Crossing the Western Tianshan Mountains

It turned out that Hanati asked Ye Minglang to go out with him to hunt rabbits, but Ye Minglang was in a bad mood these days because of the stalled project progress and had no energy to go hunting rabbits.

What Ye Minglang was thinking was, what would happen to him and Gulinar once the project was stopped?

Is that girl who is like a little sun going to stay on this hillside alone from now on?

Although his family already knew that he was dating a Kazakh girl, they had never agreed. When the project was over, he had only two choices: either take Gulinar back to Shanghai and get married there. In addition, his parents had to agree to their marriage so that Gulinar could have a better life.

Either he left, or Gulinar was thrown into the Western Tianshan Mountains.

Gulinar had already made plans to return to Shanghai with Ye Minglang. She had even started preparing gifts for her future parents-in-law and was always imagining what she would say and do when she met them. She even learned a toast dance, saying that she would do it and sing a toast song at the wedding.

She didn't know that all her preparations were just a joke in the eyes of Ye Minglang's parents in Shanghai. Ye Minglang's parents hoped that Ye Minglang would marry a good Shanghai girl, preferably one with a stable job, who could drive and own a house, but at the very least, she had to be an urban girl who could adapt to modern life.

Ye's mother once asked Ye Minglang three questions on the phone:

"Minglang, does that Guli you're talking about know how to drive? Has she ever learned to drive? Wouldn't she get lost if she went to the vegetable market in Shanghai?"

"Minglang, there are no flocks or sheep in Shanghai. So what if she can ride a horse? It's useless. Can she find a suitable job in Shanghai? Is she going to be a housewife? And be supported by you?"

"Minglang, I don't like eating mutton. Can she give it up?"

Ye's mother asked three questions, ranging from the basics of life to the details of life. In fact, these were very realistic questions, but Ye Minglang felt that as long as they loved each other, everything could be solved.

What if she couldn't drive? When Gulinar arrived in Shanghai, he would enroll her in a driver's license course.

It is not necessary to know how to buy vegetables at the vegetable market. Besides, no matter what road it is, you will become familiar with it after walking it many times and will not get lost. Besides, Gulinar is someone who would not get lost even in the Western Tianshan Mountains.

As for eating mutton...

Ye Minglang felt that this wasn't a problem at all. Ye's mother had also eaten mutton when she arrived in Wensu, and it was obviously delicious...

In Ye Minglang's mind, these problems are not problems, but in Ye's mother's mind, these problems are big problems, especially those related to work, which makes Ye's mother extremely firmly opposed to the relationship between Gulinar and Ye Minglang.

Before, Ye Minglang didn’t think that this opposition would last long, but now the project is about to be stopped and he is about to return to Shanghai, and his parents in Shanghai are still opposed to his relationship with Gulinar.

In this situation, how could Ye Minglang cheer up?

He didn't care about Hanati's ridicule and just lowered his head to continue warming himself by the fire. Just then, Ayala came in and said, "Hanati, are you bullying Xiaoye again?"

Hanati still wants to act like a "macho man" in front of Ayala, but every time he sees Ayala, he will think of how it was Ayala who saved him on a snowy night.

The arrogance he had just raised softened again, and he could only mutter unwillingly, "Who bullied him? I went to hunt rabbits, wasn't it to entertain them?"

At this time, his eyes finally fell on Ling Xifeng's face, "Secretary Ling, you are not here to say goodbye to us, are you?"

Ling Fengxi seemed to be interested in hunting rabbits. "Are there really rabbits? I'd like to try it."

Ayala hesitated a little. "But I heard from Doctor Fang that your heart isn't very good. This kind of strenuous work is still..."

Hanati ignored her words and patted Ling Fengxi on the shoulder, "It has to be Secretary Ling. Xiaoye, you are a coward. You don't look like a man from our Western Tianshan at all."

Seeing Ling Fengxi was going, Ye Minglang perked up again, "Who said I won't go? If the secretary goes, I'll go too."

The three of them went out like this. Ayala found two pairs of sheepskin gloves for Ling Fengxi and Ye Minglang, and also found two sheepskin hats for them to wear.

The weather was clear and the snow was illuminated with colorful lights. Under Ayala's gaze, the three of them walked towards the back of a vast white hillside.

Hanati was holding a door-pushing stick as thick as his arm, Ling Fengxi was also holding a stick, and only Ye Minglang was holding a rope. According to Hanati's arrangement, once the rabbit was hit, Ye Minglang would tie the rabbit to the rope and bring it back.

Ling Fengxi found it hard to imagine that there were rabbits surviving in such a snowy and icy place. He had lived in the camp for so long and had rarely seen rabbits, almost never.

Hanati also explained this point, "Because your camp is too noisy, there are so many people and machinery, even wolves don't dare to get close, let alone rabbits. Those actions are very clever. If they get close to your place, there are too many people and too little meat. How can they survive?"

Suddenly, Hanati stopped and looked at a set of footprints on the snow...

"Look at these, two holes, and another hole, a triangular hole. These are rabbit footprints. They're still fresh. It ran this way."

Hanati ran straight after the rabbit's footprints...Finally he said, "Let's stay here. We are tired. We need to rest for a while, eat something, and then wait for them to come out."

Ye Minglang couldn't help but roll his eyes. "Will the rabbit come out by itself? There really is such a thing as sitting back and waiting for the rabbit to come to you."

Hanati didn't understand what he was saying and only felt he was mocking her. He said, "What do you know, kid? In Western Tianshan, you can only listen to us Western Tianshan men."

The three of them then sat down on the slope. Hanati actually brought food with him and took out two yogurt lumps for Ye Minglang and Ling Fengxi. This was their snack. Hanati ate it with relish, but Ye Minglang and Ling Fengxi were not used to this kind of food. They just held it in their hands as a gift and looked at the scenery in the distance.

Suddenly, there was a sense of jumping in my sight... Looking closely, it was a rabbit that had come out and was jumping on the snow.

Ye Minglang pointed at the rabbit and was about to say, "Look, a rabbit!"

But before he could utter a word, the stick in Hanati's hand flew over his head, and then with a bang, it smashed a hole in the snow, and there was a little scarlet in the splashing white snow.

The rabbit had been smashed into the snow and was completely motionless.

Ling Fengxi and Ye Minglang were both stunned for a moment, then ran towards the rabbit together. Hanati, with his beer belly, followed slowly behind, still chewing on a yogurt lump in his mouth.

Ling Fengxi and Ye Minglang got close to the rabbit and found that it had indeed been smashed to death. Blood was flowing from the corner of its mouth, staining a small patch of white snow red.