【Chapter 17】Foolish and deceived
She said that she is a volunteer in the school's work-study department, responsible for work-study issues for freshmen.
She asked me if I was interested in signing up and using my spare time to earn some living expenses.
My eyes lit up by her: what a send-off, I'm worried about the next daily food problem.
I was so happy that I couldn't do it, after reading this fair, clean and gentle girl, I carefully filled out the work-study registration form, and chatted with her warmly.
She opened her schoolbag and took out boxes of black refills with thick tubes, as well as various notebooks, a few heavenly umbrellas, duct tape, and other office supplies.
She said that these were assigned by the school, and the original price was wholesaled to students who wanted to do work-study programs, and students could resell them to their classmates to earn a little price difference. After the sale is sold out at the end of each month, you can continue to go to an office next to the boiler room at the back of the canteen to find her to receive the next batch, and the work-study department will also issue an additional 100 full-time bursary.
At that time, I was moved to look at her with a thin sweat, so I almost poured water for her to sweat.
I happily worked with her to calculate the "wholesale price".
The black water refill of the thick tube, 100 pieces written on the outside of the box, the wholesale price is 2 cents a piece, and I can sell 1 piece. The quality of the famous heaven folding umbrella is 15 yuan a piece, I can sell it for 25 or 30, a total of 3...
There are also knives, girls' headbands, earrings, all kinds of things, a total of more than 250 yuan.
I thought that this was my first investment, I calculated the "huge" income after the sale, and I was immediately full of gratitude to the school for paying so close attention to us students who wanted to earn some living expenses, and I was extremely moved to give her almost all my living expenses.
After sending her away with a thousand thanks, I opened the assets of my first investment, touched the beautiful purple umbrella, I was so happy, I was ready to open these folding umbrellas to see, but found that it was not easy to push open.
After trying my best to push it away, I was dumbfounded.
The inside of this umbrella was covered in dense black rust. Suddenly, there was a "click", and the umbrella bone bent off at once, and a hole was poked out of the umbrella surface.
I was stunned, and hurriedly counted the refills, and found that there were only 30 in a box, where did the 100 come from?!
I took apart all the boxes, some of which were less than twenty.
But the box outside is clearly printed with [100 pieces]?!
I counted it three times, and every little thing was greatly discounted, and the most expensive of these things was these 3 heavenly umbrellas, and I ripped off all the umbrella covers, and pushed them away, and my body was getting colder and colder.
It's over, I'm fooled.
I frantically chased out of the dormitory and went all over the campus to look for the gentle "sister", but it was getting darker and darker, and as the street lights were lit one after another, the figures in the places where the street lights could not shine became more and more chaotic and blurred, and it became more and more difficult to find people.
That innocent girl who claims to be a work-study department, she swindled her living expenses from me, and quickly escaped after committing a crime against me!
Light Meritorious School! I went to the dormitory manager to grab her and ask where the school's work-study department was, and the aunt shook her head and was stunned.
The aunt said, "Son, we don't have a work-study department, only a logistics department. Are you, like the children the day before yesterday, buying a lot of things and dreaming that you can make a fortune? ”
My face turned pale suddenly, and I hurriedly shook my head and lied and smiled: "No, no, I'll just ask.."
That night, I didn't go to the evening self-study, I cried alone in the dormitory.
Yes, she is gone, and I never saw her again.
I'm so stupid!
Is there a fool like me in the world?!
It's a shame to be deceived so easily, I only have less than 30 yuan left for my living expenses this semester.
That night, I didn't sleep, I was deceived, and I didn't dare to say anything, for fear that my classmates would know and laugh at me for being "poor and crazy".
The next weekend, with my head drowsy, I got on the bus in front of the school to attend an interview with the 1+1 tutoring class training teacher, and they said that they were most lacking English teachers.
I was accompanied by two girls from the foreign language department, and their fluent and authentic English pronunciation made me feel even more inferior and flustered.
Unsurprisingly, I wasn't chosen.
During that time, I couldn't sleep with fear and remorse.
I tried my best to find a way to make money from all the dorm sisters, and I pretended that nothing had happened, and I was still fine.
Except for the aunt who looked at me strangely from time to time, no one else knew what was going on with me.
Later, a notice was posted at the door of the dormitory building to remind everyone: "Recently, there has been an illegal gang that resells cheap and inferior goods to everyone in the name of the work-study department. If you encounter any suspicious person, you are welcome to report it..."
In those nights, listening to the dormitory sisters talking before going to bed, in addition to Shuanghua, Tiantian and I were in the same class in our dormitory, there was also a Chen Siqi from the second class, Siqi said:
"It is rumored that several classmates of the school freshmen have been fooled recently, and there is a case of more than 800 yuan, which is enough to constitute a criminal offense, and the student who was deceived has reported the case to the university town police station."
Shuanghua lay on the bed, patted the mask and said, "I'm afraid I'm poor and crazy!" ”
Tian Tian disagreed: "The school security office is also responsible for letting strangers wander around the campus!" ”
Shuanghua sneered: "It's all universities, the campus is originally an open place, isn't there a family building!" Besides, it is said that the group of liars are not very old, and they all think they are senior sisters! ”
I didn't say a word at the time, pretending to sleep silently, I just felt that I was so ashamed.
Let it rot in my own stomach.
From that day on, my food structure was quickly adjusted.
I went to the cafeteria every day, and the original steamed buns and millet porridge became two white steamed buns for only 4 cents per meal.
I spent an extra 3 yuan to buy a bottle of chili sauce to add a bit of red color and salty flavor to the white steamed buns.
As I chewed, I felt very happy, as if I had returned to the thatched hut where my grandmother and I lived.
When I was a child, my grandmother and I were in that hut, with the sauce and salt and chili noodles, and we were able to drink to our satisfaction every day.
The white steamed buns and chili sauce are already great.
However, my tonsils began to pick and protest, I could feel it getting bigger and bigger, I tried to drink more water, but when I persisted for a week and a half, when the steamed bun was swallowed, the throat was very painful, and the saliva was stinging when swallowing.
Until one weekend afternoon, I collapsed in my dorm room in a groggy state.
When I opened my eyes again, I found that I was in the hospital, with an unfamiliar head lying next to me.