Traveling through time and space to meet a replacement bride? But I’m a man!

Chapter 529 Sandstorm

In just a few moments, the vision gradually became blurred.

It was as if the air was full of yellow sand particles.

"Drive the camels up the slope! Quickly!!!"

Xu Wenyan made a judgment in the shortest time possible.

The four men pulled the camel hard and drove it up the slope of the sand dune.

"Everyone come down!"

Xu Wenyan exerted force with his right leg and jumped off the camel.

Just as I was about to reach out to pull the reins, the four camels bent down in unison. It was obvious that they had more experience in dealing with situations than humans.

Xu Wenyan drew out his sword and slashed the two camels' throats, then he chopped off their heads, ending their lives completely.

"Cut your stomach and hide inside."

The four camels huddled together closely, as this was the only way to avoid being swept away by the sandstorm.

Chen Sanlin was right next to Xu Wenyan. After Xu Wenyan opened the belly, Chen Sanlin squatted down and reached out to take out all the camel's internal organs. The two of them quickly got in.

The two people on the other side were not slow either.

After entering, the camel's belly didn't smell as fishy as Xu Wenyan had imagined, but it didn't smell good either.

Before Xu Wenyan could relax, the sound of a hurricane howling came to his ears.

Chen Sanlin held Xu Wenyan's abdomen tightly, trying to make him feel at ease.

In the small space, the two of them were pressed tightly together.

At this point, Xu Wenyan was really glad that he didn't bring the little ones with him.

And now Xu Wenyan could clearly feel that the limbs of the camel where they were hiding were swinging rapidly due to the sandstorm.

Fortunately, the weight of two people and a camel was heavy enough so they were not blown away.

The two of them were in a colander position, Chen Sanlin hugged Xu Wenyan from behind, and Xu Wenyan pulled the camel's belly with both hands.

"Wife, let's change seats." Chen Sanlin patted Xu Wenyan. He felt it was safer inside.

"No need. It's hard for us to even turn over."

"And talk less."

Although he didn't know why, this was the thing Xu Wenyan liked most about Chen Sanlin, that he was obedient enough and had strong execution ability.

The air in the stomach is already thin, and talking will further accelerate the consumption of oxygen. Xu Wenyan didn't know how to explain it to Chen Sanlin, so it would be more efficient to just say it directly.

The four of them stayed in the camel for a full hour, until there was no more sound of wind in their ears.

Only then did Xu Wenyan dare to gently lift up the camel's belly.

Only then was it opened, and sand and gravel rushed in like flowing water. Xu Wenyan stretched out a hand and reached upwards.

Fortunately, it was only half an arm’s worth of sand.

Thanks to Xu Wenyan's quick reaction, he stopped on the slope, so the amount of sand left was reduced.

"Xiaoman! Lao Luo! You can come out now!" Xu Wenyan shouted a few times.

The two camels had already poked their heads out and were trying to pull their legs and feet out of the sand.

"Puh, phuh!" Luo Sanyuan crawled out from the sand, spitting continuously.

"I'm really impressed... Pah, you idiot who ate a mouthful of food."

Xu Wenyan fumbled in the sand: "It's a good thing the sand didn't eat you up."

Xu Wenyan quickly pulled the cloth bag out of the sand pile. After losing these things, they would have to survive in the wilderness of the desert.

Xiaoman and Chen Sanlin also helped to look for the bundle in the sand.

"Oh no, the bag of dry food is missing." Xiaoman has been feeling around for a while but still can't find it.

Everyone searches together.

Two quarters of an hour later, Xu Wenyan slumped on the ground: "Damn, it must have been blown away."

"What should we do? Even if we want to go back, it will take three days." Luo Sanyuan was a little anxious. He continued to search in the sand pile as if he was unwilling to accept his fate.

"Okay, go find the camel's stomach. We have to leave now."

The desert is freezing cold at night, so you have to set up your tent in a relatively flat area.

The remaining two camels had almost recovered by this time.

Xu Wenyan put the remaining cloth bags on the camel. There was still one camel for four people to take turns to rest.

"Go northeast."

Long before the sandstorm arrived, Xu Wenyan noticed some green in the northeast direction, such as plants like poplar and saxaul.

As long as they could get through the day there, it would be fine. The main problem now was the lack of water. Chen Sanlin had digested enough meat and fat.

Enough for three or four days.

We couldn’t take the extra away, so we could only give them to the animals in the desert.

"Oh my god, Lao Xu, there really are trees here." Luo Sanyuan ran in front while Xu Wenyan sat on the camel and looked into the distance.

You can see a dry riverbed not far away. If you come here in spring, there should still be flowing water here.

