In Li Jian's memory, his father only cried twice in front of him, the first time was when his grandfather died, and the second time was when his father was suffering from cancer, and he took cash to the hospital to send money.
But the father wept and said,
"It's all my fault, it's me who dragged you down. ”
At that time, Li Jian had already left the Shuimu Nianhua group and was at a low point in his career, and his father was still worried about him before he died:
"Do you make money singing now, can you support yourself?"
After his father died, Li Jian carved eight words on his father's tombstone:
"Winter and summer permanent, Issei warm."
These words are not only engraved on his father's tombstone, but also seem to be engraved on Li Jianjian, although he is nearly 50 years old, he is still as warm as jade.
is worthy of the words "Mo Shang Yan Ruyu, a gentleman is unparalleled in the world".
However, although Li Jian understood his father, he himself refused to be a father, and he and his childhood sweetheart's wife have been married for 18 years, but he has always insisted on Dink,
He said that he was not an endangered species and that there was no need to reproduce.
However, in the bustling entertainment industry, a clear stream like Li Jian seems to be really about to become extinct.
01
Li Jian's father, Li Jiuliang, was a martial artist of the Peking Opera Company in Heilongjiang Province, and under the influence of his father, Li Jian was also interested in opera, he not only learned to sing Huayan, but also practiced martial arts with his father.
Maybe it was because he sang too hard, which eventually caused his voice to be hoarse, and it wasn't until the voice change period came that his voice recovered.
Since then, he no longer dares to learn to sing Peking Opera, and with his voice conditions, he is not suitable for singing flowers.
Li Jian is the kind of child who is very naughty in school, loves to play and make trouble, and often does not write homework, because he thinks that those homework are too simple.
There is no need to do it at all.
At the parent-teacher meeting, the teacher criticized Li Jian by name:
"Don't play with Li Jian, don't be spoiled by him. ”
Li Jian's father sat in the audience and glared at Li Jian fiercely, but the teacher's next words made him feel very embarrassed in an instant, because the teacher said:
"He can get the first place in the exam even if he doesn't do his homework, can you?"
That's right, Li Jian has been a talented player in learning since he was a child, and he doesn't see how hard he works at all, but his test scores have always been in the top three.
Although other parents are very envious, they also know that envy does not come.
When he was in junior high school, Li Jian fell in love with music, Luo Dayou, Li Zongsheng, and Qi Qin were all singers that Li Jian liked, and most of his pocket money was used to buy tapes.
His mother saw that he liked music so much, so she took out two months' salary to buy him a Kapok brand guitar, and Li Jian held it in his arms and couldn't put it down.
also imitated the Hong Kong star on TV, singing and dancing with a guitar.
However, he had no talent for dancing, his limbs were very uncoordinated, and his dancing was very ugly, and he went with the flow and began to take the quiet route.
Holding a guitar on the balcony at home, by the river at sunset, on the playground at school, immersed in music with your eyes closed.
By the time he was in high school, he was already a very good guitarist, not only playing well, but also very stylish.
The girls around him looked at him, always with little stars in their eyes.
For Li Jian, it is not a difficult thing to get into Tsinghua University and Peking University, and it is even very easy, but it is stressful to get a very high score.
02
In the junior year, Tsinghua University held a winter camp, all students with special talents in literature and art can participate, and those who perform well can also get extra points in the college entrance examination.
Li Jian cherished this opportunity, so he also deliberately went to study folk songs for more than four months.
During the event, Li Jian held the guitar and sang a song "Say a Word from the Heart" with his clear, ethereal, and poetic and beautiful voice.
This song not only won him the first place in the country, but also was directly sent to the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University.
Many people may say, isn't it better to sing, as for being sent to Tsinghua University? But don't forget, Li Jian himself is a top student.
In terms of IQ alone, he can sweep most of the entertainment industry and embarrass many low-educated and uneducated stars.
At Tsinghua University, Li Jian not only served as the class president, but also formed a group with his classmate Miao Jie and won the first place in the campus song competition.
Because he played the guitar so well, he was asked to be an accompanist in other bands on campus, and at most, he served as a guitarist in nine bands.
Such a feat soon made him a popular figure on campus, whether it was a senior sister or a senior sister, they all showed favor to him,
But he always looks like a "righteous gentleman" and goes alone.
In fact, Li Jian is not sitting still, but he has already had a crush, and the two have known each other since childhood.
When he was 10 years old, his parents took Li Jian to visit relatives, and at his relative's house, he saw a little girl with pink carvings and slightly curly hair.
