had a good meal, and finally turned into a friendly match, of course Chu Xiangqian was very happy.

After the wind and rain stopped, the two finished dinner with peace of mind.

helped put away the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, and was about to do it, but was pushed out of the kitchen directly by Fei Fei.

Chu Xiangqian smiled and shook his head, he didn't expect that this little woman still had the potential to be a good wife and mother, but I just hoped that she didn't do it for herself.

Seeing that Fei Fei was washing the dishes, he also knew to bring a rubber glove, Chu Xiangqian smiled at the corner of his mouth, and secretly said that this chick also knew how to protect her hands.

kissed Fei Fei on the face before going to the living room to turn on the TV.

After watching it for a while, I suddenly thought boredly, at this time period, do I have the opportunity to invest in TVB?

But I didn't think about it for a few seconds, but I suddenly looked up at the TV, which was playing the English program of the 'Li' TV station.

I got up and went to change the channel, but I changed it a few times, but I only received two stations, and all of them were 'beautiful', and there was no wireless TV station at all.

Chu Xiangqian held back his excitement, walked to the kitchen, pretended to be indifferent and asked, "Feifei, why is it all English?" ”

Fei Fei, who was washing the dishes, was stunned for a moment, and turned back in confusion and said, "It's always only the English station?" ”

Chu Xiangqian casually 'oh' and asked, "You really don't want me to help?" ’

Fei Fei glanced at Chu Qianqian, "If you really have nothing to do, go to the convenience store downstairs to buy some of your favorite drinks and come back and store them." ”

Where would Chu Xiangqian do such a thing, a phone call will be sent back, why do you want to go down the elevator.

And if you can buy any good wine at a convenience store, it is better to wait for the day when you are free and go to the wine store to choose.

Back in the living room, stand by the huge floor-to-ceiling window, light a cigar, and silently think about the memories in your head.

It didn't take long for my heart to move, if I remember correctly, the first TV station on Hong Kong Island was indeed 'Li's Reflection' run by the British.

And it's 57 years.

At that time, it was a pay TV station, 25 Hong Kong dollars a month, and only 4 hours a day.

At the time, it was ridiculously expensive.

After all, it is equal to a week's salary of ordinary people, so that when the broadcast started, there were only 640 users.

It wasn't until '63 that the Cantonese channel was launched, but as soon as it was opened, it was warmly welcomed by the residents, and the number of users of the TV station began to grow explosively.

As for TVB, when it was 65 years old, the Hong Kong government intended to open a free-to-air television station, and finally the license was obtained by Li Jia and others.

And TVB TV did not really become a major shareholder until the 80s.

Until then, he had been the only one who ran the TV station.

Two years later, that is, in 67, TVB was officially launched, and it snatched a large number of users of Lili in a short time.

In the future, wireless will be the first choice for new users. By the time the license of 'Li's expired in 73 years, it was changed to a free model after renewal, and it had missed the best development period.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help frowning.

This means that it is basically impossible for me to enter the TV field in the next few years.

And at this time, not only did it not make money to invest in 'Li's', but it also had to face losses for many years.

But on second thought, it's still 5 years away from 65 years.

Leaving yourself 5 years is equivalent to giving yourself more time to develop and grow, otherwise you may not be able to win the license of the TV station in the future.

Early the next morning, I took Fei Fei to Zhang Tianzhi's car, and went to have breakfast first, and solved the breakfast problem by the way.

When they arrived at the place, more than a dozen waitress looked at Fei Fei, who was being held by Chu Qianqian and looked a little nervous, and they were envious and unwilling in their hearts.

As a low-level Fei Fei, she can't see that these beautiful waitresses have long been thinking about their own men.

I wanted to say that I didn't want to learn to cook here, but after thinking about it, the more these women thought about their men, the more I should appear in front of them from time to time.

After Duan Hongchun heard the report, he hurriedly walked out of the kitchen, "Chu Sheng, are you drinking morning tea, or do you have something to order?" ”

Chu Xiangqian smiled and waved his hand, pointed at Fei Fei and said, "This is Zhao Feifei, my girlfriend." She wanted to learn how to cook, so I brought her over to learn some home-cooked food from the master. ”

Duan Hongchun looked at Fei Fei in surprise, and secretly said that this little girl really has a heart.

