Chapter 40: Chapter 40. Duplicated Winnings, Part II
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
As if I was a person who had prepared for a governnt job receiving a notice of acceptance, I smiled with joy, holding my fist. But after a while, I cald down my glee in alarm. I had information worth tens of million dollars in my hand, and there were too many people in the terminal. I looked around. There was a pillar in the corner of the terminal. I made my way to the place through countless people. I picked up my smartphone again with my back to the post.
[Ranking News – The top news in the Life/Culture of 12 Hours After – Lotto 921 winning numbers?]
I clicked on the article.
[Lotto 921 is complete. The winning numbers are 2,6,15,22,36,41. The total number of winners is fourteen, with $1,284,610 each.]
$1,284,610 for fourteen people each. I took the Wi-Pad out of my bag and tried to calculate. The total amount of winnings was about $18,000,000. That was a lot of money compared to the average. Many people bought the Lotto this week. But that was why there were a lot of winners, fourteen winners. What was left now was how many tis I wrote in the winning numbers. If I wrote the winning number once, the number of winners would be fifteen; if I wrote it three tis, seventeen, and if I wrote it five tis, it would be nineteen. I calculated each case.
One ti – $1,198,960
Three tis – $3,173,740
Five tis – $4,732,770
The higher the number of winners, the smaller the individual amount I would have, but the higher the number of winners, the larger the total amount I would have.
‘If I win a hundred tis…
‘When I knock on the calculator, my total winnings would be $15,700,000 among $18,000,000. But it is too much. If the grand prize becos 100 tis, it will be an issue. No matter how much this age protects individual information, soone will know , and if he or she makes fun of , I may beco a celebrity. I don’t want that. This ti, I will use the Lotto to make basic money to pay the subscription fee for 12 Hours After.’
‘One ti – $1,198,960 is big, but it looks small compared to the amount below. Three tis? Five tis? How many tis did the others win?’
I quickly searched through the past articles with ‘Duplicated Winners Search’. There were usually about two tis’ duplicated winnings. Most of them were confused by the markings and wrote the sa numbers. Five tis was the best. A person ca out of a real dream or pushed a number to one, because it was a favorite combination. I decided to win five tis. More than that, it would be a new record, so there would surely be news.
‘If I win five tis, it won’t be new news because it is a tie record. If I start with $6,000,000 seed money, adding $5,000,000 to $1,000,000, it will be a good start. If the money I have is not $1,000,000, but $6,000,000, my parents will be overwheld and they will not be able to say anything to anymore.’
‘All right, let’s do five tis.’
I found a lottery shop in the terminal, a yellow billboard between restaurants. Lotto 6/45. I went inside. The owner was listening to sothing like a lecture on a smartphone, whether I ca or not.
“... a foolish man who doesn’t know , a foolish child without sense, and he has the sense to do evil, but he is ignorant to do good. The words of Jeremiah.”
It was like a Bible passage. It seed like she was listening to a sermon from a pastor or a priest. It was good. She did not care about , so I picked up the OMR paper and pen and marked the numbers I morized there.
‘2,6,15,22,36,41.’
The sa numbers, five tis. Then, with $5, I handed it to her. “Bill, please.”
The lady who was listening to the Bible sermon finally turned to .
I was preparing for an answer to a question, “Why did you buy the sa numbers five tis? You’re less likely to win?”
‘They are the numbers grandfather called out of my dream.’
It was a bit of a cliché, but there was no such thing as this. By the way, the lady said nothing and took the OMR card I gave her and put it in the machine. She seed to see soone doing this strange thing often.
Wi-ying! The receipt was drawn and she handed it to with little attention left on the Bible lecture. She didn’t seem to have the slightest care if the sa numbers would win.
‘Maybe later she’ll be surprised to learn that there is soone who won the grand prize in her store five tis.’
It was good, anyway. I didn’t want this lady to rember my face. I turned back with a weird Lotto receipt with the sa numbers written five tis.
‘This small piece of paper is worth $4,700,000.’
That made shiver a little. I stowed the paper in my wallet. It was ti for the bus to go ho. I got on. The Lotto drawing would take place at around 8:40.
‘I suppose the sa numbers will co up?’
But I thought of a way to confirm my winnings in advance.
‘No... the news would have changed in 12 Hours After?’
12 Hours After, the news should now show nineteen winners, not fourteen winners. I checked my mailbox. As expected, there was correction news.
[Correction news of G. 12 Hours After]
When I checked the ti they sent it, it was 9:12. It was the mont I had just bought a Lotto. I clicked on the email.
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[Correction News]
[We inform that the contents of the article ‘The Lotto 921 Winning Numbers?’ sent today has been revised because of a reader’s involvent. The changes are as follows:]
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I looked down at the email. The original contents were short, and the revised contents were also short.
