Chapter 1001: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1001 Li Xiulan Detects Something Amiss

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Can you stop tossing and turning? You're making the bed creak, not letting anyone sleep!"

Wang Zhanggen tossed and turned on the bed, waking Li Xiulan up too.

Li Xiulan snapped at him irritably.

He could only reply:

"I can't sleep."

Li Xiulan got even angrier:

"Look at how bored you are day after day! Go work the fields tomorrow, guarantee you'll sleep like a log tomorrow night!"

Wang Zhanggen looked utterly speechless:

"It's deep winter now, what work is there in the fields?"

Li Xiulan said:

"Then help make breakfast tomorrow morning!"

Wang Zhanggen said instead:

"I'm not eating breakfast."

Li Xiulan was so annoyed her sleepiness vanished:

"What's gotten into you these past few days? Did you forget to take your medicine?"

Wang Zhanggen had suffered a cerebral infarction and had his thyroid removed; he had to take medicine every day, or he'd feel unwell.

So Li Xiulan's thoughts went in that direction.

She never imagined Wang Zhanggen had gone to play Liucun.

Because although Wang Zhanggen wasn't exactly a good man, he'd never gone to play those things!

Can only say, when a person is bored, they really might do anything.

Recently Wang Zhanggen had been especially bored; the new house was not only renovated, but furniture and appliances were all bought, and he stayed home every day, bored to the point of molding, with nothing to do.

Unlike Li Xiulan — Li Xiulan still had to manage the vegetable garden, wash clothes and cook, always had endless work.

Wang Zhanggen and Zhong Jianguo were actually the same — just too idle, so they went to the baldy's house in the neighboring village to join the fun.

This one joining the fun, and he couldn't help but start playing Liucun.

"I've been taking the medicine all along, you don't worry about me, you just sleep your own!"

Wang Zhanggen didn't want Li Xiulan to know he'd gone to buy Liucun.

Otherwise there'd probably be another argument.

The current him also didn't want to argue anymore.

Li Xiulan said coldly:

"You think I don't want to sleep? You're making so much noise I can't sleep!"

Wang Zhanggen said:

"I'll go out to the living room and smoke a cigarette."

He then got up from the bed, went to the living room, turned on the light, and lit himself a cigarette.

While smoking, his mind was still thinking:

"Why didn't I buy 26? Why did I buy 25? Just that little bit off..."

If he'd won, that would've been 4000 yuan!

Gambling, the thing most feared is "just a little off."

Just a little off from winning, just a little off from hitting the jackpot.

"Just a little off" makes people feel unreconciled, and that unreconciled psychology will make them ghost-driven continue betting, and the stakes will only get bigger and bigger.

Sure enough, after another two days, it was draw time again.

Wang Zhanggen appeared at the baldy's house again.

This time, he took out two hundred yuan and bought two numbers.

"Uncle Changgen, you're really generous, playing this big!"

The baldy greeted Wang Zhanggen with a beaming smile, feeling delighted inside.

He knew Wang Zhanggen had already fallen into the trap.

Compared to Zhong Jianguo falling into the trap, he liked Wang Zhanggen falling into the trap even more.

In the surrounding ten villages eight hamlets, who doesn't know Wang Zhanggen raised three good sons, three good sons two became big bosses, one tested into Tsinghua University, nowadays Wang Zhanggen's family probably has money too much to count!

As long as he's in the trap, afterward there'll be a steady stream of money sent over!

Not afraid he wins numbers, just afraid he doesn't play!

This Liucun thing, no need to cheat, it's just a matter of gambling on probability.

One-to-forty odds aren't small, but there are 49 numbers!

As a player, Wang Zhanggen, from a probability standpoint, he just loses more and wins less!

Too bad Wang Zhanggen didn't read much, probability this thing he can't calculate!

So, in a blink it was nine thirty, the two numbers Wang Zhanggen bought, without suspense, didn't hit.

This one go lost another two hundred yuan.

Zhong Jianguo's side also didn't hit the number.

