Scratch off the very first little bit of the first card, and you'll see the word "Special".
"The grand prize!"
Someone nearby immediately shouted.
Although it's only five thousand yuan, seeing someone win real money in such a tacky lottery held at the supermarket entrance is already a big deal.
So much so that many people who were just watching the spectacle before are now eager to participate after witnessing three big prizes being awarded in a row.
The salesperson's face had turned deathly pale.
You see, lottery sales are directly linked to your winnings for the day. More buyers mean fewer big prizes being won, higher company profits, and a bigger winnings for you. But who could have predicted that in the blink of an eye, 11,000 yuan would be gone, and the grand prize would be gone too? What happens next?
Give me ten!
"I want twenty!"
"One thousand yuan for one hundred tickets!"
"Me! Me! Me!"
"Can I use Alipay?"
How many sheets are in this whole stack?
Just as the salesperson was worrying that things were about to go wrong, onlookers around him started pulling out their money to enter the lucky draw.
This is such a pleasant surprise!
Seeing this, Li Lechen shrugged and took a step back, saying, "Then let them draw first, or you can give me my prize money first?"
The salesperson was also very excited, handing over eight thousand yuan to Li Lechen while busy collecting the payment.
Don't be fooled by the fact that the lottery tickets only cost ten yuan each. This price is the result of careful calculation. It won't be so high that it will deter many people, nor will it be so low that it will cause the seller to lose money.
So the money collected from all the rounds was enough to pay out the prize money.
"Aren't you going to continue the lottery? It's only eight thousand yuan!"
Seeing that Li Lechen had already left the lottery booth, Huo Jiujian couldn't help but ask.
"Let's leave it at that for now. I'll figure out the rest of the two thousand myself. I can't let them ruin their business."
Huo Jiujian was momentarily dazed.
This was the first time he'd ever heard of someone giving up a benefit that was practically within their grasp. Were all the people in the exclusive zone so virtuous?
"That......"
"Don't worry, I will purchase the pills as soon as possible. I will contact you once I have them. It won't take long, but it's not possible right now."
Huo Jiujian understood that there was still another 2,000 yuan to be raised, since he hadn't lost anything anyway.
So he hung up the call.
Meanwhile, Zhou Mi bought a bunch of cheap things, some useful and some not, and finally found Li Lechen in the crowd.
Where did you go?
"I went over there to participate in the prize draw."
Upon hearing that Li Lechen had gone to participate in a lottery, Zhou Mi had a feeling that he had been scammed, and scolded him, "Are you out of your mind to go to a lottery? Don't you know it's a rip-off? Did you win soap or tissues?"
"I won eight thousand yuan."
"See? Only eight out of ten were correct..."
Eight thousand?
Zhou Mi was stunned, and strongly doubted that she had misheard.
"It cost over a hundred yuan, but it was still worth it." Li Lechen shrugged. "Anyway, this money was a windfall, and I plan to donate it to Gu Xiaoman in our class."
Gu Xiaoman from Class 7 had an accident, and Huang Yingying spread the word last night. However, the medical expenses weren't just a few hundred or a few thousand, but tens or hundreds of thousands, so Zhou Mi, who was struggling financially herself, couldn't help. But that didn't mean she didn't approve of Li Lechen helping.
"I'm all set up here. Are you still going to the hardware market?" Li Lechen asked casually.
"Of course we'll go!"
Because buying those discounted items took up a lot of time, Zhou Mi almost forgot her main task.
"I'll look around here some more, then we'll keep in touch by phone."
Aren't you going to the hardware market?
"I don't need to go to the hardware market to buy anything," Li Lechen said nonchalantly, then suddenly asked, "You don't need me to go with you, do you?"
If it weren't for that second half of the sentence, Zhou Mi might have said something more, but since Li Lechen asked her that question, she naturally had to deny it.
So he went to the pedestrian street alone.
If all goes well, the round trip should only take about twenty minutes.
In those twenty minutes, Li Lechen could go into the supermarket, buy a 20-pound bag of rice, pay for it, and then find a secluded place to dispose of it.
Although he intended to sell directly to Lin Sen, Li Lechen, just to be on the safe side, still accessed the "Super Food Purifier" stored in the mall's cloud space and cleaned the entire bag of rice.
Fortunately, the rice is sold by the grain in the mall, so there is no need for any special packaging. Twenty pounds of rice costs 1 Sunshine Coin per grain, and the total price of twenty pounds of rice is 520,000 Sunshine Coins.
This price is practically free for Lin Sen.
To be honest, he originally wanted to order rice by the grain, like a thousand or ten thousand grains, but he ended up asking for a hundred kilograms. Who would have thought that ten kilograms of rice would contain as many as 520,000 grains?
It turns out that poverty can also limit computational abilities.
“I know you want to use the remaining rice for planting, so I need to find some viable rice grains, which will take some time,” Li Lechen explained.
"No problem at all."
With ten kilograms of rice in hand, Lin Sen already felt that his efforts in helping Ouyang Feng had been well worth it. As for paddy rice, if it came in, that would truly be a pleasant surprise.
Soon, Zhou Mi returned with the materials she had bought, and Li Lechen, as if nothing had happened, met up with her carrying several bags of bamboo charcoal.
Looking down at the obvious bamboo charcoal packets in Li Lechen's bag, Zhou Mi scoffed, "You come to the supermarket to buy this?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Use this to purify water?"
"No, the dorm room smells pretty bad, so buying a few bamboo charcoal bags is quite environmentally friendly, isn't it?"
"......"
What happened to doing research?
But Zhou Mi had a feeling that this guy was definitely lying.
However, bamboo charcoal bags seem to have no other functions besides physical adsorption and purification.
......
Back at school, Li Lechen and Zhou Mi went about their own business.
Zhou Mi's water purifier has been improved. In addition to purifying impurities and sterilizing with ozone, it now also has the function of separating large molecular compounds.
Through meticulous calculations, Zhou Mi can ensure that her machine can isolate more than 90% of pesticide residues and chemical additives.
Before this, Zhou Mi had already conducted several experiments with the drinks she bought from the convenience store. After passing through the water purifier, the drinks came out as almost transparent liquids, and when she took a sip, apart from being slightly sweet, they didn't taste like fruit juice at all.
The only regret is that juices containing fruit pieces or that are too thick are also "accidentally killed" during the purification process. Those fruit pieces are treated as harmful solids and are isolated at the first stage.
In Zhou Mi's view, this is something that cannot be improved through technical means. Just as you can't have your cake and eat it too, it's difficult to do so with current technology.
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