Engineers quit their jobs to raise porcupines, after earning millions of dollars.

When you become an engineer with an annual salary of 654.38 million, do you still want to quit your job and return to the countryside to raise pigs? Believe this question, most people will give a negative answer.

In 2000, Zhou Xiaoying, a peasant woman from Chayuan Village, Changba Town, Wulong County, decided to go to Shanghai to work for her sister. After 10 years of struggle, she became an engineer with an annual salary of 654.38+10,000 yuan.

If life is compared to climbing a mountain, Zhou Xiaoying has climbed a height far beyond his parents' expectations. But she suddenly quit her enviable job and returned to her hometown to face the loess and raise porcupines. Faced with parents' incomprehension and villagers' ridicule, Zhou Xiaoying didn't give up his dream even though he fell into the lowest valley of starting a business. Today, her porcupine business is spread all over the surrounding provinces and cities, and the sales revenue of the porcupine breeding cooperative she led this year also exceeded 6.5438+million yuan, helping a large number of rural neighbors get rid of poverty.

"Dad is badly dressed and dirty, with a big hole in his trousers and such a heavy thing on his shoulder. At that moment, I couldn't help crying. " -Zhou Xiaoying

Tea Garden Village Upgrade Pingshe is still more than 40 minutes' drive from Changba Town, and only off-road vehicles can barely get in. 65438+February 10, when the reporter of Chongqing Evening News came to Zhou Xiaoying's home, she was feeding porcupines.

Zhou Xiaoying is 32 years old and has an elder sister. The two sisters have a good relationship. When they were young, they went to school together and mowed the grass together to feed the pigs. Although the family is poor, they live happily. 1997, Zhou Xiaoying graduated from junior high school, and it was no problem to go to a good high school according to her grades, but she took the initiative to choose a secondary school. "The family is too poor. If we are admitted to the university in the future, our parents can't afford it. My sister's grades are better than mine. Might as well give her a chance to go to college. I am the eldest daughter and have to bear the responsibility of supporting my family. " Zhou Xiaoying told the reporter of Chongqing Evening News that giving up high school and even yearning for university is a helpless and eternal scar in his heart.

Also in that year, in order to make life at home easier, Zhou Xiaoying's father and friends from the village went to Fuling City to be army brothers. At the beginning of each month, Zhou Xiaoying will ask his father for the living expenses of that month-15 yuan. Just enough to be a vegetarian and eat meat once a week. Sometimes, she will swallow white rice with pickles and hot sauce at home.

During his father's days as brother Li, I saw him sweating profusely countless times. Once, she saw her father from a distance, dressed in rags and dirty, with a big hole in his trousers. He walked slowly and laboriously with heavy things on his shoulders. At that moment, Zhou Xiaoying's heart was touched instantly, and she squatted on the ground and began to cry. "At that time, my dream was to make more money in the future and let my family live a good life." Zhou Xiaoying said.

In 2000, after graduating from middle school, Zhou Xiaoying didn't stay at home for a long time, so she packed her bags and went to Shanghai to work alone. After many applications, she entered an electronic chip factory as an operator with a monthly salary of about 2,000 yuan. "I was very happy at first. A month's salary is equivalent to half a year's income of my parents. Zhou Xiaoying scrimped and saved everything except daily expenses and money sent home.

Soon, Zhou Xiaoying discovered that she was also an operator, but some colleagues earned more than 1000 yuan a month. After the conversation, I found that these colleagues have higher academic qualifications than her. Zhou Xiaoying, who refused to admit defeat at an early age, felt that he should not be inferior. "Since I just don't have enough academic qualifications, I can also go to the self-taught university."

Do it. During that time, Zhou Xiaoying didn't dare to enroll in any cram school except studying, because the price was too expensive. Ask a colleague if you don't understand. Two years later, Zhou Xiaoying took an evening exam and was admitted to the Department of International Trade of East China University of Science and Technology.

In those days, Zhou Xiaoying only slept for three hours a day, and besides work and school, she also set up a stall. "Selling cold rice noodles in the morning and selling other small things at night." Zhou Xiaoying said that several times she felt that she couldn't hold on, but once she wanted to get home, she gritted her teeth and held on. "Parents need money to live, and my sister needs money to go to school. Since I promised to support my family, I will definitely do it. "

Zhou Xiaoying's elder sister, Zhou Xiaoqin, went to Shanghai to live with her elder sister for a period of time after graduating from university. She told the Chongqing Evening News reporter that her sister got up at about three or four in the morning and set up a stall when she came back. It's really hard. In those years, my sister only lost more than 70 kilograms. She saves all the money she earns, seldom buys new clothes and never eats or drinks.

