Counterattack 1988

Chapter 27 Deception
When he arrived at the train station, Wang Lin rushed to buy a ticket.

The huge ticket hall is full, crowded, and full of people who buy tickets.

There is a long queue in front of each ticket window.

The queue moved very slowly. Most of the people in the queue were migrant workers who went to work in cities from other places. Many of them were actually wearing patched clothes and trousers. Their luggage was also tattered. They were packed in snakeskin bags. Use "urea" bags for luggage.

Wang Lin had heard about the Spring Festival travel season long ago, but he had never participated in it.

The term "Spring Festival Transport" first appeared in People's Daily in 1980.

Since the reform and opening up, with the relaxation of restrictions on the movement of people, more and more people choose to leave their hometowns to go out to work and study.Many people return to their hometowns during the Spring Festival, forming the Spring Festival travel season that can be called "a rare population flow in the world".

However, it is not the Spring Festival travel season!
How come there are so many people?
After queuing for more than half an hour, it was finally Wang Lin's turn.

"Comrade, buy a ticket to Luzhou the fastest."

"The earliest train leaves at 9:26, Pukuai."

"How many hours can I get to Luzhou?"

"9 hours."

"Okay, just buy this train, just buy the hard seat. How much?"

"Twenty one eight!"

This fare is really expensive!
Back and forth, half a month's salary is gone!

No wonder people who come out to work are afraid to go home at ordinary times, they just wait to go back to their hometown every Spring Festival!
Wang Lin took the ticket, carefully checked the information on the ticket, and carefully put it in his pocket.

Tickets need to be checked on the train, and tickets need to be checked when entering and leaving the station.

He knew that there were a lot of people being deceived and abducted near the train station, so he didn't wander around and went straight into the waiting room.

Wang Lin brought a military kettle, he drank half of it in one gulp, went to the bathroom, saw a water room nearby, providing hot water, he lined up to fill up the kettle.

Back in the waiting room and sat down, a thin middle-aged man next to him asked with a smile, "Little brother, are you going away?"

"Not far!" Wang Lin replied casually in a calm tone.

"Are you going to Luzhou? Me too!" The middle-aged man combed his hair three to seven times, and even put on mousse, which looked very trendy. He stretched out his hand, "Going out, there are many friends and many paths. I It's Ma Tao."

He was not surprised that the other party could guess that Wang Lin was going to Luzhou.

Most of the people sitting here are waiting for this train.

Luzhou is the capital of Anhui Province. It is located in the Yangtze River Delta. It is an important city in East China with a large population and many people who come out to work.

"Are you a native of Shencheng? Are you on a business trip or doing business?" Ma Tao loves to chat.

"Business trip!" Wang Linduo kept an eye on everyone, and said three points when meeting people, but he couldn't give up all his heart. At the same time, he turned his back on customers and asked, "What about you? Do you do business?"

"Yes, little brother is really astute. I'm a businessman, and I'm in the pencil business." Ma Tao smiled, opened his leather satchel, took out two pencils, one red and one blue, and stretched them out in front of Wang Lin. "Look? The ex-factory price is 2 cents each. Every household can use it!"

Wang Lin waved his hand: "There is no need to buy it. The unit has issued it."

"Okay, good unit!" Ma Tao withdrew his hand, took out a big unity, folded it in half, and said with a smile, "Little brother, if you are idle, you are also idle. Let's play a game of guessing pencils. This game is very simple. I put ten Fold the dollar bill in half, then wrap it around the red pen, then wrap it around the blue pen, roll it up, and open it again, you see, the red pen is still trapped.”

As he spoke, he demonstrated.

Sitting next to her was a young girl who looked only in her teens. She had two braids, delicate features, round face, and big eyes. She was wearing a white denim singlet and a red khaki jacket. Curiously watching Ma Tao do all this, but did not speak.

Seeing that she was interested, Ma Tao also showed her the game of trapping two pencils with money.

"How? It's very simple, isn't it? Our game is to guess red and blue! Let me do it again, you can see clearly, if you guess correctly which color pencil is caught in the money, I will give the ten I'll give you one yuan for free!" Ma Tao was eloquent, babbling like a talk show host.

While talking, he wrapped the red pen with money, and then wrapped the blue pen, and said with a smile, "Little brother, guess what?"

Wang Lin was a little wary. He didn't believe that there was love for no reason in this world, and people really had nothing to do?Come play games with you?And give you a card of Great Unity for no reason?

But it was the first time he had seen this kind of play, and he didn't know what kind of trick the other party was playing, so he didn't say anything.

Ma Tao then asked the little girl, "Guess!"

The temptation of ten dollars is not small!

The little girl pursed her lips, pointed at the red pen and said, "Red! I saw you trap it!"

"Are you sure?" Ma Tao asked.

The little girl nodded vigorously: "It's the red pen!"

Wang Lin thought to himself, I saw it too, it is the red pen that you are trapping money in!
What is there to guess?
I saw Ma Tao smiled slightly and started a great unity. Sure enough, it was the red pen that caught him.

Wang Lin couldn't help laughing, thinking that your way of playing is not giving money to people?
Ma Tao was really generous and handed ten yuan to the little girl.

The little girl took the money happily, looked it over several times, and confirmed that it was real money.

Ma Tao took out a new note of [-] yuan: "Let's play again, if you win, I will give you the [-] yuan. However, if you lose, you have to pay me One hundred dollars! Do you dare to play?"

The little girl won ten yuan casually just now, and she took it for granted that the game is very simple, and said with a smile: "That's what you said!"

"Of course I said it. Do you have a hundred dollars with you?"

"I have it! I have exactly one hundred yuan!" The little girl smiled, "I came out to work after the Chinese New Year, and I got a salary of 45 yuan a month. I worked for three months and earned 135 yuan. What! If it wasn’t for my family, I wouldn’t be going home now!”

Wang Lin thought to himself, this little girl is too naive. When she met a stranger in the waiting room, she told others all her information?
"Okay!" A wicked smile appeared on the corner of Ma Tao's mouth.

Wang Lin instinctively felt that this was a trick!
However, it was really the first time he saw him, and he didn't know how he was cheating, so he couldn't find a way to expose it!

Ma Tao folded the fifty yuan in his hand, then wrapped the blue pen, then wrapped the red pen, and asked the little girl, "Which pen do you guess?"

"Blue pen!" The little girl smiled happily, "I saw it!"

Wang Lin thought to himself, how can there be such a simple thing in the world?
I just sent you ten dollars, and now I send you another fifty dollars?
He stared at Ma Tao without blinking, to see what tricks he was playing.

Ma Tao wrapped two pencils with money and opened them.

Something magical happened!

In the fifty yuan, the blue pen was caught just now, but after opening it, it turned into a red pen!
Wang Lin saw that Ma Tao showed a smug smile, and the little girl's face turned pale.

(End of this chapter)