War Photographer's Notebook
Chapter 1054 A cheating person, a living person
In the warm basement, while the red-burning stove continued to release warmth, it also provided the only lighting.
Regardless of the long and narrow windows around the basement or the glass windows in the surface rooms, they have been tightly covered by the iron-covered wooden baffles hung by Wei Ran and others, and by the way, they also blocked the faint but May draw the flames of deadly aerial bombs.
In the basement, the children who had just sung were sitting barefoot on soft, dry and warm sponge cushions, waiting obediently for Kona to fill their bowls with oily broth. Lydia distributed the weighed black bread to them, and waited for Wei Ran to cut the shaped jelly into long strips, put them in various small enamel plates, and handed them to each child one by one .
Until Lydia, who was the first to complete the work, picked up the baby Galina and put a bottle containing hot milk and a little honey to her mouth, the children who were already hungry began to enjoy their own food immediately. dinner.
"We need some tables."
Lydia said as she nursed baby Galina, "I think those metal shelves against the wall are good. We can remove the upper part and only use the bottom layer, so the children can have food." table."
"I'll take them to do this tomorrow." While speaking, Kona did not forget to pinch a piece of jelly and stuffed it into Lydia's mouth. "How about a taste?"
"It's better than Victor's." Lydia said with a smile, "The bitterness is gone, and the sweetness of honey is gone."
"I can't bear to put honey in it." Kona said and pointed to the top of her head. "Those horse livers have been hanging on the chimney on the first floor for a whole day. I think they are ready to eat."
"Let's share a piece with each of the children later"
Wei Ran ate the black bread that was definitely not delicious in two or three bites, and drank the broth in the cup in one gulp, before continuing, "But just one slice is enough, horse liver can supplement some vitamins."
After speaking, he also picked up a piece of jelly and threw it into his mouth.Indeed, as Lydia said, the jelly made by Kona does not taste bad because there is no bitter liver and honey added, but the faint fishy smell is unavoidable.
After eating his own aspic in two or three bites, Wei Ran left the basement alone, walked through the wooden planks to the first floor which was relatively colder.
In this small concrete house, the windows on all sides are also tightly covered by iron-clad wooden boards, except for the upper edge of the window closest to the basement entrance, where the cold wind is blowing in.
But Wei Ran not only did not block the air vent, but deliberately left the iron house, braved the strong wind and snowstorm, and beat all the snow from the air vent.
The cold wind pouring into the house from the first floor is a vital source of ventilation. If this place is blocked, it will not take a night at all, and the children in the basement may die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Returning to the cement house, Wei Ran locked the iron door and carefully patted off the snow on his body. Then, guided by the red light from the basement entrance, he stepped on the concrete steps and walked in.
Under the expectant gaze of those children, Wei Ran smiled and took out his British army kettle from his arms, unscrewed the lid, and slowly poured the viscous brushed honey into an enamel kettle that had been emptied in advance.
Until the sticky honey covered the bottom of the pot, under Lydia and Kona's distressed eyes, he picked up a pot of boiled water that had been cooled in advance, slowly poured it into the enamel pot, and washed away the sleeping water. Honey ex-milk.
A glass of honey water before going to bed every night, and a small piece of chocolate every morning, this is what Wei Ran has cultivated for all adults and children, including Ke Na and Lydia and even the deceased Mrs. Via, during these days. Habit.
So almost when he closed the lid of the enamel kettle, the nearest little guy subconsciously raised the enamel cup that was just used to hold the broth with his thin hands.
Seeing this, Wei Ran smiled, and gently poured a glass full of sweet and greasy honey water for the other party.
While he was busy pouring water for the children, Ke Na also gave each child a small piece of horse liver that had already been roasted and had no moisture.
In the end, I filled Lydia and Kona's cups, as well as my own, with extra honey water, and this enamel kettle just emptied all the stocks.
After drinking up the oily honey water in one gulp, Wei Ran refilled his cup with a cup of slightly hot boiled water, taking all the remaining honey and oily broth into his stomach, and then got up to start again Go upstairs and use an ax to chop off a small section of the horse's spine that can barely fit into the pot.
The large piece of meat on the spine has been removed, but there is still some meat and bone marrow in the gaps between the bones. As long as this bone is thrown into the pot and boiled overnight, there will definitely be more meat in the broth the next day. A lot of oily flowers and minced meat.
Before he finished his work, Kona and Lydia also came up one after another.
