The late autumn of 1987 in the last century, for Qi Xiangtian, the male pig's foot in this article, was the most unlucky moment in his life, and it was also the luckiest time.

The bad luck was because he failed to get bilirubin.

In his early 21s, his family lives in the southwest, not far from the Yangtze River.

The name of this village is Peach Blossom Village, and as the name suggests, Peach Blossom Village has many peach blossoms, and it is named after peach blossoms.

Once, there were many peach trees in front of and behind the houses in the village, up and down the hills, and even far away from the village.

In spring, when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, one by one, one by one, one by one, white, red, pink peach blossoms, all over the mountain, it is spectacular, beautiful.

But then, because of famine and drought, the peach trees decreased year by year, and now there is not much left.

And Qi Xiangtian lives in a relatively remote part of the village, with three thatched huts and no yard.

When his father died early, Qi Xiangtian and his mother depended on each other.

My mother was also sick when she was young and couldn't get pregnant, but she was cured of her illness when she was in her 30s and gave birth to Qi Xiangtian.

So when Qi Xiangtian was twenty-two years old, his mother was already in her 50s, and even if she was old, she still had stubborn bronchitis.

In autumn and winter, she will get sick very frequently, as long as her hands are stained with cold things, especially washing vegetables and clothes, washing dishes and feeding pigs, etc., it is most likely to cause her illness.

So at home, most of the housework is done by Qi Xiangtian.

My mother is generally responsible for lighting the fire, stir-frying vegetables and cooking rice, and other tasks that are less stained with cold water.

Due to his weak body, he is also very slow to do farm work, and can only do some light farm work on dry land.

After a few years of contract production and payment, other people's families began to change from thatched houses to tiled houses, and Qi Xiangtian's family was still very poor.

Unlike in the past, in the production team, I barely stopped being cold and hungry, but it was too much luxury to think about anything else.

Qi Xiangtian is about 1.7 meters tall, and the young man is not bad, but because his family is poor, his childhood friends already have girlfriends, and some even have children.

He is still the commander of the light pole, and on a moonlit night, he drinks alone in the courtyard, and he can only drink to three people.

It is said that if you are poor, you will think about change, Qi Xiangtian, who did not graduate from junior high school, likes to toss, mainly because he wants to make a fortune and change the face of his poverty.

Of course, the ultimate goal is to marry a daughter-in-law.

After all, the friends often enter in pairs, dangling in front of him, and sometimes people sour him, not only sounds sad, but also looks greedy.

In the past two or three years, Qi Xiangtian has raised pigs, raised fish in rice fields, raised chickens and ducks, and all of them have been lost.

not only made him disgraced, but also became the laughing stock of the villagers.

The old aunt and daughter-in-law in the village are all talking in private, saying that this kid has a nervous problem?

The poorer he is, the more he tosses, the poorer he is, and he has a reputation for being mentally ill, whose girl is willing to marry him?

Whose parents would dare to marry their daughter to him?

As he grew older, with failures again and again, Qi Xiangtian became more and more silent and introverted, walking on the road unless it was absolutely necessary, unwilling to meet others, let alone talk to others.

He knew that others looked at him through colored glasses, that people were poor and short-minded, and that horses were thin and long-haired.

He was bitter in his heart! But to whom can you tell you if you have suffering?

The only thing he feels relieved about is that no matter how much he tosses, his mother Liu Caijuan always silently supports him.

Even if he became poorer and poorer the more he tossed, his mother didn't blame him.

Perhaps it was his mother's tolerance and unconditional support that made this kid toss unscrupulously, and eventually became poorer and poorer, and became infamous.

Since the beginning of this year, radio broadcasts have been broadcasting every day, using pig bitter gall to practice bilirubin, which is easy to learn and easy to make money.

What is said that bilirubin is an important ingredient in the manufacture of artificial bezoars, which is more expensive than gold.

Qi Xiangtian is lonely and lonely, he has nothing at home, and he has a small radio.

This kid listens to the sky-high price of advertising on the radio every day, and the more he listens, the more excited he becomes, and the more he listens, the more eager he becomes.

Finally, after harvesting the rice, he sold the two pigs that the family had been fattened for the first half of the year, and some bags of grain and sorghum, which he sold in the market, and borrowed 200 yuan from his uncle to make up a full 500 yuan.

Take the train to the provincial capital to learn what bilirubin technique.

The tuition fee is 100 yuan, study for a week, and after completing the study, I spent more than 300 yuan to buy equipment under the guidance of the teacher, plus train fares and accommodation fees.

When I came back, the 500 flowers were clean.

In 1987, it was only three or four yuan a day to help people in the countryside, and 500 yuan was almost half a year's salary.

But Qi Xiangtian didn't care so much, he was full of ambition and joy, thinking that he would definitely be able to make a fortune this time.

After returning home, he took the chickens and ducks at home and sold them, and scraped together a little money to buy pig bitter gall everywhere, and he was in full swing.

A month later, when he took the first batch of products to the provincial capital to sell.

According to the address on the advertisement, I changed buses several times, and finally came to the store where I bought the mangrove tree, and took the product to the laboratory personnel for inspection.

The inspector inspected for half a day, shook his head and said: "The quality of your product is too poor, less than 70% of the content, if you want to sell it is 65 yuan 1 gram, according to 90% of the content conversion, you are less than 6 grams, according to 90% of the calculation of only four grams, that is, a little more than 200 yuan, because the amount is too small, we need to charge 30 yuan for the inspection fee." ”

"What, so little?" Qi Xiangtian jumped up in surprise and asked in disbelief: "Didn't the advertisement you put out say more than 100 yuan a gram?" It is said that it is more expensive than gold. Why is it so cheap now? ”

The acquirer sighed and said, "That's right!" There is more than 100 yuan per gram, but it must be more than 90% content.

The content of your product is so low, the price must be low, and each one is purchased according to the conversion of 90% content, and no one will be an exception. ”

The words of the acquisition personnel were like a thunderclap, covering Qi Xiangtian on the spot.

Recall that there is a sentence in the advertisement: all products are calculated according to the content value of 90%.

But I fooled this sentence at the beginning, and I don't know what this sentence means?

I didn't expect that the content of the product I worked so hard to get was so low!

Many years later, Qi Xiangtian understood that the things made by the small equipment soil method only had such a low content.

In other words, advertising is simply deceptive, it is impossible to make money, and it is even more wishful thinking to make a fortune.

In less than a month, 500 yuan was wasted.

Qi Xiangtian didn't know how he went back, he only felt a buzzing in his head, and his heart hurt like a pinprick.

He didn't even have the face to go back to see his mother.