IHWL – Chapter 58.2

 Su Jishi: “…”

    Seeing that her expression wasn’t right, Mu Xiulun remembered with hindsight that artists were basically not highly educated because they entered the entertainment industry early to work. Su Jin…what was Su Jin’s educational background? Did she graduate with a bachelor degree?

    He had no idea why he was somewhat flustered, so he made a clumsy remedy: “That was my standard for choosing a spouse a few years ago. If a female doctor appeared in front of me now, I wouldn’t even look at her.”

    “…” Su Jishi raised an eyebrow: “Mr. Mu, don’t worry. You don’t fancy female doctors, and vice versa.”

    The atmosphere became even stiffer.

    The two faced each other in silence, but the bay stallion seized the opportunity to stick to Linda Hu’s side again, shamelessly wagged his tail, and even took the initiative to use his long head to rub the white horse’s neck.

    They both rode on horses and were naturally affected. Mu Xiulun immediately changed the subject: “Speaking of which, you said just now that if you beat me, you want me to promise you something —— What is it?”

    Su Jishi ignored him and directly turned aside with her horse, thinking, My request is that you turn into a pig in place. Can you change?

    If she had known this would happen, she might as well have spent her time in pipa lessons. Even if she were to suffer bloody blisters on her fingers, it would have been better than their current awkward exchange.

    Just as the atmosphere inexplicably reached a freezing point, an ear-piercing neigh suddenly erupted from down the gentle slope!

    “Neighhh——!”

    The horse’s whinny resounded through the meadow.

    Su Jishi and Mu Xiulun were now on the gentle slope. The section was a VIP area, specially for VIP guests. Below them was a small stud-farm that was open to the public. Looking down, primary school students like little mushrooms were gathered around the teacher, listening to the horse trainer as he recounted all kinds of delight about horses.

    However, the neighing just now had completely disturbed the tranquility of the pasture.

    A blue-gray horse crashed through the stable door like a hurricane, so fast that it was almost impossible to capture its figure with the naked eye.

    It was a very rare long-haired warm-blooded horse, clad in blue-gray mane and four hooves, stamping on the snow. It was much like a divine spirited horse. Looking closely, you could find that its abdomen had an abnormal bulge, and its udder was slightly protruding. All the signs were indicative of a horse in its pregnancy period!

    And now, the pregnant mare was galloping towards the crowd gathering place. A horse’s running speed could reach dozens of kilometers per hour; a few hundred meters, in its eyes, would only take a few gallops! It was getting closer and closer to the crowd, yet this well-trained horse’s speed hadn’t slowed down a bit!!!

    “The horse’s spooked! Get out of the way!!!” The stable keeper yelled to evacuate the crowd.

    When danger struck, all the seven and eight-year-old children were scared silly. They stood in place, shivering like a bunch of poor little quails, wishing to shrink their heads under their wings.

    At the critical moment, the teacher of the team stepped forward and quickly dragged several children to pave way for the galloping horse.

    The blue-gray mare continued forward, zipping through the crowd and speeding further away. When the horse brushed past against the crowd, the sharp-eyed class teacher suddenly found a small figure lying on the horse’s back, tightly clinging to the horse’s neck with his feet fluttering in the air!

    “Xiao Xing?!!” The teacher called out the child’s name.

    Xiao Xing was crying with tears all over his face. His snot bubbled one after another as he opened his mouth, choking on the oncoming wind and coughing: “Tea-teacher, save me, wah-wah-wahhhhh…”

    Xiao Xing was the naughtiest and most disobedient child in the class. His mind was stuffed with petty tricks. When he heard that there was a pregnant mare in the stables just now, he secretly left the team and wormed his way into the stables to have a look at the excitement. He had never seen a pregnant mare. Seeing its round and large belly, which also moved from time to time, he was driven by curiosity on the spur of a moment and moved forward to caress the horse’s belly a couple of times…Consequently, he didn’t know how things happened, but the mare was suddenly spooked!

