Chapter 082 Winning
Gao Cuifen wasn't just confused, she was extremely confused.
She was determined that she would win the grand prize, so she went to the lottery station every day. Every time she saw a woman selling lottery tickets, she would ask her whether the winning numbers had been announced. The women selling lottery tickets had developed a conditioned reflex to ask the same question.
The moment the woman saw Gao Cuifen, she instinctively said, "The winning numbers haven't been announced yet. Please be patient."
Even so, Gao Cuifen wasn't happy. She kept muttering in the courtyard all day, "Hey, this lottery department is so useless. It's just a matter of drawing numbers, but it's been dragging on for so many days with no results. It's really frustrating!"
People in the hospital often said privately that she was obsessed with winning the lottery, but they couldn't resist Gao Cuifen's confidence.
Finally, as Gao Cuifen had been expecting, the day for the winning numbers to be announced arrived. As soon as the lottery station announced the winning numbers, Gao Cuifen immediately went over with a pen and a notebook to write them down.
"Old man, old man, quickly get out all our lottery tickets! I've written down the winning numbers. Check them out with me!"
Gao Cuifen's loud voice echoed throughout the yard. Although she was calling her own old man, other people in the yard also opened the door and came out to watch the fun.
Gao Cuifen has made such a big fuss, they want to see if she can win the prize.
Old Zhang quickly took out all the lottery tickets in his house. He got ready and said, "I'm ready. Please read them out, old lady."
"Ahem." Gao Cuifen cleared her throat and said, "Okay, I'll start reading."
"The winning numbers are 0, 2, 1, 9..."
Old Zhang was frantically holding dozens of lottery tickets. "Hey, old lady, please slow down. I haven't had time to finish reading it."
"Tsk, you're a complete idiot." Gao Cuifen cursed lightly, pouting and saying, "I'll go slower this time, so you better watch carefully."
Old Zhang: "Okay, okay, old lady, tell me, what's the first number?"
Gao Cuifen: "The first number is 0, zero. Just look for a lottery ticket with a first number of zero. If it's not zero, just throw it away."
"Yeah, sure." Old Zhang nodded quickly. He picked and chose, saying, "Yes, yes, these ones all start with zero."
Gao Cuifen: "The second number is 2. Is there anyone with 2?"
"have!"
"Okay, then the third number. The third number is 1, the fourth number is 9, and the fifth number is 5..."
"Uh..." Old Zhang opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something.
Gao Cuifen: "What's wrong? You didn't keep up again? No, I'm reading so slowly, how come you can't keep up, you useless thing, is it your eyes or your hands that are not working well? If it really doesn't work, how about we switch, you read the numbers and I'll answer them?"
She frowned impatiently and reached out to snatch the lottery ticket from Old Zhang's hand and exchange it with him.
Old Zhang: "Well, old lady, no need to change..."
Gao Cuifen: "You're just talking nonsense. Can you keep up without changing?"
Old Zhang glanced at Gao Cuifen cautiously and said, "No, it's not that I didn't catch up just now. I wanted to tell you that starting from the third number, the numbers on our lottery tickets don't match."
"What?!" Gao Cuifen was furious. She snatched the lottery ticket from Old Zhang's hand and compared the winning numbers with herself, muttering to herself. This pair made her even more devastated.
"No, no, nothing is right!"
Gao Cuifen grabbed her hair, looking very unhappy. Her old man was right. The numbers on her lottery tickets did not match the winning numbers starting from the third digit.
Her aura instantly wilted, just like the lit firecrackers during the New Year that were suddenly extinguished by a splash of cold water.
The winning number consists of ten digits, and she couldn't match it from the third digit onwards. How could she not be depressed?
If there were only one or two numbers that didn't match, she wouldn't be so upset, but the problem was that seven numbers didn't match. What else could she say?
Gao Cuifen's shoulders slumped. She waved her hand and said, "Forget it. If I didn't win, then I didn't win. Just consider it my contribution to the Asian Games. I'm going home to cook. Old man, collect these lottery tickets from the ground and put them next to the coal shed. I'll use them to start the stove later."
"Oh, okay..."
