Chapter 14
The audience at the racecourse exclaimed in surprise, and the old men in front of the TV all widened their eyes and watched with bated breath.
Everything seemed to be in slow motion. "Pianpian Ru Yan" almost took off into the air, made a difficult turn, and landed on its front hooves, then continued to sprint forward.
At this time, 'Pianpian Ru Yan' was already on par with 'Invincible Warrior', but left 'Kuang Zai La La' behind.
Some uncles sighed and cried out in regret, while others shouted with their hearts in fear: "Invincible warriors, charge!"
The bald old man who had also bet on "Pian Pian Ru Yan" at the scene had been told by everyone that there was no hope at all. He was looking depressed and gloomy. But now, seeing this scene, he suddenly became excited.
His face flushed, his eyes fixed on the TV screen without blinking, and he roared excitedly: "My 'Pian Pian Ru Yan', 'Pian Pian Ru Yan', come on!"
Ye Tianhui also held her breath and stared at the screen without blinking.
This was not a big deal; it was not even as important as a small encounter she had in her previous life.
But now it is extremely important to her, as it concerns her money. She invested several hundred Hong Kong dollars, which is almost half of her property.
She had to win it back, she had to win it back.
A penny can make a hero fall. Now, for the once majestic general who assisted the country, the winning or losing of a horse is related to her food, clothing, housing and transportation!
The last few seconds seemed so long that my heart seemed to have stopped beating.
She just watched as 'Giant as a Swallow' and the 'Invincible Warrior' moved forward hand in hand, and their frantic running turned into slow motion in her eyes.
At the last second, finally, that 'graceful swallow' suddenly stretched forward -
This was accompanied by the crowd's incredible exclamations.
Not to mention the live audience on TV, even the old men in front of the TV were stunned.
Afterwards, everyone realized: "'Pian Pian Ru Yan' won the first place? 'Pian Pian Ru Yan' first place?"
The bald old man stared blankly at the field. He jumped three feet high and shouted, "I won, I won! I won, my 'Pianpian Ru Yan'!"
He shouted so loudly that the veins in his temples bulged out, and his voice was deafening.
The old men who had criticized Ye Tianhui before were dumbfounded: "This 'Pian Pian Ru Yan' actually won first place?"
An elderly man nearly cried, slapping his thigh in frustration and annoyance: "Wrong, wrong choice! I'm so unlucky!"
Some even hung their heads in dejection: "I'm so mad!"
Only the bald old man was practically dancing on the spot, which made everyone else very angry.
Ye Tianhui looked at this scene and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She had eight bets, she won the first game and only had four bets left, and now she won the second game and only had two bets left.
These two bets will depend on the final game.
If the last race is one of the two horses she chose, she will win the full prize. Judging from the latest odds today, the chances are estimated to be dozens of times higher.
Even if she is unlucky and fails to win the first prize, as long as one of the two horses is in the top two, she can still get a consolation prize.
As for the next game, she is actually relatively confident.
She stopped looking at it at that moment. Since she wouldn't have to pay any money, she went upstairs first.
She also wanted to continue researching her next bet.
She was actually too hasty and careless this time. She must study the rules carefully and try to make a big and sure one next time.
Of course, if she has time, she can contact Gu Shizhang and see if she can find a handyman to do the job. She can't just rely on horse racing. Otherwise, if she gets unlucky one day and loses all her money, she will have to starve.
As she stood up, the other old men suddenly remembered and exclaimed, "Sister, you won! You also chose 'Pianpian Ru Yan'!"
As soon as the old man said this, the others looked over, and everyone was envious and surprised.
One of the old men even asked, "Does Meimeizi have any tips?"
Ye Tianhui shook her head: "I didn't, I just chose randomly."
After saying that, she said goodbye to everyone and hurried upstairs under everyone's envious gaze.
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The last race seemed to be scheduled for later in the evening, so Ye Tianhui stayed in the room reading magazines, studying horse racing manuals, and researching the jockeys' situations.
Horse racing is like fighting a war. One has to study the right time, right place, right people, and right things. One also has to study probability, permutations and combinations, etc. Fortunately, she had been to school in this era and had learned these things in high school. Although she may not have learned them very well, she had some concepts and could handle the basic calculations.
There will be many opportunities in the next horse racing season. Since she won the first prize and made some money, she must work hard next time, take every step carefully and double her money little by little, so as to make some money through this season.
