Ye Ziyu walked on the street, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, and looking at the grass and trees around him. The electric poles, station signs, and green trees on the roadside in Shencheng are always covered with palm-sized stickers, and the content on them is roughly two kinds at most. One is to apply for diplomas, from secondary school students to doctoral students, from domestic to foreign, everything. Ye Ziyu had seen it before, and he had also thought about whether he wanted to apply for a foreign diploma, would it be easier to find a job? Didn't Fang Hong, the protagonist of "The Siege of the City", gradually become a foreign impostor, and come back to become a university lecturer? But he thought about his three-legged cat foreign language, and he still put out this idea.

Another type of small advertisement is the recruitment of male and female public relations. There is no requirement for academic qualifications, and the income is very lucrative. All of them are written in big bold letters "monthly salary from 20,000 yuan", plus bonus commission. That's an astronomical number. Ye Ziyu knew what this kind of work was about, and at this moment he suddenly became curious, thinking that he was going to leave tomorrow, so what harm would it be to make a phone call to find out? He memorized the contact information in one of the small advertisements, walked to a sparsely populated street, stopped in a phone booth, inserted a phone card, dialed the call number in the small advertisement from the public phone, and told the call desk to ask the other party to reply to the phone booth number.

It didn't take long for a phone call to come in, Ye Ziyu picked it up and listened to it, it was a man's voice, speaking very non-standard Mandarin, his voice was muddy, and it was caused by too much smoking. Ye Ziyu directly said that he wanted to apply for public relations, and the other party asked him about his height and age, and immediately said that he could be hired, but he had to pay 500 yuan for clothing first. Ye Ziyu was amused when he heard it, and said, "Yes, how to pay this fee?" The other party said: "I'll give you a bank card number, and after you transfer the money to the card, call me again and I'll tell you how to get to the company." Ye Ziyu said, "Okay, you can get the card number and give it to me." So the other party relied on him to complain about a card number. Ye Ziyu pretended to be presentable, repeated the card number, and said, "I'm not mistaken, right?" The other party said, "That's right." Ye Ziyu said: "I'll find a place to transfer money now, you remember to check it." The other man said, "Okay, you can go quickly." ”

Hanging up the phone, Ye Ziyu scolded secretly: "These low-IQ things, can they cheat money like this?" He took a few steps forward, feeling that the fun was not enough, so he stared at the small advertisement in front and copied a call number, and then found a phone booth to call. He wanted to see how many routines there were?

This time, it was a middle-aged man's voice, but it sounded much better than the previous one, slightly magnetic, and Mandarin was also very standard. The other party also asked Ye Ziyu's height and age, and asked him what his surname was? Ye Ziyu paused slightly, did not say his real surname, and subconsciously said that his surname was Qian. It is estimated that he has been trying to find a place to make a lot of money recently.

After hearing this, the other party asked him if he could get to the lobby of the Pingjiang Hotel within ten minutes? Ye Ziyu calculated that the Pingjiang Hotel was not too far from here, and ten minutes was enough, so he said yes. So the other party told him to stand on the sofa on the left hand side of the main entrance of the Pingjiang Hotel for three minutes after ten minutes, and then go out to find a phone booth and contact him again.

Ye Ziyu thought to himself, this is not called to pay the clothing fee first without opening his mouth, no matter what his purpose is, go and see. So he took it.

Ten minutes later, Ye Ziyu followed the instructions of the man on the phone and stood at the designated seat in the Pingjiang Hotel for three minutes. He looked at the crowd coming in and out of the hotel lobby, not knowing what the other party meant. Three minutes later, he walked out, found a phone booth nearby, and contacted him again.

The other party quickly called back and asked, "Are you wearing black trousers, black leather shoes, and a blue shirt, and your height is about 1.8 meters?"

Ye Ziyu was stunned for a moment and replied, "Yes." Do you see me?"

The other person replied, "Yes." See. ”

Ye Ziyu suddenly felt a little scared, he unconsciously looked around, this street was very lively, and there were police on duty in the distance, so he felt a little calmer. Then I heard the phone say, "Do you know what we do in this business?"

Ye Ziyu replied: "Of course I know." It's too obvious. ”

The other party seemed to chuckle on the phone and said, "Well, I'm not shy about it." The men who do our job are often called 'ducks'. Your figure and appearance are passable. Now, you can call me Brother Long, and I'll give you two questions, you think about it first, and then answer it. ”

Ye Ziyu originally thought it was funny when he heard his words, Brother Long? Do you think the Hong Kong gangster in Hong Kong films? But the next two questions asked by the other party surprised him very much. The other party's questions are: first, what do you think you will gain and lose by doing this business? Second, what would you do if your loved ones knew you were doing this?

Ye Ziyu was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the other party to ask these two questions at all. He hesitated and said, "Am I going to answer you now?"

