Chapter 245 Horse Racing Festival

When Wuren Tuya heard Huakai say that there were still two days left, she came to her senses, reluctantly said goodbye to Huakai and left.

After leaving the tent, Wuren Tuya saw that it was getting late and remembered that she had not eaten in the afternoon. Since noon, her attention has been on the story of "Legend of the White Snake". She didn't feel anything yet, but now her stomach is rumbling with hunger!

Back outside her tent, Wuren Tuya saw a team of elite white-armored guards standing outside her tent. She was delighted and walked into the tent.

"Mother, why are you back today?" Wuren Tuya came to a woman who looked about 30 years old. The woman's face was somewhat similar to Wuren Tuya, and everyone who saw her holy aura could not help but feel awe.

"I haven't been back for a few days, and you're playing crazy! Your teachers told me that you have less time to study these days!" The woman looked at Wuren Tuya with a doting face, but still said seriously.

"Mother, those teachers are too dull and boring. I will go to class in a few days!" Urentuya said, shaking her hands on the woman's shoulders.

"Alas! I can't do anything about you! I came back today to tell you something. You are 16 years old this year and must participate in this year's horse racing festival. Your father has sent news to the major flag owners of the tribe, and some nearby tribes will also send young talents. If you see someone you like, tell your mother and your father." Urentuya's mother looked at her daughter, touched her head and said.

"Mom, I don't want to get married!" Urentuya blushed and said shyly.

The shadow of Hua Kai suddenly flashed in Urentuya's mind. Will there be a young talent as handsome and talented as Hua Kai at this year's horse racing festival? Thinking of this, her expression paused, but was captured by Queen Ujumchin beside her.

"Why, my dear daughter already has her own favorite? Which family is he from? Let mother help you with reference!" Queen Ujumchin said with a smile.

"No! Mother, can I wait another year to participate? Mother..."

"It's no use for you to act like a spoiled child this time. You should have gone last year. Take a closer look and set an example for the girls in the tribe. I didn't say that you have to find someone to marry now!" said Queen Ujumchin.

The Horse Racing Festival is the grandest festival of the Great Yuezhi Kingdom. Every April 10th, the entire Great Yuezhi Kingdom and the Small Yuezhi Kingdom will hold lively horse racing activities. Generally, boys over 18 years old will participate, and most girls are over 16 years old.

Of course, horse racing is for men, but girls are the focus on this day. Girls will wear the most beautiful clothes and go to the stadium to watch the game. If they meet a boy they like, they will sing the songs of the Horse Racing Festival. The better the boy's performance, the stronger his strength is, and the more likely he will be favored by girls.

The first step is for a girl to fall in love with a boy. The next day, the racecourse will hold a happy song-passing program again. Men and women will sing love songs. If they can sing to the end, it means that the two have fallen in love with each other.

The third day is the most important. If the couple has confirmed the person they like, the girl will send a purse or other small ornaments, and the boy will also send a small bone knife or animal tooth that he has carefully polished as a gift. Each person can only send one thing.

If the man and woman exchange tokens, it means that they are not far from getting married. The families of both parties can negotiate the wedding and dowry. Some girls marry into the man's family, but there are also many boys who marry into the woman's family.

If the two sides cannot agree on whether the girl should marry down or the man should marry into the woman's family, then the most traditional way will be used to see who can give more gifts.

Early the next morning, Wurentuya came to Huakai's tent as soon as it was light. Last night, she was lying in the tent thinking about the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" in her heart. Did the misunderstanding between Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian end? She fell asleep very late.

Huakai saw Wurentuya coming in impatiently, with a slight smile on his face. He knew how lethal this kind of love story was to a young girl, especially in this world where information is not well developed.

Hua Kai summarized the story of "Legend of the White Snake" last night. The remaining half can be told for about nine times. He only tells the core of each story, which takes less than an hour. Today, he stopped after telling two stories.

The two wandered around the Ujumchin tribe for a while. Wu Ren Tu Ya pulled Hua Kai back to the tent to listen to the story. Hua Kai insisted on telling it in the afternoon, so Wu Ren Tu Ya had to go back to her tent first.

Time quickly came to the third day. Hua Kai breathed a sigh of relief after telling all the plots of "Legend of the White Snake". Wu Ren Tu Ya seemed to have not recovered from the grief at the end of the story, and looked at Hua Kai with tears in her eyes.

"It's just a good story, you don't have to take it seriously!" Hua Kai looked at Wu Ren Tu Ya with tears in his eyes and couldn't help comforting her.

"You are so bad, how could White Snake die in the end!" Wu Ren Tu Ya was still worried about the ending.

"Often good stories end in tragedy, so that people can remember it forever, don't you think?" Hua Kai said softly.

Wuren Tuya stopped crying. She looked at Huakai and thought about their agreement: "Are you leaving?"

"Yes!"

