Rebirth to create happiness

Chapter 4 Buying lottery tickets

Lying at home for a few days, Zhao Zhizhi felt that she was strong enough to kill two cows with one punch.

On Sunday, when mom and dad went shopping together to show off their affection, Zhao Zhizhi got up straight away.The house is quiet, and the elder brother Zhao Cheng is still sound asleep.Opening the lid of the pot, picking up two big steamed buns, Zhao Zhizhi walked out of the house while eating.Before leaving, I still didn't forget to take out the five yuan in the book and stuff it into my pocket.This morning, under her hard work, Time 33 finally agreed to help her find out any opportunities to make money right away.

Walking to the gate of the community, Zhao Zhizhi greeted the gatekeeper, Uncle Li.Uncle Li is in his 40s and is a veteran. He participated in a self-defense counterattack, lost an arm in the battle, and made a third-class meritorious service once.In order to take care of him, the county arranged for him to guard the gate of the county party committee dormitory complex a few years ago, which also solved the problem of food and clothing for him.You know, it is not easy for a disabled person to survive in society.

Uncle Li has changed from a high-spirited active soldier to a disabled old man at the gate, and he still feels a little emotional in his heart.Although the state has arranged a job, the salary of this job is not high, and the consumption in the county is a bit high. His wife and children are all in the countryside, and life is a bit tight.

Zhao Zhizhi has a heroic complex since she was a child. Hearing the stories of old man Li from adults, she thinks he is a person who should be respected, so every time she enters and leaves the community, she greets Uncle Li with a smile.Compared with the other brats with upturned nostrils in the community, Uncle Li has a pretty good impression of Zhao Zhizhi.

After eating the last bun in two bites, Zhao Zhizhi felt that her stomach was finally full.In the decades since she left her hometown, what Zhizhi misses the most is the big meat stuffed buns made by Zhao's mother.The white and fat buns are full of meat and stuffed with Chinese cabbage, sweet and juicy.

The streets are already full of people, there are housewives who come out to buy vegetables with baskets on their shoulders, and there are also farmers who pick fresh vegetables from around the county to sell in the county. In the small county town of the 80s, there were only two streets, and the most lively place was the intersection where the two streets meet.

"Come and see! Come and see! Fresh vegetables that don't use pesticides! They don't taste good, they don't cost any money!" A familiar voice of selling rang in Zhizhi's ears.

Zhizhi followed the voice and ran over to see that it was indeed her classmate Wang Zhenzhen.

"Zhenzhen, why are you selling vegetables here!" Zhizhi happily ran over and patted Wang Zhenzhen on the shoulder.

"Hey! It's you!" Wang Zhenzhen saw Zhao Zhizhi appearing alive and kicking in front of her eyes, she felt relieved, and showed a bright smile.

"You haven't told me how to sell vegetables here!" Seeing that Zhenzhen didn't answer her question, Zhizhi couldn't help being a little surprised.

"Haha, haha, my aunt's family grows vegetables, and I'm helping!" Wang Zhenzhen said shyly.

"Ding! This girl is lying." Time 33's voice rang in Zhao Zhizhi's mind: "Just now this girl's brainwaves told me that she was saying: 'I secretly sold the vegetables that my aunt brought from the countryside , will my mother go crazy if she finds out? Oh! Never mind, Zhizhi is my best friend, who made Zhizhi lie in bed all the time, and I don’t have money to buy gifts even if I want to see her?”

After hearing the reminder from Time 33, Zhao Zhizhi was very moved.She and Wang Zhenzhen have been in the same class since they were young, and they play relatively well.Wang Zhenzhen has a carefree temper, like a manly woman.Mother Zhao has always disliked her, fearing that her daughter would become like her if she played too much with Wang Zhenzhen, so she often warned Zhizhi not to get too close to Wang Zhenzhen.

Unexpectedly, Wang Zhenzhen always regarded her as her best friend, and Zhao Zhizhi felt a little ashamed.

"Zhenzhen, I'll go over there for a while, and I'll come back to see you when I have time!" Zhao Zhizhi was embarrassed to face Wang Zhenzhen, so she had to pretend to be busy.

"Yeah, um, go get busy!" Wang Zhenzhen waved her hand, wishing that Zhizhi would leave soon.She secretly sold the farm vegetables brought by her aunt to the county today, just to get money to buy gifts to visit Zhizhi.Now that Zhizhi has seen it, it's a good thing the vegetables haven't been sold yet, before my mother finds out.She had to get the food home quickly.

"Little girl, your dishes are really fresh, how much is a catty?" At this time, a mother-in-law saw that Wang Zhenzhen's dishes were fresh and tender, and stopped to ask the price.

"I'm sorry, mother-in-law." Wang Zhenzhen quickly cleaned up the plastic sheets and vegetables spread on the ground, and said apologetically, "Someone bought this vegetable just now, so I'm in a hurry to give it to someone!"

"This little girl is really diligent." The mother-in-law muttered: "Selling a dish and delivering it to your door, this service is really hard to choose."

Zhenzhen smiled without making a sound, hurriedly packed up and went home.She still has a few questions to solve. I don't know if she can't do it, will she be criticized when she goes to school on Monday?

Zhao Zhizhi lowered her head while walking and reflected that she was not caring enough for Zhenzhen, and raised her head a few minutes later to realize that she was standing at a crossroads.A new ticket office selling welfare lottery tickets opened at the crossroads two months ago, but now it is deserted and deserted without a single customer.

