Old Man Hongshi felt heartbroken when he saw his woolen felt being sprinkled with salt.
I feel sorry for the precious salt in the grassland, and I also feel sorry for my own wool felt.
He stared at Song Dekui angrily and shouted: "Did you grow up eating grass? You can't even hold a bag of salt!"
Song Dekui tilted his body and stepped on the salt with shaking legs, turning the white salt into black, and then stepped into the cracks of the floor mat without even putting it away.
He also reached out to touch the cardboard box and said cowardly: "Oh, I have soiled the woolen felt of the leader. I will throw away this mat for you. I will pay you any amount."
The red stone man's eyes suddenly turned red with anger: This is salt! You will be punished by the gods for wasting it like this.
What's even more disgusting is that this man who looks as thin as wormwood took out another bag of salt...
"Stop! I believe you are a caravan, okay?"
The red stone man finally couldn't help but admit it.
The salt on the grassland is precious.
If these two people only sold salt, the inventory in that small box would be enough to exchange for dozens of sheepskins.
Song Liyun not only exchanged tea and salt for leather goods with the Hongshi tribe, but also wanted their map from here to the Mida Valley.
Hong Shitou said angrily: "There is no picture. The path we Di people have traveled has been passed down from generation to generation. It is all in our minds and we will not say it easily."
Song Liyun didn't believe his words. As long as there were enough benefits, anything could be exchanged.
She spoke slowly: "Five packets of salt..."
"No, this is the wealth of the Red Stone Tribe..." The wizened old man shook his head like a rattle.
"Six packs of salt!"
"no……"
"Ten packs of salt!"
"I can't tell you!"
"Ten packets of salt...one packet of sugar!"
"That road is not easy... you have to add another bag of tea!"
"Okay! You have to draw a picture!" Song Liyun took out a charcoal pen and paper.
"No! No! I have never touched a pen! I can only tell you how to go."
Song Liyun: "...!"
Is it appropriate to describe a distance of nearly a thousand miles to someone who has never been to a grassland: there are several ditches, rivers, and hills in the middle.
Obviously oral narration alone is not enough.
According to the Red Stone Man himself, he walked along the gravel Gobi from Mida Valley to Hungry Wolf Beach.
You can follow the traces of summer flash floods to the Mida Valley.
That is the end point of hundreds of miles of surrounding rivers. If you follow the river, you will reach it sooner or later.
It's just that the Red Stone Tribe has been walking on the road for half a month, and there are too many variables in this distance, so she has to be cautious.
Song Liyun estimated that based on the fact that the sheep were grazing and walking, the average distance was 20 kilometers per day, which would be at least 300 to 400 kilometers in half a month.
Moreover, the Red Stone Tribe is still on the road, walking faster and the distance will be longer.
At such a long distance, in the uninhabited wilderness, there are only wandering wild sheep, bison, wolves, and wandering bandits.
In addition, what is more terrifying than beasts and humans on the grassland is loss of direction.
It's going to snow any minute now.
There are no road signs on the grassland, and if you are not familiar with the terrain, representative things on the surface will be hidden under the snow. If you get lost, you will basically die.
Song Liyun has experience in dealing with animals. She is not worried about wolves and is confident that she can avoid rogues. She is only worried about getting lost.
After some haggling, Song Liyun finally exchanged ten packets, that is, two kilograms of salt, one kilogram of sugar, and half a kilogram of tea leaves from the illiterate red stone man for ten sheepskins and a guide.
After leaving the Red Stone Tribe, Song Dekui was wrapped in a sheepskin robe and rode on a horse. He looked at the old horse walking slowly in front of him with disgust and complained: "That damn old fox, such an old horse that is about to die, actually wants to
Take a pound of salt”
Song Liyun also had some regrets. She didn't feel sorry for the salt and sugar, she only regretted taking the old horse.
It is useful to use horses to lead the way, but you should get a young and healthy horse.
The old horse is too old, skinny and tangled, one of its legs was bitten by a wolf on the way here, and it still walks lamely, so it has basically lost its practical value.
For half my life, I was worried that I would die suddenly while walking on the road.
According to the rules of the Di tribe, they will not kill the old horse that has been with them for decades, but will let it wait with the tribe until the last day of its life.
As a result...it was still exchanged for him by his master.
At this time, the old horse, whose original coat color was no longer visible, lowered his head and walked slowly in front, indifferent to the fact that he had changed his owner.
After walking for more than an hour, the Red Stone Tribe was no longer visible. At this time, a circle of dark clouds hung low on the horizon, connecting the sky and the earth.
Song Dekui came over on horseback, looked at the horizon and said: "Xiaoyun, we have to find a place to camp now. I'm afraid there will be wind and snow as soon as it gets dark."
As usual, snow has fallen now, but there are only scattered snowflakes flying over Suijin Town.
I stayed at Jiang's house last night and heard that there was less snow on the grassland than in previous years, and the temperature was significantly higher during the day.
Although there is no heavy snow, the cattle and sheep will have grass to eat, and the fodder prepared by each household can be saved, but it also indicates that there will be a drought in the coming year, unless there are several consecutive heavy snows in winter to make up for the shortfall.
Song Liyun also felt the need to set up camp early.
She is still very unfamiliar with the grassland.
Even though I have experience in surviving in the wilderness of the apocalypse, I can't compete with the winter snow in the dark night.
When the two of them were discussing where to camp, the old horse in front stopped leaving.
Not knowing what happened, I stood there dumbly.
A gust of wind blew by, and the skinny body seemed to be blown down.
Seeing this dying look, Song Dekui frowned. His thin face was longer than Lao Ma's face, and he muttered and cursed: The old fox is lying, and he is about to die when he looks at it.
reach the river valley.
I saw the old horse swaying for a while, then walked directly to the place with the most rocks, wandered around twice, knelt down on all fours, and then lay down.
"It's over. I was deceived by that old guy. This horse has only been walking for two hours and is about to die!"
Song Dekui shouted, jumped off his horse and ran away.
Song Liyun was also startled, immediately dismounted, picked up the Juqing and Zahong horses and went over.
Song Dekui jumped up to the old horse. He first touched the old horse's neck, then looked at its eyes. He also lay on the old horse's shoulders and listened to its heartbeat. He climbed up and down and worked hard for a long time before facing Song Liyun who was following him.
He said: "The old horse is fine, it's just tired! If it doesn't want to leave, then we won't leave either. We'll just build a yurt here."
He still felt some sympathy for the old horse, so he untied the old horse's reins so that it could relax a little.
After doing it, he complained again: "Hey! If we keep walking like this for an hour or two every day and then rest, we won't be able to walk very far during the Chinese New Year."
"Let's take a rest today! We'll talk about the rest later!"
Song Liyun was not in a hurry. It was good to walk slowly so that he could remember the direction. If he closed his eyes and ran around on the grassland, he would definitely not be able to find his way back.
She heard from the red stone man that there were many tribes running out on the grassland near Wu Chao.
If Lao Ma can't go far, just find a tribe nearby and ask around.