The 42nd melon
The next day, the guests got up and exercised as usual.
Thanks to yesterday's "foresight", everyone went to bed obediently last night. Today everyone was in high spirits and cut the watermelon very seriously.
After practicing Tai Chi and having breakfast, it was time for activities again.
The program team did not invite any guests today (mainly because they could not invite any). The Qingchuan Village Committee has an event and is holding a villagers' meeting in the village town. As villagers of Qingchuan Village, the guests can attend the villagers' meeting.
Director Yu then set the task for the day: have the guests dress up in disguise and attend the village assembly. If the villagers discover their identities, they will be punished. If everyone successfully avoids recognition, they will be given an early day off and leave work tonight.
The guests looked at each other. None of them were nationally famous stars, but they had been in Qingchuan Village for two weeks and would occasionally say hello to the villagers. Especially when they had searched for cats and sterilized cats and dogs before, they became familiar to the villagers and many villagers knew them.
The punishment Director Yu mentioned is not a big deal, but if everyone passes, they can leave work early! This is a huge temptation. Which office worker doesn't want to leave work early and enjoy a wonderful vacation?
But how can I disguise myself and hide it from the villagers?
The guests were at a loss.
At this moment, Wen Wanning's eyes moved slightly, "Actually, if you pretend to be of the opposite sex, you might be able to deceive the villagers. I saw Chen Kaiwen draw women's clothes for Mo Xingyi yesterday, and the effect was quite good."
The female guest was very interested when she heard this.
But the male guests all stared with wide eyes, "No!"
Are you kidding me, dressing up as a woman?
That concerns their male dignity!
"Do you want to lose? Leave work early!" Lu Yanyan tried hard to encourage the male guests.
But the male guests were unprecedentedly united, shaking their heads violently like rattles.
Lin Cha sighed helplessly.
[Alas, Sister, this idea is very good, but no one wants to do it. What a pity!]
"Why wouldn't Teacher Liu be willing to do that? Didn't she pretend to be a prostitute in an ancient brothel when she was having sex with Situ Qing? She acted pretty well!"
[At that time, he was still wearing a puppy tail, seducing Situ Qing by saying, "Top Scholar, please don't leave. I will always wait for you..."]
Liu Mingqian's body trembled, and before Lin Cha could continue peeling the melon, he rushed forward and interrupted her loudly, "I suddenly feel that... it's not impossible for a man to dress as a woman!"
"As long as we can keep the villagers from guessing our identities, we'll win! As a guest, I'll make a small sacrifice, so what?"
The other guests looked at Liu Mingqian with a lingering look.
Oh my!
A whore in a brothel. A prostitute and the top student in high school!
Teacher Liu is really good at playing~
"Wow! Teacher Liu really thinks about the bigger picture!" Lin Cha sighed inwardly, "What do you call this! This is called team spirit, unity and dedication, and not fearing humiliation!"
[What a pity, Brother Kai and the others still disagree...]
[That's right. Brother Kai originally wanted to stay in Qingchuan Village for another day. He learned that Uncle Chen was selling deer penis wine, so he specially ordered a jar to enhance his male dignity. If we leave early, he won't be able to drink the deer penis wine.]
[That deer penis wine contains not only deer penis, but also donkey penis, horse penis, sheep penis, and even ox penis! It must be super nutritious! How could Brother Kai miss such an important opportunity?]
Jiang Mingkai:!!!
All guests:!!!
Jiang Mingkai's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Actually, I think dressing up as a woman is pretty good... We're all just guests on a variety show, and we're just dressing up as women! We, we have to consider the collective!"
"Teacher Liu has agreed to wear women's clothes... I, I can do it too!" T﹏T
Other guests: "..."
You may not be important, but tomorrow's deer penis wine...can we try it too!!!
I have never seen medicinal wine with so much whip added!
Chen Xianzhi and Zhou Zexu were left, and for some reason, they shuddered.
They sensed Lin Cha's gaze shifting to them, and presumably had already quietly activated his "Eat the Melon" system to start eating melons. The two of them quickly said, "Actually, we think it's okay for men to dress up as women! We can do it, too!"
