One day in 2004, I was sitting in a Haima car, driving along Guangzhou Avenue from north to south. As we approached the Nanfang Newspaper office, the driver who was listening to the vernacular radio said that Huang Zhan was dead.

One day in 2004, I was sitting in a Haima car , walking along Guangzhou Avenue from north to south. As we approached the Nanfang Newspaper office, the driver who was listening to the vernacular radio said that Huang Zhan was dead.

That year, I had just arrived in Guangzhou. I had never been to Hong Kong and I couldn’t understand the vernacular. There is an expert in the office next door. It is said that he goes to Hong Kong every weekend to buy things, which makes me very envious. Although Hong Kong was showing signs of fatigue at that time, it was still a holy land that many people yearned for. TVB dramas were still followed by many people, and Hong Kong fashion still had an influence on the mainland.

Huang Zhan ranks among the four most talented people in Hong Kong. In addition to Huang Laoxie, there are Jin Yong , Ni Kuang and Cai Lam . Among the four people, Jin Yong certainly ranks first, and he has the greatest influence on the Chinese world. Huang Laoxie's lyrics are unparalleled and are classics among classics. Except for ignorant children, who has not heard a few of his songs who have gone to school?

In addition to Jin Yong and Huang Zhan, there are Ni Kuang and Cai Lam. The latter two are of course very talented, but in the entire Chinese world, they are still a bit underwhelming. Chinese people like to make up four, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Four Vajras, the Four Great Classics, and the Four Talents.

Among the four, the most unruly Huang Zhan died first.

Hearing that Huang Zhanxian was gone, Ni Kuang shouted: "This is unreasonable." In their early years, Huang Zhan and Ni Kuang found someone to tell their fortunes. The half-immortal only gave Ni Kuang until he was 60 years old, but said that Huang Zhan could live to 70 years old. Ni Kuang cried: "I am over 70 years old, how could I expect that Huang Zhan passed away at such a young age."

At Huang Zhan's memorial service, the theme song of "Chu Liuxiang" was played in a loop: "There is no need to talk about pain in life, don't worry about gatherings and separations in a hurry. "Ni Kuang was dejected, and Cai Lan left four words: "Go west laughing."

Another 14 years passed, and Jin Yong headed west.

On July 3, Ni Kuang passed away with a smile on his face. Of the four great talents, only Cai Lan remains.

Ni Kuang's writings appeared in a specific historical era. Looking at it today, of course there are some rough spots, but nothing in the world is perfect. Ni Kuang's words have influenced countless people. To this day, they are still remembered in Hong Kong and in the Chinese world. This is enough.

In addition to writing 145 Wesley series works, he also edited 261 martial arts films for Shaw Brothers , single-handedly ushering in the golden age of martial arts movies. The movie "The One-Armed Sword" written by him was the first movie in Hong Kong history to have a box office of over one million. He also tailor-made the script for "Fist of Fury" for Bruce Lee . The fictional Chen Zhen image has become a deeply rooted IP.

He once wrote serials for 12 newspapers at the same time. He insisted on handwriting tens of thousands of words every day for many years, and once set a record of handwriting 4,500 words in one hour. He created tens of millions of words in his life and was known as the "human typewriter". He claimed to be "the fastest in writing Chinese characters, the fastest in the world."

His most proud couplet in his life: repeatedly wrote scripts for Zhang Che, and once wrote novels for Jin Yong.

Such a character cannot be summarized in a short text.

Throughout his life, what interests me the most is his legendary experience of escaping from the mainland to Hong Kong.

Ni Kuang was born in Shanghai in 1935. He survived both the Anti-Japanese War and the Civil War. His father was a clerk in an insurance company and gave birth to seven children. Ni Kuang ranked fourth, and the sixth was Ni Yishu , who is also the number one female writer in Hong Kong.

Ni Kuang’s son Ni Zhen married a “Jade Girl” Zhou Huimin . Brother Ni Kuang Ni Yifang was a national model worker in the 1980s. Ni Yifang once said in an interview: "My little sister is a romance novelist, she is very romantic. My brother is a science fiction novelist, he is also very romantic. But I am more romantic than both of them, because I believe in Communism."

This family is full of people with stories.

In 1950, Ni Kuang's parents were preparing to go to Hong Kong, and Liu Mei followed their parents. The eldest brother Ni Yifang decided to stay in the mainland to participate in construction, and Ni Kuang also decided to stay.

htmlWhen he was 116 years old, Ni Kuang went from Shanghai to Suzhou alone, where he trained for three months at the East China People's Revolutionary University and became a police officer of the Jiangsu Provincial Public Security Department. He participated in the land reform in southern Jiangsu and the Huaihe River control project in northern Jiangsu. He was later sent to Inner Mongolia to manage prisoners in the labor camp.

When he was in Inner Mongolia, the house where Ni Kuang and his comrades lived was almost like an ice cellar once there was no fuel in winter. Once, the road was blocked by wind and snow, coal could not be transported, and the fuel was interrupted. Without coal, Ni Kuang and the others might freeze to death. Ni Kuang then remembered that there was a small river not far away with a simple wooden bridge on the river. The water had long been frozen to the bottom, so there was no need to use a bridge to cross the river. So Ni Kuang found a few people to dismantle the wooden bridge, moved the wood back and burned it for three or four days, and finally got over the difficulty.

