The legend of the once Xiangjiang River has gradually gone with the wind and merged into the vast years.
In an office in the Ming Pao Industrial Building in Chai Wan, there is still a painting of Cha Liangyong in clean and neat font, marking his life and their lives:
See through, let go, feel free. People and my heart, gain and lose heart, reputational heart, spoiled heart, are like clouds of smoke, gently put down Can also.
Jin Yong, Ni Kuang, Huang Xia, cai lan, and called them the "Four Talents of Hong Kong", this name is what year and month by whom, there is no way to examine. Nowadays, people repeat it again and again, mostly because it is difficult for the deceased to return.
Four people, one person is an era, the wind is always blown away by the rain and the wind, when they go, the old, that era also ends, but the world is still not ready to accept this moment that can only be remembered.
When Jin Yong left, many media asked Cai Lan to say a few words, and he refused one by one, only to send a letter to his old friend, the writer Yishu, who could not come.
According to the letter, on November 6, 2018, Jin Yong's first seven were held at the East Lotus Pavilion in Happy Valley. The ceremony is presided over by the master, and each person is assigned a book, which is very thick, and it takes several hours from the beginning to the end.
The autumn wind in the southern country was not depressed, but Cai Lan only felt that his clothes were thin and there was already a bit of chill, and he had to leave the scene halfway.
Six days later, it was a memorial service, he deliberately added clothes, still cold, but still sat in the spiritual hall for a long time.
At that time, he was 77 years old, and in the "Book of the Dragon Slaughter in the Heavens", it was written that "life is a hundred years, seventy people are rare, rapids are years, and gushing water", he looked at the people who came and went and leaned over to worship, and most of the people who were familiar with each other had gray hair.
Cai Lan (left) and Jin Yong
The warriors have also rubbed their fists and been full of spirit, but the years are pressing forward step by step, so it is not majestic, the "four talents of Hong Kong" have become the symbols of the world's warmth, and the brilliance of that half century has finally turned into memories.
Ni Kuang said: "It is not a bad thing to have memories in life, I am afraid that when I wake up from a dream, I will have no head to return to and no shore to hope for." ”
"The dust is like a tide of people like water, only a few people sigh back." The years are like water, the rivers and lakes have long gone, and they can only sing and cry to send off the era that has disappeared.
Although they are named "Hong Kong", none of the "four talents" were born in Hong Kong.
Cai Lan said that he spoke Cantonese with Huang Xia, and Chinese with Jin Yong and Ni Kuang. The two cha nis mumbled to each other in Shanghainese (in this case, the dialect of Jiangsu and Zhejiang).
In 1948, when Zha Liangyong was 24 years old, he was not yet a "Jin Yong", and he boarded a plane from Shanghai to the south, only to remember that he did not have a single Hong Kong dollar on his body. The neighbor was Pan Gongbi, the president of the National Daily, who handed over 10 Hong Kong dollars to send charcoal in the snow.
Landing on the ground to rent a car, he does not know Cantonese, with a thick Zhejiang Haining accent told the driver to "go to the restaurant", after getting off the car, he found that the driver mistakenly sent him to the "bad restaurant" (police station).
Young Jin Yong
Zha Liangyong did not want to stay long on this trip. He was a colleague who replaced the newly married, came to urgently support the hong Kong "Ta Kung Pao" that had just been republished, said that it would last for half a year, did not come to fruition, and then the township voice did not change the sideburns, and the self-made teenager established Xiangjiang.
The year after Zha Liangyong arrived in Hong Kong, Huang Xia, an 8-year-old from Guangzhou, also followed his parents to this land of hope and settled in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon.
Sham Shui Po is the place where a generation of Grandmaster Ip Man originated, which can be called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, or a mixture of fish and dragons, where the children are grown up eating each other's fists and listening to the adults' "out of the blue".
Young Huang Xia
Once, when his cousin cried to him about being bullied by a classmate named "Li Zhenfan", Huang Xia took the case and put down the battle book: On Sunday night, he met at Shaqiao on Bafu Street and asked to fight with the other side to the death.
The "duel" lasted only 10 minutes, and although Li Zhenfan's fists and feet were still rough, they were more than enough to deal with the weak Ande Huang Xia.
After this battle, Li Zhenfan admired Huang Xia's "knowing that he could not do it", and took the initiative to shake hands and make peace, and the two became friends from then on.
Many years later, "Lee Chun Fan" was renamed "Bruce Lee", and "Street Fight with Bruce Lee" became one of the "histories of juvenile prestige" that Huang Xia was proud of.
Bruce Lee (center) and Huang Xia (first from right)
Fights like this were not uncommon on the streets of Hong Kong at that time. At that time, it was jokingly called the "heroic era" by Hong Kong people, when the Independent Commission Against Corruption had not yet been established, social security was not good, and in the chaotic world, the spirit of shangwu took root in this land.