Zhao Zhizhi remembered that when this ticket office was newly opened, it was really booming for a month.However, as more and more people bought lottery tickets, very few people won the lottery, and the hot situation at the ticket office gradually became deserted.

"Ding! The target appears! The target appears!" Time 33's excited voice sounded in his mind.

"What?" Zhao Zhizhi looked around strangely.

"There, it's just 20 meters ahead." Time 33 said excitedly: "That place that sells lottery tickets, you go over there now and buy the third and tenth tickets of that stack of scratch cards."

"Scratch lottery? It's hard to win, okay?" Zhao Zhizhi communicated with Time No. 33 using brainwaves through gritted teeth: "I only have five yuan in total, and it costs four yuan to buy two scratcher pieces. What if I don't win?"

"No, one of the two lottery tickets has a bonus of 33 yuan, and the other has a bonus of [-] yuan." Time [-] said proudly: "How can this level of cover-up escape my scan." The column of the lottery amount on the scratch pad is covered with a thin layer of gray glue. Scratch off the layer of gray glue, and you can see the amount of the prize underneath. Of course, if you don’t win the prize, you will have the words thank you for buying.The gelatin is not too thick, but you can't see whether you won or not with the naked eye.

"In our Alta galaxy, this kind of lottery has been abolished millions of years ago. This kind of lottery has nothing to hide under the scan of the brain." Time 33 proudly added.

"Then have you thought about how I can get out if I don't win the lottery?" Zhao Zhizhi is not a real little lolita, so she can naturally imagine the situation after winning the lottery.

"Uh...?" Time 33 was silent. It knew from Zhizhi's mind that people in this world would attract the attention of many people around after winning the lottery.

"How about? Let me transform you?" Time 33 suggested: "How about turning you into an aunt in her thirties?"

"Can you still help me transform?" Zhao Zhizhi was so excited.As long as no one recognizes me, this kind of money is worthless!With start-up capital, it is relatively easy to make money in this era.Zhizhi happily "hehe" laughed.

Xiaomei sat on the counter boredly, trimming the nails that were just trimmed yesterday.She has been working at this Welfare Lottery ticket office for more than two months. She has seen everything from the bustling ticket office when it opened to the current empty situation.As a salesperson, she doesn't want the business to be too good, so that she will be busy all day long and have no time to breathe, but she also doesn't want no business, because no business means that the store does not know how long it will last.You must know that although this is just a small lottery selling point, it is also affiliated with the Civil Affairs Bureau. Her second aunt said that if the ticket point can continue to open, she will help her change jobs in a year or two. The number of civil servants, how many people want to come in and grab a job but can't get it!
But this month's results are too dismal. From the beginning of the month to now, only two scratch cards have been sold, and no one asked about anything else.If things go on like this, it's hard to say whether the ticket office will open next month.And she, a conductor who is a temporary worker, will definitely be cleared and returned to the countryside to farm.

Anxiously, Xiaomei threw down the little bag in her hand and stood up, not knowing when a rural woman in her thirties had entered the store, looking at the scratch-off advertisement posted on the wall.

"Girl, can this scratch-off lottery ticket really win a prize of [-]?" the woman asked Xiaomei, pointing to the advertisement on the wall.

"Yes, yes!" Xiaomei looked at the old-fashioned rural women in front of her, rolled her eyes, and continued enthusiastically: "Ma'am, you read the advertisement that says that a lottery ticket costs two yuan. I won the first prize of 10 yuan and the second prize of 5 yuan." The woman in front of her looked like a rural person who didn't come to the county often, and she must have no idea that she hadn't won more than [-] yuan in this lottery center in more than two months. money award.If there are no lottery tickets sold this month, I don't know if the store will continue to open.

"Ah! 10 yuan, that's a lot of money!" The woman opened her mouth wide and exclaimed.

"Yes, yes!" Xiaomei said enthusiastically, "It's rare to go to the city once, so let me buy a few! Maybe I'll scratch off 10 yuan later."

"Then..." The woman thought for a while and made up her mind, pointing to Xiaomei's stack of scratch-off lottery tickets on the counter and asked: "Then I want to buy two, can I choose?"

"Auntie, these lottery tickets are all the same, two yuan each, scratch off on the spot." Xiaomei was a little embarrassed.

"Then I said which one I want, can you give it?" the woman asked unwillingly.

"Okay! Tell me! I'll get it for you." Xiaomei reluctantly compromised.The obvious ultra-low winning rate, it doesn't matter which one you take.Xiaomei hopes that her good service attitude will stop women from complaining about not winning the lottery after a while.

Carefully drawing out the two lottery tickets that the woman asked for, Xiaomei collected the five yuan that the woman handed over.The money is not very new, but it can be seen that it is well preserved, without a trace of creases.

The woman took the one yuan that Xiaomei had found, picked up two lottery tickets and scratched them off.

Xiaomei was counting the time boredly.One second, two seconds. . . . . .Ten seconds, no winning, this aunt should cry.

"Girl, where do you think this bonus should go?" Just as Xiaomei was wandering in the sky, a woman's voice rang in her ears.

"Ah? What did you say?" Xiaomei came back to her senses.

"Girl, where should I get the bonus?" The aunt happily raised the lottery ticket in her hand and said, "I really won 15 yuan!"

Looking at the dancing rural aunt, Xiaomei was stunned.

(End of this chapter)