Chapter 092: A Changed Fate
Chapter 092 of the text changes the fate
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As soon as the horse race ended, Lu Xiancheng and Mei Qinrui returned to the ranch, and Mei Qinrui stayed until the start of school before returning to Shicheng with Lu Muzhi to prepare for the last year of college career. And in the next time, Lu Xiancheng spent his main thoughts on his mountaintop mansion.
Binshan Town can be described as changing with each passing day, more than 20 construction teams began to work in the town together, and every day the whole town will show a new look different from yesterday, and the excavation and construction made the whole town a big construction site.
Compared with the land that the town can not grab with money, the land in the county is too much to take, and soon some businessmen saw the business opportunities from it, and began to build a large hotel, the original county can not see a few ten-story buildings, and now seven or eight ten-story hotels have been built at once. Small business hotels and family hotels have also put up signs.
For the people of the small town, life has quietly changed.
The same is true for Gu Changhe, Gu Changhe is a high school graduate who should be in the world, his grades are okay, generally speaking, there is no problem in attending a first-class junior college, but this time the college entrance examination is not good, he did not be able to get into the ideal junior college, and he doesn't really want to go to the rest of the money, even if he wants to, he can't afford to study.
Usually for students who fail to make the list, one way is to repeat their studies, and the second way is to go out to work with their fellow villagers.
If there are conditions, of course Gu Changhe wants to repeat, but unfortunately the conditions at home can't support him to study for another year, because if he wants to repeat, his younger brother and sister with great grades will drop out of school, as the eldest son and the eldest man in the family, Gu Changhe has to press the idea of repeating in his heart.
"The Long River!"
As soon as he walked out of the gate of the school, Li Changhe heard someone calling him, turned his head and saw that it was his classmate, and immediately lifted his foot and got on the bicycle.
"Xu Jiaxi! Haven't you been admitted to university yet? Gu Changhe asked his classmates.
Waiting for Xu Jiaxi to stand in front of Gu Changhe, Gu Changhe had to raise his head and look at this high school tablemate, Xu Jiaxi was one meter seven five tall. And Gu Changhe's height is only one meter six, not only is he short but also very thin, a man is only less than a hundred pounds, in the words of the county, he is as thin as a chicken.
Xu Jiaxi said with a smile: "How can school start so soon." Our school has a number ten, what about you? Ready to repeat a year? ”。
Gu Changhe said: "Don't read it!" ”。
To be honest, the fact that he didn't play well this time made Gu Changhe secretly relieved, if he really got in, what would he do at home to let him study? If you really want to go to college by yourself, your younger brother and sister with better grades will have to drop out of school. Although he is a little reluctant to go to school, as the eldest son in the family, and the eldest son who does not have a father and mother to rely on, Gu Changhe feels that he should not think about it so much, and find a job to take on the responsibility on his shoulders first.
"What are you going to do without reading?" Xu Jiaxi asked in surprise.
"I'm going to work," Gu Changhe said with a smile, the situation in the county is much better now, and you don't have to go out of the county if you want to work, Gu Changhe is now looking for a job carrying a cement bucket on the construction site in Binshan Township, and at the end of the day, not only food and accommodation but also twenty yuan of wages can be taken. It's just that I'm not embarrassed to talk about this stubble with my classmates.
Xu Jiaxi asked, "Then what are you doing at school?" ”。
"Send something to my brother!" When it came to one thing, Gu Changhe couldn't help but straighten his thin chest.
This time, he not only sent more than 20 catties of rice to his younger brother. and a few cans and bottles of pickles pickled at home, as well as two hundred yuan of pocket money, all of which I have earned for more than a month, you must know that when I was in school, I didn't have so much, and I only had twenty-five yuan a month to eat some oil residue noodles outside the school a week, replenish some oil and water, and the rest was to go to the cafeteria to eat some fresh vegetables.
The younger brother stuffed the money into his younger brother's hand in a surprised gaze, and then calmly said something similar to eating something like that, Gu Changhe felt like an older brother for the first time, and the calmness and relief in his heart at this time also made Gu Changhe feel that his decision not to repeat was right. For me, the first thing is not to study, but to support the family with my mother.
