In 1985, everyone in the Pinggu County Grain Bureau knew that there was a sack that could sing.
The young man's name is Man Wenjun, who is a native of Pinggu.
One or two hundred pounds of sacks were on the shoulders, shuttling through the grain stacks and workshops every day.
He also sings while he is working.
But the heavy sack pressed on the body, the day came down,
The only strength in Manchu's body was also squeezed out little by little.
Even this job was something that his father begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother and went to the back door to support the relationship, and it was not easy to get it.
Man Wenjun was born in 1969, in the countryside of Pinggu County.
In the yellow wheat field, at the age of six or seven, Man Wenjun took a sickle and cut stubble after stubble.
It was a poor time, and because the family soon had more brothers and sisters, labor became the only memory of Manchu's childhood.
His family was poor, and after junior high school, he had to think about the next way out.
Either they would work as peasants at home to cultivate the land, or they would not follow their father to the city to work as bricklayers.
His father helped him find a third way and went to the county town to work as a contract worker.
The opportunity comes at the age of 17.
He participated in the first Beijing Rural Singers Competition.
This worker carrying the sack actually won the Outstanding Singer Award.
Since then, the Manchu Army has begun to make a small name in the Grain Bureau.
In addition to being able to sing, he soon, following colleagues in the unit, he also learned to play the guitar.
Not surprisingly, he became an active literary and artistic backbone in the unit at that time.
But no matter how much he tossed, he was still a farmer with a big shoulder.
At the age of eighteen or nineteen, the pursuit of musical dreams is too high.
"I want a tape recorder." Manchu said to his father one day.
Most of his monthly salary is for his younger siblings to study.
His father's face was ugly, but how could he not know what was going on in the boss's heart.
A pig, plus a few months' salary, in exchange for a 500-dollar radio.
Looking at his son happy, the father felt that it was worth it to bite his teeth.
Man Wenjun, who had a tape recorder, began to study music harder.
But the young Manchu Army was thinking of another thing - getting married and starting a family.
Like other rural youths, at the age of 22, he and Gao Xiaoying married each other.
After marriage, he still carried a sack in the grain bureau.
The following year, he heard that Beijing was holding a Beijing-Tianjin-Shanghai-Chongqing City Singer Competition.
Full of hope and hope, the Manchu Army walked out of Pinggu.
I participated in the competition, but I didn't get any rewards.
He remembered that when he participated in the Rural Singer Competition six years ago, he also got 300 prize money and a floor fan.
Now that I have come to the city to compete but have not gotten anything, how to explain to my wife and parents when I go back.
Manchu chose to stay in Beijing.
He began to wander through large and small song halls and become a wandering singer.
Because I have just arrived, I have no relationship or network, and I eat completely by my ability.
Soon, The Manchu Army settled down in a small song hall.
Sing 40 blocks a night, the key is not yet unstable.
In order to save money, he had to live in the basement.
The rent of two hundred yuan also made him feel flesh pain at first.
Sometimes, he eats only one meal a day.
After all, the family still has a wife and daughter to support, and the money earned by the resident singer has to be mailed back.
At one point, he had only a dime left on him.
There was no meal, but the performance still did not dare to delay.
At the beginning of the beijing, on a broken bicycle, he did not know where his dream was.
The singer's days did not make Man Wenjun stand out.
On the contrary, because he and his wife were separated from each other, they eroded his feelings with Gao Xiaoying.
The two men originally came together by the words of the matchmaker.
Now he is poor and destitute, and he does not dare to go back on weekdays.
As a result, this feeling becomes more and more indifferent.
At the age of 25, he deliberately returned to Pinggu and went through divorce procedures with Gao Xiaoying.
Manchu Wenjun was alone, took a set of stereos from home, and left everything else to his wife and daughter.
The young daughter was raised by his wife, and many years later, this girl named Gao Jing was not familiar with her father.
At this time, the Manchu army had nothing and had reached the point of exhaustion.
However, the 3-year singing career in the song hall and bar is not a white-skinned one.
In the second year of divorce, this bar singer was admitted to the Beijing Railway Literary and Labor Troupe.
It was at this time that the composer Xue Ruiguang found him.
Only then did Man Wenjun know that he was actually famous in the song halls and bars in the capital.
Xue Ruiguang gave him the score of a new song and wanted him to audition first.
But after staring at the score for half a day, Man Wenjun's flushed face was a little hanging.
