Brother Tai, I have gained wealth, but I seem to have lost a lot.

After becoming popular with a song "Rolling the Yangtze River to the East", Zhu Zhiwen first felt joy.

At that time, he had just harvested the label of "Big Clothes Brother", and the outside world only knew him as a "farmer singer". Many people wanted to know him, and the media became the first person to visit him.

In his first days of fame, Zhu Zhiwen was happy to be interviewed.

Zhu Zhiwen is always radiant in front of the camera, and he knows everything about media questions. He thinks that "there are not many opportunities to be on TV", so he must make good use of it.

In p>212, after successfully entering the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, Zhu Zhiwen became a real household name. There are more and more people looking for him to perform and record programs, and the troubles that belong to Brother Tai have also begun to increase.

At the same time as fame, there is Zhu Zhiwen's nonstop footsteps.

After becoming famous overnight, he participated in many activities in Shang Yan, such as restaurant opening, ribbon-cutting of real estate, annual meeting of the company ... He shuttled through various performances and sang his famous works over and over again.

With the increasing number of commercial performances, Zhu Zhiwen has to travel to different cities. At the busiest time, he spends half the year on the road.

It has become his daily task to take all kinds of transportation. Day after day, he falls down with the problem of lumbar disc herniation, and his shoulders and wrists are sore because of too many signatures. "It's a real illness."

When participating in various performances, Zhu Zhiwen is often asked by the program group to perform some programs that obviously do not conform to his own style. For example, singing Jay Chou's songs, dancing Michael Jackson, and performing with the symphony orchestra.

In this regard, Zhu Zhiwen showed great difficulty and often made jokes in rehearsal. At this time, there will be bursts of laughter in the rehearsal hall.

Zhu Zhiwen, who stood by, could only rub her hands awkwardly, and then continued to make a slightly weird dance in front of the mirror.

At the same time, Zhu Zhiwen was invited to take part in some so-called elegant art performances. Walking into the concert hall from the field and standing among all kinds of orchestral instruments, he was particularly embarrassed.

On that day, Zhu Zhiwen watched the baton waving back and forth in front of him, but he didn't know how to cooperate. After many mistakes, the bandleader rudely accused him of being unprofessional in all aspects.

embarrassed, obviously.

Compared with other celebrities, Zhu Zhiwen, who comes from the grass roots, is particularly approachable. He never refuses any request from the TV station, even though he is exhausted to cater to the stage.

He never asked why he had to perform like that, nor did he ask whether the TV station's requirements were reasonable. He only occasionally complained, "Doing programs is particularly tiring, so it is better to do farm work briskly."

He began to feel tired about becoming famous.

"Good Man"

In order to get more rest time, Zhu Zhiwen reduced the number of business activities, but he rarely refused public performances.

In p>212, Zhu Zhiwen was invited to participate in a charity auction, which was the first time he took off the military coat that made him famous.

In order to raise money for a child suffering from leukemia, Zhu Zhiwen decided to auction off his coat. "This is a dress, and if it can help others, it will be good.".

Later, this coat he bought at the second-hand market for 28.5 yuan was bought by a wealthy businessman for 518, yuan. In order to express his gratitude, he also specially signed his name on it.

Seeing such a scene, the host said that in fact, it is not one patient who really needs financial assistance, but six patients, all of whom are children.

This made Zhu Zhiwen both moved and distressed, so when he heard the host say that the proceeds from the coat auction were not enough to support all the children's follow-up treatment, he quickly added: "I personally contributed another 1, yuan."

As soon as the voice fell, thunderous applause broke out at the scene. Zhu Zhiwen smiled happily, but the agent in the audience was a little fooled.

This is Zhu Zhiwen's first year of fame. 1, yuan is not a small sum for him. The agent tried to persuade Zhu Zhiwen to give up his donation, but he refused simply.

"don't think about it, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether the name can make children cure diseases. "

In the end, Zhu Zhiwen fulfilled his public welfare promise with the borrowed money. This is a good thing, and many things have gone out of control since then.

After the coat was auctioned off, Zhu Zhiwen became a famous "good man". Many people are willing to discuss his simplicity and kindness, but soon, the remark that "he should donate if he has money" gradually spread.

From that time on, it began to be said that "Brother Tai earns over 1 million yuan a year", and Zhu Zhiwen became recognized as a "rich man", and more and more people began to ask him for help.

Zhu Zhiwen still doesn't understand how people outside the village got his contact information.

At that time, Zhu Zhiwen received a phone call from the village express station every day.

At first, he thought it was a gift from fans, but when he got it, he found that all the letters were from all over the world, and all of them were related to a topic: asking Brother Tai to donate money.

Among them, some people claimed that they were suffering from leukemia and needed money to treat it. Others said that their father had been in bed for many years and needed donations to maintain treatment. What's more, they said that they had been single for more than 3 years, and now they finally found someone and needed money for marriage.

Cancer, paralysis, stroke, disability, buying a house, buying a car ... Faced with all kinds of reasons for asking for help, Zhu Zhiwen always has mixed feelings.

For those letters, at the beginning, he will take the initiative to contact those who ask for help and ask about their specific situation, but the response he can get is always full of mistakes and omissions.

