In fact, whether to participate in this bet Li Mudi didn't care too much at first, after all, he had made too much money on Barcelona before, and there was no strong relationship on the American side, and it was easy to be targeted by the bookmaker if he bought too much, so he could only make a small fuss. However, when Baozi looked in front of him with a look of confidence that the warriors would win, it really made his hands itch, and if this opportunity to slap his face was missed, it was estimated that there would be no next time, after all, there was not much left of his crossing benefits. At that time, he just wanted to get back all the expenses of this period of time, just like he said when he first mentioned the Crushing Knight winning the championship, but the moment he saw Brother Sugar and the two of them, he changed his initial idea.

In their previous lives, the family environments of the four people were different, but the other three were roughly the same, all of them belonged to relatively good families, only Li Mudi's parents were laid-off workers, although they had no worries about food and clothing, they had no money to spare. After graduating from high school, he scattered all over the country, and after graduating from college, he worked in his hometown, Beijing, Modu and Pengcheng, and as the conditions of the other three gradually improved, they all took their parents to their respective cities, resulting in everyone not seeing each other once or twice a year.

However, since the successful crossing, the development to the first in 2016, on the contrary, Li Mudi mixed better, although the assets of the bun are not a decimal, but in terms of social status and influence alone, Xiao Li is better than that, who makes the football of the Great Celestial Empire so uncompetitive but still popular. Qingzi didn't have much to say on his side, the gold-collar family has a lot of salary, although he is very expensive about the way he trains his children (everything wants to be the best, it's crazy that he wants to go to Xiangjiang in kindergarten!). ）。

The worst has become a noble people's teacher Brother Sugar, his mother has been bedridden for a long time and needs to be taken care of, and what he has learned is not the kind of major that can be directly transformed into profits, and he may not even open a company outside the school to earn extra money, and his income depends on his dead salary plus class time allowance, and his sugar sister-in-law who has not worked in a bank for a year earns much. Of course, even so, his income is not something that Li Mudi in his previous life can look forward to, after all, the economic level of the magic capital is among the best in the country, and the salary of university teachers really cannot be said to be low. But if you add the suspected pregnancy of the sugar sister-in-law next spring, the family is likely to usher in a series of financial pressures.

So it should be a good choice to use this opportunity to help them alleviate some financial problems, Li Mudi came up with this idea in a very short period of time, so he will wait for everyone to arrive and tell the idea of betting on knights.

After thinking about it for a while, Aoko was the first to open her mouth and said, "Then why don't we wait until after the fifth game to bet?" Once the Cavaliers do win this game, then the probability of returning to the home court to win Game 6 will also be very high, and wouldn't it be more secure for us to bet on the Cavaliers to win the championship at that time? ”

Betting is in a sense a simple matter of probability, and some people who are good at calculations can see a lot from the odds and handicaps given by bookmakers, and Baozi, who has a master's degree in finance from Cambridge University, is one of the experts who can see a little bit of the doorway. So without waiting for Li Mudi to speak, he explained: "By then, it will be too late, the current knights have been forced to the edge of the cliff, so the bookmaker will offer such shocking odds, you must know that if there is really one-third of the betting funds to bet on the knight to win, then unless Di Zi misjudges or they engage in dark box operations to get rid of James, otherwise wait for bankruptcy!" If you want to be small and big, now is the best time, 16.67 to 1! If the Cavaliers do win in the fifth game, then I guess the odds will immediately rise to between 5 and 6. If they win the sixth game, hehe, the odds are more than 2.5, and the bookmaker is merciful. ”

At this time, after getting off the plane, Brother Tang, who had not said a few words except for a simple greeting, opened his mouth unexpectedly, only to see that he first pushed his glasses with his right hand and said very calmly: "Dizi has always been cautious in doing things, especially in major matters, he will not say this without eight or nine points of certainty, so I trust his judgment." If you want to bet, even if it's me, but I can't take out too much money right now, about 200,000 soft girls. ”

Brother Sugar's words basically made a decision on this matter as soon as he came out, after all, the people's teacher is still the most effective in this small team, and what he said is also very reasonable, if there is no great certainty, with Li Mudi's always timid and fearful character, he will not be so crazy to let them throw money into it. So after a brief discussion, the four of them each pooled 150,000, a total of 600,000, which was first paid by the bun that seemed to be the most local tyrant on the surface, and directly bet on the option that the Cavaliers would eventually win the championship. In other words, they had to win three games in a row from 3-1 down to pull off a miracle that no team in history had ever been able to do.

