My cousin didn't say anything more, but my cousin said: "By the way, the company will announce the list of 188 lucky employees the day after tomorrow, if I can win the lottery, then we can go to Beijing together, anyway, by the way." I nodded again and again and said it was no problem.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye, and I went to the Xinglong family in Zhongjie to buy an HTC smartphone and had a great time. It was about April 2011, and I can't remember the model number for a long time, but I remember that the code name seems to be "desire". This kind of smartphone uses the American Google "Android" operating system, which looks no different from a computer and is extremely powerful. There is any software, maps, QQ, videos, music, Baidu, Taobao, Jingdong and all kinds of games. I sighed while playing, it seems that the era of ordinary mobile phones has passed.

At noon, I was having dinner at home, and my parents said that Zheng Weiren was not crazy, how could he believe in these shadowless things all day long. I said that his brain was like a circuit board that had been flooded, and it had been badly short-circuited and moldy, and it would be useless to wash it with alcohol. At this time, the phone rang, and the screen showed a photo of my cousin, this is the call picture I set myself, and I thought that Cao Cao Cao will arrive, are we talking about my cousin here, and his ears are hot?

"Hey, Tian Li, I've won the lottery, I've won the lottery!" my cousin's voice on the phone was so loud that it made my ears itch. I asked why I had won the lottery, and my cousin told me that he was one of the 188 lucky employees selected by Xingwang Group from 980,000 employees across the country, and four days later an award ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and each person was given a grand prize of 88,000 yuan on the spot.

I smiled: "Is there really you, is my sister-in-law going with you?" My cousin said that the company's regulations do not allow you to bring your family members, because there are too many people and it is inconvenient, after all, Tiananmen Square is such a big place to sit down. I said you have to think about it, Tiananmen Square is not your company's backyard, how sensitive is that place? Not to mention getting one or two hundred people to go to a meeting, even if three or five people quarrel in the square, they will be immediately held down by plainclothes police, which is unlikely.

My cousin was very helpless: "I really admire you, Tian Li, you don't believe anything, how can you be successful in this life?" I smiled and said Okay, let's not argue about this, how to go to Beijing. My cousin said that he would pay for the journey, and the car and train would do, but he had to arrive on time and would be disqualified if he was one minute late. I said let's just take the train together, so I booked a ticket and set off from the North Railway Station to Beijing. In the car, my cousin and I were eating Zhang Jiuli's roast chicken, drinking snowflakes and listening to beer, and my cousin seemed very happy, as if the money had arrived. I asked my cousin if there was no charge for going to Beijing to receive the award or anything other than the travel expenses.

"How can you not charge for it?" the cousin seemed to be looking at the monster, "I will give you more than 80,000 yuan for no reason, and you don't have to pay any money, won't that become a pie in the sky? If someone really tells me that, I don't believe that I am a fool!" Half a day later, I asked how to charge.

My cousin counted me with his fingers, a total of 100 yuan for the participation fee, 150 yuan for the award fee, 176 yuan for the bonus personal income tax, 100 yuan for the conference venue fee and 80 yuan for the meal, a total of about 600, pay the fee first, and the one who did not win the lottery can be refunded. I thought to myself, if Xingwang Group has absorbed millions of members in the past six months, as my cousin said, I can cheat nearly 1.5 billion yuan in the entry fee alone. Now this award activity is 600 million, which is faster than grabbing any number of banks. And only my cousin believes the words "I will be refunded if I don't win the lottery", what kind of prize will cost hundreds of millions of yuan in the participation fee alone?

Moreover, China's personal income tax rate for "accidental income" is 20 percent, and 88,000 yuan is 17,600 yuan, but how did it become 176 yuan, which is the tax rate of 808 yuan?

Of course not, the reason is very simple: if the bonus is changed to 808, then few people are willing to participate; if the income tax is more than 17,000, it is impossible for a few people to be willing to pay this money, so they have to be confused. But fortunately, few of the people who joined the Xingwang Group were really smart, so everyone was confused. One cheats and the other is willing to be greedy, and he is willing to fight and suffer.

My cousin fell asleep by the window with a smile on his face, but I couldn't figure it out. Fools know that this Tiananmen award is nothing more than another excuse for the "Xingwang Group" to make money, but the money is also collected, and people have also fooled into Tiananmen, of course they will not be able to receive the award, and I have not heard that the swindlers will give money to fools. Of course, I know that Xingwang Group can make such a big deal in the whole country, and it is certainly not a group of brainless people who are organizing, these people are very smart, and they must have their own little abacus.

After arriving in Beijing, there was still more than a day before the Tiananmen Square lottery meeting, and my cousin was afraid that he would be late and miss the hour, so he set off early. Anyway, it was fine, so I took him around. My cousin has never been to Beijing to play, first the Forbidden City, then the Temple of Heaven, and then Prince Gong's Mansion and Lama Temple to go all over, of course, I pay for the tickets, because my cousin said that I often go to Beijing, and I have worked in the Buddhist brand shop in Beijing for more than half a year, and I am a landlord, so I have to do the friendship of the landlord. I didn't bother with him much, after all, I made a lot of money from Mr. Hu and Mr. Wu.

Then I took him to the Buddhist brand shop and chatted with Xiao Feng for a while. She was bored in the store all day alone, and now it's nice to have someone with her.

At half past two in the afternoon of the next day, my cousin and I took the subway on time, and after coming out of Tiananmen East Station, we passed the underground passage opposite the Forbidden City and came to the square. The award ceremony was scheduled to be held at three o'clock, I saw a lot of people in the square, there is never a shortage of people in this place, there are always a lot of tourists to stop and take pictures, but today is different, there are obviously a lot of middle-aged and elderly people, there are men and women, but women are the majority. These people did not gather to chat, but gathered in groups of three, five, and talked in whispers from time to time, appearing very cautious. My cousin and I came to the square and stood in the square waiting according to the company's instructions.

At this time, I saw a lot of people arguing around the right side of the square, and my cousin and I went over to see an old couple and two men and women in their thirties arguing fiercely. After listening for a while, I understood that the old couple was also the "lucky winner" of Xingwang Group's winning the lottery in this event, and the two paid 600 yuan each, so they had to come to Beijing to receive the award. Their son and daughter strongly objected, but the old man had to come, and the two had no choice but to follow the same road, for fear of accidents. I heard the old man say: "Can you go back? What kind of trouble are you making here? If you really mess up the order, the company cancels the award ceremony, and I will settle accounts with you!"