Fu Min is the son of the famous writer and translator Fu Lei, and the younger brother of the musician Fu Cong, and the brothers are only three years apart.
The appearance of the two is very different: Fu Cong is long in stature, thick eyebrows and big eyes, quite an artist temperament; Fu Min is medium in stature and elegant in temperament.
Fu Cong is more like his mother Zhu Meifu, who is as informal as his mother in his daily life; Fu Min is very much like Fu Lei, especially in middle age, which is simply a copy of his father, and his behavior is as serious and meticulous as Fu Lei.
The bearer of the flowers is Fu Cong, and the bearer of the statue is Fu Min
Two children, one like you and one like me, are interesting.
In the summer of 1953, the cicadas were noisy. That year, Fu Min graduated from junior high school.
In the garden house on Jiangsu Road in Shanghai, Fu Min, whose face was full of tears, had a fierce quarrel with her father. The reason is simple: Fu Min wants to apply for the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Affiliated High School, but Fu Lei firmly disagrees.
Fu Lei's reasons are exemplified as follows:
First, there is only one child in the family to learn music. You also have to learn music, I don't have this ability;
Second, you are not the material for music;
Third, to learn music, start small. You only learned to play the piano in junior high school, it's too late.
Finally, Fu Lei did not forget to mend his son's knife (God prophesied): You are a piece of teaching material.
The family's economic situation, Fu Min naturally also knows, the family life only relies on the father's translation work, learning music is very expensive, the brother's study can still be supported, and then another one, it is indeed a bit stretched.
Fu Min also knew his father's temper, and once his father made up his mind, no one could let him change.
This adolescent rebellious child, the grievances and pain in his heart can explode a mountain.
Since childhood, Fu Min has also loved music. Once, he went to the landlord's house to play and accidentally saw the violin left by the original owner. The landlord saw that Fu Min liked it so much, so he simply gave it to him.
Since then, this violin has become Fu Min's beloved object.
Fu Cong's former piano teacher, Lei Yuan, heard that Fu Min was going to learn the violin, so he didn't say a word and accepted the little disciple.
Since then, Fu Min has also studied under the violinist of the Central Orchestra and the former head of the Orchestra Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
When the melodious piano sound came from his brother's room, Fu Min also reveled in the sound of his own violin. Fu Cong aspired to be a pianist, and Fu Min had long secretly vowed to be a violinist.
Who knows, this musical dream will be forced to fold its wings so early. Fu Min's heart was full of unwillingness: they are also the sons of their fathers, why should their fathers favor one over the other?
My brother was trained by his father from an early age, and the family not only rented a piano for him, but also did not let him go to school in order to concentrate on learning the piano. Fu Lei personally compiled the teaching materials himself and invited the teachers to come to his home. Fu Lei also stipulated that Fu Cong practiced the piano for eight hours a day, and if he slackened off, he would be severely punished.
Fu Lei and Fu Cong
Fu Min, from the beginning, stayed in the First Affiliated Middle School of East China Normal University. Of course, there are also such benefits, and the ability to be independent will be stronger.
"One child is raised according to the book, and the second child is raised according to the pig." Ten fingers stick out, there is still a length, and it is really difficult to raise children to be unbiased.
After the music dream was shattered, Fu Minzhi sublimated the high school of the first affiliated high school of the East Normal University. The teenager with the violin dream has been pressed to death in the years when he could not choose.
Young Fu Min did not know that there would be more things that he could not choose for the rest of his life. In the face of impermanent fate, we can only watch our beloved things wither and destroy, but there is nothing we can do.
Three years later, Fu Min graduated with honors, and fate once again acted as a pusher.
Fu Min's ambition is to apply for the Department of Foreign Literature at Fudan University and become a literary translator like his father.
However, the organization took him very seriously. His father, Fu Lei, was a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, his brother won the grand prize in international competitions, his family had a good political background, and Fu Min himself had excellent grades and extensive knowledge, so he was organized to escort him to the Beijing Foreign Affairs College - to train him to be a young diplomat of new China.
In 1956, Fu Min stepped into the door of the Beijing Foreign Affairs University. At this time, he was full of energy, and a better future was beckoning to him from afar.
Fu Min, who attended the Beijing Foreign Affairs University
The good things in the world are not firm, and the clouds are easy to scatter and shatter.
In 1958, the second year of Fu Min's entry into college, his father Fu Lei was wrongly classified as a rightist. Eight months later, his brother Fu Cong misheard all kinds of rumors and, on impulse, left Poland and went to Britain.
The original brilliant family background behind Fu Min was suddenly bleak: his father changed from a famous democrat to a rightist; his brother changed from a famous pianist to a defector.
Fu Min, who was studying at school, suddenly became the object of key criticism. In 1959, without any explanation, the Foreign Affairs Academy transferred Fu Min to the Beijing Foreign Chinese College.
Fu Min's dream of being a diplomat has since been shattered.
In the indifferent eyes around him, in 1962, Fu Min finally survived to graduate.
He waited for the unified distribution of the country, but he waited left and right, watching the students around him receive the distribution notice one by one, only he, looking at it, was still no news.
It wasn't until many years later that Fu Min learned that because of his "terrible" family background, no unit dared to ask him.
Zhu Meifu and Fu Min
Fortunately, at this time, Yang Binhui, one of the "four principals" in Beijing's middle school circles, saw the hero, accepted Fu Min, and instructed others that no one was allowed to tell Fu Min's family situation to the outside world.
At this time, Fu Min had no idea that Principal Yang had spent a lot of twists and turns to "ask" him to come, he only felt that the future was bleak, and the withering of an ideal flower as far as his eyes could see.
