Filling their stomachs, Shuzhen and Juanzi seemed to be refreshed. Shuzhen tiptoed and looked into the distance for a while, then looked up at the sun that began to glow, and said with a little uneasiness: "Let's start lighting a cigarette, if we can find it, I'm afraid this will already be heading back." ”

Juanzi nodded kindly, and then muttered with a worried face: "If you put less wolf dung, you can't smoke, and if you put too much wolf dung, you can't burn it, I'm afraid that these wolf dung won't last for an hour." ”

When Anarhan heard this, he sprang up and said, "I'll pick it up again." As he spoke, his body had already floated down the sand beam. Juanzi hesitated slightly, and followed downhill.

Seeing that Analhan was all around the grass and white thorns, Juanzi asked suspiciously: "Do you still pick a place for wolf?" ”

Analhan pursed his lips and smiled, and said with a slight meaning: "That's it, when I was ten years old, I ran to the hillside to play, and I heard the rabbit barking, and when I turned around and saw three wolves biting a rabbit, I was so frightened that I hurriedly hid in the red willow bush. ”

As he spoke, Anarhan made a frightened look, and then said playfully to Juanzi: "Later, the wolf came to me after eating the rabbit, and I didn't even dare to come out at that time, for fear that they would find out and eat like a rabbit. But they ignored me and kept moving forward. ”

As he spoke, Anarhan glanced at Juanzi with a look of relief, and when he saw that she was listening carefully, he smiled sweetly and continued: "I quietly stretched out my head to look, and saw a wolf suddenly turn around and turn behind a nest of stalks, thinking that some poor rabbit or gerbil was going to be unlucky, but it didn't take much effort for the wolf to run away with the wolf in front of me." ”

Seeing that Juanzi was listening with great interest, Analhan grinned, and said mysteriously: "When they run away, I'll go there and take a look,——Wow, the wolf has pulled down a pile of" and said, making a smelly and disgusting look.

Seeing that Juanzi was provoked, Anarhan sighed like an adult and said, "Later, when I was playing, I met a wolf or a white thorn bush and knew that there had never been a wolf here. As he spoke, Anarhan spotted a small pile of wolf dung by a tuft of weeds, but it hadn't dried yet.

Juanzi was disgusting, worried about how to take it, only to see Analhan smile at her secretly, quickly pulled out a knife from her waist, cut a handful of grass leaves with a few strokes, pulled the soft tip into a knot, spread it flat on the ground like a blooming flower, and then used a small wooden stick as chopsticks, one by one the wolf dung into the heart of the flower, and then slowly retracted the other end of the grass leaf, the disgusting wolf dung was obediently gathered in the flower.

Seeing that Analhan had finally completed the meticulous and wonderful project, Juanzi looked admired and relieved, and hurriedly took the "flower basket" from her hand, looked at it lovingly, and said, "I'll take it, and you can look elsewhere." Analhan happily handed over the "flower basket" and ran forward.

The dry wood led the wolf dung, and suddenly a wisp of blue-black smoke, like a soft streamer, rose into the sky, and was particularly conspicuous in the gray atmosphere. This is the reason why wolf smoke must be prepared on the ancient beacon tower.

Shoko led everyone over several sand dunes that looked almost identical, the sun was already sinking down as if drunk, the earth had begun to change color, and the polar eyes were still the same as when they first set off, but they were a little more alive than before.

Mamaiti gasped for breath and said with a look of disappointment and frustration, "We seem to have gone in the wrong direction." As he spoke, he saw Shoko glance at himself with a puzzled and uneasy face. Maimaiti continued: "According to the distance we have traveled now, if the direction is good, we should be at the edge of the desert, but now it seems that we are still in the middle. As he spoke, he sat down on the ground and stretched out his hand toward Bahar.

Bahar hurriedly handed over the kettle, and muttered with a wistful expression: "Let's drink some water, whether you can go out or not, only Hu Da knows." As he spoke, he fell on his knees and muttered words in his mouth.

Shoko took the water bag and took a sip, stopping it in her mouth for a while before swallowing it slowly. He is leaving the water of tomorrow. Seeing his father's appearance, Huzi understood in his heart, and he also took a sip, turned around and handed it to Bahar and said, "Save a little, I will drink again tomorrow." As he spoke, he reluctantly ran towards a higher sand dune beside him.

The sun's face was already red and crumbling, and the barren field was gradually covered with a faint red veil. In addition to the clouds of commotion lightly dyed with heavy makeup, the distant sky is still blue.

Just when everyone was sighing secretly, they only heard Huzi shouting in surprise: "Wolf smoke!" It's wolf smoke! ”

Everyone hurriedly turned over and got up, looking in the direction of Huzi's fingers, the clear sky, a faint gray-black shadow, like smoke floating there, just like on the blue mirror, a faint stroke, it looks natural and elegant.

Maimaiti glanced at it excitedly, then knelt on the ground again, and shouted excitedly: "Hu Da! We are saved. ”

So, everyone suddenly had all their strength, and they took a step towards the looming shadow.

