The next day...

Li Qi stood in front of the office window and stretched out comfortably. Although he wanted to take Feng Yinu back to the Qin Mansion last night, but then he thought about it. Now he is too busy to do anything else, even if Feng Yinu moves in.

After returning to the Qin Mansion, I'm afraid he wouldn't have time to accompany her, and the situation was very complicated now, so he was a little worried. Besides, Feng Yinu didn't seem ready, so he simply asked her to stay there to talk to Master Li.

Now that everything was ready, all he needed was the east wind. Li Qi felt like a girl about to get married, full of anticipation and nervousness.

"Chairman, Mr. Hong is here."

"Oh? What's he doing here?" Li Qi was stunned and said, "Hurry up and ask Hong Yuanwai to come in."

"yes."

Soon, Hong Bajin walked in and said happily: "My dear nephew, you are fine."

Li Qi returned the gift with his hand, asked Hong Bajin to sit down, and ordered someone to bring a pot of wine. He knew that a glass of wine could not satisfy Hong Bajin. Unexpectedly, Hong Bajin waved his hand and said, "This wine is enough."

No, I'm afraid of delaying things."

You don't even drink, what a big deal this is. Li Qi frowned and said, "Uncle Bajin, what happened?"

Hong Bajin glanced left and right.

Li Qi immediately called the people out. Hong Bajin asked again: "Is your wife here?"

"Oh. She didn't come today." Seeing Hong Bajin's caution, Li Qi became more and more curious and asked, "What happened?"

"Something big happened."

Damn! Even with your appearance, I know something big is going on. The question is, what happened? Li Qi said depressedly: "Then what on earth is going on?"

"Betting."

"Betting?"

Hong Bajin nodded and said seriously: "The day after tomorrow is the finals of the Cuju Competition. The handicap was also opened a few days ago. The Royal Team and Qiyun Club are equally powerful. After discussing with the Taiwei, we decided to go with it.

During regular time, the Royals conceded half a goal. After all, the Royals’ identity still has some advantages.”

Li Qi nodded and said: "This is very reasonable. Is there anything wrong with it?"

Hong Bajin said with a solemn expression: "But now it seems that someone wants to manipulate the competition."

"What? Who is so bold to manipulate the competition?" Li Qi said in shock.

"I'm not sure about this. In fact, I'm just guessing."

"You guessed it? Uncle Bajin, you are going to play with me. How can you guess such a thing?"

"I'm not that free." Hong Bajin said: "Since the handicap was opened, there have been a lot of people placing bets, and the two sides are relatively balanced. But gradually, there are more Royal Team bets. At first, I also

I didn’t pay attention. After all, it’s natural to be optimistic about the Royals, and more people are paying attention to this finals than before. Until last night, my accountant told me that a large number of people have invested money in guessing the score. Since the advent of betting,

Finally, the most popular thing is the outcome line. Although you pay a lot of money to guess the score, it is also difficult to guess. Although there are many people buying it, they just put some money to try their luck. But this time it is different.

In the first half, there were 10,000 goals against 3 to 2, which was nothing. In the second half, there were more than 20,000 goals against 6 to 3. Later, I saw that something was wrong, so I checked the accounts again overnight and found that even

The odds are more than 10,000 more than before, which is equivalent to a full 40,000 more. Although there are more foreign dealers now, this is still beyond common sense."

Li Qi nodded and said: "What are the two ways to compensate for those two scores?"

"It was three to two in the first half, so one loses two, and the whole game was six to three, so one loses three." Hong Bajin said: "Because the Taiwei said that the two teams are about the same strength, why is it difficult to play such a high score in the first place?

As for the score, the point difference cannot be so big, so we have to pay more."

Li Qi narrowed his eyes and said: "Good guy, if the score is 6 to 3, then we will have to pay nearly 100,000 yuan!"

Hong Bajin said with a solemn expression: "One hundred thousand dollars, even if the three of us share it equally, it's enough for us to drink a pot, and all our work this year will be in vain."

Li Qi frowned. This was really no joke. The amount involved was not a few thousand or tens of thousands of guan, but a hundred thousand guan. Now he finally understood why Hong Bajin stopped drinking and said:

"Does the Lieutenant know about this?"

Hong Bajin nodded and said: "I told him last night, and he thought so too. He asked me to come to you and ask."

"that's all?"

Hong Bajin nodded.

Brother Qiu is so troubled. Li Qi pondered for a moment and said: "If you want to buy the odds, you only need to buy one of the teams. But if you guess the score, unless the power is very different and there is a possibility of letting someone go, otherwise

It's easy to buy two teams, Qi Yunshe, but the other team is the Royals, who has such great power?"

Hong Bajin said: "The Taiwei told me that this royal team was originally composed of Cuju players in the palace who specially accompanied the emperor to play football, and some of them were personally selected by him."

At this point, the answer seems to be ready. Li Qi said: "Do you have any clues in your hand?"

