At a time when mobile phones were also called "Big Brother".
I don't remember if it was Saturday or Sunday, but I took my daughter out shopping and came home for dinner. Not long after, the landline at home rang, and it was my good friend who called. She's already called N times because I don't have a cell phone and can't reach me.
My friend got two tickets for Luo Dayou's concert, because she had a vacation event, the concert could not go, did not want to make the ticket void, asked me to go to see?
She told me that the family had gone on vacation and that the concert tickets were at the neighbor's house.
It was raining, looking at the time, it was only more than an hour before the concert started, I couldn't care about eating, I immediately took my daughter to my friend's house with an umbrella, knocked on the neighbor's door, and got a ticket for the concert.
We quickly took a bus to the Shenzhen Stadium, where the stadium was already crowded with people, and the loudspeakers were loudly broadcasting the advertisements for the concert.
I took out my concert ticket and looked at it in my hand to see which door I was going to enter. I have been in a hurry and have not taken a serious look at the seat number.
The location is good, the center of the first few rows, each ticket is written 728 yuan.
Some of the many people in the square are waiting for refunds, and a small number of people are ticket sellers. As we walk through the crowd, people keep asking: Do you want a ticket? When I took out my ticket to see it, I was surrounded by several people and asked me if I could refund the ticket?
I suddenly had an idea to refund the tickets for the concert.
I wasn't interested in concerts, I just didn't want the tickets to be voided.
I told my daughter about this idea, and of course she didn't want to. I did her job and said I could refund a few hundred yuan, I could buy her what to buy... The daughter agreed.
By this time it was already dark and the concert was about to begin. I held the ticket above my head and shouted: Who wants the ticket?
Immediately, several people gathered around, bargained, two tickets with a price of more than 700 yuan, and the ticket seller bid for 500 yuan to deal.
The ticket seller took out five black, four-person front-page 100-dollar bills and handed them to me. I took the money and immediately threw it at him, saying: You are counterfeiting!
Because the afternoon before I saw a report in the Shenzhen Evening News in the office, specifically about this version of the counterfeit currency, as soon as I saw this money, I had vigilance, so I immediately reacted.
The ticket seller exchanged five red hundred-dollar bills for me, and I said, "You can't fake this money, right?" He said assurances would not be. I touched it, looked at it again in the dim light of the square, then put it in my pocket and gave the ticket to the ticket seller.
The ticket seller also said, Miss give a taxi money, I live outside the Guanwai, go back late there is no bus. I don't know which nerve was wrong, but I gave him twenty yuan for the car, including a few coins.
The rain was still falling, and we came to the bus stop on the side of the road to wait for the bus. I took out the five hundred yuan of the refunded ticket to check it again, in fact, I could not recognize the authenticity of the money.
I came up with a way to compare the money given by the ticket sellers one by one under the street lamp with a hundred yuan from my wallet and asking my daughter to hold it in my hand.
As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of the goods, and this comparison will find that the five sheets are all counterfeit money.
I was a little flustered, thinking that the ticket seller was going to sell the ticket, and it wasn't just my ticket, so it shouldn't be so fast. My daughter and I hurried back to the square to look for the ticket sellers.
After a few turns in the crowd, the daughter found the ticket seller, who was holding two tickets in his hand.
I strode up to him, snatched the ticket from his hand, and then threw the 500 yuan counterfeit in his hand and said, "Look at you who looks like a dog, you are doing such a thing."
The ticket seller looked back at me and said, Miss, those two tickets are not yours, your ticket is here. After saying that, he took two more tickets out of his trouser pocket and handed them to me. I took the ticket and looked at the seat number, which I had just returned to him, so I returned the other two tickets to him.
The ticket seller turned to leave, and I shouted, Stop! The ticket seller was stunned, and I said that I still didn't give me the money for the ticket I gave you. The ticket seller took it out of his pocket again and gave me a handful of notes and coins. I can't think of counting whether it's enough for 20 yuan, so get out of there.
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It's completely dark! Luo Dayou's singing came from the stadium, and the concert had begun.
I hesitated, should I go in and see it myself, or refund the ticket?
Two young girls came over and wanted to refund my ticket. But when they look at my fare they dare not ask for it, it is too expensive. They asked me if I could be cheaper? I said how much cheaper, they said two hundred, I said no refund.
There were several waves of people asking for tickets, all of which were not traded due to price problems.
Time passed minute by minute, Luo Dayou's singing echoed around the stadium, and the people in the square gradually dispersed. I picked up the ticket and shouted again, who wants the ticket?
Several middle-aged people came over.
A man with glasses looked at the ticket and said give it back to me, four hundred.
I said yes, and at the same time said: You can't give me counterfeit money. He said no.
I took the 400 yuan he had given me, walked with him into a nearby sporting goods store, compared the notes in my wallet, and returned the ticket to him.
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Many years later, when I talked to my daughter about this, I said that if I put it now, I would definitely not refund the ticket, and I would let my daughter go to the concert.
The money from the refund gave my daughter a school bag she liked, and she used it from middle school until she graduated from college. Later, I continued to use it, from south to north to go to many places, but also carried to several European countries, has been used until now.
