Chapter 43 Gifts: Buy some gifts and send them to my parents back home...
After the sports meet, Xu Heye counted the accounts and found that after deducting the payment for goods and labor costs, she had earned a total of more than 1,800 yuan.
She took out 1,500 yuan and deposited it at the Postal Savings Bank near her rented apartment.
In 1989, savings banks experienced rapid growth. To attract deposits, major banks launched high-interest programs. Consequently, deposit interest rates reached as high as 18%, comparable to the high-interest loan sharking of later generations...
Xu Heye saved the money and left more than 300 yuan. She planned to go to the city this weekend to buy some gifts and send them to her parents in her hometown.
This was the first money she had ever earned in her life. As a daughter, how could she not buy gifts for her parents?
After Kong Xiaoyue found out, she also strongly requested to go together.
Xu Heye paid her 200 yuan as wages, and she also wanted to use the money to buy some gifts for her parents.
At first, Kong Xiaoyue refused to accept the offer, but after Xu Heye's talk, she knew the average monthly salary for a factory worker at that time. They only made two or three hundred yuan a month, and she felt uneasy about taking so much money for just three days of help.
It was Xu Heye who insisted and said that if she didn't take it, it would be too little, so she took it.
Kong Xiaoyue was exhausted during the three days of the sports meet.
Especially on the first day, it was just her and Uncle Lu Jun. If it weren't for Kong Xiaoyue's help, Xu Heye would not have been able to handle it alone while Uncle Lu Jun went to transport the goods.
So the two hundred dollars was what she deserved.
In the blink of an eye, it was the weekend. The two took the bus together and soon arrived at the shopping mall where they bought the Walkman last time.
The mall is very large. Although it is not as prosperous as those in later generations, there are just as many things inside.
My father is a high school teacher. He has a heavy workload. He has to teach evening self-study classes and correct students' homework. He is often busy until eleven or twelve o'clock at night. He also has to get up early in the morning and often has to drink tea to stay awake.
In order to save money, he always bought some cheap coarse tea foam. Xu Heye planned to buy him a can of good quality green tea.
There is also a pen. Dad bought his pen more than ten years ago, and the nib is almost worn out. You can buy him a new one.
Hero pens are great.
My mother works in the Women's Federation and often has to go to the countryside to mediate family conflicts. She walks a lot, so I bought her a pair of good leather shoes so that her feet wouldn't get tired after walking a lot. After buying the leather shoes, Xu Heye noticed the silk scarves on the display cabinet at the entrance of the clothing store next door.
My mother has fair skin, so she would look good in a red scarf.
She remembered that her mother's colleague Aunt Wu had a silk scarf bought in Guangzhou. It was said that it was given to her by Aunt Wu's son who was studying at a university in Guangzhou. Aunt Wu often showed off in front of her mother.
She is a little girl and she can't let her mother lose.
Three hundred yuan or so still had considerable purchasing power at that time. Xu Heye bought some tea, a pen, leather shoes, and a silk scarf, leaving around eighty yuan in her pocket.
Thinking of how good her uncle was to her, Xu Heye went to the men's clothing store next door and bought him a shirt. After buying something for her uncle, she couldn't forget her aunt, so Xu Heye went back and picked out a scarf for her aunt that was the same style as her mother's.
My uncle likes to have a drink, so Xu Heye bought him a bottle of Lao Hehua liquor, a strong-flavored one with a 53-proof alcohol content.
I also want to give my cousin a small hairpin inlaid with rhinestones to my cousin. My cousin loves beauty, so I gave her a small hairpin inlaid with rhinestones. As for my cousin, he would be very happy if the boy gave him a picture book.
Kong Xiaoyue followed Xu Heye's idea and bought a leather wallet for her father. Her father was doing business outside, so a leather bag was a must.
In her father's words, when paying the bill, taking out a briefcase from your pocket, opening the briefcase, and taking out a stack of hundred-dollar bills is more impressive than taking out a stack of crumpled banknotes from your pocket.
As for my mother, she is a fashionista. She doesn't care about anything else but lipstick. At Xu Heye's suggestion, Kong Xiaoyue bought her a lipstick in the classic Rotten Tomato Red color.
After they finished shopping, they parted ways outside the mall.
Kong Xiaoyue's mother came to Hucheng to see her today. In order to give her mother a surprise, she found a reason to come out.
Xu Heye planned to go to her aunt's house. Her aunt had called the store a few days ago and asked her to come over for dinner. Most importantly, she wanted to stop a scam.
Xu Heye remembered it very clearly. In her previous life, it was also the second weekend after the school sports meeting. Her aunt took the bus to visit her at Old Dong's house, but she was scammed and the gold ring that her uncle gave her when she got married was stolen.
That gold ring was handed down from my uncle's ancestors, specifically for his daughter-in-law. Even during the most difficult times in the 1960s, my uncle's family never sold the ring for money.
After the ring was stolen, my aunt regretted it all the time. Although my uncle didn't blame her, she still felt resentful.
That's why Xu Heye knows it so clearly.
After all, my aunt was deceived, and she actually had something to do with it. If it wasn't for coming to see her, my aunt wouldn't have encountered so many scammers.
The scam is actually very simple, without any technical content, and it takes advantage of people's greed.
But people are so hypocritical. If it were someone else, she would just think that person deserved it. Who made you greedy? Don't you deserve to be cheated? But my aunt is different. She is my biological aunt, so naturally she can't just watch her get cheated.
After arriving at her aunt's house and having lunch, Xu Heye began to tell stories indirectly.
"Aunt, let me tell you——"
This scam is really not complicated. To put it simply, it can be summarized as a red and blue pen scam.
The scammers will take out two pens, one red and one blue, while passengers are riding on the bus, and then invite passengers to participate in the game on the pretext that they are bored.
If you guess correctly, you get a prize; if you guess wrong... you lose money. For example, if a passenger pays 50 and guesses correctly, the boss gives her 100. If a passenger pays 100 and guesses correctly, the boss gives her 200, and so on. But if the passenger guesses wrong, the boss keeps the money they paid.
Then the babysitter will come on stage.
These people seem to be possessed by the God of Gamblers. They always guess right and make money in multiples.
Not only did they make money, they also laughed at the scammer, calling him stupid and saying that the money was easy to make. The scammer also acted very angry, as if he was angry because he lost money.
The two sides exchanged blows, further arousing people's attention and greed.
Next, there will be more passengers participating in the game, but these people are not as lucky as the previous ones. They have wins and losses, making it difficult to tell whether it is a scam or real.
But overall, more people win.
At the same time, the scammers will also send people to whisper in the ears of their victims. If the victims fall for it, the scammers will naturally be happy. If the victims remain unmoved, the scammers will use some provocations.
After Xu Heye finished speaking, she looked at her aunt and said, "Aunt, do you think this liar is powerful?"
Dong Xinghua burst out laughing: "He Ye, tell me, how could there be such a stupid person! This game is obviously a scam."
Xu Heye said seriously, "Aunt, don't look down on liars. This game sounds simple, but do you know how much psychology the liars use?"
"Auntie, let me ask you, you said the scammers were looking for shills, so why did the first wave of people let them win, but the second wave of shills had some winning and some losing?"
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