"Wait a moment, I'll give you some gifts."

After Matvey finished speaking, he let go of the hand holding Wei Ran's hand, turned around and walked to the ruins of a building on the side of the road. He bent down and pulled out a bulging sack from behind a collapsed wall and handed it to

Got Wei Ran.

After taking the sack bag, Wei Ran opened it and was surprised to find that it was filled with rat cages!

"So many?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, "For me?" "Yes, for you and the children."

Matvey showed a simple smile, "Zoos used to have many mouse traps like this, specially used to catch mice in feed warehouses. After discussing with my colleagues, I decided to separate 10 cages for you and the children.

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"Thank you, I really appreciate your help." Wei Ran said gratefully. With these cages, he could complete the task of catching 11 mice earlier.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Nothing" Matvey waved his hand, "The rats in this city have been caught long ago, and we don't need so many rat traps at all.

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"Then I'll take it," Wei Ran said, having already tied the sack again and threw it onto the sledge pulled by Ke Na.

After bidding farewell to Matvey and his multifunctional dog Joseph, Weiran and Kena each pulled a fully loaded sledge and walked towards the

A place that can be called "home".

Halfway through the journey, when they passed by the wreckage of the plane again, the body of the German pilot hung on the wooden beam by the enemy was still floating in the cold wind.

The surrounding residents who passed by with sledge trucks would subconsciously glance at the corpse, and then either muttered something, or greeted his mother, or slowly pulled off their scarves and moved toward the corpse.

Spit on it.

But no matter what kind of reaction, the faces of these Leningrad residents finally had some vivid light.

Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and Ke Na looked at each other, each took a deep breath and quickened their pace again.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Ranran finally pulled two sledges back to the ruins where the basement was located.

Before they could stop, Alexander, who seemed to have been keeping watch on the roadside, spotted them.

When the young man saw this, he immediately put his hands in his sleeves into his mouth and blew a barely loud whistle.

Immediately afterwards, the other older children swarmed around Mrs. Via who looked worried and walked out.

"You are not in danger, are you?" Mrs. Weiya grabbed the wrists of Wei Ran and Ke Na with her thin hands.

"No, we haven't encountered any danger."

Kona hugged the thin and shapeless old woman, and at the same time, she did not forget to wink at Lidya, who was walking at the end. Then, she fluently spewed out a series of lies, describing the dangers she had encountered before.

It was all understated and changed to "With help from a few well-meaning Red Army soldiers."

At least they fooled the old lady, and everyone immediately cooperated with each other to unload all the items on the two sledge trucks and carry them to the room originally used to store firewood like an assembly line.

"Victor, can these things be eaten too?"

As Alexander spoke, he put the corner of the horsehide, which was as cold as a steel plate and had hair on it, into his mouth, and tried to take a bite with his big set of teeth.

"Of course it's edible, but definitely not like you." Wei Ran said, having already walked into the room filled with firewood and frozen offal. But with just one glance, he saw the three mouse traps he had set out yesterday.

Cages. But the most important thing is that these three mouse traps all contain a mouse with red fur!

"This was caught in a cage?" Wei Ran asked in surprise. "Yes!"

The eldest child named Alyosha said proudly, "In the morning, Alexander and I accidentally discovered the cage you arranged, then moved them to another place, and then caught these three mice."

"You...where did you catch them?"

Wei Ran was even more surprised. He had been busy for two days and didn't even catch a single hair. These two half-year-old children were really good, and they caught three in less than one day.

"there"

Alexander pointed in the direction, "There was a burned down and collapsed house there. We arranged the cage there and captured it."

"We were going to dig out some burnt furniture there," Aleutian added. "We just put the cages there and caught three rats."

"Take me to see it later," Wei Ran said subconsciously.

"I'll go with you later," Lidya, who had been silent just now, said abruptly.

Hearing this, Wei Ran was startled, then nodded. "Okay, you two should take a rest first."

Mrs. Via clapped her hands, "Lydia, let us take charge of the kitchen today. Let's make a pot of broth with the three mice that Alexander and Alyosha caught, and add the carrot left yesterday.

put in."

"Remember to keep the rat's internal organs," Wei Ran reminded worriedly, "I'm going to use them as bait."

"Go and have a rest," Lydia urged with a smile. "Forget it."

Wei Ran waved his hand, picked up a horsehide half a meter square and said, "Alexander, go bring me a pot of boiling water. I want boiling water."

