He said to Lin Wanting: "How about we also go to the cultural square to take a look at the lottery?"
Lin Wanting said: "You also want to try your luck?"
"Yeah, maybe I win a big prize and get tens of thousands of dollars. Then I can easily change my destiny."
"Don't get addicted and lose all your travel money."
"I only spend 50 yuan to buy lottery tickets. I won't buy any more if I win or not. You can supervise me and remember to remind me."
"Who am I to you? Still supervising you?"
Yin Yuan said: "I won a big prize today. I will give you the last digit of eight thousand, okay?"
Lin Wanting smiled and said: "The big cake you drew is still very tempting. I will join in the fun with you."
The station is not far from the square, only a twenty-minute walk.
Yin Yuan left their luggage at the luggage check-in office, and then walked to the lottery sales point to watch the excitement.
Many people come to the county town by car just to win the lottery and win the Universiade, so the road from the station to the square is very crowded like going to the market.
The sound of loudspeakers came from the direction of the Cultural Square, and from time to time there was the sound of firecrackers.
"Someone wins the jackpot again, walk faster!"
From time to time, I saw winners walking back happily carrying various prizes.
The prizes include rice cookers, radios, sewing machines, bicycles, motorcycles, and the worst prizes include soap, towels, and washing powder.
Yin Yuan saw a delivery truck from the county department store, pulling a load of goods towards the square.
He suspected that this lottery draw was purely a goods sales activity jointly conducted by county cadres and department store leaders.
People in this era are really simple-minded and easy to fool.
When the delivery truck arrived at the square, it was quickly labeled with various prizes by the staff and piled on the prize table made of wooden blocks in front.
Dozens of motorcycles and bicycles, as well as a dozen pickup trucks, all had red ribbons hung on the front.
A pair of young men and women held a microphone and yelled hard.
More than a dozen lottery sales outlets were packed with people, and the staff inside were busy.
"Lottery tickets cost two yuan each. Buy as many tickets as you want. Just make up the number and don't ask the sales staff to give you change."
"Consciously queue up, everyone consciously queue up..."
"Comrade, you took 100 yuan to buy two lottery tickets. What do you mean, are you deliberately causing trouble here? Go outside and change the loose money yourself. This is a lottery sales point, not something for you to exchange change for. Do you want to buy it? If you don’t buy it, don’t block others…”
"Everyone pay attention to your wallet, everyone pay attention to your wallet..."
There was also a person at the scene holding a microphone and shouting reminders.
Two men in plain clothes rushed towards a young man, pinned him to the ground, and took out four or five wallets from his pocket.
There were several other people on the scene who were in disarray.
The lottery draw, a crowded place, is also a paradise for three hands to commit crimes.
When Yin Yuan came to the scene, he was also infected by the crazy atmosphere and bought five lottery tickets for ten yuan.
The scratch-off area on the top was marked with the words "Thank you for participating", declaring that his ten yuan was wasted.
He tried to retrieve from his memory the situation in which he won the jackpot at the lottery in his previous life.
The sales points where two special prizes were drawn that day were at the lottery sales booths No. 3 and No. 7.
Li Laojiu, who was riding a minibus with him from Hefeng Town, was at the lottery sales point No. 3. He hurriedly squeezed in front of him.
"Lao Jiu, did you win the big prize?" he asked deliberately.
"I won a lot of money. I won a few pieces of soap and a few towels. Almost every fifth ticket will win a small prize, but there is no big prize, even the fourth prize and a bicycle." Li Laojiu said discouragedly.
Yin Yuan said: "You win every time, which means you are lucky today. Keep working hard, maybe the big prize is waiting for you ahead."
He bought another five lottery tickets for ten yuan, but after scratching them, he still found nothing.
Li Laojiu felt itchy looking at it, and finally took out a hundred-dollar bill from his pocket.
He asked Yin Yuan: "Do you have any loose money? Can you exchange it for 100 yuan for me?"
Yin Yuan exchanged one hundred yuan for him.
He tried hard to retrieve the memory of Li Laojiu winning the lottery in the square.
At that time, just like today, he bought a sleeper ticket at 18 o'clock, and then came to watch the excitement. He couldn't help but buy a lottery ticket for 50 yuan, but in the end he didn't even get a piece of soap.