Gao Cuifen returned home like a wandering soul. The people in the yard originally wanted to laugh at her for doing this and not winning the prize in the end, but seeing that her expression was really not good, they kept the words they had intended to make fun of her in their stomachs and did not say them out loud.
Li Xiuying curled her lips and walked over to Old Zhang who had picked up the lottery ticket and said, "Hey, Old Zhang, don't take that book away yet. It's the book where your husband Gao wrote down the numbers. Let me see if I won the prize."
Old Zhang handed over the notebook with the winning numbers without hesitation: "Here."
He even jokingly said, "Old Li, if you win the prize, you have to treat everyone in our courtyard to a meal!"
Li Xiuying: "Please, please, please. If I win the lottery, I will definitely treat you. How about treating you to a meal at Bian Yi Fang?"
"Oh, that's a good feeling!"
Li Xiuying: "Don't worry, I have to win the prize before I can treat you guys to a meal. If I don't win, then I can only treat you guys to starvation."
"Hey, okay, check it out and see if you've won."
Li Xiuying: "Okay, let me take a look. The winning number is 0219543233. Tsk, no, I didn't win."
Ma Yulan next to him said, "No, Lao Li, why don't you go home and take out your lottery ticket and check it?"
Li Xiuying: "No, I have memorized all the numbers on the lottery ticket. They are different from the winning numbers."
She looked at Ma Yulan: "Hey, Old Ma, you are not right, right?"
Ma Yulan: "I'm right, I have the lottery ticket with me. Lao Li, please read it to me again."
"The winning number is 0219543233."
Shi Qiu Shui's face froze. Wait, why did this number feel so familiar to her?
Ma Yulan over there spread her hands regretfully: "I didn't win the prize either."
Li Xiuying patted her shoulder and consoled her, "Well, it's normal that you didn't win. There were so many tickets, and you only drew this one number. Only those who won were incredibly lucky. Normal people like us don't have that kind of luck."
"Hey, that's what you said."
"Okay, Lao Ma, I won't say any more to you. I'm going back to cook."
"Hey, I'm going back to cook..."
Everyone in the courtyard dispersed and went back to their homes. Shi Yue also turned around and walked home. He pulled Shi Qiushui and said, "Let's go home, my daughter."
Shi Qiu Shui suddenly came back to her senses as if she was awakened. She grabbed her hair violently, let go of Shi Yue's hand, and ran into the house.
Shi Yue: "Hey, kid, what's going on?"
He followed Shi Qiu Shui back home and saw Shi Qiu Shui rush into his room in three or two steps, slamming the door shut.
He walked to the door of Shi Qiu Shui's house and was about to knock to ask what was going on, but Shi Qiu Shui, with a flushed face and an excited look, opened the door again.
Without waiting for Shi Yue to speak, Shi Qiushui held up a lottery ticket and pushed it in front of Shi Yue: "Dad, Dad, look, look at the number on it!"
Shi Yue took it and looked at it: "0219543233? What's wrong with this number?"
After he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Why did this string of numbers sound so familiar?
Isn’t this the winning number that Li Xiuying just read out?
His breathing quickened instantly, and he said excitedly, "This number is the same as the winning number?!"
Shi Qiu Shui nodded vigorously.
"Fuck, this is amazing, Xiaoqiu, your luck is really amazing!" Shi Yue really couldn't help but curse.
Is the grand prize a lot? Actually, it's not that much, especially for the Shi family right now. After all, they just picked up over 40,000 yuan for free not long ago, so the grand prize of 10,000 yuan is really nothing.
But is it a small amount? It's definitely a lot. Remember, when Shi Yue and Shi Qiushui traveled through time, their original bodies only had a little over 10,000 yuan in savings. They were a company commander, and after working for so many years, they only managed to save a little over 10,000 yuan. For an ordinary person, that would definitely be even harder, so 10,000 yuan is really a lot.
Of course, Shi Yue was not shocked by the amount of money, but by Shi Qiu Shui's luck.
At least tens of thousands of lottery tickets were sold in one issue. Among those tens of thousands, only one grand prize was drawn, and his daughter won it. You can say that his daughter is very lucky, right?
