From a distance, he could see the banner hanging high in the football lottery shop, which was to celebrate his winning the grand prize of more than 300,000 yuan. Wu Dong was speechless for a while.
Of course, the three hundred thousand yuan at this time is not a small sum no matter where it is placed.
I remember when I was in my second year of high school, someone won a lottery worth more than 200,000 yuan. The whole betting station was filled with joy. It was easy to understand what the owner of the betting station was thinking.
It's just to promote your own betting station, hoping to attract more lottery players to come and buy lottery tickets.
At this time, he was quite grateful for his caution.
If he bets all the more than 10,000 yuan in his hand, even if he can win millions, he will never think about having a happy life.
No matter what you do from now on, you will be carefully observed and studied under a magnifying glass by your parents and caring people.
Although he was not afraid, he had no intention of looking for trouble.
Besides, in the county town of 2005, a thousand football lottery bets were already considered a large sum. If the amount was any larger, it would be a bit unclear.
You can't explain to the outside world that you dreamed that a certain team would start a shocking reversal mode, right?
The situation at home is such that no one would believe it.
In addition, he did not want to use money to test how low his father's bottom line was.
Today happens to be Saturday, the school is on holiday, and Wu Dong has free time to come and receive the award.
Ignoring the enthusiastic attempts from the owner of the football lottery shop and some interested people, after obtaining the tax certificate, I finally got more than 250,000 yuan.
My parents were so happy that they took a taxi back home just like two door gods.
"What are you going to do with this money?"
When I got home, my father couldn't wait to ask, his eyes wandering and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Pay the 100,000 yuan for the project first, and wait for the rest after the college entrance examination to clear the family's debts, and that's about it!"
Without giving his father a chance to ask for money, Wu Dong made a straightforward decision and immediately invited the contractor who came after hearing the news.
Speaking of which, this contractor is still very 'kind-hearted'.
Deep in my memory, after the workers' commercial housing was built, my father owed him almost 200,000 yuan, and it took ten years before he started to pay it back slowly.
During this period, the contractor did not force them too much and even allowed them to live in a rough house that nominally belonged to their father after their home suffered a flood.
This can be regarded as a favor, and Wu Dong naturally cannot ignore it directly.
After the contractor wrote the receipt, happily took the money and left, my father was quite dissatisfied and said: "Why are you getting involved in government affairs?"
"Then let the public pay the money owed to the contractor!"
Wu Dong rolled his eyes and said angrily: "If you don't pay back the money, what will others think?"
After finishing speaking, he did not continue to talk nonsense. After having a sumptuous lunch, he withdrew the money and followed his mother to the credit union where he worked.
I watched my mother smooth out the misappropriated money and make sure there were no other gaps, leaving less than 110,000 yuan in winnings.
To be honest, both my parents are pretty good at their jobs.
In the 1990s, we were an enviable dual-income family.
Unfortunately, my father doesn't have much sense of responsibility for the family. My mother said that she hasn't seen her father's salary since she got married, and all the family expenses are borne by her.
I have lost a lot of money in business, and I am a bit vain. Whenever there is a new gadget on the market, such as a BP machine, I have to buy one as soon as possible. In addition to other reasons, my family finances have been struggling.
All quite nervous.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m under too much financial pressure and I just want to get rich overnight.
The social atmosphere at that time was not very good. Since about 2000 years ago, an underground gambling method called "buying code" was introduced, and it soon became popular throughout the county, and everyone in urban and rural areas fell into it.
Both father and mother have become standard coders. The odds of forty to one are too tempting, and they buy almost every issue in the hope of becoming rich overnight.
This is also the main reason why he believes that his parents are disguised gamblers.
My mother was still a little restrained, but my father was completely absorbed.
Deep in my memory, until seventeen years later, my father was still secretly buying code, and even took out an online loan to buy it. He went crazy.
Regardless of gossip, when he returned home, he told his parents not to spread the news outside, as it was best to keep the news of winning the football lottery in the stomach.
It's not that I'm worried about anything else, I'm just afraid that some bad people in society will get involved, and my father may not be able to withstand their bad methods.
As for the remaining money, he left five thousand to his mother and kept the rest in the bank.
The family had a lot of foreign debts, and after he passed the college entrance examination, he would go directly to his home to pay off the debts.
He really couldn't trust his father, who had a criminal record before.
He actually withheld the money that was supposed to be paid back, and either bought code or lost everything playing cards.
It was not until later that someone came to collect debts that I found out that he had never paid back the money given to his father.
After this time, whenever the family's foreign debts were repaid, it would basically not go through my father's hands.
"Hey brother, have you bought any football lottery tickets?"
When going to bed at night, Wu Dong picked up the landline phone at home and called his brother who was working in Guangdong Province.
That's right, when he bought the football lottery for the Champions League final, he specifically reminded his brother.
"I bought it, but unfortunately I only bought 20 yuan, and won more than 1,000 yuan!"
On the phone, the regretful voice of my brother came: "If I had known it was so profitable, I would have bought more!"
Without waiting for his reply, he said directly: "If you have such an opportunity again in the future, you must not forget me!"
"rest assured!"
Wu Dong chuckled and said: "I need your help with some errands here, so you'd better come back soon!"
"What's up?"
The younger brother said doubtfully: "I just quit my job and am planning to find another factory to work in!"
"Didn't I win a lottery and get a lot of money? My father is like that. I hope you come back to help keep an eye on it!"
Wu Dong said in a deep voice: "In addition, it is best for you to repay some of the foreign debts of the family in person, so that I can rest assured!"
"Okay, I'll buy a ticket to go home tomorrow!"
My brother didn’t hesitate and agreed directly.
After hanging up the phone, Wu Dong felt a little complicated.
We shouldn't be wary of our father like we're wary of thieves, but some of the things my father did are really chilling.
Deep in my memory, I was also dragged down a lot by my father.
I went out to work before graduating from junior high school, and almost all of the wages I saved were used by my family to pay off debts.
It wasn't until he was thirty-one that he married a wife and gave birth to a child with the help of Wu Dongyuan, who made money online.
When my brother was talking about his girlfriend, his father said something that he remembered deeply: No matter whether the family has money or not, get married first!
My thoughts were very impure, but fortunately the situation did not develop to that point...