Chapter 48 Fair Trade (II)
After Wu Xiaohu recovered from the pain, Fang explained the reason for his injury. The pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info was originally injured by an iron block falling from the boat while carrying the dragon boat.
"How can there be iron in the boat?" Qin Zhong asked.
"It seems that someone put it in before, saying that it was to press the boat and prevent it from capsizing during the Dragon Boat Boat Race."
Yin Qianhe said: "Brother Little Tiger, your fist is so powerful that it hurts like this, how big is that piece of iron?" ā
Wu Xiaohu said: "I was carrying things hard at that time, and I was smashed coldly, so I became like this, blaming myself for being useless." ā
He looked at his right arm that was tied around his neck, and said to Qin Chong: Second master, I hurt my hand, I'm afraid I won't be able to train in the next few days, let's go back in a few days. ā
Qin Zhong soothed: "These are all trivial matters, don't care." ā
Yin Qianhe said: "What else do you want to train?" It is said that it takes a hundred days to break the muscles and bones, and how can there be a few days. ā
"We rough people in the mountains and wilderness, where do we need a hundred days. Moreover, there are still more than ten days before the Dragon Boat Festival, and I can't wait that long. ā
Qin Chongdao: "You still don't want to participate in this year's dragon boat race, it's the right thing to take care of your injuries." If the broken bone is not well maintained, it is easy to leave it behind. ā
"Then how can it be done, if the dragon boat lacks drumming, it will not be able to row well."
"I'll find another way to do this, I can find another drummer. If you can't find someone else, then you don't compete, and there's no need to put your arm on it. ā
Wu Xiaohu shook his head, "No, no, our goal this year is to win the first place for three consecutive years, the brothers are all training for this ruthless time, and we can't let everyone's efforts be in vain because of me." Besides, the good drummers at this time have been invited away by other families, and it is not easy to find, and those who are casually found don't know whether they are good or not. ā
At this time, Yin Qianhe spoke: "I heard that you are worried about the lack of drummers in the dragon boat race, right, so why don't you look for me?" ā
"You?" Qin Zhong and Wu Xiaohu turned their heads to look at her at the same time.
Wu Xiaohu laughed even more, "How can you do it with a girl?" ā
Yin Qianhe raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Who stipulated that girls can't participate?" Haven't you heard a word? Ten strong men may not be able to beat ten weak women. Dragon boat rowing is not all hard work, but more important is skill, not to mention drummers.
There are dragon boat races in my hometown every year, and I have been rowing since I was a child, and I participated in the county dragon boat races for two years and won the second and third places, and I was a drummer. ā
She is not lying when she says this, she is quite advocating dragon boat racing in that hometown a thousand years later. Although it gradually became a commercial activity, and the performance was better than the competition, it was true that when she was a child, she did "real swords" and work hard. The dragon boat races in the county she spoke of were when she was in middle school.
When Yin Qianhe talked about these childhood pleasures, he couldn't help but boil his blood for a while, but Qin Chong's words poured cold water on him.
"Didn't the girl grow up in the capital? In which county did you participate in the dragon boat race? ā
Obviously, Qin Zhong doubted the credibility of her words.
"Well, this, of course, is in my mother's hometown. Don't question whether my mother is a foreigner, this is disrespectful to the deceased. Anyway, I'll just do it. If you'd like, we might as well make a deal. ā
She thought of a fair way to let Qin Chong take a stake in Yun Xiangyi, so that she didn't have to take advantage of him, and she didn't have to owe him favors, and gave him a necessary reason.
"What deal?"
"I'll help you go to the dragon boat race and win three consecutive championships, and you will agree to my request just now. What do you think? It's fair, just and open, right? ā
Wu Xiaohu said, "Miss Yin, what are you going to let the second master do?" You can't blackmail the second master because of this. ā
Yin Qianhe shook his hand and said, "I just asked your second master to invest some money in my store." But a little fifty taels is just a drop in the bucket for him, so it's not a threat. ā
"That's not a big deal, the second master does business for thousands of silver, and he doesn't care about this fifty taels. Second master, why don't you let Miss Yin give it a try first? No, let's just not make this deal. But if it does, it will save us the trouble of finding someone. ā
Qin Zhong saw that Wu Xiaohu was very persistent in dragon boat racing, and Yin Qianhe was full of confidence in herself, so he promised to let her try it. If she's a connoisseur as she says she is, consider closing the deal.
