In 1990, Zhan Aiping opened a traditional Chinese medicine clinic, recruited patients, and went to see patients every day. She did not treat minor illnesses, but specialized in difficult and complicated diseases. If the patient's family was in financial difficulty, she would only charge a symbolic amount of medical fees.
She now treats patients not for money or fame, but records the process of using medication to treat each difficult and complicated disease.
At the same time, she built an eight-story restaurant, and her daily life was simple yet fulfilling.
Shen Liqing laughed at her: "You run a restaurant to support your clinic. You are really a conscientious doctor."
Zhan Aiping: "I'd love to."
The joy of overcoming difficult problems is probably the same as doing math problems in elementary school. Every time you solve a very difficult math problem, it can bring you great spiritual satisfaction.
That summer, Xiaoyu and Xiaoyu from Shen Liqing's family also took the college entrance examination. They often came to Zhan Aiping for advice: "Xiaozhan, do you think my child should drink brain tonic liquid or some Brain Gold?"
Zhan Aiping smiled: "... those are just IQ taxes." The health care product market is very enthusiastic now, and health care products that don't have much effect are very popular.
Shen Liqing said: "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings."
Zhan Aiping: "After your children go to college, you and your wife will be relieved."
Shen Liqing: "Stop talking. My husband Wang really envies your husband Gu. He says he's a show-off every day. Without this child around, it's like he's back to the days before he got married."
Zhan Aiping said calmly: "Let's just live in our own world as a couple."
"How many years can it take? Xiaozhan, wait a few more years and we will be grandparents again." Shen Liqing couldn't help but sigh, and when she mentioned her grandchildren, she was suddenly shocked.
She murmured, "We are almost old enough to have grandchildren."
"I'm not mentally ready to be a grandmother yet."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Don't overestimate the child. The old Gu family has a tradition of late marriage. I guess we have to wait another ten years."
Shen Liqing: “…”
She suggested: "Xiao Zhan, you'd better prepare yourself early. If your son graduates from college and someone brings a girlfriend to your house, you'll become a mother-in-law. Don't be surprised."
Zhan Aiping: "I'm not a wicked mother-in-law, what do I have to prepare? As long as the children like it, that's all."
Shen Liqing threatened her: "What if your sweet and sour pork finds you a powerful wife."
Zhan Aiping: "He has to bear that himself."
Shen Liqing's two children, Xiaoyu and Dayu, were admitted to university, and Xiaomianhua was also admitted to high school without any trouble. Their brothers and sisters sent congratulatory messages one after another.
"Our Mian Mian has successfully passed the level!"
Gu Yuan: "Next is the college entrance examination!"
Gu Mian: "It would be nice if I could sleep until four years later. I want to wake up in a college classroom."
Gu Yuan was silent for a moment: "That was a nightmare, Mianmian, sister, I am so miserable, I must have lost my mind to study medicine!"
"My life is even worse than my senior year of high school. Who knew that studying medicine requires so much learning? I also have to focus on physical fitness in school, and I have to go on business trips and training. Help me, people in my dormitory work overtime and stay up late to read books in the middle of the night, and I am forced to stay up late at night to read books..."
"If I had a choice, I would go back to 1987 and study philosophy instead!"
Gu Mian swallowed and said, "Sister, you have to live well, you have to believe in the future, and you have to be a person who touches our whole family!"
Gu Yuan: “…”
Gu Yuan's study life in school is even more miserable than that in her senior year of high school, but this is just the beginning. It will take eight years for her to end. Yes, Comrade Gu Yuan plans to study for a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree.
Gu Yuan mocked Lu Cheng in her heart: Comrade, just stay calm, it will take me eight years to graduate.
Since her eighteenth birthday, Lu Cheng actually started sending her letters. Although it was just a fake address, when Gu Yuan received his letter, she felt a hope in her heart - look, at least this guy is still alive.
In 1991, Gu Chen graduated from school and went south to Pengcheng to start a business with his classmates. They opened a technology company specializing in computer-related industries, such as computer sales and software and hardware development.
The 200,000 yuan he had borrowed from Zhan Aiping had long ago turned it into 2 million yuan and was repaid. Zhan Aiping did not take her son's money, but invested the money in him to support his entrepreneurship.
In the summer of 1993, Gu Mian took the college entrance examination. Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng sent her to the examination room. Gu Mian entered the examination room in tears. She had performed poorly in the previous mock exams and wanted to give up the exam several times, but was forced into the examination room by her parents.
"Come on, Mianmian. Mom is waiting for you outside."
Gu Mian cried as she left the examination room: "Mom, my life is so miserable. Why didn't I take the college entrance examination a few years ago? I didn't catch up with the good times. Why are the questions getting harder and harder?"
With the booming market for tutoring books, the questions are becoming more and more difficult every year, and the questions are very tricky. Gu Mian feels miserable, because she is the only one in the family who is poor in elementary school. Her brother does the easiest questions, followed by her sister. And she met a person who sets extremely tricky questions.
What kind of tragic thing is this!!!
Zhan Aiping hugged her and comforted her: "Be good, we will win after the exam."
Gu Sheng said from the side: "Your mother asked you to go to school in the morning, but you refused to go."
I cheated and didn't go to school. Now I know the pain.
Gu Mian cried even louder. She arched her back in her mother's arms, "Mom, look at him. You scold him loudly. Dad even said something sarcastic. He wants to be the commander. He's so great."
Gu Sheng will soon be transferred to Guangcheng as deputy commander. If she fails the exam this time, she doesn't know whether she should go there with her biological parents or stay here to continue taking the college entrance examination.
