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Chapter 330 The Horse Race-The Horse of Heaven
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The cold makes Anar numb on her halfway back to the lakeside . Ze Yitong gets into the water and drags her out .
“Are you out of your mind? How dare you go into the Silver Lake! It can freeze you to death!”
Ze Yitong doesn’t care about her wet pants . She bursts into tears again when she sees Anar’s mouth turns purple because of the cold .
Anar doesn’t have the strength to explain to Ze Yitong . She only holds the black backpack tightly and says with difficulty, “Make a fire……to warm……up . ”
Ze Yitong nods and puts Anar on the grass . Ze Yitong knows the water in the Silver Lake is extremely cold . It’s impossible for Anar to get on the horseback when her body is stiff like this . Even if she could get on the horse, the wind on their way back would make her seriously ill . Apparently, Anar is not as strong as girls who grew up on the grassland . She can’t stand such cold, right?
Whether it is easy or difficult to make a fire on the grassland depends on if you can find dried cow dung in a short time . Today is not a good day for Anar, but Ze Yitong gets lucky . She finds a big piece of dried cow dung only dozens of meters away . Her tears are soon replaced by laughter . She holds the cow dung in her arms and walks quickly to the lakeside to find a few dried branches . There are no trees on the grassland . These dried branches must be washed down from the mountains by the stream of melted snow .
Ze Yitong thinks she is lucky . Dried cow dung is the best material for making a fire . It doesn’t have strange smells when burning . Instead, it burns with a delightful scent, which makes it the most important fuel for herders on the grassland . Ze Yitong hides from the wind and strikes a match . She carefully lights the cow dung and builds a frame with the dried branches to let them burn more easily . The branches are soaked with the vapor of the lake, so they are not very dry . Fortunately, Ze Yitong is able to ignite them .
The fire gradually gets bigger . With the warmth brought by the fire, Anar is able to stretch out her hands closer to the fire although her purple lips are still trembling . She feels more comfortable now, so she takes off her leather jacket and wrings out the ice water in her hair .
Seeing the fire works, Ze Yitong goes to find more dried branches and carefully keeps them burning . They don’t use many branches, but the fire lasts for more than an hour . Ze Yitong’s pants are completely dry while Anar’s clothes are still a bit wet because she was in the lake for too long .
Ze Yitong wants to find more firewood, but Anar stops her . Anar’s face has already turned back to its normal color .
“It’s not necessary . The sun is about to go down . We have to go back quickly, or your mom and nana will be worried . I’m not cold anymore . ”
Anar is telling the truth . Although her clothes have not yet dried out, her whole body is warmed up by the fire . The cold brought by the lake has been driven away . Besides, they will get back on horses . The wind will help dry her clothes out along the way .
Ze Yitong feels relieved when she sees that Anar has the strength to speak . Anar seems to have recovered a lot .
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After all, Ze Yitong is a twelve-year-old girl and is curious about everything . Since she no longer needs to worry about Anar, she asks what is inside the black backpack that Anar risked her life to take from the lake .
Anar smiles bitterly, “I just thought that it might be something I lost before I lost my memory and there may be clues about my identity . In fact, I don’t know what is inside either . ”
Hearing Anar’s words, Ze Yitong hurries her to open the backpack . Anar nods and nervously unzips the backpack . A bunch of colorful cash that is completely soaked by the water shows up . It seems that it worth at least tens of thousands of Huaxia yuan .
Anar is disappointed, and Ze Yitong is even more disappointed . A slight squeeze can make the soaked cash stick inseparably to each other . It’s impossible to dry it out and use again .
Anar notices Ze Yitong’s disappointment although she doesn’t say it out loud . Anar points on Ze Yitong’s forehead, “Little moneygrubber, you look sadder than me . Are you short of money?”
Ze Yitong nods, “Mother said tens of thousands of yuan will be enough for the surgery to cure nana’s eyes . It would be so nice if the money were not soaked . ”
Anar hugs Ze Yitong, “You are a good girl . Let’s keep searching in the bag . Maybe there are other valuable things . ”
Anar simply turns over the backpack and shakes everything out .
There are a casquette, a pair of leather boots that fit Anar’s feet, a few packets of compressed biscuits and the soaked cash . These are all of the things in the backpack .
No ID, no driver’s license, nothing can confirm Anar’s identity . Anar picks up the pair of boots . It is wet but not damaged by the water, which means it is of high quality . The boots and the cash mean she is rich, right? It’s a pity that Anar didn’t know Ze Yitong’s family before she lost her memory . Otherwise, she can use her money to help treat nana’s eyes .
Anar feels a little disappointed, but it never occurs to her that she might not have a chance to know herdsmen like Ze Yitong’s families if she hadn’t lost her memory . Besides, why would she give her money to Ze Yitong’s nana, a complete stranger, to have the surgery?
The casquette can be useful . Anar picks it up . Thinking that these are the things she has used before, she can’t leave them behind .
Ze Yitong doesn’t want to waste the things and holds the unsoaked compressed biscuits with her arms .
