Love Apartment: Yifei is my junior aunt

Chapter 694 Good Things Come in Pairs

Five hundred dollars?!

Everyone gasped in surprise.

If this 500 yuan were placed in the first round, when everyone thought they could win the grand prize, probably no one would react much to this prize money.

But now, five hundred yuan is a huge sum of money.

"Let me see! Let me see!"

The most curious of them all, Youyou, immediately went over. She blinked her big eyes and exclaimed in surprise, "Thirteen…my goodness, it really is five hundred yuan!"

"Right?"

Xiaoxian leaned back on the sofa, his legs crossed high.

He looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and said with extreme smugness, "I told you, my brother Xian's luck is just incredible..."

"what?"

Youyou suddenly asked in confusion, "But why is there a negative sign in front of this 500 yuan?"

Zeng Xiaoxian waved his hand dismissively, grinning and saying, "Youyou, you're talking nonsense again. How could the winnings of a scratch-off lottery ticket be negative?"

"But I didn't see it wrong."

Youyou took Zeng Xiaoxian's scratch-off lottery ticket and handed it to everyone: "Look, isn't the winning amount negative?"

Upon hearing this, everyone craned their necks to look at Xiaoxian's scratch-off lottery ticket.

Scratch-off lottery tickets come in dozens of different styles and have different winning rules. The scratch-off ticket that Nanfeng bought has the simplest and easiest-to-understand winning rules.

If you scratch off both the winning number at the top and the matching number at the bottom at the same time, and the matching number matches one of the winning numbers, then the number marked with a plus sign below that winning number is the winning amount.

Zeng Xiaoxian's scratch-off lottery ticket had the number 13 in it. Among all the winning amounts in the row that had plus signs, only the number 500 under 13 had a negative sign in front of it.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Yifei couldn't help but laugh out loud: "My goodness, it really is negative five hundred!"

"Hahahaha, hahahaha..."

Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter. Compared to Zeng Xiaoxian, they suddenly felt that not winning the lottery was nothing to worry about.

Yu Mo laughed until tears almost came to her eyes: "Teacher Zeng, your luck is just too good! This is the first time I've ever heard of someone winning a prize and having to pay out 500 yuan... Hahahaha..."

Ziqiao put his arm around Xiaoxian's shoulder and teased, "Teacher Zeng, it's one thing that your physical abilities are not up to par, but how come your luck is also so bad?"

"I thought I was going to win 500, but it turned out I lost 500. It's hilarious."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Faced with the ridicule and teasing of the crowd, Zeng Xiaoxian stared in shock, his lips trembling like two wings.

He pointed at his scratch-off lottery ticket in astonishment, his eyes filled with a deep, inscrutable confusion: "No, this...you...I...it..."

"Seriously, are these scratch-off lottery tickets crazy?!"

Xiao Xian squinted his small eyes and shouted in a fit of anger, "How could a scratch-off lottery ticket have a negative winning amount? Does that mean if I take this scratch-off ticket to claim the prize, they'll fine me?!"

Zhanbo pursed his lips, suppressing a laugh as he analyzed, "I estimate that this scratch-off ticket was originally supposed to be worth 500 yuan, but there might have been a problem during the printing process, which is why it went from a prize of 500 to a negative 500."

Xiao Xian's face lit up with hope upon hearing this: "If I take this scratch-off ticket to redeem a prize, will I be able to get five hundred yuan?"

"have no idea."

Zhanbo shook his head. He really rarely paid attention to lottery-related things: "I only know that the prize for a single scratch-off ticket is less than 10,000 yuan, and the agent is responsible for making the payment."

"As for whether the reseller will acknowledge the value of your scratch-off ticket, no one can be sure."

"Depend on!"

Upon hearing this, Zeng Xiaoxian's eyebrows drooped immediately. He said aggrievedly, "So, the five hundred yuan I worked so hard to win might just be wasted?"

"It's not necessarily a complete waste of time."

Ever since Yifei found out that Zeng Xiaoxian's scratch-off lottery prize was negative, she has been laughing non-stop.

She clutched her stomach, gasping for breath: "Xian'er, at least you've shown us that scratch-off lottery tickets not only have prizes, but also fines."

"Why don't you give it a try? Maybe they really will ask you for money."

"Hahahaha, hahahaha..."

Zeng Xiaoxian stared blankly at Yifei with a wooden face.

"ah!!!"

He bared his teeth and let out a frustrated and weak roar, his face expressionless.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but laugh even louder.

……

After the sixth and seventh rounds, apart from Zeng Xiaoxian's brilliant score of -500, which solidified his status as the unluckiest man in the apartment, everyone else's luck seemed to have improved to some extent.

By the end of the eighth round, apart from Nanfeng, Zhang Wei, Ziqiao, and Xiaohei, who had spent a long time scratching without winning a single prize, everyone else had won consolation prizes to varying degrees.

Of course, after a total of eight rounds, the total amount won by everyone was less than 500 yuan, which once again proves that lotteries and scratch cards are a huge trap.

At this point, not only everyone else, but even Zhang Wei, who was previously full of confidence and believed that he would definitely be able to win back the 50,000 yuan he had lost, has gradually come to realize the truth.

