My indissoluble relationship with Teacher Guo Song (Series 2)
Wang Zhigang
Two
Blessed to this day. It's not over yet.
One day in May 1996, I was writing in my office. Suddenly, I received a phone call, "Hello, is it Zhigang?" Guess who I am? The voice on the phone was strange and somewhat familiar, and I couldn't guess it for a moment. The other party also reminded me vigorously: "Think about it, we have seen it this year's Spring Festival." "I still can't guess." Haha, I'm Guo Song. Yes, it is Guo Song who sings northeast folk songs. "I was stunned at once, no matter how rich my imagination is, I can't guess that it is Guo Song's phone!" Zhigang, a few days ago, the comrades of the Beijing Television Station gave me a newspaper with the manuscript you wrote, and I liked it very much. In a few days, I will go to Tongzhou to do business, and I want to meet you and get to know you, can I? "I don't know what to say for a while, which is okay or not, I can't ask for it!"
Two weeks later, Guo Song and I met in a small restaurant diagonally opposite Luhe Hospital. Some people say that officials have a big temper and a big reputation. Guo Song not only did not have any shelf, but also spoke with special humor and humor. After a while of chatting, I didn't have the original restraint, and Guo Songdong had a hammer and a lever in the west. I asked Guo Song, "When we meet in the future, what should I call you?" "Unexpectedly, we have been discussing this issue for a long time. I said, "You're older than my father, so I'll call you Uncle." Dare to love Guo Song is still a Beijing pass, and even shakes his head, "No, no, no, in Beijing dialect, Uncle Has that meaning." "In the end, we reached a consensus, which was called Teacher Guo. He said that this title is appreciated by all the customs and is common throughout the country.
While we were chatting, there was also an episode. A mother and daughter at the opposite table were also eating. My mother, who is in her 40s, looks at our table from time to time. After a while, I came over with the courage to do so. "May I ask, are you the singer Guo Song?" "It's me, I'm Guo Song who sings." The woman shouted like a child: "Oh, great, see me, you sign me!" The woman searched for half a day and could not find a single piece of paper from her body. Or the hotel waiter helped her solve the problem and handed her an order menu. I noticed that when Teacher Guo signed, he also carefully wrote the date and place. The daughter next to her looked at this side blankly, not knowing which nerve her mother was sending. Teacher Guo quietly told me: "If I were singing popular songs, it would definitely be her daughter who would be looking for my signature." It turned out that Teacher Guo had seen such a thing.
Unconsciously, more than two hours had passed. When we broke up, Mr. Guo gave me a CD with his signature and a newspaper about his acting career. This time I have a feeling: throw a tantrum, talk.
Working relationship, I have contacted some celebrities, and some have left contact information for each other. But I've always adhered to the principle that you don't contact, I don't bother. After that, although Teacher Guo called me several times, I never took the initiative to contact him. However, from this time on, I began to pay attention to Teacher Guo and learned more about this amiable and respectable old man.
Guo Song likes to sing since he was a child, and he is good at thinking about musical scores, which is almost to the point of going crazy. The teacher asked questions in class, and he read 3+4=7 as Mi+Fat=West. After becoming a professional actor, Guo Song "Stupid boy sleeps in a cold kang, all by fire." "Stunned is to sing the northeast folk songs to the whole country." In 1962, when Premier Zhou received foreign guests, he sang a song "The More I Walk, the Brighter I Get.". After the performance, Premier Zhou deliberately approached Guo Song and proposed amendments. Later, the song won the National Award for Outstanding Music Composition. In the 1960s, he was elected to the National People's Congress for two consecutive terms. He is proud that the Ussuri Boat Song, which he co-authored and performed, was included in UNESCO's cultural teaching materials.
It can be said that Guo Song's song has influenced generations!
Maybe it was a deliberate arrangement by Heaven. Just after the Spring Festival in 1997, Teacher Guo told me a good news: in order to facilitate his work, he came to live in Tongzhou and lived in Yangjiawa, Liyuan Town.
At Teacher Guo's house, we met for the second time. We didn't have a sense of strangeness to each other at this meeting, and we talked about everything we wanted. When they were about to break up, Teacher Guo suddenly got serious: "Zhigang, I think about it, I have made up my mind as a little friend of yours!" "After saying that, solemnly give me a gift." Oh my God, an old man in his old age actually wrapped his gifts so stylishly: colorful silk paper, beautiful bows. Teacher Guo's actions caught me off guard, and even a little embarrassed. Etiquette is still exchanged, but I am not prepared at all! Fortunately, my mind turned quickly: "Teacher Guo, you are still cruel, I owe you all my life." It made Teacher Guo laugh.
When I got home, I couldn't wait to open the gift box. There are two poems on the box: Youth is precious, and the price of twilight is higher. Encourage your young friend Zhigang. The payment is: Guo Song, an old man of the Sixty Six Kanto Regions, was in Yangjiawa, Pear Garden on February 24, 1997. There is also a cartoon on the inside of the box, drawn with a pen: an old man stares into the distance and sings loudly. How coincidental, that year, I was thirty-three years old, and Teacher Guo was exactly twice as long as me. At this time, I don't know how to describe my mood, more should be moved. I told my lover that I had made friends with Teacher Guo! (To be continued)
Famous singer Guo Song (right) poses with the author
The author is the former director of Beijing Tongzhou District Radio and Television Center.