Ma Yi was very disappointed and pulled the cart to the south, hoping to pick up some rags there and put them on the cart before returning home. But I met a man, wearing a top hat and robe, with a kind face and bright eyes. He looked like a wealthy businessman and a gentleman, and he was quite elegant. He still felt inferior and didn't want to look, so he had to concentrate on pulling the car over. But the man followed up and said, Xiaoma, stop. Ma Yi raised his head and saw that the man had handed one hundred yuan into his hand and said, Xiaoma, you haven't even eaten lunch, are you hungry? Go to the restaurant in front to buy something to eat. People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you work hard without eating or drinking, your body won’t be able to handle it! Ma Yi refused to accept the money and said, "I don't know you, how can you give me money casually?" I'm afraid, you won't hit me, right?
Don't worry, take it. Seeing that he didn't accept the money, the man stuffed the money into his jacket pocket, patted it, and said it didn't matter, you don't know me, I know you, you are in trouble, I'm just trying to help you. Why would I hit you? Where did your thoughts go?
Ma Yi was very grateful and wanted to take out the money from his wallet and return it to him. He said, "If you don't tell me your name, I won't dare to ask for the money. If you tell me your name, if I get rich in the future, Today, I will return the hundred yuan to you.
My surname is Fan, and I don’t need you to pay me back this little money in the future. Don't ask. The man didn't say his name.
Ma Yi held the handle of the car and blinked, but the person standing in front of him disappeared. He was very surprised. He took out the money in his wallet and looked at it. He was afraid that it was fake money or ghost coins. He looked left and touched, and it was indeed money. real money. He still didn't believe himself a little, so he parked the trolley on the side of the road, took the 100 yuan to an Agricultural Bank of China sales department in front of him, and checked it with a banknote detector. The salesperson returned the money to him and said it was real money. Ma Yi then I felt at ease.
He turned around and pulled the cart along the road, and saw a store selling welfare lottery tickets. He didn't believe in these things, so he didn't even look at them. He buried his head and pulled the cart past the store. Unexpectedly, a woman with shawl hair came out of the store and shouted to Ma Yi, collect the rags and buy a lottery ticket! Ma Yi didn't want to pay attention at first, but the woman stretched out her hand and pulled the side rail of the cart, so that the cart could no longer move. Ma Yi raised his head and saw her smiling face, so he struck up a conversation. Only rich people buy lottery tickets. A rag picker and cart puller like me is almost like a beggar. How can I have spare money to buy lottery tickets?
The woman shook her hair and said that your idea is wrong. If you win a lottery ticket, the winning amount can be as little as 500,000 or as much as hundreds of thousands. If you have such good luck, you don't need to pick up rags. The truck is gone. I wonder if you are married? If you win a lottery, have hundreds of thousands or millions, and become rich, it will be easy for you to find a wife if you are not married. If you are married, you can buy a building to live in the city or town.
After hearing this, Ma Yi felt a little itchy and asked, how much does it cost to buy a lottery ticket? cheapest. The woman said, two yuan, not much, the price of a bowl of noodles. Ma Yi shook his head and decided not to buy it, thinking: These two yuan can buy a pound of salt, and you can still get change. You can keep it at home for more than a month. But he didn't say that. Instead, he pointed to a few old bottles on the trolley and said to the woman, "It's hard to earn these two yuan. Let's just give these old bottles to the collection station for 4 cents each. That's it." 10 old bottles can only be exchanged for 40 cents. You have to pick up 50 bottles to exchange them for 2 yuan. You don’t know how difficult it is, but I still won’t buy it.
The woman didn't force him. Seeing him pulling the cart so far, she suddenly parked the cart on the side of the road and came back. She came to the welfare lottery store with two dollars in her hand and said, I'd better buy one. .
In this way, Ma Yi actually bought a lottery ticket, which was a cardboard box similar to a train ticket. He held it in his hand and looked left and right, but he didn't recognize a few foreign characters on it, so he asked, "I Won a prize? The woman said that the winning numbers will be announced between 9:30 and 10:00 tomorrow morning. Come back then, pick up the lottery ticket and don’t drop it, and bring it with you.
