Li Chen is a famous singer, the representative works "Outside the Window" and "Big City" have been popular, and he has also starred in film and television dramas such as "Engagement" and "New Sweet Cause". Li Chen had a rough life, suffering from polio at the age of 3 and divorcing his parents at the age of 8. In more than 20 years, he had only met his father 3 times. When his father and mother were old, he tried to reconcile his parents...
Li Chen graduated from the Xi'an Chinese Painting Academy in 1987 and engaged in the restoration of ancient paintings. At the age of 8, his parents divorced due to their personality, he and his sister followed their mother Wang Meiling back to Xi'an to live, and his younger brother stayed with his father Li Jirong at Guanghan Farm in Sichuan. When Li Chen was 3 years old, he was disabled in his left leg due to polio, and he longed for his father to hold up a piece of the sky for him. However, his father only visited him once in Xi'an when he was 12 years old.
Li Chen and his mother
In the next 20 years, Li Chen only met his father three times. Time can cool down the family affection, and gradually, the father is like a stranger to Li Chen.
In the 1990s, Li Chen turned to the music scene. With the release of gold songs such as "Outside the Window" and "What Can I Do for You", he became a first-line star in the music industry.
In 2004, his father suffered a cerebral infarction, and Li Chen and his wife Ai Xiaohui went to Sichuan to visit their father. Li Chen asked his brother, "Dad is so sick, why don't you send him to the hospital?" The younger brother said: "I have quarreled with him, and he is always worried about spending money and not being cured, and he resolutely refuses to go." ”
That night, Li Chen and his brother sent their father to the Deyang People's Hospital. After 10 days, my father's health was getting better and better, he was able to get out of bed and walk, and he could eat half a bowl of rice at each meal.
Before Li Chen returned to Beijing, his brother said to him: "Brother, I am also going to Shanghai to work, and there is no one around my father to take care of him." Ai Xiaohui said to Li Chen: "We can't leave dad here alone, Beijing's medical conditions are good, let him live with us for a while." ”
After only two days at his son's house, Li Jirong told Li Chen: "I am not used to living here, you let me go back to Sichuan!" Li Chen replied, "Dad, I know that you have no feelings for me, but it is my duty as a son to treat your illness." ”
Li Jirong knows that his son's words are alluding to himself as an irresponsible father, but in fact, he also has bitter feelings. After the divorce that year, he started a family with a female colleague on the farm. I thought that remarriage could be happy, but I didn't expect that my wife often quarreled with him over trivial matters and prevented him from contacting Li Chen.
Li Jirong's second marriage lasted a few years and then dissolved. He is an ordinary worker, the income is not high, and he is disheartened, and he and his youngest son Li Bin are dependent on each other. At that time, Li Chen was in Xi'an, he was in Sichuan, due to a bad mood, coupled with economic conditions that did not allow, he simply did not have the ability and energy to take care of Li Chen...
After his father came to Beijing, Li Chen accompanied him to the hospital for a review. The doctor told him: "Your father has a good physique, and after being conditioned by Traditional Chinese medicine, he is expected to make a complete recovery." Li Chen prescribed 50 doses of Chinese medicine for his father. Then he bought a casserole from the pharmacy and boiled the medicine for his father himself. After watching his son on crutches and struggling to help himself, Li Jirong burst into tears.
After Li Jirong recovered, he returned to Sichuan. Li Chen has a deep affection for his mother, and he tells her about his father on the phone. The mother said, "You did the right thing!" Mom is very happy to see that you can be so tolerant of others. ”
In 2006, Li Chen's son Li Pinzheng was born. Soon, Wang Meiling came to Beijing to visit her grandson, and Li Jirong also came to congratulate her grandson on the full moon. After more than 20 years of separation, the ex-wife and ex-husband were finally reunited at their son's house. Both were old and had gone through the vicissitudes of life, and there was no more quarrel when they said goodbye.
One day, Wang Meiling had a cold and a headache, and Li Jirong took the initiative to go to the pharmacy to buy safflower oil and give it to her: "I know that safflower oil is very effective for you, and you used to have a cold and rub safflower oil." This scene touched Li Chen: his father and mother were single, if only they could remarry.
In the evening, Li Chen said to his father, "Dad, you should have a home." No matter how filial a child is, he will not have a wife. The father sighed a long time: "Dad is more than 60 years old, what kind of family has he become?" Besides, who is the right person? "Do you want to reunite with your mother?"
Wang Meiling is kind and simple, diligent and thrifty, and the fly in the ointment is that she likes to be more true. At that time, Li Jirong was young and vigorous, and lacked tolerance, which led to the separation of husband and wife. More than 20 years have passed, if the time can be turned back, he will definitely cherish her and cherish this home.
Li Jirong told his son: "I have no opinion, but I don't know what your mother's attitude is." Li Chen told his mother his thoughts and his father's attitude. Wang Meiling, who has long since retired from her position as an art teacher at Xi'an No. 6 Middle School, told Li Chen: "This matter cannot be rushed, after all, we have been separated for more than 20 years, and we must have a process of mutual acceptance." ”
After that, Li Chen took his parents to Beijing to give them more time to spend together. He bought a cell phone for his parents and taught them to text by hand. Before leaving Beijing, Li Chen instructed the second elder: "Mom and Dad, you must communicate more often." ”
In 2008, Li Chen asked his mother on the phone: "How is the progress of your relationship with my father?" The mother choked up: "Son, I'm sorry, I failed your kindness." ”
In fact, Wang Meiling and Li Jirong also want to respect their son's wishes and live together again. But because they have been separated for more than twenty years, the years have changed their faces beyond recognition, whether it is personality, living habits, or dealing with people, the two are very different, and it is impossible to break the mirror and reunite.
Li Chen called his father, and his father said, "Don't bother with this, we are more comfortable maintaining this state of life." "Yes, filial piety to parents means obeying their wishes and respecting their living conditions. If you tie your parents together, they won't be happy either. Regardless of whether their parents remarry or not, they are their most concerned relatives. Li Chen was relieved.
Since then, every holiday, Li Chen has let his parents come to the family to reunite, and another kind of family affection has warmed their hearts for many years. Although Wang Meiling and Li Jirong failed to become husband and wife again, because of Li Chen's bond, they became relatives and friends. For more than a decade, Li Chen divided filial piety into two equal parts, one for his mother and one for his father, holding up his parents' old age. Although he did not enjoy his father's love when he was a child, Li Chen spared no effort to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of a son.
It's just that every time his parents leave Beijing, Li Chen first sends his mother to the train, and then sends his father to the train, watching one train drive to Xi'an and another to Sichuan, Li Chen will be sad and cry. How nice it would be if my parents could take the same train home! Parents love themselves, and Li Chen loves her parents, but they can't become husband and wife, become a family. Life is an art of regret. It is precisely because there are tears, there are love and pain, there are tangled regrets, there is separation and reunion, life has become more profound, more real, and more cherished!