i am a football star

Chapter 3 Untitled
Liu Ting's family can only be regarded as poor in Monaco, at least in terms of the size of the house, it is only a little over 100 square meters.

Liu Ting's home is in the old town of Monaco, which was the earliest prosperous area of ​​Monaco, but now the most prosperous place in Monaco is in the Monte Carlo area in the north, where there are world-famous Monte Carlo Grand Casino, Monte Carlo Opera House, Monte Carlo Ocean Spa and other good places for a series of luxury enjoyment, and it is also a golden cave.At the same time, Monte Carlo also has the Monte Carlo Formula 1 racing track. During the F5 race in May every year, Monte Carlo will become quite crowded, and the hotels will be full. Even the prices of hotels in nearby France will rise accordingly. You can watch the F1 racing cars from the roof of a house in Monte Carlo, so the house price there is the most expensive in Monaco.Needless to say, there are other tennis tournaments such as the Monte Carlo Masters.

Although the old town of Monaco is not as good as Monte Carlo today, it also has its own characteristics. This is the earliest Monaco residential area, as well as the Monaco Royal Palace. Now the Monaco royal family and dignitaries also live here. There is also the famous Monaco Football Club and its home stadium Louis II Stadium nearby.

Liu Ting also grew up here, and he is also a Monaco fan, so he told his agent that he could return to Monaco to play football. Now Liu Ting fully believes in his ability. After half a year of sandbagging training, he will definitely make great progress.As the saying goes: If wealth and honor do not return home, it is like walking in brocade clothes at night.

Liu Ting returned to his home with ease, and saw a familiar figure as soon as he opened the door.

"Grandpa Fu, why are you here?" In front of Liu Ting was a grey-haired old man, about 60 years old, looking very energetic.This old man is Liu Ting's legal guardian. After Liu Ting's parents died, Liu Fu became Liu Ting's guardian.

"Isn't it going to be your 18th birthday soon? Your grandfather is worried about you being alone, and he is busy with company affairs, so he asked me to come and take care of you." Liu Fu looked at Liu Ting kindly and said.

After Liu Ting's parents passed away, there was only one grandfather in the world.When the family immigrated to Monaco, the old man was unwilling to leave his hometown and stayed in Hong Kong. Liu Fu has been living in the Liu family since he was a child. It is said that he had a lifelong friendship with Liu Ting’s grandfather. He watched Liu Ting’s father and Liu Ting grow up, and he always regarded Liu Ting as his own grandson.

"Is grandpa okay?" Liu Ting asked.

"Fortunately, it's just that the company is very busy and I don't have time to see you."

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The next day, Liu Ting ate a bowl of longevity noodles that Liu Fu cooked for him in the morning.

Having nothing to do, Liu Ting went out for a walk, and soon turned to the gate of the Monaco club, but the winter break of Ligue [-] was coming soon, and the Monaco team went to an away game.

Monaco Club is the only football club in Monaco, but Monaco is too small to have its own league. It participates in the Ligue 03, and it can be regarded as a strong team in Ligue 04. In the 0/3 season, Monaco reached the Champions League final under the leadership of Didier Deschamps, but it could only achieve the prestige of Mourinho. Monaco could only end sadly. At that time, the Prince of Monaco who went to watch the final in person quietly left the field when he was [-]:[-] behind Porto at halftime.

Liu Ting also wanted to join the Monaco youth training at the beginning, but after thinking about it, he went to Barcelona. The name of the La Masia youth training is known all over the world.

Turned around at the gate of Louis II Stadium, Monaco's home stadium, but Liu Ting didn't go in.At present, the Stade Louis II is quite well-known as the venue of the European Super Cup every year, and every year after the European Super Cup, fans from all over the world will pay attention to Monaco.

After wandering around the Louis II Stadium for a while, Liu Ting went to Monte Carlo. Although it was Christmas soon, Monte Carlo was still full of people coming and going.In Europe and the United States, Christmas is an even more important festival than Chinese New Year.

Walking on the streets of Monte Carlo, the roadside is full of luxury fashion brand stores, as well as various casinos, entertainment and leisure venues, Aston Martin, Lamborghini, etc. are everywhere on the road.

Liu Ting, who was bored, finally entered a casino. Maybe Liu Ting was mature, and the security guard at the entrance of the casino let him in directly.

That is to say, in a city like Monaco, which is dominated by tourism and gambling, if Christmas is closed in other parts of France, there will still be places for entertainment there.

