Chapter 10: Scams
"No, no......" The middle-aged man looked at the saliva on the soda bottle and hurriedly waved his hand, but when he saw the bottle cap on the old man's other hand, he didn't feel his body tremble, and his eyes were a little straight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Oh......" The old man didn't pay attention to the middle-aged man's expression, and when he saw that the middle-aged man didn't drink, he took his hand back again, took a few sips, drank a little soda left, and screwed the bottle cap on it and held it in his hand!
As the car started, the old man was a little sleepy, his head was lowered and he dozed, and the empty bottle in his hand also shook back and forth with the bumps of the car.
The middle-aged man looked a little restless, his eyes didn't dare to look directly, and he only stared at the empty bottle with the corner of his eye!
......The bottle fell from the old man's hand and fell on the floor of the carriage, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, he reached out and grabbed the empty bottle with lightning speed, but when the middle-aged man's hand fell on the bottle, in front of his head, there was also a hand and fell on the other side of the bottle!
"You ......" The middle-aged man was startled, and when he looked up, it was a young man sitting not far from the front, and there was greed and warning in his eyes.
"Hmph......" The young man snorted coldly, not loudly, as if he was afraid of waking up the old man.
"Let go of ......," the middle-aged man whispered, "I saw it first......"
"I caught it first......" Of course, the young man would not withdraw his hand, and at this time, the abnormal movement of the two had already attracted the attention of the passengers on the left.
"Oh?" At this moment, the old man's figure flickered, and he suddenly woke up, looking at the two people in front of him who were grabbing the soda bottle he had drunk, and he didn't feel it.
The eyes of the middle-aged man and the young man were angry at the same time, and the two of them also withdrew their hands, but they clenched again at the same time.
"What are you doing?" The old man was puzzled, "This is my soda!" ā
I'm going to grab that soda bottle!
"This is what I picked up!" The young man sneered, "How did the one you picked up on the ground become yours?" ā
"Of course it's mine!" The old man looked at the young man strangely and said, "I just drank this soda, and I haven't finished it yet!" How did it become yours? Besides, if I fell to the ground, it was mine! Don't believe you, ask this offspring? ā
As he spoke, the old man looked at the middle-aged man, who smiled and nodded; "Yes, this is your old age, I see that you are old and asleep, and the bottle has fallen, so I will help you pick it up. But this young man has to say that it is his! ā
"That's it!" The old man stretched out his hand and grabbed the soda bottle and said, "This soda is mine!" Wait until I've finished my last sip......"
"Hehe, old man, ......" the middle-aged man smiled and said, "Don't be in a hurry to drink, when you arrive at the station later, it should be noon, I will invite you to dinner!" ā
"No, no!" The old man's hand also fell on the soda bottle, and he said in his mouth, then turned to the young man and said, "Let go!" ā
The young man gritted his teeth, looking reluctant to let go, and Xu Zhi, who was sitting in the seat, also looked puzzled.
"Okay!" The young man gritted his teeth and simply said, "In that case, old man, I won't hide it from you, look at what is written on the cap of this soda bottle?" ā
"What?" The old man obviously didn't understand what the young man was saying, and even after he looked at the bottle cap, he didn't know what the word "Qi" was!
"Old man......" The middle-aged man's eyes flashed with a pain, although he had released the soda bottle, he still glared at the young man, and explained, "This is an advertisement made by the soda factory, and whatever is printed on the bottle cap will be rewarded." If you have a capital script written on it, it will be a prize of 7,000 yuan! ā
"Huh?" The old man exclaimed, his hands trembled, he clutched the bottle cap tightly, and leaned his back heavily on the saddle.
"Tut-tut......" The carriage was full of staggering voices, and even Xu Zhi had a trace of envy, after all, seven thousand yuan was a huge amount of money in Xu Zhi's eyes, and even in the eyes of most rural people.
After a while, the old man came back to his senses, and asked the middle-aged man in a trembling voice: "Housheng, steam ...... Where is the soda factory? How do I get my money? ā
"Oh, the soda factory is in the provincial capital!" The middle-aged man replied, "If you want to get money, you have to go to the provincial capital!" ā
"Where is the provincial capital? Farther than the county seat, right? The old man was a little dazed.
