16 years ago, a reality TV show attracted the attention of countless people.
A pampered child in a city, a poor child in the mountains, was exchanged by the program group for a week, and the beautiful name is "deformation".
The word "metamorphosis" comes from the Austrian writer Kafka's novel "Metamorphosis", which refers to a person who wakes up and finds himself transformed from a human to a beetle, and everything around him becomes different due to different perspectives. Later, "Metamorphosis" is a metaphor for changes in the environment.
"Metamorphometer" has been popular for many years, creating a group of Internet celebrities and Internet celebrity memes.
For example, at the beginning, he preferred to die rather than eat the meals made by rural parents, "Zhenxiang Boy" Wang Jingze, and Han Anran, a plastic surgery girl who "lived to be old and was old", became celebrities, Internet celebrities, and even registered their own companies through this show.
But those children from the poor rural areas of the mountains came silently, silently returned, and disappeared into the crowd. They have seen big cities and enjoyed the prosperity of big cities, but they have to return to their original lives after a week.
But there are life-changing exceptions, such as Gao Zhanxi.
At that time, Gao Zhanxi was the rural protagonist of the first issue of "Metamorphometer", and many years later, through hard work, he was admitted to university with the first place in Qinghai Science, and was the only two national defense students in the province, and became a platoon leader of the armed police after graduation, known as the most sober child in "Metamorphometer".
Dumb Dad, this will take you into that issue of "Metamorphometer" to explore Gao Zhanxi's life.
01. The hometown of the family disciples Shibi
Gao Zhanxi's hometown is in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, which is a national poor village. When the camera team entered the village, they saw this scene:
It was a truly isolated mountainous area, with almost no mountain road leading to the outside world, and on the other side of the mountain, there was still a mountain.
The land is extremely barren, and wheat is harvested without a sickle, but with a gentle pull, it can be uprooted.
Only a quarter of students make it to high school.
And Gao Zhanxi's family is the poorest of the poor households, the poorest family in the village.
His father is blind, his mother is weak and sick, his younger brother is young and ignorant, and there is Gao Zhanxi, who is studying at the age of 14. In such a home, the difficulty of life can be imagined.
The only eldest brother who went out to work was also struggling because he had no education or technology. In a good year, you can earn 2,000 yuan a year, but in a bad year, you can't even earn enough money for travel.
In Gao Zhanxi's words, other houses in the village have porcelain tiles in their kitchens, but his kitchen is still earthen walled.
The best things he ever ate were the sugar and three apples that his eldest brother brought home for the New Year. The rest of the food, just seeing pictures in textbooks and swallowing saliva.
He said that he liked Jacky Zhang and Zhao Benshan the most, but he couldn't even tell who they were.
The family is in financial difficulty, Gao Zhanxi wants to continue studying, and his parents are so angry that they quarrel with him.
If the development continues according to the script set by fate, Gao Zhanxi has a high probability that he has no money to go to school after graduating from junior high school, and is forced to go out to work and continue to live at the bottom.
However, fate gave him a chance to take a turn.
Gao Zhanxi, who comes from a poor family, loves learning, is diligent and sensible, and conforms to all the characters of the rural protagonist in "Metamorphometer". Therefore, the program team selected him, and the staff came to the mountain to persuade him to take a trip to the big city to see it.
Gao Zhanxi couldn't believe it at first, thinking it was a human trafficker, but later the staff took out his documents to confirm several times, and Gao Zhanxi's family settled down.
The village branch secretary told Gao Zhanxi to let him bring the good things of the big city back to the countryside. Neighbors, you divide me a corner, and make up 12 yuan for Gao Zhanxi. In this way, Gao Zhanxi embarked on a journey to the big city and took the first step to change his destiny.
02. I cried 7 times on the first day of entering the city
Gao Zhanxi came to the big city of Changsha, and although he was mentally prepared, he never thought that the difference between urban and rural areas would be so big.
Before coming to the city, Gao Zhanxi's whole imagination of the city was that there were no patches on his clothes, he could eat without going hungry, and he could ride a bicycle for school.
After coming to the city, he was warmly welcomed by his parents in the city. The first time in my life I got into a BMW car, the first time I flew, the first time I drank strawberry juice, the first time I used wet wipes, the first time...
