April 2015, a 10-word resignation letter broke the network, known as the most emotional resignation letter in history.
-- The world is so big, I'm going to see.
Now 6 years later, the female teacher who stirred up the inner waves of countless people with one sentence, how is it now? Has she seen the world she wanted to see?
01
Time steps back to early spring 2015.
In psychology class, Gu Shaoqiang asked first-year children to write a letter to themselves three years later, and as she looked at the thoughtful students below, a thought occurred to her:
If she continues to work here as a teacher, many of her dreams may not come true, and it's time for this experience to come to a perfect end.
After class, she returned to her office and wrote the resignation letter that set the internet ablaze.
Gu Shaoqiang had been a teacher at Henan Experimental High School for 11 years, holding an iron rice bowl that everyone envied, stable and decent, and many people didn't understand why she had to resign.
Life is a process of continuous experience on the axis of time, and people who can't give up anything can't change anything.
Between being set in her ways and having unlimited possibilities, Gu Shaoqiang chose the latter.
The third day after he handed in his resignation letter, Gu Shaoqiang simply packed up his things and left the city where he had lived for 35 years to start another life.
There was a voice inside that said:
From now on I can go wherever I want, do whatever I want, and love whomever I want.
Her first stop was Chengdu.
Why Chengdu?
Why Chengdu? Because there is a man there who is close to her heart - Yu Fu.
02
Gu and Yu met at a youth hostel by the Erhai Sea, where she was volunteering.
On this day, Gu Shaoqiang was doing cleaning while listening to a single song cycle of "The Hills," and when the song was accidentally played out, Yu Fu, who was sitting in a corner reading a book, said softly,
"The song is very good, can you play it again?"
Gu Shaoqiang looked at the somewhat gruff man and noticed that he was actually holding a book by San Mao, her beloved author.
Li Zongsheng sang in a shallow voice: "I did not deliberately hide, and have no intention of making you sentimental ......"
The two people who had previously traveled separately on the track, intersected for the first time.
Later, Yu Fu came to the store almost every day to sit and drink a cup of coffee, sometimes alone, sometimes with friends to talk about things, and from time to time and Gu Shaoqiang to catch up.
Day after day, it was as if nothing had happened, and as if something was growing slowly.
On the day he left Erhai, Yu Fu asked Gu Shaoqiang for his name and contact information.
After that, they returned to their own lives, communicating through the Internet from time to time, and surprisingly, they found that both wanted to escape from the city, and both had a dream of an inn that had been hidden for more than ten years.
There are people in the world who are so in tune with themselves.
So, after leaving school, Gu Shaoqiang chose Chengdu as his first stop.
Revisiting her choice at the time, she lamented:
At the time, I was thinking that if I went, there was still a 50-50 chance that I would win, and if I didn't go, I would have already lost. Luckily I won.
It must be said that the brave have a better chance of being favored by God.
When she arrived in Chengdu, Yu Fu walked with her through the old streets and alleys, drinking tea and chatting like friends she had known for a long, long time, but Gu Shaoqiang didn't decide to stay here at that time, as the faraway land was calling her strongly, and she embarked on the journey once again.
In the small town of Chongqing's Magnetic Weakness Port, the streets are filled with spicy aromas. The streets are full of spicy flavors, and you can't stop thinking about anything but the freedom of the moment.
In the Jiangnan of small bridges and flowing water, a green cheongsam, be a gentle southern girl.
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In this way, Chongqing, Wuzhen, Hangzhou, Dalian ...... Gu Shaoqiang measured the world with his feet, see more and more, the heart is also more and more clear, more certain of what they want.
A few months later, Gu Shaoqiang returned to Chengdu, back to the person who let her inner peace.
They then traveled to cities all over China.
One day the two were lingering on the old tea-horse road, the sky was drizzling with misty drizzle, the gardenia on the street was blooming, everything was just right, Yu Fu turned his head and spoke: "What do you think of this place?"
Gu Shaoqiang replied, "It's fine."
She had thought that Yu Fu was just asking casually, but she didn't expect him to follow up with,
"Why don't we just stay here."
They decided to open an inn in Jiezi town and named it "Yuan Gui", which means "return".
Haruki Murakami said that those who are lost will be lost and those who are reunited will be reunited. Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu were reunited and decided to stay together.
There is no age at which one should get married, but only feelings at which one should get married.
A few months later, they held a simple wedding at the inn, without the need for complicated ceremonies, and without the dowry and colorful gifts burdened, as long as they look at each other, all the happiness down to earth in the unspoken.
The most beautiful thing in love is not a wedding dress, not a diamond ring, not a caravan, but just meeting you at the best age.
At the age of 35, Gu Shaoqiang waited for the right person and moved on to the next part of his life.
03
From Mr. Gu to Mr. Gu, from the three-foot podium to the bedspread, it was a sudden and natural change for Gu Shaoqiang.
She, who once couldn't wait to boil water, is now willing to soak in the kitchen to make soup for her lover.
Yu Fu, who seemed rough and rugged, has also become more and more delicate and gentle, learning to do all kinds of household chores.
They meticulously take care of their small home in ****tong, picking soil, painting walls, installing light bulbs, and doing a lot of things themselves.
To save $200 on labor, the female teacher, who is used to holding a pen and paper, repaired the furniture herself with an electric drill.