I know that if you want to catch a man, you have to grab his stomach first.

If you look closely, this girl is indeed very beautiful.

"No problem, don't worry, Chu Sheng and Miss Zhao, I asked my daughter-in-law to come over and teach Miss Zhao how to cook, make soup and pastries. Keeping Chu Sheng will be inseparable from Miss Zhao in the future. ”

Fei Fei was overjoyed, and it was okay to learn to cook with the master, after all, the other party's age was generally forty or fifty years old.

But after all, the back kitchen is a man's territory, and it will be more or less inappropriate.

With Duan Hongchun's daughter-in-law, he can even invite people home directly, and he has a friend to talk to.

During breakfast, Duan Hongchun personally brought people over with five or six Western-style pastries.

"Chu Sheng, this is a new plating that I have recently experimented with a few masters, you can try the taste and give some suggestions."

Chu glanced forward a few times and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction. At least it looks more refined than before, and it should be very popular for foreign tourists, local foreigners and fake foreign devils.

As for the taste, it is basically the same as before, except that there are two things that are more sweet and sour.

Fei Fei and Zhang Tianzhi were a little unaccustomed to eating, but Chu Xiangqian knew that at this time, Lao Mei and the British basically liked this taste.

Otherwise, in the future, the panda restaurant would not have opened two or three thousand fast food restaurants in the United States, let alone go public.

As for England, Chinese food will be sweet and sour for the next thirty or forty years.

This is also the successful experience of countless Chinese people who have opened restaurants overseas and slowly summed up.

Chu Xiangqian ate a few pastries, and asked Duan Hongchun with a smile, "Chinese people should not be used to eating it, have you found a few ghost guys to come over and try the taste?" ”

Duan Hongchun shook his head, "For the past half a month, I have been learning Western food plating, and when I invited a Western chef to come over to teach, he was very sure, foreigners like this taste."

In other words, out of ten, 5 adapt to this taste. ”

Chu Qianqian nodded, looked at Zhang Tianzhi and said, "Brother Zhi, call the Yau Ma Tei Police Station and tell Charles's secretary that I will invite him to have dinner with Assistant Commissioner Blair and Superintendent Hahn in the evening."

If Director Ge Bai is free, please also ask Charles to come forward and invite. ”

Zhang Tianzhi hurriedly put down his chopsticks and went to make a phone call.

Chu Xiangqian said to the nervous and excited Duan Hongchun, "In addition to preparing the restaurant's deer belly pot and fried deer liver as a special dish in the evening, we will also make pineapple pork, sweet and sour tenderloin, kung pao chicken, and mapo tofu. The main food is only fried rice and fried dumplings.

As for dessert, will lotus cake and almond tofu be made? ”

"Yes, yes", Duan Hongchun knew that tonight might be the second turning point in his life.

After Chu nodded forward, he looked at the hall and continued, "Don't do business on the second floor today, and clear the venue at night."

Then prepare a long table and Western-style cutlery, and maybe we'll be an instant hit tonight. ”

Duan Hongchun hurriedly nodded again, but he didn't know that Chu Xiangqian was already thinking about whether to invite Margaret over.

If I can get her recommendation, then not only the branch on Hong Kong Island will definitely be liked by the British staff in the future, and it will be much easier to open a branch in London.

Even, Chu Xiangqian thought about cooperating with Ge Bai and others to open a branch.

After all, although this kind of restaurant makes money, there is an upper limit to the turnover of the restaurant.

On the whole, the money earned in a year is probably not as much as the money you make by selling a sweaty horse.

It's better to pull people in, one family becomes 5, although a lot of shares are given away, but in general, more money is earned.

can also take the opportunity to get closer to Ge Bai and others, and even open to London in the future, the more branches, the higher the market value.

After breakfast, Chu Xiangqian drove Fei Fei to the newspaper office first, and then crossed the sea to Happy Valley Racecourse to watch the guardian knight's game today.

When they entered the private room, not only Norton and Margaret had already arrived, but even Ge Bai, Hader of the Administrative Secretary, and Bridge, the executive director of the Jockey Club, were also there.

After a close salute with the happy Margaret, Chu Xiangqian had just greeted Ge Bai, Hader, and Bridge.