Hong Bajin shook his head and said: "Because I just discovered it, I don't know much about it, but my people know one of the people who made the bet, because that person was just a servant, but he bet a hundred dollars."

, so he was very impressed by that person, he was the entourage of Cai Xing, the eunuch of the palace."

Li Qi asked curiously: "Cai Xing? Who is he?"

Hong Bajin was surprised: "You don't know?"

Li Qi shook his head.

Hong Bajin said: "This Cai Xing is the eldest son of the British Duke."

"Is it him?" Li Qi exclaimed, "Is it the British Duke? He is indeed possible. Just now I thought it was the Prime Minister who was causing trouble."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone outside the door suddenly said: "He also has a share."

I saw Gao Qiu walking in from outside.

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, stood up quickly and said: "Captain."

Hong Bajin also stood up and bowed his hand to Gao Qiu.

Gao Qiu nodded, sat next to Hong Bajin, put his official hat on the table, and said: "I have sent people to find out. On the surface, it is Cai Xing, Wang Xuanen and some juniors who manipulated him, but so

How dare they do this with a large amount of money and without the support of their father. As far as I know, some ministers in the DPRK are also involved in this matter."

"No wonder. If they unite, the money won't be too much." Li Qi nodded and sighed: "It's all my fault. There was no supervisory agency at the beginning and neglected management in this area, which gave them a chance.

take."

Gao Qiu said: "It's too late to talk about this now, let's think about how to solve it."

Li Qi rolled his eyes and said: "Lieutenant, they are obviously not giving you face when they do this. It is too bullying. This is absolutely intolerable."

Gao Qiu snorted: "Don't provoke me. If you hadn't ruined British public affairs and went to investigate the Yingfeng Bureau, they wouldn't have had to do this. But this matter is not over yet, and I, Gao Qiu, will never let anyone bully me."

Hehe. It seems that Brother Qiu can't calm down anymore. Seeing Gao Qiu's angry face, Li Qi secretly chuckled a few times and said seriously: "Captain, regarding Cuju, aren't you always in charge? Logically speaking.

, all the Cuju players in the Royal Team should be yours.”

Gao Qiu said: "Anyone who is mine is the emperor's people. However, Wang Fu and Cai You often go to the palace to play with the emperor, more often than they go to their own homes. The people around the emperor, they all

We are very familiar with each other, and if the two of them join forces, whoever dares to offend them will give them a victory, and those people will not obey orders."

That's true, but you didn't go less often. Li Qi muttered to himself.

Hong Bajin said depressedly: "They are all top-notch people, why can't they get along with a businessman like us?"

"It's very simple." Li Qi hummed: "The Royal Team represents the Emperor. This status is particularly different. Based on their personalities, they will definitely use this to please the Emperor and will never allow the Royal Team to lose.

, but Qiyun Society is also very strong, and it’s really hard to say whether it will win or lose. If you want to ensure victory, you must use some means secretly, but then again, since you have used all the means, why not take the opportunity to make another profit?

One hundred thousand guan is quite a lot, and you can also use it to take revenge on me. You can get it all in one fell swoop. Their wishful thinking is really shocking. It’s just that they picked the wrong target. I grew up watching the national football team.

If you play with me like this, you are not seeking death."

"What national football team?"

"Oh. Well, uh, national football is used to describe this kind of behind-the-scenes cheating. It's a professional term for Cuju."

"Oh." Hong Bajin was half-informed and didn't bother to think about it, and said, "Then do you have any ideas?"

Li Qi smiled and said: "It's not possible to start with the Royal Team, and it's also very risky."

Gao Qiu said: "Maybe you want to start from Qiyun Society."

"Yes. Their gambling method is too risky, although the benefits are huge. As long as we can control one side, the hope of losing money will be greatly reduced. This is our advantage." Li Qidao: "The key to Qiyun Club is Zhang

Brothers, their goals are basically arranged by these two brothers. The important thing is that they are both arrogant people. We can take advantage of this. And the reason why they did not put all their money and spread their bets is that

They want to hide it, but unfortunately the lottery has just started and they don’t know the market situation. They think we can’t see it. Why don’t we pretend not to know. In this way, we are hiding their secrets. Besides, the Cuju game can determine the outcome last time.

It’s not just two teams.”

Gao Qiu raised his eyebrows and said, "The referee you're talking about?"

Li Qijian smiled and said: "The referees are all our people. They can't be bribed. Since they want to play dirty tricks with us, we don't have to do it openly with them." He thought to himself, well, Wang

Fu, this time I'm going to try my luck with you to see if your luck has come to an end.

Gao Qiu said: "But the referee of the finals is Liu Haozheng. He is not one of our people."

Li Qi chuckled: "Isn't there a vice president? Mr. Liu can't take care of the overall situation. We just need to get stuck at the key points."

The three of them looked at each other, and a hint of smile appeared on their lips.

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To be continued...