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Is a person's fate predestined?
When I was a teenager, I almost lost my life to a sudden serious illness. It was my father and mother, with the money from the coffin that was going to be sold, that rescued me from death.
When I was in my 20s, I was unwilling to work on a construction site all my life, and by chance I learned from a teacher and embarked on the road of stunt performance, but my father thought that I was gambling with my life tomorrow.
When I was in my 30s, I got married and started a wedding company, I thought that life would be smooth sailing, but I didn't expect the company to go bankrupt and I owed a lot of debt, and my wife left me.
Just when everyone thought I was going to collapse, I made an unexpected decision, my relatives and friends called me crazy, but I didn't care about other people's opinions.
I thought that since I couldn't decide where I came from, and I couldn't predict what would happen in the future, I might as well follow my heart and try to explore and understand myself and the world in just a few decades of life.
(I, an ordinary farmer, create a paradise in the mountains)
I, Ronin Ah Feng @ Ronin Ah Feng, a 38-year-old native of Yunnan, now guards the thatched hut in the mountains and lives with my father.
I was born in 1985 in Weixin County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, my mother was married for the second time, and I took my eldest sister and second sister to remarry my father. Soon after we got married, my sister and I were born. In order to support our four sisters and brothers, my father worked hard to make money, but life was still very hard.
I vaguely remember living in a linoleum house when I was a child. In the summer, there are a lot of mosquitoes at night, buzzing and noisy people can't sleep. The winter was very cold, the wind was blowing, and my hands and feet were covered with frostbite.
It wasn't until I was 8 years old that my father went to work on a forest farm and found some timber to rebuild the house, and we finally lived in a big tiled house. Looking at these three bright tiled houses, I was happily jumping on the ground, but my father and mother couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.
(At the age of 16, my family is still poor)
It turned out that the family not only spent all their savings to repair the house, but also owed a lot of wages to the workers. Every day, people came to the house to ask for accounts, and in desperation, my father could only sell all the only food left in the family to pay off the debt. That year, our family had to eat potatoes for a living.
Rural children born in the post-80s should remember that the shoes they wear to school are liberation shoes. But the way I had to go to school was a muddy path overgrown with water and weeds, and every time I passed there, my shoes, my feet, and my legs were all wet.
But I knew that the conditions at home were not good, and I never dared to tell my father and mother. I could only grit my teeth and walk with water, and after a long time, my feet were covered with chilblains. I may have been malnourished for a long time, and when I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, a sudden serious illness almost killed me.
On the day of my illness, I could barely walk on my own and my mouth was crooked. My classmates were terrified and hurried me home. When my father saw me like this, he went around seeking medical treatment, but the family had no money and the hospital wouldn't accept me.
(At the moment of crisis, it was the eldest sister who came back with a few thousand dollars to save me)
In desperation, the mother said that there were two coffins prepared at home, and she would sell them for her son's treatment first. So, my father took me to the local doctor and asked him to see me first, and the money would definitely make up for it.
Maybe it was because she had a heart, but at this time, the eldest sister who was working in Guangdong had a not very good dream, so she rushed home with the only few thousand yuan left on her body. But when he first arrived in Guiyang and was about to take the car home, he was robbed of his bag by the bad guys, and the money was also snatched away.
When the eldest sister returned home sadly, she found that her mother, who had already cried into tears, finally knew that everything in the dream was to guide her home. In order to save me, my eldest sister called her boyfriend who was far away in Guangdong, borrowed a few thousand yuan, and finally paid the medicine bill owed, saving my life and my parents' coffin.
After I got better, I kept giving special thanks to my eldest sister's boyfriend. When I was 18 years old, I felt that I was not the material for studying, and after discussing with my father, I was ready to go to my eldest sister. At that time, the eldest sister was already married and went to Shanghai to work.
