“I have excellent quality rechargeable batteries here, all are famous brands, what OPPO, Xiaomi, Samsung, all. Manufacturers when the gift sent with the phone, those who sell cell phones themselves black down and then resold to me, or I can not sell so cheap. Quality you can rest assured, casually can be used for two or three years.”
Zhao received a golden charging treasure from the hands of the vendor carefully examined, with the OPPO logo printed on it, the appearance of workmanship is not bad, hold in the hand is also solid and heavy.
“Boss, you try with the data cable. This capacity is 10,000 mA, fully charged, the train wants to play games, watch videos do not have to worry about the electricity is not enough.” The vendor added.
Zhao unloaded his huge duffel bag resting on his own leather shoe surface, careful not to let the backpack get muddy water on the ground. He felt the phone cable, and then backpack, connected to the phone, forehead has seeped a layer of fine sweat.
The vendor handed over a curved shape, metallic silver charging battery: “Samsung. You can try this again, this 20,000 mAh, faster charging.”
“Cheaper.”
“Ouch, boss. I can’t get it cheaper, I’m going to lose money. oppo at least 30, samsung 50. you go to the phone store to buy, this samsung at least 100 more.”
Zhao looked at the phone’s remaining power, feeling that it could not support the next 20 hours of train travel, so he took out 50 yuan to hand to the vendor.
I pulled Zhao’s arm: “Zhao, I brought a rechargeable battery, you do not need to buy.”
Just about to turn around, the vendor pulled Zhao’s backpack: “My brand new rechargeable battery, unpacked for you to try, try well how you cheat not to pay? There is no such reason.”
Zhao was confused: “What package?”
The vendor grabbed a rechargeable treasure from the stall and raised the USB interface for us to see. Sure enough, there was a small plastic hard film attached to the interface.
I held down Zhao, who was about to get angry, took the rechargeable battery from the vendor and weighed it in my hand: “It’s packed with a lot of sand, right? Quite a lot of weight.”
The vendor’s face changed, turned his head around, and said in a tough way: “Don’t be ridiculous, don’t buy if you can’t afford it. I don’t care to argue with you, pay me 10 yuan for packaging, I’ll forget it.”
“How about this.” I dodged the vendor to retrieve the rechargeable battery, “I 50 to buy this rechargeable battery, and then call the industrial and commercial law enforcement brigade, we will see whether this is filled with batteries or sand.” Said, I lifted my watch and looked at it, “We still have two hours before we get on the bus, enough time.”
The vendor let go of the hand that had been firmly grasping Zhao’s backpack, stared at me twice and then reached out to ask for the rechargeable battery back and left.
Rush to catch the train, the luggage towards the sleeper berth a throw, Zhao and I leaned against the car window to open a can of beer.
“That rechargeable battery is pretty decent workmanship, filled with sand? Then why was the phone still charging when I tried it?” Zhao asked me.
“It does not have to be all sand, anyway, something like this a little weight and will not shake in it can be. It can charge the phone, relying on 1 dry cell. And the real battery cell, the fake rechargeable battery is certainly not.”
“You really can’t buy anything by the train station.” Zhao sighed with emotion, took a sip of beer and asked again, “Have you also been fooled to be so clear?”
“My family used to be by the train station, I’ve seen too many of these tricks since I was a kid.”
Zhao came down with interest, the remaining charge of the phone off and stuffed into the pants pocket, and asked me to expand on the story.
The twilight slowly drops to the earth, the monotonous “click” sound, the sleeper car orange lights abruptly lit up, I began to tell Zhao slowly about my family’s store outside the train station neighbors Qin sister and a few of them – they are the eyes of other people’s crooks and thugs, and later because of greed met the real scammer.
1
After graduating from junior high school, Big Sister Qin took her mother’s place in the ceramics factory. She is handy and hard-working, and the relationship with the upper and lower are cordial, even the old factory manager down the workshop inspection, are to name her praise is the new era of the “Iron Lady”. Less than a year of work, Qin sister was promoted to shift leader, the back is said to have entered the ceramics factory’s “young cadres reserve list”.
