Zhu Zhiwen felt the joy for the first time after a song "Rolling East of the Yangtze River" became popular.
At that time, he had just harvested the label of "big coat brother", and the outside world's cognition of him only stayed on the "farmer singer". Many people wanted to know him, and the media became the first person to visit him.
In the first few days of his fame, Zhu Zhiwen was very happy to be interviewed.
Zhu Zhiwen is always radiant in front of the camera, and he knows all the questions from the media. He feels that "there are not many opportunities to be on TV" and must make good use of it.
20 12, after successfully entering the stage of the Spring Festival Evening, Zhu Zhiwen became a real household name. More and more people are looking for him to perform and record programs, and the troubles belonging to Brother Tai are beginning to increase.
And fame spread all over the country at the same time, as well as Zhu Zhiwen's ceaseless footsteps.
After becoming famous overnight, he participated in many activities in Shang Yan, such as the opening of restaurants, the ribbon-cutting of real estate, the annual meeting of the company ... He shuttled through various performance scenes and sang his masterpieces over and over again.
With more and more commercial performances, Zhu Zhiwen has to travel to various cities. At the busiest time, he is on the road for half a year.
Taking various means of transportation has become his daily task. Day after day, he has the problem of lumbar disc herniation, and his shoulders and wrists are sore because of too many signatures. "It's really sick."
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's dance and performing with the symphony orchestra.
In this regard, Zhu Zhiwen showed great difficulties and often joked during rehearsals. 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 action in front of the mirror.
At the same time, Zhu Zhiwen was invited to participate in some so-called elegant art performances. He was particularly embarrassed when he walked into the concert hall from other places and stood among all kinds of orchestral instruments.
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 conductor rudely accused him of being unprofessional in all aspects.
Obviously, it's embarrassing.
Compared with other celebrities, Zhu Zhiwen, who comes from the grassroots, is particularly approachable. He never refused any request from the TV station, even if he was exhausted to cater to the stage.
He never asked why he performed like that, nor did he ask whether the demands of the TV station were reasonable. He only complains occasionally: "Doing programs is particularly tiring, so it is better to do farm work briskly."
He began to get tired of being famous.
"great good man"
In order to get more rest time, Zhu Zhiwen reduced the number of business activities, but he rarely refused to perform in public.
In 20 12, Zhu Zhiwen was invited to participate in a charity auction, which was the first time he took off his military coat that made him famous.
In order to raise money for a child suffering from leukemia, Zhu Zhiwen decided to auction his coat. "This is a dress. It would be nice if I could help others. " .
Later, he bought this coat in the second-hand market for 28.5 yuan, which was taken away by a wealthy businessman for 510.8 million yuan. In order to express his gratitude, he also specially signed his name on it.
Seeing such a scene, the host added, in fact, it is not 1 patient that really needs funding, but 6 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 invested another 65,438+10,000."
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, and 654.38+10,000 yuan is not a small sum for him. The agent tried to persuade Zhu Zhiwen to give up the donation, but he simply refused.
"You don't want to these, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether the name can cure the child. "
In the end, Zhu Zhiwen realized his public welfare commitment with the borrowed money. This is a good thing. Since then, many things have gone out of control.
After this coat was auctioned, Zhu Zhiwen became a famous "good man". Many people are willing to discuss his simplicity and kindness, but soon, the remark that "you should donate if you have money" gradually spread.
That is, from that time on, some people began to say that "Brother Da Yi earned more than 1000 million a year", and Zhu Zhiwen became a recognized "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 one 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 it was all letters from all over the world, and they were all related to a topic: asking Brother Tai to donate money.
Some of them claimed that they had leukemia and needed money for treatment. Others say that my father has been in bed for many years and needs donations to maintain treatment. What's more, they said that they have been single for more than 30 years, and now they finally have a partner, and they are in urgent need of a marriage fund.
Cancer, paralysis, stroke, disability, buying a house, buying a car ... Faced with various reasons for asking for help, Zhu Zhiwen always has mixed feelings.
For those letters, at first, he would take the initiative to contact the helpers and ask them about their specific situation, but the reply he could get was always full of mistakes and omissions.
When something like this happened many times, Zhu Zhiwen ignored it. Later, when another letter comes home, he will open it first. If it is about borrowing money, he will throw letters and envelopes into the earthen stove.