More than half a century ago, there were many martial arts halls, many martial artists of all ages and children, and martial arts novels were also highly respected.
In 1955, after the writer Liang Yusheng finished the serialization of "The Legend of the Grass Mang Dragon and Snake", he felt tired and proposed to rest. In order to fill the gap in the page, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper had to ask another "pen holder" in the newspaper, Cha Liangyong, for a manuscript.
Almost catching ducks on the shelves, in order to urge the draft, the editor-in-chief specially sent an editor to sit in Cha Liangyong's house and said, "Before nine o'clock, you need a thousand-word manuscript anyway", otherwise tomorrow the newspaper will come out, and the layout will "have a big blank".
Jin Yong (right) plays against Liang Yusheng
Under the burning eyes of the editor, Zha Liangyong hastily conceived the protagonist of the novel, the male protagonist is a Confucian scholar with a mysterious life, and the female protagonist is a pair of Huijiang sisters. When the payment was signed, he couldn't think of a good pen name, so he took the yong character apart and became "Jin Yong".
And the name of that novel is called "Book of Swords and Vengeance".
The novel was published the next day in the Ta Kung Pao's sub-newspaper, the New Evening News, and subsequently the newspaper's sales doubled, and luoyang paper was expensive for a while, and Jin Yong became famous overnight.
On February 8, 1955, the "New Evening News" serialized the "Book of Swords and Vengeance" for the first time
The new wind of martial arts has blown all the way overseas, and many foreign Chinese newspapers have rushed to reprint it. In the era when information transmission was not very developed, many foreign journalists flew to and from Hong Kong every day to bring back the latest serialized chapters and print and distribute them overnight.
In Singapore, there is a book portal, the owner is a Chinese who "goes to Nanyang", retains the habit of ordering Chinese newspapers, and a pair of children in the family are loyal fans of Jin Yong. Every time the newspaper had just arrived at home, the two of them tore the serial page in half, half of the sister and half of the younger brother, and read it hungrily.
The family's surname was Tsai, and the owner, Choi Man Xuan, was the first employee of the Shaw Brothers Singapore Company, and the family lived upstairs in the theater. The youngest son, Cai Lan, played around when he was young, and when he reached out from the upper floor, he could see the movie screen and watch movies since he had a memory.
Young Cai Lan (left)
In 1955, the novel page of the Singapore Chinese newspaper was Jin Yong's "Book of Swords and Vengeance", and a few pages down, the film page had a film review written by Cai Lan.
That year, Cai Lan was only 14 years old.
Two years later, at the age of 16, Cai Lan went north to Japan as the shaw company's representative in Japan, and Ni Cong, who ate rat meat, finally ended the eight-month ups and set foot on Hong Kong soil.
Eight months ago, on a winter night, Daxinganling, Inner Mongolia, was experiencing a heavy snowstorm, the coal truck could not reach, in the minus 40 degrees, ni Cong, a Shanghainese who came to reclaim the famine, took the lead in demolishing a small wooden bridge to make a fire for heating, luckily surviving, but also accused and criticized.
In order to escape punishment, he picked up a train in the cold night that he did not know where to go. The train drove all the way to Dalian, and he relied on pickpocket wheels to return to his hometown in Shanghai.
In his youth, Ni Kuang (倪 Cong) and his younger brother and younger sister Ni Yishu (倪宜舒).
But the world could not tolerate a "deserter", and he was forced to continue to flee.
One early morning in mid-July 1957, a small boat carrying vegetables docked at a dock in Hong Kong. There were vegetable baskets on the top of the deck, and in the cramped space below were a dozen stowaways, including ni Cong, who was embarrassed.
Many years later, Ni Cong, who is well known under the pen name Ni Kuang, has long forgotten how the 22-year-old himself landed, but remembers that it rained heavily in Hong Kong that day, and the rain was earth-shattering.
In the wind and rain, four foreigners were affected by Hong Kong, and in the near future, affected the wind and rain of Hong Kong.
After arriving in Hong Kong, Ni Cong had no academic qualifications, did not know Cantonese or English, and could only go to the Tsuen Wan construction site to do hard work.
Nowadays, when most people think of Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong, they think of the dreamy Disneyland, but more than sixty years ago, it was a wasteland where nameless young people gathered to lay foundations and raise tall buildings.
The drilling machine weighed hundreds of pounds, and Ni Cong had to use both hands together to hold on, trembling and majestically drilling out of a new world.
Between workmen, he saw his co-workers discussing the commentary on the "True Newspaper". The commentary was serialized for 3 days, and after Ni Cong read it through, he only felt that "bullshit doesn't make sense", so he wrote it as an article, and one afternoon he wrote a 10,000-word long manuscript that contradicted his views and sent it to the newspaper.
Unexpectedly, after a few days, the newspaper published the full text and marked it as a reader's contribution, which was contrary to the opinions of the newspaper's authors. And the author also personally asked Ni Cong to meet and offered a 90 yuan remuneration in person.
