After a flight of more than an hour, the plane landed at the airport in Florence, located in central Italy and world-famous for its art and textiles. In the early days, Xu Zhimo translated it as "Fei Lengcui", and the whole city gave people the feeling that it was very in line with the artistic conception of these three words, so this translated name was still retained until now.

Lin Xiaoyao and Tong Xiaoting found a hotel near the airport to put their luggage, and then took a bus to shuttle around the city, and got off and stopped when they saw the beautiful scenery.

The city's architecture still retains the style of the medieval Renaissance, and most of them are made of pink, green and cream white marble. Walking through such a street, it feels like the whole person has crossed over.

Many people ride old bicycles, no one is looking for luxury sports cars, and here perhaps a humble shop is a famous brand, and it is unique, each with its own characteristics, and even a large part of it is handmade.

"Let's go buy some souvenirs!" Tong Xiaoting pulled Lin Xiaoyao and began to patronize various stores, women, shopping is in nature, and Tong Xiaoting's enthusiasm for this is no less than that of other women.

Lin Xiaoyao saw that the shops here mainly deal in leather goods, leather bags, leather clothes, leather pants, hats, gloves, and almost everything that can be made of leather.

"My eldest lady, are you still shopping?" A few hours later, Lin Xiaoyao followed behind Tong Xiaoting with his things, with a bitter face as if others owed him money.

Seeing Lin Xiaoyao carrying two large bags of gifts, Tong Xiaoting felt a sense of accomplishment, these things were brought to domestic friends, so she bought a lot of copies, "It's almost, go back to rest first, and then go shopping in the afternoon." ”

"Still shopping?" Lin Xiaoyao wants to cry without tears, although there are a few men who are not averse to shopping, but shopping for a day is a man's nightmare.

But the ideal is always plump, the reality is always skinny, after Lin Xiaoyao and Tong Xiaoting had lunch, they went shopping in this city with a classical atmosphere for an afternoon, Tong Xiaoting also took a lot of photos happily, of course, Lin Xiaoyao still carried a lot of things in large bags.

The silent night is very deserted, in such a city, in addition to feeling incompatible with reality, in the middle of the night can experience the artistic conception of "Fei Leng Cui".

Early the next morning, Tong Xiaoting and Lin Xiaoyao drove to the last stop of their trip to Italy, "Siena", a city just over 50 kilometers away from Florence, which is not only an art center, but also a trade and financial center, and its status cannot be underestimated.

The reason why Miss Tong chose this place as the last stop of the trip is that there is a traditional horse racing festival, in July and August, there are large horse races held here, horse racing is the pride of Siena, and the horses here do not wear saddles, they are completely light in the most primitive way.

Although the days of horse racing have passed, there are many large horse farms here, of course, as long as there are horse races, the word "gambling" must be indispensable, even in normal times, there are many rich aristocrats betting on horses here, if you want to win the victory to see two points, horses are one thing, jockeys are also the top priority.

Tong Xiaoting came to watch the game this time, the two came to a relatively large local racecourse, the venue is not very wide, but the track is very long, the two sides of the track are spectator seats, tickets are generally not very expensive, almost the location can be bought for dozens of euros, and the good ones are only 100 euros. However, the fun is not just to watch the horse race, but to bet on which horse can win, betting on as little as dozens or as much as tens of thousands, with no upper limit.

Tong Xiaoting spent 200 euros to buy two relatively good seats, and the two found the central position according to the number, which was neither too far nor too close, and the view was just right to see the dynamics of the entire racecourse.

On the field, the jockeys ride their horses leisurely around the meadow, which is the same as the warm-up before the games, when the horses are doing warm-up exercises.

"Sir, ma'am, do you want to bet?" A staff member walked over and asked.

"Which horse do you think will win?" Tong Xiaoting looked at Lin Xiaoyao and asked.

"Do you want to place a bet? I don't think it's better to bet! Lin Xiaoyao had a trace of hesitation, as the saying goes, nine out of ten bets are lost, no matter what you bet, the risk is particularly large, since ancient times, famous and decent families in the rivers and lakes of China will restrict their disciples from participating in gambling.

After people bet, they will be a little fanatical about winning or losing, in this case, they often have the greed to get rich overnight, so that they fall deeper and deeper so that they can't extricate themselves.

"It's okay, just bet a hundred, and if you lose, you lose." Seeing that Tong Xiaoting insisted, and the amount of bets was relatively small, Lin Xiaoyao no longer stopped him.

"But this is the only time, you can't bet whether you win or lose!" Lin Xiaoyao still reminded Tong Xiaoting.