But not for long, into the 1990s, a variety of state-owned, collective enterprises in small towns have closed down, ceramic factories are no exception, Qin sister lost the “iron rice bowl”, became one of the thousands of laid-off army. After that, she took a small amount of “buyout money”, in the small city outside the train station on the front of the station road plate a small storefront, became a self-employed tobacco and alcoholic beverages.
When my parents were laid off in 1997 to do business on Station Road, Qin had already taken over the store next door. To the manager of the railroad company sent two Hongtashan, after getting permission, she opened the middle partition wall, the two small stores together, not only inside the open, business is also better.
Sister Qin operates this “four seasons hair side store” has the standard appearance of railway stations, bus station stores: instant noodles, cookies, beer, mineral water, drinks into a pile, placed in the most conspicuous position at the entrance; train schedules, newspapers, “storytelling”, “Zhiyin” neatly stacked on the glass counter containing cigarettes.
Sister Qin is usually standing behind the counter, shouting at the passengers coming and going: “The water on the train is 10 yuan a bottle, and the noodles are 20 yuan a bucket! I am here to half price, do not buy now, do not regret when you get on the train!”
This marketing tactic is very effective – some of the train ride less, and worry about spending more money passengers often listen to this shouting, will open the wallet in the side store to buy some bottled water and noodles; and when those who travel every day, understand the real price of goods on the train snicker at this nonsense, Qin sister also immediately respond frankly: “What do you want? I sell you cheap, mineral water 1 yuan, noodles 3 yuan. You know the market, I always cheaper here than on the train, right?”
The cigarette counter in the snack store has a small electronic clock with a beige casing, and it is difficult for travelers to recognize the time if they do not walk up to the counter. This electronic clock is Qin sister deliberately adjusted seven or eight minutes faster, and other shopkeepers chatting in front of the station road, she said without complacency: “The time can not be adjusted too much faster, adjusted more, passengers come to see, the train to the point, certainly pull up their legs and run, not care to buy things. Most of the passengers will be 20 to 30 minutes ahead of the train station, and so he found in my store time is tight, certainly hurry to pick something good, rushed to pay the money to catch the train.”
Passengers of course to rush to be good – side stores selling instant noodles are mostly “Kang Shuaifu”, cookies are “Oli Yue”, drinks are “Leibi” and so on, and mineral water, is completely small town a cottage workshop with tap water filling, do not drink, as long as the cap is opened, a pungent smell of chlorine unique to tap water will float out.
This “special” train station, coach station mineral water bottles are soft and thin, each bottle of water must be filled to the mouth of the bottle, so that customers do not get a hand on the immediate deformation. So can often see this phenomenon near the train station: passengers just unscrew the cap, the water in the bottle with the bottle of the instant soft collapse spilled out.
These tricks can not be kept secret in the train station, although the station road businessmen have an unwritten rule – operating the same business shopkeepers can not string store with each other. But it didn’t take long for the owners of the other two side stores to find a way to get these cottage foods and start lowering prices to grab business.
2
Sister Qin did not care to fight a price war with her peers on instant noodles and drinks, she found a more “cost-effective” goods – fake cigarettes.
In the 1990s, the small town mainly sold three kinds of cigarettes, high-grade “Hongtashan” and “555”, low-grade is the province’s “Lushan”. Impressions, Hongtashan is 10 yuan a packet, 555 because it is outside the tobacco, often broken channels, prices also fluctuate with the amount of stock. And Lushan as long as 3 yuan a packet, but also the largest sales of cigarettes.
Four seasons hair side store door side of the glass cabinet under the counter is equipped with 2 tricot square cabinet, one side is loaded with not much of the real cigarettes, the other side is full of code Qin sister from the township workshop in the fake cigarettes. At that time, the fake cigarettes were extremely shoddy workmanship, a cigarette in the tobacco may only half, the other half haphazardly stuffed with wood chips, straw to make up the number.