When Wuren Tuya heard the answer and looked at Huakai's face, she seemed to feel that something important was moving away from her. She knew that she might be able to catch it now, but the final outcome would not change.

Huakai was a little surprised to see that Wuren Tuya did not play tricks. She sat there quietly and seemed to be weighing something in her heart. Huakai was not in a hurry and waited quietly.

"Then can you accompany me for a walk?" Wuren Tuya seemed to have figured something out.

The two walked to the outskirts of the tribal residential area on foot. The further they walked, the more civilians there were. There were also some slaves with thin clothes, skinny bones, and pale faces. It can be seen that the Ujumchin tribe has not fully recovered from the wolf disaster four years ago.

Wuren Tuya held Huakai's hand. Although Huakai felt very strange, he did not think much about it. Since returning from the Shuangsheng Lake, she has never been close to him again.

"Do you have anything to say to me?" Huakai looked at Wuren Tuya and said.

"What do you think? Will I let you go?" Wuren Tuya looked at Hua Kai and said deliberately.

"You will!" Hua Kai said.

"Promise me one thing, and I will let you go." Wuren Tuya blushed when she said this, and she felt her heartbeat quicken.

"What is it? I can do it and I will help you!" Hua Kai thought that the other party had really let it go, and she couldn't stop him at all, and the family affairs urged him to go back quickly.

"In three days, it will be the most grand festival of our Dayuezhi country [Horse Racing Festival]. At that time, all our grassland young people will participate. As long as you participate in the [Horse Racing Festival], I promise not to stop you. If you want to leave, I will send you a BMW to see you off." Wuren Tuya said, staring at Hua Kai tightly.

Hua Kai wanted to refuse, but looking at the other party's eyes, he couldn't say the words.

Wuren Tuya saw Hua Kai hesitate, happily took his arm, and told him the content of the Dayuezhi country horse racing festival.

Hua Kai knew that many countries in the grasslands have horse racing festivals every year. Each country has different festival traditions, but the real purpose of many of them is actually a blind date festival for boys and girls. As long as unmarried men and women of age can participate.

"We are just a lively place for young people here, and everyone is just having fun! This is also my first time to participate in the horse racing festival. Can you accompany me once? After this horse racing festival is over, I will never stop you again... Let's make a promise!" Wu Ren Tuya briefly introduced the content of their horse racing festival to Hua Kai, and stretched out her little finger to look at Hua Kai with hope.

Hua Kai surprisingly stretched out his finger to make a promise with her. Wu Ren Tuya got a satisfactory response and happily returned to her main tent.

Back to his tent, Hua Kai couldn't figure out why he inexplicably agreed to stay here for ten more days with Wu Ren Tuya, but it was too late to regret it now. He guessed that this might be Wu Ren Tuya's talent.

The weather was good the next morning. Hua Kai got up and experienced the early morning life of the herdsmen of the Ujumchin tribe. In most ordinary herdsmen's homes, women were responsible for directing slaves to work. Men drove the horses to faraway places to herd and practice horsemanship in the morning. Many people traveled together.

Several slaves looked like people from the Central Plains. They were captured at some point and were herding sheep for the herdsmen here.

Hua Kai walked past them and saw that their eyes were dull. Their will had long been worn out by the slave life on the grassland. They drove the herdsmen's cattle and sheep to prevent them from going far away, while looking for food in the grassland. One person found an unknown insect and skillfully threw away the inedible part of the insect and quickly threw it into his mouth. Seeing this, other slaves could only lower their heads and continue to look for food.

They were probably captured from the Qin State two years ago. The Central Plains had been invaded by the grassland countries for thousands of years. Although they were several times stronger than the grassland countries, most of the slaves in the grassland tribes were plundered from the Central Plains. It was rare to see grassland people in the Central Plains.

In order to deal with the grassland tribes, Qin, Yan, Zhao and other countries tried every possible way to no avail. In the end, they could only build the Great Wall in the north to block the invasion of the grassland countries.

But can the Great Wall really stop the grassland cavalry? Hua Kai looked at the Central Plains slaves in front of him and fell into deep thought!

At this time, a little slave crawled towards him. It seemed that he couldn't walk yet. A female slave with a greenish-yellow face was extremely frightened when she saw this. She crawled in front of Hua Kai and held her child in one hand, and kowtowed to Hua Kai continuously. Maybe she felt that her child offended Hua Kai!

Hua Kai felt sour in his heart. He took out a piece of steamed bread that had been in his personal space for a long time and threw it to the female slave. When the female slave saw this, she grabbed the steamed bread and stuffed it into her mouth. Many slaves nearby rushed over when they saw this. The female slave screamed and protected her child under her body, threw away the unfinished steamed bread and ran away. Hua Kai looked at a group of slaves tearing for half a piece of steamed bread, and he turned and left.

He is not a savior and cannot save all the suffering people, but as the head of a noble family, he can change the order of the world in his own way. Hua Kai no longer thought about it and walked towards his tent when he saw that it was almost time.