In the "football hall" where they are located on a sneering day, there are about a hundred fans watching the replay of the Italian football league. A couple of small bookmakers engaged in underground gambling activities are whispering from table to table asking fans if they want to place bets. In order to find excitement and add some hope and expectation to their own football, some fans choose their favorite or optimistic team according to the odds offered by the bookmaker, and bet a few hundred yuan.

Among Sneer's classmates, Li Rui likes to engage in small gambling the most, especially when watching football, he must buy dozens of hundreds of dollars from the dealer to feel that watching football is exciting. Sometimes if the dealer doesn't come, or the dealer doesn't want to take the order, he must bring a classmate to bet with him. But although Li Rui's gambling is heavier, his gambling luck is very poor, and he often bets on the wrong side, so he has been losing more and winning less, and he has lost nearly 3,000 yuan in gambling in the past two years, and he was nicknamed "Mr. Miyamoto Don't Win" by his classmates and teammates.

At this time, the match being broadcast on TV was Inter Milan vs. Genoa, and the game had been played for 50 minutes, with Inter Milan leading by two goals 2:0.

Li Rui saw a thin man with a paper and pen in his hand and a backpack coming over, and hurriedly shouted: "Centipede, come here: are you still betting? I bet on Inter Milan to score a goal, what are the odds?"

The little bookmaker, nicknamed "Centipede", shook his head with a smile and said: "We don't take orders for instant betting, or you can play a second game, which is the German First League." ”

The so-called "live betting" is to place bets on the final outcome of a match in the middle of a match. "Live betting" sometimes offers very high odds because the game has already been scored. For example, there was a great bettor in history who led Sampdoria 2-0 at the 88th minute mark of Inter Milan vs Sampdoria in 2006. At this time, the odds offered by "instant betting" are: if you bet on Inter Milan to win, the odds are 999 odds, that is: if any unbelieving bettor dares to bet on Inter Milan to win in the end, bet on one yuan will get a return of 999 yuan. Convinced that there are no absolutes, a bettor made a bet of £100. As a result, three goals were scored two minutes later, and in the end, Inter Milan won 3-2, and the daring bettor won a huge £99,900 prize with a stake of £100......

Li Rui saw that the dealer was not betting, and shook his head depressedly and said: "It's really boring, I still want to win a few bottles of wine, but I don't bet again!"

Lin Xue, who was sitting opposite him, smiled and said, "Your name is Li Rui, right? If you really want to gamble, I'll go head-to-head with you!"

Li Rui's eyes lit up and he said, "How do you bet?"

Lin Xue said: "You choose first, I'll do whatever I want!"

Li Rui was overjoyed, thinking that today he finally met a "sheep" who didn't understand football betting at all, anyway, it looked like her family must be either rich or expensive, and if she didn't win, she wouldn't win, so she smiled slyly and said: "I bet on Inter Milan to win in the end." In order to show fairness, I will increase the odds a bit: if the two sides end up tied, I will pay you five dollars for one dollar, and if the Genoa team wins in the end, I will pay you ten dollars for one dollar. How?"

Lin Xue said briskly: "Okay, how much do you want to bet?"

Li Rui wanted to sneer and sit opposite, gambling with Lin Xue like this, it was obviously "killing the black pig", and it was a little unkind to win her too much, so he said: "We are all friends, and winning or losing hurts our feelings." Well, how about we only bet two hundred dollars?"

"Okay!"

Lin Xue agreed, then stretched out her hand to Sneer Xiaotian, and said confidently: "Give me two hundred yuan, I didn't bring my wallet." ”

Sneering Tiantian scolded Li Rui with a smile while taking out the money: "You guy is really not a thing! Do you have such a black kill? You obviously know that Xiaoxue doesn't understand football, let alone gambling." Now that Inter Milan has won by two goals, and his overall strength is stronger than Genoa, how can he draw or lose? Two hundred yuan is a trivial matter, but your motives are not pure, too not enough buddy!"

Li Rui was not embarrassed at all, he smiled and said: "Gambling is about voluntariness, Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai - one is willing to fight, one is willing to suffer! Your girlfriend is willing to gamble with me, and voluntarily loses 200 yuan to me, although I am ashamed of it, but it is disrespectful!"

Although he said "deservedly" in his mouth, there was no shame on his face.

Lin Xue became impatient, snatched the two hundred yuan from Sneer Xiaotian's hand, put it on the table, and said, "My bet is here, what about yours? According to the odds you offered 1 to 10, you should put two thousand yuan on the table, right?"

Li Rui was stunned: he only had 1,000 yuan in his pocket now, he didn't expect Lin Xue to be so serious, he had to put cash on him, so he had to say to Sneer Xiaotian embarrassedly: "Brother, no way, you have to lend me 1,000 yuan, I don't have 2,000 yuan in cash in my pocket." ”

Sneering Tian was angry and funny, and said while taking out the money: "You two gamble, why did it end up being me paying?"