Yin Qianhe asked, "How do you want to try?" ā
Wu Xiaohu said: "Of course we will try it on the dragon boat, our dragon boat is still in the river at this time, let's go." ā
"You just hurt your hand, and you still want to go? It doesn't hurt. ā
"It hurts, but it's nothing. I think I used to hunt in the mountains, and I was injured much worse than this, and in the end it was not well. Moreover, I only hurt my hand, not my eye, and I can always watch from the side. ā
"Well, I just happen to be free at this time."
Wu Xiaohu and Yin Qianhe agreed, and Qin Chong had to second. The three of them went to the Qin family's dragon boat training place by the river.
Dragon boat training is in the tributary section of the river with few cargo ships and few people, so as not to affect shipping, after all, the biggest use of the Tongji River that passes through the city is for freight, not recreation.
When the three of them arrived at the river, they saw that there was dragon boat training in the river, and there was more than one. But they recognized the Qin family dragon boat at a glance, because there were no drummers.
Yin Qianhe saw that the dragon boat had not yet been equipped with a dragon head and a dragon tail, and the hull alone was six or seven zhang long. Twenty or thirty hand-scratchers and helmsmen sat on the ship, training without drummers by shouting slogans in unison.
Wu Xiaohu ran to the nearest place and shouted towards the boat, and the boat stopped moving forward and slowly turned around and came this way.
When the people on the boat heard that a girl was going to be the drummer, they shook their heads and said no. But the owner had an order and had to obey.
Yin Qianhe was eager to try the dragon boat when he saw it, and as soon as he got the consent of the crew, he rolled up his sleeves and rolled up his skirt and got on the boat.
She stood in the middle of the boat, held her hands and said to the crew: "Brothers, today the little girl is here to sacrifice her ugliness." First, though, let me try the drums. ā
As soon as he spoke, he picked up the drum in the boat and beat it on his own, only to hear the rhythm of the drums of "bang " and "bang bang" sounded distinctly. The crew members were in high spirits and prepared to sail with the pulp.
The drumming stopped, and Yin Qianhe signaled to Wu Xiaohu on the shore that he could give the order to start the boat. Wu Xiaohu immediately issued an order, Yin Qianhe listened to the order to beat the drum, scratched his hand and listened to the drum and paddle, and the transition in the middle was only a moment, and the dragon boat moved with this series of actions to break the water. As the drum beat gets faster and faster, the dragon boat gets faster and faster, and when it reaches a certain speed, it stabilizes.
Wu Xiaohu and Qin Zhong stood on the shore and watched, feeling that Yin Qianhe was really a person with experience in dragon boat racing, the drum beat was not impatient, not fast or slow, very stable, and would adjust the correct speed according to the scratching hand and the water situation.
After trying it out, Yin Qianhe got off the boat panting, and he didn't care about resting, so he ran to Qin Chong's side, holding his belly with one hand and his heart with the other, "Qin Er, master, how is it?" IāI'm knocking on it well, do you want to make this deal with me? ā
Before Qin Zhong could speak, Wu Xiaohu said excitedly: "Miss Yin, you are really good." ā
Qin Chong then said: "It does prove that the girl can beat the drum, but she is not very tacit in the cooperation with the scratching hand, so I am afraid that I will not be able to win the first place in the competition." Moreover, I think the girl seems to be a little physically exhausted, we have to row ten miles in the competition, can the girl persevere to the whole distance? ā
"I can, I, Yin Qianhe, have never given up halfway." Yin Qianhe stood up straight and said firmly, "As for the tacit understanding, because it is the first time for me to cooperate with them, of course there will be some problems, but isn't there still time?" I can practice every day for the rest of the day and be able to match when it comes time to compete. ā
Wu Xiaohu also persuaded from the side: "Second master, I think Miss Yin can, or invite her." ā
Qin Chong thought for a moment and said with a smile: "Okay, then we'll settle it." ā