Summer in Beijing, when the sun is warm but not hot, is the most pleasant weather. Sitting in the courtyard by the Forbidden City, Li Chengru, who is almost old, will inevitably look back on the past. Although this once beautiful and wealthy man is no longer the wealth of the past, any one of the antiques and antiques collected at home is worth a fortune.
He looked around, his gaze finally landing on an old photograph on his desk. It was a group photo of him and his son Li Dahai when they were traveling together a few years ago. Looking at the happy appearance of the two in the photo, Li Chengru's eyes couldn't help but soften a little.
Recalling his life course, ups and downs, ups and downs, Li Chengru feels that the biggest regret is that he was unable to fulfill the responsibilities of a good father and missed the precious time to accompany his son's growth.
Fortunately, under the washing of the years, the father and son finally understood each other's love and expectations, and the family relationship lasted for a long time. Now, for Li Chengru, his biggest expectation is that his son Li Dahai can meet a person with a good heart and form a happy family.
Don't be like him, two marriages and two divorces, leaving too many regrets. Li Dahai is 36 years old this year, and for a man of this age, it is indeed time to think about marriage.
Li Chengru sighed, he knew that he was indeed too strict with his son in his life, and when his son was young and vigorous, he never gave affirmation and encouragement, but often severely reprimanded and was critical in every way.
But all of this is actually just his own way of loving his son. As a father, he hopes that his son will become a Chan, and hopes that his son can be independent, independent, and get ahead, rather than living only by his halo.
Although his education method is a bit old-fashioned, the intentions behind it are good, and his son will naturally understand it when he is older. When it comes to Li Chengru's family history, we have to start from the 90s of the last century.
At that time, China was in the midst of the upsurge of reform and opening up, and everything was full of opportunities and hopes. In 1990, Li Chengru founded China's first open-shelf clothing store "Special Special" in Beijing.
At the time, it was a completely new business model and quite innovative. It didn't take long for the store to quickly become popular in the capital, and business was booming, and it was "effortless" to make money.
Banknotes kept pouring into Li Chengru's pocket like a spring breeze. His lifestyle has also undergone earth-shaking changes - wearing 70,000 or 80,000 sets of high-end suits, more than 10,000 brand-name ties, and a pair of silk cotton socks worth $100 under his feet, he is simply extravagant and extravagant.
Not to mention entering and exiting the hotel club, the tip is just a hundred dollars, and the gesture shows the style of the rich and noble. At that time, when most people were still tightening their belts to live a "hard and simple" life, Li Chengru had already begun to buy all kinds of small cars, and he often bought a car for 70,000 or 80,000 US dollars.
By 1991, Li Cheng's foreign exchange deposits in Confucianism were as high as 13 million US dollars, which was converted into more than 60 million yuan at that time, and his worth was as simple as a small millionaire! He is indeed a man of money and lives an incomparable luxury life.
But the rich life didn't last long, the good times didn't last long, and in a blink of an eye, in 1993, Li Chengru's investment failed, all the family property was put in, and he instantly returned to poverty overnight.
This is a heavy blow to his life for him, who was once "rich and rivals the country". But Li Chengru did not give up, but chose to start fighting again. He returned to the showbiz he was familiar with before, devoted himself wholeheartedly to his acting career, and relied on an old face and excellent skills, and finally made a comeback in dramas such as "Six Groups of Serious Cases" and "Longxugou", and slowly regained some glory.
While Li Cheng was in the middle of Confucianism and struggling again, his son Li Dahai was also carrying the burden of a person alone, struggling to survive step by step. In 1985, Li Dahai was born in an ordinary family in Beijing, when his father Li Chengru was just an unknown worker.
When he was 7 years old, his parents divorced due to personality incompatibility, and Li Dahai lived with his mother in this way, and spent his entire childhood in a small and cramped environment. The mother and son live in a rental house of only 18 square meters, which is so small that it is even a problem to turn around.
The furnishings are also very simple, except for a few pieces of old furniture and the most basic household items, there are no other things. Separate bathroom? Not to mention, even cooking has to go to the communal kitchenette in the next room.
Moreover, the rent has to be paid more than 600 yuan per month, which is a heavy burden for the mother who earns money alone to support the family. In order to pay off the debt of more than 200,000 yuan owed by the previous stock speculation, she had to send her son to boarding school to take care of the housework and earn money to pay off the debts by herself.
