man in a suit and leather shoes is pulling a heavy suitcase to the train station.
His name is Qin Yuefei, and he was admitted to Yale University with his personal ability, but now he decisively gave up his annual salary of one million yuan and returned to China as a "village official" with a monthly income of 1,450 yuan.
Someone was quite puzzled and said: "He obviously has a pair of king bombs, but he played a bad hand"!
But in Qin Yuefei's eyes, everything is worth it.
In 2017, a list of "Top Ten People Who Moved China in 2016" from a TV station completely pushed Qin Yuefei into the public's attention.
The huge contrast between "dazzling resume and simple life" has filled countless people with curiosity.
Later, someone released an article "Seven Questions to Qin Yuefei", which questioned him every word, which roughly meant:
The reason why Qin Yuefei did this was to fill his own pockets and sell his reputation."
He has been rooted in the countryside for more than ten years, and it is not long to say that it is not short, but it is not short, is it really as others say?
In short, as soon as the news spread, countless eyes fell on Qin Yuefei, now that so many years have passed, what happened to him?
It is very common for a person to want to go out of a mountain village, but it is a little strange if a person wants to go out into a mountain village from the outside.
Without a goal to support it, I'm afraid it's a bit unrealistic.
In 1985, Qin Yuefei was born in a rural family in Chongqing, his parents were ordinary workers, and the family's economic conditions were not good.
Over the years, the neighbors have been helping them, often sending Qin Yuefei some replacement clothes, and his father used to say at that time"Child, don't forget your roots when you go to ** in the future".
At that time, Qin Yuefei didn't understand what his father meant, but he had high hopes for him, and he was a "child of someone else's family" since he was a child.
In order to give Qin Yuefei a better learning environment, they sold their house in Chongqing and moved to Beijing, and since then they have lived a life in Beipiao.
In 2005, he was admitted to Yale University and received a full scholarship of $46,892 a year.
On the day the results were released, Qin Yuefei caused an uproar, because Yale University only admitted two Chinese students, and he was one of them.
When the neighbors in his hometown learned about it, they also called him one after another: "Xiao Qin, it's not easy to get out of the village and stay in the big city."
Hearing the familiar Chongqing accent, he instantly understood what his father meant by "root".
Before going to Yale, he enrolled in clinical medicine, but when he arrived at Yale, he changed his mind to economics and political science.
Because he found that China has never lacked experts in natural sciences, but has lacked people who can be down-to-earth and lead everyone to realize their dreams together.
As a great Chinese man said: "In the final analysis, China is a country dominated by agriculture, and if you don't understand China's rural areas, you won't understand China." ”
Qin Yuefei believes that studying is to get ahead and serve the motherland, if you don't even know your own country, and you can forget your "roots", how can you talk about success?
Yale University has produced five billionaires, and under the excellent teaching concept, Qin Yuefei quickly obtained a double degree bachelor's degree, and also learned French and Russian.
A proud son like Qin Yuefei has naturally become the "sweetheart" of many large enterprises, and as soon as he graduated, he received an offer of employment with an annual salary of one million, but he refused without hesitation.
That year, he returned to China in a suit and heavy suitcase, on a green train.
Of course, there are still countless olive branches extended to him after returning to China, but he chose the most "inferior" one of them, that is, to go to Hunan ProvinceHejiashan Village became a "village official".
The village official is not easy to be a man, with a term of office of three years, a monthly salary of 1450, no five insurances and one housing fund, and no establishment.
Everyone said that Qin Yuefei was stupid in reading, and the villagers in his hometown were also disappointed and sorry for him, but since then, his life has changed dramatically.
Hejiashan Village has a small population of about 800 people, but its location is remote, more than 30 kilometers from the nearest county seat.
In the summer of that year, Qin Yuefei carried a registration form and an appointment notice, sat on a dilapidated motorcycle driven by Chen Xijun, deputy secretary of the township, and came here all the way.
He found that Hejiashan Village was full of white-haired old people and young children, and it seemed that this was a typical "left-behind village", and it was also the village where he would live for three years.
Walking through the potholed path, Chen Xijun pointed to a red brick house in front of him and said, "Xiao Qin, this is your room, don't dislike it, our conditions here are not good."
With a "creaking" sound of pushing the door, Qin Yuefei opened the room, and the facilities in the room were almost unobstructed
In a room of less than ten square meters, there is a dilapidated table, a camp bed and a urine bucket, and that's all the belongings.
The mesh on the window was also broken, and a piece of paper was barely glued to it, because the wall was still a little damp after the rain had just fallen two days ago. Qin Yuefei didn't say anything, and directly put down his luggage.
Chen Xijun took out a pair of green liberation shoes and said, "You can accept these shoes, you can use them."
The summer in Hunan was very hot, Qin Yuefei couldn't sleep that night and sweated, and the next morning he took toiletries to the bathhouse to take a shower.