The strategy of selling cigarettes is very simple: if the customer is speaking the dialect of the small town, then Sister Qin is generally to give the real cigarettes, unless the person really looks too honest; and for those with county, town accents, there are two situations – from the right side of the store into the door, often ready to board the train passengers, this always give fake cigarettes, from the left side of the store into the general are off the train, this time Sister Qin will look at the speech, and then judge.
When I was young, I could often see passengers with large bags and Qin sister standing on the roadside quarrel with a red face. If the passenger is really fierce, Qin sister will be cursing to each other for a pack of real cigarettes.
Always walk by the river where there is no wet shoes, Qin sister has also looked away and met a tough fight.
That is a plainly dressed dark man, not old, honest appearance under the surge of a ruthless energy. He directly tore open the cigarette, revealing the impurities inside, thrown on the counter, the fierce eyes stared at Qin sister some panic.
Qin took out a box of 555, intended to pay the young man. But he did not accept the cigarettes, opened his mouth to ask for 100 yuan compensation. Sister Qin sneered: “Don’t play tough with me, I’ve seen a lot of tougher than you.” The young man nodded, did not answer, and did not take the cigarettes, turned around and went to the curb to pick up a brick, “bang” a loud sound, smashed the glass counter.
Then, the young man walked up and lit up his hand that was cut and bleeding by the splattered glass slag: “500.”
Other shopkeepers on Station Road heard the commotion and ran to the “Four Seasons Hair” outside to look, but did not dare to go up close to the young man.
“The big deal, make such a big show ……” opened the hotel Fu Ping set aside the crowd, holding a cigarette, stroking his stomach leisurely walk up, “almost New Year’s Eve, catch tight, do not make the night of 30 still in the mountain room to eat New Year’s Eve dinner .” He said, he handed the young man a red Tashan, lit the fire, “the counter you also smashed, the gas is almost gone well. I am in front of the hospitality, there are medical boxes, go with me over to bandage a little.”
“Little brother, don’t stare at me like this, I am for your own good, looking for money is not such a way to find.” Fu Ping exhaled a mouthful of smoke, turned his head to comfort Qin sister two sentences, look blandly hooked the young man’s shoulders, together with walking back to their own guest house.
In a few days, these businessmen on the front of the station road with the nickname “rat” of the young man became acquainted.
“Mouse” from a small town below the fight for courage and fierce reputation of the township, in Guangdong for a few years, but can not bear the hardship, and like to eat and drink, the money earned can not support themselves. After returning to the countryside for a while, I did not want to be a farmer like my grandparents, so I came to the small town and wandered around for three or four days, asking several places to recruit workers, but either the money was too little or the work was too tiring. Dinner that day also did not settle, but he was addicted to cigarettes, with the last few dollars in the store to buy a pack of Lushan Qin sister. He always smoked this brand, lit the fire and took a puff, and found that it was fake cigarettes.
He wanted to take the opportunity to knock some money, but did not expect to knock to a job.
3
Station Road against the train station of the row of stores, property rights are under the railroad in a three-property company, only Fuping operating a guest house is an exception.
Fuping’s father was a veteran railroad employee who suffered a work-related injury that left him with a disabled leg. The railroad took care of him, and overstaffed his youngest son and daughter into the unit. Fuping is the oldest in the family, used to idleness, can not see the railroad salary, in the outside for a few years, did not make a name for themselves, and back home, every day complaining that the old man did not arrange for his “iron rice bowl”. The old man had no choice but to put Fuping into the railroad is not very realistic, so he asked people to send gifts, spent half his life savings, from the railroad company to buy a store, to Fuping business.
At that time, the long-distance bus station in the small town had not yet moved away from the opposite side of the railway station, the road traffic was not yet developed enough, the frequency of county and town buses was sparse and closed early, and the black car transportation rising behind was still only in its infancy. So people from the following counties and towns to travel to and from their hometowns, always spend a night in the small town first. At that time, there were not many guest houses and hotels near the railway station, and Fuping aimed at business opportunities, and rented two large flat floors upstairs, played a partition, and started a guest house business.
Once opened, business was booming, even if the price was a little higher than the city’s industry, each room was almost always empty at night. Within a few years, Fuping spent more than 100,000 from Guangdong to buy a small town at the time is still very rare Santana car.
