I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 284. We can't let our brother be given to someone else!
In the second half of the Switzerland vs. Spain match, in the 52nd minute, Derdiyok broke into the penalty area and fell while dodging Casillas. Fernandez followed up with a shot that was blocked by goalkeeper Pique. Fernandez then scored from close range!

"Holy crap! Holy crap? Holy crap!"

Xu Qingfan was watching the game with Xia Xiaoxiao and his father in the living room. In just one minute, he witnessed Xu Aiguo go from being bewildered and stunned to being incredulous, and finally to standing up in a fit of rage and slapping his thigh.

"Dad, can you sit down and watch? You're blocking my view." He shifted his position with obvious disgust, continuing to watch the football match on TV.

Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up when she saw this, because Xu Qingfan moved towards where she was sitting. Originally, there was only a space between them, but after moving, their thighs were touching.

"Uncle, do you really like West Barnacles?" Xia Xiaoxiao asked with a strange expression after Xu Aiguo sat down again.

After all, he was a bit too emotional just now; he wasn't this excited when watching the national football team's match in 02.

"Haha, nothing of the sort, let's watch the game." Xu Aiguo laughed awkwardly, then looked away and focused intently on the match again.

"Ramos! Ramos!!" In the 60th minute, Xavi took a corner kick, and Ramos' header from 15 yards went wide. Xu Aiguo was so angry that he cursed loudly.

"Iniesta! Iniesta, make a difference! Iniesta, shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Damn!"

For the next thirty minutes, Xu Aiguo went back and forth between surprise and anticipation and rage and cursing. Although Xibanya kept pressing Zhongbiaoguo, he always messed up at crucial moments, and his shots either went wide of the goal or hit the goalpost.

Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao looked at each other, suddenly realizing that the World Cup wasn't that interesting anymore, and that his dad's live Sichuan opera face-changing performance was much better.

The two shared a bag of potato chips, their fingers occasionally touching. This level of physical contact was quite normal for these childhood sweethearts.

Moreover, both of them were focused on Xu Aiguo in Hongwen at the moment and really had no energy to spare for such things.

Xu Qingfan really wanted to interview his father and ask him if he had placed a large bet on West Bambaya to win.

Otherwise, unless someone is a gambling addict, Xu Qingfan would find it hard to imagine that someone could get so irritated watching a football match that they turn red in the face.

The last person in Hongwen who shouted "Stain, forever God" was later given a three-year probationary period for running a casino.

It wasn't until the 90-minute match ended, when Xu Aiguo slumped onto the sofa and reached for a cigarette, that Xu Qingfan spoke up to remind him, "Dad, this is home, you can't smoke here."

Xu Aiguo glanced down at the cigarette box and awkwardly pushed the half-pulled cigarette back.

"Dad, did you gamble on football?" Yao Jinping was playing on the computer in her room when Xu Qingfan asked in a low voice.

Xu Aiguo immediately widened his eyes and said, "What betting on football? I don't understand betting on football, it's boring!"

After he finished speaking, he picked up the empty wallet on the table, got up and left the living room, presumably to go to the rooftop for a smoke.

After he disappeared from the living room, Xu Qingfan and Xia Xiaoxiao looked at each other and then smiled at each other.

Xu Qingfan waved for the girl to come inside with him, "Let's talk inside."

The two sneaked back to their room, and after locking the door, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't wait to ask, "So you won ten million, right?"

"Pretty much, but it wasn't me who won, it was the company. The money will all be used for charity." Xu Qingfan kicked the power button on his computer and then sat down at the desk.

Xia Xiaoxiao sat down next to him and said, "How are you so amazing? You knew Switzerland would win 1-0 before the match even started?"

The girl spoke with pride, as if she had contributed to the prize money.

"That's nothing, I have something even more amazing, but I can't tell you," Xu Qingfan said with a very smug expression.

"Tch~ Do you believe I'll tell Auntie about your gambling on football?" Xia Xiaoxiao was quite curious about what this stinky dog ​​meant by "even more amazing," but she managed to control her curiosity well.

"Hehe~ Just kidding. Guess how many people on Weibo call me dad and how many call me husband right now?" Xu Qingfan was really afraid that his mother would find out about this, so he softened his tone.

After hearing this, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. [This stinky dog ​​always wanted me to call him "Dad" when he was little, and what's with "husband"? Other girls can't call him that, only me... I just can't!]
Seeing that the girl did not reply, Xu Qingfan did not continue to speak, and focused on moving the mouse to open the browser.