After that, she would settle down and find a job, or try to go to school here or something - of course, the premise is that she can earn enough money to support her own studies.
At noon, he casually rummaged through the box that Gu Shizhang had given him and took out a piece of barbecued pork. He then heated it up and ate it with the salty porridge.
I have to say, although both are barbecued pork, the one sold at the Jockey Club tastes better. Both the ingredients and the cooking method are probably top-notch, and it is many times better than the ones sold at street vendors.
————It seems that you still need money. In this colorful world, only rich people can enjoy delicious food.
After eating, she immersed herself in her studies for a while longer. Suddenly, she heard cheers coming from downstairs, so she tilted her ear to listen. However, the noise was too cacophonous, so she couldn't make out anything. She had no choice but to go downstairs and take a walk. She soon learned the results of the evening race.
Of the two horses she bet on, one came in first and the other came in second.
In other words, she only had two bets left, one full prize and one consolation prize.
Ye Tianhui was not too excited about this result.
The game she watched on TV downstairs in the morning had already exhausted her expectations. If she won that game, she would have already secured victory.
Now it's just a matter of finality.
The money was about to be in her hands, and she felt relieved. She looked at the time and saw that it was still early. There were still sounds of mahjong and laughter outside. She was not in a hurry to go to bed, so she took out the old magazines she had bought. There were quite a few articles about the Gu family and the Ye family in them, and she flipped through them one by one.
The old magazines that Ye Tianhui got were mainly filled with various gossips, melodramatic gimmicks, and sensational headlines and subheadings. They were so colorful that they looked unreliable at first glance.
However, from the words between the lines, Ye Tianhui still learned some information about the Ye family.
Old Master Ye, Ye Tianhui's grandfather, originally had a first wife in his hometown of Beijing. However, when he went to study in London, he fell in love at first sight with a female student from the mainland. After that, he returned to Beijing from London and brought that female student back as his second wife. In the early 1940s, he went from Beijing to Hong Kong and married two more wives there. He also had quite a few wives who were not properly married into the family and were kept outside.
In short, Ye Tianhui's grandfather can be said to have been a romantic man throughout his life, with many wives and concubines, and naturally many children.
Mr. Ye has a total of seven sons and three daughters. The eldest son and the third son were born to his first wife in Beijing. In the past, they were called legitimate sons - of course, that is not a big deal now.
The eldest son died young, and Ye Tianhui's biological father was the third legitimate son. When Ye Tianhui was born, his original wife had long passed away. Naturally, there were some intrigues in this matter.
Ye Tianhui speculated that the Ye family hurried to Hong Kong to develop, but only the third young master and the third young mistress were left behind. It was probably because of some intrigue.
She looked through it again, searching for information about her biological father, Ye Lixuan, the third young master of the Ye family, but there were only a few words mentioning that Ye Lixuan had returned from studying abroad and was teaching physics at Hong Kong University.
This father seems to have achieved some success in scientific research. He was once selected as a member of the Asian Young Scientists Program, was specially appointed as a professor by a well-known American university, and once won a scientific research award.
She didn't quite understand it, but she had a feeling that her father was a scientist and had achieved quite a lot.
This was good news for her. Based on her observations over two lifetimes, scholars in her era were always noble and principled, while modern people, especially intellectuals, at least maintained a certain bottom line as human beings - no matter whether it was true or not, at least it looked that way.
This kind of person values integrity and will not accept food given out of pity.
If he tried to recognize such a biological daughter like himself, the other party shouldn't be so cold-blooded and heartless, right?
She continued to read, and the rest of the gossip was about the three generations of the Ye family, that is, her blood cousins. Today, the third young master kept a little star, tomorrow the fourth wife attended a charity dinner and auctioned something, the day before yesterday, the second wife’s birthday was so luxurious and it was celebrated by upper-class people, and so on.
Of course, the possible marriage between the Ye family and the Gu family is now the focus of these magazines' hype.
It’s not only because the Ye family is a well-known family in Hong Kong, but also because of the status of the Gu family in Hong Kong.
The Gu family is originally from Fujian and immigrated to Malaysia in the early years. In the early 1930s, they shifted the focus of the family business to Hong Kong. In recent years, the Gu Group has developed rapidly in Hong Kong. The family business involves real estate, finance, hotels and other fields, spread across Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Ye Tianhui looked at the unfamiliar traditional Chinese characters and slowly read, "...a global multinational conglomerate integrating real estate, banking, and financial services. Its stocks are listed in Europe, America, and Singapore."
