Husband, Spend Some Gold Coins

After a short rest, they continued to climb. Because it was summer vacation, many parents came with their children to climb the mountain, as well as classmates. Looking at the long steps, there were quite a lot of people.

After walking for another half hour, someone set up a stall on a large platform and someone was selling water.

Xie Qi walked over to buy water. When he asked about the price, he found that it cost 20 yuan for a bottle. He was shocked.

Fan Qingyue came over and said, “It’s even more brutal than we did back then. We were so poor back then, and we only sold a bottle for 6 yuan, making profit of 5 yuan.”

Li Siwen saw that Qin Yizhi seemed to be listening, then deliberately said to him: “When they were in junior high school, they used to sell some things, such as wholesale a few boxes of mineral water, and carry them to the mountain to sell. The mountain is a national scenic spot, and foreigners often come to visit. On good days, there will be foreigners buying water with $20 or $100 bills.”

Fan Qingyue said: “I remember this! A foreigner took a 100-dollar bill to buy water. Xie Qi, do you remember? Super tall! It must be more than two meters tall! Of the three of us, your English is better and we can have a good conversation. The foreign guy is really nice. He also taught us where to exchange U.S. dollars for banknotes. At that time, the exchange rate seemed to be almost eight to one. He paid more than 790 yuan, but there was no such advantage later.”

Xie Qi thought for a while and said, “I seem to have some impression, but the foreigner’s English seems to have a dialect, and I can’t understand it. Fortunately, I guessed it, otherwise I would be embarrassed in front of my friends.”

Li Siwen said: “You are smart! Let foreigners see that Chinese people, from uncles and aunts to junior high school students, can all speak fluent English, which makes them look at us with admiration!”

Qin Yizhi: “…”

He unscrewed the cap of the bottle, put the mouth of the bottle against his lips, and drank the water slowly.

Xie Qi thought of something again and said: “Don’t mention it, I seemed to have met that foreigner quite often at that time. He had a wad of US dollar bills in his pocket. Didn’t we also meet him when we went to Donghu to sell fans? We took his money again. A $100 banknote to buy our fans.”

Fan Qingyue chuckled: “I also remembered that he seemed to think that we children were pitiful when we came out to do business. Didn’t he want to give you a few more banknotes? You didn’t want it, you were stupid, the foreigner was rich, why didn’t you accept it?”

Xie Qi said: “After all, the cost of a fan was only 2 yuan, and you charged him 700 to 800 yuan, and then still wanted to charge him several thousand yuan? If so, I was afraid he would react later and file a complaint with the tourism bureau.”

Li Siwen praised from the side: “It was great, you chatted with him in English for so long. No wonder you could score so high in English.”

Xie Qi said modestly: “It wasn’t that good. I happened to use that foreigner to practice my speaking at that time, and he almost made my pronunciation crooked.”

Li Siwen said: “Maybe he came from somewhere or the countryside, I heard that foreigners also have accents when speaking English, and the local dialects are different, but the official English is what we say, straight and nice.”

Xie Qi agreed. “Yeah.”

Fan Qingyue said: “It seems foreigners will go to exchange their own money to yuan in the future, there will be no such good thing. If we sell something again, we will all pay in yuan, which is a pity.”

The vendor selling water next to him said, “Do you want to buy water or not?”

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After chatting for a long time, Qin Yizhi silently drank half of the bottle of water, took out his wallet, took out a hundred-yuan bill, and gave it to the vendor, saying concisely: “Two bottles.”

The vendor quickly collected the money, took the water, gave the change, but Qin Yizhi didn’t want it, instead signaled to Xie Qi to collect it.

Xie Qi was stunned for a moment, then he took the change for him and asked, “You don’t want it anymore?”

Qin Yizhi said, “Well, you can keep it.”

Xie Qi said, “Okay.”

He put the change in his pocket.

Fan Qingyue said beside him, feeling extremely distressed, “Forty yuan for two bottles of water, so cruel.”

Xie Qi said, “It’s okay, we have cheated others like this, it’s called tit for tat.”

Fan Qingyue said, “Then, at that time, the people we slaughtered were all foreigners, unlike the people he slaughtered. When I watched foreign movies, I only watched pirated ones.”

Xie Qi looked at Qin Yizhi. He was drinking water again and asked: “Are you so thirsty? You just drank half a bottle, but you don’t sweat much. There is no toilet here.”

Xie Qi sweated a lot, so he didn’t need to go to the toilet, but Qin Yizhi and the others sweated much less than him and drank so much water. The urge to pee must be big.

Qin Yizhi was silent for a while and screwed back the bottle cap. Xie Qi opened his backpack to him and said, “Put it in. You don’t need to hold it in your hands.”

Qin Yizhi put the water into his backpack but took Xie Qi’s backpack and said in a calm tone, “I’ll carry it.”

“Oh, then I won’t be polite to you.” Xie Qi said this and gave Qin Yizhi his backpack.

Fan Qingyue continued to talk to Xie Qi: “Actually, I have always forgotten to ask you. Didn’t the foreigner give you his contact information at that time? Didn’t you add him?”

Xie Qi had no good memory. He tried to recall it and said, “It seems that it was put in my trouser pocket and was crumbled by the washing machine. It’s okay; his English was average, and it’s useless to learn from him. And what he gave me at that time was an email address. Is that called contact information? Only elementary school students use email addresses.”

Qin Yizhi: “…”

His eyes were cold as he looked at the towering mountains next to him.

Note

Dang, that foreigner, Qiqi was still a minor at that time!!