It would be terrible if I still fail the exam.
She doesn't want to take the college entrance examination for four or five years in a row.
Zhan Aiping coaxed her daughter. She said to Gu Sheng, "Say less. Can't you see Mianmian is still crying?"
Gu Mian was angry: "If I don't pass the exam, I will run to the gate of the military district and cry, and loudly say that you are a bad parent."
Even a rabbit will bite when it is angry. She will cry in front of anyone who dares to laugh at her.
Zhan Aiping couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, your father cares about you too."
Gu Mian cried like water and kept begging her mother: "Mom, if I don't pass the exam, I won't review. I don't want to take the college entrance exam again. I'm afraid of the exam. I don't want to do the questions anymore."
Gu Sheng said disdainfully: "You only know how to act like a spoiled brat to your mother."
His silly Pingping just fell for it, which is why his two daughters developed a spoiled character.
Gu Mian became even angrier: "Because it's useless to act like a spoiled child to you!"
Zhan Aiping coaxed her daughter: "Good girl, we still have to take the exam."
Gu Mian wiped her tears and said, "Mom, if I don't pass the exam, you must not allow my brothers and sisters to laugh at me. You must scold anyone who laughs at me."
Comrade Gu Mianxiao is well aware of the principle of opening the door before opening the window. If she fails the exam, no one can laugh at her, otherwise she will not take the college entrance examination.
"Yeah." Zhan Aiping kissed her daughter and said, "Whoever dares to laugh at you, mom will scold him."
"If Dad dares to say something sarcastic, you must scold him, scold him harshly!!"
Gu Mian cried the hardest and said the most cruel words, but when the acceptance letter arrived, she immediately turned the tables and became the master again.
"Mom, mom!!!! I passed the exam, I passed the exam!!!" Although her score was not high, she was admitted to the Music Department of the PLA Art Academy.
Gu Mian breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhan Aiping also breathed a sigh of relief, as she had finally sent all three of her children to college.
Gu Sheng also breathed a sigh of relief. Unlike her older brothers and sisters, this little daughter Mianmian seemed to have college entrance examination syndrome. She would get angry every day when the college entrance examination was mentioned. She had a strong rebellious mentality and liked to sneak a peek at the young and handsome guys in the army. She liked to be flattered and coaxed by the handsome guys. If Gu Sheng said a few words to her, she would go to her mother and cry.
"Dad is the most annoying. I hate dad the most!" Gu Mian felt very aggrieved: "Mom, I'm an adult, why can't I find a boyfriend? I want to find a partner, look for one in advance, and train him well. I want to find someone like dad."
Zhan Aiping didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Don't you hate dad the most?"
Gu Mian: “…”
Gu Mian happily packed her luggage and went to Beijing to study. She liked looking at handsome boys, and another purpose of her working hard to get into the military art school was to look at the handsome soldiers.
Now it is possible.
Her elder sister Gu Yuan is in the capital like her. Gu Yuan is studying for a master's and doctoral degree at the General Hospital of the Army. Although she has not graduated yet, Comrade Gu Yuan already regards herself as "the most educated person in the family."
Gu Chen: "The richest in the family."
Gu Sheng: "The most senior official in the family."
Zhan Aiping: "I'll be the first one in my family to retire."
Gu Mian said coldly: "The college entrance examination score is the lowest in the family."
Gu Sheng and his wife, Gu Chen and his sister: "???!!!!!!"
The last child also left his parents. Zhan Aiping and his wife moved to Guangcheng. The eldest son Gu Chen lived nearby and often came back to see them once or twice a week.
In 1995, Gu Sheng was transferred to the Northeast, and in 1997, he was transferred to Beijing. By then, all the children had graduated. Gu Mian graduated with a bachelor's degree, and Gu Yuan graduated with a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree in eight years, and stayed in Beijing to become a surgeon.
Gu Mian performed everywhere, Gu Chen stayed in Pengcheng, and Gu Yuan moved in with her parents.
Her three children are all unmarried. It is the Gu family's tradition to marry late. Gu Sheng and Zhan Aiping do not urge their children to get married. They just let them do as they please.
Gu Chen and Gu Yuan both placed their hopes on Gu Mian: "Mian Mian, weren't you the first one to say you wanted to find a partner? Why haven't you found one yet?"
"You told mom you wanted to find a boyfriend when you were eighteen!"
Gu Mian was melancholy: "… I have high standards now!" She was tired of the young men in the army and felt that they were not as good as her father.
Gu Sheng's third and fourth brothers are now married. Speaking of Gu's third brother, it's a bit funny. Ten years after his divorce, he remarried his ex-wife and had a daughter. When he divorced his ex-wife, she was pregnant...
Third Brother Gu: "Nothing to say, you have a new niece."
"If I had known, I would not have divorced."
After Zhan Aiping heard about their story, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she thought this was simply literature shining into reality.
Fourth Brother Gu's marriage was both ordinary and legendary. He did not get married because he was dating a dancer, who did not want to get married or have children, so he waited for her. Later, they got married, but did not have children.
Over the years, Gu Yuan received many letters from Lu. She never wrote back to him and they only met twice. On the day of her graduation, she counted the letters and found there were thirty-six in total.
One of the letters was received on the day of her graduation. She thought to herself, this guy is really a God of Tricks.
For example, before the college entrance examination, Baozhuang Mianmian traveled through time to the time point of the first chapter of the article. Pingping was not reborn, but shrunk to the five-year-old Baozhuang Mianmian to match his parents.
Kick dad first.
(End of this chapter)