Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 852 Two Generations Compete Together

Alice is Margaret's niece, and the two actually have a pretty good relationship.

So Margaret didn't object, and even said that it would be best for Alice to start training tomorrow.

If the aunt and niece were in the same class and won medals at the same time, it would be a good story.

And by the time Margaret participates in this year's Olympics, the next Olympics, and the one after that, Alice will only be 21 years old, which is exactly the time when her physical strength and experience are at their peak.

Taking over Margaret's baton and winning the championship for the royal family and England is not only an honor, but also a fine tradition for royal women.

In the future, the aunt and niece may become legends of equestrian sports.

Now Philip not only patted his chest and said that he would fully support Margaret and Alice.

Even Margaret begged Chu Xiangqian to help Alice find a few horses suitable for show jumping and dressage competitions if possible.

Although Olympic champion horses may seem famous, the price of horses used for show jumping and dressage is actually much lower than that of horses used for speed racing.

After all, leaving aside the element of luck, 9% of the outcome of a speed race depends on the horse's talent.

The remaining half is the rider and training.

For horses used in show jumping and dressage, at least 8% of their performance depends on training.

So the price will naturally be different.

Of course, speed races attract more spectators, generate greater profits, and also affect the price of horses.

Chu Xiangqian had no objection to Margaret's proposal.

For him, the horses ridden by the champion and runner-up were all the fine horses he provided.

From now on, the horses used in dressage and show jumping will no longer be exclusive to Andalusians and Hanoverians.

This will be of great benefit to increasing the popularity and price of the Arabian horse.

As long as the benefits are enough, let alone providing Alice with a few riding horses, even giving her a few horses would be no problem.

The English people's calculations against Chu Xiangqian indirectly helped Chu Xiangqian raise the price of the Arabian horse.

This is what is called luck.

Philip got a promise from Chu Xiangqian that he would no longer be a light bulb. And with Margaret's commission, Philip could also help with registration in the afternoon.

As for whether she can be selected to participate in the Olympics in the future, it depends on how Margaret's postpartum recovery training goes.

But once you sign up, anyone who wants to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble will have no excuse.

If someone reports this in the newspaper tomorrow and slanders Margaret, it would be slander.

The Kingdom of Ying also has special laws to protect the royal family, and slander and defamation are illegal.

As for whether Margaret can win the championship again in the future, that is a matter for the future.

Moreover, Margaret's pregnancy and childbirth were also a great excuse for her.

The fact that she started training just one or two months after giving birth is something worth writing about and praising.
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As soon as Philip left, Chu Xiangqian and Margaret couldn't help but show some love to each other.

This girl has been holding it in for several months and is very angry.

Fortunately, Margaret was only 7 months old. She certainly couldn't surf, but she could still sing a few simple lines.

But this put Chu Xiangqian in a difficult position. In the end, when Margaret was tired of singing, she couldn't bear to see Chu Xiangqian miss out on singing, so she actually called Nata over for dinner.

When Nata heard that Chu Xiangqian had returned to London, she was so excited that she drove to Garden Street in a hurry without even waiting for dinner time.

However, although this girl has played friendly matches with Chu Xiangqian quite a few times, her strength is not that good.

After the two games, Nata was exhausted.

But although he was physically tired, he was in an unusually good mood. It was because Chu Xiangqian was so good at digging wells and had such great skills that he was far superior to his fiancé.

Not to mention maintaining this kind of relationship with Chu Xiangqian in the future, even being his mistress would be no problem.

The next morning, Chu Xiangqian took Margaret and Nata, who insisted on going with him, to a manor in the suburbs. The place was quiet and the air was much better than in London.

Speaking of which, the air in London has never been good, and there was even widespread severe smog during World War II.

At that time, the air quality was so poor and too many citizens were sick that Churchill, the "first person", was almost impeached and stepped down because of this.

Fortunately, Churchill is worthy of being a tough guy who will go down in history.

With just one radio speech, he successfully diverted the public's attention to the war.

The speech was so inspiring that it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as it suppressed the voice of the opposition.

By the 1950s, although the smog had improved, it was not easy to relocate and relocate so many small and medium-sized factories.

So even though it is already 64 years ago, smog still appears from time to time in winter.

