Full text of Brother Nian’s autobiography (Interview with Commercial Channel)

Author: flower (translation)

Chapter 1 Family

Childhood

I remember living with my parents without my parents during my childhood. ah! Many people would say it's impossible, but it just happened to me, who you are familiar with, just by chance. Then when I say it now, I can only use the past tense (my brother’s tone is full of helplessness)! There is no more bitterness (my brother laughed unconsciously to himself), no more unhappiness. But (brother paused) it’s still a bit weird. Although young people nowadays should not care too much about their past. But let’s talk about my childhood. . . Really, Leslie Cheung’s childhood was not like what others imagined, so many people could love him and throw his toys around. Because I didn’t have any toys at all, I remember when I was a child, I had to poop a little, but not much. ah. . . The most precious thing is a tricycle, which is a small bicycle with a ding-ding. ah. . . . My wife is in Wan Chai. It was my childhood home. It was a western-style house. I also have my mother-in-law, two workers, a brother from the first class, and my sister. They should live together. Because I am ranked tenth. In the past, I knew many of my classmates. They were born in the 1950s, and there were more than a dozen in each family. My family was considered a middle-class family (my brother couldn’t help but laugh as he said this). They were really good at productivity (laughing) ) But in terms of quality, I don’t know! Well, dad is a very famous tailor maker. As for my mother, she married him very early and then gave birth to all these children! My mother helps my father with some clerical tasks. My father was not born into a wealthy family, but he is also called a self-made man. Many people in the fashion industry respect him! (Then he listed a bunch of famous stars, so at that time my dad had a nickname called Tailor King. (After my brother finished speaking, he said to himself: "What an old-fashioned name, it's called Tailor King. It seems like foreigners call them KING). But these had little impact on my childhood. The biggest impact on me was that I never lived with my parents during my childhood. That made me feel very disappointed. Mom and Dad. The reason is very simple. Adults are selfish (Wow, if such a young child has this idea, it means that this child must be more precocious than other children. From a psychological point of view, I think so). Dad (pauses) both like women very much. (Unconsciously smiles again) Dad and mom have a two-story apartment in Central. They live on the first floor and use the first floor as a factory. He looked at the workers, so he didn’t live with us. But I think the adults at that time didn’t pay much attention to the psychology of children, or maybe I wasn’t so lucky, and my parents didn’t pay much attention to the psychology of their children, or that. At that time, I was not so open-minded. At that time, adults had the final say. At that time, I did not say that people who abused children would be sued. But I did not say that my parents abused me. It was good for me to be beaten by my parents when I was young. It happened. But I didn’t even have these, let alone the desire for my father to take pictures with me on Sunday. Daddy and I had a very ironic relationship. I went to my father’s office and met him. Some uncles asked me: "How are you, Zai Zai? (He was very handsome when he was young, with big eyes, a small nose, and a red mouth, like a doll). Daddy's so-called friend." He asked me: "Ah, you are so cute, how are you? Did dad invite you to drink tea?" I was only six years old at the time and had just entered the first grade. I said a very strange thing. I didn't know My father would have felt something after hearing this, but I don’t think he felt anything at all, and it still remained the same after that. I said, “I’m not familiar with him.” (I laughed again unconsciously) But my father was never right. This sentence is self-explanatory. My dad is so crazy. Do you know where the Peninsula Hotel is? It’s right over at Tsim Sha Kok. It’s now called the One or Two Hotel. My dad often rents a room there. There are some beautiful ladies to chat with! (laughing) But there will be strange things like in Cantonese movies (laughing) I have two mothers, and they lived together, my biological mother and my so-called stepmother. If two women try to separate a man, they will definitely be very unhappy. Because of jealousy, my stepmother once tried to wet me with urine. My childhood was very unhappy.

Sixth sister.