"No problem!" Alexander ran into the warm room without thinking.

But Wei Ran picked up the saw and first cut off a small piece of horse intestine that was frozen into lumps of ice, and then took out a piece of dark red horse liver as big as a fist.

Finally, he took a wooden basin and walked to the open space outside the room. Wei Ran first put the furry horsehide into the wooden basin, and Alexander poured a full pot of boiling water on it.

Under the high-temperature washing, a fishy smell suddenly filled the space where circus performances were held, and the horsehide also softened visibly.

When the pot of boiling water was poured all over, he didn't even take off the German pilot's leather gloves he was wearing, and began to rub the horse hair on it hard, pulling it off easily.

Seeing that this method was equally effective, Wei Ran threw the frozen horse intestine into a wooden basin filled with hot water and soaked it.

As the children and Kona watched with their noses covered, the hair on the half-meter-square horsehide was gradually plucked, revealing the white fleshy skin. The intestines soaked in the basin were also exposed to the second pot of boiling water.

Pour it onto the horsehide and soften it completely.

First, he spread the horsehide on a wooden table and hammered nails into the four corners. Wei Ran took off his gloves again, endured nausea, turned over his intestines, cleaned them carefully, and scalded them carefully with hot water.

once.

After all, the disgusting smell of tinkering with internal organs on his side couldn't compare to the steaming aroma when Mrs. Via and Lydia were cooking dinner, so soon, except for Kona, the other children all hid in the warmth and filled with the aroma of food.

in the room.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "There is a gasoline stove in that canvas bag, give it to me."

Wei Ran wiped his hands and said while carrying the table with the horsehide and intestines nailed on it to the room where the wood was stored.

Hearing this, Ke Na immediately opened the canvas bag that was still on her shoulder and found the small oil stove inside.

"Go get me another pot."

Wei Ran arranged a new job for the girl, who was obviously so tired that her legs were shaking but was unwilling to rest at all. He lit the small gasoline stove before the girl came back with an enamel pot.

While the stove was preheating and pressurizing itself, he also put ice cubes in the enamel pot and placed it on top.

He took out the gravity knife he had collected in the morning and threw it out to test the sharpness. Under Kona's gaze, Wei Ran cut the horsehide that had been cleaned and had not had time to refreeze into long strips half a centimeter wide. Then, he cut it into strips half a centimeter wide.

Cut the similarly washed small intestine into small circles.

Finally, he roughly rinsed the piece of horse liver with hot water, but Wei Ran directly found an ax and chopped it into ice-crusted pieces.

Naturally, he was doing this to make pig skin jelly, but he definitely couldn't find the pig skin, but using horse skin instead would not be much worse. And the most important thing is that he is too

I know how to do this.

When I was young, almost every holiday, Suisui's grandma would cook fish scale jelly and pig skin jelly with braised pork head in it. It was not only the best appetizer for Suisui's grandpa and his grandpa when they were drinking, but also for them.

For both of them, it is also the most commonly eaten snack in childhood.

Accordingly, if you want to eat, you have to help. Whether it's lighting a fire or boiling pig skins, whether he or Suisui, these are family skills engraved in childhood memories.

While recalling the happy past of his childhood, Wei Ran blanched the cut horsehide and small intestine twice in water. After changing the water in the pot again, he directly cooked it in one pot and took advantage of Ke Na being called.

When I went to sing to the children, I took out some seasonings such as ginger, chili and coarse salt and soy sauce from my backpack and added them in.

It continued to cook until the firepower of the small gasoline stove weakened, and then Wei Ran sprinkled the chopped horse liver into it. Considering that although this stuff might be able to supplement some vitamin A, it would definitely be painful to eat, so he

I also took it upon myself to add some honey to it and mix it randomly.

Finally, he turned off the fire and closed the lid. He then left the room, went into the next door, and took a cup of oily broth from Lydia's hand, as well as a corner of black bread that was definitely not delicious.

"Victor, when can we eat the things you made?" Alexander approached Wei Ran and asked.

"Don't you think it stinks?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"I want to fill my stomach more." Alexander, the child, answered extremely straightforwardly.

"How about you take me to see where the mice were caught first, and then we'll see if those things are edible?"

"Should we go now?" Alexander asked immediately. "What about you?" Wei Ran looked at Lydia. "Let's go."
Chapter completed!