【Author:呱】
【Editor: Lu Nan】
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In 1954, Li Chengru fell to the ground in the late autumn of November and was an authentic Beijinger.
It is said that Li Chengru's ancestors once fought with Li Zicheng, the "king of chuang", and broke into the city of Beijing all the way, and the ancestral scenery was infinite.
Unfortunately, by the time Li Chengru was born, this once brilliant family had long since declined.
Zu Shang left him an old Beijing courtyard, right next to the Forbidden City.
He has lived there since he was a child, flying a kite when he has fun, and he can hang it on the eaves of the Forbidden City Palace.
Unfortunately, his ancestors solved his housing problem, but did not solve his problem of eating.
Li Chengru's mother had a total of 11 children, and Li Chengru was the oldest.
Not long after his birth, his father left the west, leaving his wife and 11 children to live with each other.
It was a famine time, and the mother worked hard to fill the stomachs of 11 children.
There are 11 brothers and sisters in the Li family, and only 9 are left, including Li Chengru.
After all this disaster, Li Chengru grew up overnight, and he understood a truth: if he did not work, he would be starved to death.
So, only 10 years old, he went to the alley all day to see if he could find some work to fill his stomach.
As it happens, Beijing Renyi is near the hutong mouth,
At that time, the Peking opera "Tit-for-Tat Fighting Rikou" was on fire, and Li Chengru sat on the road and hummed two sentences after finishing his work.
Over time, he became interested in Peking Opera.
In the darkness, it seems that there is really a force leading Li Chengru to the road of literature and art.
One day, he met Mr. Dong Xingyi, a famous theater actor who came to perform at the entrance of Renyi.
When Li Chengru saw it, he was very happy and thought to himself: Isn't this a good opportunity to worship the master?
In a hurry, he couldn't care less about etiquette, so he directly went forward to stop Dong Xingyi and asked, "Are you Dong Xingyi's teacher Dong Xingyi?" I want to worship you as a teacher! ”
Dong Xingyi was suddenly stopped like this, a little unhappy, and asked him: "Do you have any works?" ”
Li Chengru said cheekily, "Yes! I can read prose. ”
Dong Xingyi listened and was happy in his heart.
He had never seen such a student with a donkey's head not on the horse's mouth, and he felt quite interesting, so he said, "Tomorrow at noon, come to my office to find me!" ”
In this way, Li Chengru worshiped Dong Xingyi as a teacher, and he practiced this line alone for ten years.
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In 1980, Li Chengru applied for the amateur acting class of Beiying, and his outstanding performance won the championship in one fell swoop.
The teachers were surprised: "You have such a good line, who did you learn it from?" ”
Li Chengru reported to his family: "I learned from Teacher Dong Xingyou, and I have been practicing for 10 years!" ”
In 1981, the TV series "Journey to the West" came to North Film to recruit actors.
Li Chengru felt that he was very suitable for the role of "Tang Monk", so he went to audition.
Unexpectedly, the director said: "Your hair is too thick, not suitable!" ”
Li Chengru listened, did not get discouraged, but ran before and after running in the crew to do chores for the actors.
This move made the director feel that this guy really wanted to learn acting, so he arranged a position of "field note" for him to facilitate Li Chengru to learn in the crew.
Over time, he became an indispensable member of the crew.
In the years of Beiying, Li Chengru saw the vastness of the world and realized his limitations.
He was a very pragmatic man, because his experience as a child told him that if he did not eat, he would starve to death.
Therefore, when Li Chengru knew that he could not support himself in the profession of acting as an actor, he gave up decisively.
He obeyed his mother's arrangement and married his first wife.
In the 5th year of marriage, the couple's first child was born.
Perhaps he was self-aware of his "mouth debt", so he named his son "the sea", hoping that he could have a heart as vast as the sea.
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After marrying and having children, Li Chengru began to work hard for his career.
The late eighties and early nineties were the time when the business boom was popular.
Li Chengru took the tens of thousands of yuan earned from the "Journey to the West" drama business, went to the wholesale market to buy goods and then took them back to sell, making a difference.
Any fish, fruits, vegetables, etc., as long as he can make money, he will sell.
Li Chengru finally completed the primitive accumulation of wealth step by step.
Touched the hundreds of thousands of dollars in his pocket and set his sights on the clothing industry.
Li Chengru went around the street every day to see what clothes were popular now, and when he understood it, he went back to let the workers draw drawings and step up production.
I didn't expect that his method really worked, and the 100,000 clothes he made were sold out in a blink of an eye.
In 1990, Li Chengru opened a clothing mall called "Special Special" on Xidan Street and created a "self-selected" sales model.
You know, the previous clothing was basically customized, and the "self-selected" model seemed to improve the customer's freedom of choice, which was a pioneering move at the time.
