Super Zoo

If Su Ming were here, he would definitely find an old acquaintance in the box.

Apart from Unijin Haya, another young oriental woman in the box looked more like a high school girl. She had an unconcealable arrogance on her cute and pretty face. She was wearing a white suit. A blooming hibiscus is embroidered on the collar.

Unitykin has been in front of the screen in the box, manipulating the screen, using the cameras all over the place, seeming to be looking for something.

"Found it." Yunikin said suddenly.

Princess Haya was helpless towards Unikin, shaking her head and smiling, but another young female high school student leaned her head curiously, "Did he offend you? Your Highness Unikin?"

"That's the guy!" Younijin pointed his slender fingers at a guy on the screen who was drinking Coke. Who else could it be if he wasn't Su Ming?

"He looks very ordinary, a wretched-looking Chinese man." The high school girl grew up quite fresh, but what she said was hard to hear. She raised her thin eyebrows and whispered: "Sister Eugene, you need to Don’t you need me to help you teach him a lesson? I brought my guards with me..."

Unitykin looked back at Princess Haya and the senior female police officer sent by the Xiangjiang police to accompany them all the way, shook her head and said to the female high school student: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness Jia Zi. But I will use fair and honest means." "

His Highness Yoshiko hummed, but his tone clearly disapproved of what Yunikin meant by being 'above and above board'.

Unlike the British system, although the Japanese royal family has no legal power, it is more united and mysterious. It has retained a set of exclusive royal institutions since ancient times. One of the most important units is the 'guards' who have been loyal to the royal family throughout the ages. In other words, they are the royal priests and ninjas.

There are many female emperors in Japanese history, and unlike China, which excludes women from taking power, as the princess of one of the six palaces, Princess Kako, who looks like a high school student, has the power to call on the exclusive bodyguards belonging to her father, Prince Akishino. .

In fact, when she came to Xiangjiang this time, there were several very powerful ninjas in her entourage, who were of course security guards in name only.

With the end of World War II, human society has entered an era of rapid development of civilization. Royal families around the world have no longer held power, either reformed or abdicated, and have become symbols of the country. For example, in the Thai and Western countries, the king is only the nominal head of state. Although the nobles of all classes are still proud, they have accepted and become accustomed to this fact and treat themselves as ordinary people.

Only Japan is slightly different. Emperors all over the world, including the ancient Chinese emperors, are still 'human beings' after all. At most they say they are the emperor and the spokesperson of God, but in essence, they are still human beings. In ancient Europe, kings, no matter whether they were powerful or not, were at least nominally required to accept the canonization of the Roman Pope.

Only the Japanese royal family regards itself as a ‘god’, as humans and gods are one. The Japanese royal family, including the emperor himself, does not have surnames in order to highlight their godhood.

This can also be seen from the title. The whole world, including the Queen of England, is just a "king", which is translated into English as king; the only one in Japan who is called "emperor" is the emperor, which is translated into "emperor".

All in all, most young children of the Japanese royal family do have different concepts from those of Western European royal families, and they have a superiority in their bones.

The policewoman in the box narrowed her eyes slightly when she saw the person pointed by Unikin's finger on the screen from a distance.

It's him? When did he come to Xiangjiang? How do you get to know this British Princess?

…

The collective dressage performance of the opening ceremony is held at the center of the race. According to the competition method, after the rider enters the horse, he controls the horse to perform various coherent and standardized movements, and skillfully transitions to the advanced footwork competition. The purpose is to test the horse's obedience, docility, and training, as well as the horse's ability to respond to the rider's reins, feet, and riding assistance, as well as the coordination of the human and horse's integrated actions.

The judges will give scores based on whether the prescribed actions of the rider and horse are correct and regular, whether the cooperation between man and horse is coordinated, and whether the horse is obedient and energetic. In the regular competition, there are three games in total. The first two are designated actions stipulated by the National Equestrian Association, and the last one is the rider and the horse performing self-selected music and self-choreographed dance steps.

Since it is an opening ceremony performance rather than a regular competition, there are no designated movements for individual performance. The horse racing movements on the field are neat and uniform, and the designated movements are performed gracefully. The jockeys wear gorgeous riding attire and look like gentlemen and ladies. , calm and graceful, the horse's fur was washed and shiny like satin, and the horse's mane was combed into unique braids, which looked pleasing to the eye.

