He has only one daughter, but he is the "surrogate father" of 178 poor children.
10, participated in more than 400 benefit performances and donated nearly 3 million yuan.
He has advanced gastric cancer, but he can't even afford medical expenses.
"My name is Cong Fei, an ordinary literary and art worker in Shenzhen and an ordinary volunteer in Shenzhen. I feel very happy to contribute to society and help others. " No matter where he goes, no matter which stage he stands on, Cong Fei will use the same opening remarks. But now, he has to leave his beloved stage.
On June 20th, 2005, Cong Fei, who was hospitalized in Shenzhen People's Hospital, just finished the second phase of chemotherapy. Due to physical reasons, he couldn't be interviewed by the reporter of Weekend, but the reporter contacted his good friend Liu Jiazeng and listened to his ten-year love story of Cong Fei.
He worked hard and eventually became a famous singer, but he was terminally ill but unable to pay for medical treatment.
Under Liu Jiazeng's description, the reporter learned that Cong Fei 1969 was born in Tianzhuangtai Town, Dawa County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province, and the only source of life for a family of eight was the monthly income of his father in 36 yuan.
The memory of poverty is deeply branded in Cong Fei's heart since childhood: in order to study, he picked up garbage, sold popsicles, and even secretly took the candlestick at home to a scrap collection station to pay the tuition, but his efforts still failed to make him finish his studies. After barely reaching the second grade of junior high school, Cong Fei was forced to drop out of school and go home.
Stubborn Cong Fei is unwilling to give up. He believes that he can succeed in another way-realize his dream of becoming a singer with his loud voice.
After dropping out of school, Cong Fei quickly recovered from short-term losses. He went through a lot of hardships to learn from his teacher. His excellent voice condition and persistent learning spirit touched tenor Li Tiecheng. Under his careful training, Cong Fei's singing skills improved rapidly. 65438-0989, admitted to the vocal music department of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, studied under the famous vocal educator Bao. Later, he was accepted as a closed disciple by the famous singer Guo Song, and formed his own unique playing style. He was called "the most beautiful tenor in China" by Guo Song.
From 65438 to 0992, Cong Fei left his hometown and went south to Guangzhou to begin his dream-seeking journey.
When he first arrived in Guangzhou, Cong Fei was unaccompanied and was once in trouble. Because he couldn't find a job, in order to fill his stomach, he had to go out early and return late with migrant workers to carry goods, and later began to dredge pipes and wash dishes. In order to save money, he lives in bridge opening and drinks tap water. ...
Cong Fei, who lived in poverty since childhood, was not intimidated by these difficulties, and he still pursued his dream persistently.
1993, Cong Fei passed a singing contest and finally won the Excellence Award. After the competition, an art company hired him. From then on, Cong Fei ended his wandering life and really started his acting career. In the next few years, Cong Fei's singing career flourished and soon became a popular singer.
If Guangzhou is the place where Cong Fei's artistic career began, then Shenzhen is the place where he really realized his dream.
From 65438 to 0994, Cong Fei went to Shenzhen. In this modern city, with his excellent tenor, sketches and ventriloquism, he quickly became a well-known actor deeply loved by Shenzhen audiences. His stage also extended from Shenzhen to Beijing. In the Great Hall of the People, Cong Fei performed on the same stage with famous singers such as Song Zu Ying, David Jiang, Guan Mucun and Dai Yuqiang, and was invited to perform abroad for many times. With his profound artistic foundation and good reputation, he won more than 20 national and provincial art awards and became an "outstanding musician in Guangdong Province".
Just as Cong Fei was preparing to make great achievements in his singing career, a ruthless disease knocked him down.
On May 12, 2005, Cong Fei, who was only 36 years old, was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer by Shenzhen People's Hospital. Relatives and friends were shocked, but what was even more surprising was that the famous singer Cong Fei, as a member of the current high-income group in China, could not even afford to pay for his own medical treatment.
Why on earth is this?
Donated 3 million yuan in ten years, 178 children affectionately called him "acting father"
The answer made everyone sigh: 10 years, Cong Fei donated almost all his income to students, orphans and disabled people in poor areas, totaling nearly 3 million yuan.
It started with a charity performance in 1994, which completely changed the fate of Cong Fei.
At that time, Cong Fei, who had just become famous, participated in a charity performance in Chengdu, Sichuan Province to return to school for out-of-school children. Hundreds of children who dropped out of school because of poor family were sitting in the audience, looking at childish faces, and Cong Fei couldn't help thinking of his miserable childhood. He put his 2400 yuan into the donation box on the spot, which was the most student aid in the audience that day. The host told Cong Fei: "The donated 2400 Yuan You can enable 20 primary school students in poor mountainous areas to complete their studies for two years!" Many in the audience applauded Cong Fei's wonderful report.
