"Where is that building?" Selsi asked excitedly.

"You'd better not go, there are a lot of mines there." Paulide reminded nervously, "Captain Mikita, see this little guy."

"Don't worry, Selsi won't run around." As Mikita spoke, he had already raised his gun and started searching the corridor on the second floor where there was no anti-theft sliding door.

Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and the other two men immediately chased after him with their own weapons, and together they helped to inspect half of the corridor on this floor.

Fortunately, apart from the dust, no traces of wild animals were found here.

"Celsi, open the door," Mikita said, pointing to the padlock on the anti-theft sliding door.

"immediately"

Selsi quickly turned off the safety of the rifle, put the gun on his shoulder skillfully, then pulled out the pendant hanging around his neck again, and found a brightly polished key from the leather cord that passed through the bullet casing.

, thrust it into the padlock keyhole on the sliding door.

"I often take it hunting"

Mikita took advantage of Sersi opening the door and greeted everyone as he walked downstairs and said, "This little guy's shooting skills are very good, and he is not severely short-sighted like his father. This summer, he used SKS

The semi-automatic rifle accurately hit a running wild boar 350 meters away."

"Maybe he can be a sniper in the future," Paulide praised. "This marksmanship can make him a sniper."

"No, he has asthma." Mikita shook his head, "Congenital asthma is the same as my sister's. Fortunately, it is not too serious. As long as it is not strenuous exercise, there will be no problem."

"What a pity." Wei Ran sighed and hit a wild boar from a distance of 350 meters. This was really considered a gift.

“It’s nice not to have to join the army.”

Mikita was extremely satisfied. He opened the canvas curtain at the rear of the truck and pulled out a wooden box filled with supplies. "When we find those gems, I'm going to let him become a jewelry maker."

"It seems that you have learned all the crafts from your father?" Wei Ran asked while helping to carry a box and walking upstairs.

"certainly"

Mikita said happily, "I have even prepared various tools, which are now in the basement of Sersi's house. I have been preparing these tools since Brezhnev announced economic reforms. Something happened."

Wei Ran opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just suppressed the feeling of powerlessness in his heart. While listening to Mikita's plan for his future life, he helped move the supplies in the two trucks to the second floor bit by bit.

When they were done, Selsi also briefly cleaned several adjacent rooms with a large brush that he found somewhere, and lit the stove that everyone had brought up in one of the rooms. At the same time, , there was also heavy snow falling outside the window, and the short day had long been replaced by night.

"The bread I baked on the road has been cooked. Let's eat something first and then take a rest. Victor, help me open all those lunch boxes."

While Mikita was speaking, he had already placed a chopping board on the newly cleaned bed, then put a few roasted and fragrant big ribs on it, and cut it into finger-thick slices of bread with a knife.

Inexplicably, Wei Ran couldn't help but think of the sentence "There are few horses and horses in front of the door, and the boss married a merchant's wife." Although the poem is not so appropriate, the former execution captain Mikita now looks more like a middle-aged man. My honest father, if it weren't for the Nagant revolver on his waist, it would be hard to imagine that this man cutting bread had killed at least a thousand prisoners of war.

After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran opened the hot lunch boxes one by one. Suddenly, the strong aroma of food wafted out of the office, which was slowly warming up again.

Thick beetroot soup, surprisingly caloric Russian stew, as well as beef patties with plenty of ingredients and mutton finger rice that is enough to feed everyone.

Before Wei Ran could distribute the food to everyone, Paulide could not wait to place four transparent glasses on the table. While pouring the wine, he said, "Sersi, go and sit on the seat to my left. That is your father's seat." The place where you are used to sitting. This office also belongs to him, so you should treat us like the owner here."

Hearing this, young Selsi rolled his eyes, changed his position obediently, and reached out to the already full glass.

"Celsi, you are not old enough to drink."

Mikita, who was busy opening the can, reminded him without raising his head, "There is a large bottle of kvass in the box I opened. That is for you."

