Li Long held the child while Gu Xiaoxia went to buy tickets. Before they left, Li Long had given Gu Xiaoxia a thousand yuan to put in her little handbag and use to pay for things. Gu Xiaoxia said she had money of her own, but Li Long still insisted she take it.
As Li Long put it, he was earning quite a bit now, so Gu Xiaoxia only needed to handle the spending.
"Xiaolong, you bought the toys Juan and Qiangqiang are holding, didn't you? Don't buy them any more things," Liang Yuemei told Li Long quietly. "You're spoiling those two rotten. What children these days have so many toys? Those things weren't cheap, were they?"
"No, sister-in-law, I didn't." Li Long smiled. "At the entrance, right over there..." He pointed toward the stall still surrounded by children. "Juan and Qiangqiang won them playing that spinning-pointer game."
"Really? Those two had pretty good luck..." Liang Yuemei went over to ask Li Juan and Qiangqiang before she finally believed him.
Li Jianguo had tried to buy the tickets earlier, but Li Long had stopped him. He listened from the side, then said quietly to Li Long once Liang Yuemei had gone over:
"Can it really be that easy to win? Something's fishy about that stall, isn't it?"
"He uses a magnet. I told him not to pull any tricks when Juan and Qiangqiang took their turns, and we'd have no trouble," Li Long explained quietly. "Otherwise, I'd overturn his stall. Juan and Qiangqiang were lucky too. One won on the first spin, the other on the second."
"Heh." Li Jianguo smiled, finding it rather amusing too.
The stalls nearby offered not only spinning-pointer games but also pull-lever marble games and the like. Most of these games were rigged. Adults generally