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It is getting late . They are about to go home when the sounds of horseshoes come from afar .
Who has all these horses? Anar looks into the distance and sees a lot of black horses rushing over from the direction of the snow mountain . All of the horses are strong . As they run, they bring a strong wind that blows down the forage grasses around .
In the setting sun, a pure white horse runs at the front . The white lead horse runs so fast and its hooves jump high in the air . It seems as if the horse were about to fly over the tips of the grasses .
Other brown horses, black horses, the vague snow mountains far away, the glittering lake nearby, the green grasses and the orange sunset all become the background of the white horse .
Except for Anar and Ze Yitong, the two domestic horses they ride are also attracted by the lead horse .
The white horse is too outstanding to make them look away .
The amazed Ze Yitong doesn’t come back to herself until the hundreds of horses run back to the snow mountains after quickly drinking water by the lake .
“Anar, what we just saw is…… . the horse of heaven!”
In herdsmen’s legends, human beings do not deserve a pure white horse that lives in snow mountains and runs as fast as lightning .
Anar and Ze Yitong’s accidental encounter with the horse of heaven has been talked a lot in the past few days in their small yurt, especially by Ze Yitong’s nana . She has told many legends she heard when she was a child in Tibetan . Ze Yitong becomes nana’s interpreter . Anar can roughly understand most of the meanings of nana’s stories with the help of Ze Yitong’s interpretation and her own guess .
Dun Zhu also blames Anar for jumping into the lake to get the backpack .
Anar knows that Dun Zhu blames her because Dun Zhu cares about her, so Anar smiles embarrassedly instead of responding .
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After hearing that Anar doesn’t find clues about her identity, nana comforts Anar and tells her to feel free to live at their home . They don’t mind having another person sharing their food . Anar almost bursts into tears when she hears that .
Dun Zhu has chosen the leather goods, cows and sheep to be sold at the Horse Race . Anar is amazed by Ze Yitong’s horsemanship and gives up her extravagant hopes of winning the race . She is so ignorant to even consider it back then .
However, there is no harm in learning more skills . Anar makes a lot of effort to learn to ride under the supervision of her strict teacher Ze Yitong . Anar has been learning for less than a month, but she can already do some simple tricks on horseback . Although nana can’t see Anar clearly, she praises Anar’s talent .
“You must be a girl of grassland in your last life!” When nana laughs, all her wrinkles unfold .
The Horse Race will be held in Chongqincardo on the north of Naqu . The town is hundreds of miles away from the pastoral area where Ze Yitong’s yurt is located . Herdsmen are used to carrying all their family properties with them, so Dun Zhu asks everyone to get prepared for moving although the race is still in two weeks .
Because they don’t have a big cart, they have to go to Naqu with other herdsmen living nearby .
Dun Zhu said that she was going to borrow a cart, but a few herders carry her back after a long while . Anar has been here for a long time and has met several herders around . So, when she is shocked when she sees them carrying Dun Zhu back .
It turns out that Dun Zhu fell down the horse and injured her feet . The herders think that she broke her feet and are going to send her to the hospital after asking for nana’s opinion .
Anar sees that Dun Zhu’s face turns pale because of the pain . Sweat is all over her forehead where she used to have a healthy glow . Anar quickly checks Dun Zhu’s leg . She vaguely remembers that people with broken bones shouldn’t be moved carelessly . Anar goes to touch Dun Zhu’s leg and finds her leg is fine . However, the severe pain means that Dun Zhu didn’t merely strain her muscles .
Is it a hairline fracture? To find out what really happened, they have to go to the hospital and get an X-ray . Nana is too old while Ze Yitong is still a child . Dun Zhu is in a semicoma . The half-stranger Anar is the only one left at their home to take control of the situation .
Anar takes some money from nana and sends Dun Zhu to the nearest hospital with the herders .
The nearest hospital is actually not near at all . Ze Yitong holds Anar’s hand . Anar’s calmness gives Ze Yitong more courage .
Mom will be okay, right?
Ze Yitong is not relieved until they get to the hospital, film an X-ray and Dun Zhu is diagnosed as a hairline fracture as Anar guessed .
Dun Zhu lies on the bed with her lower leg in plaster .
“We are no longer able to compete in this year’s Horse Race . ”
Ze Yitong is unhappy . It is not because she is an unfilial daughter and hopes her mother to run the race with a broken leg . She is unhappy about losing the chance to win the money award as planned . It is not easy to have a race with a 100-thousand-yuan award . This year is special because they allow men and women to race together . Dun Zhu is one of the best horse riders within a hundred miles around . She is very likely to win the race .
Unfortunately, Dun Zhu is injured . So how much longer does nana have to wait until she gets the surgery?
Anar surely knows what Ze Yitong is thinking about, but her riding abilities are limited . Ze Yitong is too young to sign up for the race, and Anar is new with riding . Practice can’t suddenly turn Anar into an experienced horse rider . Although Ze Yitong’s horses are all strong, they are still ordinary ones .
There is only one way to win . Thinking of the idea, Anar’s eyes light up .
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