She is Meng Xiaobei, who is only 5 years old.
At that time, Li Jian's father also praised Meng Xiaobei for being beautiful, like a little Russian girl, and Li Jian also held her little hand to play together.
He would never have thought that Meng Xiaobei would be his future bride.
When the two met for the second time, it was already at a funeral, Li Jian was 17 years old, and Meng Xiaobei was 12 years old.
Like Li Jian, Meng Xiaobei is also a top student, with a superior IQ, and the two geniuses are together and chatting very happily.
Later, Li Jian was escorted to Tsinghua University, and when Meng Xiaobei was about to graduate from high school, she asked Li Jian to tutor her homework.
As a result, the homework was not remediated, but Meng Xiaobei fell in love early, and after graduating from high school, she also followed in Li Jian's footsteps and was admitted to Tsinghua University.
And went all the way to the PhD.
03
There are many people who say that the song "Legend" was written by Li Jian specifically for Meng Xiaobei, but it is not.
This song was written during his low period, and it was not sung by him himself.
After graduating from university, Li Jian entered the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television as a high-end technical talent and became a network engineer, with 4,000 yuan a month.
In 1998, this was quite a few for the average person.
The work there was boring and boring, and in order to add some fun to life, he also went out to install TV signal amplifiers for the residents,
In those comfortable and tired days, Li Jian gained a lot of weight, far less handsome and elegant than he looks now.
One day in 2000, Li Jian suddenly received a call from his senior Lu Gengxu, who said that he wanted to form a group with Li Jian and release an album together.
And there is already a company willing to sign them.
This is undoubtedly a breath of fresh air in the dark room for Li Jian, so he quit his job amid the opposition of his parents and went to form a group with Lu Gengxu.
This combination is now the Mizuki Nianhua.
After becoming a singer, Lu Gengxu's first request to him was to lose weight, Li Jian looked in the mirror, and suddenly felt that he had wasted too much time.
In 2001, Shuimu Nianhua released the first album "Life with You", but the company was not optimistic about them, because the company felt that
Campus folk songs are already leftovers from Gao Xiaosong, Lao Wolf and others, and now it is popular to sing and dance singers, and it is recommended that Li Jian learn dance.
It's not that Li Jian doesn't really want to go, but he really has no talent, and in front of dance, he is a "scumbag".
But no one thought that once this album was released, it achieved very good results, and also won the Best Golden Melody Award at the 9th China Song Chart.
The group has also become well-known to fans.
Li Jian felt that he had made a good start and would definitely have smooth sailing in the future, but he never thought that
In the next ten years, the water and wood years will become an insurmountable mountain for him.
In 2002, Li Jian and Lu Gengxu released their second album "The True Story of Youth", but in the process of creation, he had a disagreement with Lu Gengxu.
But both of them are more introverted people, although they have different thoughts, but they still complete this cooperation very well.
After the album was released, Lu Gengxu suddenly said to Li Jian:
"Actually, it's good for you to release an album on your own. ”
Li Jian felt the same way, so he said to Lu Gengxu:
"Then I'll make one myself, and you can find a suitable person to work with. ”
In this way, the two "broke up" very tacitly.
And the song "Legend" was written by Li Jian during this period.
04
After flying solo, Li Jian's influence greatly declined, but the Shuimu Nianhua group sang all the way, and the song "In Another Country" became popular all over the streets and alleys.
It has even become a must-sing song for many students before class.
Li Jian lives in a relative's house in Beijing, which is an idle courtyard house, and his career is not going well, he writes songs and reads every day.
In those days, he was reading the novel "Letter from a Strange Woman", and after reading it, he was moved by the heroine in the novel.
So sitting in the winter sun, holding a broken guitar, I wrote the melody of the song "Legend".
In fact, Li Jian's creative process is very similar to his lifestyle, they are very Buddhist, and he does not deliberately pursue anything.
He read "The Catcher in the Rye" in front of a wheat field, and then wrote "The Wind Blows the Wheat Waves".
He looked at the blue surface of Lake Baikal, the breeze was blowing, and he wrote "On the Shore of Lake Baikal",
He looked at Meng Xiaobei, who had been by his side and constantly encouraged him, so he married Meng Xiaobei.
In 2005, Li Jian's father was diagnosed with cancer, and Li Jian took the only tens of thousands of yuan to treat his father.
Seeing his father in such pain but unable to do anything about it, he felt a deep sense of frustration and even wanted to change careers and find a high-paying and stable job.
This is the life that ordinary people should have.