The sun finally fell softly on the other side of the dune, and only a touch of colorful color hung faintly on the edge of the clouds, and the earth suddenly lost its vivid appearance, and its face was gloomy, and it fell there quietly. The ribbon that was faintly visible was also melted by the gray sky, and there was no trace.

Seeing that everyone's emotions were tense again, Huzi had an idea, pulled out his pistol and fired it twice into the sky. Xiangzi was immediately overjoyed, and he also pulled out his gun with a happy face, and said to Huzi: "How many bullets do you have?" ”

Huzi hurriedly exited *to see,* was empty. Shoko has two shots left. Xiangzi glanced at Maimaiti hesitantly, and Maimaiti shrugged softly, indicating that he did not have a gun.

Shoko said contemplatively: "Judging from the situation that you fired two shots just now, no one has heard our gunfire yet, otherwise there would have been a response." As he spoke, he glanced ahead and gave an order: "Continue in the direction where the smoke came from just now." ”

Turning over a sand beam, Xiangzi fired a shot into the sky and listened quietly for a while. The silent wilderness didn't react at all. And he continued on his way.

At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the originally gray and bright distance seemed to be buckled under the black and gray veil, and only a vague gray curtain was left a hundred meters away. There was also a thin layer of fog underfoot.

After climbing up an oblique ditch, the sky was completely dark. Everyone looked at each other, completely unaware of the direction they had identified before, and Xiangzi reluctantly fired the last bullet.

Before the wolf dung burned out, the heavy twilight had slowly buckled overhead. Shuzhen looked anxiously at the gradually blurred distance on tiptoe, and muttered like a gasp: "Why don't you see a person yet?" ”

Juanzi was getting the last bit of wolf dung onto the coals, and when she bowed her waist, she seemed to be checked by a hard object. His heart suddenly moved, and he happily pulled out his pistol and fired it twice into the sky.

The crisp sound of gunfire suddenly pierced the sky and spread into the distance. Shuzhen was overjoyed, and immediately pulled out the gun and put it away.

However, the horizontal breeze seems to take away the sounds that are rarely seen in the desert. The earth was still empty and silent.

Looking at the soot that was blown out by the wind and bursts of sparks, Juanzi muttered: "Only the fire is the most useful at night, but unfortunately there is no firewood here, and I am really anxious." ”

Shuzhen had an idea, took off her coat and pestle to Anarhan, who was standing silently, and quickly took off her underwear and put on her outer clothes, ignited her underwear on the coals, and held it high above her head on a wet red willow branch. Suddenly, a shining fireball reflected half of the sand beams red.

However, after a brief moment of light, the surroundings gradually dimmed. Seeing this, Juanzi hurriedly followed Shuzhen's appearance, hurriedly took off her underwear and handed it to Shuzhen.

Seeing that the light of the fire had dimmed again, Analhan anxiously squirmed his throat, and just wanted to follow the example of the two mothers, but suddenly he had an idea, and shouted: "Don't we have a saddle!" So the three of them happily slipped down the gentle slope and ran toward the horses not far away.

One by one, the innocent saddles were ignited, and at last Anarhan's beloved deerskin saddle with brass rings and stirrups remained. Anarkhan hesitated slightly, but slowly moved it closer to the fire.

Xiangzi looked around in a daze and lost his sense of direction, saw that his feet began to stumble and it was difficult to walk, and he saw that everyone was like frosted eggplants and lost their spirits. He stopped and said with a slight breath: "I don't think it's a way to go this way, in case you get the wrong direction, you can go farther and farther." ”

Seeing everyone's hesitation, Huzi leaned in and said, "Why don't you go over that sand beam." As he spoke, he pointed to a faintly visible black shadow, and turned around and walked early.

When approaching the slope, Huzi seemed to have tripped over something under his feet and almost fell down. Stumbling, I felt that there was a hard object in my stomach, and my heart suddenly rejoiced, and I took out a small pistol and fired a shot excitedly into the sky, but as a result, the sound was not as loud as the donkey's fart movement, and everyone laughed hard. Only then did I realize that it was a specially made *, and I couldn't hear movement from ten meters away. Despite this, Huzi still cherished it and put it in his arms again.

Several people struggled to climb to the top of the beam, turned around and looked around, and Huzi suddenly exclaimed: "Fire! It's firelight! Everyone happily looked forward, and in the distant sky, there was a bright spot the size of a bean that appeared and disappeared from time to time. Immediately refreshed, without saying a word, followed Huzi all the way away.

Seeing the flames burning in the last saddle gradually dimming, Shuzhen's heart suddenly rose with an inexplicable sourness. Without saying a word, she took off the only coat she had, and leaned towards the saddle where a weak spark flickered.

At the moment when the clothes were smoking and catching fire, a tall and burly figure suddenly approached, reached out and grabbed the clothes in Shuzhen's hand and shook it suddenly, and then wrapped it in his arms with Shuzhen's body.