490: Hating the rich and despising the poor

"I should head over tomorrow morning and buy that scratch-off lottery ticket first, so someone else doesn't beat me to it."

It is a 150,000 scratch-off lottery ticket, after all. After deducting 20% in taxes, I'll still net 120,000.

Ye Su didn't want to drag it out until the afternoon, going to buy the scratch-off lottery ticket only after the lottery station posted those second-prize numbers.

If he delayed and caused that scratch-off lottery ticket to be bought by someone else, Ye Su would probably want to punch himself.

"There should be another piece of intel, right?"

Ye Su tentatively sent a command, and the system screen jumped to the next piece of intel as expected.

[Weekly Intel (Level 2): It is expected that starting this week, the popularity of the [great sage swimsuit] will gradually decline. It is recommended that the Host gradually stop the production of [great sage swimsuit] and clear out the accumulated inventory on hand!]

"As expected."

Seeing the intel mention that the popularity of the [great sage swimsuit] would start to decline this week, Ye Su didn't feel surprised at all.

For this kind of gag item with no real practical use, popularity always comes in waves.

It's suddenly popular to have [great sage swimsuit] now, but in a couple of weeks, who knows? No one might remember this thing, and it might be replaced by the popularity of things like [Nezha belly bands] or [Superman swimming trunks].

When discussing this matter yesterday, Ye Su also consulted with Ye Jianguo, deciding not to place any additional orders with the two external garment factories after they finished this batch of goods.

As for the Xingchao Garment Factory, after Ye Jianguo received the design drawings for traditional han chinese clothing generated by Ye Su using the [Craftsman Tablet], he switched to producing traditional han chinese clothing and stopped the production of swimsuits.

Not dwelling too much on this piece of intel, Ye Su swiped to the next one.

[Weekly Intel (Level 1): Because Su Yanxia learned that the Host has become successful abroad, she has been feeling resentful for the past two days. While chatting with others, she has been gossiping, implying between the lines that she doesn't know what kind of unspeakable business the Host is doing outside.]

"Sure enough, resenting others for being rich and disliking them for being poor is an eternal, unchanging phenomenon."

Ye Su had long guessed that once he became rich and returned home in glory, it would inevitably trigger jealousy in some people.

But since he and Su Yanxia were relatives, after all, and she couldn't get any benefits when she came on Saturday, only to go back and gossip about him, Ye Su was still a bit speechless.

"People have their own mouths; let them say whatever they want."

Although he couldn't be bothered to deal with relatives like Su Yanxia, Ye Su thought to himself that he should find an opportunity in the next few days to tell Su Wan that if that group of relatives came up with excuses to borrow money, she shouldn't lend it to them.

Given the situation, lending money to those relatives would definitely be like throwing a meat bun at a dog—it would never come back.

Rather than lending the money and not being able to get it back, causing the relationship between the two families to completely break down, and having Su Wan feel upset because those people refused to pay their debts...

It would be better to skip the money-lending phase and just cut ties with those people directly.

The result is the same—both end up with broken relationships—but at least it saves the money that wouldn't have been returned anyway.

And for those who refuse to even be relatives because they couldn't borrow money...

Ye Su felt that cutting ties with such relatives was not only not a pity at all, but actually a very good thing.

"This should be the last piece of intel."

The seven pieces of intel for this week had already refreshed. Ye Su still tentatively swiped down, and as expected, the system prompted him that the level 1 intel he just read was the last one for this week.

"One level 8 intel is a meteorite worth 12 million."

"One level 7 intel didn't explicitly state the profit, but saving the wife of the Shenli Group chairman and gaining the friendship of Zhang Fengmao's family is already worth the value of a level 7 intel, not to mention that the intel said he would also receive a generous reward from Zhang Fengmao's family."

"Two level 6 pieces of intel: one is the numbers for the lottery second prize, which can be played 10 times, estimated to net over a million; the other can activate a Mysterious Surprise Item."

"One level 3 intel is a 150,000 grand prize scratch-off lottery ticket."

"The remaining two pieces of intel don't have any actual returns."

Ye Su made a rough calculation; the seven pieces of intel this week should bring him immediate returns of over 15 million.

In addition, there is a Mysterious Surprise Item and the long-term benefit of the friendship with Zhang Fengmao's family.

Although it didn't refresh a level 9 intel like last week that could net 18 million...

…but overall, compared to last week, the total intel returns for this week aren't much different.

"Fine then."

Satisfied with this result, Ye Su closed the intel interface, applied [Sleep Aid Service] to himself, and went to sleep contentedly.

...

The next morning, after finishing the breakfast Su Wan prepared.

Before nine o'clock, Ye Su made an excuse about going for a walk, told Su Wan, and headed out.

Qing'an Road is only two kilometers away from Ye Su's home.

So Ye Su didn't drive. After walking to the intersection, he casually scanned a shared bike and rode to the entrance of the lottery station in ten minutes.

Ye Su had originally worried that the lottery station wouldn't open this early and he would have a wasted trip.

Arriving at the shop entrance, he saw the lottery station's door was already open. Ye Su breathed a sigh of relief, locked the shared bike, and lifted the transparent curtain to walk inside.

The person watching the shop was a woman who looked to be in her thirties. Seeing a customer arrive, she immediately put down her phone and greeted Ye Su with a smile:

"Welcome, feel free to browse."

While greeting him, the proprietress couldn't help but take a few extra looks at Ye Su.

"Hello, proprietress."

To leave an impression and pave the way for getting that winning number string in the afternoon, Ye Su also greeted the proprietress with a smile:

"I didn't expect your shop to be open so early. I was just worried I came too early."

"Yes."

Although she was already married and had children, it didn't stop the proprietress from wanting to chat a bit more with this rare, handsome man:

"Today is Monday. After dropping my kid off at school, I had nothing to do at home, so I came over early to open up. It's a good thing you came this morning; if it were this time yesterday, you would have really come too early."

"Haha, that being said, my luck today is indeed not bad; I just happened to come to try my luck."

As Ye Su said this, he walked to the counter and looked at the displayed scratch-off lottery tickets.

At just one glance, Ye Su discovered that the book of scratch-off lottery tickets glowing with a deep blue light was lying quietly in the display case.

"Sure." The proprietress responded with a smile: "Do you want to play the lottery or buy scratch-off lottery tickets?"

"I'll buy a book of scratch-off lottery tickets, the kind that hasn't been opened yet."

"Sure, pick whichever you like."

Limited by the low average income in Yang County, for things like scratch-off lottery tickets, people who come to buy them basically just try their luck with one or two tickets.

Someone like Ye Su, who buys a whole book at once, is already considered a big customer for the lottery station.

Being handsome and generous, the proprietress was naturally extra enthusiastic toward Ye Su:

"These haven't been opened yet. Which kind do you want, or should I take them out for you to choose?"

Ye Su pointed to the stack with [Good Luck Always] written on it:

"I'll take this kind. Can you take all these books out and let me pick one?"