Many people don’t understand why I still want to live with my sixth sister. The reason is actually very simple. If you just listened to what I said, you will You will know why. That's because when I was young, I was very isolated. The reason is that the eldest sister and the second sister can become a couple, have a lot to talk about, and can fight beautifully together. That pair is dead. The fifth sister and the sixth sister can be a couple, they are almost the same age. Seventh Brother and Eighth Brother were together, and Ah Jiulie couldn't get the PASSPORT and went back downstairs (since he was holding on) (smiling helplessly) I was the only one left in the 10th place. The starling I met was eight years apart from me. But I think my brother once tried hard to love and care for me, but there is a certain age gap, so the things he plays with are different.

Because I was just born when he was eight years old, and I was only ten years old when he was eighteen years old. We all have differences, whether it is the things we play with or other aspects. But I feel that I was surprisingly quiet when I was a child (you will ask: "How did you know?") The reason why I know this is because my sixth sister told me that I lived in the old house when I was a child. It will be bigger and I will be very quiet. For example, there are many guests in the living room, but even if no one is with me in the room, the adults outside don't know there is a child inside. I can't scream or cry without an adult, so I don't know if it's called silence. But (pause) nothing is worth remembering. My childhood is over with nothing worth remembering. The only thing I remember is that my mother-in-law passed away when I was a child. That was the first time I saw someone die with my own eyes. That was a deep impression.

Grandma passed away

It’s the first grade again, and a lot of things happened to me in the first grade. One day after school in the first grade, my sixth sister came to pick me up from school as usual. She said to me: "Ah, don't be afraid later, my mother-in-law has gone to sleep." Why did I sleep? I was sleeping at that time. I was a lot more sensible when I was younger than others, but I didn’t know if I had nothing to do or gossiped about. I often watched Cantonese movies and knew the bad omens. When I came home, I saw that my cousins ??and cousins ??had all arrived. Oh, there was no cousin. She should be my cousin. Because my cousin was not married yet. My cousin, everyone was crying, and my aunt was crying again, so my cousin cried and said: "Ah Shi (because my name was Ah Shi when I was young), come and see my mother-in-law! My mother-in-law is dead." I remember the most. She died in a room because my mother-in-law was paralyzed. I was very used to her being like this when I was very young, because the western-style building I lived in had a very large room where she and I lived. She died. She was almost 75 or 76 years old at that time, but when she was in her 60s, she began to become paralyzed and lived in a wicker chair all day long. Except for people to help her clean up her feces and urine and feed her, she is actually a very lonely old man. For almost ten years, apart from sleeping on the bed, she always sat on a wicker chair. (Take a deep breath after finishing speaking) I just saw my dead mother-in-law sitting on a wicker chair, her mouth open, and her skin had begun to turn purple-black. Then I saw a lot of people, I don’t know what they were called, coming to collect my mother-in-law’s body. The adults were very busy, and then they went to the funeral parlor. It was also my first time to go to a funeral parlor, and I saw my mother-in-law’s body in the mourning hall. Go up, I'm afraid, I don't dare to go in and take a look. But when my mother-in-law was buried, I saw her when she was out of the mountain. She didn't feel much changed. She just put on some clothes and was covered with a cloth. Then everyone gathered around to watch. What I remember most is that the fortune teller said never to put your clothes on. Tears dripped into the coffin, otherwise I would not be able to return Yang La in the future. I started to hear these gossips, talking about these things, and talking about marriage.

Translation of the full text of Leslie Cheung’s autobiography (4)

