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.
She turned her head and muttered: "Even if I die of thirst, I won't drink...drink those things." I don't know if it hurt the association, but she kept retching while talking.
Patting her on the back, I persuaded: "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 a mummified corpse, 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, resigned to 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 to speak anymore.
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 feels 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 at 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. They were still frozen."
"Yeah, it sounds good, can you give me a bottle?"
"Of course, you want it chilled or at room temperature."
"Just drink it at room temperature. If you drink it cold, your stomach will hurt."
"No, give me something cold."
"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, but when I opened my eyes I realized it was still night, maybe late at night. Zhao Xuanxuan, who was lying beside him, remained motionless.
I pushed her slightly, but there was no response.
"What is that?" Suddenly, I saw something from the corner of my eye. The light is not good, so I rely on the stars in the sky for illumination.
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 it 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!" 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, let's go find water, we're 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 whether I was dead, and now I was in a dream, 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? Was it the strong wind that blew those leaves up from 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, it would be possible to find a source of drinkable water.
"Xiaoxuan, be careful, slow down."
The sand is fluid, not to mention the slope. After groping for more than ten meters, I lost my center of gravity and rolled down with the quicksand. Fortunately, there were no hard rocks around, and no one was hurt except for the sand in their ears, eyes and mouth. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
"This... this 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 supported each other and walked over to take a look. I was shocked.
Aren’t the deserts full of Populus euphratica and S. truncatula? What kind of tree is this? So big!
This big tree has a strange shape, with a big belly and a small mouth, and lush green branches at the top. No matter you look at it from any angle, the tree looks like a bottle.
Because it looks like a water bottle, I named this tree the bottle tree.
I scratched the middle of 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, feeling a little excited.
water! This is drinkable water! Not only that, it even has a light 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 long drought comes and the rain comes, like me, she sucks hard against the tree with her mouth, and there is no image of a lady. My throat gradually became less uncomfortable, and I still felt that it was not enough. There happened to be a row of stones under the bottle tree. I picked up one of the stones and made a small hole in the bark of the tree with a few blows.
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 an endless road! Let's go find something to store water at dawn tomorrow. , if we have water, we can go on the road, 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, doesn't it 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. What are you using? The rocks that hit the tree look like they were deliberately piled here."
I smiled nonchalantly and said: "Humans? 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. There is no mineral water bottle, so this method of storing water was an idea that came to my mind 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 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 for drinking 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 twigs sideways into the center of the split cactus so that the sticks will support the two halves of the cactus. When you look at it from a distance, the cactus looks like a flat pot.
My inspiration for making the cactus flat bottle 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. This is used to collect the sap of the bottle tree, and it didn't leak at all.
Apart from being a little heavy to hold, this cactus water bottle is very well made.
