(Xie: Reward from the two brothers of Leisure Ronin and Moshaocong, Xie: Smile_ Xiaogao's monthly pass.) ）

After recovering their strength, Wang Yuangongsun Lan and the three guides walked from the sand dunes onto the white hard shell by the lake. The ground beneath your feet is as smooth as a mirror, and the so-called white hard shell is not hard either, and when you step on it, it will crack apart, as if you are stepping on snow, making a creaking sound, and water will seep out.

Choosing a slightly hard place, Wang Yuan stopped. He pulled out his sword at his waist and cut a boxy cut in the ground, peeling off the hard shell on top of it, revealing a yellowish crystalline salt grain underneath.

The old guide reminded: "Commander, don't touch these. This is poisonous salt, and the animals will eat this thing and their stomachs rot and die, so be careful. ”

Wang Yuan squatted down and looked at these pale yellow salt grains carefully, knowing that this must not be pure table salt, there were other impurities mixed in the middle, and the amount must be not small. Following the old guide's persuasion, Wang Yuan did not touch it with his hands, but he continued to dig down. When I dug to a depth of a few feet, I immediately noticed that the color had changed. Beneath the pale yellow surface, the color of the salt grains here has changed to a less pure white, which looks the same as the coarse salt eaten on a regular basis.

Wang Yuan grabbed a handful with a cloth bag, spread it in the palm of his hand and carefully examined it, and Gongsun Lan and the old guide also came up to check. However, these particles are transparent in the sun, and although they are slightly yellow, they are no longer visible.

"Huh? It turns out that the lower one is different, the upper one is poisonous salt, but the lower one is not known to be poisonous. The old guide said.

Wang Yuan said: "Try it and you'll know." ”

The old guide hurriedly waved his hand and said, "You can't eat indiscriminately, in case it is poisonous, wouldn't it be bad?" ”

Gongsun Lan also frowned and said, "You can't mess around, this can't be risky." ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "I naturally won't be so stupid. Choose an animal and feed some, if the animal dies, it will still be poisoned salt. ”

The old guide's brows jumped in distress, and the three camels borrowed from the neighbors obviously couldn't be tried, so they could only use their own camels to test for Dashuai. His own camel has followed him in and out of the desert many times, and he has regarded it as a partner, and he has indulged in camel tantrums like his own child, and if he dies in the hands of the handsome this time, it will be really sad.

Wang Yuan didn't pay attention to the emotions of the old guide, and since he had decided to do so, he acted immediately. But Wang Yuan would not feed the animals so rashly to eat the things dug up, he needed to purify these salt grains.

The large pit dug was soon filled with salt water, so Wang Yuan had to dig a small pit again, dug a small pile of salt grains one foot deep and filled it with a copper basin, and beckoned Gongsun Lan and the old guide back to the tent. Gongsun Lan and the old guide didn't know what to do, so they had to follow Wang Yuan's instructions and pour the clean water they brought into the copper basin. After Wang Yuan stirred with his long sword for a while, a small pile of salt grains melted into the clear water, and the basin became a turbid and pale yellow liquid.

The old guide took the charcoal he brought according to Wang Yuan's request and started the fire, and Wang Yuan put the copper basin on the fire and began to boil.

Under the sun, the surroundings of the charcoal fire were extremely hot. Wang Yuan didn't seem to care about the heat, and stood aside with sweat dripping on his face, stirring the liquid in the basin. Gongsun Lanben sat in the shade of the tent, and when he saw Wang Yuan feeling sorry for him, he wrung a handful of wet cloth towels and put them on Wang Yuan's bun. Wang Yuan smiled gratefully, turned his head and looked at the water in the copper basin intently.

After a while, the water in the basin began to boil, gurgling and bubbling the air, and a layer of yellow foam began to gather around the basin. Wang Yuan carefully scraped off the foam and blew it open, and looked intently at the boiling basin of salt water.

After some time, the boring 'grunt' finally began to fade, and the water in the copper basin was almost boiled dry, leaving only a thin layer of yellow liquid. At some point, a layer of white particles appeared on the edge and wall of the copper basin, which seemed to be covered with a thin layer of snow.

"It's finished." Wang Yuan shouted.

