Seeing through the village doctor is also crazy

Chapter 7 Scratch

Ye Xiu was very happy when he finally opened a talisman seal business and earned 5 yuan.

But Ye Xiu quickly calmed down. He clearly realized that the business of buying and selling talisman seals is too accidental. If you don't meet someone who knows the goods, you can't sell your talisman seals no matter how good they are. They are very antiques. The popular saying in the business is "Either don't open, or open for three years".

But the cruel reality and the financial pressure of the family make Ye Xiu no longer rely on luck and luck to make money. After all, time waits for no one. The deadline for his younger brother Ye Bao’s gambling debt repayment is coming soon. Bao's gambling debts are cleared, so that Ye Xiu can rest assured.

It was already 8 o'clock in the evening, and the major banks had already closed after get off work. Ye Xiu couldn't transfer the 5 yuan from the check to his bank card, so he couldn't withdraw the cash.

With a check of 5 yuan in his pocket, Ye Xiu was walking hungrily on the streets of "Ancient Tibetan Garden". Ye Xiu couldn't help swallowing the smell of barbecued meat wafting from the barbecue stall.

Ye Xiu had only two yuan and thirty cents left in his trousers pocket, which was still the money left over from buying talisman seal materials.

When Ye Xiu was walking aimlessly on the street of "Ancient Storage Garden", he looked up and saw a sea of ​​people outside the entrance of a store not far ahead, rubbing shoulders and heels. It was very lively and popular.

Ye Xiu also found it quite strange. At this time, the fronts of all the stores are quite deserted and there are few customers, but why is the entrance of this store so popular?

Ye Xiu quickly stepped forward to take a peek.

It turned out that this is a newly opened pawn shop. In order to attract attention, earn enough popularity, and build popularity for the shop, the store is holding a special scratch-off activity in the nature of a lottery.

In front of the store entrance, wooden tables and chairs were used to set up three scratch-off activity platforms, and each activity platform was surrounded by three layers of people who were eager to buy lottery.

From time to time, the crowd who bought the lottery burst into crazy shouts of "I won! I won!"

The atmosphere of the whole event scene was simply overwhelmed.

Ye Xiu saw a middle-aged obese man in a red Tang suit coming out of the pawnshop. The man beckoned a staff member of the activity platform to go over, and the two turned around sneakily and entered an empty street corner.

Driven by curiosity, Ye Xiu decided to take a look.

"Have I made arrangements for the people you are looking for? There must be no loss of valuable items in the store, and all of them must be drawn by our own people!" The fat man in Tang suit whispered.

"Boss Wang, don't worry about my work. Tonight's event will definitely make a lot of money, and the money will be huge, and the advertising effect on the shop floor is absolutely leveraged."

Ye Xiu was seven or eight meters away, and could hear their conversation clearly.

At this time, three people who won the lottery walked out of the shop one after another, holding either glittering gold ornaments or jade ornaments such as jade bracelets in their hands. He raised it above his head, showed it to everyone, cheered everyone up, and incited everyone to buy lottery.

The similar actions of the winners and the shop owner's words made Ye Xiu suddenly realize that the scratch-off activity held by this pawnshop is actually a complete scam.

The huge promotional banner hung up by the store promises: If you collect five hundred yuan in the scratch-off bonus, you can get a promotional gimmick of entering the pawnshop to pick an item at random, which has kept countless people in the dark, fantasizing about taking advantage of it, and overnight Those who became rich flocked to them, rushing forward one after another, desperately grabbing scratch-off lottery tickets.

Ye Xiu squeezed into the lottery crowd, observed it for a while, and had a clue in his mind. A scratch-off lottery ticket is two yuan, and the chance of winning the lottery is quite high, but most of the winners are two yuan or five yuan. Such small denominations.

The highest lottery prize denomination is 5000 yuan, and there are very few winners. However, Ye Xiu believes that according to the pawn shop owner's urgency, such large denomination prizes will probably fall into the hands of "his own people".

"Hey, are you going to buy it or not? If you don't buy it, get out of the way!" A young woman pointing at Ye Xiu said disdainfully.

Ye Xiu worked hard all day to set up the stall, his face was disheveled, and the white shirt he bought from the stall was full of dust and sweat stains. No wonder he was despised and disgusted by the low-minded woman who sells lottery.

Ye Xiu took out the remaining two yuan of cash from his belt and slapped it on the table, saying, "I'm here to buy lottery tickets!"

The snobby woman with heavy make-up looked at Ye Xiu slapping the wrinkled two yuan on the table, with even more contempt on her face.

"Dare you come to buy lottery tickets for just two dollars?" The woman said contemptuously, using the cattail leaf fan used to enjoy the cool air, scooped up the two dollars that Ye Xiu had slapped on the table, with a disgusted expression on her face, she picked up Ye Xiu's hand with her fingers. Xiu threw the two yuan into the receipt box under the table.

After collecting the money, the snobby woman with heavy make-up took out a scratch-off lottery ticket and was about to throw it to Ye Xiu.

Ye Xiu pointed to another lottery ticket and shouted, "I don't want this one, I want that one!"

"Poverty!" The woman's attitude was even more disdainful.

Ye Xiu didn't bother to argue with this kind of ignorant and vulgar woman, so he took the lottery ticket and started scratching the lottery.

When the coating on the lottery ticket was smeared away, the Arabic characters of 500 were displayed.

The lottery ticket that Ye Xiu bought won a prize of 500 yuan!

Ye Xiu turned on the see-through ability of his eyes, and he could easily see through the prize money denomination of scratch-off lottery tickets, just to avoid attracting attention, and he accepted them as soon as they were good. Collectibles and pawn items are the big ones.

The disdainful look on the snobby woman's face was replaced by envy and jealousy when she saw it, and she said sourly, "The blind cat hit a dead mouse."

Ye Xiu entered the pawn shop under the envious eyes of lottery buyers all around. The five hundred yuan prize money was enough for Ye Xiu to randomly pick an item from the shop.

Entering the pawn shop, the fat boss in a red Tang suit greeted him with a half-smile, and enthusiastically pulled Ye Xiu into the inner storage room. Ye Xiu couldn't help being surprised. In the big room, thousands of pawned items and collectibles of various kinds are neatly arranged.

On a table in the inner room, there were some ordinary gold, silver and jade ornaments neatly placed. Ye Xiu only glanced at them and knew that they were not of high value.

The fat boss kept fooling around Ye Xiu, wanting Ye Xiu to choose a prize from those cheap gold and silver ornaments.

Ye Xiu ignored the fat boss, but looked around.

Suddenly, in a large porcelain vase in an inconspicuous corner, a wrapped scroll caught Ye Xiu's attention.

The packaged scroll exuded a golden aura that other scrolls and collections did not have, and Ye Xiu discovered something strange in this scroll through his perspective ability.

There is actually another painting hidden in the mezzanine of the scroll!

"Boss, I want this scroll." Ye Xiu walked to the big porcelain vase where the scrolls were placed, and took out the scroll that contained something strange.

(End of this chapter)