The crimson taxi pulled up outside a five - story building in the western part of Haicheng. Xu Zixi got out of the car with the two kids.
People were constantly going in and out of this building. On the outdoor terrace outside the door, many people were standing or squatting. Some of them were holding newspapers and reading them with their heads down, muttering something in their mouths.
It was the second time the two little kids had gone out since they were born, and it was the first time they had come to such a place. Yuan Xiaoxuan exclaimed in surprise, "Wow!"
"Mum, what does that sign say?" He pointed his little finger at the huge line of words on the building.
Xu Zixi replied, "Haicheng Financial Trading Center."
Yuan Xiaoxu was not interested in where they were at all. But when he heard Xu Zixi's words, he blinked his eyes while sucking his finger.
"Ha... Juan... Is it something delicious?"
Xu Zixi smiled and said, "There's no food here, but we can earn money here to buy you seafood."
The two little kids were a bit confused. They looked back at Xu Zixi with a blank expression. She was charmed by their cute looks. Holding one child's hand in each hand, she said with full confidence,
"Don't worry, kids. Mum will surely let you have a sumptuous seafood dinner tonight!"
In her previous life, Xu Zixi had two elder brothers. But her father didn't have the concept of preferring sons over daughters. He treated all three children equally and had been cultivating her as a successor since she was a child. By the age of eight, with her accurate judgment and bold courage, she had earned eight million through investment and financial management. For her, terms like stocks and funds were as common as the vegetable prices that ordinary people paid attention to every day.
Now, she urgently needed to use this most familiar means from her previous life to quickly earn enough money for the three of them to live on.
After what happened yesterday, Miss Xu realized that she couldn't do anything without money.
However, she didn't plan to go straight to the Financial Trading Center. Instead, she took the two kids to a lottery shop opposite the center.
Come on. Even though Xu Zixi had the confidence, the original owner was really poor! She didn't even meet the minimum investment qualification.
How sad!
There were quite a few customers in the lottery shop near the Financial Trading Center. Most of them were here for the chance of getting rich overnight. So when Xu Zixi walked into the shop with the two kids, she didn't attract much attention. But soon, all eyes in the shop were on her.
The moment she entered the shop, she rummaged through the scratch - off lottery tickets on the wall. Then she took out all the money she had, slapped it on the counter boldly, and said to the lottery shop owner with a smile,
"Boss, I'll buy all these scratch - off lottery tickets."
"Wow... This beauty is really bold. She's spending all her money on scratch - off lottery tickets."
"I think she's a bit crazy. The prize pool of scratch - off lottery tickets isn't deep. The highest prize is only 20,000, and the probability is one in ten thousand. I don't think she's that lucky."
"She must be driven crazy by poverty. It's a pity for her good looks."
Hearing the joking remarks from other customers around, Yuan Xiaoxuan tightly held Xu Zixi's hand. Looking at the lottery tickets on the counter, he felt a bit worried.
So the thing Mum bought depends on luck? What if they're not lucky? Will they have no money? If they have no money, will they have no food and have to go hungry?
Yuan Xiaoxuan looked up at Xu Zixi and sighed quietly.
Mum had suddenly become nice. She didn't beat them anymore, cooked delicious food for them, and even hugged them to sleep. If Mum was really unlucky and had no money, he and his younger brother would pick up bottles to make sure Mum didn't go hungry.
"Beauty, are you sure you want to spend all your money on these lottery tickets?" Before starting to scratch the tickets, the lottery shop owner confirmed again. "If none of them wins after scratching, I won't refund your money."
Xu Zixi said, "Stop talking nonsense. Start scratching."
The lottery shop owner had seen many confident people like her and didn't take it seriously at all. He shook his head and picked up the lottery tickets to start scratching.
Yuan Xiaoxuan was so nervous that he tightly hugged Xu Zixi's leg, buried his face deeply, and pricked up his ears to listen to the results.
The first ticket won 10 yuan.
Xu Zixi tapped Yuan Xiaoxu's nose and said with a smile, "Your little cake is coming."
Yuan Xiaoxu was very supportive. He exclaimed, "Mum, you're so amazing!"
The second ticket won 5 yuan.
