Li Wufang was very happy with Tao Yi's reaction.
Over the years, he has always wanted to repay the man in leather jacket, but he has never heard any news about him. When he saw someone who seemed to know him, he was naturally excited.
"Even though we are about to embark on the path of rebelling against fate at this moment, I cannot help but praise [fate] once again.
I actually found a clue among the destined person and met someone who had seen him before. Isn't this destiny?
Do you know him? What's his name? Where is he from?..."
As he was talking, Li Wufang suddenly realized that this excitement made him ignore a lot of things. Now it is no longer the original world. After the advent of the [Game of Faith], it is even a question whether the uncle in leather jacket is still alive in this game.
Thinking of this, his expression froze, his tone stagnated, a trace of worry flashed across his eyes, and then an inexplicable hope surged in his eyes. His voice became very soft, and he asked cautiously: "Is he... still alive?"
This question is a bit too difficult for Tao Yi.
She felt that the person the investigator was talking about was dead, but she could not give a standard answer because so far she was not 100% sure that this person was the one she thought.
Tao Yi had indeed seen this leather jacket when she was in college.
At that time, her best friend Honglin was going through the most difficult time in her life. Not only were her youth and body locked in medicine jars full of tubes, but her family business also went bankrupt, and even a less dignified way of life was becoming difficult to sustain.
Tao Yi went home and cried for her parents' help. Her parents were not cold-blooded people. They gave her the greatest support they could as friends, but the money was a drop in the bucket compared to the life-sustaining equipment that swallowed up so much money.
Tao Yi is a sensible girl. She knows that her family is also in a difficult situation, so she starts to cut her expenses and reduce extra expenditures, even eating only one meal a day, just to use the money she saves to give her best friend hope.
And that hope is…the lottery.
Nothing could save her friend's family better than a stroke of luck, but how much luck could there be in the world?
Rather than saying that she was gambling on Honglin's luck, it would be better to say that she was unable to accept everything in the present moment and was paralyzing herself with this slim hope.
After six months of persistence, she gained nothing, and Honglin's condition became worse and worse. The huge debt began to gradually overwhelm the family. Even if the biology professor was generous, he had to stop maintaining the life equipment under financial pressure.
Her best friend was dying, but Tao Yi could do nothing.
The endless pressure finally overwhelmed Tao Yi on a rainy day. She sat down outside the lottery station and sobbed silently, feeling that the world was shrouded in a gray shadow.
But just then, a turning point came.
A man in leather jacket helped her up, grabbed her arm and threw her under the eaves. Instead of comforting her, he laughed at her:
“What’s the use of crying?
If tears could solve problems, the world would have been destroyed long ago."
It was strange that although she was ridiculed, Tao Yi did not feel any malice from the other party. She looked up at the other party with tears in her eyes. Under the cover of exaggerated sunglasses, she did not recognize the man's face, but only remembered the dark leather jacket.
"I've been here for three days, and every day when I go out for a walk, I see you buying lottery tickets at a fixed time. It's quite interesting. Since you want to gamble so much, why don't you go to the casino and try your luck?
Wouldn't it be quicker to make money there?"
Tao Yi remained silent. She was still immersed in the blankness caused by the pressure and didn't even realize what she was doing or who the uncle opposite her was.
Seeing Tao Yi remained silent, the man in leather jacket chuckled again and said, "It's probably about money again. The funny thing is, everything in this world is a problem for me, except money.
Tell me, how much does it take to solve your problem?"
Hearing this, Tao Yi gradually came to her senses.
She nervously grasped her collar, hugged herself, and moved back cautiously. She knew very well that her appearance would bring trouble, but she had never expected that the timing of the trouble would be so subtle. At this moment, she suddenly wondered whether these troubles could solve Hong Lin's problems.
Unexpectedly, after seeing this scene, the man in leather jacket spat in disgust.
"Who cares about a little kid with a useless brain?
Do you want it or not? Just tell me. I’m not cheap and I have to rush to give you money.”
Tao Yi was really dumbfounded by the scolding, but she had no reason to give up this seemingly hopeful "scam", so she thought of it as making a wish, and the lion opened his mouth and said a number.
“That’s it?
It’s not enough for me to open one.”
The man in leather jacket sneered, threw down a chip, and waved his hand, calling over a "female assistant" who was excellent in both temperament and appearance.
Tao Yi stared blankly at the chip on the ground, then looked up at the elegant lady in a daze, and watched the two people in front of her solve the financial problem that seemed to her to be extremely difficult with just a few words.
"Aying, help her make a lottery ticket. Otherwise, how can a little girl explain the source of so much money?"
"...are you interested in her?"
"Bullshit, I have too much money. I should do some good deeds to accumulate merit."
"...Then why don't you do some good deeds for me?"
"You want it? Tell me earlier. I'll give you all the next month's income. Do more good deeds, and maybe you'll die slower."
With that, the man in leather jacket walked away.
Tao Yi finally reacted. She stood up suddenly, gripped the chip tightly, and shouted at the figure in the rain, "What's your name? How can I find you?"
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