"I... I don't know how to score. ”
Xue Ruiguang couldn't believe his ears and asked Man Wenjun to say it again.
"I don't really know how to read music."
Immediately, Xue Ruiguang understood that this person had only been singing songs before.
And cover songs really don't need to be scored.
Xue Ruiguang was a little disappointed in him, but immediately felt,
He does not know the score, but he can still sing accurately, indicating that the grasp of timbre is innate.
Thinking of this, he insisted that Manchu Wenjun try it.
There is no way, it is difficult to catch an opportunity, and giving up easily can only show that you are not capable.
The Manchu army had to harden its scalp.
For more than two hours, sweating profusely and anxious, the audition was a mess.
The Manchu army had to leave in a daze.
"Find a song you are familiar with to practice, and slowly you will understand and become familiar with it."
His father, like when he had pooled his money to buy him a tape recorder, still did not hit him.
He ran to the bookstore, bought a stack of music books and began to teach himself.
Without a teacher, he could only find feelings little by little.
Six months later, he was in the studio again.
Or Xue Ruiguang's "Understand You".
He looked at the score, and although it was slightly better than the last time, the recording effect was still a mess.
Manchu Wenjun was a little anxious, because at that time, Xie Xiaodong was also staring at this song.
The latter was still Na Ying's disciple, and the academy sent himself, and Man Wenjun felt that he had no hope.
"Don't worry, when you find the feeling, when to record again."
Xue Ruiguang also told him: "This song is free for you Man Wenjun." ”
The reason why the composer is so reasonable is because Xue Ruiguang feels that only the voice of Manchu Wenjun can control this song.
So, when Man Wenjun walked into the studio again,
Recorded three songs in an hour and a half.
At this point, the fame of the Manchu Army in the capital soared.
Although it was recognized by professionals, the Manchu army at that time also needed a platform that could make itself a fire.
The next year, he took the song "Understand You",
Participated in the Youth Singing Contest held by CCTV.
This young man with a sack bag who came out of Pinggu won the gold medal for popular singing that year.
Two-bedroom and one-hall house, Beijing hukou for agricultural conversion.
Debut is fame, in the literary troupe, who does not envy this 27-year-old boy.
And his song also touched a girl named Li Li.
Regarding Li Li, the outside world often calls her a rich woman.
In fact, her more accurate identity at that time was that of a rich girl who owned a family business.
At that time, she studied in Singapore, and when she returned to China, she happened to hear this song by Manchu Wenjun.
Both the singing voice and the singer impressed her.
In November of that year, the two men met through a party.
At that time, although the Manchu army had not completely faded the rustic atmosphere of the rural people,
But in the face of a girl taking the initiative to get close to himself, he can still know how to solve it.
At that time, Li Li had not yet graduated, and after going abroad, she relied on long-distance telephone calls to keep in touch.
On the weekend, he flew back to China to meet with the Manchu Army.
1998 was a year of double harvest for Manchu Wenjun.
He released his debut solo album, Make Your Sky The Most Beautiful.
The girlfriend graduated in July of that year, and the two of them got married in August.
After marriage, his wife became a senior counselor in the Manchu Army.
This rural man carrying sacks, under the guidance of his wife, not only quickly entered the rich circle in Beijing.
Moreover, in terms of dress and life temperament, there has been a qualitative transformation.
The Manchu Army, whose life had completely undergone a transformation, could no longer look at the house in the literary troupe and the little salary.
He offered his resignation to the regiment.
However, after several mentions, the regiment did not approve it.
Therefore, he came from a rural background and began to play a little cunning.
The troupe does not allow the actors to go out to pick up jobs or take commercials without permission.
Especially during important performances, it is necessary to return to the troupe to participate.
As a result, the Manchu army deliberately and frequently touched the "high-voltage line".
Even during the Mid-Autumn Festival performance in 1999, Manchu Wenjun was outside to pick up work privately.
The literary troupe took back his house and second-class actor title.
Man Wenjun told the outside world that he was deliberately "making a mistake."
After flying solo, Man Wenjun signed a contract with Shinso Music.
The two albums of "Wangxiang" and "Love Without Boundaries" have been launched,
Among them, there is also a song of his own original song "Leaving Home".
Although I have the heart to show the grand plan of music, I have no choice but to achieve mediocre results.
In the following four years, Man Wenjun only released two albums.
