Liu Wenling stared at Li Yuzhu like a beast that chooses people to devour: "Believe it or not, I will tear your stinky mouth apart?"

She will never forget this damn woman.

My mother is old.

As this person gets older, he has more ideas.

Every time I was with my mother, she would chatter about illness and death.

Liu Wenling can understand her mother's thoughts. Everyone is afraid of death, especially the elderly. Life is like a mountain of gold that has been mined since childhood. It will be exhausted one day.

Her mother went to the hospital frequently, had check-ups almost every month, and prescribed a lot of medicines. In Liu Wenling's opinion, she was just a meal.

The mother’s original employer can reimburse her.

Most of these medicines are "Compound Danshen Tablets". Liu Wenling checked them one by one according to the medicine instructions and medical records: the effect is basically to nourish the body. In other words, her mother is not seriously ill.

But she just felt that she was sick. Her hands and feet were either sore or numb, or her skin was dry. Even when she woke up in the morning and looked depressed, she thought it was "sick". She didn't even eat breakfast, so she rushed to the hospital to do blood tests.

Liu Wenling always advises: Go out for a walk when you have time, and invite old sisters to travel to other places. I will bear all the expenses for the round trip, as long as you have fun.

My mother was very stubborn and refused to go.

Her philosophy is weird and persistent: going out to play is a waste of money, it is better to stay at home, where food and drink are convenient. What’s more, if you encounter someone with a headache or fever outside, where can you go to see a doctor? No one will know if you die by then.

The community established an activity center for the elderly and used a large empty house as a gym. My mother never went there, and she was not interested in square dancing or the Sunset Red Chorus. She stubbornly believed that she was already so old.

If you still come out to show off, you are simply mentally ill.

Yes, sick!

This concept has long been ingrained.

Li Yuzhu led a group of people to the community to promote and sell "life extension pills".

The scene at that time was very lively, with hundreds of cardboard boxes piled together and a red cloth banner with eye-catching characters on it, "Give love and give back to society."

"Don't miss it if you pass by. This is the most important opportunity in your life. If you take our medicine, you will live longer and stay young like a green pine, forever young."

"Specially hired experts to crack biological codes, target drugs developed for human genetic genes, twenty-three patents certified by the American Drug Research Institute, license issued by Peking University School of Pharmacy, jointly recognized by Tsinghua Institute of Biology, expert on-site guidance, the latest technology of this century

Results.”

"There is nothing cheaper or more cost-effective than this! The manufacturer gives back to the society, and a box only costs 688! Yes, you heard it right, not two thousand, not one thousand, 688, as long as

Six hundred and eighty-eight. Ten boxes provide one course of treatment, and the shortest time is half a course of treatment. It is not an antihypertensive drug, nor is it a cardiovascular drug. It has no side effects, a short course of treatment, and quick results. You will be compensated ten for every fake!"

"A conscientious merchant sells conscientious medicine. I guarantee that you will not regret buying it, but you will definitely regret not buying it. Our slogan is "Prolong life", and wealth cannot buy good health. What are you waiting for? It is better to act now and take it early.

Good morning, even if it is one day, one hour, one minute late, you will regret it."

This group of people changed venues every day for promotion. Sometimes inside the community, sometimes outside, and later they simply rented a store here and opened it directly. There are two floors upstairs and downstairs, with a shop below and a classroom above.

There are many chairs placed specifically for lectures.

Including my mother, many elderly people in the neighborhood have become customers of "Life Extension Pill".

Every morning, the old people come here on time, enter the classroom on the second floor, and listen to the so-called "teaching by instructors."

Liu Wenling came twice with her mother.

The instructors include elderly people, as well as handsome men and beautiful women. What they have in common is that they are dressed in fine clothes, either in sharp suits or in ancient costumes, and have a dignified appearance.

These people speak Mandarin very well, and some even reach the level of announcers. They are very sweet-tongued, and the young ones can't stop calling them "grandparents, grandma, uncle, aunt"; the old ones are familiar with "old brother and old sister". In short, they can't.

It makes you feel alive and has a natural sense of closeness.

Each of them has a great background.

There is a professor from such-and-such university, the chief physician of such-and-such hospital, the president of such-and-such association, and the CEO of such-and-such enterprise.

Liu Wenling clearly remembers that the most powerful one among them claimed to be the "chief health adviser" of the State Council who specially treated the central leaders and was responsible for their daily life.

Old people are easily intimidated by these titles.

Liu Wenling didn't know how to do it, and she scoffed at it.

Chief health adviser to the central minister?

Blow it!

If you really have that kind of ability, how can you come to such a small place and help an unknown company promote its products?

The gang of drug sellers began to break up and started visiting people's homes.

One day when Liu Wenling came home, she saw Li Yuzhu sitting on a chair, holding hands with her mother affectionately.