"I plan to take Alexander and the others to collect firewood tomorrow."
Ke Na stood by the chimney extending from the basement and said, "Our firewood is only enough for another two days at most. In such cold weather, without firewood, the children will definitely freeze to death."
"I'll find a way to get some coal back tomorrow." Lydia then made her promise, but there was no confidence in her tone.
"What do you two want to say?" Wei Ran looked at them puzzled and asked.
"I think we should go outside the city to get some firewood," Lydia and Kona said in unison.
"This"
"I know it's not worth it for firewood"
Lydia hurriedly explained without waiting for Wei Ran to speak, "Compared to pulling the same amount of firewood, it is definitely not as cost-effective as the same amount of army horse offal.
But just eating enough is not enough. I have never encountered such cold weather in winter since I grew up.Victor, we have to stockpile enough firewood for the low temperature. "
"I'm going to take Alexander and Alyosha out of town with me"
Cora uttered a more dangerous thought, "We've been able to eat enough for two days in a row, the two of them must be able to pull a sledge together, Lydia and I each pull a sledge, and you pull a sledge too, so We have four sledge trucks that we can use, even if their cars can only hold . "
"What if you are in danger?"
Wei Ran interrupted the other party's plan and asked, "The target of the four sledge trucks is too big. Once the German plane finds us, we won't be able to escape at all."
Seeing that the two girls fell silent, Wei Ran made a promise while cutting the spine of the army horse that had just been chopped off with a saw, "I will find a way to solve the fuel problem, and we will go outside the city with Comrade Matvey next time." When collecting the corpses of the army horses, you two will go with me, but now, help me hold down this bone first."
Hearing this, Lydia and Kona immediately showed surprise on their faces, they hurriedly moved forward, and together they pressed down on the huge spine placed on the table.
"in addition"
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran pulled the saw back and forth, and made a new request, "Tomorrow afternoon, let's take another group photo."
"It wasn't before. Well, let's take another one." Lydia changed her mind halfway through her speech.
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't explain in detail, but patiently sawed the vertebra into four, and then threw it into the enamel pot on the stove in the basement.
This night, the children who were full again finally stopped frowning against the hunger in their dreams, because every time they breathed, they could smell the extra strong aroma of broth.
In the blink of an eye, the next morning, the wind outside stopped, but the snow kept falling. As a result, whether Lydia went out to work or Wei Ran went out to find edible and usable things, it became extremely difficult.
But even so, Wei Ran was still the same as yesterday. After distributing a piece of chocolate to the child and the two girls, he pulled Lydia with a sledge and walked towards the ruins of the nursing home step by step.
"Let's go back together in the afternoon." Wei Ran said before Lydia left, "I will wait for you in the basement."
"I'll find you there when I'm done working"
As Lydia said, she had already left the sledge, wrapped her coat tightly around her body, and walked to the distribution office one street away.
Watching the opponent's back disappear, Wei Ran checked the surroundings, and pulled out the 13 mouse traps one by one from the gaps in the snow-buried ruins.
This time, the 13 cages only caught three mice that had frozen to death.
Although the number was a little small, each of the three mice could be called fat and strong. Even the smallest one was half the size of a mineral water bottle, not counting the tail.
Still disemboweled in situ, mixed the frozen viscera with honey as bait, Wei Ran put the three mice into the sack around his waist, cleared his own footprints as usual, and dragged the sledge cart to the basement where Mrs. Via was buried direction.
It's only been one night, and a thick layer of ice and snow has accumulated in the cracked basement, and even Wei Ran's simple grave built with bricks has been mostly buried.
Seeing this, he also breathed a sigh of relief, left the almost completely collapsed building, casually changed directions, and searched aimlessly for any available resources.
"Give it to me! Give it to me!"
Just as he walked into a building that had mostly collapsed, he heard a feeble scramble.
Walking a few quick steps and bypassing a broken wall, Wei Ran saw at a glance that a woman was trying to snatch something from the arms of another thin man, but the one who was robbed didn't fight back, just held on tightly. Holding the object of contention in his arms.
"What are you robbing?" Wei Ran raised a Nagant revolver while speaking.
"That's what I found!" The man who was robbed still hugged the thing in his arms tightly, and at the same time looked at Wei Ran hopefully, hoping that he could help him.
"This used to be my home, and it belonged to me!" the woman said angrily, "Give it to me!"
"So what exactly is it?" Wei Ran moved closer and raised the hammer at the same time.
"If you want to shoot, shoot!"
