Mu Ming let go of distractions and decided to go to the gym first. He said that he was not deceiving Mu's father when he wanted to get a fitness card, but he really wanted to go.

Mu Ming's physique is the kind that as long as you don't exercise, you will soon gain weight. Mu Ming in her previous life was very lazy, and by the time she was in her junior year, she weighed almost 110 kilograms. Fortunately, he is also more than 185 tall, which makes his body still strong, not fat.

Later, Mu's father and Mu mother were worried that he would affect his health, so they forced him to start exercising, and it took two years to lose weight back to the standard weight of 85 kilograms.

The current Mu Ming is not as excessive as after college in her previous life, but she is also in her nineties. So Mu Ming decided to start working hard now, after all, the younger you are, the better the effect.

"You have a big skeleton, so it's not nice to be too thin. From my professional point of view, I recommend that you book a fitness trainer in our gym, who can design a fitness plan for you, and have a complete process from fat loss to muscle gain. In the gym's physical testing room, the fitness assistant in charge of consulting said to Mu Ming.

"Do you think I don't want to find a personal trainer!" Mu Ming complained in her heart. Private lessons are charged by the hour, starting at 200. According to the calculation of four weeks a month, two classes a week, and two hours per class, it costs more than 3,000 yuan a month. And it's still the cheapest.

"Can I take a look at the equipment first?" Mu Ming said.

"Of course. The fitness assistant got up and took Mu Ming to visit the gym's environment and equipment. Along the way, all kinds of boasting about how advanced the equipment is and how elegant the environment is. Mu Ming glanced at this assistant brother, who was not a few years older than herself, and asked him to say that this bunch of propaganda was not as useful as a beautiful girl here.

Turning around the equipment area, I came to the leisure area, and I was greeted by a large wall-mounted TV. I don't know which football game is playing on the TV, and many middle-aged uncles are sitting around in twos and threes, watching the ball and discussing something.

Mu Ming tilted her head slightly, and inadvertently heard a few words. frowned, and asked the assistant brother next to him, "It's good, you can still watch the ball." The assistant brother said with a smile: "This is not the World Cup recently, many members like to watch football games, and our boss specially hung a TV here to show the game." ”

Mu Ming nodded, and then asked curiously: "I just heard what they said about 'winning' and 'odds' or something, can you still bet on football?"

Hearing Mu Ming's words, the assistant brother hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, we are a regular fitness club, and we don't have this." What they're talking about is having fun outside. ”

"Then they just talk about it openly, and they are not afraid of others reporting it. Mu Ming asked curiously. In his previous life, he was an ignorant teenager who studied hard, and this was the first time he had come into contact with this knowledge.

"Hey, now that there are more gamblers, who will be idle and have nothing to report this. The assistant brother said indifferently: "Besides, as long as no one loses and the family is going to jump off the building, you report it, and the official family is too lazy to care." ”

Mu Ming nodded with a teachable face. Now that I think about it, when he was in college in his previous life, he had many classmates and friends around him playing gambling, and he really never saw anyone care. Mu Ming's mind is alive, the official side can't play, so can you try this kind of unofficial.

"How can we play this?" asked Mu Ming with an open face. "Next to the dumb school, there is a pawn company called Rong Shengzhai, it is an old plate for more than ten years, if you want to play, you can go there, the fee is higher but much more regular than others. The assistant brother introduced.

"Wow, you really recommend gambling establishments to minors and despise you. Mu Ming complained in her heart.

But knowing that there is such a place, curiosity has risen, and I am not in the mood to think about the gym anymore. Coping with it, he said that he would think about it again, Mu Ming turned around and walked out, ready to go to this so-called "time-honored plate" after lunch.

"No matter how small a city is, there are places you can't see. ”

After lunch, Mu Ming, who walked over, looked at the plaque of "Rongsheng Zhai" hanging at the door and sighed. He has lived in Haiwei, a small third-tier city, for more than 20 years, and he has never been to this place.

Pawnbroking is a business that has existed since ancient times.

In the past, the poor would take their winter cotton clothes and quilts to the pawnshop in the spring for a small amount of money to buy seeds and farm tools, and then redeem them when the harvest was complete; Therefore, pawnshops can be regarded as contributing to economic circulation.

Of course, pawn companies are different from those of the past. At least you get another cotton coat or quilt, and you can only be kicked out by other security guards. What people collect now is generally expensive watches, luxury bags, and property rights.

So it's no wonder that Mu Ming has never been here, in his previous life, he broke himself up and sold it, and no one else collected a bag worth anything. Now he has a lot of value, that is, the memory of those seven years, but unfortunately it can't be sold. So when he saw that a receptionist came to inquire, Mu Ming directly told him that he wanted to come to play a ball game.

followed the receptionist to a side hall, and as soon as he entered the door, Mu Ming glanced here. A large TV hangs on the front wall, and a thin curtain is drawn on the surrounding windows, blocking the glare from the outside of the house. There are rattan tables and sofas in the room, and more than a dozen people are chatting in small voices.