At that time, his daily salary at the construction site was only 2.9 yuan, and he smiled at this "huge amount":
"How could I have imagined that I would have money to write an article?"
In this way, Ni Cong's becoming the official editor of zhen bao is a matter of course.
At the end of the 1950s, Ni Kuang worked in the editorial board of Zhen Bao
At that time, the editorial office of "Zhen Bao" was in a room on the 2nd floor of No. 30 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong, very simple, the people were thin, and the editors had to do everything, Ni Cong changed his pen name, using "Yiqi" to write political opinions, "Sha Weng" to write essays, and "Nine Tank Residents" to write articles on fish farming... As for "Ni Kuang", it is only one of his many pen names, and the word "Kuang" is derived from the "Ci Hai".
More than a year later, Ni Kuang, who solved the problem of food and clothing, married Li Guozhen, a girl who had known each other for only 4 months.
The day the two registered was May 20, 1959, and after completing the formalities, he and his wife saw a newsstand at the entrance, and the newsstand had a new newspaper published on it and bought a copy.
That day was the founding day of Ming Pao, and the founder was Zha Liangyong, who was 35 years old at the time.
The inaugural issue of Ming Pao, published on May 20, 1959
An often overlooked fact is that Jin Yong's main identity is to report people, followed by martial arts novelists.
Jin Yong's "Ming Pao" has two major policies known to all generations of newspapers, the first of which is "tolerance is great":
There is a consensus in the hearts of Hong Kong intellectuals that the reason why Ming Pao can become the coordinates of an era is because of independent editorials and no discrimination against any kind of opinion.
Jin Yong said: "In other aspects we are not necessarily better than other newspapers, but there is one thing we have done, that is, truly independent." ”
His life was threatened several times because of his just words.
Someone sent the bomb to the Ming Pao newspaper, the secretary saw it and reported it to the police, the police rushed to deal with it, and the bomb was placed on the road and detonated. The government sent police to protect him 24 hours a day, and also prepared ten fake license plates, which were changed back and forth every day to prevent being followed.
In such a day, Jin Yong spent more than 30 years, and when he talked about why he supported it, he laughed and said: "I don't want to be made fun of by the heroes in my novels!" ”
Jin Yong in his youth
The second policy of running a newspaper is "no desire is just".
In order to remain neutral, Ming Pao once refused external funds, and "will never accept any subsidies and influences from any aspect" except for the proceeds from the sale of newspapers.
Idealism, however, is fraught with bumps in any era.
When Ming Pao was first founded, it sold less than 10,000 copies a day and could not make ends meet. With the help of martial arts novel serials to attract readers and save the country with curves, it has become a method that Jin Yong has tried and failed and has no choice.
With a "Divine Eagle Hero", Ming Pao soon created a daily income of 10,000 yuan, but with the expansion of sales, it was difficult to maintain it by Jin Yong alone, and Ni Kuang, who had just emerged, entered his sight.
In 1960, ni Kuang was 25 years old, and the "Zhen Bao" where he worked was serializing martial arts novels by the famous Taiwanese artist Sima Ling. Sima Ling dragged the manuscript missing, Ni Kuang asked Miao to write it, and it was serialized for two weeks, but no one found out, and the readers praised it like a tidal wave.
After Sima Ling learned about it, he originally lost his temper, "Who dares to continue my novel?" But after reading the continuation, he said to Ni Kuang: "The continuation is very good." ”
Ni Kuang smiled and replied, "It's not only very good, it's better than you!" ”
Ni Kuang in his youth
"Jin Yong found me almost at the end of that year."
In order to save costs, Jin Yong gave a lower fee than other newspapers, but Ni Kuang, who was accustomed to a hard life, was very content, and at the end of each month, holding a five-hundred-yuan bill, he could always laugh for half a day.
Ming Pao later became the "birthplace" of the Wesleyan series.
Although Ni Kuang himself never claimed to be a science fiction novel, jin Yong commented on him when he was the originator of Chinese science fiction:
"The infinite universe, the endless time and space, the infinite possibilities, and the eternal contradiction between the impermanent life are woven out of this head."
Director Zhang Che and Ni Kuangmian's more than 20 years of cooperation also originated from his full belly of ghost talent, and the two are sympathetic to each other, but also do not fight and do not know each other.
Director Zhang Che (right)
Zhang Che made a movie in Taiwan in his early years, "Alishan Storm", and the sentence "Alishan's girl is picturesque..." is derived from this.
After going to Hong Kong, Zhang Che wrote film reviews under the pen name He Guan, and often fought with a film critic named "Yue Chuan". Yue Chuan scolded He Guan to the point of bloodshed every time.
Yue Chuan is the pen name under which Ni Kuang wrote film reviews.
Zhang Che and Ni Kuang are similar in age and are both Shanghainese, and they have fought a lot of pen battles in the newspaper, but they are willing to find a Hangzhou gang restaurant and speak Wu Nong's soft language.
