I've Gone Viral Because of a Money-Saving Variety Show-Chapter 232 - 226: Sweepstakes Event, Grand Prize of 500,000!
Chapter 232: Chapter 226: Sweepstakes Event, Grand Prize of 500,000!
Zheng He felt the price was too high: "Can it be cheaper? I don’t have that much money."
Customer Service: "This is already the lowest price on the market, dear."
After repeated haggling with customer service, the deal was closed at thirty thousand yuan.
Zheng He: "Can I pay the thirty thousand yuan in installments?"
The customer service was speechless, after all that haggling, he doesn’t even have thirty thousand? He’s really at his wits’ end with this pauper!
Customer Service: "So dear, how much money do you have on hand right now?"
Zheng He: "Less than ten thousand."
Customer Service: "How much exactly?"
Zheng He: "Three thousand."
Customer Service: "...," utterly speechless!!
Zheng He: "I can pay three thousand yuan as a deposit first and make up the balance the day after tomorrow."
Reluctantly, the customer service agreed: "Please transfer the money now, dear."
Zheng He arranged the time and place with the other party, to meet at the South District Scrap Factory in Southern Jiang City at eight o’clock the next evening to inspect the goods, and then transferred the only three thousand yuan he had left.
As for making up the balance? Wishful thinking!
Once he gets the goods, and the show has aired the day after tomorrow, he’ll just report this website and get them to cough up that three thousand yuan!
Having sorted all this out, Zheng He can finally rest easy tonight.
Meanwhile, Jin Cheng, who had only just returned home, fell asleep almost instantly, while Chen Xixi, who returned with him, took ten seconds longer to fall asleep.
In those nine extra seconds, Chen Xixi pondered Zhou Jinyuan’s words, trying to recall when she had ever met Zhou Jinyuan, and before she could make heads or tails of it, she had already succumbed to sleep.
But she had a strange dream that night.
In the dream, she was playing with other kids at the doorway of her house, only this doorway was different from the rural courtyard of her current home.
In the dream, her family’s courtyard was spacious and clean with a garden carefully tended by her mom and a pond. There was also a swing entwined with vines, which her dad had made especially for her.
The overall environment was many times better than the humble courtyard of her current house.
As she played, she suddenly noticed a boy much taller than her standing outside the courtyard gate.
Although his face was blurry in the dream, she had the impression that he was very good-looking, like the male stars her mom watched in TV dramas.
Even though she couldn’t make out his facial expression, she knew he looked cold and unhappy, as if someone had given him a hundred test papers—I’m so unhappy, she thought of calling him over to play, but he left.
The next day she saw the handsome boy again; he still wore an unhappy face. Today his unhappiness seemed like someone had given him two hundred test papers, his cheeks tense as he stood quietly at the gate, watched them play for a while, then hurriedly walked away.
The pattern repeated afterward.
She felt that although he always looked unhappy and didn’t want to interact, deep down he probably really wanted to join in their play. Every time she saw his slender figure walking away, he seemed so lonely and pitiful to her...
And then... she started desperately searching for a bathroom.
Before long, she woke up, hastily gathered her skincare products, and rushed out of the apartment to find a real bathroom...
In the apartment, using the bathroom costs money, so she usually went to the mall.
After coming out of the mall’s restroom, Chen Xixi vaguely remembered that their family’s old house was indeed very big, but as for how wealthy they were and whether they were wealthy enough to be neighbors with a family like Zhou Jinyuan’s, she had no idea.
She only vaguely remembered that when she was a child, her family had done some small business, but later her parents said business was tough, so they moved to their current home.
At that time, she was still young, just out of kindergarten, and didn’t understand what poverty or wealth meant.
She only knew that she had to go to school every day, that she could eat her mother’s cooking when she returned home, and that her father was still hard at work, coming home late. After dinner, she would go play with her new neighbor, Xu Yichen, living a carefree life.
She had a cheerful personality since childhood and quickly became the queen of the neighborhood, the most dazzling kid around. Whenever little friends from around the village or back alleys saw her, they would all call her "big sister." However, she never saw that good-looking Unhappy again.
In fact, before their family moved away, Unhappy had already gotten quite familiar with playing with her. It’s just that the specifics are now hard for her to recall.
Too much time has gone by.
But she does remember asking him a question once.
Unhappy was tall and thin, nearly two heads taller than her. She knew he must be quite old.
With her chubby baby face tilted up, she looked at him as her carelessly tied pigtails leaned backward.
That day her mom wasn’t home, and her hair was tied by her dad. The messy pigtail hairstyle was the result of her dad’s long struggle.
Although she despised these ugly pigtails, she couldn’t tie them herself and just had to live with it. However, with her cheerful disposition, it was only a matter of minutes before she tossed this annoyance to the back of her mind.
She looked at the boy in front of her and asked curiously, "Big brother, why do you look unhappy every day? Is it because you have too much homework?"
After all, she was unhappy when she had to do homework assigned by her kindergarten teachers!
Then his youthful face became a bit heavy, and he nodded, "Yeah, because I have a hundred test papers to do this week."
Little her was shocked!
So he really did have a hundred test papers to work on!
No wonder she saw him unhappy and hurrying away every day, never staying to play with them! It turned out he was in a rush to go home to write test papers!
If it were her, she was sure she would go crazy! freēwēbnovel.com
After that, she couldn’t remember anything else. Now, trying to recall her kindergarten days, how could she remember so much?
But among all the kids she’d played with, was there really a Zhou Jinyuan?
She couldn’t remember, maybe she would ask her parents when she gets home. If they had such neighbors, she should find out.
Tomorrow at midnight would be the end of the program.
Whether she could win the five million prize money and keep the popularity award all depended on the final moment!
Chen Xixi was just about to head upstairs to the skincare counter when she saw a big stage set up on the ground floor of the shopping mall. Out of curiosity, she walked over.
It turned out the mall was holding a customer feedback event, where spending just one yuan gave you a chance to win a prize, with the grand prize being—five hundred thousand yuan in cash!!
Chen Xixi’s eyes widened in shock.
Has the mall owner gone mad?!
[Holy cow! First prize five hundred thousand? Are they crazy? Where is this mall, I want to go too!]
[Me too, me too, maybe I’ll be lucky and win!]
[You guys can stop dreaming, an insider tells you that in these mall events, the grand prizes are almost always drawn by insiders!]
[No wonder I never win anything, I thought I just had bad luck.]
[Well, sometimes these events are legitimate, but it’s rare, and usually, it’s ordinary people who win small prizes.]
[I’m fine with small prizes, it’s all free anyway, I’m not picky!]
Chen Xixi also wanted to try her luck, so she went into the supermarket of the mall and spent one yuan on a bottle of mineral water.
She took the receipt and started queuing up early for the lottery.
Before long, she actually saw Wan Chen come over too.
Wan Chen also bought a bottle of mineral water, took his receipt, and lined up behind her.
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