600,000, in front of everyone, he said that it was a soft girl, but when he bet on the bun, it directly became a dollar, he and Li Mudi are both in the same mind, wanting to let the other two die-hard friends make more extra money, even if they lose in the end, with his current net worth, he can easily bear it, and he will naturally not ask Qingzi and Brother Sugar to pay for it.

The Oracle Arena, which can accommodate nearly 20,000 spectators in the evening, was packed, and each supporter of the home team was given a yellow T-shirt with the Golden State Warriors logo, much to the tribulation of the four Celestial Empire. If you don't wear it, you're afraid of being besieged by the more than 10,000 home fans; Wear it, but they support the Cavaliers, and they have to go to the Quick Loan Center in Cleveland to watch the game in the next game (if any), and they are also second-row tickets, and will they wear the Cavaliers' T-shirt at that time? Wouldn't it be two-faced if you wore them all, and if you were recognized, your face would be lost. Fortunately, Li Mudi's eyes were relatively good, Li Mudi (all four of them were short-sighted, o()〈))o) chicken thief found that there were still dozens of audience members wearing civilian clothes, and they didn't wear this yellow dress, so they also decided not to wear them for the time being, and then let's see the specific situation. In the end, he didn't wear it, and he was not beaten by the group, which was a perfect ending.

As for the final result, is there any suspense? The home team's performance on the offensive end was barely passable, with the Splash Brothers scoring 62 points, but the bench players performed too poorly, and the team only scored a total of 97 points, which was the first time that the Warriors failed to score more than 100 points in this year's Finals. But they completely collapsed on the defensive end, after the absence of Dream Green, the world's top defender, James and Irving both exploded, each scoring 41 points, Lao Zhan also had 16 rebounds and 7 assists, the team finally cut a new series high of 112 points, and easily beat the Warriors who got the match point on the road, and the overall score was 2-3.

For this result, the three of them are naturally very excited, after all, this means that the probability of their successful bets has suddenly jumped from less than 10% to nearly 30%, if the Cavaliers can win at home three days later, then the chance of winning will come to nearly half, which is an extremely cost-effective deal. However, they didn't have the courage to show a hint of a smile in the Oracle Arena, after all, the little 20,000 people around them are Warriors fans, and if there is any flaw leaked, the consequences can be imagined.

When the four of them returned to the hotel room, ordered a lot of food and red wine, and were ready to start talking about the mode, by the way, a small celebration of the temporary bet on the right treasure, it was already half past nine in the evening local time, but fortunately, everyone did not plan to rest early. Li Mudi is on vacation between the old and new jobs; Baozi is the boss himself, so the matter of vacation is completely controlled by himself; Most of Aoko's work can be taken care of online, so it is not too difficult to leave for a week; Only Brother Sugar, who has not yet had a holiday at school, needs to rush back as soon as possible, and has already booked a flight for tomorrow at noon, so everyone is ready to stay up all night tonight and relive the intimacy of the student days more than ten years ago.

A few old men in their thirties sat at the dining table, eating delicious food, while sharing their life experiences and life insights over the years, which if they could be recorded with electronic devices and then taken out and re-watched decades later, they would definitely be able to elicit more feelings from them, but unfortunately everyone at this time did not think of this.

