Master Swindler
Chapter 1
"Fatty!" Lu Qingjia poured a glass of warm water on the table, and patted the other side's shoulder cautiously: "Are you okay?"
In normal times, this kind of courtesy will of course not appear among pig friends and dog friends. This pig will consciously rush to the refrigerator to eat, if there is not enough stuff, there is no need to entertain Lu Qingjia.
But at this moment, the fat man's appearance is obviously abnormal, his eye circles are collapsed, his spirit is haggard, and his whole person is like a bird with a frightened bow.
The most important thing is that this is a fat man who was more than two hundred catties I met last month. At the moment, he is so thin that he looks like a zombie.
If he hadn't grown up together and turned into ashes and could smell the familiar smell, Lu Qingjia wouldn't dare to recognize that the ghost-like guy in front of him would be the cause of his childhood.
He sighed, and said to the fat man who hated iron and steel, "I said earlier that the resource of a T in the hard disk is still a bit too late. At that time, I asked you to delete some, you see now—"
"Get out!" The fat man said with red eyes: "I have to bring the hard drive into the dirt even if I die."
Lu Qingjia smiled: "Then you don't have to, brothers, it's not a problem to pierce more than a dozen paper people. You don't need to be self-sufficient if you are tall, short, fat or thin, regardless of race."
The fat man was startled: "Yes, it's not all bad to think so."
Lu Qingjia changed his tone again: "I burned all men."
The picture of the big man after his death immediately made the fat goosebumps so hot: "Can you not give me things you like and don't like every time? I keep it for you for free and I owe you favor."
Seeing that the fat man had recovered a little bit of energy, Lu Qingjia said seriously: "What's the matter with you?"
Hearing this, the fat man's emotions that had just relaxed began to tighten again, and then tremblingly took out several hundred yuan bills from his pocket.
Lu Qingjia originally wanted to say whether he knew he was running out of time and specifically confessed his remaining legacy. Without speaking, he discovered that although the color and texture of the banknotes are the same as the real banknotes, the top few words The one printed is [XX Hades Bank].
Lu Qingjia took a picture and looked at it carefully. If it weren't for these words, the money could really be fake.
The fat man cried a face and began to say what happened.
After graduating from university, Lu Qingjia inherited the inheritance of her uncle and opened a farmhouse in a beautiful place.Fatty stayed in the city and became a primary school teacher.
This summer, at the beginning of last month, Fatty brought several colleagues to play with him.
One day when I went fishing in the lake, I almost drowned when I was swimming in the water. Luckily, I was rescued.At that time, there was a false alarm, and everyone scolded Fatty. After ordering a warning, they did not take it seriously, including Fatty himself.
As a result, since last week, the fat man began to have nightmares. In his dreams, a sum of money appeared out of thin air on him, but every night an old woman changed the law to ask him for money. Every time that money was lost, his body became weak. Minute.
And this kind of weakness is completely unexplainable, not only mental malaise, but even its own size will be reduced visible to the naked eye.
In other words, he changed from a fat man of more than two hundred jins to the present-like pockmark. It was not in Lu Qingjia's period of more than a month, but only a few days in less than a week.
The fat man cried as he said, "I woke up the previous morning and saw that I had lost more than 30 kilograms. I was still happy. Then I took out a handful of money from my pocket, as much as there was still in my dream. "
At this point, he was scared to death even if he was heartless and heartless. After these few days of hardship, the fat man also figured it out.
"This money is my life. If it's spent, then I'm probably going to be gone." The fat man clutched his scalp crumbled: "I also want to keep the last money, but it's too late, brother."
"That old woman is stronger and more arrogant every day. At first it was just in a dream. Now I can see her at any time. On the road, in the mirror, under the bed, I saw her when I opened the toilet lid last night. Everyone opened my mouth to ask for money."
"If this goes on, I won't die sooner or later, and I'll be crazy." The fat man said here, and looked at Lu Qingjia: "There is a voice in my head telling me vaguely these days that the reason why I suffered this sin is because of my previous drowning ."
"According to that thing, my life was originally picked up, and now it's just a screening trial."
"What to screen for?" Lu Qingjia asked.
The fat man looked at him desperately: "Screening me whether I am eligible to participate in the game."
In other words, the horror and torture he is experiencing is just the beginning.
The fat man grabbed Lu Qingjia like a life-saving straw: "Brother, among the people I know, your brain is flexible, you have to help me."
"I have searched for Taoist monks, and I have tried all of those who chop off the head of the great god. They are all lie. I can only come back here and try."
Lu Qingjia is very popular, but he doesn't have many real friends. Fatty is one.
And when he asked the other party to help him before, the fat man didn't shy away, and Lu Qingjia naturally had to be righteous.
So he comforted the other party, and discussed that he would go to the lakeside to explore during the day tomorrow, and then settled down for the exhausted guy to rest.
