The three of them ate and drank together, and took a trip to famous tourist spots in the city. The scenic spots they saw gradually overlapped with the memories in Lin Qiu's mind.
As the time gradually approached around six o'clock, the sky began to darken, the street lights gradually turned on, and the food stalls on both sides of the road began to shout.
The world's fireworks reached its peak at this moment.
At this time, Lin Qiu saw a small hotel around the corner, which just provided a place to stay tonight, so he pulled Monkey and Zhou Xiaotong towards it.
"Boss, how much does it cost to open a standard room?"
After Lin Qiu and others entered the door, they saw the boss standing behind the front desk, calculating accounts with an abacus.
The boss looked up and saw three children, and he murmured in his heart.
Lin Qiu saw that the boss looked at them for a long time without saying a word, so he guessed that he had misunderstood.
"We'll open a standard room, and reserve it for two days first." He didn't explain, and he would be free to clear his mind.
"One dollar and two, pay first and then move in."
Lin Qiu took out two pieces of money from his pocket and handed them to the boss.
The boss took the money and took out a key from the drawer of the front desk.
It took a long time to pick and choose from the bunch of keys.
Zhou Xiaotong waited for a long time and finally got tired of waiting.
"Boss, can you hurry up? We have other things to do." She said to the boss with a little anger.
"I found it, I found it, I'll give you the key." The boss finally pulled out a key and handed it to Lin Qiu.
"Your room is the first one on the left on the third floor. You can see it when you go up. The room number is 306."
Zhou Xiaotong saw the boss finally handed over the key. After hearing the location of the room, he turned around and left holding his hands.
When Lin Qiu saw Zhou Xiaotong's furious back, he knew that she was impatient to wait, so she quickly ran towards Zhou Xiaotong with her monkey.
"Oh, this young man is so angry now." The boss couldn't help but sigh as he watched these people leave.
After Lin Qiu went upstairs, he saw Zhou Xiaotong waiting for him at the door of the room. There were only two weak lights on in the entire corridor.
Fortunately, there is a window at the end of the corridor, and it is still daylight, so you can see clearly.
You may need to bring a flashlight soon, otherwise you may fall down if you come back at night. Lin Qiu thought to himself as he took out the key and opened the door.
The room is neither big nor small. The first thing you see is two beds neatly placed in the center of the room. There is a small table opposite the bed. The hotel now is not like it was later, with a TV and snacks. Nowadays, it mainly focuses on one Practical and comfortable.
The window of the room was open, and the bed curtains fluttered slightly with the wind coming in from outside. The room was not big, but it was clean and comfortable. Zhou Xiaotong glanced around and found it barely qualified.
After she walked into the room, she sat on the bed. Lin Qiu and Hou Hou followed her in and began to pack their things. Zhou Xiaotong watched the two of them busy for a while.
"Lin Qiu, why don't you go home and live with me? Or I can stay in the hotel with you. This is so convenient." Lin Qiu felt helpless after hearing Zhou Xiaotong's words.
"Xiaotong, you are a girl spending the night alone with two of us boys. This is so inappropriate and will have a bad influence on you, and Uncle Zhou will definitely not agree to it."
"Besides, it's not convenient for you to live at your house, so we can just live outside." Lin Qiu persuaded her with kind words.
Zhou Xiaotong originally wanted to refute something more, but when she saw the firmness in Lin Qiu's eyes, she had no choice but to swallow her words and just said, "Okay."
After they finished cleaning up, they chatted in the room for a while. The monkey's mind jumped out of his mind and he told many interesting things that made Zhou Xiaotong laugh so hard that the girl's laughter was crisp, sweet and contagious.
Lin Qiu couldn't help but feel happy when she saw Zhou Xiaotong smiling happily.
The time reached past eight o'clock. Lin Qiu looked at his watch and guessed that the lottery drawing time was coming soon, so he stood up and said to the other two people:
"Let's go, it's getting late, Xiaotong, you should go home, and the double color ball lottery drawing time is coming soon, so it's time to go and see our betting situation."
Zhou Xiaotong looked out the window. It was almost dark outside, so he quickly stood up and said, "Let's go, let's go. I'm late to go back. It's time for my father to talk to me again."
The monkey opened the window wider to allow more ventilation in the room so that it could be cooler when he came back to rest at night. He turned off the light and followed them out.
Zhou Xiaotong was walking in front, thinking about the time and said to Lin Qiu: "It's a pity that the lottery draw is too late. Otherwise, I would still like to see if I can win. What a pity."
Lin Qiu looked at the regret on the face of the girl walking in front of him and couldn't help but said: "It's okay, we will go to the lottery shop when the time comes and have a look. I will tell you the winning numbers when we meet tomorrow. OK?"
Lin Qiu's tone became softer and gentler unconsciously, and it took on a coaxing tone at the end, which soothed the pity in Zhou Xiaotong's heart.
A few people had dinner on the way to send Zhou Xiaotong home. Fortunately, the hotel where they stayed was not too far from where Uncle Zhou and the others lived, so this journey did not take too much time.
When several people arrived, Uncle Zhou had not come back and the lights in the room had not been turned on. Zhou Xiaotong looked back three times step by step, and finally returned to the room.
After Zhou Xiaotong's figure left the sight, the two chatted and walked slowly towards the direction of the lottery shop in their memory.
"Lin Qiu, do you think we will win the lottery? It's 1 million. If someone wins the first prize, wouldn't it mean that we don't have to worry about it for the rest of our lives?" Monkey couldn't help but fantasize.
"Maybe." Lin Qiu didn't answer with a faint smile on his lips.
"One million, so much money." The monkey couldn't help but dance, it was so beautiful just thinking about it. Even so, Monkey doesn't have great expectations for winning the lottery. After all, such a one-in-10,000 chance of winning is too rare.
When we arrived at the lottery shop, it was almost packed. As expected, half of the people had placed bets and the other half were here to join in the fun.
The old man who came to gamble saw Lin Qiu and Hou Hou, two young boys. He took the ridicule and contempt in his eyes and looked at them unabashedly.
The monkey shrank his head, a little scared, Lin Qiu patted his shoulder to reassure him.
The clock ticked, and it finally turned to half past nine. The sounds in the store gradually became quieter, and the host's voice began to sound on the screen, attracting everyone's attention.
The bettors held their tickets in their hands while nervously watching the red ball rolling down the screen.
As the red balls rolled down one by one, sighs came from the crowd from time to time, and occasionally there was an exclamation. Finally, the last basketball fell, and tonight's show also came to an end.
Monkey was still looking at the ticket in his hand, but as the numbers on the screen became more and more familiar, he couldn't help but look at Lin Qiu, who was standing next to him and was also looking up at the screen.
Isn't this the number that Lin Qiu mentioned at noon today? Although the order is different, most of the numbers are the same. Until the end, he couldn't help but grab Lin Qiu's tickets, facing each other one by one, his eyes getting more and more big.
"Lin Qiu! You won the prize!" The monkey's voice was loud enough to attract everyone's attention. The monkey puffed out his chest and was very happy.
The uncles who had looked at him unkindly before were also dumbfounded. Of course, there were also others who cast envious and congratulatory glances.
The happy monkey finally realized that this kind of thing had to be hidden. He raised his hand and waved to the people who were looking at them to express his apology, and the others withdrew their gaze.
