Chapter 30 Section 2 The days when He Yunwei and I "lived together"

I came to Master to learn cross talk, and among the first group of people I met was He Yunwei, my "Wei An" master brother.In the early years, besides Master, I had the most contact with him.After coming to Beijing for three years, I thought, I can't always live under Master's roof, and want to become more independent, so I simply moved out of Master's house.Where do you live?It happened that there was a small storage room in He Yunwei's house that was vacant, so I rented it at He Yunwei's place to find out how I lived and see if I could do it alone, so He Yunwei became my little landlord.

To talk about the experience of living in their house, the biggest help to me is how to take care of my own life. As a teenager, I live in a house where I can see the four corners of the roof every day when I lie down. Doing laundry and cooking by myself is a test for me.Even if I live alone, the expenses are high. I lived frugally for the first half of the year, and asked my family for some money. Under such circumstances, I basically didn’t eat much meat.I am a halal Muslim. First of all, I can’t eat pork. I can only buy beef and mutton. I can’t buy it at all during my daily schedule. I get up at 8 o’clock every morning, practice, wash and dry clothes, and simply make breakfast. The morning passed quickly, and I didn’t have time to buy vegetables for lunch. I had to go out at eleven o’clock to catch the performance at two o’clock in the afternoon. When I came back from the performance, the vegetable market was closed.This guy said, buy some meat and keep it. I couldn’t afford a refrigerator back then. It happened to be summer and I moved there. The weather was so hot. I bought meat and put it in the house. It stinks, so I can't do it at all. I can only eat some vegetarian dishes. I forced myself to eat an egg every day, which was regarded as supplementary nutrition.But He Yunwei's family is nice to me, but they are not Muslims, so they can only ask me to come over when the food at home is not against my taboo, eat fish, stew beef or something, they take care of me, I always Remember.

In 2004, we performed at the Huasheng Tianqiao in Panjiayuan, Shilihe, Beijing. There were ordinary audiences, and we also accepted tourist groups. The conditions were very difficult. There were a few people in the backstage and one or two audiences in the front stage. When it was good, there could be five or six , Seven or eight, ten or so spectators, every day.He Yunwei and his family live in Xisanqi. Anyone who is familiar with the territory of Beijing knows that it is really far away from Panjiayuan.It usually takes three hours by car to get to the performance venue, and we have to change three or four times. That is to say, we spend at least 6 hours on the road this day, so that’s why I’m very happy with the performance at two o’clock in the afternoon. Reasons to go out at one point.

In order to save money, we took the bus every day. Monthly tickets were necessary. At that time, we did not earn a lot of money, and our lives were relatively difficult. It saves money, so He Yunwei and I use monthly tickets to take the bus.I didn’t go to school at that time, but in order to save money, I tried to get He Yunwei’s school to stamp me a stamp and get a student monthly ticket. You must know that the student monthly ticket is 20, and the regular monthly ticket is 40. It can save half. My son was only in his teens, and he didn't look very old at first, so he pretended to be a student, and just kept messing around like this.

Because the Huasheng Tianqiao Theater is on the edge of the third ring road, one of the buses that must be taken is the famous No. 300 bus.The 300 road in Beijing does not distinguish between morning and evening peak hours, and there are many people everywhere, but generally speaking, it is not bad when I go in the morning, and I sweated and went to the theater. The most beautiful thing is to spend one yuan to drink a cold glass Sour plum soup, it's so refreshing, it's very refreshing, and then sit down and make tea and chat with the big guys, it's very friendly, when there are audiences, we will perform on stage, when there are no audiences, we will sit around the table and talk about the mountains together, No one said that they were in a hurry to go home. It was like this every day. We just talked about works and cross talk.

I don’t know how many friends I have. At five o’clock in the afternoon, I took the 300 road on Beijing’s third ring road. That road was really congested, and there were many, many people. It was often me and He Yunwei. When the car came, they squeezed together with all their strength, but they couldn't get through no matter how hard they squeezed, or they squeezed one of them with difficulty, and the other one was still standing under the car. The return journey of the two of us is like this. Every day, we take the 300 bus to Madian, and after we get off, we walk to a park, which seems to be called Shuangxiu Park, and then take the 315 bus through the park.At that time, the No. 315 bus was also an old-fashioned bus. There was no air-conditioning in the bus, and it was full of people. In the hot summer days, we were as hot as washing, and we resolutely refused to take the small bus. People kept calling: "One piece for one piece, one piece for one piece, there are big seats." We were not unimpressed, just imagined: Although there is no air-conditioning in the small public, at least there are seats, and it is open when walking. There is a small wind blowing from the window, which is more comfortable than the public.But then I thought about it: No, I can’t use a monthly pass, but 315 can use a monthly pass, so I can’t waste it.His willpower became firm in an instant, and he held the monthly pass in his hand to his chest, just like taking an oath.