Gongsun Lan and the old guide hurriedly rushed over from the tent to take a look, but saw that Wang Yuan had extinguished the charcoal fire and poured out the last yellow liquid in the basin, but saw that the bottom of the basin was covered with a thick layer of white powder, white as snow and bright as crystals.

"This is the purified salt, whether it is poisonous or not, we can give it to the animals." Wang Yuan swept the powder in the copper basin and gathered a small pile of white powder, the amount was much less than the pile put into the basin, but it was finer than the white.

This moment finally came, and the old guide was helpless, pulling his camel to the side, and tears began to fall in his eyes. Petting the camel he raised, he muttered, "Big flower, old man, you accept your fate." Don't worry, if you are poisoned, I will not eat your flesh, I will bury you deep in the sand, coyotes and sand scorpions will not be able to eat you, you will have a whole corpse. I can't stand you, you and I have been born and died for more than ten years, and I can't do it. Dashuai didn't mean to poison you, hey...... In short, resign yourself to your fate. ”

The camel didn't know it, but instead blew bubbles with a funny expression and sprayed a lot of saliva on the old guide's face. The old guide didn't wipe either, and talked to himself.

Wang Yuan smiled: "Uncle, talking to a camel, does it understand?" ”

The old guide sighed and said: "Da Shuai, Dahua is a camel, although his temper is a little stubborn, but my old man is the best partner in and out of the desert." Now that it's going to die, how can I not say a few words to him, old man. Beasts understand human speech, they just can't speak, they understand it in their hearts. ”

Wang Yuan was surprised: "This camel is going to die? Why? Are you going to kill it? ”

The old guide rolled his eyes and said, "Isn't the big handsome going to feed it poisonous salt?" There are a total of four camels, one is from Zhang San next door, the other is Sun Si from the east of the village, and the other is the camel of Widow Li's family. You can't feed poisoned salt to other people's camels, right? I can only use my family's big flowers. ”

Wang Yuan laughed and said, "When did I say I was going to try it with a camel?" Didn't Miss Gongsun and I ride two horses? I will only try it with my own mount, how can I try it with your camel? Am I not too domineering? ”

The old guide opened his mouth for a long time, thinking back to Wang Yuan's words, the marshal really didn't mention the use of camel experiments, but just said that he would use an animal, but he would be wrong.

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Go and pull the horse of the Gongsun girl, and I will feed it." ”

Gongsun Lan sighed: "My mount is also very unlucky, why don't you use your big black horse?" ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "My big black horse is a black horse stepping on the snow, and it is a BMW." You're a good horse at best, and if you die, you can ride with me, and the big black horse will definitely be able to withstand it. If the big black horse dies, shall I go and ride a camel? ”

Gongsun Lan said angrily: "Anyway, you are reasonable. ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "Seriously, I hope this poisonous salt can poison your mount to death." ”

The old guide was stunned and said, "Why is that?" A horse died in vain, which is a lot of money. ”

Gongsun Lan's face flushed and said: "Old Bo Mo listened to his nonsense, he was hot and poisonous again." ”

The old guide naturally couldn't understand, but Gongsun Lan could understand, his own mount died, and Wang Yuan could justifiably ask himself to ride with him. This guy doesn't forget to tease himself at any time.

The old guide pulled Gongsun Lan's yellow horse over, and the yellow horse was hotly sticking out his tongue and foaming, looking extremely decadent. The camel on the side looked at the yellow horse with a disdainful expression, and an expression that you are not as heat-resistant as Lao Tzu.

Wang Yuan poured water into the copper basin and brought it to the side of the yellow horse, the yellow horse was so thirsty that he leaned down and drank a lot, and after a while, the water in the copper basin was drunk, and he licked the water stains and salt particles in the copper basin with his tongue.

"Okay, let's wait and see, I'm afraid I won't be able to see anything for a while, first avoid the heat, and in the evening, we will see whether the horse is dead or alive." Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Wang Yuan pulled Gongsun Lan into the tent to rest, and the old guide felt sorry for the animals, and kept standing next to the yellow horse and watching. Not long after, but seeing the tail of the yellow horse, the old guide was highly nervous, and said in his heart: "It's over, I'm going to die." ”

But when I saw that the yellow horse 'bald' let out a stinky fart, and then 'lala' pulled out a large puddle of horse manure, and then it was alive and kicking again.

The old guide cursed, kicked the sand to bury the horse manure, covered his nose and went into the tent, and ignored it again.