In 2005, among the top ten people who touched China, there was a singer named Cong Fei. From 1994 to 2005, he donated more than 3 million yuan to sponsor the education of children in 183 poor mountainous areas.
In April 2005, Cong Fei was diagnosed with stomach cancer. After becoming ill, he lost his earning power and had to cut off his support for poor students. Many of the sponsored people called him: "Why don't you count when you talk?" ”
Cong Fei was helpless and promised the other party that he would continue to send money when he was well. Unfortunately, within a year, he died.
Some people say that Cong Fei is a moral model of selfless dedication, while others say that Cong Fei is actually a selfish person who has not even taken good care of his parents, wives and children in order to fund strangers.
In 1969, Cong Fei was born in a rural village in Liaoning Province, his family was very poor, and the family of 8 people all relied on his father's monthly salary of 36 yuan. When he was in elementary school, Cong Fei could not afford to pay the tuition, and the teacher left him standing alone outside the classroom.
When Cong Fei was 7 years old, his father Zhang Wanjun went to the hospital to see a doctor. There was a critically ill old man in the same ward, who said he was going to die soon, but there was a girlfriend who was left unattended. Zhang Wanjun saw that he was too pitiful, so he took his daughter to his family, and this girl became Cong Fei's sister.
Although Cong Fei's family was very poor, his father Zhang Wanjun often took money to help the poorer people, and as long as he saw beggars passing by, he called them to eat at home.
There are more and more mouths to eat, and the family is getting poorer and poorer. In the first year of junior high school, Cong Fei was kicked out of school by the teacher, and he went home to ask his father for money, and his father only replied: "Roll, no money." "In the summer vacation when he was 14 years old, Cong Fei went out to collect potatoes with farmers, earned 30 yuan and returned to his mother to let her continue to provide for her two younger brothers to go to school.
In poverty, only music and performance make Cong Fei have some fun. When he was fine, he took a broom to learn to sing as a singer, watched the free movie "Chaplin" in town 5 times, and he often imitated and performed in front of his classmates. Every time he sang and performed, his classmates happily surrounded him in the middle.
< Cong Fei > who is imitating
Once Cong Fei learned to walk a duck, making the pedestrians around him laugh, his father Zhang Wanjun passed by, but he felt humiliated, went up and kicked Cong Fei, and said: "I told you that you don't know how to be humiliated!" ”
At the age of 15, Cong Fei dropped out of school. He worked odd jobs outside to make ends meet, and once on the way back from a part-time job, he saw the county art school enrolling students, and he went up to introduce himself. The teacher Shi Huixia felt that he was talented and accepted Cong Fei as a student. Two years later, the family's situation improved, Zhang Wanjun called his son back to the bank to work as a security guard, the security guard for less than a year, Cong Fei ran to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music to continue to study music.
After returning from school, Cong Fei wanted to resign, and Zhang Wanjun was so angry that he scolded him. This scolding directly scolded Cong Fei away from his hometown. Cong Fei did not give a letter and left the northeast.
In 1992, Cong Fei lived an unsettled life in the south, eating a 5-yuan box lunch for the top of the day and spending the night on the lawn by the road.
Cong Fei bought a newspaper, read the above recruitment information one by one, he called the government-run literary and art group, the other party met him, said: "You think we are a wet market, who wants to come in?" ”
Cong Fei retreated and went to the nightclub to knock on the door, the boss received him, cong Fei happily sang a "Song of the Yangtze River". The boss listened and told him to stop and asked him if he could sing pop songs. Cong Fei said no, and the boss said disgustedly: "The loud voice is bright, who do you want to scare to death?" ”
< Cong Fei > < Cong Fei >
In order to make money, Cong Fei bought tapes, learned dozens of popular songs overnight, and finally went to work in nightclubs, the first one paid 1500 yuan a month, and sang for two months the boss ran away. The second family earned 1,000 yuan a month, Cong Fei sang for a month, and the little who came to find trouble had a conflict, provoked people, and the boss fired him again.
