Chapter 369: 369
Wang Ling suddenly discovered that there was a rich spread of dishes for tonight, many of which he had never seen before . There were already more than eight dishes on the dining table, but the old man and Mother Wang were still busy in the kitchen, presumably to round the number up; for example, ten perfect and beautiful dishes . . . Wang Ling wasn't interested in this sort of thing, but people at the old man's age were zealous in chasing luck .
Father Wang was reading the newspaper; when he saw that Wang Ling had returned, he hurriedly put the evening paper down and pushed up his black glasses in a familiar gesture . "From today onward, your grandfather will be preparing to battle the head of Kitchen Knife Sect, Jiang Haifu, in a cooking contest, so we'll have a lot of dishes these two days . Today, your mom and grandfather bought a lot of things from the market, to the point that Sheep almost wasn't able to take everything . "
Were they really going to compete against each other?
Wang Ling was startled .
"Your grandfather's been very bored after retirement, so just treat this as something he can amuse himself with in his old age . " Father Wang couldn't help smiling .
Wang Ling was speechless; he opened the fridge in the living room and was immediately shocked by the stock inside . He had never thought that they would actually buy so much; no wonder Sheep had been unable to carry it all . If Wang Ling hadn't specially transformed this fridge, there was no way all the ingredients could have been stuffed inside .
Wang Ling felt that the food in the fridge could sustain them for a whole month . . .
Just then, Father Wang suddenly put his newspaper down . "Oh, Ling Ling, I need your help with something . "
Wang Ling: "???"
"It's like this: the supermarket that your mom and grandfather went to are starting a new system; from now on, you get points with every purchase you make, and then you can use the points to draw a lottery . You know . . . " Father Wang adjusted the frame of his glasses, and the lens flashed with reflected light .
" . . . "
Hearing this, Wang Ling understood; it turned out he was being asked to draw a lottery .
Father Wang handed his cellphone to Wang Ling . "Look, this is how much your mom and grandfather spent . . . They now have thirty thousand points . The normal lottery costs one hundred points, the mid-tier lottery one thousand points, and the top lottery costs ten thousand points . "
Wang Ling's lips twitched as he gazed at the screen . He would break his hand trying to use up all the points for the one hundred points normal lottery . Furthermore, the prizes were a sham . The software system used a lottery wheel, and the prize depended on where the pointer stopped . The better a prize was, the less space it took up on the wheel, and on the normal lottery wheel, half the surface was "Thanks for your participation," while the best prize was just an electronic reader .
And there was even less to be said for the mid-tier lottery draw, where most of the prizes were just coupons and discount vouchers for various stalls in the market .
It was why Father Wang had aimed for the top lottery draw since the beginning . There weren't any sham options like "Thanks for your participation"; there were five options on the wheel, three of which didn't state what the prize was but were represented with a question mark instead . Most importantly, these question marks took up small amounts of space on the wheel .
Father Wang felt there was an eighty percent chance that these were valuable prizes!
Grocery shopping this time had cost him a full three days' worth of his writing fees . . . Now, his priority was to reduce his losses .
Although even Father Wang himself didn't know what he would get, humans were by nature very curious creatures .
Ordinarily speaking, Wang Ling wouldn't play trading card games .
Because he would hit the legendary jackpot every time, which was boring . . .
Characters in a trading card game could number as few as a hundred to as many as a thousand, five to ten percent of which would be made up of the "gold cards . " These were the rarest cards, but every time Wang Ling played this type of game and as long as he mastered it, he could collect all the available gold cards in the shortest amount of time .
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