text | Li Peishu
edit | Sun Dasheng
On the morning of March 23, 2011, Beijing Changping Tianshou Cemetery held a ashes burial ceremony. People held white chrysanthemums and smiled at each other and said, "Today is a happy day."
It is clearly a funeral, but where does the joy come from?
It turns out that the relative and friend they remembered had passed away as early as June 23, 2007. From the time they left to the time of peace, this simple step took 45 months, which is amazing.
What is even more surprising is that this poor man who has been unable to settle down for a long time is the famous Hou Yaowen .
Why is the crosstalk master of the generation so desolate? What's the story behind this?
After Hou Yaowen passed away, her daughter Hou Zan went to court with his second brother Hou Yaohua because of his inheritance. How is she doing now?
Everything has to start from the beginning.
01
1948 Hou Yaowen was born in Beijing. He was destined to be extraordinary because his father was the mainstay of the crosstalk world - Hou Baolin .
Under the influence of his father, Hou Yaowen was very interested in crosstalk since he was a child. Unfortunately, his father did not support it. Hou Baolin, who was an illiterate family, hoped that his son could learn more knowledge to accumulate for the future, and believed that it would be harmful to Hou Yaowen too early.
But the more my father banned it, the more interested Hou Yaowen is. So he often used his father to teach students while he was teaching. After he had learned almost everything, he signed up for the school's amateur performance team and accumulated experience while performing.
In order not to let his father discover it, he also gave himself a stage name - Xiaodi.
Hou Yaowen's first appearance was in a workers' club, and his crosstalk was "Drunk" that his father once said.
He came on stage with confidence, but after the performance, no one applauded. He was extremely embarrassed and immediately hid in the bathroom. After
, he reviewed the matter with his friends. He realized that he had chosen the wrong joke. How could a 12-year-old child say he was drinking in public?
Hou Yaowen, who learned the lesson, immediately changed direction, and chose the traditional joke " Eight-Screen " in the second game. Sure enough, the results were completely different when he chose the right direction. His wonderful performance won him countless applause.
to 17 years old, Hou Yaowen was already well-known in the crosstalk world, but when he was young, he was still full of confusion about the future. At this moment, a friend's action cleared the fog for him.
"I heard that China Railway Art Troupe is recruiting students, let's go and register to try it!" After saying that, my friend pulled him away, but my friend was not selected, and Hou Yaowen was taken by the examiner at a glance.
Compared to being excited, Hou Yaowen, who was admitted, was more afraid because he knew how angry his father would be after he knew the news, but he finally mustered up the courage to tell his father the news. As expected, my father turned around and left after hearing this, without wanting to say a word to him.
Hou Yaowen had no choice but to accept his father's arrangement and continue to go back to school. Fortunately, the people from the Railway Art Troupe did not give up. After many persuasions, Hou Baolin finally let go, but there was a requirement that he could not leave the cultural course.
So in 1965, Hou Yaowen went to the art troupe to report and formed a partner with Shi Fukuan . Since then, he officially started his crosstalk journey. Later, the "Finish and Famous Father-in-Law", "With Wisdom and Brave", and "Assy Talk" were all widely circulated.
When Hou Yaowen's career developed vigorously, love also came inadvertently.
In 1979, he received a certificate with the troupe dancer Liu Yan. A year later, his daughter Hou Zan was born.
After having a daughter, Hou Yaowen's smile became more, but the pressure on his shoulders was also greater, so he created more works and took on more performances. At the same time, he spent much less time with his family.
At the beginning, Liu Yan's heart was filled with joy as he watched her husband's career flourish.
But after a long time, she became complaining. While she had to work in the group, she also had to take care of her daughter who had not been born. Liu Yan, who was unable to do anything, could only vent his stress through words.
Hou Yaowen has always been very tolerant of this wife who is 10 years younger than him, so when faced with Liu Yan's complaints, he always comforted and patiently enlightened, but gradually he found that what he did was useless. Not only did Liu Yan not change at all, but instead became more and more serious as his daughter grew up, so he began to feel bored and reduced the number of times he went home.
Two years later, the marriage came to an end under the quarrel between the two, and Hou Zan began to live with his mother.
For Hou Zan at this time, life without a father seemed to be no different from the past. It was just that there was a stranger who liked to pinch her face. But after she went to elementary school, she realized that things were not that simple.
02
"You are a wild child who doesn't even want your father."
This is the most common sentence Hou Zan heard when he was in elementary school.
