Reborn in 1999: Starting as a black marketeer

Only after Wang Feiyang took the stack of lottery tickets out of his wallet did the staff realize exactly how much was considered "too much"!

"There are 26 lottery tickets here, each with a 100x multiplier," Wang Feiyang explained softly.

The staff member swallowed hard. He was a little surprised that someone would buy lottery tickets like this, but he had worked here and had seen all sorts of things.

Moreover, Wang Feiyang bought all 26 lottery tickets with the same number, which seems outrageous, but in reality, it only won a third prize, and the prize money wasn't much.

All of them combined probably wouldn't even equal a single first-prize winning ticket...

"Let me help you with the prize redemption process. Did you bring your ID card?"

Wang Feiyang nodded. What followed was the tedious prize redemption process: verifying the authenticity of the lottery ticket, calculating the total prize money, deducting taxes, opening a bank account, transferring the money...

The total winnings from 26 lottery tickets with a 100x multiplier were 780,000!

Of course, the lottery center will directly deduct 20% as unexpected income tax, meaning the actual amount received will be 624000 yuan!

Adding the 8400 yuan that Wang Feiyang redeemed at the lottery outlet, which was tax-free, his total income from buying lottery tickets this time was 632400 yuan.

他还欠了张亮600、胡小云1000、宋怡2000、王妍200，刚才买手机又花掉3000，扣掉这些后还剩下62万五千多。

This amount of money isn't a huge sum, but it's not a small amount either.

Putting everything else aside, these days the East Third Ring Road in the capital is still considered a relatively "remote" area, with housing prices only three or four thousand yuan per square meter. If you use that money to buy two houses, and then resell them in a dozen years, you'll have twenty or thirty million yuan!

Of course, for a "reborn person", this is the most foolish thing to do.

After all, in this era, if you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and can't earn hundreds of millions in a decade or so, then you've really lived in vain. Not to mention that Wang Feiyang in his previous life didn't have such a good "starting point" as he does now; he earned hundreds of millions through his own efforts.

Now, with a perfect start and a vision and information gap that's more than 20 years ahead of its time, becoming the richest person is out of the question. That requires not only ability, but also luck, and even more importantly, connections...

But becoming a billionaire with a net worth of several billion or even tens of billions shouldn't be too much of a problem.

As soon as the money arrived in his account, several people who had been waiting for a long time surrounded him, smiling broadly as they struck up a conversation with Wang Feiyang, inviting him to donate to charity or something similar.

However, Wang Feiyang decisively refused. He didn't have any spare money for charity right now; he didn't even have enough start-up capital for his business!

Fortunately, as long as you have thick skin and can withstand the sarcastic remarks after being rejected, you can still get out of the lottery center...

After leaving, Wang Feiyang quickly turned onto a side street, hailed a taxi, and took it directly back to the University of International Business and Economics.

Although he had become "rich overnight," Wang Feiyang knew he had a lot of money to spend, so he decided to have dinner at the school cafeteria again.

This time, I didn't run into Song Yi and Wang Yan.

There wasn't much entertainment to do in the evening, so while strolling around, I saw a small internet cafe nearby and went in to play for a while.

By this time, Counter-Strike had become incredibly popular, and the entire internet cafe was filled with shouts of "GOGOGO!", "Fire in the hole!", and "Beep beep beep!"

In his previous life, Wang Feiyang had spent a period of time fighting day and night on the Dust2 map, but now he obviously had no interest in that and just opened his browser to casually browse the news online.

Six yuan an hour for internet access is not cheap; he would have been reluctant to spend that amount before winning the lottery.

Besides opening a news site, Wang Feiyang also applied for a free email address from 163 and didn't forget to apply for a QQ number. Of course, at this time, the penguin hadn't gotten fat yet. The skinny penguin, which was less than a year old, was named "OICQ" and had a five-digit number!

After writing down his email address and QQ number with paper and pen, Wang Feiyang finally got off the plane and went back to the guesthouse to rest.

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The next day, I arrived at the meeting room on time. Old Wu hadn't arrived yet, but Zhang Liang, Hu Xiaoyun, and Guo Juan were already there, chatting away.

As soon as he entered, Wang Feiyang took out his wallet and said with a smile, "Hu Xiaoyun and Zhang Liang, I'm here to return your money."

"Huh? Aren't you buying a phone?" Hu Xiaoyun asked in surprise.

"I've already bought it. Someone from my family came to the provincial capital yesterday and gave me some money," Wang Feiyang said casually. He then handed Hu Xiaoyun a thousand yuan, not forgetting to say thank you, and returned six hundred yuan to Zhang Liang.

Since I'm not short of money, I shouldn't continue to owe money to others, otherwise I'll always feel uneasy about it.

Zhang Liang beamed as he took the six large bills from Wang Feiyang. He hadn't expected Wang Feiyang to repay the money so quickly when he borrowed it. Although he knew Wang Feiyang wouldn't refuse to pay, he still had his doubts, which is only human nature.

Hu Xiaoyun didn't care. She took the money and put it into her wallet. She was more concerned about what kind of new phone Wang Feiyang had bought. However, when she saw that it was the same Nokia as Zhang Liang's, she didn't ask any more questions. She just turned to Guo Juan and discussed when to buy a phone.

Guo Juan absentmindedly replied that she hadn't asked her parents for the money yet, but it should be enough in the next day or two, and they could go buy it together then.

Zhang Liang and Hu Xiaoyun didn't notice when Wang Feiyang took money out of his wallet, but Guo Juan did. There was a thick wad of hundred-yuan bills in the wallet, probably worth at least five or six thousand yuan.

Unlike Zhang Liang and Hu Xiaoyun, who are both "naive" high school graduates, Guo Juan is a vocational school graduate and is much more mature.

She felt she needed to reassess Wang Feiyang. She had initially thought he was just a "peasant" from a small county, and that his family background was the worst among the four, at least not as good as Zhang Liang's. But now it seemed that wasn't the case...

Not long after, Lao Wu pushed open the door and came in to officially begin the training.

Although he came to class on time, Wang Feiyang did not listen carefully to what Teacher Wu taught. Instead, he flipped through the training material from beginning to end, skipping the most basic things and only stopping to look at words or grammar he couldn't remember clearly.

Wang Feiyang knew that his spoken Russian and vocabulary were quite good, but he was still not proficient. After all, he was not a Russian major. Now that he had a good language foundation, it would be much easier to improve.

For him, the content in the training materials was still too easy. He decided to go back to Xinhua Bookstore and buy some more advanced Russian books to study on his own. After all, he was going to stay in the provincial capital for three months, so it would be good to find something meaningful to do.

Of course, besides learning Russian, there are more important things to do, and they must be done before going abroad!

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