He was terrified, and he didn't know where to place his hands and feet. Faced with the seafood dinner that his parents invited him to eat in the city, he dropped chopsticks five times in one meal because he was nervous.
He muttered about a pair of sneakers bought for him by his parents in the city for 149 yuan, and kept saying "thank you" from the beginning, and finally "thank you" was not enough to express his inner guilt and trepidation, and he began to say "sorry".
In the city, his father took him to the hair salon to wash his hair, he lay on the soft massage table, enjoying the service he had never enjoyed before, and he burst into tears at the thought of the embarrassment of his parents at home.
The father in the city asked him if he was not comfortable, but he did not answer, but covered his face with his hands, tears running down his fingers.
Sitting in his parents' BMW in the city, he couldn't help but burst into tears thinking about the rugged mountain roads of his hometown and the bicycle he had dreamed of for years.
When he arrived at his home in the city, his parents in the city asked him to call and report safety to his home in the countryside, and he looked at the legendary mobile phone and covered his face and cried.
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That day, he shed tears 7 times.
However, people did not care about his trepidation, but nitpicked and accused him of "floating".
For example, that day he was at his parents' house in the city, and the courier asked him what his surname was, and he subconsciously replied "surname Wei" instead of his original surname "Gao".
For example, he went to his parents' house in the city and excitedly fiddled with computers, tablets and mobile phones, but ignored the room full of world famous books.
For example, while he said "sorry" to his urban parents who bought 149 yuan of shoes, he honestly took the 200 yuan pocket money given to him by his parents in the city, and turned around and bought 20 yuan snacks.
For example, he invited his cousins and cousins in the city to dinner, threw aside the stinky tofu in Changsha, which he was not accustomed to, and was criticized by netizens for "wasting food".
People accused Gao Zhanxi of forgetting his roots, accusing him of waste, and accusing him of not being as simple as a rural child.
The "Metamorphometer" program set up real-time live voting by the audience, and the belief that Gao Zhanxi did not want to go back after coming to the city skyrocketed from 64% at the beginning of the program to 84%.
Someone left a message in the comments: "If this child lives in a city, he will make greater iniquity." ”
People think that Gao Zhanxi is "floating", but they did not think that he was still a child, and there are ordinary children who are curious about new things, have the occasional "waste" of food that they can't eat, and have the nature of all children at this age.
03. Wake up to the dream of a bustling city
Thinking that Gao Zhanxi would return to the countryside in a week, people thought that the program team had played with this rural baby.
However, for Gao Zhanxi, it is still too early to draw this conclusion.
The program group arranged for Gao Zhanxi to work in his mother's printing factory in the city, and Gao Zhanxi met the 15-year-old sister who worked together. Gao Zhanxi asked the young lady why she didn't go to study, and the young lady said that she wanted to break into society,
Gao Zhanxi immediately replied: "This world is not easy to break into, you can't do it without reading." ”
After working part-time and receiving a salary, the program group asked Gao Zhanxi if he wanted to do this kind of work, after all, this kind of work is much easier than the life of the countryside facing the loess with his back to the sky, but Gao Zhanxi said resolutely, "I don't want to do this job, I want to study." ”
The program group arranged for Gao Zhanxi to sell newspapers on the street, and in the process of selling newspapers, Gao Zhanxi met an 8-year-old boy who sold newspapers.
The little boy's mother had uremia and had no money to treat the disease, so the little boy went out to sell newspapers and work to earn money to treat his mother's illness.
Gao Zhanxi went to the little boy's house and looked at the same impoverished family. Gao Zhanxi had mixed tastes, and when he left, he also told the little boy to "study hard".
On the way home, Gao Zhanxi saw homeless people laying floors under the overpass, and on the opposite side of the overpass were high-rise buildings. It turns out that there are also poor people in the city, and the distance between wealth and poverty is not far away, and it is not so distinct.
It is worth mentioning that seeing the little girl selling street art, Gao Zhanxi took out part of the money he earned from selling newspapers and put it in the little girl's pocket.
This is the empathy and help of a bitter child to the weak, all sentient beings are suffering, Gao Zhanxi sees the other side behind the bustling city, and also understands that fate is not absolutely fair to everyone.