In the eyes of equestrian beginners, dressage is a high-level skill in horse control. In fact, on the contrary, dressage is the most test of horse control skills and is the foundation of all equestrian skills.

It seems that Xiangjiang Horse Racing fans are no strangers to Princess Anne, who leads the team on the field. After her appearance, the whole house burst into cheers and cheered for the princess throughout the performance.

After a brief but exciting opening ceremony, the preliminary round officially entered.

A total of thirty-two preliminary horses are divided into four groups. Each group competes. The top two horses in each group directly enter the next round. In addition to these eight horses, the top eight horses in the overall score advance to 16 horses. The second round of competition will be held, and the top twelve horses will be selected based on their results for the finals.

In other words, there are three rounds, with 8, 8, and 12 horses competing in the same field.

In the first round of the preliminary competition, similar to the usual horse betting, the commentator first introduced the pedigree, record and other information of the 8 horses in this race, including the information of the horse owner.

The favorite to win the championship, 'Blue Bay', is in this group. This horse has excellent pedigree and the owner is also quite famous. He is a descendant of the He family, the shipbuilding tycoon of Hong Kong in the 1980s, and runs a cruise business.

Su Ming's Happy is also in this group, which seems to be eclipsed. Compared with the other seven horses with good backgrounds and pedigrees, Happy has no advantages, so the commentator only mentioned it briefly when introducing it.

Hou Longtao was quite excited. He ran to the betting point and bet 2,000 yuan to buy Happy first. Although the Longines Cup is a competition, the Jockey Club will certainly not miss this opportunity and can still bet.

Su Ming can't bet. First, he also knows the strength of Happy and there is basically no chance of winning the championship; second, he has a gentleman's agreement with the Jockey Club, and it is not appropriate to make money again.

"Mr. Su, hello." A familiar but official voice sounded from behind.

He looked back and was stunned.

A young face with a capable cap badge, expressionless---strictly speaking, looking at him coldly.

"Huh? Madam?"

It was Ho Po-man, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. Looking at the inscription on her uniform, Su Ming smiled and said, "Wow, you got promoted? Congratulations, there are probably very few chief inspectors so young in Hong Kong's history."

It was Ho Po-man.

Su Ming saw that she looked unhappy and immediately guessed the reason: anyway, she had confessed her feelings last time, and it would be better if she came to Hong Kong to watch the horses together at the end of the year. As a result, he came without a greeting. Now she caught him "in the act". It would be strange for a woman to be happy.

Su Ming didn't want to cause trouble. Since nothing was going to happen, why bother talking about this flirtation and misleading others and himself. Who knew that he would meet at the racecourse.

He was depressed and said "bad luck" in his heart, but his eyes fell on the three-star shoulder strap of He Baowen, showing an extremely surprised expression, and said in a slightly exaggerated tone: "Wow, how long has it been since we last met, and you have been promoted to Chief Inspector? Three levels in a row."

The fact that Hong Kong police are rated as the best police in Asia is not unrelated to the huge police establishment. The ratio of police personnel is the highest in Asia, and the police force sequence is divided into director level, middle level and sergeant level. The director level is the real boss, and the inspector general belongs to the middle level. A senior inspector is already a figure in the police force, and the next level is the superintendent.

Female senior inspectors under 30 years old are rare in the entire police force. According to this promotion speed, if nothing unexpected happens, it is not a suspense to become a superintendent or a senior superintendent in the future. If she is lucky enough to be established as the image representative of the police force, it may not be impossible to enter the director level.

He Baowen himself is obviously quite proud. After hearing what Su Ming said, his face eased a little, and he finally had a smile on his face.

"Mr. Xiang." She nodded and smiled at Long Wu on the side, as a greeting.

"How come you have time to watch horse racing today? And you are dressed in uniform?" Su Ming thought for a moment and smiled, "Are you in charge of the security of the racecourse?"

He Baowen shook his head, turned his head and looked at a box on the other side, frowned and asked Su Ming: "Have you offended Princess Eugen?"

"Ah?" Su Ming was puzzled. What princess? I saw a princess at the opening ceremony just now, Princess Anne. But I know her, she doesn't know me.

As for the ghost Princess Eugen, what ghost is she?