"I'm just helping Uncle Victor carry the wine." Selsi smiled politely but awkwardly, and pushed the cup that had just been moved in front of her to Wei Ran's side.

"I can testify that he really wanted to help me bring more wine glasses." Wei Ran kindly helped the young man block the knife, "Mikita, why did you bring this little guy here?"

"One of those gems belongs to his father, Dr. Gusen, so of course he must be present." Mikita said matter-of-factly, "In addition, Pontiac Nurse also provided help, although she did not know the existence of these gems.

, but I’m still prepared to give her a share.”

"You really should give her a gift. After all, she gave us a truck, right?"

Paulide put down the bottle and continued, "Celsi, fill your glass with kvass. Are you going to let me pour it for you?"

"oh oh!"

Upon hearing this, Selsi quickly bent over and pulled out a glass bottle containing kvass from the box. After opening it skillfully, he poured himself a glass.

Seeing Mikita looking at him, Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "Of course I have no objection either."

"Let's eat"

Mikita smiled, put the pickles he had just taken out of the can on a plate and placed it in the center of the table. He picked up the cup and said, "First cup, cheers for us to return to Mine No. 52!"

"Cheers!" Including the first time here... No, no, strictly speaking, it was not even the first time for Selsi, but he was not born yet at that time.

Regardless of whether it was the first time or not, everyone, including Selsi, raised their glasses and drank the wine or kvass in one gulp. It seemed that everything was different from what it was 15 years ago.

Big difference.

Mikita picked up the wine bottle and poured wine into the three glasses except Selsi. "The second glass of wine, cheers to those gems that have been waiting for us for 15 years!"

"Cheers!" Everyone responded loudly again, drank all the wine in the glass, and then reached out in unison to pick up a pickle, brought it to the tip of their noses, smelled it, and then threw it directly into their mouths.

“Third glass of wine”

Mikita smiled and said, "To our better life in the future. Cheers!"

"Cheers!" Everyone responded again and drank all the wine in the glasses for the third time.

Obviously, these three glasses of wine were just the beginning. In the next hour or so, Mikita and Paulide each drank an entire bottle of vodka, and even Wei Ran was forced to drink half a bottle of wine.

After drinking and eating, Mikita glanced at the sky outside the window, thought for a while and said, "Celsi, after you wake up tomorrow, you and Victor will stay and try to find a way to build a fireplace next door using oil drums. By the way,

Go get some more firewood from the surrounding areas and come back."

"What about you?" Selsi asked as he loosened his belt.

Mikita burped, took out a cigarette, lit it, and said slowly, "Tomorrow, Polyd and I will go to the mine to check the situation. There is no power supply here now, so if we want to find those gems, we just need to

It will take a long time to be able to walk down, but the most important problem is that I am very worried about the water inside the mine and even collapse."

"This is indeed a problem," Paulide agreed with a frown, "We didn't bring any diving equipment."

"You won't have any more headaches after seeing these problems in person tomorrow."

After speaking, Mikita stood up unsteadily and said matter-of-factly, "Celsi, clean the table quickly and find the sleeping bag. Also, you will be on duty tonight."

"oh"

Selsi reluctantly agreed, and quickly pulled the table with messy cups and plates out, then carefully cleaned the floor with a large brush, and filled the stove with the coal he brought, and finally

Then he helped everyone find sleeping bags and laid them out, and at the same time adjusted the brightness of the kerosene gas lamp to the lowest level.

"It seems that you often make this little guy do things." Paulide, who was the first to get into the sleeping bag, said with some envy, "It would be great if my daughter was so obedient."

"My daughter is as obedient as him," Mikita said proudly, "even more obedient than Selsi. Victor, what about you? I haven't even asked, do you have children?"

"No," Wei Ran replied with a yawn.

"In this case, you'd better go to bed early." Mikita said proudly, "You are not qualified to join our conversation."

"I have no interest in joining your conversation."
Chapter completed!