"Tsk tsk." Shi Yue looked at Shi Qiu Shui in circles, as if he was looking at some rare object.
Shi Qiushui's scalp tingled when he looked at her, and she shouted in dissatisfaction, "Dad!"
Shi Yue then let her go. No, to be precise, he didn't completely let her go. Shi Yue stopped staring at her and took action.
Shi Yue stretched out his big hand and touched Shi Qiu Shui's face. He rubbed it roughly, calling it to get some good fortune.
He felt that his daughter's ability to attract wealth was similar to that of the statue of the God of Wealth sitting in the temple. When people put up the God of Wealth, they would touch the statue to get good fortune, so it was normal for him to touch his daughter!
Shi Qiu Shui wrinkled her little face and was very unhappy. She felt that her tender little face was hurt by her father's rubbing!
Seeing his daughter's dissatisfaction, Shi Yue quickly changed the subject and said, "Well, daughter, come here, let's discuss the prize redemption matter."
He plopped down on the sofa and said, "It's best not to tell anyone about our family's lottery win. As the saying goes, you don't fear thieves stealing, but you fear thieves thinking about it. My daughter, you may think that ten thousand yuan is not a lot of money. Yes, it is not a lot for our family, but it is different for outsiders. If the news of our winning gets out, who knows how many people will be jealous of us, and who knows how many people will also be thinking about us."
Qiu Shui understood this principle. She nodded and said, "Yes, Dad, I know. I will definitely not tell anyone else."
Shi Yue: "Not telling outsiders is not enough. If we don't want outsiders to know, we have to carefully consider the issue of redeeming the prize."
Shi Qiushui nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Dad, what should we do then?"
Shi Yue thought for a moment, then stood up and said, "My daughter, wait at home for a while. I'll go out and ask the people at the lottery station about the process of claiming the prize."
Shi Qiushui nodded obediently: "Well, Dad, you go."
Shi Yue quickly pushed the door open and went out. He came to the lottery station, but did not go up directly to ask people about redeeming the prize.
As soon as the winning numbers were announced, he went up to people and asked about claiming the prize. What's the difference between this and telling people openly that you have won the prize?
Shi Yue stood at the edge of the crowd with his hands behind his back, just like a spectator. No one around him was suspicious of him. Someone who lived in this alley thought he looked familiar and said to him, "Hey, man, why don't you buy two lottery tickets?"
Shi Yue smiled and said, "No, no, I don't want to buy it. I know my luck very well. It's terrible. I won't win anything if I buy it. I won't waste my money."
"No, that's not right. This isn't a waste of money. This is a contribution to the Asian Games!"
Shi Yue laughed and slapped his mouth: "Yeah, yes, it is to contribute to the Asian Games. Look at my low awareness. I only thought about losing money."
"Well, that's normal. Nine out of ten people who come to the lottery station to buy lottery tickets want to win the prize and get rich. They don't even think about how easy it is to win..."
"you do not say……"
Shi Yue echoed the words without any emotion. Actually, he was not very familiar with his elder brother, but that did not stop him from chatting with him. As they were chatting, they talked about how to redeem the prizes.
The older brother said: "Hey, don't mention it. I'm really curious about who won the lottery. Unfortunately, I have to go to work on the day of the prize redemption, otherwise I would have gone to the prize redemption center to see what the winner looks like."
Shi Yue: "Do winners have to go to the prize redemption center to claim their prizes?"
The elder brother glanced at Shi Yue, as if disdaining his lack of knowledge, and said, "Didn't you just listen to what they said? If you win, you should take your lottery ticket and ID to the prize redemption center on the 25th to claim your prize. You have to go to the prize redemption center to claim your prize!"
Shi Yue scratched his head and smiled sheepishly: "Well, I thought the second winning ticket was the same as the first winning ticket, and I could redeem it directly here."
The older brother said, "Hey, that's why they say you're not destined to win the lottery. Don't you think about how much the grand prize is? It's 10,000 yuan! Can this temporary lottery station just leave 10,000 yuan here? Of course not. They're afraid of losing it!"