If Margaret hadn't gone to the airport to pick up Chu Xiangqian, she wouldn't have lived in downtown London.

And as per Chu Xiangqian's instructions, they only drank branded spring water.

Recently, I have started drinking pure natural birch sap collected from the birch trees planted on the estate.

After arriving at the manor, Chu Xiangqian also tasted it and immediately felt that it tasted quite good, with a faint unique smell of wood.

However, Chu Xiangqian knew that this thing was extremely difficult to preserve, and it was best to grow it yourself, collect it and drink it on the same day.

You can't drink it every day. Fortunately, it is usually only available in the first few weeks of spring, so Chu Xiangqian didn't care about Margaret drinking it.

But when he entered the Novice Village as usual at night, killed the refreshed wild monsters, and collected supplies, he suddenly discovered that there were many birch trees in the woods to the north of the Novice Village.

He pulled out a hunting knife from his storage compartment and chopped down a birch tree.

Sure enough, the tree trunk oozed sap that looked like clear water. And the water was quite large. In just two or three minutes, it filled up an enamel water cup.

After taking a sip, a stronger wood aroma instantly burst in his mouth. Chu Xiangqian instantly knew that the birch sap collected in this novice village must be more nutritious than that in the real world.

However, although this thing is highly nutritious, just like a normal person cannot drink glucose in a bottle as water, excessive supplementation can actually be a bad thing.

So Chu Xiangqian quickly gave up the idea of ​​making money from this.

And for the sake of experiment, Chu Xiangqian plans to try it out on himself first, drink 200 ml every day, and if there is no problem, he will give it to his relatives to drink in the future.
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After settling down in the manor, Philip brought Charles and Alice to the house the next day.

When they met and greeted each other, Charles and Alice greeted Margaret first, and then directly called Chu Xiangqian "uncle".

There wasn't a hint of perfunctoriness in the tone of the brother and sister.

The word "uncle" was called in a very intimate way.

Even when Charles faced Chu Xiangqian, he was obviously a little excited and pestered Chu Xiangqian to follow Alice for equestrian training.

Chu Xiangqian was unwilling to agree from the bottom of his heart. This kid had never been a contented person throughout his youth.

Unfortunately, when Charles entered the same high school as Philips, he quickly became silent.

It's not that he grew up, but that he was bullied at school.

His father thought that he could teach Charles to be braver and stronger in the middle school he attended. Unfortunately, things did not go as he wished, and Charles was bullied many times during his middle school years.

He was bullied, and his parents thought he was not tough enough. He liked to complain over the slightest conflict, which made Charles gradually become silent and rebellious.

The more Philips objected, the more this kid wanted to do it.

This is how we came to the suburban manor today.

Moreover, if you just live in the manor and practice dressage, it would be less dangerous than galloping on horseback.

Chu Xiangqian wanted to refuse, but he couldn't refuse in front of Charles.

As for Alice, the little girl ran over not only to thank Chu Xiangqian and Margaret for allowing her to start Olympic equestrian training at the age of 13.

In the future, she will have the opportunity to win the Olympic gold medal like her aunt Margaret.

It was also because Elizabeth suggested to Chu Xiangqian and Margaret that Alice should start training in March on the white Andalusian horse that helped Margaret win the championship four years ago and the black Hanoverian horse.

This can be regarded as a way for the two horses to do recovery training in advance, and it also allows Alice to have more time to develop a tacit understanding with the two horses.

The deeper meaning is that if Alice can ride these two champion horses to participate in the competition in October this year, she will have a higher chance of getting a good ranking.

If I'm lucky, I might actually win a medal.

Even the champion is not completely without a chance.

At the Munich Olympics in 60, few people were optimistic about Margaret, who was participating in the Olympic equestrian event for the first time.

But the result was that Margaret won two equestrian gold medals.

So Philip and Eliza talked about it last night, and Alice is not without the opportunity to replicate Margaret's precedent of winning the championship.

Unfortunately for Chu Xiangqian, those two horses have become a thing of the past. From now on, the horses that Margaret and Alice will ride, train and compete with must and must only be Arabian horses.

So Chu Xiangqian smiled and said to Alice, "My dear, I have asked someone to find horses suitable for show jumping and dressage competitions.

