Chapter 48: The World Cup
Going abroad in the 90s is still a very trendy thing in the eyes of many people. Without connections, it is even more difficult for ordinary people to go abroad.
In particular, some students who have just come out of schools and some people who have just joined the workforce have to run the approval process for a year and a half.
This is also the reason why Yuan Liang asked Li Xiuyun for a visa.
From Pujiang to Shencheng, and then from Shencheng to Gangcheng, Yuan Liang boarded the plane to San Francisco, and it was already the night of the 18th.
When the plane passed through the clouds and landed at the San Francisco airport, Yuan Liang looked at the afterglow on the horizon and immediately vigilantly adjusted the time on his watch.
It's still 7 p.m. local time in the United States, and taxis to the airport are in a constant stream.
Later in the evening, there will be the opening ceremony match between the United States and Switzerland, which will be held thousands of miles away in Detroit, but the Stanford Stadium is also one of the main venues of this World Cup, and fans from all over the world in the group stage have already appeared on the streets of San Francisco.
Yuan Liang is not a football fan, but the influence of the World Cup has never stayed at the level of football diehards.
Before coming, the school's student union and various clubs began to organize related viewing activities.
And this is also the only way for Yuan Liang to understand this World Cup in his previous life.
The taxi took Yuan Liang to a hotel, the conditions are not bad, but the price is a little expensive, and it costs more than two hundred dollars to stay for one day.
After coming to the hotel, Yuan Liang ate something and then rested for a while, waiting for the game to start before coming to the viewing area in the hotel lobby.
When he first arrived in the United States, Yuan Liang was not in a hurry to make a move, the score of the two teams was not high, and he was not very clear about the rules of the football lottery of the United States at this time.
Before the game started, there were already a lot of people in the hall watching the game.
During the World Cup, there were many more fans from other parts of the United States, as well as many fans of the home team playing at the Stanford Stadium.
Yuan Liang observed at the back of the crowd for a while, and saw that a few young people on the side were looking at the opening ceremony on the screen with an expectant expression, and a few football lottery tickets in their hands, so he leaned in.
"Excuse me, where did you buy your lottery tickets, can you introduce me?"
A few people turned around and saw that it was a young man who was not very old, and he still had a skin color from the other side of the ocean, but he did not refuse.
"The streets are everywhere, and there is one two hundred meters to the left of the hotel."
"Can you show me the odds?"
The odds are not high, it's just a lottery, and we buy the United States to win. A young man with a hat on the other side handed over the lottery ticket in his hand, and his eyes became arrogant.
Yuan Liang didn't care, but roughly looked at the odds on the lottery.
The same 90-minute win, draw and loss gameplay,The United States imperialism, which has been in advance for nearly a century, has a very scientific algorithm on the football lottery,Several people's football lottery are very similar to the domestic after 20 years.
Knowing that this was the result, Yuan Liang was relieved.
There is a benefit to choosing San Francisco, Silicon Valley is here, Stanford Stadium is here, and Maozi's 6:1 match against Cameroon is also here.
Now there is no concrete football lottery software, it is difficult to find the odds of this score, but referring to the shocking odds of 7:1 between Germany and Brazil, the odds of this game are not low.
So Yuan Liang has to prepare everything before this game comes.
After watching the ball game with a few white brothers, and after inviting a few people to drink beer by the way, Yuan Liang returned to the room and began to recall the score of this World Cup.
The next day, Yuan Liang first took his documents to the local Citibank and Morgan Bank and other banks to open an ordinary account.
He was not in a hurry to go to Stanford in Silicon Valley, but went to a nearby lottery ticket sales point to inquire about the situation, and it was not until the next day before the start of the football game that Yuan Liang selected a few good football lottery outlets to start starting.
He didn't have much money, it was the $30,000 that Li Jianfang gave him in exchange, and he spent it.
Scattered to a few outlets, that is, four or five thousand investment, in those crowded football lottery stores, this is not an uncommon thing.
And Yuan Liang will not bet on only one score in a ball game, just keep the number of games where the score is stale, and focus on some games with slightly larger scores to ensure two to three times the profit.
After two days, Yuan Liang's cash had reached more than 200,000. He first deposited the money into a previously opened account, and then changed to a hotel.
Shoot a shot to change places, and keep a low profile and not attract attention is the main purpose.
However, at an outlet near the Stanford School, Yuan Liang insisted on coming over every day to buy a few football lottery tickets, and the amount of each purchase remained at about four or five thousand.
After buying it for several days in a row, he finally won a game in which Romania lost 1:4 to Switzerland, but then Yuan Liang increased his efforts and increased the amount of purchases per day to 10,000.
"Yuan, here you are again, are you optimistic about that game today?"
Responsible for entertaining Yuan Liang's lottery station staff,It's a shrewd man in his early thirties,Yuan Liang comes to him every day to buy a football lottery,And a buy is thousands,After winning once, the amount was also raised,In addition to Yuan Liang himself,That is, he knows best whether Yuan Liang is losing or earning.
"Paul, buy all three games, or 10,000 per game, and I'll study the score first."
"Then you come first, the specific odds are available, and tell me when you choose." In Paul's eyes, Yuan Liang is no different from a gambler.
After pretending to study it in the lottery shop for a while, Yuan Liang took the written score to Paul.
But Paul was dumbfounded when he saw the score that Yuan Liang wanted to buy.
"Yuan, are you in a hurry or what, why did you buy so many scores, 5:1, 6:1, and even 7:1, how could there be such a big difference in tonight's game, the strength of these teams is about the same."
Indeed, before Maozi played Cameroon, almost no one was optimistic about Maozi.
Lost to Sweden 3-1 and Brazil 3-0, while Cameroon drew 2-2 with Sweden despite losing 3-0 to Brazil.
In this match, the bookmaker is also on the side that Sweden is more like.
"No matter, I bought so many games and didn't win, I'm going to watch the game later, why do I have to win one game this time." Yuan Liang looked resolute.
"Is that still cash?"
"I don't dare to go out with so much cash, just swipe your card!" Yuan Liang shook his head and handed the card over.
In the past few days, Yuan Liang's previous account has basically deposited a lot of deposits, and the statistics are nearly one million, but they are scattered in a few banks, and no one pays attention to them.
"Okay, you chose twelve groups, a total of 120,000!"
A piece of paper was printed out on a printer, and Paul took it down and handed it to Yuan Liang.
"Protect yourself, if there is a big score tonight, you will be a millionaire!" Yes, in the game on the night of the 29th, Yuan Liang only bought a big score in all three games.
"Lend you good words!" Yuan Liang took the lottery ticket, took it out and looked at it one by one, his eyes lingered slightly on the Russian 6:1 Cameroon lottery ticket, and then put it in the backpack on his chest.
4,500 times, not much worse than Germany's 6,500 times that of Brazil at the Meneland Stadium!