Compared to the social death caused by the news being exposed, what does it matter if four men wear women's clothes together!
After deciding on the disguise ideas, the makeup artists from the program team came in and put makeup on the guests one by one.
The female guests are all good-looking, and even when they are made up to look like men, their facial features are still delicate. Therefore, the makeup artist deliberately applied black powder to the three female guests to make their faces look less prominent.
After all, they were all slender women, not very old, so they all dressed like working people. Wen Wanning wore a somewhat cheap suit and sunglasses, looking a bit like a real estate salesperson.
Lin Cha and Lu Yanyan look more innocent, so the makeup artist directly made them look like innocent male college students who had just graduated.
Although the female guests' looks were weakened a lot after they disguised themselves, they still looked very heroic.
But the male guests’ disguises were all kinds of weird.
Zhou Zexu has a pretty face, and it's hard to tell whether he is male or female. The makeup artist gave him a handsome queen makeup, and he actually pulled it off.
Jiang Mingkai was too tall. A "woman" of 185cm wasn't common in Haishi, let alone Qingchuan Village. So the makeup artist had an idea and made him look elderly, with Jiang Mingkai hunched over as an old lady, wearing a floral dress.
Liu Mingqian liked to wear maternity makeup because of his slightly protruding beer belly, and the maternity dress almost gave him a heart attack.
Chen Xianzhi is dressed as a middle-aged woman, with flowery curly hair and floral cloth shoes. She looks like she can go to the square to dance in minutes!
When the seven guests appeared in front of the hut at the same time, the audience took one look and burst into laughter——
[Help! The female guests are obviously very pretty in their disguises, but why are all the male guests turning into 18th-tier country girls?]
[Hahaha, Zhou Zexu is actually okay, but when he's with the other three, he becomes weird!]
[It's hard to say about the female guests, but the male guests, especially Liu Mingqian, Chen Xianzhi, and Jiang Mingkai, fit in perfectly with the village!]
[Chen Xianzhi's floral jacket is exactly the same as the one my mom wears when she goes square dancing!]
[I suggest that the guests go to the square dance and dance with the aunties first, so that they can blend into the village meeting at the end without any pressure, hahahahahahahaha]
The audience in the live broadcast room laughed, and the male guests were cursing in their hearts.
The sorrows and joys of the human world are not shared... T﹏T
But in order to get off work early, I took the risk!
The guests set off together, and the staff behind them withdrew, leaving only the drone in the air following them.
The guests prepared a script. The general plot is that "Aunt Liu" and "Aunt Chen" are two sisters who married out from Qingchuan Village, and "Grandma Jiang" is a child bride who was sold from Qingchuan Village decades ago.
"Wen Salesman", "Lin Takeaway", "Lu Courier" and "Miss Zhou" are children who came out of Qingchuan Village and are now working outside.
The village committee sent village cadres to welcome the guests at the village entrance, and then they entered the villagers' meeting. How to disguise themselves depended on the guests' abilities.
The minibus disguised as a variety show stopped at the entrance of the village and the guests got off one after another.
"Aunt Liu" walked in front with her pregnant belly protruding, "Aunt Chen" supported "Grandma Jiang" and walked beside her, and the remaining four younger generations followed at the end.
When I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw a man wearing an ill-fitting suit and with shifty eyes, squinting his eyes and looking around at the entrance of the village.
Seeing Liu Mingqian and the others appear, Xiao Li was very happy, "Old classmates! You are finally here! I thought you were lost!"
Xiao Li walked past Liu Mingqian and others, stepped forward and excitedly shook hands with Wen Wanning.
The guests looked confused.
Why are there still old classmates?
However, they thought this was a script discussed by Director Yu and the village chief. After all, Wen Wanning's character, Wen Xiaoshou, had grown up in Qingchuan Village and may have attended the village elementary school, and was mistaken for a classmate by this comrade who was unaware of the truth.
It has been more than ten years, so it is not surprising that the other party did not recognize Wen Wanning.
So, Wen Wanning changed her voice to a deep one and followed the other party's script, "No, no, how could we be late for such an important meeting!"
Xiao Li nodded. "Yes, this is a key national project! If you understand it, you'll know I'm not lying! We want to lead everyone to respond to the country's call and move towards common prosperity together!"
