Rebirth: I became rich by farming-Chapter 57 - Teasing (410)

Chapter 57 -57: Teasing (4/10)

Chapter 57 -57: Teasing (4/10)

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Mei Mengchen lay on the bed, scrunching his little face into a ball. He spoke with a look of disdain, “Kids in kindergarten just cry. They cry in the morning, they cry at night, they cry all day; it’s so annoying.”

Mei Mengzhen chuckled, “Did you cry too? If all the little friends are crying, don’t you cry?”

Mei Mengchen shook his head, “I don’t cry. What’s there to cry about? Sister said that after eating lunch and taking a nap when school is out, someone would pick me up and take me home, and I would see Sister at home. Why would I need to cry?”

As long as Sister needed him, there was nothing to cry about. He wasn’t one of those crybabies.

“Right, there’s nothing to cry about. It will be the same for us in the future. Sister gets out of school at this time every day, and when school is out, you’ll see Sister at home.”

Mei Mengchen nodded firmly, “Yeah, I know.”

“Other than crying, did anything else interesting happen at school?”

Mei Mengchen thought hard, “No, today was all about crying. The teacher was too busy soothing the kids to do anything else. After eating and a little while later, Brother Tianyu came to pick me up and take me home.”

Today was the first day of school, and luckily, there wasn’t a full day of classes. Lunch at kindergarten was also just a trial to see if the kids could feed themselves, and after lunch, it was an opportunity for the teachers to briefly communicate with the parents. Kindergarten is not the same as home. Eating needs to be practiced at home, because in kindergarten there are so many kids to feed, and the teachers just can’t spoon-feed each one.

But this was not a problem for Mei Mengchen, who had already been able to eat on his own. His biggest issue was that the food simply didn’t taste good. When asked why, he only said, “The school’s food isn’t tasty, but Sister said we can’t compare outside food with home food, and I remember that, so I’ve been good and stuffed it into my mouth.” After he’d stuffed his mouth and drank a big cup of water prepared by his sister, he finally felt a little bit relieved.

The school teachers naturally heard the same kind of response and were speechless. But when they saw Mei Mengchen’s serious eating, they couldn’t say much and just let him continue eating.

Mei Mengzhen couldn’t find out the fun of kindergarten, and she couldn’t find the joy in her life as a high school senior either.

Why could high school seniors be so busy? Either they were taking exams or they were on their way to exams, followed by reviewing and discussing test papers.

Mei Mengzhen was already very adaptable, but she still couldn’t find a trace of joy in her busy studies, even though every day was exceptionally fulfilling.

In just over half a month, Fan Tianyu had gotten his driving license. The speed of this achievement was rather astonishing to her.

“Are you sure you’ve learned properly? Don’t turn out to be a road menace, okay?”

Fan Tianyu rolled his eyes dramatically, “How could that be? It’s just a driving license, how hard could it be?”

Just as he got his license, the phones of the three friends who hadn’t contacted him in a long time started ringing again.

Fan Tianyu instinctively hung up. During this half month, he had called them. They might not be able to do business together anymore, but they had been classmates for four years. He felt that they still had a bond, so he didn’t find it awkward.

But the thing is he didn’t find it awkward, but they did. He had called the three of them, but all calls went unanswered. And in this half a month, not one of them had called back. He wouldn’t believe they hadn’t arranged this in advance.

Since they had chosen not to contact him, what was the meaning of calling now?

The three of them took turns calling, and after several consecutive hang-ups, Mei Mengzhen finally said, “Maybe something happened, they wouldn’t make so many calls for no reason. Why don’t you just pick up?”

Mei Mengzhen had an inkling, guessing that it was about time for them to realize they had been scammed.

And indeed, the three of them realized a while ago that they had been conned. They had been contacting people and trying to find a solution until this very last phone call to Fan Tianyu, when they were pretty much at their wit’s end.

Fan Tianyu didn’t pick up because he thought Mei Mengzhen made sense but because he didn’t want them calling anymore. So, he answered the phone with irritation, “Hello, what do you want?”

Silence came from the other end of the line, no one spoke and Fan Tianyu, becoming impatient, said again, “Hello, talk. If you don’t talk, I’m hanging up.”

After a while, the voice from the phone finally said, “Old Fan, we’ve been scammed.”

Fan Tianyu was stunned on the spot, thinking he had heard wrong. He pressed for confirmation, “What? Say that again, what do you mean you’ve been scammed?”

Mei Mengzhen was now listening intently too. The person explained over the phone, “The person we signed a contract with was a fraud. They were in a hurry to sign the contract just to swindle our money. That person took the money to cover his own debts, leaving us an empty shell of a company. We’ve reported it to the police, but since all the procedures were legally correct, there’s no way to get the money back.”

Because the money was considered an investment, and their contracts were legitimate, it was just that the funds were used to fill the company’s previous losses, which is quite common in the business world. Except, in their case, after filling the gap, the person simply dissolved the company, and now they couldn’t even find him.

Mei Mengzhen, being close to Fan Tianyu’s phone, also got the gist of the conversation and hurriedly whispered, “How much did they lose?”

Fan Tianyu also came back to his senses and quickly asked, “How much money did you guys lose?”

“We three each lost tens to hundreds of thousands. We only spent tens of thousands on the investment shares, but we’ve also put in money and effort during this time. So, all that added up is almost 200,000.”

After being tricked, the three of them had done everything they could before making this call to Fan Tianyu. They felt he was lucky, while deeming themselves unfortunate, and of course, their feelings were mixed with many other emotions.

These emotions gradually twisted their thinking, and they asked over the phone, “You don’t happen to know something, do you? That’s why you didn’t join us when we started investing.”

The question was sudden, but Fan Tianyu quickly caught on, anger rising, “I had nothing to do with this from the beginning. I even don’t know who you signed a contract with. You can’t blame me for your own bad luck.”

The other side mumbled, “But it’s too much of a coincidence, isn’t it? Just when you didn’t join us, we got scammed.”

“What do you mean by ‘just because I didn’t join, you got scammed’? Do I have to get scammed with you for it to make sense? I really didn’t know that’s the kind of people you are. So go ahead, report it to the police, have them investigate me thoroughly and see if I’ve conspired with someone I don’t even know.”

Fan Tianyu wasn’t just speaking out of frustration; he didn’t deserve to be wrongfully accused just because he was lucky enough not to be scammed.

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But, in fact, the three on the other end had already shared their suspicions with the police, who had already investigated and found nothing tying Fan Tianyu to the matter. The three knew that Fan Tianyu was just too lucky, which made them even more resentful. Now, calling him was purely out of a desire to mock him.