However, Meng Xiaobei, who was already a graduate student at Tsinghua University, said to him:
"You just have to be yourself, don't worry about me. ”
Meng Xiaobei is not only a top student, but also very beautiful, she can even attract the attention of talent scouts when she walks on the road, and wants to invite her to be a model.
In addition, she also knows calligraphy and painting, can play the piano, loves photography, is proficient in tea art, and also likes to study cooking, even Li Jian doesn't know.
There's something she won't.
Just when Li Jian was at his most difficult, Meng Xiaobei decided to marry him and get through the difficulties in front of him with him.
In 2006, Li Jian's father died, and in 2007, his new album lost to Zheng Jun, and Meng Xiaobei was always by his side.
In those years, Li Jian was an outlier in the music scene, his people were not popular, and his songs were not popular, but he was very popular in the circle.
Many famous singers appreciate him very much and are very good friends with him, such as Faye Wong, Wang Feng and others.
When Li Jian held a concert, Faye Wong would also send him a text message with a long list of songs, hoping to listen to him sing at the concert.
looks like a little fan girl.
Although there are not many people who like Li Jian's singing, without exception, these people are all iron fans, and they are very proud to say that Li Jian's songs,
It's not something that just one person can appreciate or like, you need to have a little level.
05
In 2010, Faye Wong, who had "disappeared" for a long time, called Li Jian and said that she wanted to sing his "Legend" at the Spring Festival Gala.
I remembered that I still have such a song.
He said to Faye Wong: "If you like it, just sing it." ”
In his eyes, he just wrote a better melody, and he didn't think he was so powerful.
But he didn't expect that Faye Wong would directly sing this song on the Spring Festival Gala this year.
Immediately afterwards, some fans dug up, it turned out that this song was written by Li Jian, and then continued to dig, and it was dug out that he was a member of Shuimu Nianhua.
Li Jian never thought that he would receive everyone's attention in this way.
Li Jian's career is gradually on the right track, and his influence is getting bigger and bigger, but what really made him popular was "I Am a Singer" in 2015,
Although he only won the second place, his music is more and more liked.
After becoming popular, more and more people asked him to cooperate, and even some developers were willing to give him a few houses, but he not only refused directly, but also ran away.
Fly to the United States to write the next album.
From the youthful spirit of Bao to Tsinghua University, to the fiery youth of Shuimu Nian, and finally to the silence of more than ten years, Li Jian has already had his own rhythm of life.
He enjoys the tranquility of life more than the hustle and bustle that comes with becoming famous.
You must have heard such a saying, called thirty and standing, forty is not confused, many people take this sentence as the measure of their life,
When you reach the age of 30, see if you have stood up, whether you are married, whether you have bought a house, and whether you have a stable career.
But Li Jian doesn't think so, he thinks that life is not long, short is not short, there is no need to take a ruler to measure yourself.
There is no need to compare yourself with others.
In his eyes, as long as people find a way of life that makes them comfortable, enjoy it, have a clear goal, and know what they want to do and where they want to go, this is enough.
This is the meaning of our life, it has already "stood up", and there is no need to measure ourselves by the standards of most people.
Li Jian and Meng Xiaobei have been married for 18 years, but not only do they not buy a house, but they also do not have children, they live in a rented house, and they can take a trip at any time.
You can also sit opposite each other on a drunk, sunny morning, making a pot of tea, reading a book, and making a little joke.
Some people say, Li Jian, are you too low-key, Meng Xiaobei is so good and beautiful, why don't you show affection?
Li Jian has a unique view on marriage, he believes that most of those who often post pictures and show affection do not have good results in the end.
And Li Jian is not envious, he thinks that every day after he and Meng Xiaobei get married, they are on their honeymoon.
If you have to describe the love between Li Jian and Meng Xiaobei, it seems that there are only nine words that can be expressed: fairy couple, not like people in the world.
But some people blame Li Jian, saying that he shouldn't waste such good genes, let alone be a "Dink", which is a bad example.
Li Jian was dismissive of this, and bluntly said that there was no need for his genes to continue.
In fact, whether you don't buy a house or don't have children, it's just a personal lifestyle, and everyone has their own way of living.
In our lives, there are many examples of people who are busy and frugal, only for the sake of their children and grandchildren.
But there are also people who should eat, drink, dress, buy, just want to have a good time, and live a life in vain.
But in the end, it turned out that everyone seemed to end up in the same way.
To live the life you want to live, in fact, what you need is not courage, but this is a talent in itself, which can only be envied, not learned.
It's like everyone envies Li Jian, but not everyone can be Li Jian.
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