Chapter 311: Preparation 02

Chapter 311

Olivia enthusiastically invited Xiao Qi for lunch.

The meal was provided by this ancient Siheyuan courtyard, with traditional Capital City dim sum food.

At the meal, it seemed like Coach and Olivia's current husband were fighting like gamecocks, trying to outdo each other.

Even drinking soy milk became a competition... Watching them unaccustomedly drink down large bowls of soy milk, Xiao Qi silently wiped away sweat beside them.

Olivia enjoyed the excitement, paying them no mind at all. It was clear she was a very casual woman, with a lively personality, and she was not without feelings for Steven.

After the meal when saying goodbye, Xiao Qi was hugged and kissed several more times by Olivia, while in Coach Steven's hands there was a large box, the two sets of clothes.

In the afternoon Xiao Qi went with the Chairman to the Capital City racetrack where Ji Gu was staying.

Counting it, it felt like it had been many days since she'd seen Ji Gu. At school she would basically see Ji Gu every day, or at most miss one day, but because of the competition this time Ji Gu had left early to arrive at the Capital City, to adjust its condition and get ready, so it had already been several days since she'd seen it.

Normally other competitors would also arrive early, to become accustomed to the environment together with their horses, coordinate together, but Xiao Qi was still a freshman in her first year of university. In her view, horse racing and such could only be a hobby, her main task was still studying, she couldn't invert the priorities. She had only decided to come to this horse race because the coach said it was on the weekend, so she didn't have to ask off school for too many days.

Therefore she basically only had an afternoon to coordinate and train with Ji Gu.

When Xiao Qi arrived at the Capital City racetrack, she discovered that a formal racetrack was really very big and large, no wonder the coach had complained about theirs to death, he would inevitably mention it when speaking, that he had gone to some rural place, compared to the racetrack before them now, not only was the Enhua School racetrack rural, it was like comparing a bowl of congee to a grain of rice.

The housing where Ji Gu stayed was also much nicer than Enhua's, like comparing luxury decorated mansions to simple rental housing. The first time Xiao Qi saw Enhua's racetrack she had felt it was amazingly big and luxurious, but coming to the scene before her now, it was another new world entirely. Here even the stable walls were soft, high class like a KTV's private room.

It took Xiao Qi's group quite a while just to get into the racetrack, it really was massive.

Before Ji Gu grew restless, she already had the horseshoes taken care of.

Xiao Qi felt Ji Gu's condition was also a little off, but there was no major problem. She felt Ji Gu seemed to have overeaten, eaten too much. Probably because the Capital City racetrack food was too good, these past few days it had overeaten.

The manager was still chatting with the Chairman. On this side Xiao Qi had already taken care of replacing all four of Ji Gu's horseshoes, ready to take it out for some fresh air and help it get accustomed to the Capital City racetrack.

When the manager here saw it was actually the young girl who was the equestrian, he was still shocked.

After all the young girl looked very slender, and was very young in age. She seemed too thin and weak for an equestrian, didn't look like she could control such a large, strong horse. This horse was very tall and powerful, and equestrian competitions were a rare event with no separation by gender. Even female jockeys were usually sturdy, with very muscular physiques. But this young girl was wearing a light blue long sleeve T, loose jeans, 1.6 meters tall or so, no matter how you looked she didn't resemble a muscular female jockey.

Xiao Qi paid no mind to other people's looks. Steven was even less concerned, he had been struck repeatedly already by Xiao Qi and was used to all her stunning performances.

When he got to the racetrack he gradually returned to normal, speaking animatedly with Xiao Qi about all kinds of details around the racetrack, in English, occasionally mixing in one or two Chinese words. Xiao Qi's English was now extremely good, they communicated very smoothly. Language was the kind of thing that got simpler the more you used it.

Ji Gu was extremely excited to see Xiao Qi. These past few days the food really had been great, and it had accidentally overeaten. But there was no one to exercise it, so at the next meal, the food was still delicious and it couldn't help overeating again, always repeating this cycle. It felt like it had gained a waist size, and after getting the new horseshoes on it couldn't wait to go run laps.

Xiao Qi rode Ji Gu around the racetrack several laps. This racetrack was extremely large, the track was also more professional. Ji Gu ran very excitedly, after several laps it had worked through its overeating and was even livelier.

After a day, Xiao Qi was very tired but also very fulfilled. They ate dinner at the hotel restaurant, then rested to prepare for the competition the next day.

Approaching the competition, Xiao Qi felt a little nervous, because the coach had become very agitated and tense, and this mood affected Xiao Qi.

She returned to her room and wrote ten pages of brush calligraphy to calm her mood down.

She also slept quite early that night, before 10 pm, and slept soundly through the night.