It's past ten o'clock in the morning, and the sun hanging high in the sky has begun to emit scorching flames, baking this prosperous and prosperous capital city with tall buildings.
In front of the bus stop sign outside Xinfadi Passenger Terminal in Fengtai District, a few passengers were standing sparsely waiting for the bus.
Not far away, under the pedestrian overpass, on the spacious sidewalk between the green belt and the Jingkai auxiliary road, a group of people were gathered under the shade of the less lush trees. From time to time, there would be noises, and occasionally a downcast person would push his way through the crowd.
He left with a depressed expression, and then some voices of arguing and applause came from inside again - chess playing, some common charlatanism in society, and to put it bluntly, it is just some low-level deception.
There have been many exposures on TV in the past few years, but people still keep falling for this trick.
Only a few steps away from this group of swindlers, shills, deceived people, and onlookers, there was an old beggar in shabby clothes, with hair as unkempt as a bird's nest, dirty and slovenly, looking a bit silly.
Sitting on the cement steps at the edge of the green belt, a smile appeared on his unshaven face.
It's like, mocking everything in front of you.
A bus stopped in front of the stop sign. Su Chunfeng, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, black trousers and black leather shoes, got off the bus. She turned around and reached out to help Wang Haifei get off the bus.
"Put on the hat." Su Chunfeng thoughtfully put the sun protection hat in her hand on Wang Haifei.
It is a light-colored wide-brimmed straw sun hat with a chiffon bow on it. Wang Haifei is wearing a blue sleeveless slim-fitting denim dress, a pair of large brown sunglasses, and her long shawl hair is gently pulled up to the waist.
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On her shoulders, she wears a pair of white sneakers with her tall figure. She looks fashionable and beautiful without losing her youthful and natural vitality. Her beautiful cheeks reveal an indescribable budding charm...
She looked around curiously and asked, "Where is it?"
"You can see it from the pedestrian bridge." Su Chunfeng said with a smile, while casually looking at the nearby environment, and then his eyes fell on the old beggar.
The old beggar was smiling stupidly at him.
Su Chunfeng's expression showed a little surprise, then he smiled slightly, put on his sunglasses, took Wang Haifei's hand and walked to the old beggar, then took out his wallet from his pocket, and generously took out three hundred-dollar bills and handed them over, saying gently
: "Old man, the weather is too hot in summer and it's easy to get heat stroke. Find a cooler place."
"It's okay, it's okay." The old beggar took the three hundred-dollar bills without any courtesy and put them into his arms wrapped in ragged clothes.
Wang Haifei looked surprised.
The old beggar said with a smile: "Girl, you are lucky..."
Wang Haifei's cheeks turned red and she smiled gently: "Thank you."
"Let's go." Su Chunfeng turned around and pulled Wang Haifei towards the pedestrian bridge.
The old beggar looked at the backs of the two young men and felt silly.
At this moment, a shirtless young man in his thirties emerged from the stall next to the chess stall with a flushed face, sweating profusely, swearing, and strode away. Several onlookers could not help but sigh and shake their heads.
——That young man just lost more than 600 yuan. Alas, this stupid boy...
The three young men in charge of child care were attracted by the beautiful woman who got off the bus. Naturally, they noticed Su Chunfeng next to the beautiful woman. They also saw this pretty girl who should be a second-generation rich man, who seemed silly.
Deliberately showing off his overflowing kindness and generosity in front of his girlfriend, he took out three hundred yuan and gave it to the old beggar. Fortunately, these shills
They were not so bad ass to play hooligan or force Su Chunfeng to play chess, but they focused on the old beggar - this beggar who looked stupid at first sight. No one had been fooled before, only a few liars were acting.
When I was there, I stood by attentively and watched them playing chess for money with their seductive tricks. It seemed that the old beggar also knew how to play chess.
Seeing that there was no business, the two young men looked at each other with evil smiles and walked up to the old beggar.
One of the bald young men said: "Hey, old man, that guy who played the bad chess game has won a lot of money. You can see that you are an expert. Go play two games with him."
"Yes, yes, I looked at you before when you were watching chess. You should look like an expert." Another young man with a side-parted hair agreed.
The old beggar grinned and said stupidly: "I have no money..."
"Hey, didn't a young man give you three hundred yuan just now?"
The old beggar was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand to touch his dirty arms, and said with a smile: "Yes, I have three hundred yuan... No, can I win that person?"
