In 2019, Jet Li's second brother Li Lianli unfortunately died of throat cancer. At the funeral, Jet Li cried silently.
In fact, the relationship between Jet Li and his second brother has always been criticized.
Because jet Li became famous, he first promoted his brother-in-law as his agent, and then offered his eldest brother an annual salary of 1.2 million yuan as his personal assistant, but the second brother Li Lianli did not have such a good treatment.
All his life, Li Lianli lived in the countryside by farming land.
So the question is, why does Jet Li treat him differently? What's so hard to say behind this?
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Born in Beijing in 1963, Li Lian was the fifth child and the youngest.
His father is an ordinary worker, his mother is a bus conductor, although he can earn some money, but the family is crowded, many times they eat the last meal without eating.
Jet Li's father has the strength to do some part-time work to improve the family's life, but the long hours of work have made him seriously ill.
When Jet Li was 2 years old, her father died, and her mother Zhang Fenglan endured grief to carry the family's life, in order to make her children happy, she has not remarried.
Although he lives in poverty, jet Li, as an old man, is loved by the family, and in order for him to grow up healthily, his brother and sister will let him eat anything delicious first.
Because of his poverty, his family could not afford to buy new clothes, Jet Li could only wear the old clothes of his brother and sister, so he was often ridiculed by his classmates, which made him determined to get ahead and change the current living conditions.
Soon the opportunity to change his fate came, and he was favored by the coach Wu Bin at the age of 8 when he was flexible, and entered the Shichahai Sports School to learn martial arts.
Although the practice of martial arts is very bitter, but the young Jet Li enjoys it, he has not been left behind in cultural classes and martial arts practice, and this kind of down-to-earth diligence is also seen by coach Wu Bin, which makes him feel very pleased.
Probably a genius, Jet Li won the junior group in the national martial arts competition after three years of practicing martial arts.
Because of winning the championship, Jet Li also improved his life and could also take out excess money to subsidize his family.
At that time, his eldest brother and second brother had already gone out to work and began to fight for themselves.
Soon after, Jet Li also participated in the martial arts routine competition of the National Games, won the all-around championship, making him a celebrity in the sports school, and he also accompanied the deputy mayor abroad.
In 1979, the 16-year-old Jet Li endured injuries to participate in the National Games and won 5 gold medals, so he also got a higher salary in the school, a full 88 yuan, which was higher than the salaries of some teachers at that time.
Compared with the excellent Jet Li, his two older brothers have a more difficult time.
The eldest brother went out to work because he did not have any craftsmanship and could only earn a meager salary every month, and his second brother was the same, and he also owed a bunch of debts when he was newly married, or with the help of Jet Li, he slowly paid it off.
And because Jet Li was also injured in this competition, he had no choice but to withdraw from the martial arts world, but the gold would shine everywhere.
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Jet Li, who has extraordinary skills, won the favor of Hong Kong directors, thus beginning to enter the acting world, and in 1980, he starred in his first film "Shaolin Temple", which also became a hit.
In that era of dime tickets, the film grossed 160 million, which is unattainable in any era.
Later, Jet Li took advantage of the hot iron and continuously shot a series of classic works, such as "Shaolin Kid" and "North and South Shaolin", which made him famous in the Hong Kong film industry.
Although Jet Li is famous, his brothers and sisters are still struggling on the subsistence line, and Jet Li is powerless to help them.
Because at that time, he had just married his sister Huang Qiuyan, and Huang Qiuyan hugged the two for three years after marriage, and the family was also overstretched.
Compared with the hardships of life, there is a bigger crisis about to come to Jet Li's side.
In 1988, Hong Kong film circle tycoon Luo Wei invited Jet Li to Hong Kong to participate in the film "The Dragon at the End of the World", and in the face of such a good opportunity Jet Li also gladly agreed, but did not think of it as one of the things he regretted the most.
Because of this movie, Jet Li met Luo Wei's son, David Luo.
