Late at night, everyone gathered in front of the fire to keep warm. Wenwen had already fallen asleep and everyone was feeling sleepy. The ones keeping watch tonight were Jiang Run and Ye Fu. Ye Fu took Fang Wei to the toilet, and his buttocks were almost gone.
Frozen.
"There are still ten days at most. We can see the border in another ten days." Wan Tao calculated the distance and said with great certainty.
"If we could sail the ship, we would probably be back in the country by now." Qi Yuan was baking shoes.
"It's really hard to ride a horse."
"By the way, where are we going after we go back? Are we still going to the northwest?"
Everyone looked at Ye Fu. Ye Fu took a sip of hot water and said slowly, "Just take it one step at a time. I can't tell where is safe now."
"Sigh, I don't know what's going on with the base in the Northeast."
"It's so cold, they probably migrated to the northwest."
Ye Fu lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. The others chatted for a while, and when they were tired, they began to wrap themselves in quilts and fall asleep.
Ye Fu added firewood to the fire, when Jiang Run suddenly came next to her.
"There's a sound from behind, I'll go take a look."
Ye helped him and said, "I'll go with you."
"I'll be back soon. If you warm yourself by the fire here, I won't be in danger." Jiang Run took the gun and immediately got up and went to the back.
"Be safe and whistle when there is danger."
Jiang Run nodded, "I understand, wait for me here and I'll be back soon."
The sparks exploded "Puff, Puff, Puff". Ye Fu picked up the cup and took a sip of hot water. He took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. It was eleven o'clock in the night.
Half an hour later, Jiang Run came back. Looking at the two mammoths following him, Ye Fu's eyes widened.
"Mammoth?"
"Well, that's the sound they make, in a small forest behind."
Jiang Run handed the gun to Ye Fu, found a hemp rope, and tied the two mammoths to the tree stump behind.
"Isn't it said that mammoths are difficult to tame? How did you do it?"
Jiang Run smiled and said, "I have a unique way to deal with animals."
Mammoths looked taller and stronger than elephants. Ye helped him go over and touched their hair.
"I'll go, am I right?" Qi Yuan woke up from peeing. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Ye Fu and Jiang Run whispering not far away, and behind them, there were two large mammoths.
Qi Yuan's startled voice woke up the others. When everyone woke up in a daze and saw the two mammoths, they were all dumbfounded.
"Did you tame it and bring it back?" Wan Tao was so excited that he trotted over. He wanted to touch the mammoth's long hair, but he was afraid that this guy would kick someone.
"Don't be afraid. You can touch them. They have been tamed by Jiang Run and are very docile."
As soon as Wan Tao heard what Ye Fu said, he immediately took action.
"They are really mammoths. You are so amazing."
Others quickly gathered around and looked at the mammoth with great curiosity.
"Let's cut some wood and leaves and let the mammoths carry them. They are very strong and can carry seven to eight hundred kilograms without any problem."
Everyone worked as they were told, without even sleeping. They took machetes and went to the woods behind to cut firewood and branches.
"It won't be too late to cut down tomorrow morning. It's too late now. Let's go to bed early. Mammoths can also eat bark and dead branches." Wan Tao quickly stopped everyone.
"Yeah, let's go chop it down tomorrow morning. They can't run away. Now that we have mammoths, we can stock up on more firewood."
Returning to the fire, everyone chatted for another half an hour before closing their eyes and going to sleep.
Ye Fu and Jiang Run stayed overnight. At five o'clock, Ye Fu woke up the others to chop wood.
When setting off, the mammoth became very docile after being tamed by Jiang Run. It carried hundreds of kilograms of firewood and followed the team obediently.
Two days later, Fang Ming shot two more elk. Now they were reluctant to eat the elk, so they asked Jiang Run to tame them again, and continued on their way with the elk. The elk also carried two bundles of leaves, so it was regarded as bringing its own food.
Now there are sixteen horses, two mammoths, two elk, two snowshoe hares, two squirrels, one colorful bird and one flaming bird in the team.
You can open a zoo.
Ye Fu has been secretly adding supplies to the containers to prevent everyone from worrying about not having enough food and not being able to eat. Don’t go hungry on the road.
The mighty team crossed Linjiang, which had been frozen by ice. When the temperature dropped to minus 63 degrees, they finally saw the boundary marker of the border.
In the heavy snow, Wan Tao and Liu Zhang jumped off their horses and stumbled towards the boundary monument. Two men in their fifties cried bitterly while holding the boundary monument.
Finally came back, finally returned to my hometown.
At this moment, everyone felt equally excited and sad.
Ye Fu wiped away his tears and looked back. Everyone except Jiang Run was crying.
Jiang Run met Ye Fu's gaze and blinked twice politely.
Wan Tao took off the machete hanging from his waist and carefully shoveled off the snow on the boundary monument. The familiar Chinese language appeared in front of everyone. Everyone instantly stood in awe of the boundary monument.
Even though the world is falling apart, it still stands here.
The team rested here temporarily. Ye Fu lit a fire with a magnesium stick, and the others took out pots and pans and began to prepare dinner.
"Let's have hot pot." Qi Yuan suggested.
"When I return to my hometown, I have to have hot pot to celebrate."
"Okay, let's have hot pot."
The iron tripod is set up and a large iron pot is placed on it. After the pot is heated, add sesame oil.
"Sister Xiaoye, why are the mammoths' teeth so big?"
Ye Fu thought for a moment, "Because it is also a type of elephant, a mammoth."
Wenwen nodded, "Then will they give birth to baby elephants?"
"Yes, but these two probably won't, because they are both males."
At this time, bursts of fragrance could be heard from the front of the team. Ye Fu took Wenwen with one hand and Jiang Run with the other hand and returned to the boundary monument.
"The hot pot is ready, let's eat."
It also contained white radish that Ye Fu brought back from Saar City. Looking at the steaming hot pot, everyone hurriedly gathered around it with bowls and chopsticks.
"It would be nice to have lettuce and pea tips."
"Why didn't you say, it would be nice if there were beer and drinks."
"It's delicious now, and it's very warming. Hot pot is indeed the best food to fight the cold."
Everyone chatted while eating. In the end, the big pot of meat was completely eaten, and no soup was left.
After cleaning the pots and pans with snow, eating and drinking enough, everyone was on the road again.
After crossing the boundary markers and border lines, everyone stood in their homeland and felt in a different mood.
"It's not easy. After traveling around in such a long circle, going through life and death, I finally came back. By the way, this is my first time in Northeast China."
"I've been here once before, but I didn't expect that I would be here again under such circumstances."
"Go home."
Although I can't go back to my home in Lancheng, wherever I enter this land, I feel like home.
This chapter has been completed!