Subtitle of this chapter: News is finally big news

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is still a professional in the New York Daily News, and deserves to be the "king of American daily newspapers". Only the reporter of this newspaper has a camera about the size of a laptop hanging around his neck, which is not too cumbersome, it is really professional!

"Absolutely." Yuan Yanqian readily agreed.

"Please look here!"

"Eggplant!"

Our Master Yuan has also been taking a selfie for a long time, probably for more than two months...... Well, I took a picture, and when I heard the shouting, I couldn't help but show a standard selfie smile, and by the way, I also made a scissor hand.

"Smack!"

With the death of a magnesium lamp, the mysterious smile of his old man and the mysterious gesture of scissor hands appeared for the first time in the eyes of the people of New York......

Because Yuan Yanqian never refused to say what scissor hands meant in his life, the "Yuan scholars" of later generations made a lot of guesses:

One of the most popular explanations is, of course, VICTORY, where the shape of two fingers represents the first letter V. Later, British Prime Minister Mr. Winston Churchill learned this gesture of victory from Master Yuan.

Some people also say that this is obviously a "2", Master Yuan's lucky number. He is the oldest 2,...... Well, I like the number 2 the most. The proof is that many of his series of novels are written until the second part is written, and he refuses to write them, often asking others to write them.

There is also an occult interpretation that this gesture should be a "mudra" in the Eastern religion that Master Yuan believed, representing one of the gods of this sect, Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun. Because the Oriental believed that photography would ingest people's souls, he used this gesture to ward off the danger to the soul.

After taking the photos, our Master Yuan is waiting for the reporters to continue to come forward and ask questions. But I didn't expect these four reporters to ask the same question in unison:

"Mr. Yuan, can I bet with you?"

"This ......" The corners of Yuan Yan's mouth twisted, and he nodded with great difficulty: "Since you are so interested, then ......"

"No way!" Vice Principal Conant also walked up at this time, and he objected in a stern and loud voice, "Mr. Yuan no longer accepts bets......"

"Bets from outside NYU!"

He finally figured it out, and this Chinese suggestion was still somewhat desirable. At least it doesn't hurt the school, for the students...... First of all, these students are adults, secondly, NYU is a private university and not a nursery, and finally this is absolutely legal. So the school really has no position or reason to stop it.

Students at private universities in the West don't talk about gambling, they were dueling decades ago, and the school didn't care.

And Mr. Conant is still a bit of a crisis PR aware. Now that the reporters are here, if they are hurriedly stopped, it will be a farce.

It's better for the school to take the lead in order, so that the situation can be controlled. Otherwise, if this Chinese student is messing around, it will be out of control if it becomes too big.

"In short, he only accepts bets from NYU faculty and students, and people from outside the school can't participate! Isn't that so, Mr. Yuan? ”

The vice principal said so, Yuan Yanqian had no choice but to nod reluctantly, spread his hands and said to the four reporters: "Gentlemen reporters, you have also heard it. As a student at NYU, I had no choice but to refuse. ”

The guys looked stupid, and left here without saying a word of hello and not turning their butts.

When they left, Vice Principal Conant nodded to Yuan Yanqian and said, "Okay, Mr. Yuan." Just do as you say. I'm going to arrange something outside! ”

"That's right, Mr. Yuan. I ......" He was about to leave when he suddenly looked at the Chinese student from head to toe.

Then Mr. James Conant shook his head and said, "Mr. Yuan, I originally wanted to play with a few hundred dollars, but seeing the way you are now, somehow I think you won't lose!" ”

The mysterious Oriental smiled mysteriously, bowed slightly to the vice principal, turned around and walked back to his place, after all, everyone was in a hurry.

And on NYU's campus, with the order of Vice Chancellor Conant, the chaotic situation was finally brought under control.

In fact, he only said one sentence, and everyone in NYU became angry.

"Mr. Yuan is about to end, so ......"

What else is there to say about this, if you don't drive the people outside, won't this big pie from the sky fly?

So the students and staff of NYU united and mixed into the revolutionary ...... Well, all the outsiders in the betting team have been kicked out. There are also people guarding the door of the classroom, and unless they can prove that they are NYU's insiders, they won't even be able to see our Master Yuan.

And one of them finally thought of it......

"It's coming, it's coming!"

"What's coming?"

"The mimeograph machine is here!"

"That's great! Hurry up and get started! ”

Originally, those handwritten contracts were always illegible or incorrect, but Miss Helen Brown checked them very carefully, which naturally did not go fast. But now with a mimeograph machine, it's different.

The gamble began at 12 p.m. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the total bet was almost $100,000. By four o'clock, it had already exceeded $300,000!

Our Master Yuan also ushered in a second wave of interviews, and this time it was not those tabloids that exclusively published peachy news. It's the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Le Monde, which belongs to the Pulitzer family.

Oops, the Los Angeles Times is missing, otherwise I would have gathered the big four newspapers in the United States this time! I don't know if I can make a wish after I get it together......

That's right, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times are among the four largest newspapers in the United States. However, because the Wall Street Journal is biased towards financial content, some people believe that there should be only three major newspapers in the United States.

Our Master Yuan was able to gather these four newspapers not because of his protagonist aura...... Well, maybe a little. It's because the big news he made is really eye-catching.

Let's put it this way, if a Chinese student opened a bet on the Internet the day before the 2016 presidential election, His Majesty Trump would win. He also accepted a bet of nearly 10 million dollars, will this become a big international news?

And our Master Yuan is in the United States in 1920, how can there be so much news in the self-media era a hundred years later. In order to find news these days, do you know how hard reporters work?

In addition, the outcome of this election has already been decided, and it is simply lackluster for the press. These big newspapers have already said everything they should say, what they can say, and what they want to say. On polling day, there was such a vigorous, interesting and election-related news, which naturally attracted several major newspapers to join in.

Of course, at first they thought it was just a little entertainment or a farce. But now, this "farce" is already a shocking gamble at the level of hundreds of thousands of dollars.