Hader took the initiative to ask, "Chu, we just heard from Director Ge Bai that you invited him to dinner with a few high-ranking police officers tonight?" ”

Chu Xiangqian immediately heard what the other party meant, and said with a smile, "Gentlemen, if you have time in the evening, please try the new dishes of the restaurant I opened." ”

Hader and Bridges were naturally fine, but after agreeing, their eyes still looked at Margaret from time to time.

Chu Xiangqian naturally didn't forget to invite her and Norton, and Margaret immediately agreed with a smile on her face.

Holding Chu Xiangqian's arm, he said, "Dear Chu, my sister has agreed to my request, and there should be a plane to deliver those two gifts this afternoon."

By the way, Uncle Mountbatten also has a gift for you to thank you for taking care of Norton. ”

Ge Bai, Hader, and Bridge's pupils shrank, and the gaze of Chu Xiangqian suddenly changed.

I thought Margaret was messing around before, so she had a good impression of this handsome oriental guy.

Unexpectedly, the London side not only knew about it early, but the two big men also gave Chu Xiangqian gifts, and even flew them over.

That's interesting.

For a while, the atmosphere in the box became more harmonious and lively.

But Chu Xiangqian knew that it was no secret that the royal family wanted to win the horse racing championship.

It's a pity not to mention the Triple Crown, even the second and third divisions rarely win championships.

For this reason, the queen also deliberately left her official duties and went to the United States and Oshu in a private capacity to visit the operation of the two most highly rated horse farms at that time.

After returning to London, he also began to reform his horse farm.

It's a pity that horse racing is not a sport that can achieve results in a short period of time.

But after years of perseverance and hard work, there are indeed many results. More than 60 years later, after 57 years of breeding horses, they have won almost £10 million in prize money.

Just the money invested in the horse race is definitely several times the prize money.

And basically, it was twenty or thirty years later that the results began to be produced.

It can be said that as long as he gets a champion horse for the royal family or Mountbatten, the royal family will definitely acquiesce to his relationship with Margaret.

Of course, getting married certainly won't work. Because the royal family can't actually be the master in this matter.

The biggest opponent will be the Anglican Church, and the second will be the media and the general public.

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At 10 o'clock in the morning, the radio began to broadcast that today's 1600-meter race was about to start, Margaret hurriedly pulled Chu forward out of the private room, stood on the terrace and used binoculars to look at the 'guardian knight'.

Chu Xiangqian naturally didn't need a telescope to see clearly.

Soon I saw Lindsay on a horse, and I saw a fifty or sixty-year-old ghost man next to her, constantly reminding of something.

Chu Qian looked back at Norton, "Who is the person next to Lindsay?" ”

Norton looked at it with a telescope and said with a smile, "Master, because you didn't appoint a horse trainer, and the time is too tight, it has only been more than ten hours since last night, let alone training, it is difficult to cultivate the tacit understanding between the horse and the rider."

So Mrs. Lindsay's father, Old Wood, offered to temporarily serve as a trainer for the Guardian Knights and coach for Linside. ”

Chu Xiangqian was relieved at this time, and then secretly said, no wonder this woman can support her dream for so long in a world full of male riders.

It turns out that there is a horse trainer dad behind him.

"What about the old man's qualifications and skills?"

Norton laughed, "Master, horse trainers and riders who can come to Hong Kong Island to find a job must not have any achievements."

However, Mr. Wood Sr. has been in the industry for 20 years, and his qualifications are still good. ”

After saying that, Norton took a document from the hand of his bodyguard Ward, and said which ranch the father and daughter worked on while looking at it.

And where did he work, and the Wood family was not poor.

Old Wood himself owns a 1,800-acre ranch in Texas with 1,400 head of cattle.

It's just that because of his obsession with horse racing, the ranch has long been handed over to his two sons, but there is news that the business should not be doing well. ”

Chu Xiangqian is not interested in the Wood family's ranch, as long as he has money, there is a ranch to choose from in the rice country.

And there's no need to go to Texas, the most discriminatory state, to buy ranch.

In recent years, the Chinese went to Texas to run a ranch, and it was a hassle to think about it.

