Remember "Xidan Girl" Ren Yueli?
In the winter of 13 years ago, she sang "Angel's Wings" in the xidan underground passage in Beijing, lonely but affectionately.
The voice was ethereal and pure, attracting the attention of a passerby, perhaps a song, or perhaps her difficulty, which touched the heart of a passerby.
Passers-by picked up their mobile phones to record the live version of "Angel's Wings" and then uploaded it to the Internet.
Unexpectedly, this upload, Ren Yueli's singing voice attracted the attention of countless netizens, in a short period of time, the video played more than 3 million, on the Internet crazy was forwarded.
The passerby becomes the messenger of Ren Yueli's fate, and the video changes her fate.
At that time, no one knew what her name was, so the title of "Xidan Girl" came out.
The media and countless netizens came to xidan underground passage and just wanted to listen to her sing a song on the spot.
Immediately, they unearthed the story of this girl in her early 20s: poor family, disabled parents, grandmother seriously ill, dropping out of school from an early age, swallowing drugs to commit suicide...
These blows in life have made Ren Yueli a grassroots representative of indomitable fate.
As you all know, her story is far more inspirational than you think.
01
Ren Yueli was born in 1988 in a poor rural area in Zhuozhou City, Baoding City, Hebei Province, and Ren Yueli's family was the poorest family in the village.
My father suffered from polio when he was young, his legs were severely O-shaped, almost to the point of disability, and even then he used his unfavourable body to run for the family every day.
The mother is a congenital mentally retarded patient, the IQ is only the level of a 4-year-old child, and when the mind is blurred, even Ren Yueli's daughter cannot recognize it.
Ren Yueli was raised by her grandmother, however, the roof leaked during the overnight rain, and in her first year, her mother was first burned in the fire, and it did not take long for her grandmother to suffer a stroke.
The father did not earn enough money to support the family, which made the family, which was not rich, even worse.
Helpless, the sensible Ren Yueli chose to drop out of school and go home to do farm work, trying to do everything she could to work to earn money and take care of the family.
This inferior and hopeless life, Ren Yueli lasted for a year or two.
Until her father broke her leg due to an accident while working, completely crushing the last straw of her spiritual defense line.
Ren Yueli felt that life could not see hope at that moment, and it was not interesting to live, she picked up a Western medicine that her father often took, and swallowed 100 tablets with difficulty in many times.
If in the end, it is not Ren's father who finds out in time and sends Ren Yueli to the hospital, there will be no "Xidan girl" in this world.
The so-called great difficulty and immortality will have a blessing, and Ren Yueli, who was rescued, began to figure it out, and she comforted herself to live a good life and settle this family through hard work.
All the friends in her hometown went out to work, and Ren Yueli seemed to see hope and thought that others could make money by working, and she could too.
Therefore, in 2004, Ren Yueli, who was only 16 years old, despite the opposition of her family, came to Beijing alone and became a member of the North Drift.
She has no education and can only start from the grass-roots service industry.
Ren Yueli went to the restaurant as a waiter, only 300 yuan a month, the work was hard not to say, and often inexplicably ushered in the boss's scolding.
It was difficult to settle the salary in the full moon, but the boss deducted her money for various reasons, and in this way, Ren Yueli's salary was adrift.
She was almost desperate, walking aimlessly on the bustling street, passing through the underpass of Fuxingmen, Ren Yueli was attracted by a wandering singer.
Through a day's observation, Ren Yueli found that some passers-by would throw one or two coins at the wandering singers, which reminded her of the dream of singers she had always had when she was a child.
Ren Yueli thought about singing her favorite songs every day, with an income of about 50 yuan, about 1,000 a month, much stronger than the waiter.
Ren Yueli immediately worshiped the wandering singer as a teacher, and bought a second-hand guitar at her own expense of 100 yuan, opening the way to make a living by singing in the underground passage.
02
I have to say that Ren Yueli is very musically talented, learning guitar is very fast, after a period of training, she began to sing in the underground passage.
Every day Ren Yueli would ride her bicycle from the rental house at six or seven o'clock, and after more than an hour, she came to the crowded underground passage to start her day's work.
Ren Yueli sings really desperately, a round of 60 songs, she asked herself to round after round, until the end of singing for 6 hours.
In order to attract more passers-by, she always challenged the most popular songs, such as "About Winter", "Over the Fire" and other songs that were familiar to people at that time.
Sure enough, Ren Yueli did have a set of songs, many listeners stopped, some will go directly after listening, and some will show respect to Ren Yueli and take out change from their pockets to "tip" her.
For a whole month, Ren Yueli really earned about 1,000 yuan.
Of course, she did not forget the purpose of coming to Beijing to make money, the money earned, Ren Yueli province, aside from the 300 yuan a month rent and an average of about 10 yuan a day, Ren Yueli sent all the rest of the money back to her hometown.
She told her family that she had a stable and good job as a waiter in Beijing, and that no one except Ren Yueli knew that she made a living by singing in the underground passage.
After a day of work, returning to the rental house with an area of only 10 square meters at night, Ren Yueli felt that she could support her family, and there was a little pride in contentment.
It's just that the days of singing are so good, and the bitterness of this job is experienced.
In the season, the summer is fine, but in the winter, the days are the most difficult, often in the underground passage, Ren Yueli's hands will be frozen by the cold wind and bone, and sometimes the snot drips to the mouth and does not know, it is really very messy and pitiful.