Nearby, Zhou Zexu and Jiang Mingkai whispered, "As expected of a village official! It's just a village meeting, yet they're hyping it up as a national project?"
Jiang Mingkai nodded in agreement and said in a low voice, "As a village official, this guy is a bit slick."
Xiao Li looked at the crowd of other guests around Wen Wanning and was very excited. "Old classmate, I didn't expect you to bring so many people this time! Don't worry, everything I said to you on the phone is true. Let's work on the project together and make a lot of money together!!!"
"That's right!" Wen Wanning responded in a deep voice.
Although I don’t know what the other party meant by making a lot of money, it must be the project of the villagers’ meeting or the script prepared by Director Yu, so I just responded accordingly!
The two sides exchanged a few more pleasantries, Xiao Li waved his hand, and a minibus stopped at the entrance of the village.
"The road behind is very long. It will be much more convenient for us to go there by car."
Qingchuan Village is not small, so the guests did not find it strange and got on the minibus one after another.
Shortly after the minibus drove away, another man wearing a white shirt and gold-rimmed glasses came to the village entrance.
His black trouser legs were covered in dust, and the soles of his leather shoes were muddy, making him look tired and exhausted.
"Really? I shouldn't have drunk ice milk this morning. I think I've got a stomachache!" The man in the shirt complained, clutching his stomach. "The guests should have arrived by now. I'm a village official, and I'm late. How embarrassing!"
The man in the shirt came to the village entrance, but saw no one.
He adjusted his glasses in confusion.
"Hmm...where are the people?"
The minibus drove towards the mountains and forests.
As we drove along, we found that the distance was quite far, and it seemed to have exceeded the territory of Qingchuan Village.
Wen Wanning was a person with poor sense of direction and didn't notice anything strange at all.
Liu Mingqian was a little confused. Was the village committee office building really that far from the village entrance? They had been driving for nearly half an hour, right?
The minibus stopped in front of a factory.
The group got out of the car and frowned as they looked at the somewhat shabby building in front of them.
Qingchuan Village is a village under the jurisdiction of Hai City after all, and it is only an hour's drive from Hai City. Why is the village committee office building so shabby?
Chen Xianzhi looked at the gate again - why wasn't there even a decent government building sign?
As soon as everyone got off the bus, they were warmly welcomed by the people inside. They kept asking about their well-being, such as, "Have you had dinner?", "Are you tired from the journey?", "Would you like some juice?", "Where are you from? Qingchuan Village? I used to be from Qingchuan Village too!"
Lin Cha looked around and saw that everything around him was unfamiliar and there was no familiar face, which made him even more confused.
Didn't Grandma Xia say she would bring her family members to the village meeting? Why isn't Grandma Xia here?
[The villagers of Qingchuan Village...why didn't I see any of them?]
The guests also felt something was wrong.
The "masses" here are very enthusiastic, but there are obviously a few thugs standing around the factory, and it seems that no one is allowed to leave.
The further we walked into the factory, the colder everyone felt.
Although I've never been to the village committee before... this is just a factory building! It doesn't fit in with the village committee at all!!!
Liu Mingqian suddenly thought of something and pulled over the aunt who was very enthusiastically asking if they wanted to have lunch and asked, "Big sister, what's your name?"
"Me?" The eldest sister grinned. "My last name is Huang Cuihua. You can just call me Sister Cuihua!"
[Huang Cuihua, Huang Cuihua...]
Lin Cha quickly checked the melon-eating system in his hand.
But this name was so common that she couldn't find it at first.
At this time, Huang Cuihua and Xiao Li had already brought them to the factory hall, where there were already nearly a hundred people sitting.
Xiao Li smiled and said, "Old classmates, come here, this is your seat. Please sit down for a while and our boss will come to introduce our project to you later!"
Boss?
project?
The guests were even more confused.
At this moment, a man really came onto the stage. He was wearing a suit and tie, a big gold watch and a big gold chain, and he looked like a nouveau riche.