Just as he was about to say something, Zhang Tianzhi, who had been paying attention to his surroundings, suddenly walked over and said in a low voice, "Boss, Boss Bai and Lei Laohu, on the terrace of the private room where they were placed at two o'clock. ”

Chu looked forward and saw that on the terrace of the private room two floors lower than the private room he was in, not only Bai Fanyu and Lei Luo were there, but Bai Yuechang and a young woman in her 20s were also watching the track.

Chu Xiangqian smiled at the corner of his mouth, needless to say, he should have come to find himself.

And that young woman is most likely Bai Yue, the daughter of Bai Fanyu's cousin.

I heard that this woman is very playful, so much so that she is twenty-four or five years old, and she has not yet married.

But any local celebrity with a better family is basically impossible to let this kind of woman enter the door.

Back then, her cousin Bai Yuechang also liked to mess around and play, but she just ran to dance and eat Western food.

It's still very conservative in his bones.

But Bai Yue'e is different.

Listening to Fatty Bo, this girl had friends with several ghost guys, and she knew that it was a banana at a glance, and Chu Xiangqian immediately lost interest.

Otherwise, since you saw Bai Fanyu and Lei Luo, you should always go over to say hello.

After all, nominally, when he first went to the ring to fight against the tornado, Lei Luo mobilized a large number of people to help him solve all the uncertainties off the field.

And Bai Fanyu fell to the ground as an old senior, and it would be rude to call him over.

Turning his head to Zhang Tianzhi and Ward, he said, "Help me send me a bottle of red wine, and then tell Boss Bai and Lei Laohu, saying that I have a distinguished guest here, and it is inconvenient to go over." ”

Zhang Tianzhi nodded, as for how to choose red wine, ask Ward for help.

Ward now faced Chu Xiangqian, he had long lost that sense of superiority, nodded hurriedly, and left the private room with Zhang Tianzhi.

At 10:15, all the horses entered the track, ready to enter the starting fence, and the attention of Chu Xiangqian and the others was instantly attracted to it.

"You have to win."

Chu Qianqian, who was staring at the track, looked at Ge Bai in surprise, and saw this old guy staring at the track nervously, muttering, "I bought 10,000 pounds to bet on the Guardian Knight to win." ”

Chu Xiangqian immediately rolled his eyes, as a horse owner, not only could he not buy his own horse, but he could not buy other horses on the same track.

Otherwise, Chu Xiangqian will buy 100,000 or 80,000 and make a profit.

Of course, today's Jockey Club surprisingly set the Guardian Knight's win rate at 70%, which means that buying it is a win-win with odds of 1 to 1.43.

This surprised and intrigued customers who like to bet on horses, so much so that the guardian knight was already famous in the racecourse for the first time on the track.

But there are not many people who really buy guardian knights.

After a while, the countdown bell began, and the starting bar opened suddenly, and the guardian knight was seen striding out first.

Immediately made the crowd in the private room cheer.

It's just a dozen meters, and the super explosive power makes the guardian knight easily in the first place.

When he was fast entering the corner, Chu Xiangqian watched Lindsay's commander race the horse to enter the corner first, and his heart was basically relieved.

Sure enough, the advantage of the guardian knight in the corner became more and more apparent, and after the corner, he was already three positions ahead of the second horse.

And when you get into the straight again, it's getting faster and faster.

It feels like this is definitely a rider's mistake and a lot of energy drain on the horse too early.

It's just that after a lap, the speed of the guardian knight does not slow down in the slightest.

After rushing out of the last corner, Lindsey didn't even need to warn the guardian knight, and the horse himself became excited, panting and letting go of his speed and galloping.

Ge Bai, the old guy, also shouted more and more excited, if he won, he would be able to earn 4,300 pounds.

It is equal to 68,800 Hong Kong dollars, which is 28,008 Hong Kong dollars higher than the 40,000 Hong Kong dollars that Chu Xiangqian won for the championship.

Seconds later, the Guardian Knight was the first to cross the finish line, 11 places ahead of second place.

There was an uproar at the scene, and when I saw the display screen, the display of 1 minute 34 seconds and 57 seconds not only broke the record, but also exceeded 1 second and 10 seconds.

The audience immediately exploded.

Then most of the people scolded and threw the betting tickets in their hands into the sky.

It can be said that this time, the horse club will make a lot of money.

Margaret saw that the guardian knight was the first to cross the line, and she was so excited that she wanted to hug Chu forward.

(End of chapter)