"I suspected he was messing around, and I ended up losing a lot of money. But who would have thought that he actually did it, which makes me extremely proud of him. "Yes, we encountered many difficulties and failures along the way, but in the end we succeeded. ”
Those who said these words were Guo Zhongliang and Yuan Jinglan from Qidong City, Jiangsu Province.
Guo Zhongliang is nearly eighty years old, with nearly 3,000 acres of chicken feet maple forest and 600 million wealth, creating a lot of well-being for the society every year. But his success was not without his challenges, and he became terminally ill in his late teens.
Guo Zhongliang is a people's teacher in Qidong City, Jiangsu Province, and the three-foot podium is the place where he has worked all his life, and his greatest wish is to see his students have a bright future.
However, one day in 2001, he was plagued by severe abdominal pain and his colleagues suspected that he might be suffering from acute appendicitis.
At the suggestion of a colleague, the elderly Guo Zhongliang called the emergency ** and went to the hospital for examination. After routine check-ups, he was diagnosed with colon cancer rather than acute appendicitis.
Although it was discovered late, as long as it is properly discovered, there is still a possibility of it. Guo Zhongliang has been teaching for many years, his family is in good financial condition, his children are adults, and he has enough conditions to carry out **.
The school also learned about his situation and decided to let him retire early and focus on recovering his health. Through the joint efforts of all the staff of the hospital, Guo Zhongliang successfully overcame the problem of colon cancer, and his life was not in danger for the time being.
However, after colon cancer surgery, his body was so weak that he could not perform any physical work and had to recuperate at home.
The 59-year-old believes that he is young and still capable of teaching, but his family and school oppose it. Although he has gone through the formalities of retirement, he has decided to use his spare heat to add color to his life.
While watching TV, he saw the story of a man who was confused by surgery but made a fortune by planting trees. Deeply inspired, he decided to make a desperate bet, lease 100 acres of land, invest more than 400,000 yuan to buy more than 1,000 landscape tree seedlings, and start his career of planting trees.
Although he spent most of his savings on treatment, he borrowed a little money from a friend and was determined to give his life a new glow.
Guo Zhongliang is a teacher, and his first contact with farming was difficult. Although he believes that healthy seedlings can be grown with regular fertilization and insect control, the actual survival rate is only 50%.
His family objected to him planting landscape trees and advised him to recuperate or try other leisure activities. However, Guo Zhongliang is confident that he can succeed. Faced with his first failure, he bought professional books and locked himself in his room to study planting techniques and tips.
In order to shorten the travel time for planting trees, 59-year-old Guo Zhongliang not only studied tree planting books, but also obtained a driver's license and bought a cheap car as a means of transportation. After accumulating practical skills, he borrowed money from friends and family to buy saplings and prepare to restart his career as a tree planter.
However, the theoretical knowledge did not fully support the actual operation, and only 95% of the more than 1,000 seedlings he purchased for the second time survived, ending in serious losses.
In 2004, the saplings withered and died one after another, which made Guo Zhongliang feel distressed.
In his spare time, he often wanders around his 100 acres of land, looking for the real cause of the death of those saplings. However, before he could find out, he found a sapling that was completely different from the others.
The beautiful leaves of this sapling that contrasted with the other saplings attracted his attention. On this 100-acre land, the other saplings have withered and died, but this tree is as tenacious as a weed, not only did not die, but grew vigorously.
Later, he found a special person to identify the tree, and learned that it was a very valuable landscape tree, called Acer chinensis. Acer japonica, also known as maple, is a very valuable tree species for greening.
In 2004, the ** of chicken foot maple saplings has been as high as 500 yuan per catty, compared with ordinary landscape saplings, ** has increased nearly tenfold. Guo Zhongliang was attracted by the tenacious vitality and greening effect of the chicken paw maple sapling, and decided to give up planting conventional landscape trees and focus on the planting of chicken paw maple saplings.
However, he had exhausted all his savings and did not have enough funds to buy saplings. In order to realize his dream, he mustered up the courage to ask his daughter Guo Qihua for help and borrowed 700,000 yuan from her to support his career.
Although Guo Qihua has a family and has excellent family conditions, she did not hesitate to lend this money to her father to support his career.
Her mind is not whether planting trees can make money, but to make the old man happy. Guo Zhongliang got 700,000 yuan and immediately went to the wholesale mall to buy a batch of chicken feet maple saplings. He happily planted the saplings on his 100 acres of land.
However, there was a problem with these saplings. The sapling, which was originally thought to be tenacious, is now delicate and weak, unable to withstand the wind and sun, and withered within a few days.
Guo Zhongliang borrowed more than one million, but all of them were lost, which hit him hard. In order to find a way to ** sapling, he has to run between his home and the land every day.
Guo Zhongliang decided not to waste any more time on commuting, and he directly turned the scooter into a temporary office and residence. He even slept directly in the car, determined to find out the key to the problem, and successfully cultivated this batch of chicken feet maple.
However, he did not wait for the expected success, and his body collapsed first. His condition took a turn for the worse with each passing day. His family was very opposed to him continuing to work on the land, hoping that he would give up planting trees and return home to recuperate.
And the money lost by planting trees, they also agreed to take it as a lesson and not pursue it again. However, Guo Zhongliang is very stubborn, he thinks that he has already walked half the way, as long as he persists a little longer, he will definitely succeed.
