Are there any particularly poor people around you who pretend to be richer than anyone else?

No one was dissatisfied with him at that time, but now I still feel a little sad when I think about it.

When I first joined this company, I worked for Lao Fang. When I met him for the first time, I was in awe of him within ten minutes.

"I don't use my mobile phone, so don't look for me after work." After saying a very simple sentence, Lao Fang smiled. I was shocked and quickly looked at him again. Lao Fang is over fifty years old, with a medium build and a slight stout, a straight haircut, simple and neat clothes, and a always calm and calm expression. I'm not a silent person, but I don't talk much either. No matter what I do, I can finish the main points in a few words and then stop talking.

"No, I will put the mobile phone Lao Zhao installed for me in the office." Lao Fang took out the mobile phone assigned to him by his boss and said lightly. In fact, I am also this kind of person, of course the level is much lower, but I also said "oh" twice to what he did, indicating that I understood.

In the subsequent work, I have to admire him: whether it is Italian customers, Japanese customers, or even Indian and Bangladeshi customers, he can communicate directly with them without the need for translation.

He can operate all machine tools and has the ability to process workpieces. Anyone who needs temporary leave or urgent work can finish it by himself. His tool drill bits are sharpened very well, and many master craftsmen have been begging him for help sharpening their tools for a long time. The level of welding is the best in the whole company, no one can compare with him.

The most exaggerated thing is his memory. Although our company does not have many products, with only five or six main products, each product has as few as two to three hundred parts and as many as more than 500 parts, plus There are literally thousands of parts. He could tell at any time how many parts of each type there were and how many were missing just by relying on his memory. This is amazing. We use computers, special software, and spreadsheets, and we often make mistakes. He never missed it.

Sometimes there is a part on the form but you can't find it. Ask him and he can tell you right away where the part is.

With such comprehensive qualities, he is simply a god-like existence. No one is dissatisfied with him. Even his boss is three points shorter than him. He never answers the phone without caring. Laofang is still a man who doesn’t smoke, don’t drink, doesn’t play games, doesn’t socialize, doesn’t gamble, doesn’t talk to lesbians, and goes home after work.

I have a distant cousin who is also in our company and came three years before me. Although Lao Fang didn’t say a word to her except for official business, my cousin was still very happy and talked to me a lot. Lao Fang's legendary life:

Lao Fang is a Hong Konger. After liberation, his father returned to China to participate in construction and was resettled in Shenzhen. Later, in the year when the college entrance examination was resumed, Laofang was the top scorer in the college entrance examination somewhere in Shenzhen. He majored in Latin and took English and Japanese as electives in college. After graduation, I worked as a Japanese translator, and later contracted a factory affiliated with the Geological Bureau, and then joined our company.

Laofang has an ancestral house in Hong Kong and real estate in Shenzhen, and he still gets dividends every year. This is a super wealthy person, and the wealth of the rest of the company may not be as much as his. Laofang is very particular about food. He only eats farm food and drinks mountain spring water.

Every Sunday, he takes his eight-year-old son to run to Guanyin Mountain early in the morning, a round trip of more than 30 kilometers, carrying a large jug and filling it with mountain spring water back home. Many people have witnessed this with their own eyes.

I have not only heard my cousin say the above, but I have also heard it said by countless people. In fact, I know two loopholes: one is that the college entrance examination was resumed in 1978, and his age is not suitable, five or six years behind. The second is that although his Japanese is good, it is worse than mine. I was in Kagoshima After half a year of studying, Lao Fang’s Japanese is clearly not good enough for translation. But I didn’t tell anyone. I just wanted to understand in my heart, and there was no benefit in telling others.

Such a perfect person was found to have embezzled public funds two or three years ago, which was not much, only about 30,000 yuan.

My boss and I both find it hard to understand why people like Lao Fang are greedy for such a small amount of money.

I talked to him once and asked him to get his money back and let it go if he resigns voluntarily. Otherwise, he might call the police. Unexpectedly, Lao Fang said: I will resign, but I have no money. After that, he left, and then he didn't go to work for two or three days in a row.

Are you really not afraid that the company will sue him? We were quite speechless, but he didn't have a phone, so we had to go to his house to find him. We were shocked after we went there. The boss and I stared at each other with our mouths wide open and couldn't close them for a long time.

His house is a very old-fashioned two-story building that belongs to the Geological Bureau. It is very old and dilapidated. His family lives on the first floor, and the surrounding area is relatively empty. His family has opened several small vegetable plots. Lao Fang’s mother is in her seventies or eighties and is in poor health. She still grows vegetables every day and picks some herbs to sell. Lao Fang’s wife is also in poor health and needs to rest and take medicine for a long time. She does housework and takes care of the children every day. Lao Fang’s elder brother The daughter belongs to the daughter-in-law’s ex-husband and is now in high school. It is probably because her tuition is relatively high that the husband is greedy for money; he also has a younger son who is in elementary school.

