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Chapter 19
The first time Chen Xi met Wei Jia, she saw the blue sky, white clouds, green grass, wild flowers, breeze and a young poplar-like young man on horseback.

According to Wei Jia's recollection afterwards, he could only think of the scorching sun, sun exposure, horse excrement, fodder fees, drunk and troublesome companions, and a nasty off-road vehicle rumbling past him, raising smoke and dust all over his head and face.

In the car were 17-year-old Chen Xi and Sun Jianchuan.

"It's almost there, it's almost there, I saw the cavalry! This journey made my butt hurt." Sun Jianchuan happily patted his companion. "Xixi, what are you looking at?"

Chen Xi, who was looking back through the window of the car, watched the seven or eight horses being left behind by their car and turned into hard-to-recognize dots on the side of the road.She turned her head and asked Sun Jianchuan: "Is this your family's cavalry?"

"That's right!" Sun Jianchuan raised his chin slightly.

Chen Xi's father, Chen Shu, and Sun Jianchuan's father, Sun Changming, were college classmates, and later they started a company together.Chen Shu is in charge of technology, and Sun Changming is in charge of the market. The two are very close, and the two children can be regarded as young.

Sun Changming's hometown is in the northwest, and his father's generation has moved to Jiangnan. He studied in the south, and the company's factories are located in the southern coastal area, but there are many relatives in his hometown, and they still have contacts with each other.This racecourse is run by a distant relative of Sun Changming, and it is said that he also invested money in it.

Sun Jianchuan knew that Chen Xima rode well, and he kept bragging about the majesty of his hometown's horse farm in front of her.It happened to be the summer vacation before the third year of high school, and Sun Changming was going back to his hometown to do some errands. Sun Jianchuan begged his father to bring him. Before the trip, he specially called Chen Xi, who was spending the summer vacation at his mother's house.

Her parents divorced when Chen Xi was in elementary school, and she was sentenced to her mother.Her mother, Song Mingming, is a national first-class actress, famous for her beauty, and has acted in many classic film and television drama roles.After entering middle age, Song Mingming puts his career focus on drama, but still maintains a high degree of nationality.Chen Shu retains a bit of a pedantic spirit, and he doesn't want his daughter to be exposed to too much in the film and television industry before she becomes an adult. After reaching an agreement with her ex-wife, she brought her daughter to live by her side.He and Sun Changming's chemical company changed locations several times. Chen Xi went to elementary school, junior high school, and high school in different provinces. What remained unchanged was that there was always a familiar face among her classmates, and that was Sun Jianchuan.

Chen Xi agreed to come out with Sun Jianchuan in order to avoid the various special classes arranged by her mother.With Sun Changming accompanying him, and going to the Sun family's hometown, he will not lose his care.Chen Shu agreed, and Song Mingming, who always claimed to be open-minded, couldn't object.Sun Jianchuan patted his chest in front of the beautiful Aunt Song and promised that he would take good care of Chen Xi and never let her lose a hair.

Song Mingming rolled his eyes at that moment.Chen Xi stroked a strand of hair and blew it away in front of Sun Jianchuan, laughing secretly, Sun Jianchuan believed that sows could climb trees.

It was still Sun Changming who was pragmatic. When he arrived at the urban area of ​​the destination, he stuffed the envelope containing the money into Chen Xi's hand, and left a sentence: "Xi Xi, you are in charge of the money and people. If the kid is messed up, just slap him. Just take a breath." Then he told the driver to send the two and a half older children to the racecourse which is still more than 300 kilometers away, and went to do his own business in a cool manner.

On the way to the racecourse, Sun Jianchuan, who promised not to let his friend lose a hair, insisted on driving to practice.He has learned to drive, but he is not old enough to get a driver's license.Sun Changming's driver couldn't hold him back and gave up the driver's seat.Unexpectedly, after entering the mountainous area, the road twists and turns, and the road condition is also poor. There are small stones and pits pressed by large vehicles everywhere.Sun Jianchuan was a rookie among the novice, and he almost drove the off-road vehicle into the canyon because of avoiding a pit.Chen Xi, who was dozing off, woke up with a sudden brake, sweating from fright, straightened up from the back seat, and slapped Sun Jianchuan back into the passenger seat.

In the later journey, Sun Jianchuan was always depressed, and Chen Xi didn't pay much attention to him.Now that she finally took the initiative to speak, all the cells in his body became active again, telling her what is delicious and fun in this racecourse.

When they arrived at the service point of the racecourse, the old man who came to meet them was an old man on crutches. He looked like he was not in his [-]s, but in his [-]s. I heard that they were relatives and elders from Grandma Sun Jianchuan's house.Their village is still half an hour's drive away from the racecourse. Many young and middle-aged people in the village who have not gone out to work work at the racecourse, and their food and accommodation are all served at the service point.

Sun Jianchuan was going to live in the racecourse this time, and he was impatient with those distant relatives whom he hadn't met a few times, and he was also afraid that Chen Xi would not like the environment in the village.His father had already called in advance, saying that someone would make arrangements for them.But when he saw the old man who couldn't walk this way, Sun Jianchuan, who had nothing to worry about, also murmured.

The old man spoke with a strong local accent, Sun Jianchuan asked his own, he answered his, the two talked like chickens and ducks.Or Chen Xi's language talent is better than Sun Jianchuan who can't even understand her own native dialect. After listening to it for a few rounds, she has a clue in her mind.

"I told you to wait here, the person hasn't come back yet." She said to Sun Jianchuan.

