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One evening in December of nineteen eighty nine A young waiter named Zao was bussing a table at the restaurant he worked at in Hong Kong when heard the restaurant's phone ring And the sound really stressed Zao becausecause the restaurant was really busy that And it was only Zao and one other waiter working along with the manager who was in back And so Zao, you know, he's bussing this table. He began looking around for the other waiter to see if maybe they heard the phone and They could go take the call, but He saw the other waiter and she was busy actually taking another table's order. And the manager was you know, somewhere in back and would not normally take the call anyway. And so Zao, you know, he sighed and you stopped busing the table and went over and he picked up the phone And right away, he can like barely hear the person who's talking. It's a voice of what sounds like a very frail older woman and she's practically whispering into the phone. And so Zao had to like block his other ear ' it's so loud in the restaurant. and he's straining to listen and he's asking this person to speak up. But finally, he can hear, what this woman is calling for And she's calling because she's trying to place an order for delivery But this is in the nineteen eighties. So this is before there were things like Uber eats and you know doorash And in Hong Kong, at the time, if somebody called in to a restaurant for a delivery order What it meant was people like Zao had to take the order and then literally take the food and actually physically bring it to the person who had called it in. So this is like sort of a very tedious thing for somebody like Zao And so as soon as Zao could tell that the reason this woman had called was for a delivery order, he's like, o my goodness, could it get any worse? Like I have so much to do here. It's so crazy. and now I have to literally run this woman's order to her and then come back and continue my work like man But it wasn't like Zhao could do anything else. Like he couldn't tell the woman no So, you know, as best as he could, he listened and he told the woman to like repeat her order, like, let me write down what you want And so eventually, he heard that what she wanted was stir fried rice noodles with an extra egg, an order of beef Chao funun, and a couple servings of fried rice And then after he took down her order He told her that he'd be there in about half an hour And then he hung up About fifteen minutes later, the bell rang in the kitchen. and so Zao walked over and he saw that the food was ready, the takeout food. And so he grabbed the bag, He grabbed the receipt that showed the address of this woman's apartment and he stapled it to the bag. And then he found the other waiter who was working that night, and he told her to please look over his tables while he was gone, he'd be right back And then with the food in hand, he left the restaurant and began running across the city to get to this apartment And so he gets outside and he looks at the address and he starts running in the direction of this apartment. and you know after several minutes, he gets to the apartment complex. He makes his way up and he finds the door of this woman's apartment And he knocks on the door and he just waits And nobody answers the door And so, you know, he's looking at the time. He knows he needs to get back to the restaurant as soon as possible. He has people that are waiting for him. And so he knocks a bit louder this time and sort of calls out like, Hey, delivery No answer. It's still just quiet inside this apartment And so he looks at the receipt on the bag that again, shows the address of this woman's apartment to make sure he's at the right one And he's like, Yep, I'm definitely at the right apartment. And so after a few more moments of silence, Zao, he just gives up trying to be polite here. really needs to get back to the restaurant. and so he just starts wailing on this door, yelling like, hey, delivery, like get out here and get your food This time, he hears some movement inside of the apartment and so he stops banging on the door He hears, you know, the locks being unlocked. the door it opens inwardly, but only a tiny bit, like a crack. and it's dark inside the apartment and it's bright in the hallway. And so from his perspective Zhao's looking into this crack and he can't see anything. But eventually out of this darkness of this little crack A little hand shows up and in this hand is money And through the crack the hand reaches with the money And so Zao he reaches out, he takes the money And then a voice comes through the inside of this apartment And it's that same very quiet frail voice of the woman who had called and placed the order And she just said for Zao to leave the food right there. J drop it, take the money and go And so Zo he's thinking how bizarre this is. like Why is this woman acting the way she's acting? Like why can't you just open the door all the way and literally take your food inside? L you asked me to come here with your food. You basically invited a stranger to your apartment. Why would you now be so cagey? It just it was odd But at the same time, Zad didn't really care. She had given him the money, which covered the order. And at this point, he could just leave the food and go back to the restaurant. And that's what he did. Dropped the food left the apartment complex, ran back to the restaurant, and continued his night and basically forgot about this woman So later that night, after the restaurant had closed Zao and the other waitress were cleaning up