"I'll buy you each a lollipop," Xu Zixi said.
The winning amounts of these two lottery tickets were not large. The lottery shop owner and other customers thought she was just trying to make the kids happy. But who would have thought...
The third ticket won 200 yuan. The fourth won 500 yuan. The fifth won 1000 yuan. The sixth won 10,000 yuan... The boss's hands began to tremble, and his heart was no longer calm. He didn't dare to continue.
Xu Zixi knocked on the glass on the counter. "Why don't you continue, boss?"
The boss forced a bitter smile and continued to scratch the tickets mechanically like a robot. The more he scratched, the colder he felt inside.
In the end, everyone in the shop gathered around and reported the winning amounts of each ticket to Xu Zixi. After calculating, they found that she had only spent 500 yuan but won nearly one million yuan in prizes!
Other customers didn't believe it and also bought two scratch - off lottery tickets. But when they scratched them, they were all "Thank you for your patronage." The contrast was extremely ironic.
"Beauty, how did you choose the lottery tickets? Do you have any tricks? I'll pay you 100,000 yuan. Can you teach me?"
"I'll pay 200,000 yuan! Beauty, teach me!"
"Me! Me! Me! I'll pay 500,000 yuan!"
Xu Zixi subtly dodged the hands reaching out to her while holding the two kids' hands. She smiled gracefully and politely, feeling relieved.
"There's no trick. I'm just lucky."
Speaking of luck, Xu Zixi had extremely good luck in her previous life. She would always win big prizes when buying lottery tickets, and the stocks she bought would always skyrocket. Every time she went out, it would be a sunny day without exception. Until that day when she and her friend were driving on the mountain road on Qianqiu Peak. To avoid a little squirrel that suddenly ran into the middle of the road, they had a tragic car accident and died.
After being reborn into the original owner who was surrounded by scandals and in a desperate situation, she thought her good luck had run out and bad luck had started. She never expected that she was still as lucky as before.
After making sure the prize money had been successfully transferred to her account, Xu Zixi left the lottery shop with the two kids under the lottery shop owner's tangled and hesitant gaze. Then she headed towards the biggest destination of this trip - the Haicheng Financial Trading Center.
By the time Yan Yincheng and Wei Shu arrived, Xu Zixi had already successfully opened an account at the Haicheng Financial Trading Center and used two - thirds of the prize money from the lottery to buy the funds and stocks she had set her eyes on.
Although Xu Zixi didn't take the two kids to commit suicide, which made Yan Yincheng breathe a sigh of relief, when he heard what Xu Zixi had done in the lottery shop from the bodyguard who had been keeping an eye on her, his face darkened instantly.
As if sensing something from the bodyguard's words, he coldly asked, "What, are you envious? How about I fire you so that you can also go buy lottery tickets like her?"
There was still a "Thank you for your patronage" lottery ticket in the bodyguard's pocket, but he didn't dare to say anything. He quickly lowered his head and apologized,
"Sorry, Third Master. I was wrong!"
The kids were still so young, but she had taken them to do such opportunistic things! Was she teaching them to get something for nothing? No wonder the two kids had gone astray in their previous lives!
Yan Yincheng said coldly, "It seems that the Yuan family didn't teach their daughter how to be a good mother."
When Wei Shu saw the mother and the two kids come out of the trading center, he quickly told Yan Yincheng.
"Follow them!" Yan Yincheng ordered in a cold voice.
"Also, buy the house opposite theirs before it gets dark. I want to get in touch with the kids as soon as possible."
In his previous life, it was not until the two kids died such a tragic death that Yan Yincheng knew that the great villains despised by the world were actually his own children. This was a pain that he could never erase in his life.
Moreover, Yan Xuiran, Yan Zhen's son, had bought the shares from him and become the largest shareholder of the Yan Corporation. Then he had the ability to bring down Yuan Xiaoxu, which eventually led to Yuan Xiaoxu's bankruptcy and his arson and suicide.
In this life, Yan Yincheng didn't expect the two kids to achieve great things. He just wanted them to grow up safely and healthily by his side.
Therefore, he would never allow the two kids to stay with that woman who would abuse children!