Lin Xue and Li Rui both laughed.

As soon as Li Rui put the money on the table, he listened to a commotion on TV, and when he looked up, it was the Genoa team that scored a goal, and the score became 2-1.

When Lin Xue saw that Genoa had scored a goal, she applauded and cheered happily.

Li Rui began to beat a drum in his heart, muttering to himself: "Lao Tzu won't be so unlucky, right?

A few more minutes later, a player of the Inter Milan team tripped a Genoese striker in the penalty area, and the referee decisively pointed his hand to the penalty spot: penalty!

Li Rui stared at the TV screen with wide eyes, and when the player who took the penalty kick from Genoa easily pushed the ball into the goal of Inter Milan, he finally closed his eyes in despair: it seems that he is going to completely quit gambling from now on, and this gambling luck is not an ordinary bad luck, but a bad one to his grandmother's house......

The final result of the match was a 3-2 victory over Inter Milan for Genoa.

When the referee's final whistle sounded, Lin Xue picked up the stack of banknotes on the table and said happily: "I'm having a treat tonight, everyone drink to your heart's content! Boss, have a few more bottles of wine!"

Sneering knowing that Li Rui's family was not wealthy, he pinched Lin Xue's arm and whispered: "Return Li Rui's 1,000 yuan to him, this is his living expenses for two months!"

Lin Xue was stunned for a moment, and quickly obediently counted out a thousand yuan and handed it to Leng Xiaotian, meaning that he would quietly stuff it to Li Rui to save face for him in front of his classmates. For the remaining 1,200 yuan, she honestly and unceremoniously bought all the wine.

After Sneering Tian's drink a few glasses, he pulled Li Rui to the bathroom, first returned 1,000 yuan to him, and then took out another 5,000 yuan from his bag, stuffed it into his pocket, and said very sincerely: "Brother, I'm not short of money now." But I know that your family is average and not wealthy, and the 5,000 yuan is my filial piety to your parents, so don't ask your family for money. In the future, if you need money urgently, just talk to me, okay?"

Li Rui had tears in his eyes, and he nodded vigorously and said: "Thank you, brother! I will never shirk the money you gave me, because that would seem very hypocritical! The only thing I have to do is to always remember this brotherly relationship between us!"

The next day, the old chief learned from Lin Xue that Leng Xiaotian had been selected for the national youth team, and said happily to Seng Xiaotian: "I used to be an out-and-out football fan, but in recent years, my energy has been lacking, and the level of the national team is too poor, so I have seen less." Yesterday I received an invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the World Junior Championships, which I was going to decline. Now that Xiao Leng has been selected for the youth team, I really want to go and see the opening game. Hehehe!"

Sneering Tianye smiled and said: "Grandpa, I am the substitute of the bench, the bench of the bench, 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 get a chance to play, you have to fight for it and create it yourself! You can't have negative thoughts, you have to be ready to play all the time. Isn't there a saying that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared?

Sneering nodded admiringly.

In a few days, the World Junior Championships will officially begin. At this time, many media began to analyze what the national youth team will achieve in this World Youth Championships, and how far it can go in the end.

Although Huaxia Guo is the host of 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 tournament, and even the desire to win a game is difficult to achieve.

After the final announcement of the list of players participating in the World Youth Championships, the pessimism in the media intensified, and there were also voices questioning Sneer's selection into the youth team. A major football newspaper published an analysis article on the front page, titled "The National Youth Team Cobbled Together", and the spearhead of criticism was directed at the sneering day who did not have any professional skills and practical experience, saying that he did not know what kind of ideas and purposes the senior management of the Football Association actually inserted a college student who was not even an amateur player into the national team, as if a big Chinese country could not find a professional football player, which would not only damage the image of the country, but also bring greater damage to the image of the Chinese national football with a bad reputation......

The commentary, which was named, scathing, and evidence-conclusive, resonated with many fans. For a time, articles and posts on the Internet and newspapers criticizing the Football Association and sneering were overwhelming, and there was a momentum of "black clouds crushing the city and wanting to destroy it......

Sneer Xiaotian estimated: The media knows so much about his situation, and even the fact that he once took a year off school due to liver disease has been revealed, which is regarded as ironclad evidence that he cannot be selected for the national youth team, and there must be an insider who broke the news to the media. And this insider is likely to be the head coach of the youth team who has prejudices against him......

A few days later, in the face of increasingly turbulent public opinion, Sneer Xiaotian was finally overwhelmed and decided to take the initiative to ask Chairman Lieberthal to quit the national youth team.