Zhao Xuanxuan's face turned pale. She was originally the daughter of Hongxing, and she had the best food and drinks, but now...
Don't tell her, I regretted it as soon as I said it myself.
She turned her head and muttered: "Even if I die of thirst, I won't drink...drink that." I don't know if it hurt the association, but she kept retching while talking.
I patted her back and advised: "You don't want to go back? You just plan to die in this place where birds don't poop. Think about it, when we die, we will be blown away by the wind in a few months."
It’s like a mummy, and there’s no one to collect it.”
"Stop talking, don't listen, don't listen," she blocked her ears and shook her head desperately.
I sighed, lay flat on the sand and waited for nightfall, accepting my fate.
Zhao Xuanxuan's eyes were confused and her lips were chapped. She lay down next to me. The two of us didn't speak, and we didn't have much energy left to speak.
This is not the first time I have seen the night view of the desert, but today’s night view is particularly special.
Twinkling and twinkling, the sky is full of small stars. There are many stars in the sky. The number of stars in the sky seems to be more than the grains of sand in the desert.
"Yunfeng, I seem to see my dad. My dad is smiling at me. What do you see?" She suddenly raised her hand and pointed to a star in the sky.
"Yeah, I saw Bingfeng Soda, Jianlibao, Hongbaolai, and there seemed to be two bottles of Arctic Ocean and Emei Snow, which were still frozen."
"Yeah, it sounds good, can you give me a bottle?"
"Of course you can. Do you want it chilled or at room temperature?"
"Let it be at room temperature. If you drink it cold, your stomach will hurt."
"No, give me something iced."
"Haha," I put my hand in front of my eyes and grabbed a handful, but there was nothing.
Slowly, we both closed our eyes.
...
I don’t know how long I slept. When I opened my eyes, I realized it was still night, maybe late at night. Zhao Xuanxuan was lying next to me motionless.
I pushed her gently, but there was no response.
"What is that thing?" Suddenly, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. The light was not good, so it was all illuminated by the starlight in the sky.
I sat up with difficulty and rubbed my eyes.
I saw it right just now. In front of me, there were a few green leaves on the sand less than one meter away from me.
Looking up, I saw a few green leaves on the sand in front of me. It seemed like someone had placed them on the sand intentionally.
Picking up a leaf, the veins are clearly visible and there is a drop of dew on it.
I licked the leaves and my eyes lit up.
"Xiaoxuan! Xiaoxuan! Wake up! Wake up quickly!" I shook her as hard as I could.
Zhao Xuanxuan opened her eyes a little and moved her mouth, but no words came out.
"Water...it's water...Let's go find water. We are saved."
"Get up, get up quickly." She put her arm on my shoulder and I pulled her up hard.
Step by step, I followed the green leaves on the ground.
"Get up," Zhao Xuanxuan fell down again and was already very weak now.
The further I walked, the more surprised I became. I even wondered for a moment if I was dead. I was dreaming now, because the dew on the leaves became more and more obvious.
After walking unsteadily for more than 20 minutes, a large slope suddenly appeared in front of me. There were a few green leaves scattered under the slope. Since it was night time and people's eyesight was limited, nothing could be seen clearly down the slope. It was completely dark.
.
I think of a situation.
Is it possible that there are woods under the sandy slope? Did the strong wind blow those leaves up from the bottom of the slope?
After thinking about it, I knew that this was my last chance. If there was a small oasis in the darkness below, we would be saved. If there was no oasis but only trees, we would probably be able to find a source of drinkable water.
"Xiaoxuan, be careful, slow down."
The sand is fluid, not to mention the slope. After groping for only ten meters, I lost my center of gravity. I rolled down with the quicksand. Fortunately, there were no hard stones around, except for my ears, eyes and mouth.
Fortunately, no one was hurt after getting into the sand.
"This...the bottom here is loess, not sand!" That solid feeling is not deceiving at all!
"Then...is that a tree Yunfeng?"
Less than a hundred meters away from us, there was a vague shadow of a big tree in the darkness, and the outline of the black crown could be vaguely seen.
We helped each other and walked over to take a look. I was shocked.
Aren’t the deserts full of Populus euphratica and Euphratica striata? What kind of tree is this? It grows so big!
This big tree has a strange shape, with a big belly and a small mouth, and a leafy top with lush green leaves. No matter which angle you look at, the tree looks like a bottle.
Because it looks like a water bottle, I named this tree the bottle tree.
I scratched the bottle tree with my fingernail, and a stream of pale white sap immediately came out. I wet my finger and put it in my mouth to taste it, and I was a little excited.
Water! This is drinkable water! Not only that, it even has a faint fragrance!
I didn't care whether the bark of the tree was clean or not, so I immediately leaned over and drank with my mouth, just like drinking from a straw. I only needed to suck a little with my mouth, and I could immediately taste the sweet sap.
When the rain comes after a long drought, she sucks hard against the tree like me, and there is no image of a lady. The pain in her throat gradually becomes less uncomfortable, and she still feels that it is not enough. It happens that there is a row of stones under the bottle tree, and I pick it up
He picked up a stone and made a small hole in the bark of the tree.
After drinking a lot of tree sap, we couldn't walk anymore, so we sat down against the big tree to rest.
After drinking too much, my stomach was bloated. I burped and said with a smile: "Look, we are going to have a road to heaven! Let's go find something to store water at dawn tomorrow.
, with water we can move forward, and if we can see the leader of the camel team, Uncle Zhang, we will have a narrow escape."
"Yunfeng, do you feel a little strange?"
"Strange? What's strange?"
She pointed at her feet and said: "Look at this land, it doesn't look like someone did it on purpose? There are no other weeds growing on the ground. Could it be that someone has repaired it? There is another thing I noticed just now. You used
The stone that hit the tree looks like someone deliberately stacked it here."
I smiled nonchalantly and said: "Human? Where can there be people in this place where birds don't poop? There are so many strange and unique terrains in the desert. Maybe this is a geographical structure formed by accident, and the row of stones happened to be piled here.
, don’t think too much, hurry up and regain your strength, there are other things to do at dawn.”
I got up early the next day and planned to find something to store some water to take with me. I didn’t have a mineral water bottle, so this idea of storing water came to me last night.
I asked Miss Zhao to stay at the bottle tree while I climbed up the slope. After wandering around for a long time, I found what I was thinking of.
cactus.
There are the most cacti on the stalls in the Gobi desert. I am not looking for this thing to eat, but I want to make a container out of the cactus to store some sap and drink it on the road.
I first smoothed the thorns on the cactus with coarse sand, and then I used force to tear the cactus in half. Be careful not to tear the whole body apart, as half of the cactus must be connected.
Then I broke off a small branch from the bottle tree.
Stuff the small branches horizontally between the torn cactus, so that the wooden sticks will support the half-torn cactus. When it is done, the cactus will look like a flat pot from a distance.
My inspiration for making cactus flat bottles came from a piece of porcelain, the treasure of the Yangzhou Museum, the Ming Yongle blue and white sea water cloud and dragon pattern flat bottle.
After I made it, I tried it. It was used to collect the sap of the bottle tree, and it didn't leak at all.
Except for being a little heavy to hold, this cactus water storage bottle is very well made.