Later, he was labeled as "disrupting traffic" by his superiors and became a "counterrevolutionary". In those days, this crime was very serious.

At the reminder of his friend, Ni Kuang decided to run away quickly. On a snowy night, I rode an old horse all the way north, picking up trains everywhere. First I went to Anshan to find my brother, then I escaped all the way to Shanghai, and then smuggled to Hong Kong.

What saved Ni Kuang’s life was not only his good friends and old horses in Inner Mongolia, but also his hobby - seal cutting.

When Ni Kuang fled, he took a piece of soap with him to engrave seals and display various "official documents" along the way.

Later, someone asked Ni Kuang what the time stamp was based on. He smiled and said: There is no basis at all, just to engrave the "big". The bigger the boast, the more likely it is to scare people!

The first thing when he arrived in Hong Kong was that Ni Kuang ordered barbecued pork rice for one night. He thought, there is such a delicious barbecued pork rice in the world! A large bowl of rice was filled with a few pieces of barbecued pork on top. The fat was so fat that the oil overflowed, flowed to the edge of the bowl, and then dripped on the hands. That feeling, decades later, Ni Kuang still mentioned it on a TV show.

He is a person who has escaped from difficulties and suffered countless hardships along the way. I haven’t had a full meal in an unknown amount of time. Naturally, I will remember this delicious barbecued pork rice for a lifetime.

When he first arrived in Hong Kong, Ni Kuang worked as a construction worker earning 27 cents a day. After get off work, he lay on the grass in the park, looked at the blue sky and white clouds, and thought, "If I can live a free life in Hong Kong for 10 years, I will be very happy."

He never imagined that not only could he live freely in Hong Kong for decades, but he could also become famous and flourish in this city.

Ni Kuang is very grateful to Hong Kong. He said: "I like Hong Kong very much. In Hong Kong, there are everything you can think of, and there are also things you can't imagine. This place is so weird, from the best to the worst, from the most ridiculous to the most reasonable. No city can contain it. Many contents."

Many of his novels have shown his political stance, which also caused his books to be banned in mainland China.

Historian Wang Chunyu once wrote a memoir, saying that he had heard Ni Kuang say harsh words towards the CCP, but he had also heard him say very seriously and even sighing: "Ah, the mainland has been engaged in reform and opening up, and the current Chinese Communist Party is the best in history." The Communist Party of China; Taiwan has become politically democratized, and the Chinese Kuomintang is also the best Kuomintang in history. There are many new changes on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which are dizzying! ”

Ni Kuang often goes to Taiwan. He said that many years ago, a general from the Kuomintang invited him to discuss writing a script. This man is very wealthy, and his pistol is gold-plated. He asked Ni Kuang to write about the war between the country and the Communist Party, which was very tragic. In the end, the national army won a complete victory and the Communist army fell into disgrace. Ni Kuang couldn't help but said: "How can the drama be scripted like this? You have won a great victory and the Communist army has been defeated. So who drove you to Taiwan?" When the general heard this, he was furious and actually pulled out his pistol. Ni Kuang immediately Fleeed from his home. Ni Kuang said with a smile: "An old general of the Kuomintang, at this level, makes people laugh and cry. He also threatened to counterattack the mainland, no wonder he could think of it!"

Since smuggling to Hong Kong, Ni Kuang has never returned to the mainland. He said Even if you beat him to death, he won't reply.My friend Cai Lan went to Shanghai to eat cuttlefish and thought of Ni Kuang, so he took a photo with his mobile phone and printed it out to show Ni Kuang.

In fact, none of the four great talents in Hong Kong were born and raised in Hong Kong. They all gathered in Hong Kong for various reasons after 1949.

The most legendary one is of course Ni Kuang. If he had not made a decisive decision to escape from danger, Ni Kuang would have become a withered skeleton in the grave, and there would be so many stories that followed. That escape was something Ni Kuang would never forget and made him particularly vigilant.

In 1992, a right-wing reporter was beaten to death on the streets of Hong Kong. Ni Kuang was very worried about the security of Hong Kong after its return to , so his family immigrated to San Francisco, the United States.

However, 15 years later, Ni Kuang returned to live in Hong Kong. In an interview, he admitted that his views and predictions about his return were wrong. Of course, when he returned to Hong Kong, he also considered his wife, saying: "After she lived in the United States, she wilted like a flower, but after returning to Hong Kong, the flower became fresh again, as if it had been watered."

Then For sixteen years, Ni Kuang never left Hong Kong again. He witnessed the rise and fall of the city, and the evening sun was already looming over the harbor.

The yearning for freedom and the fear of losing freedom made Ni Kuang keep writing. Although he laughed and cursed and seemed to be playing with the world, Ni Kuang was actually deeply uneasy in his heart. This insecurity haunted Ni Kuang throughout his life.

are all gone. The dream of escaping on a skinny horse on a snowy night will never appear again.

Huang Zhan is gone, Jin Yong is gone, many people are gone, and the curtain of that era has finally fallen firmly.

I walk alone through thousands of mountains, so there is no need to see each other off.