Chapter 375: Pony Race
Guan Hanyu is a department manager of Dongfang Metal Materials Company, some time ago because of busy work, he did not spend a month with his family, and now he has a week off, so he wants to take his wife and eight-year-old son out for a trip.
Viet An City is rich in tourism resources, Guan Hanyu just moved his family here, and he didn't plan to go far, he chose to go around, and finally picked Taoyuan Village, because a friend strongly recommended it to him.
After contacting a farmhouse on the Taoyuan Village tourism website, the family set off by car.
Before leaving, Guan Hanyu went to learn about the situation of Taoyuan Village, and knew that unless the vehicles of foreign tourists were contacted with a parking space, they were not allowed to enter the village, and could only be parked in the parking lot on the side of the bridge.
In addition, when crossing the bridge, visitors are required to register their ID cards.
In Taoyuan Village, tourists spitting, littering, destroying ornamental flowers, public property or scenic spots and other uncivilized behaviors are found to be compensated or fined, and if the nature is bad or repeated teaching, they will be included in a "list of undesirable tourists" and refuse to enter Taoyuan Village in the future.
Although Guan Hanyu thinks that Taoyuan Village's approach is a bit of a fuss, a small mountain village, what kind of "unwelcome list", there are so many tourist attractions in the country and the world, I have come once, who wants to come a second time.
But he thinks he is a high-ranking person, so he doesn't care.
As soon as you cross the bridge, you will see a peach forest, and there are naturally no beautiful peach blossoms at this time, but many peaches are ripe in July, and the branches are full of peaches. Varieties include peaches, hairy peaches, and peaches.
Guan Hanyu's nine-year-old son Guan Mingxing met. Yelling to pick peaches. Guan Hanyu knows that these peach forests are collectively owned by Taoyuan Village, and as long as they are not wasted, tourists can pick and taste them by themselves.
The three of them got out of the car and picked some peaches, and found that the existing peaches tasted very good, and some were not delicious, but each peach tree had a lot of fruit, and the peach trees that were more than 100 years old were even more visible.
Taoyuan Village is surrounded by peach forests. At the foot of Zhenlong Mountain, there are many wild peaches, the taste is not good, and some of them have very few fruits, or this year, Yequan let people tidy up, prune and fertilize, and gradually eliminate some peach trees that taste bad.
A distillery has just been established, and these peaches can also be used to make peach wine.
A family of three lived in Taoyuan Village, where the farmhouse for tourists lived in wooden houses or bamboo houses, which were very local and bizarre. In terms of eating, you can taste the farmhouse cuisine in the Taoyuan Village area. If you want to go a little more advanced, you can go to the hot spring mountain resort.
After playing for three days, the family felt very happy, went to the orchard field to pick fruits, went to Qixingtan to soak in hot springs, went to Qingshui Creek to play rafting, went to climb a ten-mile long slope, went to the rewilding base to see the South China tiger, went to Longdong Longtan to find the "Chinese young dragon cave newt", went to Pingjiang to sit on a bamboo row and cast nets to fish, went to the reeds to watch birds, fished and caught shrimp in several streams on the sandbank, and also went to Taoyuan Square to visit the newly built commercial street.
Because of the hot weather, the family has to go to the beach every day to play for a while, sometimes swimming in the river, sometimes playing under the coconut trees, or going to the river to pick up a few beautiful pebbles, which feels like being at the beach, each with a different style.
Kwan Mingxing's children's favorite activity is to go on a sandbank to ride a pony.
Shazhou used to be used to graze cattle or horses in Taoyuan Village, but now the villagers have set up an agricultural cooperative, and the paddy fields are basically gathered together for mechanical farming, and vehicles are also used to pull goods, and cattle and horses are rarely used.
Yequan has leveled and transformed more than 100 acres of sandbanks, planted new evergreen pastures, and purchased special animals such as alpacas, camels, ponies, and ostriches for tourists to ride or watch.
Among them, there are more than 10 short horses, most of them are domestic fruit horses, fruit horses because of their short stature, riding it can walk under the fruit trees and get their names, and the adult size is between 80 and 105 cm.
The Xinhua pony and the British Shetland pony are recognized as the two major sources of ponies in the world, and it is very popular in Western countries to keep ponies as pets, especially children and the elderly.
In contrast, the Shetland pony has a dwarf appearance, while the fruit horse has a normal body proportion, and has characteristics such as a gentle temperament, dexterity, and robustness.
The disadvantage is that the coat color of the fruit horse is relatively simple, most of them are mulberry hair, and a few have chestnut, green, black, white and rabbit brown hair.