Looking at the children's excited smiles, Cong Fei felt unprecedented happiness: "2400 yuan can change the fate of so many children. What a meaningful thing! " From that moment, he made up his mind to try his best to change the fate of more poor students. Since then, he has started a charity performance and a loving journey to adopt poor children who are out of school. He has been to Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Shandong and other poor mountainous areas for more than 20 times to hold benefit performances. What's the matter with you? х choose m? What about those melons? Higan? Dew? Xie An trampled on it? Not good? What's the matter? Is the soil dry? Qianna? Choice? br & gt
With the passage of time, more and more poor children have received financial aid from Cong Fei. Today, Cong Fei has donated 65,438+078 poor children. Every time these children meet Cong Fei, they affectionately call him "Dad". Whenever I hear this frequent call, Cong Fei feels very happy, no matter how hard and tired she is.
Cong Fei's happiness comes from spiritual satisfaction, and his material life is almost unbelievable.
Cong Fei's home is located in Cuizhu North Road, with an area of only 58 square meters. Local media colleagues described to the reporter of Weekend that the iron sheet on the cheap security door had broken a hole more than one and a half feet long, and the door lock was completely out of order, so it could only be left unlocked every day. The small kitchen is less than two square meters. When you go to the place where the stove is installed, only one person can enter. There are no valuables at home, and the clothes in the closet are all cheap goods of 30 to 50 yuan. The only thing with a little class is white clothes.
Cong Fei has no work unit in Shenzhen, and his only "position" is the head of the Art Troupe of Shenzhen Volunteers' Federation. Cong Fei took this post from 1997, but he never received a penny. His main income comes from commercial performances. According to friends around Cong Fei, he often sends performance fees to children in poor areas immediately after receiving them, or gives them to the disabled and orphans, and he can't save any money at all. Cong Fei has been in Shenzhen for more than ten years, but he only has a passbook, and he was asked to do it when he bought a house and applied for a mortgage loan. In order to be a good "father", 100 children's tuition and living expenses have become Cong Fei's biggest expense, and his financial situation is often stretched. After a few months, even the bank mortgage of more than 2,000 yuan has become a problem.
Seeing that many friends in the entertainment circle have successively lived in luxury houses and driven private cars, Cong Fei's wife is envious. She can't understand his practice of subsidizing others with all his money. She repeatedly urged her husband to think more about himself and his family, but Cong Fei was adamant: "We have a house to live in and food to eat, so there is no need to compare our house and car with others. Those children in the mountains are eagerly waiting for my money to finish their studies. How can I bear to let them down? " Liu Jiazeng told reporters that their differences became more and more serious with the increase of Cong Fei's donation, and finally they fell out completely because of an unexpected incident.
At the end of 200 1, Cong Fei received a phone call from a child in a poor mountain area, asking him for money. That year, Cong Fei spent more than 10 million on children in poor mountainous areas, but less than 20,000 was given to his wife to support his family. Cong Fei hesitated for a long time, but still asked his wife for money. His wife scolded him angrily: "you gave all your hard-earned money to others, but let me and my children live such a poor life with you." You are really the biggest fool in the world! " "
Soon after, his wife went to court to sue for divorce, leaving her 2-year-old daughter in Cong Fei and leaving home alone.
Cong Fei suffered more than that. Many friends later learned that Cong Fei's parents could not understand that his son's life was in such a difficult situation because he helped others. They accused Cong Fei of saying, "When doing good, you should also be measured. You should arrange your life first. How can you only think of people like you? "
Faced with his wife's departure and parents' reproach, Cong Fei was in pain.
"'Did I do something wrong?' Cong Fei asked himself in his mind, but at the thought of the children's expectant eyes, he quickly denied his doubts. On the phone, Liu Jiazeng's voice trembled. "He knows that he must do his best to bring happiness and hope to the children struggling in poverty."
I worked hard and didn't forget to donate money to help students, which touched Shenzhen.
In the spring of 2003, due to the impact of SARS, Cong Fei's performance opportunities were greatly reduced. If there is no performance, Cong Fei will lose her income and the children's tuition will become a problem. In order to make the children pay their tuition fees in time, Cong Fei had to borrow 654.38 million yuan from relatives and friends and deliver it to the children as scheduled before the start of school. After SARS, in order to pay off these debts as soon as possible, Cong Fei worked hard everywhere, often three or four times a day. Due to long-term overwork, since the spring of 2004, Cong Fei often suffered from severe stomach pain, vomiting blood and bloody stool, and his family and friends advised him to be hospitalized. However, considering the high medical expenses, he refused and only prescribed some oral drugs in the outpatient department to maintain it.
