"Victor, you will bury Grandma Via, right?" Ke Na asked sobbing before Wei Ran walked out of the basement.

"Yes." Wei Ran stopped and said, "I promise." "I want to bury her with you."

While Ke Na was speaking, she had already hung the bayan on her chest, and then picked up the snare drum that belonged to her father.

"No problem," Wei Ran said, taking steps again and walking out of the basement that had turned into a dangerous house.

In the course of going back and forth, the few supplies in the basement, as well as tables, door frames and even door panels, were all moved out.

At this time, the sky was still gray, but not far away, several buildings lit up with flames due to shelling, dyeing the night sky a dangerous red.

They didn't dare to continue using the flashlight. Under the command and leadership of Wei Ran and Lidya, many children moved like ants, moving all the things they could take away from the three basement rooms to the outside of the completely collapsed building ruins.

Two sledge trucks, an inverted table and door panels were installed.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a rough inventory of these things, all kinds of firewood can barely fill a sledge truck, and the rest of the space is filled with dismantled scrap cast iron heating stoves and pieces.

iron chimney.

Another sledge truck contained the box containing bread, dried fish, and most of a frozen pike, plus the horsehide and offal that had been plundered from the front lines, and of course, two bayanqins and a set of snare drums.

As for the door panel and the upturned table, there were packed dry pine needles and weeds, as well as pots and pans and other sundries.

Finally, looking at the 16 children of different ages and wearing various budjoni hats on their heads, Wei Ran looked at Lidya and asked, "Have you decided where to move?"

"Think about it"

Lydia took a deep breath and finally looked in the direction of the basement, "Come with me, I'll take you there. It's a bit far there, but it's definitely safer than here."

"Then let's go"

As Wei Ran spoke, he picked up the reins of the first sledge truck and threw it over his shoulders. This truck was the heaviest, so naturally he would pull it.

The second car was pulled by Lydia, and the upside-down table was helped by several older children led by Alexander. By the way, one of the girls was also responsible for carrying the baby Galina.

The door panel was pulled by Kona. On top of the door panel, in addition to the pine needle packages, sat the youngest children such as Anastasia and Bogdan who liked to eat their fingers.

In the pre-dawn night, this "convoy", which was not huge but moved at an extremely slow speed, was led by Lydia, facing the biting cold wind and the cold snowflakes blown up by the cold wind, step by step.

headed towards the relatively safe northeast direction.

Before the sun rose completely, Lidya led Wei Ran and others to the edge of a dilapidated playground, pointed to a locked cement house on the edge of the playground and said, "That's right there, that small house is the playground.

The sports equipment warehouse has a semi-underground basement, where my mother and I hid at the beginning of the war."

While talking, Lidya had already pulled out a necklace from her collar, took out a key from the necklace, and opened the padlock on the iron door. At the same time, she did not forget to continue introducing, "My mother used to be the school nurse of this school.

, this small house is also where the medical room is set up every time the school holds a sports meeting."

Having said this, Lydia had already pushed open the relatively thick iron door and greeted everyone to come in.

This small house has only one floor on the ground, with an area of ​​no more than 20 square meters. On one wall is an iron door for entry and exit, and the other three sides have glass windows with metal frames. There is also a layer of iron railings outside that look particularly strong.

, even inside, each window has two additional wooden boards wrapped with iron sheets. As long as they are closed, the outside light can be completely blocked.

But in this small room, except for two empty iron cabinets, a rusty cast iron stove, and some tools such as brooms and snow shovels, there was not even a single piece of firewood, and even the floor was hard.

of cement paved.

Correspondingly, the temperature here is as low as a refrigerator. The only thing that is better than outside is that it blocks the biting cold wind. "The warmth of this room is too poor, and since the water supply was stopped, the water consumption is very high."

It’s not convenient, you have to walk for half an hour to the river to get water.”

As she spoke, Lydia pushed open the two iron cabinets, revealing a wooden door on the floor that was only half a meter wide and one meter long.

Using another key on the necklace to open the small lock on the wooden door, Lidya opened the wooden door, took the flashlight from Wei Ran and opened it. As she walked down, she explained, "This basement used to be a school storage facility."

