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《After Making 500 Million as a Bricklayer, I Spent a Decade Searching for My Wife to Repay Kindness》

share time: 2025-11-04 00:31:43

Lin Qiang, a bricklayer, lived with his wife Zhou Xiufen in a 10-square-meter rental house for ten years, saving his first pot of gold by reselling second-hand building materials. His accidentally developed eco-friendly permeable brick project went viral, earning him 500 million yuan in three years. Just as he was about to fulfill his wife’s dream of “living in a house with a balcony,” Zhou Xiufen was in a car accident on her way to sign the house purchase contract—only the gray woolen hat she knitted for Lin Qiang was left at the scene. The police speculated she might have been taken away by a mountain truck, with her life or death unknown. Lin Qiang stopped all his business immediately, took the hat, and traveled to remote mountain areas in 23 provinces: building roads in Liangshan, constructing hope schools in Bijie, and asking every village, “Have you seen a woman wearing this hat?” Ten years later, in a primary school in the Wumeng Mountains of Guizhou, he saw a lame woman teaching children to knit, holding the faded gray hat in her hand! It turned out that Zhou Xiufen lost her memory after the accident and was saved by an elderly villager. The school Lin Qiang built just allowed the elderly man’s grandson to enter a county high school. Lin Qiang took out the “ten thousand taels of gold” he had prepared for ten years—10% of the company’s shares (enough for the villagers to live comfortably for ten years)—and said with red eyes: “I made a fortune, but I lost the most precious thing—you. Now I return the ‘gold’ to the one who saved you, and take you back to me.”

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