Liu Chen was reciting words when she felt an unfriendly gaze upon her.
Without revealing anything on her face, she asked in her mind:
"Can you temporarily store the drawer key for me in the system?"
After several seconds, just when Liu Chen thought it was hopeless, the system suddenly spoke,
"Storing one item consumes one lottery ticket."
A lottery ticket guarantees at least one hundred yuan in cash, meaning storing one item costs a hundred yuan?
"How long can it be stored? What if I take it out and put it back in, how is that counted?"
The system fell silent for a few more seconds.
"Storing once, one item consumes one lottery ticket, regardless of duration."
"Okay, store the key in my pocket, and then use up the remaining lottery tickets."
The system did not reply this time, but directly opened the lottery wheel in front of Liu Chen.
"Do you want to initiate a hundred consecutive draws? This can increase the drawing probability."
Increase the drawing probability? Then why hesitate?
"Initiate!"
A familiar lottery wheel appeared before Liu Chen's eyes, except this time, the edge of the wheel seemed a bit sparkly? As if it was inlaid with a ring of small diamonds.
A hundred draws are different from ten consecutive draws. Ten consecutive draws are drawn one by one, but a hundred draws display ten prizes together.
Liu Chen felt that before she could even see what those ten prizes were, the next row of ten prizes would appear.
Fortunately, for the last draw, the prize flashing with red light finally stopped in front of her.
'Permanent memory boost +2.'
Use it?
Yes!
Current memory 65+6=71, current memory is good.
In addition to this, nine other items were neatly arranged in the lower right corner, and nine thousand yuan in cash was stacked in the lower left corner.
Liu Chen then initiated another hundred consecutive draws, hoping for another memory boost!
Nine more quickly flashing items were put into the lower right corner, and the cash in the lower left corner now amounted to eighteen thousand yuan.
The last draw, the prize flashing with red light flew to Liu Chen's side.
However, this time the red prize that stopped in front of her was not memory, but—
'Obtain Medium Black Hair (Everyone praises your beautiful hair)'
This thing…
It seemed that when the system was first activated, it had already given her Basic Black Hair?
But… black hair and memory, both are red slots, why does it feel so unreliable…
After looking at the two red slot prizes, she was about to look at the prizes that had flashed by.
"Chen Chen, your mom fell in the parking lot, hurry and check!"
A familiar female voice rang out, Liu Chen blinked and looked up.
Her aunt, who had been missing for two days, smiled and walked towards the desk from outside the freezer, saying as she walked,
"Go and see quickly, I'll help you watch the store!"
Looking at Liu Juan, who spoke with full confidence, Liu Chen felt speechless. Even if she was really a seventeen-year-old girl, she wouldn't be tricked by a relative who had just failed a scam into leaving the money in the drawer.
"Aunt, where did Mom fall in the parking lot?" Liu Chen sat in her chair, not moving at all, and asked with a smile, looking not at all anxious.
Liu Juan's appearance in the wholesale market was also very risky. She was worried about being seen by Chao Ge, and even if she got the money, she wouldn't be able to escape.
Already anxious and guilty, seeing Liu Chen ask her with a smile and not moving, Liu Juan became angry.
"You can still smile! Your mom fell in the parking lot and you can still smile!"
Liu Chen couldn't help but roll her eyes and pressed the speakerphone on the landline.
Then she dialed a familiar number, and the call was answered after two rings.
"Hello?"
Liu Fang's voice came from the phone. Liu Juan also realized that although Liu Chen was only seventeen, she was not easy to fool.
But her only way out now was to sneak away. Today, she absolutely had to get the money!
"Chen Chen, what's wrong? Is the store too busy?"
Liu Fang urged from the other end of the phone. Liu Chen just smiled and looked silently at her aunt.
"Sister, it's me, Juan! I came to your store to find you, but you weren't there, and I want to borrow two hundred yuan!" Liu Juan quickly explained, so as not to let Liu Fang come out and ruin her plan.
"Where have you been these past few days? Your phone was unreachable, and when I went to your store, they said the owner had changed?" Liu Fang asked a string of questions after hearing her younger sister's voice.
"Hehe, sister, stop asking these useless things, I have an urgent need for these two hundred yuan!"
Liu Fang was silent for a moment. It wasn't that she was reluctant to part with two hundred yuan, but she was worried that Liu Juan, her scoundrel sister, might have some ill intentions seeing her daughter alone at the store.
"Chen Chen, ask Aunt Zhu across the street to lend you two hundred yuan, and I'll return it to her when I get back."
After speaking, she hung up the phone, and the landline emitted a series of beeps.
Liu Chen sat behind the desk, the drawer where the money was kept was in front of her, and Liu Juan, who had walked a few steps back when answering the landline, was now diagonally in front of Liu Chen.
"Aunt, Mom took the key when she left. Let's go to Aunt Zhu's store across the street. I'll give it to you after I borrow the money."
Liu Chen didn't want to make the relationship too tense. It was more important to send Liu Juan away with two hundred yuan. After sending her away, she would find out about Chao Ge later.
Liu Juan, however, stood still. She reached into her shorts pocket and pulled out a folding knife. The blade opened, and her hand, placed under the table, moved horizontally beside Liu Chen as she said in a low voice,
"Auntie just saw it, your mom gave you the drawer key when she left. Be good, Auntie won't take much, just half a day's earnings. If you're not good, Auntie can't pay her debts anyway. We'll fight to the death, see who loses more!"
Liu Chen frowned slightly. Hearing this, her aunt had been targeting her for a while. There was no need to hide the drawer key anymore.
Secondly, was her aunt brave?
Yes.
But would she dare to rob someone with a folding knife?
She wouldn't.
Her aunt was relying on the fact that she was a relative, and even if she robbed the money, Liu Fang wouldn't really call the police, which was why she dared to threaten her with a knife.
Liu Chen had experienced having paint thrown on her and being threatened with knives by debt collectors in her previous life. After being reborn, she avoided the recurrence of debt collection events, only to encounter her aunt threatening her with a knife for money.
Liu Chen found it ridiculous, but showed no emotion on her face, feigning panic.
"Aunt, put down the knife in your hand, let's talk properly."
Hearing this, a flicker of pride flashed in Liu Juan's eyes. No matter how capable she was, wasn't she still scared out of her wits once the knife was out?!
"Why didn't you do this earlier? If you had signed the guarantee agreement that day, wouldn't everything be fine now?"
Liu Chen pursed her lips and leaned back, trying to distance herself as much as possible, looking at the knife in Liu Juan's hand with feigned fear.
"Aunt, robbing money with a knife like this is illegal. If you get caught, you'll go to jail."
Hearing this, Liu Juan's emotions became even more agitated. She gripped the small folding knife with both hands, hunched over, and fiercely said to Liu Chen,
"Hurry up and take out the money!"
Liu Chen lowered her eyelashes, took out the key, and tremblingly went to twist the lock of the desk drawer.