Literature ┃ Ancient and modern storytellers
Edited by the Ancient and Modern Speakers
Remember the movie Ocean Paradise? It is about a father with autistic son, the father works in the aquarium, the son loves water by nature, but the ordinary days are broken by the father's diagnosis of advanced cancer, the father is afraid to leave after a few months, and the son is left unattended. The father began to teach his son how to fry eggs in his final time, take the bus, work in the swimming pool... The story of such a father who gave everything he could to protect his sick son also exists in real life.
On April 1, 1978, in Wuhan, cellist Hu Houpei's family a small life arrived, looking at the lovely son, Hu Houpei named him Hu Yizhou, hoping that his son could ride the wind and waves like a small boat in his life. From the birth of Zhouzhou, the family laughed and laughed continuously, but when Zhouzhou grew to a month, he was found to have "Down syndrome" in the hospital, that is, Zhouzhou was born with one more chromosome than others, and this disease is also incurable, Zhouzhou will be because of this disease, mental retardation, and he needs someone to take care of him all his life.
Just after learning the news of her son's illness, his mother Zhang Huiqin felt that the sky was about to collapse, and she watched her son cry all day, complaining that God had made her son get such an illness. To say that hu Houpei's first half of life has always been taken care of by God.
Hu Houpei, whose real name is Ye, was born in a poor family with many brothers and sisters, and he is the youngest son in the family. In that era, when such a thing happened, his father used four tons of rice to return it to the Family surnamed Hu on the other side of the river, and he became Hu Houpei ever since. The Hu family has a solid foundation, and Hu Houpei also has the opportunity to go to school.
After attending primary school, Hu Houpei also became one of the 60 classmates in the class who was admitted to middle school. After going to middle school, Hu Houpei's teacher originally saw that he had a good physique and recommended him to practice weightlifting. However, Hu Houpei mistakenly registered at the Zhongnan Conservatory of Music, and did not think that the last twenty or so music majors were not admitted, but Hu Houpei was admitted to this temporary application.
In 1962, Hu Houpei went to college at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. Originally, he was assigned to Xinjiang after graduation, but for the sake of the national movement, he did not go to Xinjiang, but stayed in Wuhan, and Hu Houpei became a cellist of the Wuhan Opera House Orchestra.
Hu Houpei lived a smooth first half of his life, and in 1978, his son was born in middle age, which was originally a happy event, but his son was tested for Down syndrome. Zhouzhou's mother, Zhang Huiqin, even wanted to take her son to die at one point, so as not to drag down her family and not to let her son suffer for a lifetime. Just when the family was in grief, Zhouzhou's father, Hu Houpei, made a major decision, he decided to raise his son well with his wife Zhang Huiqin, and the two would have another child, and after a hundred years, this child would take on the responsibility of continuing to take care of Zhouzhou.
In 1981, the two gave birth to a daughter as they wished, and the younger sister was indoctrinated every day from the beginning of her understanding, and her birth task was to take care of her brother Hu Yizhou.
After that, Hu Houpei and his wife had a clear division of labor, the wife took care of her daughter, and Hu Houpei took care of Zhouzhou, and taught him to learn and some life skills. Hu Houpei and his wife have broken their hearts for him since Zhouzhou was born, but anyway, Zhouzhou's age is long, but his intelligence is still like a 3-year-old child, when Zhouzhou was 8 years old, he learned to count from 1 to 5, even tying shoelaces, he took several months to learn.
Hu Houpei has always hoped that his son can grow up like a normal child, so he often let Zhouzhou play with children of the same age as him, but many children are unwilling to play with him, and even bully him, whenever this time, Zhouzhou will only let other children bully him, he does not know how to resist at all. Once, Zhouzhou was stripped naked by other children, and he only knew that he was standing where he was, or the janitor could not look down, covered Zhouzhou's body with clothes, and sent him to Hu Houpei's side. Zhang Huiqin hugged her son and cried bitterly, and the simple boat did not know what was wrong with her mother...
After that, Hu Houpei would no longer let Zhouzhou play alone, he walked to the capital to take his son with him, he went to work in the orchestra, and he would let Zhouzhou wait for him while playing in the background. Over time, the people of the orchestra gradually discovered the difference between the boats and boats.
