Chapter 177

On New Year's Eve in 1938, Time magazine published a list of the top ten news figures of the year, but there were only nine people on the list, including Franklin Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler.

The other is not a man, but a horse. The horse's name is sea biscuit.

Born in 1933, this horse is short and flawed - its knees are prominent and asymmetric, and it is not straight enough. It is completely a model of flawed figure. This kind of horse should be abandoned as soon as it is born, which is everyone's consensus.

In this way, sea biscuit has lived a hard life from birth to the age of three. Born in a horse racing family, it is treated as a bad horse, pulling goods and grinding, and has done a lot of hard work.

In 1936, a poor horse trainer named Tom Smith bought it. After a year of training, sea biscuit began to participate in the national horse race in 1937. Then, from the first time it set foot on the track, it began to sweep the horse racing of Shenjun in the United States, and became an invincible hand in the horse racing industry in the United States. It won all ten important lottery competitions, with an annual income of 144000 US dollars, which set a record at that time!

Especially on November 1, 1938, the competition between sea biscuit and another award golden horse king "Navy General" was even more legendary. Wang vs. Wang and bad horse vs. horse king, sea biscuit was arrogant in this competition. Under the condition of backward starting, it was incredible to win with the advantage of four positions!

The legend is not over. An accident on February 14, 1939 caused the rupture of the suspensory ligament of haibiscuit's left front leg, so it is likely that it will never be able to participate in the competition again.

Then on March 2, 1940, the 7-year-old sea biscuit suddenly returned and challenged the event it had not conquered for the last time: the 100000 gold medal of Santa Anita.

Everyone thought that the old horse just went to the friendly competition to draw an end to his career, but the final result shocked the whole United States: Sea biscuit ran out of the best result in the history of Santa Anita, the second best result in the history of American horse racing, and broke the world record.

After watching the game, the famous writer Jolie Roger immediately wrote in his column: "how lucky I am to live to see this day."

Since then, the name sea biscuit has always represented indomitable spirit, tenacious character and unyielding faith in North America.

Qin Shiou was shocked when he first heard about it. This is not a soul chicken soup. It is a real legend. Naming his car with such a legend also represents Powell's expectations for himself.

He wants to be a legend in the racing world!

Qin Shiou patted Powell on the shoulder and said, "this is a good name. Come on, man, don't shame sea biscuits!"

Then he taught Powell how to control the ATV, let him try to start, accelerate and turn, and preliminarily mastered the skills of driving the car.

Auerbach stood on the beach, watching Qin Shiou patiently teach Powell to drive, with a smile on his face.

The next morning, Powell got up to wipe the sea biscuits clean. According to Qin Shiou's instruction last night, he checked the brake line, automatic brake, fuel tank, wheels, axle and other positions. He didn't go to breakfast until there was no problem at all.

After breakfast, the four children had to go to the town to sell dumplings, while Qin Shiou took Mao Weilong on a cruise to the sea.

After the cruise, Qin Shiou is ready to take Mao Weilong to shoot fish in the afternoon. The two pack up their things. Shaq directly takes Evanson to prepare first. This is not only shooting fish, but also having a barbecue party by the lake in the evening.

Qin Shiou made lunch. As a result, the four children didn't come back for dinner. Father Hickson called and said that the children didn't go back and had dinner with him.

Meimei took a nap. Qin Shiou and Mao Weilong drove their pickup truck to Chenbao lake. On the way, they first came to father Hickson's restaurant.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day. Many people hid in the air-conditioned room to enjoy the cool. Next to Hickson's father's restaurant, four children and two puppies stood in the shade of the tree, staring at the passers-by.

Next to the restaurant are two tables. On one table, there is an induction cooker, and on the other table, there are condiments, packing boxes and other things. In addition, there is a supported paper shell with a line written in Chinese characters and English: Chinese authentic dumplings, delicious and inexpensive.

Qin Shiou stopped across the street and looked at several children in the distance.

There were no pedestrians on the road, not to mention the customers for dinner. After a while, father Hickson opened the door and said to the four children, "come in, good boy. Now there are no guests for dinner. Will you continue to sell in the evening?"

Boris said to the other three, "you go in. If there are guests, I'll call you."

Gordon nodded to go. Shirley, who was holding the small cash box, looked at him angrily and said, "Gordon, you traitor! Can't you stand the pain? "

Michelle also shouted at him, "you can't even compare with a tiger and a leopard! Gordon, I despise you. "

After hearing this, Gordon blushed, stood at the back and wiped the sweat on his face with his clothes. The tiger and the leopard stretched out their tongues and gasped, squinting their heads at Gordon, as if they despised him.

