In 1972, 19-year-old Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Meihua, who was three years younger than him, got married, and the wedding banquet was held twice, once in Hong Kong, where more than 100 tables were set up, and the second time in Taipei, Wang Meihua's mother's home, where the banquet venues were all high-end local hotels. Zeng Zhiwei's father, Zeng Qirong, was Lu Le's proud assistant and was in charge of finances, that is, collecting black money. Lü Le is the prototype of the "half-billion inspector", Leiluo.
As early as before getting married, Zeng Zhiwei said to Wang Meihua, "My parents would like you to marry me, but I have a condition, I am still young, and I still need three years to go to society." You don't care about me in these three years, after three years I will definitely live with peace of mind, as to whether you want to or not, the choice is up to you!"
Wang Meihua is the third oldest in the family, with a total of five brothers and sisters. Due to her family's poverty, when she was twelve, she sang in Ximending, Taipei, to help her father reduce her burden. Later, the song and dance troupe was invited to perform in Hong Kong, and I met the Zeng Qirong family. The Zeng family is the master of the song and dance troupe.
There are more than thirty people in the song and dance troupe, and Wang Meihua is the youngest and is the pillar of the troupe. Zeng Qirong often went to see his family and friends to perform, and slowly Wang Meihua and Zeng Qirong's second son Zeng Zhiwei formed a couple.
In 1968, Zeng Qirong's old boss, Lu Le, immigrated to Canada. Without a backer, Zeng Qirong had to restrain the black hand that was stretched out, and the funding problem was out, and the song and dance troupe did not continue to engage. Wang Meihua had to find another job and signed a singing agreement with a nightclub, which was three months. Often this contract arrives, and you have to worry about whether the next contract can be signed. In addition, she also helps to take care of her siblings at home. When Zeng Zhiwei proposed to Wang Meihua, Wang Meihua thought to herself, "I can finally unload my burden."
Who knew that on the night of the wedding, Zeng Zhiwei did not appear, and for the next two consecutive nights, zeng Zhiwei was not seen. Zeng Zhiwei was originally a footballer who represented Hong Kong in the South Korea Youth Cup at the age of 16. But playing football can not be eaten as a meal, Zeng Zhiwei considered changing careers, and at the wedding banquet, he met an acquaintance.
This person's name is Liu Jialiang, and he is a fan of Zeng Zhiwei. At the end of the banquet, Zeng rushed up to stop Liu Yi and his entourage, planning to leave them down to continue drinking. Liu Jialiang joked that if the groom's official did not return home for three days and three nights, we would stay.
In 1974, the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong was established. Corrupt police fled, and Mr. Tsang's family moved to Taipei, where there was no extradition agreement between Taiwan and Hong Kong. Zeng Zhiwei also joined the "Longbow Film and Television Company" established by Zhang Che under the introduction of Liu Jialiang. As a Dragon and Tiger Master, my daily job is to be a stand-in. Zeng Zhiwei does not want to be regarded as the "second ancestor" who waits for others to serve, in addition to the festival, his parents' birthdays, he shoots dramas outside the year, sometimes going home once in a while, changing clothes and leaving.
After three years of marriage, Wang Meihua interrupted her singing career, her mother-in-law said that the showbiz was a place of right and wrong, and at the same time, she was not allowed to communicate with her former friends, and she kept wiping tears in the face of the deserted big house. Her father-in-law Zeng Qirong comforted her, "You are still young, and after ten years, when he has a foundation in his career, he will come back." Usually, Zeng Qirong also takes good care of his daughter-in-law. If there is a party, he will always call his daughter-in-law to go to socialize together, and when he encounters a contradiction between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he will secretly call Wang Meihua and tell her why her mother-in-law is angry.
But these moves did not keep Wang Meihua. One day she dragged a suitcase out of her closet, took out her clothes, took five hundred Hong Kong dollars, got into a taxi and left the Zeng family forever. Before that, she wrote a registered letter to Zeng Qirong in Taiwan, in addition to ending her married life, she also instructed her in-laws to take good care of her two daughters.
Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Meihua had two daughters, the eldest named Zeng Baoyi and the younger named Zeng Yongyi. They grew up living with their grandparents. Making milk for his granddaughter and driving her granddaughter to school is one of the daily jobs of Zeng Qirong in his sixties. Every time school ends, Zeng Qirong will show up at the school gate carrying a meat bun and a bean paste bun, and when they meet, their mouths are still nibbling on the bun filling. The two granddaughters only love to eat the skin of the bun and do not eat the bun filling.
If the granddaughter mentions her father, Zeng Zhiwei, Zeng Qirong replies: "Your father is making money, and it is very hard in Hong Kong." Zeng Baoyi can only fly to Hong Kong to see Zeng Zhiwei during the festival, and sometimes Zeng Qirong will scare his granddaughter and send her away if she is not obedient. Zeng Baoyi was afraid, found an iron box, and desperately stuffed money into it.
After the divorce, Wang Meihua continued to sing in the dance hall, and every two or three months, she would fly from Hong Kong to Taiwan to see her two daughters, take them shopping, and buy clothes. The two sisters followed the queen's head, shopping for things, never clamoring for Wang Meihua to spend money, and occasionally seeing what they liked, but also looking at the price first and then choosing something.
Zeng Baoyi sometimes calls Zeng Zhiwei. Before each phone call, she had to list what she had to say on a piece of paper, write one, two or three, and then read through it before she dared to dial the phone, "otherwise I might be so nervous that I couldn't speak." For Zeng Baoyi, her father is more like a "distant relative".
The "feeling of abandonment" often haunts Zeng Baoyi, believing that he must work very hard so as not to be discarded. Since she was a child, if she won the second place, she would shut herself in her room and cry.
In high school, Zeng Baoyi called her father's habit and changed it to writing a letter every two weeks. If it happens to a holiday, the letter will be changed to a greeting card. But Zeng Zhiwei never returned once.
It was the 1980s, Zeng Zhiwei was in the ascendancy of his career, he began to be the protagonist in "Chasing Girls" in 1981, and to the "Five Lucky Stars" series with Hong Jinbao in 1985, Zeng Zhiwei has become a famous "comedian" in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Seeing her father's frequent appearances in major theaters, her daughter Zeng Baoyi did not like it. When the Christmas of 1986 came, Zeng Zhiwei received his daughter's greeting card again, just received the hand, he felt something was wrong, the Christmas card of previous years was santa claus on it, this time the cover of the greeting card he received was stills of "The True Colors of Heroes", and the back said "Dad, you have been shooting comedies for so many years, can you also make some movies with such significance!" ”
In fact, as early as a year ago, in 1985, Guan Jinpeng made his debut film "Woman's Heart", looking for Zeng Zhiwei to make a cameo appearance as a "blind date". Zeng Zhiwei originally played a bitter love scene with his opponent, but when he turned his head to look at the screen, the audience laughed. At that time, he felt that he could not act in serious plays and "did not have to think about it."
In order to live up to the expectations of his eldest daughter, Zeng Zhiwei reiterated his idea of making literary and art films to the young producer Chen Kexin, before Chen came up with the book of "Tales of Two Cities". Zeng Zhiwei received a call from Zeng Baoyi. Hopefully, he will attend his high school graduation ceremony. From childhood to adulthood, Zeng Zhiwei was absent from his daughter's primary and junior high school graduation ceremonies, and the signatures of their parents on their transcripts have always been Zeng Qirong's name.
Zeng Baoyi finished the invitation call, poof, poof, poof heartbeat non-stop, she was both looking forward to and worried, whether her father Zeng Zhiwei would come, whether he would find the right place, would not arrive on time...
In the morning of The Sacred Heart Girls in Taipei, it was crowded with parents who came to attend the ceremony. Zeng Baoyi has a large family, in addition to her mother Wang Meihua, sister, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, uncle and other people, a total of two cars of people came. As soon as they arrived at the school gate, Wang Meihua found Zeng Zhiwei wearing a straight suit and a tie on his chest.
Zeng Zhiwei arrived on the last plane the day before, and the graduation ceremony had not yet officially begun, so he was sweating and waiting, when the June sun was scorching. Subsequently, the three words "Zeng Baoyi" were repeatedly mentioned by the school leaders. The parents present looked at Zeng Baoyi's family one after another, and their heads were swung at least six times, accompanied by the exclamation of "uproar". Zeng Baoyi's seven homework, in addition to the "Three People's Principles" did not take the first place in the whole school, other homework such as Chinese, English, mathematics and so on, are the first in the whole school. Someone at the bottom asked Zeng Zhiwei, "You are Zeng Baoyi's father, right?" He nodded repeatedly, and Zeng Zhiwei thought, "There will be many times in the future when people say this."