The life at the ...... inn is busy and fulfilling, with bedsheets being made, cleaning being done, and travelers being greeted. Travelers from all over the world come here to settle down, Gu Shaoqiang especially love to listen to them tell their respective experiences, strange encounters.
There's a whole lot going on within a square inch, and that's another way of looking at the world.
With the person you love, you do the things you do, and that's how you meet love.
The two men, immersed in happiness, soon welcomed their little angel, a daughter, "Little Fish", who arrived on schedule.
The name comes from Zhuangzi's famous line: "If you're not a fish, you'll never know the joy of a fish.
Gu Shaoqiang said her greatest expectation for her daughter is that she will find what she considers to be a good life, and all she has to do is to guide her child to find this "good" standard.
Gu Shaoqiang, who is now a mother, loves the little one with all her heart.
She and her husband would take their daughter to the market, to the river to see the mountains and the water, to the morning square to dance, and introduce her to the people and things around her.
Every holiday is carefully lived, every moment is carefully experienced.
Company is the longest confession, but her love for her daughter is never blind.
"I love you, but I have to love myself first. I will stay with you, but we are independent of each other."
After Little Fish grew up a bit, mother and daughter got along more like friends. If there was a job that required her to leave home, Gu Shaoqiang would tell her daughter what her mother was going to do and why, and try to get her daughter's understanding.
When she encounters her beloved master of Vietnamese opera performing, Gu Shaoqiang gives her daughter to her husband and gives herself a chance to relax.
You'll see that she's the mom, and she's still the same independent and spontaneous teacher Gu, too.
04
So did Gu Shaoqiang, who opened the inn and became a mother, stop seeing the world?
Certainly not.
For more than six years, running the inn in the high season and traveling in the low season has been an agreed-upon way of life for the small family. After all, both she and Yufu have a restless soul living in their hearts.
In Xi'an, 14 years later, the girl who was secretly sad about her labor by the Terracotta Warriors has become a mother and is smiling happily at her daughter, who is eating lamb kebabs.
In Ningbo, take a walk through the ancient town of Qiantong, where Xu Xiake's travels begin, and swim through scenes from The Barber.
In Zhangye, enjoy the beautiful seven-colored Danxia and marvel at nature's ingenious work.
In Dunhuang, Gu Shaoqiang toured the Mogao Grottoes on her own nine years ago, and nine years later she is surrounded by him and her.
In Tibet, the Tibetans knocking on the long head, the light transmitting tube, a little bit is the shadow of faith.
In Zhoushan, a chance encounter with a small crab in the dark night.
In Shenzhen, a family watching the Men's Basketball World Cup, Mom and Dad are fascinated by basketball, and Little Fishy is most concerned about Basketball Baby.
At the Chaka Salt Lake, the mirror of the sky, and the awe of heaven and earth.
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Particularly liked a conversation between her and her daughter recorded by Gu Shaoqiang:
You asked me what the world is like. I said:, it is what you touch with your hands, it is what you feel with your heart.
Three months the little fish child began to follow her parents to travel the world, and now the little one, she has been to Beijing, Shanghai, Changsha, Guizhou ...... and more than a dozen other cities.
Can't give the child a big house, very expensive toys, Gu Shaoqiang want to give her is the stars and the sea.
Once she saw the world on her own, then she and her lover walked side by side, and now the three are on their way.
The world is so big, and they are seeing it together.
05
Last year Little Fishy turned three, and stepping on the tail end of their 30s, Gu Shaoqiang and Yu Fu decided to pack their bags and change cities for a different kind of life.
They entrusted the hostel to someone else to help take care of, and moved to Mianyang, which is only a two-hour drive from Jiezi Old Town.
Here, Little Fish started kindergarten and Gu Shaoqiang had more time for herself.
She opened a psychology studio, sometimes preparing lessons and writing lesson plans at home, sometimes doing individual counseling, and continuing to pursue her love of psychology.
In the past two months, she has started to insist on yoga to shape her body, waking up at five o'clock every day, exercising, reading, and working hard to polish her self in the years, no matter it is her body, or her soul.
She says she also plans to practice skateboarding and learn to swim. As she gets older, she wants to do more and more.
In a month, Gu Shaoqiang will celebrate her 40th birthday, and the family will soon see another move because of work and other reasons.
Five years ago with a letter of resignation on the Internet, and then opened a guest house was criticized, and then became a mother, and settled in the city or ......
all the way, the landscape has changed again and again, the side of the gradual increase in the number of people, but no matter what kind of situation, Gu Shaoqiang as Van Gogh sunflower, as serious and hot growth.
These are the first time I've ever seen a sunflower in my life.
Perhaps, the poem and the faraway place are not so far away, it lies in one's own state of mind, and if you think you have it, you have it.
Five years is not a long time, and Gu Shaoqiang keeps changing venues, looking for new possibilities in his trivial life.
We don't need to copy her way of expressing her inner attitude, but the courage in her can shine through to everyone:
Go and live your life the way you want to live it, and love the people you really love without caring about what others think.
Everyone can only panic and write down the only answer on the examination paper of life, listen to your heart and you will find the answer.
In the years to come, may you also be especially beautiful, especially daring, especially calm, especially free.