The income from Laofang is acceptable. In third-tier cities, the monthly salary is 8,000, which is almost equivalent to the income of ordinary two-income earners. But there are five members of his family, two of whom need long-term medical treatment, and the remaining two are studying. It is really difficult for him to rely entirely on him.

Conclusion:

In the end, Lao Fang resigned and the money matter was settled. The boss said: Forget it, if we really go to court, don’t say that we may not win. Even if we win and capture him, what will happen to the four remaining people in his family? Forget it, it's not a big deal, just don't see him again.

I said: Yes, if he is really greedy, it will definitely be more than just greed. After so many years, there was no credit but hard work, so the 30,000 yuan would not matter to him.

I just think he is very incomprehensible. With his ability and quality, if he corrects his attitude, it is very simple to make more income. For example, let's say he works three hours of overtime every day until nine o'clock in the evening - his boss has asked him several times and is willing to give him half the salary, but he is unwilling.

There were also several times when we needed people to go abroad for business, to Italy, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, etc. We needed people with relatively high overall qualities to go, but no one was willing, so in the end the boss had to go alone. If he was willing to go, the subsidies for so many times would add up to hundreds of thousands.

Speaking of which, his life was quite miserable. If Hong Kong people don’t behave like good people, they will come back to Shenzhen. Shenzhen was also pretty good, but he left on his own. Less than three years after he left Shenzhen, Shenzhen began full-scale construction. It was actually possible here. He contracted a factory and managed to get it started, but suddenly he was restructured and laid off. Hey, this is life, everything depends on people and everything depends on God.

Lao Fang hardly boasted about himself. He spoke very little, but he always got to the point and explained things clearly in a few words. Therefore, everyone listened to his words very carefully and was particularly impressed. He didn't deliberately brag about himself. When others were bragging, he would say a few words about himself. His words were very short and not very analytical, but there were countless people who helped him complete the whole thing.

The highest state of lying is: nine sentences of truth and one lie, so that even if others verify it, and verify that a few sentences are true, they will believe them all.

If you don’t fully explain it yourself and let others think about it, it is easy to believe it as long as it comes to you. Even if someone corrects it later and there is sufficient evidence, many people only believe what they think and will not believe it no matter what others say.

These human weaknesses were fully exploited by Lao Fang. Unfortunately, he could not break through his own human weaknesses. His family's life is so difficult, he should be more active, but he chooses to lie down.

Speaking of "people who are extremely poor and pretend to be richer than anyone else", Xiaoqian, who wears mink in summer, definitely deserves the title.

Xiaoqian is my former colleague.

She has an average appearance, average height, average figure, and average business ability, except for one thing that is unusual:

Pretending.

I don’t know if it’s because her low self-esteem as a child was engraved in her bones. When she grows up, Xiaoqian wants to pretend in every aspect.

Let’s briefly analyze it from the four aspects of “food, clothing, housing and transportation”. Clothes

When it comes to dressing up, Xiaoqian is unambiguous.

Every famous brand, trendy brand, or luxury brand is used on the body.

You can’t find a piece of clothing without a logo all over your body.

International brands such as LV, Prada, Gucci, and CHANEL, the bigger the brand pattern, the better.

If there is no obvious mark or logo on this piece of clothing, then for Xiaoqian, it is basically a waste.

To be honest, as a working-class person, I don’t know how much these international brands are worth.

But I learned from her that a pair of Valentino high heels costs four to five thousand.

A few days ago, she wore a strange piece of clothing, just like the air-filled bags stuffed in express boxes to prevent items from being damaged.

A colleague joked: I work part-time delivering express delivery.

She scoffed and condescendingly explained: This is a new air vest from a luxury brand, priced at RMB 26,000.

When I heard this, I was quite shocked.

He walked around her, observing her carefully and marveling.

In addition, she also wore mink in the office during the dog days of summer.

I don’t know how much tens of thousands of dollars that mink is worth;

I only know: if the air conditioner was not effective in cooling, she would definitely suffer from heat stroke. Food

The company is responsible for one meal at noon.

The rice-cooking aunt has superb cooking skills - her fragrant and refreshing fish-flavored shredded pork can make me finish two big bowls of rice without hesitation.

But Xiaoqian never eats at the company.