Father

I don’t know if he has not been too trusting in marriage since he was a child. Maybe it is Dad *** relationship. So, when one of my favorite uncles got married, he married an aunt (actually I ended up liking this aunt the most), but at that time I felt a strong sense of resistance, and I burst into tears every time I saw her. (laughed again unconsciously) I cried so much that Sixth Sister hugged me and couldn’t finish the wedding banquet before leaving. What I remember most is that I cried as soon as I saw her. Get your hands on her (laughs again). (pauses after laughing) That's it, childhood passed. And once or twice, I will tell you some funny things from my childhood. When I was a child, my father swam in the winter. In fact, this was no longer the case when I was a child. He was still swimming when he was quite old. When I was in middle school, he was still swimming in the winter when I went out to work. Ah (what a long sigh), in fact, swimming sheds were popular at that time. There were not so many public swimming pools at that time. Public swimming pools were not popular at that time. At most, there was a Victoria Public Swimming Pool, and there was a swimming shed in a certain area in Western District. of. There were a lot of people swimming in the swimming shed. I had nothing to do when I was little, especially during the summer vacation. My dad was not that easy to take me for a ride, so (laughing) I just paid 20 cents for a ride with my sixth sister. I took the tram (trams cost 20 cents at that time! Ding Ding). I went swimming in Sai Wan because he (dad) was the leader of the swimming group there. The funniest thing I remember was that one time, I walked from the stone steps to I walked down and saw my father and a friend. Then he felt like he was meeting the son of a good friend. He didn’t even realize that I was his son. He touched my head and grabbed a lot of big things from his trouser pocket. I must have given all the money (big money at that time was very powerful, a bottle of Vitasoy cost two cents), and I definitely gave it all to Sister Six. I didn’t even know what to do with that pile of money.

Interesting Swimming Facts

Back to my swimming, I remember very much that I liked that pair of swimming trunks when I was a kid, and my pair of swimming trunks were (not as sexy as the ones you are wearing now) ) I don’t know what brand it is, but it’s a pair of swimming trunks from a store called “Meimei Children’s Clothing” (laughs). Those swimming trunks are very cute, with a white bottom and a bit of red, green, blue and blue fish. I don’t know if those swimming trunks are not good for Feng Shui (laughing). They are too energetic and there are always so many fish swimming there. I have drowned in the water twice or three times. The first time was when I was very young, and it was also in the swimming shed. What I remember most is that one is the beach area and the other is the practice shed.

It was a near miss the first time, but they told me my fortune and told me that I was averse to water, but I didn’t know much about it when I was young. Once I brought a lifebuoy made of foam with me. The most popular thing after tires was probably Xiaola at that time (laughing) who didn’t like swimming at first, but he passed this stage. (I knew how to swim when I was four, according to my family, but I don’t remember it.) By the time I was six or seven years old, the most things that happened, the so-called most accidents, was sitting on a lifebuoy and calling it rowing. I was sitting on the lifebuoy. How did I know that a wave was coming, so I turned the whole lifebuoy upside down, but I couldn't get out myself. Since I was facing the sun, in fact, "three feet of water will drown a person", which is the saying. There was really only three or four feet of water at that time. While struggling in the water, she saw Sixth Sister overlooking the sea view from the swimming shed. She didn't even know that her young master was already in danger, so he drank a lot of water and couldn't poop after that, and breathed his last. , stabbed with the last bit of strength, struggled again, and finally got out. One time, I was swimming with my brothers when I was in the wind. I told you that I was eight years old and he was already eighteen years old. Since I was six years old at the time, he was sixteen. At that time, my brother was very strong, he was a Sea Scout, and his figure was very solid, but it is different now. Now he has become a Xiong Ren (that is, he has gained weight) and has gained a waistline of 36 inches. But at that time, He is very muscular and has many girlfriends. I was swimming with the lifebuoy as usual. What I remember most is that it was windy that day and we were not allowed to go out to the beach. We were asked to swim in the practice shed. In fact, we were looking for stupidity. The so-called practice shed is surrounded by several wooden stakes and is called a practice shed. In fact, they are all from the sea, but there are some things blocking them and lifeguards are watching. There are a lot of "white bombs" on the sea surface. I don't know if it is because of the wind. These famous underwater products have floated to the surface. When I was swimming, I found a "white bomb" next to me. I wanted to climb up the wooden pile, but With my size, I climbed up and fell back into the water. There was a man next to me. He pulled out the whole thing with his hand. This was the second time I had a near miss. The third time was when my elder sister, Zhang Luping, who you are all familiar with, went to camp with her boyfriend and took us brothers and sisters with her. . . We went swimming. My brother, who is now obscenely fat, was a great swimmer. But the brother he faced couldn't swim. For such a big man, I don't think he can swim now. He still had to use a lifebuoy when he was seventeen or eighteen. I remember I was sitting on a floating bed with my sister. I was wearing a lifebuoy and they were on the floating platform. My brother, who couldn’t swim, jumped over from the floating platform. This person is really brainless. , Really, is it possible to jump from the floating platform and sit on the floating bed? In addition to overturning a floating bed, I also had a lifebuoy. He dared to pull out my lifebuoy and swam away by himself, waiting for me to drown there. In fact, I could have saved him because it was nearby. There was my future brother-in-law and his cousin, but at that moment, I realized that my brother was very selfish.

