One day the poor mute uncle went to collect broken bottles and found a two-month-old abandoned baby, a girl. There was a letter on the girl's body, which read: "Her name is Mei, and the kind person who adopted her, Mazu Bodhisattva, will bless you - the poor man's respect." The mute uncle was full of smiles, and happily carried her home. When he got home, the mute uncle and his wife quarreled because the wife couldn't bear the thought of having to support another person in her already destitute family. After many quarrels, the wife of the mute uncle could not bear this life, so she wrote a letter and put it on the table, and left the mute uncle.
Single and destitute, the mute uncle raised a baby who was not yet a year old. He was busy every day, but was happy to watch her grow up little by little. A neighbor once teased that the daughter you picked up wouldn't be a mute. As it turned out, this daughter finally fought for the right to speak up and call her father when she turned a week old that day, which made the mute uncle thrilled, and his hard work turned into joy on his face.
Time and again after a few years, one day, the mute uncle's neighbor caught a puppy, and with the mute uncle to discuss, ready to kill and eat meat, just to the puppy half dead, I did not expect to take advantage of the time they were talking, the puppy ran into the homework is writing homework next to the Amei, the Amei saw the injured puppy, feel very poor, then asked the mute uncle to leave the puppy to be kept up, and named it Lai Fu.
The mute uncle is still loving and kind, the family is still not rich, and the walls are still filled with bottles of wine. He raised Ami with the little money he earned every day.
Time passes day by day, and time flies, and the old man's temples have become as frosty as ever. Amei also grew up and became a beautiful, well-behaved, filial and cheerful young girl. Mute uncle finally old, wrinkles, gray hair, thin, old. And the little dog that stayed alive that day has become a mighty big wolf dog.
Ami loved to sing and had a good voice. She befriends a young man, Shi Junmai, who is handsome and talented, but is just an obscure songwriter. They were like-minded and in love with each other, often talking about music and singing together.
The more she sang, the better she got. Later, she was introduced to a record agent by Shijunmai, and under the agent's operation she finally became famous. From poor and simple, she became bright and dazzling, but she was so busy that she had no time to go home, no time to accompany her mute uncle, and no time to be with Shijunmai. Ah Mei and Shi Jun Mai even had quarrels, and they became more and more distant from each other. In the end, Ah Mei became a starlet, while the young man continued to scribble lyrics and songs in a nameless manner.
May became famous, but she lost her freedom. Her manager forbade her to go home, and she wasn't allowed to see the young man, and she wasn't allowed to see her mute uncle. Because how can a big star have a poor home, a deadbeat boyfriend and a disabled father? That would affect her image in the eyes of her fans.
One day, May held a press conference, and Uncle Mute and his neighbor, Ming, tried their best to go to the press conference in the most decent attire.
Having not seen them for a long time, the old man looked at his daughter with a trembling, excited smile, longing for her to call him Dad. Ami's manager was on hand to keep the young girl from recognizing the downtrodden old man. As the limelight flashed, Ami went to embrace the old man but was stopped by her agent. The scene is a riot as the mute uncle's neighbor, Ah Ming, starts screaming at the young girl why she won't recognize her dad. The mute uncle, fearing that he will affect his daughter's future, pushes his neighbor to leave.
The dilapidated home became silent all of a sudden, and without the girl's laughter, there was only an infinite void. The mute uncle's forlorn figure, and the rifles, which he had kept for many years, similarly lowered their heads, as if they knew their owner's heartache.
One day, when he was taking a walk, a motorcycle sped by, and he didn't pay attention to the sound of the motor because he was thinking about his daughter all the time. Lai Fu made a dash for the mute uncle's back and pushed his master to the side of the road, but he himself was knocked off by the motorcycle, rolled over, crushed through his stomach, and flipped over, lying on the side of the road, his belly heaving and covered with blood.
The mute uncle took Lai Fu home. The vet shook his head, meaning it was hopeless, and then told the mute uncle and the others it would be better to euthanize it.
Lai Fu lay on the table, covered in blood, his body heaving and breathing rapidly, his eyes looking at his master with misery and pain. Uncle Mute was in old tears. It is always going to die, rather than letting it endure the agony of pain, it is better to let it leave in pain. Mute uncle painfully raised a stick, hesitated, and then ruthlessly smashed towards the head of Lai Fu ...... Lai Fu, who was dependent on the mute uncle, also left this world, and the mute uncle's situation became even more miserable.
On the one hand, there is the coolness of the falling curtain; on the other, there is the clamor of the stage.
On the one hand, there is the bleakness of the end of the song; on the other hand, there is the warmth of the opening of a good show.
On the one hand, the sadness of loss; on the other, the joy of success.
Amei, who has finally become a popular singer in Taiwan, instructed her manager to bring 200,000 yuan (200,000 yuan in the 1970s should be equivalent to quite a lot of money in 2011) to her mute uncle in the hope that he would buy a new house and that he would be able to live more comfortably than before. May is not cold-blooded, she is also struggling and conflicted in her helplessness. The father and daughter never saw each other again after that. Ami's success blocked their contact. So much so that Ami knew nothing about her old father's illness.
Ami is going to have a concert. When Tokunmai was near Ami's house, he wanted to see Ami's father, and when he walked to Ami's father's window, a neighbor told Tokunmai about how Ami's father used to make Ami happy with the trumpet sound of "Wine Dried and Sold for Nothing" since he was a child, and in this moment, Tokunmai got inspired, and instead of meeting Ami's father, he went back to his house immediately, and in order to wake Ami up, he wrote her a song, which is this song "Wine Dried and Sold for Nothing". Shi Junmai mailed the song to her a few days before the concert. May read the lyrics and wept bitterly. She kept learning the song, and all the scenes of her father's hard work in raising her came back to her like a tidal wave.
The concert began, and when Mei finished the first song, her neighbor, A-Man's wife, came and told Mei that her uncle was having a heart attack and was dying, and she immediately rushed to the hospital.
Ami rushed to the hospital and finally saw her father, who shouted, "Dad, dad! The mute uncle died without seeing his daughter for the last time, and Ami also cried bitterly and was devastated.
Toward the end of the concert, Ah Mei tearfully sang "wine dry if sold without" ......
The audience had never heard such a moving song, the audience was moved to tears, thunderous applause.