Just because he is so obsessed with music.
The girl he is talking to is divorced.
Wang Xu is 44 years old. Originally from Chuwang Village, Beiguan Town, Minquan County, Henan Province. His father worked in Xi 'an Aircraft Factory, and his family moved to Minquan County Farm.
My father is a farm worker and my mother teaches in a farm school.
Wang Xu has three brothers and sisters, and his elder sister Wang Qi is two years older than him. Now I teach in Sunliu Town, Minquan County. Her sister Rollin Wang is two years younger than him. After graduating from college, she went to Beijing to develop, and now she works in a pharmaceutical company.
Of the three sisters, Wang Xu is the best musician. She likes singing and singing opera since she was a child.
Wang Xu was only four or five years old when his father worked in Xi 'an Aircraft Factory.
When he was studying in his father's kindergarten, model operas were popular, which was also the main course of kindergarten. As soon as he learned, he learned the Beijing Opera, such as Shajiabang, The Red Lantern and Red women soldiers, and sang in an orderly way.
Once on the train back to Henan, a passenger next to him teased him to sing. He opened his mouth and came with the red lantern "Listen to me, good girl", which attracted applause from the whole room.
Wang Xu loves singing, but there is no chance for further study. In the early 1980s, due to poor family economic conditions, he went to Quan Min Farm as a farm worker after graduating from junior high school.
After Wang Xu went to work, he bought a guitar with his first month's salary.
Shortly after Wang Xugang went to work, pop songs were gradually introduced to the mainland from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
Wang Xu bought a tape recorder when his family was in financial difficulties.
At that time, a tape of Teresa Teng could be sold for 7 yuan, which was definitely a big sum in Wang Xu's view, but he bought it without blinking.
In the eyes of the old workers on the civil rights farm, Wang Xu loves listening to songs and singing with a tape recorder and guitar in his orchard.
All the songs he has heard can be sung in a few minutes, attracting a group of young people to listen. Wherever he goes, he is very popular.
Wang Xu's brother-in-law, Xi Hongwei, is now a secondee of Sunliu Town Government in Minquan County. He said that in the eyes of local people, Wang Xu is not doing business properly.
Relatives and friends often advise Wang Xu: "Can you eat and drink when singing?"
Working on a farm was still a decent job in the local area at that time. A relative introduced him to a girl who is also a farm worker.
But that girl dated Wang Xu for a while and broke up. The reason for breaking up is "he does nothing but sing".
He once formed a song and dance troupe and sang everywhere.
The result is that you can't make ends meet.
His wife's name is Miao Lanzhi. They got married on 1986, and they had two sons.
The eldest son went to college in Zhengzhou and went to Beijing after graduation to find a job in a pharmaceutical company.
The youngest son is now in high school.
After getting married, Wang Xu felt the pressure of life and ran around to make a living.
First, I feel that singing in my contracted orchard is not enough, and second, I want to earn some money by singing by myself.
In the late 1980s, Wang Xu gathered people who loved music nearby to form a song and dance troupe and sang everywhere.
However, the song and dance troupe did not bring him much economic benefits, and often made ends meet.
After the eldest son was born, in desperation, he returned to the farm again to continue planting fruit trees.
The weather is unpredictable, and most of the fruit trees in the orchard have died under the ravages of several heavy rains and strong winds.
Fruit trees failed, and Wang Xu replanted wheat, corn and other crops.
But unfortunately, he met with inferior seeds, which made Wang Xu lose all his money.
Song and dance troupes lose money, planting trees lose money, and planting crops lose money.
Wang Xu turned to business and sold department stores.
But he still can't make money selling department stores and raises chickens.
Because the technology is not good, raising chickens has lost money again.
New Year's Eve
Homesick, he cried and sang to the mountains.
Forced by life, he left home again and went to a foreign land to survive.
Wang Xuxian went to Ankang in Shaanxi and Urumqi in Xinjiang, where he worked as a porter.
Referring to that time, Wang Xu said: "Carrying 100 kilograms of marijuana bags can only earn 4 cents."
Later, he went to the construction site as a coolie, carrying mud bags, drying cement, pulling bricks and doing all kinds of dirty work.
When working in Xiaolangdi, he offered to stay at the construction site every Spring Festival in order to earn three times his salary.
Wang Xu said that he also misses home, his parents, his wife and his two sons.
But in order to support the family, we can only sacrifice the opportunity to reunite with our loved ones.
On New Year's Eve, he couldn't get rid of the feeling of missing his loved ones. He cried and sang to the empty mountain until he was exhausted.
He first went to Beijing to work in 2000.
A relative introduced him to a company in Beijing as a boiler worker with a monthly salary of 500 yuan.
But such a good time did not last long. It didn't take long for the company to go bankrupt. Wang Xu returned to his hometown again and started farming again. Raise pigs, chickens and sheep. However, the pig disease and chicken plague continued, and Wang Xu still failed and lost money.
He returned to Beijing again and worked as a boiler worker in another enterprise.
A boiler worker has to be on duty 24 hours a day and can only take a nap after the boiler water boils.
Wang Xu said that singing was the best expression in his heart. Singing will make him forget his fatigue and let the depressed emotions brought by life be vented. Tired, sleepy, happy and upset, Wang Xu sang loudly to the boiler.
Later in Beijing, he lost his job several times and was owed wages.
In order to survive, he sells fruits and sets up pancake stalls.
Until 2006, his work finally stabilized. Introduced by relatives, he became a warehouse manager of a pharmaceutical company.
The job is stable, but the low salary still makes his life difficult. He is often worried that he can't pay the rent, and the cost of eating is often a problem.
Wang Xu has a big appetite. He can eat a big bowl at a meal. Because the lunch in the factory is free, he eats with an open stomach.
"Eat more at noon and leave some at home."
The embarrassment of wandering singers
The drunk said to "kill your tenderness"
Wang Xu's mother has a monthly salary of 300 yuan, which will supplement Wang Xu's family, but it is a drop in the bucket for this family of four.
Besides, Wang can't bear her elderly mother to work hard for this family.
Wang Xu said that sometimes after a day's work, I go back to bed, smoke a stuffy cigarette, miss my mother, miss my children, miss my wife, and feel guilty for doing too little for my family. I feel particularly uncomfortable and feel that I can't live any longer.
So he began to work during the day and sang in the underground passage of Gongzhufen and Lishi Road at night.
"Singing makes me feel very comfortable. I can vent my fatigue and unhappiness by singing. No matter how much money I can earn every day, I will sing happily and vent my hardships and happiness by singing. "
Being a wandering singer and getting praise from passers-by is the happiest thing for Wang Xu.
Once, a girl who looked like a college student watched Wang Xu sing hard, so she went to a nearby store and bought him a bottle of mineral water.
Another time, a girl was fascinated by his singing. When she left, the girl said to him, "Can I give you a hug?"
These two things excited Wang Xu for several days.
But as a wandering singer, Wang Xu was embarrassed and humiliated.
When he sings, people often throw a dime at him from a distance, as if practicing aiming.
Wang Xu and his partner Liu Gang also met an embarrassing thing.
They asked the onlookers on the road to order songs. One of the audience ordered "Just like your tenderness". Who knows that a drunk came up and grabbed Liu Gang by the neck and said, "I strangled your tenderness."
Wang Xu said, "Considering the situation at home, these grievances are nothing. Wages are usually mailed to home, and the money earned by singing is spent on yourself.