"Hey, Lao Xu, there are so many black beetles here."

Xu Wenyan lowered his head and looked towards where Luo Sanyuan was. Between him and Xiaoman there was a group of black beetles, all of which were immersed in feces left by some unknown animal.

It looks a bit like gazelle feces, which makes things easier for these little dung beetles.

Xu Wenyan squatted down and picked up a piece of sheep dung. After crushing it, there was still some juice inside. It seemed that these gazelles had not been gone for long.

"Hey, Lao Xu, why are you touching shit?"

Xu Wenyan stood up and rubbed Luo Sanyue's clothes.

"Look around, there should be a water source."

"Ah! Why are you touching me after you touched the sheep dung?" Luo Sanyuan shook his arms and looked at Xiaoman pitifully: "Man, look at him."

Xu Wenyan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, tied up the camel and left to look for water.

"Haha, we still have to rely on Wen Yan to find water, so don't provoke him." Xiaoman touched Luo Sanyuan's head and comforted him.

Luo Sanyuan pouted and looked in the direction of Xu Wenyan: "He just loves to bully me."

"OK OK."

Xu Wenyan took Chen Sanlin away, and Chen Sanlin took the initiative to hold Xu Wenyan's hand.

"Brother Chen, my hand just touched sheep shit."

"It's okay, I don't mind it."

Xu Wenyan smiled slightly: "That's right, our bodies are full of camel blood, so we are really not that clean."

Feeling that Chen Sanlin's handshake had increased in strength, Xu Wenyan looked at him and saw a hint of imperceptible sadness between his brows.

"What's wrong? My dear husband, are you worried about something?" Xu Wenyan nudged the big guy next to him with his shoulder.

Chen Sanlin was stunned at first. Xu Wenyan had never called him like that before: "Ah? Wife...what did you call me?"

"Okay, you look too bad, what are you thinking about?"

Chen Sanlin's expression became serious. He put his hands on Xu Wenyan's shoulders and looked at Xu Wenyan with a stern face.

"Wife, I was so scared when we were in the camel just now... I was afraid that we would be swept away by the dust and I would never see you again."

Xu Wenyan felt him trembling slightly and hugged him from the front: "It's okay, I'm here, I won't let anything happen to you."

"The more you say that, the more useless I feel."

Chen Sanlin closed his eyes and hugged Xu Wenyan even tighter.

Xu Wenyan frowned, pushed him away, and then knocked Chen Sanlin hard on the forehead.

"Damn it, what are you thinking about all day long? I told you that you are worthy of me.

If I have to say what I owe you, I owe you more.”

Xu Wenyan looked at Chen Sanlin's forehead, which had turned red. Chen Sanlin just stared at him blankly.

With a sigh, Xu Wenyan's tone became gentle and he reached out to rub Chen Sanlin's forehead.

"I still remember when I first came here, I was thinking about it, but you picked me up and sent me to Wang Deshun's house.

To be honest, when I think about it now, I still think you were so damn handsome back then, you were so heroic, handsome and unrestrained. "

Xu Wenyan pulled Chen Sanlin to sit down on the spot.

"You're the first person in the world who dares to give me a princess hug. You're very important to me, okay?"

"Also, I just arrived and I'm weak. I spent a lot of your money to buy things to replenish my body, and you didn't complain at all."

"There was also that time when my brother came to my house and knelt down to beg me for money. At that time, I really had no money, so I asked you for it again.

At that time, I had already thought about it. You would divorce me, and then I would pay you back double when I made money. "

At this point Xu Wenyan laughed out loud.

"Hahaha, who knew that you got angry later because I applied medicine to my eldest brother. At that time, I really wanted to laugh, but when I saw your aggrieved face, I couldn't laugh. You don't know how uncomfortable it was for me."

"Hahahahaha."

Looking at the sunny smile of the person in front of him, the knot in Chen Sanlin's heart was slowly untied.

Are those insignificant things I do so important in the eyes of my wife?

"There's more."

Xu Wenyan reached out and touched Chen Sanlin's face, stroking the tip of his nose with his thumb.

"The first time I was angry with you, you rushed out of the door to chase me, and you cried that day." Xu Wenyan lowered his head, tears gradually appeared in his eyes, and the tip of his nose became uncomfortable.

"That's...that's the first person who cried because he cared about me."

Xu Wenyan raised his head and looked at Chen Sanlin affectionately: "That person is you, you are the first person I have ever met who cares about me so much.

Brother Chen, I won’t say those nonsense about never leaving you. I am a person with a blocked heart, even if we break up for various reasons.

