702 Steel card blessed by Poseidon! (Second update!)
Tian Ke knew that her friend and master was in a very unhappy mood after kicking the guy named Chu Yang, so she didn't say anything else.
Looking at the dejected Chai Murong, Tian Ke pondered for a moment, and suddenly said with bright eyes: "Hey, by the way, Murong, when I went to the lobby below to place an order just now, I heard the hotel waiter say that this evening, the Chinese Restaurant in Singapore
The General Chamber of Commerce will hold a huge night dragon boat race on St. John's Island. I heard that all Chinese can participate in this dragon boat race. How about we go and watch it too?"
After sighing silently, Chai Murong took two steps forward with arms folded and said in a wan tone: "Forget it, it's just a dragon boat race, it's not interesting."
"Anyway, we have nothing to do in the hotel, so why not go there and take a look. If you are interested, you can also participate in the competition."
"Well, okay, let's go and have a look." Seeing that Tian Ke wanted to go, Chai Murong couldn't bear to dampen her interest anymore, so he put out the cigarette butt, stretched out and yawned again.
Poor child, poor woman, a woman who has lost the motivation for work and love, even if she is the distinguished eldest daughter of the Chai family, she will feel boring about this beautiful world... Looking at the lazy Chai Murong, Tian Ke
There was a look of pity in his eyes.
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St. John's Island, also known as Qizhang Mountain, is a resort and leisure island located off the southern coast of Singapore. The entire island covers an area of approximately 40.5 hectares.
In 1903, the British colonial government established a quarantine station. Originally, it only stipulated that if anyone on board a ship coming from southern China was found to be suffering from an infectious disease, all people on the ship would have to go to this island for quarantine.
Later, it was changed to the fact that all those traveling in steerage (the lowest fare) were required to go to the island to undergo quarantine and 'disinfection'.
They also stipulated that all men and women must strip naked for inspection. At that time, there were incidents where Chinese women could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the sea.
When the news reached the mainland of Singapore, the Chinese community was in an uproar. The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce submitted a petition to the Governor, and the British colonial authorities had to cancel the humiliating measures at the quarantine station.
The quarantine station was not used until the 1960s.
In order not to forget the humiliating history of the early Chinese coming to the south, the General Chamber of Commerce holds a night dragon boat race every year on this day to celebrate the success of the resistance to the British colonizers.
Therefore, every year on this day, tens of thousands of tourists gather on the beaches of St. John Island.
Seventy to eighty percent of them are Chinese with yellow skin and dark eyes.
At half past five in the evening, Mr. Chu Yang, who also had yellow skin and dark eyes, and Gu Mingchuang, who was wearing small sunglasses and a suit and leather shoes, appeared on the beach of St. John's Island.
After weighing the password box covered with a layer of black cloth in his hand, Gu Mingchuang scanned the surrounding crowd vigilantly and found no one carrying the same password box before taking a step forward to join Chu Yang.
: "There are so many people here today, and most of them are Chinese with yellow skin."
Raising his finger and pointing to a sign on the beach, Chu Yang said: "I heard there is a dragon boat race tonight. It seems that the pink skeleton is taking advantage of the crowd today to cover up its tracks. Let's go over and take a look at that sign. I think she will be there soon."
You can see us.”
The two people walked to the newly added billboard and looked up.
The sign explained in detail the origin of the night dragon boat race, and finally it said: Chinese compatriots from all over the world (foreigners are also welcome) are welcome to participate in this dragon boat race to commemorate the victory of that year.
This competition does not focus on performance but on form. Participants must hand over one hundred dollars to the organizing committee and use their tickets to find their respective dragon boats.
The dragon boat race will start from St. John's Island. The first one to reach Germinal Island will win the half-race championship of US$12,000. (One way is about 12 nautical miles.)
The first person to return to the competition location from Germinal Island will receive a total championship bonus of US$36,000. There are twelve players on each dragon boat (small dragon boats and thirty people for large dragon boats), including six semi-professionals
Players...
The two of them looked at each other with shy faces for a long time, until their necks were sore, after reading these eloquent announcements.
"Hey," rubbing his sore neck, Gu Mingchuang glanced around and said with a smile: "Look at the hype mentioned above. When the next year comes, I will bring Yuru here to spend a hundred dollars. What can I do?
It doesn’t matter if you can’t achieve results, the key is participation.”
Chu Yang nodded and was about to say something when he caught a glimpse of someone coming from the distant seaside from the corner of his eye, so he whispered: "Old man, that Li Shuzhen is here again. No need to look back, she is right here with you.
Two o'clock behind you."
Gu Mingchuang shrugged: "It seems that she is quite good at tracking people. She appeared as soon as we got here."
"To become a qualified pirate, you must at least have a sense of direction in identifying routes in the vast ocean. Most of the tracking experts in the world now come from people who live a casual life at sea. But I am very puzzled. Since she has such
She has a special body scent that appears when she sweats while running, so how come she wasn't followed and caught?"
Gu Mingchuang smiled obscenely and replied in a low voice: "Maybe no one is willing to do it? After all, a woman who smells good when she sweats is considered the best."
"Well, it seems that those people have the same moral character as you."
