Film and Television World Life Record

As the only leader present and holding the highest position, Li Mu's statement naturally garnered enthusiastic responses from everyone.

"Yes, Chief Li!"

"Okay, let's buy a lottery ticket and try our luck."

"Yes, it would be best if we won a big prize, then we'd all be rich."

Li Mu smiled, walked into the lottery shop, wrote down a few numbers, randomly selected thirty sets of numbers, and then came out.

He showed the lottery ticket, but no one seemed to care much. Li Mu didn't say much either, saying they'd find out tomorrow.

The following evening, the Double Color Ball lottery was drawn, and unsurprisingly, I won a first prize of 5.8 million yuan, which would amount to approximately 4.46 million yuan after tax.

If the money is divided equally among seven people, each person can get about 700,000, which is not bad.

Except for Zhao Jiwei, who doesn't own a house and whose money could only cover a down payment but whose life would still be very difficult, everyone else basically has a place to live.

Without considering buying a house, having around 700,000 yuan to improve one's life is equivalent to five or six years' salary and benefits, which is quite good.

Chapter 386 Life

The next day, Li Mu went to the police station, held the morning meeting, waited for a while, found a small meeting room, and gathered all seven people together.

Everyone had some doubts.

Li Dawei: "Director Li, what do you want with us?"

Zhao Jiwei's eyes lit up as he exclaimed, "Brother Li, is there a case going on?!"

Seeing everyone's puzzled looks, Li Mu smiled, took out a lottery ticket from his pocket, and said, "Do you remember this?"

Li Dawei asked, "Lottery?"

Zhao Jiwei said, "This is the money we had left over from our dinner that day, which we used to buy lottery tickets."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Yes! I won the lottery."

Cao Jianjun asked, "Really?"

Li Mu smiled and said, "Really."

Zhao Jiwei's eyes lit up as he asked, "What prize level? How much money..."

When this question was asked, although there was some expectation, the crowd's expectations weren't too high. They had bought a total of over sixty yuan worth of lottery tickets; winning a few five-yuan tickets was normal, and winning a thousand or eight hundred yuan wasn't unusual.

No one dared to even think about winning the first prize; the odds were too slim.

Li Mu smiled and said, "Does anyone remember the winning numbers from last night? The lottery ticket is here; everyone can compare them."

Upon hearing this, several young people immediately took out their phones and began searching for yesterday's winning numbers.

Suddenly, Zhao Jiwei shouted, "First prize! It's the first prize! We've won the first prize! The prize money is 5.8 million!"

Everyone was stunned, somewhat incredulous that they had won the lottery.

Thinking about it, they all turned to look at Li Mu, wanting to ask him for confirmation.

Li Mu thought for a moment and said, "It's true, I won a first prize of 5.8 million, but 20% tax will be deducted, so it will be about 4.64 million."

Everyone was really excited this time. Even though after paying taxes, there was only 4.6 million left, it was still 4.6 million.

Cao Jianjun asked excitedly, "Director Li, how... how should the money be divided?"

Li Mu said, "The money for the lottery ticket was leftovers from our last dinner party. If we win, everyone will get a share. Just like we agreed before, the after-tax 4.64 million will be split equally among the seven of us, everyone gets a share."

Zhao Jiwei's eyes suddenly widened: "Four million six hundred and forty thousand, if we seven split it equally, then that one person... will get six hundred and sixty-two thousand three hundred."

After saying that, he grinned foolishly. Six hundred and sixty thousand was an astronomical figure for him. He never thought he would have so much money one day.

Everyone else was overjoyed. None of them were wealthy. Chen Xincheng had been divorced by his wife because he was poor, his daughter had been living with relatives because of money, and he had to scrimp and save to afford art classes for her. It was all because of a lack of money.

Cao Jianjun's situation is similar. Because he has no money, he is looked down upon by his mother-in-law, and even his wife, with whom he has always had a good relationship, has been frequently throwing tantrums lately.

Li Dawei's father has a terminal illness; Zhao Jiwei is the poorest person in the police station; Xia Jie needs to shoulder the burden of her family...

Neither is easy.

For everyone, 660,000 is nothing short of a timely help; it's definitely a huge sum.

Yang Shu suddenly asked, "Director Li, how do we claim the award? We're all public officials. If we can't explain it clearly, it would be bad if so much money suddenly appeared in our accounts."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Your consideration makes sense. Therefore, we must report this matter to the director and explain the origin of the money before we go to collect the reward and share the money."

Although everyone was eager to get their hands on the money right now, they also understood that it made sense to clarify the source of the money so that no one would find fault with it later.

"Okay, Director Li, I'll do as you say."

"Director Li, what do you suggest we do?"

Li Mu said, "Let's invite the director over first, explain the situation to him, and it would be best if the bureau also made a record of it."

