However, he worried a lot about the boat. Because the lake would freeze in winter, he did not dare to park the boat in the water. Fortunately, he had to pull the boat ashore every year, and the winch was repairable and still usable. He followed the wooden track to pull the boat ashore.

The boat was pulled ashore and all the sails were stowed away and stored.

No one bothered me all winter. It’s not that no one bothered me, but the herdsmen had winter pastures. There was a lot of snow here, so it was not suitable for winter grazing and living.

When the tourist area was established, most of the herdsmen were moved away, leaving only a few. It is estimated that they have either turned into zombies or hid in the relatively gentle ravines. It is difficult to say whether they will appear again after the spring.

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So how did Hong Tao make a living these years? He couldn't carry enough food for seven years on the plane. Yes, Hong Tao didn't plan to eat compressed biscuits every day. He once told Chu Qiu that if he was the only one left,

People's lives are no better than those in the rescue team.

This is really not bragging, except for the fact that the first winter was a bit embarrassing, and he could only huddle in the cabin and endure the hardship, not daring to go deep into the surrounding mountains to find prey. In the spring, after the ice and snow melted, he also lived.

It's a lot of fun to set up traps, set traps, and make traps. Use thermal imaging cameras and night vision devices to hunt, no matter what wolf or not, whoever comes will be shot with one shot, or two shots at worst.

If I don’t want to eat game anymore, I will go fishing in the lake in a small sailboat. I don’t use any bait at all. The artificial lures will still catch fish. The whitefish and rainbow trout in the water are all delicious.

After eating and drinking enough, put the deck chair on the lakeside and hold up a sun umbrella, and look at the mirror-like lake. You don’t have to think about anyone’s life or death, and don’t worry about the lack of development. Just throw in a few broken biscuits and you’re done.

There will be whooper swans running over to perform water ballet.

It doesn't take a few times. As long as Hong Tao's figure appears by the lake, they will come close to him. Even if Hong Tao goes to the lake to fish, these flat-haired beasts with elegant appearance but actually robbers and thieves will follow closely and wait.

Share the fish heads and entrails you catch. If you don’t give them, steal them. If you can’t steal them, grab them from the hooks!

After the beginning of spring, Hong Tao removed many parts from several staff vehicles in the parking lot of the visitor center, such as radiators, exhaust pipes and metal fuel tanks. After a while of cutting and welding, they were installed in the cabin.

Set of wood and coal-fired heating systems.

The stove uses an oil drum. The inner wall is covered with mud and burned through to form a good insulation layer. A circle of exhaust pipes is welded on the outside. This is the water jacket. When there is a fire, the hot water inside will flow along the exhaust pipe.

It flows to several radiators, and then flows back to continue heating after cooling down. This is the same as earth heating!

The cabin was sealed again and again with materials he dismantled from the visitor center, and was divided into three sections. One section was used as the bedroom, the other section was used as the living room, and the tail cabin was the kitchen. Not only did it have a stove chimney, but there was also an exhaust fan.

Forget about toilets and shower rooms. There are toilets all over the floor. You can go wherever you want to relieve yourself. With so much crystal clear water, why do you need a shower room? In winter? Who said you can’t swim in winter?

If it’s cold...if it’s not cold, then it’s still called winter swimming!

And the next spring he got a neighbor, a local herdsman. It’s strange to say that Sailimu is Mongolian, which translates to the lake on the mountain ridge. But the herdsmen grazing here are basically Kazakh and Kirgiz

clan.

This herdsman is a Kirgiz named Bahati Kerim. He is 15 years younger than Hong Tao. But he is much older. If Hong Tao had not grown a beard, the two of them would look like brothers standing together.

Kerim said that he has three homes. One is in Huocheng County, which was prepared by the government a few years ago. It said that nomadic people are not allowed to settle down. But he is not used to it. For generations, his ancestors have been riding horses and driving sheep to chase water and grass.

, what do the settled sheep eat? The sheep that eat hay and feed have poor fur and poor meat, so they cannot be sold at a high price.

How will the family live without the sheep? So he still grazes here, and goes to the winter pastures deep in the Tianshan Mountains in the east in the winter, and comes back in the spring. Even if the zombie disease infected his wife and two children, he was the only one left.