The woman who snatched the item said nonchalantly, "Either give it to me quickly! Or kill me."
"I can't give it to you!"
The young man who was robbed said weakly, "My sister needs this potato, I can't give it to you!"
"My kids need this potato too!"
The woman who had been trying to snatch the potatoes collapsed without warning, knelt down among the broken bricks and rubbed her face and sobbed, "My husband died on the battlefield outside the city, and two of my children were blown off yesterday. Finger, doesn't he need some nutrition? He's only five years old and he's starving to death!"
Hearing this, the young man who was clutching the potato in his arms trembled, and slowly placed the potato he had been clutching in his hand on a broken brick, then pulled out a small knife from his own boot, He cut the dark, wrinkled potato in half and handed one half to the woman.
"I can only give you half"
The young man said with a guilty voice, "My sister has had a fever for several days, she really needs this potato, I'm sorry, I."
But what kind of a potato is that?
Wei Ran slowly lowered the revolver used for intimidation. Even if the potato that was scrambled was not cut in half, it might not be as big as the cylinder of the revolver in his hand!
Sighing secretly, he put away the pistol under the cover of the blanket wrapped around his body, "Ma'am, where is your child?"
"What are you going to do?" The woman grabbed the potato and asked vigilantly while holding it in her arms.
“I have something to eat here”
"Give it quickly."
"But let me see your baby first"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at the young man who also stuffed half a potato into his arms, "And your sister, let me see her, and I can give her something to eat."
"Do you really have something to eat?" the young man asked immediately.
"I'm still a veterinarian and have some emergency medicine"
"Come with me!" After finishing speaking, the young man struggled to get up, leaning on the wall while walking out staggeringly, "I'll take you there, come quickly, come with me quickly."
"What about you?" Wei Ran was not in a hurry to leave, but instead looked at the woman who had been protecting her chest.
"I don't believe your words"
The woman said vigilantly, "If you really want to give my child something to eat, just ask him to give me the other half of a potato!"
"Are you willing to believe me?" Wei Ran looked at the young man who was about to walk outside again.
"If you lied to me, can you kill me and my sister with your gun?"
The young man turned his head back with difficulty, and said in a crying voice, "I don't want to be starved to death, and I don't want my sister to be starved to death, but I don't have the courage to commit suicide."
"Give her the potatoes"
Wei Ran sighed, turned around and walked out of the ruins, and the young man, after a short hesitation, also took out the half crumpled potato in his arms, and gently placed it on the broken wall.
"Where do you live?" While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already stuffed a piece of chocolate into the other's mouth.
"This is."
The young man subconsciously bit the chocolate, but after reacting, he immediately took out the piece of chocolate with his dirty hands, then licked the remaining sweetness on his lips, then bent down to pick up the chocolate that Wei Ran had just thrown away. Before the tinfoil caused the tinfest due to the low temperature, he re-wrapped the piece of chocolate with tooth marks in his hand, and then put it in the pocket of his coat.
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, but asked again, "Where do you live?"
"There..." the young man pointed in a direction with difficulty, "There are two crossroads from here."
"I pull you over"
With that said, Wei Ran helped the young man onto his sledge cart, "What's your name?"
"Pavel," the young man replied feebly, obviously already very hungry.
"The piece of chocolate just now was compensation for the half potato"
While speaking, Wei Ran took out another piece of chocolate and handed it to the other party, "If you eat this piece of chocolate, you will get another piece later, otherwise you will lose it."
"Are you an employee of a candy factory?"
Pavel asked weakly, and at the same time he immediately took out the chocolate he had bitten, tore off the tin foil and threw it into his mouth, while the second piece Wei Ran gave him was stuffed into his pocket.
"You guessed it, I am indeed an employee of a candy factory."
As Wei Ran said, he was already pulling the sledge towards the direction of the two intersections, "Show me the way, I don't know where your home is."
"Go ahead"
While sucking the melted chocolate in his mouth, Pavel said weakly, "Turn right at the second intersection, there is a four-story building on the left, there is a burned truck downstairs, we live in the dark on the second floor s room."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately speeded up a little, and at the same time did not forget to ask, "How did you find that potato?"
"Accidentally Discovered"
Pavel explained weakly, "I was just looking for a pair of warmer shoes, but I found that potato by accident, and then that woman appeared."
Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, but speeded up again.
It took him about 10 minutes to arrive at the location pointed by the other party. However, when he found the burned truck and tried to ask Pavel where to go upstairs, he found that the other party seemed to have fallen asleep.