When Zhouzhou was 6 years old, Hu Houpei and the orchestra members practiced the performance of "Carmen" on the stage, and Zhouzhou on the side learned the appearance of the old conductor, Zhang Conductor saw Zhouzhou's appearance, half-jokingly asked him, do you want to be a conductor, did not expect Zhouzhou to answer loudly, think. Subsequently, Zhouzhou learned the appearance of Zhang's conductor, or the song Carmen, and the people present saw Zhouzhou's serious look and really began to play. At the end of the song, people laughed and praised Zhouzhou as a smart child. After returning home, Hu Houpei told his wife about this matter, and told her wife that maybe this would cure her son's illness.
Hu Houpei used chopsticks and vinyl to make a baton for Zhouzhou, every time the music sounds, Zhouzhou will become different, how to conduct a song, he can imitate it very well. This made Hu Houpei see new hope, and then in the orchestra rehearsal area can always see Zhouzhou holding a baton waving, whenever this time, Hu Houpei is pleased, he saw the light in his son's eyes, and also felt that Zhouzhou and ordinary children are the same.
Later, when Zhouzhou saw that someone on the side of the road was playing music, he would conduct it next to him, and pedestrians would watch Zhouzhou, there were cheerers, and there were also people who laughed. Zhang Huiqin couldn't bear to see her son being teased and didn't want to let her son go, but Hu Houpei felt that Zhouzhou might have this talent.
When Zhouzhou was 16 years old, his mother Zhang Huiqin was diagnosed with cancer, and Zhang Huiqin had the idea of taking her son to die. She even bought two bottles of pesticides on her way home, ready to drink for herself and her son. But as soon as she entered the house, Zhouzhou pulled her to play her newly learned songs, looking at her son with an innocent face, Zhang Huiqin thought to herself, what is wrong with his son coming to this world.
Zhang Huiqin broke that bad thought, she decided to live strongly with her child, she wanted to give her son more love in a limited time. After chemotherapy, she would take her son to eat breakfast, teach him to count, teach him to sing "Only Mother is Good in the World"...
Chemotherapy costs a lot, Hu Houpei's burden is heavier, in addition to taking care of Zhouzhou, but also to take care of his sick wife, in order to treat his wife chemotherapy, the family spent all their savings and owed a lot of foreign debt. Zhang Huiqin did not want to let her husband bear it alone, so she began to get up early to cook porridge early, take it to the market to sell, sell it in a clinic, get busy all day, just take care of eating a meal, and go home late every day. The Boat Family is like this, struggling to race against time.
In 1997, Zhouzhou's fate was rewritten, and he suddenly became a genius conductor in people's mouths. Director Zhang Yiqing wants to make a documentary for Hu Houpei's orchestra, and when he arrives at the orchestra, he finds the small conductor Zhouzhou in the orchestra at a glance. Later, he learned that Zhouzhou was a Tang child, mentally handicapped, but very sensitive to music, and while lamenting the greatness of life, he also decided to change zhouzhou.
For a long time, Zhang Yiqing has been following Zhouzhou's side, shooting 2100 minutes of material and editing 56 minutes of documentary film. On May 16, 1998, the documentary "The World of Boats" was broadcast.
At the time of filming, Zhouzhou was already 19 years old, but his height was only 1 meter 5, in addition, his IQ was only a few years old, many simple questions could not be answered, and the most profound thing about this documentary was not the picture of Zhouzhou conducting the orchestra, but the shot of his father reprimanding him, because Hu Houpei was always teaching Zhouzhou some basic life skills, but Zhouzhou sometimes did not want to do it, so Hu Houpei reprimanded loudly, although Zhouzhou would also be frightened by the reprimand to cry. But did not let the father have the slightest pity, in fact, we all know that Hu Houpei does not want to do this, but he has no way, from the documentary we can see his sense of urgency, if you can not teach Zhouzhou the most basic ability to live, then what will he do in the future, who will take care of him for a lifetime?
It is also because of Zhouzhou that Hu Houpei agreed to shoot a documentary, he only hopes to let more people care about the lives of the disabled, because there is not only beauty in this world, but also many people are suffering from grief!
