Go through the wild and seek life

Chapter 50 Salt Pond
If it was Rudama who had just crossed over, she would never have imagined that one day she would be able to look at this grassland with the eyes of research, curiosity, and even appreciation. At that time, she only regarded the world as a hungry giant. The beast may devour itself at any time.

Come to think of it, state of mind is everything.It was also the night that gave her this state of mind.

Ye stopped at a puddle with Rudama on his back.

Climbing down from Ye's back, Rudama went to the water's edge, filled the water bag with water, and sent it to Ye's hand.Let's say that Ye is mature and responsible, he is sometimes like a child, it's okay to be arrogant and foolish.For example, eating and drinking, picking up prey, barbecue and so on, he will never let Rudama do it, he is a full-fledged top ten good man, he will work hard without complaint, and he is willing.But the meat was cooked, but he stuffed the meat into Rudama's hand, then looked at Rudama with a pair of wet dark purple eyes, opened his mouth, and waited for her to tear the meat into small pieces and feed it into his mouth inside.The same is true for drinking water. I asked Rudama to fetch water and bring it to him.

Rudama was depressed, because when he was living with Ren and the little wolf cub, the little wolf cub accidentally pulled an oily turtle egg into the fire.At that time, Ye was squatting there grilling meat, and with the sound of the oily eggs bursting, the fire soared, and several large blisters were formed on both of his hands.

Ye's actions are often rough, and only when he treats her is he deliberately soft and careful.So Rudama was worried that he would burst the blisters and cause an infection, so she didn't let him do anything in those two days, and she fed him even food and water.But because of this, this guy has developed a bad habit.

Waiting for the night to drink up the water, Rudama went back to the puddle to fill up the water for their journey.

Ever since she accidentally discovered "Ma Jiang" last time, Rudama became interested in the plants along the way. As long as she saw plants that were eaten by herbivores along the way, she would pick some and study them from the roots. To Ye, if it wasn't for the season of early spring, she would have studied everything from flowers to seeds.

With her unremitting efforts, she also found two plants that tasted good and could be used as vegetables.In fact, it is not called a vegetable, but it is a bit like wild vegetables that modern people experience in the countryside. One is like purslane, but I don’t know if it also has the effect of being used as medicine; the other is like Artemisia stalks.This made Rudama very happy. When he had salt, he blanched it with water and it would definitely taste delicious.Just thinking about Rudama makes my mouth water. After eating meat for too long, it is so yearning to be able to eat vegetables.

"Stay?"

Ye looked up at the sun, it was almost evening, he began to clear the surrounding grass, and piled it into a hollow haystack, which was their tent.

Ye still remembered sleeping in such a thing when he opened his eyes and saw Rudama for the first time, so he remembered it firmly in his heart.He remembered those big, clear eyes even more firmly, shining like stars in the sky.

Rudama lit a fire, because the fire was almost all fresh grass, and when the fire was lit, she herself choked so much that her nose and tears flowed down.

And the unconscionable Ye was panting and laughing on the side.After Rudama rolled his eyes, he ran over and rubbed Rudama's hair as Rudama treated him.

The prairie is quiet during the day.When the night comes, it gradually becomes lively.

Rudama used to be afraid of this excitement.But now, the coming of night excited her a little.After dinner, Rudama put out the fire, dragged Ye together into the haystack, and quietly waited for the animals to drink from the puddle.

She has seen many animals along the way. Some of them look familiar to her, some she has never seen before, and some are more like a patchwork of the characteristics of several animals she has seen.And the ones she saw the most were stag horn sheep and cow horn grass mud horses, they all moved together in groups.Rudama thought that they should be the most important residents on the grassland.

When the black curtain was pulled up to the sky, the water puddle welcomed the first batch of guests.

They were a pair of large birds with long beaks, blue-green feathers, and two slender legs.They landed in the shallow water and walked gracefully while looking for something in the water. Rudama thought it should be food. There were a lot of algae in the puddle.

Ever since the arrival of these two waterfowls, Ye has been on the move, turning into a black leopard, ready to rush out and catch them at any time.But Rudama stopped him by hugging his neck.Just kidding, don't care if you are scared away or rushed to death, don't you have to watch it?

After a while, the water puddle ushered in the second wave of guests, a small group of horned grass mud horses, they jumped over from a stepped path.

Soon the puddle became lively, and there were more and more animals of all kinds, all of which were herbivorous. Everyone drank water in peace, and left when they drank enough.

When a small group of staghorn sheep appeared by the waterhole, Ye couldn't hold back any longer, that was his favorite food, and when Rudama was not paying attention, he flew out like a night ghost.

then……

Swoop, swoop, startle the waterside animals.

The cowardly herbivore was running around to hide, while Ye dragged an unlucky stag-horned sheep back to Rudama, with a smug look on his face, like a peacock spreading its tail.

Rudama thinks Ye looks like a boy showing off in front of the girl he likes.There was a black line on her forehead, she wanted to slap herself again, what was she thinking.

Ye carried Rudama on his back for another whole day on the prairie.

The further he walked, Rudama felt, the more desolate the vegetation became.I think we are approaching the place where there is salt. In my impression, the place where there is salt pond is surrounded by saline-alkali land. Judging by the growth of these grasses, they are not far away.

Just as Rudama thought, at noon the next day, she saw a piece of white on Ye's back in the distance.Rudama instinctively thought of the crystallization of salt.She climbed off Ye's back and ran forward.Along the way, many herbivores who were licking the salty smell ran away.

When they got close, Rudama could see clearly that beside the blue water, a large piece of salt crystals like crystal clusters had formed, which flickered under the sunlight and were extremely dazzling.Rudama never knew that salt could be so beautiful, she ran forward to break off a piece and put it in her mouth, it was salty, bitter and astringent, but why did Rudama think it was delicious?

Having not tasted salt for a long time, Rudama was so excited that she shed tears.

Ye looked at Rudama's out of control look a little dumbfounded.

In the evening, they stayed by the side of the salt pond, and at night they caught a cow's horn grass mud horse to supplement the salt for food.

Rudama rubbed the peeled skin in the water of the salt pond for a long time, and then sewed two large animal skin backpacks to hold the salt crystals.

(End of this chapter)