Chapter 92 Three in One
There is still a difference between sports lottery and lottery.
The most obvious difference is that if you buy lottery tickets, even if Fang Wei memorizes the winning numbers for every issue, he may not win.
Sports lottery mainly focuses on event guessing, and at least in this respect, it appears to be much more open.
At the turn of the millennium, sports lottery had begun to be distributed nationwide. After all, it was a remote small island and there were not many lottery shops here, and there was only this one in Baitan Town nearby.
Taking advantage of the lunch break, Fang Wei left the school and walked a short distance before he saw the post office in the town. The small shop next to the post office was the lottery shop.
There are very few privately-run lottery shops nowadays. The reason why they are opened next to the post office is that they are actually managed and sold by the post office. Both regular lottery tickets and sports lotteries are sold.
At present, a lottery ticket costs at least two dollars, which is still relatively expensive for most people, but there are also people who want to take a chance.
With the opening of the Olympics, sports lottery has also introduced many new ways to play related to the Olympics.
When Fang Wei arrived at the lottery shop, there were a lot of people inside, probably all of them coming to buy Olympic-related lottery tickets.
The boss who is in charge of the lottery shop is a young man in his thirties. He is very busy at the moment, operating the computer in front of him with a bit of unfamiliarity. While punching tickets for customers, he takes a break from his busy schedule to pick up the big bowl to eat a few mouthfuls of rice.
Fang Wei was not in a hurry to buy, but just took a look at the information about how to play the Olympic Sports Lottery posted at the entrance of the store.
One is the 'Olympic Games Daily Lottery', which provides ten guessing questions about the next day's Olympic Games every day. Each question has four result options, and participants can choose six of them. If they guess all of them correctly, they will have a chance to win a prize.
The prize is drawn every day. Fang Wei took a look at today's question. There are questions from various projects and contestants from various countries. Looking at the long list of transliterated foreign contestants' names in the options, Fang Wei got a headache. He really couldn't remember them all!
I can only pass this gameplay.
Similarly, the gameplay, including the 'First Place Pass Game' and the 'Win or Lose Pass Game', is detailed in each game and is really hard to guess.
None of these ways of playing were considered by Fang Wei.
Of course, in addition to these ways of playing, there is another way of playing, which is also the most popular way for people who come to the lottery shop to buy lottery tickets - [Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Game]
The rules of this game are much simpler. You can choose one of the gold, silver or bronze medals and predict the final number that the national team will get. If you guess correctly, you win the prize.
Of course, you can also choose two-in-one or three-in-one to place your bets.
Predicting the number of Olympic medals is quite difficult, as it involves many factors, including the athletes' condition, the strength of their competitors, and unexpected situations during the competition.
In addition, there is very little information to refer to these days, so lottery players basically rely on metaphysics and blind guessing.
Currently, the odds for guessing the number of gold, silver and bronze medals are around twenty times on average.
This involves some math knowledge. If you guess the number of two medals correctly, it would be twenty times twenty, four hundred times! If you guess the number of three medals correctly, the odds would be an astonishing eight thousand times!
This is the charm of parlay betting. Once the index expands, it will become a pretty astonishing number.
"boss."
Fang Wei walked to the counter.
The boss looked up, took one look, and said unhappily, "You are underage, right? Junior high school students can't buy lottery tickets, why are you here to join in the fun?"
"My dad asked me to buy it." Fang Wei was not lying, this was the truth.
"..."
The boss looked at it doubtfully and didn't say anything more. No matter whether he won in the end or not, the parents had to come to receive the prize anyway.
"what to buy?"
"That gold, silver and bronze game."
"Betting slip. Can you fill it out yourself?"
"will not."
"So how does your dad want to buy it?"
"28 gold medals, 16 silver medals, and 15 bronze medals."
The boss didn't take the numbers Fang Wei reported seriously. He had been working so hard to get the orders these past two days that he was exhausted. People had guessed all kinds of numbers. This morning, someone even guessed 48 gold medals. No one knew what he was thinking...
