Chapter 39: A Lottery Ticket About To Expire!
Today’s intelligence 01:
While you were scrolling on your phone last night, you saw a used Lavida that Tian Zhipeng was selling.
Inside the car’s storage compartment, the car manual had a winning lottery ticket worth 68,996 yuan tucked inside.
Note: This lottery ticket will exceed its redemption period in two days and become void.
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“A winning lottery ticket? And it’s for over sixty-eight thousand yuan!”
“Which absent-minded person forgot about it after buying the ticket?”
“Don’t these kinds of things only get won by the director and his relatives!”
Seeing the latest intelligence update, Jiang Tao was no longer sleepy.
“There are only two days left for redemption, which means I have two more days to get my hands on it.”
“No! There’s only one day left!”
Jiang Tao suddenly realized that today was the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it was a Sunday!
The Welfare Lottery Center is closed today!
This means the redemption time left for him is only tomorrow, one day!
Time is tight!
Clearly, getting the lottery ticket is a higher priority than selling satsuma mandarins, and much more urgent!
The market price for these satsuma mandarins will last for about ten days.
Jiang Tao and his team’s inventory will likely be sold out in another four or five days, so there’s no rush.
It won’t make much difference if he’s missing from the satsuma mandarin F4 tomorrow.
When it’s time to distribute money, they can just give Liu Zhiyuan and the others an extra 1,000 yuan each.
That’s only 3,000 yuan in total.
If he can get his hands on that winning lottery ticket, that’s almost 70,000 yuan!
Even after paying 20% tax, there will still be over 50,000 yuan left!
Furthermore, Jiang Tao also plans to go to Hongxing Wholesale Market tomorrow to find Ma Dongmei.
The intelligence about Ma Dongmei is worth at least the landlord’s 88,888 yuan red envelope.
The total value of what he has to do tomorrow is over ten thousand yuan!
When he puts it that way, he absolutely has to take tomorrow off.
“I didn’t expect that the first time I win the lottery in my life would be like this…”
After analyzing the intelligence and forming a plan for tomorrow’s actions, Jiang Tao got into bed and went to sleep.
The next morning, after Jiang Tao got up as usual, he saw that it had started snowing outside.
He opened his mobile phone and saw that several news items related to the weather had made it to the Weibo hot search.
Cold snap + blizzard + heavy fog!
8 provinces and regions nationwide will have heavy to blizzard conditions!
Seeing this news, Jiang Tao was happy, but he also quietly condemned himself.
He shouldn’t have the mentality of “worrying about the scarcity of charcoal because the weather is cold!”
Fortunately, it was just cloudy in the Capital City for the past two days, with no snow, which didn’t affect Jiang Tao and the others selling goods.
This morning, Jiang Tao treated his buddies to lamb soup.
While eating, he told his friends that he had something to do today and couldn’t go sell goods.
He also explained in advance that he would pay Liu Zhiyuan and the other two an extra 1,000 yuan in salary each.
Liu Zhiyuan and the others initially tried to refuse the money, but in the end, they couldn’t.
This gesture from Jiang Tao made Liu Zhiyuan and his friends respect him even more.
After eating and drinking their fill, Liu Zhiyuan and the others drove off to load their goods.
Jiang Tao, on the other hand, walked towards Tian Zhipeng’s auto repair shop.
It was about 8 AM, and the auto repair shop was just opening for business.
Tian Zhipeng was already repairing a car that had been brought in yesterday.
Jiang Tao arrived at the entrance of the auto repair shop and looked around, but he didn’t see the car that Tian Zhipeng had posted on his Moments last night.
Upon seeing this, Jiang Tao’s heart sank.
Could that car have already been sold?
With this thought, Jiang Tao walked quickly to Tian Zhipeng’s side and asked in a calm tone:
“Boss Tian, I saw on your Moments last night that you were selling a Lavida, where is the car?”
“Master Jiang is also interested in that car? You should have said so earlier!”
“It was sold less than an hour after I posted it on Moments last night.”
Tian Zhipeng said casually while repairing the car.
“Damn! Sold that fast!”
Jiang Tao couldn’t help but curse.
He had planned to pretend to look at the interior this morning and subtly retrieve the lottery ticket from the car.
After all, he couldn’t just buy the car for the sake of a lottery ticket!
But now, the car had been sold!
If he had known, he would have bought the car on WeChat from Boss Tian last night.
“The car’s condition was quite good, only driven less than 40,000 kilometers in 6 years.”
“And it hadn’t undergone any major repairs, and the body had no major accidents, only some minor bumps.”
“A beginner could buy it for 30,000 yuan, drive it for another four or five years to practice their skills, and then resell it without losing much money.”
“That kind of used car has a very high cost-effectiveness, so it’s also in high demand.”
Tian Zhipeng said, while using an electric screwdriver to disassemble the parts’ screws on the car he was repairing.
“When… was it driven away?”
Thinking of the lottery ticket worth nearly 70,000 yuan, which was tucked inside the manual, being wasted like this, Jiang Tao felt a pang of regret.
Only God, System Brother, and he knew about that winning lottery ticket.
The owner who bought the car probably wouldn’t have imagined that there was a lottery ticket tucked inside the manual!
After tomorrow, that lottery ticket worth nearly 70,000 yuan would become waste paper, too stiff to even wipe his backside with!
“When was it driven away?”
Tian Zhipeng didn’t quite understand Jiang Tao’s question. He stopped his work and looked at him, asking:
“Oh, I mean, when was the Lavida you sold driven away?”
Thinking about how he had just missed out on 70,000 yuan, Jiang Tao felt a bit of a headache.
“It hasn’t been driven away yet. My shop’s clerk drove it to buy breakfast. Look, they’re back.”
Tian Zhipeng said, nodding his chin towards behind Jiang Tao.
Jiang Tao turned around and saw a white Lavida slowly pull up to a vacant spot next to the auto repair shop.
The car door opened, and a young man in the shop’s work uniform got out of the car, carrying two jianbing.
Seeing this, Jiang Tao’s already desperate heart rekindled with hope.
To go from despair to hope so early in the morning was too damn thrilling!
Jiang Tao looked at Tian Zhipeng and, suppressing his excitement, asked:
“Um, Boss Tian, could I go into the car to feel the space and look at the interior? I’m also planning to buy a Lavida recently.”
“Sure! Why not? Take a look around!”
“Xiao Liu, unlock the car door and let Master Jiang take a look inside.”
Tian Zhipeng casually said to the apprentice who had walked up to him, not taking it seriously at all.
“Okay, Brother Peng.”
Click!
Xiao Liu, feeling nothing special about it, took out his key from his pocket and unlocked the car door.
“Thanks, Boss Tian!”
Jiang Tao politely thanked Tian Zhipeng, turned, and quickly walked towards the used Lavida.
Within Jiang Tao’s line of sight, through the car window, he saw a faint golden light emanating from the storage compartment on the front right.
“That’s it!”
Jiang Tao walked to the side of the Lavida, went around it, and sat in the front passenger seat after opening the car door.
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