Chapter 3 The First Pot of Gold

Chapter 3 The First Pot of Gold

Chapter 3 The First Pot of Gold
the next day.

Early in the morning.

After Jiang Miao had breakfast, he told his parents that he was going to the city to get a new mobile phone card.

Carrying his ID card, more than 1,000 yuan in cash, and his old mobile phone, he drove his electric scooter slowly towards the city.

Two hours later.

Jiang Miao, who had already arrived at the city's telecommunications business hall, had finally gotten a new mobile phone card. He inserted the card into his old phone, called home, and said he would have lunch with his classmates at noon.

He came to a lottery station not far from the telecommunications business hall. Several motorcycle guys were also playing Happy Ten in the store. The boss was busy printing tickets and ignored Jiang Miao who was strolling around.

He also enjoyed the quietness and looked at the pile of scratch tickets under the glass counter by himself.

After looking at it for more than ten minutes, I found that among the thousands of scratch tickets, none of them had a prize of more than ten thousand yuan.

Jiang Miao left expressionlessly and went to the shopping mall next door to buy a baseball cap and a box of masks.

Wearing a baseball cap, driving your beloved little motorcycle, you walk leisurely through the streets.

Not a moment.

We came to another lottery station.

Go straight to the glass counter.

"Handsome boy, what do you want?" the proprietress asked with a smile.

Jiang Miao sat on the chair: "Let me take a look myself."

"Oh? Do you want to take it out?"

"Then take some of the unwrapped tickets."

"Okay." The lady boss opened the glass door and picked up more than a hundred scratch tickets: "Handsome boy, these are the ones left over by others. Those that haven't been opened may contain big prizes. There was one a few days ago..."

The proprietress kept on selling her product.

Jiang Miao picked up a few scratch tickets and pretended to observe them.

The item structure column on the identification panel can directly display the 3D structure diagram, and it can also be layered.

Therefore, the protective paint layer on the surface of the scratch card could not stop Jiang Miao's prying.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Miao bought a 20-yuan scratch-off ticket at the lottery station. The result of scratching the ticket was naturally a zero.

He left again.

I bought a few T-shirts and a pair of sunglasses at a clothing store on Sanmalu Road.

After changing into a new set of clothes, Jiang Miao put on sunglasses and went to the lottery shop on Sanmalu Road again. After looking for more than ten minutes, he found that the highest prize was only 5 yuan.

He parked his electric bike at the entrance of a nearby shopping mall, changed into new clothes in the mall bathroom, put on a mask, and then took a bus to Chengnan Road.

Inside the lottery station on Chengnan Road.

Jiang Miao drank mineral water while idly looking at the scratch cards on the counter.

Suddenly his eyes fixed.

Among a stack of scratch tickets, one scratch ticket had a prize of 50.

After drinking the mineral water, he took out 100 yuan and said, "Boss, five scratch tickets."

The boss took out the disassembled scratch tickets from the glass counter.

Jiang Miao buried his head and pretended to choose.

After a while, 5 tickets were picked out.

Pick up the key and start scraping carefully.

"No…"

Keep scraping.

"Again?"

"No? I don't believe there is none at all!"

Jiang Miao seemed to be obsessed with gambling. He didn't win five scratch tickets in a row. His face turned red and he took out another 5 yuan and slapped it on the counter.

"Five more!"

"Here!" The boss smiled and took out a pile of unpacked scratch tickets.

However, Jiang Miao was dissatisfied: "These are the leftovers from others. Open a new stack for me. I want the red one, which is festive!"

"No problem." The boss picked up the stack of red scratch tickets and removed the plastic film on the surface.

Jiang Miao spent several minutes picking and choosing among the stack of scratch tickets.

Scrape it up again with the key.

"I didn't win! What bad luck!" "Oh! I won! 100 yuan! Hahaha, my luck is here! Keep up the good work!"

Jiang Miao's face became more and more excited.

"Another duck egg! Rubbish..."

"Huh? Five bucks? A consolation prize."

Jiang Miao was startled at first, then he leaned close to the scratch ticket and began to count the series of zeros attentively: "Hey... wait a minute... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 5 zeros, it's paid, it's actually 50."

"What?" The boss couldn't sit still anymore, and immediately came over to look at the ticket in Jiang Miao's hand. Then he became excited: "Handsome boy, you made it!"

Soon other lottery players in the store also started discussing the topic.

Some people beat their chests and stamped their feet, regretting why they didn't buy it.

Some people are extremely envious and daydream of getting rich overnight.

Some people were extremely jealous and murmured sourly.

Jiang Miao naturally would not stay at the lottery station. He hurried to the lottery center in the city to cash in his prize.

Although 20% tax was deducted, the money has legally become Jiang Miao's asset.

As for the lottery station owner, he pulled him to an empty corner of the store and kept hinting to him that he could help with the operation and was even willing to pay 50 to buy the scratch ticket directly.

However, Jiang Miao directly refused.

He naturally knew what his boss meant.

However, although he could earn 50 by doing this, the problem was that the source of his 50 funds seemed a bit abnormal.

Jiang Miao, who didn't want to leave any hidden dangers for himself, refused without hesitation.

What he needs now is reasonable and legal funds, not funds with hidden dangers. Otherwise, even if he becomes a billionaire in the future, this hidden danger may be exploited by others.

After all, flies don't bite seamless eggs.

sunset.

Jiang Miao rode his electric scooter along the seaside avenue back to his home in the suburbs.

Back home.

Dad was still busy in the field not far from the door, where he planted some cabbage, Chinese cabbage, water spinach and cucumbers.

My mother is cooking in the kitchen.

"Mom, I bought a box of barbecued pork."

"You bought the barbecued pork? The spareribs will be steamed tomorrow."

He glanced at the teacups on the coffee table: "Mom, who's here today?"

"Your brother-in-law came over at noon, and he brought some lemon fish."

"How's the situation at my brother-in-law's fishing pond?"

"He doesn't care anymore. Eel fry are too expensive this year, and the price of feed has increased. Your sister doesn't agree to continue raising them. Your brother-in-law has been driving a fishing boat these days."

"Is that so!" Jiang Miao took a bottle of soda water from the refrigerator and opened it.

Mom finished cutting the cabbage and said, "Go and ask your dad to come back to take a shower and have dinner."

"Oh!"

Gulp gurgle... After taking a big sip of soda water, Jiang Miao patted the big yellow dog that was spinning around at his feet.

As he walked out the door, he shouted, "Dad, it's time for dinner!"

In the distance, Jiang Dahai, who was picking cucumbers, shouted back, "Got it. I'll go back after I finish picking the cucumbers. You guys eat first."

Looking at his father's somewhat old figure, Jiang Miao fell silent involuntarily. He was not a person who was good at expressing his emotions.

Although I want to change my current life and stop my parents from working so hard, the reality is that things don't go as planned.

He actually didn't make much money over the years.

I was 22 years old when I graduated from university. I happened to encounter the special period of 2020 and had to go home and be unemployed for more than a year.

Last year, I had no choice but to work as a delivery boy for most of the year. In October last year, I was injured in a traffic accident and had to rest for more than four months. I only recovered last month.

He went to college in Jiangcheng, Jingbei Province, which is a 211-level university and a good agricultural university in China. His major was bioengineering.

Unfortunately, a series of previous changes forced him to accept reality and deliver takeout in his hometown.

Because of this incident, he was often treated with sarcasm by the people in the village, and even his parents were very dissatisfied and disappointed.

After all, for a 211 university student to deliver food actually makes people feel that he has wasted his studies.

(End of this chapter)