On September 1, 2005, the Babaoshan Funeral Home in Beijing was crowded.
The memorial service of the famous actor Fu Biao is being held, and almost half of the entertainment industry gathered here on this day.
Hosted by director Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Guoli read the eulogy, and Liu Zhenyun was responsible for writing the eulogy.
In addition, friends like Zhang Yimou, Tao Hongxu Zheng and his wife, Ge You and his wife, Lu Liping and his wife all came to worship.
There are also countless fans who spontaneously send off Fu Biao.
When Fu Biao's 14-year-old son and wife Zhang Qiufang appeared at the same time dressed in black, everyone was very distressed about the mother and son.
Everyone cried uncontrollably, but the mother and son were unusually calm.
Zhang Qiufang also comforted everyone that when she was changing Fu Biao's clothes two days ago, she found him laughing:
The muscles of his cheeks were lifted upwards, his lips were tight, and the corners of his mouth were upturned. It's like you've just carried out a prank, and it's like telling everyone a joke. Three points shy, seven points proud. ”
Friends and family surrounded him, no one cried, and he must not want everyone to be sad.
But what is even more touching is his 14-year-old son Fu Zien.
He said: "Please don't feel sad about my father's departure, he is too tired and now he can finally rest. ”
You must not know what kind of tears and pain Zhang Qiufang and her son experienced in the days without Fu Biao.
A happy family of three in the past
The first time Fu Biao and Zhang Qiufang met, it was in the Chinese Railway Cultural and Labor Corps.
One of them came from a private university, and the other was a former flight attendant, who was bright and smooth, very eye-catching, and her appearance also illuminated the first half of Fu Biao's life.
Zhang Qiufang did not understand the play, Fu Biao told her over and over again, no experience, Fu Biao acted for her to see.
In order to buy Zhang Qiufang more snacks and trinkets that girls like, Fu Biao exchanged two yuan a day for a box of cigarettes for 6 cents a box.
After a long time of contact, Zhang Qiufang secretly agreed with the honest and generous Fu Biaofang, but she never had the good sense to say it.
Or because of a dinner that gave them the opportunity to establish a relationship.
On that date, Zhang Qiufang suddenly wanted to eat sea cucumbers, but the embarrassing thing was that Fu Biao didn't have enough money, and he couldn't order other dishes after ordering sea cucumbers.
In this way, Zhang Qiufang ate a whole plate of sea cucumbers, and Fu Biao ate a whole plate of sea cucumber ingredients.
Moreover, Fu Biao was not a little displeased, and while eating green onions, he smiled frankly at her, which immediately made Zhang Qiufang feel that he would definitely not be wronged after following him in this life.
Before he was married, Fu Biao ran to the door of Zhang Qiufang's house, only to be discovered by his future father-in-law.
He didn't panic either, and directly reported to his home, saying that there are no boys in your family, and if you have any strength to work, just call me!
After six years in love, the two people entered the palace of marriage amid the blessings of relatives and friends.
In 1991, the son of the two men, Fu Zien, was born, and the unit was given a 12-square-meter bungalow.
So small that there was no room for cooking, Fu Biao built a partial building under the eaves to cook.
But despite their poverty, they enjoyed it, the couple was hospitable, and the home was often full of friends.
Sometimes there were more than ten people at once, and the hut was full of people, everyone stood and sat, and sometimes even the courtyard was full of people.
The wife is busy in the kitchen, talking to her friends, the son is running after the sun all day, and the happy game is noisy...
In Fu Biao's view, those days were the happiest times in his life.
However, these friends did not know that in order to entertain them, fu Biao's family often ate squeezed vegetables and instant noodles at home, and no one knew the secret.
His career has stagnated since he got married, which makes his heart very depressed, and he wants to give his wife and children a better life.
But the more you want to do a good job, the more likely you are to make mistakes.
Perhaps it was because he was too righteous in his daily life, so Fu Biao never thought that his sincere friends would deceive him.
