Chapter 7 Real Luxury CarsIn the match between the Chinese national team and Costa Rica, Guo Yang still chose to lower the score. Chinese national football team 0:2 Costa Rica, bet 2000 million, odds . This time Guo Yang did not choose to go all in because the risk was too high. He also could not guarantee whether his butterfly would affect the situation of this World Cup. Now, apart from staying in the hotel, he no longer goes out casually. If you win money, you must be careful and keep a low profile. Fortunately, in bookmakers and hotels, the staff will provide you with security protection. But if you act too conspicuously, you don’t know who you’re going to meet when you go out. It is very likely that you will earn money but not have the life to spend it. Regarding the match between the Chinese national team and Costa Rica, many details have been deeply engraved in Guo Yang's mind. To sum it up, it can be said in one sentence: "It is impossible to win."
The so-called "one win, one draw and one loss will help Brazil qualify" before the game was just a fabrication due to the media's lack of professionalism and desire for quick success and instant gratification. What is the "match intensity gap"? It has been reflected in many matches of this World Cup. For example, Germany previously defeated Saudi Arabia 8:0, and then there was this game. In Group C where the Chinese national team is located, the strength gap between Brazil and Turkey and the Chinese national team and Costa Rica is visible to the naked eye. You want to defeat your opponent, but your opponent wants to defeat you even more. From the moment the referee blew the opening whistle, there was no cover-up and it was a bloody fight. However, this is the first time that the Chinese national football team is participating in the World Cup finals, while Costa Rica is not. At that time, the Chinese national football team had only two players traveling to Europe, Sun Jihai and Yang Chen, and they were also the most successful. The progress of the game proved that not all of the starting players of the Chinese national football team could let go of their psychological burdens, and Sun Jihai's injury directly magnified the pressure on others. What can the Chinese national football team use to play against Costa Rica? The opponent's backcourt tried their best to increase the tempo, and they would split the ball into two sides after passing the midfield. As soon as they lost the ball, they immediately started to use their physical strength to consume the opponent's energy, and the fight was extremely fierce. This signal couldn't be more obvious; your opponent wants to overwhelm you with the intensity of the game. The Chinese national football team could not adapt to the intensity of the game and could not keep up with the opponent's rhythm. The only way to keep up with the rhythm was to overdraw their physical strength, but the result of overdrawing their physical strength was to give up the second half. In the first half, the Chinese national team was full of energy and could contain Costa Rica's attack, but in the second half they were completely beaten. Football is not only about skills, physical fitness is also very important. The skills in high-intensity games are the real skills. "There's nothing shameful about admitting you can't win. You're already the strongest national football team..." The final whistle of the game sounded, and Guo Yang lay on the bed in the hotel, thinking silently. "The national football team will be worse than the previous one..." After the match between the Chinese national football team and Costa Rica ended, Guo Yang had more than 200 million yuan in funds after receiving the prize money.
Afterwards, Guo Yang changed hotels again. Reports about him have appeared in newspapers and on television news in Macau in the past two days. News such as "Becoming rich overnight, a mainlander wins a big prize at the World Cup" etc., fortunately, no one showed their faces. Guo Yang had no way to stop it. Moreover, he had made other people's money. If he didn't allow people to promote and attract traffic, he might really be asking for trouble. I could only keep a low profile as much as possible and not place any more bets for the next two days. Just stayed in the hotel, rested and watched the game. Life is really boring. Apart from watching games, I read TV and read newspapers every day. What Guo Yang didn't know was that the guy with glasses whom he met for the first time when buying lottery tickets in Haojing recognized him from the blurry figure in the news. I have been secretly investigating his residence these days. However, thanks to his sufficient caution, the boy with glasses was never able to find out where he lived, which made him very angry. "This mainland guy is such a coward. He hasn't shown up in such a long time." On June 6, in the match between Brazil and the Chinese national football team, Guo Yang once again made a move and swept up 8 million yuan of funds. After that, he lived in a cramped hotel again. Guo Yang felt that he was like a turtle, and it was hard to deal with him. On June 6, Guo Yang came to the bookmaker again to place a bet. The Chinese national football team won Turkey 13:2 and the bet was 1 million. When Guo Yang walked out of the gambling company, he immediately felt some malicious gazes. Some vague eyes kept looking at him. He also saw the guy with glasses in the crowd, looking at him provocatively. Beside him, there were two thugs who looked like gangsters. It’s really hard to get out of the door today. After thinking for a moment, Guo Yang turned around and went back to the betting company. He asked the gaming company for pick-up and security services, and after paying a considerable fee, the gaming company sent him an exclusive car. In fact, when Guo Yang was still playing for Melco International, Brother Kun had already suggested that the gaming company could provide security services. Only then he refused. But now I have to use it. In the end, Guo Yang returned to the hotel smoothly under the escort of professional security, and gave a generous tip. All of these were also watched by those who were interested. Half an hour later, the football betting station was bustling with activity. The boy with glasses shouted loudly: "Quick, quick, bet 1 yuan on the Chinese national football team to win." "Buy the national football team, buy the national football team, mainlanders are all betting."