After more than two years away from home, Cong Fei still had nothing, and he could only go to the construction site to move bricks, cement, and do manual work. In the winter of 1993, Cong Fei heard that the Propaganda Department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Guangdong Television Station had jointly held an amateur singer competition, and he quickly signed up. As a result, when you go to the scene to see, you also have to pay an application fee of 80 yuan, and it also costs money to buy suitable clothing.
The person in charge of the registration office is called Si Zhenrong, she sees Cong Fei has nothing, and she loves singing so much, and her heart is very moved. She gave Cong Fei the 600 yuan she had just paid and asked him to clean up after himself and participate in the competition. Relying on the 600 yuan given by Si Zhenrong, Cong Fei successfully participated in the competition and came to the end.
On the day of the end of the game, Cong Fei wanted to find Si Zhenrong again, but he could no longer find her figure. The head of the competition said: "They are all miss manners and staff temporarily hired by the company for the competition, and we did not leave their names and contact information. ”
Cong Fei won the Excellence Award at the Guangdong Amateur Singers Grand Prix, and on the day he won the award, he realized that a small act can change the fate of others.
After winning the award, Cong Fei became less famous, and he could get 2,000 yuan for singing a song once.
A company in Guangzhou hired him as an artistic director with a basic monthly salary of 1,800 yuan. Once he went to Chengdu on behalf of the company to participate in an event, it was a public welfare performance, Cong Fei saw a lot of out-of-school children, he sang on the stage, and the children under the stage looked at him with their eyes.
Cong Fei was excited, took out the 2400 yuan in his pocket and donated it all, which included the company's public funds and the travel expenses of all colleagues. At dinner that night, everyone asked Cong Fei to pay for the travel expenses, and Cong Fei said, "I donated all the money." ”
Some colleagues were not satisfied with Cong Fei's behavior, and after returning home, they reported to the boss of the company, and the boss said to Cong Fei: "You can leave." Cong Fei listened, felt that the other party had no sympathy, and he was not a road person, and left the company.
In September 1994, Cong flew to Shenzhen. With his award certificate, he quickly got the opportunity to perform commercially, and after a large and small platter performance, Cong Fei won the first pot of gold in his life: 30,000 yuan.
Soon, he got the opportunity to share the stage with big names, Jiang Dawei, Song Zuying, Dai Yuqiang... Once Cong Fei also performed on the same stage with Zhao Benshan. In addition to singing, Cong Fei is also very good at imitation, and Zhao Benshan is the object of his frequent imitation. Once Zhao Benshan said to Cong Fei, "Cong Fei, I don't dare to share the stage with you, others have seen your imitation, and no one has looked at me." ”
In 1995, Cong Fei went to a poor county in Hunan for the first time to participate in the charity performance for out-of-school children, and spent 100,000 yuan to establish the Cong Fei Education Assistance Foundation, which specifically subsidized poor children to study. Later, he found that entrusting others would deduct the foundation's money, so he simply ran to the village every year to send money.
The children he sponsored called him "Cong Fei Daddy", and every time he heard the children call him so, Cong Fei took money from his pocket, 100 yuan, 200 yuan, and directly stuffed it into the hands of each child who surrounded him.
In 1998, Cong Fei met his first wife during the performance, and three years later, the two gave birth to a daughter. During this period, Cong Fei has been engaged in singing, but almost all the money earned has been donated to poor out-of-school children. His property in Shenzhen is only a one-bedroom house, and even in such a house, there are often homeless homeless people and poor people who come to ask Cong Fei for help.
