People always have some special emotions on cloudy days, and scientists say that it is the relationship between the anions in the air and the human endocrine.
When I went to bed at noon, I dreamed that I had become a bird, flapping my wings to follow the footsteps of summer, crossing the equator and then crossing the Tropic of Cancer. When I woke up, I was very tired, and the gloomy sky of Nanjing was scattered outside the window, and there was an old male voice in the headphones singing: "There is a jingle from the blacksmith shop, and all this is not as bad as imagined." ”
Maybe all I think is that I want to close the thick curtains on a cloudy day, watch a few gloomy movies, and let myself be in the dark, but I have to get up, brush my teeth, wash my face and go to work. And this person who once lived in a mess is telling me that all this is not as bad as I thought.
I always feel that Wan Xiaoli is a somewhat decadent singer, not gloomy, but also not warm. When he wrote, "I began to rethink what watermelon meant to summer, and whether summer would become something else because of its absence." When I said something like this, I decided to get to know him again, because that's something I think about every summer.
In 1971, Wan Xiaoli was born in Ci County, a small county town near Handan, Hebei Province, where a wine called "Cizhou Xiaomaotai" was produced, and Wan Xiaoli's father was the director of the small distillery, and Wan Xiaoli grew up singing songs there.
He has loved music since he was a child, his voice is high and loud, and he can sing anything. I found a harmonica from the corner of the house and somehow blew it. When he was happily in front of the literary elite in school, the change of voice made him so devastated that he even felt that he could no longer sing.
Later, when I went to the county town to study, my classmates in the same dormitory had a guitar, and Wan Xiaoli grabbed it and practiced it, and when people wanted to play it, they returned it. "As long as the guitar is idle, I'll play it." He said.
After graduating from high school, Wan Xiaoli was 18 years old, and although he liked guitar, he still went to learn to make wine.
At the age of 20, Wan Xiaoli graduated from school and returned to work in a small winery, got married, and had children, all of which came naturally. What is different is that during this period, Wan Xiaoli was fanatically obsessed with classical guitars, but because he had no money to buy them, he always practiced with other people's pianos.
When he first worked, Wan Xiaoli was 170 yuan a month, and his wife's income was slightly higher than his. After the birth of his daughter, a month's milk powder will cost nearly a hundred yuan, Wan Xiaoli said he wants to buy a piano for about 600 yuan, his parents are very opposed, but he and his wife "Xia" still saved a few months of wages to buy.
In 1994, Wan Xiaoli heard that someone in Handan was forming an art troupe, so he went, and the life of a wandering singer began.
During that time, Wan Xiaoli returned to his hometown once a month, and the money he brought back was not enough to maintain the family. This went on for several years, until one day Wan Xiaoli told his wife that he had decided to break into Beijing.
In 1997, Wan Xiaoli came to Beijing with 400 yuan and 20 or 30 songs he had composed. Friends introduced him to a bar near Weigong Village to sing, without pay but managed. Wan Xiaoli sang there, and most of the time, he would spend two yuan to buy a cake to eat during the day.
To his surprise, he lost his voice within a few days of singing. Because I had never sung in such a "dose" before, I didn't know how to use my voice correctly. In those days, Wan Xiaoli was frightened by his own situation and did not dare to tell his family. Fortunately, after singing for a few more days, I adapted.
Soon after, Wan Xiaoli went to a bar near the first body to sing, singing for 50 yuan a night. At this time, Wan Xiaoli's daughter was also in kindergarten, and when his wife came to Beijing with her daughter during the summer vacation, Wan Xiaoli rode a bicycle to carry the family from the West Railway Station to Weigong Village, and the first thing he did when he got off the bicycle was to find a house.
A simple room with eaves, in addition to being able to support a bed, is enough for a family of three to stand and turn around. The rent is 160 yuan. Although the house is narrow and low and has no windows yet, there is a stove outside where you can cook.
Putting down their luggage, the three of them happily went up to the street, bought a wok, bought a small aluminum basin, and could wash vegetables and boil water. The 11 yuan thermos was also reluctant to buy, only bought 3 bowls, 1 flapjack, came back with a small aluminum basin to boil the pot of millet porridge, the family squatted on the ground, and ate a meal with joy, which was a celebration.
In 2000, after counting the money he had saved and borrowing some money from friends and family, Wan Xiaoli bought an affordable house in Tiantongyuan. Because they had to buy it with their beijing household registration, they bought it in the name of a friend, because the transfer fee was very expensive, and they never transferred the house.
Later, Wan Xiaoli bought a small motorcycle, and he liked to ride it to sing. But because he did not have a driver's license, he was often caught by the traffic police.
When you have a house, you have to worry about the monthly payment at all times, and it is too common for a hunting income like Wan Xiaoli to be stretched and overwhelmed. The monthly payment of more than 1,000 yuan per month put them in a difficult situation. "I've thought about giving up, just write pop songs for others, and supplement my family."
Wan Xiaoli said that at that time, he was particularly desperate, making up for the bank, friends Zhou Ji, and his parents also gave a little, and finally insisted.
In 2005, Wan Xiaoli, tired of singing in bars over and over again, quit his job, saying, "I'm tired. ”
In the borrowed basement recording studio, Wan Xiaoli recorded a demo of his first album. Later, Wan Xiaoli called the old wolf and asked him to help him listen. The day after giving the sample to the old wolf, he received a call from the old wolf.
The old wolf recommended Wan Xiaoli to the record company, so Wan Xiaoli quickly got a contract. He said: "After returning with the contract, I studied the contract one by one, studied it for one night, and the next day I took my wife to the record company to sign a contract." "As soon as I signed it, I called my parents on the way.
For the previous things, Wan Xiaoli said: "That experience is not very bitter, in fact, everyone is running. The most bitter thing is the torment of the soul, to know what you are doing. ”
You should be thankful when you fall to the bottom, because even if it is not good in the future, it will not be worse than before. Listening to Wan Xiaoli calmly sing "All this is not as bad as imagined", my little emotions are gone. Since there is no way to get rid of the pendulum of life, then gladly accept all the sadness and joy.
Summer will come back after the summer, can not pull up the curtains to watch movies can also put on headphones to listen to songs.
The fiercest in the alley next door is also a mother, and the window that always smells of cooking has the smell of ordinary cooking, which is not as bad as imagined.
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