Chapter 497 The shelter is slowly getting better and the cooking competition(1/2)
Ever since adding a roof to the originally open-air basement, Wei Ran and others have never been out unless necessary, and their main activities every day have also become excavating the accumulated soil and charcoal, as well as gravel mixed in it.
In the geographical sense of the four of them, the covered roof has now been covered with a thick layer of soil and snow that is enough to blend with the surrounding environment.
And in the warmer basement, no, maybe it can be called an underground shelter at this time. Now, most of the area in this underground shelter has been cleared.
Not only could everyone stand straight, but they even dug a one-meter-wide entrance and exit on the wall facing them when they came.
Not only were the sides of the entrance and exit reinforced with collected wooden sticks, but the remaining canvas and wooden boards were also installed with a wooden door that was enough to block the cold wind.
Not only that, on the side next to the wooden door, Dorian, who transformed into a mason, also built a fireplace with a chimney with a chimney with a large amount of mud mixed with pine needles and dug out stones.
In order to eat bread early, Dorian even built a small oil bucket he had found in the fireplace and made an oven that was quite effective.
The price of all this is that the small wooden board hanging on the chimney of the fireplace has been marked with a "北" symbol and a "北" symbol with charcoal.
In other words, this was the eighth day they had arrived here. The hour hand on the watch on Kantan's wrist had been 16 and a half circles. For such a long time, neither Quentin nor the German pursuers had been found, but the people hiding in the shelter were living more and more comfortable.
In the warm shelter baked by an uninterrupted fire, everyone was wearing thin knitted clothes, and the frostbite on everyone was covered with thick bear fat with a slight pine fragrance. And almost everyone was surrounded by a can of iron flaming flames as limited lighting.
After building the chimney, Dorian, who had recovered from the cold, turned into a carpenter again. At this time, he was busy making a third bed with a few log piers and wooden boards as thick as thighs. Not only that, he carefully nailed a thin layer of wood boards on the burnt log walls around these beds.
Also not idle, Kantan, who had scabbed wounds on his legs, was holding a Finnish hunting knife and carefully cutting a wooden sole that was five centimeters thick.
After comparing the size of another shoe next to it, Kantan nodded with satisfaction, picked up a piece of long canvas and a piece of bear skin cut into the size of a sole, with the canvas underneath, and the furry side of the bear skin was laid on the top on the wooden sole.
Immediately afterwards, he took a piece of cylindrical brown bear hind legs that was originally worn on Gael's feet, pressed the edge of one end on the sole of the canvas and bear skin insoles, and this was not over yet. Then he brought a piece of cut canvas and bear skin to cover it.
Align all the parts, Kangtan took out a few of the smallest nails found in the oil barrel from the iron box beside him, picked up the axe beside him, and carefully smashed them along the edge of the sole of the wooden shoe.
After finishing trimming, Kanten nodded with satisfaction, picked up another shoe beside him, raised his head and shouted at Gail who was swinging his pickaxe, "Gal, come and try your shoes."
“It’s done?”
Upon hearing this, Gale immediately dropped the tools in his hand and turned around and walked over. Wei Ran, who was also digging and chiseling the soil with a shovel, also came over.
"Try it!"
Kangtan's face, wearing bear fat, was a little oily. "I used a layer of canvas and a layer of bear skin, and the upper was an extra layer of canvas and a layer of bear skin, and the wooden sole was thick enough. I can guarantee that I wouldn't feel cold even if I walked in the snow all day."
Upon hearing this, Gale immediately sat on the newly paved wooden floor and untied the canvas wrapped around his feet.
"Victor, teach me how to tie my foot bindings."
Gale took a piece of clean fabric handed over by Kantan for help. The fabric used to bind the feet came from the torn clothes they wore before they escaped from the clutches of the German army. In the past few days, Kantan had already carefully steamed and cleaned them with the help of the metal box and boiled snow water. Of course, in addition to binding the feet, the other function of these fabrics was to bandage the wounds.
