The young Liu Qiangdong ran away from home and his anxious family members came to him all over the world to tell him what he was doing?

The young man Liu Qiangdong ran away from home and his anxious family searched for him all over the world. Liu Qiangdong: I went on a trip.

Liu Qiangdong is the founder of JD.com. He himself appeared on the cover of Forbes magazine (Asia edition) in 2016 and is already a billionaire. In today's China, the only e-commerce company that can compete with Alibaba is JD.com.

But anyone familiar with JD.com and Liu Qiangdong’s experience knows that Liu Qiangdong was born in a poor town in Suqian, Jiangsu. That place is called Lailong Town, which is considered a pioneering immigrant town. According to Liu Qiangdong, the environment in which he grew up was extremely poor, especially since no one around him was rich. Since Liu Qiangdong's father has his own boat, Liu Qiangdong's family is still considered good. But compared with other Internet tycoons, such as Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, and Lei Jun, Liu Qiangdong is truly from the bottom of society.

Childhood photos of Liu Qiangdong

But big shots must have had some different experiences when they were young. Liu Qiangdong once "ran away from home" after graduating from junior high school. He bought a ticket, took a car, a train, and a boat alone. For the first time, he left the village that was poor enough to limit his life. But this time he left without saying goodbye.

Originally, Liu Qiangdong’s father said that if you were admitted to high school, I would take you to a big city like Shanghai to see it. But Liu Qiangdong's father was too busy with farming and did not take him there. One day, Liu Qiangdong thought, why can't I go by myself?

So in 1989, Liu Qiangdong, a 14- or 15-year-old farm boy, wore 50 yuan that he had saved for a long time, slippers, and big pants. , T-shirt, searched the whole village and found a map, and also found my companion, Xiao Shitou, a neighbor's child.

Although Liu Qiangdong assured Xiao Shitou that all the expenses would be borne by Liu Qiangdong, Xiao Shitou still did not dare to go with him on the day he set off again. The reason for Xiao Shitou's retreat was simple: we never I've been out, what if I lose it and can't come back? For rural children who have never been out, Xiao Shitou's mental state should be the most normal. I believe Liu Qiangdong also has this psychological worry, but he is still determined Went.

The destination of his trip was a town in Huangmei County, Hubei Province. This was the address he saw on the envelope. The letter was written by Liu Qiangdong's aunt. He first bought a ticket to Xuzhou. Later, while waiting for the train at Xuzhou Railway Station, a little girl stretched out her hand and said to Liu Qiangdong, Brother, give me some money. The kind-hearted Liu Qiangdong quickly gave her two cents without thinking much. At that time, two cents was not a small amount, and only one penny was given to beggars. Sure enough, the little girl was very happy. After a while, forty or fifty children surrounded Liu Qiangdong and stretched out their hands to ask him for money. Liu Qiangdong was so frightened that he ran several streets before getting rid of them, and did not dare to return to the train station until night.

Liu Qiangdong doing farm work

On the train, Liu Qiangdong met "someone else's child." It was a little girl. Their family of four took a train to travel to Nanjing. The little girl was very beautiful in a skirt and braids. She was sitting on her seat eating cookies and reading a new book.

Later in the interview, Liu Qiangdong said, I didn’t know what inferiority complex was at first, but that time when I was standing next to me wearing big pants and slippers, I knew what inferiority complexion was for the first time. So he sat down in the aisle, buried his head, and didn't raise his head all night.

After arriving in Nanjing, Liu Qiangdong looked everywhere, but he had never seen a 10-story building or a city with lights on at night. He heard that the Jinling Hotel had 37 floors, so he asked around and wanted to take a look. After arriving, he walked around the Jinling Hotel more than a dozen times. He couldn't imagine what it would be like to eat in such a grand upstairs. So he secretly vowed to eat at Jinling Hotel in the future. Later he said that this was the first time he had such ideals and ambitions.

Later, when he took a boat upstream in Nanjing, he said that the river flowed so fast. He couldn't help but start thinking about his life. He thought that life was so short that he couldn't live in a village without accomplishing anything. He must go to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, and he must not be reduced to the bottom of society. This thinking about life also laid the foundation for Liu Qiangdong’s later extraordinary.

Liu Qiangdong was interviewed by CCTV

After he landed, it took him four days to find his aunt. There is a detail here. He used the little more than one yuan he had left to buy fruit, because he remembered what his grandmother said to him, no matter how poor he was, he could not come to the door empty-handed, even if it was two eggs.

When he arrived at his aunt's house, he almost fainted with fright, because Liu Qiangdong's father had just sent a telegram to ask if Qiangdong was here? Not only his aunt's house, but also his relatives all over the country. Dad asked them all. There were no telephones at that time and telegraph was still the fastest way. In order to wait for the reply to the telegram, Liu Qiangdong's parents stayed at the post office without eating or sleeping well for several days.

Later, Liu Qiangdong returned home, and his father did not beat him. Liu Qiangdong said that his father had never beaten him. That trip left a great shock to Liu Qiangdong as a boy. For the first time, he felt the vastness of the world, the prosperity outside and his thoughts on poor life.