Xu Jiaxi patted his pocket at this time and said, "Go!" I'm going to do it at noon today, let's have a drink! ”。
Gu Changhe immediately excused himself and said, "No, I still have something to do here." You have to be there before noon, sorry, next time, I'll invite you when you come back! ”。
"When did you kid get your hair off your body!" After Xu Jiaxi finished speaking, he didn't persuade much and said directly: "Be careful when riding!" ”。
If someone else said this, Gu Changhe's heart would definitely be sad. But he knew that Xu Jiaxi was not very brainy, and his temperament was not the kind of person who was cautious, so he just waved his hand to his old classmate and stepped on the bicycle as if he hadn't heard anything to pluck his hair.
After riding for almost fifty minutes, Gu Changhe rushed to the construction site, leaned his bicycle against the wall, changed into dirty work clothes and prepared to start work.
"Uncle Yuan, I'm not too late" Gu Changhe reached out and picked up the bucket while talking to his foreman, and walked towards the cement pile.
Ji Laoyuan is in the same village as Gu Changhe, but they are not in the same group, Ji Laoyuan organized a group of children from the same village to work here, including Gu Changhe, all of whom are in the same village and Gu Changhe's baby is too thin, and he is more or less taken care of by Ji Laoyuan when he works.
"It's not late, it's not late!" Ji Laoyuan saw Gu Changhe reach out and pick up the bucket, waved his hand to signal him to put down the bucket in his hand, and came over to have something to say.
"What's the matter?" Gu Changhe put down the bucket in his hand, walked up to Ji Laoyuan, watched the old man's thin palm pat on the bricks on the ground, and sat down.
Ji Laoyuan looked at Gu Changhe and said: "Changhe, I heard that what kind of horseback riding apprentices and horse training apprentices are recruited here, the requirements for culture are not low, you kid has been clever since he was a child, and he also has the culture to try it!" ”。
"Uncle Yuan, that's not called horse training, that's called horse trainer and jockey! I don't want to go, what if I go to my house? In the first year, there was only one or two hundred yuan per month in subsidies, which is not as much as what I earn in five days now" Gu Changhe has heard that the racecourse recruits apprentices, and I heard that it is still a bunch of blonde foreigners who teach this.
This news is good news for many people in the county who graduated from high school and could not get into college, providing new employment opportunities.
But Gu Changhe didn't think that this news had anything to do with him. Although the prospect is good, I don't have that blessing on my side, and now what I have to do is how to send my younger siblings to college, and prepare tuition and living expenses for them, instead of getting an apprenticeship of 100 yuan a month.
Ji Laoyuan immediately frowned when he heard this: "You are going to do this job for the rest of your life?" ”。
Although Ji Laoyuan has no culture. But I still have a little eyesight to go south and north over the years, and I know that this time recruiting jockeys and trainers may be the best way out for this poor child, and if I miss this time, this life may be over.
Gu Changhe naturally didn't want to carry a small bucket on the construction site all his life, so he was stunned and didn't speak.
Gu Changhe knew that being a jockey or a trainer was a good career, not to mention anything else. If you can ride a horse and run a lap down, it's money, if nothing else, it's the last horse race, and after a lap, I heard that the jockey who won the championship got a bonus of 100,000, less than 100,000 in two minutes!
Ji Laoyuan said: "You always have to try, this time not only the Jockey Club, but also several major racecourses are recruiting, the Jockey Club may give less, but the ones given by the major racecourses are not low, the subsidy of five hundred a month, I heard that it is good." The salary will go up, but it's just a six-year contract! ”。
When Gu Changhe heard the news, he was a little moved: "Really? I don't know how many big horse farms are hiring." Gu Changhe didn't know about the recruitment of people in the Nine Horse Farms, if it was five hundred a month's income, it would be able to survive this year.
In the mouths of the common people, the so-called nine horse farms refer to the horse farms with several independent stables in the south of the racecourse, and the owners of the horse farms are naturally Lu Xiancheng, Du Guohao and so on.
"I also heard about it this morning, I'll give you another afternoon off in the afternoon, you go over there to try, first go to the Lu family's stable to try and then go to other homes, after all, the local ones are better than other families," Ji Laoyuan said.
In the hearts of Gushan people, the local people are a little more trustworthy than the outsiders. Therefore, Lu Xiancheng is naturally better than Du Guohao and others in the hearts of the people.
"Thank you, old uncle" Gu Changhe immediately stood up when he heard this: "Where to recruit people?" ”。
"It's over the side of the racetrack!" Ji Laoyuan said.
As soon as he heard this, Gu Changhe took the trot to the wall and helped the car on, and rode quickly towards the racecourse.