She continued reading, "Their family assets have now reached an astonishing amount, making them arguably the largest in Southeast Asia."
It looks amazing...
She continued to look through other magazines, and after searching for a long time she finally found the information about Gu Zhifan.
Gu Kanyuan, the head of the Gu family, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in his early years and later obtained a doctorate in business economics from Harvard University. He is now the chairman of the Hong Kong International Chamber of Commerce.
As for Gu Zhihan, he is the grandson of the second wife of Gu Kanyuan, the head of the Gu family. His name is Gu Zhihan. Gu Zhihan was sent to a top university in the United States since he was a child. He obtained his degree this year and returned to Hong Kong to work. In order to avoid family leniency, he first interned in a friend's company, hoping to accumulate experience before working for the Gu family.
Judging from the reports, this Gu Zhihan is obviously quite good-looking, and his appearance is really stunning, but his temperament is really bad, and his good looks are wasted.
Ye Tianhui continued to read, slowly flipping through the gossip, and saw that the media used an exaggerated tone to describe it, saying that "Gu Group controls the lifeline of the Three Kingdoms."
In comparison, the Ye family is naturally far inferior to the Gu family. If Ye Wenyin can marry the young master of the Gu family, it will naturally be of great help to her.
In this way, Ye Tianhui roughly guessed the situation of the Ye family.
A person like Mr. Ye can maintain the family business in the turbulent times and can decisively avoid risks at critical moments. This shows that he is a decisive and courageous person. Such a person must always focus on the greater interests of the family.
Whether a granddaughter is real or fake, perhaps she is just a tool in his eyes.
This tool can be used to cling to the Gu family, which means it is useful. She is his granddaughter, so he will naturally value her.
As for a granddaughter who was lost outside, not raised by his own family, and not known to be spoiled, he would not care too much about such a granddaughter. Even if he cared, he would not be so anxious, after all, he had many granddaughters.
Besides, the head of such a big family is usually a bit patriarchal. She is just a granddaughter, not a grandson.
Based on this speculation, Ye Tianhui was no longer very interested in going to the Ye family to recognize her relatives.
The Ye family is a large family, and there are bound to be some factional struggles within such a large family, as well as conflicts of interest and comparisons between different branches. These are all possible.
It is now obvious that if I go back, it will inevitably affect the position of Ye Wenyin, the daughter of the Ye family.
The Ye family and the Gu family are getting married, and the Ye family actually wants to get close to the Gu family. If that's the case, then my appearance would be an embarrassment to the Gu family, and would make the Ye family lose face in front of the Gu family.
In other words, his appearance would harm the interests of the Ye family and might make the Ye family a laughing stock. In this case, the Ye family's indifference towards him was understandable.
In the eyes of wealthy Hong Kong families like the Ye family, a northern girl from the mainland like her would definitely not be considered presentable, and only the granddaughter they carefully nurtured would be useful.
She subconsciously disliked Ye Wenyin, so there was no need for her to approach her shamelessly and be criticized by others.
As for his own father——
She could try to contact him privately. After all, they were blood relatives. If he had some affection for her, she could see his attitude. Whether he recognized her or not, it wouldn't be a bad thing to get some benefits in private.
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The next day, Ye Tianhui got up very early and made sure there was no one around. When the betting station opened, he was the first to go in.
She won one Sanbao main prize and two Sanbao consolation prizes. After the betting station owner verified it, he repeatedly said congratulations: "Congratulations!"
After congratulations, he quickly calculated the odds for Ye Tianhui. Because "Pian Pian Ruo Yan" was an upset this time, and Ye Tianhui's combination was rarely chosen, the odds were particularly high, as high as one to ninety-three.
Although only one-eighth of the HK$300 prize is the winning prize, the return is still very considerable due to the high odds, not to mention that there are two consolation prizes as a bonus.
After some calculations, she probably won 12.5 times the prize money. After the owner of the betting station calculated it for her, he finally exchanged it for nearly 4,000 Hong Kong dollars.
After redeeming the bonus, the boss was naturally very happy. He congratulated her repeatedly and asked her if she wanted to continue betting.
