Chapter 1: Betrayal
If someone asks, who has the best money these days? A shrewd Jewish businessman would say, of course, women and children, but in Liang Chen's view, the answer can actually be simplified, that is: girls.
The place with the most young girls is naturally the school, so Liang Chen set up a small stall at the gate of Jiangdong University, specializing in selling some trinkets that girls like, and they can also have seventy or eighty yuan in a day.
And the reason why he came to Jiangdong City was because of a promise back then.
Two years ago, when Liang Chen was still a sophomore in high school, he and his girlfriend Xiaojing had an agreement on the playground that they would be admitted to the same university together in the future, but his girlfriend was admitted to Jiang University, but he unfortunately fell off the list by three points.
The two families live in the same town, Xiao Jing's family conditions are not good, her parents are honest farmers, there is a younger sister and a younger brother, and the three children in the family go to school at the same time, her parents can't afford it at all.
In order to fulfill his promise to his girlfriend, he insisted on withstanding the scolding and disappointment of his parents, came all the way to this strange city, and took on the heavy responsibility of earning tuition and living expenses for his girlfriend.
Therefore, most of the money Liang Chen earned, except for the necessary living expenses, was given to Xiao Jing.
It was another noisy evening, the college students walked out of the school gate in twos and threes, Liang Chen shouted at the top of his voice: "The transfer jade is sold cheaply, twenty yuan a piece, I bought my jade, I will ensure that you don't fail the course, and you won't break up in love, and each piece will only sell for twenty yuan ......."
If it was this time last year, he would never be able to shout, but after these months of training, his skin has tanned, and his skin has become thicker and thicker, and he will not blink when he panics.
These fakes with a cost price of only five yuan have become twenty yuan of transfer jade in the blink of an eye, anyway, as long as they can sell three or five pieces, even if they don't come in vain on this day, those girls are just beautiful and good-looking, and no one will be stupid enough to think that this is real jade.
Before the business opened tonight, a strange tall and thin old man came towards him, this person was wearing a white-washed robe, and his hair was also pulled into a bun, quite like a fairy wind and bones.
Walking straight in front of Liang Chen, the thin old man said Immeasurable Tianzun, and then asked with a smile: "Young man, do you want to get rich?"
Liang Chen was stunned, looked at the old Taoist priest carefully, and asked him half-jokingly: "Who doesn't want to get rich, is it possible that the Taoist master wants to give me some guidance?"
"Exactly. The old Taoist priest smiled slyly, pointed to Liang Chen's feet and said: "You see that this place is so close to the sewer manhole cover, and the filthy qi is surging, even if you have a little wealth, it will be washed away, and there is this building behind, this is called the anti-bow ......."
After the old Taoist priest's explanation, Liang Chen looked down at the manhole cover, and then looked at the tall building with the edges and corners facing him, and felt that it seemed to make sense, so he asked him again: "Then Daoist, where do you say I should go to set up a stall?"
The old Taoist priest smiled and said nothing, and took out three copper coins, one large and two small, among which the big one had a peculiar shape, with gossip painted on it, and the money hole in the middle was not a common square, but a round hole.
He clasped the three copper coins with both hands, shook them lightly three times, looked at the hexagram, and pointed to the opposite side in a serious manner and said: "Today, the God of Wealth is located in the southeast, you go there to set up a stall, and you are guaranteed to make a lot of money." ”
Liang Chen hurriedly followed his finger and found that the place he was pointing to was the mouth of a small alley diagonally opposite, one hundred and eighty meters away from this side, plus it was not a main road, so the flow of people was much sparser than here.
The old Taoist priest swore a promise, and Liang Chen saw that he didn't take a penny, as if there was no need to lie to himself, so he accepted the stall according to what he said and moved to the mouth of the alley.
But after more than half an hour, he still didn't see the business coming to his door, he suddenly felt a little strange, looked at the place where he had set up a stall before, and found that the old Taoist priest had set up a stall in the place where he had set up a stall before!
"Hey, this old guy, I just said so much, I want to occupy my stall, this old liar!"
Liang Chen was suddenly furious, and hurriedly closed the stall to find the old Taoist priest to settle accounts.
When he came to the stall, Liang Chen asked him angrily: "What's the matter with you old man, it's very meaningful to deceive people, right?"
The food stalls at the gate of the university city are one after another, if you don't come early to occupy the place, there will be no place to set up a stall, Liang Chen was deceived by this old Taoist priest to go to the mouth of the alley, and he was angry, and his tone of voice was a little rushed.
"When did the poor Dao deceive you, you mortals can't suppress this anti-bow, the poor Dao ......"
The old Taoist priest still wanted to quibble, but was directly interrupted by Liang Chen: "Poor uncle, go, hurry up and make way!"
Seeing that he couldn't pretend anymore, the old Taoist priest simply rolled up the long sleeves of his robe, glared and scolded: "Why do you scold people, little guy?
"You old liar, hurry up and give me back the place!"
However, the old Taoist priest was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he was a little taller than Liang Chen, and asked condescendingly and loudly: "What did I deceive you? Obviously, you were eager for money and took the initiative to give me the place, and besides, these fake jade you sold are not deceiving?"
