Chapter 25: The Trick of a Dollar
Li Yunhai is full of worries and thinking about the capital.
He didn't go back to the store, but went to the train station to buy a ticket first.
He parked his bike at the station, paid a 2 cent storage fee, and entered the ticket hall to line up to buy a ticket.
In this era, except for people on business trips, the average person rarely goes out, but the number of trains is also small, so tickets are not easy to buy.
Trains are divided into express trains, direct express trains, and slow trains.
The express train belongs to the tall and high, and only stops in cities above the prefecture level.
For example, from the provincial capital to Chenshi, there are only two stops in the middle, and it takes 6 hours on the road. Although the express is fast, the ticket is also expensive, and the non-sleeper ticket from Xizhou to Chenshi is 8 yuan. Sleeper tickets, on the other hand, are basically double the price of non-sleeper tickets.
At that time, the second-class train was the direct express, which stopped at the towns above the county seat, and also from the provincial capital to Chenshi, stopping at four stations in the middle, which took about 6 and a half hours. The direct express ticket is cheaper than the express ticket, and the non-sleeper ticket from the provincial capital to Chenshi is 6.8 yuan.
The last train is a slow train. The slow train stops at any of the fifth-class stations. For example, from Chenshi to Huacheng, the first station is under the locust tree, the second station is Aoshang, the third station is Liangtian, and the fourth station is Dengjiatang...... After running four or five stops, I haven't stepped out of the boundaries of Chenxian County, let alone the boundaries of Chenshi City.
Li Yunhai was in a hurry, so he just wanted to buy an express ticket.
The conductor told him that tickets for the express train were only available tomorrow, and that there was a slow train at 6 p.m. tonight.
Li Yunhai asked when the slow train could arrive in Huacheng?
The conductor said it was going to be tomorrow night.
Slow trains are cheap, but they come at the expense of time.
Li Yunhai went to Dongguan this time, and there was a time limit, so he didn't want to buy a slow car.
He asked: "Comrade, are there any tickets for today's express or direct express?" ”
The conductor replied, "There is a hard sleeper ticket, do you buy it?" ”
"Buy! How much? ”
In these years, ordinary people can also buy hard sleeper tickets, and soft sleeper tickets can only be enjoyed by special personnel at or above the department level because of their small resources.
Li Yunhai spent 32 yuan to buy an express hard sleeper ticket, and the fare was equivalent to a month's salary for him to work in a machinery factory!
Train tickets are hardboard tickets.
The conductor sells tickets, relying entirely on manual operation, which needs to be extracted from wooden boxes one by one, and manually tied the date and filled in the seats, so the ticket sales are very slow.
Li Yunhai came out with the ticket, took the bicycle, and went back to the store along Wuyi Avenue.
Lin Zhi hummed a little song and sat in front of the maintenance desk, recording the orders he received today.
"Li Yunhai, you're back!" Lin Zhi smiled and said, "I received three maintenance orders!" They have already taken away the machines they received yesterday. ”
"You're amazing!" Li Yunhai said, "I'm going to Dongguan, the afternoon car, tomorrow morning to Huacheng." ”
Lin Zhi handed over the repair fee he received to Li Yunhai and asked, "Are you going with Liu Shitao?" ”
Li Yunhai said that the plan has changed, Liu Shitao will not go, and I will go alone.
Lin Zhi sighed, his face full of worry: "You went to such a far place alone? That's not safe! Why don't I come with you? ”
Li Yunhai said no need, I'm a big man, am I still afraid of business trips?
Round-trip travel expenses, plus accommodation and meals, one more person will cost more than 100 yuan.
Li Yunhai is now short of money!
Lin Zhi may also feel that it is not very realizable, so he opened the small notebook, turned to the last side, and wrote a phone number on it: "This is my home phone, keep it, in case there is any emergency, you can call me." ”
Li Yunhai was moved.
He and Lin Zhi are not related, and they can't even be called friends, right? I didn't expect her to be so anxious and righteous!
Li Yunhai returned the bicycle key to Lin Zhi and said, "I have to leave now, you don't have to worry about it here, it's okay to close the door for a few days." ”
If he can make the big order of the bank, the money he will make is far more than doing these small repairs.
Lin Zhi pursed his lips and smiled: "I'm also bored, and I think it's fun to find something to do." You don't have to worry about me, I'll come here and sit here for a while when I'm free, and I won't come if I'm free. ”
Li Yunhai snorted and cleaned up.
He only had one school bag, and this time he went out without bringing maintenance tools, so he emptied his school bag and brought a change of clothes.
Seeing this, Lin Zhi handed over his leather backpack: "You can use my bag!" When you go out, you have to pay attention to pomp, don't you? Your yellow cloth schoolbag is too old-fashioned, how can you talk to others about business? ”
Li Yunhai thought about it, and was not polite, wrapped things in her skin, and said, "Thank you, Miss Lin, when I come back, I will definitely thank you." ”
Lin Zhi sent him to the door and asked, "You want to buy a second-hand photocopier, is the capital enough?" ”
Li Yunhai bit his lip and shook his head slightly: "It's definitely not enough." Let's go see the situation first! Regardless, it's a great opportunity to make money. ”
Lin Zhi said without hesitation: "If you need money, I can help you ask my parents to borrow money." ”
Li Yunhai's heart was shocked!
A woman, willing to borrow money for a man, asks her family to borrow money?
What a lot of trust that must be!
Li Yunhai thought to himself, Miss Lin, I'm not familiar with you! Aren't you afraid that I will borrow your money and run away?
"Not yet." Li Yunhai can only say this.