"Hehe, I really didn't think of this." Shi Yue smiled innocently, and he didn't look like the family member of the lottery winner at all.
Shi Yue chatted with his elder brother for a few more minutes, found out the address of the prize redemption center, memorized it silently, and then went home.
As he walked home, he was thinking about receiving the award.
Although the big brother just now was obviously joking, what if there were people with the same idea as him lurking at the prize redemption center? Wouldn’t he be exposed then? So he planned to disguise himself and then go to claim the prize.
Fortunately, there were still a few days before the award ceremony on the 25th, so he could slowly prepare the things he needed for disguise.
Over the next few days, Shi Yue was busy and chattering, appearing and disappearing like a ghost. The people in the hospital noticed his abnormality and were wondering, hey, what has this kid been busy with these days?
Everyone was thinking about it, but they didn't have to get to the bottom of it. But some people were different, they had to get to the bottom of it.
That person is Yao Dazui.
That night, Shi Yue had just entered the yard carrying a cloth bag when he was caught by Yao Dazui who jumped out from the side.
"Shi Yue!"
Shi Yue stumbled and nearly fell. He staggered and finally managed to stand steady. His eyes immediately turned to the culprit who had caused him to lose his balance: "Oh my god, Aunt Yao, what are you doing? Hiding, waiting for me to come in and suddenly jumping out, just to scare me? Hey, you're not young anymore, but you still have a childlike heart, huh?"
Yao Dazui: "Go away, what nonsense are you talking about? I'm just trying to scare you. I don't have that much free time."
Shi Yue: "Okay, okay, okay, you didn't hide and didn't mean to scare me. I was blind and didn't see you here, okay?"
"That's exactly what happened. I'm such an old man, and I've been standing here the whole time. You didn't see me, but you insisted that I was hiding. I... eh, that's not right." Yao Dazui waved his hand: "Why am I arguing with you about this? Let's not talk about this anymore, Shi Yue, I'm here to ask you something serious."
Although Shi Yue didn't think Yao Dazui had anything serious to ask him, he still turned around and said, "Okay, go ahead. What do you want to ask me?"
Yao Dazui: "Shi Yue, let me ask you, where have you been hanging out these past few days when you didn't go home after work?"
Shi Yue curled his lips: "What you said is too harsh, what do you mean by fooling around? I didn't go out to fool around."
Yao Dazui glared at him and said, "Be serious and stop playing with me."
She said with a rather bad face: "Tell me, you didn't go out to fool around, what did you do? Huh? Tell me what you did? For what reason could you leave Xiaoqiu, a child, at home? You are such a good father, ha? You didn't even cook dinner for Xiaoqiu, and left her at home alone, letting her gnaw on dry bread and dry instant noodles. I've seen this two or three times. She is a growing child, and she eats such non-nutritious food every day, is it okay?"
Shi Yue: “Ah?”
Yao Dazui: "What are you talking about? Don't play innocent with me. I don't believe you don't know about this."
Shi Yue felt so wronged, he really didn't know that Shi Qiu Shui ate bread and instant noodles every night!
Before he went out these days, he cooked for Shi Qiu Shui!
Yao Dazui: "You're still pretending with me, aren't you? Shi Yue, I'm really not saying anything bad about you. I know you're less than 30 years old, and it's normal for you to have some ideas. Even if you find another one, I support you, but you can't do this. Even if you find another one, Xiaoqiu is still your daughter, you can't just ignore her. You're really disappointing me!"
Yao Dazui kept talking, and Shi Yue's scalp felt numb.
What the hell is going on!
He quickly said, "No, no, Auntie, you misunderstood. You really misunderstood! I went out these days. No, I wasn't going there for anything. I was, I was going to look for antiques, antiques!"
To be honest, it definitely won't work. After all, if I tell Yao Dazui that I won the prize, it would be equivalent to telling everyone in the entire city that I won the prize.
But it would be a bad idea to let Yao Dazui misunderstand me like this, otherwise rumors of his remarriage would spread throughout their alley tomorrow.
Shi Yue thought about it and decided to make up a lie to get over what happened today.
