Chapter 670: Desert Inn
"Jingle Bell Bell Bell ······"
The camel bells sang melodiously in the desert, and the occasional shouting also looked a little languishing under the scorching sun.
Pedestrians are stingy to speak, and their lips are already chapped and cracked, and the touch makes people feel unbearable pain.
"Water, is there still water?"
Between the twin peaks of the camel, the girl with a veil and her whole body wrapped in a white light veil revealed only a pair of dark eyes, which also revealed unbearable exhaustion.
She asked the servant who was leading the camel beside her, and the servant's face was already tanned and molting, and his lips were chapped and bleeding, and he looked a little sickly.
"Miss, there's not much water, you can save some drink."
The servant carefully took out a sheepskin kettle from the camel's coat, which was already very dry.
He raised his hand and handed it to the girl.
The girl took the kettle and shook it slightly before opening the leather plug and bringing it to her mouth.
As soon as he looked up, his white neck like a swan's neck was exposed.
I have been on the road for several days, and I am tired, dry and thirsty.
But she just took a sip: "How far is it from the Dragon Gate Inn?" ”
"The guide said it wouldn't take another day to get there."
When the servant spoke, his vocal cords ached, his voice was hoarse, and he spoke in some pain.
"Moisten your throat."
The girl leaned over and handed the servant the kettle in her hand.
"Miss, I can bear it."
The servant did not accept the girl's kindness, but leisurely stuffed the leather plug of the kettle and put it back into the camel's coat.
At this time, a person in front of the team stepped on the gravel with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and his body shook a few times, and he fell straight to the ground.
The man next to him hurriedly lifted him up, emptied the cargo of a camel, lifted him to the camel, and then carefully took out a pot of shriveled water and gently wiped the man's lips and nostrils.
"That's Chunsan, right?"
The girl asked softly.
"Well, Chun San has been having a fever since last night, and if he can't catch up with the Dragon Gate Inn tomorrow, Chun San is afraid that he won't be able to survive."
The servant's voice revealed irrepressible sorrow.
"Ugh."
The girl sighed slowly, and her originally straight back looked a little stiff.
At this time, the front of the team suddenly panicked, and the camels walking in front stopped. The whole team stopped.
"What's wrong?"
The girl's heart trembled, barely controlling her emotions, and asked softly.
"Don't worry, Miss, I'll take a look."
After the servant finished speaking, before he could go to the front to check, a man of low stature trotted over from the front: "Steward, miss, the guide said that there will be a sandstorm coming soon, so we should stop in place and stack the goods to prevent them from being blown away and buried by the wind and sand." ”
"Sandstorm?"
The girl's eyes widened, and through her eyes, she could tell that she was a little scared.
However, she still tried her best to stabilize her mind, tried to calm herself, and asked the housekeeper: "Lou steward, we ······"
"Wen Yi, sit down according to what the guide said, the guide walks in the desert all the year round, and is more familiar with the desert than us, if it weren't for the chase, we wouldn't have fallen into such an embarrassing situation with the guide leading the way."
The housekeeper said.
"yes, or we're a problem with the guide."
The girl felt a little guilty.
Soon, Wen Yi ran around the front and back of the team, and everyone began to silently disassemble and salute, directing the camel to lie on the ground.
At this time, the naked eye can already see the horizon in the distance, and there is a piece of black pressure, advancing towards this side one after another.
It's a terrible sight.
The wind and sand began to pound on the goods of the convoy, and the sound of "kicking and clanging" kept sounding, and I don't know how many goods were blown away by the wind and sand, and the girl lowered her head and hid her head behind the camel, not daring to raise her head at all.
Between heaven and earth, it was pitch black, only the sound of the whistling wind was left in the ears, and the people around them who were less than a foot apart could not see, and they could only feel the ups and downs of the camels, which could give people a sense of security.
This storm comes and goes quickly.
Ten minutes later, the sky and the earth were clear again.
It's just that when people look up, the original topography has completely changed.
Not even the direction can be discerned.
The girl shook the sand on her head, tidied up the scarf on her head, and looked at the new world with a pair of eyes that were a little blank.
"Spring Three, Spring Three Was Blown Away······"
There were several hoarse cries from the ranks.
But the storm has left, people are buried in the ground, like looking for a needle in a haystack, where to find it?
And if you can find it, you won't survive if you bury it in the ground.
After all, it is necessary to add a new pair of white bones to the desert.
"Jingle Bell Bell Bell ······"
The camel shook off the sand, pulled its legs out of the sand, and stood up.
People began to pack up their goods and reload them onto the backs of camels.
"Butler, our water is gone! The water of the water hyacinth is gone! ”
A wail.
The housekeeper was shocked, and ran to the front to take a look, and sure enough, a water hyacinth was knocked over, wetting a piece of sand.
"Miss!"
The girl also turned over and got out of the camel, and when she ran to this side, she saw the wet sand, and her eyes were red at once.
"We also have a water hyacinth, save some drink, if the guide is right, maybe it can support us in the corridor Longmen Inn, there is a crescent spring there, we can all live when we get there."
The housekeeper comforted the girl and said.
Two large water hyacinths are held together with nets and hung on both sides of the camel.
Fortunately, it didn't all overturn.
"Hmm."
The girl nodded heavily, knowing that she could not show the slightest weakness now.
She had to give hope to the people in the team.
The girl forced herself to calm down and said, "Let's go." ”
"Someone! There's a guy over there!! ”
The girl was about to turn over and get on the camel when she suddenly heard someone shouting.
He looked towards the man who was shouting, and then his eyes followed the direction the man was pointing, and through the thick air of the scorching sun, he vaguely saw a tall man in a crewneck shirt and a gauze hat walking towards him.
Behind him, there was another person who followed in the same direction, but with a thinner body.
"It's Chunsan! Chunsan didn't die! cough cough cough ······"
Someone shouted, and then the hoarse throat itched, and when he coughed, he immediately coughed violently, and the dry cough of the throat seemed to be dry and cracked, coughing up blood to warm the throat.
The girl had climbed onto the camel and looked far away, and the image of the man walking in front of her had already caught her eye.