In 1965, Shaw's boss, Run Run Shaw, was bored with the old-fashioned martial arts films and decided to shoot a new type of martial arts film, so he approached Zhang Che.
Zhang Che's first martial arts film was "Three Heroes of border city", and after the release, it did not stir up too many waves, and he thought of Ni Kuang. Ni Kuangwen said, "You Shao Clan have so many talents, it is my turn to come?" Besides, I only write novels, not screenplays. ”
Zhang Che put down his face and begged bitterly: "You will write according to the novel, and when it is written, I will change it for you." ”
In the summer of 1967, the serialization of "Wesley" was interrupted for 2 months, and 2 months later, Ni Kuang handed over the script to Zhang Che and borrowed the stem of Yang Guo's broken arm in "The Condor Man" and named it "One-Armed Knife".
At that time, there were no color prints in Hong Kong, and the film was sent to the Japan Toyo Museum after filming.
Because of his experience in Japan and his proficiency in Japanese, cai Lan had to check the material before it was sent, so he watched all the films produced by Shaw.
When he saw "One-Armed Knife", Cai Lan was refreshed. Before preparing for the film, Zhang Che had talked to Cai Lan about his ambitions, and this "One-Armed Knife" fully reproduced his ambitions.
Different from the martial arts films in the form of stage dramas at that time, "One-Armed Knife" is vivid, and there is blood and bones tearing when a knife is cut down. As a result, Cai Lan became infinitely curious about Ni Kuangqi.
In the 1960s, Shao's Pictures had a popular young student named Yue Hua, and Yue Hua's girlfriend was a female writer who later wrote "The First Half of My Life" and "Xi Bao", Yi Shu.
Yi Shu became an entertainment journalist for Ming Pao at the age of 17, and as a result, he often went to Shaw's company and befriended Cai Lan.
Front row from left: Yi Shu, Cai Haoquan (Yi Shu's first husband), Cai Lan
Yi Shu's surname is Ni, and his brother is Ni Kuang. Under the recommendation of Yi Shu, Cai Lan and Ni Kuang began a friendship that has lasted for a long time.
When they first met, Cai Lan's first impression of Ni Kuang was that "he is really an alien."
However, Ni Kuang, known as an "alien", wrote this sentence after witnessing and experiencing the later human world:
"In the universe, although there are many wonderful things that are insurmountable, they are never more wonderful than fate."
In the 1970s, Shaw's company turned the bow, and Shaw began to consciously reduce film investment and turn to the TV drama industry. This runs counter to the company's CEO Zou Wenhuai's long-term pursuit of movies.
Zou Wenhuai joined Shaw when he was founded and was a minister of Shaw's humerus. However, 13 years of hard work did not pay off in return, and Run Run Shaw's lover Fang Yihua constantly interfered in the work of encroaching on Zou Wenhuai.
Director Zhang Che once commented on Run Run Shaw's way of employing people in his memoirs: "First-class talent, third-class position, special power." ”
In 1970, the depressed Zou Wenhuai ran away in anger and established Jiahe Company to set up a portal on its own.
After the establishment of the company, the first thing Zou Wenhuai did was to pioneer the introduction of the "satellite company" system and establish a personal studio for stars. The owner of Jiahe's first studio is the superstar who has just returned from the United States, Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai
At that time, in order to fire bruce Lee's first shot after returning to China, Zou Wenhuai went around and invited the big director Luo Wei, and as for the screenwriter, he chose Ni Kuang.
In 1971, the film "Big Brother Tangshan", directed by Luo Wei, written by Ni Kuang and starring Bruce Lee, was released, setting a record for the highest box office since the opening of Hong Kong.
The next year, Ni Kuang turned to the newspaper that Huo Yuanjia had a big disciple, so he tailored the "Jingwu Gate" for Bruce Lee.
When the movie was released, Bruce Lee dragged Ni Kuang to the theater to watch, Bruce Lee was nervous and sweaty palms, but Ni Kuang was quite calm.
"Jingwumen" caused a huge sensation, and the boys in the streets imitated Bruce Lee's unique voice when they played.
Even, some scholars began to specialize in the life of Chen Zhen, the protagonist of "Jingwumen". Ni Kuang laughed and said that Chen Zhen's story was just made up by him.
That year, movie fans were ecstatic, but book fans were rushing to the ground.
On September 23, 1972, Ming Pao published the final chapter of the novel Lu Ding Ji, along with another piece of news:
Jin Yong announced that he would close his pen.
That year, in the bamboo forest of Luding Mountain in Liaodong Province, Princess Jianning picked up Wei Xiaobao's ears, and with the laughter of six ladies in the mountain courtyard, Ming Pao completely got rid of the financial shackles, and the martial arts novelist Jin Yong completed his mission.
Zha Liangyong, a newspaperman who let go of his hands and feet, boldly absorbed all kinds of people of insight, including Lin Yanni.
