preface
In 2000, the pinnacle of Zhouzhou's life, Schwarzenegger took his hand and walked into the Great Hall of the People, where he conducted the best symphony orchestra in China in a charity performance to raise donations for the Olympics.
After playing a song "Beijing Good News to Bianzhai", Andy Lau took the stage and cordially took the boat and sang a song "You Are My Piece of Hope", and thunderous applause broke out from the stage.
In those years, Zhouzhou became a celebrity, with the highest performance as many as 168 times a year, with a performance fee of up to 30,000 yuan, and many well-known orchestras offered a high salary of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan per month to invite him to go.
Now that 20 years have passed, the myth created by Zhouzhou has been shattered, and Zhouzhou and his father can only eat in a private disabled orchestra in Shenzhen, and take a minimum guarantee of 600 yuan per month.
Such a difficult life, but the father gave his pension to his daughter, because he knew that he owed his daughter too much.
Daughter Zhang Xuan, after being educated by her parents from birth, she will give her brother a pension and send her to the end, and her parents have given all their love to her brother, and she has never enjoyed the happiness and love of the family.
01
In April 1978, the old Hu family in Wuhan had a son, and the family was overjoyed.
Lao Hu only had this child at the age of 40, and the hardships of seeking children for many years felt worthwhile at the moment when the child was born.
So Lao Hu named him "Hu Yizhou", hoping that when he grew up, he would wander in the sea of life like a small boat without worry.
The day ZhouZhou was born was April Fool's Day, and some things seemed to be destined, and Heaven made an unbearable joke with the old Hu family.
Zhouzhou's appearance is not the same as other children, the eye distance between the eyes is narrow, the line of sight is not concentrated, and the mouth is always slightly open.
After examination, Zhouzhou's chromosomal abnormalities and mental retardation, commonly known as "Down syndrome" children.
His intelligence will always remain at the level of a child, unable to take care of himself for the rest of his life, and need to be taken care of by others.
When they learned of this news, the old Hu family roared with five thunderbolts, but they did not expect that after so many years of waiting, they had a disabled child.
Mother Zhang Huiqin washed her face with tears all day, and once fell into depression, not knowing what to do in the future? What about the future of Zhouzhou?
When it was so uncomfortable, she even wanted to pull the boat and jump off the building, a hundred.
Lao Hu, on the other hand, was much more rational, and he quickly accepted this reality. Although the future of Zhouzhou may be difficult, but looking at such a cute child, how can I bear to give up on him.
The child born by oneself is raised by oneself until one's old man cannot raise him, then there is no regret.
The mother had to accept this reality, and the couple naively thought that maybe we would teach him well, and he would be able to live like a normal child in the future.
At the same time, the couple also made preparations with both hands, and they had another child at the age of more than 40 years old.
Because they feel that they are old, in case Zhouzhou really can't take care of themselves when he grows up, let this brother or sister take care of him and give him a pension.
Now it seems that this choice is very stupid, and the next child will also have a chance to become a Tang child.
Second, even if she is a normal child, she should not be allowed to bear such a heavy burden from an early age, or even give up her life, which is unfair to her.
It may even become enemies with parents and brothers.
But the old two at that time could not take care of so much.
3 years later, Zhouzhou's sister was born, fortunately, this is a healthy child, although not very beautiful, but the old Hu and his two sons are already very satisfied.
They named her Jang Hyun and followed her mother's surname.
02
From the beginning of his understanding, Zhang Xuan was constantly told by his parents: "My brother's intelligence is too low, he can't take care of himself, he needs to be taken care of, and when you grow up, you must send your brother to the end of the pension." ”
Little Jang Hyun didn't understand this sentence at all, but just nodded his head in confusion. She didn't know what the words carried.
After growing up, Zhouzhou's face became longer and stranger, and Tang's characteristics became more and more obvious.
The other children did not play with him, but Zhouzhou was very eager to join them, so others ran with him, and they could not leave.
