Chapter 329 The Horse Race-Learning to Ride
Another two weeks have passed . Anar finds that Ze Yitong and Dun Zhu become busy recently . She asks about the reason and knows that the annual Naqu Horse Race will be held in two months . Except for the horse race, herdsmen living within hundreds of miles will bring their goods . The Horse Race also works as a big fair . As for Ze Yitong’s family, they need to exchange for enough necessities for the coming year at the fair .
The family has two horses, fifteen cows and forty sheep . For herders, they are not wealthy . It’s easy to tell because Ze Yitong and Dun Zhu’s traditional Tibetan clothes are not sumptuous . All Tibetans have their own traditional clothes . Except for wearing them on festivals, the clothes are also one of the best dowries for Tibetan girls .
Anar hears from Dun Zhu that traditional a piece of clothing of girls from rich families may worth hundreds of thousands of yuan . Such clothes are made from the best fabrics and finest turquoises . However, Ze Yitong’s family doesn’t have many cows and sheep . Dun Zhu worries that there will not be much dowry for Ze Yitong in the future . Dun Zhu hopes that Ze Yitong will have a grand wedding, so she already starts to prepare Ze Yitong’s dowry although Ze Yitong is only twelve years old .
“Ze Yitong’s nana can’t see clearly . I took her to the hospital three years ago and she was diagnosed with cataract . The surgery to treat it costs tens of thousands of yuan . The award for the winner of the horse race is 100 thousand yuan . We have to fight for it . ”
Dun Zhu says to Anar while tidying up furs she collected . Dun Zhu’s Mandarin is not very good . It is a little difficult for her to communicate with Anar, but Anar feels that Dun Zhu speaks with a spirit of never giving up on life .
“Dun Zhu, can I sign up for the horse race?”
Anar doesn’t know what she can do in return for the food and accommodation Ze Yitong’s family provides to her . If she could win the 100-thousand-yuan award, it would be helpful for them, right?
Dun Zhu stares at Anar, “Can you ride a horse?”
Anar thinks for a while and shakes her head, “I don’t remember . ”
The next day, Ze Yitong takes Anar and a horse to a place without cattle or sheep to practice riding . It turns out that Anar truly doesn’t know how to ride, so Ze Yitong is really happy to be her teacher .
The twelve-year-old Ze Yitong rides skillfully on the horseback and makes some really difficult and thrilling moves . Seeing all of these, Anar blushes about the idea that she can win the horse race that will be held in two months .
She only has two months to practice . Can she be more skillful than the herdsmen who ride horses every day when they grew up?
Anar rides on the horse’s back cautiously . Ze Yitong first walks slowly with the reins in hand . After walking for a long time, Anar feels she gets used to how the horse moves and asks Ze Yitong to release the reins .
The horse starts to trot . Anar sits straight on the horseback at first, but the horse suddenly accelerates, and she has to lean down to reduce the friction of the wind .
The loud wind blows over Ze Yitong’s ears, taking away the purple flower she wears on her ear . The cold wind on the grassland blows right into Anar’s neck, mouth and noses . She narrows her eyes and calms down from the nervousness soon .
“Relax! Relax your body and moves with the horse!” Ze Yitong shouts behind her .
It is strange that the horse runs faster and faster today . Anar soon knows something is wrong .
A light of panic passes through Ze Yitong’s eyes . She whistles to stop the horse but fails . The horse still runs faster and faster .
Anar guesses that something unexpected has happened . The only thing she can do now is to hold the horse’s neck tightly to avoid falling because of its violent moves . The wind blows even louder . The horseshoes trample the flowers on the grassland . The peaceful moment is destroyed in no time .
Ze Yitong runs to the yurt . They still have a pony at home . Although it can’t run fast, it is better than having nothing . Ze Yitong hopes that the pony can help her reach Anar’s horse!
Anar stays calm since the accident happened . The horse runs madly, but she acts like this is not her first time of being in a dangerous situation like this . At a moment, Anar even gets the time to think about how she was in the past . Did she come across dangerous accidents frequently? If not so, why is she not afraid at all now?
Anar relaxes her body and follows the moves of the horseback . She holds the horse’s neck tightly while the grassland gradually disappears in her sight . A lake that shines like silver shows up in front of her .
The mad horse slows its steps and stops completely by the lake .
Anar rubs her thighs that suffer greatly from the jolts and slides down the horse .
Dun Zhu said that she found her by a silver lake . Can it be this one?
Anar is both expecting and afraid .
If Dun Zhu really found her by this lake, are there any clues of her identity? This is what Anar expects to find out . However, if she couldn’t find anything here, the possibilities of finding who she is would be even smaller .
Dun Zhu said that she can go to the police station to find out who she is, but she doesn’t think it will work . Anar doesn’t even remember her name . It will be extremely difficult to find her identity among more than one billion people of Huaxia only by using the face matching system if she doesn’t have a criminal record .
What matters most is that a voice in her heart is screaming she has to find the memory of the old “Anar” on her own . Otherwise, it will become troublesome .
The surface of the lake glows with a cold silver shine in the sun . The water is calm . The lake looks like a mirror made of glass .
Anar walks closer to the lake . There are many messy footprints on the wet lakeside . This means many animals drink the water of the lake and there is nothing wrong .
Anar reaches out and touches the water . It is super cold and almost freezes her fingers .
Is the water in the lake melted snow? It is too cold .
Anar rubs her hands and blows on her palms to warm them . After warming up her hands and feet, she begins to search carefully by the lake .
She pushes aside the dense waterweeds and searches the lakeside thoroughly . After walking for a few miles along the riverbank, she finds some shallow footprints on the west side of the lake . They don’t seem to be left recently . Anar steps into the footprints and finds that her feet are in the same size .
Anar feels a little excited because she knows she has found the right place .
She then searches all the waterweeds around, but she doesn’t find anything valuable . Anar wonders whether she is wrong .
Probably not…… Her eyes fall on the glittering lake . She is closer to the lake now and the water is clear, so she can see fish and waterweeds in the lake . Something suddenly catches Anar’s eyes . There is a black backpack that is mostly covered by water weeds at the bottom of the lake a few meters away from the bank .
Few people come here, and the black backpack is in such a coincident place at the bottom . Anar feels that she is breathing quickly . She jumps into the lake before she gets time to think carefully about why she has such good eyesight . That backpack may confirm her identity and help her find her true self!
The water in the lake is freezing cold . Anar almost convulses . She has to get the backpack before she is frozen with cold .
However, it seems that God is not on her side . The shoulder strap of the backpack is stuck on the rotten tree roots at the bottom of the lake . Anar can’t pull the strap out in a short time, but the air in her lungs is decreasing sharply . She is in great danger .
Ze Yitong finally comes around on the little pony following the track Anar left behind . She only finds the horse that Anar just rode eating grass leisurely by the lake . Where is Anar?
“Anar……Anar……” Ze Yitong jumps off the pony and shouts by the lake . There are wolves on the grassland . Although it is daytime, the wild wolves sometimes will be too hungry to wait until night falls .
The little girl despairingly calls for Anar for a while . Is Anar really eaten by the wolf?
Ze Yitong puts her hands on her knees and cries .
A sound of water comes from the west of the lake . Anar comes out of the water holding a backpack . Her whole body is wet . Ze Yitong is shocked yet delighted . She runs quickly to Anar .
“Ajia, Ajia, you are not dead!”
“Ajia” means “sister” in Tibetan . With surprise and happiness, Ze Yitong shouts out the word she wants to call Anar for a long time .
Anar is her “Ajia” . She has made the decision!
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