At that time, the relationship between the two was very good, and the simple Jet Li at that time trusted David Luo, but it was precisely this trust that David Luo could give him to the pit of blood.
David Luo tricked Jet Li and Jiahe Company into signing a contract for 4 films for two years, and agreed to pay 6 million Hong Kong dollars, which was already very generous at the time.
Just when Jet Li thought that he was about to usher in the dawn, he did not know that darkness was coming.
David Luo's mother was a senior member of Jiahe, and he used this relationship to begin to squeeze Jet Li, who once again gained a lot of fame through the film "Huang Feihong's Ambition" directed by Xu Ke.
However, when it came time to settle the salary, David Luo only gave him half.
However, this is not the end of it.
When Jet Li wanted the remaining half, David Luo and Jiahe let Jet Li ask for a salary without success, and wanted to forcibly trap him in Jiahe and let Jet Li work for David Luo.
Even when Jet Li wanted to go abroad, he withheld his passport to "put" him under "house arrest" in disguise.
At that time, the director revealed to Jet Li the attitude of Jiahe's senior management towards him: "He is just a mainland boy, and what we have is a way to play him to death."
In the face of such a dilemma, Jet Li could only bow his head first and renew his contract with Jiahe Company for another six months.
Of course, Jet Li will not obediently admit defeat, he began to secretly find a new way out, not to mention that he really let him meet, this person is Cai Ziming.
According to media reports at the time, Cai Ziming had a deep social background, and he was born as a contractor foreman who often wandered in the dark corners of society, and almost no one would offend him from the surface.
Cai Ziming also has his own film company, the first movie he shot was "Dragon and Tiger Club", according to rumors that the male protagonist at the time, Andy Lau, was forced to go by him, of course, the time is long, and we have no way of knowing what happened.
At that time, Cai Ziming tasted the sweetness from filmmaking, it was the time when talents were urgently needed, and Jet Li also needed to find the Ming Lord, the two people hit it off, cai Ziming also promised Jet Li to help him balance Jiahe Company and recover the remuneration owed to him.
With the help of Cai Ziming, Jet Li escaped from the confrontation between Jiahe and Luo David, but the crisis has not yet passed.
Luo David, who has completely torn his face with Jet Li, has no scruples, and he has given full play to his shameless nature.
Not only did jet Li sue him in court, demanding that he pay liquidated damages, but also demanded that he continue to perform the duties of an agent, that is, no matter which agent Jet Li changed, he would get paid from it.
In the face of such a shameless request, Jet Li was also helpless, but he had no background at all to solve this matter, so Cai Ziming once again reached out to him and used his connections to help Jet Li solve these things.
Not only that, Cai Ziming, who was trusted by Jet Li, also planned a new movie for him, "New Dragon Gate Inn", and also helped him plan the road to Hollywood, but just when everything was ready, the crisis came.
Jet Li set makeup photos and Leung Ka Fai
On April 15, 1992, Cai Ziming went to Jet Li's residence to discuss the details of the new movie, and the two people talked happily until cai Ziming left Jet Li's residence in the early morning.
The next afternoon, Cai Ziming was assassinated in the street, and after 9 gunshots, Cai Ziming, who was only 38 years old, left a pair of orphans and widows to die forever.
This also frightened Jet Li, and when Jet Li first received the news, he was trembling, and the phone hung up three times before he hung up completely.
The day after Cai Ziming was killed, someone called to say that he was the murderer, saying that he was hired by a film producer, because the other party did not pay the required salary, so he came forward to expose the matter.
For a while, people talked about the cause of Cai Ziming's death, some people said that Cai Ziming offended the bigwigs in the entertainment industry because he helped Jet Li, and some people said that Cai Ziming offended people in society before he was bought and killed.
No one knows the real reason, and perhaps a small percentage of people do.