But the good times did not last long, around 2000, with a paper plan of the government, the coach station opposite the railway station moved to the outskirts of the city, the need to spend the night at the railway station greatly reduced the number of passengers.
Although Fuping thought of a lot of ways – hire a few women, all day long at the station exit holding a “peace guest house: hot water, color TV, air conditioning,” the sign to pull customers, and a price war, the price of housing has dropped again and again, but the business of the guest house is still declining, until one time, he heard a friend at the table to talk about his experience of being ripped off in Guangzhou train station ……
That day, when the “rat” dripping blood hand dead lifting the floor tiles, standing in front of the four seasons hair side store proud of the surrounding crowd, Fuping took a glance at this dark young man – the business of the hotel, need him.
Fuping rented a two-story “pigeon house” in an old silo in the alley behind the station road, and opened a “hotel”. The guest room had almost no electrical equipment, and the only TV set was long out of use in the Fuping guest house, either with distorted colors or no sound. Except for a chair, the only furniture was an iron-framed marching bed with dirty bedding spread haphazardly. Because almost no one cleans the room, as long as the door is gently pushed open, a musty smell will immediately hit you.
The scam started as soon as the passengers got off the train and left the station, and the middle-aged women, who are good at reading people’s minds, would come up to them and keep asking: “Boss, accommodation? Regular hotel, air conditioning, water heater, color TV are available, the price is cheap, 30 yuan a night.”
When travelers are brought around to the silo, see the dilapidated room, often do not want to live in poor conditions. At this point, the “rats” responsible for watching the store will say: “just brought you to the woman charged us a ‘solicitor’s fee’, this room could have been given to others, but the solicitor said you come to live, I put off the others. You don’t have to live okay, pay 60 yuan.” And by this time, the woman solicitor had long disappeared, and most of the travelers were out of town, so they had to hang their heads and pay to make up for the night – and of course, the accommodation fee became 100 yuan a night.
When encountering some tough travelers refused to pay, “rats” will shake open the shirt, shining in the waist of the shiny dagger, the two behind the counter bored playing cards of the big man will also lose no time to stand up.
4
In the train station business, always wrapped in a bit of haste, especially near the time of the several train to the north of the drive. Passengers in a hurry to buy things, shopkeepers in the small store in a rush to deal with a set of passengers. This is when some people with bad intentions will take advantage of the shopkeeper’s busy schedule and quietly hand over counterfeit money.
In 2000, my mother’s small store received a lot of counterfeit money in denominations ranging from 1 to 100 yuan. The receipt of one or two large counterfeit coins often means a day’s business for nothing – after all, small denominations of counterfeit money can be found in the search for money, try to find to buy something for the travelers, “taken from the people, use it for the people” well, while a hundred yuan denomination of counterfeit bills, can not be found out The actual fact is that the actual people are not able to find out.
The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you’re getting into. It didn’t take long for me to see it in my mother’s store: she smilingly exchanged the five fake 100 yuan bills she received with 100 yuan as she went about her business.
It took several years before I learned from Uncle Chai at the next store why Sister Qin was going door to door collecting fake 100 yuan bills and how to use the fake bills she received to get out.
The actual process is not complicated, it’s all about “quick hands” and “skilled hands”.
The actual process is not complicated. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on a lot of things. The actual fact is that the actual person is not a person, but a person who is not a person.
The passenger took a look, the banknote is indeed a corner less, generally busy to catch the bus, and will not think much about it, and hurriedly took out a bill to pay the bill.
After that year’s Spring Festival, Qin continued to 1:5 to 1:6 “exchange rate” door to door to collect counterfeit money. The envious, many people also want to try to learn this technique, but often due to technical incompetence to wear the help. Even if the individual will practice the technique, but the store flow is not as big as the tobacco and liquor side food, when the spirit when the technology is not afraid of being caught in flagrante delicto.