(I started learning acrobatics, and the bottom person was me)
It was in 2002, and my eldest sister found me a job on the construction site as a small worker, and I was paid 30 yuan a day. Because she was worried that I was not familiar with my life, my eldest sister drove me to and from work every day, and from time to time gave me a few hundred yuan for me to save, and took me to buy clothes and cups and other daily necessities.
Most of the workers on the construction site are from Sichuan, and they are very good to me, although I work slowly, but I will not be disliked by the foreman, and I will still be given food and shelter. But I don't want to spend my whole life on construction sites, and I always feel that my ambition is not here.
By chance, I met an acrobatic master, and watching his wonderful performance on stage, listening to the waves of enthusiastic cheers from the audience, I found that I seemed to have found a passion for the industry.
(I was trampled under the feet of several people)
When I'm not busy, I go all over the world to watch the master's performances, but the master's whereabouts are not fixed, and I often run away. At that time, I didn't have a mobile phone, so I had to go to an Internet café to surf the Internet. Seeing that the master will be in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I am very envious.
When the master returned to Shanghai again, I solemnly asked him to learn from him. When I'm alone, I often practice various acrobatic tricks by myself. After learning a certain level, I followed the master to Panzhihua to go to the cave, although I can only earn dozens of yuan per performance, but I am very satisfied with the surprised performance of the audience.
After I left the school, I started performing alone. At that time, I returned to Sichuan, and there were many happy events to be performed in my hometown, and the locals rarely saw me perform this kind of stunt, and every time I went on stage, everyone would applaud and welcome me with great excitement. Slowly, I became a bit more famous in the local area, and many bosses asked me to perform.
(In the winter of 2010, I performed in Taizhou, Zhejiang)
In fact, the performance level of red and white ceremonies in the countryside is relatively low-level performances, but I still choose to do my best every time I perform. I remember one time, I had just finished a performance in a township in Sichuan, and I received a call that I needed to rush to a county town in Yibin to perform.
In order not to delay the next day's performance, I rode my motorcycle alone after the performance that night. But the weather was not beautiful, and it was pouring rain in the middle of the night, and my eyes were wide open in the poncho, and my vision was still very blurry.
As soon as I walked to a place where there was no one around, the motorcycle suddenly broke down and the lights went out.
I was so tired and tired that I wanted to push my motorcycle off the rocks and walk home by myself. But reason told me that I couldn't do this, and no matter how hard I worked, I had to push my motorcycle to the performance location.
(In addition to performances, I often participate in various competitions)
At that time, I held my breath in my heart, as long as I overcame the difficulties in front of me, I would definitely be able to step onto a bigger stage in the future. I'm going to Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, and I'm going to perform on the biggest stage like my master.
Some of the most exciting items in my performance, such as chest stones, eyelid buckets, neck knives, and stepping on glass pieces, are some of the most dangerous items. In order to make the performance more exciting, I often train in private, and I am often injured, and it is common for me to get bruised and purple on my body, and sometimes I will be smashed by bottles and my head is full of blood.
I even once performed a show on stage where I stepped on glass, and when I was not careful, my foot was injured, and the whole stage was covered in my blood.
At that time, the guests all had tears in their eyes and told me to stop acting and go to bandage quickly, but I still gritted my teeth and insisted on finishing the show. Even the host said privately that the research I admire the most is Ah Feng, who is too dedicated to his work and performance.
(A photo of me with my 80-year-old father)
Once, my father happened to see a video of me performing, and he was in tears all the time. The father said, son, don't work so hard. You are completely using your body to sell your life, and you don't want to use your life to perform.
Others care about whether you fly high or not, but your parents only care about whether you are tired of flying. Although I have suffered a lot in the past ten years of stunt performances, and my parents are also worried about me, I still persevere, because the performances over the years have brought me a lot of emotion.
Once, when I was performing in Nujiang, Yunnan, when the host introduced my experience, many waiters and guests gave me tips. In fact, I also know that many waiters and customers are also born poor and do not have much money.
But when I went to toast them, they would still hand me a hundred-dollar bill. Maybe after watching my performance and listening to my real experiences, they can also have a trace of empathy, and they will also think of the twists and turns on their own life path.