At this time, other guests also came one after another, and everyone looked at Ye Tianhui with envy.
Ye Tianhui didn't want to cause trouble, so she refused immediately. Naturally, she didn't dare to place any more bets and walked out with the four thousand Hong Kong dollars in her pocket.
She will continue to place bets, but definitely not at this betting station. In fact, she now has experience, and next time she places bets, she will have to place them at several betting stations and spread them out. This way, even if she makes money, it won't attract too much attention.
Who knew that as soon as she walked out of the betting station, she was stopped by someone, and standing in front of her were a few gangsters.
Ye Tianhui looked over and found that the two in the lead looked very familiar. She had met them a few days ago. It was obvious that they were following her a few days ago, and now they were officially looking for trouble.
They either wear colorful Hawaiian T-shirts, have hair gel all over their heads, have tattoos, cigarettes in their mouths, or even metal chains. Anyway, they look like scoundrels and are obviously not good people.
They stopped Ye Tianhui, tilted their heads to look at her, and then said with a smile: "Beautiful girl, you won the prize, you got rich?"
Ye Tianhui said calmly, "Yes, I've made a fortune."
As she spoke, she pulled out two hundred-dollar Hong Kong dollar bills from her pocket and said, "I won the prize. Here are two red-shirt fish. I'll treat you all to a drink. Please accept it."
A man of insight is a hero. Ye Tianhui can deal with Li San, or a single pervert, but she doesn't want to resort to force against a group of people like this.
She has always known what it means to be flexible.
Who knew that the man in the flowered shirt would just sneer and laugh: "You must have made a lot of money this time, two redwood fish, and you think you can shut us up? Are you treating beggars like that?"
As they spoke, these people moved forward, and seven or eight gangsters surrounded them.
Ye Tianhui remained calm, quickly observing the positions of these people and planning her next escape route in her mind.
This group of people are probably all martial artists, and they might even have guns in their hands. If she had seriously beaten these people in her previous life, she would naturally not have taken it seriously. However, she had not trained much in this life, so there was a difference in her physical condition.
A wise man never suffers a loss in front of him. If a big commotion is caused, given his current temporary resident status, she will be the one who suffers in the end.
Since they don't care about the two hundred yuan, he naturally has no choice but to run away.
However, it was obvious that these people were also experienced. A group of them approached her from different directions, almost blocking all her routes, making it impossible for her to escape.
Seeing this, Ye Tianhui sighed and reached into her pocket before saying, "In that case, I'll give you the money. Can I spend it to buy peace?"
Seeing this, the gangster laughed: "He who knows the current situation is a hero!"
Ye Tianhui nodded, then took out a handful of money from his pocket, and the moment he took it out, he suddenly threw it behind those gangsters.
The gangsters saw colorful banknotes flying all over the sky and immediately rushed to catch them.
At this moment, Ye Tianhui suddenly jumped up, and while they were not paying attention, she rushed out from between the two of them with a whoosh.
These people were caught off guard and when they looked closely, they realized that what they were holding was actually colorful advertising paper. They were furious and chased after it immediately!
Ye Tianhui didn't dare to stop and ran forward. She wanted to run to Hong Kong, so she actually put a lot of effort into training. She got up every morning to run, otherwise she would not have the energy to swim across the harbor.
But the problem is that those gangsters are not pushovers. They obviously do this kind of business on a daily basis and are familiar with the area.
Ye Tianhui suffered this loss. Although she had also looked at the terrain, she never thought that after passing through the rows of high-rise buildings, she would accidentally turn into a street corner. There were small stalls and vendors everywhere, and there were grocery stores everywhere, as well as people carrying loads and baskets!
It was inevitable that she would bump into people when running around on this kind of street, which caused dissatisfaction among a group of people. However, the gangsters behind her were familiar with the place and chased after her.
Ye Tianhui had no choice. She knew that if she fought hard, the other party had weapons and she would suffer.
It would be fine if the other party just robbed her of her money, but since she is a girl, she might be kidnapped or tied up by the other party. How could she endure such an insult!
As she ran, she saw a foundation church in front of her. There were stairs leading up the mountain, so densely packed that she couldn't see the top.
Seeing that the people behind her were catching up with her, she could only climb up all at once.
Who knew that just as she climbed up the stairs, she saw a figure coming out from the side. The person pulled her aside and said, "Follow me!"
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