"Put some bear fat on the frostbite on your feet first."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he was already sitting on the floor full of wood chips, took off his boots, unbuttoned his foot binding cloth, and after Gail applied bear fat, he patiently guided him to wrap the fabric around his feet.
After wrapping the foot binding cloth according to Wei Ran's method, Gail put on his first bearskin wooden shoes without receiving it. Then, under the guidance of Kantan, he tied the shoes tightly with a long strip of canvas nailed to the bottom of the sole.
He put on his second shoe as he did. Gale tried to walk two steps, sat down again and looked at the furry upper and said with satisfaction, "The feet are soft and warm, but the soles are a little hard, but they are already very comfortable!"
"It's a wooden sole after all," Kang Tan said with a smile, "but you look a lot taller."
"This is true," Gale grinned. The shoes were five centimeters thick in the wood sole, not to mention that they had thick bear skin inside.
"I just finished the third bed, too."
Dorian said as if he was asking for credit, "Give me a few more hours, and just make another bed, all of us will not have to sleep on the floor."
Hearing this, Wei Ran sat on the wooden bed that had just been made and tried, and said with a smile, "Let's sleep with Gael first. After you make a bed for me, we will get some wooden boards and try to wrap the surrounding walls together."
"Apart from the lack of windows, this place is more comfortable than my home." Dorian couldn't help but exclaim, "Let me leave these tasks! Although I am not a carpenter, it's very simple to make a bed."
"Dorian, can you get one more bed?" Gale asked suddenly.
"Get one more?" Dorian looked at Gale in confusion.
Gale was silent for a moment, then picked up the pickaxe again and said, "Maybe when will Quentin find us?"
"Leave it to me!" Dorian made a promise without hesitation, "I will help Brother Quentin make a bed too."
After looking at Dorian and Kangtan, Wei Ran sighed secretly. He finally knew why there were one more bed than the corpse when it was discovered here in later generations.
"Gal, get some food." Wei Ran stood up and walked to Gail's side, "I'll continue digging, you can get some food."
"Barbecue?" Gale asked immediately, "Dorian's oven is very useful and can be made out soon."
"Or change?" Kangtan suggested helplessly, "We have eaten broth and barbecue for a week, and now I can't even pull out the shit."
"We only have onion potatoes and bear meat." Gail flipped through the wood box next to the fireplace, "and five cans of German left."
"Eat cans," Dorian begged.
"It's better to eat broth"
Kangtan's tone became more and more helpless, "You have to keep the cans, they can be kept for a long enough time, so let's just put some potatoes and onions in it. I've almost eaten enough bear meat."
"Then let's get the broth." Gail was also quite distressed. "Our seasonings are only salt and not much cheese, otherwise we would definitely make it better."
I had known it, I would have taken out the seasonings in the food box in advance...
Wei Ran secretly regretted that the seasonings in the food box are now quite a lot of assorted as tea and even chocolate, and there is even a full barrel of beer, but he can't find a suitable excuse to take them out.
Thinking about the onion potato stewed bear meat that had been eating for a week, Wei Ran angrily swung his pickaxe and slammed it hard on the surface of the already slightly softened soil.
"Crash"
This was different from usual movement and immediately attracted everyone's attention. Wei Ran immediately took out the flashlight that had been in his pocket and turned on.
When the slightly dim beam shone on the position where Wei Ran had just knocked, everyone saw a hole that was only the size of a washbasin.
“It hasn’t completely collapsed here”
Dorian came over and lay on the ground and looked in, "Just like the bear cave, there is a triangular space inside, but it's very small, I'll climb in and take a look."
"I'll do it"
Wei Ran grabbed Dorian and pulled him behind him. He was worried about how to take out the food box. This might be a rare opportunity.
"But I'm more..." Before Dorian finished speaking, Wei Ran had already picked up the pickaxe again and sled gently at the edge of the hole that had just appeared.