(Back in the mountains, I built my own cottage)
And I also have a special affection for the Nujiang River in Yunnan, even if that place is far away from my hometown, I still want to go there when I have the opportunity in the future.
Of course, in our industry, I also meet all kinds of people, and there are times when I am moved and sometimes I am angry.
There used to be many guests who couldn't get used to my hard-working performances, thinking that they were all fake props and tricks, and they were coaxing and making trouble in the audience, and there were even guests who teased us actors.
In the face of these vexatious customers, I can only greet them with a smile. For me, it's just a matter of giving me a stage where I can perform to my heart's content. Sometimes I go to the square to perform, sometimes I also go to bars and bathing centers to perform, and sometimes I also take on some commercial performances.
Although our performances are genuine, the pay and the gain are not proportional. An event can generally earn 600 yuan to 800 yuan, and on holidays, you can get more than 1,000 points for a performance.
(This ordinary mountain village is the place where I was born and raised)
So over the years, I haven't saved too much money. In 2011, I also stood on the stage performance of Shanghai Dragon TV, and in 2018, I was invited to participate in the Kunming International Dance and Kung Fu Performance Cultural Festival, and I also won the first place in the martial arts self-selected project.
In 2018, I was 32 years old. I used the hard-earned money I earned in the past few years to buy a house and get married and settle down in Guizhou. My wife is an only child, and she doesn't want to worry about my comfort every day. So in 2019, I used the only remaining funds and borrowed some money from relatives and friends to open a wedding company in Guizhou.
At the beginning, the business was good, and many friends introduced me to customers. Unexpectedly, a year later, the epidemic broke out, and I couldn't get a single business. After a few years, my wife left me. Looking at the warehouse full of wedding equipment, I could only grit my teeth and sell it cheaply, paying off my debts piecemeal.
(The kiwifruit I grew myself has already borne fruit)
At that time, I was about to collapse, and I always thought that I had a hard time in the first half of my life, but as long as I persevered, there would always be a day when I was bitter. But the hardships of the epidemic in the past few years made me see no hope for life. Every day when I wake up, I think of the more than 200,000 foreign debts I owe.
At that time, I wanted to return to my old profession to perform acrobatics, but due to the epidemic, I was not allowed to gather. I don't want to sleep because I am stressed every day, and I really feel that I can't carry it, but I have to resist it. Because there is still an old father who cares about me at home.
So I made a bold decision, I want to go back to the mountains where I was born, build a thatched house to live the most primitive life, organize various evening activities, and create a paradise for people from outside the mountains to come to my hometown.
At that time, after listening to my thoughts, my relatives and friends thought that I was nervous and always thinking about some unrealistic things. I'm a debt-ridden person, I don't work hard to make money, and I still think about such a lofty goal of building my hometown at home, which is too unreliable.
(Big pot stew, original ecology, do you yearn for such a day?) ）
But after so many hardships and setbacks, I have long since disregarded the eyes of those around me. I just thought that I could be happy and happy in my hometown, and I would be very satisfied if I could let people from other places know about my hometown. In the past two years, I have planted dozens of acres of kiwifruit on the mountain where I live, and I have also built a small farm yard in the woods.
Every holiday, I also take the villagers to hold various types of evening parties. For example, in 2022, I held the July Torch Festival of Afeng Cottage, where hundreds of villagers held hands around the bonfire, singing and dancing, and the scene was very lively.
(The rape seedlings I cultivated myself are the hope for next year)
I also started planting rape flowers this spring, and I want to wait until April next year, under the blue sky and white clouds, the rape flowers dancing in the wind all over the mountains can add a beautiful scenery to my hometown.
If you don't have a thousand gold burdens, who will gamble your life on tomorrow? This sentence is a true portrayal of the first half of my life. But in the second half of my life, I want to let go of my obsessions, live in the moment, and be at ease.
[Dictation: Ronin Ah Feng]
[Editor: Jun Junhe]
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