Others called him "fool", he couldn't understand it, or he laughed hesitantly, and the more others shouted, the more energetic they became.
Once, a group of bad boys stripped Zhouzhou of his clothes, and Zhouzhou had to stand naked in the street, and the children all laughed at him, and Zhouzhou stood there at a loss.
Fortunately, the neighbor informed Zhouzhou's mother, and the mother rushed over, saw her son's helpless look, and her heart was broken, and she cried and led her son home.
After returning home, while the mother was bathing her son, Jang Hyun came over to watch curiously, she also wanted to play with the water, so she put her small hand over, who knew that she was slapped back by her mother.
"I don't know how to help, I just know how to add to the chaos, why is it not you who get sick!"
Jang Hyun's little hands were all slapped red, and he cried with a "wow" sound.
Dad worked in the symphony orchestra, was a bass cellist, and every day when he came back from work, Jang Hyun had to run over to hug him, but Dad always made a perfunctory one, and then went to see the boat.
During the meal, the family circled around the boat, and Jang Hyun was obviously younger than him, but no one cared about her, and she often ate all over the body covered with oil.
But even if the clothes are dirty, her mother can't care about changing them for her, because Zhouzhou has to dirty several clothes a day, and her mother is too busy to wash him.
Parents will naturally be biased toward weaker children, they feel that good things for Zhouzhou should be deserved, because he can't take care of himself, although Jang Hyun is small, but she is not stupid, hungry knows to eat, sleepy knows sleep, no matter she is okay.
But they don't know how sad Jang Hyun's heart is, because his brother is a disabled child and can get all the love of his parents. He put on a dress himself and his parents were overjoyed, he could only count to 5 when he was 8 years old, and his parents were happy for several days.
And I worked so hard, but my parents would never see it.
Slowly, she developed a grudge against her brother, and sometimes when her parents were not at home, she would secretly bully him, kill him, and throw her anger at him.
Her parents ignored her, she did not go to college, began to work and married very early, and left the family.
03
When Zhouzhou was older, Lao Hu took him to work, Lao Hu was a double bass player in the symphony orchestra, and when he rehearsed, Zhouzhou sat in a corner by himself to play.
Although his intelligence was low, Zhouzhou's observation ability and imitation ability were very strong, and he watched the conductor open up, standing in front of the conductor dancing with his hands, and his hands could not help but swing along.
One day when I was 6 years old, everyone joked with Zhouzhou during the break: "Zhouzhou, you swing your hands around every day, do you want to be a conductor?" ”
Zhouzhou said vaguely, "I want."
Then Zhou Zhou climbed up to the podium, picked up the baton, and he first learned the way the conductor knocked on the podium and said, "Ready, start!" ”
The musicians laughed loudly, thinking he was quite funny, and Shen Yun caught it.
Everyone played in unison with his gestures.
A miracle appeared, I didn't expect that the boat that usually didn't take things smoothly, learned the way to command to learn the only way, and even opened the old man's push glasses and look at the action of the shop He learned very similarly.
After the conductor of "Carmen", Zhouzhou turned around and bowed seriously, perfectly completing his first command.
The musicians clapped their hands and were amazed, not expecting that Zhouzhou was nestled in the corner every day, and he had learned to conduct without a teacher.
At this time, Lao Hu was already in tears. After work, I went to make a tuxedo for Zhouzhou and spent half a month's salary.
Over the years, Zhouzhou has done nothing, Lao Hu once thought that he could not do anything in this life, but he did not expect that he had a place on the music stage, although his command was not good, but it was enough to make Lao Hu happy.
Since then, Zhouzhou has performed with the orchestra, others are putting on makeup backstage, he also has to paint his face colorful, and he will learn on the stage side when performing.
He studied carefully, and he had to repeat the conductor's every move over and over again.
When he returned home, Lao Hu would also teach him some gestures, accompany him to listen to the music and practice, and let him be his musician and let him direct himself.