"wake up"
Wei Ran patted the other person's shoulder lightly, and immediately afterwards, this skinny young man fell sideways from the sledge onto the snow with such a "plop"!
When he came back to his senses, Wei Ran immediately helped the other party up. However, when he tremblingly moved his hands to the other party's nostrils, he found that at some point, this young man who probably didn't even look 20 years old, unexpectedly Has stopped breathing.
Are you cheating?
Wei Ran shook his head bitterly. He didn't realize until he helped the other party that the other party's clothes were far thinner than he imagined. Even his feet were just wearing a pair that didn't keep warm at all, and the size was obviously much larger. leather shoes.
Sighing secretly, he tied the body of the young man who had only met once with a rope to the sledge truck, and after some searching, he dragged him up to the second floor along a staircase with the handrail removed. .
With little effort at all, he discovered a locked room.
First he knocked on the door, and after getting no feedback, Wei Ran groped around Pavel's body again, and finally pulled out a leather rope from his neck, and used the key worn on the leather rope to successfully open the locked door. iron gate.
Using a sledge to pull Pavel into this cold room, Wei Ran quickly saw a small bed propped up by the fireplace that was still burning with embers, and a girl covered with a quilt was lying on the bed. There were two slices of black bread and a mouse that seemed to be baked.
Walking over gently, Wei Ran first touched the girl's forehead, but the cold temperature made him stagnate, and then, he put his fingers under the nostrils, and even opened it unwillingly. Put the quilt, and put your ears on the girl's heart.
After a while, Wei Ran sighed secretly, stood up silently, unwrapped Pavel's body and placed it on the sofa not far away, took out the piece of chocolate from his pocket, and tore off the tin foil on the outside , and put it in the hand of the little girl who didn't know her name.
Sitting tiredly on the sofa, Wei Ran took off his gloves and scarf and rubbed his face vigorously. After a long time, he stood up, put on his gloves again, and tightened the pilot leather cap on his head. Only then did he have time Focus on this not-so-big room.
As far as the eye can see, except for the sofa under Pavel, there is almost nothing to burn in this room, but beside the fireplace, next to the window blocked by wooden boards and quilts , On the wooden chair, some components and a speaker were fixed with screws and nails. There was also a small hand-cranked generator on the back of the chair.
Thanks to the radio course at Hongqi Forest Farm, he recognized it at a glance. This should be a simple radio made by himself.
Gently shake the handle of the generator, the horn fixed on the leg of the chair, and immediately said in passionate Russian, "The heroic Legler will never fall! Never will! We will definitely Great victories will be won by the evil Fasuth in war."
Slowly stopping the shaking handle, Wei Ran glanced at the thick wire that served as an antenna, and after thinking for a while, wrapped the chair in a blanket and placed it on the sledge cart at the door.
Looking at the brother and sister lying by the fireplace for the last time, Wei Ran locked the door silently, put the key in his pocket, pulled the sledge and the only windfall on the sledge, and left step by step This building returned step by step to the ruins where Pavel met.
It's a pity that the woman who used to snatch potatoes with Pavel has disappeared, and after the messy footprints extended to the street, they were completely mixed with the rest of the footprints, making Wei Ran find the capital. There is no way to find it.
Continuing to wander around, Wei Ran had nothing to gain except accidentally picked up a set of two beautifully bound "War and Peace".
Pulling the sledge back to the abandoned basement where Mrs. Via was buried, Wei Ran frowned at the distance. There was a series of footprints here, a series of footprints pointing to the basement and then leaving the same way, a man's footprints!
Running quickly into the basement, he was secretly relieved when he saw that the grave was intact, but then, he noticed a greeting written in conspicuous red chalk on one side of the wall, "You guys How are you? Where have you been? I'll be back at noon tomorrow - Matvey"
Glancing at the end of the red chalk stuck in the crack of the wall, Wei Ran picked it up after hesitating for a moment, and left a message on the wall: "We are still alive, see you tomorrow, Comrade Breeder."
Regardless of the long and narrow windows around the basement or the glass windows in the surface rooms, they have been tightly covered by the iron-covered wooden baffles hung by Wei Ran and others, and by the way, they also blocked the faint but May draw the flames of deadly aerial bombs.
