C2 Borrowing money

"Hello, Zhao Fei, I told my dad, but he doesn't agree..."

I listened to Zeng Hong's words on the phone. Her tone was still so polite, but I just sneered and said, "Okay, forget it if you don't agree. Your family doesn't owe me anything. I will move out with my mother as soon as possible."

I hung up the phone and leaned against the wall. I had already packed up the things in the house. I knew that I would definitely move out. Although this house is broken, it is my home for more than 20 years. It is full of my memories and feelings. I leaned against the wall and looked at the old electric fan. My heart was blocked and tears fell all of a sudden. I knew that I was going to leave my home.

As for Zeng Hong, I have no right to hate her. I have to thank her. It was she who made me see the reality clearly. I was marrying up. I am indeed just the son of a driver and I am not qualified to be friends with her.

I took out a pack of cigarettes from my pocket. When I was a kid, I often bought cigarettes for my father. This time was the same. I took out a few cigarettes, lit them and put them in the incense burner. I said, "Dad, we all have to go. You lived a life of fear and trembling, reluctant to eat and drink, and the only time you were passionate, you also lost your life. But it's not your fault. Your research is not wrong, but you are obsessed with it. You don't let me gamble on stones. This time I may not listen to you. I have nothing left and can only gamble tomorrow. I also want to prove that your theory is correct with practical actions. Maybe I will have a chance to get rich overnight in the future. At that time, I will burn a luxury car for you. I have driven luxury cars for others all my life, so I must have one for myself."

I lit a cigarette for myself. It was the first time I smoked in my life. I took two puffs, stood up, and left the house, leaving this home where I have lived for more than 20 years.

My mother and I moved to my grandpa's house, but when I went back, I was looked down upon by many people. My grandpa still scolded my father, saying that my father was useless when he was alive and that he would cause trouble for the family after his death. I was very dissatisfied, but he was my grandpa and I had to listen to him.

However, what I couldn't stand the most was my aunt, who was a rural person. She was very unhappy that my mother and I would live permanently in the future. She always said a few words to mock my mother, saying that my mother didn't have the fate of getting rich overnight, so she shouldn't dream about it. She also told me not to think about good things anymore, but to finish college and find a job, and to pay back the money.

I didn't plan to live a serious life in the future. If I fell, I had to get up from there. I wanted to make a fortune by gambling on stones. Even if I would end up like my father in the future, I would accept it.

I didn't plan to live in my grandpa's house permanently. I wanted to live on campus, which would also make it convenient for me to work.

I was ready to leave that day. During breakfast, I said to my uncle, "Uncle, lend me two thousand yuan..."

Before my uncle even said anything, my aunt said, "I'll lend it to you. Can you pay it back?"

This sentence choked me out. I couldn't stretch out my chopsticks. I put down my bowl and chopsticks, turned around and left without saying a word. It doesn't matter if others look down on me, but it's worse to be looked down upon by your own relatives than to die.

I went back to school, Kunming University, which is one of the best universities in Yunnan. After returning to school, I had no intention of studying. I owed a lot of money outside. My father owed 50,000 yuan for his funeral. I had to find a way to pay it back. I had to buy a house, no matter how big or small, so that my mother and I could have a place to live. This would cost hundreds of thousands of yuan.

If I wanted to turn things around, I had to rely on gambling on stones.

"Hey, Maozi, what are you doing? Are you going out for a drink?"

"I have classes, so I won't go..."

"Hey, Fatty, come out for a barbecue, I'll treat you..."

"No, save the money and live your life slowly, you have a lot of problems at home..."

I hung up the phone, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, and stomped on it twice. These classmates probably knew that I asked them out to borrow money, so they were scared. I can't blame them, because their money is not given for nothing.

You need capital to gamble on stones, and now I need it the most. I only have a few coins in my pocket. If I don't borrow, I won't even see the sun next week. I'm really at the end of my rope.

"Zhao Fei, have you finished your family affairs?"

I heard a sweet voice and looked back. It was a girl, not tall, small, dark skin, glasses, curly hair, good looks, delicate nose, slightly pursed cherry mouth, fleshy, very tactile, wearing shorts, although the legs are short, but very slender, a well-proportioned figure.

She is Xuanling, the monitor of our class. I don't like her very much. She always looks at everyone as a big sister. Her concern is only mobile, not from the heart. In college, people are mature, so-called friendship is utilitarian, I think Xuanling is the same, she came to care about me, just to build momentum for the election of the student union president next year.

I nodded and prepared to leave. She pulled me and said, "Now that you're done, study hard. You haven't come these days. I have the instructor's notes here. Take them home and study them. The exam is coming up soon. Don't fail."

