Chapter 31
Lu Xiancheng and Mei Qinrui, who were sitting in the private room on the fourth floor, were all dressed in formal clothes. Lu Xiancheng was wearing a black suit, while Mei Qinrui was dressed in a light blue professional suit, with a pink long brim hat on her head. Even the three little guys at home were wearing small suits and little princess dresses. It was a rare gentleman and lady.
Mei Qinrui used the fork in her hand to put the fruit petals into her mouth, and said to Lu Xiancheng: "There are a lot of people today, a large area of darkness. After so many years, it finally has achieved results."
Lu Xiancheng happily held the wine in his arms. He saw someone in Bao Yang next to him raising his arms, and smiled and lifted the wine in his hands and shook it at him.
Although it is winter now, all the private rooms in the racetrack building have not been sealed. Anyway, there is heating at the bottom of the private room. There is a convection curtain outside to block the heating to prevent it from spreading too quickly. Not to mention that the sun is shining brightly now, even if it is ten degrees below zero, it will be as warm as spring when sitting here. To be honest, this thing is quite energy-consuming, but compared to the size, it is nothing.
In fact, it is better to seal the sunshine in principle, but the private room can't feel the atmosphere on the scene. If this is the case, it would be better to watch TV at home directly when you sit in the private room. Although you spend a little more money, after having this equipment, all the rich people of all sizes think that it is better to keep the open-air private room in winter. As for those who can't sit in the private room, they can only explain one problem: you are poor!
Although Lu Xiancheng did not know the family next to him, it was inevitable to make sense, not to mention that the private rooms of these people cost a lot of money. It is equivalent to supporting Lu Xiancheng's stalls, which is too unreasonable to be impolite.
While laughing at the other person, he answered his wife's question: "The number of people entering the venue today must have broken the record. I don't know how many people entered the venue to watch it. The pre-sale of tickets alone was more than 100,000. When I heard the news in the morning, I sold a total of 110,000. If all of them entered the venue, I could almost fill half of the entire venue!"
When I said this, I stretched my head and looked down carefully for a while: "I guess it's the same. Even if there is no 110,000, there will be * 10,000! Ours is the highest record of the number of people entering the Chinese Jockey Club."
Today's competition is the first day of the New Year celebration. The official starts at 1:30 pm. There will be five qualifying matches in the front. As appetizers, the official competition will be held at four o'clock. Today, the first thing to be held is the 2000m mare competition, the venue is mud, and the second game is the 2800m New Year Championship, which is also mud.
The requirements for the two competitions are different. The mare competition is a competition with 2+ horses participating. It is 55 kilograms for over four years old, 53 kilograms for 3 years old, and 51 kilograms for two years old. The Spring Festival Championship (Milt) competition is 3+, and both mares can participate. It is stipulated that the weight of horses over four years old is 58 kilograms, while the weight of three-year-old horses is 55 kilograms and the weight of full horses is 52 kilograms.
Today, it can be said that the weather is beautiful. The snow in the Lunar New Year has dissipated. After the bright sunshine of the third and fifth day of the lunar month, the daytime temperature in Gushan has returned to about six degrees. Although it is still a little cool, it is already full of spring. Today, it is even more scorching sun, and the sky above is even blue, and there is no trace of clouds.
With such a good weather, the scene was crowded. Looking around, most of them were men in dark gray dresses, dressed beautiful ladies, and their clothes were colorful like flowers blooming under countless green leaves.
For girls in Gushan or nearby, it is normal to dress themselves up beautifully when watching horse racing. In the eyes of these girls, it is far better to come here to join in the fun and win a prize of more than 100,000 yuan. What's more, today, the Gushan Jockey Club has added two new hats and the most creative hat awards in order to align with the horse racing power, and five prizes of 500,000 yuan. Not to mention the Gushan girl, some young models and even many foreign models have come here.
"Today is lively! But don't be lively for a long time. We haven't got anything in our house. If we don't even have a billboard on it, it would be embarrassing." Mei Qinrui said.
After hearing this, Lu Xiancheng laughed and said, "What's the shame? Winning and defeat are common in military affairs."