"I think it's 80% possible."
"I'm tired of seeing it."
The two young men sang together.
The man in charge of playing chess is sitting over there. He has a goatee and glasses. He looks about sixty years old. He wears a short coat, long trousers and thousand-layer cloth shoes. He holds a folding fan in his hand and is fanning it gently.
, quite a bit of a master's demeanor, he looked over here seemingly inadvertently, and through the gap where a few people ducked, he smiled and said: "Come on for two games, brother, if you are idle, you are idle, we won't
Playing with money..."
The old beggar immediately got up and walked over there, just like an old chess fan who couldn't hold himself back for a long time. He didn't seem to understand that he had stepped into a scam.
At this time, Su Chunfeng and Wang Haifei had already walked along the pedestrian bridge across the Beijing Expressway to the other end. While they were still going down the stairs, Wang Haifei happened to see the old beggar crawling into the crowd and sitting down at the chess table.
Opposite the old gentleman, the pony was tied up, looking very happy.
"Chunfeng, look at him..." Wang Haifei said worriedly.
Su Chunfeng looked at what Wang Haifei was pointing at, then smiled, pulled Wang Haifei and continued down the steps, saying: "The money is his if you give it to him. As for what he uses it for, we have no control over it."
"But, he will be deceived."
"That has nothing to do with us." Su Chunfeng said with a smile, thinking that if the old monster who has lived a life like a god is really deceived by a charlatan who plays bad chess, it is because the old monster is deliberately looking for fun. If the old monster has fun by
If they win... a few swindlers will be unlucky, and they managed to deceive an earthly immortal.
When Su Chunfeng was joking with people about the trick of playing chess at the most prosperous time in his previous life, he once heard that no matter how top chess player he is, if he plays against the chess set by the liar, the best result can only be a draw.
But that's for normal people.
Old beggar...
It is no longer in the category of human beings.
Although this guy is not able to play a chess game that is almost completely routine and has been thoroughly studied by previous generations, if he is playing tricks, who can stop him?
When he walked to the pedestrian bridge just now, Su Chunfeng saw the intersection dozens of meters away to the northeast. Walking in, he saw the billboard erected on the first bungalow on the north side of the green belt, which read "Wantong Express".
There are big characters and arrows pointing eastward along the road, and a distance of fifteen meters is marked.
Su Chunfeng pulled Wang Haifei over there.
Xinfadi in Fengtai District is the headquarters of the Beijing branch of Wantong Express. Goods, express documents, etc. sent to Beijing from Yuzhou Province and branches of Wantong Express nationwide will be unloaded here and then distributed.
Special buses are sent to branches in various districts in Beijing.
In the morning, Su Chunfeng received a call from his father. The family had already driven from Pingyang.
Among the people who went to Beijing this time, in addition to Su Cheng's family, there were also Zhao Shanggang, Chen Yufang and several key upper-level managers of the company. Currently, Wantong Express operates in various places in Yuzhou Province, in Beijing, and between Yuzhou Province and Beijing.
The branch office in Jinguanzhuang City, the capital of Jizhong Province, has already started operations, and the company is taking the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway as its first development trunk line. Branches in key cities along the line, especially in the provincial capital cities, are being established as soon as possible.
In addition to Zhongzhou City, the capital of Yuzhou Province, Beijing has undoubtedly become the top priority for the initial layout and development of Wantong Express.
Turning right at the intersection ahead and walking inside, Su Chunfeng discovered that this place is actually a village not far from the Fourth Ring Road and close to the Beijing-Kaifeng Expressway. The area to the west of the village near the Beijing-Kaifeng Road has been developed into a small area similar to the Wantong Logistics Park.
Su Chunfeng didn't know about the parking lot. In fact, the pedestrian bridge that he just passed went south past Xinfadi Bridge. To the east of the road was a large Hanlong Logistics Center.
There is a Hanlong Logistics Center South Station more than one kilometer away. Wantong Express rented an independent courtyard in the southwest corner of this small parking lot. The courtyard door faces south. There is a two-story building facing west to east on the west side of the courtyard.
The northernmost part of the small office building is a simple non-enclosed warehouse with a ceiling made of colored steel plates, divided into receiving and shipping areas, and a one-meter-high cement platform to facilitate loading and unloading of vehicles after parking.
At this time, a small box truck and two minivans were loading and unloading goods in the courtyard.