The weight of the fruit horse is only more than 100 catties, but it can pull 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of goods, and people weighing 80 kilograms can also walk on the fruit and dismount the horse.
The number of Guoxia horses is now very small, endangered and extinct, and the price is very high.
Ye Quan Tong Guò Guan bought it not only to please tourists, but also to improve this breed, so that the fruit horse is more beautiful, pocket-sized, and has a more diverse coat color.
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It was a cloudy afternoon, and a special horse race was taking place on the sandbank, where riders were required to be under 12 years old, and the horses were naturally ponies.
Ye Jiayun, Ye Wenqi, including Ye Ni and several other female dolls participated.
Guan Mingxing has a good talent, he only rode for a few days, and he also signed up to participate, before the competition, Guan Hanyu was putting on a helmet for his son in accordance with the regulations, as well as a protective vest and knee pads.
Ye Quan and Han Yueying, who were next to them, were also checking the riders' equipment and saddles for Ye Ni, Ye Tong and others.
When preparations were made and the game was still a minute or two, Guan Hanyu greeted Ye Quan and the others in a friendly manner.
Ye Quan smiled: "Hello, this is your son?" ”
Guan Hanyu said: "Yes, this kid likes to ride a pony very much, and he can't wait to raise one at home, are you from the village?" ”
When Guan Hanyu heard Ye Quan talking to the people next to him just now, he had the local accent here, but he was not sure, because the temperament of Ye Quan and Han Yueying was too outstanding, one was handsome and polite, and his every move had a high-spirited bearing; An elegant and elegant, graceful demeanor, a smile is pleasing to the eye, the two can be called "golden boy and jade girl", "dragon and phoenix among people".
Guan Hanyu has seen a lot over the years, and he thinks that he has seen many outstanding young men and women, including many children of wealthy families and young heroes, none of whom seem to be comparable to the two in front of him.
Ye Quan introduced himself: "My name is Ye Quan, I am from this village, and the little girl riding a white pony is my sister. ”
After Guan Hanyu heard this, he could only sigh that the small mountain nest flew out of the golden phoenix, this Taoyuan Village is not only beautiful, but also a treasure of feng shui for outstanding people.
Ye Quan? The name......
Guan Hanyu's mind flashed the name of the chairman of the Oriental Group, but he quickly denied this possibility, there are too many people with the same name and surname in the world, which should be a coincidence.
The Oriental Group is so big that ordinary employees may not know who the chairman of their own group is, because the distance between them is too far, as if ordinary people rarely care about who the top leaders of the province and city are?
But as a middle-level manager of the group, there is still a broad room for growth in the future, and Guan Hanyu will definitely learn more about the group's top management, including the highest-ranking chairman.
It's a pity that about this chairman, except for a name, not to mention a photo, he doesn't even have a resume such as age and education, which is extremely mysterious.
Guan Hanyu didn't expect that the young man standing side by side with him was his mysterious big boss.
With a command, the 14 young riders released the reins, shouted loudly, and ordered the ponies to run.
The track is a thousand meters back and forth, and these little riders have more or less some riding skills, but they are not familiar with the short horses they straddle, and they do not have a whip in their hands, so there are various situations.
Some ponies walked slowly with their own temperament, and did not care about the impatience of the little rider on horseback; Some ponies even ran off the track, bowing their heads and nibbling on the fresh pasture.
Fortunately, the ponies were very tame and did not run fast, and there were no cases of young riders falling off their horses.
Ye Ni rode a pure white pony, actually ran all the way to the front, and finally won the championship!
As long as Ye Ni lives in Taoyuan Village, she will follow Ye Quan to the sandbar every day to ride a horse for a while, but it is not a pony, but her little red horse "Honghong".
At just two years old, Honghong is a heterogeneous breed among local horses, not only handsome in form, but also extraordinary in spirit.
Of course, when it comes to riding, Ye Wenqi and Ye Jiayun and other boys are better, there are few boys in Taoyuan Village who can't ride horses, but these ponies have only been bought for a short time, and they don't cooperate well with each other.
Anyway, the onlookers were adored by these ponies and children, applauding and cheering!
The children who participated in this horse race all got a prize in the end, but the value was different, only Ye Ni was a gold medallion, hanging around her neck, looking triumphant.
Guan Mingxing's child finished ninth, feeling a little depressed, but he kept shouting that he would come to ride a pony tomorrow and was looking forward to the next pony competition.
Guan Hanyu thought to himself, if it goes on like this, I will have to come next time. (To be continued......)