Once, Cong Fei's parents came to Shenzhen to see him and found that the house where their son lived did not even have a refrigerator. The house is surrounded by walls, in tatters, and there are notices of arrears. Zhang Wanjun, the father, asked: "You also make a lot of money, why don't you even pay the bank loan?" ”
Cong Fei said: "I sponsor more than 100 out-of-school children and orphans to study in poor mountainous areas, and I have just paid for their tuition and have no money to pay for the building. ”
There were still seven strangers living in the house, and Zhang Wanjun asked his son, "Why do you have so many people living in your home?" ”
Cong Fei said: "They came to Shenzhen to look for a job, in order to save money, they made up a few days with me. ”
Cong Fei used a chair to build a bed for his parents to sleep, and he rolled up and slept in the hallway.
After 10 days, the parents were gone, and those who ate and lived in vain were still living in Cong Fei's house.
Once Cong Fei gave his wife 3,000 yuan for the family, and the wife had already planned what to buy, but at this time Guizhou came to a phone and said: "Father Cong, can you send us some more money?" ”
Cong Fei listened, and asked for 3,000 yuan from his wife and mailed it to Guizhou. Another time, the wife got the money given by Cong Fei to pay the kindergarten tuition for her daughter, and put it under the pillow for the first time, and as a result, another phone call came from the Hunan mountains, and Cong Fei asked for money, and Cong Fei did not say anything and mailed the money over.
The daughter's money to pay for the tuition fee was gone, and Cong Fei and his mother asked for a cushion.
After a few years of such a life, Cong Fei's wife really couldn't stand it, and she and Cong Fei filed for divorce. On the day of the divorce, Cong Fei cried, and his wife said: "The marriage is over, what are you crying?" ”
After divorcing his wife, Cong Fei still donated money everywhere as always. Once he came back with a basket of sweet potatoes and cooked them for his parents to eat, and his father Zhang Wanjun couldn't bear it, saying: "Hundreds of thousands of yuan, millions of yuan thrown out, in exchange for some broken sweet potatoes!" The child cannot suffer this sin with you, let's carry the child away, this person is not human, the ghost is not a ghost, you live your own life. ”
Cong Fei was very sad to hear his father's words, but he still did not give up the donation, he himself had no money to eat, he was hungry and full, eating instant noodles to live.
At this time, a student he had sponsored called Cong Fei, hoping that Cong Fei could help her enter the Shenzhen Song and Dance Troupe. Cong Fei asked an acquaintance, and the acquaintance said that it was impossible. Cong Fei went to a middle school again and helped the girl find a job as a music teacher.
As a result, this female college student was not satisfied, she called Cong Fei and said: "My ideal is to be a singer, not a middle school teacher, if you become a singer, let me be a middle school teacher, I will not rob you of your job!" ”
Cong Fei listened, shocked and sad, and for the first time in his life, he wondered if his donation was really useful. After the phone was put down, Cong Fei couldn't think straight, he ran to the Lotus Mountain in Shenzhen alone, bought a bottle of sleeping pills, and planned to drink it and die.
At this time, the mobile phone rang, cong fei looked at it, it was Xing Dan, the flight attendant of Shenzhen Airlines who had known at work before. Xing Dan did not apply for a border permit when she came to Shenzhen for internship, and when her friend asked Cong Fei for help, Cong Fei did not say a word to help. Look at a little girl's phone, Cong Fei did not answer. Xing Dan made several phone calls again, and Cong Fei finally answered, and on the other end of the phone, Xing Dan said, "Brother Cong, where are you?" ”
Cong Fei said that he was on the Lotus Mountain, and Xing Dan arrived half an hour later. Xing Dan asked Cong Fei what was wrong, and Cong Feiyue said that the more sad he was, the two looked at each other wordlessly, hugged each other and cried. After this incident, Xing Dan and Cong Fei interacted more and became Cong Fei's girlfriend. Later, the two got married.
< Cong Fei and Xing Dan >
However, the habits of Cong Fei's donors have not changed, and he has claimed more and more poor children, including Guizhou, Hubei and Hunan, adding up to a total of 183. In total, he volunteered more than 5,000 hours and donated almost every performance, accumulating more than 3 million yuan.
