Crossing to the Wild

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A few dozen of the largest and reddest tomatoes were picked, cut up, seeded and planted.
The tomato field finally took shape.

 

Rong Yue waited for the seeds to grow solid, then he took Xiao Jiang Liu and Tian Yang, and went to the Salt Tribe with the Da brothers.

 

 

The Salt Ministry and the Xingyue tribe had a considerable distance, if no one led the way, it would be extremely hard to find.

 

In this way, it was thanks to the treasure apricot.

 

The bald brothers had just walked this road.
They were very familiar.
They had no surprises and no risks.
They ate well and slept well.
More than 20 days later, they stood on a cliff, and the Salt Ministry was there.

 

 

The whole Salt tribe was located in a valley.

 

 

The valley was as long as a hook, and the two ends of the hook were where the salt mines are located.
The semi-exposed salt mines, with holes at both ends, were deep below the ground.

 

 

The blocks of rock salt that were shoveled out were placed in wooden baskets, hung on ropes, and someone would pull them away.

 

Rong Yue was dumbfounded, “They’re like this, what if it rains?”

 

Da Bian quickly responded, “Anyway, it’s all depressions, when it stops raining and dries out, won’t it be salt bricks again?”

 

Rong Yue: “……”

 

These people’s feet on the stone salt, after the rain and then dried in the sun, wasn’t it a foot wash mixed with salt bricks?

 

 

It seemed that next time they got the salt, they must dry it twice, they couldn’t eat it directly!

 

……

 

Because people often went in and out, there were winding paths along the cliffs leading to the entrance of the salt department at the depression.

 

Seeing that there were guards at the entrance, Rong Yue thought about it and gave everyone some camouflage.

 

 

They wanted to come in and steal people, they couldn’t make it too conspicuous.

 

Needless to say, his white hair was quite conspicuous.

 

Tian Yang temporarily weaved three simple straw hats with grass leaves on the roadside.
Rong Yue rolled up his hair and smears a little dust on his face.
Five people in a row walked to the guard.

 

 

The guard showed obvious vigilance.

 

“Where are you from?”

 

 

“?” Rong Yue thought in wonder, was their disguise bad? He quickly responded with a smile on his face, “We are from a small tribe over at Xingye Lake and brought some goods to exchange for salt.”

’

 

The salt department had a special salt exchange point, and it was normal for small tribes nearby to come in when they ran out of salt.

 

Although the two guards had never heard of where Xingye Lake was, they saw that the box they were carrying was indeed food, so they let them in.

 

 

Before noon, it was the time of the market, Rong Yue couldn’t wait to see the “moving wooden rabbits”, and didn’t do anything else, pulling the Da brothers to run to the market.

 

 

There were really a lot of people in the Salt Department, more than even the Gongshan tribe.
And because they were out and about, they seemed more active.

 

 

The food exchange stalls were always crowded with people, Rong Yue easily crossed over and walked for half an hour to the other side of the market, but didn’t see the wooden rabbit.

 

 

“Where is the little rabbit?” He turned in a circle and asked disappointedly.

 

 

No one answered him.

 

 

Rong Yue turned around and looked for a stall selling wooden spoons and barrels: “Do you sell wooden bunnies?”

 

The stall owner’s attitude wasn’t very good: “Carve that thing for what?”

 

 

“…… Then do you know who sells it?”

 

“I don’t know!”

 

Next to him, an elderly ama spoke: “Hey, old Mu has done this before and it can move.”

 

 

Rong Yue asked happily, “What about him now?”

 

 

That ama saw a tall, strong warrior appear behind Rong Yue and was startled, swallowing her words back.

 

 

Rong Yue looked back strangely and then looked at the old ama, thinking it was Tian Yang who was blocking the light: “Quick, crouch down.”

 

Tian Yang obediently squatted down.

 

Old ama: “……”

 

 

The old granny sighed: “Old Mu is very pitiful, he offended people, so he can only make some useless things to amuse the kids.”

 

She sighed: “A few days ago, a family didn’t want a small wooden carving he sold.
They came back to find him and wanted to change it back.”

 

“Old Mu didn’t agree.
After a few words, the man accidentally smashed the wood carving and hit Xiao Mu in the eye…”

 

Rong Yue: “What is the little wood?”

 

“His little son.”

 

Rong Yue: Your names are really random.

