The Workers and Peasants Sixth Village was more or less the same as before.
What surprised me a little was that, while chatting, Director Mao and the others also brought up the scam calls they'd received recently.
"...They called this morning and said not to forget our appointment today. I spent ages wondering who it could be—maybe a niece or a nephew's daughter, but none of them seemed likely," one auntie said.
Director Mao nodded repeatedly. "I got a call last night, too. They said my son **had been arrested. I was furious!"
The Thin Man muttered, "Which database has leaked this time?"
"Maybe someone sold the old data again. I got a text before, saying they had actual graduate school entrance exam questions and answers for sale," Guo Yujie said.
The scam calls covered all sorts of topics, but since they'd all come so close together, as the Thin Man and Guo Yujie had said, either some huge database had leaked or a new scam ring had bought up old information.
The Fatty looked at Chen Xiaoqiu. "Has Director Chen's department received any reports?"
"He hasn't mentioned it to me," Chen Xiaoqiu said, shaking her head. "But we have real-time monitoring now. A sudden surge in scams like this would definitely be detected."
None of us had fallen for any of them, so we weren't particularly concerned.
The aunties' conversation soon moved from scam calls to pyramid schemes.
What they were talking about wasn't a pyramid scheme in the true sense, but a different kind of product-promotion event. They'd put together a short tour, taken everyone to nearby attractions, then brought them to a shopping venue for a few hours. It was just an updated version of those shopping tours from before, with the recommended purchases shifting from gold