"Come on, come on, give me 2,000 bets on the national football team." For a time, the Chinese national football team became the favorite. On the other side, Guo Yang, who changed his clothes and hairstyle, quietly left the hotel and boarded a plane to London. He strategically gave up the national football match today, and the purpose of betting was just to distract others. Of course, if the bookmaker wanted to investigate, they would certainly be able to find out that he had bought the plane ticket in advance. Although Guo Yang earned 3 million yuan during this period, it was only tens of millions when distributed evenly among several companies. Even though tens of millions of dollars would hurt the bookmakers, it shouldn't be enough to make them take the risk of using unconventional means against him. On the contrary, in order to ensure his safety, we had to temporarily provide him with additional security services. However, Guo Yang was not planning to stay in Haojiang. He plans to plan ahead and go to Europe early. The odds for football betting there are high, and tens of millions of euros are just a drop in the bucket compared to the total amount, so the security is relatively higher. Only when the plane took off did Guo Yang finally relax. Only then did he notice that the person sitting next to him was an old white man. He was short and fat, with white hair and fair skin, but he looked worried. He was holding a magazine in his hands, reading it intently. Guo Yang's eyes stayed on the magazine in the old man's hand. The cover of the magazine showed several huge farm machines harvesting wheat side by side. As the white old man turned the pages, he saw all kinds of farm machinery appear one by one. Plows, disc plows, rotary tillers, combined tillers for tilling and land preparation... Drilling machines for planting and fertilization, seeders for root crops, deep tillage and fertilization machines... Guo Yang was reading the book with great interest until a giant emoji-like computer that looked like a headlight appeared on the page. He couldn't help but exclaim: "Fuck, Fendt 930." In his previous life, Guo Yang was keen on various high-horsepower agricultural machinery, and the Fendt tractor was one of his dream machines. Fendt is known as the Rolls-Royce of tractors. Fendt considers everything for the operators! Fendt, a brand that many agricultural machinery operators dream of! A brand that has not yet entered the Chinese market despite much anticipation. The Fendt 1050 tractor produced later is a typical representative of the agriculturalization of German military products. It not only applied many tank production technologies, but also had an exaggerated horsepower of 517. The Fendt 930 in the magazine should be the one that Fendt officially started producing this year. But it also has 300 horsepower! Although it is a tractor, it can be used with various agricultural machinery for plowing, weeding, harvesting, transportation, etc. Its comprehensive performance is very powerful. Many people who don’t know much about the industry think that tractor production is a low-end industry, but in fact a good tractor is more expensive than a Rolls-Royce. And its technological content is definitely higher than that of car manufacturing. This is definitely not bragging.
You can buy a better car by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, but that is far from enough to buy a good tractor. Guo Yang's exclamation seemed to make the white old man very unhappy, and he looked at Guo Yang in annoyance. But he was staring at the magazine in his hand, and he vaguely heard the word "Fent" just now. Then he pointed at the farm machinery in the magazine and asked with a stern look, "Do you know it?" The tone of his voice sounded as if he would get angry if the answer did not satisfy him. Arrogant French, Guo Yang thought to himself, and then replied in broken English: "The Fendt 930 made in Germany is one of the most advanced tractors in the world." Hearing this, the old man's attitude improved a lot, and he said arrogantly: "Although the Germans are old-fashioned and don't understand romance and fashion, their agricultural machinery is indeed good." After that, the old man handed the magazine to Guo Yang and said, "If you need it, I can lend it to you temporarily, but you need to be quiet and don't disturb my rest." Guo Yang nodded and couldn't wait to take the magazine and start reading it. Seeing that he was so absorbed in watching, the white old man could no longer hold back and said: “If you are interested, you can go to this exhibition: Agritechnica.” "The world's top agricultural machinery exhibition will be held in Hanover, Germany from June 6 to June 18, where you can get up close and personal with the world's most advanced and innovative agricultural and forestry machinery." "Hannover International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition..." Guo Yang muttered to himself. He was very interested. "Is everyone available, sir?" “No, no, you need to buy a ticket, and it will only be open to farmers like me and the public from the fourth day onwards.” "Are you a farmer, sir?" "Of course, I have a 100-hectare farm." "Wow……" "This is the legacy my grandfather left me. My family has been running this farm for nearly 70 years." “Your farm must be beautiful.” “We just harvested the wheat and the farm is bare now, but it’s still beautiful.” Afterwards, the two chatted intermittently. The long-distance flight was very tiring, and it would be nice to have a companion during the journey. Gradually, Guo Yang also learned some information about the white old man. The old man's name is Fran Nichols, and he's French. I was originally watching the World Cup in South Korea, and I fantasized that France could lift the World Cup again. But unexpectedly, the French team was eliminated in the group stage. In a fit of anger, Frannielx came to the Macau Casino to gamble. I didn't expect to lose money gambling. I had no choice but to return home early.
As for going to London instead of returning to France. The reason is that Fran is actually afraid of his wife. After losing all his money this time, he can only run to his children for shelter. For a moment, Guo Yang felt quite sympathetic towards the old man. (End of this chapter)