Tree salt

Bang Bang ...... There was a sound of sticks hitting the grass, but gradually the sound became quieter and quieter. Even if you don't have six-fingered ears, you can hear it. It's not that this person's strength to fight the grass has become smaller, it's not that their mind to beat the grass has been perfunctory, but that the grass here is indeed less, and the grass here is getting so low that the grass tips are trampled under their feet, so small that even if they turn over the dirt under their feet, they can't find their traces.

Everyone relaxed the slapping of the sticks. Because there is no grass here, only tall poplars, willows, pines, and other miscellaneous trees, and even the common shrubs such as barberry, boxwood, sandy cypress, paving cypress, and forsythia that were common before are gone.

The purpose of the previous slapping was to warn the snakes, insects, rats and ants in the grass. Then it's a guide stick to see if there are pits, slopes, and things that trip over people in the deep grass.

The man who stumbled at the post house kiosk is the best negative teaching material.

Everyone is happy to be alone, and it is comfortable to walk on the "official road" that is beginning to be serious. Although this is an official road for hundreds of years, this avenue can still show the grandeur and prosperity of the time. Because there is no grass in the way, it is easy to see that the scale of this official road is about 6 to 10 zhang wide, and this road is made of stone base and clay rammed.

In this forest, which is not exposed to the sun or the wind and sun, it is still well preserved. The forest has been illuminated twice by the sun, and the sun has set outside. Since they all walk with torches, day and night mean nothing to them. It's just that the tired instinct of people makes them have to put down their feet and rest.

The military advisor is also a person who has led soldiers, and when he saw that everyone was lazy, he took the opportunity to rest in place. "You rows put torches in a pile to serve as the base of the campfire, and you rows are responsible for collecting firewood overnight. Spend the night here tonight!" Everyone was very happy to hear this, otherwise they would not have been able to eat Rich Liu's sparrow-sized balls and run for a day.

"Oops, I'm tired of me. Some people began to put down their torches and sticks and draw circles on the ground to relieve the fatigue of their shoulders. The shoulders are used too often. I stayed in prison for a few years and didn't work. The weather here has come down, and I still haven't adapted.

Gaba Gaga, the branches of the trees here are really brittle, and the sound is very good. Put it in the fire and the pit must be a little bit. It's just that there are too few trees around. No, you can't say that. It's not that there are too few trees, it's that there are too few low branches. Some people broke a few branches, and there were no more branches to break. Fortunately, there are no flowers and plants to the west, and the official road is bright, as long as you don't leave this road, you will definitely not lose your way. When they went out, they only carried torches to illuminate them, and they did not bring sticks or anything with them, because it was inconvenient, and besides, there were no weeds here, and everything was unobstructed under the firelight.

The branches were quickly broken back and stacked up like a hill. At this time, everyone also returned, and the bonfire was lit in two piles as it was yesterday, so that everyone could be contaminated with the heat and would not favor one over the other.

The trees here seem to have a personality, and the firewood in each place has a different flame, the first night is an ochre flame, the second day is a yellow flame, and the smoke will crackle, and tonight's flame is also different, as if there are three colors stacked on top of each other, with a white fire center at the bottom and a purple fire body in the middle. But the fire cloak that was draped over the fire was indeed faintly blue, and the flames were also blue.

"Look at this fire, it's so good! there's no smoke at all, it's just a little bit off. And the flame is also high, this kind of firewood is most suitable for barbecue," someone said unintentionally.

It hurt Scar to drool, "You kid, will you talk and see what you can say!" Scar's stomach was growling. Scar helplessly looked at Wu Sande, who was baking military food pills next to him, Wu Sande didn't act as if he didn't see it as usual, but took the initiative to divide half of his military food pills. Scar is really embarrassed to take it. I still have one in my arms that I haven't bitten. Wu Sande is a smart person, he can not take advantage of it, but he can't suffer a loss. He knew that Scar had two military food pills on his body that he had exchanged for a bone thrower, and when he was really about to starve to death, he could not give it to Wu Sande. Besides, Wu Sande's popularity is really good, and he is very good at bullying half of his military food pills if he can't keep himself, so he will be blackmailed by others, so it's better to be a favor now.

"Hey! You say it's really strange! When I went to the front to break the branches, I found something very bizarre, no matter what tree was five feet above the ground, it seemed to be used by people, and it was plastered with lime, a layer of white clothes! Do you think that if you don't go far further, there will be a home!"

Everyone is very happy to hear this, although it is a hypothesis, but it is also possible. "So many trees have been painted with white lime, and the amount of tasks should not be underestimated, so how many people should there be?"

"The more people they know, the better, and we don't go to big fights! They don't care if they have more food than we eat!"

Everyone began to look forward to what lay ahead. Only the military advisor was a little apprehensive in his heart, going to the city of Sick State to spend the winter was the goal he had always told, and he did not give up. He was now worried even now in the woods.

This forest is too weird. Although the overgrown weeds in the forest make people's hearts a little unhappy, it is common sense, there is no forest without grass. Isn't it normal that there is not a single grass seedling on the ground of this forest now?

The military advisor admitted that he was not paying attention, and smeared some dirt on the tip of his tongue and tasted it, which was sour, as if the soil had been soaked in sour vinegar. It shows that the plot of land is really not suitable for planting things, and I can't complain that I can't grow something like grass that is fragile in life. In this way, the trees here do seem a little sparse compared to the places where they have been walked.

The military advisor picked up the torch and left the crowd and looked up along the roots of the trees on the ground, where the trees had many horizontal scratches, like the water marks left on the banks of the embankment, different heights for different things. The scratches on the trunk of the tree also looked like something had eroded, and the gap between the scratches was so small that not a single hair could be inserted. If it weren't for the military advisor's better eyes, he wouldn't have been able to see it.

When the blue light of the fire shone on the trunk of the tree, small particles of fine fragments glittered on the tree. Once again, the military advisor carefully covered it with his fingernails, buckled off the bark shavings of a fingernail, and put it on the tip of his tongue to taste it - salty. This is the taste of salt. Could it be that this forest is run by a grain and oil store?" the military advisor asked casually in his heart.

So he went to the man by himself, and he went to the place where "the trees were five feet high because of the lime water." The trees there looked as if they had been painted with lime water. White with gray, the color of the gray is thicker and lighter. The white here is not the forward white, but it can be the same as the sky-blue fire.

It's a little gray and dull like salt rock hauled out of the mountains. The military advisor pulled out the dagger from his waist and chose a piece of bark, not wanting to be like the salt he usually uses, which would crumble as soon as he twisted it. It is as hard as ordinary wood and has a similar shape. The military advisor didn't dare to pick the tip of the knife and put it directly into his mouth, because the knife was too fast. He shook off the gray-white bark of the knife into his hand and lightly scratched the tip of his tongue.

"Phew, bah, bah. The military advisor hurriedly spit out the saliva in his mouth, it was so salty!

Since the military advisor knew what this was, his heart fell into his stomach. Perhaps it is the trees here that extract salt from the soil and secrete it into their bark to rid them of pests and diseases. The military advisor thought to himself. Hurriedly use a knife to cut off more bark salt. Take it back.

Salt is the first of the five flavors and can provoke all kinds of flavors. I feel dizzy and weak in the past few days, which must be the result of not eating salt. So he cut it more diligently.

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