 

Old ama slowly pulled out a cloth bag from behind: “He is at home to take care of the cub, there are still some unsold small wood carvings left, I sell them here…..
If you want, with a small bag of twist or a piece of dried meat, you can buy a basket.”

 

 

Rong Yue: “……”

 

 

Rong Yue supported the old ama in her commercial enlightenment period, and paid with bear meat jerky.

 

Then followed her guidance to the old Mu’s home.

 

 

There was no shortage of stones in the salt tribe, all the homes were stone houses.

 

The previous site subsidence didn’t seem to have too much impact on the place, Rong Yue knocked on the door, and only after a long time came the sound of someone opening the door.

 

Rong Yue looked at the withered middle-aged man in front of him, with cloudy eyes, shortness of breath and feeble feet.

 

 

The people of the Xingyue tribe seemed to be like this when they were first rescued from the valley floor.

 

 

But those people had nowhere to find food, in such a large tribe, could they really be starved to death?

 

 

“You are ……” Old Mu asked wearily.

 

 

His sight was blurry and he couldn’t see very well, but he saw that it was a few young people.
The Salt Tribe people never knocked when they entered the house, and when he first heard it, he thought it was a bird pecking at the wood.

 

 

“Are you old Mu?” Rong Yue smiled: “We would like to order a few wooden tools from you.”

 

 

Old Mu: “Ah, okay.
What do you want?”

’

 

 

Hearing that it was to order something, he hurriedly invited the people in.

 

 

A few fresh-faced youths, surprisingly, found him here, presumably from other tribes.
Easily having a chance to earn food, Old Mu would never let go.

 

 

When they entered the house, Tian Yang put Xiao Jiang Liu down.

 

 

Old Mu came out with a few common tools he used to make, and when he saw the white and beautiful Jiang Liu, he was happy.

 

 

“This little cub is raised really well.”

 

 

He said and then bitterly put away his smile and sighed.

 

 

Rong Yue looked around and found that there was really nothing to see in his house, so he asked bluntly, “This, too, you made it, right?”

 

 

Rong Yue pulled out the small wooden carved rabbit and placed it in front of him.

 

Old Mu’s heart tightened, and his expression changed.

 

 

Rong Yue: “Don’t worry, we’re not here to pick a fight, we just want to see the construction inside.”

 

 

He hesitantly disassembled the rabbit.

 

 

Clockwork, gears, small parts of one kind or another.

 

 

Rong Yue sighed in admiration and felt that if he was given a good environment, wooden wheelbarrow and other things, it would be his turn to invent.

 

 

Old Mu finished the demonstration and apprehensively looked at Rong Yue: “How about it? Quite fun, right? But this is not useful ……”

 

 

How could it be useless!?

 

These were the basics of physics! Gears, levers, bearings …… with it, he should be able to make waterwheel bellows, right?

 

 

Then his oven …… was possible?

 

 

Rong Yue said happily: “Very good, I am very satisfied! I want to buy your technique of this rabbit, the price is fifty pieces of jerky.”

 

Old Mu stared in disbelief: “Fifty pieces!”

 

“But I have a condition ……” Rong Yue laughed, “You have to join our tribe.”

 

 

Old Mu hesitated for a moment and shook his head.

 

 

“I can’t leave here, my cub is injured, I have to take care of him.”

 

Xioa Jiang Liu grabbed Tian Yang’s leg and quietly spoke, “If you are injured, sacrifice Yue can heal him.”

 

 

Old Mu originally didn’t believe, but looking at her innocent eyes, he helplessly nodded …..

 

 

……
Inside.

 

A mysterious light golden light pattern flowed in the air, eventually converging to the eyes of the young man lying on the bed.

 

The teenager gave a cry and slowly opened his eyes.

 

“Abba ……”

 

He rubbed his eyes: “…… hmm? My eyes ……”

 

Old Mu’s heart felt sore.
He knelt in front of the bed and cried til he was out of breath: “Xiao, Xiao Mu…”

“Abba…”

The two cried bitterly for a while before they remembered the almost divine performance of Rong Yue just now.

 

Old Mu ran wildly to the outer room, picking at the door and shouting, “That, god, are you a god?!”

 

 

Rong Yue’s originally smiling face had a momentary stiffening, his forehead veins jumped: “No, I am Lei Feng.”

 

[TN: Lei Feng was allegedly a soldier in the People’s Liberation Army who was the object of several major propaganda campaigns in China.
The most well-known of these campaigns in 1963 promoted the slogan, “Follow the examples of Comrade Lei Feng]