Lin Yanni
He spoke highly of her: "She is the best writer I've ever seen to write prose." The widely circulated phrase "once I see Yang mistakenly for life" came from Lin Yanni's hand.
In Jin Yong's pen, those who saw Yang Guo's mistake for life were Gongsun Lucao, who died of Xiang Yuyu, Lu Wushuang, Cheng Ying, and Guo Xiang, who had never married for life, and Guo Fu, Ye Luyan, and Yan Ping, who retreated to the second place.
After meeting Yang, their memories are happy, but it is a pity that the days ahead are extremely sad.
Lin Yanni's "Yang Guo" is Huang Xia.
Lin Yanni and Huang Xia
In 1977, Lin Qingxia filmed "Dream of the Red Chamber" in Hong Kong. During a dinner, director Li Hanxiang sat next to Lin Yanni, and on the other side of Lin Yanni was Huang Xia.
During the banquet, Huang Xia often mentioned the three words "Lin Meiren", Lin Qingxia thought it was herself at first, and later learned that the "Lin Meiren" in Huang Xia's mouth would always be Lin Yanni.
Huang Xia and Lin Qingxia
The encounter between Huang Xia and Lin Yanni was the right person at the wrong time.
In 1975, Huang Xia's original match, actress Hua Wa was already pregnant with the third child, but Huang Xia still chose to be beautiful, not a family, even if thousands of husbands pointed out, but also resolutely divorced and loved. As he wrote in "Flying Streamers":
Do happy things with a lover / Whether it is robbery or not
Many years later, he confessed to Cai Lan and said that the most sorry person in his life was Hua Wa.
Huang Xia and the original Huawa and their children
The year after they fell in love, Hong Kong added a very small but well-known advertising agency, "Huang and Lin Advertising Agency", Huang is Huang Xia, Lin is Lin Yanni.
Although the two once became the object of criticism by the Hong Kong media, their career development was in full swing.
In that year, the cosmetics brand Revlon entered the Chinese market, and Huang Xia took "Revlon" as its Chinese name from Li Bai's "Qingping Tone" "Yun wants to dress and flowers, and the spring breeze blows Revlon" as its Chinese name, which is both rhythmic and beautiful, and is still regarded as a model of "Sunyard" translation.
Another example is the advertisement he designed for the head horse, "once the head of the horse is opened, good things naturally come", it goes straight to the point, focusing on the social function of luxury goods, and sketching the picture of the flashy and staggered in the most direct way.
In those years, Huang became the first Hong Konger to win the Keo Award, the highest honor in the American advertising industry.
Lin Yanni and Huang Xia have been together for 14 years, but they have repeatedly rejected his marriage proposals, the reason is that they are dissatisfied with Huang Xia's failure to change their true colors.
In 1988, Jin Yong was at home as the host, and Huang Xia knelt down to propose marriage. Even if Jin Yong's personal book was given to the couple "Yellow Bird Roost Swallow Nest and Zi Kai Old, Lin Hua Xia Chao Yu JunYong Nian", but it did not allow the beauty to enter the marriage.
Lin Yanni (second from left), Jin Yong (third from left), Huang Xia (fourth from left)
In 1990, Huang Xia's advertising agency declared bankruptcy due to debt problems, and the house leaked overnight, and Lin Yanni also chose to leave him.
When he was embattled, Huang Xia even had the idea of jumping off the building for a while, and the person who accompanied him at that time was Xu Ke.
The peak of Huang Xia's life's golden song was forced by Xu Laowei: "I cooperated with Xu Ke, arguing from the beginning to the end. If murder had not been against the law, Shi Nansheng would have become a widow. ”
Shi Nansheng, Xu Ke and Huang Xia
Xu Huang's origins began in 1984's "Shanghai Night", and in the years since, Huang Xia has successively presented Xu Ke with classics such as "Shanghai Beach", "The Year of Love", "Qiannu Ghost" and so on, but each time the creative process is quite bumpy, and every time he is driven crazy by Xu Ke.
In 1990, Xu Ke found Huang Xia again: "I was recently filming "Smiling Proud of the River", you can write the song. ”
Huang Xia wrote a draft, and Xu Ke was not satisfied: "Change it again." ”
Wrote the second draft, or "change again".
I wrote 6 drafts before and after, all of which were returned by Xu Ke.
Not crazy devils do not live, Huang Xia randomly turned over the ancient book "Lezhi", suddenly realized "great music will be easy", rebounded the five-tone palace ShangJiao Zhengyu, suddenly lit up the vicissitudes in his heart, the melody lyrics were waved, and the blank space of the music score was written with a few words:
If you want it, don't hire another master.
After Xu Ke listened, he immediately made a final draft.