Although the original intention was simple, the result of the incident was unexpected, after the documentary aired, the boat was on fire, completely on fire, and he was crowned a genius conductor.
This huge identity change may make Hu Houpei a little helpless, but Zhouzhou is so well-known throughout the country, and even to the world, many countries are competing to play Zhouzhou's documentary, he also got a lot of performance opportunities, inside and outside the province, domestic and foreign, Zhouzhou is like the world's top celebrities, even the national leaders have received Zhouzhou, and also shared the stage with and and Froml lau Schwarzenegger and other celebrities. Therefore, Zhouzhou has also become the object of envy of many people, and many parents of children have come to consult Hu Houpei, because their children also suffer from Down syndrome, and they want to get the method of arrogance from Hu Houpei.
Everyone thinks that Zhouzhou is a genius conductor, and sees him in the midst of flowers and applause, but only Hu Houpei himself knows where Zhouzhou is a genius conductor, he is not even a normal person, he can't read the score, he doesn't understand what is called music theory, he will only imitate.
But Hu Houpei has not said this matter, he thinks that sooner or later someone will puncture this lie, but what surprises him is that no one cares about this problem at all, many people only care about the story behind Zhouzhou, because his story is touching enough, and it can also make the media arouse the tears of the public through his story, and this is enough, it is precisely for this reason that this lie, this farce, lasted for 24 years.
Time came to 2006, this year Zhouzhou's mother left him, there are many people in this world who pay attention to him, but there are few who really love him, and now there is one less. In addition, this year, the media also reduced the coverage of Zhouzhou, after all, the public's aesthetic fatigue, enthusiasm for Zhouzhou will fade sooner or later, there is no heat of Zhouzhou, performances have become less and less, and the money earned before has been used to treat the mother and buy a house.
Hu Houpei originally wanted to entrust the boat to his daughter, but also gave his pension and house to his daughter and son-in-law, hoping that they could take on this responsibility in the future, but for his daughter, Hu Houpei also had a deep guilt, when he was in his daughter's schooling, he and his wife had no intention of taking care of it, resulting in the daughter's eventual failure to enter the university, although the daughter did not say it, but there would be some thoughts in her heart. In fact, the sister is not bad for the boat, but a little harsh, and the boat that has been immersed in flowers and applause for many years can't stand the attitude towards the sister.
Later, the 80-year-old Hu Houpei took Zhouzhou to find a performance opportunity again, although there were also orchestras that invited Zhouzhou to perform, but the taste has changed, they just used Zhouzhou as a gimmick, let him sing on stage, or let him tell his touching story on stage. Speaking of affection, he will also let him sing a song that only his mother is good in the world, and even hide Hu Houpei from letting Zhouzhou participate in a blind date show, which Hu Houpei is also very angry about. Many people have also advised Hu Houpei to find an object for Zhouzhou, but Hu Houpei is well aware of his son's situation, and if his daughter marries a person with intellectual disabilities, he will not cause it.
And with the reduction of the performance, Zhouzhou has also become a foodie, eating more and more, the weight is getting higher and higher, and obesity has also led to a lot of diseases, in 2016 Zhouzhou suffered from lung cancer, the father thought that Zhouzhou would be the same as his wife, but the heavens were ultimately not so cruel, a year later, Zhouzhou's tumor disappeared.
With this experience, Hu Houpei has no such a big obsession with whether Zhouzhou is a normal person, as long as his children can live well, he has nothing else to ask for, and later he also recognized a dry father to Zhouzhou, the other party is the owner of a private hospital, he has heard the story of Zhouzhou's family before, he also wants to help Zhouzhou, and when Hu Houpei asked him to take care of Zhouzhou, he did not object. Today's Zhouzhou does not live with his father and sister, but lives with a disabled art troupe in the countryside, and perhaps here, Zhouzhou can look like a normal person.
For the magical life of Zhouzhou, perhaps everyone has their own opinion, from a mentally handicapped child, suddenly became a world-renowned genius conductor, and when he faded his aura, he was treated as a clown by some people, left the stage, he suffered from liver cancer, and then miraculously recovered, then his life, is it lucky? Or is it unfortunate?