In the "football hall" where they were on the day of the sneer, there were about a hundred fans watching the replay of the Italian Football League. Several small bookmakers engaged in underground betting activities were quietly asking the fans from the table if they wanted to place bets. Some fans were looking for
To stimulate and add some hope and expectation to yourself when watching football, you can choose your favorite or optimistic team according to the odds offered by the bookmaker, and bet a few hundred dollars on it, just to have fun with it as a small bet.
Among Lengxiaotian's classmates, Li Rui likes to engage in small gambling the most, especially when watching football. He must buy hundreds of dollars from the banker before he can enjoy watching football. Sometimes if the banker doesn't come, or
It's because the dealer doesn't want to take the order, so he must take it
His last classmate bet against him. But although Li Rui is a serious gambler, his gambling luck is very poor. He often bets on the wrong side, so he always loses more than he wins. In the past two years, he has lost nearly 3,000 yuan in gambling.
He was nicknamed "Mr. Miyamoto Can't Win" by his classmates and teammates.
At this time, the game being broadcast on TV was Inter Milan vs. Genoa. The game had been going on for 50 minutes, and Inter Milan was leading 2:0 by two goals.
Li Rui saw a thin man coming over with a paper and pen in his hand and a backpack on his back. He hurriedly shouted: "Centipede, come here: Are you still taking bets? I bet that Inter Milan will score a goal, and I will pay you.
What’s the rate?”
The small bookmaker nicknamed "Centipede" smiled and shook his head and said: "We don't take orders for real-time betting. Why don't you place a second game, which is the German Bundesliga."
The so-called "real-time betting" is to place a bet in the middle of the game and bet on the final result of the game. Since the game has already been completed, the odds offered by "real-time betting" are sometimes very high. For example, there was such an awesome game in history
Lottery bettor: In the 2006 match between Inter Milan and Sampdoria, when the game reached the 88th minute, Sampdoria still led 2-0. At this time, the odds offered by "Instant Betting" were:
if
If you bet on Inter Milan to win, the odds are 999. That is to say: if any lottery player who does not believe in evil dares to bet on Inter Milan's final victory, he will get a return of 999 yuan for betting one yuan. A lottery player firmly believes that there are no absolutes in the world, so he decisively
Bet 100 pounds. As a result, three goals were scored after two minutes, and Inter Milan won 3-2 in the end. The bold lottery player won a generous bonus of 99,900 pounds with a stake of 100 pounds...
When Li Rui saw that the dealer was not taking any bets, he shook his head dejectedly and said, "It's really boring. I wanted to win a few bottles of wine, but in the end, no bets were taken again!"
Lin Xue, who was sitting opposite him, smiled and said, "Is your name Li Rui? If you really want to bet, I'll challenge you to a duel!"
Li Rui's eyes lit up and he said: "How to bet? Which side are you betting on?"
Lin Xue said: "You choose first, I don't care!"
Li Rui was overjoyed, thinking that today he finally met a "yanggu" who didn't understand football betting at all. Anyway, judging from her appearance, her family must be either rich or noble. If she doesn't win, she won't win, so she smiled slyly and said:
"I bet that Inter Milan will win in the end. To show fairness, I will increase the odds: if the two sides draw in the end, I will pay you five yuan for one yuan; if Genoa wins in the end, I will pay you ten yuan for your one yuan.
How about it?"
Lin Xue said cheerfully: "Okay, how much do you want to bet?"
Li Rui wanted to sneer and sit across from Tian. He was obviously "killing a black pig" by betting with Lin Xue. It would be unkind to win her too much, so he said: "We are all friends. Winning or losing will hurt our feelings. Let's do this."
, how about we only bet two hundred yuan?"
"OK!"
Lin Xue agreed, then stretched out her hand to Lengxiaotian and said confidently: "Give me two hundred yuan, I didn't bring a wallet."
While taking out the money, Lengxiaotian smiled and scolded Li Rui: "You are really nothing! Are you as bad as you? You clearly know that Xiaoxue doesn't understand football, let alone gambling. Now Inter Milan has won two goals,
Moreover, his overall strength is stronger than that of Genoa, how can it be possible to draw or lose? Two hundred yuan is a small thing, but your motives are impure and you are not enough of a buddy!"
Li Rui was not embarrassed at all. He smiled and said: "Betting is all about voluntariness. Zhou Yu plays Huang Gai - one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer! Your girlfriend is willing to bet with me and voluntarily loses two hundred yuan to me. Although I will suffer
It’s a shame, but it’s disrespectful!”
Although he said "I deserve it", there was no trace of shame on his face.
Lin Xue became impatient, snatched the two hundred yuan from Leng Xiaotian's hand, put it on the table, and said: "My bet is here, where is yours? According to the odds of 1:10 you offered,
You should put two thousand dollars on the table, right?"
Li Rui was stunned: He only had one thousand yuan in his pocket now. He didn't expect Lin Xue to be so serious about asking him to put in cash, so he had to awkwardly say to Sneer Tian: "Brother, there is no way, you have to lend me one thousand yuan."