This woman was so sweet that she kept calling her auntie, and she even brought two handfuls of dry noodles as gifts.

Liu Wenling didn't care at the time. After all, she had to go to work. She was usually busy and had to take care of her children. She couldn't run to her parents' house every day.

Her mother called her later and told her that Li Yuzhu would come over every day to talk to her, and she never ran out of gifts. Sometimes it was a box of eggs, sometimes fresh vegetables, or a small bottle of sesame oil...

Later, she became her mother's goddaughter.

Liu Wenling was actually very unhappy, but there was nothing she could do about it. She told her mother many times: Don’t let unknown people into the house. But her mother just didn’t listen and kept saying: “Little Li is so nice! Come and stay with me when you see me bored.

I talk to relieve my boredom and bring something with me every time I come here. You are my biological child and you only come once a week. What happened to me taking in a goddaughter? What royal law did I break?"

Liu Wenling was left speechless.

Later, my mother started spending money to buy "life-extending pills".

One box, two boxes, three boxes...

One box, two boxes, three boxes...

The expenses also increased day by day, from a few hundred yuan at first to thousands or tens of thousands at a time.

"Life-Extension Pill" is beautifully packaged. It's a big box. When you open it, there's a delicate yellow thick cushion on the bottom. The white pills are stuck in the middle of the groove like a handicraft. There's foam underneath, which looks antique.

Li Yuzhu kept telling her mother: If you eat this, you will be able to live longer and live to be a hundred years old.

Liu Wenling knew she was lying.

Compared with a few decades ago, information sources are now more diverse. In the past, the world was dominated by print media. Newspapers and magazines were the dominant sources, supplemented by television and radio.

Nowadays, social information sources mainly rely on smartphones for dissemination.

The biggest difference between young people and old people is their recognition and identification of correct information.

Liu Wenling knew that Li Yuzhu was engaged in pyramid schemes.

She doesn't want to cause trouble, nor does she want to have anything to do with Li Yuzhu. She just wants to get her mother out of this hole and live a normal life.

But it was too late.

My mother has been brainwashed and stubbornly believes that taking "life extension pills" will help her live longer.

Today, my mother came to buy medicine with her bank card.

Liu Wenling heard the news and rushed over, and then the scene before happened.

…

The people watching nearby were talking a lot.

"What kind of medicine is this? It's so expensive? A box costs RMB 688, which is as much as my family spent on rice for several months."

"This medicine actually has no effect. It's just for self-comfort. Birth, old age, illness and death are the natural laws. If the King of Hell wants you to die at the third watch, who dares to keep someone alive until the fifth watch? Even if you are willing to spend money, you have to wait and see what the little devil takes away from your life.

Don’t accept it!”

"Let's not talk about whether it is really useful or not. As for the attitude of the woman and the drugstore owner, I think it is wrong. Whether to buy it or not is a family matter. You shamelessly went up to the old lady and called her "godmother". I think this is wrong."

There's a problem. Why! I don't believe that anyone nowadays can treat an outsider as a relative, and still keep calling "Mom". If it weren't for money, the devil would be willing to do this."

"It's just that the food looks too ugly. I'm scolding other people's daughters in front of other people's wives, but this mother is also confused... Alas, I have become stupid as I get older."

"What can you buy with tens of thousands of dollars? Why don't you buy this? Life Extension Pill... Haha, the name sounds fake."

"This can't be fake! Six hundred and eighty-eight, so expensive. Good things are expensive, but fake ones are cheap."

Hu Pingtao walked outside the crowd, took out his phone, called the district office, and asked people from the quality inspection and food departments to come to the scene.

This matter is not under the jurisdiction of the police, but falls under the jurisdiction of the Food Safety Supervision and Drug Administration.

After making the call, he walked into the crowd, stood between Li Yuzhu and Liu Wenling, stared at the former, raised his finger to the billboard outside the store, and asked calmly: "Are you selling medicine?"

Although Li Yuzhu had a fierce temper, she felt some instinctive fear when facing Hu Pingtao, who was wearing a black police uniform. She answered in a less aggressive tone and in a much lower volume: "...Yes."

"Take out your business license and show it to me." Hu Pingtao said tepidly.

Li Yuzhu suddenly looked wary: "What do you want to do?"

Hu Pingtao turned sideways and pointed at Liu Wenling: "Since someone called the police, we must find out the matter. This is a normal processing procedure. Please cooperate with me."

Li Yuzhu stood there without moving, with an angry look on his face: "You are not from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, why should you check my business license?"

Hu Pingtao smiled: "As long as you open a store, you must hang a copy of the business license in a conspicuous place in the store. What, don't you understand this?"

The policeman's words still held great weight, and the onlookers also expressed their support.

"That's it, let her come out with the license and take a look."
To be continued...