After 18 years in prison, her husband left, her daughter died, Ms. Ngo Thang Minh redoed her life at the age of 70.
On July 28, 2003, Ms. Ngo Thang Minh stepped out of the detention center. The face of a woman at a rare age was only full of tears. Looking at her at that time, few people would have thought that ten years from now, this woman could become a millionaire .
Ms. Wu was born in 1933 into a family of many merchants in Shengzhou, Zhejiang. However, Ms. Ngo’s father was playful, so the mother left when her daughter was 2 years old. After that, his father also left, leaving Ngo to his grandparents to raise. From a young age, Ngo’s hobby was going to the family shop to watch people do business. At that time, her grandfather had a prosperous business, so she learned a lot of business skills.
In 1949 at the age of 16, to escape a forced marriage, Wu fled to Shanghai. Here, she worked as a maid for a wealthy family. Not long after that, she went to Shaoxing and opened a makeshift shop from the money she had accumulated.
In the beginning, Ngo’s business was quite rough. However, with experience and perseverance, things gradually improved. At this time, Ngo met Truong Tu Nguyen, a guy 7 years younger than him. After 3 years of research, at the age of 32, she officially married Truong, then the two went to Xi’an to open a hotel.
Because of overwork, Ngo miscarried three times. At the age of 40, after many treatments and efforts, she finally gave birth to a daughter, named Truong Diem.
In the early 1980s, with the application of the reform and opening-up policy in China, Ngo Thang Minh, who had just moved to Zhengzhou, quickly seized the business opportunity when he opened a trading company. She sells all kinds of goods, from small things like umbrellas, socks… to radios and black and white televisions. Later, Ngo expanded into the business of steel, construction machinery and chemicals. The business grew stronger and stronger, in 4 years, she earned 20 million yuan (more than 70 billion dong), becoming a famous rich woman at that time in Zhengzhou.
Because of his growing greed, in 1985, Ngo smuggled 48 high-end cars from Hong Kong and lots of expensive fabrics from Taiwan. In 1986, at the age of 53, Ngo Thang Minh was sentenced to death for illegal trading. Assets of tens of millions of yuan were also confiscated. Ngo repeatedly filed complaints. Finally, after many trials, the sentence was changed from suspended death to life in prison.
At the same time, Ngo received her husband’s divorce petition. It turned out that this man had an illicit relationship with his daughter’s nanny before his wife went to prison. Inmate’s wife, Truong Tu Nguyen sent his daughter to an uncle in the countryside to raise, and his mistress to Anhui.
The betrayal of her husband made Ngo depressed, at this time her daughter was the only hope to continue living. In prison, she participated in many community activities and achieved many good achievements. The life sentence was thus changed to a term prison.
When Ngo counted the days to meet his daughter, he received news that Truong Diem committed suicide because he could not stand the mental pressure. She was only 16 years old at that time. Ngo was dumbfounded, risked stealing a blade from the sewing room, intending to die with his daughter. Fortunately, the warden arrived in time, encouraging her to continue living to take care of Truong Diem’s grave.
Ngo Thang Minh regained his spirit and actively reformed. She was consecutively reduced to 9 times. In prison, Ngo also wrote an autobiography “The Prison Road”. The book was later made into a movie called “Crime and Daughter”. When the film was released, many viewers wrote letters of encouragement and support for Ngo.
In 2003, Ms. Wu finished her prison term and returned to Zhengzhou to clean public toilets with a salary of 400 yuan (more than 1.2 million dong). A year later, she was awarded the title of “Excellent cleaner in Zhengzhou”, many media reporters came to interview her. In the meetings, Ngo mentioned his desire to have money to build a nursing home for the elderly without children like himself.
These confidants attracted a man surnamed Vu. He said that there are dozens of acres of vineyards and can cooperate with Ngo. Trusting, Wu borrowed 900,000 yuan and gave it to him. As soon as he received the money, the man fled.
At a time of extreme stalemate, Ms. Ngo wrote her story and sent it to many places with the desire to receive help from investment organizations, especially in the vineyards that were tricked by Vu. At the end of 2006, she was invested 1.2 million yuan by an organization to restore the business. Based on this money, after two years, Ngo paid off all his debts, and built the vineyard into a famous sightseeing and tourist ecological garden. This garden made a profit of more than 6 million yuan (over 21 billion VND) in 5 years. On the momentum of victory, Ngo established Yangling Hongyang Fruit Technology Co., Ltd. and Xingong Technology Co., Ltd., and also opened a number of chicken factories.
By the age of 81, after more than 10 years of hard work, Ngo once again became a millionaire. However, in 2010, she gave the company to someone else to manage, and opened a nursing home for the elderly in Xi’an. In addition, she also established many charity funds, helping children with heart disease and poor children who cannot go to school.
After Ngo Thang Minh became a millionaire, her ex-husband suddenly met in 2016 with the desire to remarry. She refused but still put him in a nursing home owned by her to enjoy his old age.
Currently at the age of 89, Ngo is happy to live by “encroaching” into the field of social media. She often livestreams or records Tiktok videos about daily life. In a livestream, this female millionaire once said: “Anything terrible can be a major turning point in life, leading you to another world. Only by trying to overcome it will you have I can move forward with courage and live the life I desire.”