The boss was about to make the order, but then he paused and asked, "Are you going to buy them separately or in a string?"
"String them together."
In order to avoid any future disputes, the boss asked a few more questions.
"Let me make it clear first. If you get one wrong in a three-in-one bet, it won't count. Your dad knows this, right? He told you to buy three in a one, right?"
"knew."
"How many tickets do you want to buy? Two dollars each."
"Five bets."
Fang Wei took out ten dollars from his pocket and placed it on the table in front of the boss.
Ten yuan is a lot. In this day and age, it is almost half a day's salary for many people.
"Haha, your dad is really willing to place a bet."
Fang Wei said nothing. It was not his dad who was willing to place the bet. He paid eight dollars out of his own pocket!
Since you're going to buy it anyway, you might as well buy a bigger one. But if it's too big it will be eye-catching, so ten dollars is enough.
According to the approximate odds, if you win, the prize should be around 80,000 or 90,000 yuan, which is a considerable amount of money, equivalent to the income of Ding Fang Xianfeng from collecting fish at the dock for eight years.
The boss smiled and didn't say much. He used the computer somewhat awkwardly and helped Fang Wei type out the order.
"The list has been collected and the prize will be drawn after the Olympics."
"Okay, thank you boss."
Fang Wei took the list, looked at it to confirm that it was correct, and then put it in his pocket.
After thinking for a while, Fang Wei asked again: "If I win the prize, can I cash it here, boss?"
The boss didn't think it was possible to win, and shook his head, saying, "I can only redeem small prizes. If you really win the three-in-one prize of ten yuan, you can ask your father to go to the city to claim the prize."
……
After buying the lottery ticket, Fang Wei returned to the classroom.
The lunch break hasn't ended yet. It's only 1:10 and there's still an hour before class starts.
The students who stayed in the class for the lunch break had basically fallen asleep on their desks. The classroom was quiet, and occasionally one could hear some students snoring lightly.
Fang Wei looked over and saw that Cai Ling had also fallen asleep. Du Peipei had returned home, and she sat in Peipei's seat, with her back against the wall, her legs propped up on her own chair, a pillow in her arms, her head tilted as she slept soundly. She seemed to be sleeping very deeply, and a hint of crystal could be vaguely seen at the corner of her mouth...
Looking at the direction of her seat, Liu Zhiyi had also fallen asleep, lying on her small buckwheat pillow.
Fang Wei lowered the noise of his steps, quietly returned to his seat, and prepared to lie down and take a nap.
It was not known whether the noise of pulling out the chair woke Liu Zhiyi up, or whether she had not fallen asleep at all. The girl lying on the small buckwheat pillow raised her head, brushed the hair scattered on her face, and glanced at him.
"came back?"
"Well, did it wake you up?"
"No... I'm not asleep yet."
"Ok?"
Fang Wei was stunned for a moment, and seeing that her eyes were clear, it seemed that she was indeed not asleep.
He was a little surprised. Ever since Liu Zhiyi started taking a nap in the classroom, she always slept very deeply. What happened today? She had been lying on the little pillow for a long time but still hadn't fallen asleep?
It was lunch break now, and the two didn't talk much.
Seeing him coming back, Liu Zhiyi fluffed up her buckwheat pillow again and whispered, "Then I'll continue sleeping..."
"Go to sleep. I'll take a nap too."
Fang Wei took out his small pillow from the drawer, lay on it, yawned, and fell asleep in a short while.
It's strange to say, when he was not sitting in his seat just now, Liu Zhiyi just felt empty around him, and the small buckwheat pillow that was usually quite hypnotic seemed to have lost its effect, and he couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard he tried.
Now that Fang Wei had returned to her seat, the empty feeling around her disappeared. Sleepiness seemed to be contagious, and she lay back on the small pillow.
After a while, they fell asleep together...
……
When Liu Zhiyi woke up, he was still woken up by Fang Wei.
She had given up the idea of waking up early and waking Fang Wei up.
