Chapter 64 - 64 Huge Money!
64 Huge Money!
Then, Ye Xuan and Liu Yanran set off again. Since the lottery winnings this time were huge, they could only go to the prize exchange center.
Coupled with the traffic jam, it took nearly an hour to reach the center.
At this moment, there were already many reporters and staff at the entrance of the lottery center.
Not far away, many reporters were rushing over.
“Aren’t we here too early?” The cameraman was panting from exhaustion as he asked the host, who was not far away.
The host was a girl. As she walked quickly, her forehead was already covered in sweat. “It’s still early. We’re going over now to find a good position to capture the full appearance of the person receiving the prize!”
They were reporters from the television station’s morning news program. They were going to the local welfare lottery center.
After the prizes for the welfare lottery were opened yesterday, a shocking piece of news broke out.
A person had actually won the top prize and placed 100 bets. The prize money was as high as 600 million.
It was 600 million! It could be said to be the highest award in the history of the welfare lottery.
At that time, when this news was exposed, the entire Internet was in an uproar.
The netizens and the lottery ticket buyers all wanted to know if there was really such a grand prize winner.
Meanwhile, as reporters, they had to help find evidence.
The best evidence was none other than the award ceremony for the grand prize winner.
Therefore, after the reporters received the notice from their superiors, they immediately brought the cameramen to the welfare lottery center and waited for the winner of the grand prize to appear.
The reporters were very excited. If they could get this big news, their bonus for this month would be guaranteed. Moreover, a reporter’s qualifications were not based on their age, but on how many sensational ma.n.u.scripts and precious records they had written.
Wasn’t this a good opportunity for them to acc.u.mulate archives?
At the thought of this, the female reporter turned around and said to the cameraman, “For the prize money, let’s fight this time!”
With the reward of money, the two of them sped up. However, before they reached the entrance of the welfare lottery center, they saw that the area was already filled with people.
The female reporter and cameraman looked at each other. What was going on?
They were blocking the door so early in the morning. Did something happen?
“There’s material falling from the sky. Let’s go take a look!” After saying that, the female reporter ran towards the door.
The cameraman thought for a moment and turned on the camera. If they could record something good, they would have completed their mission today.
However, when he ran closer, the cameraman realized that many people around him were familiar faces.
They were from television stations, radio stations, daily newspapers, and various magazines.
The female reporter had a dejected expression on her face. She looked at the cameraman and was about to cry. “It’s over. We’re still too late! I heard from them just now that some people brought their equipment over yesterday morning in order to get a good position.”
It was still normal to have small stools, but was the item that was neatly arranged at the right a sleeping bag?
Wasn’t this too much?
The cameraman also looked helpless, but he still comforted the female reporter. “Did you see that? This is the struggle of us reporters! We have to be more proactive next time.”
As the two of them were talking, an old acquaintance from the daily newspaper beside them reminded them, “I say, the two of you, stop sighing here. Hurry up and find a decent position. Looking at the time, the foreign media will be here soon.”
Did foreign media also want to s.n.a.t.c.h the news? No way!
The reporter from the daily newspaper saw the dumbfounded expressions of the two of them and rolled his eyes, as if he expected better from them. “It’s not your first day in this industry. What kind of expression is this? Even the media noobs aren’t like this, okay? This is a huge award of 600 million yuan. It’s definitely the first time in the country! Who doesn’t want a share of such big news? Do you see those unfamiliar faces over there? I heard that they’re all from the media. They arrived earlier than us!”
When the two of them heard this, they finally understood.
Before the reporter from the daily newspaper could finish speaking, they had already flown out like meteors and found their positions.
The two of them divided the work and finally chose a relatively good position. The female reporter simply gave up her place to the cameraman and said, “No matter what, we have to take a photo of the winner of this grand prize! As for the opening and closing remarks, we can edit them later.”
They had worked together for a long time, so they still had this tacit understanding.
Moreover, as time pa.s.sed, more and more media personnel arrived at the scene. There were even some famous reporters in their industry who squeezed into the crowd and looked around.
They were talking to the people around them, as if they were discussing something.
“Do you think the winner of this grand prize will come today? After all, the duration of the redemption is seven days. Will he come on the last day?”
“How is that possible? Do you think it’s a few hundred yuan? Will they only come when they are free? This is 600 million yuan. If it were me, I would come in the middle of the night to redeem it.”
“According to an ordinary person’s mentality, they would definitely come over to redeem the prize immediately. One would only feel stable if the money was in their hands, right?”
Everyone spoke one after another. Although the winner of the grand prize had a high chance of appearing on the first day, they had to be prepared for a prolonged battle.
Food and drinks were fine. Now that take-out was so convenient, they could eat and drink with just one action.
Experienced reporters had already booked hotel rooms nearby online.
It was not purely for the sake of accommodation. The management of the welfare lottery center was very strict. After work, no one was allowed to enter or leave. If there was a hotel nearby, they would not be anxious if they could not find a toilet.
As for sleeping, it was much simpler. A sleeping bag was the perfect solution.
Most of them came as a pair, so it would not be too tiring to take turns changing shifts.
For the sake of first-hand information, everyone went all out.
