"You didn't expect that, right?" Sister-in-law Gu smiled, "He is all thanks to his parents, mainly his mother." Subsequently, Sister-in-law Gu explained the reason to me in detail, and I understood why Brother Gu seemed to be a little old and decrepit.

Brother Gu and I were born in the late 70s of the last century, when China was still very poor, too long, my memory is not complete, I only remember when I was in elementary school, I still have to use tickets to buy things at home, whether it is grain, oil, meat and cloth, and even to buy bread in a small store (at that time, it was called a cooperative) also cost two taels of food stamps. Of course, there were no health products in such a poor era, and they could barely eat enough, who would buy that thing? Brother Gu's parents are good, but they have one of the biggest characteristics, they like to be gullible.

As long as someone recommends it, they do it, and as long as someone explains it, they believe it. When Brother Gu was only a few months old, a neighbor from his hometown in the countryside wanted to come to the home remedies, and after boiling a few flavors of Chinese medicine to bathe the child every day, he could make the child healthy, Gu's father believed it, and boiled Chinese medicine every day, and within half a month, Brother Gu was sick, and there were big blisters all over his body, and the neighbor said that he was detoxifying, and after half a month, Brother Gu had no complete skin from top to bottom, and even his face began to fester, and his hair was all burned. The neighbors also panicked and asked them to rush to the hospital, and the doctor scolded Gu's parents, and used half a month's medicine plus anti-inflammatory injections, and slowly got better. But since then, Brother Gu's hair has been thin and yellow, and it is still now.

A few years later, Brother Gu not only had thin yellow hair, but also had a thin body, and often got sick. Once Brother Gu caught a cold and had a fever, in order to physically cool down, Gu's father bought two large bottles of high soju for his son to take a bath, the body temperature dropped, and Brother Gu also got acute alcohol poisoning and almost went into shock. Since then, he has been allergic to alcohol and wants to vomit when he smells alcohol.

In order to let their son change his physique, the Gu family began to think of a way. At that time, TV was just emerging in China, and only a few families could buy it, most of them were black-and-white TVs made in Japan, only 14 inches, about the same size as today's business laptops, and most of the brands were Shengbao (now Sharp) and the like, hundreds of dollars a piece, which was quite expensive at the time. The Gu family was in ordinary conditions, did not buy a TV, and the only way to get information was the radio and magazines. The 80s were the golden age of Chinese magazines, and everyone read them, including regular magazines such as Popular Films, Comic Strips, Reader's Digest, Democracy and the Legal System, and Mysteries, as well as many second- and third-rate magazines with small circulation and uneven contents.

At that time, advertising was still a relatively novel thing, the Gu family liked advertising, and also loved to read magazines and pictorials, and he had to buy a few copies every month, he paid attention to the advertisements on it, as long as he could use it, he would buy it. At that time, it was far from being as convenient as it is now to buy things through advertising, and there were very few online shopping, cash on delivery, and offline self-pickup, and even bank transfers. In order to make up for the debt to his son when he was born, Gu's father asked his wife to buy a kind of strong food called "children's fat pig powder" made in the advertisement for Brother Gu to eat.

Before graduating from primary school, Brother Gu suffered from pseudomyopia because he read too closely, and the teacher suggested that he should rest more, read less, and do more eye exercises, saying that he would get better soon. Gu's father was very anxious, and accidentally saw an eye treatment device in a magazine called "Family Doctor" at the newsstand, which could cure false myopia by wearing it, so he hurriedly went to the post office to remit money and asked the manufacturer to send it over. It was used for half a year for Brother Gu, and Brother Gu successfully changed from pseudomyopia to true myopia. When he entered junior high school, he already had more than 400 degrees, the highest in the school.

Brother Gu went from junior high school to high school, and he has not had an easy time over the years, his parents do not give cold medicine but chew ginger, eat raw garlic for diarrhea, and apply soy sauce to burns, in short, all kinds of home remedies. As a result, Brother Gu often got sick because of his poor health, always delayed his studies, and his grades were very poor. He didn't plan to go to university at all, but went straight to social work after graduating from high school. First, he did odd jobs, and Gu's father met a person one day when he was playing chess on the side of the road, claiming to be a cadre who had retired from the city government and was at the department level. Now there is a company that is recruiting people to work in South Korea for three years, and the treatment is good and easy, and it can net 50,000 or 60,000 yuan every year. Gu's father was moved, and after paying the introduction fee of 5,000 yuan, that person really sent Brother Gu to South Korea. The labor company said that the three-year salary is deposited in the hands of the company first, and it can only be paid after it is completed.

But the work is not so easy, is to brush dishes in the back kitchen of a Chinese restaurant in South Korea, the key is that Brother Gu does not have a formal labor dispatch visa, but black workers, this kind of black workers can only go to foreign restaurants to wash dishes, and most of them are Chinese restaurants, foreigners do not dare to take in, only Chinese are bold, as long as the hired workers are cheap, it doesn't matter if you are black or white. Brother Gu got up early and washed the dishes greedily, and many times he was so tired that he wanted to ask the manager of the labor company to quit and go home early. If you want to leave early, you don't have a penny of salary, and you have to pay for the journey back to China.

There was no way, Brother Gu had to continue to do it. He is not in good health, has no skills, and has no diploma, so what can he do if he has the opportunity to make more money except for this kind of hard work? During this period, he was sick countless times, and every time he bought medicine by himself, he didn't even dare to go to the hospital, because he had no identity. finally survived for three years, and after returning to China, he began to ask for money, but the labor company dragged it first, and finally the whole company was gone, and the world evaporated, Gu Gebai brushed the bowl for Koreans for three years, and he didn't earn anything.

This made the Gu family very angry, blaming Brother Gu for his bad luck and bad life. Brother Gu was so angry that he wanted to commit suicide, but later his parents began to find him a partner in order to ease their son's emotions, and it was okay to start a family first and then start a business. Relatives and friends introduced the blind date several times but failed, no wonder, Brother Gu is ugly, old and short, and he has no money and can't stand it. Later, Gu's mother saw an advertisement in the newspaper that a marriage agency had published an advertisement, saying that it was run by a female soldier, and that she had the best reputation and would never fool her. She took her son to find here, and the manager was really a woman in military uniform, praising Brother Gu to the sky, saying that he had the experience of working abroad, which is also a kind of returnee, and it must be in demand, charging fifty yuan for each blind date.

Brother Gu met a lot in several marriage agencies, and he paid hundreds of meeting fees alone, but none of them succeeded. Gu's mother angrily found the marriage agency to return the money, the marriage agency said that your son's conditions are really not good, it is difficult to get the woman to agree, it is better to be patient and wait. As a result, there was really an agreement, he looked good, he had met Brother Gu a few times, he was gentle and generous and loved foreign literature, although Brother Gu couldn't understand it, but he was very tempted. After getting along for more than three months, the woman and Brother Gu went to shopping malls, gold stores and communication stores, and Brother Gu held hands with her at most, and didn't even hold her waist, but spent nearly 10,000 yuan on clothes, jewelry and pagers, and then the woman suddenly said that she didn't suddenly say to him, so she broke up, and she couldn't find anyone since. The Gu family's negotiations with the marriage agency were also fruitless, saying that it was voluntary. After going back and forth, Brother Gu lost confidence in the blind date, and finally found a girl from the countryside to marry under the introduction of relatives.