Li Dahai, a transfer student and a poor family, has repeatedly become the target of ridicule and discrimination by his classmates. But he is sensible and well-behaved, and his personality is as stubborn as his father, he never talks back, only endures it silently, and feels sorry for his mother's hard work.
At the age of 17, he even took the initiative to drop out of school to work, worked as a waiter, salesman, and made a living by singing on the streets. A month's hard-earned meager income, in addition to maintaining food and clothing, he used the rest to support his mother's life.
For Li Dahai, his mother's dedication is something he can never repay. And it was this period of orphans, widows, and poor years that tempered his perseverance and perseverance, and also made him understand the truth of being a man.
It's hard to imagine how he once grew from a poor little boy to a low-key and conscientious young man today. Today, Li Dahai is not only committed to the music career, but also has been silently doing public welfare, insisting on volunteering in the Association for the Disabled, and using the power of music to bring joy to the disabled.
Although it is not popular, it never hypes up scandals, and it is just a kick in the door. Li Dahai's impoverished upbringing is inseparable from the absence of his father Li Chengru.
In the most critical ten years of Li Dahai's life, from the age of 7 to 17, Li Chengru almost did his duty as a father. According to Li Dahai's recollection, in the past 20 years, he has not met his father more than 100 times, and he can only see each other once in 70 days on average.
For a child, such a father-son time is too thin. What outsiders don't know is that Li Chengru also married his new love Shi Yihong during that time, and she was a full 18 years younger than Li Chengru.
The appearance of a new wife undoubtedly further distracted Li Chengru's attention from his son. He put more energy into his new marriage and new family. Such a father-son relationship naturally widened the distance, and an insurmountable gap gradually arose between the two.
As a son, Li Dahai has longed for his father's love since he was a child, but he always passed by him. Over time, deep in his heart, he accumulated a strong resentment towards his absent father.
Even if Li Chengru occasionally came to visit the school with gifts, he often simply refused to meet and pushed the gifts back as they were. For a child, this "hostility" is certainly abnormal, but it is also due to the disappointment and resentment that has accumulated little by little over the years.
As a father, Li Chengru naturally felt very sorry when he saw his son's attitude. He knew that he owed too much to Li Dahai, and his son had not enjoyed the fatherly love he deserved since he was a child.
But in the face of his son's "resistance", he also seemed helpless, and could only watch his son grow up day by day, but he could not be by his side or take care of him.
It wasn't until 2002 that a sudden accident finally broke the relationship between father and son. On the eve of the Spring Festival that year, Li Dahai was accidentally hit by a car while riding a bicycle, and his condition was very critical at that time and he needed an emergency blood transfusion... The Spring Festival was approaching that year, which should have been a peaceful and festive season, but for Li Dahai's family, it fell into a sudden crisis.
On that day, Li Dahai rode his bicycle around the streets as usual. Unexpectedly, a runaway car drove madly and slammed into his body! I saw people and cars flying, Li Dahai fell heavily to the ground, and he lost consciousness on the spot.
The situation at the scene was very bad, Li Dahai not only had multiple bone cracks all over his body, but also lost a lot of blood, and his condition was extremely critical. If blood transfusion is not done in time, the consequences are unimaginable. When relatives arrived at the scene, they immediately started treatment.
At this time, Li Chengru was also alarmed and rushed to the hospital, and when he saw his son lying on the hospital bed dying, he felt helpless like never before. The doctor told him that the most important thing at the moment was to transfuse Li Dahai's blood, otherwise his life would be in danger at any time.
Li Chengru didn't say a word, and immediately asked for a blood test for his son. In a few moments, his whole face turned pale, and he was obviously slightly weakened by the heavy blood loss. In this way, the blood of father and son became one at this moment.
After about a few hours, Li Dahai finally regained his breath and slowly opened his eyes. When he saw his father in front of the hospital bed, the old resentment in his heart seemed to loosen a little at this moment.
How many days and nights he looked forward to his father's arrival, and now he is reunited with his father in such an environment and occasion. However, Li Dahai still pretended to be strong, and said to his sick father: "No matter how good you are to me, some things can't make up for it."
Hearing his son's words, Li Chengru just nodded quietly and did not make a sound. He was well aware of his own mistakes and incompetence, and naturally it was inconvenient to refute his son's accusations.
This car accident is not only a slap in the face, but it has also become a turning point in the relationship between father and son. Since then, Li Dahai has gradually begun to understand his father and his love and good intentions for him.