"What do you usually eat?"

At this moment, Bai Yumo suddenly spoke. She wondered what they were doing to survive in a place where there was no land to grow, and where water was so scarce.

"We are in a desert area, and it is normal to lack food and water. Usually we eat some drought-tolerant plants, and the meat is the wild animals we hunt or the beef and mutton of the family.

Two years ago, we were still receiving some relief food every month, corn bran and potatoes and so on. Later, after the chaos in the main city, we did not receive any more relief food, and now the whole country is in turmoil.

Fortunately, we belong to a nomadic tribe and are far away from the city, so we don't have to worry about the war and chaos. However, in the past two years, the weather has not been good, and there has hardly been rain. The water source in the oasis is also drying up, and everyone is running out of water to drink.

My father and several clan elders have discussed many times that if there is no more rainfall, our tribe will have to move and find a place to live again. ”

Larry suddenly felt a little nostalgic for the old days, although the environment in the desert was difficult, but everyone could live safely with relief food and wild things in the desert.

Now that the relief food is gone, even the water source is about to run out, and if it is really moved, I don't know if we can find a new oasis. These two guests from afar are in a very good state of mind, and they should not be hungry in the desert.

Hearing what Laril said, Bai Yumo looked at the situation around him. There are many mud houses in the oasis, and the houses are dilapidated, and there are many cracks in the mud walls after a long period of no rainfall.

Most of the vegetation near the oasis has dried up and can only be used as firewood. The living vegetation was almost eaten as much as it could eat, and the outer layer of bark of many large trees had been scraped.

"You just said you can hunt, where did you find your usual prey?" Seeing that the little girl was very concerned about the survival of the tribe, Qin Fan thought that if there was a place to hunt, hunting a few prey and giving them to the tribe would be regarded as repaying them for taking them in. After all, if they gave money tomorrow morning, they might not really want it, and now the money is almost like waste paper for them.

"Brother Qin, we haven't seen any wild animals for a long time, and now the water source in the oasis is about to run out, and no small animals will run in to find water to drink."

Hearing Qin Fan's question, Laril was a little frustrated. When there is water in the oasis, animals often come to drink the water, and if they are lucky, they can catch some small animals to satisfy their hunger. Now you can't even see spider shadows, let alone eat meat.

Seeing that Laril was a little embarrassed, Bai Yumo and the two did not continue to ask. Larry soon led the two of them to a building in the center of the tribe, which looked like a temple.

"Brother Qin, this is the temple in our tribe, and it is also the best building, usually the temple is used to hold sacrificial activities, and there is only one old man guarding it.

There's only one room to live in, and I'm going to rest in one room tonight, and I'll help you get some hay later. ”

There was only one vacant room, and there was no bed, so I had to lay hay on the floor for one night. If you don't use hay and the temperature drops in the middle of the night, the temperature on the ground will be very low, and you will definitely get sick the next day.

"Thanks, I'll go with you to get hay in a moment." Qin Fan nodded, he had no objection to Laril's arrangement. Even though they had folding beds, they still had to use hay for cover.

"Okay, then I'll take you inside to see the room where you are resting tonight." Laril led the two into the temple.

"Grandpa Curry, are you there?"

"I'm here, Larryl~"

Curry was cleaning the stone statue when he heard someone calling him outside, so he had to move out from behind the stone statue step by step.

"Grandpa Curry, are you cleaning the statue again?"

Larry heard a voice coming from behind the stone statue and guessed that Grandpa Curry was cleaning the stone statue again, Grandpa Curry was the guardian of the temple and would clean the stone statue almost every day, and he heard his father say that Grandpa Curry had been guarding the stone statue for more than forty years.

"yes. Hehe, Larryl, who are these two? ”

Curry looked at the two unfamiliar faces in front of him, a little curious, these two people didn't look like they were from their country, they should be from other countries.

"Grandpa Curry, these two explorers came to the desert for two days, and they came to us after walking in the desert for two days. They were going to stay with us for the night today and leave early tomorrow morning, so my father asked me to bring them here. ”

"Oh, I see. Two guests from afar, please be seated. ”

Hearing the word explorer, Curry understood. They are deep in the desert area, and occasionally meet experts who come to explore the desert to spend the night in the tribe, but these two explorers look very young.

"Thank you, Grandpa Curry, for the bother."

Bai Yumo and the two sat down on the mat, this Grandpa Curry should be sixty or seventy years old, although he looked a little malnourished, but his eyes gave people a very energetic feeling.

"You're welcome, two children, they are our guests when they come to us."

Curry smiled kindly, signaling that they didn't have to take it personally.

"Grandpa Curry, where's your bucket? I'll go and line up to fetch you a bucket of water, and I'll work hard for you to entertain Brother Qin. ”

Instead of sitting down, Laril went to the utility room to find the bucket that Grandpa Curry had used to carry water. All the people who fell were queuing up to get water, and if they didn't go, they wouldn't be able to get water.

"Thank you, Larryl~"

Seeing Laril rushing out with a bucket, he was a little moved. Over the years, his legs and feet have become more and more inconvenient, and it is Laril who fetches him water or carries things.

"Two guests, I'm really sorry, I don't have anything to eat at home to entertain you, and when Laril comes back, you can fill some water in the water bladder."

There is nothing to eat at home, and now the tribe cooks and eats collectively, and there is only one meal a day, and it is not enough to eat, so it can only be said that it is hanging for life. It's really shy in my pocket, and I can't take out anything to entertain guests.

"Grandpa Curry, don't worry about us, we still have water in our water bladder. How long has it been since it rained here? We had just come in and saw that the riverbed was all cracked. ”

Bai Yumo shook his head, they have something to eat, so they don't need to worry about them.

"It hasn't rained for almost half a year, and this year's temperature is even higher than usual. Drought-tolerant plants have no harvest in this kind of hot and dry weather."

This year's situation is even worse than last year's, and I heard from the patriarch that the river has stopped flowing and the riverbed is almost at the bottom. If there is no water, the whole tribe will not know where to go.

(End of chapter)