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Seeing what shopkeeper Ren said, those shopkeepers who were eager to ask for the account couldn't say much, so they could only agree to come back tomorrow.
As for the family of the clerk in the shop, they began to cry and make noise again, and the shopkeeper Ren had a headache.In the end, they could only promise to give them another thirty copper coins tomorrow. After understanding this, they sent these people away.
After the crowd dispersed, shopkeeper Ren gave a bitter smile, bowed his hands towards the surrounding neighbors, and walked towards the outsiders calmly with his back.
"Hey, this Ren's family is going to borrow Xiangji Kitchen, how will they live in the future. What a wonderful family, they also take care of the neighbors in the workshop on weekdays."
"Isn't this something that can't be helped? Hey, everyone, let's all go back. I hope that the treasurer Ren will have his own destiny and survive this difficult time."
The neighbors shook their heads and returned home in various ways.The Ren family owed so much money, there was nothing the neighbors could do if they wanted to help.
Shopkeeper Ren walked out of the gate, heaved a long sigh again, and started to go to Yankang Square in the south, where Ximing Temple was located.
Just a few steps away, he accidentally saw a lottery advertisement banner hanging on the wall of the workshop.
"One hundred taels of gold is not a dream, winning the lottery is just two pennies!"
Shopkeeper Ren smiled wryly, but unconsciously touched the lottery ticket in his sleeve.He paused for a moment, hesitated for a moment, turned his steps in a strange way, and walked towards the west market on the west side of the square wall.
In front of the lottery sales point in West Market, it was no longer the lively scene crowded with people a few days ago.Although there are still an endless stream of people going in and out of it, the number of people who buy lottery tickets is much smaller.
Shopkeeper Ren stood in front of the door of the lottery shop, not daring to step in for a long time.As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. He was a little afraid to look at the winning numbers of the lottery.
When he was hesitating, he heard the two people beside him talking in a low voice.
"Ziyou, how about arranging people to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs today?"
"Mr. Dai, wait another two days. Maybe someone didn't see it?"
"How is this possible? You're not a fool, you don't even know if you won the lottery? Ziyou, don't lie to yourself. Is there anyone in Chang'an who doesn't know the lottery winning numbers? Does anyone not know?"
It was Dai Zhou and Li Wangyou who spoke.
Today's lottery sales continued to decline, and Dai Zhou was impatient, so he brought Li Wangyou to the lottery sales point in Xishi, and discussed with him whether he should arrange someone to "receive the prize" as soon as possible.
Li Wangyou shrugged his shoulders, and when he was about to answer, he heard a voice from beside him: "You two gentlemen, please excuse me, can I ask you, what is the winning number of this lottery?"
363 I hit it!
Li Wangyou and Dai Zhou turned their heads in astonishment when they heard the words.
Just now Dai Zhou was still talking about the lottery winning numbers that everyone in Chang'an City knows, and then someone immediately asked.This made Dai Zhou a little annoyed, thinking that this person was deliberately sweeping his face as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
The two of them saw clearly that the person who was asking the question was a middle-aged man dressed in soap clothes and dressed as a businessman, and they couldn't help being stunned.
"Two gentlemen, please excuse me, what is the winning number of this lottery?" It was Shopkeeper Ren who asked the question.
He was a little afraid to step into the lottery sales point, and just happened to see a young man and an old man in front of him talking about the winning numbers of the lottery, so he couldn't help asking.
Dai Zhou saw that he didn't know the middle-aged merchant in front of him, and knew that he had wrongly blamed this person, so the angry expression on his face could not help but eased.
"My lord, you really don't know the lottery winning number?" Dai Zhou asked curiously.
Shopkeeper Ren clasped his hands and replied: "Yes, yes, a few days ago, something happened at home, and I didn't bother to look at it. This lottery ticket was bought by a cheap wife. I want to see if I have won the lottery."
"Hehe, the winning numbers in the lottery were drawn by the sage himself on the Vermilion Bird Gate three days ago. The old man remembers them clearly, they are three, seven, eleven, seventeen, twenty..." Dai Zhou twirled his beard and laughed.