Soon, Li Chengru made a lot of money.
Subsequently, he invested intensively in antiques, hotels, real estate and other industries, and for a time there was no difference in Beijing's "business district".
In the 1990s, the per capita wage was only a few dozen yuan.
And Li Chengru has long entered the state of "driving Mercedes-Benz today and BMW tomorrow".
The ancients sincerely did not deceive me, as soon as people have money, they are easy to drift, and this is not false at all.
After Li Chengru developed, he was a little overwhelmed.
Not only did he not run the clothing business well, but he thought about how to make "fast money" every day.
I began to spend all day drinking, even the children and wives of the family did not care.
Poor Li Dahai has rarely seen his father since he was four years old.
In 1991, Li Chengru listened to the rumors of his acquaintances and threw all his wealth into the outer H warehouse.
Nearly 100 million yuan was invested, and Li Chengru was waiting to harvest another "small goal".
Who knows, everything has become like a phantom bubble.
Around 1992, trade Z broke out, and "foreign benefits" were affected, and Li Chengru lost his hair overnight.
At this critical point in time, the resentment accumulated by his wife for many years finally broke out, and Li Chengru filed for divorce in a huff.
The wife left the house with her son, and in an empty courtyard, he was the only one left in the blink of an eye.
Li Chengru sat on the sofa in the living room, and an unprecedented doubt surged in his heart: What is the purpose of my hard work for these decades?
He walked to the mouth of the hutong again, stood in front of the Gate of Renyi, and remembered the scene when he first met Teacher Dong Xingyi.
At that time, although I didn't have enough to eat, I always felt that there was hope, and I always felt that tomorrow would be better.
Li Chengru sat on the road and thought about it for half a night.
The ups and downs of the first half of his life made him understand that money is something outside the body, sometimes it will eventually be, and it must not be demanded at all times; if it is insisted on demanding, it will gradually pass away like the sand in his hand, and he will not be able to grasp it.
If you don't want to pursue money anymore, what is better to pursue?
Li Chengru remembered himself who had taken the liberty of stopping Dong Xingyao, and a smile welled up on his face, and he also had a decision in his heart: It is better to pursue his dreams!
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How to say that Li Chengru was once a billionaire, with some connections in his hands, it is not difficult to eat mixed food.
So, he asked the former big boss to help him find one or two "fringed" roles on the set.
Unexpectedly, his former friends were still quite righteous, and without saying a word, he was introduced to Zhao Baogang, the most popular director in the "Beijing Circle" at that time.
Zhao Baogang and Li Chengru both grew up in Beijing, similar in age and similar hobbies, and the two talked together when they came and went.
In 1994, Zhao Baogang filmed the TV series "Addiction", which happened to have a local tycoon role.
Zhao Bao just thought about it, this character personality is very close to Li Chengru, so he looked for him to play.
Li Chengru is also very good at being a person, and he has previous experience in the "Journey to the West" crew.
Taking advantage of this convenience, he played his role well in Zhao Baogang's crew and took the initiative to share the work of the crew, saving Zhao Baogang a lot of things.
With this good cooperation, the second cooperation between the two is also logical.
In 1995, Zhao Baogang planned to shoot "Sunrise in the East and Rain in the West", and specially created a "general manager" role for Li Chengru.
Li Chengru was also very interesting and accepted happily.
Unfortunately, neither TV series has a splash.
Without accumulating steps, there are no thousands of miles.
All this accumulation is for better take-off in the future.
Li Chengru's more and more refined acting skills over the years, more and more sonorous lines, are all looked at by a director named "Xu Qingdong".
In 2001, Xu Qingdong invited Li Chengru to star in his TV series "Six Groups of Serious Cases".
After the episode was broadcast, word-of-mouth ratings were double harvested, and Li Chengru completely had a place in the show business circle.
At the end of 2001, the famous director Feng Xiaogang handed Li Chengru an invitation to the New Year movie "Big Shot".
In the movie, Li Chengru played a neurotic rich man in a wonderful portrait, and even Feng Xiaogang even clapped his hands and praised it.
It is also with this movie that Li Chengru successfully went from the small screen to the big screen.
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2001 seems to be Li Chengru's lucky year.
From this year on, he successfully changed from a "marginal figure" in the entertainment industry to a "central figure".
He is no longer a "small supporting role" in TV and movies, but a veritable "big lead" in it.
In addition, he also met his own "True Destiny Daughter" Shi Yihong in 2002.
Shi Yihong is a famous Peking Opera actor, Mei Pai Da Qingyi.
Li Chengru has loved Peking Opera since he was a child, and since meeting Shi Yihong, her appearance and singing voice have fascinated him.
Li Chengru began to pursue Shi Yihong madly.