In the home of the good man Cong Fei, every day there are strangers who come to the door for help, there are those who have just come to the door to ask for living expenses, there are those who buy a new house but come to the door to buy a new bed for 2,000 yuan, there are those who come to borrow reading fees for their children, and there are students who have just come to college to eat and live in vain. Once Cong Fei asked Xing Dan and himself to move outside to rent a house, because there were too many strangers living in the house, and there was no place to sleep.
Xing Dan advised Cong Fei: Good people can't overdo it, and they will develop the habit of some people getting something for nothing.
But Cong Fei did not listen, he took Xing Dan to the mountains of Guizhou, and on that financial trip, he donated all the more than 60,000 yuan on his body, and did not even leave his clothes.
After SARS in 2003, Cong Fei's performance career stagnated, and he used to perform and sing a song on stage for up to 30,000 yuan, but during the SARS period, he could not even receive commercial performances. The family was too poor to open the pot, but Cong Fei still flew to Xiaotangshan in Beijing to participate in the charity performance. In 2004, Xing Dan became pregnant with Cong Fei's second child, cong fei was very happy, and named the child "Xing Xiao Cong Fei".
Since April 2005, Cong Fei often has stomach pain, sleeping with a pillow to fall asleep, Xing Dan at first thought that he was too tired caused, persuaded him to rest more, and asked Cong Fei to go to the hospital to see, the result of this examination, it checked out stomach cancer, or advanced. This year, they had been married for less than a year, Xing Dan was 24 years old, and Cong Fei was only 36 years old.
< Cong Fei and Xing Dan and the eldest daughter (born to his ex-wife) >
Cong Fei's condition became more and more serious, and he was eventually admitted to the hospital, but their family could not even get the money for treatment. Because he could not sing for performance fees, Cong Fei interrupted the sponsorship of 183 children, and someone called Cong Fei:
"You promised to send this semester's tuition last month, why haven't you sent it yet?" How do you talk without counting? ”
A male college student surnamed Li sponsored by Cong Fei had no contact with Cong Fei after graduation, and in an interview with reporters, he admitted that he had accepted Cong Fei's sponsorship to finish college. A few days later, he saw a manuscript written by Cong Fei on the Internet, and his name appeared in the manuscript, and he was very unhappy and called Cong Fei: "I feel very faceless. I am now a university teacher, if this news is seen by my students, how will it affect me? ”
The male college student demanded that Cong Fei delete the article on the Internet, saying: "Never mention these past events that have become history again." ”
In 1998, Cong Fei met a female student named Ah Zhen, and since then, he has often received calls from Ah Zhen: "Teacher Cong, I heard that you are a caring philanthropist, and now I have encountered financial difficulties, and if I don't get it right, there is also a danger of dropping out of school, can you sponsor me some living expenses?" ”
Cong Fei didn't say a word and called her 2,000 yuan. As a result, every time the school started, Ah Zhen came to ask for money, and once she said: "Our classmates all use Md to listen to music, which is helpful for my study, but my parents can't afford it, can you buy me one?" Cong Fei listened and immediately went to The Rainbow Mall to spend 2800 yuan to buy An Md for Ah Zhen. Ah Zhen replied with a "receipt", and there was no contact with Cong Fei anymore.
There are also calls from the parents of some sponsored students:
"You said that you would come to send tuition to your children in February, why didn't you come?"
"If we don't send the money, will we still read our books?"
But when Cong Fei was seriously ill, none of these people who received financial support reached out, and one of them said: How can I fund him? I'm three or four thousand dollars a month.
After getting sick, Cong Fei was still very optimistic, in the hospital, Cong Fei went to visit other wards, he sent new shoots of leaves to patients, said: "We are like a tree that is about to wither, and when spring comes, the tree will sprout and grow green leaves." The patients all laughed.