When similar things happen many times, Zhu Zhiwen will leave it alone. Later, when another letter comes home, he will open it first. If it is about borrowing money, he will throw the letter and envelope into the earthen stove.

"ungrateful" Zhu Zhiwen

Today, Zhu Zhiwen still lives in his hometown of Zhulou Village, although his income over the years is enough for him to buy a decent and spacious house in the county.

There are many speculations about the reasons why he didn't want to leave his hometown, but there is only one response from beginning to end from Zhu Zhiwen:

My roots are in Zhulou Village, and I can't live without it.

In the past, when talking about his hometown, his words always revealed joy and nostalgia, but now he expresses more helplessness and sadness.

When he got his first income after becoming famous, the first thing Zhu Zhiwen did was to install fitness equipment for Zhulou Village at his own expense. Later, he heard that there was always a power outage in the village, and he added a transformer at his own expense, which cost nearly 5, yuan.

There was a shortage of drinking water in the village, so someone asked Zhu Zhiwen to pay for more water supply devices.

Zhu Zhiwen called on the villagers to share the expenses equally. Unexpectedly, after running for many days, no one echoed him. In the end, he had to pay for himself, even the distribution fee and installation fee came from his pocket.

Later, someone asked the villagers why they refused to pay. The other party asked: "He has money, why do you want us to pay?"

With the problems of water and electricity solved, Zhu Zhiwen is planning to build a road for his hometown. In recognition of his contribution, the village specially named him "Zhiwen Road" and set up a merit monument for Zhu Zhiwen in a conspicuous place.

Zhu Zhiwen didn't agree, because "only when we die will a monument be erected", but the village insisted so strongly that he could only acquiesce.

when the monument is laid, the trouble is coming.

The stone tablet with "The Road to Literature" written on it not only became a memorial of his kindness, but also became a symbol of Zhu Zhiwen's wealth in the eyes of some villagers: "No one in the village is as rich as him."

After the completion of Zhiwen Road, there were suddenly many places in the village that needed money.

Zhu Zhiwen invested 3, yuan to renovate the kindergarten, and news of building a civilized village came a few days later. At that time, the village committee of Zhulou Village was planning to build a stage for cultural performances in the open space of the square.

Before the construction, the village cadres dialed Zhu Zhiwen's telephone number and asked him if he was willing to pay for the activities. "You have to pay 1-2 million yuan, at least 2,-3, yuan".

Zhu Zhiwen laughed at this, repeated the amount several times and then hung up.

Later, this incident became one of the evidences of Zhu Zhiwen's "ungrateful". The village party secretary said that after becoming famous, Zhu Zhiwen did a lot of things to "kick down the ladder":

"Including the masses, including towns, counties and villages, they all tried their best to praise him, otherwise he would not have made this step. (Before) I asked him to donate to build a school in my village, and (he) didn't donate a penny. "

after a long time, Zhu Zhiwen saw it clearly. He no longer tries to buy things for the village, and rarely deals with the villagers. He even got rid of the habit of practicing songs by the river for decades.

he wants to be clean, but to outsiders, he is "floating with money" and "too dragging". Zhu Zhiwen's reputation in the village has gone from bad to worse.

There is nowhere to run

In recent years, Zhu Zhiwen spent more time at home, or was forced to stay at home.

With the advent of the era of short live video, Zhu Zhiwen's home has become the most lively place in Zhulou Village. Many people gathered here with mobile phones to shoot the life of Brother Tai, and even it became very difficult for him to go out.

"Our home is like a park. Anyone can come."

Zhu Zhiwen didn't know what "live broadcast" was when the first anchor swarmed into the house. Later, when more people met him, he also understood the meaning of "realizing", "operating" and "traffic".

In their view, live broadcast of Brother Tai's life is just one way to make money, and they don't care whether it will affect Zhu Zhiwen's life.

There are more and more onlookers, and the "business" that Zhu Zhiwen needs to undertake is gradually increasing. At first, people just asked him to sing and perform, and later it evolved into an endorsement and a teacher.

Some people can't learn from the teacher, so they ask him for 1.2 million yuan of "mental damage compensation" live, or they will smash the door.

Zhu Zhiwen's life is completely out of control.

In p>22, the door of Zhu Zhiwen's house was kicked open by two fans for the purpose of shooting a video. Although the people involved were punished afterwards, Zhu Zhiwen's troubles did not stop there.

In recent years, Li Yuhua, my lover, also asked him why he didn't explicitly refuse the request of live broadcast. Zhu Zhiwen's answer was:

"People come all the way just to take a look at me and take a photo with me. I shouldn't refuse others."

Looking at Zhu Zhiwen again today, the inspirational light of his body, which belongs exclusively to grassroots singers, has gradually faded away, replaced by the fatigue and helplessness of running around for "traffic" for many years.

"There's nothing I can do. I'm too tired to live."

Zhu Zhiwen said similar words many times after he became famous, but up to now, he still hasn't found a way to dispel this fatigue.

"To tell you the truth, I just don't want to be famous now. I'd better be an ordinary citizen. It doesn't bother me so much. It would be nice to feed a chicken, goose and lamb at home. "

but everything can't be the same.