Hou Longtao was stunned on the side. When this cold-faced female police officer came to Su Ming just now, he was shocked. The police ranks in the mainland are slightly different from those in Hong Kong, but he is not blind. He Baowen has so many flowers on his shoulders. He can tell at a glance that he is not a small character. He is from the mainland, so he has a natural fear of the police.

Hearing the other party mention the princess again, Hou Longtao was even more speechless. He looked at Su Ming and thought that this guy had only been in Hong Kong for a few days. First, he was a gangster, then the Jockey Club, and now he has offended even the princess.

It's really exciting.

Long Wu asked expressionlessly: "Is Princess Eugene in the box over there?" As he spoke, he explained: "The seventh heir to the British throne."

"What's going on?" Su Ming asked Hou Longtao.

"I don't know what's going on. The police force sent me to be responsible for the safety of the four princesses. Princess Eugene heard that you are an expert in horse racing and invited you to gamble."

"Wait! How did it become four princesses again?"

The people present, including He Baowen, were all confused now. Even He Baowen didn't know what was going on. He just conveyed the "challenge" in the box over there: Princess Eugene wanted to gamble one-on-one with Su Ming in the next game.

This kind of gambling is purely a private game. Both parties are willing to do so, which is not illegal and has nothing to do with the Jockey Club. I just don't know why the other party would take the initiative to choose Su Ming.

Hou Longtao tugged at Su Ming's sleeve and said, "I don't know what the other party wants to do. Be careful of fraud. Just ignore her. I haven't heard of anyone forcing people to gamble." Having made a lot of money last time, Hou Longtao always felt that the Jockey Club would not give up. It's better not to make trouble at this time.

"Of course." He Baowen nodded on the side: "If you don't agree, even the Queen of England can't do anything. And from a personal point of view, I suggest you don't agree."

"Why?" Su Ming asked.

"The overall equestrian level of the British royal family is the highest in the world, and Eugene is one of the best. Her horse-judging level is not inferior to Princess Anne who led the performance just now." He Baowen said.

Su Ming looked at Long Wu, and Long Wu said: "It is certainly not a wise move to bet on horses with the British, especially the British royal family. However, no one dares to say that there is a 100% chance of winning in horse betting. What about the British royal family? It depends on you."

Su Ming thought about it and smiled at He Baowen: "Then bet."

He also wanted to know what the princess was selling.

...

Amid the cheers of thousands of spectators, the preliminaries were held as scheduled, and under the unknown surface, another gambling game also kicked off.

Facts have proved that betting on horses with a trainer is definitely not a wise choice. Princess Eugene, who was originally full of confidence, was shocked to find that she had become a pauper after three games.

After losing all 120,000 pounds, there is no spare money available this year, and even the money for repairing the car cannot be collected.

It's not like she has no money. After all, she is a princess of the royal family. She has a fixed industry under her name. With the royal quota funds, she is not so poor that she will go bankrupt with 120,000 pounds.

However, the remaining money is used for the maintenance of various industries, continued investment, labor expenses, and other legitimate purposes.

Just like a college student, with a living allowance of 1,000 yuan a month, 700 yuan of which may be used for food and water, which are necessities of life, and the remaining 300 yuan can be used for pocket money.

If the pocket money is gone, if you continue to gamble, you can only use the "living expenses".

Eugene was very depressed. Today's luck was extremely bad. Three times in a row, she actually bet on the wrong horse? !

Princess Haya shook her head and said nothing. Horse racing is originally based on luck.

In fact, in any gambling, without cheating, the importance of luck must be higher than technology. Only when the luck difference is not big, can we talk about technology.

Yunijin had previously analyzed her opponent's record in detail and thought that her opponent's skills were just average, and that she was just lucky enough to win the jackpot, so she was very confident.

But in the casino, people are afraid of such people, who are in good luck and possessed by the God of Wealth, and nothing can stop them.

Haya is much older and more experienced than Yunijin, and she sees things more thoroughly, while the young Princess Kako is just the opposite. She was very surprised to see Yunijin being defeated again and again.

Young girls always have something in common, such as arrogance. Seeing that Yunijin, who also has a noble status, was completely defeated, Kako said unhappily: "Sister Yunijin, we can't let a commoner defeat us. This is related to the honor of the royal family!"