This is a place for chemistry class chemicals. After all, there is only a playground around here. Even if there is a fire or explosion, you don’t have to worry about losing anything."

Having said that, Wei Ran, Ke Na and the children also lined up and walked in. Compared to the cold ground, this semi-underground basement was surrounded by glass windows with anti-theft railings.

Each of these long glass windows is one meter and a half long and almost 30 centimeters high. However, when the flashlight beam is swept over, the outside of these windows has all been buried by the snow on the ground.

In addition to being shielded by the snow outside, there is also an iron baffle that is almost the same width and length hanging from the bottom of each glass window.

Obviously, as long as the iron baffle is lifted up and hung on the hook on the window, it can completely block the windows that are not too big.

In addition, there are two layers of relatively thick sponge mats in the basement, and there are still some metal shelves and several large glass jars containing chemicals against the walls.

Of course, the basement was unsurprisingly cold. There was a rust-colored ice shell frozen on the edge and sill of one of the windows. It was obviously caused by the melted snow outside that flowed in and then froze on it.

“The advantage here is that you don’t have to worry about being bombed.”

Lydia explained, "After all, it is surrounded by a playground, and the classrooms in the distance have been bombed more than once. The Germans will not be interested here."

“Just here”

As he spoke, Wei Ran was already the first to step on the cement steps to the ground. At the same time, he did not forget to say, "Children, let's move everything in the sledge truck into the room outside, and then clean this place well. While it's dawn,

Let’s get some more food out!”

Hearing that there was food, the children, who were still immersed in the sadness of losing Mrs. Via, finally gained some motivation.

With their help, two sledge trucks, plus the inverted tables and door panels that temporarily served as sledge trucks, and the things carried on them were moved into this small cement house and placed in various categories.

Neatly.

While Wei Ran was busy on the ground, Ke Na and Lidya also took a few children to take out all the sponge mats used for sports activities in the basement and pat them carefully. They also cleaned the basement and re-paved it.

After picking up the bags of pine needles, the sponge mats were spread back.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After everything was cleaned, Weiran placed the cast iron stove in the above-ground room on the side of the entrance and exit steps in the basement, and connected the iron chimney from the basement.

The chimney he brought was pushed out through the hole in the wall.

After handing over the task of lighting the fire to the two girls and the children, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel and cleared the snow around the small cement house, letting the early morning sunlight shine through the narrow windows in the basement.

Got in.

That wasn't over yet. He also used the snow that could be found everywhere to build a wind-shielding wall outside the basement window.

When he returned to the basement after finishing his work, the rusty cast iron stove was already burning red, and the already small basement became extremely warm.

"The children will be taken care of by you."

When Lidya saw Wei Ran coming in, she immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to work, and I'll bring food back in the evening. And... I'll hide Mrs. Via's situation, so... so that the children will still be there every day."

You can get 100 grams more bread."

After saying that, the girl had already stepped on the clean cement steps and left the warm basement alone.

"My children and I are responsible for making aspic"

Kena also stood up and said, "Only when we are full will we have the strength to bury Grandma Via."

"In that case, I'm going to take back the mouse cage I set up yesterday."

Wei Ran said and looked at Alexander who was hesitant to speak, "Alexander, starting from today, you and your friends will be mainly responsible for helping sister Ke Na make aspic and collect firewood."

"Don't you need our help in catching mice?"

Alexander asked subconsciously, but he had no idea that Lydia, who had returned to the surface and was about to open the door, also stopped what she was doing and quietly waited for Wei Ran's answer.

"No, I can do this."

As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a plate of chocolate and gave one to each child, including Ke Na, "This is today's breakfast. As for whether we can have delicious aspic for dinner, it depends."

Thank you for your hard work and that of Kena."

"I will make sure that all my brothers and sisters eat aspic!" Alexander replied loudly while chewing the chocolate that Wei Ran stuffed into his mouth.

"I feel most at ease leaving this kind of thing to you."

Wei Ran said, already walking up the steps, "Remember not to close the basement door completely, and don't block the damaged corner of the window, otherwise everyone will be starved of oxygen."
Chapter completed!