One day in 1992, one of Fu Biao's buddies came to the door and dragged him to the sea to do business.
Originally, Fu Biao was not moved, and felt that it was better to make money by filming and being down-to-earth.
But the man's words went straight into his heart.
"How long have you not taken your sister-in-law out for a walk?" How long has it been since I bought a toy for my son? ”
Under the flicker of the "buddy", Fu Biaodong cobbled together 300,000 yuan.
But the so-called good brother, as soon as he got the money, smeared oil on the soles of his feet and disappeared without a trace.
In order to repay the 300,000, Fu Biao ran to the advertising company to work as a salesman, afraid that if he could not sign the order, he would drink for his life.
Once, in order to get a customer with a bad temper, he drank a whole eight or two liquors!
It was precisely because of his inattention during that time that Fu Biao laid hidden dangers for future diseases.
That night, Fu Biao hugged his wife and cried into tears:
"I love acting, I really want to act, I hate to drink."
Perhaps heaven could not bear to see good people lose hope in life, and in 1994, Fu Biao finally ushered in a turnaround.
Around 2000, Fu Biao, under the promotion of Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Guoli and others, became a backbone member of the "Feng Family Class" and starred in a number of New Year films.
From "Zhang Fugui" in "Party A and Party B" in 1997
By 1999, "Endless" was specially customized for him;
Then to Liu Dawei in 2000's "A Sigh";
There is also "Liu Zong" in "No Thief in the World" who likes to use his hands and feet.
Although most of them are small supporting roles with few roles, they play the most ordinary little characters in life.
Relying on his outstanding acting skills, Fu Biao not only received high praise inside and outside the industry, but also won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actor and the film emperor of the "College Student Film Festival".
They lived in the bungalow for more than a decade, and it was not until 2005 that they bought a suite with a loan from Xiaotangshan in Changping, Beijing.
There is a saying that no matter how bitter you are, you can't suffer children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education.
Under the influence of his parents, Fu Zien has been particularly sensible since he was a child, never asking for toys with his classmates, nor is he jealous of their bright clothes.
He only envied that every day after school, his classmates had parents to pick them up.
In fact, Fu Zien did not know that Fu Biao's love for him was not much at all.
Once, in the evening, Fu Zi'en shot under a broken basketball rack on the mountainside, and he was a little worried and drove to find it.
After finding his son, he did not rush to call him home, but parked the car where the headlights could illuminate the basketball hoop, smoking a cigarette and waiting.
Although internally he sometimes wronged his wife and children, externally, Fu Biao could not fault a single thing.
There was once a Shandong reporter who went to Hengdian to interview him, but because the road was not familiar, he went around the studio for four or five hours to find someone.
Although he was late, Fu Biao's first words were to ask people if they had eaten.
The reporter said no, he asked the staff to bring a bowl of egg noodles, and waited for him to finish eating before being interviewed.
He once told a reporter from Nanjing Daily: "It is not easy to be a reporter, and if you need my help in the future, contact me." ”
This reporter didn't take it seriously at first, and then he really couldn't think of Fu Biao, and as a result, he really didn't say anything to help him solve the problem.
When Hou Yong was still a nobody, he once filmed with Fu Biao.
The crew sent a car to come, and Fu Biao heard that Hou Yong's matter was particularly anxious, so he let the car send him first, and finally delayed his own business.
In 1998, he filmed "Where dreams begin", which was Zhang Hanyu's first drama, and the opportunity was won by Fu Biao.
When he was recommending people to the director, he said: "If Zhang Hanyu is not good enough, no one can act!" ”
In this drama, there is also the film queen Yongmei.
There is a scene that requires Wing Mei to prostrate her head and bleed, and in order to have an effect, she must bang and bang, but Zhen Bump is afraid that Wing Mei will have any accidents.
Fu Biao took off his shoes and stomped the ground with his heels, and as a result, the scene was finished, and Fu Biao injured his Achilles tendon.