On June 5438+ 10, 2005, Cong Fei participated in six benefit performances for tsunami-stricken areas in Southeast Asia. Liu Jiazeng recalled that Cong Fei's condition was so serious at that time that even food was hard to swallow. However, he insisted on participating in six performances and donated10.5 million yuan for medical treatment. When Cong Fei endured great pain and insisted on the last performance, he began to vomit blood and was in a coma for a long time.
When his family took Cong Fei to the hospital, the doctor said that he must be admitted to the hospital immediately, or his life would be in danger. Because there is no medical insurance, Cong Fei can only pay all the treatment expenses at his own expense, which is undoubtedly an unbearable expense for Cong Fei without any savings. After three days in hospital, he looked at the medical bill and widened his eyes in fear: "We spent more than 1800 in three days, and then stayed. How do we pay for medical expenses? " He forced his family to go through the discharge formalities.
On April 22nd, under the appeal of local media in Shenzhen, Cong Fei, who had been vomiting blood and bloody stool, was admitted to Shenzhen People's Hospital, and the hospital agreed to treat him if he could not afford the money for treatment. On May 12, the doctor biopsied the ulcer surface of his stomach and found that it had become cancerous, belonging to the advanced stage of gastric cancer.
Knowing that "Dad" was ill, children in remote mountainous areas wrote sincere letters of condolence. They only know that "dad" has stomach bleeding, but they don't know that death is quietly approaching their benefactor. Luo Yanyan, a sophomore in zhijin county No.1 Middle School, wrote in a letter to Cong Fei: "Dad, I am very grateful for your infinite love for me. You not only helped me materially, but also gave me a lot of encouragement in spirit. In my heart, you have become my real father, and I will never forget you. I'm particularly sorry to learn that you are ill and have stomach bleeding. I really hate that I can't stand the pain for you ... "There is also a minority orphan named Yan Yu in zhijin county. In the summer of 2000, when Cong Fei first met this emaciated girl who was only 8 years old, she immediately decided to take charge of all her tuition and living expenses. This year's Spring Festival, Cong Fei took Xiaoyan, who had never left the cottage, to Shenzhen for the New Year. In the heart of this 12-year-old girl, her father Cong Fei is not only full of love for her, but also a father who is always full of strength. Suddenly, she heard the news that Cong Fei was ill in hospital. She was very sad: "Dad has never been ill. Why is he ill in hospital now? " He is tired of raising us. "She wrote to her father again and again, saying that she prayed for his early recovery in her dream.
Another college student called Cong Fei to apologize. He said, "I was a college student who received your financial aid four years ago. I always thought you were a singer, and you could get 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan for a performance, so you often need extra money, and you don't feel at ease when you spend it. Now I know that in order to help more than 100 students study, you have suffered so much pressure that you are reluctant to spend money on medical treatment. This is something I never thought of. I feel guilty for my ignorance ... "
Looking at the children's sincere letters and listening to their caring greetings, Cong Fei said that all his efforts were worthwhile.
Even in the fight to the death, Cong Fei still did not forget his responsibility. He told several friends, "You must do more to keep these children studying ..." On May 17, he left the money donated by everyone for his treatment for three courses of chemotherapy, and donated 20,000 yuan to the poor mountainous area in zhijin county, Guizhou. He worked hard to record a passage for the "children" in Guizhou: "Children: Dad can't come to see you in person, but he misses you very much. I hope you study hard and become a useful person to society in the future ... "
Cong Fei's shocking deeds touched countless people in Shenzhen. According to Liu Jiazeng, many citizens came to visit Cong Fei while he was in hospital. "An old lady came to see Cong Fei and left a few hundred dollars when she left. She refused to say what her last name was and where she lived. " Liu Jiazeng sighed.
The reporter learned that in order to treat Cong Fei, the hospital set up a special treatment team composed of authoritative experts from departments such as gastroenterology, gastrointestinal surgery, pathology, oncology and traditional Chinese medicine. The parties concerned also took prompt action to solve many practical problems for Cong Fei. The Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Labor and Social Security and the Communist Youth League Committee worked together to complete the examination and approval procedures for Cong Fei's transfer to Shenzhen and his settlement in Shenzhen in only three days. The leaders of hospitals and health bureaus, as well as the leaders of the Labor and Social Security Bureau, have repeatedly said that they should open a "green medical Passage" for Cong Fei's treatment and do their best to treat him at all costs.
In an interview with Weekend, Liu Jiazeng said that Cong Fei's condition is still stable and he will undergo the third phase of chemotherapy soon. Liu Jiazeng said, "We don't care about anything except Cong Fei's illness. Our friends all hope that he can tide over the difficulties. "
Source: Weekend