On this piece of land, Guo Zhongliang wields a hoe every day and is accompanied by landscape trees, although his health is not good. His wife Yuan Jinglan persuaded him to give up every day, but he always adhered to his beliefs and was unwilling to live up to his efforts and efforts.
However, one day, Guo Zhongliang suddenly collapsed. Fortunately, a passerby found him in time and took him to the hospital, saving his life again.
The doctor conveyed a heavy message to Guo Zhongliang's family, because he did not take good care of his body at home, the cancer cells spread again in his body, and he now has a second cancer that needs surgery as soon as possible** so that he can no longer work in the fields.
The news sent a huge shock to the whole family, not only his wife, but also his daughter, who objected to him working in the fields. At first, the daughter didn't care whether her father could make money by planting trees, but just thought that it would be good for the old man to have an activity to pass the time and make him happy.
However, when the things that made the old man happy began to threaten his health, the daughter decided that it should not go on like this. However, Guo Zhongliang insisted on his decision, saying that his physical condition was not so serious that he did not need surgery and chemotherapy**.
Guo Zhongliang still ignored the opposition of his family and devoted all his efforts to the cultivation of chicken foot maple. This time, his savings have been exhausted, his daughter is reluctant to borrow any more money, and friends and relatives are reluctant to help.
In desperation, he had no choice but to sell his property and use the funds to continue cultivating the chicken paw maple saplings he had been dreaming of. After a period of hard work, in 2008, his career finally ushered in a turnaround.
They found that although the seedlings were tenacious, they were extremely fragile during the seedling stage, so protecting the seedling stage was the key to making it grow into a towering tree. Guo Zhongliang resolutely abandoned the conventional outdoor planting method and moved the seedlings to the greenhouse for cultivation.
By cultivating saplings in a greenhouse and then moving them to outdoor planting, Guo Zhongliang saw hope for the first time. However, behind this success there are difficulties. His city was hit by a rare heavy rainstorm that lasted for a long time, and according to the weather forecast, it will continue to rain for some time to come.
In this way, he needs to immediately plant the freshly cultivated chicken foot maple saplings outdoors, but these saplings are "squeamish" in themselves, and heavy rains may greatly reduce the survival rate or even lead to total death.
Guo Zhongliang was so troubled by this problem that he couldn't sleep at night, he flipped through a lot of books, searched the Internet for various solutions, and finally found the answer in a successful case: covering the land with a thick layer of yellow sand and letting the rain wash away the yellow sand, so that the maple saplings could absorb the nutrients of the rainwater and protect them from waterlogging.
After the yellow sand is washed away during the rainy season, most of it will be carried away, and the remaining maple saplings can grow on normal soil. Although the theory is good, Guo Zhongliang has had the experience of theory and practice not matching, so this time he decided to go all out.
He customized a batch of yellow sand, found helpers, covered the yellow sand on 100 acres of land, and planted the chicken foot maple saplings that he carefully cultivated.
After many failures, Guo Zhongliang finally succeeded in cultivating chicken feet at the end of the rainy season. He learned from this experience and made it easier to move on.
After gaining experience, he only needs to continue to explore according to the successful experience, and any problem can be easily solved. Soon after, his chicken foot maple cultivation base was in full swing.
The market demand for chicken feet is huge, and the chicken feet with a diameter of 178 centimeters can be sold for about 20,000 yuan, and it is still ongoing. His family is pleased with his success, but they are also concerned about whether his body can withstand the intense labor that follows.
Find love, unlimited energy", this is the true portrayal of Guo Zhongliang. Since his success, he no longer feels physical pain. Just by being in the maple forest he planted, he felt as if he was dozens of years younger.
Doctors also confirmed that his cancer was recovering well and was progressing in a better direction. Perhaps it is because of anticipation, the alleviation of the disease, or the effect of the forest itself on ** cancer, these still need to be studied.
However, seeing the saplings thrive is also a source of relief for the family. Now, Guo Zhongliang's wife has also joined him after retirement, and the family is busy in the woods together, looking forward to the future together.
Through his efforts, Guo Zhongliang has developed from 100 acres of chicken paw maple planting base to 3,000 acres, and the total value of this land has reached 600 million yuan. He took advantage of the changing color of the maple leaves and made it a spot for visitors to watch and take pictures, bringing additional income.
Guo Zhongliang not only repaid the arrears, but also led his family to prosperity. After creating wealth, he did not forget to give back to the society and sponsor poor college students. His actions inspired these university students to have the idea of contributing to society as well.
After graduating, most of the college students sponsored by Guo Zhongliang chose to return to their hometowns and become teachers to lead more students forward. His footsteps have not stopped, and he is using his old age to try to plant more easy-to-live landscape trees.
At the same time, he also helped the elderly in the village find jobs and included them in his team, so that they could support themselves on their own, even without social security. According to his company's financial statistics, he has paid more than one million yuan in wages every year.
Guo Zhongliang truly realized the concept of greening and life. That's right, people with dreams are forever young. As long as you have a dream in your heart, love can overcome all difficulties. Guo Zhongliang is like this, why can't we work hard for our dreams when we are as young as us?
Maybe a successful tomorrow is ahead!
We are all young people who firmly believe that "if you don't do it, you will do it best", and we all aspire to be one of the very few who can succeed. Although this road is full of difficulties and challenges, there are no shortcuts, and the only secret is perseverance.
As long as we persist in pursuing the dreams in our hearts, never forget our original intentions, maintain our love for things, and firmly believe that there will be a rainbow after the storm, we will be able to see the dawn of victory after many failures.