"Want to hear my story?" Wen Ya asked Ankang.

An Kang nodded.

"My childhood was particularly unfortunate." Wen Ya said.

Ankang didn't expect that Wenya was going to tell her story from the beginning.

"When I was very young, my parents divorced. I gave it to my father, who later got married......"

Wenya's misfortune did not come from the divorce of her parents, but from the early death of her father. After her father's death, Wen Ya lived with her stepmother's family. Because in the countryside, girls are not taken seriously, and the stepmother spoils her son very much, so she almost treats Wenya as a servant, calling and drinking, and commanding.

This also led to Wen Ya not being able to complete her studies, and she dropped out of school after graduating from primary school to work as a farmer, doing housework, and occasionally going out to do odd jobs that were very inappropriate for her age.

The elegant grandparents felt sorry for this sensible granddaughter and took her home. So Wenya lived with her grandparents. Soon after his grandfather died, his grandmother raised Wenya alone, and his life became unsustainable.

In order to make a living, Wen Ya, who was not yet an adult, began to go out to work. She once slept in the park because she couldn't find a place to live, and she once ate pickles and steamed buns for several months because she couldn't find a job and no money to eat. The lack of academic qualifications makes Wenya unable to find a good job, nor can she find a regular job, and she will also encounter bullying. During this period, she also did some unspeakable work.

Whether the job is famous or not, Wenya doesn't mind. Whether the work is decent or not, and the gentleness doesn't mind. All she minded was how to get more money. Part of the money was for her and her grandmother to be able to continue their normal lives, and part of it was for her grandmother's illness.

While many people are singing about the greatness of dignity, Wenya is lamenting the insignificance of dignity in front of life. Those who sing the praises of dignity are more or less incapable of eating minced meat in the eyes of gentleness.

After her grandmother became seriously ill, Wen Ya returned to her hometown from out of town and took care of her grandmother while working in the town's factory. After her grandmother's death, Wenya once again embarked on the southbound road.

The encounter between Wen Ya and Yan Shaoguang was an accident.

At that time, Wen Ya worked as a waitress in a hotel in a county in Meizhou, Guangdong. Yan Shaoguang was in that county at the time to inspect the project. Once when Yan Shaoguang invited a customer to eat in the restaurant of the hotel, Wen Ya happened to be the waiter in the private room. Yan Shaoguang and the client had a disagreement about the processing process of crops, and Wenya, who grew up in the countryside, happened to be familiar with the planting and processing process of crops, so she explained it to them.

Yan Shaoguang asked Wen Ya about the sales and distribution of agricultural products, but he didn't expect this beautiful little girl not only to answer his questions, but also to explain clearly the income composition, cost composition, and tax system of agriculture-related trading companies and cooperatives. In addition, Wen Ya also talked about ideas on how to process, package, and market agricultural products on a large scale.

This left a deep impression on Yan Shaoguang, who had been in the countryside when he was young but knew nothing about the latest developments in the modern agricultural industry. So Yan Shaoguang left a business card for Wenya and said that he would contact her in the future.

Wen Ya thought that this guest was just talking, and perhaps like many of the guests who had come to this hotel, she had forgotten about her after a while. But unexpectedly, half a month later, Wenya received a call from Yan Shaoguang and asked her if she was willing to work in his company.

"After that, I had a regular job." Wen Ya said this, as if she was in a good mood, and raised her wine glass to touch it with Ankang's wine glass.

"Cheers to a stationary job!" An Kang smiled.

This kind of laughter seems to be mixed with a certain sadness.

Seeing the urbane temperament of urbane (of course, she is not very urbane at times.) Her incivility had left a deep impression on Ankang) and her incomparably delicate skin, and anyone would mistakenly think that this woman had grown up in pampering. No one would have believed that she had ever worked in the fields with men in a sleeveless T-shirt. At that time, not only were her hands and legs scratched, but her face was covered with ugly acne. No matter how delicate the face is, it is difficult to hide the vicissitudes of life.

However, now on the contrary, the vicissitudes of life do not hinder the quiet years.

Wen Ya is a salesman in Yan Shaoguang's company. At that time, in addition to making investments, Yan Shaoguang also opened a trading company, a large part of which was grain and oil products. In addition to docking the upstream of products, Wenya also has to connect with supermarkets and vegetable farms, which is very hard.

But Wen Ya is like an iron man who sleeplessly completes any task given to her by Yan Shaoguang.

"Xiaowen, do you want to study?" Once when Wen Ya and the accountant went to Yan Shaoguang's office to report the accounts, Yan Shaoguang asked Wen Ya jokingly.

"I think, I've wanted to study since I was a child. It is...... Now that I'm older, I can't go to school if I want to. I didn't even go to junior high school, and I wasn't even eligible to take the college entrance examination. ”

"You don't have to take the college entrance examination to study." Yan Shaoguang said seriously, "I plan to arrange for a group of young people to go to university to study on-the-job management courses. Are you interested? ”

"Really? Can I go? Of course I'm interested! Wen Ya, who thought that she had lost the opportunity to go to school in this life, suddenly seemed to have a holy light enveloping her head, warming her body and heart.

"Xiaowen, go study hard. I'm optimistic about you! Do you know? Yan Shaoguang picked up an inkstone on the table and approached to appreciate it carefully, and then said firmly and slowly: "You have to learn to be yourself." ”

"Be myself?" Wenya seems to understand, but she doesn't seem to understand what it means to be myself.

"Be myself?" Ankang asked, "How?" ”

Wen Ya smiled: "Have you heard of Wang Yangming's Dragon Field Enlightenment?" ”

An Kang nodded.

"I went to the place where Wang Yangming realized the Tao back then. Of course, it was Mr. Yan who took me there, as well as a group of young people. What Wang Yangming realized in Longchang was the three words 'to conscience'. To conscience, in Wang Yangming's own words, is 'the way of a saint, self-sufficiency'. Isn't that all about being myself? ”

"I see."

Ankang always thought that Wang Yangming's enlightenment in Longchang was "the unity of knowledge and action", but now he knows that what he realized is "to conscience".

"Mr. Yan said that the Diamond Sutra says, 'When the period is self-nature, the nature is pure'. Everyone has a scale in their hearts, and this scale corresponds to the avenue of the world. But most people are obsessed with the avenue. Only by clearing the fog can you see your own heart. Therefore, you don't have to care about what others say or do, as long as the scale in your heart is flat, you can measure everything in the world according to this scale. It's all about being myself. ”