After Zou Chunlan left his original unit, he raised chickens, sold sand and stood on the street to sell mutton skewers for a living. But these small businesses didn't make her live a good life, because there were too many injuries, and more than 70 thousand yuan compensated by the original unit was spent on seeing a doctor. Three years later, Zou Chunlan's life has reached an unsustainable level.
Fortunately, Zou Chunlan knew her boyfriend Zhou Shaocheng, who had been in love for three years, and was very kind to her. Zhou Shaocheng is six years older than Zou Chunlan, simple and honest. He burns a boiler in the bathhouse. Seeing that his girlfriend couldn't find a suitable job, he advised her to work as a bather in the bathhouse if she wanted. Zou Chunlan smiled and agreed. After all, the bather has no other input except strength.
In this way, Zou Chunlan soaked in the bathhouse every day and became a bather. Everyone, her income is 1.45 yuan. On the most day, Zou Chunlan wiped more than 50 customers and made money in 75 yuan. She was almost exhausted because of her bad heart.
Zou Chunlan can endure the hardships in life. Whenever he comes home and sees the weightlifting medals exchanged for sweat and tears, he can't help crying. These medals once represented her passion and dreams when she was young! Weightlifting once made her successful and brilliant. At that time, she never thought about what life would be like in the future. She always thought that training and competition might be the whole of life, or she never thought about what was waiting for her after flowers and honors. The more Zou Chunlan thinks about it, the more depressed he is, and he feels that the road of life is getting narrower and narrower.
One day, Zou Chunlan bathed a female customer. She stared at Zou Chunlan for a long time and said, I always feel that I have seen you somewhere. Zou Chunlan looked at her with a smile and said nothing. Unexpectedly, after a while, the female customer actually remembered, turned to Zou Chunlan and said, if I remember correctly, you are the national weightlifting champion, and your last name is Zou! Zou Chunlan nodded awkwardly. The female customer said with emotion, I didn't expect the national champion to bathe me. It's really not easy for you to engage in sports. Isn't there any support policy for retired athletes who have made contributions? Looking at the puzzled face of the female customer, Zou Chunlan was very unhappy and didn't know what to say.
Unexpectedly, more and more people know Zou Chunlan's identity, and this matter soon spread, and media reporters came to interview. After the report was published, major websites all over the country reprinted it one after another. As a result, people all over the country know that there is a weightlifting champion named Zou Chunlan in Changchun who rubs people in the bathhouse!
After Zou Chunlan's case was disclosed, there was a strong domestic response. Many companies invited her to work for their own motives, but Zou Chunlan felt that her culture was too low and she just wanted to learn a trade.
At this time, the All-China Women's Federation and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau decided to help Zou Chunlan start her own business, and offered her several options. After careful consideration, Zou Chunlan felt that the dry cleaning project was highly operational and chose this business. The All-China Women's Federation Half the Sky Laundry Engineering Office decided to fund Zou Chunlan's complete laundry equipment, and also sent someone to help Zou Chunlan choose a site.
After intensive preparations, Zou Chunlan's "No.1 Laundry" was grandly opened on September 4, 2006. Zou Chunlan's laundry operation was not very smooth at first. First, she has no experience; second, the market competition is fierce. Shortly after the opening of Laundry No.1, four or five laundries opened nearby. In order to win customers, Zou Chunlan set the laundry price very cheap and the service attitude was sincere. It took half a year for her washing to get better.
Zou Chunlan knows that a large number of customers are coming for her reputation as a weightlifting champion. They come here to do laundry and take care of their own business. So Zou Chunlan told himself that the quality of service must be excellent. What she fears most is that customers are unhappy. When she receives the clothes, she must check them carefully, mark the dirty places and give them to the laundryman. Laundry workers operate according to the diagram, focusing on cleaning first, and then comprehensively cleaning. When washing clothes, Zou Chunlan always tells them to wash them carefully. If it is not cleaned, customers will not come here to wash it next time. After the laundryman washed the clothes, Zou Chunlan found something unwashed and took the initiative to take it back and wash it again.
In the summer of 2007, laundry was in the off-season. One afternoon, a car drove to the door and unloaded a lot of chair covers, shirts, sheets, perforated cloth and so on. , and it is filled with aisles in the store. Zou Chunlan suddenly felt refreshed. When she asked, it turned out that these people came from the mountains and were the staff of a golf course. They said that the stadium was washed in another laundry before, and the boss felt that it was not clean enough, so he specially asked them to come to Zou Chunlan's shop to wash it. Zou Chunlan felt a hot heart after listening to it. When washing these things, Zou Chunlan and her staff paid special attention and the price was set at the lowest. Even so, contracting this business brought her more than 20,000 yuan in income.