He naturally didn't think that the middle-aged man in front of him could win the lottery, but as long as he was a commoner who bought a lottery ticket, he, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, felt very kind now, so he naturally didn't refuse, and reported the winning number of the lottery ticket.
Shopkeeper Ren didn't pay attention at first, but after hearing the three sets of numbers, his heart beat faster involuntarily.
This lottery number was purchased by his wife, and it was used on her and his own and his Dalang's birthday.
His birthday is on the 29th day of the third lunar month, his wife's birthday is on the [-]th day of the seventh month, and Dalang's birthday is on the [-]th day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar... For the last blue ball, her wife bought a three, meaning It's a family of three...
So for the lottery ticket in his cuff, his wife only spent two pennies, and the numbers she bought were 29, [-], [-], [-], [-], [-] and [-]!
Dai Zhou continued to report the winning numbers: "...twenty, 29, the last blue ball number, three. Hehe, how are you, sir, did you win the prize?"
His words, like a spring thunder, exploded in Shopkeeper Ren's ears!
"Lang Jun, you, you, didn't you lie to me? This, this is really, the winning number?" The shopkeeper Ren couldn't speak clearly, and his tongue kept knotting.
"Naturally, the old man has nothing to do, so why trick you? If you don't believe me, the winning number is posted in the lottery shop, you can see it at a glance." Dai Zhou snorted slightly dissatisfied.
Shopkeeper Ren didn't care about etiquette anymore, he lifted his robe and rushed towards the lottery sales shop.
Because he was running so fast, he even bumped into a commoner who had bought a lottery ticket and came out of it, and almost fell over.
Regardless of bumping into someone, he stumbled into the lottery shop like a headless chicken.
Li Wangyou and Dai Zhou looked at each other, and suddenly they both had a guess in their hearts.
"Mr. Dai, this man..."
"Ziyou, he must have won the lottery..."
Both of them were taken aback after they finished speaking, it couldn't be such a coincidence, could it?What a coincidence that the two of us met this grand prize winner today?
"Go, go in and have a look." Dai Zhou was impatient, grabbed Li Wangyou's arm, and ran towards the lottery ticket.
At this time, inside the lottery sales point, there was a piece of paper posted on the wall, on which the winning numbers were written in bold characters.
Shopkeeper Ren ran to the bottom of the winning numbers, raised his eyes to look at the numbers one by one, his heart beat faster the more he looked at it, his excitement was like a pot of boiling water in his chest that was about to overflow.
Hit, hit, I hit!At this time, shopkeeper Ren's mind was filled with only this sentence.
With trembling hands, he took out the lottery ticket tremblingly from his cuff, and carefully checked the numbers on it word by word, "Three, seven, eleven... three."
At this time, Shopkeeper Ren almost stepped into hell one second before, but suddenly ascended to heaven the next second.
Under the great stimulation of worry and joy, he read it again and read it again, just like Fan Jinzhong raised it. He clapped his hands, laughed loudly, and said, "Hey! I hit it! I hit it!"
As he spoke, he fell backwards, clenched his teeth, and passed out unconsciously.
His voice attracted the attention of everyone in the lottery sales point.Whether it was the scribes of the Ministry of Civil Affairs or the people who came to buy lottery tickets, they all heard his words.
When they were suspicious, they saw this person fainted suddenly, and everyone was shocked.
When shopkeeper Ren fainted, it happened to fall into the eyes of Dai Zhou and Li Wangyou who had just rushed in.
The two were also taken aback, and hurriedly called the clerks of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the sales point to fetch water, and quickly rescued the middle-aged merchant.
And the lottery ticket in his hand, which was tightly clutched, was also gently opened by Dai Zhou's fingers, and he picked it up.
"Hey, Ziyou, this person actually won the lottery! Haha, I was still worried that no one would win the lottery, but I didn't think it would be such a coincidence that such a scene would happen." Dai Zhou couldn't help clapping his hands and laughing after seeing the lottery numbers.
Li Wangyou also took the lottery ticket, carefully checked the various anti-counterfeiting measures on the lottery ticket, and confirmed that it was an authentic, first-prize winning lottery ticket!
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