He was short of money, and he also knew that the Lin Zhi family was rich, but he didn't want to open this mouth.
Lin Zhi's father is okay, but her mother's personality and attitude make Li Yunhai stay away.
Li Yunhai said goodbye to Nyingchi, went to the train station, and entered the waiting room half an hour early.
Although he didn't have much money, he also had more than 2,000 yuan, which was a huge amount of money at that time, and it was all his net worth, and it was the capital he relied on to make a fortune.
So he was extra vigilant.
He divided the money into several parts, put some in each of his backpack and pocket, and put ten yuan in the insoles of his rubber shoes, just in case.
The waiting room was full of people, and people from all walks of life could see it.
There are those who wear leather shoes, those who wear rubber shoes, those who wear cloth shoes, those who wear pull back sneakers, and those who wear plastic sandals.
A pair of leather shoes costs dozens of dollars, and only the working class wears them.
Li Yunhai clearly remembered what the middle school principal said when he was mobilizing before the examination: If you want to jump out of the peasant gate, become a state worker and a state cadre who eats state grain, live in the city, and put on big scalp shoes, you must go all out and do well in this examination! This is your best chance to leap through the ranks!
At that time, Li Yunhai looked at the yellow rubber shoes on his feet and vowed to be admitted to a good school and become a national worker or cadre.
When he went to secondary school, his family wanted to buy him a pair of decent leather shoes, but Li Yunhai did not agree.
He said that he didn't need to wear leather shoes to school, and when he worked and was paid, he would buy it again!
The cub of the poor family is always mature and sensible, which makes people feel distressed.
"Hello, comrade." A lean young man suddenly came to talk to him.
Li Yunhai subconsciously became vigilant, glanced at him, and asked calmly, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”
The young man smiled and said, "Comrade, I am self-employed, selling needles, threads, brains and buttons. ”
Li Yunhai waved his hand: "I don't buy sewing buttons." ”
The young man pulled out a bag and said, "I don't sell sewing buttons now." That's right, I have too much change, and it's not easy to carry in the car. Do you have a whole amount of money, can you give me a little in exchange? Just change it for ten dollars. I'm all split votes and gross tickets. ”
Li Yunhai didn't think about it, and directly said no.
How can there be such a thing?
If you want to change money, why don't you change it in advance and then come back to take the car?
Although he didn't know if this person was a liar or not, he intuitively felt that this matter was not so simple, so he refused.
The young man was not annoyed, nor did he force it, but turned around and asked the person next to him to exchange the whole money.
A woman sitting next to her smiled: "I've seen people who change money, and it's the first time I've seen people who change money!" ”
The young man said with a sad face: "I am in a small business, and all I receive are cent tickets and gross tickets. My cousin got married, and when I went home to attend the wedding, I couldn't give him a bag of change as a gift, right? That's why I want to exchange it for whole money. Big sister, do you have one? Just ten bucks. ”
When the woman heard that he was so reasonable, and wanted to do him a favor, she took out ten dollars and said, "I have only one for ten dollars, so give it to you." ”
The young people said yes in unison.
His bag was full of split votes, and even the gross tickets were few.
Li Yunhai always felt that there was something wrong with this person, but he didn't know what tricks the other party was going to use, so he looked at him from the corner of his eye.
The young man carefully counted out the ten pieces of change, and counted them again in front of the women.
He counted slowly, so slowly that others could read each banknote, and counted them as he went: "One, two, three......"
Ten sub-tickets are sandwiched into a stack, one stack is a dime, and ten stacks are a dollar.
One hundred stacks of split tickets can be exchanged for a big ticket of ten yuan.
The woman took his money and handed him a ten-dollar ticket.
The whole process is clear, open and transparent, and there seems to be no flaws.
"Sister, thank you! You're such a nice guy. I'm in the car, goodbye. The young man took his bag and hurried away.
The woman had a large stack of change, and she didn't count it, but put it in her bag.
Out of kindness, Li Yunhai reminded: "Eldest sister, you better count it yourself!" ”
The woman grinned, "It's not necessary, right? I watched him count twice, one by one, and it was clear that there would be no less. ”
An old man next to him also reminded: "Comrade, I think you still count it reliably." ”
The woman hesitated slightly, took out a stack of votes and counted them.
"One, two, three...... Nine! ”
"Hey, why are there only nine? I watched him count twice just now, and there are obviously ten of them! ”
The woman was amazed and counted again, and it was still nine!
She thought that this pile of money was not enough to count, so she changed to another pile of money and continued to count.
Or nine!
This time, Li Yunhai and the people around him reacted, this trick of exchanging money is indeed a scam, but people use real money, but each stack of sub-votes is missing!
One hundred stacks of money, one less for each stack of money, then one hundred less cents!
The woman kindly exchanged ten dollars for nine dollars in change!
The scammer used nine yuan to earn one dollar, and he deceived several such people a day, and he earned more than 100 a month!
By the time the woman had counted the hundred-fold stacks, the scammer had long since disappeared without a trace!
"!" The woman held a bag of change, cried and grabbed the ground, and scolded non-stop, "I kindly helped him change money, and he used 9 yuan of change in exchange for my 10 yuan of whole money!" Is it easy for me to make a penny? I'm so tired that I only earn more than 20 yuan a month! ”
Someone suggested that the police should be called immediately!
The old man next to him said: "The amount of fraud is too small, and the police may not file a case!" A dollar, when it is a lesson! Don't trust strangers easily in the future. ”
Everyone sighed.
Li Yunhai sighed gloomily!
When you're out of the house, there are too many scammers to guard against!
He tightened his purse tightly.
What kind of adventure will you have when you go to Dongguan this time?