“The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have been in the business for a long time. I purposely look can not see clearly, let alone the people who buy things.” Station Road West “Hongfa tobacco and wine” boss lady, vividly described to everyone how Qin sister in the short peak passenger flow of that train to Shanghai, quickly succeeded in changing the 6 missing corner counterfeit money.
This sentimental impulse is a real protection for the travelers shopping in the “Four Seasons Hair”.
Even so, after a month, we found that Qin began to play the “fake” for “real” scam again.
“The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. A shopkeeper called old Chai by everyone high profoundly spit out a string of smoke rings, “the Spring Festival, Fuping’s guest house also began to use fake 100 yuan for the real money of travelers, a few times and travelers quarrel, but also called the ‘rat’ and old five they came to level things. He did not come to which store to collect counterfeit money, there must be outside the road.”
This outside the road, is a person named Xiaowu.
5
“The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. Should not take long to have new goods.” The white-faced man raised his wine goblet, clinked glasses with Fu Ping and “rat”, and lowered his voice, “I heard that the new goods can pass the money machine.”
The white-faced man, surnamed Wu, stayed in Fuping’s guest house years ago. Wu was kind, soft-spoken, tall but always slightly hunched over. At night meal time, people passing by always see Xiao Wu, Fuping and “rats” in the front of the guest house, around a small table, drinking on the copper stove hot pot.
At first, people thought Xiao Wu was Fuping’s newly recruited fighter, but later found that the station road guest house or Fuping’s sister-in-law in charge, the black hotel is still “rat” to look after. And Xiao Wu in addition to the occasional street to buy cigarettes and wine, the other time are nestled in the guest house, never sit store.
The first thing you need to do is to get the best out of it.
The new source of counterfeit money, everyone tacitly agreed to keep the counterfeit money not to change to her behavior became ridiculous. “The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who are not able to get a good deal on this. The actual price of a fake 100 yuan bill has changed from 20 yuan last year to 10 yuan.
“Da da da da ……10, 1000 yuan.” In a room leaning in the hospitality center, a mechanical female voice came from the money detector.
“Rich, Sister Qin, have gone 5 times, the machine has also changed 3, you have also carefully read and touched one by one. If you do not trust me, this business is forgotten.” Xiao Wu frowned, a rare show of displeasure.
Fu Ping and Qin sister throat dry, did not reply, but both clutched Xiaowu’s arm, respectively, the two sat down on a rattan chair, only to feel like a cloud, the mind is full of a thought – this is a fortune.
Xiao Wu did not go back on his word, his boss out of the “new goods” immediately sent over, 60 hundred yuan bills, repeatedly in several money machine light shuttle, none of the alarm sounded. Fuping and Qin sister each pay 1500, each bought away 30 “new goods”. Fuping gave the “new goods” to his sister-in-law and “rats” so that they could give the travelers a refund for the housing deposit. Sister Qin took it directly to the goods.
The two of them have used all of their “new goods” in less than a week, netting 1,500. this is still in the case of carefully mixed with real money to use. Qin sister calculations: “four seasons hair” a month of stock flow is about 50,000 up and down, the Spring Festival is to double, if all with Xiao Wu’s “new goods”, a monthly income of 30,000 easy. And Fuping, his guest houses and small hotels a day to collect the room deposit will have a couple of thousand.
But Xiaowu no goods, his sources of supply, Fuping and Qin sister naturally bad to ask.
At first there were 50 or 60 hundred yuan denomination, the next two times much less, only 30. Xiao Wu’s argument is: “The boss just tried the new goods, it is impossible to mass rush to the market, or easy to capsize. You guys don’t rush, the long flow of water.”
The new goods can even fool the bank’s money detector. The new product is actually able to fool even the bank’s counter. Looking at the printout of the “account balance of 200 yuan” in small ink letters on the passbook, Qin is frozen.
6
Turning to the summer, day by day approaching 40 degrees of heat, dispersing the passengers at the same time, the station road business also entered the off-season. One evening, the weather just a little cooler, Fuping’s Santana “G” a sharp stop in front of the store has been renamed “Four Seasons Hair Supermarket”, sounded a few horns, the “mouse” rolled down the window The car window, shouted a few voices, “Sister Qin -“.
