In 1982, 18-year-old Ma Yun took the college entrance examination. Ambitious, he applied for Peking University.
After the scores came out, he only scored 1 point in mathematics. North nature is not available. Had to go out and find a job.
He went to apply for a security guard with his cousin, and his cousin was admitted, but he was dismissed.
Ma Laifa used his relationship to find a job for Ma Yun: to move books for the magazine. Therefore, Ma Yun, who was thin, rode a tricycle to carry heavy books every day, earning one yuan as a reward.
One day, Jack Ma stumbled upon a book at the Jinhua Railway Station - Lu Yao's famous work "Life". After reading it, he was overwhelmed and felt that he couldn't go on like this, so he went back to class and prepared for the second college entrance examination.
This time, Ma Yun's grades have improved significantly, and his math scores have increased by 18 times, reaching 19 points. The result is naturally still failed.
Ma Yun started to look for a job again, and found 11 jobs, all of which were eliminated.
It needs to be explained here that many articles and books have written that Ma Yun went to KFC to find a job after graduating from high school. This information is wrong, because in 1983, there was no KFC in Hangzhou.
But Ma Yun did go to KFC to apply for the job, but 10 years later, when he was a teacher at Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology, he took 23 students to apply for the job, and all the students were admitted, only he was eliminated.
No way, Ma Yun couldn't find a job, so he had to study hard again.
In 1984, after working hard to achieve great results, Jack Ma's mathematics score reached an unprecedented 79 points.
It is a pity that his total score was 5 points short of the undergraduate line, so he could only go to the junior college of Hangzhou Normal University (now Hangzhou Normal University).
However, the god of fate favored him. This year, Hangzhou Normal University did not have enough undergraduate courses for English majors. The school decided to lower the score to admit a few students who are good at English. Therefore, Ma Yun entered the undergraduate major with a junior college grade.
Ma Yun’s normal school is free, but Ma Yun’s monthly living expenses are not low. At this time, Ken Morley, who met Ma Yun in West Lake, Hangzhou, began to sponsor him, sponsoring him 5-10 dollars a week for 2 years During the extra time, I sent about 200 Australian dollars to Jack Ma, which relieved Jack Ma's urgent needs.
After entering university, Ma Yun was like a fish in water. Not only did he become a top student by virtue of his hard-working English all the year round, he also became the chairman of the school's student union and the chairman of the Hangzhou Student Union.
The bigger achievement is that he got the love of a beautiful female classmate.
This classmate named Zhang Ying was not misled by Ma Yun's appearance, but took a fancy to his character and ability. After graduation, he married him, and later accompanied him to start a business. After so many hardships, when she finally ushered in success, she was willing to give up her career and return home to become a full-time housewife.
When he was studying at Hangzhou Normal University, Jack Ma met Ahuo, who was an English teacher from the United States at Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology, and then contacted him several times.
They are still ordinary friends. Aho suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. His family members were in the United States. He went to China alone, and no one took care of him after he fell ill and was hospitalized.
Hearing that Ah Huo was sick, Ma Yun hurriedly took the initiative to go to the hospital to take care of him in his spare time.
Every day at noon or after school in the afternoon, Jack Ma would go to the hospital to see Ahuo and help him with what he needed to do.
On weekends, Ma Yun is basically in the hospital. In addition to helping Ahuo buy food and washing his clothes, he also chats with him to comfort his soul and eliminate the loneliness of being alone in a foreign land.
Under the careful treatment of doctors and the enthusiastic care of Ma Yun, Ahuo's condition gradually improved after being hospitalized for more than 20 days, and he was discharged from the hospital and returned to the dormitory to wait for his recovery.
Ahuo was moved by Ma Yun's sincere devotion during the hospitalization, and thought he was a rare friend.
In the simple dormitory, Ahuo took the initiative to take Ma Yun's hand and promised: "If you need help, I will try my best to help you."
After the illness was completely cured, Ahuo and Ma Yun had a very close relationship and quickly became close friends.
In his free time, Jack Ma took Ahuo, who couldn't ride a bike, around Hangzhou on a bicycle.
When sitting and chatting in the park, Ahuo likes to chat with Ma Yun about the Internet. His chats are purely bragging, and he will add a lot of false content in an overly exaggerated way to tell the magic of the Internet.
There was no Internet in China at that time. For Ma Yun, the Internet was a very new thing. Ahuo had a relatively simple understanding of the Internet, and he would be very excited when he spoke mysteriously.
After graduating from the foreign language department of Hangzhou Normal University, Ma Yun entered Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology as an English teacher. Ahuo has returned to his hometown and is engaged in education in Seattle.
In 1988, Ma Yun graduated, and he was assigned to work as a teacher at Hangzhou Institute of Electronic Technology. From then on, the title "Teacher Ma" will accompany him throughout his life.