Chapter 292 Wild Watermelon
Everyone looked over at her voice and found that it was a patch of yellow-orange wild vines with a hint of green. From a distance, the heated air distorted the view, and the lines of sight crossed, making people think it was an illusion.
After shouting that sentence, Jiang Yuzhi ran over excitedly, not even hearing Si Xu's words asking her to wait.
"Miss Jiang!" Yu Sheng said "Hey" and followed closely.
When they got closer, they found that under the patch of yellow-orange vines were fruits that looked like watermelons. They were smaller than watermelons, and the color was also yellow with green, which made Jiang Yuzhi's eyes light up.
"Watermelon!" She screamed, pointed at the fruits, and turned back to say excitedly to everyone.
She often ate this when she was in the mansion. Most of them were summer fruits. They tasted better after being chilled and were very thirst-quenching.
Upon hearing this, everyone hurried over. When they saw the wild vines full of fruits, their mouths watered instantly and they were extremely greedy.
They had been walking for so long and were already very short of water. At this time, encountering fruits like watermelons was simply a blessing from God, which made many people excited.
"Hurry up! Try one!" Yin Qiang's face flushed with heat. After wiping the sweat from his forehead, he walked into the wild vines, picked up a fruit that looked like a watermelon, took it out, and then opened it in front of everyone.
After opening it, he was stunned.
He had eaten watermelons before, and the flesh inside was generally red, but the flesh inside this one was... yellow.
Several pairs of eyes stared at it, and even Lin Baoer looked at it curiously, wondering if it was a mutated watermelon. It's not like she hadn't heard of watermelons with yellow flesh before, but she had never tasted it.
Some people were impatient and wanted to reach out, but were stopped by Yu Sheng in the end.
"You can't eat it!"
He just ran over from the other side of the wild vines, sweating all over his head, and stopped Yin Qiang from putting the melon pulp into his mouth, and slapped the melon pulp in his hand, "You can't eat it!"
Seeing that the melon pulp in his hand was all wasted on the ground, Yin Qiang's eyes were a little distressed, but he still had some rationality, knowing that Yu Sheng must have his reasons for saying this, and he didn't touch the wild watermelon on the ground.
"Brother Yu, why can't I eat it?" Jiang Yuzhi was anxious, looking over the side, and she was very anxious when she heard Yu Sheng say that it couldn't be eaten.
Yu Sheng didn't give in, and said bluntly: "This thing is poisonous and cannot be eaten."
"We have encountered it before, and we thought it was an edible fruit. But after one of our companions ate it, he suffered from diarrhea and vomiting, and finally died of poisoning."
His words stunned everyone, and Yin Qiang was frightened and took a step back. After looking down at the delicious wild watermelon, his face looked a little ugly.
"Ah?!..." Jiang Yuzhi felt the most uncomfortable. Her little face was red from scratches. She thought there was something that could quench her thirst, but she didn't expect it was poisonous, which made her very depressed.
"Could it be that that person had been poisoned at that time?" Si Xu asked thoughtfully.
Although he also knew that he was stupid for asking this question, after all, who could not tell when he was poisoned? But he was not willing to just give up this hard-earned food.
After hearing this, Yu Sheng shook his head, knelt down, grabbed a handful of melon flesh and twisted it, "Some people thought so at the time, so three people died in total."
Because it was something he had never seen before, although he wanted to eat the wild watermelon when he found it, he resisted it and planned to wait for an examination before considering whether to eat it.
But he could bear it, but others might not. At that time, the group had walked for a long time, and their bodies were in urgent need of water. After seeing these wild watermelons, they started eating them regardless.
After eating, he began to vomit and have diarrhea, as if he was poisoned, and finally died of myrrh.
This was a lesson learned from the past. When Yucai Yusheng saw the wild vines, he went to check whether it was the kind of fruit he had encountered before. After confirming it, he hurried over to stop them.
After hearing this, everyone no longer dared to take the wild watermelon and left.
Si Xu frowned, looked around, and sighed softly, "Let's take a rest here."
The reason why this piece of wild watermelon can grow is because there is a large piece of shady land blocked by sand and stones next to it, which is just right for them to take a temporary rest.
After everyone put down their things, they rested on the spot, no longer caring about their image, lying on their backs, obviously very tired.
Hearing that they couldn't eat, Jiang Yuzhi was very sad. She collapsed beside Lin Baoer, her lips were peeling from thirst, and she looked very hungry.
She didn't have as good physical strength as the others. The more she walked, the more water in her body evaporated, and she needed more water, so she drank all her water early in the morning. Now she can stick to this place because of her perseverance.
Seeing her like this, Lin Baoer handed her water bottle over, "Drink something."
Jiang Yuzhi was stunned, and immediately sat up straight. After hesitating for a long time, she finally took it.
She wanted to refuse, but she was so thirsty now, and she felt like she was going to die if she didn't drink water.
But after she took Lin Baoer's water bottle and shook it, she was surprised to find that there was still half a bottle of water in it.
You know, they didn't prepare much water at the beginning. Like her and Lin Baoer, they only filled the water bottles they brought with them, and didn't bring any more. But after walking for so long, there was still half a bottle of water in Lin Baoer's water bottle. How could she not be surprised.
"Sister Baoer, you..." She wanted to ask, but before she finished, Lin Baoer seemed to have anticipated what she wanted to ask and explained, "I didn't drink much on the way, so there's still a lot left. I'll share some with you."
She didn't wait for Jiang Yuzhi to refuse, and directly took Jiang Yuzhi's water bottle and poured most of the water into it, until there was only a little water left in her own water bottle.
At this time, Jiang Yuzhi also reacted, and rushed to grab the water bottle with wide eyes, "Sister Baoer! Enough! Enough! You're almost out!"
She wanted to go back, but Lin Baoer dodged her.
Lin Baoer smiled at her, raised her head and took a sip of water, "Don't worry, I have enough here, do you want to die of thirst?"
She teased, making Jiang Yuzhi feel very embarrassed. After thinking it over again and again, she had no choice but to compromise.
She thought in her heart that she would return the water to Lin Baoer when she ran out of water.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuzhi felt relieved.
She cherished the water she got, took a few sips to relieve the dryness in her throat, and then put the water bottle away.
After finding that Jiang Yuzhi was no longer shirking responsibility, Lin Baoer also breathed a sigh of relief. She shook the water bottle in her hand and pondered.
She had the system in her hand, so water was naturally inexhaustible, but... what about others?
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