Chapter 19: The Marriage Fraud Uncle Secretly Watches the Fraud Gang
After dinner, Xu Heye, her mother, her aunt and her uncle cleaned up the dishes, returned all the borrowed dishes, tables and chairs to the neighbors, and then followed Dong Xinghua to their house to get the entire first-year junior high school textbooks and the first volume of the second-year junior high school textbooks.
The mother and daughter each carried a dozen books as they came out of Dong Xinghua's house and were about to go to the bus stop to wait for the bus back to the rental house.
Xu Heye noticed Dong Fuyun hiding behind a tree outside the family compound, doing something suspicious.
She walked forward and patted Dong Fuyun's shoulder vigorously, "Uncle, what are you doing? You're sneaking around."
Dong Fuyun was startled and thought he was exposed. When he turned around and saw that it was his eldest niece, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Dong Fuyun gasped and said, "Xu Heye, next time you see your uncle, please let me know in advance. Don't sneak up behind me and pat me. It's scary."
Xu Heye looked at him suspiciously, "Uncle, have you done anything wrong? Why do you feel so guilty?" Thinking of Dong Fuyun's ending in his previous life, Xu Heye hurriedly said, "Uncle, you can't do anything that breaks the law."
Dong Fuyun saw that the woman he was following had already left the family compound and was about to follow her. He hurriedly patted Xu Heye's shoulder, trying to send her away, "No, no."
"Although your uncle is a bit muddy, am I the kind of person who doesn't know what's going on? I still have some sense of propriety." Dong Fuyun said as he was about to catch up with the woman.
Xu Heye hurriedly said, "Uncle, come to our house for dinner tonight. Mom and I have specially left some food for you, so you must come. If you don't come, I'll go to grandpa's house to look after you."
"I understand, I understand." Dong Fuyun waved his hand. Seeing that the target mission was about to disappear, Dong Fuyun hurriedly chased after him.
The bus swayed for more than an hour and passed by a scrap collection station on the way back. Xu Heye went in again and bought some recent waste newspapers and old magazines.
The early 1990s was a period of rapid growth for Hucheng. During this period, Dongpu and the Oriental Pearl Tower together developed into the most dazzling landmarks in China. However, during this period, the people of Hucheng still held on to their old ways of thinking. Otherwise, why would there be a saying that goes, "I'd rather have a bed in Xipu than a room in Dongpu"?
Until later, countless people regretted missing the opportunity to buy a house in Dongpu.
Xu Heye wanted to fulfill the regrets of her previous life. She wanted to take the junior high school entrance exam, go to high school, and then take the college entrance exam to go to university. But if she wanted to gain a foothold in this city, just getting into university was not enough. More important was money and a house.
Only if she had money and could buy a house could she truly settle down here, and her parents could come back whenever they wanted in the future. She wouldn't be like a stray dog in her previous life.
I want to make money, but it's not that easy to get.
Moreover, although Xu Heye had lived in this city for more than ten years in her previous life, she had lost her mother at this time, was living under someone else's roof, and could not speak the language. The pressure of her studies alone was enough to make her breathless. How could she have the energy to pay attention to the things around her? How could she know how to make money in this era?
Then there are only newspapers. Newspapers will announce the latest national policies and the latest development strategies. Companies and factories will also advertise in newspapers and recruit employees.
Most importantly, used newspapers are cheap and are the cheapest yet most effective way to get information. She doesn't know how to make money right now, but as long as she pays more attention to current affairs, she will find an opportunity to make money sooner or later.
Opportunities are given to those who are prepared. Ordinary people without family background and connections who want to change their destiny can only rely on themselves, so they naturally have to seize every opportunity as much as possible.
It is better to start preparing at the age of fourteen than to rush to find a direction after graduating from college at the age of twenty-two.
It was already past four in the afternoon when the mother and daughter returned home from the scrap yard with a pile of old newspapers.
Xu Heye hurriedly took out her textbook and began to read. She had finished her homework on Saturday night and now was reviewing, first previewing the new lesson, then reviewing the old one.
After she had roughly recited the classical Chinese text she was going to learn on Monday, understood all the new words and their meanings, and finished reviewing math and physics, she took out the textbook her cousin Pang Qiao had lent her and started reading.
The midterm exams were coming up, and she should focus all her energy on her current studies. She had to get an excellent score on them, so that she wouldn't have to face any troubles in her next year and two months of high school.
Otherwise, the scrutinizing gaze of her homeroom teacher Chen Yuru alone would be enough for her to bear.
Dong Taohua began preparing dinner. All that was left at home was two potatoes, two vegetables, a fish, and the chicken blood from the chicken she had killed that morning.
Dong Taohua prepared some hot and sour potato shreds, stir-fried vegetables, a braised fish, and finally a stew of chicken blood and pickled mustard greens. The meal was ready, and around 5:30, workers began to leave for home.
It was getting dark, Xu Heye put down the book and went to the entrance of the alley to wait for her uncle Dong Fuyun.
Lian Jiashu was playing under the big camphor tree at the entrance of the alley. When he saw Xu Heye, he called her, "Sister."
Xu Heye looked at him and said seriously, "I'm older than you, you should call me sister." She had already asked. The tall and strong Lian Jiashu was only thirteen years old, while she was fourteen and almost fifteen. Even without looking at her age in her previous life, she was older than him.
