Chapter 129 What do you want to eat? Brother Huo will feed you
The men's dragon boat race ended quickly. Qin Huo had no interest in watching it. Instead, he asked someone to prepare a large boat to follow Tian Bao's dragon boat at any time.
This makes Tianbao very embarrassed. It's like when she plays games with her friends, her parents have to watch her, for fear that she will get bumped or bruised. If someone accidentally touches or pushes her, her parents will jump up and fight with the person.
He couldn't chase it away, and glaring at it didn't work either. Tianbao felt so frustrated.
But after all, she had just fallen into the water before, so she was embarrassed to be so willful as to ask Qin Huo to stay away, and could only turn a blind eye.
Qin Huo was well prepared. There was a woman missing from the dragon boat, so he quickly found someone else to replace her.
The dragon boat race begins.
Tianbao looked straight ahead seriously and tried her best. Each stroke was in time with the beat agreed upon by everyone in advance, which was the "one, two, one" rhythm proposed by Tianbao. There were more than 20 women on the boat, and they shouted in unison, which was quite impressive.
The other dragon boats were not pushovers either. After all, this was Daqi's first women's dragon boat race. The women who were brave enough to participate in the race all wanted to get a good ranking, after all, the rewards were generous and tempting.
Tianbao practices martial arts every day and has good physical fitness, so he didn't fall behind even after rowing the dragon boat for half the distance.
But the teams that were aiming for the prizes worked harder than her, gritting their teeth and paddling with all their might, causing Tianbao's dragon boat to quickly fall to fourth place.
Qin Huo raised his hand, half curled it into a fist, put it on the opposite side and coughed.
Among the first three teams, two teams suddenly lost their rhythm. One team quickly fell behind, while the other team made a slight adjustment and moved from first place to second place. Tianbao's team advanced to third place.
In the second half, everyone began to feel exhausted.
Tiny beads of sweat oozed out of Tianbao's face, sparkling in the sunlight.
Qin Huo felt so itchy that he really wanted to jump over and help her wipe the sweat off her face.
The girl was completely unaware of this, but her eyes became more serious, clearly seeing hope of victory and wanting to try harder.
Qin Huo murmured softly, "You have a strong desire to win. Who said that competition is second and participation is first?"
Seeing that only a short distance was left to the finish line, but Tianbao's dragon boat was still in third place, Qin Huo could only use the same trick again, raising his hand to his mouth and coughing lightly.
Not long after he put his hand down, the bow of the second-place dragon boat accidentally hit the tail of the first-place dragon boat. The rhythm of both teams of women was affected and they were temporarily thrown into disarray.
Tianbao's eyes lit up, and he shouted even harder with his teammates, filling his arms, which were so numb that they were almost numb, with strength.
As expected, Tianbao’s dragon boat won first place!
The reward was quite simple and crude: one hundred taels of silver notes per person, and a contract with the Saipan Furniture Store worth one hundred taels, similar to the shopping vouchers that Tianbao had seen in his previous life.
She was very excited at first, but when she saw how generous the reward was, she became unhappy instead.
There were about twenty people on a boat, and the cost of that boat was over 40,000 taels?!
What a spendthrift!
She knew how impoverished the Daqi imperial family was, and every concubine in the harem was struggling financially. Although there had been no more wars in recent years, Daqi had invested considerable money and manpower in governing the empire they had conquered, so life in the harem hadn't improved—it was still glamorous on the outside, but shabby on the inside.
But what could she do? She could only secretly give Qin Huo more money. After all, the reward was not hers alone. She was reluctant to let Qin Huo waste it, but she couldn't block the other women's financial path.
How could she know that the three dragon boats that had "accidentally" fallen behind had gathered in the alley after the race, waiting for Qin Huo's people to give them "eye-watching fees" one by one. After all, someone had already quietly told them to let Princess Yongle win first place without leaving any trace.
The reason why they rowed so hard was, firstly, to get the "eyesight fee", and secondly, to compete for second or third place to get the competition prize. The two sums of money would be too generous!
After the game, Qin Huo took Tian Bao to the restaurant owned by the Yao family for dinner.
Tian Bao hesitated several times, wanting to persuade him not to be so extravagant, but afraid of hurting his pride, so she could only casually take out a banknote and say, "I won the game, this meal is on me!"
He was so ambitious that he almost patted his chest when he said it.
chest……
Qin Huo's gaze subconsciously moved downwards. After she changed into her usual chest-length skirt, he couldn't tell that she had grown into such a graceful woman.
Although he couldn't see anything, Qin Huo quickly turned his eyes away and suppressed the urge to spurt blood in his nose.
After the food was served, Tianbao grabbed the chopsticks hungrily and wanted to pick up some meat.
She'd given it her all in the dragon boat race, leaving no stone unturned. Having never rowed before, she'd spent the entire morning practicing and competing. Now, as she barely managed to grab her chopsticks, she realized her hands were shaking so badly she couldn't even pick up a single serving of food!
She picked up the shredded pork with chopsticks three times and dropped it three times, her hands shaking as if she had an old age disease.
She decisively put down her chopsticks and silently used a spoon to scoop up the vegetables. She was still shaking violently, but she could barely scoop a spoonful into the bowl.
When she was about to raise her hand to her mouth, the girl couldn't help but twist her facial features in pain. Before she even brought the food to her mouth, she put the spoonful of food back into the bowl with a bitter face.
At this time, a shrimp was quietly handed to her mouth.
She glanced sideways and saw Qin Huo with a beautiful smile on his face. He said lovingly, "Why are you taking a competition so seriously? Your arms are so sore that you can't even lift them, right?"
These words could clearly be used to express gloating, but they sounded both distressed and helpless when he said them, and were an extreme form of doting.
The girl's heart skipped a beat for unknown reason, but she was so hungry that she didn't refuse Qin Huo's kindness and opened her mouth to bite the shrimp.
"What do you want to eat? Brother Huo will feed you." Qin Huo lowered his voice, which was a little low, a little hoarse, a little blurry, and a little charming.
The girl's heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably, and she looked away in panic: "No, I can do it myself."
No matter how you listen to it, there is a sense of shyness and helplessness.
She couldn't catch it quickly, so she simply reached out and picked up a braised pig's trotter. Unable to lift it, she lowered her head and started to chew on it.
His arms were so sore that they didn't feel like his own. He felt two pairs of burning eyes staring at him, and Tian Bao glared at them angrily: "What are you looking at? Just eat your own!"
Qin Huo smiled, picked up the deboned pig's trotter and brought it to her mouth: "Why are you being so polite to me? What's more important, politeness or your stomach, huh?"
Bumping into those eyes that were overflowing with doting, Tianbao looked around in panic, not knowing where to look at all.
The aroma of the pig's trotters was so tempting that she opened her mouth regardless and waited for Qin Huo to feed her.
In an instant, she put aside her shyness and said calmly, "I want to eat fish."
“I want to eat shrimp.”
"Another bite of eggplant..."
The young man was so busy feeding her that he didn't eat a single bite himself. Even so, he felt full just by looking at her pretty face.
How could he know that Tianbao suddenly remembered the contract that Xu Laiqing showed her before leaving Daqi -
Qin Huo only treated her as a sister and swore to treat her very well!
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