High-quality author list 4 classmates had a dinner, but after the meeting, I blocked 3 friends and never corresponded again.
On Monday, I decided to take two days off, coinciding with the Qingming Festival on Wednesday, so I could stay at home for a total of three days.
Due to the early progress of this year's Qingming Festival, our family completed all the preparations for Qingming on Tuesday, so Wednesday became a day for me to have a good rest.
However, something unexpected happened on Tuesday night, and I was pulled into a small group of four people, including me. The other three members were my closest friends in junior high school.
Zhang Wei, Chen Teng, Ma Mingming, these three people and I spent a good time from elementary school to junior high school, and our relationship is very deep. However, after graduating from junior high school, they chose different paths, some entered a job, some chose a vocational school, and some entered high school, and gradually contact became scarce.
I'm 30 years old now, and the last time I got together with these three friends was on my 20th birthday 10 years ago. Time flies.
In the small group, Zhang Wei played the role of the group leader, and he suddenly took me aback and invited me to go out to the county seat for supper and drink wine at night. I quickly replied with a smiley face and asked curiously, "How did you know I was back?" ”
Zhang Wei immediately responded: "It's Qingming Festival these days, I guess you must have gone home to sweep the tomb." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Teng and Ma Mingliang also became active in the group, posting love packets and messages, saying that the three of them were all there and would come out to play together at night.
Naturally, I am very happy to have been invited by these three friends. I haven't seen him for ten years, and the feeling of longing arises spontaneously. I've been wandering for years, and I'm also eager to meet my old friends, listen to each other's stories, and have a good drink.
However, a simple party made me very disappointed, the reason is that things are wrong, everyone has changed, and some of the things they asked me to do also made me very repulsive, and the day after the meeting, I quit the group chat and blocked them.
I say this because all three of my friends have done three things that I look down on.
When Zhang Wei invited me to work with a business, he actually wanted me to help him solve a failed investment. In the second half of last year, Zhang Wei and his partners bought a large number of machines and rented the space, planning to produce masks and sell them, claiming that it would be a good project to make money. However, the project has struggled due to declining demand for masks in third-tier small cities and rural areas.
Then, one day, Zhang Wei told me that although the current domestic sales are not ideal, he has foreign channels and there are still sales opportunities. His partner has given up and now he is looking for a new partner. Since we have been friends for many years, he first thought of me and wanted me to join the project, because good brothers should share both good and bad things.
Curious, I asked Zhang Wei why he didn't continue to run the project himself, and he explained that there was a shortage of funds and that an additional 200,000 yuan was needed to pay for the rent of the venue and the rental of equipment upfront. He assured me that as long as I was willing to invest 200,000, I could double it within a year and earn 400,000.
But when I heard about the rate of return, my heart suddenly chuckled. Although I am not a smart person, years of social experience have taught me that if a project only needs 200,000 yuan and can earn 400,000 yuan in a year, then it should have been discovered and joined a long time ago, and there would be no need to find a friend I haven't seen for ten years. Moreover, if it is really so easy and sure to make a profit, then Zhang Wei should not look for me, but do everything he can to raise funds, and even let relatives and friends join in.
After returning in the evening, I learned through many inquiries that Zhang Wei had already rented the venue, and the rent of the machine had been paid, but it was only because the sales did not go smoothly and caused a loss. Lately, he has been trying to find a partner to get out of this economic predicament.
My former friend Ma Mingliang has always been silently fond of my cousin, who is a year younger than me. When we were high school students, he never confessed to me until we both graduated.
Unfortunately, my cousin had already gone to college at that time, while Ma Mingliang was still living in his hometown. After a period of time, my cousin also found her other half, and the two have already entered the palace of marriage.
Recently, Ma Mingliang made another puzzling request for me to ask my cousin out. I thought he was joking, so I reminded him that my cousin was already married and had children.
However, Ma Mingliang took a sip of wine calmly and told me that he and my cousin kept in touch on WeChat, and even said that my cousin and her brother-in-law were not in a good marriage, often quarreled, and had fallen into a semi-divorced state. Therefore, he wanted to be able to meet my cousin, have dinner and talk about his heart.
I tried to control my anger at this unexpected request, and could only vaguely say that I would not talk about it that night, and at the same time strongly advised him not to have such thoughts. Although the cousin has friction with her brother-in-law, after all, she is a person with a family, and Ma Mingming's actions are really unacceptable.
Late at night, Chen Teng borrowed money from me, which was completely different from the situation of Ma Mingliang and Zhang Wei. Chen Teng just reminisced with me, did not mention the things that made me unpleasant, just kept drinking with me, reminiscing about the past and praising our friendship.
He complimented me a lot on my drinking, praising me for a good job in a big city, having bought a house and a car, and being promoted to director. I just waved my hand modestly and explained that the car was second-hand, the house still had a 20-year loan, and the director was just a name, and he was still working.
However, no matter how humble I was, Chen Teng kept toasting and behaved humblely. After checking into the hotel in the evening, Chen Teng sent a message that bluntly stated his predicament. In the past six months, he has lost a lot of money playing cards in his hometown, his foreign debt has reached 80,000 yuan, and his family relationship is also in jeopardy.
He begged me to lend him 50,000 yuan and promised to pay it off by the end of the year. However, I have always had two principles of borrowing money, namely medical treatment and children's education, and basically no help in other situations. I know that gamblers are not accurate, and trust is also a problem after the economic crisis. If it was really possible for the people around Chen Teng to lend him money, he wouldn't need to look for me late at night.
Therefore, I frankly rejected Chen Teng in the text message, saying that I had no spare money. Seeing that I refused, Chen Teng kept lowering the amount of the request, from 50,000 to 30,000, then to 10,000, 5,000, and finally even mentioned 200 yuan, but I chose not to respond.
The next morning, thinking back to the three events that happened last night, I felt that one was more outrageous than the other. From obviously being a trap but trying to pull me in, to trying to destroy my cousin's family, and finally borrowing 50,000 yuan directly from me. I haven't seen each other for ten years, and these three people have long since ceased to regard me as a true friend, but as an object of profit.
People, as expected, will change. Since these three people don't regard me as friends, and even have character problems, there is no need for me to continue associating with them. After much consideration, I resolutely quit the group of four and blocked the three best friends from the past. The rivers and lakes are far away, and we hope to meet again.
Let the good memories of your youth be sealed in your heart forever, and no longer be influenced by the interests of adults. I wonder what you think of my decision?