Sister Qin sat in the back seat of the car, and praised the “mouse” “smart and insightful”, and said to Fuping, or Fu brother is righteous enough, there are benefits never forget themselves, no wonder the business is big, the community is also open, which have to give face.
The “mouse” parked outside the flower and bird market, with Fuping and Qin sister towards a sloppy facade of the fly restaurant, through the glass window towards the inside pointed out. Inside the middle-aged man nicknamed “Muduner”, is eating, five short body, waist round body fat, face with a simple and honest expression.
When the “wooden pier” drained the last glass of cold beer, Fu Ping and the three of them walked up and said with a smile: “We are friends of Xiao Wu, come to talk about something.”
“Muduner” immediately put on a face, muttered: “You have the wrong person, I do not know any Xiao Wu.” Footsteps do not stop, push open the door to go out.
“Open for business, there is no reason to drive customers away? Whether you know Xiao Wu or not, we are honestly doing business.” Sister Qin outside the door to pull the “wooden duner” sleeve, Fuping hurriedly handed a cigarette, also agreed to say yes. “Wooden Tuner” took the cigarette, suspiciously swept a circle of 3 people, thinking for a moment, said: “not here to speak, go to my room.”
A line of four people walked to a hotel room, locked the door, “Muduner” turn on the TV, turn up the sound, and turn on the bathroom shower, the shower gargles. After doing this, he sat cross-legged on the bed and asked indifferently, “How did you find me?”
So the “mouse” one by one, and proudly told an understanding – Xiaowu is a boring nature, basically every day in the Fuping guest house room to watch DVDs, “mouse” inadvertently I found that every time Xiao Wu quietly go out, the next day there will be “new goods” sold to Fuping and Qin sister. So yesterday afternoon, he watched Xiaowu go out, took a cab and followed to the flower and bird market, watched from afar Xiaowu into the hotel, did not wait long, Xiaowu accompanied a person down to dinner.
When Xiaowu they finished eating out, the “mouse” also went into the restaurant, ordered two dishes, and the boss to talk. The boss said the thin man does not know, the fat man is doing orchid business of foreign bosses, every month will come to the small town: “If you are looking for him to do business, tomorrow night this time to come is, he will stay a few days. He will stay for a few days. My fried food has a taste, and his dinner is arranged in my place.”
“Wooden pier” listened, nodded, greeted Fu Ping 3 people sat down, attitude also eased a lot, raised his face and said, “you do not have to find me, a line has a line of rules, you continue to find Xiaowu take goods on.”
Fuping and Qin sister had expected that the “wooden duner” will have this to say, busy to say they want the “new goods” a large amount, Xiaowu side they will continue to buy goods, “do not let Xiaowu notice, you do not worry”.
See the “wooden pier” head down and ponder, Qin sister and proposed: “You give Xiaowu how much the price is, we can raise the price appropriately.” Said, Qin sister opened a palm: “We 3 together, no less than 30,000 real money per month to take the amount of goods.”
“Wooden pierer” tighten frown face in the smoke hidden, Fuping and “mouse” also lowered his head to smoke a big mouth. I don’t know how long it took, “wooden dunnels” cigarette butt fiercely pressed out in the ashtray: “To tell you the truth, the boss is my own brother, he engaged in production, I am responsible for sales. I do not care what price Xiaowu sold to you, in my here denomination of 100 ‘new goods’ to sell 20 each.” Finished, “Muduner” pulled open the mattress, take out a plastic bag, from which pulled out a stack of 100 yuan bills handed to Fu Ping.
“The quality of the goods need not be said, 90% of the banknote detector on the market can be brushed over. You have also been using it for so long, you know in your heart.”
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the market.
“But can not be traded here, I brought the ‘new goods’ has been sold almost. Xiaowu and other sales, I will also break off contact. Tomorrow I will leave to go back home, X City will not come back.” The “wooden pier” shrugged, “you can find me through Xiaowu, public security can also. If you are sincere about doing business, come to my hometown, the factory is over there, see the goods before you pay, you think about it.”