Although the original excuse for the four sworn friends to get together was to vent for Li Mudi's emotional problems, this topic is too sensitive to be easily mentioned when he is sober, and he can only wait until the wine is almost drunk before making plans, so the topic at the beginning was positioned by the three married people to show off. Of course, the main ones who spoke were Baozi and Qingzi, two shameless people, how virtuous the daughter-in-law was, how lovely the children were, how harmonious the family was, and how fulfilling the spare time...... Brother Tang, who has a wife and no children, just listened with a smile on the side, but Li Mudi was very angry with these two people's pretends, and said directly and sharply: "Don't talk about those who have or don't, I'll ask you a question: My home in Mallorca, there is not a day of air quality that is not good all year round, what about you?" ”

The ancients said: Hitting people does not slap their faces, and scolding people does not expose their shortcomings. For the Celestial Empire, whose economic development is calculated at the speed of light and urban development is changing with each passing day, air pollution is one of its lifelines, maybe the south is better, but in the autumn and winter of the north, the good weather is counted by the number of days, and some places may be counted with one hand. Therefore, Li Mudi's crit attack was very successful, and as soon as the words came out, it blocked the interest of the two of them to continue to show off. But fortunately, they still have a killer feature, took out their mobile phones to open the album, and called up the photos of their respective babies, which directly caused a blow to Li Mudi, who loves children very much, he snatched both mobile phones, and watched the beautiful pictures of the two babies with a smile that the other three called "the evil of the mystery".

The next few people are drinking while recalling all kinds of interesting things in their student days, of course, the most troublesome is naturally Xiao Li's classmate, he failed the first exam in biology, his pants fell off during the 400-meter run in the sports meeting, the school engaged in activities to sing on behalf of the class, and he was caught playing football on campus in violation of the rules and hit the teaching director, and was punished for picking up garbage on the entire playground...... At that time, everything could make his face flushed, but now when he mentions it, there is only joy left, just like Guo Degang's cross talk, he doesn't need to say it, as long as he thinks about it, it can make people laugh and have a stomachache. Baozi also joked that since he is a celebrity, he has to have some anecdotes, and when he is free, he will go to Li Mudi Encyclopedia to fill in these very funny old things, after all, it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone!

In this way, everyone shared their joys, sorrows, glory and loneliness with each other, as if returning to the simple and carefree good times of the year, when I really saw beautiful girls blushing and heartbeat!

Baozi's original plan to ask his friends about what he still thinks about Xiao Lin when he was drunk was not realized in the end, and several people either had a bad amount of alcohol, or because they hadn't adjusted to the jet lag on the long journey, they fell asleep on the bed and sofa while drinking, and the previous plan to stay awake all night was completely bankrupt.

I was woken up by the room service call early the next morning, so I immediately went back to my room to clean up my personal hygiene, and then pulled up my luggage and sent Brother Sugar to the airport, and after Burger King quickly dealt with a bite of food, I sent the people's teacher on the plane back to China, and I don't know when it will be when I will get together again next time......

The rest of the brothers quickly returned to the hotel to catch up on sleep, and in the evening they had to take a 12-hour flight to Cleveland, Ohio, in the eastern United States. Combined with the jet lag, it would have been 15 hours after arriving there, and three hours of their lives had vanished into thin air. Well, the shorter flights take only seven or eight hours, but they can't get up in the morning.

Before leaving, the hotel in Auckland only checked out Brother Sugar's room, after all, the Seven Wars will have to come back here, and if they are all returned, it will be difficult to book a hotel with such a convenient location. Fortunately, the additional cost of three days is still affordable for Baozi and others, and if they really win that bet in the end, the huge amount of money lost by the bookmaker is definitely enough for a few people to squander it for a long time.

At half past nine on June 15, Cleveland time, the three of them walked out of Hopkins International Airport with their only suitcase and took a taxi directly to the hotel they had booked in advance. The city is next to Lake Erie, and on the northern shore of the lake is Canada, which is far ahead of Oakland in terms of area and population, but not half as prosperous. Decades ago, the port industrial city has been reduced to the point where the city centre is only a few minutes' drive away, and the city's most famous classics are its array of museums, parks and concert halls, with few visitors from outside, and some of them coming to James. The three of them were in no mood to wander around, and when they arrived at the hotel, they started working on their work with a notebook each.