Since then, Wing Mei has been calling him "brother".
Wang Jinsong can become a well-known good actor, and Fu Biao has made a lot of efforts.
"He took me to meet various directors every day, and the first sentence was' this is my good friend, a good actor, he is not expensive, you just use him, I will give you a bunch of plays for free, you say go for a few days, I don't want a penny.'" ”
Thus opening the drama road, Wang Jinsong has Yang Jinshui, who is called "the first eunuch in 30 years" in "Daming Dynasty 1566".
The old drama bone Sun Guitian had two marriages and gave birth to three children in total, but he did not expect that the three children of Gu Rare broke out into a fierce inheritance battle.
As a result, she was still in her seventies and still running for her children to shoot.
Once she cooperated with Fu Biao and often chatted on the set, and after Fu Biao learned about her, he also called her a mother outside the play.
Every New Year's Festival, I went to visit, and each time I left three or five thousand yuan.
There are simply too many things like this happening to Fu Biao...
In short, to describe Fu Biao in one sentence is:
Obviously, I don't have a good life, but I can't see the suffering of the world.
But good people don't necessarily have good rewards.
In 2004, Fu Biao was diagnosed with severe liver cancer, and doctors told him that it was a physical hazard buried by irregular work and rest for a long time and drinking alcohol.
In order to save his life, his wife spent all the family's savings and changed his liver twice.
The first operation was very successful, and Fu Biao personally cooked on his son's 14th birthday and made a steamed egg with the best meat foam.
Watching his son eat happily, he felt satisfied, fantasizing about being able to accompany him all the way up and cultivate him into a talent.
But the good times did not last long, and one night, Fu Biao was once again awakened by a sharp pain.
After the hospital examination, the liver cancer recurred, and the doctor recommended a second liver replacement.
But this time, Fu Biao was not as lucky as last time.
On August 30, 2005, Fu Biao looked out the window at the bright and dangling sun and suddenly wanted to smoke.
He lit a cigarette and took a deep breath.
Then the nurse came in, just looked at him, and didn't stop him.
After squeezing his cigarette, Fu Biao called his wife and said:
"I'm sorry, but when it was time to cherish you, I chose to work. Thank you for accommodating my bad temper, the rest of the way, I can't go on with you anymore, I love you forever. ”
Not long after the phone hung up, Fu Biao's electrocardiogram became a straight line at the age of 42.
After the 14-year-old Fu Zien learned the news, he would remember the bits and pieces of the father and son getting along, and he burst into tears in an instant.
But as the only man in the family, he has to take on the responsibility of caring for his mother and grandmother.
Man never grows up slowly, but grows up suddenly in an instant.
In addition to the sudden change of intention, the mother also owed more than 2 million yuan in debt in order to treat her father' illness.
Their orphans and widows are carrying a body of debt, and this burden of future life seems to form an invisible pressure on the young Fu Zien.
It is said that the friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, and the feelings of the entertainment industry cannot be serious.
But Fu Biao used all his sincerity in exchange for the help of several good brothers.
In order to help the mother and son reduce their burden, Feng Xiaogang took all their debts.
Ge You recognized Fu Zi'en as a dry son and raised him.
Ge You and his wife have been married for many years and have been childless under their knees, so they have always regarded Fu Biao's only son as their own, paying attention to his growth.
It was also in this year that Fu Zien graduated from junior high school.
Fu Biao wanted to send his son to study in Britain before he died, but Fu Zien was worried that it would increase the burden on his mother and was unwilling to go.
Zhang Qiufang said to her son with tears:
"Your father just suffered from the loss of culture, when he was young, he took so many detours and fell into trouble, so he paid special attention to your studies, and if your father's death affected study abroad, I couldn't explain it to him."
Fu Zi'en cried and agreed.
Due to the early death of his father, he was far more mature than his peers, and during the two years of studying abroad, he did not ask his mother for living expenses.
