In 2006, in Shangtian Village, Jishui County, Jiangxi Province, a villager was farming when he noticed a fleeting shadow, hunched over his body and covered in hair. The villagers were shocked and returned to the village to claim that they had found a "wild man".
Many people in the same village also claim to have seen wild people. For the safety of the village, and in order to find out the situation, the villagers called the police.
When the police arrived on the mountain, they found a man who resembled a wild man sitting at the mouth of a cave reading a book. The police then took the man back to the police station, where they found that they could not find out who the man was.
After careful inquiry, it was found that this man had taken the initiative to "live in seclusion" on the mountain for many years.
What's going on here?
It turned out that the man's name was Yu Shuifang, a native of Poyang County, Jiangxi. Because he disappeared for many years, his family thought he was dead, and they had already reported and cancelled his hukou. Unexpectedly, he actually lived alone in a cave dozens of kilometers away from his home for 6 years, and even carved out a three-bedroom living room by himself.
Because of the limited environmental conditions of seclusion, Yu Shuifang's hair has grown to more than 1 meter long, and her image is relatively sloppy. In addition, he lived in a simple place, and he would deliberately avoid it when he accidentally bumped into the villagers, so he was mistaken for a "wild man".
The story of Yu Shuifang's seclusion in the cave spread far and wide, and it became popular on the Internet.
Why did he run away? How did you survive alone in the mountains for so many years?
With the deepening of the ** interview, the mystery of Yu Shuifang was gradually revealed. And after the story was revealed, not only did a young guy find Yu Shuifang and hope to eat and live with him, but even some female netizens claimed to want to marry him.
Yu Shuifang was born in 1954 in an ordinary farming family, and he showed something different from ordinary people since he was a child. As long as others make an calculation in front of him, he can restore it in an instant.
The people in the village felt that the child was destined to have a great future when he grew up, and they persuaded his parents to send Shui Fang to school.
At the end of the 50s, the country was just beginning to stabilize. Because her family was really poor, she only studied for 5 years, and Shui Fang was forced to drop out of school.
When he was 16 years old, a barefoot doctor came to the village, and when he saw Shui Fang's intelligence, he accepted him as an apprentice. Shui Fang concentrates on grinding and grinding medicine every day, watching ** prescribe, and her body is slowly contaminated with the smell of grass and trees. When she is busy, Shui Fang will flip through the best medical books and become obsessed with the Chinese medicine industry.
In 1977, the national college entrance examination was resumed. Shui Fang, who prides herself on being smart, feels that she has ushered in a rare opportunity to change her fate.
Yu Shuifang temporarily put aside other chores and began to study mathematics, physics and chemistry to prepare for the college entrance examination. However, neither the villagers in the same village who were optimistic about him, nor himself, did not expect that he would fall off the list.
Yu Shuifang has never entered the classroom since she went to primary school for 5 years, and it is normal for other candidates who are fully prepared and guided to fail the exam.
But this incident still seriously hit the young man's sensitive self-esteem, and his father also made it clear that the family life was difficult and he was not allowed to take the exam again.
Faced with a hopeless future, Shui Fang's heart slowly covered with dust and became silent. **Ten Thousand Fans Incentive Program At this time, a girl in the same village has been comforting and encouraging him. The girl's empathy re-brightens his life, but the love between the two is opposed by his parents. In desperation, the girl had no choice but to leave him.
After this incident, Shui Fang left this sad place in the village and went to Shenzhen to work with the young people of the same village.
The rapid development of Shenzhen has deeply impacted the senses of Shui Fang. But the prosperity is external, and the reality is its own. Shui Fang, who was born in the countryside, could only grit her teeth and persist in the face of the huge gap, crushing and digesting the hardships of reality little by little.
Because of her hard work and quick start, Shui Fang was quickly promoted to squad leader, although the time was extremely squeezed by work. But as long as you keep working hard, it's a good start.
Under the enthusiastic offensive of a female workshop worker, Shui Fang once again fell into the whirlpool of feelings.
He has just experienced a love wound, and he is obviously not ready to welcome a new love. often shirks the need for girlfriend companionship for various reasons. In addition, Shui Fang has a straightforward personality and doesn't know how to figure out the girl's mind, so the two of them don't want to quarrel.
Wait until the girl is completely heartbroken in the quarrel again and again, packs up her things and leaves. Shui Fang only realized that she was aware of her problem.
After a few months, he reacted and caught up, and the girl had already got married in a flash under the arrangement of her parents.
From the pride of the sky to the failure of the college entrance examination, and then to the two lovelorns. Whether it is from her parents or her girlfriend, Shui Fang has never received a permanent sense of warmth and security.
He could no longer believe that he was a "man worthy of love". Since then, no matter if someone confesses to him or he likes someone else, he never dares to take that step again. In this way, he stumbled into his 50s, and his friends and grandchildren of the same generation were embraced, and Shui Fang was still a bachelor.