This is where the gambling is made, Mu Ming scratched her hair in surprise, this looks a bit like a coffee shop. It's still the kind of coffee shop where you can order sandwiches and pasta.

"First time?"

Mu Ming turned her head, and an uncle who looked like he was about thirty walked over and said with a smile on his face.

Mu Ming nodded and said, "My friend introduced me." But it looks a little different than I imagined. ”

"Haha!" The uncle shook his head and smiled, and said happily: "Do you think this should be smoky, everyone is red-eyed and shouting?" Mu Ming nodded, and added: "There should be two or three strong men with big shoulders and round waists, standing at the door, and whoever has no money will throw him out." ”

"Young people, don't watch so many movies all the time. The uncle laughed: "My surname is Zhao, and I am the manager here." We're really a place for fans to watch the game, but there may be some extra fun in addition to the game. ”

"I don't have much money. Mu Ming said.

"The big gamblers rarely come in person, and we have an online business. The people who came here to watch were all fans, and they just gambled two or three hundred yuan for fun. Manager Zhao waved his hand and explained to Mu Ming.

Mu Ming suddenly said that the big games were all aimed at winning money, and watching the game was also watching at home. Those who come here are all trying to have an atmosphere, and gambling or something is incidental.

"Do you want to have fun? There's a game at half past two, Germany plays Australia, you lock the game half an hour early, and you have half an hour to place your bets. Manager Zhao looked at Mu Ming and asked with a smile.

"Of course, how to play?" Mu Ming was happy in her heart, she didn't expect such a coincidence. Squidward is a German fish, so the predictions are all about the German team's games, and naturally, Mu Ming can only know the German team's record.

"The easiest thing is to buy a win, a draw or a loss. Manager Zhao introduced Mu Ming one by one: "But the odds of playing this kind of game are also very low." If it's harder, you can buy goals, buy goals, buy scores. If you want to play bigger, you can also buy consecutive games, which are all the matches in the group stage. ”

Mu Ming thought about it, took out the 1,000 yuan that Mu's father gave him this morning, handed it over, and said, "I'll buy a single game, and the German team will beat Australia 4-0." The memory is a little vague, and Mu Ming doesn't dare to bet on consecutive games.

Manager Zhao didn't take the money, but looked at Mu Ming and said: "If you buy the score, if the score doesn't match, such as four to one or three to zero, it will be counted as a loss." Also, we are betting against players, not on bankers, so if we win, we will take a 5% commission. ”

Seeing Mu Ming nodding his head to show understanding, Manager Zhao accepted the money. Enter Mu Ming's betting information on the computer, and then tear off a newly typed ticket from the ticket machine next to him. handed the bill to Mu Ming and instructed: "Keep it carefully, we don't recognize the ticket." ”

Mu Ming took the bill that blocked all his net worth and looked at it in his hand. The content on the ticket is quite simple, on one side is written precautions, such as the maximum deadline for claiming the prize, and on the other side is a QR code, without any text information.

"You're high-end. Mu Ming looked at the bill. QR codes were already in existence before he was reborn, but in 10 years, it was still something that had just become popular.

"Safe. Manager Zhao also smiled and said: "Do you want to sit for a while and watch the game, if the bet amount is more than 500, we will send beer, tea or drinks." ”

Mu Ming really has no interest in football, but he is not in the mood to do anything else for a while anyway, and he also wants to see if there is any deviation in his memory. So I found a place to sit down, asked for a pot of tea, and silently thought about the simplified plot of the next story of "Soul Ferry" in my heart, while waiting for the game to start.

Until the start of the game, there were not many people in the hall. Mu Ming asked curiously, and Manager Zhao explained that the people who stayed here were people like Mu Ming who wanted to know whether they won or lost for the first time. Those who really like to watch football games go to that kind of football bar, where there is an atmosphere.

When the game started, Mu Ming didn't have the heart to take care of anything else. He can now finally understand why so many people like to gamble, even if it's not as intense as betting on football.

Every difficult goal, every dangerous save, is adrenaline-pumping, and this feeling is really addictive. Even people like Mu Ming, who knew the result, couldn't help but fall into it.

Fortunately, the final result did not change, and the German team played Australia 4-0 in a very competitive way. It was only then that Mu Ming breathed a long sigh of relief. If you don't know the result in advance, you won't play this if you kill him, it's too much of a test of the heart.

"The principal is 1,000, the lock odds are 8.6, and the commission is deducted, a total of 8,170 yuan. Manager Zhao took the bill from Mu Ming, scanned the information on it, and congratulated with a smile: "Congratulations." Whether the win is cash or bank transfer. ”

"Cash. Mu Ming took the not-so-thin wad of bills. Although it didn't lose its temper, its heart rate was still uncontrollably a little faster.

"In less than three hours, I didn't do anything, and I made more than 7,000 yuan. This is what the hell I want in life. ”

Mu Ming put the money in her pocket and put it away, and walked out of the door of Rongshengzhai. raised his head, looked at the busy street, and silently clenched his fists.

"This is just the beginning!"