Lao Hu and Zhou Zhou found a moment of tranquility in the music, forgetting the fact that Zhou Zhou was disabled, which was Lao Hu's happiest moment.
04
In 1997, a documentary revolutionized the lives of Zhouzhou and the Lao Hu family.
Zhang Yiqing, a documentary filmmaker at Hubei Television, stumbled upon a boat outside the symphony orchestra and was curious about how he had learned to conduct without a teacher.
So he asked someone to understand his background, and when he learned that he was a disabled teenager, he was even more surprised, and he suddenly had an idea.
After 10 months of follow-up interviews, a 60-minute documentary, "The World of Boats and Boats," was born.
Because of Zhouzhou's special mind, he is very natural in front of the camera and unpretentious, so the documentary style of this film is particularly strong, making people feel that this is the story that happens around him, without any acting component.
And Zhouzhou's special family is also touching, his mother was diagnosed with cancer when he was 16 years old, but for his son's future life, he worked several jobs, afraid that he had left his sister and got married and no one would take care of him.
So my mother made herself early in the morning to sell in the morning market, sold out and then went to work, and then went to work in a private clinic after work.
The family saves money, but still can't save money.
This film has won numerous awards and spread to many countries abroad, and Zhouzhou has also become famous in one fell swoop.
Zhouzhou has become a well-known star in Wuhan, and will be recognized when walking on the street.
In 1998, the chairman of the Disabled Persons' Federation called and invited him to participate in the Spring Festival Gala of the Disabled Persons' Federation held in Beijing.
In 1999, Zhouzhou and the famous Symphony Orchestra of the National Ballet Theatre had a historic collaboration.
Surprisingly, even in the face of such a top orchestra, Zhouzhou is not timid.
With a beautiful and smooth start gesture, the music slowly rises, and after the first song, the audience's shocked applause will not stop for a long time.
Zhou Zhou gracefully turned around, made a stop gesture to the audience, and continued the performance of the next song.
After the performance, the audience erupted into thunderous applause, and everyone could not believe that such a master-like conductor was actually a disabled person, and the boat was completely on fire.
Subsequently, after cooperating with Schwarzenegger and Andy Lau, Zhouzhou joined the China Disabled Persons' Federation Art Troupe and established his own symphony orchestra "Zhouzhou Symphony Orchestra", and Lao Hu accompanied him to perform everywhere.
Everywhere I went, when I heard that the boat was coming, it was difficult to find a ticket, and the field was full.
In the highest year, Zhouzhou performed 168 times, with a maximum income of 30,000 yuan, and finally solved the family's living problems.
And most importantly, Zhouzhou is happy from the bottom of her heart and likes this career.
Lao Hu felt that his family was blessed by misfortune, and it would be all good days in the future.
05
However, this glory did not last long, Zhouzhou and Lao Hu in order to make money, others as long as they give money they will act, eventually led to excessive consumption, people soon lost interest in Zhouzhou.
By 2008, there were only 20 performances left a year, and the performance fee was very small, and Lao Hu could no longer afford to raise the orchestra, so he had to disband.
Not only did the disaster, but my mother also died of cancer.
Old Hu is also more than 70 years old, his health is getting worse and worse, and he doesn't know how many years he can accompany Zhouzhou.
At the critical moment, Lao Hu thought of his married daughter Zhang Xuan, because he owed too much to her when he was a child, and Zhang Xuan had almost no contact with his family after he got married.
Old Hu Si came to go, but still felt that she had an obligation to take care of her brother, so he took Zhouzhou to his daughter's house.
Although the daughter is very dissatisfied with her parents, after all, there is still affection, and she agrees to take them in and take care of them.
In order to show his apologies, Lao Hu also gave his pension to his daughter to subsidize the family.
But soon Zhouzhou began to be unaccustomed to such a life. After the scenery, it is too difficult to return to the life of a normal person.
In his sister's house, his only role was to take care of his little nephew with his father, occasionally playing a piece of music to direct the empty room.