and getting ready to leave manager came out of the back office looking really upset about something And he sort of strolled over to Zao and the other waiter And they both stopped instinctively when they saw the look on his face and they're sort of looking at him and comes in and sort of out of nowhere, he's like, I know one of you two has been stealing from this restaurant. I know it Immediately Zao looks over at the other waiter and she looks back at him and they're like Like Zo knew he did not steal any money. There was no way he was talking about him And from the looks of it, the other waiters, she definitely did not seem like she, you know, had just been caught stealing. And so the two of them kind of looked back at the manager and they're like What are you talking about? Like we didn't steal from you. L what do you mean? what are you talking about But the manager was like, I know one of you did it. I don't know who One of you did it and I'm telling you right now if it ever happens again You're fire manager just turned around and he walked back into his office. so Zao and the other waiter are just left standing there like what just happened At the same time, like Zao anyways, he knew he didn't take any money. And he's just like, you know what? I just want to go home. Like this has been a long day. I want this to be over, and it seemed very much like the other waiter felt the same way. 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Sign up and get ten percent off at betterterhelp dot com slash Mr. Boand Pod. Again, that's betterhlp dot com slash mr. Boland Pod The next day, Zao was back at work and once again, it was extremely busy Once again, they were understaffed. It was just Zao and another waiter, a different waiter than the day before, but still it's just the two of them and the manager who was in the back office. And so it's just another, very stressful day. and all day, you know, Zao, he's thinking about the fact that the manager had effectively accused him of stealing the night before, and that really hadn't been resolved just from the perspective of The manager hasn't talked about it again, so it's like the elephant in the room. But you know, at this point, Zao was just doing his job because, you know, he didn't steal anything. He knew he didn't steal anything. And so he figured it was just a misunderstanding. If it gets brought up again, there's definitely an explanation here. And so all day and into the evening, Zao's just working like mad, so is the other waiter And then at some point in the evening, the phone in the restaurant rings. This is in the middle of the busiest time of the night. And once again like he's hearing the phone ringing and he's hoping the other waiter is available to take the call because the last thing he wants to do is do another delivery order Just like the night before, his coworker was busy taking orders from other people And so it fell on Zhaoou to take the call. And so Zhao, know, he trudged his way through the very busy and very loud restaurant to the phone He answered it, and immediately he recognized the voice It was the same woman who had called the night before. the woman he could barely hear. she was talking so quietly And so again, he had to block his ear to hear what she wanted. and again, she was placing an order for delivery. again Zhao would have to be the one to literally go run to her apartment and drop off her food and then hustle back and finish a shift. And so feeling sort of annoyed and a little frustrated because you can barely hear this woman, he's like, Hey, can you please repeat your order? like I need to write down your order?. And so feeling annoyed, Zao, you know he took down her order, which was the same as the night before, stir fried rice noodles with an extra egg an order of beef Chao Fen and a couple servings of fried rice. and then after writing it down, he told her he would see her in about thirty minutes. and then he hung up. And then fifteen minutes later, the kitchen bell dings. Zhao walks over, he grabs the bag of food, he attaches the receipt. outut he goes, and he runs across the city over to this woman's apartment and up he goes, he gets to her door Which he knows is the right one because he had been here the day before. and he pounds on the door right out the gate because apparently this woman takes forever to come to the door. And so he's pounding on the door saying, Hey, I'm here, delivery, delivery. And eventually he hears the sound of movement inside the apartment, the sound of locks turning. and then the door opens just a crack comes a little hand with some money. Zo, he takes the money just like the day before. He hears the sound of this woman saying to just leave the food outside in the hall He does just that, he places it down, the door shuts, and Zao turns, and he leaves and he goes back to work Later that night, after the restaurant had closed, Zao and his other coworker were cleaning up know happy that the day was finally done. And as they're doing that, Again, at least from Zao's perspective, this is the second time this has happened. The manager comes storming out of the back office looking really upset Ag again, the other coworker was not here the night before, the other coworker could see. like clearly there's an issue Zao had stopped as well, you know, waiting to hear what the manager had to say. The manager comes over inststead of addressing both of them The manager looks right at Zao And he just says, I know it was you You are the only one who was here yesterday and today, and I'm telling you there is money missing from the register