Crossing the Western Tianshan Mountains

When Ye Minglang stopped shaking, he vaguely heard someone arguing.

"If you sleep with him, you will be his woman. If he doesn't want you in the future, no one in Xitian Mountain will want you either. Gulinar, you have no self-respect."

It was Nurlan's voice.

"He is my man. I have no intention of marrying any man from Xitian Mountain. I don't like any man from Xitian Mountain. I just like him."

"He's a city guy, he won't marry you."

"Nurlan, if you hadn't abandoned him yesterday and nearly killed him in the mountains, how could he have almost died? Do you want me to watch him die? I wanted to save him, but you almost killed him!"

"He wants to follow me on his own. It has nothing to do with us."

Nurlan continued, "Besides, what kind of man is he if he can't survive in the mountains? He's not even as good as a woman! Is the man you like even a man?!"

Nurlan left. Gulinar returned to the bedside and held Ye Minglang's hand. She felt that his palm was still very warm. She touched his head, which was also hot. He was still having a fever.

The rain is still heavy and non-stop.

Jiayi Laobai came to the front of the tent at some point. He was wearing a big sheepskin hat and his sheepskin coat was worn inside out, with the leather side exposed to protect him from the rain. His cloudy eyes stared at the foggy distance. When Gulinar came out, she saw the old man with his hands clasped in his sleeves and folded across his chest. Gulinar's eyes suddenly turned red.

"Ata, Apa and Ana wouldn't let me date the guy I like, Barangay. Yeerlan even abandoned him on the way and he almost died of exhaustion or drowning. Now he's still in a coma. I'm afraid something has happened to him."

Jiayi Laobai sighed, "The rain is too heavy..."

"Ata, what should I do?" Gulinar almost cried.

"The rain is too heavy, the rain is too heavy, I can't even spread it..."

Jiayi Laobai was annoyed by the questions and turned to go to another tent.

Gulinar brought some hot milk and wanted to feed it to Ye Minglang, but he couldn't drink it at all. The milk flowed out from his lips. Gulinar used Ye Minglang's phone to call Secretary Ling in the camp, but found out that he was not in the service area.

The rain never stopped, and Gulinar became more and more anxious. If Ye Minglang didn't get medical treatment, would he die?

The fear in her heart grew bigger and bigger.

She rested her forehead against Ye Minglang's, their breathing so close that they could hear each other. "Minglang, wait for me. I'll go find a doctor for you."

There are not many doctors in the Western Tianshan Mountains. When herders get sick, they use folk remedies to treat their illnesses. Some wealthy herders who can afford to go down the mountain will go to the county for treatment, but it is too far away. The nearest medical room is Fang Ya's medical room at the tunnel construction site.

She knows the way.

When Nurlan found her already on horseback, whipping up her horsewhip, he asked in surprise, "Where are you going to scatter the seeds? It's still raining so hard, are you crazy? We have to wait until the rain stops before we can go anywhere!"

"Inni (brother)! Please take good care of Ye Minglang and don't let him die. I will bring people to rescue him as soon as possible!"

Before Nurlan could say anything, Gulnar had already ridden off. Her figure quickly disappeared in the rain and fog. Nurlan was so anxious that she quickly told her parents. Both parents were very angry. Nurlan's apa said, "No one is born stupid; they become stupid themselves."

Let her go if she wants to, and leave her life to the mountain god."

Nurlan felt that it was inappropriate and said, "I'll go with her."

Nurlan Ana said, "That won't work. It's very dangerous now. If a family suddenly loses two children, how will you and I survive? Our daughter will belong to someone else sooner or later. If the mountain god takes her away today, we can just think of her as being married off early."

Nurlan was speechless for a moment...

But after walking out of the tent and looking in the direction where Gulinar disappeared, he still listened to Gulinar's words and returned to the tent to take care of Ye Minglang. He had a very high fever. Nurlan had actually been to school and graduated from junior high school. Logically, he should be in high school now, but he didn't want to go because there was no one to manage the sheep flock at home, and it would not work just relying on a daughter who was about to get married.

Nurlan placed the cool towel handle on Ye Minglang's head. At this moment, Ye Minglang suddenly woke up for a moment and looked at Nurlan and said, "Thank you, brother. Where is Huaduoer?"

Nurlan said angrily, "Do you think you're a man? In the Western Tianshan Mountains, a man must first be able to protect himself and then protect his family. You didn't protect yourself and you got Gulnar into trouble. She's already gone to find a doctor for you. It's still raining and it's very dangerous. If she dies, it's all your fault."

Ye Minglang's heart suddenly lifted after hearing these words. He regained his consciousness and tried hard to get up. "I'll go find her."

"Do you want to die? You're in this state and you'll die in the mountains soon. Do you want to implicate her?"

For the first time, Ye Minglang felt a huge sense of powerlessness.

He felt even weaker than before he fainted, rolled down the mountain, and lost control of his body. It turned out that the Western Tianshan Mountains were really so terrifying. It turned out that living together in the camp, although difficult, was already the most orderly, strongest, and most stable. Away from collective life, he was as small and weak as an ant that could be crushed to death at any time in the mountains.

"Hua Duo'er..." His body collapsed with a thud, startling Nurlan. She checked his breath and then shouted, "Apa, Ana! Come and check on him, he seems to be dying!"

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As for Gulinar, she was moving forward along the familiar road, but halfway through, she was blocked by a shallow stream nearly three meters wide.

The stream was running fast, and the horses were afraid to step into the water when they got close.

This was rainwater from the Tianshan Mountains, mixed with snow, rolling down together, a common phenomenon on rainy days. Gulinar knew that forcing her way through a shallow stream only two or three meters wide was extremely dangerous, but if she took another route, who knew what dangers that route might hold?

But she couldn't get around this stream...

Relying on her precise memory, she gritted her teeth and forced her horse to head towards the stream.

The horse neighed reluctantly but still stepped into the water. Gulnar comforted the horse by its ear, "Gapar (fast as the wind, a nickname for a horse), you have to trust me. Go wherever I tell you to go. We will be fine."

She gently pulled the reins and controlled the horse's direction. Sure enough, the horse seemed much more obedient and passed through the shallow stream smoothly.

On the way, we met the Borat family.

She was so cold that she asked Borat's wife Parisa to warm herself by the fire and ask for some hot milk. Parisa, Borat's wife, took out milk tea for her out of pity, and added beef cubes and fried wheat grains to the milk tea, and treated her warmly as an honored guest.