The speaker was a short man standing aside, with his arms folded in front of his chest, he glanced sideways at Yin Shaowei, curled his lips, and his voice was full of ridicule and joking.
Yin Shaowei immediately stiffened, his face showing extreme embarrassment, and he lowered his head slightly, unwilling to look at his old classmate Xue Chen beside him.
At this time, other idle customers in the store also whispered a few words.
"Oh, I heard that recently there was a man who became addicted to gambling on stones. He was originally a small white-collar worker with little capital, but he spent hundreds of thousands gambling on stones. In the end, he lost nothing and suffered a huge loss."
"Yes, that's him. I saw him when he first came here. He found a good piece of material and sold it for 50,000 yuan. He was stupid enough to think that every stone can make money, not just the 50,000 yuan."
I lost all my money, borrowed hundreds of thousands, and heard that I borrowed money from usurious loans?"
"Oh, he looks very energetic, but his brain is not very bright."
Xue Chen stood aside, listening to the people in the store whispering about the old man next to him who was learning from Yin Shaowei. His eyes changed, and he looked at the old classmate in front of him again, and indeed found that something was wrong with Yin Shaowei's condition.
His hair looked a little messy and shiny, and his coat was full of wrinkles. It seemed that he hadn't changed it for a while. His face was a little unhealthy and pale. At this time, when he heard the comments about him, his lips trembled slightly, and his face looked very unhappy.
nice.
"Shaowei, are they telling the truth?"
He is very popular in activities and is an unofficial deputy monitor in the class. He has assisted Si Ruyu in organizing many activities.
The classmates in the class at that time all thought that Yin Shaowei would be able to do great things after leaving campus because he had strong communication skills, eloquence, and a good personality. However, it seemed that the reality was different from the situation in college.
Yin Shaowei raised his head slightly, forced out a smile with an ugly face, and said: "Forget about this, Xue Chen, let's go out first, find a place, and I'll treat you to dinner."
Xue Chen thought that it would be fine to find a place to sit down and talk slowly. He also wanted to know what happened to Yin Shaowei and how it could become like this.
Just when the two were about to go out, two burly men walked into the store head-on. They immediately stared at Yin Shaowei. The leader had a shaved head and a venomous snake tattoo on his neck. He snorted: "
Yin Shaowei, if I heard you right just now, you said you wanted to treat someone to a meal? Huh, since you have money to eat, why don’t you pay back the money quickly?"
When Yin Shaowei saw the person blocking him, his face tightened and he whispered: "Brother Snake, isn't it the day to pay back the money? Don't worry, when the day comes, I will definitely pay you back the money in full."
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"Hey, can you pay it back? But why do I feel that you can't pay it back? Let me ask you, what do you want to pay back? Now even the real estate certificate is in my hand, can you conjure up money?
"Shekou spat, "Don't say I didn't tell you, Yin Shaowei, if you still can't pay the money when the time comes, then quickly vacate the house and use it to pay off the loan."
Yin Shaowei nodded with an ugly expression.
"Who is this person?" a man who seemed to be a foreign tourist said casually.
"Shhh, keep your voice down. This is Brother Snake. He specializes in loans. He cooperates with more than a dozen stone gambling shops in this area. He specializes in lending money to those who are obsessed with stone gambling. He has more than a dozen people under him.
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"Oh, how many people wanted to get rich overnight because of gambling on stones, so they took out loans from Brother Snake. In the end, they couldn't afford the repayments and lost their houses and cars. As a result, seven or eight wives and children have been separated over the years."
Yin Shaowei's face became paler and paler. He pulled Xue Chen's sleeve and left here as if he wanted to escape. He didn't want to continue to hear the comments around him, but he pulled twice but did not pull. Xue Chen stood there motionless.
Yin Shaowei looked at Xue Chen, his eyes flickering and said: "Xue Chen, let's go."
Xue Chen stood there and did not follow Yin Shaowei to leave. Instead, he raised his eyebrows and asked, "Are they telling the truth? You lost hundreds of thousands to bet on stones, and you also borrowed high-interest loans to pay for the real estate certificate?"
Yin Shaowei closed his mouth tightly and said nothing, but his face was extremely ugly. He slowly lowered his head, his eyes full of regret.
Brother Snake walked in and glanced at Xue Chen, and said in a light tone: "Brother Snake, what I said can be false? He has signed a document. If he doesn't admit it, Brother Snake, I have many ways to get the money back.
Money, no one can refuse to pay back the money that I owe me, not even the King of Heaven!"
Xue Chen sighed and said with some confusion: "How could you be obsessed with gambling and borrow loan sharks?"
He really couldn't figure it out. Yin Shaowei was recognized by his college classmates as a smart person, and he was very eye-catching among the boys in the class. He had only graduated for more than a year, but he had already reached this point, losing hundreds of thousands.
Borrowing a high-interest loan and paying for the real estate certificate, you are already standing on the edge of a cliff!