The eldest brother Jackie Chan once said bluntly: "Because that period of history is too dark, it will be a hundred years before these things can be made known to the world." ”
It may be that no one dares to stand up, or it may be that the truth has long been buried in the quicksand of time.
In any case, during that time, Jet Li was panicked and uneasy, or the protection of Hua Qiang and his wife, he could get out of the predicament and achieve a career.
However, compared with Jet Li's thrills, his brothers and sisters live a very plain life, busy with their livelihood every day, living a life of sunrise and sunset.
Gradually, Jet Li also began to gain a foothold in Hong Kong, had his own career, and after the incidents of David Luo and Cai Ziming, Jet Li became more cautious about finding an agent.
After some time of deliberation, he chose his brother-in-law.
One is that everyone knows the roots, and as a relative, they will not pit themselves, and the other is to take care of their sister and improve her living conditions.
His brother-in-law saw that Jet Li was doing his best to himself and to Jet Li's affairs, and everything was developing in a better direction, but an accident came again.
Jet Li's brother-in-law died in an accident when he was on a business trip in Inner Mongolia, and the agent's death again made people wonder whether Jet Li had offended people again, or whether someone was maliciously retaliating against him.
In fact, this may be an unexpected car accident, with the development of the times there are not so many fights and kills, and with jet Li's fame at that time, I believe that not many people are willing to offend him.
In the face of the death of his brother-in-law, Jet Li is also very remorseful, he blamed the reasons for his brother-in-law's death on himself, and it is also for this reason that Jet Li also took extra care of the second sister's family, and even regarded his nephew as his own.
Of course, Jet Li has not forgotten his other brothers and sisters.
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After the death of his second brother-in-law, Jet Li asked his eldest brother to be his assistant, and his job was simply to receive guests, and he offered his brother an annual salary of 1.2 million yuan.
Compared with the eldest brother and two older sisters, Jet Li's second brother has behaved more specially, he has not accepted jet Li's help, and when other brothers and sisters enjoy happiness, he still lives his own poor life.
When the reporter went to his home to interview, he did not let the reporter in the door, and also told the reporter that this was not the home of Jet Li's brother.
In the face of the second brother's approach, people will speculate that there is a contradiction between him and Jet Li.
In fact, Jet Li helped the second brother Li Lianli a lot, but Li Lianli is a strong personality, he thinks that he can still move, there is no need to accept the help of his brother, although the life is not too rich, but the life is steady.
And he lied to reporters because he knew his brother was a star and was in the spotlight with every move he made.
If one's own casual remarks are taken by those who have a heart to say things, is it not worth the loss?
Therefore, Li Lianli turned away reporters every time.
It's just a pity that good people don't live long.
In 2019, Li Lianli died of laryngeal cancer, and during the time when Li Lianli was just diagnosed, Jet Li dragged his body around to find a famous doctor, hoping to cure his second brother's disease.
Unfortunately, every time there was no result, Li Lianli's condition also deteriorated day by day, and every time Jet Li came to visit him, he was in tears.
His mother died early, and now his beloved second brother will die, all of which are destroying Jet Li and making him miserable.
At that time, Li Lianli could not speak, but he still forced himself to endure the pain and write a note for Jet Li.
It reads: "I am very content to have a brother like you in this life, and I hope that we will still be brothers in the next life." ”
On February 24, 2019, Li Lianli left Jet Li at the age of 60, and at Li Lianli's funeral, Jet Li cried uncontrollably and was grief-stricken.
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Looking back on Li Lianli's life, he was poor and happy.
He lost his father at an early age, lost his mother in middle age, and died of cancer in his later years, but he never complained about the hardships of life, but treated the world with his enthusiasm and kindness.
And he also understands a truth that many people don't understand, that is, only those who get it with their own hands really belong to themselves, so he will refuse his brother's help.
The departure of his loved ones has also made Jet Li very sad, and now he has faded out of the show business circle and spent more time with his family.
The world is uncertain, life is short, may everyone cherish the people in front of you.