Xu Ke and Huang Xia
Soon, "Smiling Proud of the River" was screened in Taiwan, and as soon as "A Laugh in the Sea" sounded, the audience would involuntarily sing along. The Taiwanese market has asked Huang Xia for the copyright, and Huang Xia has made a phone call to Luo Dayou: "Why don't we publish a version?" ”
In the early years, when Luo Dayou was young, he released his first record with the help of Huang Xia, and when he heard that Engong was invited, he immediately agreed.
During the recording, Huang Xia pulled Xu Ke into the recording studio, and the three of them were drunk, Yixing flew away, and even his voice was stained with wine.
After recording it again, Xu Ke raped wrongly, and to re-record, Huang Xia waved a big hand:
"Not recorded, this version is the best!" Laughing at the rivers and lakes, it should be like this! ”
Xu Ke fulfilled Huang Xia's wishes and retained this version of "A Laugh in the Sea" mixed with the atmosphere of liquor.
In the laughter of the Emperor Tu Hegemony, it is better to be drunk in the world. The vulgarity, wildness, madness, and truth in Huang Laoevil's heart are probably the only ones in this world that Xu Laowei understands best.
In 2001, 60-year-old Huang Xia, who had lung cancer, did not tell anyone, but told Xu Ke: "I haven't been there for so long, let you know, lest you feel sudden." ”
Later, Xu Ke said: "I am still very calm about Huang Xia's death. It's just that I don't listen to his songs. ”
The reason why Huang Xia became acquainted with martial arts is due to the credit of Xu Ke and the threading of Cai Lan's needle.
At the end of the 70s, after Cai Lan followed Zou Wenhuai away from Shaw, he became a gold medal producer, and at that time he was producing Jin Yong's work "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", the film needed a soundtrack, so he asked Huang Xia to help, and the two became acquainted. Outside of work, like-minded, a chat is an all-nighter.
Cai Lan's interest is long gone from the movie. In that era of being wrapped up in commerce, movies could not hold his thinking, and he envied Huang Xia, who could comfort a pen and a pot of wine.
Therefore, he asked Ni Kuang to recommend himself to Jin Yong, hoping that he could publish an article in Ming Pao.
Cai Lan
Cai Lan's affectionate writing is not a momentary statement.
In the years when the film industry was like the stars arching the moon to Ni Kuang, Cai Lan once handed over the script he wrote to the producer and said to the producer succinctly: "This is written by Ni Kuang." "When the producer saw it, the script was very good, and the writing was also Ni Kuang's style, so he immediately made a decision and bought the copyright."
Later, Ni Kuang was asked and confused. At this time, Cai Lan would reveal his trademark squint: "I wrote." ”
Knowing each other for many years, old friends rarely ask for each other, Ni Kuang naturally does not hesitate to help, every time he eats with Jin Yong, he talks about Cai Lan. At first, Jin Yong didn't care, and then he finally couldn't help but read a few articles, which was indeed fresh.
Since then, Cai Lan has opened a long-term column called "Hasty No Work" in the supplement of Ming Pao. The four words "sloppy and not working" are his self-effacing, describing sloppiness and sloppiness. But in fact, Cai Lan must be more important for writing.
Years later, Cai Lan recalled: "Back then, even if it was an article of several hundred words, I would spend an hour or two deliberating on the words. Fortunately, in those years, what I wrote was still passable, and I did not lose face to Mr. Jin Yong. ”
Jin Yong and Cai Lan
In the column, Cai Lan often mentioned a sentence, "Life is not satisfactory nine times out of ten", which refers to the frustration of that era.
The 1980s were the best and worst years of Hong Kong cinema.
At that time, the shadow of the underworld always hung over the Hong Kong entertainment industry, and the first thing artists did when they entered the industry was "Bai Wharf".
When he was young, Jackie Chan was full of spirit, but he was also a "stunned blue" and offended many big guys. Once, When Jackie Chan went to the hotel to eat, he was surrounded by more than two dozen ancient puzzle boys with machetes, and he desperately escaped the disaster.
Zou Wenhuai was Jackie Chan's boss at the time, and he frowned and thought for a long time - in addition to running, Jackie Chan only had one way to die.
After hesitating for a long time, Zou Wenhuai walked into the office of production manager Cai Lan.
Cai Lan is a person who is kind and charitable, the popularity is very good, the entire Hong Kong entertainment industry is willing to leave three points of thin noodles for him, if there is only one person in the world who can take anyone from under the eyes of Gu Qiuzai, that person must be Cai Lan.
On that day, no one knew what they talked about, only that Cai Lan left Hong Kong with Jackie Chan soon after.
Cai Lan and Jackie Chan
In the years that followed, the world became his set, and the group traveled to Yugoslavia, France, and Australia, sending Jackie Chan all the way to Hollywood.
In those years, Cai Lan traveled around the world and was not happy, but when he returned to Hong Kong, the world around him had changed.
At the end of the 1980s, Jin Yong, who was nearly an ancient man, stopped writing editorials and handed over Ming Pao to his juniors; Huang Xia, in the year of destiny, lost the company and became poor; and Ni Kuang, who was getting heavier and heavier, fell in love with acting.
