Where: beijing
When: 21st century

I was preparing for moving.
I posted an ad in newspaper to sell some computer devices, monitor, TV set and other belongings. And the price was quite low.
I got a lot of calls.
Two women working in Dongcheng wanted to buy my TV set. But they asked me to visit them with the TV set. They wanted to have a look and negotiate with me. I refused. Later, they called me again and asked me to let them know my detailed address. I did and asked whether they could guarantee the deal. They said nothing. I didn’t know if they really wanted to buy the TV set. I even didn’t know if they would visit me really.

At around 6 PM, a man came. I name him MA.
MA checked everything, but he didn’t buy.
He stayed.
Minutes later, another 3 men came. They bought my computer devices and monitor.
I helped those 3 men to carry something heavy to go downstairs and to the main load to find a taxi. MA said he wanted to go home and went with us.
After the 3 men had a taxi to get in. I turned back to go home. Surprisingly, MA followed me and told me he wanted to stay in my room for a while and wanted to talk to me, because he found me very kind. At that time, I didn’t know what it meant when he said I was kind. I thought he praised me.
We walked and talked on the way home.
After we got in the apartment I rented, he told me again that he found me very kind. I just misunderstood him another time. Then, he asked a lot of my privates. And he told me I really sold my belongings at very low price. And he told me he had ever found some computer device on a road, which he later found worked perfectly. “Others just thought it rubbish. And they would kick it aside when they saw it. But I picked it up back home, and it works like a new one.”
At about 7:30 PM, another 2 men came. They checked my TV set and bought it. They carried it downstairs by themselves.
MA still stayed in my room talking to me.
At around 8:30 PM, surprisingly, the two women came to my door. When they knew I had sold out the TV set, they started to blame me, scold me, rebuke me, and insult me. But I thought since they could not guarantee anything, why I should keep my TV set for them? The two women were still scolding me outside my door and provoked me to go out to have a fight with them. Then, I knew they were not the persons I could talk to. I wanted to shut my door to keep them out and let them do whatever they wanted. But when my hand reached the door, MA suddenly ran to me and pushed me aside. He stood there bowing to the two women. He apologized again and again until the two women turned back to go downstairs with dirty words. Then MA shut the door and rebuked me, “You didn’t know how dangerous it was! They were so rude! So arrogant! So vicious! So violent! So aggressive! If they broke in, what would happen?! You also should consider if your neighbors came out, all of them would blame you. You made the trouble. You made the conflict!”
I got surprised by what he did and what he said.
He still stayed in my room arrogantly rebuking me like an educator, a judge, an instructor.
Later, he told me it was too late for him to go back home, he wanted to take something back to make her girlfriend happy. He started to check my belongings to see if there’s anything he was interested in. He found my pan. It was quite new. It cost me about 150 Yuan. I didn’t want to sell it. But he insisted on buying it. I told him if he really wanted to buy, he’d pay 60 Yuan. He said too expensive. I said at least 50 Yuan. He said 10 Yuan. I got a very bad feeling and thought I preferred giving it to a waste collector to selling at 10 Yuan to him. He said, “I found you were very kind. I thought you could agree to sell me something at very low price. It is why I came back when I wanted to go home. And it is why I stayed here for so long. We are good friends. You should give a friend a gift. You can give it to me as a gift to a friend.” He inserted 10 Yuan to my hand and took the pan downstairs.

That night, I wanted to vomit.