The other party said: "You don't need to answer now, I'll give you 40 minutes to think about it, and after 40 minutes, you can find a phone booth and contact me again." ”

Ye Ziyu agreed. He then went to the bus stop and got on the bus home. In the car, he kept thinking about the two questions raised by the "Brother Long". Originally, he made this call purely on a whim, for fun, to see how this little street advertisement deceived people. But these two questions seemed to hit his heart, originally he wanted to finish this phone call and go straight home to sleep, who cares about this, but now, he can't help but ponder.

The bus took only 20 minutes to reach the neighborhood where he lived. Ye Ziyu didn't go back to the room directly, he walked through the streets. There are fewer pedestrians here. After 40 minutes, he decided to call the other party back.

After the phone was connected, Ye Ziyu felt that the other party's voice was more magnetic. The person who called himself Brother Long asked him, "Have you thought about the question just now?"

Ye Ziyu said: "I think about it." Answer the first one first. I don't know what I'm going to get out of this business. But now that I'm not doing it, I know exactly what I'm losing. ”

On the phone, the other party was obviously stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting Ye Ziyu to answer like this. He said slowly: "It sounds like you have something on your mind, why don't you talk about it first?"

Ye Ziyu knew that no matter what, after this phone call, he would not have any contact with the other party, and the other party would not know who he was, and the name he reported to the other party now was fake. So he really wanted to talk about his recent experience and his truest feelings and thoughts to someone he had never met.

He told this story for half an hour, and the other party actually listened carefully. Then, the other party asked him, "You really want to make a lot of money now, don't you?"

Ye Ziyu replied, "Yes." ”

The other party asked, "Do you feel that you are short of money now?"

Ye Ziyu replied again: "Yes." ”

He then asked, "If you are rich now, what would you most like to do right away?"

Ye Ziyu was stunned. yes, if I'm rich now, what do I want to do the most? to get Li Xin back? It seems that it's not just about money. He didn't know how to answer for a moment.

The other party said: "Among the people who come to do this business, some of them owe a lot of gambling debts outside, so their purpose is very clear, to repay the debt." There are also those who come from the countryside, have low education, can't find a good job, and have difficulty gaining a foothold in the city, and their purpose is also very clear, seize the time to earn money, return to the countryside as soon as possible to build a house, and marry a wife. You really want to have money now, but you don't have a clear purpose for a while, which means that what you need most now is not money. ”

Ye Ziyu was shocked, is it really as the other party said? He said in a loud voice: "Actually, I also want to have money to buy a house and marry a beautiful wife." ”

The other party smiled and said, "I see that you are a smart person, and you understand that what I mean is not what I mean." You're talking about the desire that comes with money, and everyone has it. You're too tender, to put it mildly. From what you just said, you should be a person of the utmost affection. That's why I think that if you do this, you gain dignity, and you lose dignity. ”

Ye Ziyu said: "What is lost is dignity, I understand." But why do you get dignity? I don't understand. At least I called to apply, and I came for a high salary. ”

The other man smiled again and said, "After a while, you will always understand." ”

Ye Ziyu sighed in his heart, is this person just a "duck head"? He couldn't help but be a little in awe of this dragon brother at this time.

The other party changed his words again and said, "Okay, now let's talk about something specific." ”

Then, this Brother Long told Ye Ziyu about some of the requirements and precautions for doing this business, as well as the distribution of remuneration. Finally, what else did he need to know?

Ye Ziyu replied, "No." Now I've got your second question in mind. I'm not going to do it, because I've thought that there are no impermeable walls in the world. If my closest relatives and friends know, I will not be sorry to die, but I am afraid that it will bring shame to the family and cause my elderly father to die a good death. ”

After saying these few words, he didn't wait for the other party to speak, and quickly hung up the phone with a "snap".

Ye Ziyu thought afterwards that if it weren't for this kind of thing, he really hoped to be handed over to that "Brother Long".

The day Ye Ziyu left Shencheng coincided with the 50th anniversary of China's National Day.

China held a military parade with unprecedented pomp. The big military parade started at ten o'clock in the morning, and Ye Ziyu watched it in a small shop downstairs in the community. The guard of honor, the colonel, the various arms, and then the tank team and the missile team...... The majestic Didi, a row of columns to show the world a prosperous China.

The majestic scene stimulated Ye Ziyu's heart for a long time, he was proud of the strength of the motherland, and he was suffering for his own insignificance. But in the end, he suddenly became very confident.

He felt that he was saying goodbye to the twentieth century and beckoning to the twenty-first century.

A century is coming to an end, and what bad and inexplicable things can't be put down?

He went out with his luggage and went straight to the Shencheng Railway Station.

Goodbye, Shen Cheng.

Goodbye, beautiful oriental metropolis.

In the new century, I will definitely have a better life of my own!

(End of first volume)