498: Lottery in hand

"Welcome."

The proprietress, who was playing on her phone, looked up and recognized Ye Su immediately:

"It's you."

"Yes." Ye Su held up the scratch-off lottery ticket in his hand: "I won a prize here this morning. Could you please help me redeem it?"

"Sure."

After taking the scratch-off lottery ticket, the proprietress used a scanner to verify them one by one.

Ye Su took this opportunity to start chatting with the proprietress:

"Proprietress, around here, how is business for a lottery shop like yours every day?"

"It depends. It's better on weekends, but like today, Monday, fewer people come." The proprietress took a moment to glance at Ye Su:

"Why? Are you planning to open a lottery shop here too?"

"No." Fearing that the proprietress might think he was trying to steal her business, Ye Su quickly explained:

"I was just curious and asked out of passing interest."

"Oh."

The proprietress didn't think much of it and continued to focus on scanning Ye Su's winning scratch-off lottery ticket.

"You won a total of 320 yuan, that should be correct, right?"

"That's right."

Not knowing that Ye Su had won the 150,000 grand prize and thinking he had only won 320 yuan from a 600-yuan pack of scratch-off lottery tickets, the proprietress didn't have any congratulations to offer and efficiently redeemed the prize for Ye Su.

After the prize money was received, Ye Su continued the previous topic:

"By the way, how many lottery tickets can a shop like yours print in a day?"

She didn't know why Ye Su was so interested in the lottery shop's turnover.

But for the sake of [Modeling], the proprietress answered truthfully:

"Like today, Monday, we've only printed about 700 so far. After I come back from dinner to open the shop, I should be able to print a few hundred more.

Like yesterday, the weekend, when everyone was free and more people came to play, we could print about two thousand a day."

"Oh." Ye Su looked enlightened: "So, on average, you print over a thousand tickets a day, which is about 3,000 yuan in turnover, right?"

"Pretty much."

"I see." Ye Su pretended to be struck by a sudden whim:

"Proprietress, your machine should have a record of the lottery tickets printed in your shop, right?"

"That, we do have." The proprietress looked at Ye Su suspiciously: "Why do you ask?"

"I have nothing better to do anyway. How about you help me reprint all the lottery tickets others have purchased today? I want to bet 10 times the amount."

Unable to determine which specific double color ball number won the second prize this afternoon, Ye Su had no choice but to use this clumsy method of printing out all of today's numbers.

The intelligence had already mentioned that only one winning double color ball ticket for the second prize had been printed this afternoon.

By reprinting all the numbers and betting 10 times the amount, Ye Su didn't have to worry about exceeding the limit of [Can follow up to 10 times] mentioned in the intelligence notes.

The lottery shop had only printed over 700 tickets today. At two yuan per ticket, a 10-fold bet would only be around 14,000 to 15,000 yuan.

Although the cost was a bit high, compared to the two million prize money for 10 second-prize tickets, this expense of over ten thousand yuan was like peanuts.

"You're not joking, are you!" The proprietress was shocked by Ye Su's words.

She had been running this lottery shop for several years, and this was the first time she had seen someone play the lottery like this:

"Over seven hundred lottery tickets, two yuan each, and you want to bet 10 times the amount? That's almost fifteen thousand yuan!"

"I'm not joking." Ye Su smiled: "It's almost dinner time. I wouldn't skip going home for dinner just to come here and play a joke on you, would I?"

Staring at Ye Su's face for a while, the proprietress finally believed that Ye Su really wanted to print so many lottery tickets.

"Why don't you consider just betting one or two times for fun, instead of betting so many times all at once?"

Logically speaking, the proprietress was running a lottery shop and shouldn't be advising customers to buy fewer lottery tickets.

Doing so, if the lottery ticket didn't win, it might be fine, and she might get a thank you from the customer.

But if the lottery ticket wasn't printed and it ended up winning, nine times out of ten, the customer would blame her, leading to unnecessary disputes.

But Ye Su now wanted to print a lottery ticket with a total price of over fifteen thousand.

The proprietress worried that he was just acting on a whim and might regret it later, so she couldn't help but speak up to advise him.

"It's fine." Ye Su laughed heartily: "It's just over ten thousand yuan. If I don't win, so be it."

Ye Su's words shocked the proprietress again.

That was over ten thousand yuan, equivalent to several months of profit for her lottery shop, and this person actually said if he didn't win, so be it!

This was just too over the top!

What kind of business does he actually do!

The proprietress couldn't help but take a few more looks at Ye Su.

If she still had some self-awareness, the proprietress would have suspected that Ye Su was just like those domineering CEOs in short dramas, showing off how rich he was in front of her just to woo her.

"Alright then, I'll print it for you. Please wait a moment."

"Sure."

Since he had already expressed that he didn't care if he lost over ten thousand yuan, the proprietress didn't insist anymore. Following Ye Su's request, she helped him print out all of today's ticket records and bet 10 times the amount.

It took the proprietress about ten minutes to finish printing the 756 sets of numbers.

"Hello, the lottery tickets are finished. 756 sets of numbers, two yuan each, plus a 10-fold bet..."

The proprietress rarely used her phone calculator, but after calculating the amount, she showed it to Ye Su:

"It's a total of 15,120 yuan."

After reading out the number, the proprietress was startled herself.

This was almost equal to her shop's turnover for a whole week.

For printing a lottery ticket, her commission was eight percent.

Just from this one lottery ticket, she got over 1,200 yuan in commission!

"Alright, thank you, Boss."

"You're welcome."

Watching Ye Su scan the code and readily pay over fifteen thousand.

The proprietress could only sigh that the little bit that slipped through a rich person's fingers was more than what ordinary people like her earned after working hard for several days!

[Ding!]

Just after Ye Su finished paying and was thinking about being safe and asking the proprietress if she had missed any numbers, a system prompt suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Congratulations, Host, you have successfully printed the winning numbers for the second prize!]

"OK, done!"

With the system's proactive reminder, Ye Su had no more worries. After collecting the lottery tickets, he left the lottery shop.

When Ye Su left, the proprietress offered him the most sincere blessing she had given since opening the shop:

"Good luck."

By the time Ye Su returned home and parked his e-bike, it was not yet 5:30.

Since they had agreed to have dinner at Fu Man Clay Pot Congee, Su Wan didn't have to worry about cooking dinner and was chatting with a few other neighbors who had dropped by.

Seeing Ye Su return, the neighbors greeted him enthusiastically:

"ASu, you're back."

"Yes, hello, aunts."

Since he returned home, relatives, friends, and neighbors had been visiting every day, and Ye Su was already used to it.

After politely replying, Ye Su went upstairs to his room and hid the lottery tickets he had just acquired.