Seventh Brother and Eighth Brother

And I have this intuition (my brother is very selfish, as mentioned above). There was nothing wrong all the time. In the end, a lot of things were collected. I found that this brother was very selfish. Speaking of his selfishness, it started when he was a child. That was the first time he had sex, and I still remember it very well. Another time, we used to sleep in bunk beds to save space. When three brothers lived in one room, they liked to use a three-layer iron bed. I sleep on the bottom, but when I play, I will run around on any floor. This brother said he wanted to play big waves with me. I asked me to go to the third floor, and then he was applauding the big waves on the second floor, and he was kicking those wooden versions. As a result, he was kicked and was kicked down. As a result, I fell from the third floor to the ground, but I couldn't fall to death. But at that time, I was a little jealous of my brother. I felt that he was a little abusive to me, but at that time, the word abuse was not used. , the word abuse was not as prominent as it is now. My other brother started fighting over me. As for my brother who is like a bear, he is actually very kind to me. I remember doing a very stupid thing when I was young. Our family had a table tennis table. When they were playing table tennis, I would I'm studying those table tennis balls, ah, how can I make those balls so round? I don’t know if you had this habit when you were young, that is, putting things in your mouth. I tried stuffing a ping pong ball into my mouth, and then (laughed) I found myself out of breath, so I walked over to the bear man’s brother and said, "Oh, oh," pointing to his mouth. He, he dug it out with his hands. Now that I think about it, I feel that this brother loved me very much from the beginning to the end.

Chapter 2 Semester (Primary School)

My best “classmate”

When I was young, I didn’t know if you had those kind of dragging hands. , chatting with "classmates", I also have a few such "classmates", I know a few of them, one is named Liu, the other is named Guan, and my last name is Zhang, is it special? (Laughs) It’s like the sworn bond in Taoyuan. These two classmates plus a guy named Xu. When I was in elementary school, the four of us were very close. Until now, although the people named Guan and Liu have no contact with each other, the people named Xu still have contacts.

The person named Xu is from Chaozhou. Speaking of which, we are very good classmates. We knew each other from the first grade of elementary school to middle school. Then we separated. He went to Canada to study, and I went to England to study. However, even now that I am so old, I still have the ability to talk about my concerns. I remember that when I was young, this Chaozhou boy was very cute, chubby, as fat as a little pig. Sometimes I envy him and feel jealous of him because his parents are very good to him. His father is a taxi driver and his mother is an overseas Chinese in Singapore. She is a very happy woman who does not have to do anything. He is one who can live with his parents. Only then did I know what "bringing wolves into the house" meant. His father was the one who invited wolves into the house. His grandfather was a legal consultant and a wealthy intellectual who ran a shipyard. Due to the relationship with the mainland at that time, he ended his shipyard business and came to Hong Kong. I don’t really understand the mentality of those who were on the run at that time, but at least they were a very happy family, and they didn’t have to marry outside the country when they married their daughters. My classmate's aunt is his sister's husband and he also lives in their own home. He has a cousin who attends classes and studies with us. Their family really specializes in producing fat people. His cousin is also fat. . (To be continued)