Waiting for Gu Changhe to arrive. found that there were already two long queues on the Lu family's stable. One is super long, and the other is less than half as long.
When he arrived at the place where others parked, Gu Changhe leaned the car to the side, asked which one belonged to the jockey, and walked to the end of the longest line. There was a quiet queue.
As soon as I was standing in the line, I saw a stable staff member approaching.
The white uniform on the staff of the stable was indescribably beautiful in Gu Changhe's eyes, the white shirt was printed with dark flowers, and there was the logo of the stable on the right arm, and a hollow five-pointed star in the middle of a black horseshoe. Underneath were gray tight-fitting breeches, with brown semi-long riding boots on their feet, and the brightest were the wide belt buckles around the waist, which were shiny engraved with the logo of the horse farm, and sometimes these people wore brown straw wide-brimmed hats, which are now fashionable in the county.
To put it simply, to put it simply, now I can work in the nine stables, and I have an advantage over others when I go out to say that my daughter-in-law is out.
"You're going to be a jockey?" The staff looked at a young man who was more than 1.7 meters and asked.
"Hmm!" The young man said confidently.
"Don't waste your time, try a different team" The staff poured cold water on the young man.
"Why?" The lad didn't understand!
The staff did not answer, but turned to the team and shouted loudly: "Those who are more than one meter six or eight tall and weigh more than one hundred and fifty pounds, don't line up the people standing in the jockey team!" The most you can do is get in and out in a minute. I don't look at your figures, for the horses on your back will block half the wind than others, and you can run faster! When talking about daughter-in-law, the big man has an advantage, and the thin person who wants to be a jockey is popular! ”。
The staff's words caused the two teams to burst into laughter, and there were immediately more than a dozen tall low-looking heads lined up in the team of trainers next to them.
The line was very long, but the movement was indeed quite fast, and it was his turn to wait for Gu Changhe to wait for an hour to queue. As for why so fast. Gu Changhe knew that because few of the people who went in before him were confirmed, that is to say, there were almost two hundred people, and more than half of them didn't stay in it for half an hour.
Such a result made Gu Changhe feel a little uneasy in his heart.
When Gu Changhe walked in, he saw three people sitting in the examiner's position, in the middle was a foreign old man in his sixties, lean and lean, but his eyes were very sharp, looking at himself like a knife, the one on the left was a blonde foreigner in his forties, who was also very short, estimated to be not as tall as himself, and next to the blonde foreigner stood a Chinese in his twenties.
"What's your name?" The lean old man in the middle looked at Gu Changhe and asked in English.
"What's your name......" Before Gu Changhe could speak, the Chinese in his twenties translated into English.
Gu Changhe directly began to introduce himself in English, although he was a little stammering, and there was some Chinese English, but after the whole paragraph, everyone still understood: "My name is Gu Changhe, and I am Gushan ......."
This paragraph couldn't help but make the eyes of the two interviewers light up, and Gu Changhe was the first to be able to speak English like this today.
Everyone slowed down their speech, chatted directly in English for a while, asked about their height and weight, and whether they had any genetic diseases, and finally the two examiners handed Gu Changhe a physical examination form.
"If there are no problems with the medical examination, congratulations on becoming one of the first trainee jockeys at Pglinton Racecourse!".
Gu Changhe didn't know what to say all of a sudden, and felt a huge sense of happiness surround him.
Just when Gu Changhe was being stupid, the door next to him was pushed open, and Lu Xiancheng pushed the door and walked in.
Lu Xiancheng asked the two directly in English, "Am I suitable?" ”。
Now the old man who is interviewing is Takagi Kaneren, the so-called money can make the ghost grind, and the cooperation with Lao Lu for more than a year is also good, Takagi hesitated for a moment and accepted Lao Lu's invitation, and came to take charge of the Pglinton stables, but when he got here, the old man entered the second village and changed his name to Gao Ren with a custom, and the name is very good.
At the beginning, the old guy actually wanted to be called a man, and that long tone became a slut! So after being persuaded by Lu Xiancheng, it was changed to Gao Ren.
The other one is blonde and blue-eyed, also a jockey from Mexico, who has a good career, and now he has gone downhill and left the track, but he has no problems as a coach at all.
In addition to Lao Lu, who is a Japanese trainer, Du Guohao is an American trainer. Even the jockey school under the racetrack is dominated by American instructors, which fully reflects the good cooperative relationship between Gushan and California. (To be continued.) )