No one will ever be able to enter my heart again, you know?"

Tears slid down her cheeks and then across the back of Xu Wenyan's hand.

Chen Sanlin nodded continuously. The blockage in his throat made him unable to speak and he could only make "wuwu" sounds.

"So, I remember everything you've done for me. Don't doubt yourself all the time. Life is not a big deal. Don't make yourself so tired."

Looking at Chen Sanlin's slightly red eyes and watery eyes, Xu Wenyan felt a sense of accomplishment. Is this how it feels?

The most interesting thing is to see the big guy crying or something.

After pulling Chen Sanlin up, the two continued to look for water. That was the most important thing. Even if they couldn't find any, they could still go back, but they would get dehydrated.

"Come on, Brother Chen."

Xu Wenyan squatted down in front of several green plants, and then picked two crescent-shaped green fruits, about four or five centimeters long, from the tiny vines.

"What is this?" Chen Sanlin knelt down on one knee and looked at the green fruit in Xu Wenyan's hand.

"This is goat's milk grass. Its fruit contains juice."

Goat milk grass is one of the few fruits in the desert that can be eaten directly. The structure of the fruit, which is thin at both ends and thick in the middle, can lock in moisture very well.

The goat milk fruit is now a bit old. Xu Wenyan ate one. It was not very juicy, but milky white in color. If you tasted it carefully, you could find it had the sweetness of goat milk.

After picking all the fruits from the grass, Xu Wenyan walked a few meters upwards and saw a great treasure under two Haloxylon ammodendron trees.

From a distance, this thing looks like a tail sticking out of the sand.

Its stem gradually becomes thinner from the bottom to the top, and the entire plant is covered with flower buds, and now the whole plant looks a little light pink.

This is Cistanche deserticola, an ancient Chinese herbal medicine.

According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", Cistanche can be used to treat symptoms such as kidney yang deficiency, loss of essence and blood, cold pain in the waist and knees, dizziness, infertility, and constipation.

Because of its mild medicinal properties.

It can also be used to make porridge and soak wine. It is a very precious Chinese herbal medicine and has health-care effects.

In real life, Xu Wenyan has never eaten real wild Cistanche deserticola because it has become an endangered species due to over-collection.

But it’s different now, Xu Wenyan wants to taste the saltiness of it.

And looking around, there are still quite a few here.

In this way, Xu Wenyan was looking for goat milk grass while collecting Cistanche deserticola.

Chen Sanlin’s task was to collect goat milk grass.

After a few minutes, Chen Sanlin came back with a large bag of goat milk grass wrapped in clothes.

"Brother Chen, you're back just in time, come and help me."

Xu Wenyan also had a good harvest here, and there was a large pile of Cistanche deserticola on the side.

The goat milk grass the two found was enough to last them for a while.

When they came back with the things, Luo Sanyuan was waving at them.

"Hey, look what I found."

Xu Wenyan frowned as he looked at the bowling ball-sized watermelons on the ground.

"Look how good I am to you. I found a watermelon and waited for you to come back to eat it together. We just saw a cactus.

Xiaoman, that’s what you call it, right? "

"Ah."

"So, you have to be nicer to me in the future."

Luo Sanyuan spoke to himself.

Before he knew it, Xu Wenyan had hit him on the head again.

"You...why did you hit me again?"

"This is not a watermelon, this is a medicinal watermelon, it is poisonous."

Luo Sanyuan rubbed his forehead again: "This is just a big watermelon? How can it be poisonous?"

Xu Wenyan picked up the machete and cut the medicinal watermelon open. Inside was white flesh, which didn't look very juicy.

The medicinal watermelon is a kind of watermelon that lives in the desert. It looks very similar to a watermelon, but is smaller in size. Its leaves are much smaller than those of watermelons, but the shape is the same.

The whole plant of medicinal watermelon is poisonous. If you eat one carelessly, you may die in the desert.

"I'm telling you, you'd better not eat with your hands these two days. I'm not lying to you."

Xu Wenyan chewed the goat milk grass and spread out the Cistanches to dry.

Luo Sanyuan also believed it. Anyway, Xu Wenyan would not lie to him with such things: "Well, what should I do? I touched it."

"Wow, Xiaoman, will I die?" Luo Sanyuan said loudly while holding Xiaoman and rocking him.

Xu Wenyan ignored him and carefully checked the surroundings to see if there were any hidden scorpions, insects, or poisonous snakes. He just cut up the medicinal watermelons and scattered them around.

It is precisely because of the toxicity of medicinal watermelons that they are made into natural pesticides.

"We can only rest here today. Let's go check out those cacti you mentioned tomorrow."