, wrapped her carefully with a blanket dug out together, and then stacked two layers of broken bricks just excavated against the corner, placed her body side by side with the two corpses outside, and used a paratrooper knife to

On two of the relatively complete bricks, the names of Mrs. Via and Fennette were engraved and placed on their respective necks.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! After finishing this, Wei Ran sat down and rested for a while, then covered the three corpses with the canvas he brought, and then began to carefully stack them on top.

Brick after brick, a layer of snow was covered on top.

When he stopped completely, the snowflakes falling above his head became bigger and bigger, the wind became more and more fierce, and even the sky became darker and gloomier. I don't know who will be buried here next... Wei

Ran touched the crack on the wall that was as wide as a fist, and worriedly took half of the charred wooden beam away from the completely abandoned ruins, returning to the ruins of the nursing home again.

As usual, he checked the surroundings. After making sure that no one was there, he pulled out the mousetraps he had set up in the morning and checked them one by one.

Unfortunately, maybe the time was too short, or maybe the shelling before dawn scared away the rats here. This time, not a single rat was caught in the 13 cages.

Silently, he moved the mouse cage and rearranged it. When Wei Ran returned to the ruins of the building where the basement was located, Lydia, covered with a blanket and wearing a Budyonny hat, was already waiting by the roadside.

"I saw what you did," Lydia said when she saw Wei Ran.

"Get in the car"

Wei Ran pointed to the sledge behind him and waited for the other party to sit on it. Then he walked towards the school playground in the cold wind and asked, "Did you get anything today?" "Black bread."

Lydia paused and replied as loudly as she could, "Today there is only black bread. The wind and snow are too strong. I heard from people in the transport team that besides many accidents on the road today, the Germans dropped a lot of bombs. There are also several

The horse-drawn sleighs were lost, and some of the sleighs arrived at the port with the mules pulling them still alive but the people already frozen to death."

"Is there no good news?" Wei Ran turned around and asked loudly. "No." Tired Lydia shook her head, "All I heard today is bad news."

"Go home," Wei Ran said, hunching his waist and dragging the sledge towards the new shelter.

"Comrade Political Commissar asked me today if I should take the children out."

Lidia paused, and when Wei Ran didn't speak, she continued, "I rejected his suggestion. The situation in Lake Ladoga is too dangerous now. Even if the children won't sink into the lake because of the bombs dropped by the Germans,

There is a possibility of freezing to death on the way."

"When do you plan to evacuate the children?" Wei Ran finally asked.

"Just wait a little longer."

Lydia paused and said tentatively, "The children just had a full meal yesterday. At least let them eat a few more times so that they have enough strength to resist the low temperature on the road..."

After another pause, Lidia asked in a panic when Wei Ran didn't speak, "Victor, I know this... this is difficult, but..."

"Nothing difficult"

Wei Ran responded in a firm tone, "Didn't we find a stable source of food? The horse hides and offal we brought back last time were enough for us to eat for four or five days. After four or five days, Ke Na and I also had

With enough strength, the harvesters can bring back more horse hides and offal from the front line."

Hearing this, Lidya breathed a sigh of relief, and in the biting cold wind, she softly said "thank you" that Wei Ran didn't even hear.

After walking in the wind and snow for nearly an hour, as the sky darkened completely, the two of them finally returned to the small cement house on the edge of the playground with not much gain, relatively smoothly.

As soon as they entered the door, they felt a little warmth rushing towards their faces. Then they saw a set of shelves against the wall that were obviously moved from the basement. On the shelves, there were also pots and pans of various sizes.

The ladle holds the prepared pork skin jelly.

Not only that, even the chimney extending from the basement has strings of sliced ​​brown horse liver hanging on it. And where the chimney is flush with the ground, there are several iron buckets filled with snow.

Obviously he doesn't intend to let go of any heat.

A little further away, Kona was carrying an enamel kettle, pouring hot water on the horsehide placed in the iron washing basin. The older children, headed by Alexander, were gathered around the iron basin, or in their hands

Hold a can skin or a knife and wait to pull out all the horse hair.

"You are back"

While Wei Ran and Lidya were stunned, Ke Na pointed around and proudly showed off, "We made enough aspic for three days, and also found some iron buckets and iron basins in the ruins of the school."

"I also found a national flag!" Alexander rushed to say, pointing behind Wei Ran and Wei Ran.

Turning around subconsciously, the two belatedly discovered that there was indeed a big red Soviet flag hanging on the inside of the iron gate.

"We also found this!"

As the young man named Alyosha said, he had already picked up a Soviet army lunch box that was slightly dry and had serious paint peeling off from the shelf, and handed it to Wei Ran as if it were a treasure.

Taking the lunch box and opening it, Wei Ran couldn't help but shook his head when he saw the contents inside. No wonder he wanted to give this thing to himself. There was a particularly beautiful pipe on the tray of the lunch box, a brown one that was not too big.

A small glass bottle, a pitiful tin funnel, and a small velvet bag with a golden sickle and hammer pattern embroidered on it.

