This vehicle has four doors and six seats, with people in the front and cargo in the back. It is a small truck that separates passengers and cargo. The car drove into the city and went to the slaughterhouse to weigh the pigs. The total gross weight of the four pigs was 940 kilograms. The price at that time was calculated at 4 yuan per kilogram, totaling 3,760 yuan, but the payment was not settled in time.
The father-in-law and a few accompanying people drove off first in the truck. Only Pei Yan stayed. She took the issued invoice and went around to the financial room north of Zaifang to find the cashier and settle the account.
A man inside asked her to wait. After a while, Pei Yan, who was standing at the door, saw a woman in her thirties coming out of the toilet over there, with black hair like a waterfall and a bare face.
The woman walked to the door of the finance room and asked who she was looking for with a smile on her face. Pei Yan said she was looking for the cashier. The woman said, I am the one, can you pay the bill? How much?
Pei Yan saw her enter the finance room and sit down in front of a bright desk, so he gave her the note stamped with Zaifang's big red seal in his hand and said, look, it's a lot of money.
The cashier took the ticket, took a pen and put a check in the blank space on the corner of the ticket, and said enthusiastically, "3760 yuan, I'll pick it up right away." Pei Yan was silent when he saw her take out a thick stack of new bills from the drawer, handed the small stack of counted money to Pei Yan and said, "I'll count it once, you can count it again."
Pei Yan took the new stack of notes. Although it couldn't be said to be her own money, she still felt warm in her heart when she held it in her hand. When Pei Yan counted, she stretched out her fingers to get some moisture from the tip of her tongue to prevent the notes from slipping. She counted twice, each time slower, because her left index finger, which had been injured and had surgery, was not strong enough and she could not use it. After she finished counting, she looked up and said to the cashier, yes.
That's fine. You have to understand that after you leave the house, I won't care if anything goes wrong. The cashier frowned while she was counting the money, but now he smiled at her and warned her.
Pei Yan stuffed the wad of money into the handbag she carried with her, zipped it up, and repeated, yes. After stepping out of the finance room and walking a few steps outside, I heard the man inside say, "That woman, I saw that she was very serious about counting money. She looked at her money again and again, and pinched it again and again with her fingers. She had been doing it for so long. , how could it be wrong?
Pei Yan felt that these words were either a compliment or a disparagement to herself, she couldn't decide. Occasionally, I looked back to observe the man's expression, but he was sitting in front of the table with the account books and immersed in the abacus.
Pei Yan returned home from the county seat by car. Zheng Zheng, who had returned one step ahead of her, was busy unloading pig feed from the small truck with the group of people, and moved bags of pig feed from the front of the house to the warehouse in the pig farm. After finishing her work and seeing her father-in-law clean his hands, Pei Yan took out the new stacks of bills in her handbag and handed them to him and said, Dad, the account is settled, count them.
Boss Hong took the three coins, walked into the room, put them on the table, counted them calmly, and then said to Pei Yan who followed him and stood next to him, yes, it was 3,760 yuan.
Dad, then my work is done. Pei Yan said happily and was about to walk away.
But Boss Hong took out a 50-yuan SGD note from a wad of money and handed it to Pei Yan and said, "If there's anything else, come with me to the Cunbeitou grocery store to buy a 30-yuan box of cigarettes. You can take the change." Wait, no need to give it to me, just give me the cigarette.
Pei Yan took the money and went straight to the village Beitou grocery store. The store owner Hong Jingming greeted her with a smile and asked, "What do you want?"
I buy a pack of cigarettes for 30 yuan, which brand is better?
Hong Jingming looked at the counter displaying various cigarette samples, and was about to introduce a cigarette that she said was moderately priced, but Pei Yan had already thrust the NT$50 note into his hand.
He touched it with his hand and felt something was wrong. When he looked at it carefully, he didn't fully believe his feeling, so he opened the cabinet and took out a spare banknote detector and tried it on the 50 yuan new coin. It made a "squeak" sound. Voice.