Believe me, it's no worse than the horse your aunt rode four years ago."

To put it simply, show jumping is a hurdle race, while dressage is the ultimate collaboration between man and horse.

Therefore, if you don't pursue extreme speed, racing horses will be more about testing strength and obedience.

Although there are not many horses refreshed in the Novice Village with a physique of 1.5 and a strength of 1.5, it is not difficult to find eight or ten.

The Novice Village refreshes three horses every day, and Chu Xiangqian can also make all the horses refreshed every day authentic according to his own ideas.

That’s more than a thousand horses a year.

Of course, Chu Xiangqian did not refresh so many Arabian horses. Basically, the three major pure bloods each accounted for one third.

All the horses that Chu Xiangqian kept and kept in the stables and open-air fences in the Novice Village were good horses.

The others were all killed by him to gain experience.

The horse meat and leather were kept for future use.

Even the 120 horses he put up for auction were not the best.

There are several horses with physique of 1.5, strength of 1.5, and agility of 1.6.

Among the three attributes, two have a value of 1.5, and the other attribute has a value of 1.4.

So Chu Xiangqian actually has no shortage of horses for equestrian competitions, but dressage training is not just about improving the three-dimensional attributes to achieve better results.

This requires a lot of training for the rider and the horse, not only to develop a tacit understanding, but also to train various equestrian movements.

Of course, if Margaret recovers well after giving birth and the training is effective, the two horses, Andalusia and Hanover, that won the championship four years ago, will also be airlifted to Beijing.

If the Arabian horse does not perform well, use the other two horses to fight.

Therefore, it was necessary to let Alice replace Margaret and train with the two horses several months in advance.

It was no surprise that Alice stayed at the manor.
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When Alice heard that Chu Xiangqian had asked someone to find a horse for the competition, she was so excited.

The man in front of me, who cannot disclose his true relationship with my aunt, is a legendary horse owner and rancher who has bred three Triple Crown winners.

Moreover, the average price of the Arabian horses he auctioned off has exceeded 100 million US dollars.

So when he said he could find a horse for the race, Alice had no doubt at all.

Excited, Alice saluted Chu Xiangqian, and then said in a somewhat anxious tone, "Uncle, if the horse you choose is shipped here, can I buy it myself?

And what kind of horses are those?"

Although Alice is only 13 years old, as the only daughter among the direct heirs, she is more favored than Charles.

And because Charles was the first heir, not only did her parents give her more compensation in many ways, but her grandmother Maria also gave her a lot of real estate very early on.

It is no exaggeration to say that she is a small rich woman.

But if calculated in millions of dollars, it would still be difficult for Alice to come up with such a large sum of money on her own.

Only then did he ask what bloodline the horse was from.

The thoroughbred horse was the first to be excluded. This kind of hot-blooded horse was the least irritable, easily agitated, and least obedient among the three major bloodlines.

Not suitable for use as an equestrian competition horse at all.

The Arabian horse was eliminated second. With an average shoulder height of only 1.45 meters, the Arabian horse has obvious disadvantages in show jumping competitions.

On the contrary, the Arabian horse, although also a hot-blooded horse, is surprisingly obedient.

Otherwise, they would not have been chosen as war horses in ancient times.

When used as an obstacle course horse, the advantages are obvious.

But Chu Xiangqian was not very confident about dressage.

In the 3-meter or even 5700-meter cross-country endurance races, the endurance advantage of the Arabian horse is too obvious.

Of course, there are very few horses of this kind in the world. Before Chu Xiangqian appeared, no one used the Arabian horse to participate in equestrian competitions.

Moreover, equestrian competitions are popular in Europe and the United States, so it is natural that European local horses will be chosen for training.

Then the Andalusian and Hanoverian gradually came to the fore, and for a long time these two types of horses were the horses used exclusively in equestrian competitions.

So when Chu Xiangqian answered Alice that he was looking for the Arabian horse, not only Alice was surprised, but Philip, Charles, and even Margaret and Nata were also very surprised.

Then Alice's expression fell.

A minimum of four horses is required to compete, two for show jumping and two for dressage.

If she also took part in the three-day all-around race, she would have to bring two more horses for the cross-country race, which made Alice feel so poor.

Then he became extremely envious of Margaret.

(End of this chapter)