"A parcel? I don't remember I've bought anything online recently." Lee was very confused as he looked at the package.
"It is perhaps your friend who sent it to you." The delivery boy said it with a shrug and walked away.
Lee went indoor and opened the package.
There was a strange red mailbox about the size of a kettle.
"Is this a kid toy or a joke?"
Inside it there was also a letter. Lee opened it and started to read.
The writing is a little bit sloppy, about the same as his.
The letter was brief:
"This is a time and space postbox. You can send letters to people in the past using this postbox!"
"But be sure to write down the recipient, address and delivery time on the envelope!"
"And don't forget to paste stamps! The postage is 1 yuan!"
Lee cracked a grin.
How can people write letters to people in the past? This is definitely a prank, and it's not funny.
As a result, Lee didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, he went to the living room and lay on the sofa and started to watch TV.
"Ding!!"
"Now! It's time to find out who won the Powerball!"
"There is only one ball left!"
The Powerball drawing was shown live on TV.
After the first few numbers were picked, there was only one ball left.
Inside the lottery machine, a lot of balls with numbers were bobbing up and down.
At last, a ball with the number "06" came out.
The host grabbed the microphone with joy: "It's 06! The last ball has the number 06!Congratulation to whoever won the lottery!"
Lee wasn't all that interested in the TV host. He is too old to believe that the lottery is "real and fair".
"But it would be nice to go back in time and know the drawing numbers."
"Huh….."
Thinking of this, Lee turned to look at the small red postbox on the table.
The letter said it was a post box used for writing letters to people from the past.
"Interesting."
Lee forced a smile.
Is there really anyone who would still write letters these days?
These days, envelopes are used to hold money gifts, and stamps are used for collection.
But as it happened to be, the nature of Jacob's work does require envelopes.
Although Lee didn't not like to collect stamps, his father gave him a set when he was a child.
"Here it is."
Lee found the stamp in the small box where he kept his childhood belongings.
Four in all, each with a zodiac theme and a face value of 50 cents.
The envelope was there, the stamp was there, and all that was left was the letter.
Lee took out an A4 sheet of paper and a pen, and started thinking about what to write.
"But even if the past me got this letter, would he also take it as a prank?"
"I have to do something to convince the old me that this is not a prank!"
With that in mind, Lee quickly knew what he was supposed to write.
[ Dear me in the past ]
[ Hello. ]
[ I am tomorrow's you, and this is a letter to you from the future. ]
[ Don't worry about whether this is a prank or not. Let me tell you some secrets only you and I know ]
[ When you were in primary school, you secretly put a love letter in your exercise book to your Chinese teacher. It was in Chinese pinyin, but later it was corrected by your Chinese teacher as homework, and the comment was: S is different from SH. ]
[ Don't worry. No one knows this thing. Only you and me. ]
[ Now do you believe me? I am you, the future you. ]
[Now to get down to business.The Powerball number for tomorrow is XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-05 ]
[Remember? Go and buy one. It only takes 2 yuan and I will not lie to you! ]
[Signature: Tomorrow's You ]
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Lee deliberately miswrote the last number of first price of the Powerball.
The correct number was 06. He changed it to 05.
This was to avoid triggering the butterfly effect.
But even if the last number was wrong, he could still get the second prize which was more than one hundred thousand yuan.
You can't be too greedy with this stuff.
If you are too greedy, sometimes there comes bad results.
"There you go." Lee finished writing the letter, folded the paper and put it into the envelope, and then sealed it with a glue stick.
After that, he wrote down the recipient and address, and the delivery date was yesterday.
He also attached two fifty cent stamps.
And then it's all done.
Lee patted the small red toy postbox.
It's really unremarkable.
Whoosh.
He put the envelope in the slot and didn't look back.
"Time to go to bed!"
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