For most individuals, retirement symbolizes stepping back from the social stage, ending a life's hectic life, and beginning a chapter in later life. After retirement, people can enjoy the life of taking care of children, taking care of the elderly, singing and dancing to pass the time. However, there are also some people who are not willing to accept the reality of aging. Even though they have left their careers, their hearts are still filled with a desire for the world. They did something that did not match their age, accidentally fell into the predicament of the second half of their lives, and even ruined their life's efforts.
Zhang Zhenyi is a former senior ** and my neighbor. After he retired five years ago, instead of enjoying his old age peacefully, he chose to divorce and start a business. This turned his later life into a bloody tragedy. When people talk about his story, they all sigh.
Zhang Zhenyi was born in 1958, and there are two siblings in the family, and he is the eldest son in the family. He is handsome, smart and sensible, and has been the pride of his family since he was a child. His father, Lao Zhang, was the director of the county wire factory, he was honest, honest and self-disciplined, and the cadres at that time were all selfless role models. He rode his bicycle to work, and he was strict with his children's education, requiring them to be an upright person.
In such a family environment, Zhang Zhenyi grew up with excellent academic performance. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to an agricultural school, and after graduation, he was assigned to work at the county agricultural bureau. After more than 10 years of work, he performed well, was promoted to deputy section level cadre, and was transferred to the Water Conservancy Bureau. During his time at the Water Conservancy Bureau, he steadily rose through the ranks, eventually becoming the director of the bureau, earning the respect of everyone.
In the eyes of everyone, he is conscientious and responsible, upright, and a person worthy of admiration. However, in 2018, 60-year-old Zhang Zhenyi filed a request for divorce from his wife just two months after his retirement. The wife has also retired and was preparing to enjoy her old age in peace, but she was caught off guard by her husband's move. This marriage change has attracted widespread attention and revealed some unknown secrets.
It turned out that a few years ago, Zhang Zhenyi started an extramarital affair with a single woman who was 12 years younger than him. The woman has been divorced for many years, and the two met through a work relationship and have kept in secret without arousing anyone's suspicion. It wasn't until Zhang Zhenyi retired that the relationship was made public. It is said that the woman urged him to divorce and marry her, claiming that after waiting for him for more than ten years, he could not divorce because of his position, and now he should divorce when he retires.
Zhang Zhenyi's wife has always been an honest person, and she has always lived her life dutifully, and there is nothing out of the ordinary. They were originally met on a blind date arranged by their parents, although they didn't have much affection, but they respected each other like ordinary couples, and if there was no appearance of that woman, they would have been white-headed until they were old.
However, once this incident is exposed, everyone realizes that there is also a set of ulterior motives behind the decent man in their eyes. The 83-year-old father persuaded him to keep his innocence in his old age, and it was too late to turn back. Other relatives and friends also advised him to cherish his lifelong reputation and not to go down that path. However, Zhang Zhenyi seems to have fallen into it and is determined to pursue the so-called true love.
Zhang Zhenyi's two children also stood up against it, the son is 35 years old and already has two children, and the daughter is also married. They begged their father to give up the idea of divorce for the sake of their face, but Zhang Zhenyi was not persuaded and he had decided to pursue true love with the woman.
So, not long after the divorce, Zhang Zhenyi moved to the woman's side, and soon they got married. However, he didn't know that this pursuit of true love did not go as smoothly as he imagined. The woman was not a good bird, her son had just started college, and her ambitions were not just for him to go to college and arrange his marriage. She wants to live a rich life, and thinks that Zhang Zhenyi is capable and well-connected, and making money should be an easy thing. She has waited so many years just to be able to live a luxurious life.
She strongly encouraged Zhang Zhenyi to start a business. Zhang Zhenyi himself also felt that his life was not as glamorous as before, and he was unwilling to be mediocre, so he followed the advice of his new wife and began to consider starting a business.
Starting a business requires projects and funding. Zhang Zhenyi found two friends who had opened a factory to discuss opening a pipe fitting factory. Because he felt that his work experience in the Water Conservancy Bureau could play a certain advantage.
Each of them invested 1 million, but Zhang Zhenyi did not have enough funds on hand and borrowed another 500,000 foreign debts, and the three of them borrowed 3 million from the bank in the name of the factory. In the early days of the plant, everything went well, and a year later, their factory was put into operation.
However, in the production and operation stage, Zhang Zhenyi discovered that opening a factory is far from being an official. There are too many uncertainties, including the market, the environment, supply and demand, and even relationships. Therefore, after the product is produced, sales also become a problem. And because they opened the factory in a hurry, the quality control is not strict, the products are unsalable, and the returns are frequent. A series of difficult business problems followed, which eventually led to them not even being able to earn back their principal and profits, and fell into business difficulties.
At the same time, the borrowed money also needs to be repaid, and the debts are mounting so much that even the wages of the workers cannot be paid.
After two years of hard work, the factory was finally shut down. As soon as the accounts are settled, Zhang Zhenyi's personal debt has reached 3 million.
At this time, he turned to relatives and friends to borrow money, but people avoided him. In the past few years after the divorce, he is no longer a decent man in people's hearts.
What was even more unexpected to him was that the new wife immediately divorced him as soon as she saw that he had lost money. In just three years, Zhang Zhenyi was burdened with heavy debts and became a single person at the same time. He lost his old spirit, hid at home all day, relied on alcohol to anesthetize himself every day, and even lost hope in life. However, those who collect debts will not give up easily, and they will block him from asking for debts.
In desperation, Zhang Zhenyi turned to his old father for help. The old father only has two or three hundred thousand pension money and a 100-square-meter house.
The old father calmly analyzes his current situation and tells him that there are now two paths to choose from:
One is to take on all the debts, sell their own houses, live in their father's house, and then mobilize their relatives to borrow some money, make up part of the debts, pay off half of them first, and then continue to work hard to pay off the debts within ten years, and then spend the rest of their lives in a clean place.
The second is to give up paying debts and leave their hometowns to escape debts. No longer pay back other people's money, and be infamous on your back.
The old father said that our Zhang family has been a decent family since the three generations of our ancestors, and there has never been a broken person. He hopes that Zhang Zhenyi will bravely take responsibility, and would rather suffer a little bit to pay off his debts, and then live an innocent and decent life.
It's a pity that Zhang Zhenyi didn't follow his father's advice. He thinks he's 63 years old, and in addition to his pension, can he still earn money to pay off his debts? In the end, he chose to escape, borrowed tens of thousands of yuan from his younger brother and sister as living expenses, and then hid in Tianjin.
So, in the eyes of the people, he disappeared for almost two years. Those who collect debts could not find him and had to leave disappointed.
Last year, when people learned about Mr. Zhang again, he was already seriously ill. He is said to have terminal cancer.
After returning from Tianjin, he did not openly accept **, but stayed at home. After his son and daughter-in-law took care of him for a while, he walked the last journey of his life.
When he died, he held his old father's hand tightly and wept bitterly, unable to say a word. The old father looked at his son, angry and heartbroken, and he regretted that his son had ruined the life that could have spent his old age in peace, and also ruined the innocence of his life.
After Zhang Zhenyi's death, his son sold the house in his name and paid off part of the debt, and the rest of the debt had to be settled. Those who collect debts can only admit that they are unlucky.
His affair made the people around him deeply regret. could have spent his old age decently, but after a toss, he ruined his life's efforts. This once again proves that no matter when, people can not forget their original intentions, especially after retirement, some things really can't be touched, such as extramarital affairs, etc., only by keeping the original intention, can we take the last road of life.