Perhaps at this time, he gradually understood that if he did not have capital in the music world, he could get better results.
It wasn't until he signed a new company that he gradually became popular again.
In 2005, Man Wenjun took the stage of the Spring Festival Gala.
During the Olympic Games, he also sang the theme song "Welcome to Beijing".
But the scenery and achievements of all this,
It came to an abrupt end on the evening of May 18, 2009.
That night, at the door of a bar near the Beijing Workers' Stadium,
Suddenly, many police cars with flashing police lights appeared.
Just as people were talking about it, a group of people were taken out of the bar.
Fans who heard the news could only understand what the Manchu army was in at that time through the memories of the bar security guards.
Soon, the news that Manchu Wenjun gathered in bars to take drugs spread all over the Internet and offline and in the streets.
On that day, it was the birthday of his wife Li Li, and several friends in the circle came to the celebration party.
After drinking, the crowd began to take drugs in the bar.
When the police pushed the door in, drugs such as ecstasy were scattered on the table.
Except for the Manchu army couple who were taken away,
Buy Hongmei, Huang Xiaoming's stylist and a singer from the northeast were also taken away from the scene by the police.
However, the buyer quickly clarified the next day that she did not take drugs and just went to the birthday party.
And by the time we got to the bar, the police had arrived.
He then cooperated with the police investigation and went home that night.
But the unknown stylist and the unknown female singer,
He was not able to get out of the police station quickly, but was detained in a detention center.
The reason why the police dispatched the inspection was because they received reports from the masses.
Later, Both Man Wenjun and his wife Li Li were placed in administrative detention.
When the drug abuse storm was full of storms in the city, Man Wenjun and his ex-wife's daughter Gao Jing were also found by reporters.
She wanted to refuse the interview, but the reporter was stalking.
At the age of 18, the first sentence she said to her biological father was: "After so many years, we are not very familiar." ”
In my daughter's life, there doesn't seem to be this person at all.
From childhood to adulthood, I saw him a handful of times.
It was an old neighborhood near the school.
The dilapidated old building is plastered with small advertisements, and this house is a world of difference compared to her father's high-end villa.
Maybe so many years have passed, especially after Man Wenjun and his second wife had children,
He had forgotten his daughter.
At the same time, Song Ke, the boss of the contracted company, said,
Manchu Wenjun usually can't even drink a few sips of beer.
By implication, I didn't expect him to take drugs.
He also said that the company would not terminate the contract with the singer who was quite honest.
Song Ke also said that people will make mistakes, and if they make such mistakes, they should let the parties do more things to give back to the society.
The 40-year-old Man Wenjun "enjoyed" a 14-day career in the iron window.
It wasn't until November of that year that he publicly responded to drug use.
Those 14 days made him realize that freedom was more precious than anything else.
And he also said that his marriage and family will not have twists and turns because of this incident.
Although that year, he participated in the New Year's Day party of Anhui Satellite TV.
But in the next few years, because of the drug storm, his career was basically destroyed.
In 2013, when attending the recording of the "Voice of China" program in Chengdu,
People suddenly found that the 44-year-old Manchu Wenjun had white hair.
Of course, some people say that his white hair is dyed.
He and his agent hope to get rid of the baggage as soon as possible and look forward.
However, even with the launch of a new album,
He never got the highlight of that year again.
One summer 8 years after the drug abuse incident, someone was in front of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Chaoyang District,
Occasionally met Man Wenjun and his wife Li Li, who had not appeared for a long time.
Subsequently, it was verified that he and his wife had indeed gone through a divorce.
As for why the two people divorced, the outside world does not know.
That year, in the grain bureau, after participating in the farmers' singing competition,
The Manchu army actually no longer carries a big child,
Instead, he was quickly transferred to the food bureau's singing team.
He was a farmer, and by various coincidences, he eventually became a singer.
Cannot be said without his efforts.
However, the singing competitions of the 1980s and 1990s were booming,
It also helped him objectively.
Although drug abuse is a loss of private morality, as a public figure,
The lack of virtue will eventually be abandoned by the public.
What's more, the daughter of the ex-wife has the same surname as the mother,
And as a father, after his fame and fortune, he didn't seem to do anything for her.
This kind of family debt is itself more likely to be criticized.
As a result, this peasant who came from Pinggu to carry sacks finally fell silent in the year of knowing his destiny.
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