Yin Shaowei closed his eyes in pain, pursed his lips and said, "Xue Chen, let's go to the door to talk."
"good."
The two of them moved to a quiet place at the door.
Xue Chen looked directly at Yin Shaowei, who looked very decadent at the moment, waiting for him to take the initiative to speak. Yin Shaowei took out a pack of crumpled cigarettes from his pants pocket with trembling hands, took one in his mouth, and handed it to Xue Chen.
Xue Chen usually didn't smoke much, unless he was just showing off when socializing, but this time he took one and started smoking together with Yin Shaowei.
After taking a deep breath of the cigarette, perhaps too hard, Yin Shaowei coughed twice violently, and tears came out of his coughing eyes.
There was silence between the two for a long time, and Xue Chen said: "You went when Yang Guang got married. You probably didn't play stone gambling at that time." He clearly remembered that Yin Shaowei was still normal at that time.
Yin Shaowei smoked down most of his cigarette in one breath, and then spoke in a hoarse voice: "Yes, I started to bet on Hetian jade rough stones after I came back from attending Yang Guang's birthday."
"why?"
The chances of getting rich are really too small.
After another period of silence, Yin Shaowei pinched out the cigarette in his hand, rubbed his tired and pale face with both hands, and said bitterly: "Xue Chen, don't ask, let's go."
"Go? Where to go? Even if I don't ask you, can I not pay back the money I owe that snake brother? I think it will be due soon. If the money is not paid, I really have to pay for the house.
When you go out, where will you live? And where are your parents?"
Every time Xue Chen said a word, Yin Shaowei's face became uglier. When Xue Chen stopped talking, Yin Shaowei was already squatting on the ground, with his hands in his hair, a look of pain and confusion on his face.
Xue Chen stood aside and took the last puff of the cigarette in his hand. He didn't say anything more, but just stayed by the side quietly, looking down at Yin Shaowei.
After a long time, Yin Shaowei said in a low and hoarse voice: "I was really confused for a moment."
"Tell me about it," Xue Chen said.
Finally, Yin Shaowei spoke what was in his heart, and Xue Chen finally understood why Yin Shaowei became like this. What surprised him was that he still had some relationship with him.
When Yin Shaowei attended Yang Guang's wedding, he saw that many of his college classmates were doing well. Some of them, under the care of their parents, entered the government and became civil servants with guaranteed income during droughts and floods. If they were in positions of power, they could also earn some gray income, such as
Yang Guang.
Several other classmates joined their family's companies and factories and became managers, earning tens of thousands of yuan a month and driving cars.
Even students who started their own businesses have achieved great success, and the most typical ones are Xue Chen and Wang Dong.
In particular, Xue Chen drove a 15.6 million Mercedes-Benz luxury car, lived in the most upscale community in Haicheng, and held a high position in the famous Ning Group, which touched Yin Shaowei's heart.
When Xue Chen was in college, he was an ordinary student who was very inconspicuous, while Yin Shaowei was a very eye-catching outstanding student.
But after graduation, I returned to my hometown of Urumqi and joined a mining company. Relying on my good communication skills and work ability, I was promoted to the person in charge of a dozen employees, earning about 10,000 yuan a month.
However, after attending Yang Guang's wedding and seeing his former classmates doing better than the last, he was greatly stimulated and wanted to make a lot of money...
"So you became obsessed with stone gambling and wanted to cut out the best mutton-fat jade and become rich overnight?" Xue Chen asked.
After hearing these thoughts of Yin Shaowei, he didn't know what it felt like. Of course, it wasn't contempt, but he felt a little unexpected.
"In the beginning, I just played for fun. The first time I spent 8,000 yuan to buy three rough Hetian jade stones. I was lucky enough to find a piece of Hetian jade. Although it was not mutton-fat jade, the quality was also very good. I sold it.
Fifty thousand yuan was equivalent to half a year's salary of mine. From then on, I became obsessed with stone gambling."
Betting on stones is not much different from gambling, especially those who are cheating. Wasn't Wang Dong trapped in the past? First let you win a small amount of money. Once you get hooked, you will be completely trapped and will be trapped.
Not even the bones or dregs were left after eating.
"No matter how addicted you are, you shouldn't borrow loan sharks." Xue Chen sighed.
Yin Shaowei stood up, lowered his head and said: "I never thought about borrowing money from usury. Even after losing the last bit of my deposit that day, I decided to stop. But Brother Snake came to me and said that he could lend me money and pay back
He told me that if I gave up now, all my previous investment would be in vain. The owner of this store also told me that he could give me a 10% discount. I couldn't hold it back, so..."
Xue Chen's eyes flashed. Yin Shaowei fell into gambling because of his own fault, but obviously, this snake brother and the owner of this store were also secretly adding fuel to the fire, trying to squeeze out the last bit of oil and water from Yin Shaowei.
"Xue Chen, let's go." Yin Shaowei said.
"Let's go? No, we won't go." Xue Chen squinted his eyes and snorted coldly. (To be continued)