She once insinuated that her aunt's cooking was "unhealthy", the oil and salt exceeded the standard, and the cooking methods were vulgar and not up to standard at all.

Downstairs of the company, there are coffee shops, ramen restaurants, and dessert shops.

A cup of coffee costs dozens of yuan, a bowl of ramen costs dozens of yuan, and an ice cream ball also costs dozens of yuan.

Xiaoqian ate with gusto.

But this matter cannot withstand scrutiny:

Are those coffee, ramen, and ice cream necessarily healthy and high-quality? Living

I have never visited Xiaoqian’s house, but I know exactly what brand of toilet is in her mansion.

Because she had said it countless times while chatting in the office, and her lips were almost filled with sparks.

Smart toilets, smart homes, luxurious decorations, prime locations...

It’s all available.

It is said that she also has two sets of large flats in the old city and the development zone, both of which are more than 180 square meters.

When other colleagues questioned her bragging, she immediately sat upright and spoke out with justification about how powerful her family background was and how rich her boyfriend's assets and financial resources were.

Everyone is convinced, or pretends to be convinced. OK

Although she commutes by public transportation (subway, bus), she has a deep prejudice against cars priced below 300,000 yuan.

If you buy an entry-level Mercedes-Benz, BMW, or Audi, you will be embarrassed to park the car downstairs of your company.

If you let her know, you must accept her scornful comments.

You have to ask her what kind of car she drives or what kind of cars she has at home. She never answers directly, but her arrogant tone and tone make you feel that if you don't drive a Bentley or a Rolls-Royce, you can't live up to her worth. The truth finally came out

Once upon a time, the company was building a team.

Xiaoqian, who has always been dignified and elegant, for some reason, uncharacteristically let herself go and danced squarely on the KTV table while drinking.

After the team building was over, she lay on the KTV sofa, sleeping soundly and sweating.

Seeing that no one wanted to take care of her, I couldn’t bear it, so I helped her to the door and helped her call a taxi.

Not feeling at ease, I also sat in the back row, planning to take her home.

In the car, a message was pushed to her mobile phone.

I had no intention of peeking into anyone’s privacy, so I just took a glance and saw words such as “high imitation”, “reproduction”, and “1:1”.

Not long after, her cell phone rang.

The call was from her boyfriend. She slurred her words loudly and said that she was almost home and asked her boyfriend to pick her up.

Later, I met her boyfriend who she described as "extremely wealthy and financially powerful" -

A middle-aged man with disheveled and greasy hair, less than 1.7 meters tall. He failed to manage his figure very well. He had a fat brain and a big belly (a bit like the Internet celebrity Ximen Piaopiao). He wore a work clothes with "XX Construction Team" printed on it, pulled a pair of flip-flops, smiled at me, scratched his hair and said "Car" It costs a lot of money, please forgive me." Then he helped Xiaoqian walk home with a look of disgust on his face...Write it at the end

Being poor is not terrible.

No one is born rich and powerful. Everyone has risen from poverty to the top of their career step by step through hard work.

Therefore, it is no big deal to admit that you are poor and face your difficult situation - you can even understand your position more clearly and motivate yourself to move forward bravely.

The terrible thing is, poverty and vanity. Packaging your poor heart with those expensive external things (not sure whether they are true or false) will not only not make any progress in your life, but will also make you lose yourself in a materialistic society.

Are there any particularly poor people around you who pretend to be richer than anyone else?

I once met a man from Bangladesh who was so awesome that he even boasted about the Great Northern Wilderness! ha!

Bangladesh is very poor and backward. Of course there are rich people, but the person I know is definitely not a "rich second generation"!

But he insisted that he was a rich second generation. He said that his father was a doctor in Bangladesh and his family opened several pharmacies and several large supermarkets.

Every year his father would buy him a car. During Ramadan, his father would buy many cows and give them to poor families.

Later, one of his fellow villagers told me that this man's father was indeed a doctor, but he was a "traveling doctor". To put it bluntly, he was a "quack doctor" who had no medical qualification certificate at all!

His family does not have a pharmacy at all, let alone several! Even if it is medicine, it is also a herb from the mountains!

There are no large supermarkets in Bangladesh. His family just has a "supermarket" that is more of a small shop than a small shop!

In short, there is no truth at all from this person, it is all "bragging" lies!

He actually rented a house with more than a dozen people. He was very frugal on food and drink. He showed himself to be very wealthy in front of outsiders. He dressed in discounted fashion and wore a Sunglasses “make up” the rich second generation!

I find it quite ridiculous. Such people live a very tiring life, living in a world of lies every day and constantly disguising themselves. Most people in Bangladesh are like this. They are very poor. When they come to a new world, they are afraid that others will look down on them, so they try their best to "whitewash" themselves!