At that time, Ni Kuang often made cameos in various film and television works, limited by the appearance conditions, and most of the roles were concentrated in prostitutes and lewd men.
Someone said to Ni Tai: "Even if you ask Ni Kuang to play a writer, calling him to play a prostitute is simply insulting to a great writer." ”
Ni Tai was not impressed: "Ni Kuang plays a writer and a prostitute, all of whom are in their own business." ”
Fu Fu Ni Kuang
In 1989, the 54-year-old Ni Kuang fell in love with a "mother Sang", so he dragged Cai Lan and Huang Xia to a nightclub to drink flower wine, and the three of them told jokes one after another, teasing the women who accompanied the wine. Later, Cai Lan ran to pay the bill, only to learn that it cost one or two million Hong Kong dollars a night.
He shouted at the moment: "Wine is not the best, and women are not the most beautiful!" If you don't want to, you might as well sell your idea to a TV station! Huang Xia and Ni Kuang hurriedly said yes, and it was a hit.
In this way, 3 talents who are more than half a hundred years old gather in the studio, drinking the most expensive wine, accompanied by the most beautiful people, swallowing clouds and talking.
The name of the program is "Tonight No Defense", the so-called "no defense", that is, men and women drink until they are slightly drunk and then start recording, where they are happy, gags, witty words like pearls.
In that show, Zhang Guorong said lightly, "Everyone has a mouth, let them talk about it", And Huang Xia raised a strong kiss, and he didn't think anything of it;
Lin Yanni sat down in a Chinese costume, and the first sentence asked the host, guess who kissed me first when I was dragging with Huang Sheng?
Lin Qingxia chatted about Qin Han, there was no taboo;
Maggie Cheung admits that she entered the industry because of greed and vanity;
……
Some people commented: "The superstar at that time is the real superstar." "Now it seems that in that era, that undefended night, those stars who were crooked in front of the camera, were precious.
"Tonight Without Defense" began with Ni Kuang and ended with Ni Kuang.
The show was done for two years, and Ni Tai Li Guozhen mentioned to Ni Kuang that the time she missed the most was when the two had just married and were penniless, which was the happiest time for the couple.
This remark aroused Ni Kuang's guilt for his wife, and he immediately decided to go to the United States to find a corner that no one knew and spend his old age together.
Ni Kuang and his wife Li Guozhen
In 1992, the 35th year after Ni Kuang landed in Hong Kong, he left a statement to the People of Hong Kong and whisked away:
"I have resolved to fade out, and from now on at the end of the earth, idle clouds and wild cranes; drunkenness, the sun and moon in the pot; sitting in the bamboo, reading among the flowers; the world without me, disturbed by him; the old and the new know each other, if they occasionally think of it, can be regarded as early ascension to bliss."
Three thousand years of reading history, but also fame and fortune; ninety thousand miles of enlightenment, and finally return to the poetry and wine pastoral. The madman Ni Kuang quietly faded out of the jianghu.
Ni Kuang and Ni Tai left for 14 years, and during those days when he crossed the ocean, the phone calling him back to Hong Kong would ring every year, but he was almost unmoved, only two calls made his heart ripple.
A call was made by Huang Xia.
In 2002, director Zhang Che passed away. Above the Spirit Hall, Gao Shu reads four big characters of "Shadow Master". On that day, Huang Xia and Cai Lan supported the spirit, and everyone mourned.
There is a couplet on both sides of the hall, "Mountain Passing Heaven, One-Armed Tree Majestic Wind". Takayama refers to the theme song "Alpine Green" of Alishan Fengyun, and the one-armed refers to the movie "One-Armed Knife".
The link was made by Huang Xia. On the phone, he asked Ni Kuang how he wrote, and Ni Kuang laughed and said, "Yes, I will die another day, and it will be up to you to write it!" ”
Ni Kuang, Cai Lan, Huang Xia
How to expect that the world is uncertain, the second phone call is in the autumn of 2 years later, the other end of the phone told Huang Xiaxian to go, Ni Kuang heard a loud cry: "Is there any reason for this!" ”
In the early years, the two looked for the iron version of the god (also known as the iron plate god number, one of the ancient Chinese numerology numbers) fortune telling, calculated that Ni Kuang was 60 years old, but calculated that Huang Xia could live to 70 years old.
"Now that I'm in my 70s, it's a pity he left so young." Ni Kuang said.
Huang Xia was 63 years old when he left, and there were indeed too many unfinished things and regrets.
On April 8, 2003, at Zhang Guorong's funeral, Huang Xia gave a deep eulogy:
"Does Heaven want to teach us through Him to learn and cherish from now on, and from now on we must be very willing to love and care for the things and things that we should have loved, because good things will not accompany us forever?"
