过期的奖

The Expired Prize

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The Expired Prize

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On a weekend afternoon, Xiao Mei is organizing her wallet at home.

She takes out a stack of receipts and checks the lottery numbers one by one.

Suddenly, she shouts: "I won! It's one thousand yuan!"

She is so happy she starts dancing, thinking her luck has been great recently and she can go eat a big meal.

However, when she looks carefully at the date on the receipt, her expression suddenly changes.

It turns out this receipt expired just yesterday.

Xiao Mei looks at the receipt in her hand, feeling it is a great pity.

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