As soon as Su Chunfeng and Wang Haifei walked into the yard, a young staff member wearing a uniform with Wantong Express came over and said politely: "Excuse me, do you need to send the items or ship them? Or do you want to pick up the goods?
"
"Oh, sorry, I'm waiting for someone." Su Chunfeng smiled and said, "Aren't Mr. Su, Mr. Zhao, and Mr. Chen coming soon?"
The staff member was stunned for a moment and said, "I'm not sure. Let's go to the reception room later and I'll go talk to the manager."
"OK, thanks."
Su Chunfeng and Wang Haifei walked to the reception room indicated by the staff member.
The reception room is the southernmost room on the first floor. There is an open door connecting the interior to the business processing hall in the middle. The decoration in the reception room is simple, with only an ordinary brown fabric long sofa and two matching single sofas.
There is a brown wooden coffee table, a desk and an office chair inside, and a simple water dispenser next to it. The bucket on the water dispenser is still empty.
There is no air conditioning in this room, but because it is connected to the business hall, the cool air from the air conditioner there flows in, and the indoor temperature is also cool and pleasant.
Soon, a man who looked to be thirty-six or seventeen years old came in and said with a smile: "You are... Su Chunfeng, right?"
"It's me, hello." Su Chunfeng stood up and said with a smile.
Wang Haifei also stood up.
"I am Yang Ye, general manager of Wantong Express Beijing Branch." The general manager named Yang Ye smiled and stretched out his right hand and said, "I just finished a phone call with Mr. Chen. They will be here in a few minutes."
"Oh, hello, Mr. Yang." Su Chunfeng introduced: "This is my girlfriend, Wang Haifei."
"Hello, Mr. Yang." Wang Haifei said sweetly and gently.
"Hello, hello." Yang Ye smiled with a cheerful face, stretched out his hand, and said: "Let's go to the conference room upstairs and wait for a while. After a while, Mr. Su and Mr. Chen will arrive, and they will go directly to the conference room... Let's
Wantong Express has just been established and operates. The conditions at the branch are not very good and there is no suitable place to entertain you. I'm really sorry."
Su Chunfeng smiled and said: "Mr. Yang is too polite."
The three of them chatted and laughed for a while, then went out and went up the stairs to the conference room on the second floor.
At this time, on the Jingkai auxiliary road, a black Mercedes-Benz sedan, a black Santana 2000, and a silver-gray Jetta sedan drove across the Xinfadi Bridge from south to north.
In the black Mercedes-Benz car at the front, Wang Qing was sitting in the passenger seat, and Zhao Shanggang and Qian Ming were sitting in the back seat. Just as they were driving over the pedestrian bridge to the intersection ahead and were about to turn right, an old beggar in ragged clothes jumped up and down.
Like a scared rabbit, he rushed down from the sidewalk and ran towards the village. Behind the old beggar, three tall young men were chasing him, shouting.
The sudden situation forced the driver to slam on the brakes.
Qian Ming, who was sitting on the right side of the back row, frowned slightly.
Zhao Shanggang also saw the old beggar. After the vehicle slowly started to turn right, he turned around and whispered softly: "Qian Ming, that beggar looks familiar. Is he the one we met at Jinming Teahouse with Chunfeng in the first month of the year?"
Bit?"
"I look like."
Zhao Shanggang called to the driver and said, "Stop when you get to the door. Teacher Qian and I are going to get off the bus."
"Hey." The driver agreed.
Qian Ming said: "Mr. Zhao, I can just go down by myself. Chunfeng should already be waiting inside..." As he spoke, Qian Ming winked at Zhao Shanggang.
Zhao Shanggang nodded.
At the entrance of Wantong Express Beijing Branch, the black Mercedes-Benz stopped for a moment, and Qian Ming opened the door and got out of the car.
Three cars filed into the company courtyard.
At this time, the old beggar had already run seven or eight meters past the gate of the Beijing branch of Wantong Express. The three young men were chasing after him out of breath, unable to understand such a frail old beggar who looked like he was seventy or eighty years old.
,it turns out
As nimble as a wild rabbit - the old beggar stepped into the scam and quickly won eight or nine hundred yuan in front of so many people, and then got up happily.
Just ran away without even saying hello.
How can these charlatans endure this?
The three young men who reacted immediately chased after him.
The onlookers couldn't help but cheer and cheer - Good guy, I originally thought that this old beggar was also a shill in a gang of scammers, but I never thought that he was actually a chess master living on the street.