There was another rustling sound, and a few pieces of gravel fell off, and the hole finally became larger. Pulling away the pried stone, Wei Ran handed the pickaxe to Dorian, and explained, "I have been digging here before, so I probably know where to take the force. If you go in, it will be troublesome if you touch something and get buried inside."
After saying that, Wei Ran had not waited for Gael, who had already come over, to open his mouth and then lay down and carefully crawled in.
Just as Dorian said just now, this place is much smaller than the bear cave that once lived in a short time. Even if he could climb in, it would be particularly difficult to squat up.
However, although the space here is pitifully small, he discovered a lot of interesting things.
First of all, on the wall facing him, in addition to a string of rusty animal clips, there were two kerosene lamps that looked pretty good, and a milky yellow enamel kettle with a lid that looked quite large.
But compared to these, the most conspicuous thing is an enamel bathtub that is pressed upside down on the edge.
"No wonder there is a bathing task. It turns out that I'm waiting here..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, looked back at the tight hole blocked by him, and after hesitating for a moment, he struggled to pull off the enamel kettle hanging on the wall, and then moved towards the bathtub, and then took out the food box from the metal notebook.
He opened the lid of the kettle and looked at it. He confirmed that there was nothing dirty inside. Wei Ran took out the seasonings from the food box and a pack of jasmine tea that was also wrapped in paper and threw it in. After hesitating for a while, he threw a few pieces of chocolate wrapped in baking paper into it, and then he put away the food box with satisfaction.
"Victor, what's going on inside?" Gale asked worriedly behind him.
"I'm not lucky, I found some good things." Wei Ran responded to the other party, and took down the beast clips and kerosene lamps, and crawled out a little bit.
"What did you find?" Dorian asked impatiently.
"Some beast clips"
Wei Ran raised his upper body and handed the string of rusty beast clips to the other party. Then he took out a kerosene lamp and handed it to Gail. "And there is a kerosene lamp. Now we finally don't have to guard the choking can box."
"It's indeed a good thing!" Gail took the kerosene lamp in surprise and checked it over and over again, "I'll go outside and try it out later."
"I'll go later, I'm going to urinate." While taking on the errand, Wei Ran also took out the crucial enamel pot. "I also found an enamel pot, which seemed to be something in it."
"What?" Now, even Kangtan came over.
"Let me open it and see"
Wei Ran brought the enamel pot to the edge of the fireplace, took out the paper bag he had just put in by the fire, and said in surprise, "It seems that we can eat something else, which is full of spices. There seems to be tea, sugar and... chocolate!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Is God living in that cave?" Dorian asked dumbly.
"I don't know if there is God in it?"
Wei Ran had already divided a few chocolates for everyone while he was speaking, "But there was a bathtub in it. When we dig it up completely, maybe we can all take a hot shower."
"The bathtub? There is a bathtub in it?"
Now, the other three people all stared at each other. Speaking of which, for more than a week, because they really didn't have any decent containers, they only found a piece of cloth and wiped their bodies with the hot water burned by the two steel helmets on the fireplace.
Now that we have solved the problem of food and clothing, if we can still take a hot bath, it will definitely be the best comfort for them in this winter night.
"Although I don't know if that bathtub can still be used, we can dig it out first."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already put the spices and tea leaves that had just been taken out of the kettle into the metal box by the fireplace. "Dorian, go outside and brush the enamel pot with snow. I'll fill the oil lamp. Gail, how about you help me get some brown bear's intestines?"
"Brown bear's intestines?" Gail looked up at Wei Ran, "What are you going to do? Are you making Lyon sausage?"
"Lyon sausage?"
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the cat in this shelter was a group of authentic French people. To be more precise, this was a group of foodies who dared to eat and could eat blood like Chinese people.
"Not a big Lyon sausage, but it should taste just as delicious."
To be continued...