"This is the All-Soviet Radio Station..."

This morning, for the first time, the alarm clock that woke up the Weiran changed from the German shelling to the simple radio, and beside the radio, the little boy named Andre was shaking it hard.

Pedal.

There is no doubt that neither Wei Ran nor the other children who were woken up had any complaints - of course, except for the little baby Galina who slept between Kena and Lidia. However, even this little guy's

The crying and howling were already more powerful than the previous few days.

"Andre, didn't you agree yesterday that I would be the first to be responsible for generating electricity?" Alyosha got up and said dissatisfied.

"I've been awake for a long time and don't want to wait for you anymore."

Andre, who was still shaking his pedals, said happily, "If you want to be the first to generate electricity, you have to get up earlier than me."

Seeing that these children were about to be rolled up, Wei Ran quickly took out a plate of chocolates, stuffed one into each person's mouth as usual, and reminded, "Starting tomorrow, who of you will be under the fire of the German devils?"

Shaking the radio before the sound, I stuffed his chocolate into my own mouth."

Hearing this, Alyosha, who was about to say something, immediately changed his tone and said, "Then we will just crank the generator in the order we agreed on last night."

"If you have the strength, why not go with me to collect firewood from a farther place later."

Kona helplessly reminded the children, "We only have enough firewood to burn today. I'm afraid we won't have enough firewood by this time tomorrow."

Lydia, who had already opened the window shutters, looked at the window that was covered by the snow outside and reminded, "Today is not a good weather."

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately looked over. At this time, the white area outside the window was obviously buried by snow.

Seeing this, he quickly handed the unfinished chocolates to Kona, put on his flying leather hat and gloves, put on his felt boots and ran out of the basement first and opened the locked iron door. For a moment, the cold wind blew.

Snowflakes rushed towards my face, instantly taking away the remaining warmth on the first floor.

Glancing at Lidya who was catching up behind him, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel in the corner and left the room against the cold wind. He was busy cleaning up the snow blocking the basement windows, and at the same time he did not forget to raise the windshield again.

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After clearing the snow around the basement window, when he came back, the children were sitting next to each other at the long table converted from shelves, holding the bone broth that had been cooked all night, and using spoons to

He drank in small sips, and from time to time, he would stuff a piece of aspic into his mouth.

Not only the children, but also the baby in Kona's arms had already hugged the bottle filled with honey water with their young hands.

After taking the bone soup and meat jelly that Lidia handed him, Wei Ran just found a place to sit down when Kena said worriedly, "Victor, Lidia, we have to find a way to get some firewood back today.

Even if we dismantle the chair that can be used as a radio, our firewood will only be able to burn until tomorrow morning or even midnight tonight at best. Even if we burn the bucket of coal, we will only be able to burn it until tomorrow night at best."

"I will think of a way" Lydia made the promise again with difficulty.

"Don't worry too much," Wei Yan put down the hot cup and pointed to the top of his head. "The fuel was actually obtained yesterday."

"What did you say?" Ke Na and Lidya looked at Wei Ran in astonishment.

“This is the second surprise”

Wei Ran smiled and motioned for the two girls to follow him to the first floor. He pointed at the glass jars filled with fuel and said, "I got these from the fuel tank of the German plane yesterday. Kona, you know

The pilot of that plane is still hanging from the wooden beam."

"What did you use to get it back? Why didn't I notice it yesterday?" Lydia asked in surprise.

"Of course it's an oil barrel."

Wei Ran pointed to the sledge placed against the wall with a normal expression. Sure enough, there was an oil drum wrapped in a torn blanket placed beside the sledge.

"It was placed under the chair yesterday. I thought you could find it. Maybe it was too dark in the room at the time."

As he spoke, Wei Ran reached out from the blanket wrapped in the oil drum and took out the two books of "War and Peace" he accidentally picked up yesterday and handed them to Ke Na, "This is what I discovered yesterday. If the child

If they don’t like it, they can at least use it as firewood and throw it into the stove.”

"What stupid thing are you talking about?"

Lydia said angrily, "Although we are living a very difficult life, it is far from the point where we need to burn books to keep warm. And I believe that as long as the weather is a little better, our supply of supplies will definitely be more sufficient than before.

of."

"I think so."

Kona put the two beautifully bound books on the shelf and pointed at the glass jars filled with fuel, "But how to use these fuels? We can't pour them directly into the stove, right?"

"Didn't we pick up a gasoline stove before?"

Wei Ran looked at Ke Na, "Let's make do with that little thing for now. I'll think of a solution in the next two days."

"All right..."

Kona breathed a sigh of relief, "No matter what, we still need enough firewood."

"There will be firewood," Wei Ran said deliberately in a tone of voice, "and there will be bread and horsemeat."

Hearing this, the two originally worried girls immediately smiled and responded in unison with a classic line belonging to Comrade Lenin's guard, "There will be milk, and everything will be there."