With his own efforts, Zhou Xiaoying became an assistant engineer from the initial operator, and finally became an engineer in 2008, with a monthly salary of 6,543,800 yuan. At this time, my sister also graduated and opened a photography studio in Chengdu with her classmates. Family life is booming, and parents are happy from ear to ear. Father Zhou Daming said that everyone in the village said that he was very lucky and the children he gave birth to were very capable.

However, in 20 10, Zhou Xiaoying decided to quit her job and go home to raise porcupines, which made her parents fall from heaven to hell. They can't figure out why their daughter has settled in a big city and wants to go back to the countryside.

Zhou Xiaoying's decision was not a whim. She told the Chongqing Evening News reporter that when she was in college, the teacher once said something that woke her up. "The teacher said that the world is developing so fast that everyone is engaged in high technology. Who will engage in agriculture in the future? " Zhou Xiaoying thinks this is reasonable.

"More than 8,000 a month, only when you are crazy will you come back to dig mud." Zhou Daming couldn't wait to bring Zhou Tie Xiaoying to Shanghai. He thinks it is enough for his daughter to find a reliable person with similar income in Shanghai to marry.

Zhou Xiaoying said that her parents wouldn't let her come back, and she cried when she said it on the phone, and even threatened to deny her, let alone let her live at home. "I understand my parents. They have been farmers all their lives and can't really understand my thoughts. "

The director of the company is also persuading her to ask for a raise. Zhou Xiaoying said that she was thinking clearly. "First, my sister is working in the field, and I don't go back to my parents and no one is raising it; Second, even if I increase my salary, I will help others to work and I will never be able to dominate my life, so I want to start a business. "

20 10 in March, Zhou Xiaoying resisted the pressure from all sides and resigned for his dream.

With all the savings of 10 years of working, more than 500,000 yuan, Zhou Xiaoying went home.

Zhou Xiaoying's mother, Zhang Zhongju, said that during that time, when I saw the villagers' strange eyes and the ridicule behind them at home, my heart felt like a needle. "Every day when you eat, you should scold her for crying. She never talks back, just cries and eats, and then silently finishes all the housework. "

In fact, two years before she decided to quit her job and go home, Zhou Xiaoying had inspected this entrepreneurial project-raising porcupines. In 2008, I saw the story of the first week of raising porcupines on TV. Zhou Xiaoying came to Hunan by train and stayed on the farm for two days and two nights, learning breeding methods. Through all aspects of market research, she decided that it was feasible, "because there is land in rural areas, it is convenient to build farms and grow pig food; The porcupine is suitable for mountain breeding, with low cost and large profit. "

Bao Xia's home is near a 3-acre dry pond, and Zhou Xiaoying is committed to building a farm. If the brick truck can't move, it has to be carried by itself. 20 10 ended and the farm was finally built. She quickly introduced five groups of porcupines from Zhouchu (1 group is three mothers and one male), spent more than 500,000 yuan and borrowed more than 60,000 yuan from relatives.

At this point, Zhou Xiaoying is at the end of its tether, and even the daily necessities at home have become a problem. Thinking that she could not let her elderly parents do more things, she decided to ask her father to help raise porcupines and go out to work again to earn money.

In the next two years, Zhou Xiaoying sold insurance, picked bamboo shoots, spent a day in the mountains, and then carried 100 kilograms of bamboo shoots out of the mountains to sell. "At that time, I weighed more than 70 kilograms. I really don't know where I come from. " Zhou Xiaoying said with a smile.

However, God and Zhou Xiaoying played a big joke. One day, her father suddenly called to tell her that the 17 piglet born by porcupine had been killed by 15. Zhou Xiaoying was heartbroken. She said, "My father called me stupid. I have raised these porcupines for two years, and hundreds of thousands of yuan have been invested in things that have no return. " During that time, she often heard many people talking about her behind her back. "Say I'm stupid, say I'm stupid, leave a good job. I have to come back and carry a hoe. "