"Shenzhen Special Zone News" reporter Xu Hua reported Cong Fei's deeds, Shenzhen hospital made an exception to let Cong Fei hospitalized for free treatment, but still could not delay the spread of cancer cells, less than half a year, Cong Fei lost more than 20 pounds, often lying in bed can not say a word, the face is sallow, the eyes can not be opened.
Reporter Xu Hua asked him: "Do you regret it?" ”
Cong Fei replied, "A little sad, but not regretful." ”
In May 2006, Cong Fei died of advanced stomach cancer. Leaving behind the eldest daughter of 5 years old, the younger daughter of half a year old, and his wife Xing Dan, who is 26 years old, as well as his father and mother at an advanced age. All his property was a small house in Cuizhu North, Shenzhen, and during his illness, he even owed a foreign debt of 170,000 yuan.
Five years later, Cong Fei's wife Xing Dan also died due to a traffic accident.
After knowing Cong Fei, Xing Dan has been silently supporting Cong Fei in doing charity.
When he and his husband went to Guizhou, Cong Fei not only donated more than 60,000 yuan in cash, but also donated the clothes worn by the two. Xing Dan was very worried and said, "The money is gone, how will you live this month?" ”
Cong Fei imitated the posture of the movie "Lenin in October", straightened his right hand forward, leaned forward, imitated Lenin's tone, and said: "Death does not belong to the proletariat!" ”
Xing Dan was so happy to see her husband do charity, and she also laughed with him.
When the family could not afford to eat, Xing Dan tried his best to divide the extremely limited living expenses, and when he went to the supermarket with his eldest daughter, the child wanted to eat snacks, xing dan could not afford to buy, so he took the eldest daughter and left quickly.
Cong Fei wanted to go to the charity performance, but there was no travel expense, and Xing Dan took out all his savings to Give Cong Fei.
Before Cong Fei entered the operating room for the first time, he said to Xing Dan:
"Wife, the person I'm most sorry for is you." He fell to his knees in front of Xing Dan, and Xing Dan held back tears and helped him up.
His last suicide note, to his wife Xing Dan, wrote:
"In this life and in this life, I am most fortunate to have married a beautiful, kind, gentle and virtuous wife like you. I love you, but I do very little for you. ”
Cong Fei wrote "Ussuri Boat Song" and "Prairie Night" in the book, and wanted to wait until he was better before singing it to his wife.
Cong Fei was afraid that after she left, the young wife's financial burden with the child was too heavy, and when Xing Dan was pregnant, Cong Fei persuaded her to kill the child. Xing Dan resolutely disagreed, gritted his teeth and gave birth to the child. Cong Fei was originally asserted to have only three months to live, but he had to survive until after the birth of the child.
The child's surname with his mother is Xing, and his name is "Xiao Cong Fei". Cong Fei's original name was Zhang Chong, and Cong Fei is a stage name, which means "a small life flying out of the grass".
More than ten years have passed, and this singer Cong Fei, who once donated all of his own, has gradually not been mentioned, and the 183 poor students he donated that year have also disappeared into the vast sea of people.
When Cong Fei was mentioned again, some people said that it was not worth it for him to do so, "raising 183 white-eyed wolves", and some people said that he was too stupid to do good things but did not think of leaving a way back for himself.
Although there are indeed many "white-eyed wolves", the people who have funded Cong Fei also sincerely thank him.
A disabled person named Hu Shishi, who could not live without a wheelchair all his life, only read until the 3rd grade of primary school. Because of Cong Fei's financial support, he realized his literary dream, and after finishing college, he became the editor-in-chief of the magazine. After Cong Fei died, he took out his own 40,000 yuan manuscript fee and continued to fund poor students to study.
Cong Fei's daughter Xing Xiao Cong Fei also grew up, and she became a volunteer along with her father's partner at the time.
Some references:
[1] "The Dead Like Si I and Cong Fei", Lu Yu has a date
[2], "Cong Fei Shock", Jiang Wei, Xu Hua
[3], "Cong Fei Moved China Like This", Xu Hua
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Author | Few forks