Yuan, I don’t have two thousand yuan in cash in my pocket.”
Lengxiaotian was angry and funny. He took out the money and said, "You two bet on football, how come I ended up paying for it?"
Lin Xue and Li Rui both laughed.
As soon as Li Rui put the money on the table, he heard a commotion on the TV. When he looked up, it was the Genoa team that scored a goal, and the score became two to one.
Seeing that Genoa scored a goal, Lin Xue was so happy that she clapped and cheered.
Li Rui began to beat a drum in his heart and muttered to himself: "I can't be so unlucky! Can this cooked duck also fly?"
A few minutes later, an Inter Milan player tripped Genoa's forward in the penalty area. The referee decisively pointed his hand towards the penalty spot: Penalty kick!
Li Rui stared at the TV screen with wide eyes. When the Genoa penalty kicker easily pushed the ball into Inter Milan's goal, he finally closed his eyes in despair: It seems that he will give up gambling completely from now on. This gambling luck
It’s not an ordinary business trip, but a business trip to my grandma’s house...
The final result of the game was Genoa defeating Inter Milan 3-2.
When the referee's final whistle sounded, Lin Xue picked up the stack of banknotes on the table and said happily: "I'm treating you tonight. Let's all drink to your heart's content! Boss, some more bottles of wine!"
Sneering God knew that Li Rui's family was not rich, so he pinched Lin Xue's arm and whispered: "Return Li Rui's one thousand yuan to him, which is his two months' living expenses!"
Lin Xue was stunned, and quickly and obediently counted out one thousand yuan and handed it to Leng Xiaotian, asking him to quietly give it to Li Rui to save face in front of his classmates. She would use the remaining one thousand two hundred yuan.
They all bought wine without any hesitation.
After having a few drinks, Lengxiaotian pulled Li Rui to the bathroom. He first returned a thousand yuan to him, then took out another five thousand yuan from his bag, stuffed it into his pocket, and said sincerely: "Brother.
, I am not short of money now. But I know that your family is not rich, so this five thousand yuan is my way of honoring your parents. Don’t ask for money from your family. If you need money in an emergency in the future, just ask for it.
Just talk to me, okay?"
With tears rolling in Li Rui's eyes, he nodded vigorously and said, "Thank you, brother! I will never refuse the money you give me, because that seems very hypocritical! The only thing I have to do is to always remember our brotherly relationship!"
"
The next day, the old leader learned from Lin Xue that Leng Xiaotian had been selected for the national youth team. He happily said to Leng Xiaotian: "I used to be an out-and-out football fan, but I have lost energy in recent years.
, and the level of the national team is too poor, so I don’t see much of it. Yesterday I received an invitation letter asking me to attend the opening ceremony of the World Youth Championship. I originally planned to refuse. Now that Xiao Leng has been selected for the youth team, I really
I want to go see that opening match. Hahaha!"
Sneered Tian also said with a smile: "Grandpa, I am a substitute among substitutes, a bench among benches. I am afraid that I will not even have a chance to play. I am afraid that I will disappoint you!"
"It's okay! If you don't have a chance to play, you have to fight for and create opportunities yourself! You can't have such negative thoughts, but you must always be ready to play. Isn't there a saying: Opportunities are always reserved for those who have the ability.
It belongs to the person who prepared it! Don’t you think so?”
Sneered Tian nodded repeatedly in admiration.
The World Youth Championship will officially begin in a few days. At this time, many media have begun to analyze what results the national youth team will achieve in this World Youth Championship and how far it can go in the end.
Although China is the host country in this competition, the media is full of pessimism about the prospects of the national youth team. Most media and senior commentators believe that the youth team has very little hope of appearing in the group in this competition.
Even the desire to win a game is difficult to achieve.
After the final list of players participating in the World Youth Championship was announced, the pessimism in the media became even stronger, and there were also voices questioning Sneer Xiaotian's selection for the youth team. A major football newspaper published an analysis article on the front page with the title
"Cobbled together National Youth Team", the criticism points directly at the sneers without any professional skills and practical experience
Oh my God, I don’t know what the thoughts and purposes of the Football Association’s top management are, but they actually placed a college student who is not even an amateur player into the national team. It’s like the vast country of China cannot find a professional football player.
Not only will it damage the country's image, but it will also bring greater damage to the image of China's national football team, which already has a poor reputation...
This review article named names, had harsh words and conclusive evidence, and resonated with many fans. For a time, online and newspaper articles and posts criticizing the Football Association and Lengxiaotian were overwhelming, and there was a "dark cloud over the city that is about to be destroyed."
"The momentum...
Lengxiaotian estimated that the media was so well aware of his situation that even the fact that he had been out of school for a year due to liver disease was found out and regarded as irrefutable evidence that he could not be selected for the national youth team. There must be an insider who broke the news to the media.
And this insider is probably Ying Fang, the head coach of the youth team who has a prejudice against him...
A few days later, faced with increasingly turbulent public opinion, Leng Xiaotian finally couldn't bear the pressure and decided to take the initiative to ask Chairman Li Kan to withdraw from the national youth team.