St. Luci Primary School

When I was a child, I went to St. Luci Primary School. The reason is very simple, because my elder sister and her ex-husband both It was taught by Saint Lucius. Of course she taught the upper class, fifth and fourth grade, and I jumped from the lower class of kindergarten to first grade and entered St. Lucie. How did I know I couldn't continue? I don't think it's strange. Think about it. If you just try to keep up with the pace of the first grade from the lower class of kindergarten, then I don’t know how to do many things, so I make up for the upper class of kindergarten. As a result, I studied in the first grade for two years and was promoted to the sixth grade. Year class. At that stage, I don’t remember anything in particular. The only thing I remember is that my sister, one of my fifth sisters, started tutoring with me. At that time, I started to come into contact with what it means to write big characters. I hate this very much. Boss, I have so much homework to do every day. One night, I was asked to write big characters like "Confucius" and my English was not beautiful. I was asked to write with pen calligraphy and some ink. I'm going to do it now. No more. They are all ballpoint pens. You can go to the bookstore and ask. The pen is about nine inches long. You can insert a pen tip into it. You can choose the thickness. You can bring back a bottle of ink. Just click a few times and write a few words. You need to click a few more times before it dries. This is to train your patience and make sure the font is written correctly! However, I feel that it is not helpful. My English words are as ugly as my Chinese words (laughs). I can only remember these things when I study. Also, my sister is really strict with me.

Big sister Zhang Luping is very strict

I remember my fat brother had a fight with her (big sister), just for the same thing. When I was young, I was not very lazy in studying. La, I was in the top ten every time I took the exam. But my sister is never satisfied. It may be because of the influence of her family. She believes that a person must be self-reliant and "not lose" (meaning not to lose), at least in my family. In fact, she does this because she loves me. At that time, she tried her best to supervise my studies. She started to feel a lot of pressure, and then once she gave my husband a detention, which was actually a very small thing. She scolded me when she came back, and the more she scolded me, the angrier she felt. He picked up a wooden hanger for hanging clothes and beat me. It was made by my father. There was also my father's label on the clothes. It hit me and even the hanger was broken. Then I am a bear man's brother. She felt it was not worth it, so she said to her: "Hey, do you know it hurts to hit someone like this?" She said, "What does it have to do with you if I teach you?" "How about you give it a try?" . . Yes, that incident happened when my sister broke the clothes hanger. Before she could finish it, she took my brother’s belt from back to middle school and beat me. Then my brother became very angry (laughing) and said: "You don't know how painful it is, wait until you try it!" Then my brother hit me with a belt and went to my sister's place. Finally, the two of us started fighting. My sister fought like a wolf (which means very powerful). It was really that time (laughing) Not inferior to those boys. At that time, (laughing unconsciously as he spoke), he took a glass Coke bottle and hit my brother’s head with it. My brother’s head was pierced. Of course. , this is an episode in my family!

Interesting things in elementary school

When I was studying, I was definitely divided into several groups. One group is great at reading; the other group is great at sports; and the other group is great at chasing girls. And for me at the time, reading was great. What about exercise? For me, . . I was very short when I was young, but now I am not very tall. Many people know this, but they call me medium-height. But when I was young, I had classes in a park near the school. At that time, only large schools had their own sports grounds, while ordinary schools did not have their own sports grounds. The St. Lucie school I studied at that time didn't have it. Every time I had physical education class, it seemed silly to talk about it. Physical education class lasts for 45 minutes, but it takes 15 minutes to walk to the park, and another 15 minutes to walk back, so in fact, it only takes 15 minutes to attend physical education class. Actually, I don't like sports very much, but there is one thing I like, and that is wearing clothes for physical education classes. Because it's comfortable, I wear some shorts.

Perhaps many people don’t know that I wore shorts to school when I was a child. My family calls me "Sloppy", why? The reason is that I wear a pair of white stockings, white shorts, a white shirt, and a school badge. But every time I go home, it may be that the stools there are dirty and if they are rubbed, there will be a black stuff behind them. It is like this every day when I come home. (Music) What I hate the most is wearing those pairs of stockings. Maybe the quality of the stockings is not good. When I first wear the new socks, they will stick very tight. But after wearing them two more times and washing them two more times, they will wear out. It will slip off when pulled, so I need to find some rubber bands, no, some thicker rubber bands. They are thicker white rubber bands that people use to sew trousers. Then Sixth Sister will sew them for me when she comes back and wear them. When I stand up, it clings to my feet, which always makes me itchy and painful. But when I was little, I didn’t have any complaints, just nothing. I remember that I was very good at studying at that time. I took second and third place in the school in Chinese for two years. But my sister always gave me the impression that she was very persistent. She was very nervous about my grades, or she was too nervous, which made me feel withdrawn in the late elementary school (I can’t hear what I said here). I remember that when I was in elementary school, I studied old numbers. The biggest problem was that I couldn’t distinguish between new numbers and old numbers. By the time I started reading new numbers, I had already transferred to another school, which is well known to you. Rose Hill School, where I was transferred to a new environment, and I was not told that my sixth sister would take me to school or pick me up from school again.

