Ji Feng had heard of scratch - off lottery tickets. The rules were actually very simple. The purchaser scratched off the silver - paste - covered area. There were several identical scratch - off areas on one ticket. For example, on the scratch - off lottery ticket in his hand, there were six scratch - off areas. According to the rules, after scratching off all these areas, as long as there were three identical numbers, the winning prize would be the amount of that number.
If there were less than three identical numbers, there was no winning.
Ji Feng used his perspective ability to check these tickets one by one. However, he found that all the scratch - off lottery tickets in this stack in front of him had no prizes? The most a ticket had was only a five - yuan bonus!?
... This was almost like a joke!
Even with Ji Feng's self - control, his face couldn't help but slightly darken. He warily glanced at Xu Mo beside him, wondering whether this scratch - off lottery game originally had no prizes at all and was just a scam, or there were just very few winning tickets and most of them had no prizes. Or perhaps, only the stack of tickets in front of him had no prizes, while Xu Mo's stack had prizes?
Ji Feng had heard of some scandals regarding lotteries or some scratch - off related things.
For example, there was once a news report on TV. A certain man accidentally bought a lottery ticket and won more than a million yuan and a car. But the lottery center ignored him, claiming that the man's lottery ticket was fake.
Later, after an investigation, it was found that the lottery center was full of scandals. Although they couldn't see the words under the silver - paste - covered scratch - off area, through the source of printing and making lottery tickets, they used their connections to know where the real prizes were among those tickets. Then they gathered these tickets and resold them, while the remaining tickets with no prizes or with a very low probability of winning were distributed to various lottery retail stores.
The ticket that the man bought happened to be a winning ticket that the lottery center staff had mistakenly thought was a non - winning ticket and sold it to the retail store below.
Thinking of this news, Ji Feng couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.
Could it be that not only the lottery center did this, but even the lottery stores below were the same? So this boss only gave him tickets with no prizes?
Ji Feng associated this with his judgment that Xu Mo and the lottery store boss might know each other, and he couldn't help but slightly frown, his mind racing.
After a while, Ji Feng had an idea in his mind and couldn't help but smile and said, "Monitor Xu, I feel that the patterns on my stack are not very nice, but yours are better. Why don't I choose one from your stack?"
However, Xu Mo shook his head and smiled, "You, buying this kind of scratch - off lottery ticket depends on luck. What does it have to do with the pattern? Moreover, I've already decided to buy this whole stack and scratch them slowly. Casting a wide net will surely catch more fish. Ji Feng, you should learn from this!"
Ji Feng's brows immediately furrowed. There were one or two hundred tickets in front of each of them. Calculated at ten yuan each, it was one or two thousand yuan. What was Xu Mo up to?
Seeing Ji Feng's expression, Xu Mo couldn't help but smile and said, "Ji Feng, are you afraid of not winning? What's there to be afraid of? Didn't you just get a 10,000 - yuan bonus? Taking out one or two thousand yuan isn't a big deal, right? Otherwise, how about this? I'll buy first, and you watch me scratch. If you think it's okay, then you can buy again. If not, then forget it. How about that?"
Ji Feng nodded slightly and said, "Since that's the case, then I'll trouble Monitor Xu to bring me some good luck. Monitor Xu, please go first!"
Since he knew that Xu Mo had ill intentions, Ji Feng naturally wouldn't be easily tricked. He had made up his mind to see if there were prizes in Xu Mo's stack of tickets!
Xu Mo laughed heartily and said to the fat boss, "Boss, check how many tickets there are in total first. Can we settle the bill later?"
The fat boss chuckled and said, "Of course. I can see that you are all students. I believe students like you won't renege on your debts!"
Xu Mo couldn't help but laugh when he heard this and said, "You are really a good businessman. Now let's see how my luck is!"
Then, he picked up a bamboo stick on the table and started to scratch off the silver - paste - covered scratch - off areas one by one.
The result was that the first ticket he scratched had no winning.
The second ticket he scratched won two yuan. The third ticket won five yuan.
In the following few tickets, Xu Mo won continuously. Most of the prizes were around twenty or thirty yuan. They weren't big prizes, but this already made him laugh out loud and said, "It seems that my luck is pretty good. I've won several hundred yuan in no time!"
Ji Feng watched with a furrowed brow beside him. Through these few tickets, he could determine that the trick this fat boss was playing was exactly the same as the one the lottery center played in the news.
Obviously, the fat boss gave the tickets that were easy to win to Xu Mo and the tickets with no prizes to himself!
Thinking of this, Ji Feng couldn't help but sneer in his heart. If he didn't have the perspective ability, seeing Xu Mo winning so many prizes, he would definitely be tempted to pay to buy the stack of tickets in front of him. At that time, he would lose one or two thousand yuan!
This one or two thousand yuan might not be a big deal for someone like Xu Mo, but for himself, it was a large expense. At that time, Ji Feng would surely be extremely distressed.
What a vicious trick!
Ji Feng sneered. Xu Mo must have found out about his family situation and used this method to hit him. Moreover, Ji Feng suspected that Xu Mo's tricks might not stop here. He might have a follow - up plan.
Thinking of this, anger surged in Ji Feng's heart, and his face became even gloomier.
Taking a deep breath, Ji Feng laughed angrily, "Boss, the patterns on my side are all too ugly. Get me some new ones. Since Monitor Xu's luck is so good, then I'll buy more. Hehe!"
"Ji Feng, be careful!" Xiao Yu xuan and Tong Lei said in unison beside him. The two women looked at each other, both noticing a bit of shyness in each other's eyes, and then they both stopped talking.
Ji Feng, however, slightly shook his head, turned his head and gave the two women a reassuring look, and said with a smile, "Don't worry. Since Monitor Xu's luck is so good, then he can have the big share, and I can just get a little bit. Hehe!"
When the boss heard this, he exchanged an imperceptible look with Xu Mo and said with a smile, "Okay. I'll get you some new ones. I have all kinds of patterns you want here!"
Then, he brought up a small box from under the table. Inside the box, lottery tickets were neatly arranged in rows. There were thousands of them.