If I believed you, I would really be a "fool"!

There are really people around me who don’t have money to pretend to be rich.

He is my husband’s friend named Zhuang. He hangs out in the circle of friends all day long. He eats with this one today and treats that one to a drink tomorrow.

We have been friends for ten or twenty years and we all know each other well, but we just don't understand each other clearly. We slap the fat man in the face every day, and later give him the nickname "Fat Zhuang".

He likes to play with rich friends, but his family is too poor to afford it, so he tries to get a credit card, overdrafts, and has no fixed income, which also brings him a lot of trouble. Later, when the credit card cannot be paid, he will Continue to apply for another card, and repay the money after switching. The limit of 10,000 to 20,000 is not enough for his turnover. I worked nonstop and applied for cards from all major banks almost once. Every time I went out, I made a numbered purchase. The repayment date was recorded on the card, and there would be interest for overdue payments, so I lived in the days of repayment every day. Inside, I glanced at a dozen or so young people. They demolished the west wall and mended the east wall every day. If they were careless, the holes would get bigger and bigger.

When he couldn't exchange for the credit card money, he would find a way to borrow it from relatives and friends. Even if it was the first time, he would not have time to pay it back, and there would be no chance to ask again. In the end, none of his friends would lend him this bottomless pit. If he doesn't have money, he just spends some time. He also pursues a high-quality life. He drinks three to four hundred small tea leaves every day. Every time he sees the cup in his hand, he is soaked to the brim. This tea must not be cheap. When we met, we first came to smoke "Huazi". He was wearing a sports brand, his children were in various specialty classes, and he had to drive when he went to the toilet. Last time I saw him tell his husband that he wanted to change his car and replace his Audi Q5L with his current Volkswagen Tiguan. This is another person I saw driving a new car! Who will make up for the difference of hundreds of thousands? Is your credit card not maxed out?

My husband felt very uncomfortable after hearing this, thinking that you borrowed 10,000 yuan and I haven’t paid it back for two years. I didn’t know why you had the nerve to ask me to change my car! Every time I asked him to pay back the money, he said it would be soon, and I was speechless to him again and again. With these ten thousand as a foreshadowing, I didn't ask to borrow money again in the past two years.

I can’t wait for my friend’s money, but I can’t afford to wait for the money I owe from outside. I haven’t seen him for a while during the Chinese New Year. Later I found out from another friend that he was beaten by debt collectors. I heard It was very serious. I didn’t even look at him for the sake of face and didn’t want to pick up on his shortcomings. It’s also difficult to cry when it comes to money. You still have to make up for your own holes and no one else can help you. You probably owe the bank one or two hundred thousand for what you spent in the past few years. Such people are not pitiful and even more annoying.

Nowadays, he often hangs out in the "circle of nobles" and cannot extricate himself. I really hope that a heavy rain will wake him up.

Thanks for the invitation

That’s me. Among the five brothers and sisters, I am the poorest and the most generous.

This is a matter of personal character. I am one of those people who spends money lavishly. You have to buy better things when you buy them, maybe because stock traders are more generous. I wonder if you stock traders are as generous as me?

Although I lost some money by stock trading, I spent the money without hesitation.

In the past few years, I have become very old and have few friends. I rarely meet this type of friends.

Especially with the development of the times, it is not easy for this kind of people to pretend to be rich. The luxury cars of really rich people are driving around so brightly, and you are always blowing them with your mouth while riding a big electric donkey. Being rich isn’t that big of a deal, it’s hard to pretend.

But it seems that the further forward in history, the more such friends there are. I have met several such people in my life.

When I was a child, I had a friend, who was only about ten years old at the time. In the early 1980s, we were both children from the countryside, with little experience and little experience of having two yuan. This little friend initially said that he had a TV at home, which was enviable enough.

Children climb trees, jump off walls, bounce glass balls, and throw bricks and tiles. There are many games and little verbal exchanges. However, such people prefer to exchange ideas and have extremely rich imaginations. , but at that time, the media was underdeveloped and the channels for accepting ideas and knowledge were not wide, so this little friend first said that his family had a TV and a tape recorder, and then he described all kinds of delicious food he had eaten. In the end, there was really nothing to brag about. He also told me that he had met Sun Wukong and was friends with Sun Wukong. Of course it was a distant relative of his who didn't live nearby.

I am willing to play with him, even if he takes away half of my popsicles in summer and half of my whip in winter. It seems that Brother Xun loves Runtu. He always tells all kinds of great legends without any foreshadowing, bringing me into thrilling and bizarre situations. I forgot to question it, in fact I still feel that the time I spent with him was worth it. I always thought people were just a big lump of carbs. The truth is not important, the moving people are important.