Easily building up the confidence of the two girls with a barrel of fuel, the three of them returned to the basement, each drank the bone soup for breakfast, and finished the not-so-delicious meat jelly.

Taking advantage of the warmth brought by the hot soup and the satiety brought by the meat jelly, Wei Ran took the lunch box of Mohe cigarettes that the children had found before and the meat jelly filling a worker's lunch box, and used it as usual

The sledge pulled Lydia and left the warm little house pushed by the cold wind.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Almost before and after, Kona also pulled a sledge truck, took Alexander and Alyosha, and braved the strong wind and got into the surrounding building ruins, like a desperate situation

Like the scavengers in the movie, they are looking for anything that can be used or burned.

More than half an hour later, Wei Ran dragged the sledge to the ruins of the nursing home again.

"Let's go back together tonight," Wei Ran said before Lidya got off the car, "I'm still waiting for you in the basement!"

"No problem," Lidia said, and immediately added, "I will find a way to go back with firewood or coal!"

"I will also think of a solution," Wei Ran also assured the other party.

After bidding farewell to Lidya who left alone, Wei Ran inspected the surroundings as usual, then pulled away the snow that had been carried by the cold wind, and took out the mouse trap hidden in the crevices of the ruins.

The first one is empty, the second one is empty, and the third one is still empty!

Gritting his teeth, Wei Ran rearranged the first three cages and continued to inspect the previously arranged mouse traps.

The fourth, fifth, sixth, and finally the ninth cage, he finally saw a mouse in the cage, a little mouse that was only the size of a duck egg and had long since frozen to death.

Silently, Wei Ran took out the mouse and disembowelled it with increasing proficiency. He also dipped the removed internal organs, which were frozen into ice pimples, with a small amount of honey and hung them again in the mouse trap.

Acts as bait.

After throwing the little mouse into the sack, Wei Ran continued to check. However, the next four cages were still empty and nothing was caught at all.

"One less to make up 11 rats..."

While Wei Ran was cleaning his footprints, he secretly muttered that as long as he caught 11 mice, he would have completed the skill task of mastering the harmonica.

But compared to this task, which he didn't care about at all, he really didn't want to complete another Bayanqin mastery task - even if he had already buried a colleague.

Who will be the next colleague to be buried? Lidya or Kona? Wei Ran sighed secretly, once again escaping this destined to be sad problem.

After leaving the ruins, Wei Ran found a collapsed building that he had not rummaged through before. He first put away the oil drums that had been placed on the sledge, and then began the work of scavenging.

After searching building after building, the most common ones were corpses that had been frozen to death or starved to death. These corpses were generally emaciated, and they were basically old people or children.

Obviously, last night's low temperature helped the people of Leningrad consolidate the ice on Lake Ladoga, but it also claimed many lives.

But at the same time, the fighting outside the city never stopped. From time to time, artillery shells would fly in from outside the city, randomly blowing up certain buildings and taking away some miserable lives.

Silently walking among these frozen and starved corpses, there were two more iron buckets on the sledge behind Wei Ran.

From time to time, he would stop and carefully dig through the already cold embers of the campfire next to the corpse, carefully pick out the charcoal that could still be used as fuel and throw it into the iron bucket that he also picked up.

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When one of the iron buckets was almost filled with charcoal of various sizes, Wei Ran also stopped at the door of a small room with no door.

This room, which seemed to be a storage room, was not very big. The only window was less than half a meter square. To keep warm, several layers of blankets or quilts were hung at the door.

Under the small window that was half blocked by bricks, there was a pile of still smoking bonfire embers against the wall. There were large traces of smoke on the originally white wall.

Beside the bonfire, a woman who looked about the same age as Lydia but looked haggard was sitting on a small blanket against the corner. She was also covered with layers of clothing.

Warm quilt.

On the other side of the bonfire, against the wall, there was a red copper water tank that was about one meter tall, with a small mouth and a big belly, an extremely slender neck and handle, and a metal lid.

Apparently, this household water tank with half of its belly buried in the campfire also doubles as a radiator.

Right above the bonfire, there was an enamel kettle, but what was boiling in the kettle was just a sheepskin glove...

Looking at the dead woman again, Wei Ran noticed that there seemed to be something in her arms.

Gently lifting the layers of blankets wrapped around her body, Wei Ran couldn't help but clenched his fists. In this woman's arms, there was a baby not much older than Galina.

The baby still held the woman's head in its mouth, but the baby's back, chest and even the woman's chest were all stained red with blood. The woman's hand, which was also hidden under the blanket, was still holding

Armed with a double-action Nagant revolver...

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran silently wrapped the mother and son, who had chosen to free themselves, with a blanket again.

After a moment's hesitation, he took away the one-meter-high water tank, moved to another room, emptied the almost frozen ice water, and placed it on the sledge truck, like an inexperienced murderer.
To be continued...