After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved

Chapter 211: Chapter 211: Eager to Be Humiliated, Then Let It Be (4)

Hearing these words, the people around couldn’t help but frown.

Isn’t this Tang Yiyi going a bit too far?

Relying on her many years of equestrian training, she didn’t see increasing the difficulty of the obstacles as a problem, and directly challenged Lu Sheng to go to the intermediate difficulty area.

The double oxers set up in the intermediate difficulty area are much harder to jump than the single poles of the low difficulty area.

Double oxers are equivalent to widening the jump on the basis of the unchanging height of those five single poles.

For instance, in the intermediate difficulty area, the first obstacle consists of two 50cm high single poles set up next to each other with a gap of 50cm between them.

Riding a horse to make this jump is tantamount to leaping both over half a meter in height and across half a meter in width before landing steadily to clear it successfully.

But as the obstacles go on, the height increases and the gap between the double oxers gets wider.

The last obstacle’s double oxers have a height of 1.3 meters and a width of 1.3 meters, which looks daunting from a distance.

Even for them, who had been taking equestrian classes for two years but could only jump single poles, the thought of riding a horse to jump over such an obstacle was utterly terrifying.

Double oxers are a point in equestrian competitions where riders can easily make mistakes and lose points.

Because compared to jumping single poles, jumping double oxers places higher demands on the riders.

Not only do they have to overcome their fear, but they must also be in greater harmony with their horse, calculating the take-off point well in advance, and so on.

Moreover, double oxers test the horse’s technique, jumping ability, and power.

During the jump, if the horse is too slow to fold its forelimbs or drags its hind limbs, it will hit the front pole. If the hind limbs don’t stretch out, they’ll hit the rear pole.

In a word, it’s difficult!

For a newcomer like Lu Sheng, it was already shocking enough for them that she managed to successfully jump over five single poles, and they couldn’t help but feel she was awesome.

But now to ask her to jump double oxers with the skills she just learned, even the onlookers couldn’t bear to watch.

This Tang Yiyi was clearly just causing trouble.

Of course, Tang Yiyi knew how difficult it was to jump double oxers.

For a beginner, wanting to jump the double oxers is hard enough, not to mention technique, but even the first jump without fear would be difficult.

So she lifted her chin and looked at Lu Sheng, who hadn’t said a word: "What’s the matter, classmate Lu Sheng, are you scared?"

Her tone was contemptuous as she spoke, "If you are scared to jump, it’s fine. Just admit defeat."

"As for Lingxi, I might as well just share some with you."

"After all, we are all classmates, and asthma is such a dangerous illness, I am very concerned about Lu Youming’s health too."

Upon hearing Tang Yiyi mention her brother again, Lu Sheng couldn’t help but have a cold look in her eyes.

She knew better than anyone that Lu Youming did not want others to know about his asthma and hemophilia.

The fact that Lu Youming had these two dangerous diseases was only known to their own family and close friends like Han Jing and Lan Yu.

Although she didn’t know where Tang Yiyi had heard that he had asthma, the fact that she repeatedly mentioned it in front of so many people...

Given that Shengjing’s students are always gossiping, soon the whole school would hear about it.

So seeing Tang Yiyi in this state, Lu Sheng tilted her head slightly, her gaze growing colder.

She’s usually very low-key.

But since today she broke the persona of the genius that You Yi had assumed, then she might as well go all out and teach this Tang Yiyi a lesson.

So Lu Sheng also lifted her chin and directly said coldly to Tang Yiyi: "You really talk too much."

"The first time I see someone who rushes to be slapped in the face, once isn’t even enough."

"If you want to compete in the intermediate difficulty area, then let’s go, I have no objections."

???

What the heck? This Lu Sheng actually said she’s rushing to be slapped in the face??

This is the double oxers we’re talking about, and she dares to agree just like that, so who’s really rushing to be slapped in the face?!

Tang Yiyi was utterly incredulous when she heard this and couldn’t think of a better retort.

In the end, she just viciously said: "You just keep talking tough, I want to see who will really be slapped in the face later!"

The people around became excited after hearing this.

Goodness, today’s visit to the horse field was not in vain.

Lu Sheng, when she finally spoke, shut Tang Yiyi up so effectively that it was quite satisfying to watch.

Having seen Lu Sheng’s perfect jumping earlier, You Yi didn’t try to persuade her further but simply took Lu Sheng and Tang Yiyi to the intermediate difficulty area and repeated the rules.

For the double oxer obstacle, refusal to jump by the horse costs two points, knocking down a pole costs four points. If you fall off the horse, you lose outright.

In order to put psychological pressure on Lu Sheng, Tang Yiyi once again volunteered to go first.

But when she got on her horse at the starting line and looked up, she couldn’t help feeling a bit panicked.

She had been so focused on showing off in front of Lu Sheng that she hadn’t thought about anything else.

But in fact, since she won the equestrian competition in March of the previous half-year, she had hardly trained properly in equestrian courses.

Jumping double oxers, she hadn’t attempted for three or four months.

Whether she could smoothly jump over these five obstacles in one go was something she herself was not confident about.

But Tang Yiyi thought again, even if her skills were rusty, how could she possibly lose to a pure beginner like Lu Sheng?

With this thought, Tang Yiyi regained her confidence. She signaled to You Yi then sat upright on her horse.

After the whistle blew, Tang Yiyi pulled the reins and galloped toward the first double oxer.

The first three double oxers, with heights and widths not exceeding one meter, were relatively simple.

But at the fourth double oxer, there was a problem.

Tang Yiyi’s horse had actually cleared it, but its hind legs didn’t retract in time, and the second pole was knocked down.

Seeing herself knock down a pole, Tang Yiyi panicked. But since it was a continuous jump, the horse kept rushing forward.

However, this hesitation made Tang Yiyi look at the fifth obstacle—a height of 1.3 meters and a gap of 1.3 meters—and she instinctively felt fear.

My goodness... what a wide distance.

Could she really jump over it with her horse?

That one mistake just now completely unsettled Tang Yiyi’s mental state, including the rhythm of controlling the horse’s run.

Her past experience was still there; she judged the correct range for the take-off point. But when she got there, she failed to give her horse the signal to jump in time.

This directly led her horse to suddenly halt with its front legs before the final set of double oxers.

"Ah—————!"