After a while.
They rushed over to take photos of anyone wearing masks and carrying dolls with all their might. Regardless of whether they were the winner of the grand prize or not, they had to take photos first!
After a while, Ye Xuan and Liu Yanran parked the car and walked over.
When the reporters saw the fair-skinned child, they couldn’t help but look over in surprise.
“Isn’t this child too good-looking?”
“It’s a pity that we’re in the social reporting industry. Otherwise, we might have a readership if we filmed this cute little doll on the streets!”
The reporters spoke excitedly. Then, they saw the outstanding Liu Yanran.
Today, Liu Yanran was wearing a pinkish-blue professional suit. She looked smart and capable.
They stared straight at the two of them, stunned.
Wasn’t such a beautiful girl and child too eye-catching?
If no one else was present, they would have screamed.
Liu Yanran quickly walked to Ye Xuan’s side and asked in a low voice that only the two of them could hear, “Are we going in just like that? Don’t we need to disguise ourselves?”
In her memory, as long as one really won the grand prize, they would come to receive the award with their faces covered, afraid that they would be recognized.
Who was like Ye Xuan? He didn’t hide at all and just walked in.
Ye Xuan blinked at Liu Yanran and said, “You don’t understand, right? These people are waiting for you to go over with your face covered! If we are so generous, they won’t guess that we’re the grand prize winners.”
Liu Yanran did not believe it, but they were already halfway there. There was no reason for them to go back and look for a mask.
Just as she was struggling, the two of them had already successfully walked into the welfare lottery center.
There was no obstruction, and it was a close call.
Liu Yanran touched her chest in surprise and said, “Wow, isn’t this too easy?”
Ye Xuan looked at her and smiled disapprovingly.
He thought, “Little secretary, you can’t pat your chest for no reason. Who can stand it if you tremble like that?”
After watching the two of them enter the building, the reporters outside began to do their own jobs. Their eyes were like cameras as they quickly scanned everyone who entered the building.
Some people muttered softly, feeling that Ye Xuan and Liu Yanran were more suspicious.
Otherwise, why would a woman bring a child in?
The old reporter looked at her in disdain and sneered. “Otherwise, why would people say that you young people don’t have any life experience? Tell me, who wouldn’t be fully disguised to receive the grand prize? If you’re recognized, your unrelated relatives will stick to you. They’ll either borrow money or say that they are sick. What will you do then?”
Could it be that they would not care about their ancestors just because they were rich?
Would they never return home in the future?
That was impossible, right?
After thinking about it, the best solution was to receive the prize silently.
They would live their carefree life without anyone knowing. Everyone else could live their ordinary lives and not provoke each other.
They had never heard of anyone who came to receive money so openly!
The young reporter was a little unconvinced and retorted, “Can’t it be someone who doesn’t have any relatives at home? Could it be that all of them are dead, and he’s the only one left?”
It was precisely because their background was too pitiful that they encountered a good thing and won a big prize!
The old reporter smiled disdainfully. Was it fine if one didn’t have any relatives? The entire country would know their face. Would their life not be in danger when the time came?
In the face of so much money, human nature had long been squeezed out.
The young reporter smacked her lips. That was indeed the case. She shut her mouth and stopped talking.
Meanwhile, Ye Xuan brought Liu Yanran to the reception hall of the welfare lottery center. They had just started work and there were not many staff members.
The staff members were all lazy. Some were sitting at their desks eating breakfast, while others were slowly tr.i.m.m.i.n.g their nails.
Ye Xuan and Liu Yanran walked in. The staff just looked up and didn’t move.
“Xiao Li, what’s wrong with you? Ask them what they’re doing here. Not everyone can come to the reception hall,” shouted the woman who was filing her nails impatiently.
Xiao Li was the security guard in the reception hall. When he heard the woman’s words, he hurriedly ran over and stopped the two of them. “I’m sorry, what’s the matter?”
Liu Yanran was very unhappy to be stopped. She frowned slightly and said, “We’re here to receive our prize.”
Upon hearing the words “receive our prize”, an employee who was still eating breakfast looked up and said unclearly, “Only lottery tickets worth more than 5,000 yuan need to be handled here. If it’s a small amount, just redeem the prize from where you bought the ticket.”
Ye Xuan was already angry.
What kind of work att.i.tude did this welfare lottery center have?
He walked straight to the woman who was filing her nails and waved the lottery ticket in his hand. “I can only redeem my prize here.”
The woman finally put down her nail equipment and took Ye Xuan’s lottery ticket to take a look.
When she saw the line of numbers on it and the hundred bets at the end, she simply felt her mind buzz.
Rumbling sounds filled the air, and they could not speak.
Wasn’t this the huge lottery ticket that had won 600 million yuan?
The people who won the award were actually a little kid and a girl?!
Oh my G.o.d, it was really…
It was an indescribable feeling.
The woman simply felt as if she was holding an extremely important item. Her hands were trembling nervously.
This was 600 million yuan. How big did their house have to be to accommodate this amount of money?
Excited, the woman stood up. After asking Ye Xuan and Liu Yanran to wait, rushed into the supervisor’s office.