The quarrel between the two soon attracted pedestrians to stop and watch, and the old Taoist priest saw that Liang Chen was unrelenting, so he simply distorted the facts, telling everyone that he was bullying the old and weak, forcibly grabbing the stall, and choking Liang Chen's anger, so he stepped forward to grab his stall and moved it to the side.
Soon the quarrel escalated into a move, don't look at the old Taoist priest is a lot old, but the hand is dark enough, and I don't know where to find a copper compass, it is estimated to weigh two or three catties, and he beckoned Liang Chen a few times on his head.
Liang Chen's head was smashed and bleeding, his face was dripping, and he fell to the ground ticking, shocking, so someone called the police, and when the police car arrived, the old Taoist priest suddenly went crazy and grabbed Liang Chen's arm and asked him to hand over some gossip money.
Liang Chen didn't want to be taken to the bureau, but he was grabbed by the old Taoist priest, and suddenly shouted angrily: "What kind of gossip money? Lao Tzu didn't see it at all! Do you want to be embarrassed! I want to blackmail money after beating me?"
"you, do you know where that gossip money came from? That's a treasure handed down by Yuan Tiangang, a feng shui master in the Tang Dynasty! I can't buy it with any amount of money, I must have stolen it from you, hurry up and return it to me!"
The Dao bun on the top of the old Taoist priest's head was loosened in the tearing just now, and his cloak was like a ghost, until both of them were taken into the University City Police Station, and they were still clamoring to do a ritual to ruin Liang Chen's family.
When this kind of thing happened, the police station was not easy to deal with, Liang Chen simply stripped naked and let the police check to confirm that he really had no gossip money on him, and the old Taoist priest gave up in despair.
In the end, the two were fined 500 yuan each for the crime of public security punishment, and they were released that night.
Liang Chen wanted to die depressedly, what kind of is this, it is enough to meet such an old madman.
Counting the remaining 1,300 yuan, he let out a long sigh and looked sad, it was almost the end of the month, Xiao Jing's living expenses for the next month were enough, but his rent and food expenses had not yet been settled.
"Damn, if I hadn't met that old liar, would I have been fined? Five hundred yuan! This week has been a busy day......" scolded a few words, Liang Chen was distressed about the five hundred yuan, and his stomach was also grunting.
Anyway, life has to go on, and the barbecue stall on the side of the road is full of aromas, but he is not willing to spend money, and eats a bowl of the cheapest salty noodle soup at the noodle stall, and dinner is over.
Then he took out the stall copycat machine and called Xiao Jing, wanting to ask her to have a meal together tomorrow, and give her the living expenses by the way, but she didn't expect that it was not Xiao Jing who answered the phone, but her roommate, so she asked her suspiciously: "Xiao Jing didn't bring a mobile phone? Why are you answering the phone?"
This girl's surname is Bao, and her full name is Liang Chen, I don't know, I only know that her nickname is Baozi, Xiaojing has a very good relationship with her, and often takes her out together, so the relationship is relatively familiar.
"Oh, Xiao Jing went to be a tutor, I didn't bring my phone on the bed, I might not come back until after ten o'clock, do you want to ask her out to play......?
Bao Zi basically knows everything about Liang Chen and Xiao Jing, and she is very envious that Xiao Jing can find an infatuated boyfriend like Liang Chen, so she always likes to tease Liang Chen a few words when she has nothing to do.
Since Xiao Jing was not there, Liang Chen and Baozi chatted casually and hung up the phone, his head hurt terribly, he puffed up a few big bags, and was going to go to the clinic to buy a bottle of purple potion to disinfect it.
But when he passed by a Western restaurant, he unexpectedly saw a familiar back walking in, whether it was body shape, clothes or back, it was very similar to his girlfriend Xiaojing.
"Didn't she go to work as a tutor? Why did she appear in a western restaurant? With a man by her side?"
A bad premonition appeared in his heart, although he desperately hoped that he recognized the wrong person, but he still walked over by ghost, through the floor-to-ceiling window of the western restaurant, Liang Chen's gaze instantly froze!
At this moment, his chest was hit so hard that he couldn't breathe, it was really his girlfriend Xiao Jing!
I saw that familiar figure, talking and laughing with a strange man holding a knife and fork, cutting steak, and pouring a glass of red wine on the table, next to the wine glass was a mobile phone......
I didn't bring anything, but I clearly had two mobile phones!
Liang Chen ignored the waiter's obstruction, rushed into the western restaurant in anger, stood in front of the two of them, didn't look at the man, and asked her directly: "What's the matter? Aren't you working as a tutor?
Xiao Jing's smile quickly froze on her face, she lowered her head and said nothing, but the man stood up and pushed Liang Chen, and asked him unceremoniously: "Who are you? What does my girlfriend do, do you need to care?"
"Your girlfriend?" Liang Chen laughed angrily, he really couldn't believe that this girlfriend who had made him love for four years would betray him, he forcibly suppressed his anger and asked the man in a cold voice: "How long have you been together?"
Seeing Liang Chen wearing a street stall for dozens of yuan, a shirt and jeans, he said arrogantly: "Two months, what's the matter? Want to beat my girlfriend's idea? I can warn you, stay away from her, otherwise you will bear the consequences!"
Liang Chen didn't scare him, but he didn't want to argue with this stranger who had nothing to do with him, so he stepped forward and took Xiao Jing's hand and shouted, "You come out for me!"