As an adult, this friend became a relatively famous local poet, but he died of an unknown illness at the age of 40.

When I was young, I heard some colleagues talk about a friend of theirs who was also a teacher, but a teacher who did not do his job properly and always asked for leave and did not go to work. They said he was lying even when he breathed, and he was always asking colleagues and friends to borrow money. Because I also have low-level tastes, I later looked for opportunities to get to know this person.

But his bragging has always been very vulgar. It is nothing more than drinking and eating roast chicken skeletons in the snack bar, while talking about some inspirational legends about hard work, how to counterattack with silk, and how to meet rich people. The widow had an epic love story.

The media was already very developed back then, and the TV could watch more than 30 channels, so I listened to him, persuaded him to drink, and stared at his dirty street-stall shirt, which cost $18 in platinum flowers. Cigarette, I just thought the bootie was a bit funny, but I wasn't attracted by it. We only had three or four contacts, and then we never saw each other again.

The last braggart I know after middle age and old age. A diabetic patient in his fifties who spent time in prison when he was young. Now single, renting an apartment. Wearing a black vest and a top hat like Xu Wenqiang's. Every evening when I was walking in the park, he would often tell me loudly about the legends of his youth when he scored three and captured five, or some interesting anecdotes about the world. Because he dressed weirdly, I always deliberately stayed a little away from him when I was walking, for fear that the villagers would think I was weird too. Later, he had more time, and he would accompany me whenever I went for a walk. Seeing that he was actually living in a difficult situation with no fixed income, I would occasionally treat him to a barbecue, or bring him some unwanted appliances, household items, firewood, rice, oil, and salt. , I gave him my old clothes. After three or two years of getting to know each other thoroughly, he began to gradually take the initiative to ask for money and things. If I refused occasionally, he would get angry and sarcastic, and would even punish me by not taking a walk. , I stopped talking to him for a year and a half.

A braggart, or a poor person pretending to be rich, if not to deceive, is really just trying to prove or assume his or her worth. Everything they do is to gain respect from others.

Sometimes I think this is a mild mental illness. Throwing yourself into hypothetical situations is not only an escape from the painful reality, but also a happy short life. If you can really get happiness, the price/performance ratio is very high.

He is obviously a child who plays with my son, but his mother only occasionally comes to pick him up, and usually just asks us parents to drop the child off.

He lives in the next courtyard and only met his mother a few times. She always called her on her mobile phone and talked about millions of dollars in business, acting like a big boss.

After a while, she started to let her son play at our house, saying that she would pick him up in the evening, but when it was time for the child to go to bed, he still didn’t come. I wanted to send the child back to her home. The child said that there was no one at home and he could not enter the house without a key.

The child stayed at my house for two days before she picked him up.

Later, when I talked with the mothers around me, one mother said that this was still good. Once, Ming Ming stayed at her place for five days. It was said that his mother went abroad to attend a conference, and when her mother came back, she gave it to her as a gift. A pizza is a reward.

Obviously the clothes my mother wore were of ethnic style, but I couldn’t tell how much they were worth.

Ask the child what her mother does. The child always points to the tallest building next to her and says where her mother is, but the words are different for each person.

Gradually, some people understood that things were not simple. Once they met Mingming's grandma and asked her what Mingming's mother was busy with. Her grandma angrily said that she was busy at home looking at her mobile phone. It turned out that Mingming's mother used to work in pyramid schemes.

With the country’s crackdown, MLM can no longer continue, and she is penniless and relies on her grandma’s subsistence allowance of a few hundred yuan a month to survive.

But I have to admire her for educating her children so that they can eat and drink in every house without being outsiders at all. It’s really shameless to eat enough. Talk about nonsense one after another, today in the United States, tomorrow in Japan.

Yes, and a lot.

This kind of person would rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle. He is very hypocritical and hateful. Pretend to be rich, dress like a dog, dress up in a flashy way, don't eat cowhide and can't speak. In fact, it's just a piece of skin, empty frame, with nothing inside, and you can't come up with money at the critical moment.

I am surrounded by very rich people, who are not only low-key and simple, but also cry poor when nothing happens [face covering]

No, I didn’t see it, but they are all rich and poor. There are so many people, no one brags about how they are rich, maybe there are no such people in the work environment, but some people are easy to dress, some people are good to eat, and some people are not good to eat or wear, so they just want to buy a car. Everyone has their own hobbies, no one is bragging, they all live in the same place, so who doesn’t understand anyone?