Chapter 54: Horse Racing

Haitang didn't know that her grandfather decided to open up a new industry in Suzhou because of her words.

She just kept her good mood and continued her peaceful and regular life.

Early the next morning, she continued her daily exercise in the yard. Practice running before breakfast and archery after breakfast. When Jinguo came back from grocery shopping, she brought back grape seeds and several kinds of melon and vegetable seedlings, and she planted them in the wooden trough she had made.

The grapes are planted in soil specially made for growing grape seedlings, and the other two wooden troughs are made of ordinary soil. However, the begonias were mixed with a little green manure, watered enough, and placed the wooden trough in the yard where the sun could reach to ensure that the seeds could sprout as much as possible.

When Jin Guo turned around and went to do other work, she took advantage of no one to pay attention, so she quietly dug up some of the grape seeds again and replaced them with the grape seeds she had drawn from the "Flower Turntable".

After finishing this matter, Haitang went to Grandpa Cao and Grandpa Lu to kill time.

Xie Wenzai's cousin uncle followed his grandfather Haixi Yamen to Suzhou Weiyamen, and the other two old men in the family were not idle. The three old men decided to work together to teach Haijiao, but Haijiao abandoned literature and martial arts, and they also needed to prepare for the lesson again. Recently, the old man Cao Gengyun has been sorting out the records of various battles in history, and using this to teach the sea reef art of war strategy. Begonia often goes over when he is free, polishes ink for his old man, finds a book or something, and catches up with his old man when he is in a good mood, he can listen to him tell some war stories, which is a drill before the formal teaching.

Grandpa Cao felt that this was just a way to familiarize himself with unfamiliar courses in advance, but in Haitang's opinion, this was an extremely rare opportunity. This means that she is receiving the same education as her brother Reef. If she finds an opportunity to ask Cao and Lu's grandfathers some questions in the process of "listening to stories", then she will be taught more knowledge. After a long time, no one will find it strange that she will show her wealth of knowledge again.

After lunch, she takes a break, but not more than half an hour, and wakes up to the most popular time for horseback riding!

With the careful guidance of the second uncle Hai Chang'an, and the assistance of the maid Jin Guo, the pony is very docile, and Haitang herself seems to be quite "talented", and her riding skills have improved rapidly.

After the latest batch of immigrants left Suzhou City, she was able to get on and off her horse on her own, and she was able to run at a moderate speed on the school yard with her horses.

Hai Changan felt that the outside of the city would soon be quiet, and he could take his nephews and nieces outside the city to practice horses, which would be more helpful for the children's riding skills.

After learning the good news, Haijiao was the happiest person. He finally got the permission of his grandparents to walk freely on the streets with an adult. Now with the second uncle's proposal, he can go directly out of the city to run a horse. After being held back for so long, he must have to relax!

He also said to Haitang in private: "How is my little sister learning horses?" When you get out of the city, your brother can teach you too. Don't worry, my brother was also a good horseback rider in his previous life, and he didn't fall behind when he fought with people on horses, and his riding skills were definitely no worse than that of the second uncle! ”

Haitang smiled and said, "That's great!" I'm always listening to my grandmother's ramblings, and I'm looking for someone to learn how to escape on horseback. My brother must teach me! ”

Haijiao laughed when he heard this: "What are you doing to learn this?" ”

"Because Grandma promised me to learn to ride a horse and learn martial arts, the original purpose was to give me more hope of escaping when I encountered the enemy!" Begonia replied with a smile.

Hai Jiao was a little unimpressed. He knew that Suzhou City would not encounter a major war in the next few years. However, my sister can learn martial arts, also because my grandmother always has the idea of letting her have the power of self-preservation, he won't say anything, just secretly think, and when she turns around, she must teach her little sister a few tricks to deal with the crisis. If there is really a villain who is not long-eyed, he dares to be unfavorable to the little sister, of course he will do his best to save him. But before he arrives, Xiaomei must also have a way to protect herself. If you don't have the ability to fight back, you have to learn the ability to run for your life.

In this way, within a few days, Hai Changan went out of the city for a walk, and after making sure that there was no danger in the wilderness outside the city, he found a day with sunny weather and little wind and sand, and took his nephews and nieces, as well as Cui Dazhuang and Cui Xiaodao, who were his followers, and rode out of the city together.

Jin Guo did not follow. She was sent to the nursery by Haixi Cliff again.

When I arrived outside the city, looking at the surrounding green fields, Begonia only felt relaxed and happy, and her mind felt much more open-minded.

She had mastered the basic skills of horseback riding before, and she was also recognized by her teacher Hai Changan in the small school. Now that the men and horses were outside the city, she simply took the reins of the horse and steered the pony to trot gently.

She didn't run far, just under the noses of her family, practicing on the flatter ground around her. But after a trot, she adapted to the terrain, and the horse began to speed up and run wider, and gradually began to circle around her family in a radius of half a mile. She runs quite well, and she can feel the improvement of her riding skills. After practicing like this for another year or two, she has the confidence to compare with her second uncle Hai Chang'an.

As soon as Haijiao turned over and got on his horse, he saw his sister run out first. He was still a little uneasy, and loudly told her not to run too fast, and couldn't help but keep staring at her movements, for fear that something would go wrong with her.

However, Begonia's riding skills were better than he imagined, and he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief from beginning to end. It's just that seeing her run faster and farther and farther, he can't help but be scared.

He maneuvered his horse to catch up with his sister, shouting, "Don't run that far!" Come back! Carefully fell down! ”

However, at this time, Haitang had already run half a mile away with people and horses, and he didn't know if he didn't hear his voice, so he still galloped happily, leaving Haijiao alone in a hurry.

Hai Changan caught up with him with a smile: "It's okay, Tang Tang's riding skills are well learned, and it is not so easy to fall down." ”

Haijiao looked back at him speechlessly: "Second uncle, Tang Tang has just passed his ninth birthday, and he is still a child!" How can you trust her to run wild alone? If you fall off your horse, it's no fun! ”

Hai Changan is really not afraid: "She is just riding a pony, or a pony that can't run fast, what do you have to worry about?" As for wrestling horses...... I dare to say that Tang Tang learned to ride a horse more steadily than when you were a child. When you rode a horse smaller than this, you had to fall twice from time to time, which scared your grandmother's face blue. Tang Tang has been learning horses since he started, and he hasn't fallen once in the past half a month! I think she's more talented than you, but it's a pity that she's a female doll. ”

Reef opened its mouth and closed it again. He also remembered that when he was a child, he did have some biases, and when he was studying literature, he memorized his homework very quickly, but when he learned to ride and shoot, he had to make a little stupid from time to time, which was far less outstanding than his father's youth. No wonder his grandfather and cousin decided to let him study literature and seek to advance to the imperial examination in the future, he doesn't look like a military general.

It's a pity that fate makes people. In his previous life, he was bent on studying for the imperial examination, but he lost his relatives at a young age, and he could only protect himself by force; In this life, his family is safe and sound, and the whole family expects him to study hard, but he chooses to abandon literature and martial arts.

Haijiao sighed secretly, but had no intention of changing his mind. He has already planned the path he will take in the future, and if he is easily shaken, he will be asking for his own hardship.

Haitang slapped his horse and ran back, with a bright smile on his face: "Second uncle, brother, what are you doing here stupidly?" The weather is so nice today, let's get the horses running! ”

Hai Jiao and Hai Chang'an glanced at each other, smiled, and urged the horses under them to gallop forward.