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Chapter 590: Chapter 375: True and False_3
Passing through the crossroads, a thin middle-aged woman stood at the sidelines. She looked amiable, though her clothes were old and slightly dirty.
She saw three little girls and, reaching out, stopped them with a request,
"Miss, I’m dreadfully thirsty and would like a drink of water. Could you please buy me a bottle?"
Chen Siyu didn’t think much of it. The education she’d received since she was young taught her that helping others was a virtue, and she was naturally kind,
"I’ll buy it for you."
However, the middle-aged woman, with dignity, handed over a hundred-dollar bill, "I’ll give you money, I’ll give you money!"
Yang Sheng suddenly spoke up, "If you have money, why don’t you buy it yourself?"
Seemingly seeing the puzzled looks from the girls, the middle-aged woman explained,
"I’m too dirty to enter the shop. Could you help me?"
Chen Siyu looked at her and felt sorry for her, "It’s just one yuan, I’ll pay for you."
But the middle-aged woman insisted on paying, so Chen Siyu, with no alternative, accepted the one hundred yuan.
Upon reaching the shop across the street and getting the water, she handed the hundred yuan to the shopkeeper who, after a brief look, pointed out it was counterfeit.
Chen Siyu was baffled, "Why did she give me fake money? Could she be a swindler?"
Her sister, Chen Siqing, sensed something was off. She turned back to take a look and noticed the middle-aged woman eyeing them intently,
"She must be a swindler; luckily the shopkeeper noticed!"
Eventually, she took out her own money, spending one yuan on the water.
"We should confront her. She wanted us to trick the shopkeeper with counterfeit money, and I thought she looked so trustworthy!" Chen Siyu felt annoyed at her good intentions being exploited.
With that, she set out to question the middle-aged woman.
Yang Sheng, who’d been observing with her arms crossed, tugged at Chen Siyu.
"What’s wrong?" Chen Siyu asked.
Yang Sheng shook her head gently, "It’s too late; she might claim she gave you real money and then demand compensation from you."
Chen Siyu queried, "Are people really that bad?"
Chen Siqing suggested, "Should we just run away?"
Yang Sheng retorted, "She’s been watching us the whole time, it’s not a good idea to run; just give me the money."
Saying so, she took the counterfeit hundred yuan, looked at it, and then gave it back to her.
The three girls approached the middle-aged woman, and Chen Siyu handed over the hundred yuan with displeasure,
"Auntie, you gave us counterfeit money!"
The next second, the middle-aged woman performed a textbook face change.
She first berated them: "Who gave you counterfeit money? What’s wrong with you students?"
Then she raised her hand, pointing at them as she howled, "The more you study, the worse you become, swindling money from an old woman, are you even human?"
"Everyone, come and look, this is so unreasonable, they’re swindling my hard-earned money!"
Her cries were loud and drew in a crowd of students who gathered around to watch the scene unfold.
Chen Siyu and the others were visibly embarrassed; girls of their age had never experienced such a scene and were completely at a loss.
Yang Sheng frowned and spoke coldly, "Stop yelling, we’ll give you the money, consider us unlucky."
With that, she slapped out one hundred yuan, flung it directly at the middle-aged woman, and then quickly pulled Chen Siyu away.
Not until they entered the school campus did Chen Siyu vent her frustration, "How can people be like this, it’s so infuriating!"
Chen Siqing echoed the sentiment, "It’s absolutely infuriating!"
"One hundred yuan!" Chen Siyu was incredibly upset. One hundred yuan could buy so many things, and to have been cheated, the injustice felt even more bitter.
Her sister, Chen Siqing, felt the same, both angry and saddened.
Yang Sheng looked at both of them in disbelief; together, the twins were still so naive.
She reached out her hand, "Give me that one hundred yuan."
Taking the counterfeit bill, she flicked it lightly, "One hundred yuan right here?"
The twins opened their mouths in shock, "Huh, isn’t that counterfeit?"
Yang Sheng looked at them as if they were idiots, "At the store entrance, I switched out the counterfeit bill."