    The most frightening thing was that his small hand and the horse’s reins were entangled together, so when the mare took off, he was thrown onto the horse’s back in a daze. Luckily, he had a little riding experience and immediately clutched the horse’s neck with both hands. Otherwise, he would have been trampled to death by the horse!

    Spooked horse was contagious. When the mare galloped past, the other horses that had been obediently lined up also began to show varying degrees of agitation. The riders on the sidelines promptly pulled their reins and tried to calm them down, but there were still a few young horses that pranced and tried to get out of their grips.

    Panic spread in the eyes of the children. For a time, no one could spare energy to rescue Xiao Xing who was still trapped on horseback.

    “T-Teacher…”

    As the speed of the blue-gray mare’s gallop grew faster and faster, the whistling blast of wind blew Xiao Xing’s hands and feet cold. Gradually, her hands became sore, and his puny arms that were wrapped around the horse’s neck gradually lost their strength.

    …He regretted it, really regretted it very much! He grew up naughty and mischievous, and his family could not afford to beat him, so they raised him into this lawless character today. At this moment, his little head was filled with remorse for his actions. If time could be turned back, he would have stood obediently in line and never wandered!

    But it was too late for regrets now. Seeing the horse running towards the pasture, Xiao Xing closed his eyes tightly in fear, praying for Superman to descend from the sky and save him!

    There was no real Superman in this world.

    But in this world, female superheroes still existed.

    Seeing the pregnant mare galloping farther and farther away, Su Jishi thought nothing of it and immediately turned her horse around and raced forward. Mu Xiulun followed closely behind, lowering his body and urging the stallion under him to catch up with the figure ahead.

    Although Mu Xiulun started late, his speed was one step faster. The pregnant mare was heavy and carrying a child of several pounds on her back, so her speed was no match for a professional racing horse. Mu Xiulun tightened the reins and used his stallion to ‘stop’ the pregnant mare. After several attempts, the mare finally slowed down.

    However, although the stallion stopped the mare, she did not let the stallion close. She kept dodging and snorting in agitation, her four hooves stomping on the ground incessantly. Each hoof fall left a deep U-shaped print in the ground.

    You could imagine that if the boy on its back couldn’t hold on and fall, he would definitely be trampled on! —— In a mild case, he’d suffer internal bleeding and bone fractures; but in a severe case, he’d die.

    Mu Xiulun tried several times to get close to the boy from the horse’s back and carry him away, but as soon as the mare saw his hand, she immediately and smartly retreated. Mu Xiulun tried several times, but in addition to making the mare more and more agitated, he did not help at all.

    “Stop. Pregnant mares are already hostile to adult stallions.” Su Jishi arrived in a hurry, stopped Mu Xiulun and discussed the countermeasure with him in a whisper, “Don’t go near. Let Linda Hu try. They are both mares, and Linda Hu is much older than her. She’s just like her sister, so she may calm her down.”

    The two had long since put the awkwardness just now behind them. The only thing they had in mind now was to hurry and get the child down. The two looked at each other, and Mu Xiulun rather tacitly pulled the reins tightly to keep the stallion back, while Su Jishi slowly urged Linda Hu to move closer to the pregnant mare.

     As she approached, she deliberately stretched out a hand with five fingers open to show that she had no hostile intent: “Shhh…shhh.” She learned this trick from the locals when she rode her horse down to the countryside to explore before. Her tone must be extraordinarily calm. She must not show any hint of a panic or nervousness in front of the horse. Otherwise, not only would she not appease the horse, but she would also stimulate it.

    Linda Hu cooperated very well. She slowly walked towards the mare, pausing with each step and narrowing the distance between them a little.

    Sure enough, when the horse smelled Linda Hu’s scent, and after realizing that a  mare was also in front of her, she gradually relaxed her tense body and lowered her high head, showing a certain degree of affinity.