Then he clicked on the Weibo transfer station on the navigation website, but after clicking, the progress bar kept spinning, and after more than a minute, it simply disconnected and returned a 404 error.

Xu Qingfan had a vague suspicion, so he tried refreshing the page several times. Just when the two of them were about to lose patience, the webpage finally refreshed.

Xu Qingfan left his own account homepage on the transfer station. The moment the webpage loaded, even his top-of-the-line computer couldn't help but lag for a few seconds.

All the data displayed in the backend was in the red, the most outrageous being the number of followers. Yesterday, when he checked, the account only had more than 400,000 followers, but now the number of followers had already exceeded one million.

Xu Qingfan had reason to believe that if he refreshed the website again, the number of fans would continue to rise visibly.

"Ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, Xu Qingfan, how did you get so many fans?" Xia Xiaoxiao said incredulously after counting on her fingers.

Xu Qingfan blinked. He had thought that gamblers would go crazy, but he never expected them to go this far.

Clearly, even Xu Qingfan underestimated the influence of these few Weibo posts. Keep in mind that it was only 2010, and entertainment gossip was already scarce. His idiotic act of betting a million dollars on Switzerland and winning had already gone viral, and now that he had actually won, how could everyone not go crazy?

Although Xu Qingfan won't share the money with them, the World Cup isn't over yet. As long as Dongqiudi keeps giving orders, they'll definitely follow his lead this time!
Worried that the webpage would crash again soon, Xu Qingfan didn't check the comments immediately. Instead, he opened a text document on his desktop and copied and pasted a long article of over a thousand words that he had prepared beforehand.

The article essentially says that he is just an ordinary football fan who loves football. The reason he spent one million to bet on Switzerland to win was simply because netizens didn't believe him, so he wanted to prove himself out of spite.

Now that the results are in, he truly deserves the title of the world's number one football expert. At the same time, he will not take a single penny of the ten million yuan. Instead, he will entrust the Good Taste Delivery Company to establish a charity fund to build 100 Hope Primary Schools in impoverished mountainous areas, so that every left-behind child will have the opportunity to leave the mountains and witness the great rivers and mountains of the motherland!

Finally, manually tag @好味外卖 (Haowei Takeout) and click send after confirming everything is correct.

"Alright, time to sleep." After finishing all this, it was already close to 12:30 in the morning. Xu Qingfan clapped his hands, giving off a feeling of having accomplished his task and leaving without a trace.

Xia Xiaoxiao ignored him and kept looking down at her phone, grinning foolishly. Xu Qingfan leaned over to look and realized that the girl was scrolling through the comments section of his Weibo post about buying a million yuan in lottery tickets.

The screen was almost entirely filled with comments like "I'm sorry, football expert, I'm the fool." There were some people calling him "Dad," but very few calling him "Husband."

A 10-year-old girl is still quite reserved and wouldn't casually shout on the internet, "Husband, I want to have your babies" or "Master, please take care of me."

If this happened a few years from now, his inbox would probably be overflowing with revealing photos by now.

"These people are shameless. They were cursing you before, and now they know how to call you 'daddy'." Although Xia Xiaoxiao often teased him, she would definitely not stand for it if outsiders dared to say even the slightest bad word about her.

"It's the internet, that's normal. Who knows if the person on the other end is a human or a dog?" Xu Qingfan thought of the comment he saw in Zhang Chunxue's office that day. He really wanted to find that comment right now and confront him, asking him if he knew who was a human and who was a dog now.
However, he wasn't so idle as to be so bored. "Go back to sleep. Don't you know how late it is? A young lady comes to my bedroom in the middle of the night. What if I get taken advantage of?"

After hearing the second half of his sentence, Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes widened in astonishment, and she clenched her fists and punched him: "Shameless! What are you losing out on? I'm the one who's losing out!"

[You've taken advantage of me twice already, you perverted bastard, you filthy creep!]
"Why can't I be taken advantage of? Boys need to protect themselves when they're out and about. What do you want to do? Don't come any closer!" Xu Qingfan put on a convincing act, covering his chest and retreating to the head of the bed as if he was about to be humiliated.

"Pfft~ You idiot!" Xia Xiaoxiao suppressed her laughter, glared at him, and got up to leave.

"By the way, you won so much money, aren't you too excited to sleep?" Just before leaving, the girl suddenly turned around and asked him.

Xu Qingfan tilted his head. "Is it a lot? Not really, I think it's alright?"