Rose Hill Middle School

When I was studying in Rose Hill, I began to live a "big boy" life, that is, I had to take the school bus. When I returned to school, everything felt strange. . I just have to recite sutras. To be honest, I am not too religious until now. I only have a superficial understanding of Christianity, Catholicism or Buddhism. At that time, there was nothing great, just a few words left, or that’s when I started to take the initial steps in singing. . Although I didn't know much about Christianity or Catholicism at that time, (I was very bad at math), a few gentlemen still liked me because my English was pretty good. In English, it is said to be the best among those subjects, so my husband chose me (I don’t know if it is still there now). When school was over, I had to recite a sutra before I could leave, so he chose me. Therefore, I often lead the whole class to recite, and people will be jealous of me from the beginning. Others will think: ‘Why do you want you to read it? It’s not like I don’t know how to recite it. 'But I was out of character, because I had no interest in studying when I was in middle school. I don't know if my sister pushed me too hard when I was in elementary school. And by the first year of junior high school, she had no interest in studying. When I learned how to count, she didn't have the time to teach me, so I hired a tutor. The tutor didn't teach me that hard, and I didn't learn that hard either. So at that time, I didn't know much about any subject except English. I have no interest, just pass it, but my hobby for sports is getting stronger and stronger.

Adaptation period

At this time, I have some luxurious things, such as sports shoes for playing basketball. Then I discovered that this school was completely different from the previous school. All of them speak English more than Chinese. In order not to look down on others, they have to speak English all day long. The principal of our school also speaks in English when giving lectures, so I really didn’t know how to speak in English at the beginning. I knew what he was talking about, but I was finally able to communicate with him. At that time, I was very interested in Yao Sourong. When I was in the boys' high school at that time, there were a few boys who pretended to be him and sang all day long. His singing was very funny. Yes, I still remember this classmate very much, because he was the kind of older sister, and I don’t know where to go with him now. At that time, we often played basketball, and there were some inter-class and inter-school competitions. I was pretty good at badminton at that time, but I was scared a few times because I had to play badminton with the principal, but I also felt very honored because I had some vanity to play badminton with the principal. At that time, I didn't know that I could sing, I just went to watch. Do you know when I started singing? Do you know who inspired me to sing? It’s really Yao Sourong. . (Laughing) At that time, the music was not as good as it is now. There were only two kinds of music. Guangdong was not popular at all. When we were studying, we only had Mandarin and a little English. The English we spoke was CCR. But at that time, we didn't really like listening to that kind of English music. We knew all of it, and we would listen to it when we went to parties. But for a while, Yao Sourong, even Happy Tonight treated him like a distinguished guest. When he came to Hong Kong, the whole audience was full. I also went to see it, in some Hong Kong theater or something. There are a lot of people imitating his singing, and after watching it, I think it’s quite interesting. Just listen to his records, eh. . My eldest brother came to listen to these records. As he listened, I also went to listen to them, so I knew how to sing his records. So now if you ask him what he has sung, I will know it. If he doesn’t go home today, I will sing it.

The two most unforgettable Western movies

When I was older, I started to listen to some English songs and watch some foreign movies. The most profound foreign films were two when I was in middle school, one was "The Story of Prejudice". .

The two male and female protagonists are extremely beautiful; the other one is "The Beautiful Girl in the Breast", which is a very nice song. It was from that time that I started listening to many English songs. What I remember most is that I even recited the dialogues in the CD. I couldn't You know why I can recite it, I simply can’t do it, but if I don’t recite it, it will be very bad. It's like you won't listen to Alin now. After this stage comes the courtship stage.

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