1999 was a crucial year for Geng Weihua.
He participated in the Wuxi 119 fire party and met Wang Qiang, a noble man in his career and also the benefactor in his life.
The party was funded by Wang Qiang, and Geng Weihua was the only singer designated by Wang Qiang because he liked Geng Weihua's "Green Military Uniform" very much.
After the party, the two exchanged phone calls out of courtesy.
At that time, Geng Weihua did not have a mobile phone, and what he left behind was the landline in the regiment.
Originally, they thought that each other was a passer-by in life, but wang Qiang unexpectedly became a nobleman in Geng Weihua's career.
That year, the famous songwriter Che Xing and the composer Qi Jianbo jointly created the song "Mother's Love Is Deep" and gave it to Geng Weihua for an audition.
After the audition, the author was very satisfied, and immediately decided to give the song to Geng Weihua to sing, and at Geng Weihua's suggestion, changed the song title to a simpler and more atmospheric "Mother".
At that time, the copyright of the song and the production of the MV required more than 100,000 yuan, which made Geng Weihua very embarrassed.
At that time, his monthly salary was only more than a thousand yuan, his parents were not in good health, they did not have much savings, and he was anxious.
Geng Weihua thought of Wang Qiang, who was on the edge of one side, and he thought about it again and again, and called Wang Qiang hard and borrowed 50,000 yuan.
Wang Qiang on the other end of the phone also felt abrupt at first, after all, the two did not have an excessively deep friendship.
50,000 yuan was not a small amount in 1999, and many people's monthly wages at that time were only five or six hundred yuan.
Wang Qiang felt geng Weihua's eagerness on the other end of the phone, so he asked him to sing the song to him.
This singing touched Wang Qiang. Especially the sentence "No matter how rich you are, no matter how old you are, you can't forget our mother at any time", I heard him wet his eyes with tears.
Although Wang Qiang was also starting a business at that time and needed funds, in order to realize Geng Weihua's dream, in order to make such a good song known to the public, he resolutely funded Geng Weihua with 50,000 yuan.
Geng Weihua was so excited that he didn't know how to be good, and even promised to pay it back immediately after having money, and Wang Qiang said that he didn't need to pay back the money and he was funding.
Geng Weihua took the song to the 2000 Double Support Party and the Spring Festival Gala of Heilongjiang Television.
After that, Geng Weihua began to record the MV of "Mother", and he did not expect that things would be complicated.
Due to various reasons, and because Geng Weihua himself did not grasp the timing, the song "Mother" was transferred to Teacher Yan Weiwen to sing and shoot the MV.
Teacher Yan Weiwen frequently sang "Mother" at major evenings, and the songs quickly became popular all over the country and are still popular today.
Geng Weihua insisted on his singing rights and publishing rights for "Mother", so now the audience can see two versions of "Mother", which belong to Yan Weiwen and Geng Weihua.
After Wang Qiang funded 50,000 yuan for Geng Weihua that year, Geng Weihua was busy with songs.
When he finished a period of busy time and called Wang Qiang back, he found that the phone number had become an empty number.
Geng Weihua's landline was fixed, and he often hoped that Wang Qiang would call, but he did not receive it for a long time.
At that time, Geng Weihua went to Wuxi just to participate in a party, and no one except Wang Qiang knew him. At that time, there were not so many online social tools today, and the two lost contact.
Geng Weihua's singing career is flourishing, but he has always been obsessed with Wang Qiang, often entrusting people to look for him but has not been successful, and his parents have always urged him to find Wang Qiang's eldest brother.
In 2013, Geng Weihua found Jilin Satellite TV's "Big Name Birthday Party" program and asked the program team to help him find a benefactor.
The program team rushed to Wuxi, and finally found Wang Qiang after many twists and turns, and the two embraced and cried at the moment they met.
In addition to gratitude, Geng Weihua also had a layer of guilt in his heart.
Wang Qiang's eldest brother spent so much money to fund it, but the song was sung by Teacher Yan Weiwen, and he always felt ashamed in his heart.
Wang Qiang said he had been following Geng Weihua and did not contact him because he did not want to ask for anything in return.
He was a low-key person, who only wanted to dedicate himself silently, and did not think that Geng Weihua had been thinking about him for so many years.
"Without Wang Qiang, there would be no me now." To Wang Qiang, Geng Weihua has always had a grateful heart.
Over the years, whenever he participated in the activities, the song "Mother" was Geng Weihua's must-sing song.
This song is of great significance to him, it has a deep affection for his mother, and it is also full of the righteousness of Wang Qiang's big brother.