When I was young, all kinds of emotions that chased wealth, power, fame, and love were shattered by reality and turned into a dream. What Shui Fang can pursue for the rest of his life is nothing more than the word "peace of mind".
Shui Fang, who came from the countryside and flowers and trees, began to travel around with friends to seek sustenance in nature.
At the age of 54,When he walked to Jishui, Jiangxi, Shui Fang was attracted by the natural environment here: if people must have a way back, it is a good choice to return to the mountains.
Yu Shuifang's hometown.
After making up her mind, Shui Fang said she would do it. Cut off contact with the outside world and disappear completely from the world of friends and family.
In 6 years, Shui Fang chiseled by hand, and the cave continued to expand, and he really carved out a set of "three rooms and one living room" on the mountain wall.
The entrance to the cave is about 1 meter wide and 1 meter high8 meters. The highest point in the cave is 4 meters, and the lowest point is less than 2 meters. The three bedrooms and one living room correspond to the bedroom, kitchen, storage room and well room.
The bedroom is a large functional area, and most of the furniture in it is made by Shui Fang's own wood. There are also a small amount that he later bought by exchanging money for the crops he planted.
A wooden plank more than one meter wide is his bed, which is also the most important furniture in this space, and Shui Fang also poured 4 centimeters of cement under the bed to raise the ground.
The kitchen is an earthen stove that Shui Fang has groped out according to the stove room in his hometown, and the word "chic" is engraved on the earthen stove. At the same time, the kitchen is equipped with a dining table and small benches.
Yu Shuifang cooks in the cave.
There is a natural mountain stream in the mountains, and it is convenient to get water. It took more than two months to dig 5 meters deep indoors, shovel by shovel, to create a sweet water well.
The direction of Shuifang's cave is excavated in accordance with the local climate, so the cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the average temperature is between 10 and 20 degrees Celsius all year round.
The only trouble is that after the cave is dug, there are always some "uninvited guests", such as snakes and bats. If it was a snake, Shui Fang would politely invite them out. But the bats couldn't do anything, so Shui Fang chose to live in peace with them.
When he first settled, Shui Fang would catch hares, fish and shrimp, and pick wild vegetables for their stomachs. But he soon discovered that this would not guarantee a stable amount of food**. So he found an uncultivated wasteland on the top of the hill and planted vegetables and grains. Keep enough rations, and pick the rest to sell in the market dozens of miles away in exchange for some oil and salt.
When the farm is busy, Shui Fang will also pick up the ears of wheat left by the villagers in the field, and can also pick up dozens of catties a year.
After satisfying the basic needs of survival, Shui Fang's lifestyle completely removes superfluous material needs and social needs.
No cell phone, no internet, no job. The regularity and order of life are all disrupted, leaving a lot of time for yourself.
Yu Shuifang was in the cave, but she regained the feeling of being between heaven and earth. The senses, dulled by the flood of information, also began to amplify infinitely. He began to communicate directly with the grass and the wind in the valley, but this communication was limited to moments of enlightenment.
Slowly, the lack of information fueled Shui Fang's thirst for knowledge. He began to deduct more money from his rations to buy books.
The shelves of Shui Fang's books in the cave gradually include various books such as philosophy, literature, natural science, and even music scores. And a book that seems obscure and boring to ordinary people, he read it 6 times.
Following the books, Shui Fang began to think about making musical instruments by herself, filling in the music by herself, and performing by herself.
Since 2006, the villagers can often hear the sound of the flute in the mountains, such as grievances, such as crying, this is exactly what Shui Fang plays. When the excitement comes, Shui Fang will also dance at the entrance of the cave.
Not only the production and playing of national musical instruments such as flutes, erhu, harp, etc., Shui Fang is proficient in everything, but also all of them are self-taught.
In the face of the interview, Shui Fang's attitude was humble and she spoke well. Through the spread of fermentation on the Internet, Shui Fang attracted a wave of fans. There was a young man who even traveled thousands of miles to Jiangxi to find the cave where Shui Fang lived, hoping to eat and live with him and take care of each other. Some villagers wanted to contribute money to support Shui Fang, and many people wanted to introduce him to a girlfriend, but in the end Shui Fang politely declined.
After Xu Shuifang was discovered, the local authorities restored his household registration and handled the subsistence allowance. He used the subsistence money to improve his living environment, first painting the walls of the cave, and then replacing the earthen stove with a gas stove to reduce the problem of soot when cooking. The reporter also gave him a television set, which allowed him to watch more than 40 programs.
Later, Shui Fang bought a second-hand laptop to record her literary and poetic works. He cut off his long hair, cleaned up his clothes, and occasionally received some visitors.
Yu Shuifang plays a musical instrument.
The heat came like a tsunami and faded like a tide, but Shui Fang never left the cave, nor did he go home to find his family, and continued to live his simple life in the cave from sunrise to sunset.
Today, Yu Shuifang is old, has lived in the cave for 21 years, and is still single. The villagers occasionally went up to the mountain to take care of his life, and occasionally bumped into each other while plowing the fields, and the villagers still affectionately called him "Savage".