However, he only bet ten yuan.

Hearing that Wang Changgen bet two hundred yuan, even Zhong Jianguo came to persuade Wang Changgen:

"Changgen, just play for fun, why bet that big?"

Actually, Zhong Jianguo's betting amount was also gradually increasing, from two yuan at the very beginning, to four yuan, to the current ten yuan.

It's just that his betting amount's growth wasn't as fast as Wang Changgen's.

Wang Changgen started by betting two yuan, later directly bet one hundred, and now bets two hundred.

What he lost out there was enough for Zhong Jianguo to play for a month.

"No matter, just playing around, I thought this phase would hit the number! Didn't expect to miss again!"

Zhong Jianguo chuckled:

"I also thought I could hit, but ultimately couldn't hit either, can only say this Liucun thing is hard to figure out."

Wang Changgen asked at this time:

"You say, should we check the code report and analyze a bit?"

Zhong Jianguo then said:

"I checked, can't figure it out. On the code report, there are usually several zodiac signs, several special numbers. I tallied it up — the numbers appearing on one code report actually cover all 49 numbers!"

Wang Changgen was surprised:

"For real or fake?"

Zhong Jianguo gave a dry laugh:

"Maybe only the code report I saw yesterday was like that."

At ten o'clock at night, Wang Changgen only returned from the neighboring village.

Li Xiulan was just preparing to go to bed and sleep. Seeing Wang Changgen return looking somewhat absent-minded, she asked again:

"What did you go do again?"

Wang Changgen said coldly:

"What else could I go do? Went to the neighboring village to notify others of our new house's housewarming time! Others wanted me to stay for tea, could I just pat my butt and leave?"

Wang Changgen told a lie.

Li Xiulan had already sensed something was off:

"For real or fake? Then why do you have a dejected look?"

"Do I have a dejected look?" Wang Changgen denied.

Li Xiulan then said:

"Like a dead man's face, and still not dejected?"

Wang Changgen rolled his eyes:

"Can't be bothered to talk to you, I'm going to shower!"

Li Xiulan watched his retreating back as he turned and left, couldn't help but say one sentence:

"If you're fooling around with women outside, don't bring any disease back to me! We'll sleep in separate rooms from now on!"

Wang Changgen was angered into laughter by her words:

"What kind of person do you take me for! Am I that kind of person!"

Li Xiulan didn't answer, just stared at him with resentful eyes.

Because she knew clearly in her heart, Wang Changgen was exactly that kind of person!

It's just that now his body is very poor, he has no energy for that kind of thing!

If he were young, with current economic conditions like this, he probably wouldn't know how many messes he'd stir up outside!

You should know, back when he was young, he had no economic conditions to speak of, yet still went and messed with other women!

"Those two hundred yuan I put by the bedhead, did you take them?"

Li Xiulan suddenly asked this question.

Wang Changgen couldn't help but shudder.

Of course he took them.

If not him, could the money grow legs and run away?

He took those two hundred yuan to buy numbers, thinking he'd win and return it.

Never expected it went straight down the drain.

"I took them." Wang Changgen didn't deny, because he knew this matter couldn't be denied. After all, there were only two people in the house, and no thieves had ever come. He couldn't splash dirty water on someone else, but he still found an excuse:

"I took it to buy two packs of cigarettes. Going to discuss the housewarming, I had to at least give them a pack, otherwise how rude!"

This reason of his actually managed to be self-consistent!

Li Xiulan was fuming:

"Inviting them for a meal, and you still have to give them cigarettes. How come you're so generous?"

The main thing is, before when someone had a housewarming and invited them for a meal, they never saw them hand out cigarettes.

Wang Changgen spoke righteously and confidently:

"Our son is promising now, being a bit generous is perfectly normal! Who's like you, so rich yet still penny-pinching!"

Li Xiulan was rendered speechless for a moment by his words.

Wang Changgen turned to shower, secretly letting out a breath of relief:

Finally muddled through.