Chapter 721 — It's Coming Right Up
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
The sandbag struck the Gray Wolf plush dead-on, knocking it clean off the shelf and onto the ground.
"Gah?" The boss stared at the scene before him in disbelief. Had a ghost really done it? How could it have been hit? And not just hit, but knocked down? He had smeared a layer of foam glue on the shelf himself, positioned to stick fast to the plastic bag at the bottom of the Gray Wolf plush. Even if it was knocked down, no one would ever notice—because the foam glue had been stuck to the shelf first.
Only, no one had ever knocked it down before! Had the foam glue lost its grip over time? Or had the plush been loosened by Shen Yushu's two earlier hits? Was that why Wei Zhao had struck it clean?
The boss's heart bled, but there was nothing he could do! In front of so many people, he couldn't very well go back on his word, could he? Yet to draw customers, he had used only genuine plush toys, several hundred yuan apiece—to give one away just like that, he truly couldn't swallow it!
Every so often in the past, the boss would bring in a shill and have him pretend to knock down the grand prize. In truth, it was always a relative of his own dressed up for the part—an assortment of aunts and in-laws taking turns posing as players to carry the big prize away, when in fact it only went right back to his own home!
After enough time had passed, once people had forgotten about that plush toy, he would swap in a new plastic bag and set it out again, making everyone think he had restocked with new goods — and no one would suspect a thing!
But today he had slipped up! Ugh, if he had known, he would have made a show of checking it over and reinforced that foam padding while he was at it.
"Congratulations, young man — you're the first player this month to hit the jackpot!" Though it pained the boss, so many people were watching; if he went back on his word, how could he keep doing business in the future? Better to hand the plush toy to Wei Zhao with good grace — it would double as advertising for his stall: "Anyone else want to play? Who knows, the next big winner might be you! Step right up, don't delay!"
"Ha, you won't have to wait long." Wei Zhao took the Gray Wolf plush and handed it to Shen Yushu.
"Oh, oh, oh, Brother Arrow is amazing!" Shen Yushu took the Gray Wolf plush with delight.
Gu Mengyao and Tang Zhi were rather envious, but they could hardly say anything.
It was Shen Yushu who, after her joy subsided, said, "Brother Arrow, you can't play favorites! You have to win one for your number-one wife and your girlfriend too!"
"..." Wei Zhao had intended to keep playing anyway, but Shen Yushu's words put him in a spot — if he kept playing, wouldn't that amount to admitting Gu Mengyao was his number-one wife? Tang Zhi being his girlfriend, that was fine enough.
"Xiaoshu, don't talk nonsense!" Gu Mengyao gave Shen Yushu a kick and said to Wei Zhao, "Just win one for Tang Zhi. I don't need one."
"Ha, there are two sandbags left — just enough for two more jackpots, one for each of you." Wei Zhao smiled.