After Chu Yang lit up a cigarette, he took off his sunglasses and smiled at Li Shuzhen who walked five meters in front of him: "Miss Li, you are dressed like this, are you going to participate in the dragon boat race? Hehe,
If we weren't going to participate in some auction, we brothers would have participated in tonight's game at all costs to feel the unity spirit of overseas Chinese."
Today, Li Shuzhen has put on a bright yellow sportswear, with a bright red belt tied around her waist, making her waist slimmer, her legs slender, and of course her already protruding breasts
It's more conspicuous. If that face wasn't too 'plain', she would definitely appear in the beautiful memories of all the tourists who come to St. John's Island.
Raising her hand to tuck her long chestnut hair, Li Shuzhen glanced at the box in Gu Mingchuang's hand, smiled and took out two tickets and two small round steel plates from her pocket and handed them over: "Mr. Yun, Gu Mingchuang
Sir, our boss has long expected that you are interested in the dragon boat race, so he asked me to give you two tickets to participate. These two steel plates are souvenirs for participating in the dragon boat race. The organizing committee specially customized them from Italy.
It’s a very exquisite collection.”
Chu Yang took the ticket and handed it to Gu Mingchuang. He weighed the two small steel plates and chuckled: "Haha, does a souvenir need such a thick steel plate?"
If this man doesn't look at people like that, he is actually quite approachable... Li Shuzhen pursed her lips and smiled and said: "This steel plate was blessed by the God of the Sea, and it can make the owner safe at sea. Oh, by the way, all
All contestants must wear them during the competition."
"It would be better if I changed this thing into gold. This can be regarded as an amulet, but it's too heavy." Gu Mingchuang said, taking one of the pieces and hanging it around his neck, shaking it back and forth, and said to Chu Yang
Said: "The number of our dragon boat is No. 32, and the rower positions are No. 7 and 8."
Chu Yang nodded and put the steel plate into his pocket.
"Tonight's auction will be held on Germination Island, six nautical miles away from here. If the two gentlemen are lucky, they may win the half-distance championship." Li Shuzhen put her hands in her trouser pockets and twisted her waist slightly: "And I
He is a semi-professional player in the dragon boat race. We are on the same dragon boat, and he is also the contact person of the two gentlemen for this auction."
Looking at Li Shuzhen's tall chest, Gu Mingchuang licked his lips and said with a smile: "If we can work together with Miss Li, we will definitely win the half-distance championship. But what I want to know is, no matter whether we are in this auction
Whether we win the bid or not, what should we do when we come back?"
"That's your business and has nothing to do with us."
Gu Mingchuang sighed softly and said: "Oh, what you said is so heartless."
"Also, all bidders participating in the auction tonight are not allowed to bring weapons into the site. You'd better follow the rules we set, otherwise you won't be able to enter the auction site, and then all your efforts will be wasted.
"
"Where is the mobile phone?" Gu Mingchuang asked: "Can't I carry a mobile phone?"
"Of course you can bring your mobile phone," Li Shuzhen replied: "If you don't bring your mobile phone, how can you contact your domestic decision-makers about price issues?"
In fact, we have no one to contact at all, because I am not interested in that bullshit... Gu Mingchuang smiled and asked: "Aren't you afraid that the Americans will lock the auction site based on the GPS positioning system on the mobile phone, and then launch a massive attack on you?
wipe out?"
"Haha," Li Shuzhen sneered: "Of course they will lock our position, but they don't dare to mess around, because the result of doing so will only be a 'boom' in the entire auction site... And our people
, they will naturally retreat from the waterway that has been prepared long ago."
Chu Yang nodded: "Oh, I understand. You have arranged bombs at the auction site. If there is any disturbance, you will blow up the site. It seems that you have made a profit this time."
"Haha, of course, otherwise how could our boss gather you here? Well, I wish you two gentlemen good luck and see you later." Li Shuzhen smiled, then turned and left.
Gu Mingchuang turned to look at Li Shuzhen who was walking towards the seaside, and said calmly, "You are not allowed to carry weapons... In this case, you won't be able to bring guns in, but I don't believe that people who go in don't bring cold weapons. It seems that today,
It will be a brutal hand-to-hand battle tonight. Well, this is good, so as not to injure our own people with bullets flying around."
Looking at the sea surface shining with golden light under the sunset, Chu Yang pondered for a moment before saying: "Old man, we'd better change our clothes so that we can swim back after the auction. Well, it's twelve nautical miles.
The waters will definitely have to struggle for a long time.”
"Okay, I think so too." Gu Mingchuang snapped his fingers, and he and Chu Yang left the billboard...
Not long after Chu Yang and Gu Mingchuang left the billboard, a man and two women came over.
That girl with a lazy look all over her body was none other than Chai Murong who was encouraged by Tian Ke to attend the dragon boat race.
Tian Ke and Ling Xing were following behind her.
"Murong, the dragon boat race will start in one and a half hours. Are you interested in participating in the race?"
Tian Ke looked at the temporary dragon boat competition organizing committee site not far ahead, turned to Chai Murong, who seemed to be looking a little better, and said: "I think participating in this kind of popular competition can relax the mental stress. Look.
, there are even teenagers signing up to participate.”