There is a qualifying match outside the court. Of course, today's qualifying match is not something that ordinary horses can participate in. For example, the famous flower has not been able to enter the qualifying match now because its speed is too embarrassing. Compared with the horses on the scene, it is estimated that twenty horses can be thrown away from the entire schedule.
Although many horse fans suggested that Huahua enter this performance-oriented qualifying competition, the requests of the horse fans were still rejected by the horse association. It was not that the horse association wanted to face the horse fans, but the theme of these qualifying competitions was to show the level of the horse breeding industry in Gushan. It would be embarrassing to come out of the entertainment-based horses like Huahua.
Just as he was talking, Ye Yihong's voice came from behind him: "It's quite lively."
"With these three little guys here, it would be strange if it's lively," Lu Xiancheng said with a smile as he looked at Ye Yihong coming in.
Ye Yihong was not polite, and pulled open the chair by the table and sat next to Lu Xiancheng, but he smiled at Mei Qinrui and sought some opinions: "I'll get together with your family, Qinrui has no objection, right?"
"I have no objection. Brother Ye, you are here to talk to him. Today I am not happy to talk to him. Every time I watch the game, I have to tell me a big message. I am so annoyed," Mei Qinrui said with a smile.
"Hahaha" Ye Yihong smiled heartily: "Then I'll just finish going home and not cooking for him! If you're hungry, do you think he's talking too much!"
"This person in our family can't be hungry for him," Mei Qinrui said with a smile.
At this time, Niu Niu raised his little ears, heard his mother's words, and then ordered his little head like a wave drum: "Well, um, our father cooks the best dishes!"
Ye Yihong is a regular visitor at home, and the children are not afraid of him.
Ye Yihong smiled and reached out to Niu Niu's forehead and gently bounced a cerebral collapsing. The bullet was not heavy at all. Niu Niu tilted his head and laughed.
"Little guy, don't think I don't know. Your dad cooks all the big pieces of meat! Do you like to eat meat, right?"
"Yeah, I like it!" Niu Niu preached happily.
After saying a few words to the child, Ye Yihong said to Lu Xiancheng: "I can't squat in the private room anymore. I came and walked around one group after another. I saw that it was not just an hour. There were almost ten people coming and going, but you are still quiet here."
Lu Xiancheng said: "You are standing for the Jockey Club, and you don't stand like this a few times a year. Even if you are a little tired, you have to hold on!"
There is no reason why private rooms are sold at a high price, just like the dinner auction at Buffy. Now Ye Yihong and others are not very good at taking them out, but if a group of people from all sizes are taken out as signs, the price will naturally be sold. No matter what, it is for a chance to squeeze into the circle, many people are willing to pay the money.
To put it to the point that in the private rooms of the racecourse, these floors of the private rooms are a huge social venue, and the higher the level, the higher the level. For example, the top floor is at least the circle of top political and business tycoons in Jiangnan. Of course, there are many foreign crocodiles this time. Anyway, the real purpose of these people is not to watch horse racing, or the main reason is not. Their current main purpose is to socialize, find opportunities or find business partners.
Ye Yihong's temperament is a little lighter. After wandering around with a group of people for a long time, he finally couldn't stand it anymore. He found an excuse to retreat to Lu Xiancheng's small private room and hide in his leisure time.
Lu Xiancheng was chatting with Ye Yihong in a low voice, while Mei Qinrui was watching the three little devils in her family eat, mainly to prevent them from having a disagreement and fighting. Now this occasion is not at home, and the noise will affect people in the nearby private rooms to watch the game.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month in 2005, the First World Gushan New Year Ceremony officially opened at 4 pm.
When the last qualifying match ended, the scene gradually became quiet, and everyone was waiting to hear the voice of Fang Zhi to announce the beginning of the New Year celebration.
At 4:05, Fang Zhi, dressed in a suit, was dressed up as if he was going to the film festival and walked slowly towards a pure white round platform in the center of the stands.
As Fang Zhi took his trot to the center of the round platform, the cheers of more than 100,000 people in the field resounded throughout the racecourse. While running Fang Zhi, the live broadcast of Jiangnan Wei now facing the whole country has officially begun.