Shirley went over to Hickson's father and said sweetly, "Dad, thank you for your invitation. We're not tired or hot. Just wait outside. Maybe someone is eating now? You know, it's hot. Some people have no appetite at noon. "

Qin Shiou quietly watched the scene. Hickson's father advised him for a while, but it was useless. He had to shake his head and go back to the restaurant. Four stubborn children stayed outside. Of course, there were two equally stubborn Labrador dogs.

"These four children have seed." Mao Weilong said, "more kind than my big nephew!"

Qin Shiou patted him on the shoulder and asked, "do you have seed?"

Mao Weilong said proudly, "what do you say? Capital men, not only have seed, but also have a lot of hard seed... "

"Very good." Qin Shiou smiled happily. He took Mao Weilong out of the car and said to Shirley, "prepare me four dumplings, two filled with bighead carp meat and two with vegetables and shrimp."

Seeing Qin Shiou, the tiger and the leopard shook their ears and jumped up happily together. As a result, after running over, their tongue vomited longer and their breathing was more severe.

Shirley and the four also cheered. Powell asked, "Qin, didn't you eat?"? Are you still hungry? "

Sin ah, before Qin Shiou and Mao Weilong went fishing, they worried about sports dehydration and drank a belly of fruit juice and ice water at home.

In this way, Qin Shiou touched his bulging stomach and said, "yes, the food of St. Johns is not delicious. We didn't come back from dinner. Isn't it, very kind uncle Mao? "

In the last few words, his tone was particularly heavy.

Mao Weilong knew that he had been calculated. He smiled more ugly than crying, nodded and said, "yes, I'm so hungry. I'll have two!"

"You can eat three when you are hungry." Qin Shiou looked at him in surprise. "Uncle Mao, are the dumplings they made not to your taste, so you only eat two?"

Shirley's big watery eyes looked at him nervously. Mao Weilong swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said, "of course not. Hehe, I'll just warm up two first. In this way, three. The dumplings made by Shirley, Gordon and Michelle must be delicious!"

In this way, Powell happily ran into the restaurant and put their dumplings in father Hickson's refrigerator.

Five dumplings came out of the pot soon. Mao Weilong and Qin Shiou sat in the restaurant, staring at the plates of dumplings in a daze.

Hot days, hot dumplings and hot stomachs can kill people.

Shirley looked forward to Qin Shiou and Mao Weilong and asked in a low voice, "why don't you eat?"

"It's too hot." Qin Shiou said with a smile. Shirley put a fork in it and blew it to Qin Shiou's mouth.

Qin Shiou swallowed it, stroked Shirley's hair, chewed and said vaguely: "what a good child, Shirley, um, delicious, delicious."

Hickson's father swallowed his saliva while watching. Finally, he couldn't bear it. He turned to the kitchen and muttered, "fortunately, I didn't get married and have children in my life. It's terrible."

Qin Shiou couldn't eat any more. He didn't have an appetite in the hot weather. Besides, they filled a belly of drinks in St. Johns.

He couldn't eat it. Qin Shiou began to have a bad idea. He looked at Mao Weilong. Well, the grandson is worse than himself now. He has three dumplings in front of him. It's good not to die. Then he looked at the tiger and the leopard.

Labrador, who had always been obedient and obedient, also failed. The two little guys found the air conditioner and lay on the ground. When they saw Qin Shiou turning his head, they turned over together and exposed his bulging belly.

"They are all goods that fall off the chain at the critical time." Qin Shiou muttered. He thought, well, he had an idea.

"Boris, pack our dumplings. We have to shoot fish by the lake. We'll eat while shooting fish later. Now it's the best time to shoot fish at noon." Qin Shiou said, "Shirley, come and check out. Five dumplings. How much is it?"

Gordon said stupidly, "it's too hot now. Qin, how can you shoot fish? You'll get heatstroke. "

Qin Shiou was speechless for a moment. Indeed, how can he shoot fish in the sun at noon?

Mao Weilong smiled kindly and said, "Uncle Mao wants to lose weight, so he must shoot fish at noon. Only in this way can he sweat more."

The children nodded suddenly. Qin Shiou quietly gave him a thumbs up and said, "Why are you so clever? Praise your cleverness. "

Shirley didn't pay the bill. Qin Shiou said with a smile, "we'll give you money for your dumplings, of course, because this is business - family affection is family affection, business is business."

Hickson's father also nodded and said, "yes, children, remember this sentence. Business is business and has nothing to do with others."

Qin Shiou gave Shirley ten yuan and two yuan for dumplings. It's very cheap.