The young man hurriedly said, "Yes, it will take three days to take the train!" You get off the train and go straight to buy a train ticket! ā
"You have to pay for a train ticket!" The old man was a little anxious, and said, "Where do I have money now, I went to the hospital to see the child's mother, and his mother's medicine cost ......."
Speaking of this, the old man suddenly woke up, looked at the middle-aged man and said: "Housheng, let's do it, since you know where the provincial capital is, why don't you go, I'll sell you this bottle cap!" Oh, the fucking child's medicine is 2,650 yuan, you ...... You give me ...... Six thousand, no, five thousand...... Four thousand eight will be done! ā
"Old man, I'll give you five thousand!" The young man didn't wait for the middle-aged man to speak, and hurriedly said, "I happened to go to the provincial capital, so I was on the way!" ā
"Good!" The old man didn't hesitate, and was about to give the bottle cap to the young man, but he hesitated again, looked at the middle-aged man, and said, "Forget it, I think it's still reliable in the future, and I'll sell it to you for two hundred less!" ā
"Cheng, Cheng......" The middle-aged man was overjoyed, hurriedly touched his pocket, and took out a wallet that was neither new nor old, but before he could open the wallet, he smiled bitterly on his face and said, "Old man, who has nothing to do with 5,000 yuan in his pocket!" I have 2,000 yuan in my wallet, which I just got back from my hometown......"
"Cut ......," the young man sneered at Mai Mang, "I only have two thousand yuan in my pocket, and I dare to come out and mix?" If not, let it be to me! ā
"Big sister......" The middle-aged man's face was a little embarrassed, he looked at the young man, turned his head to a slightly wealthy middle-aged woman who had been looking at him for a long time, and said, "I am from the county supply and marketing cooperative, this is my work card......
As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out a green notebook from the side of his wallet and handed it to the middle-aged woman: "If you have money, lend me 2,008 first, and when the train arrives, you can go to my house with me, how about I pay you back 3,000?" ā
"Good ......" The old man next to Xu Zhi also woke up, looked at the middle-aged woman, and said in a low voice, "This time you will make a net profit of two hundred!" ā
"But ......" The middle-aged woman looked at the green book, handed it to the middle-aged man again, and said, "Your work permit is not wrong, my cousin is also in the supply and marketing cooperative, and your work permit is the same, I believe you!" But I only have a thousand dollars! Or...... Shall I lend you a thousand first? ā
"Cheng, Cheng......" The middle-aged man was overjoyed and said, "When I get home, I will return you a thousand and one!" ā
"Good ......" The old man next to Xu Zhi was surprised again, "This is a hundred?" ā
As he spoke, the old man also reached out and touched his pocket, and said in a sour tone: "It's a pity that I only have two hundred yuan in my pocket......"
"Strange!" Xu Zhi was looking at all this with admiration, but when the old man next to him spoke again and again, he was puzzled, seeing that the old man was dressed like himself, even if he had two hundred yuan on his body, the big pie of seven thousand yuan would not fall on his head, he didn't have a reason to say so many jealous words?
However, when Xu Zhi watched the old man talking to an old man wearing a light-colored vest in front of him, and the old man was tightly holding an equally gray cloth bag under his arm, Xu Zhi suddenly understood, the middle-aged man who came up later, and the young man, and even the old man who came up earlier with a soda bottle, as well as the old man next to him, or the person who was sitting around the carriage making envious noises...... It's all in one group! Their target is the old man in front of them!!
Therefore, when the middle-aged man heard that the old man threw away the soda after drinking, he unusually proposed to invite the old man to dinner, instead of cooperating with the young man and waiting for the soda bottle to be thrown away; Where is the provincial capital, maybe the old man doesn't know, but what is the provincial capital, how can the peasants in Shuinan Province not know? How can it be compared with the county seat? Especially, the rich middle-aged woman...... Others may think that she is the target, but on the contrary, she is also one of them, and she also provides positive proof that the middle-aged person is a staff member of the county supply and marketing cooperative.
What worries Xu Zhi the most is that the old man in the light-colored vest in front of him is already sitting on pins and needles at this time, as if he is tempted!
"No, you can't let him be fooled!" Xu Zhi's eyes rolled sharply, and he said secretly, "Even if this old man is one of them, I don't know who they want to fool, and I can't let this scam continue!" ā
"But how can you stop it?"
"And you can't let these people see anything, and you can't let them hold grudges......"