Summer vacation should be the peak season for tourism, but Chen Xi looked around, no matter whether it was the service point of the "central hub" of the racecourse, or the farmhouse restaurants and archery ranges not far away, there were not many tourists.That's right, who wants to ride a horse and run the risk of being sunburned and skin peeled in this dog days, except Sun Jianchuan, a big fool.

The driver wanted to rush back to the city to accompany Sun Changming on errands. He agreed on a time and place to pick them up four days later, and told them to call in time if something happened... The elderly relative who should be called uncle or grandpa was sent back to the village.

Only Chen Xi and Sun Jianchuan were left at the service point, carrying bulging backpacks.After a long while, a chubby elder sister came out from behind the curtain at the front desk, served a pot of hot water to the young people who had come from afar, looked them up a few times, and praised: "You are handsome, the girl is not bad." Then she returned I went to watch TV in the small room behind the curtain.

"Young master, the business of your racecourse is worrying." Chen Xi said, blowing on the hot water.The service point is ventilated on all sides, without air conditioning, and hot sweat rolls down from her forehead.Chen Xi's skin was not fair, but her forehead was smooth and her nose bridge was straight. There was a drop of sweat hanging from the tip of her nose, so she shook her head.Sun Jianchuan couldn't take his eyes off, the girl is not only good-looking, she looks good everywhere, she looks good when drinking water, she looks good when teasing him, and she looks good when she slaps him on the back of the head hard in the car.

This summer, Sun Jianchuan reiterated to his parents that he does not want to study abroad unless Xixi also goes.He likes Chen Xi and doesn't want to separate the two places to let other boys take advantage of him.His parents naturally taught him a lesson again, saying: "If you plan to study in China, first think about how much you weigh and whether you can be admitted to university. The same school, the same teacher, how much does Chen Xi take the exam?" How many points did you score?"

His ears were numb from hearing these words, but this time he accidentally overheard his parents discussing this matter in the room at night.His mother said: "Chen Xi will definitely not go abroad when she was an undergraduate. Chen Shu has already found out her school and major, and she just waits for her college entrance examination scores to pass the line. What will you do if your son gets stubborn? He holds that gun all day long." A broken guitar is not a material for reading...Chen Xi is also good-looking, with such a strong temper, if Chuanchuan is with her, he will be crushed to death for the rest of his life!"

His dad just laughed. "Don't worry, it's no wonder that Xixi can take a fancy to our stupid son."

Sun Jianchuan couldn't figure out why they all felt that Xixi didn't like him.From childhood to adulthood, the friends around her have changed and changed, only they are always together.Xixi would always slap the back of his head while lending him homework to copy.The back of his head was made for her palm.

But it's hard for him to please Chen Xi, she doesn't lack what he has.Only this racecourse is rare even for Chen Xi, so she didn't feel impatient to drink a cup of boiling water in a stuffy and hot place where dust and flies were flying.

"You're right, this racecourse doesn't make much money, it's all up to my dad to raise it. He likes horses." Sitting bored, Sun Jianchuan put down his backpack and guitar, and proposed to take a look around.

The sun slowly sank towards the west, Chen Xi and Sun Jianchuan wandered aimlessly along the trampled paths around the racecourse.They were in a naturally formed open field.The stretch of grassland is connected with the woodland, and there is no need to manually circle the track. The flat terrain with green grass is an excellent racetrack.Ignore the smell of livestock feces and the ubiquitous black flying insects that float into the nostrils together with the smell of green grass, and only look at the green hills in the distance and the wild flowers under your feet. This is a good place to get away from the hustle and bustle.

They passed the stable just now, and there were less than ten horses in it. The uncle who watched the horses said that most of the horses had taken the tour group out.Chen Xi covered his eyes with his hands and looked at the way he came, and asked: "The horse team just now is also from your racecourse?"

Sun Jianchuan said: "Of course, if there are horses, there must be stablemen. I hope they can come back before dark, and we can go for a few laps. I will let them choose the best horse for you!"

He was waving a long stick he picked up somewhere, knocking here and poking there, like a child with ADHD.Chen Xi was trying to stay away from him to avoid accidental injury, when he lowered his voice, pointed to the tall grass in the distance and said, "Hey, look! There's a man squatting furtively in the grass over there, he must be doing nothing good... Come to think of it, I also saw half of my head protruding from the grass on the road. Could it be that someone is following us in the dark and spying on us?"

Chen Xi looked in the direction Sun Jianchuan was pointing at, and could vaguely see a figure swaying in the waist-high grass tens of meters away, as if aware of their gaze, that person quietly moved his position.But they are newcomers, and the sun hasn't set yet, so why are others spying on them?
"Hey, don't..."

"Xixi, stay here and don't move, I'll go and get that guy out!" With the girl he likes at the side, Sun Jianchuan's desire for protection surged, and before Chen Xi could grab him, he rushed into the grass with a "whoosh" and rushed To that person, he poked at that person with a wave of his stick.

Chen Xi only heard two screams, one in front and one in the back, the latter voice was very familiar, and then what came into his ears was a series of exasperated curses.After walking a few steps forward, she heard clearly the part of the dialect swearing——

"I provoked you by shitting here... Oops, my waist, what did you use to poke me... You son of a bitch, you even took a stick. If you don't pay me for medical expenses, don't even think about leaving!"

"Xixi, Xixi, come here quickly." Seeing Chen Xiru as a savior, Sun Jianchuan greeted her in embarrassment.

"I'm not going there." Chen Xi said with a suppressed smile.

"But he won't let me go... I, my shoes seem to have stepped on something. Xixi, come and help me!"

Now Chen Xi couldn't hold back any longer, she put her hands on her forehead and laughed loudly.Just then, she heard the sound of hooves approaching.

(End of this chapter)