That night, Scarface beat him half to death in the sleeper car.
I remember that when Li Laojiu finally finished the one hundred yuan, he had a few more soaps and towels in his hand.
Finally, he borrowed another twenty yuan from a fellow villager and bought ten lottery tickets.
At that time, he said to a fellow villager: "Bah, I'm so unlucky. I won some soap and towels by drawing the prize. I won't touch it anymore and lend me 20 yuan for travel expenses."
Having already squeezed out of the crowd, he was unwilling to give up and returned to the No. 3 lottery sales point. He said harshly: "I will use these 20 yuan to win again. If I don't win, I will walk back tonight."
It was twenty-eight kilometers from the county seat to Hefeng Town. If he failed, he decided to punish himself.
Finally he got it.
Yin Yuan grasped this moment and saw him finish the one hundred yuan and squeeze out of the crowd.
He appeared in front of Li Laojiu in time.
"Lao Jiu, don't touch me anymore. Are you ready to go back?"
Li Laojiu said frustratedly: "What else can I do? I have no money in my pocket, and I will have to borrow money for my trip back later."
Seeing that Yin Yuan was still holding twenty yuan in his hand, he said sheepishly: "Yin Yuan, can you lend me twenty yuan for travel expenses? I will pay you back when I get back to the work."
Yin Yuan thought for a moment and said to him: "Is this good? I have thirty yuan in my hand. I will lend you the ten yuan to pay for your trip home. The twenty yuan will be used as a way for the two of us to raise money to buy something together." Lottery tickets, seeing as you have always been lucky, just go and buy ten lottery tickets, and then I will scratch them. If you don’t win, everyone will give up on buying them. You go back to Hefeng Town, and we will go back to the station waiting room."
Lin Wanting had been here with him for so long, but she felt it was boring. Seeing that Yin Yuan was still unwilling to throw away the remaining thirty yuan, she couldn't help but said: "Why waste twenty yuan, please let me One meal at a small restaurant is enough.”
Li Laojiu nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, I agree."
Yin Yuan said: "I haven't finished talking yet. If I buy a lottery ticket with these 20 yuan and win the special prize, I can get 88,000 yuan in cash, right?"
Li Laojiu smiled bitterly and said: "Don't talk about winning the special prize, I will be satisfied if I win the fourth prize of 380 yuan."
Yin Yuan said: "If you win the special prize of 88,000, you and I will each share 40,000, and the other 8,000 will be given to Lin Wanhua. If the first prize is a motorcycle worth 6,660, you and I will each share 3,000 and 6,000," he said. Give it to Lin Wanhua. The third prize is 1,360 yuan, 500 yuan each for you and me, 300 yuan for her..."
Lin Wanting thought he was talking in his sleep.
Li Laojiu agreed wholeheartedly, but he thought it was unrealistic.
Yin Yuan's brain must have been damaged. He didn't touch the prize when he had money, but let himself touch it instead. He didn't know what he was thinking.
He took the twenty yuan from Yin Yuan, went to the No. 3 lottery sales point, bought ten lottery tickets, and handed them to Yin Yuan.
Yin Yuan said: "Let's find a place with few people to scratch prizes."
Lin Wanting said to him: "Hurry up and finish shaving, then find a small restaurant to eat, and then go to the station to wait for the train."
Yin Yuan said: "Don't worry, if you win the big prize, I'll treat you to a big hotel for dinner."
The three of them walked to the side of the lottery redemption point. Yin Yuan rubbed his hands and said, "Open your eyes wide, I'm starting to scratch..."
Yin Yuan scratched four pieces with the four characters "Thank you for taking the spear". After scratching the fifth piece, a dragon-shaped pattern appeared in front of him.
"Haha, first prize, dragon-shaped pattern, we won the big prize, haha~..."
Li Laojiu laughed like a pig in his previous life.
Lin Wanting couldn't believe her eyes.
He actually won the special prize, this Yin Yuan is really amazing.
Yin Yuan said calmly: "Don't get excited, as we just agreed. There are still five lottery tickets here, and maybe you can win a prize."
After scratching out five other lottery tickets, I actually won the fourth prize, a permanent bicycle worth 380 yuan.