I looked at the notes she handed over. I didn't have the heart to study anymore. I looked at Xuan Ling and said, "If you really want to help me, just lend me some money."

I looked at Xuan Ling sincerely. She hesitated for a while, but finally lowered her head and said, "How much do you want?"

"Two thousand..."

My words surprised her. Two thousand yuan is not a small amount for college students like us, but she still took out her wallet from her handbag and gave me one thousand yuan. She said, "That's all. This month's living expenses..."

I held it in my hand and felt very happy. Although it was a bit embarrassing to borrow money from a woman, I said, "I will definitely pay you back."

After that, I left. I wanted to make a comeback. Although one thousand is a little bit, I will take it slowly. As long as I make a comeback, ten thousand or a hundred thousand is nothing.

I bought a high-speed rail ticket at noon and rushed directly to Ruili. When people are obsessed with ghosts, they don't care about anything. I just want to make a comeback.

When I arrived in Ruili, I went directly to Jiegao gambling stone street. Jiegao is the largest jadeite raw stone distribution and trading center on the border between Ruili and Myanmar. Half of the jadeite in the country is wholesaled from here.

I didn't go to Lao Niu's store. I didn't know where that grandson ran to, but there are many stores here. I found a relatively large one because I was afraid of being cheated.

Dachang gambling stone store is relatively large. There are people sitting at the door. I walked in. There are finished product areas and raw stone areas. I didn't stay in the finished product area and went directly to the raw stone area.

There are many shelves in the raw stone area, one row after another, and they are all raw stones. The so-called raw stones are stones dug out from the jadeite ore mountains or rivers in Myanmar.

These stones are the original prototypes of jadeite. The transparent green jadeite you see is cut from these raw stones.

Near the raw stone area, the sound of friction is endless, and there are many people gambling on stones. These stones are all without windows, which is called "covering the head" in the industry. They are very cheap, and you can buy one piece for a few hundred yuan. They are the lowest-grade goods. The ones with windows are very expensive. If you open a window on a fifty-yuan stone and the window is green, you can increase it by a hundred times.

These raw stones are sold by size. The largest one weighs dozens of kilograms, but it costs hundreds of thousands. I can't afford it. I touched the money in my pocket and found only 700 yuan. I had to leave 300 yuan for the high-speed rail ticket. So I looked around for the raw stones I could afford and finally found them. I looked at the raw stones in front of me that were only the size of an egg, and I felt very unhappy. The cheapest one cost 500 yuan, and it was only the size of an egg...

I couldn't care so much, so I had to take a gamble. I started to select those egg-sized materials. I didn't rush to make a decision. Experienced people in the gambling stone industry know that if you look more and buy less, you will definitely not suffer a loss.

I have to choose a site first. There is a saying in the gambling stone industry: If you don't understand the site, you can't gamble on stones. The so-called site is the site where jade is produced. The raw stones of each site can produce different goods. If you want to subdivide, there are dozens of them. There are 28 large factories and 8 small factories. They are also divided into new factories and old factories. It is very complicated.

I saw a piece of material with a yellow skin. It was very small, pointed at both ends, round in the middle, less than one pound. I knew at a glance that it was a typical small material from Damakan, "Yiwoji". This kind of material is very easy to sell. I picked it up and saw that the skin was very thin. I used a strong light to shine inside. It was very transparent, but it was difficult to tell whether there was any goods inside. In a word, the color is mixed with the skin, the color is wrapped in fog, and the skin and flesh are difficult to distinguish.

But I made up my mind to gamble on this stone. My father's research experience said that if the Damakan material is thick and foggy, it cannot be gambled. The bottom gray water is short, the green is often blue, and there is no rebound force, but this material is the opposite, so it can be gambled.

I took the stone to the counter to settle the bill, which was 500 yuan. They opened the bill and asked me to line up. There were many people betting on stones, and the stone cutter was too busy.

As I walked to that station, I suddenly heard someone shouting, "Haha, it's increased. Full-color bean green material, more than 200 kilograms, this must be more than 20 million, fire it, fire it quickly."

I listened to the shouting and looked up. There were two big stones on the ground, which were split from the middle. There were all bean green materials inside. I was very jealous. The raw stone of this material was at least 2 million, but after this cut, it was full of material, and it was bean green. It was sold on the street for 20 million. It would be great if it was mine, but unfortunately I have no money.

"Bang bang bang..."

A burst of firecrackers sounded from outside. I saw a boss handing out red envelopes. Damn, there were more than 1,000 yuan in the red envelopes. He gave out more than a dozen, and everyone was circling around him. It was so fucking impressive.

I held this egg-sized rough stone tightly in my hand. Damn it, whether the egg lays the chicken or the chicken lays the egg depends on you. I want to be as glorious as this in the future.