After all, such a deep nap was really comfortable. She could sleep completely without any burden, and she would wake up every time Fang Wei called her name. This feeling was also very wonderful...
In the morning, it was Fang Wei who wiped the blackboard, and now in the afternoon, it was her turn to wipe the blackboard.
After the second class, Liu Zhiyi for the first time took the initiative to move her little butt rooted in the chair, walked quickly to the podium, and wiped the blackboard clean which was covered with writings.
She wiped it very carefully and quickly. After finishing, she went to the bathroom to wash her hands, and then quickly returned to her seat, never staying anywhere other than her seat for even a minute.
In fact, wiping the blackboard in the afternoon was a great bargain. Liu Zhiyi could feel Fang Wei's little care. After all, he had to wipe it four times in the morning, but at this time on Tuesday afternoon, only one wipe was enough -
Because the first class was biology, and the biology teacher always wiped the blackboard himself; and the last class was physical education, so there was no need to wipe the blackboard...
Xu Cailing and A Sheng were already walking over with their school bags on their backs.
"Fang Wei, Zhi Yi, are you guys still going to take your school bags with you later?"
"No need to bring it. After physical education class, we still have to come up to clean the classroom. We are on duty today." Fang Wei said.
"Okay, then we won't take you with us. Let's wait until you finish your duty together and then leave together!" Xu Cailing thought for a while and said.
After all, before, no matter whether it was her or A Sheng's duty, everyone would wait together and then leave together.
Fang Wei could tell that she wanted to go home to watch the Olympics, so he smiled and said, "There are games to watch, so you two can go home first. Zhiyi and I will follow after we finish cleaning."
"Then... I'll stay and help you clean up next time!"
"Okay, okay, let's go downstairs."
……
Just like last week, Teacher Niu asked everyone to run two laps first, and then continue practicing radio gymnastics.
It is already the third week of school and also our fifth physical education class.
The Olympic atmosphere is strong at the moment, and everyone is eager to play ball and exercise, but Teacher Niu's attitude is very clear, if the radio exercises are not practiced well, there will be no activities in advance.
So, the situation repeated itself just like last week, and Fang Wei and Xu Cailing were the first to be freed.
"Let's go! Fang Wei, let's go play table tennis today!"
"How about we go to another place?"
Fang Wei blinked his eyes. The cement ping-pong table was right next to the shade of the trees where the classmates gathered for exercise.
The others were still practicing radio gymnastics, but these two were playing table tennis right in front of them...
This feeling is really... so great!
Fang Wei and Xu Cailing had little experience in ball sports, so there was no particular rule when they played table tennis, just like playing basketball, they just played around randomly.
"I see athletes holding their rackets like this, why do they all hold their rackets like this?"
"It should be fine. Just hold it the way you are used to. Catch the ball!"
"Ah! You sneak attack!"
Xu Cailing giggled, ran over and bent down to pick up the ball.
Although it was her first time playing table tennis, she had watched a lot of table tennis matches on TV, so she tried to learn how to serve, receive and smash like professional athletes.
With the blessing of athletic talent, let’s not talk about how well she played the ball, but you have to admit that Xu Cailing has really learned the moves to be about 70% similar.
So much so that if you look at her from a distance, without seeing the ball and only seeing her swinging the racket, people would mistakenly think she is very awesome.
Fang Wei served a slow ball over, and Xu Cailing was disdainful of hitting it back slowly. She held the racket, stretched out her arms, and swung it hard!
"Look at my smash!!"
"Snapped--!"
The smash was made, but I didn't know where the ball went.
After a while, the ping-pong ball flying in the air slowly fell down and hit the head of Teacher Niu who was teaching radio gymnastics not far away.
Teacher Niu has very short hair, and the bouncy ping-pong ball bounced on his head before finally falling to the ground with a clatter...
Xu Cailing: “…”
Fang Wei: “…”
Niu Wengang: "Watch out for the game! Do you want to come back and do exercises?!"
Other classmates in the class: “Hahaha…”
(End of this chapter)