She pointed to a piece of seal on the lottery ticket and said, come on time tomorrow and scratch it off. A row of numbers will be revealed on it. If it matches the winning number, then you will win. If it doesn't match, you will win. , there is no winning. Ma Yi understood and didn't ask any more questions. He put the lottery ticket and the 100 yuan together, left the welfare lottery store, went to pull his cart to pick up his rags, but occasionally reached out to poke around. I looked at the hundred yuan and the lottery ticket that I had put in my coat pocket, as if I was afraid they would fly away.
The next morning, Ma Yi did not pull the cart, but called his younger brother Ma Ren to accompany him. When he came to the welfare lottery store, the woman with long hair and shawl looked at the clock and saw that it was half past nine. , she looked at the two young men standing in front of the store, one of whom was Ma Yi, whom she met yesterday, and said to him, now the winning number of 500,000 yuan for the welfare lottery has appeared, and the mantissa is three 8s, which means Fafafa, have you got the lottery tickets you bought?
Ma Yi said, brought it. He immediately opened his hand into a fist, and there was a lottery ticket in his palm. He followed the woman's instructions and scratched off the smear. Good guy, the number revealed was the same as the winning number. His younger brother Ma Ren is a young man who is slightly thinner than Ma Yi but very smart. He was very excited and clapped his hands and said, Brother, congratulations on winning the 500,000 yuan grand prize.
On the contrary, Ma Yi was not excited and seemed very calm. He said, I did not win the prize by chance. When other staff in the store saw someone winning a 500,000-yuan jackpot by buying a lottery ticket at their welfare lottery store, they immediately lit a Thousand Son Whip and fired it, and a medicinal fragrance filled the air.
Many people nearby gathered around to watch the excitement, which was undoubtedly an advertisement for this welfare lottery store. The subtext seemed to say: Look, someone who bought lottery tickets in our store won a prize, and other people who came to buy lottery tickets might also win!
When the sound of the whip stopped, the woman looked at Ma Yi and asked, why aren't you trying your luck? Ma Yi clutched the lottery ticket tightly and did not answer. The woman lowered her voice again: Many people have bought lottery tickets in my store for several years without winning. You buy it once and you win. It only costs two yuan. You win. Lottery of 500,000 yuan, isn’t this a matter of luck? Ma Yi then said, someone help me.
The woman asked, who can help you? Who can help? What a ghost you are. She suddenly remembered something and asked Ma Yi, who had pulled the trolley so far yesterday. Why did he immediately switch to buying lottery tickets when he originally refused to buy lottery tickets? Ma Yi said, it's like this. I pulled the cart so far, and suddenly there was a voice in my ear saying, Xiao Ma, just go buy a lottery ticket. It's not expensive. It only costs two yuan. Go and buy it. You won’t lose money and you will still win.
I didn't believe it at the time. I heard someone talking in my ears, but I couldn't see anyone in front of me, so I asked him, who are you? Why are you talking to me like this? The voice in the ear answered, I am the person named Fan whom you first met. Oh, I, Ma Yi, trusted the man named Fan. He initially gave me a hundred yuan, so I parked the trolley on the side of the road and bought a welfare lottery ticket without hesitation. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true. Won the lottery.
The woman asked again, what is the name of the man named Fan? You are from? Ma Yi said, how do I know? I started seeing him, and he looked like a person from ancient times. He disappeared in the blink of an eye. He really came and went without a trace.
At this time, everyone watching was silent. The woman was very surprised and whispered, it seems that there is a fairy named Fan who is helping you get rich. She scratched her head, oh, I remembered it. The person named Fan you mentioned looks like an ancient person. He may be the God of Wealth Fan Li who assisted King Gou Jian of Yue to conquer King Fu Chai of Wu, then retired successfully, abandoned his official position and became a businessman and made a fortune. . All right! Since Fan Caishen is secretly helping you get rich, I will take you to the Dongtu Kingdom Welfare Lottery Sales Headquarters to claim your winnings.