It's you You're the one stealing it Zao, like he knows he didn't take any money from the register. This didn't happen There is no way that this is true. likeike it can't be true And so Zao like he needs this job. And so he can't just like fight with his manager She said like That's not possible. I don't know what you're talking about. Can you please explain what you mean? L I don't know, I don't know how this could have happened But I'm telling you it was not me the manager, he's sort of staring at Zao, you know, trying to size him up to see if maybe he's lying or not. and he can't quite tell and he just He says to Zao, well, well, you know what? the reason I know that somebody is doing this, that this is not some mistake. is because the money from the register is not just missing It's that the money has been replaced with counterfeit money. Like someone is taking money you and putting counterfeit money back to sort of make it seem like No money is missing But I know it's counterfeit money Like I can spot it. I know it's counterfeit money You're doing that, Zal. You did that, you stole from me. And if you don't give the money back, you're fired And so Zao at this point, he's like I didnid't do that. I have no idea what you're talking about. There is no way that's true. I did not do that At this point, the manager just turned around and went into the back office, and then when he came out again, he was holding the counterfeit money, and he showed it to Zao rightight away Zao could tell, like, yeah, that's blatantly counterfeit money. Like it would never pass his real money. He knew right away what it was. So this was not just typical fake money, it was something known as ghost money In Hong Kong, some people will literally burn this fake money, this ghost money at the funeral as sort of an offering. And the belief is that by doing that, this money somehow goes to the deceased person and they can use this money in the afterlife. So it's sort of part of a funeral ritual And so Zao knows like this is ghost money. he would recognize it as not real money And so the idea that this was put into the register to somehow du the manager into believing that don't worry, no one stole any money here justust seems sort of absurd. And so Zaoi says to the manager like, well, wait a minute I didn't do this, but if I were to take money from the register I wouldn't have left behind this obviously fake money. I would have just taken the money. I didn't Why would I put this obviously fake money back in the register? That definitely wouldn't fool you. It didn't And the manager, you know, he was thinking about it and he was like, yeah, actually Right. But then he was like, well, you know, what must have happened then is You know, you must have accepted this counterfeit money from, you know, a customer. and not realized it. L this is your mistake. You must have allowed someone to pay with this ghost money and just notice it. You know, you're very busy. Maybe that's what happens And Zounds like Like there's no way I would have accepted clelearly fake money. I would have said, no, this is not real money. Like there's no way I would have made that mistake And so the manager is like, well, then how could How could this money have gotten into the register? Like were there any strange customers here over the past two days. I don't know. like maybe somebody somehow some way managed to pay with fake money and you didn't notice it or something, do you have any memory strange customers or seedy customers over the past two days Now Zao, like he wasn't immediately thinking, Oh, I wonder, you know, what criminals I ran into in the last couple of days that maybe paid with counterfeit money because like in his mind There was no one like that. like over the past two days, it was just normal people except He did just immediately think about that woman who had called on both nights and had the same delivery order that he had taken to her apartment and he thought how weird it was that she had only opened the door a crack and handed out a little bit of money and told him to leave the food on the ground and like For just whatever reason, even though in some ways he knew, like there's no way that woman has anything to do with this counterfeit money. He just found himself telling the manager, he's like, well actually There was like this one woman And I delivered food to her over the past couple of nights and he sort of described the whole thing and just kind of how weird it was that she would have him leave the food in the hall. and she was he could barely hear her and he sort of was confused about the whole thing. And so like this didn't explain the counterfeit money at all, but it was like the only weird thing that Zao could think of. and the manager by this point did believe al. likeike he had sort of changed his tone and he He sort of believed that something weird was going on here and it wasn't Zao, like he was now sort of working with Zao to figure it out And so the manager was just like, okay, well You know If this lady calls again Let me deliver the food to her. Let me see if maybe I can talk to her and see if somehow some way I can figure out if If she's the one giving us the counterfeit money And so the next day, Zao is back at work and again, it's a busy day at the restaurant. All day it's just him and one other coworker and their're busy all day and then in the evening around the same time that this woman had called the past two days phone rings. And this time when the phone rings, Zao immediately runs over and he grabs it. L he doesn't care about what he's doing. He was waiting