He has always been in the habit of taking a bath twice a day, but he has become a "strange coffee" in Hejiashan Village.
This baby takes a bath in the morning, what a waste of water"!
The children from the city may think we are dirty here."
The villagers, as soon as you glanced at me, they almost flew Qin Yue to the "pillar of shame" and nailed it.
Although Qin Yuefei was proficient in English, French, and Russian, he couldn't understand the local dialect, and he thought that the villagers were greeting him, so he nodded in response one by one.
Seeing this, the village director Hu Chuanjia patted him on the shoulder: "Child, if you want to be a good village official, you have to integrate into the lives of the people, and if you are not close to them, you will never get support and trust."
Hu Chuanjia's words made Qin Yue Fei empowered, and he found that the people in Hejiashan Village "recognize people but not faces", due to backward economic conditions, each villager only has two or three clothes a season, and he knows who it is when he comes from afar.
So he immediately took off his upright suit and bright leather shoes, put the T-shirt he brought in turn and put on the liberation shoes given to him by Chen Xijun.
When the old man in the village saw it, he thought that he had no new clothes to wear, but he felt distressed and had to take it back and make up for him. Although the villagers are not very educated, they are also simple.
Qin Yuefei was greatly encouraged by this move, and since then he has only taken a shower every few days, and has been walking around in liberation shoes all day long, and he can always be seen sitting and chatting with everyone in the fields and on the side of the road.
Qin Yuefei doesn't know how to smoke, but he has become an "old smoker" in Hejiashan Village, whoever hands him a cigarette will take it, even if he has a cigarette in his hand, he will take it and put it on his ear.
The dusty young man, sitting everywhere and crossing his legs, turned into his "own person" in Hejiashan Village.
One day, there was a knock on his door, and the uncle next door asked him to help fix the roof, which made him very happy.
Since then, more and more people have come to Qin Yuefei, and their children can't write their homework or need help with farming.
The villagers would also come to see him with oranges and apples, and several neighbors helped him get new windows.
It feels so good to be accepted by them, it's like coming back to your hometown."
Qin Yuefei hasn't been back to his hometown for a long time, but in Hejiashan Village, he once again experienced the warmth from his "hometown".
However, in order to become a good village official, he still needs to do something practical, and he has always understood the truth that "it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish".
He often hears villagers complain that no one is taking care of the village's water canal, which irrigates more than 300 acres of farmland, and that water cannot be drained in summer and cannot enter in winter for nearly a decade.
So he took out the suit again without saying a word, and prepared to go to Beijing to find his classmates to help pull sponsorship, after all, the status quo cannot be changed according to the economic conditions of the village.
But when his classmates saw him, they didn't recognize him for a while: "Why are you so vicissitudes, I don't know and think you're a beggar."
In order to meet the sponsor, the classmate lent him new clothes and took him to get a haircut.
After being busy for more than half a month, they finally raised 150,000 yuan, and Qin Yue returned to the village to repair the canal non-stop.
That year coincided with a drought in Hunan, and crops were confiscated in many villages, but the harvest in Hejiashan village tripled.
Since then, Qin Yuefei has put all his energy on the construction of rural villages, and the excellent connections of high-achieving students have been vividly shown in him, and he has raised 800,000 yuan to build a unique nursing home for the village.
There is also a vegetable garden and garden in the courtyard, and all kinds of equipment are readily available, attracting many elderly people from neighboring villages.
He also pulled the network cable and installed a computer in the school, but wherever the urban children have, he arranged it properly, in Qin Yuefei's words:
Children are the hope of the village, and only when they get ahead can they come back to serve their hometown and China usher in better development."
And his every move, the villagers also saw it, and everything was in plain sight.
In 2012, Hengshan County elected a deputy to the National People's Congress, and Qin Yuefei was successfully elected with 85% of the 3,527 voters.
The following year, he was also selected as the "Most Beautiful Village Official" by CCTV, but the man who had never shed tears no matter how much hardship he endured, had red eyes.
In 2014, Qin Yuefei's tenure in Hejiashan Village came to an end, which meant that he would leave the village where he had lived for three years.
With the reluctance and the blessings of the villagers, Qin Yuefei got on Chen Xijun's old motorcycle again, and they were speeding on the concrete floor all the way, and the crops around them were thriving, as if they were saying goodbye to him.
Organizationally, in view of Qin Yuefei's excellent performance, he decided to promote him, and everyone thought that "Brother Yale" had survived and was about to reach the peak of his life, but he set his sights on the more remote Baiyun Village.
The salary there is even lower, only 1,000 yuan a month, and the classmate said after knowing it: "Qin Yuefei really played a good hand of cards"!
It is precisely because of this incident that he has aroused everyone's doubts, after all, how can anyone contribute to the countryside without wanting to reciprocate?