Unexpectedly, four years later, a decision by Zeng Baoyi immediately attracted the opposition of the whole family. Before Graduating from University, Zeng Zhiwei helped his daughter find a cousin who could eat well in Hong Kong's financial circles, planning to let her daughter choose from five kinds of jobs in banking, securities, real estate, futures and foreign exchange, and his mother Wang Lihua also hoped that her daughter would become a bank manager. But Zeng Baoyi did not listen, Wang Meihua did not rudder, called Zeng Zhiwei for help. An impatient hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "When we were in our twenties, did we ever hear what our parents said?" What she wants to do is not allowed to be done, will she be willing? Just let her go, and if she falls, she will go back herself. "Zeng Baoyi wants to enter the film and television circle.
Zeng Zhiwei once complained to Wang Meihua: The entertainment industry is not a place for people to stay at all, you have to work when you are sick, you have no food without a job, and no one will help you make money.
After Zeng Baoyi arrived in Hong Kong, Zeng Zhiwei only arranged a small suite for her, with nothing in it, and cockroaches crawled everywhere at night. Mother Wang Meihua did not trust her daughter, once ran to Hong Kong to see Zeng Baoyi, the first sentence of the mother and daughter to meet was "Mom, I am so cold, can you help me buy a quilt?" The mother saw the environment in front of her, and tears swirled in her eyes.
But these difficulties did not dispel Zeng Baoyi's idea. She started with the bottom yard. At that time, film was made on film. As a field note, you should write down what each one shot and how long. When about two-thirds of the 400-foot film is photographed, you may be asked, is the rest enough to shoot? The field remembered to calculate the length of the remaining film and answered immediately. "If you say enough, when you actually shoot, the film suddenly disappears, then you will definitely be scolded." 」 The field record is also responsible for recording whether each shot can be connected and whether it will be worn. In the previous shot, someone picks up a cup to drink water and puts the cup in another place after drinking. The next shot also shoots this, the angle is wider, at this time the field note will remind, the cup should be put back to the original place.
Tired of work is only one aspect, Zeng Baoyi is still afraid of being alone. In order to be able to be with people, she does as much work as possible, script translator, screenwriting assistant, assistant director... Two years later, she accompanied Wu Junru to Taiwan as a behind-the-scenes staff member, while helping Wu adjust his accent. Just happened to run into Zhang Xiaoyan in the background. Zhang saw that she was very clever, so he asked the staff around him. "She is zeng zhiwei's daughter." The staff whispered about Zeng Baoyi. That night, Zhang Xiaoyan called Zeng Zhiwei, who had co-hosted the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. He asked Zeng Zhiwei if his daughter could be given to her to bring. As a result, Zeng Baoyi walked from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.
In 2013, Zeng Baoyi won the Golden Bell Award for Best Host in the Comprehensive Program Category, she did not go to the scene, and her friend said the award speech on the stage on her behalf: "Today, I proved that I am not just Zeng Zhiwei's daughter after all." ”
At that time, Zeng Baoyi was traveling outside, and two years ago, his grandfather Zeng Qirong died, and Zeng Baoyi "felt that life could not be sustained." Zeng Qirong originally opposed his granddaughter's entry into the entertainment circle, but he was not at ease with Zeng Baoyi, and when he died, he left ten scrap newspapers, all of which were reports about Zeng Baoyi.
In 2015, Zeng Baoyi and Zeng Zhiwei's father and daughter participated in the "The Amazing Race" variety show together, in which Zeng Zhiwei climbed the ancient city wall and was physically weak, and he said to Zeng Baoyi, "Daughter, I really can't climb, I'm sorry." As punishment, partner Zeng Baoyi was thrown into a dirty pool and later contracted a pelvic bacterial infection. After she climbed ashore from the water, she cried uncontrollably, not out of physical injury: "That was the first time I grew up and heard him say sorry"