The casino is very small, and it is completely incomparable with the luxurious casinos of the Monte Carlo Casino, but the decoration inside is quite exquisite, which makes people feel very good.

Liu Ting exchanged 500 Euros to play, randomly chose a slot machine to sit down, put coins to bet, and lost money.Liu Ting was unlucky today and lost money in a row.As a person who has lived in Monaco for several years, Liu Ting knows that in casinos, these seemingly inconspicuous slot machines often bring a lot of income to the casino, and even 70% of the annual income comes from slot machines.

Because many of the people who play at the gaming table are professional gamblers or tricksters, these people are often very good at counting cards, it is not easy to win their money, and it is even more difficult to win a large amount of money. People who lose a lot of money at the gaming table are often bad gamblers or upstarts who come to lose money to save face. It is difficult to meet such a person for several days.Many people who enter the casino tend to be like Liu Ting, who take hundreds or thousands of euros to play casually, and the slot machine is the simplest and clearest.

About 80% of people who enter the casino for the first time will play slot machines, which is really simple and easy to understand.Also, slot machines don’t just win but don’t lose. There is always someone who is lucky enough to win money on a slot machine, which will attract other people to play.

A person’s hundreds or thousands of euros are insignificant compared to the money on the gaming table, but there are countless people with this kind of mentality for playing. There are basically people inserting coins in front of the slot machine at any time, and the accumulation has reached a large part of the casino’s money.

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In less than an hour, Liu Ting lost all his 500 Euros.

When standing up, Liu Ting heard someone beside him scolding: "Merde!!!"

Merde is a national curse in French, which is equivalent to TMD in Chinese or shxt in English. If you meet a Frenchman for the first time and you have merde in your mouth, at least the other person will think that your French is very good.

Liu Ting looked in the direction of the voice, she was a blonde beauty with a good figure, but it was obvious that she lost money just now.

Liu Ting looked at the beauty carefully and walked over.Liu Ting recognized the other party, it should be Léa Seydoux, the future 007 Bond girl, a famous French actress, and a rich and beautiful woman. The elders in her family seem to be the boss and executives of a large French film company, but she is not so famous now, and has not yet become the new generation of French goddesses after Sophie Marceau.

Seydoux played a 10-euro slot machine, so he really was a rich second generation.Liu Ting just played the one that only played 5 Euros once.

Standing by the side, Liu Ting watched Saidu keep making bets, losing more than winning, just like slot machines.Soon she probably lost hundreds of euros, Liu Ting saw that the other party seemed to have only 50 euros in his hand, so he stopped her.

"Hi, Leya?" Liu Ting asked tentatively, it looked a bit similar, but I don't know if it was Leya Seydoux.

The other party looked up at Liu Ting strangely, as if asking how do you know me?

Liu Ting thought that he had to find a topic to talk about: "Uh, I think you have lost almost a thousand euros here, right? Can you try another one?" Liu Ting found an excuse to strike up a conversation and talked to her familiarly.

Saidu looked at Liu Ting's face. The reason for his handsomeness was that he thought Liu Ting was a male model or a young actor who happened to know her. In her impression, there was no such star in France, and there seemed to be no such star in Italy, but his face and hair color were closer to those of Italians, so he might be Italian.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Liu Ting explained: "If you lose a lot on one machine in a row, the loser will leave, and the others will win if they go to that machine again."

This is the setting in the legend of the slot machine. After a machine wins a large amount of money in a row, the next person who comes to play will win a small amount to attract customers to play.Although this statement has never been confirmed, it is true that the probability of winning is higher when you deliberately choose the machine that someone just lost money when playing. This is a consensus among people who often play.But it's not very accurate, Liu Ting didn't look for that kind of machine when he came in, he came here to play casually.

"Really?" Léa Seydoux looked at Liu Ting innocently.

"If you don't believe me, we can try it. It happens that you still have some money left." Someone next to him lost money and left. He lost about 3000 euros, so Liu Ting dragged Saidu over to try it.

Maybe I was lucky today, Léa Seydoux really won consecutively on this machine, and won about 500 Euros in a while.

Seeing that the other party was very interested and wanted to continue playing, Liu Ting hurriedly called her to stop, the machine will not let you keep winning.

"Hey Leia, how about we just stop here today after winning these? Shall we go out and hang out and get something to drink?"

Facing Liu Ting's invitation, Saidu raised his head and looked at him strangely, as if he wanted to determine what Liu Ting meant. After watching for a while, Liu Ting felt a little embarrassed. He really felt itchy when he saw the beauty, so he came to strike up a conversation.

(End of this chapter)