Fang Zhi came to the middle of the white round platform. After standing still, he first bowed slightly to the surroundings. He thanked the horse fans and guests of the horse farm to slowly stand in front of the microphone.
Fang Zhi’s speech was very simple: “The first Gushan Racecourse New Year Ceremony officially began!”.
As Fang Zhi finished speaking, there was a five-minute cheer immediately. Fang Zhi had to raise his hands and press down, signaling the audience to stop and listen to his continued speech. More than 100,000 audiences at the scene, even if all tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, it was quite imposing.
As the cheers gradually fell, Fang Zhi once again stood in front of the microphone and said, "National superstar Mr. Zheng Jiashi, please sing the theme song! And I will return to my commentary room to explain to you the two super competitions today!"
When he heard that it was a superstar singing, the entire racetrack immediately cheered more enthusiastically than Fang Zhi's appearance.
The Gushan Horse Club does not have so many complicated opening ceremonies, and some people originally suggested that leaders would speak, but they were rejected. Once this was said and that, they would definitely add two points. They would talk a lot of empty words and say it as if they didn't say it. It would be better to just watch the horse run. So the opening ceremonies of the Gushan Jockey Club came to the main topic after two sentences in the square biography. After the Emperor's superstar sang the theme song "Gushan Song", he directly appeared in the competition.
Ye Yihong looked at the big star slowly walking towards the white round platform and was about to sing loudly. He lay on the railing and turned to look at Lu Xiancheng who was lying beside him and sighed: "I didn't expect that we would have this day a few years ago!"
"This is also worthy of your gratitude?" Lu Xiancheng joked: "Why do I think you were lamenting that a few years ago, you didn't expect that there would be so much money today!"
Just two years ago, Gushan invited celebrities to come, not only to pay enough appearance fees but also to give up some face. Now, the whole show is full of excitement, and world-class horse racing gathers, and economic people from all walks of life are rushing to push the stars in their hands. Needless to say, even the superstar of the emperor, who can sing this theme song, will get a friendly price. The second and third-tier singers don’t have any money to bring their own lunch boxes and agree to sing.
Ye Yihong smiled and said, "I really didn't expect that we used to be hoping to let us open the horse lottery. Now, when we see, it's just like this if we open it. If we open it, it will be a problem!"
This is what Lu Xiancheng said. In the past, everyone was determined to lift the ban on horse lottery. As a private capital investment project, they could not enjoy the treatment of Guangshi Race Farm. Although Guangshi Race Farm is getting worse and worse, the officials who manage the horse farm there are getting more and more courageous, but the arrogance is getting more and more arrogant.
But no matter how bad it is, the public hat on his head is louder than the Gushan Horseman. However, when it comes to money bags, the ten Guangshi Jockey Clubs are not as good as the Gushan Horseman now. After several years of development and thanks to the rapid expansion of the Internet, everyone's value has increased at an unprecedented speed. When everyone has reached now, more or less than 30 or 40 people gathered together and found that it is not so heartbreaking to throw out the money in a year. Ma Cai's heart has been relieved. Almost no one has mentioned it anymore. In the past, he was jumping up and down to get a lottery ticket, but now the activity has stopped and no one cares.
Lu Xiancheng smiled after hearing this. Although he didn't want to admit it, Lu Xiancheng knew that as everyone's pockets became thicker, his views on the Jockey Club continued to change. In the past, this was an ideal, and he dreamed that Chinese people could have first-class racecourses, cultivate world-class horses, and have world-class horse fans. What about now? These are nothing more important. If the Gushan Jockey Club is well done, it will be done fairly!
What Taizu said is that he is not panic when he has food in his hands! For the Gushan Jockey Club, he has money in his hands. As long as it is not a national ban on horse racing, he will do whatever he wants in the rest of the sports bureau. I won’t serve you anymore!
While the two were chatting, the superstar had already finished singing the theme song. The New Year celebration competition officially began. At the beginning of the competition, huge horse racing horse numbers, nationality, and colored clothes were cast on the grass road.
Chapter completed!