"Okay, listen to you, then which horse do you say will win the bet?" Tong Xiaoting also knew that Lin Xiaoyao was for her good, but since she had bet, she had to choose carefully!

Lin Xiaoyao looked at a total of nine horses in the field, each marked with nine Arabic numbers, as the number of the horses.

Nine horses were walking in the arena, Lin Xiaoyao carefully looked at the movements and appearance of several horses and said: "Good horses have large nostrils, indicating that the lung capacity is large, the hind limb muscles are more developed than the forelimbs, the hip muscles are relatively strong, and the limbs are relatively slender, and the ears are erected before the race, and the overall age of the horses shows that the second and eighth horses have a greater chance of winning." ”

"Really?" Seeing that Lin Xiaoyao said the Tao, Tong Xiaoting was a little skeptical.

"In this case, the second and eighth bet 100 euros each!" Tong Xiaoting took out a brand new 200 euros and handed it to the waiter.

"This gentleman knows a lot about horses! Huh." Hearing a mouthful of pure Chinese, Lin Xiaoyao and Tong Xiaoting felt very cordial, turned their heads to look, and found that it was a Chinese man. He looks like he is in his thirties, and he looks like a businessman in the business at first glance.

"Just scratching the surface!" Lin Xiaoyao replied with a smile.

"My name is Zhao Bin, my ancestral home is Huaxia, I am very happy to know you!" The man shook Lin Xiaoyao's hand very politely.

"Lin Xiaoyao, a student at school." Lin Xiaoyao only made a brief introduction. Experience has taught him that no matter who you are, before you find out the details of the other party, try to keep a low profile and disclose as little personal information as possible, which is beneficial and harmless to yourself.

"It's almost begins!" Tong Xiaoting's words made the two interrupt the conversation between the two. I only heard the sound of the starting gun with a "pop", and several horses galloped out together.

The first two horses are No. 3 and No. 4, and the two horses are scrambling to be the first, and it is really difficult to judge who can win until the last moment.

And Lin Xiaoyao said that the second and eighth positions are in the fourth and fifth positions respectively. "It seems that the second and eighth are hanging!" Tong Xiaoting pouted and said.

"Don't worry, it's not over yet!" Lin Xiaoyao stared at the galloping horse road.

As soon as he finished speaking, the order of the nine horses changed as he made the turn ahead. There was chaos on the field. Everyone stood up and shouted for the horses they had bet on.

After the turn, there was still a distance of 200 meters from the finish line, and No. 2 suddenly made a force to catch up.

"The eighth has also picked up speed!" Tong Xiaoting clenched her fists and waved to cheer for No. 8.

In the sprint, the distance between the horses became larger and larger, and it was only then that the strength of the horses was really seen, and the number eight horse surged past all the horses in front of him, and the first to reach the point, followed by the number five, and the third place was the number two.

"Win!" Tong Xiaoting stretched out her hand and Lin Xiaoyao came to high-five.

"Brother Lin, congratulations!" Zhao Bin patted him on the shoulder and said, it seems that he is also a rather bold person.

Lin Xiaoyao smiled and said, "Luck! "Actually, it's true, there are a lot of variables in the race, and you can only win if both the horse and the person are in good shape. If one of them does not cooperate well, it may be overtaken.

"Mr. Zhao, I don't know if you're interested in gambling!" Several people looked for sounds, and the man who spoke was about the same age as Zhao Bin, with white skin, blue eyes, and obvious a man of European ancestry.

"Angelo, I'm sorry, I didn't prepare today." Zhao Bin refused politely without hurry.

Angelo said that the bet is not a casual bet, but the two of them pick horses and bring their own jockeys for horse racing, before saying that the bet is good, who loses who admits punishment, this kind of gambling is obviously a provocation.

"It seems that the courage of the Chinese people is really pitiful!" After Angelo finished speaking, she glanced at Lin Xiaoyao next to her, with a disdainful expression on her face.

However, when she looked at Tong Xiaoting, her expression was shocked, her eyes stopped on her body, and her greedy eyes made Tong Xiaoting uncomfortable.

"Nice to meet you, lady!" Angelo was very gentlemanly and wanted to kiss Tong Xiaoting's hand, but to his embarrassment, Tong Xiaoting just smiled slightly and did not stretch out her hand. Angelo glanced at Tong Xiaoting resentfully, and then returned to a gentlemanly smile.

"This gentleman, I wonder if you are interested in gambling?" Seeing that the relationship between Tong Xiaoting and Lin Xiaoyao is not ordinary, he plans to shift the direction of attack to make Lin Xiaoyao make a fool of himself. (To be continued)

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