How did she go from quarrying girl to bosom friend editor?

After reading My Suffering, My University by American writer Zhao Meiping, I couldn't extricate myself for a long time, and I hid my face and cried several times in the middle.

Why are you crying?

Cry for her tragic childhood fate

-I cry for the same fate, far less than her.

-cry for her indomitable spirit

-Crying for the final change of her fate

Looking at the resume, it is hard for us to imagine that a quarrying girl with only a primary school diploma, a migrant female worker in Shanghai, suddenly became the editor of bosom friend magazine, which influenced the whole country and even overseas.

My Suffering, My University is an autobiographical documentary literature.

Zhao Meiping was originally born in a happy family. Although her father is 40 years old and her mother is 38 years old, she and her sister were born. However, this family is full of love and happiness. Her father is a commune accountant and her mother is very virtuous. Before marrying her father, she had a marriage with Yang Qidong. Later, because Yang Qidong broke the law and went to prison, they each had a new family after coming out.

Life always comes unexpectedly. At that time, Zhao Meiping was only six years old and her sister was three years old. Father suddenly bent his finger and couldn't close it. He gradually became like chicken feet and his eyebrows turned white. Finally, he was diagnosed as leprosy. This terrible news from a bolt from the blue troubled the family and changed their fate. My mother is sickly and often faints.

Leprosy is contagious, so my father was quarantined.

Children in the village don't play with their sisters. At school, they were called "lepers" from afar, and even stoned them, chased them home and slammed wooden doors.

Such years of bullying have been entangled in the shadow of her childhood, until one day, the isolated father got better and said that he could leave the hospital, but the sunny day just came and he was faced with a storm. On the day of discharge, the nurse gave his father an injection. He used the wrong potion and was allergic to penicillin. Within a few minutes, his father was lying flat on the hospital bed, motionless and covered with a white cloth. Zhao Meiping originally waited for her father to inject and cook a bowl of egg noodles, but she became this generation.

After her father died, her mother was harassed, intimidated and threatened by her cellmate Yang Qidong. She asked her mother for money from time to time, and even sold the only property in the family-the cabinet, and lived at home with dignity. Because her mother had a marriage with him, the village cadres couldn't control it, saying it was a housework. Finally, with the help of my cousin, there was no way to escape overnight.

Three mothers and daughters who fled Jiangsu overnight finally moved to Anhui. Before that, Zhao Meiping's mother gave her to a family as a child bride. Every day after school, she cooks with hogweed, not just a servant. She has never eaten a meal or even a piece of meat at the dinner table. In winter, she wears sandals instead of socks, and the north wind blows in, which is bitterly cold.

Zhao Meiping had to write to her mother many times, begging her stepfather to take her in and take her to Anhui. Finally, her stepfather relented and took her in. From then on, the happy life she thought began, but it also became a bubble. The family huddled in the house built by Shi Lei. Not only that, her mother and stepfather often quarrel over money. Zhao Meiping graduated from primary school and was admitted to the best local middle school. However, in order to subsidize the family, in desperation, she drifted away along the river with the admission notice and sadness and disappointment.

From then on, she missed her study and followed her stepfather to become the youngest stone girl on the mountain. /kloc-at the age of 0/4, she makes a living by smashing stones, and her small shoulders carry a sledgehammer up the mountain early every day to smash stones.

At first, everyone suffered a lot. Everyone has his own site and built a mountain by his own ability, but Zhao Meiping, an outsider, can only go to remote places to pick up big stones left by others.

Stepfather has a hot temper. Every day, chickens fly and dogs jump. Her mother has lost her former gentleness and her voice is getting louder every day. Living environment can completely change a person. The biggest wish of her and her sister is to leave this "tomb of the living dead" as soon as possible.

