Chapter Thirteen Little Gifts
The red sun hangs high in the east, and the red light thorns the clouds in the sky like a sharp sword.
In Ziyang Mountain, Chen Xian and Yan Jian and his daughter stood at the top of the peak and looked downward.
Hangzhou City woke up, and in Qinghefang, west of the city, there were crowds of merchants and passers-by like ants; on the water and land pier in the north of the city, workers devoted themselves to a day of work early; looking into the distance, there were fishing boats vaguely moving along the Grand Canal.
If you can see the two prefectures in Jiaxing and Huzhou even further away, you can see people all over the mountains. These are people who look dazed and walk aimlessly. As you walk, someone falls to the ground...
"I am happy to climb this Ziyang Mountain because as long as I climb to the top, I can see all kinds of things in the world." Yan Jian looked at him, and his eyes looked at Hangzhou City were filled with expectations and comfort, as if he was looking at his elders.
"Old Yan likes to be Ling Jueding?" Chen Xian said casually.
"It's not what I want." Yan Jian smiled and shook his head, then suddenly turned around and asked, "How is Xingzhi's bet with others?"
"It's almost done!" Chen Xian shrugged, and then remembered something, then took out a card from his arms, handed it to Zixiao, and smiled and said, "Take it a little thing to play with."
"What is this?" Zixiao took it and saw that the card made of hard yellow paper was written in small regular script: "May 1321" and there was a line of red small words next to it: "Huancailou lottery, only participates in the Youth hour of the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, and will not be redeemed after the expiration."
"Huancailou has got a lottery ticket." Chen Xian raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "The lottery will be drawn in five days, don't forget to be there!"
"Lottery? Lottery..." Every time Zixiao thought about it, her eyes flashed and looked cute. At this moment, the crescent-like eyes flashed for a moment, and then she asked in surprise: "What is the prize?"
"Oh. The first prize is five hundred taels of silver."
"So many?" Yan Jian turned around, grabbed the lottery ticket and looked down, then looked up and stared at Chen Xian with a scrutiny gaze, and asked vigilantly: "Xingzhi, why did you give me this lottery?"
"Not for you!" Chen Xian smiled bitterly, thinking to himself that this old man was so cautious. Could he be afraid that I would give him a gift?
"This is for Zixiao!" Chen Xian snatched the lottery from Yan Jian's hand, stuffed it back into Zixiao's hand, and said with a smile: "Zixiao looks like she is rich and might win the big prize!"
"Puchi!" Zixiao couldn't help laughing, but then pretended to be angry and said angrily: "Did Mr. Chen say Zixiao is bloated and obese?"
"Where do I have it!"
...
Four small tables were placed in front of Huancai Building, and a waiter sat in front of each table, responsible for collecting money. The lottery player who paid the money reached into the wooden box and took out a small card, and then turned around and left with the dream of getting rich.
Feng Niang was walking around the compartment on the third floor, as anxious as an ants on a hot pan, and from time to time he leaned over to look at the crowd lined up below.
"Don't be impatient with Mother Feng..." Lu Xiaochai sat quietly at the table and said softly.
"How can I not be anxious!" Feng Niang stood still, looked downstairs anxiously, and said, "I'm afraid there have been three hundred lottery tickets downstairs! What about Chen Xian! Didn't he say he wanted to do some regulation and operation!"
Lu Xiaochai had a headache and rubbed her temples. She had no trouble sleeping last night. Every time she lies on the bed, her heart felt like she was tightly clutched by a hand.
She was worried about Chen Xian. Although the initiator seemed full of confidence, she lost so much money on the first day of the lottery sale. How can people not worry about it?
"I sold 70 lottery tickets yesterday, and I lost 110 taels. If I sold 700 tickets today..." Feng Niang said this, she felt that her palms were sweating. She took out the show palm and wiped the moisture from her palms, and looked downstairs again.
This time she was not disappointed. She saw Chen Xian walking towards this place from afar, looking around in the crowd. The latter obviously had no tension, and occasionally stopped and chatted with the people queuing up to buy lottery tickets.
Seeing Chen Xian's idle look, Feng Niang was so angry that she was born, she said viciously: "This kid is back."
Lu Xiaochaifei stood up like a little, leaned on the window ridge and looked down. When she found Chen Xian in the crowd, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but lifted.
Seeing Lu Xiaochai's appearance, Feng Niang couldn't help but shake her head and sigh. Although Xiaochai was not her biological daughter, she was more ordinary in terms of feelings. She had long told the latter about her views on men and her biological experience, but this silly woman turned a deaf ear!
She really didn't want to see Xiaochai's infatuated look, so she shook her head and sighed and turned around.
After a while, Chen Xian walked upstairs slowly. He held the number counts sold today in his hand, and looked at it while walking, not caring about Feng Niang's knife-like gaze.
Chen Xian lowered his head and pushed the door into the house, then walked straight to the table and sat down. From time to time, he took out his brush to write some strange symbols, as if he was calculating something.
Feng Niang and Lu Xiaochai knew that Chen Xian was doing some regulation, so they didn't dare to disturb him at this moment, so they stood beside him and looked at him with breath and concentration.
After a whole hour, Chen Xian stopped writing and stretched. When he raised his head, he suddenly realized that there was someone beside him. He smiled and said to Xiaochai: "Well, I just counted the number of the lottery tickets I sold, and I'm a little confused, sorry."
"Chen Lang..." Lu Xiaochai called out faintly, and then glanced at Feng Niang's beautiful eyes. Her eyes seemed to be able to speak, which made Chen Xian understand immediately - Feng Niang must have been anxious.
"Haha." Chen Xiansa smiled and stood up and said, "Feng Niang, let the waiter take the bag of wooden balls with the 'Big Lotto' written tonight."
I deliberately lost money yesterday, naturally because I needed to attract popularity. Judging from the effect of queuing at the door today, the advertising effect of using this 110 taels of silver is really amazing.
What Chen Xian just now is to count which number is the most and which number is the least, and then determine the number issued today based on the profit maximization as the standard.
Simply put, Chen Xian not only wrote the numbers in his hands for lottery players, but also enthusiastically helped to choose all the numbers he had shaken out.
Chen Xian didn't want to work so hard to calculate the daily winning numbers. He also wanted to create a completely random lottery, but... Isn't this betting with Feng Niang that you have to earn enough money to redeem Lu Xiaochai within three months!
After redeeming her, I always have to buy gold, silver, jewelry for this beauty? Moreover, the house in Zhugan Lane has to be renovated, and the furniture and other things have to be replaced with mahogany carvings, right?
If you have a child in the future, you will always keep tens of thousands of taels of silver and let him be a playboy who fights cocks and walks his dog!
Chapter completed!