The representative of the casual lifestyle has now retired to the countryside, making Yang Lan envious. What do you think?

In the vast sea of ????people, it is my turn to be my destiny. I hope the article provided by the editor can bring you joy and happiness! Zhang Xiaoyan spent 83 yuan to complete the Sichuan-Tibet road and wrote his experience into a best-selling book, which is called Qiongyou. At this moment, he is sitting at Yang Lan's interview table, representing the "leave as you say" lifestyle.

Her behavior aroused my desire for freedom. With dreams as horses, poetry and wine occupy all the years, and the unity of body and mind must be on the road... But my romantic imagination of literature and art was abandoned by Zhang Xiaoyan as soon as it set sail. "Are you still willing to go for a walk again?" Yang Lan asked. She smiled and replied: "I wouldn't be stupid if I didn't do it."

In fact, 8 years have passed since this scene. Eight years later, Zhang Xiaoyan no longer traveled, but lived in seclusion in the mountains and became a winemaker. She grows her own rice, builds her own brewing furnace, and uses the most traditional techniques to make wine. For one spring, she moved to the Peach Blossom Spring at the foot of Mount Lu. The hill opposite was Tao Yuanming's home. She used bamboo to guide spring water down the mountain and planted morning glories in the yard.

Her life is still enviable and comfortable, but the scene eight years ago reminded me: Don’t judge easily, I must have some misunderstandings about this girl. Looking through her online records, I gradually realized where the misunderstanding was:

This Zhang Xiaoyan is said to "live smart and comfortable" and is often flustered. And her real charm lies in a rare quality: she can get along with any messy person. In Zhang Xiaoyan, failure is not the mother of success, and failure is even meaningless. It's just a reminder to get around the roadblocks here. Perhaps it is this attitude towards life that makes her live such a special ordinary life.

Before Zhang Xiaoyan’s legendary experience of going to Tibet, there was still a short life hidden, which was close to ordinary people, but also different, and it also foreshadowed her unique life choice in the future.

She dropped out of high school to work. But the reason is neither bad grades (she often takes age first) nor a sick old mother to support, it's just a good reason: learning those things in school is boring. Her father warned her that life in the future would be more difficult than others. She said yes I know.

Soon, the abstract "difficulties" turned into concrete "difficulties". Little girls without academic qualifications can only find jobs as waiters, dishwashers, and salespeople. The logical consequence is that she should have her ass kicked back to school. But she didn't go back and didn't want to serve the dishes. She wants to find a better job. Of course academic qualifications are a roadblock, and any blind HR would hand her the resume directly. Her method: get around them.

She collects company information online, finds various excuses to go to her boss directly, chats and grinds, and really gets the job done time and time again. She stayed in Beijing for several years and worked as a photographer, advertiser, children's magazine editor, and film and television production designer... She did not have a degree or formal classes, but she did these jobs confidently. I also change jobs every six months, and I feel confident doing so:

I can’t just say “be myself” without knowing anything. I have to experience more to know. It seems the girl has no doubts about her ability to survive. Some people conclude that there are only three difficulties.

First, to overcome difficulties, you need wisdom; second, to face difficulties, you need courage; third, to circumvent difficulties, you need cunning. Zhang Xiaoyan must be cunning.

In addition to being cunning, she has an open-minded attitude towards the difficulties she encounters in life that transcends her years. Moving to Tibet in 2009 was an unexpected move. I originally planned to volunteer to go to Wenchuan from Chengdu, but the bridge was broken and I couldn't get in.

She also suddenly thought: If you are here, go to Tibet. The map is only about a mile away, but it should be pretty close (the geography is really bad). Without a careful plan and no money, walking all the way to Tibet and back to Chengdu from Tibet was both difficult and dangerous.

While talking to Yang Lan, she talked about a motorcycle that skidded on the mountain road. She flew out of the car and hit the chain of the bridge on the Brahmaputra River with her waist. She was bounced back to the bridge and could not move for a long time. On the other side of the chain is the Brahmaputra River, where the torrent is rolling in. If you throw a bottle down, it will immediately break into dregs.

Yang Lan couldn't help but ask her: Is it worth it? Just a sudden thought if you lose your life. I thought she would say that dreams are worth it. But she said: "I have come so far. What else can I do? Regardless of whether it is worth it or not, I will keep going."

She refuses to think about meaning, she just indulges in life. Life is very specific. There is no choice A or B. There is only what you think you should do and what you are currently doing. There is nothing worth doing.

She will choose to do something for a trivial reason, but once she does it, she will do it openly. This also gave her an unexpected result: her travelogue "Let's Go, Zhang Xiaoyan" recorded this journey and became a bestseller that year. With a generous royal family fortune, she left Beijing and returned to her favorite village, realizing the ideals of many young artists:

“Living close to the spring scenery, far away from the world, reading and writing essays. Plant a few peach blossoms in the spring, pick them to make wine, and make some bottles of wine in the fall." When she actually did it, the difficulties and setbacks she experienced almost made her doubt human nature. .

When she returned to the village near her hometown, she thought she was still half a local. Who knew that the villagers stole her firewood, her wine grains, and even a light bulb. The one-yuan light bulb is gone after eating. After walking for a while, it disappeared again... There were also local hooligans who forced themselves to come to the restaurant to make drinks, and valued the food themselves.

The village cadres also bullied him, asking her to socialize every once in a while, and falling out if she didn't go. Turn off her water pipes so she can't work. If you were a young man obsessed with fantasy and something like this happened, you would probably go back to town and curse. But Zhang Xiaoyan is not.

If you encounter a roadblock, you can kick it away or take a few more steps. She can't handle this group, so we can get around them. She decided to move and find another piece of land for her hotel and life.

Of course, this process is still tortuous. Several series of articles on her official WeChat account record this process: the first one is called "Around Thousands of Mountains, One Place and One Winery". The second one is called "I traveled all over the country for a restaurant, and now I have to sell my style."

You can feel the ups and downs of her mood from the word changes. Later, she moved to this place called Peach Blossom Spring.

A deserted village, an immigrant community where residents moved to the town more than ten years ago, with only a deaf-mute uncle as the only neighbor. Little by little, the restaurant was built and the situation continued. Villagers from far away in the town came back and threatened her because she hired short-term workers from other villages.

A deaf uncle who seems kind and non-controversial will cut down the peach trees they care about and kill their puppies for no reason. The "kind" girl who came to volunteer was fired and torn online with her... luckily she's used to solving these concrete troubles in life. When it comes to people, she is decisive:

You can spend three seconds to offend someone you hate, but never five seconds. For those who like it, I am willing to spend seven years carefully brewing a jar of wine to make them happy.

She can take things hard: everyone can have a paradise in their heart, and while rolling up their sleeves, she can create a paradise with brave spirit. Her winery was stagnant.

She sent an invitation online for the first time: During the seven days of new wine production, anyone who comes to the winery can drink it for free. As a result, more than 1,000 people came to this small mountain village with very inconvenient transportation, and it became a popular attraction. The current Zhang Xiaoyan runs this brewery in Taohuayuan and has three or five fixed joint ventures.