He still wants to stand on the podium, where he feels like a useful person, as the old nonsense said: "In ordinary people, he is weak, in the disabled group, he is strong."
Moreover, Jang Hyun scolds Zhouzhou like he did to his son, and although Zhouzhou does not understand, he has feelings.
Old Hu looked at his heart even more unpleasantly, but he couldn't say anything under the fence, he could only live on it.
Unexpectedly, in this suffocating environment, Zhouzhou, like her mother, was diagnosed with cancer.
Lao Hu sold the house to treat him, and once thought that his son might not be able to survive.
Unexpectedly, Zhouzhou created a miracle again, and he was actually cured. This may have something to do with his mentality, he does not know what cancer is, should eat and sleep.
After Zhouzhou was well, Lao Hu suddenly decided to take him back to the art troupe to perform, because Lao Hu felt that the child could only be truly happy on the podium, and he and Zhouzhou did not have much time, so why not satisfy him as much as possible?
Moreover, the son-in-law's temper is getting worse and worse, after all, he has to raise children, and it is not easy to have a mortgage.
Now with two more burdens, no matter how much he earns, he can't spend enough, and he even has the idea of divorce, because he feels that the boat may become his eternal burden.
This time, it was the boat that went on its own.
He went to the Beijing Voice of the Soul Disabled Art Troupe, which gave Zhouzhou a good treatment, but the performance conditions of this troupe were very poor, and they just liked Zhouzhou's former reputation.
They didn't even have an orchestra, so they let Zhouzhou follow the accompaniment conductor on the stage alone, and sometimes forced Zhouzhou to dance in order to enliven the atmosphere.
Where the boat will jump, the crappy twist is very funny.
The audience laughed happily, and Lao Hu knew that his heart was like being cut by a knife.
He could not bear to let his son become a clown, the son was a true conductor in his heart, and he had to let him live the life that was truly his true ideal.
06
He decided to take Zhouzhou to change places again, at this time Jang Hyun called and asked them to go back, Jang Hyun still did not trust his old father to be so old, but Lao Hu said: "I want to take Zhouzhou to Shenzhen, I want him to live the life he wants."
Jang Hyun finally couldn't bear it when he heard it, and said all the words in his heart for so many years: "His ideal life? Why should he pursue his ideal life? I can't do it as a normal person! You wake up, your son is a disabled person, you can live well and eat, don't dream. ”
Old Hu hung up the phone, he didn't want to hear this, he wanted to realize his son's dream.
In his heart, Zhouzhou is his pride and genius, and although Zhouzhou is disabled, his self-care ability is the best one that Lao Hu has seen in the world.
So he helped his son quit his job in this group and took his son to Shenzhen to light up the Life Disabled Art Troupe, which at first said that they would give them 1,000 yuan per month, but later only gave 600 yuan of low insurance.
But Lao Hu still stayed with Zhouzhou, because here Zhouzhou can really be a conductor, and here Zhouzhou has made many good friends.
The leader of the art troupe raised a lot of chickens, and Zhouzhou also took the initiative to take over the work of feeding chickens, and in this simple life he found the joy of life and the meaning of his own existence.
In 2020, the president of a private hospital recognized Zhouzhou as a dry son, and he was willing to take on the responsibility of taking care of Zhouzhou after Lao Hu's death.
Old Hu finally felt solid in his heart, he was busy all his life, but it was just to let his son rely on him when he was old.
Zhouzhou's life is unfortunate and fortunate, although he is disabled, he has a pair of parents who love him incomparably and are willing to protect him for a lifetime.
In contrast, the healthy and normal sister is more pitiful than her, she was born to give her brother a pension to the end, grew up in an environment that no one loves, and after understanding that she is not willing to take on this responsibility, her parents are like strangers to her.
Some people may say that she is cold-blooded and does not give her brother a pension to the end, but who can understand her pain, her own life is not good, how to bear the life of a disabled person, is she not worthy of her own life?