Xia Xiaoxiao:
"Good night."

Goodnight to you too, go to sleep early, and don't stay up late playing games.

"Humph~"

After Xia Xiaoxiao left, Xu Qingfan kicked off his slippers and lay down on the bed. If nothing unexpected happened, Aunt Zhang had already uploaded the text she was going to post to Weibo. After the matter fermented for another day, they could start driving traffic to Haowei Takeout tomorrow night.

Moreover, he hadn't expected the Weibo post to be so effective. "Should we try to collaborate with Weibo's official channels?" he muttered to himself in his room.

I have a feeling that this massive amount of traffic shouldn't be so easily given to Sina Weibo. If Sina Weibo won't cooperate, I'll just cooperate with your competitor, Tencent Weibo, and see if you panic!
However, the actual operational matters should still be handled by Aunt Zhang; he can only be a figurehead like Zhao Kuo, who only talks the talk.

"Auntie, auntie, you're the best in the world!"

Xu Qingfan recited the slogan again. He opened his phone and checked the time; it was exactly 12:30 a.m. on the 17th.

I haven't seen Aunt Zhang for 26 hours, 30 minutes, and 8 seconds. I miss her.

Silent all night.

The following day, Zhang Chunxue's Maybach stopped early in the morning at the entrance of the Lotus Courtyard, picked up Xu Qingfan, and then hurriedly left.

"Auntie, am I awesome or not!" Xu Qingfan's first words after getting on the bus were to praise others. He proudly raised his head, his action director being Wang Yousheng from the TV series "Bright Sword".

Zhang Chunxue frowned slightly, raised her hand and tapped his head: "Yiyi, you tell him that your brother Niu is not allowed to use such vulgar words!"

"Yi Yi's here too?" Xu Qingfan turned around and saw Zhang Yi Yi sitting in the back seat of the Maybach. "Why didn't Wan Ning come along?"

"Wanning has gone back to the countryside with his aunt and uncle." Zhang Yiyi smiled as usual, showing no displeasure at her brother's immediate concern for Wanning.

"Oh, I see. I'll be going back in the next few days." Xu Qingfan nodded and didn't mention it again.

Lin Wanning's maternal grandfather passed away peacefully last year, and according to local custom, people should go back to pay their respects at this time of year.

"How about that, Auntie? Aren't I awesome?" Seeing Zhang Chunxue raise her right hand again, Xu Qingfan quickly changed his words.

Zhang Chunxue changed her approach from hitting to rubbing, and said with a smile, "We know how amazing our Xiao Fan is. This morning alone, several people have come to me wanting to do a special interview with you. Are you interested?"

"Would it benefit our company?"

Zhang Chunxue withdrew her hand, rested her chin on her hand, and thought for a moment. "Probably a little, but not much. The traffic is already quite high now. Auntie will give you a kiss as a reward when we get off the bus."

“I also learned head massage, so I’ll give you a massage later, Auntie,” he said, not forgetting the girl behind him: “Give Yiyi a massage too.”

"Thank you brother!"

“I know you mean well. I don’t care how you guessed Switzerland would win, but this is a one-time thing. In the end, it’s still gambling. Gambling is fine, but the key is that you can accurately know your chances of winning.” Zhang Chunxue put her hand on his head again and instructed him.

From Zhang Chunxue's perspective, it's common for betting companies to manipulate matches. There's no such thing as fairness in sports betting. It's just that Xu Qingfan's marketing plan was really good. Even if they lost the bet, they could still get some traffic from watching fools, so it wasn't a losing deal.

Xu Qingfan really wanted to say that he was 100% confident, but he couldn't explain it to her, so he could only nod and reply, "I understand, Auntie, just this once!"

Zhang Chunxue was very satisfied with his attitude; she saw no trace of a child's eagerness to prove himself, which was very much like her own youthful demeanor.

[I taught them well!]
Zhang Yiyi sat quietly in the back, listening to her brother and mother chat. For some reason, she felt a warm feeling of a family of three in the car.

A quiet and well-behaved younger sister, a smart and lively older brother, and a tolerant and loving mother—they are a happy and warm family of three, and they always have been!

Zhang Yiyi originally sat in the back so that she could sit next to her brother and get closer, but it's fine this way too. She can watch her mother and brother chat from behind. Yiyi is a girl who is easily satisfied!
[I must not let my brother go to anyone else!] To protect this warmth, the girl made a vow in her heart.

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