Hong Jingming immediately returned the NT$50 note to Pei Yan and said, "This is a fake money. I checked it with you with a banknote detector before I can say this. In fact, as soon as I got it in my hand, I had a feeling. The paper of Zhang Qian is thicker than the paper of real money. Anyway, there are flaws. Why didn't you find it? Where did this money come from?
Pei Yan was dumbfounded when she took the money. She felt like she was fetching water from fifteen buckets. She was restless and said uneasily, "Uncle Jing, I got this money from the cashier of the county town. There are more than one." , a total of 3,760 yuan, which is what our family paid for selling four fat pigs.
oh! Then go to the cashier quickly and exchange it for real money, otherwise, you will suffer a heavy loss! Hong Jingming stated the stakes and looked at her intently.
If all the coins are counterfeit, that's it. But if there's only one counterfeit currency, it's easier to say. Pei Yan said to herself, hoping that the situation would not be so bad. She turned around and was about to leave, but after walking a few steps, Hong Jingming stopped her, "Pei Yan, I'll give you a box of cigarettes worth 30 yuan on credit first!" Just pay me later.
No credit. Pei Yan felt nervous and turned around to leave.
Boss Hong, who is addicted to cigarettes, was waiting for his wife to buy cigarettes and smoke a few to stop her addiction. After a while, Pei Yan came. He greeted her with a smile on her face, but he saw that Pei Yan had one hand empty and the other hand was still holding the cigarette. Zhang 50 Singapore dollars, and walked to the field in front of the house and slowed down.
He didn't know what was going on, so he asked, "Why don't you buy any cigarettes?" impossible! Unexpectedly, Pei Yan walked up to him and knelt down without saying a word, her face gloomy.
What happened? Boss Hong was so confused that Monk Zhanger couldn't figure it out. He pulled Pei Yan up and asked, "What's the matter with kneeling down?" If you have anything to say, tell me quickly.
Dad, this money is fake. Pei Yan held out the 50 yuan note to Boss Hong so that he could see it clearly.
Boss Hong took the money and looked at it. He didn't admit it. He just asked, who said the money was fake?
Uncle Jingming said it. He also checked it with a banknote detector and said it was fake. When Pei Yan said this, the helpers gathered around to look at each other. They all looked at each other, as if they were worried about this matter.
That's incredible. Boss Hong became nervous. As he talked, he went into the house and took out the three wads of money. He put together the 50-yuan SGD coin that Pei Yan returned and handed it to Pei Yan intact, saying that you should go find it quickly. The cashier at the county store refunded real money.
The mother-in-law also knew about this. She pointed at the anxious Pei Yan and scolded, "You are really incapable of doing anything. I have sold pigs several times before and you have never received fake money at the checkout. This is the first time the old man asked you to pick up the sale." Pig money, you will ruin things. So useless...
Pei Yan was already under pressure, and this undoubtedly added new pressure to her. She couldn't explain it, so she had to endure it. She put the three wads of money into her handbag and left in a panic.
The mother-in-law was still nagging about this matter, but Boss Hong stopped her and said, don't talk about it anymore. If Pei Yan doesn't come back in exchange for real money, our family will suffer losses. I'm sorry, I asked Fa Fu to divorce her. He didn't care whether Pei Yan heard it or not, he shouted in a venting tone. Of course Pei Yan heard it, but she just walked out of the place as if she hadn't heard him.
At this time, Boss Hong stopped her again, Pei Yan, if you stay like this, no wonder the cashier gave you counterfeit money. Pei Yan had no choice but to stop, with tears in her eyes, and planned to continue listening to the scolding. Boss Hong did not reprimand her anymore, but told her to get in the family's pickup truck and ask a helper who could drive to take her to the county slaughterhouse.
When passing by the entrance of a commercial bank in the town, the driver stopped the car suddenly and asked Pei Yan to get out of the car and take the money in the handbag to the bank to check to see if it was like what Hong Jingming in the grocery store at the north end of the village said. They are all counterfeit money.
Pei Yan went to check it, but she found trouble. The bank people checked it and said it was counterfeit, and the amount was so large that she was not allowed to take it away and said they would confiscate it.