In his twenty years of time, he had dreams of violinists, translators and diplomats, but these dreams, so out of date, were destined to float only in the air.
He had never imagined that he would become a middle school teacher. Ten years ago, when my father argued with him, he said, "You are a piece of teaching material", but I did not expect to be spoken by him.
Fate is cruel, half a point by man.
At that time, the school building was in poor condition, and three or four people lived in one room. That night, he lay on his stomach in bed and wrote to his father, thinking that his long life would be spent like this today, and tears could not help but burst out of his eyes.
Fortunately, his father often wrote letters to encourage him, and the innocent students also made the ice in Fu Min's heart melt little by little.
The diligent and hard-working nature makes Fu Min serious and down-to-earth in the process of teaching, never sloppy, coupled with the fact that he has received a heuristic education from his father silently from a young age, he also uses this set of methods in teaching, and inspires students by knocking on the side, and the teaching effect is surprisingly good.
Soon after, Principal Yang asked Fu Min to open an experimental class, and many teachers from outside the school also came to observe Fu Min's class, and gradually, Fu Min became famous in English teaching.
Fu Min was with the students
More than half a year later, Fu Min returned home to visit her family. At that time, he was no longer the little young man who cried his nose and wrote to his father. The principal valued him, the students liked him, and he began to love teaching and immersed himself in teaching.
"I don't have a sense of fame and fortune, as long as I do my job well, it's good." Fu Min said this in a letter to his father.
For the future, Fu Min rekindled hope. In addition to teaching, he also plans to realize his unfulfilled dream of translation.
He translated the first two chapters of the History of the English Language and sent them home. Fu Lei made detailed corrections and wrote a long letter of nearly 20 pages to him, pointing out the problems to be paid attention to when translating.
What else could it be? Fate sprinkled me with a field of chicken feathers, and I could only try to tie them into delicate feather dusters.
However, possession is always a fluke, and impermanence is life.
Fu Min's fate is destined to be closely entangled with the times. He staggered left and right, trying to break through level after level. But the threshold of life, for him, seems to never be over.
On September 3, 1963, he will always remember this day. At 8 o'clock that night, he suddenly received a telegram from his uncle Zhu Renxiu, which had only six words on it: "My parents died and returned quickly."
Like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Fu Min seemed to be numb all over his body. Ten days ago, when I talked to my mother Zhu Meifu on the phone, my mother said that everything was fine, who knows, it was the last time I heard my mother's voice in my life. That time, Zhu Meifu said some words of relief in order not to let her son worry, to endure the pain in her heart.
There were also ominous premonitions before, and in the special era, there were more and more meetings criticizing Fu Lei, and the movement became more and more intense.
In the letters exchanged with his father, his father's outspoken words would undoubtedly bring deeper disasters to his father, and fu Min had no choice but to burn the carefully preserved family letters.
Since then, almost half of the "Book of Fu Lei's Family" has been left. Fu Lei's letters to Fu Cong survived because Fu Cong was far away in Europe.
Overnight, both parents suddenly lost, looked around, full of depression.
One after another, the first love girlfriend who has been in love with Fu Min for several years also proposed to break up at this time. Their relationship has always been good, but the girl is really difficult to withstand social pressure.
"Thankfully not married. Otherwise, it will only affect her and make her unhappy! ”
Years later, Fu Min recalled the relationship and said so kindly. Because I love her deeply, I don't want to drag her down.
Fu Min
In August 1968, the wind and rain were like obscurity, and a grain of ash of the times fell on Fu Min's head and became a mountain.
Previously, because of the protection of Principal Yang, Fu Min's identity has not been exposed. However, in August, after Principal Yang was pulled out, someone found Fu Min, a "class enemy".
In the face of Fu Min's criticism, his whole body was puffy, and he couldn't even eat cold steamed buns every day. He didn't know where to go to get justice, and he no longer had family letters to express his heart, and he no longer had love letters to comfort his wounds.
Fu Min, who was alone, couldn't bear it anymore, and he was determined to jump into the river and commit suicide. Who knew that the water was too shallow and did not drown.
At this time, he was discovered, and he desperately slammed his head against the wall, and suddenly the blood flowed.
After being rushed to the hospital, because of his special status, when the doctor sewed his scalp, he did not even use anesthesia injections. With those dozen stitches, Fu Minsheng couldn't help but say nothing.
Later, he was dragged back to school, and what awaited him was one more severe criticism after another. In pain, Fu Min touched the electric door with his hand and wanted to commit suicide again. Who knows that this time because it is wearing rubber shoes, electrocution is not dead.
The wheel of the times rolls forward, and some people survive and become witnesses of a new life, while those who do not survive are forever left in the past. Many people's lives are like ants, and trying to live a peaceful life is sometimes a luxury.
Left: Fu Cong, Right: Fu Min
In 1979, Fu Min went to visit relatives in the United Kingdom and studied in the United Kingdom for a year.
Just when everyone thought that he would settle in Britain, retreat to the second place, and return to China to become a university teacher at his level, Fu Min actually returned to China to continue to be his middle school English teacher, and used the advanced Western educational concepts he learned to feed the country's education cause.
Years later, Fu Min retired from school as a national special teacher. He devoted his life to the ordinary and great three-foot podium.
Zhu Meifu and two brothers
It can be said that Fu Lei's father and son are all ill-fated people, of which Fu Min is the most bumpy, but also the least known.
Fu Min has always lived under the aura of his father and brother, he has never had the brilliant glory of his father and brother, he just crawled and crawled with difficulty, and the tenacity of that life became the best footnote of the wind and bone of that era.
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