In the basement, the children who had just sung were sitting barefoot on soft, dry and warm sponge cushions, waiting obediently for Kona to fill their bowls with oily broth. Lydia distributed the weighed black bread to them, and waited for Wei Ran to cut the shaped jelly into long strips, put them in various small enamel plates, and handed them to each child one by one .
Until Lydia, who was the first to complete the work, picked up the baby Galina and put a bottle containing hot milk and a little honey to her mouth, the children who were already hungry began to enjoy their own food immediately. dinner.
"We need some tables."
Lydia said as she nursed baby Galina, "I think those metal shelves against the wall are good. We can remove the upper part and only use the bottom layer, so the children can have food." table."
"I'll take them to do this tomorrow." While speaking, Kona did not forget to pinch a piece of jelly and stuffed it into Lydia's mouth. "How about a taste?"
"It's better than Victor's." Lydia said with a smile, "The bitterness is gone, and the sweetness of honey is gone."
"I can't bear to put honey in it." Kona said and pointed to the top of her head. "Those horse livers have been hanging on the chimney on the first floor for a whole day. I think they are ready to eat."
"Let's share a piece with each of the children later"
Wei Ran ate the black bread that was definitely not delicious in two or three bites, and drank the broth in the cup in one gulp, before continuing, "But just one slice is enough, horse liver can supplement some vitamins."
After speaking, he also picked up a piece of jelly and threw it into his mouth.Indeed, as Lydia said, the jelly made by Kona does not taste bad because there is no bitter liver and honey added, but the faint fishy smell is unavoidable.
After eating his own aspic in two or three bites, Wei Ran left the basement alone, walked through the wooden planks to the first floor which was relatively colder.
In this small concrete house, the windows on all sides are also tightly covered by iron-clad wooden boards, except for the upper edge of the window closest to the basement entrance, where the cold wind is blowing in.
But Wei Ran not only did not block the air vent, but deliberately left the iron house, braved the strong wind and snowstorm, and beat all the snow from the air vent.
The cold wind pouring into the house from the first floor is a vital source of ventilation. If this place is blocked, it will not take a night at all, and the children in the basement may die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Returning to the cement house, Wei Ran locked the iron door and carefully patted off the snow on his body. Then, guided by the red light from the basement entrance, he stepped on the concrete steps and walked in.
Under the expectant gaze of those children, Wei Ran smiled and took out his British army kettle from his arms, unscrewed the lid, and slowly poured the viscous brushed honey into an enamel kettle that had been emptied in advance.
Until the sticky honey covered the bottom of the pot, under Lydia and Kona's distressed eyes, he picked up a pot of boiled water that had been cooled in advance, slowly poured it into the enamel pot, and washed away the sleeping water. Honey ex-milk.
A glass of honey water before going to bed every night, and a small piece of chocolate every morning, this is what Wei Ran has cultivated for all adults and children, including Ke Na and Lydia and even the deceased Mrs. Via, during these days. Habit.
So almost when he closed the lid of the enamel kettle, the nearest little guy subconsciously raised the enamel cup that was just used to hold the broth with his thin hands.
Seeing this, Wei Ran smiled, and gently poured a glass full of sweet and greasy honey water for the other party.
While he was busy pouring water for the children, Ke Na also gave each child a small piece of horse liver that had already been roasted and had no moisture.
In the end, I filled Lydia and Kona's cups, as well as my own, with extra honey water, and this enamel kettle just emptied all the stocks.
After drinking up the oily honey water in one gulp, Wei Ran refilled his cup with a cup of slightly hot boiled water, taking all the remaining honey and oily broth into his stomach, and then got up to start again Go upstairs and use an ax to chop off a small section of the horse's spine that can barely fit into the pot.
The large piece of meat on the spine has been removed, but there is still some meat and bone marrow in the gaps between the bones. As long as this bone is thrown into the pot and boiled overnight, there will definitely be more meat in the broth the next day. A lot of oily flowers and minced meat.
Before he finished his work, Kona and Lydia also came up one after another.
"I plan to take Alexander and the others to collect firewood tomorrow."
Ke Na stood by the chimney extending from the basement and said, "Our firewood is only enough for another two days at most. In such cold weather, without firewood, the children will definitely freeze to death."
"I'll find a way to get some coal back tomorrow." Lydia then made her promise, but there was no confidence in her tone.
"What do you two want to say?" Wei Ran looked at them puzzled and asked.
"I think we should go outside the city to get some firewood," Lydia and Kona said in unison.
