Hearing the crisp sound of saliva, Su Hua was instantly bewildered. Before she could even react, another smack landed on her right cheek. She could even feel the warmth and stickiness of the saliva on her skin...

Immediately afterwards, I felt another wave of heat on my calves.

Looking down, she saw Big White on the ground trying to smack, just like Da Niu. But it was too short and bumped right into her calf. And that wasn't all. After its two bright blue eyes rolled around, it grabbed Da Niu's neck and stretched out its two little tiger paws, trying to jump into her arms.

Su Hua: "..."

There's absolutely no need for that, there's really no need!

The affection from the tiger world was too much for her to bear.

He took three steps back before clearing his throat. "You all need to eat the water and fruit quickly, otherwise, if the bison come back later, they might try to take them from you!"

Having said that, without waiting for their reaction, he ran off towards the cow dung mountain behind him as if his feet were greased.

Although it's jokingly called Cow Dung Mountain, upon closer inspection, the mountain is actually quite clean, consisting entirely of bare rocks. In particular, the rocks that the bison herd had just licked are so smooth that you can vaguely see your reflection in them.

It is clearly the result of years of accumulated licking.

Looking at the stone, she couldn't help but recall the days when she was abandoned in the cowshed in her previous life. Besides her, there was an old yellow ox in the cowshed. Apart from plowing the fields and eating grass, the old yellow ox spent most of its time in the cowshed. It often liked to lick a brick. The aunt next door said that the brick was called the "cow-licking brick," which was made of salt as the main ingredient and weeds and leaves as auxiliary materials.

Once, when she was so hungry, she lay down on the brick and licked it.

However, that brick was just too salty. One bite left her tongue feeling bitter and numb. She couldn't stand the taste and preferred to go up the mountain to find wild ferns rather than touch that brick again.

Su Hua stared at the stone for a while, then gently rubbed the smooth stone surface with her fingertip, and then put it to her lips and took a small bite.

"hiss……"

Sure enough, the stone was salty.

However, compared to the saltiness of a cow licking a brick, this stone is much more normal; it's salty but not bitter.

Only at this moment did she finally understand why the bison herd headed straight for the rocky mountain as soon as they entered the valley. Unlike carnivores like the Great White, bison cannot replenish the salt they need through the blood of other animals. They are herbivores, and since there is not enough salt in plants, they need to obtain salt from other sources. Rock salt is an important way for them to get salt.

Su Hua looked at the rocky mountain with a complicated expression. Salt can be roughly divided into four types: sea salt, lake salt, well salt, and rock salt. Most of the rock salt is mined from rock salt mountains.

Regardless of the dynasty, salt has always held an extremely important position. Like iron, it was a state-run enterprise, exclusively managed and sold by the imperial court. During the reign of Yu the Great, the salt industry was completely controlled by the imperial court.

She originally only wanted to come to Fuhu Mountain to find the Red Cloud Flower, but now she hasn't even seen a trace of the flower. Instead, she found sweet potatoes and stumbled upon this salt rock mountain by accident.

She thought for a moment, then simply knocked a stone into her spatial storage and put the matter aside for the time being. They were just ordinary country folk, and it was better to forget about such a life-threatening matter once it was over.

On the sweet potato field, Da Niu and Da Bai had already drunk the entire water in the wooden basin, licking away even the last bit of moisture at the bottom. As for the crabapples, they had almost completely devoured them as well.

Su Hua glanced at the sky, put the sweet potatoes into the basket on her back, then put them into her spatial storage. She scooped up Big White and quickly climbed onto the tiger's back.

In another half hour it will be noon, and Su Bai and the others who are looking at bricks and tiles in Cangwu Town should be back soon. She came out secretly this time, and she has to sneak back before they return, otherwise she will definitely get anxious and upset if she doesn't see them in the middle of the day.

Before leaving, they made sure that Da Bai and Da Niu washed off the mud and grime from their bodies in the mountain stream.

Red Cloud Flowers grow at high altitudes. They have already explored most of the interior of Fuhu Mountain today. When she gets back, she will first draw out the route she has already taken, and then find an opportunity to go to the top of the mountain in the next day or two. If she can't find it in Fuhu Mountain, she will have to think of another way as soon as possible.