He often uses his spare time to work in fast food restaurants and write articles to publish in school magazines to make money.
His son's understanding made Zhang Qiufang burst into tears.
After returning to China, Fu Zien can't wait to be an actor, but the competition in the show business circle is too fierce, handsome men and beautiful women are like clouds, how easy is it to want to break out of the fame?
Fu Biao's former friends Feng Xiaogang and Ge You could not have understood this better.
Under their persuasion, Fu Zien finally chose to study directing, and it seems that working behind the scenes in the future is indeed more suitable for him.
However, he still can't give up his dream of being an actor in his heart.
As a result, Ge You recommended him to play a small role in the movie "Breathless" in which he starred in 2009.
This is his first appearance in a movie, and under the fat white T-shirt is a big guy with white skin and slightly fat skin.
Looking closely at the eyebrows, there was still a bit of Fu Biao's shadow, and he was more and more like his father.
At the premiere ceremony, looking at Fu Zien on the stage, Ge You, who was sitting under the stage, couldn't help but take the lead in clapping his hands and applauding, and his eyes were full of pity.
On Fu Zien's 18th birthday, the mother held a birthday party for her son and also informed Ge You.
Ge You had an affair that day, but for the sake of Fu Zi'en, Ge You came as promised, and as soon as he entered the door, he said to his son: "Your mother can't manage you today, have a drink with Uncle!" ”
Later, on Fu Zien's path of directing, Ge You also tried to open up a path for him, and repeatedly publicly praised him as a capable child.
Sure enough, in just a few years, he won the Best Newcomer Director Award for his work.
Watching her son get better and better, her mother Zhang Qiufang did not drag her feet.
At the beginning, Fu Zien's money for studying abroad came from a loan, and she was not willing to bother her husband's friends before he died.
As a result, in order to help her, Fu Biao's friends really broke their hearts.
One day, Deng Jie called Zhang Qiufang and asked her if she would like to be a Chinese agent of a well-known American brand.
The principal does not have to worry, he is willing to lend her.
Because of Deng Jie's help, Zhang Qiufang quickly earned the first bucket of gold and opened more than 30 stores.
After years of capital accumulation, Zhang Qiufang, who is already 56 years old, has long been a billionaire woman, and her and her son's lives no longer need others to help.
Seeing that his wife and children are getting better and better, and the good brothers he has helped have also thought so much about their families, I believe that Fu Biaoquan should be very pleased to know.
As he grew older, Fu Zi'en was also thirty years old, and he had already come out of the shadow of losing his father at a young age.
But he looked at his mother for so many years and worked too hard alone, and he also began to worry about his widowed mother.
Her efforts were seen by Fu Zien in her eyes and hurt in her heart, and her mother was also a girl and also needed someone to take care of her.
Seeing his uncles and aunts around him in pairs, he could see envy in his mother's eyes.
When he was in his twenties, he advised his mother to find a partner so that he could have a reliance for the rest of his life.
At first, Zhang Qiufang was unwilling, first, because she could not forget Fu Biao, and second, Fu Biao's parents still needed to take care of themselves, and when her family left, the family was scattered.
Fu Zien was even more distressed after listening to it, and persuaded his mother for a long time.
In the end, Zhang Qiufang decided to take this step and try to accept other men.
Soon, she had a boyfriend, and when it came time to talk about marriage, Zhang Qiufang put forward two requirements.
First, I must be good to my sons, and second, I must accept my ex-in-laws, and I will take them to marry.
Such harsh requirements successfully scared away the other party.
After that, Zhang Qiufang completely cut off the idea of remarrying, and Fu Zien no longer persuaded his mother.
Perhaps in her heart, Fu Biao never left, although they had only been together for a dozen years.
But the so-called: "Ten years of long companionship, phoenix with phoenix, wandering together, red candle frost, love race Mandarin duck." ”
As for Fu Zien, although his qualifications and experience are still shallow, he believes that in time he will be able to take the lead alone.