"This"
"I know it's not worth it for firewood"
Lydia hurriedly explained without waiting for Wei Ran to speak, "Compared to pulling the same amount of firewood, it is definitely not as cost-effective as the same amount of army horse offal.
But just eating enough is not enough. I have never encountered such cold weather in winter since I grew up.Victor, we have to stockpile enough firewood for the low temperature. "
"I'm going to take Alexander and Alyosha out of town with me"
Cora uttered a more dangerous thought, "We've been able to eat enough for two days in a row, the two of them must be able to pull a sledge together, Lydia and I each pull a sledge, and you pull a sledge too, so We have four sledge trucks that we can use, even if their cars can only hold . "
"What if you are in danger?"
Wei Ran interrupted the other party's plan and asked, "The target of the four sledge trucks is too big. Once the German plane finds us, we won't be able to escape at all."
Seeing that the two girls fell silent, Wei Ran made a promise while cutting the spine of the army horse that had just been chopped off with a saw, "I will find a way to solve the fuel problem, and we will go outside the city with Comrade Matvey next time." When collecting the corpses of the army horses, you two will go with me, but now, help me hold down this bone first."
Hearing this, Lydia and Kona immediately showed surprise on their faces, they hurriedly moved forward, and together they pressed down on the huge spine placed on the table.
"in addition"
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran pulled the saw back and forth, and made a new request, "Tomorrow afternoon, let's take another group photo."
"It wasn't before. Well, let's take another one." Lydia changed her mind halfway through her speech.
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't explain in detail, but patiently sawed the vertebra into four, and then threw it into the enamel pot on the stove in the basement.
This night, the children who were full again finally stopped frowning against the hunger in their dreams, because every time they breathed, they could smell the extra strong aroma of broth.
In the blink of an eye, the next morning, the wind outside stopped, but the snow kept falling. As a result, whether Lydia went out to work or Wei Ran went out to find edible and usable things, it became extremely difficult.
But even so, Wei Ran was still the same as yesterday. After distributing a piece of chocolate to the child and the two girls, he pulled Lydia with a sledge and walked towards the ruins of the nursing home step by step.
"Let's go back together in the afternoon." Wei Ran said before Lydia left, "I will wait for you in the basement."
"I'll find you there when I'm done working"
As Lydia said, she had already left the sledge, wrapped her coat tightly around her body, and walked to the distribution office one street away.
Watching the opponent's back disappear, Wei Ran checked the surroundings, and pulled out the 13 mouse traps one by one from the gaps in the snow-buried ruins.
This time, the 13 cages only caught three mice that had frozen to death.
Although the number was a little small, each of the three mice could be called fat and strong. Even the smallest one was half the size of a mineral water bottle, not counting the tail.
Still disemboweled in situ, mixed the frozen viscera with honey as bait, Wei Ran put the three mice into the sack around his waist, cleared his own footprints as usual, and dragged the sledge cart to the basement where Mrs. Via was buried direction.
It's only been one night, and a thick layer of ice and snow has accumulated in the cracked basement, and even Wei Ran's simple grave built with bricks has been mostly buried.
Seeing this, he also breathed a sigh of relief, left the almost completely collapsed building, casually changed directions, and searched aimlessly for any available resources.
"Give it to me! Give it to me!"
Just as he walked into a building that had mostly collapsed, he heard a feeble scramble.
Walking a few quick steps and bypassing a broken wall, Wei Ran saw at a glance that a woman was trying to snatch something from the arms of another thin man, but the one who was robbed didn't fight back, just held on tightly. Holding the object of contention in his arms.
"What are you robbing?" Wei Ran raised a Nagant revolver while speaking.
"That's what I found!" The man who was robbed still hugged the thing in his arms tightly, and at the same time looked at Wei Ran hopefully, hoping that he could help him.
"This used to be my home, and it belonged to me!" the woman said angrily, "Give it to me!"
"So what exactly is it?" Wei Ran moved closer and raised the hammer at the same time.
"If you want to shoot, shoot!"
The woman who snatched the item said nonchalantly, "Either give it to me quickly! Or kill me."
"I can't give it to you!"
The young man who was robbed said weakly, "My sister needs this potato, I can't give it to you!"
"My kids need this potato too!"
The woman who had been trying to snatch the potatoes collapsed without warning, knelt down among the broken bricks and rubbed her face and sobbed, "My husband died on the battlefield outside the city, and two of my children were blown off yesterday. Finger, doesn't he need some nutrition? He's only five years old and he's starving to death!"