The boss just exchanged a few pleasantries on the stage and quickly got to the point -
"Believe me, this is a very important poverty alleviation project, the '1040 Project' specially approved by the central government! What is 1040? Simply put, when you join, you first pay 69,800 yuan to purchase 21 shares of 3,800 yuan each. In the second month of joining, the organization will give you 19,000 yuan! As long as you continue to develop downlines, when you develop 29 downlines, you will be promoted to general manager and start receiving a salary, until you earn a total of 10.4 million yuan!" [Note 1]
"Just think about the scene when you received 10.4 million yuan. What a wonderful picture that was! Look at me now. I have famous watches, gold necklaces, luxury cars, houses... My today is your tomorrow!"
Everyone at the scene was very excited, and some even shouted loudly.
The guests were all dumbfounded.
"Isn't this..."
[Is this a pyramid scheme?!?]
[Holy crap! We actually stumbled into a pyramid scheme den!!!]
The guests swallowed deeply.
Look at the thugs patrolling outside the factory. They seem to be carrying something shiny and sharp.
Guests: “…”
Help! Aren't they supposed to be at the village meeting? What's going on?
Lin Cha quickly looked through the Chigua system and finally found some clues——
[Oh my god...this Huang Cuihua is actually the biological mother of that old classmate we met at the entrance of our village!]
[That old classmate is called Xiao Li. He's face-blind. He was tricked into coming here and was scammed out of all his money. He even had to mortgage his house. So he had no choice but to prey on the people around him!]
He contacted a college classmate through WeChat and persuaded him to come here to make a fortune. He actually agreed! Xiao Li even went to the entrance of Qingchuan Village to pick him up!
But Xiao Li was worried the other party might get suspicious, so he arrived at the village entrance half an hour early to wait for someone. He happened to run into us! He mistook us for his old classmates and took us away!!!
At this moment, in the entire pyramid scheme den, only Xiao Li knew his "old classmates". No one else knew them, so they were not exposed.
But the guests' hearts were still pounding.
——Just like a group of little white rabbits that have strayed into a wolf’s den.
They used to be so arrogant, but now they are sitting in a well-behaved posture and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them.
Liu Mingqian asked the people around him in a very low voice, "Did you... bring your cell phones?"
Call the police immediately!
Guests: “…”
[Director Yu confiscated them before we left. Who still has a cell phone, Teacher Liu?! ! !]
Guests: T﹏T
At this time, Huang Cuihua noticed that some of the guests looked strange, and signaled to Xiao Li with her eyes.
Xiao Li quickly asked, "Old classmate, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
The guests shook their heads mechanically.
"So you don't believe in the project I introduced to you?" Xiao Li said bitterly, "Old classmate! You really hurt my heart. We were classmates for four years! We even slept together for four years! And I only told you about this lucrative project!"
[More than that, right? Didn't you also send a group message to over a hundred friends on WeChat?]
Lin Cha's inner voice suddenly rang out——
[You even tricked everyone into believing you'd made over a million! So... all your friends who received the message came to you to borrow money!]
Let me see...
[Before you sent the group messages to trick people, you were in debt of 300,000 yuan, all of which was swindled by this MLM operation. Later, you sent the group messages, and in order to play the long game, you lent over 100,000 yuan to those friends... So you owed over 400,000 yuan again?]
Guests: ???
They looked at Xiao Li, who looked "innocent" next to them, with sympathy.
Is this guy really a scammer?
Isn't he a boy who gives away money?
"Xiao Li!" Wen Wanning said earnestly, "You said we were old classmates, four years of friendship. Now that you're rich, would you lend me 69,800 to invest in this project? That's not too much, right?"
Xiao Li: ???
"Old classmate, this, this, this..." Xiao Li was very embarrassed.
Wen Wanning continued, "Didn't you make a lot of money? This project is so profitable. You said you've been doing it for a while, but you haven't developed 29 downlines yet? So it seems that this project is not very profitable, so I'd better not participate..."
"No!!!" Xiao Li said firmly, "This project really, really makes money!"
Wen Wanning: "Then 69800..."
Xiao Li looked at Huang Cuihua beside him, then looked at Wen Wanning, feeling very conflicted.
