Chapter 1000: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1000 Wang Changgen Suffered Insomnia

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Where did this hundred yuan come from?"

Seeing Wang Changgen staring blankly at the hundred yuan in his hand, Li Xiulan hurriedly asked.

She had already sensed that tonight's Wang Changgen was a bit abnormal, strange.

Wang Changgen then truthfully said:

"When Datoulun bought the Liucun lottery, he had me tell him a number. He bought the number I said, won two thousand yuan, and then gave me a hundred yuan."

Li Xiulan was immediately greatly surprised.

Her first reaction was:

"Don't get too close to Datoulun, that guy is a gambling addict. The elders and villagers of the nearby several villages all know, when he gambles he doesn't care about his life!"

Datoulun's reputation as a gambling addict was even more notoriously widespread than Yang Xiaocai's reputation as a rogue.

"Okay okay okay, I know. How could I possibly hang around with him? Who do you take me for?"

Wang Changgen replied impatiently, but then immediately added:

"What a real pity. If I'd known the number I casually mentioned could win, I would've bought it myself!"

Hearing this, Li Xiulan was even more surprised:

"What are you thinking? You better not go touch that Liucun lottery stuff. Just look at how many people in this village, because of gambling on the Liucun lottery, have ended up neither human nor ghost, their homes no longer like homes!"

Seeing Wang Changgen in this state, Li Xiulan knew Wang Changgen was a bit tempted to go buy the Liucun lottery, so she sharply warned him.

She also said:

"Just take our village's Yang Xiaocai for example. He gambled on the Liucun lottery until he didn't even have money to buy oil or salt. He came to our house to borrow salt and steal oil. How laughable, how absurd!"

Wang Changgen said impatiently:

"I know! Stop nagging endlessly. I didn't say I was going to play!"

Actually Wang Changgen had already bought once before.

He just hadn't told Li Xiulan.

That time he spent two yuan and didn't win.

He treated it as if nothing had happened.

In his heart he also felt this stuff was very boring and didn't want to buy again.

Unexpectedly this time, a number he casually blurted out actually helped Datoulun win two thousand yuan, and he himself consequently got a hundred yuan reward.

This at once changed his state of mind...

This stuff, it really can win, and if you win, you really can get the money...

Time flew by and another two days passed.

It was the draw day again.

At Datoulun's doorway, a crowd had gathered again.

Men and women both, the vast majority were left-behind elderly in the rural areas.

Everyone buying the Liucun lottery was just buying some pastime.

But there were also not a few people who thereby ended up neither human nor ghost.

Because Yang Xiaocai had won ten yuan last period, now as he walked over he looked full of proud vigor, as if he felt he was a cut above the rest.

Zhong Jianguo's expression turned heavy.

This time he had made up his mind. Whichever numbers he decided to buy, he would buy those numbers, and absolutely would not change again!

Datoulun then came to ask Wang Changgen again:

"Wang Changgen, what number do you think will come up this time?"

Wang Changgen casually called out a number:

"Number 25."

Datoulun nodded:

"Oh, then I won't buy number 25."

Hearing this, Wang Changgen immediately laughed in anger:

"What do you mean? Last time I said 48, let you win two thousand. This time you still had me say, I said it and you won't buy. Are you playing me?"

But Datoulun had his own set of theories:

"I've never seen anyone able to hit the winning number two periods in a row! So this period, I'm avoiding the number you said!"

Wang Changgen was momentarily at a loss for words.

Yet he also had to admit, Datoulun's words had a bit of reason.

People who hit the winning number two periods in a row are indeed few and far between.

At least in Mountain Gully Village and the nearby several villages, there still hasn't been such a case.

But Wang Changgen was very unconvinced:

"You won't buy? Fine, you won't buy, I'll buy!"

Wang Changgen then went and told the bald-headed boss he wanted to bet 100 yuan on number 25!

Anyway this hundred yuan was what Datoulun gave him last time!

If I lose, I lose!

At worst, just treat it as if he never got that hundred yuan!

He just wanted to fight for a breath of pride!

Big Head Lun firmly stated that the numbers he spoke of couldn't win, so he was determined to prove to Big Head Lun that he could win!

Seeing Wang Zhanggen was on board, and moreover placed a bet of 100 yuan right away, playing so big, Baldy immediately revealed a delighted expression; originally he was still eating dinner, but as a result he didn't even eat the meal, hurriedly put down his bowl and chopsticks and came to issue a ticket for Wang Zhanggen!

Wang Zhanggen took the ticket, went to sit in the outside courtyard, and his inner heart began to grow a bit restless.

100 yuan, if it hit, he could get 4000 yuan!

So in Wang Zhanggen's inner heart, more or less there was a bit of expectation of being able to win!

Right now it's only a little past seven in the evening, the numbers aren't drawn until nine thirty at night.

Still over two hours.

Wang Zhanggen waited, it was quite torturous.

Before he was just a bystander, and didn't feel time was hard to pass.

Now he himself had placed such a large stake, he finally realized the difficulty of enduring time.

Many who bet on Liucun, during the process of waiting for the draw, would go inside Baldy's gambling den, play a few rounds of cards, or play Mahjong, or play San Gong Dou Niu.

Wang Zhanggen and Zhong Jianguo don't play cards, so they just waited outside, chatting idly while they waited.

Yang Xiaocai, on the other hand, had long since had itchy hands.

After buying the numbers, he immediately went in, occupied a seat at the Mahjong table, and with practiced hands and feet began shuffling Mahjong tiles.

Several card friends sat down one after another, seeing the opponent was Yang Xiaocai, they immediately joked:

"Tonight at this table no one owes debts, got it? Yang Xiaocai, if you have no money then hurry up and give up your seat!"

Yang Xiaocai slapped three hundred plus yuan onto the tabletop:

"Throw it there! Who says I have no money! Your dad won the numbers last period, won four hundred yuan, you all don't know that?"

Everyone laughed heartily, and didn't say anything more.

Then they started cutting the tiles.

After much difficulty, they finally endured until the draw time.

Baldy made a phone call, then came over and announced to everyone:

"Tonight's winning number is, number 26!"

As soon as Baldy's words fell, Wang Zhanggen's expression immediately trembled!

"Damn! So close!"

Wang Zhanggen couldn't help but curse.

He bought number 25!

Distance from number 26, just a step away!

This made him more or less a bit unreconciled!

At this time Big Head Lun walked up to Wang Zhanggen, smiling as he said:

"What did I say, no one can win two periods in a row, you still didn't believe it!"

Wang Zhanggen's face full of speechlessness, coldly retorted:

"Don't mock me, could it be you won?"

Big Head Lun laughed heartily:

"I didn't win either, didn't I say so, no one can win two periods in a row, naturally including me!"

"You didn't win so why the hell are you laughing!" Wang Zhanggen angrily spat out this sentence.

Big Head Lun yet still gloated:

"Because I only bet two yuan, while you bet 100!"

Wang Zhanggen was angered to the point of extreme depression, but had no way to refute.

Fortunately tonight, Zhong Jianguo and Yang Xiaocai and them, all didn't win the numbers.

This let his inner heart balance a bit.

Especially seeing that Yang Xiaocai not only didn't win the numbers, but also at the Mahjong table, lost all the money he won last period.

His heart felt even more balanced.

At the same time, in his heart he secretly admonished himself:

The hundred yuan bet tonight was given by Big Head Lun, just treat it as if he never took that hundred yuan!

But, the money had already been in his hands, can he really treat it as never existing?

Very obviously, that's impossible.

So, this night, Wang Zhanggen suffered insomnia.