There are five people in Zou Chunlan's laundry, a laundryman, an ironing worker, a front desk and her husband. Because of the high rent, Zou Chunlan has to find ways to generate income. Zou Chunlan taught her husband the skill of repairing shoes, and by the way, she also undertook the business of repairing shoes.
The proprietress Zou Chunlan also works hard. She has to worry about everything in the shop. She gets up at 6: 30 every morning and closes until 9: 00 every night. Every penny she earns is hard money.
Nevertheless, Zou Chunlan is also very happy. She regards this laundry as her career and feels very fulfilled. What makes her most happy is that Zou Chunlan and her husband spent more than 2,000 yuan to buy a fully automatic washing machine for her mother in the Spring Festival of 2009, so that she didn't have to wash clothes by hand all day. After leaving for so many years, Zou Chunlan bought precious things for her mother for the first time. The old man cried with joy. Zou Chunlan and her husband Zhou Shaocheng have a good relationship. Zhou Shao became an honest and kind person. Thanks to him, I accompanied Zou Chunlan for several years without regrets and gave him a shoulder to lean on when Zou Chunlan was helpless.
Before plastic surgery, Zou Chunlan's male characteristics were heavier. In the eyes of others, they are not like husband and wife, but more like buddies. At that time, Zhou Shaocheng had been silently bearing various pressures from the outside world. He never left Zou Chunlan and took good care of him. However, looking at herself in the mirror, Zou Chunlan is also eager to be a beautiful woman.
Since becoming an athlete, Zou Chunlan has never worn a skirt, and everything related to women's beauty has to stand aside. Now, if there is no beard and leg hair, Zou Chunlan will be satisfied with wearing a beautiful skirt like a normal woman. So, she wrote a blog post "I want to be a little feminine" on her blog, revealing her desire for a "daughter body" for many years.
After the article went online, many people paid attention. Zhou Shaocheng accompanied his wife to Chongqing for plastic surgery at the invitation of a plastic surgery hospital in Chongqing. The operation was very successful, which made Zou Chunlan feel reborn. In order to avoid embarrassment, Zou Chunlan and her husband didn't even dare to take wedding photos. The plastic surgery hospital not only helped Zou Chunlan and her husband take wedding photos, but also entrusted the wedding company to reissue Zou Chunlan's grand wedding with the theme of "Butterfly Change". The first batch of Chongqing women's weightlifting team teammates and old coaches who competed with Zou Chunlan rushed to the wedding scene to send their blessings to Zou Chunlan and his wife. For Zou Chunlan's new appearance, the happiest thing is her husband. In his mind, Zou Chunlan is actually a gentle and understanding person, but due to the factors of appearance characteristics, it used to be "only I understand your gentleness." Now, my wife has finally become a woman in the eyes of outsiders.
A woman is not a complete woman without being a mother, and Zou Chunlan also wants a child. In those days, when lifting weights, female athletes often avoided menstruation, which made official holidays confusing. A few years ago, Zou Chunlan and her husband went to Guangzhou for an exam. Experts say that this treatment is still a difficult problem, so their desire to have children has been put on hold indefinitely.
In 2008, Zou Chunlan was named "Influential Women in China at Home and Abroad" by the All-China Women's Federation, and in 2009, she was named as a model of female entrepreneurship in Jilin Province. Zou Chunlan is very happy At the same time, she also understands that her achievements are given by everyone, and she should help others when she lives well. Zou Chunlan's shop invites employees to give laid-off workers free laundry if they have difficulties. In 2007, Zou Chunlan made a special trip to Beijing to support retired long-distance runner Ai Dongmei and persuade him to give up auctioning gold medals. On Children's Day, June 1, 2007, Zou Chunlan's laundry just made a profit and donated the money to the children of Jilin Province Orphan School. During the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, Zou Chunlan donated two months' profits to the disaster area. In the summer of 2009, Zou Chunlan trained many disabled college students to learn laundry technology for free, and half of Zou Chunlan's advertising endorsement expenses were donated. Zou Chunlan felt that he had not done enough. In the future, she will dedicate her love to those in need with enthusiasm.
20 10, she is going to open two or three laundry chains in Changchun. After all, she is already familiar with this business.
Now, there are many retired athletes who are similar to Zou Chunlan's previous situation. In this regard, Zou Chunlan hopes that the state can continue to give more attention and help to retired athletes. At the same time, she also suggested that retired brothers and sisters should not "rest on their laurels", but bravely face the fields they don't understand, cherish every opportunity and start a business bravely! She said confidently, since we can win the championship in sports, we can also temper ourselves into an adult champion!