7
After half a month, Xiaowu took out a pile of “new goods” in the guest house and said, “Sister Qin, Fu, the boss of this new batch of goods in the market is very popular, I discussed with the boss for a long time, he agreed to give my side to increase the volume of shipments in the future. In the future, your business will be better.” Xiao Wu paused, “but the price, the boss wants to increase, I have 10 new goods here, to 700 yuan.”
Fu Ping and Qin sister heart suddenly understood, no wonder Xiao Wu before the supply is less than once, it turns out that he is hoarding goods, so as to facilitate the price. The two grumbled some perfunctory, pushing the cash saved up regularly, waiting for a few days business cash to buy again.
Another two days of discussion, see Xiaowu and “wooden pier” open price is really different, Qin sister and their three no longer hesitate, decided to take a trip to the “wooden pier” home – a county in northern Anhui Province.
The 3 people together, 50,000 yuan in “Muduner” that can buy 250,000 yuan of “new goods “, run a round trip will be able to earn 200,000, compared to the little risk of going to the field transactions and what is it!
“Yes, yes …… well, don’t worry, there is no one else, just the last 3 of us. Well …… to stop work? Moving places? Oh, oh …… good, we’ll move tomorrow, call you at night ……” Fu Ping and “mouse” can’t wait to put their ears to the phone receiver The first thing you need to do is hang up the phone, and they hurriedly whispered to ask what the situation was.
“‘Muduner’ said the factory invited experts to debug equipment back to Shanghai to see a doctor, others are afraid of breaking the template, can only wait for experts to come back and then turn on the machine. But it does not matter, they still have a few million of new goods in stock. It is in two months they want to move to Inner Mongolia, said Anhui Province under the document, to gradually shut down the sewage of small workshops, they are worried about the impostor paper mill will be found.”
The train sounded the whistle leisurely and slowly docked at the station. I told Zhao: “When there was no moving train, this was just a small railroad hub, and I passed by here every time I took the train to and from college and my hometown. in the summer of 2001, the three of them, Sister Qin, got off the train here.”
“After arriving, how they were ‘muduner’ cheated out of money, Qin sister also did not talk to my mother in too much detail. It’s not that she wouldn’t talk about it, but neither she nor Fuping made it completely clear what happened after they got here.”
Zhao cast a puzzled glance and asked, “Could it be that they were drugged with some kind of anesthetic?”
I shook my head noncommittally: “Sister Qin said, ‘Muduner’ drove a bread to pick up the station, she drank ‘Muduner’ to the mineral water, people became stupid, led by the nose, brought cash all changed into scrap paper. “
“Sister Qin is worried about the ‘Muduner’ factory moved away from contact, want to eat a bite into a fat, a person brought 200,000. The three people brought a total of 350,000 cash, all of which was ‘muduner’ cheated away. “
I relayed to Zhao the incident that Fuping told me about a few years ago at his daughter’s wedding banquet in Lao Chai.
8
The three of them sat for more than ten hours on the green train before arriving at the station, although it was a sitting ticket, in fact, it was hard to bear. “Think about it, the carriage is stuffy and crowded, we carry so much money, inevitably nervous, and the heart to calculate the deal with the ‘muduner’ after, wait until we get off, the spirit is a bit dazed.”
“Muduner” a man in a van to pick us up, it was already more than 9:00 at night. The car traveled along the dark county roads and mountain roads for more than four hours before arriving at a deserted tofu workshop.
“You do not listen to what sister Qin said ‘mineral water’, we were careful on the way, the train ate the train box lunch, the bag with a long prepared cookies, mineral water. Long ago planned, we will not eat and drink anything given by the ‘muduner’. To say that then delirious, it was also tired, physical and psychological double strain.”
After asking Fuping how much “new goods” they each want to buy, “Muduner” started the van to pick up the goods, although Fuping also wanted to go with him, but “Muduner” bite, the factory must not let outsiders go in.
After asking Fuping how much “new goods” they each want to buy, “Muduner” started the van to pick up the goods, although Fuping also want to go with him, but “Muduner” bite, the factory must not let outsiders go in.