"Old classmate, there are seven of us here!" Wen Wanning coaxed, "If I can make money, I'll bring these other six to invest with me next time! They don't lack this little money, and then we'll all be your subordinates! You'll be the boss sooner or later!"
Xiao Li was silent.
Xiao Li was thinking seriously about Wen Wanning's words.
Xiao Li was a little shaken!
That’s seven downlines. Adding those he originally developed, he will soon have 29 downlines, and he will be able to become a boss and become rich overnight!
It’s only 69,800. You can’t catch a wolf without risking your child!
Xiao Li: "Old classmate, then, then I'll lend you this money! Don't forget to pay me back when you make a lot of money!"
Wen Wanning nodded with a smile and took 69,800 yuan from Xiao Li.
The other guests were amazed.
Zhou Zexu was even skeptical. "You're not really going to join them, are you? But I can earn 10.4 million just by developing 29 downlines. I'm a little tempted. It's easier than making money myself!"
Guests: ???
"Kid! Wake up! This is a pyramid scheme! It's illegal!"
"All we can do now is to fight these people off," Liu Mingqian said, "and wait for Director Yu to come and rescue us... Of course, that assumes he can notice we've disappeared in time... He should be able to, right?"
At this moment, the boss's voice suddenly came from the stage, "It sounds like these comrades are still a little skeptical about our project. Only one of the seven of you wants to join?"
The boss walked down and came in front of the guests.
"I know you have a lot of doubts, but think about it, if this wasn't done properly, the police would have come to arrest us long ago!"
"Yes, you will hear some rumors, but that is actually the country's macroeconomic regulation! It eliminates the timid and cowardly! In short, you have to ask yourself this question: would you rather be the ancestor of a rich family or the descendant of a poor family?" [Note 2]
The boss argued confidently, "Don't you want to be as rich as me? With my status, even Lu Yanyan, the eldest daughter of the Lu family, the richest family in Hai City, has to give me some face when she sees me!"
Lu Yanyan: “Ah?”
Who are you? I don’t know you!
The boss said proudly, "Do you know the popular variety show 'Leisure Life'? They didn't originally plan to film in Qingchuan Village, but it was because Miss Lu also invested in our project! That's why they chose Qingchuan Village as the filming location, right next to our base!"
"The Lu family was able to become the richest family in Hai City because they invested in our project. If such a big shot has invested, aren't you tempted?!"
Lu Yanyan: “…”
Thank you! So our Lu family wouldn't be able to survive without you, right?
The expressions of the guests were indescribable, but the other people were extremely excited and believed what the boss said.
Since Qingchuan Village is nearby, they also knew that "Leisure Life" was being recorded there. After hearing what the boss said, they became even more interested in the project, and some people who were originally on the sidelines also expressed their willingness to invest.
Seeing that Lu Yanyan and the others remained indifferent, the boss continued, "The Lu family has already invested, so why are you hesitating? As long as you invest in our project, not only will you make money, but I can also take you to that variety show, take pictures with those celebrities, and get them to give you a bunch of autographs!"
"Lu Yanyan and I are really familiar with each other. We even had dinner together last night!"
Guests: “…”
Liu Mingqian deliberately asked, "Didn't those guests eat hot pot on the variety show last night? I didn't see you on the show!"
Boss:!
"Midnight snack! Midnight snack!" the boss quickly corrected, "That male celebrity named Zhou Tuzi from their variety show even approached me yesterday about wanting to invest!"
Baldy Zhou?
The guests looked at each other.
When did someone appear on our variety show called Zhou Tuzi? Why don’t they know him?
Only Lin Cha's eyes widened.
[What Zhou Tuzi? That's Zhou Zexu! Help!!!]
Zhou Tuzi: Thank you for hearing about me...
Note 1/Note 2: Refer to "Mr. Luo's Little Law Classroom" on Station B. If you want to succeed, go crazy first! Do you think MLM is that easy these days?
Pyramid schemes are illegal. This article does not support such behavior, but rather uses this incident as a case study. The actions of the protagonists in this article are not crimes, but rather staged to buy time until the police arrive. All criminals involved in this case will ultimately be brought to justice.
Finally, here are some core socialist values:
Prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, and friendliness!
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