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

Walk into this place that can barely be called a forest.

The first thing that catches your eye is a shrub with long thorns and the newer branches are white.

Old branches are gray-black.

Xu Wenyan recognized at a glance that this was sea buckthorn, one of the most common plants growing on sandy soil and loess.

It is mostly used for greening. Its fruits are orange-yellow and grow densely on the branches.

The roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of sea buckthorn can all be used as medicine, which can relieve fatigue, enhance memory, resist aging, and improve immunity.

Especially the fruit, which is rich in nutrients and has a very high content of vitamins.

However, it takes until August or September for sea buckthorn to bear fruit, so it is still very early now.

In addition to sea buckthorn, there are several poplars and red willows scattered on the outermost layer. They are the tallest trees in this forest.

Going further in, you can see some sand dates. Xu Wenyan can’t tell what kind they are for the time being, and you have to wait until September for them to bear fruit.

There are very few uses for these trees, and Xu Wenyan hasn't seen any other useful plants yet.

Coming out of this small patch of woods, the two continued walking down.

There was a little more sand further down, and Xu Wenyan saw several rocky hills beside the stream.

There is a small woods diagonally opposite to the right of this location, and the village can be reached in another quarter of an hour's walk.

"Brother Chen, go over there and take a look."

The lowest point of this rocky hill is only two meters high, and the slope rises slowly, with the highest point being no more than seven or eight meters.

I have to say that the location of Kare Village is quite good. There is no obvious Gobi landform here, and the soil is all loess and sand.

If you walk from the southeast to Lan County, there is only Gobi Desert in between, which must be a dividing line.

I just don't know what it looks like to the southwest.

The woods over there are just to the southwest, and I guess there will be more vegetation further over there.

But if it was any further away, it would be too far away from the village, so Xu Wenyan looked around carefully again.

I didn't see any fallen wolf hair, nor did I see any wasp or poisonous insect nests.

This rocky mountain can just block the cold waves from the northwest. The warming effect in other places may not be as good as here.

"Brother Chen, just stay here."

"I'll listen to you. It's fine as long as you think it's good." Chen Sanlin was leading the camel and looking at Xu Wenyan.

Xu Wenyan took two steps forward and pinched Chen Sanlin's face: "You have to have your own opinion. What will you do if I'm not around one day?"

Chen Sanlin put his arm around Xu Wenyan's waist: "I won't let you leave me."

"You're quite sensible." Hearing Chen Sanlin's perfect answer, Xu Wenyan smiled brightly.

After being tricked by Xu Wenyan for many years, Chen Sanlin has come to understand what his wife wants to hear.

"Let's go back to Uncle Mulati and see when Xiaoman and the others will come back."

After spending several days with these camels, Xu Wenyan felt that they were not as obedient as horses. Sometimes they would stop moving when they were tired.

And the smell on its body is stronger than that of a horse.

However, in this Gobi Desert, camels are indeed more practical than horses.

When Xu Wenyan returned to Lan County again, he originally wanted to buy some building materials, but found that they were not sold here at all.

Come to think of it, most of the materials used here are loess, so even if you want to use wood, there isn't that much to use.

In the end, all I could get were some molds for making bricks, four hoes, two shovels, and a hammer.

Fortunately, I have the capital.

Xu Wenyan didn't know how much money Xiaoman had, but he had used it all the way until now. Chen Sanlin still had more than 600 taels, and he also had a gold bar.

Fortunately, I have some foundation, otherwise I would have been in trouble along the way.

These are all we can take for now; we can’t transport more camels back.

"Uncle Murati."

The two of them took the things back and Murati sat in front of the stall. Today's business didn't seem to be very good, as there was still a lot of meat in front of the stall.

"Those two have returned and are in the yard."

"it is good."

"You bought so many things." Luo Sanyuan took the things from their hands and said.

"Well, how are things going over there?"

Xu Wenyan picked up the water bag, took a sip of water, and asked.

"It's not so good over there. There's endless Gobi desert all the way there. We walked for two hours but didn't find a suitable place to stay.

Then we turned a small bend to the northeast and came back. The land over there didn’t look like the Gobi Desert, but it was too far away.”

Xu Wenyan nodded and covered the water bag: "Okay, then go to the place I found, pack up and we're ready to leave."

"Uncle Murati, Aunt Maili, we are leaving." Xu Wenyan waved to the two and said goodbye.

"Will you come back to play?"

"Of course, we are in Kare Village and will come to the county later."

Murati smiled and carried a leg of lamb to Xu Wenyan: "This meat can't be sold today, you guys settle down and eat more meat."

Xu Wenyan did not reject Mulati's kindness and finally paid half of the original price.

By the time the four arrived at Kare Village, it had already dark.

What Xu Wenyan didn't expect was that A'man had been waiting for them at the entrance of the village.

"Brother...I'm here, like that."

"Aman, you came all the way to pick us up."

"Well, here... at night, there are wolves like that." The young man pulled the reins and led the four people towards the village.

Xu Wenyan also felt that he had a connection with wolves, and he could really see wolves wherever he went.

It’s not that they were worried that it would be dangerous for them to live outside. If it was just a pack of wolves, the four of them would be completely fine as they wouldn’t be sleeping outside in the open air.

We have to build a house behind.

There was a stable in Aman's yard, and Aman tied the camel together with his horse.

Xu Wenyan also saw three sheep, which he hadn’t seen in the morning. He must have been taken out to graze.

"Aman, where is the cooking place in your house?"

Xiaoman found an oil lamp and lit it on the small wooden table in the middle of the room. Aina was attracted by the light, and the two siblings were full of curiosity about the oil lamp.

"Cooking... here it comes."

Chen Sanlin cleaned the lamb legs and Xu Wenyan sliced ​​the meat. This time he planned to make soup.

One leg of lamb was barely enough for four of them.

Just cut a radish into the soup, add seasonings and simmer it.

The staple food is steamed buns bought in the county.

"Aman, Aina, come and eat with us." Xu Wenyan waved to the brother and sister.

Aina looked at her brother, it was obvious that she couldn't understand Chinese.

A'man waved his hand: "Brother, just eat...it's fine."

"It's okay. Our camels will eat your grass for two days. This will be considered as my payment. How about it?" When talking to Aman, Xu Wenyan would always slow down his speech, fearing that the young man would not understand.

A'man looked at his sister, smelled the mutton soup again, and nodded shyly.

With a bowl of delicious broth in your stomach, the chill of early spring can be immediately dispelled.

The two children finished the wine in their bowls and stopped adding more. Luo Sanyuan saw that the bowls were empty and served them to the two siblings.

I have to say that these two little guys can eat.

Take Aman for example, he will be waiting for them at the entrance of the village.

The group of people had a good impression of this young man.