Hearing this, the young man who was clutching the potato in his arms trembled, and slowly placed the potato he had been clutching in his hand on a broken brick, then pulled out a small knife from his own boot, He cut the dark, wrinkled potato in half and handed one half to the woman.
"I can only give you half"
The young man said with a guilty voice, "My sister has had a fever for several days, she really needs this potato, I'm sorry, I."
But what kind of a potato is that?
Wei Ran slowly lowered the revolver used for intimidation. Even if the potato that was scrambled was not cut in half, it might not be as big as the cylinder of the revolver in his hand!
Sighing secretly, he put away the pistol under the cover of the blanket wrapped around his body, "Ma'am, where is your child?"
"What are you going to do?" The woman grabbed the potato and asked vigilantly while holding it in her arms.
“I have something to eat here”
"Give it quickly."
"But let me see your baby first"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at the young man who also stuffed half a potato into his arms, "And your sister, let me see her, and I can give her something to eat."
"Do you really have something to eat?" the young man asked immediately.
"I'm still a veterinarian and have some emergency medicine"
"Come with me!" After finishing speaking, the young man struggled to get up, leaning on the wall while walking out staggeringly, "I'll take you there, come quickly, come with me quickly."
"What about you?" Wei Ran was not in a hurry to leave, but instead looked at the woman who had been protecting her chest.
"I don't believe your words"
The woman said vigilantly, "If you really want to give my child something to eat, just ask him to give me the other half of a potato!"
"Are you willing to believe me?" Wei Ran looked at the young man who was about to walk outside again.
"If you lied to me, can you kill me and my sister with your gun?"
The young man turned his head back with difficulty, and said in a crying voice, "I don't want to be starved to death, and I don't want my sister to be starved to death, but I don't have the courage to commit suicide."
"Give her the potatoes"
Wei Ran sighed, turned around and walked out of the ruins, and the young man, after a short hesitation, also took out the half crumpled potato in his arms, and gently placed it on the broken wall.
"Where do you live?" While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already stuffed a piece of chocolate into the other's mouth.
"This is."
The young man subconsciously bit the chocolate, but after reacting, he immediately took out the piece of chocolate with his dirty hands, then licked the remaining sweetness on his lips, then bent down to pick up the chocolate that Wei Ran had just thrown away. Before the tinfoil caused the tinfest due to the low temperature, he re-wrapped the piece of chocolate with tooth marks in his hand, and then put it in the pocket of his coat.
Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, but asked again, "Where do you live?"
"There..." the young man pointed in a direction with difficulty, "There are two crossroads from here."
"I pull you over"
With that said, Wei Ran helped the young man onto his sledge cart, "What's your name?"
"Pavel," the young man replied feebly, obviously already very hungry.
"The piece of chocolate just now was compensation for the half potato"
While speaking, Wei Ran took out another piece of chocolate and handed it to the other party, "If you eat this piece of chocolate, you will get another piece later, otherwise you will lose it."
"Are you an employee of a candy factory?"
Pavel asked weakly, and at the same time he immediately took out the chocolate he had bitten, tore off the tin foil and threw it into his mouth, while the second piece Wei Ran gave him was stuffed into his pocket.
"You guessed it, I am indeed an employee of a candy factory."
As Wei Ran said, he was already pulling the sledge towards the direction of the two intersections, "Show me the way, I don't know where your home is."
"Go ahead"
While sucking the melted chocolate in his mouth, Pavel said weakly, "Turn right at the second intersection, there is a four-story building on the left, there is a burned truck downstairs, we live in the dark on the second floor s room."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately speeded up a little, and at the same time did not forget to ask, "How did you find that potato?"
"Accidentally Discovered"
Pavel explained weakly, "I was just looking for a pair of warmer shoes, but I found that potato by accident, and then that woman appeared."
Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, but speeded up again.
It took him about 10 minutes to arrive at the location pointed by the other party. However, when he found the burned truck and tried to ask Pavel where to go upstairs, he found that the other party seemed to have fallen asleep.
"wake up"
Wei Ran patted the other person's shoulder lightly, and immediately afterwards, this skinny young man fell sideways from the sledge onto the snow with such a "plop"!
When he came back to his senses, Wei Ran immediately helped the other party up. However, when he tremblingly moved his hands to the other party's nostrils, he found that at some point, this young man who probably didn't even look 20 years old, unexpectedly Has stopped breathing.
Are you cheating?