Children often speak the most innocent, straightforward, and the most hurtful.
Not to mention in the 1980s, even now, a child without a father is very susceptible to discrimination and is easily excluded by his peers. In addition, his father is a well-known celebrity, and Hou Zan's childhood life can be imagined.
In Hou Zan's view, his father Hou Yaowen is the culprit in all this, so when facing his father, she never had a good face. She must hate her father. This is the only way to transfer the pain.
But how can blood ties be so easy to give up? While Hou Zan hated his father, he was desperately collecting everything about his father, as if he could get more love from his father with just one more understanding of his father.
After she could remember it, Hou Zan stopped asking her mother about her father because she found that every time she asked, her mother would cry secretly, and she didn't want to make her mother sad anymore.
Sometimes, Hou Zan really thinks that her father is stupid. Her words and deeds are clearly so obvious, but her father just can't see through her inner desire.
I thought that as time passed, the ice between her and her father would naturally melt, and her mother and father could reconcile, but a sudden news broke all her fantasies.
It was in 1993, when 13-year-old Hou Zan suddenly saw an announcement of his father's remarriage in the newspaper.
The other party's name is Yuan Yin , 25 years old, just graduated from Beijing Film Academy not long after, because he was filming " Special Police " with his father, and fell in love from the play to outside the play.
Hou Zan read a short passage for several hours, over and over again, as if she couldn't believe her eyes. In the end, she finally confirmed her loss.
In order to ensure that she will not be hurt more, Hou Zan decided to wrap herself up with indifference, but five years later she realized that her efforts were just self-deception.
The father has another daughter named Niu Niu. She looks so happy and carefree when she is held in her father's arms.
But Hou Zan still had a glimmer of hope, hoping that his father could serve the whole thing, and not forget her without Niu Niu. Unfortunately, hope is just hope after all. Since Niu Niu, his father has hardly come to her, and the frequency has dropped from twice a month to once a few months.
Since then, Hou Zan has been completely disappointed with her father. She no longer pays attention to her father's every move, nor has she been asking for her father's love. She is covered in thorns and her father can no longer hurt her.
From junior high school to high school to college, Hou Zan immediately turned around when he saw his father, without looking back. The daughter's avoidance made Hou Yaowen very self-blame and sad. He finally realized how to be a qualified father.
He instructed his relatives and friends to take good care of his daughter. If there is any need, just tell him, and make sure that his daughter lives a happy and happy life.
What Hou Yaowen never expected was that when he was worried about Hou Zan, the backyard was on fire.
Because he often works outside, he is worried that his wife is alone and helpless, so he found his junior nephew Dai Zhicheng , who is very close to his home, to help take care of his wife, but unexpectedly something happened to this care: his wife and his junior nephew got together.
Such a great humiliation, Hou Yaowen naturally couldn't bear it, and immediately divorced his wife, but before he could come out of the shadow of the divorce, something happened to Hou Zan again.
Hou Zan was sick. As soon as she was hospitalized, she received a lot of flowers and gifts. Who is so well-informed? After asking, he realized that it was his father's instructions, so Hou Zan naturally refused to accept it, so he asked someone to deal with everything with a cold face.
But I didn’t expect that there would be gifts for the next ten days. Faced with such a intensive offensive, Hou Zan’s heart slowly softened, and she even began to look forward to the arrival of the next day.
On a day, Hou Zan, who had just finished putting off the gift, was about to go out for a walk, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw his father sleeping soundly against the wall. His father looked so tired and old, and Hou Zan felt more and more distressed as he looked at it.
At this time, a nurse came over and told Hou Zan, "Your father has been here for a few hours. He was worried that he would wake you up, so he kept waiting outside. Maybe he was too tired and fell asleep while sitting." Hearing this, Hou Zan couldn't help crying.
Hearing her daughter's cry, Hou Yaowen woke up immediately. Seeing her father looking at him with concern, Hou Zan could no longer suppress her inner feelings and trembledly called out her first "Dad" in more than 20 years.
Since then, the father and daughter finally reconciled. Unfortunately, things in the world are unpredictable. Just three years after the reconciliation, Hou Yaowen passed away, leaving Hou Zan alone facing the group of wolves.
03
On June 23, 2007, Hou Zan received a call from a reporter friend. The other party told her that her father had passed away. She didn't believe it, but not long after, she received a call from her father's apprentice, and there was a burst of crying inside. She hurried to her father's house.