By the ninth round, Zhang Wei had basically lost his initial ambition. He went from scratching lottery tickets with red eyes and a kind of obsessive passion to his current calm and indifferent demeanor.

If Zhang Wei still has any obsession, it's that he hopes he can also win a prize on a scratch-off lottery ticket.

This way, I can prove that my luck isn't too bad, at least I won't end up like those three unlucky guys, Ziqiao, Xiaohei, and Teacher Zeng, who got nothing.

As Zhang Wei was shaving, he suddenly froze on the spot, his eyes suddenly gleaming with a dazzling light.

"I won! I won! I won!"

Zhang Wei slapped his thigh, looked up at the sky, and let out a triumphant and unrestrained laugh.

"Hooray~, now I can finally say goodbye to the group of unlucky people who never win prizes."

"Who are you calling unlucky? I'm just accumulating experience and then unleashing my potential!"

Xiao Hei, sitting next to Zhang Wei, angrily threw away his ninth scratch-off ticket, which had won no prize. He gritted his teeth and vowed, "With this last one, I will definitely pull off a magnificent comeback!"

"Little Black, you're getting too attached to appearances."

Zhang Wei, who was originally the most obsessed, started to lecture Xiao Hei. He patted Xiao Hei on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Scratch-off lottery tickets are all scams. Don't think you'll be the one in a million who wins."

"If you buy lottery tickets and scratch-offs with this mindset, you're just a delusional leek being exploited."

"Wait, Zhang Wei, when did your ideological awareness become so high?"

Xiao Hei tilted his head and glanced at the scratch-off lottery ticket that Zhang Wei had won.

Seeing that the amount below his winning numbers hadn't even been scratched off yet, Xiao Hei said speechlessly, "You haven't even finished scratching your own scratch-off tickets and you're already lecturing me. What if you end up losing five hundred like Teacher Zeng?"

"ah!!!"

Zeng Xiaoxian roared at Xiao Hei with a face full of displeasure.

Zhang Wei's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.

Although he didn't think he would be as unlucky as Teacher Zeng, his past experiences reminded him that when it came to bad luck, the two brothers were definitely evenly matched.

Zhang Wei hurriedly scratched the amount under the winning numbers, and soon his eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"One more..."

He looked up at everyone in astonishment: "What kind of reward is this?"

"Let me see."

Nanfeng leaned forward to take a look, then burst out laughing: "This reward is interesting, much more fun than just ten yuan."

Zhang Wei asked doubtfully, "So, do I have to go to the store that sells them and ask the owner for another one?"

"There's no need for that."

Nanfeng pointed to the two scratch cards he hadn't yet scratched: "Since we're going to test our luck anyway, why don't we just test them all at once?"

"Zhang Wei, if you're too lazy to go to the lottery shop, just take one from me. Anyway, I got one more ticket than you guys today."

"I can't accept this."

While Zhang Wei spoke politely, his actions betrayed his true intentions, and he casually grabbed a scratch-off lottery ticket.

Nanfeng casually asked, "Is this the one?"

Zhang Wei nodded: "That's it?"

"Not changing it?"

"I'm not changing it."

"Very good, then..."

"etc!"

Zhang Wei suddenly raised his hand and asked, "Could you give me five more minutes to choose...?"

"Can't!!!"

Everyone slammed their fists on the coffee table and shouted, having wasted an hour of their time on Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei was startled. He shrank back, pouted, and said sullenly, "So stingy, not even five minutes for me..."

Still shaken, the crowd glared at Zhang Wei with annoyance.

Nanfeng returned to its original position and was about to scratch off the ninth scratch-off ticket when Zhang Wei suddenly raised his hand and shouted.

"Wait a minute!"

Nanfeng stopped what he was doing and looked up in confusion: "What?"

Zhang Wei, holding up his scratch-off lottery ticket, chuckled and said, "How about I pick the one you have?"

"Sure?"

"Sure."

"Aren't you changing it later?"

"I'm not changing it."

"All right."

Nanfeng didn't know what Zhang Wei thought was different about the two scratch-off tickets, but he felt there was no difference.

He got up and exchanged scratch cards with Zhang Wei, then looked down and started praising Zhang Wei while scratching the cards.

"I think what Zhang Wei just said makes a lot of sense. Scratch-off lottery tickets are all scams. None of us should think that we will be the one in a million who wins."

"Whenever we buy lottery tickets and scratch-offs with this mindset, we're just like a leek indulging in self-delusion."

Nanfeng scoffed, "Everyone has basically finished scratching their lottery tickets by now, so everyone knows whether these things are reliable or not."

"Trying to get rich quick with scratch-off lottery tickets? That's impossible..."

Nanfeng was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly froze.

"How could this be?!"

Nanfeng muttered to himself, his eyes unfocused and his face full of disbelief.

Yu Mo leaned closer for a look, and her pupils widened in shock, her mouth gaping open in astonishment.

"Oh my god..."

"You won another 50,000?!"

In an instant, the entire living room erupted in screams as loud as a landslide or a tsunami.

"What?!?!"

Nanfeng silently raised her head and gave Zhang Wei a smile that looked more like a grimace: "Zhang Wei, this..."

"Hehe, hehehe..."

Zhang Wei gave a bitter smile, his dark face turning deathly pale in an instant.