[Lotto 921 has been completed. The winning numbers are 2,6,15,22,36,41. The winners are nineteen people, each with $946,550.]
I took out the lottery receipt in my wallet, now worth $4,700,000. I picked up the receipt and put it in my pocket. It was ti to leave, and the bus headed ho.
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That evening. My family had dinner together. My dad was smiling.
“I’m glad you’re here after a long ti.”
My mom nodded, “Yes, co more often.”
My sister, Su-Jeong, said, looking at the beef fillet sizzling on the fire, “I welco you, too, if you buy at like this every ti.”
I glared at my sister. “Can’t you just welco purely, sister?”
We were ready to fight again, but in the anti, my mom said, cutting the at, “This at is good quality.”
“It’s rated AA. It’s expensive.”
“Why did you buy sothing so expensive? You always complain about your salary.”
I tried to answer sothing, but I just stopped talking. It was 6 p.m, before the Lotto draw.
“I just bought it, and it’s been a long ti since I ca ho. I didn’t want to co ho empty-handed.”
“Well done, I am eating this beef because of my son.”
“Eat it.”
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My mom cut out the at and set it on the front. After a long ti, the family conversation naturally moved on.
“So what about the blind date? Your aunt said she was a good girl.”
“I think she’s nice, but sohow...”
“You said before, it was not bad.”
“She is not bad, but I’m not really attracted to her. She feels like a good person, but not my mate.”
“Brother, your mate of destiny is in the movies or novels. Do you know? You have to match each other...”
“Ms. Han Su-jeong, I never applied for a love counseling...”
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Later, we talked about my job.
“How’s your job been lately? Is it still hard?”
“Yes, I’ve been having a hard ti doing my job lately, so I can’t make it good. So, the mood at work is bad, and the superiors always have work overti and are hysterical... I don’t know if the company is going well. It’s not like that.”
Both parents didn’t look good at what I said. No parents would feel good about their children’s difficulties.
“Yeah, well, there’s a lot of competition these days. In our tis, we used to live okay with a college certificate, but... What’s the matter with the country now?” My dad blad the country.
“Yes, I saw on the news that young people just quit or move out of their jobs even if they get a job at a large company. If you don’t get the right job, think about leaving and getting a new job,” Mom related a story she had seen on the news.
“If you want to move, you’d better get another year’s experience. Mom, if you move with the experience you’ve been in for only a year, they’ll probably think you’re a man with no guts. You have to spend at least one or two more years and then transfer.”
Su-Jeong uttered a sarcastic remark. I nodded and said sothing that was not in my mind.
“Yes, but I’m going to go to work a little bit more and find out.”
Then I gave them a hint a little bit.
“What I want to do is start a business... It costs money, too.”
I took a look at my parents after saying that. My parents nodded, too. Both of them knew well that when I was in a senior year, I was about to start a business ahead of graduation and ended my dream because of the cost. I was looking at their faces and said as if I just rembered sothing.
“Oh. I was going to tell you that. Sothing strange happened a while ago. Grandfather ca out of my dream.”
My dad was surprised and asked, “Grandfather?”
“Yes.”
Mom said, peeling pears for dessert. “What did he say?”
I brought up the story I had prepared. “He didn’t say a word. He ca up to without saying a word, and he held my hand and wrote sothing with a pen.”
“What did he write?”
“When I saw sothing, it was six numbers.”
At that ti, Su-Jeong stepped in.
“Six numbers? Six numbers, aren’t they the Lotto numbers?”
It was a performance lacking in acting ability with a cliché story, but it seed to have passed.
“Yes. Even after I woke up, the numbers were clear, so I wrote down the numbers as soon as I woke up. I bought the Lotto as it was this morning.”
I took my wallet out of my pocket. Five receipts lined up on the table with the sa numbers.
Without looking at the numbers, my mom put the pear before and said, “I hope you get the winnings. Then, you can quit the company and do what you want to do.”
My dad nodded. “Well, your grandfather used to love you a lot when he was alive. Every ti he called our Sang-hoon, our Sang-hoon... Do you rember?”
To be honest, I couldn’t rember very well. My grandfather died when I was four years old. I had only heard from my parents and relatives many tis that my grandfather loved very much.
In the anti, Su-jeong, who picked up the Lotto paper, just smiled at it.
“Ha-ha-ha-ha. What if you buy the sa numbers five tis? You should have changed it one by one. Is this how you’re going to win?”
When I took the Lotto receipt from Su-jeong’s hand and put it back in my wallet, I thought, ‘I’ll win the Lotto, sister. I’ll see you in a few minutes.’
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