In order to save this one dollar, we can sit a few more times, go up for a stop, and come down to rest for a while. The main reason is that the carriage is too stuffy and hot, and we can hardly breathe. Car 315, so tossing and tossing, we get home at 8:30 every day, but I don’t know why the sense of accomplishment is so strong.After I get home, I have to cook by myself, and after I finish eating, I have to take a shower and take a shower. When I’m not sleepy, I concentrate on my own work, and I get it until two or three o’clock. I don’t know why, but I’m very satisfied. I remember the days when I went to the theater every day. I can drive a car now, and my life is much more comfortable. But every time I can think of the past, I don’t feel bitter, but a deep nostalgia.I remember the first time He Yunwei and I earned the theater’s share of money. In our agency, we called wages as share, and we paid for it. The two of us lived for a week or a month. I don't remember very clearly, but I earned 40 yuan in total, 20 yuan per person.After all, it was 2004, and we entered the 21st century. What could you do with 20 yuan in Beijing at that time? At most, you could buy a monthly pass, and it had to be a student monthly pass.But when I got the first money I earned, I was so happy. The two of us decided to use this money to celebrate and reward ourselves. We took the 40 yuan and found a food stall nearby. , I drank two packs of ice-cold beer, he brought a large bottle of iced green tea, ordered a few small cold dishes, and ordered a few skewers of mutton, and I ate everything for 40 yuan. We lost the money for one meal, but the meal still feels delicious when I think about it, and I feel satisfied and happy from the bottom of my heart.

During that time, we were always together, and a lot of interesting things happened. I remember one time we both took the 300 bus, and it was time to get off at Madian, so we could take the 315 bus back to Xisanqi through Shuangxiu Park.He Yunwei was standing in the car, listening to the Walkman, and he didn't know whether he was listening to Peking opera or cross talk. Anyway, he didn't listen to anything else except these two.Everyone knows that bus No. 300 is a big bus with three doors in the front, middle and back. There are too many people and the two of us are crowded together. I came from the door at the back, and he came from the door in the middle. Since there are many people, don’t After moving back and forth, the two young men don't have to stand together.After standing for a while, I was about to get off the bus as soon as I heard the conductor announce "Madian is here". As for him, he was fascinated by his Walkman and didn't look up at me. Standing by the door, walking like this every day, he wouldn't know how to get off the car, so he ignored him. As soon as the car stopped here, I got off, and I stood at the middle door waiting for He Yunwei to get off. I didn't even move, I saw that everyone had finished downloading, "咵", the door was closed, and the car drove away, hahahaha, He Yunwei, the unlucky guy, passed by, I just stared at him and looked at the 300 Moving forward slowly, He Yunwei was still listening to his Walkman, squinting his eyes happily and looking out. Suddenly, I felt his eyes widen suddenly, and I thought this guy was finally looking at me, so Seeing him shouting at me: "Hey, what are you doing? Why are you down here?" I gloated and waved desperately from the bottom: "Madian is here, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!" He Yunwei looked around and stomped on the car, What's the use of baring my teeth at me, the car has already driven away.Anyway, I don’t say anything, everyone knows that 300 is the main road on the third ring road, and one stop is very long. He took the stop and waited for the car to back up. At that hour, that person must have had a lot of trouble.In the end, I arrived at home at eight o'clock, and we had to eat after cooking. It was half past nine, and He Yunwei knocked on my door: "Cao Yunjin, come out for me, and don't tell me when we arrive at the station!" I was laughing like crazy inside the door, poor He Yunwei, a full hour and a half behind me.

The two of us have been together in Deyun Society for so many years, and we feel that we should be regarded as the one who knows him better. He Yunwei is a very colorful, even very strange person.He has a very withdrawn personality and doesn’t have any other hobbies. He only likes Beijing opera and cross talk. With so many seniors, he is not very close to anyone. For the sake of our sympathy for each other.Sometimes at the end of the day, he has endless things to say to me, talking over and over again.It is said that He Yunwei is a talker on stage, and he is extremely silent off stage, but I really want to tell everyone that that is not true, because you have not seen his true side, he is really a talker.

I have always felt that the brotherhood between me and He Yunwei will not change. At that time, we were together every day and went to the theater to perform together. Although the journey was hard, there were also countless joys. One break, two, three, four, five, six, and Sunday performances, and Tuesdays are stand-up comic performances. When we are not performing, we will do morning exercises and practice together. If we have time in the evening, or go back early in the afternoon, He Yunwei and I I often don't stay at home, and after dinner, I go to the park to tell jokes, and I don't feel boring like this every day.He held one for me, and I measured one for him, thus developing the ability to tease each other.When we are working together, both of us have high demands on ourselves, giving each other opinions and thinking about each other's burdens. This kind of life is also very helpful to our business. We both want to be better than each other, so we both work hard. effort.

But sometimes things don’t go as planned, and then I moved again, and I always live in that place. The space is too small, and I feel very depressed. I also pursue personal development, and the Deyun Society has grown bigger and bigger over time. Gradually, He Yunwei and I no longer shared the same sessions. We met less and less, and had fewer and fewer opportunities to communicate. We occasionally called and greeted each other.But I still remember last year when we were filming in Nanjing, our two brothers got together again, we couldn’t finish talking every day, a boring game many years ago, you said something, I would reply, it was so much fun, I could play all morning I also remember that we went to Shenyang to record the program "Stars Turning Up" on Liao TV. On the plane, He Yunwei kept talking, talking, I don't know, will there be such an opportunity in the future? up.