Unfortunately, at this time, Li Chengru was more than 40 years old, 18 years older than Shi Yihong.
Shi Yihong was a beautiful big girl, and when she saw Li Chengru like this, she definitely didn't agree.
But success is in heaven, and planning is in man.
Li Chengru was not discouraged, and He went to every performance of Shi Yihong.
Shi Yihong originally had a boyfriend who studied abroad, and the two got together less and broke up more.
As soon as Li Chengru heard the news, he immediately ran to her side to give her comfort.
It was also this consolation that gave Li Chengru the opportunity to enter Shi Yihong's heart.
In 2002, amid the sound of firecrackers, Li Chengru married his beloved woman back home.
As Li Chengru's days grew more and more prosperous, his ex-wife and son were still living in a small broken house of 18 square meters.
In expensive cities, it is common for a woman with no education or background to take a son and be hungry.
In order to subsidize the family, his son Li Dahai dropped out of school to work at the age of 17.
During the period, it was difficult, and the mother and son did not look for Li Chengru.
But if you really have no communication in your life, it is also unlikely.
During the marriage between Li Dahai and Shi Yihong, Li Dahai came to the door twice.
Once for a piano, once for a house.
Without exception, both times they were violently blasted out of the door by Li Chengru.
Li Chengru was determined to draw a clear line with his ex-wife and son.
But I didn't think that my marriage at this stage was lit up with a red light.
Originally, Shi Yihong's career was mainly in Shanghai, while Li Chengru's roots were in Beijing.
Before getting married, in order to make Shi Yihong happy, Li Chengru naturally liked how to please her.
Before marriage, he promised Shi Yihong that he would not interfere in her career, and later felt that a long separation was not the way to go, so Li Chengru proposed to live in Beijing with his wife.
This was also a reasonable suggestion, but When Shi Yihong heard this, he felt a little distorted.
The marriage of the two has a rift as a result, two days a small quarrel, three days a big quarrel.
Over time, both parties could not afford it, and in 2007, they divorced by agreement.
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After the divorce, Li Chengru is 50 years old, and to use an old saying to describe it, he is a person who is "half-buried in the soil".
He sat on the sofa in the living room, and suddenly felt very lonely, not knowing what his mediocre half life was for.
Maybe it was because it was too lonely, or maybe it was because he wanted to find someone to talk to, when his son Li Dahai came to visit again, Li Chengru did not refuse.
He found new happiness in his son Li Dahai.
His son wanted to go to film TV, and Li Chengru led him in.
His son wanted to participate in the draft, and Li Chengru gave him a VCR to cheer him up.
Do you think Li Chengru's happiness is to help his son?
In the show, in the crew, Li Chengru always scolded his son for a dog bloody head on any occasion.
Scolding, I finally admitted that I was Li Dahai's father, but would it be too late?
At this time, some program groups saw the conflict effect caused by Li Chengru's "poisonous tongue" and invited him to participate in variety shows one after another.
In 2002, Li Chengru became famous on the stage of "Actors Please Take Place 2".
Subsequently, variety shows such as "I Am an Actor 3", "I Am a Special Student", and "Talk Show Anti-New Year's Eve" have been handed over to him for invitations.
Li Chengru is a smart person in the end, at first glance, he is indiscriminate on any occasion, in fact, it contains a lot of careful machines.
He is old, it is difficult to play the starring role, and now that it is the year of "traffic", he is even more difficult.
Nowadays, another way to let yourself "out of the circle", so that the audience once again notices themselves, but also for the sake of more choices in the future.
In 2021, Li Chengru continued the old way of doing so, participating in variety shows while filming.
Maybe it's the obsession with his ex-wife Shi Yihong, or maybe it's the two broken marriages that have made him lose hope.
To this day, Li Chengru, who is nearly 70 years old, is still single.
Li Chengru's life has gone up and down, he has been rich and poor.
He used to be a wife and children hot kangtou, but now he is still alone.
Today, the one who accompanies him the most is the son who has not been welcomed by him for 30 years.
And his son Li Dahai, just like his name, has a heart as wide as the sea.
No matter how his father damaged him in public, he also suffered happily, and sometimes said good things to Li Chengru.
Maybe Li Dahai never wanted to get anything from his father, he was not a good father, but he was just doing what a son should do.
Although in the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between father and son has been reconciled, the trauma of childhood cannot be erased after all.
For Li Dahai, what he lacks is not only the love of his father.
"I didn't forgive you, I just chose to let myself go."
Sometimes not saying it doesn't mean that it is not painful or itchy, and occasionally he will find that the pain is still there, but he has learned to let go in his own way.
On the other hand, Li Chengru, when his son needs his father's love, he refuses to go thousands of miles, and when he wakes up in the middle of the night, will he have a trace of regret in his heart?