Facing the endless quarrel between her mother and stepfather, Zhao Meiping is full of despair about the dark life. She has written 10 suicide note and tried to commit suicide many times. In the end, she still couldn't let go of her sickly mother and sister. Without her, their life in a foreign land will be more difficult. Her mother committed suicide once after her father died of illness, and life could no longer stand the blow.

/kloc-When she was 0/9 years old, Dachuan, a boy from the same village, returned to her hometown from Shanghai and told her about the prosperity of Shanghai and new terms such as migrant girl and migrant girl. There, a month's salary is worth a family's three-month stone throwing. Meiping is full of curiosity and her eyes are shining. Coupled with her parents' eagerness to marry her off, the bride price can pay off her debts. Her mother was hospitalized many times and owed usury. Zhao Meiping heard from Dachuan that she could go out to work to earn money. She seemed to see the hope of life, so she "eloped" with Dachuan.

When I first arrived in Shanghai and looked at the bustling streets and high-rise buildings, Zhao Meiping thought, can this unexpected bird be accommodated here? When I was in my hometown, I heard Dachuan talk about how to make money in Shanghai, but I didn't know until I came here that everything was not that easy.

Looking for a job for a long time, my feet were worn out, and finally I got a job as a waiter in a restaurant. Unexpectedly, I was sexually harassed by my boss not long after I worked. I have to fire my boss, so Zhao Meiping has no place to live. In order to save money, I found a remote broken house, an unused kitchen, and didn't even lock the door. On rainy days, the roof leaked, and even a boa constrictor entered the house on rainy days.

Later, I was introduced to a clothing factory and worked as an assembly line sewing worker, a fashion company technician and an advertising company copywriter.

However, no matter what job she changed, including throwing stones up the mountain at home, she never gave up reading, which enriched her mind. Since then, reading has put her on the road of writing. Despite her busy work and working more than ten hours a day, she still insists on writing. The real change came from a party where she volunteered to go on stage and recite her article.

An article "I don't understand your discrimination" was warmly applauded by migrant workers, and some people were even moved to cry. This article was later published in Baoshan Daily and Iron and Steel Research Daily. From then on, she became famous in the factory, and she was appreciated by the boss of the factory, Director Pan, and respected her all the more.

Later, the factory established a joint venture with a Japanese-funded enterprise. Because of Zhao Meiping's outstanding performance, Director Pan promoted her to technician, which was favored by Mr. Ishikawa, a Japanese company. I once wanted her to be Mr. Ishikawa's daughter, but I was afraid of attracting discussion. After all, I didn't agree. But many people will still be jealous and even malicious slander. Why does a girl with a primary school diploma have to point fingers? However, Zhao Meiping's excellent performance and on-site operation made them have to accept it.

Zhao Meiping's experience, coupled with her beautiful writing style, has published many articles. 1993, a song Chang 'e was recommended by the editor-in-chief of Germination, published in Shanghai Overseas Chinese News, and received the first payment. Later, Mother, Hammer and Stone was published in Shanghai Xinmin Evening News.

Overnight, the media in Shanghai focused on this extraordinary foreign girl. Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station and other media made special reports on Zhao Meiping, calling her a "work idol" and a "model of self-improvement". She was also hired as a special guest by the director of Shanghai People's Broadcasting Station's "All rivers run into the sea" program group. Every weekend morning 10, Zhao Meiping talks with more than 3 million migrant workers in Shanghai through radio waves, listens to their joys and sorrows, and solves problems for them.

Since then, she has strengthened her determination to embark on the road of writing.

1In March, 998, Zhao Meiping, who has become an old author of Yin Zhi, was invited by Yin Zhi magazine to participate in the "Overseas Travel Pen Meeting of Yin Zhixin, Ma Tai".

The working girl flew out of the country.

During the trip, her colleagues were either undergraduates, masters, graduate students, doctors, editors and journalists. She is the only factory girl with a primary school diploma, which makes Zhao Meiping feel inferior. She didn't change her boarding pass for the first time on the plane, and even dared not eat the food handed over by the waiter on the plane. She thought she had to pay for it herself, but she was afraid to go to the toilet because she didn't know there was a toilet on the plane.