A person still lives like this. Anyway, he doesn't need anything else except salt.

Kerim, who had just returned from driving sheep and horses in the winter pasture, was frightened when he saw a plane suddenly appeared on the gentle slope of the grassland. He was not afraid of zombies or wild beasts, but he was afraid of someone robbing his sheep and horses.

Horses. Without these livestock, he is useless and can only wait to die.

After two days in the mountains and two days of careful observation, Crimea still couldn't figure out what the Han man was doing in the plane every day. But what was certain was that there was only one person on the other side.

Now he is not afraid. A shepherd is not afraid of anyone one on one. He is not afraid of two people when he drinks a bottle of wine and takes a knife! So he took advantage of the middle of the night and went over there, hoping to catch the man who had invaded his ranch and question him carefully.

, if you are planning to rob the pasture, then kill them!

Naturally, he failed, and was beaten up by Hong Tao. Fortunately, he could speak a few words in Chinese, and even showed his identity with gestures. He was escorted to the back of the mountain and saw the herds of sheep and horses, so he was not slaughtered.

See how important it is to know a foreign language.

Two lonely old men, neither one interferes with the other's business. One herds and the other hunts and fishes, and they complement each other. You get some fish and I get a piece of meat, light a bonfire to roast it, and then drink some wine.

Although the language is not very fluent, there is no need to chat at this time.

From then on, the two people became standard fair-weather friends. Whoever found something delicious would invite the other to enjoy it together, and after eating, they would work together.

Hong Tao has a gasoline saw, and Crimea has a pack horse. This is a pair of bald men. After a long trip up the mountain, a large number of logs were pulled down by the pack horse and dried in the shade for a year, which became the basis for building sheep pens and cabins.

Building materials.

But in late autumn, Kerim still had to leave, driving the sheep to the winter pasture 100 kilometers away, and then return in about May. When he left the next year, Hong Tao gave him a gift, a shotgun and dozens of rounds.

Shotgun.

When Crime came back in the spring, he reciprocated the favor and gave Hong Tao more gifts, including a tall black horse and several deer and goat skins. These were all shot by him on the way and in the winter pasture. With the gun

The herdsmen are simply animal killers.

To put it simply, Hong Tao never left Sailim Lake for the first three years after he arrived. Every day he hunted, fished, repaired cabins, took time to grow some vegetables, and learned from Kerim how to herd and slaughter sheep and horses.

Ma Chang, how can I find a way and live in the mountains and fields? I don’t have time to think about anything else.

Speaking of which, this place is really rich. There are dozens and hundreds of large and small animals such as hares, snow chickens, foxes, lynxes, badgers, goats, antelopes, deer, snow leopards, brown bears, golden eagles, vultures, etc. in the mountains.

There are also spruce and Tasmania trees that block the sky and sun, as well as dozens of kinds of herbs such as caladium, polygonatum, dangshen, snow lotus, etc., for picking wild fruits, mushrooms, logging, and eating and drinking.

But in 2027, Hong Tao had to leave the lake house. His earthen heater was broken. The car radiator was not a radiator after all. The pipes inside were too thin and blocked by scale.

In addition, he also needs to find solar panels and replacement batteries, as well as precious gasoline and diesel. Even if they cannot be used for sophisticated car engines, old tractors and generators can still make do.

Then he saw a different world. In just seven years, the survivors had begun to have a class. The base management was like the nobles in ancient times. They had food, drink, weapons and troops, and they were all well-dressed when entering and exiting.

Driving or riding a horse is a no-brainer.

Technicians and soldiers should be considered middle class. They have houses and families in the base. They can enjoy material rations by paying a certain amount of labor, live a worry-free life, and have the possibility of becoming a noble.

Grassroots workers and farmers will still be workers and farmers even in the end of the world. They are the largest in number, do the most work, and are paid the least. However, they can also enjoy material rations, just in smaller amounts, but they will not starve or freeze.

The ones at the bottom are the unlucky ones who cannot enter the base, but have to live nearby, relying on the small amount of food paid by the base. Some of them were kicked out for various reasons, and some came too late to catch up.

time.
Chapter completed!