Including this job is not respected by others.
Someone once threw a few coins at Ren Yueli with the behavior of "slapping first and then giving dates", and she felt that her dignity was insulted and trampled, and directly pushed the coins back.
Ren Yueli had obviously heard too many sympathetic words, endured the strange eyes of many people, and each setback made her habitually filter out words and deeds that were hurtful to her.
She did need money, but she never felt inferior to others, and she could even say that she loved the job more than other wandering singers.
When these people gave up this path for various reasons, only Ren Yueli insisted on repeating the same work year after year.
This insistence is 4 years.
In the end, this valuable spirit of perseverance changed her fate in 2008.
03
On December 20, 2008, Ren Yueli came to the Xidan Underground Passage to sing as usual, in which she attracted a passerby when she sang "Angel's Wings".
Ren Yueli's clean and pure voice touched the heart of this passerby, and halfway through the singing, he had shed tears, did not think much, took out his mobile phone to record this beautiful moment.
Invisibly, passers-by acted as messengers of Ren Yueli's destiny.
Five days later, he shared the video online, and a month later, after a netizen reprinted it, the video was completely popular.
In just one day, the number of video views exceeded 3 million, and the number of likes exceeded 100,000.
At that time, no one knew Ren Yueli's real name, so the outside world gave her a nice title of "Xidan Girl".
Countless people came to listen to Ren Yueli singing, and the Xidan underpass seemed to become the scene of Ren Yueli's concert.
As the media unearthed Ren Yueli's past inspirational stories, she did not unexpectedly become a well-deserved grassroots representative.
Such a positive energy figure who is indomitable to fate makes CCTV notice her.
In 2010, Ren Yueli stepped on the stage of "I want to go to the Spring Festival Gala", relying on popularity support and positive energy image to add points, so that she won the admission ticket for the 2011 Spring Festival Gala.
On the stage, she held the guitar and sang the song "Homecoming", which resonated with the wandering wanderers.
At the end of the Spring Festival Gala, Ren Yueli's fame soared, and her title of "Xidan Girl" was known and known to everyone throughout the country.
With traffic, various business endorsement invitations to Ren Yueli flocked to, she began to become busy, the appearance fee once rose to 100,000 yuan, the daily schedule was full, more than 300 activities a year, so that Ren Yueli earned a lot of money.
Money, though not omnipotent, can fill a life without material things and a spiritual void.
Ren Yueli first did after she got rich was to buy a house and a car for her family, and then she learned to enrich herself and pursue things that she had never done before.
While singing in the underground passage, a wandering singer 14 years older than her confessed to her that in the most difficult times, they huddled together to warm up and licked each other's wounds.
The other party gave Ren Yueli too much help, but in the end she refused to confess. Not because I don't like it, but because I love it too much and don't want to drag the other person into her muddy waters.
After becoming famous, Ren Yueli's economic conditions changed drastically, and she pursued what she wanted to try before, including her one.
In 2014, the two entered the palace of marriage, and in the days that followed, he became Ren Yueli's legal husband and career partner.
Many people say that Ren Yueli should not blindly put all her money on her family, she has to consider the future development, the times are changing and developing at a high speed, if she does not progress, sooner or later she will be eliminated by this society.
However, Ren Yueli was obviously poor and afraid. She saved all the money she earned in case her family needed it when she was sick.
For Ren Yueli, the only thing she could give to this family who had suffered for most of her life was money.
04
The entertainment industry is very realistic, and if you don't progress, someone will overtake you.
Ren Yueli did not focus on future development, which led to her albums, often applauded or not.
Gradually, Ren Yueli withdrew from people's field of vision and disappeared in the entertainment industry.
It was not until the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan and the appearance of her name in the list of Han Hong's love support donations that we knew that the "Xidan Girl" had been in the entertainment industry.
However, at that time, she gradually faded her status as a singer and was replaced by a capitalist.
In the face of the fact that she has passed, Ren Yueli's mentality is very calm, since she cannot create brilliance in her singing career, she can change her field.
In 2015, Ren Yueli abandoned art to enter the business, and she and her friends developed a toothpaste called Quite Ai Pai.
At the press conference, she left this ambitious sentence:
I thought she was a fool's dream, but I didn't expect that heaven would take care of this girl again.
Ren Yueli's rather loving toothpaste was well received by the public once it was listed, and it was sold out of stock several times, and in a short period of time, she impressed many business tycoons, including her idol Dong Mingzhu, who expressed high recognition and appreciation for her ability.
She even rushed out of the country and boarded the giant screen in Times Square, New York, to let the world see her brand toothpaste.
Some people rumor that Ren Yueli only earned a hundred million yuan by selling toothpaste, for which Ren Yueli has never explained, she just silently made a brand.
In 2016, Ren Yueli's Chuangpai Toothpaste was acquired by a company for a whopping 60 million yuan.
Since then, Ren Yueli has become more and more low-key, in addition to occasionally participating in some small programs and public welfare activities, she also shoots vibrato and sends videos to entertain the public.
Today, her life is simple and fulfilling and happy, and she is getting farther and farther away from her ambition to become the "next Dong Mingzhu", but how she develops in the future we have no way to intervene, the only thing we can do is to hold respect and not bother her.