Yue was quite good at making up lies. He said calmly, "Aunt Yao, I'll tell you the truth. I went to Panjiayuan to look for antiques these past two days."
Yao Dazui: "Going to Panjiayuan? Why are you going to Panjiayuan so secretly?"
Shi Yue: "Shh!"
He pulled Yao Dazui aside and whispered, "Oh, my dear aunt, please don't tell anyone. I don't want anyone to know I went to Panjiayuan. I went there to make money by hunting for antiques, but if anyone knew about this, they would think I was an outsider with wild ideas. It would be a joke."
Yao Dazui looked at Shi Yue suspiciously: "Is it because of this?"
She said, "You've been acting so mysterious lately, is this why?"
Shi Yue nodded: "Yes, that's why."
Yao Dazui: "Are you kidding?"
Shi Yue: “Of course!”
"Hey!" Yao Dazui patted Shi Yue's shoulder and said, "Just for such a small matter, you really have to do this!"
"I thought you were..." She waved her hand and said, "Forget it, forget it. I won't say anymore."
Knowing that she had misunderstood Shi Yue before, Yao Dazui looked at Shi Yue with a friendly look, but her face soon darkened again.
She said, "Even if you're going to Panjiayuan, you can't let Xiaoqiu just eat bread and instant noodles. At least make her a proper meal before you leave."
Speaking of this, Shi Yue felt even more wronged, but at the moment he just wanted to get rid of Yao Dazui as soon as possible, so he just nodded and said: "Aunt Yao, I was wrong. I promise I will definitely not do this next time."
Yao Dazui: "That's right!"
Shi Yue: "Don't worry, I will definitely cook next time. I will wait until Xiaoqiu finishes eating before I go out."
Yao Dazui: "Don't say one thing and mean another."
Shi Yue: "Don't worry, I definitely won't!"
After Shi Yue's repeated assurances, Yao Dazui finally reluctantly believed Shi Yue, and Shi Yue was finally relieved and able to go home.
When Shi Yue returned home, the first thing he did was to settle the score with Shi Qiu Shui, who had wrongly accused him.
He shouted sullenly, "Shi Qiushui!"
"Ah?" Shi Qiu Shui, who was watching TV on the sofa, poked his head out.
Shi Yue noticed at a glance that there were instant noodle crumbs hanging on Shi Qiushui's little face. Speechlessly, he stepped forward and pinched Shi Qiushui's little face, saying angrily and helplessly: "Xiaoqiu, Xiaoqiu, do you know that because of you, your father almost got exposed today!"
Shi Qiushui was confused: "Dad, what's wrong?"
Shi Yue: "You're still asking me why? I'm asking you, don't I cook for you every night before I leave? Why don't you eat?"
Shi Qiushui pointed at his finger guiltily: "Ah, Dad, did you find out?"
Shi Yue was really angry, because if Yao Dazui hadn't told him today, he wouldn't have noticed that Shi Qiu Shui didn't eat the food he cooked.
He asked, "Since you didn't eat, where did the food go? I never see any leftovers when I come home every day."
Shi Qiushui: "I, I fed it to Doudou in the backyard."
Doudou is a dog raised by a family in the backyard, a cute little yellow dog.
Shi Qiushui: "Dad, you don't know, the rice you cook is so cute!"
Shi Yue rolled his eyes.
Nonsense, the food he cooks is made with real meat and seasonings, how can a dog not like it!
Shi Qiushui: "Dad, you haven't told me what's going on yet?"
Shi Yue was still immersed in the sadness that his daughter fed the meal he cooked to the dog in order to eat snacks, and did not answer Shi Qiu Shui's question.
Shi Qiushui looked at Shi Yue strangely, then noticed the cloth bag in Shi Yue's hand. She asked, "Dad, what did you buy?"
Shi Yue came back to his senses: "Oh, these are the props I'll use on the day of redeeming the prize."
Shi Qiushui: "What props?"
Shi Yue waved his hand: "Don't ask, you will know on the day of the prize redemption."
Shi Qiu Shui blinked.
What on earth is this?
Why is her father still so secretive?
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