C1 Betrayal
If someone were to ask, who had the best money these days? The shrewd Jewish merchants would say, of course it was women and children, but from Liang Chen's point of view, the answer could be simplified a little, and that would be: girls.
The place with the most young girls was naturally the school, thus Liang Chen set up a stall in front of Jiangdong University's entrance. He specialized in selling small accessories that girls liked, with a total of seventy to eighty pieces of jewelry at the end of the day.
The reason he came to Jiangdong City was because of a promise he made that year.
Two years ago, when Liang Chen was still in his second year of high school, he and his girlfriend, Xiao Jing, had agreed on the field that they would enter the same university together in the future.
Xiao Jing's family's conditions were bad, her parents were honest farmers, and below them, there was even a younger sister and a younger brother. Her family's three children all went to school at the same time, something her parents couldn't afford.
In order to fulfill his promise to his girlfriend, he had endured his parents' scolding and disappointment to come all the way to this strange city and bear the heavy responsibility of earning tuition and living expenses for his girlfriend.
Therefore, other than leaving behind the necessary living expenses, Liang Chen gave the majority of the money Liang Chen earned to him.
It was another noisy evening. As the university students walked out of the school in groups of twos and threes, Liang Chen shouted at the top of his lungs: "I'll sell you all transshipment of jade at a low price, twenty dollars each, and buy my jade. I guarantee that you won't fail anything and that you won't fall in love, and will only sell them for twenty yuan each …"
If it was last year, he would definitely not be able to shout out loud. However, after these few months of training, not only was his skin tanned, his skin had also thickened, and he didn't even blink when he panicked.
In the blink of an eye, these fake goods that cost only one and a half yuan became twenty pieces of transit jade. In any case, as long as they could sell three or five pieces, even if this day wasn't wasted, those girls would come and play around with them. No one would be stupid enough to think that this was real jade.
Before the business had even started tonight, a tall and thin old man walked towards him. This man wore a long white robe, and his hair was tied up in a bun. He looked like a sage.
He walked straight in front of Liang Chen, greeted the Limitless Sky Sovereign, and then asked smilingly: "Young man, do you want to become rich?"
Liang Chen was startled, he looked at the old Taoist carefully, and asked him half-jokingly: "Who doesn't want to be rich, could it be that Taoist is going to give me some pointers?"
"Exactly." The old Daoist smirked and pointed at the ground under Liang Chen's feet: "Look at this place, it's so close to the sewer cover, the foul energy is surging here, even if you had some wealth, it would have been washed away. And this building behind us, this is called the Evil Annihilation …"
After the old Daoist explained everything to him, Liang Chen lowered his head and looked at the lid of the well, then looked at the tall building which was angled towards him, and felt that it was a bit reasonable, so he asked him: "Then Taoist, where do you think I should set up a stall?"
The old Daoist smiled and did not say anything. He took out three copper coins, one big and two small. One of them was a large, unique looking copper coin.
He held the three copper coins in his hands and shook them three times. He looked at the golden trigram, then pointed at the opposite side seriously and said, "The God of Fortune is in the southeast. You can set up your stall there and make a huge profit."
Liang Chen immediately followed his finger and looked over, only to discover that the place he was pointing at was the entrance of a small village, which was about one hundred and eighty meters away from him. Furthermore, it was not the main road, so there were less people here.
The old Daoist promised sincerely, but when Liang Chen saw that he did not take any money, it seemed like there was no need to lie to him, so he followed his words and kept the stall, moving it to Hu Tong's.
However, half an hour later, he still did not see any business. He suddenly felt strange and looked at the place where he had set up his stall. He discovered that the old Daoist had actually set up a stall at the place where he had previously set up his stall!
"Hey!" This old fogey, despite having said so much just now, is trying to take over my stand, that old swindler! "
Liang Chen was immediately infuriated, and quickly closed his stall to settle the score with the old Daoist.
Arriving in front of the hanging stall, Liang Chen asked him snappily: "What's wrong with you, old fellow?
If he did not come early to take over the place, he would have had nowhere to set up his stall. Liang Chen was tricked by this old Daoist into talking to Hu Tong.
"This Penniless Priest has never lied to you before. A mere mortal like you can't suppress this evil, This Penniless Priest …"
The old Daoist wanted to quibble further, but was interrupted by Liang Chen: "Go ahead, your grandpa. Get out of the way!"
Seeing that he could not continue with his act, the old Daoist rolled up his robe and scolded: "You little brat, why are you cursing? Didn't your family's adults teach you to respect your elders and to respect your children? Or did this place write your name? "
"Deceiving even makes sense? "You old liar, quickly return the place to me!"
However, the old Daoist was not someone who was easy to deal with. Relying on his fact that he was taller than Liang Chen, he asked loudly from above: "What did I lie to you about? It was clearly you who were eager to get more money, so you voluntarily gave me the place. Furthermore, the fake jade that you sold was not a scam? "
The old Daoist saw that Liang Chen was not willing to let him go, so he twisted the facts and told the crowd that he was bullying the weak and the elderly, forcing them to take their stalls. This infuriated Liang Chen to the point that he stepped forward and grabbed's hanging stall, and moved it to the side.