Zhang Guorong and Huang Xia
Between the mourning, it seems that it is not only the people in the coffin who regret it.
In his twilight years, Huang wrote a pessimistic conclusion in his doctoral dissertation: the Hong Kong music industry was exhausted. He lamented that Hong Kong pop music "has no more beautiful melodies" and let people engrave a seal -
"Unbelievers are deaf to the deaf."
"Now I have to write and write, desperately write, write until no one listens, write until no one wants, write until death." 」
But as the generation of singers he was familiar with grew old and gone, fewer and fewer people looked for him to write songs and fill in the lyrics.
When an old friend visited in the past, he saw that Huang Xia's case was full of a poem written by Yan Jidao:
"The words on the clothes are always desolate."
He said he was "the head of an old man, the heart of a teenager, the body of an older man... Don't look at me all day giggling, my heart is still very vicissitudes, very sad, very depressed."
Huang Xia
In the 90s, the four kings were booming, Andy Lau wanted to try his own lyrics, published his debut work "Love is So Stupid", Huang Xia listened to it and scolded Andy Lau in the media for writing words that were unreasonable, "I have not seen the lyricist who writes 'love' so stupidly." ”
One day, Hua Tsai met Huang Xia, and couldn't help but say to Huang Xia: "Uncle Xia, don't you scold me so hard?" ”
Huang Xia patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't give up, people will progress, I scolded you for three years, your current work, I understand." ”
More than 20 years later, the stupid child of that year is also about to turn 60, and said in Lu Yu's interview program: "I want to promote Cantonese songs, Cantonese songs have not been remembered for too long." ”
An understated sentence, in the déjà vu of loneliness, you can also glimpse the brilliance of the last century.
After Huang Xia left, Jin Yong traveled around to study, talked about history, and also talked about martial arts, but he no longer read Ming Pao. The old man of the newspaper said: "After Mr. Cha left, he deviated from his ideals in many ways. ”
Cai Lan is still eating, drinking, still playing, still writing, still brushing Weibo, still solving puzzles, but occasionally lamenting the troubles of generations of people, "all the same, it is so boring."
In 2005, after 14 years, Ni Kuang still returned to Hong Kong, the airport was built after he left, the residence of that year has become a school, many deceased people have passed away, "this time back, the peers are half ghosts."
"Wesley", which had been serialized for 41 years, was finally concluded, and the last one was named "Only Old Friends". In the book, Wesley and a group of old friends have been far away from the stars, and have not been heard from since.
The wonderful past is varied, and today's regrets are almost the same. Sighed, drunk, and woke up with only one evening photo left.
On October 30, 2018, the 94-year-old Jin Yong left, and many people stayed up all night.
That night, Tang Hede posted a post on social networks mourning Jin Yong, with the picture of Jin Yong's handwriting in 1995, "Crane Ming Jiugao, De was three", which has been properly preserved. In the caption, Tang Hede mentioned that he was a "super Jin Yong fan", and Zhang Guorong had asked Jin Yong for his signature that year.
On October 30, 2018, Jin Yong passed away, and Tang Hede sent a message of condolence
Zhang Guorong once starred in the movie "East Evil and West Poison" based on Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter", which has a line: "Before, I thought that sentence was very important, because I believed that some things were said to be a lifetime." Now that I think about it, it makes no difference if I say it or not. "In one lifetime, the grass and trees fall, many unforgettable moments are unconsciously scattered into a dust." When Jin Yong was still there, there was always a media call ni Kuang late at night, asking if Jin Yong was gone, and asking him to ask what was going on.
At that time, Ni Kuang was always frightened, but when Jin Yong really went, he said: "When people reach old age, they will inevitably face death." There is no need to be overly sad. ”
Jin Yong and Ni Kuang
Jin Yong's funeral was filled with the bell orchids that the deceased loved most during his lifetime. In the center of the bell orchid is a portrait of the deceased, and the banner above is proposed by Ni Kuang and transcribed by Cai Lan himself as "A View of All Beings".
Many people were puzzled, and Ni Kuang also wrote a note to Cha Tai, explaining that mr. Cha had seen through the faces of all beings in the world to have this great work.
At the funeral, there was a commemorative book for relatives and friends, and the last page of the book recorded the last sentence of Yang Guo written in the "Divine Eagle Hero":
"This good meeting, the great prosperity is not shallow, he meets every day, and then he is a cup of wine and a happy word." Let's leave it at that. ”
The legend of the once Xiangjiang River has gradually gone with the wind and merged into the vast years. But in an office in the Ming Pao Industrial Building in Chai Wan, there is still a clean and neat print of Cha Liangyong hanging, marking his and their lives:
Jin Yong, photographed in the Ming Pao Building
Time has passed, and all the past, yes, is Yefiyah, has passed. The past is the past, and even if you miss it, you can't force it to come back.
The times are over, the new wave has arrived, and it is a blessing to have them.
He was in the same era as his predecessors and is still honored.