The funeral was hosted by her father's second brother Hou Yaohua. Although she has the deepest blood relationship with her father, she is not familiar with the internal family relationship and has no qualifications, so she naturally has to give it full power to her uncle for handling.
After the funeral, Hou Zan packed up and prepared to start a new life, but unexpectedly, in February two years later, she received a court summons and became the defendant. The bank asked her and Niu Niu to continue to repay the mortgage loan in Rose Garden on behalf of her father, and she had to pay 200,000 yuan in one quarter.
Such a huge debt, they were unable to bear it even if they had not inherited their father's inheritance. After careful thinking, she decided to investigate how much inheritance her father had by suing Niu Niu. After finding out the truth, Hou Zan and Niu Niu sued Hou Yaohua, Niu Zhicheng, and Guo Xiaoxiao and others to court, demanding that the other party return all their property in full.
The court has not yet opened its court, and the outcome seems to be decided. Except for Guo Degang and supporting Hou Zan, the other Hou family members are on Hou Yaohua's side.
Guo Degang said that Hou Yaowen's inheritance should be about 20 to 30 million, saying that if he needed it, he would testify in court. Then he wrote in his blog: "Where did Master's wealth go? Where did those jewelry watches Tianhuang stone mutton fat jade go? The master's two daughters didn't even get a piece of paper, why?"
Hou Yaohua's side was not willing to be outdone, but instead sued Hou Zan's army, Guo Xiao's young general Hou Zan, and demanded the return of the money he had purchased Mazda 6.
Why did Guo Xiaoxiao buy a car for Hou Zan? It turned out that Hou Yaowen originally planned to give her a car at Hou Zan's 27th birthday party, but she didn't expect that her birthday would come before she drove away. In order to fulfill his brother's last wish, Hou Yaohua asked Guo Xiaoxiao to take Hou Zan to pick up the car. At that time, Hou Zan never expected that this matter would be used as a weight to check and balance himself in the near future.
In June 2010, the Hou Yaowen's inheritance case finally opened a trial. Guo Degang did not appear in court because he was filming outside. Later, he said in an interview with reporters that he was not convenient for him to come forward as an outsider, but he would use another way to help Hou Zan, but this is their little secret.
Two months later, when Hou Yaohua's witness Chen Hui took out a photo of his nails cut after Hou Yaowen's death, the two parties, who had been stalemate, burst into tears one after another, and the case then developed towards out-of-court settlement.
On March 23, 2011, Hou Yaowen's ashes were finally buried in the family cemetery.
At the ceremony, Hou Yaohua reached out to hug Hou Zan, then kissed her forehead lightly, and Hou Zan suddenly burst into tears. At this point, the nephew finally let go of his past grudges, and family affection finally defeated everything.
When asked by reporters about the reason, Hou Yaohua humorously quoted the line in "The Story of the Editorial Department": "God can forgive young people for making mistakes."
04
Not long after, the little secret that Guo Degang mentioned also surfaced: he bought the villa in Hou Yaowen's Rose Garden for 30 million yuan higher than the market price at that time, and helped Hou Zan solve the urgent problem. As soon as the news came out, many people praised him for his affection and righteousness.
Hou Zan naturally never dared to forget Guo Degang's help. In 2015, there were rumors that Guo Degang and Hou Zan were incompatible, so Hou Zan gave his father's seal to Guo Degang. Once this move was made, the rumors were self-defeating.
In April 2021, Hou Zan's daughter Wowo appeared on the stage of Deyun Club Boxer box sealing, presenting a large bouquet of flowers to Guo Degang. The two interacted very well.
Two months later, a photo of Guo Degang's youngest son Guo Fenyan and Wowo leaked out. Guo Fenyan put his hand on Wowo's shoulders and was very close.
5 months later, the media posted a photo of Hou Zan, Guo Degang, and Yu Qian . Hou Zan in the photo has fair skin and outstanding temperament.
Seeing this, I believe everyone has discovered it. After Hou Yaowen's inheritance case was concluded, Hou Zan rarely appeared in public again. The only few times were also related to Guo Degang, which shows how deep the friendship between the two was.
Hou Zan is now 42 years old. She graduated successfully and entered the marriage hall with a man named Ye Enhua. She then gave birth to a lovely daughter. Her family is very happy, which to some extent made up for her former shortcomings.
If Mr. Hou Yaowen knows me in the spring, he will definitely be very pleased.
