Chapter 10

Gu Shizhang seemed to be a kind person. He even took her to see the horses in other stables. He was obviously very familiar with the horses in the racecourse and took her to see some of the ones he liked.

In this way, Ye Tianhui saved a lot of effort.

You know, there are hundreds of racehorses in this racecourse. If she looked at them one by one by herself, it would take a lot of effort, and she might be discovered by the staff here at any time and kicked out directly.

Now with Gu Shizhang, an insider, leading her and giving her some pointers, it is naturally more efficient.

After seeing more than a dozen horses like this, her guard against Gu Shizhang was also reduced a lot.

She didn't want to care what this person was thinking. Anyway, he probably didn't have the memory of a saint, and at present, he didn't want to report her, which was enough.

Gu Shizhang led her out of the solitary stable and swaggered to other stables to look at. He explained the various rules of the Jockey Club to her as he looked.

He explained it in great detail, even more detailed than the "Horse Racing Guide". After all, the "Horse Racing Guide" was aimed at those old horse fans who had a certain understanding of the rules, while Ye Tianhui was completely blank. There were some things in the "Horse Racing Guide" that she didn't quite understand.

Now, after Gu Shizhang's explanation, she understood the age requirements and scoring rules of the new horse race, and also understood the detailed regulations of the subsequent classes of competitions. It turned out that this was also divided into stallions, geldings and mares, and the points for each type of horse participating in the open race were actually different. In addition, the requirements for racehorses born in the northern and southern hemispheres were also different.

Gu Shizhang said, "The racing season will start in two months. If you have read the horse racing magazines, you should have seen the schedule in the horse racing magazines, right?"

Ye Tianhui nodded, "Yes, I saw it."

Gu Shizhang: "Chaoguang will also compete at that time, but it will be a class one, and it will be a handicap race."

Ye Tianhui: "Handicap?"

Seeing that Ye Tianhui didn't understand this, Gu Shizhang explained, "Although Chaoguang hasn't participated in the race for a year due to a leg injury, it has achieved very good results on the British racecourse. Based on its past results, it must give up weight to other horses according to the rules when competing with the class one horses this time."

Ye Tianhui understood: "It just needs to be given some weight?"

Gu Shizhang Shi Zhang smiled and nodded, "Yes, according to the rules of horse racing, for the sake of fairness and to make the competition more suspenseful, horses that have participated in the competition must give way to those that have not participated, horses with higher scores must give way to horses with lower scores, and in age competitions, older horses must give way to younger horses."

Ye Tianhui suddenly realized, "The goal is to smooth out the talents of the horses and let them start from the same starting line as much as possible. Only in this way will horse racing be interesting and suspenseful, and every horse has a chance."

Gu Shizhang nodded, "Yes, if Shaoguang's international rating is one point higher than other horses, it will have to bear an extra pound of weight. Because Shaoguang's historical score is too high, it may have to carry sixty-three pounds this time."

Sixty-three pounds?

Ye Tianhui roughly calculated and frowned: "This is too much of a loss!" He

had stopped competing for a year because of a leg injury. Now that he has returned from the injury, he is not sure if he will achieve any results. As a result, he has to carry 63 pounds more than other horses. How can he achieve results?

Gu Shizhang smiled and said, "Its former glory has become a burden today. Let's try to participate in this competition and see how it goes."

What he meant by "see how it goes" is that if the performance of the light-catching is not good and the score drops, then there is no need to give up the weight.

Of course, when there is no need to give up the weight, the reputation will also decline, and the value will also drop.

This is a process of dynamic adjustment. If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. The higher the fear, the more you have to bear. That's the truth.

Ye Tianhui took a deep breath and thought to herself, it seems that there are many tricks in this competition.

You can't win just by looking at the horse, you must understand the rules thoroughly and rely on some skills, otherwise it will be a waste of money if you rush in!

As the two of them walked and talked, Gu Shizhang told Ye Tianhui about some other invisible rules, such as "handicap" is not only related to the previous scores of the racehorse, but also needs to take into account various other conditions, even including the situation of the jockey.

He explained to her in detail: "For example, our local trainee jockeys in Hong Kong can also get the opportunity to reduce the weight if they are in the internship period."

Ye Tianhui: "Then we can let Mi Guang work with an trainee jockey, so that he doesn't have to carry so much weight."

Gu Shizhang: "Yes, but it depends on whether it is necessary."

Ye Tianhui: "If you use an trainee jockey specifically to reduce the weight, then you are showing your weakness first."

To put it bluntly, for Mi Guang, a racehorse that has won great honors in Europe, it is an opportunistic shame and it is damaging its pride.

While talking like this, the two of them also met some other staff members. Seeing other staff members, Ye Tianhui naturally felt a little guilty and wanted to hide away.

Gu Shizhang, however, was very upright. A staff member saw this and nodded slightly to him, looking quite respectful.

When they reached a place where no one was around, Ye Tianhui asked curiously, "Are you doing well here?"

In the sunlight, Gu Shizhang tilted his head slightly, pondered for a moment, and then smiled and said, "Not bad. I did well at the South African Equestrian Festival. Maybe it's because of this."

Ye Tianhui: "Then you are very famous."

Gu Shizhang: "Not really. I am just a jockey, a person working behind the scenes. The really famous ones are the jockeys on the field. They are the ones who get the limelight and make a lot of money in the front."

Ye Tianhui thought about it and said, "For example, Ke Zhiming? He is a very famous jockey, right?"

Gu Shizhang: "Yes, this Ke Zhiming is also a legend. He is the first generation of local jockeys in Hong Kong. He broke the monopoly of foreign jockeys in Hong Kong and opened a new era of horse racing in Hong Kong."

