There was a Chinese man in California, aged about 30.
He was not rich, rented a cheap apartment, worked for about $20 an hour at some company. He did not like his job, but he had to make a living. His colleagues treated him normally, but loved to beat him and play him.

He had one passion. Every week he purchased a lottery ticket and on Friday during the lunch break watched the draw results on TV in the hope of breaking the jackpot. He usually won nothing, sometimes won small prizes, but persistently continued to buy tickets, believing that sooner or later he should be lucky.

Knowing his habit, his comrades decided to play him. One week when he went on vacation, they recorded the lottery draw results on DVD. The next week, when he returned, they bought a ticket with the winning numbers of the previous draw and unnoticedly pushed it to the Chinese instead of his ticket. In order not to be so suspicious, one number they changed, so that to "win" it was not a jackpot, but only a thousand 300 dollars. On Friday, they released DVDs at lunch break.

When the Chinese saw how much he won, he was amazed by joy.
After running around the company and telling everyone about his luck, he went out and disappeared.

The colleagues did not know what to do. They planned to tell him about the replacement by the end of the day and did not expect him to just leave. The attempts to get him by cell phone were unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, the Chinese man went straight to his bank. By placing the "winning" ticket in the safe cell, he withdrew all his savings from the account.
15-20) and went to Las Vegas. There, he picked up an elegant number at the best casino and went to play blackjack at high rates. After winning the lottery, he knew that luck was on his side. And even if he lost, compared to 300,000, this amount did not bother him much.

He was really lucky. Periodically raising bets as he wins, he won about $800,000 by the end of the weekend.

Although he loved gambling, the Chinese was not a madman, so he wisely decided that such money, plus 300 thousand from the lottery, would be enough for him to live. On Monday, he took the money to his local bank and went home.

When he arrived in California, he took a lottery ticket from the bank and went to receive a win. There was a replacement. Not being a fool, the Chinese man quickly realized what was going on when he was told that these numbers fell a week earlier. Because of his Chinese education, he did not want to lose his face, acknowledging how he was played. So he returned to the bank and transferred $300,000 to a separate account. The next day he went out of work.

Feeling guilty and sorry, his colleagues watched a Chinese man, dressed in a luxurious new costume, come out of the limousine that had taken him to work. Asked if he tried to get the money on his ticket, he replied, "Yes, of course, there were no problems, the whole amount was immediately issued." Since the colleagues knew exactly that this could not happen, they continued their inquiries. In response, the Chinese went to the nearby ATM and in their presence printed the balance of his account.

After resigning from work, the Chinese man sat in the limousine and went home. His former colleagues, looking at him confusedly, looked at the limousine moving away.