Who is "ungrateful" Zhu Zhiwen?
Today, Zhu Zhiwen still lives in his hometown, 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 reason why he doesn't want to leave his hometown, but Zhu Zhiwen's response is only one from beginning to end:
My roots are in Zhulou Village, and I can't live without it.
When he talks about his hometown, his words always reveal joy and nostalgia, but now he expresses helplessness and sadness more.
When Zhu Zhiwen got his first income after becoming famous, the first thing he did was to install fitness equipment for Zhulou Village at his own expense. Later, he heard that the village had been blacked out, so he bought a transformer at his own expense, which cost nearly 50 thousand before and after.
There was a shortage of drinking water in the village, so Zhu Zhiwen was asked to pay for water supply equipment.
Zhu Zhiwen appealed to the villagers to share the cost equally. Unexpectedly, after running for many days, no one agreed with him. Finally, I have to pay for it myself, even the distribution fee and installation fee are all out of my own pocket.
Later, someone asked the villagers why they refused to pay. The other party asked: "He has money, why should we pay?"
After all the water and electricity problems have been solved, Zhu Zhiwen is planning to build a highway for his hometown. In recognition of his contribution, the village specially named him "Wenzhi Road" and erected a meritorious monument for Zhu Zhiwen in a conspicuous place.
Zhu Zhiwen disagreed, because "a monument will be erected only when we are dead", but the village insisted so strongly that he could only acquiesce.
Unexpectedly, the monument was erected, and trouble came.
The stone tablet with the words "The Road to Literature" 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 Wenzhi Road, there were suddenly many places in the village that needed money.
Zhu Zhiwen invested 30,000 yuan to transform the kindergarten. A few days later, the news of creating a civilized village came. 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 called Zhu Zhiwen and asked him if he was willing to pay for the activity. You have to pay1-2 million, at least 200,000-300,000.
Hearing this, Zhu Zhiwen smiled and hung up after repeating the amount several times.
Later, this incident became one of the evidences of Zhu Zhiwen's ingratitude. The village party secretary said that after becoming famous, Zhu Zhiwen also did a lot of "kick down the ladder" things:
"Including the masses, including towns, counties and villages, they are trying to stall him, otherwise he can't get this far. (Before) I asked him to donate money to build a school in my village, and (he) didn't donate a penny. "
After a long time, Zhu Zhiwen clearly saw this. 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 in the eyes of outsiders, he is "rich" and "too slow", and Zhu Zhiwen's reputation in the village has gone from bad to worse.
Runaway
In recent years, Zhu Zhiwen spent more time at home, or was forced to stay at home.
After the arrival of the era of short video live broadcast, Zhu Zhiwen's home has become the most lively place in Zhulou Village. Many people gathered here with mobile phones to film the life of Brother Tai, making it difficult for him to go out.
"Our home is like a park. Anyone can come. "
When the first anchor swarmed in, Zhu Zhiwen didn't know what "live broadcast" was. Later, more people knew him, and he also understood the meanings of "realization", "operation" and "flow".
In their view, live broadcast of Taige's life is just a 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, but later he became an endorsement and teacher.
If someone fails to learn from the teacher, he will be asked to pay "compensation for mental damage" of 6.5438+0.2 million yuan on the spot, otherwise he will slam the door.
Zhu Zhiwen's life is completely out of control.
In 2020, the door of Zhu Zhiwen's house was kicked open by two fans in order to shoot a video. Although the relevant personnel were later punished, Zhu Zhiwen's troubles did not stop there.
In recent years, my lover Li Yuhua also asked him why he didn't explicitly refuse the request of live broadcast. Zhu Zhiwen's answer is:
"Newcomers are guests. People come from afar just to take a look at me and take photos with me. I shouldn't refuse others. "
Looking at Zhu Zhiwen again today, his inspirational light, which belongs exclusively to grassroots singers, has gradually faded away, replaced by years of fatigue and helplessness for "traffic".
"There's nothing I can do. I am too tired to live. "
Zhu Zhiwen said similar words many times after he became famous, but until now, he still hasn't found a way to eliminate this kind of fatigue.
"To tell you the truth, I just don't want to be famous now. It's best to be an ordinary person. I don't care much. It would be nice to have a chicken, goose and sheep at home. "
But nothing can go back.