for this call because he was told to, you know, if she calls, hand it over to the manager. And so he picks up the phone, he answers it And sure enough, it's the same woman, the woman he can barely hear. And she orders the exact same meal to the exact same address. And once again, Zao takes it down and he says, we'll be there in thirty minutes and he hangs up But this time, after giving the order to the kitchen Zao went to the back office and he told the manager that, hey She called again, so the food will be up in about fifteen minutes and if you want to take it over there and see for yourself You're welcome to The manager was like, Great, I got it. and I'll take it And so sure enough, about fifteen minutes later, the bell rings in the kitchen The manager goes out, he grabs the food, He looks at the address on the receipt for where this lady lives And then he leaves the restaurant. and he makes his way across town He gets to the apartment building He gets up to the door he knocks And after a few moments, there's silence. and so he knocks again and he checks the receipt again to make sure he's at the right place and he knows he is. And so he's knocking some more and he's calling out, you know, delivery, delivery And eventually He hears movement inside of the apartment and hears the sound of locks turning. And then just the way Zao described, the door opened just a crack. And then a little hand came through that crack holding out some money And for the manager It actually was pretty disappointing Because for whatever reason, he just felt like This is going to be it. This person is going to hand me the ghost money, the counterfeit money. This is going to explain it. Maybe it's like a a senile old person who's confused and you know, they're accidentally giving out, you know, the wrong money here. Maybe that's what's going on. and somehow Zao just didn't recognize it or something, even though he claims he would have seen it, but maybe that's what happened. but no. 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Optional products and services may have fees or charges, stated cashback for Chime Prime only. no minimum balance required chehecking account ranking based on a JD Power sururvey published october twentieth, twenty twenty five And so later that night, after the restaurant closed, You know, Zao and his coworker were cleaning the restaurant and the manager was in the back office counting the money from the register as he's counting it, He realizes He's short Except this time there was no counterfeit money in the till. was just it was just short. And he's thinking, like, what's going on? He kept checking the receipts. He was looking for maybe money that had been misplaced But then he remembered that the exact amount that he was short was the money that he himself had collected from the woman at the apartment from the delivery order And so he reached into his pocket where he'd put the cash and just forgotten, and he pulled it out and he was about to just, you know, drop it into the till gasped because the money that he had just pulled out of his pocket was ghost money. like the money that he knew when it had come through the door from this woman, it had been real money. That money that he looked at, confirmed was real, put in his pocket. Now he's looking at it again and it's ghost money. Like how can this be Right at that moment, that's when he realized what must be happening They were dealing with a professional counterfeiter. She must be using money that has the appearance of real money when it's given to the other party, but then maybe like there's like paint or something on it that sort of wears off and it eventually reveals that it's fake money. But by that point, The transactions already happened and the con is done And so he's thinking, that's what's going on. That explains the whole thing. That's why Zao didn't realize it. When he was taking this money. it looked real. and it wasn't until later when you know whatever they did to the money wore off that it became clear it was ghost money So at this point The manager picked up the phone and he called the police Later that same night Two police officers arrived at the apartment complex where this woman who kept ordering delivery food lived They made their way up to her apartment and they knocked on her door and they called out that it was the police and they were here to talk to her But nobody answered the door And so after a few moments, the police knocked again, much louder this time, but still There was no answer. Nobody came to the door And it was around this time that the officers noticed there was this horrible smell coming very clearly from this apartment. At first when they had walked into the hallway, they had sort of smelled it, but they had chalked it up to maybe being just the way the whole building smelled. But no, as they were standing here It seemed pretty clear that this awful like rotten food smell was coming out of this apartment and considering the fact that they were here for a potential like, you know counterfitting ring inside of this apartment and just the weirdness of the smell and the silence as they're pounding on the door The officers decided like We've gott to go in there. We got to see what's going on So they kicked the door down. As soon as they did, they were hit with an even more powerful, horrible smell, like rotting food smell. And they covered their noses and they went into this apartment. They start calling out like police, police And it's dark inside the apartments. They can't really see anything. They try the lights, but the lights don't turn on.