Ye Tianhui nodded, thinking about going back to learn more about Ke Zhiming. Now that she has almost explored the racecourse, she should hurry up and run.

It doesn't matter whether Gu Shizhang is good or bad, she will run first, and he can't cheat her.

Who knew at this time, Gu Shizhang suddenly said: "You can have snacks in the lounge here, do you want some?"

Ye Tianhui listened, her heart moved: "Snacks, are they delicious?"

Gu Shizhang: "Of course they are delicious. The snacks in our restaurant are first supplied to the VIP member area outside, but there will be some left over, and these leftovers are placed in the staff lounge. If you are outside, you have to spend a lot of money to eat them, but we can eat them for free."

Free?

Ye Tianhui was really tempted, but she still pretended to say, "Forget it, this is not good, I'd better go first."

Gu Shizhang: "If you don't want to eat, then forget it, I'll take you out?"

Ye Tianhui: "Yes."

Gu Shizhang really took Ye Tianhui out, and as they walked, Ye Tianhui felt that he didn't seem to have any bad intentions, at least he didn't mean to catch her when she was not prepared.

She thought about the snacks in the VIP room, which should be very good, very expensive, and ordinary people can't eat them easily.

Since she encountered such a good thing, why didn't she just try it?

But Gu Shizhang in front of her was indeed unpredictable.

Ye Tianhui was struggling between food and safety. After struggling for a while, she finally said, "Oh, I suddenly feel like I'm a little hungry."

Gu Shizhang: "Oh?"

Ye Tianhui: "Actually, it's good to eat something before leaving."

Gu Shizhang: "If you want to eat, I'll take you there?"

Ye Tianhui certainly didn't go. She couldn't go indoors. She had to stay in this open place. In this way, if there was any accident, she could run away. She didn't believe that the staff here could catch up with her.

Moreover, she also wanted to test whether Gu Shizhang dared to leave her here alone. If he had bad intentions, he would definitely be afraid that she would run away and follow her closely.

So she looked at him and smiled, "No, go get some and we can eat outside, okay?"

Gu Shizhang didn't say anything, but nodded slightly, "Okay, I'll get some delicious snacks, there's a pavilion behind the track, we can go there to eat."

He added, "Don't worry, no one will be suspicious."

Ye Tianhui: "Okay!"

This is naturally good for her. The pavilion he mentioned is right next to the wall, and she can climb over the wall anytime she wants to run.

Gu Shizhang: "Then you wait for me?"

Ye Tianhui nodded repeatedly.

Gu Shizhang smiled at Ye Tianhui, and then went to the rest area over there.

Ye Tianhui stood by the track, looking at Gu Shizhang's back.

He was very tall, and his simple and neat clothes made him look refreshing, leisurely and sunny.

She recalled the look in Gu Shizhang's eyes when he looked at her just now, warm and smiling, friendly and sincere.

What did he want to do?

She thought of the emperor in the distant era, what kind of look did he have when he looked at her?

She recalled it, but her memory was a little fuzzy.

Maybe he was like this when he was young. He would look at her with a smile, call her Huihui, and practice sword with her in the mountains.

At that time, he was tolerant and gentle, like an older brother in her heart.

But later, he became more and more powerful, and became deep and unpredictable. His expression was always as calm as a mountain, making it impossible to tell whether he was happy or angry.

Of course, when Ye Tianhui returned to the court, it must have been a great victory, and the court and the people must have been happy. The emperor who used to be serious seemed to be gentle, and would talk to her in a very approachable way, asking her about her battles outside, and seemed very concerned.

But Ye Tianhui still felt that his temperament was unpredictable.

Maybe they were very close in the past, after all, they grew up together, but later that kind of closeness was no longer there.

Even if he smiled at her gently and talked to her about their youth, she still felt that there was a huge gap between the monarch and his subjects, separated by the layer of crown that symbolized authority.

After all, she was a general in charge of military power, and the emperor in the capital might have been wary of her. And in her seemingly carefree conversation, she also had some caution as a subject.

At this time, under the sunlight from another world, the casually dressed man walked away, and Ye Tianhui slowly withdrew her gaze.

She paced under the shade of a tree, thinking about her next response.

Who knew at this time, she saw a group of people talking and laughing and walking towards the house.

Judging from the clothes of those people and the bodyguards and staff surrounding them, their identities were naturally not ordinary. They should be members of the Jockey Club, led by three or five young men and women -

Ye Tianhui looked at this and suddenly realized something. She carefully identified them and found that it was indeed them.

She had seen Ye Wenyin's photo in that magazine. Although the makeup in the photo was a little heavy and she looked different from now, she could still recognize that one of them was Ye Wenyin.

This Ye Wenyin had a smile on her face and looked good-tempered, elegant and gentle.

Ye Tianhui's eyes quickly swept over several people on the side and recognized at a glance that one of them was Gu Zhihan from the Gu family.

This Gu Zhihan looked better in person than in the picture, with narrow eyes and clear lines. He wore a brightly printed vest with a solid-colored shirt and a pair of very special jeans underneath. He

was very arrogant and cold, but also a little unruly.

As for the people around Ye Wenyin and Gu Zhihan, they were all about the same age, and each of them was dressed elegantly and fashionably. They were most likely the young masters or young ladies of the Ye or Gu families.

Just as they were looking at them, Gu Zhihan suddenly looked over, his eyes were fierce and full of disdain.

Ye Tianhui felt it and frowned slightly.

Gu Zhihan curled his lips sarcastically, smiled, and then ordered: "Come here."

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