Lian Jiashu pursed his lips and said nothing, but stretched out his hand again to indicate his height.
Xu Heye: "..." It's my fault that I'm short. Xu Heye rolled her eyes and didn't want to pay attention to him.
Fortunately, Dong Fuyun came back soon. The uncle and nephew rented a house together. When Xu Heye saw that Lian Jiashu had not returned home, she called out, "Lian Jiashu, come home quickly. Your mother wants you to come home for dinner."
Lian Jiashu waved his hand: "I understand, I'll wait a little longer." He was waiting for his elder brother Lian Yushu to go home together.
When the uncle and nephew arrived home, Dong Taohua hurriedly heated up the meat dishes left over from lunch and served them on the table.
"Why are there so many dishes?" Dong Fuyun asked, "Sister, it's not easy for you to earn money, there's no need to make so many."
Dong Taohua said: "It's a rare occasion, not like this every day. Besides, I, your elder sister, am almost forty years old. How can I not know how to live?"
Dong Fuyun said, "How can she be forty? Isn't she only thirty-six? She's still young."
Dong Taohua couldn't stop smiling.
Xu Heye looked at her uncle, thinking about the scene when she met him near her aunt's house today, biting her chopsticks thoughtfully.
Is my uncle busy staking out that fraud gang lately?
Seeing her daughter biting her chopsticks, Dong Taohua picked up a piece of chicken blood for her, patted her arm, and said, "Don't bite the chopsticks. It looks embarrassing."
Xu Heye came back to her senses, picked up the bowl and took a big mouthful of rice, then looked at her uncle.
She said, "Uncle, what have you been busy with recently?"
Dong Fuyun didn't say anything, "Nothing."
Those who commit fraud, especially those who specifically prey on the elderly and the sick, are not only bad, but also cruel and ruthless.
It doesn't matter to a strong man like him, but if he gets his niece involved and something happens, how can he be worthy of his elder sister?
Xu Heye pouted. This is the bad thing about adults. They always think that children are useless.
Xu Heye rolled her eyes and thought of a detail.
That group of people were roaming around and had committed crimes in other cities before coming to Hucheng. Wanted warrants had already been issued in other cities.
It’s just that technology at that time was not as advanced as it is in later generations, and the police systems in various places were independent of each other, without being connected to the Internet and without information sharing, which allowed them to go unpunished for so long.
She also remembered that there was a reward in the reward order issued by the police station, which was a considerable amount of money. Thinking of the high reward, Xu Heye's eyes lit up.
Having experienced many scams in her lifetime, she knows them very well.
Maybe this will help her earn her first pot of gold.
Xu Heye couldn't help but get excited.
After finishing the rice in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, Xu Heye looked at her uncle.
Dong Fuyun was about to leave after finishing his meal.
He and Huangmao had been taking turns staking out the group these days. Initially, they wanted to see if the matchmaker was really sincere in introducing a wife to Lu Jun.
Later, clues were discovered. The old woman was hanging around in various family compounds, specifically contacting families with older unmarried men, saying that she wanted to introduce a partner to their sons.
We can tentatively say that the person was a matchmaker, but the problem was that the brides the matchmaker introduced to them were all the same girl.
The same girl was introduced to different people.
The lines are all the same, and the characters haven't changed. The daughter of the director of a steel plant, after marriage, her father-in-law can find her a job, but the betrothal gift is high because the father is concerned about his reputation. However, the family is not short of money, and in the end, the betrothal gift will be returned to the husband's family along with the girl...
They were also asked to keep it a secret to prevent the news from leaking out and the good girl from being snatched away by other families.
Dong Fuyun: “…”
This liar is too arrogant.
Whose daughter is so cheap, going on blind dates looking for a man to marry? A girl from a family like theirs wouldn't have any trouble finding a husband, right? And she's even paying for a job and a dowry? What the hell!
Also, with so many men and only one girl, and all of them paying their betrothal gifts, who would she marry? Could he just take a knife and cut her into pieces, giving each man his share?
No matter how dumb Dong Fuyun and the others were, they knew it was a scam.
For fear of alerting the enemy, several people did not dare to say it directly and had to hint at it. However, the old ladies seemed to be brainwashed and believed everything the matchmaker said. They did not believe that they had met a scammer at all.
Dong Fuyun tried to persuade an aunt who was targeted by a scammer, but was immediately met with a wary and contemptuous look from the aunt. She probably regarded him as a competitor for their daughter-in-law.
If his aunt had not been afraid that the matchmaker would change her target and he would lose the new bride he was about to get, and had not told the scammer what he said, Dong Fuyun would have been exposed long ago.
Even Mother Lu was skeptical. If Lu Jun had not been smart enough to hide the family's passbooks and banknotes in advance, the Lu family's savings of more than ten years would have been spent by Mother Lu to the matchmaker in exchange for a daughter-in-law.
The few people were helpless, but they didn't want to let the fraud gang go so easily. If He Ye hadn't reminded them in time, the Lu family would have been cheated out of everything.
Being cheated out of money is one thing, but with Mother Lu’s health, how could she survive being cheated out of money again?
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