If you stay in the country any longer, you'll be a waste!"His classmates kindly wanted to give him a hand and persuade him to go back to the United States to study for a doctorate and find a good job again.
But everyone has their own ambitions, and in the face of the hospitality of his classmates, Qin Yuefei still refused: "I have my own arrangements."
Within a month of coming to Baiyun Village, Qin Yuefei, as the first secretary, visited 258 households, and he recorded the difficulties encountered by everyone in his diary.
It turns out that Baiyun Village is even more backward than Hejiashan Village, and it takes half an hour to drive from the village to the county seat, and the children need to walk three hours to go to school.
"I used to go to school like this, so my parents were tired all the time, and I know this very well."
Maybe it touched the scene, Qin Yuefei tried to find 10 school buses as soon as possible, which not only solved the problem of children going to school in Baiyun Village, but also benefited the children in the surrounding villages.
But after Hejiashan Village, he realized that if he wanted to change the status quo of Baiyun Village, he still needed to find a sustainable development path, otherwise when he left, the people would face new difficulties.
Indeed, Qin Yuefei is like a bonfire, after lighting a piece of land, he has to go to another place to bring more.
of people wish. Later in his investigation, he found that the villagers were all planting camellia trees, and they mainly made a living by pressing camellia oil.
However, the technology is not in place and the refining is not pure, so a pound of camellia oil only has a profit of more than a dozen yuan, and sometimes it will lose money.
In response to this situation, Qin Yuefei led the villagers to set up a cooperative, and through cooperation with professional tea oil production factories from the outside world, they also developed tea oil skin care products and hair care products, which inadvertently increased the added value of tea oil.
Since then, the villagers have been responsible for planting camellia trees, and the cooperatives have been responsible for unified packaging and sales, and a production line has been set up.
At that time, Qin Yuefei also carried a bag of camellia oil on his body at all times, and he would sell it when he walked to the **, and with the joint efforts of everyone, the camellia oil became "popular".
But the biggest question is, if he is gone, who will lead the villagers to continue to move forward?
"We are not short of labor, what we lack is talent, which is the most important'Hematopoiesis'place".
So Qin Yuefei contacted overseas classmates again and established the "Black Soil Wheat Field" project.
By recruiting college students, they let everyone break into the countryside and start a business in the countryside, and then use the Internet thinking to spread various products.
Of course, there is no free lunch in the world, in order to pay the salaries of college students, Qin Yuefei ran sponsorship one by one, and the round-trip travel expenses were borne by himself.
Slowly, Baiyun Village got better, but Qin Yuefei became the target of everyone.
In 2016, on the podium of the "Top Ten People Who Moved China", Qin Yuefei held the trophy high and looked radiant, and for a while, titles such as "Yale Brother Who Gave Up a Million Annual Salary" and "The Most Beautiful Village Official" also blew all over the streets and alleys like a spring breeze.
After serving as a village official for two terms, Hunan Province no longer recruits new village officials, and many large enterprises want to continue to hire Qin Yuefei with a high salary, but he refuses one by one on the grounds that he "has his own arrangements".
In 2018, as soon as an article "Seven Questions for Qin Yuefei" was issued, it instantly stirred up a thousand waves.
Due to the opacity of the cost of the "Black Soil Wheat Field" project, some people fell into the well, saying that Qin Yuefei was enriching his own pockets in the name of a good person.
The effect of this article is: countless people have criticized Qin Yue and taken all the doubts as established facts.
However, 26 hours later, Qin Yuefei issued a statement, and the relevant personnel also made public the details of the expenditure of the black soil wheat field.
Since then, the rumors have stopped at the wise.
In January 2018, Qin Yuefei was also elected as a deputy to the "13th National People's Congress", and his term of office will be from March 2018 to March 2023.
Someone once said: "Is there really anyone willing to build the countryside without seeking fame and fortune?"
In fact, it is difficult for me to give an answer before I get to know Qin Yuefei, but in Qin Yuefei, I do see a person who is wholeheartedly devoted to rural construction.
Throughout his 37-year-old life, he has been stationed in the countryside for more than ten years, and he has brought not only an improvement in the lives of the people, but also an indescribable "spark".
For Qin Yuefei, this is his "root" and the best way to repay the motherland. For China, the development of the countryside is also the "root" of the country.
Since the reform and opening up, the development of cities has been very rapid, while the development of rural areas has been relatively slow, and the gap between cities and rural areas has become wider and wider, which is why more and more people have begun to care about the problems of agriculture, agriculture and rural areas.
People's development and future lie in the accumulation of time, but where is China's development?
It is nothing more than a new generation of young people, in that inconspicuous but extremely important village.
It is worth mentioning that in recent years, Qin Yuefei has been working in parallel with the "black soil wheat field" and is committed to rural construction.