Before leaving the room, Lu Qingjia took the money left over from Fatty’s body. According to Fatty’s statement, this thing is related to his life. Fatty didn’t dare to throw it away or damage it. It can be seen that it is trusted.
Lu Qingjia didn't figure out anything from the banknotes. When it was time for dinner, it might be because the banknotes were gone, or it might be because they couldn't hold it anymore. The fat man slept a lot.
When Lu Qingjia saw this, he didn't ask him to get up for dinner. He was only left with a portion for him, and he went back to the room to rest.
After Lu Qingjia fell asleep after searching information online to no avail, he appeared at a station late at night.
The station is in a remote location, with no buildings around, and the wilderness and hillsides plunged into darkness in the distance.
The stop sign is very old. It says [Shanweipo Station] in traditional characters. The name of each station before and after the route is gloomy, and the terminal station is impressively written [Ghost Gate].
Lu Qingjia knew that he was in a dream right now, it was a lucid dream, but this dream was too real.
Even the dim yellow street lamp not far from the stop sign, because of the discomfort caused by the occasional flickering of the old, is so clear.
Behind the station is a small shop, the size of an ordinary resident's bungalow, which is still open at this late hour. Lu Qingjia can see a middle-aged man sitting behind the glass cashier and guarding the shop sleepily.
There is a faint red billboard at the entrance of the store [Qi Si Da Difu Chain Supermarket], for fear of scaring people passing by.
Lu Qingjia drew it into his pocket, and sure enough the hundreds of Ming coins he had brought from Fatty were brought into his dream.The facial expression of Grandpa Mao's head above has also changed from kind to a little weird.
This is good, Lu Qingjia originally thought that the fat man could provide too little information, but now he can find it himself.
Lu Qingjia took the paper money back, and was about to go to the shop, when he turned around, an old woman suddenly appeared in front of him.
The old woman had grey and dry hair, sparse almost exposing most of her scalp, with some scars on her scalp, her face was like dried orange peel, her eye sockets were sunken, her eyes drooping, her eyes were greedy and fierce.
However, seeing Lu Qingjia instead of the fat man seemed a little surprised at this moment, the ferocity on his face was somewhat restrained, and he even squeezed out an ugly smile that he believed to be kind.
Showing his black teeth, he pretended to be pitiful: "Young man, grandma has no money to go home by car. Can you borrow two dollars for the car?"
Lu Qingjia thought, he was in his twenties, he still looked so cheating?
He seemed to be obedient and obedient since he was a child. He grew up like that kind of handsome, sunny, positive young man, a greenhouse flower that has never experienced the sinister world, and is often used as a deception target when he goes outside.
However, those who think this way later shed enough tears to wash their faces and make their faces a little more sober. On the contrary, they are fat people who are not very kind, who are truly soft-hearted and kind, who like to help others.
Encountered a similar situation, but still in a dream, somewhat unrealistic, and it's no wonder that he was deceived in the first place.
Lu Qingjia smiled and said to the old woman: "I'm sorry, I don't have change." Then he pointed to the shop: "They should have the store? You can ask the boss to borrow it. He must have it."
When the old woman heard the words, an old orange face suddenly collapsed, referring to Lu Qingjia and spitting and cursing: "Two yuan is not easy to claim, you can't help it, I am a lot of age, and it is cold in the middle of the night. I’m hungry, and I have no strength to stand. You kicked me, just two dollars? Think about it if your family’s grandmother and mother encounter this kind of thing outside, can others be as cold as you?"
Don't look at the old woman who has just crawled out of the ground, her mouth is sharp, just like the routine of catching students to cheat money in a station.
Once you feel relieved and agree to borrow, the other party will increase the number and say that you have heard it wrong.Either wearing a high hat or moral kidnapping. Generally, young people have thin-skinned faces.
However, Lu Qingjia's attention is not here. Originally, he just tried it casually, but the attitude of the old woman made him sure——
She really didn't dare to use the same routine to blackmail the store. Looking at the name of the store, it was obvious that the background was not small. Since it is a chain, it naturally has its scale, and it may even be "official".
Lu Qingjia's eyes were good, he could see most of the goods inside through the open door of the store.
In addition to daily necessities, grains, oils, non-staple food, stationery, there are incense candles, paper money ingots, candles, and even paper people and paper carts and paper houses can be seen faintly in the corners.
As if perceiving Lu Qingjia's gaze, one of the paper men's eyes seemed to move, and then he blinked in Lu Qingjia's direction. It was a little weird and cute.
Lu Qingjia calmly withdrew his gaze, and made a look of declining accusations against the old woman.
He quickly told Rao: "Successful, I borrow, can't I borrow it?"
Speaking, he took out a one-hundred-yuan bill, and muttered: "But I really can't give you all of them, I only have this."