About 3 o’clock in the middle of the night, “wooden duner” carrying three travel bags expressionlessly into the, in turn, thrown at their feet: “Qin sister, you have 1 million ‘new goods’ package. ‘Mouse’ you have 500,000 in that bag, old rich you are 250,000. You hurry to check the goods, check the money. Wait to turn off the lights, do not be found by the village people.”
Fu Ping and his party of three people on the dim incandescent lamp in the workshop, open the travel bag, inside a bundle of tied solid banknotes flooded with odd light. “Wooden dunnels” constantly whispered urging: “Hurry up to check, the village patrol does not know where to get wind of the recent investigation of our factory to check the strict, and then you pay the money, I sent back to the factory, will send a car to pull you back to the city train station overnight, you do not spend the night here, it is not safe. “
“I don’t know if I was hallucinating, as if I really saw seven or eight red dots waving outside the glass window of the workshop, like cigarette butts. We are confused after checking the ‘new goods’ – in fact, that is, in the dim light to look at the two eyes, they brought the money to the ‘wooden duner’. ” Fu Ping said to me with chagrin.
I waited in that tofu workshop until 5:00 a.m., and the car that took them back to the train station hadn’t come. Could not stay up, they all lay down and fell asleep. The next morning, Fuping woke up only after hearing Qin’s screams.
It turned out that she turned out the “new goods” in the travel bag, and found that each bundle of money in addition to the surface is a hundred yuan counterfeit – that is, and before they deliberately cut the corners of the same kind of pit – the rest are “sample coins. -The rest are all “sample coins”, the bank tellers practice counting the money with. Fuping and the “mouse” reaction, also like crazy to rip open the travel bag, no doubt the same situation as the big sister Qin.
Half a day to get over, Fuping remembered last night in the middle of the night outside the window suspended in red, think it is better to get out of here. But the “mouse” refused to go, to find the “wooden pier” to settle accounts. Fu Ping advised him not to look for: “These people are not easy to mess with – not to mention where to find? We all suffered this time, I borrowed you the 30,000 yuan do not need to pay back.”
The “mouse” said he had seen Xiao Wu’s ID card, remembered the address, in the countryside around here: “Xiao Wu is the ‘Muduner’ trustee, find him to find the ‘Muduner ‘.”
Fuping could not persuade the “mouse”, and Qin sister took a farmer’s tractor down the mountain, a few trips before returning to the train station last night, back to the small town.
“‘Mouse’ later back to your small town?” Zhao asked me, by which time the sleeper car had been softly snoring.
I shook my head: “Small town train station as if there had never been this person. After his own black hotel was outlawed, Fuping concentrated on running the guest house, renovating it and upgrading it to a hotel. No one has ever mentioned the ‘rat’ again. Only two years after this incident, Qin sister took a copy of the XX Legal News panicked and ran to Fuping.”
“That newspaper later spread in the small town train station, I also read.” I paused and said slowly. “The newspaper published an article, roughly saying that the XX city police broke up a group of fraudulent criminal gang in the name of selling counterfeit banknotes, criminals fraudulently claimed to the victim that they had developed and produced a ‘new type of counterfeit banknotes’ that could pass the money detector, but in fact this ‘new type of counterfeit banknotes The actual ‘new type of fake money’ is just ordinary RMB. The victims often do not dare to report the crime because they know that their purchase of counterfeit money is also illegal, which also fuels the arrogance of the fraudulent gang ……”
“Qin ran to the Fuping Hotel and shuddered, pointing to the last sentence of the article: ‘This fraud gang is also involved in a murder case, and the body of a Jiangxi man surnamed Zhang was found hidden in an abandoned mine tunnel in the back of the crime gang’s lair.'”
Zhao asked me: “That body is the ‘rat’?”
I shook my head: “I don’t know. I heard that Fuping was impatient and pushed away the newspaper in Qin’s hand and said, ‘Rat’ surnamed Chen, Chen Chung Sheng, I have seen his ID card, you do not stammering.”
(The names of people and stores in the article are pseudonyms)
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