Very quickly, the argument escalated into a fight, although this old Daoist Priest was very old, his attacks were very black. He even took out a copper compass from somewhere, which was probably around two to three jin, and directly aimed it at Liang Chen's head.
As a result, someone called the police. When the police car arrived, the old Taoist suddenly grabbed Liang Chen's arm like a madman, and asked him to hand over some Eight Diagrams Coin.
Liang Chen didn't want to be brought into the police station, but the old Daoist held onto him tightly, and roared angrily: What Eight Diagrams Coin? I didn't see it at all! How shameless! You want to bluff after hitting me? "
"Bullsh * t. Do you know where that Eight Diagrams Coin came from? That was a treasure passed down by the Tang Dynasty's Master Feng Shui, Yuan Tiangang! You can't buy it for much money, so you must have stolen it. Hurry up and return it to me! "
Until the moment when the two of them were brought into the academy city's police station, they were still clamoring that they were going to do some kind of legal thing to destroy Liang Chen's family.
With this kind of situation, the police station would not be able to handle it, so Liang Chen took off all his clothes and let the police inspect him, confirming that he did not have any Eight Diagrams Coin s on him, only then did the old cultivator give up.
In the end, the two men were sentenced to five hundred dollars each for the crime of public security, and were released that night.
Liang Chen felt so depressed that he wanted to die. What kind of rubbish was this, it was already enough to meet such an old madman.
Counting the remaining one thousand and three hundred dollars, he let out a long sigh. It was almost the end of the month, Xiao Jing's living expenses for the next month were sufficient, but his rent and food expenses were not.
"Damn it, if I didn't run into that old liar, would I have been fined?" Five hundred dollars! This week's work has been in vain … " After fiercely cursing a few times, Liang Chen's heart ached so much that it would kill her if she could eat those five hundred pieces.
No matter what, life had to continue. Waves of fragrance came from the barbecue stand at the side of the road, but he couldn't bear to spend money and ate a bowl of the cheapest salty broth at the noodle store.
He then took out the stalls and called Xiao Jing, wanting to invite her out for a meal tomorrow. He also wanted to give her the living expenses, but he didn't expect that the one who would answer the phone would be her roommate and not Xiao Jing. He then asked her in confusion: "Xiao Jing didn't bring his phone? Why are you the one who answered the phone? "
This girl's surname was Bao and Liang Chen did not know her full name, he only knew that she was nicknamed "Steamed Bun". They had a good relationship and often brought her out together, thus their relationship was rather close.
"Aiya, Xiao Jing went to be a home tutor. She didn't bring her phone with her, so she might not return until after 10 o'clock. Do you want to ask her out to play? "So considerate, if only I could find a boyfriend like you …"
With regards to Liang Chen and Xiao Jing, Steamed Bun knew about them completely. She was very envious that Xiao Jing could find such a passionate boyfriend, so she liked to tease him a little.
Since Xiao Jing was not around, Liang Chen and Steamed Bun chatted for a while before hanging up. His head hurt so much that he puffed out a few bags, preparing to go to the clinic to buy a bottle of Purple Water to disinfect it.
But when he passed by a Western restaurant, he accidentally saw a familiar figure walk in from the corner of his eyes. Whether it was body size, clothes or the view of his back, he looked extremely similar to his girlfriend, Xiao Jing.
"Didn't she go to be a home tutor? Why is it in the Western Restaurant? There's a man beside you? "
A bad premonition surfaced in his heart, even though he wished that he recognized the wrong person, he still somehow walked over. Through the window of the western restaurant, Liang Chen's gaze instantly froze!
At this moment, it was as if he was struck hard in the chest, the pain made him unable to breathe, it was actually his girlfriend, Xiao Jing!
He saw a familiar figure holding a knife and fork, cutting a steak, chatting and laughing with an unfamiliar man. There was even a glass of red wine on the table. Beside the glass was a phone …
What did he not bring? He clearly had two mobile phones!
Liang Chen ignored the waiter, and angrily rushed into the Western Restaurant. Standing in front of the two, without even looking at the man, he directly asked her: "What happened? Aren't you a home tutor? "He came to the Western Restaurant?"
Xiao Jing's smile quickly froze on her face, she lowered her head and did not say a word, but the man stood up and pushed Liang Chen, and unrestrainedly asked: "Who are you? What does my girlfriend do, need you to mind her? "
"Your girlfriend?" Liang Chen was so angry that he laughed instead, unable to believe that his girlfriend, whom he had loved for four years, would actually betray him. He forcefully suppressed his anger and coldly asked the man: "How long have you two been together?"
The man wore a suit and tie, looking like a child from a rich family. Seeing Liang Chen wearing a set of street vendor's clothes, which were worth dozens of dollars, and wearing a pair of jeans, he arrogantly said, "Two months, what's going on? You want to pick on my girlfriend? I am warning you, stay away from her or you will face the consequences! "
Liang Chen was not afraid of him, but he did not want to argue with this stranger, who had nothing to do with him. Explain what is going on!