Wolf's Return to the Wild Chapter 29

Early in the morning, Nolan helped Lao Xiao guard the door of the Jade Tibetan farm, shaving and waiting for the water truck to arrive. People in the Jade Tibetan farm never drink water from the river, so delivering water has become a big deal.

Grassland is short of water? It's sad to say. This is the most beautiful wetland in China, and we live right by the source of the Yellow River. It is said to be the purest plateau feng shui treasure, but the water quality here is really hard to compliment, as the humus content is extremely high. I once walked down the Heihe River with Nolan. On the river were rotten plastic bags, instant noodle boxes, tattered clothes and coats, women's leather bags, used medicines, tourists' snack packaging... all kinds of garbage were everywhere. 

The flowing water floats and sinks, stops and floats. It is obvious that the pollution of the river surface has not been accomplished in a day. It made us feel so confused... People are really the dirtiest! No animal in nature produces garbage. The resources consumed by animals are taken from nature and returned to nature. For example, wolves hunt prey, and the leftovers are further consumed by other animals, and are finally completely decomposed by bacteria. Even the wolf's carcass is returned to other creatures in nature. This cycle is perfect and clean. Only humans can produce garbage that is difficult to degrade. Even humans themselves have become a burden that is difficult for nature to digest and have to be burned after death.

The river water could not be used, so the people at the Jade Tibetan farm came up with the idea of     groundwater again, and spent a lot of effort to drill a well and pump the water up for use. The water was exactly like the color of coffee, and it couldn't settle for a long time. It was used to wash hands and cut them, and to wash clothes was dyed yellow. There were white foam and dead mice floating in the water, which made it disgusting to wash, let alone drink. Where did the dead mice come from in the covered well water? We analyzed it and found that the pikas and zokors on the grassland were too dense, especially in this area. On average, there were three or four pika holes or zokor mounds in one meter square. When this well was drilled, some of the wells went directly to the "home" of the zokors; some of the rats and rabbits were walking in the tunnel, unaware that the road was cut off, and fell into the water "gudong"; some of the rats and rabbits might have A tunnel was dug in the direction of the well, and water leakage occurred during the construction process... It is not surprising that several rats were killed in the well water from time to time. This well makes people and rats angry.

The people at the Jade Tibetan farm had to buy mountain spring water from outside to drink from a long distance. Each time they brought a cart over, several families packed it in buckets and stored it in a warm place next to the stove to avoid freezing. Several large buckets of water lasted a week. Left and right, especially precious. As for taking a bath, that is simply a luxury thought. The water in the creek at Langdutan where I once camped was considered good, but I still had to fold gauze into several layers, cover it on the surface of the bucket to filter the humus, and light a fire to cook it. However, in the plateau where the air pressure is insufficient, you can reach in and touch even boiling water. Complete disinfection and sterilization are impossible, and you can only slowly adapt to the water and soil.