Soon, the station chief, Wang Shouyi, arrived. When he heard what had happened, he was equally shocked. He never imagined that his police officers could win the first prize while having a meal and buying lottery tickets.

"Okay, I'm envious of your luck. Go and claim your prize as soon as possible. This is your legal income. The office won't interfere. I'll just report it to the bureau later."

Two days later, the entire prize money of 4.46 million yuan was withdrawn and divided into seven parts, with each person receiving 662,300 yuan.

Everyone was overjoyed.

Apart from Zhao Jiwei, who was preparing to use the money as a down payment, everyone else had enough to live in. With this money to supplement their household expenses, their standard of living improved significantly.

……

A few days later, Cao Jianjun, dressed in casual clothes, led Yang Shu to the Shanggu Laomian restaurant opposite the brothel Lanting Yashe, and each ordered a bowl of noodles.

Yang Shu looked at the noodles in front of him: "Master, did we travel all this way just to eat a bowl of noodles? Is there some kind of mission?"

Cao Jianjun smiled and said, "My apprentices are really something else; they're getting more and more interesting."

Yang Shu asked, "What do you mean?"

"I was just praising you..." Cao Jianjun suddenly stopped talking and turned to look at the other side.

Sun Youguang got out of a chauffeured car and entered Lanting Yashe with his head down. Cao Jianjun looked at his brother-in-law in surprise, a meaningful smile immediately appearing on his face.

Yang Shu asked curiously, "Master, is there really some kind of mission?"

Cao Jianjun picked up a mouthful of noodles and said, "It's nothing, just sitting down. I'm here."

A handsome young man emerged from the Lanting Elegant Abode, crossed the road, and entered Shanggu Laomian.

Yang Shu noticed the young man: "Master, who is he?"

“Our objective. Wait here for me for a moment.” Cao Jianjun stood up and walked towards the young man.

The young man ordered a bowl of noodles and sat there blankly. Cao Jianjun, holding his own bowl of noodles, smiled and pointed to the seat opposite him: "Is this alright?"

"Please." The young man looked around curiously. There were many empty tables, so he stood up, as if to offer him a table.

Cao Jianjun said, "Xiaobai, have a seat."

Xiao Bai was taken aback: "You know me?"

Cao Jianjun looked at him and said, "I know your name is Bai Tianyu. You graduated from university last year and came to Lanting Yashe because you couldn't find a suitable job. But you didn't expect to be doing a job that you find hard to talk about. You want to give up, but you can't bear to give up the high salary there, so you're having a hard time deciding."

Xiao Bai was shocked: "Who are you?"

Cao Jianjun discreetly pulled out his police ID and showed it to him...

A few minutes later, after watching Xiaobai leave, Cao Jianjun stopped eating his noodles and got into the car with Yang Shu. After hesitating for a long time, he said, "Yang Shu, I want to arrange a job for you. Go to Lanting Yashe and go undercover."

Yang Shu thought he had misheard: "An undercover agent?"

Cao Jianjun nodded: "That's right. Xiaobai told me that this club called the Entrepreneurs Club is actually a high-end brothel. If we want to crack down on it, we need evidence. If we just rush in like this, we won't get anything. So, I asked Xiaobai to introduce you in to collect evidence."

Yang Shu looked troubled: "What can I do if I go in?"

Cao Jianjun said, "Young people like you are exactly what they want; they'd definitely go and serve rich women."

Yang Shu was taken aback, then realized: "What service? Ah, Master, you don't mean you want me to..."

Cao Jianjun lowered his voice: "Shh—didn't you say you like new experiences? This is new enough, isn't it?"

Yang Shu waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I can't do this..."

Cao Jianjun advised, "What can't you do? With your intelligence and knowledge, dealing with the people here and handling complex situations will be no problem for you."

Yang Shu felt conflicted: "But I've never... sigh, I really don't know how, Master."

Cao Jianjun said seriously, "This is a mission. I will go back and report to the institute. The institute will assess it, and if the institute agrees, we will do it."

Yang Shu looked utterly dejected: "Master... don't we have any other options?"

"Yang Shu, I believe in you!"

……

Cao Jianjun drove back to the station and went directly to Wang Shouyi and Cheng Hao, explaining his plan in detail.

Wang Shouyi's eyes widened: "Cao Jianjun, what were you thinking? You actually want Yang Shu to entertain the guests?"

Cao Jianjun explained, "It was a pretense of accompanying guests, but actually an undercover operation."

Wang Shouyi said, "Do you think I didn't know you were an undercover agent? Otherwise, wouldn't you be a pimp? But do you think Yang Shu is suitable?"

Cheng Hao shook his head: "No way. This kid has an innate sense of righteousness; there's no such upright male waiter in the world."