Ignoring the pipe, Wei Ran reached out and picked up the red cloth bag and opened it. What was inside turned out to be a silver hearth stove that looked particularly exquisite in workmanship and definitely not cheap.

Gently weighing the stove, which was about the same size as a later cigarette case, Wei Ran pulled off the upper cover with the beautiful opening and smelled it. Then, he unscrewed the small bottle and smelled it.

Seeing that the bottle was indeed filled with kerosene, Wei Ran tightened the lid again and picked up the tray of the lunch box.

this tray

In the remaining space, in addition to a stack of cigarette papers that had been cut to a suitable size and could be used to roll Mohe cigarettes, there were also two packs of matches and a steel needle that was more than ten centimeters long.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Obviously, the previous owner of these things enjoyed smoking, and seemed to only be fond of low-quality Mohe cigarettes.

"I'm not sure if these Mohe cigarettes are of any use, but I guess that warmer can at least keep one of you two warm."

Kona put down the enamel pot in her hand and said while cleaning the hair on the horse's hide, "We found these things in a collapsed office in the morning, and also found a buried office

The table, of course, we have burned at least a third of that table."

"I don't have any use for these things."

As Wei Ran spoke, he used a small funnel to add kerosene to the stove, lit it with a lighter, and handed it to Lidya.

Before the girl could say anything, Wei Ran had already picked up the pipe and looked at the carvings on it while saying, "Just give those Mohe cigarettes to Comrade Matvey, he will definitely take them happily."

His little actors come here to perform for the children."

"Can he still come here to perform for us?" Alexander and Alyosha asked the same question in surprise.

"It will definitely come, I promise."

Wei Ran said, threw the pipe into the lunch box, closed the tray and lid again, and handed it to Alyosha again, "Young man, put it away. Uncle Matvey will come to perform for us next time."

When the time comes, give it to him personally!"

"Okay!" Alyosha said, already holding this special "performance fee" tightly in his arms.

"It's your turn, how was your harvest today?" Kena also didn't give Lydia, who was holding the stove in her hand, a chance to speak.

"I caught 6 rats"

Wei Ran pretended to show off and took off the sack hanging from his waist, and poured out all the rats whose internal organs had been cleaned, "We can make a big pot of broth today."

"I got the bread back"

Lidya sighed secretly, first looked at Wei Ran gratefully, then put away the warmer that had started to heat up, then untied the sack and took out two pieces from it with a trace of guilt.

Half of brown bread.

Kena opened her mouth and wisely did not ask why there was no milk today. Instead, she asked them to go to the basement first, and then urged Alexander to help go to the basement and bring a bucket of hot water up to deal with the mice.

Under the arrangement of this smart little girl, the children became busy again.

Not long after, an enamel pot was set up on the cast iron stove in the basement, which was constantly providing warmth. In this pot, chopped rat meat, a quarter of dried fish, and

Some chopped fat intestines thrown in at Wei Ran's suggestion.

Before the broth in the pot boiled, Lydia played the bayan skillfully, while Kena led the children to sing a song called "Hey! Little Apple" that required some strength.

Maybe it was because the music was cheerful enough, or maybe it was because the children had finally filled their stomachs recently and had some strength. In this pre-dinner concert, the children's voices were finally no longer so weak.

Not only the children, but even Kona, who originally had no energy to sing even one song, not only sang a whole song today, but also started the song "Night in the Harbor" that Alexander and other older children love to sing.

While the children were singing the second song, Ke Na also sat down next to Wei Ran, lowered her voice and asked, "Victor, I have three things to ask you."

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran asked, looking at Ke Na's thin little face that was illuminated by the fire.

"When are we going to bury Mrs. Via?" Ke Na asked the first question almost against Wei Ran's ear.

"I have already buried her today, so I buried her in the original basement. Lydia saw it." Wei Ran replied in a low voice.

"You should have let me go with you."

Kona paused and continued to ask with her ear, "Second thing, Victor, is there a problem with the rationing today? When will we go to the front line to get some food again?"

"Let's finish eating what we brought back first." Wei Ran selectively answered one of the questions, "What's the last question?"

"There are several horse stomach bags among the offal we brought back. I have washed those things, but how are we going to eat them? I have never eaten the stomach of any animal. Although my mother is a good cook, she has never cooked.

Pass the stomach bag, and most importantly, our seasoning only has some coarse salt."

"Leave these little problems to me."

Wei Ran gave a vague response to the last question, "Okay, is it time to take down the meat jelly you made? I'm already hungry."

"I'll pick it up right now!"

Before she finished speaking, Kona had already stood up holding on to the wall and ran towards the concrete stairs leading to the ground with slightly frivolous steps.

"It should be the second time tonight that I'm full, and things are starting to move in a good direction..."

Wei Ran muttered secretly, and then began to think about it. He had been here for nearly a week. After all, he should complete one of the requirements of the return mission and take a group photo for everyone every week. The transcoding has been serious recently.
Chapter completed!