Wei Ran shook his head bitterly. He didn't realize until he helped the other party that the other party's clothes were far thinner than he imagined. Even his feet were just wearing a pair that didn't keep warm at all, and the size was obviously much larger. leather shoes.
Sighing secretly, he tied the body of the young man who had only met once with a rope to the sledge truck, and after some searching, he dragged him up to the second floor along a staircase with the handrail removed. .
With little effort at all, he discovered a locked room.
First he knocked on the door, and after getting no feedback, Wei Ran groped around Pavel's body again, and finally pulled out a leather rope from his neck, and used the key worn on the leather rope to successfully open the locked door. iron gate.
Using a sledge to pull Pavel into this cold room, Wei Ran quickly saw a small bed propped up by the fireplace that was still burning with embers, and a girl covered with a quilt was lying on the bed. There were two slices of black bread and a mouse that seemed to be baked.
Walking over gently, Wei Ran first touched the girl's forehead, but the cold temperature made him stagnate, and then, he put his fingers under the nostrils, and even opened it unwillingly. Put the quilt, and put your ears on the girl's heart.
After a while, Wei Ran sighed secretly, stood up silently, unwrapped Pavel's body and placed it on the sofa not far away, took out the piece of chocolate from his pocket, and tore off the tin foil on the outside , and put it in the hand of the little girl who didn't know her name.
Sitting tiredly on the sofa, Wei Ran took off his gloves and scarf and rubbed his face vigorously. After a long time, he stood up, put on his gloves again, and tightened the pilot leather cap on his head. Only then did he have time Focus on this not-so-big room.
As far as the eye can see, except for the sofa under Pavel, there is almost nothing to burn in this room, but beside the fireplace, next to the window blocked by wooden boards and quilts , On the wooden chair, some components and a speaker were fixed with screws and nails. There was also a small hand-cranked generator on the back of the chair.
Thanks to the radio course at Hongqi Forest Farm, he recognized it at a glance. This should be a simple radio made by himself.
Gently shake the handle of the generator, the horn fixed on the leg of the chair, and immediately said in passionate Russian, "The heroic Legler will never fall! Never will! We will definitely Great victories will be won by the evil Fasuth in war."
Slowly stopping the shaking handle, Wei Ran glanced at the thick wire that served as an antenna, and after thinking for a while, wrapped the chair in a blanket and placed it on the sledge cart at the door.
Looking at the brother and sister lying by the fireplace for the last time, Wei Ran locked the door silently, put the key in his pocket, pulled the sledge and the only windfall on the sledge, and left step by step This building returned step by step to the ruins where Pavel met.
It's a pity that the woman who used to snatch potatoes with Pavel has disappeared, and after the messy footprints extended to the street, they were completely mixed with the rest of the footprints, making Wei Ran find the capital. There is no way to find it.
Continuing to wander around, Wei Ran had nothing to gain except accidentally picked up a set of two beautifully bound "War and Peace".
Pulling the sledge back to the abandoned basement where Mrs. Via was buried, Wei Ran frowned at the distance. There was a series of footprints here, a series of footprints pointing to the basement and then leaving the same way, a man's footprints!
Running quickly into the basement, he was secretly relieved when he saw that the grave was intact, but then, he noticed a greeting written in conspicuous red chalk on one side of the wall, "You guys How are you? Where have you been? I'll be back at noon tomorrow - Matvey"
Glancing at the end of the red chalk stuck in the crack of the wall, Wei Ran picked it up after hesitating for a moment, and left a message on the wall: "We are still alive, see you tomorrow, Comrade Breeder."
You'll Also Like
-
I'm a priest, it's reasonable for me to have a little more health and healing.
Chapter 383 2 hours ago -
Honghuang: Wu clan soldiers, plundering entries begin to rise
Chapter 125 2 hours ago -
This pirate is actually a sixth-rate
Chapter 170 2 hours ago -
When I Woke Up, I Became a Top Boss
Chapter 472 12 hours ago -
Six Years After the Disaster, I Saved My Farm by Growing Bean Sprouts.
Chapter 424 1 days ago -
Me! Cleaner!
Chapter 864 1 days ago -
Plunder life and carve out an invincible path
Chapter 413 3 days ago -
Star Dome Railway: I am developing a Star Dome Railway mobile game in my company
Chapter 333 3 days ago -
Unlimited learning of spiritual powers, I will suppress the end of the world
Chapter 214 3 days ago -
I'm shooting anime in another world
Chapter 324 3 days ago