God is fair to everyone. Just when Zhao Meiping was very self-abased, he heard the editor who was traveling with his peers say that bosom friend wanted an editor and that the next issue would be advertised. Those who meet the requirements can apply.

After traveling back, Zhao Meiping silently went to the newsstand to buy "bosom friend", which made her excited and excited, but after reading the recruitment conditions, her mood fell into a trough.

Article 1: Bachelor degree or above.

Article 2: More than three years relevant working experience.

Article 3: Published works100000 words or more.

Except for the third article, the above two articles do not meet. Does she need to be a volunteer? Courage rises and falls, and then rises again.

How do you know you can't do it unless you try? So, with the belief of gambling once, she copied all the articles published in Yin Zhi in the past, bound them into volumes, and sent them to the editor-in-chief of Yin Zhi magazine by express mail. She deliberately didn't write her resume. She hopes that Yin Zhi will not be blocked by a person's education, but will pay more attention to her talent and strength.

This time, she seems to have placed a bet on herself and waited quietly with her hands folded.

At the same time, she received a phone call from CCTV's "Half the Sky" program, saying that she was very moved when Xinmin Evening News published her report "Migrant Girls Fly Abroad" and wanted to make a program.

Being on TV, but CCTV, the excitement can be imagined.

"Heaven will bear a great responsibility for the people of Sri Lanka, and he must first bear his will." When a person goes through layers of hardships, there must be a lucky goddess arrival, and she finally waits for an interview call.

But among more than 20 interviewers, all are senior editors or professors, and their diplomas are better than hers. Zhao Meiping's inferiority complex is carefree. How can I express myself to make myself different? Want to impress the interviewer with her only primary school diploma?

She looked at the buttonwood tree outside the window, soothing her heart like a mother's hand. She suddenly remembered her mother, the days when she was suffering, the days when she was writing under the light of a small house in Shanghai, and dribs and drabs roared through time and space.

It's her turn to introduce herself: "I feel a little inferior after being introduced by others, because I just graduated from primary school ..." The first sentence worked, and the interviewers looked up at her.

"Although I didn't go to college for further study, the society is also a university. My experience is wealth that others can't reach, and I will benefit a lot in my future work and life. I ask my bosom friend to give me a chance to prove my potential, because suffering is my university! " The examiners all looked at her uniformly, from accident to shock, from shock to admiration.

The next written test, including meeting the boss, went well. Three days after I returned to Shanghai, I received a letter of acceptance from my bosom friend.

At that moment, she seemed to hear the sound of flowers blooming.

At the age of 28, Zhao Meiping left Shanghai, where she had lived for nine years, to work for Yin Zhi magazine in Wuhan. A quarrying girl with only a primary school diploma became a famous magazine editor.

In this way, a miracle happened in the periodical industry, which also proved Yin Zhi's eclectic mechanism of pursuing talents.

We are always complaining about the unfairness of life, but compared with Zhao Meiping, what reason do we have to say that we have experienced suffering?

True courage is to face life with a smile after experiencing many holes in life.

It is precisely because of Zhao Meiping's indomitable spirit and courage not to bow to fate that she has today and finally got love. In 2006, a successful entrepreneur, Chinese-American, met Mei Ping through media reports, appreciated her very much, and began to exchange emails. They hit it off and fell in love with Yunnan in the 66th letter.

In 2009, Zhao Meiping immigrated to Houston with her husband and worked as an overseas editor of Yin Zhi.

Zhao Meiping's life is the immortality of ordinary people, the inspirational history of the rise of the bottom little people, and the true story of Cinderella's counterattack into a fairy tale princess.

Her representative works include My Suffering, My University, Struggle Without Injury and Love at the Corner. We look forward to more of her works.