When Gao Zhanxi accidentally learns that his blind father accidentally fell while fetching water and injured his leg. He immediately asked the program team to end the program recording early and send him home.
The program team was very surprised that Gao Zhanxi did not covet the prosperity of the city, and asked in surprise: "Why are you in such a hurry to go back?" Gao Zhanxi thought about it and gave an answer that everyone didn't expect:
"My wheat is ripe."
Yes, the wheat is ripe, and he has to take responsibility as a man in the family. The wheat is ripe, and the dream should wake up.
The whole village gave him 12 yuan for the travel fee, but he did not move anything, and brought it all back.
The program team drove Gao Zhanxi back to his original home, and Gao Zhanxi, who was still tasting a fish, shrimp and seafood dinner the day before, would gobble up the black bun bubble tap water at home. After eating, he took off the branded sneakers he bought in the city and replaced them with cloth shoes for work.
The last shot left by the program group to Gao Zhanxi is the figure of him waving the scythe in his hand and harvesting wheat.
04. If you can't be a captain, be a crew
Compared with the "real fragrance boy" and "plastic surgery girl" who continue to flow, Gao Zhanxi has not been heard from for many years after returning to the countryside.
However, many years later, in 2011, Gao Zhanxi was on the hot search again. This time, Gao Zhanxi participated in the college entrance examination and was admitted to Hunan Normal University with the first place in science in Qinghai Province, and he is the only two national defense students in the province, and the tuition fee is free.
It turned out that Gao Zhanxi heard that his father broke his leg and rushed back to harvest wheat, which deeply touched his parents in the city, and they immediately decided to sponsor Gao Zhanxi's studies.
With the financial support of his parents in the city, Gao Zhanxi had no worries about studying, and he studied more vigorously, so he had the result of winning the provincial science title.
Today, Gao Zhanxi has graduated and become a platoon commander of the armed police of the Ministry of National Defense.
Some people believe that Gao Zhanxi met his parents in the city because of "Metamorphometer", and his learning path benefited from the financial support of his parents in the city. But there is no noble personality and quality of Gao Zhanxi itself, and there is no follow-up funding story. Therefore, Gao Zhanxi's counterattack first relies on himself.
Over the years, the children who came out of "Metamorphometer" have come out one after another, and people often prefer to see city children with superior families, and they have completed the transformation after suffering through "Metamorphometer". For example, the "true fragrance" boy Wang Jingze, such as Han Anran.
However, those rural child protagonists who have seen the prosperity and comfort of big cities and are ruthlessly thrown into the rural poverty again, their lives are no longer cared about, and their inner imbalances can only be tasted by themselves.
Just like the rural child Wang Honglin, she was originally sensible and participated in "Metamorphometer", and after returning, she could no longer get used to rural life, shouting that she wanted to take a bath with shower gel, and even looked down on her grandmother who had walked far and bought her back a piece of soap, and her uncle angrily rebuked the program group for this.
More than one parent of a rural child said that he regretted letting his child participate in "Metamorphometer". Children who were originally sensible and well-behaved and knew how to share for the family, after enjoying the prosperity of the big city, could no longer get used to eating at home, and they felt that their parents had no skills.
Compared with these children, Gao Zhanxi's sobriety is even more valuable.
In the program, after Gao Zhanxi returned to the countryside, he sat in the middle of the wheat stack and said this sentence: "Studying is the only way out, and you can only leave here if you are admitted to university." ”
So, he was angry and strong, and finally after many years, he was admitted to university, walked out of the mountains, and changed his destiny.
Yes, all roads lead to Rome, although some people are born in Rome, but what does it matter? We who were not born in Rome can still walk to Rome step by step through our own efforts.
This kind of life is more fulfilling and more exciting.
Everyone has their own origins, whether they come from poor or wealthy families. We may not be able to change our origins, but we can not let them determine our destiny in life. Throughout our lives, we are like crew members fighting hard in the vast sea, wrestling with fate, against the environment, and even more against the shackles in our hearts.
Just like when Gao Zhanxi was in the city, the title of the book he bought at the bookstore - "If you can't be a captain, you can be a crew".