"How about that, I'll go to the store to buy a bottle of water for some change, will you wait for me here?"
When the old woman heard this, she quickly said: "Oh, I'm thirsty and hungry right now. You can do it well, young man. Why don't you buy me something to eat?"
"Sure, I'll buy you some bread and mineral water."
"I'll go too, you don't know what I like to eat." The old woman followed Lu Qingjia hard.
Lu Qingjia had no choice but to agree, but in the slightly awkward smile, there was a trace of certainty in his eyes, which was not noticed by the old woman who also felt confident in her heart.
The store is less than 50 meters away from the station sign, and it is only a few steps away.
Lu Qingjia knocked on the glass cabinet and said to the middle-aged man who was napping: "Boss, buy something."
He urged the old woman who looked at him and said, "Grandma, you can go in and get it yourself. Don't take too much. I don't have much cash."
The old woman got this sentence, as if there were some restrictions around the store that had untied her, she jumped into it all at once, and desperately began to scan the goods on the shelves.
Regardless of what Lu Qingjia said, he looked like he was going to empty the store.
In fact, the idea of the old woman is easy to understand. Lu Qingjia still doesn't understand the situation. The more he can pit, the better, and it is best to pit his money.
Anyway, if Lu Qingjia refuses to settle the bill, she will roll around in a big deal, but if the other party can't hold back and let go, it will be over.
Look at the situation at the moment, but there is no policeman who can handle the dispute. If you come with you, the owner will naturally be the two of you.
The old woman was full of pride, her brows danced, her eyes greedily looked at the merchandise, she tried desperately to take it apart, and she took it apart on the spot to eat and drink. It was indeed the same as having been hungry for 800 years.
Lu Qingjia shouted to her twice to let her converge, and the old woman couldn't hear it either.
Lu Qingjia had to sigh helplessly, and said to the boss: "Just laughed, my grandma is like this, but don't worry, we want everything she took apart."
As if he had just said it in vain, he gave himself up and said: "Forget it, just hoard a cigarette and bring me two Chinese."
The boss glanced at Lu Qingjia when he heard the words. Lu Qingjia's image was similar to his daytime image.
He inherited his old uncle's inheritance. Although for various reasons, he could only live in the country, but his ability to make money was not bad. It was not a rich man, and ordinary rich people were not modest.
With exquisite clothing and dazzling appearance, Lu Qingjia has never been questioned about his spending ability. Of course, it is the same now, although he just said that he doesn't have much cash.
The boss immediately opened the glass container and took two cigarettes out of it. According to the market price, the two cigarettes were worth more than a thousand.
Lu Qingjia opened a bag on the spot and took one into his mouth. It seemed that he could prove at least two points.
First, this shop does not have a stand with the old woman, and second, I don’t know much about the situation of dreamers like him. So far, the other party is just like an ordinary shop. The visitors are the customers, but for the old women. Existence has a certain deterrent, for example, the other party cannot enter the store alone.
Then combined with the road signs and the store name, a guess gradually formed in Lu Qingjia's mind.
Lu Qingjia slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and saw the old woman still desperately unpacking, trying to look like he had to pay for the pile of things for a while.
He looked bored and said, "That paper car is not bad. I want to burn it for my grandpa. Can I take it down?"
The paper cart is in the corner of the shop, stacked with the paper man and paper house, and you need to take a stool to get it.
The boss saw that Lu Qingjia was generous, and his grandma was still in the store. Without any doubt, he turned around and got on a stool to take the paper cart down.
Just looking back, where is the young man in front of the store?Of course those two cigarettes disappeared afterwards.
The boss thumped, and then looked at the old woman, who was still trying his best to stuff things into his mouth. He walked over in two steps and grabbed the old woman's hand: "Where is your grandson?"
With something in her mouth, the old woman said vaguely: "Don't care about me, don't care about me, someone will pay for it later."
The boss sneered: "It's fine if someone pays. I'm afraid that kid has nothing to do with you."
"He just took two cigarettes, not more than seventeen thousand."
The old woman has been desperately trying to cheat from the fat man's hands these days, not to mention it, she has to post up, she looked back at the door of the empty store, the whole ghost was stupid.
The fat man woke up the next morning, his energy was much better visible to the naked eye, he came to the restaurant and met Lu Qingjia who was eating breakfast.
He said happily: "Sure enough, it's right to come to you. I slept too soundly last night. It was a rare night that I didn't dream of the old woman. I didn't see her in the mirror when I got up to wash in the morning."
Lu Qingjia held coffee in one hand and a Chinese cigarette in the other.The fat man knew that this guy didn't like to smoke, let alone Chinese, and he was wondering when he would change his taste.
He listened to the other party: "I can't afford to pay for something and I was held back by the store. Of course I have no time to come to you."
Fatty: "...?"