"Drink it" Wei Ran interrupted the other party without any explanation, even his tone had a hint of seriousness and madness!
Mrs. Via was stunned, sighed feebly, put the small cup of honey to her mouth with a distressed expression, took a symbolic sip and said, "Victor, those children need..."
"I need you to drink it." As Wei Ran spoke, he cocked the hammer and put his hand on the trigger.
Hearing this, Mrs. Via sighed, put the cup to her mouth again with a wry smile, and drank the thick, sweet and energy-rich honey inside into her mouth bit by bit.
"Mrs. Weiya, the children need you to survive." Wei Ran said as he slowly released the hammer in front of the other party, and refilled the bullet chambers that had been emptied in advance one by one with bullets.
"Food, fuel, I'll figure it out, you're responsible for leading the children to survive."
"you…"
"Don't worry, I won't let any child here starve to death." Wei Ran made a serious promise.
Hearing this, Mrs. Weiya showed a reassuring smile, and then tears fell from the corners of her eyes.
"Crying also requires physical exertion."
Wei Ran, who reloaded his pistol with bullets, pointed to the enamel cup in the opponent's hand, "I guess you don't mind scraping the honey out with your fingers and eating it all into your mouth, right?"
Hearing this, Mrs. Via, who was almost choking just now, couldn't help but laugh. She used her slightly frostbitten fingers to carefully scrape out the remaining honey from the cup and put it into her mouth, which had not eaten for a long time.
After finishing the cup full of honey and allowing Wei Ran to fill the enamel cup with hot water and drink it, she picked up the sleeping baby in the box and said, "Tell me who she is.
What's going on? I haven't seen such a young child for a long time."
"Her name is Galina Valentinovna Eitman. She was born on September 9, 1941. Her father is Valentin Petnovitch Eitman of the horse-drawn sleigh transport team."
Shopping l has no taste, eating is very busy, the knife is burning, the sound is low, and the yellow is coming back
Weiyu Wu whispered the important information that Hasheng Bo had forgotten along the way, and then briefly described what happened before.
"Valentin, I know Valentine. He used to be a postman at the post office. He was a very strong and good young man." Mrs. Via sighed, "He...he is dead."
"What did you say?" Wei Ran was stunned. "He is dead, about half a month ago."
Via gently put the baby she had just picked up in the blanket next to the stove, and let her lie side by side with the little guy who liked to eat his fingers. Then she motioned to Wei Ran to put the remaining meat in the enamel basin.
The soup, as well as the hind legs of the unknown animal, were poured into the pot on the fire, and the pot was refilled with water and a small amount of coarse salt was added.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After everything was done, Mrs. Via sat down next to the baby Galina and continued to whisper, "My Belia is also pulling the sleigh.
Transport team, he mentioned Valentine to me. It was about half a month ago. His horse-drawn sleigh fell into an ice hole. He... what a good young man..."
'His sacrifice was worth it'
Wei Ran responded in a pale tone. After thinking for a while, he pretended to take out his wine bottle from his pocket and handed it to Mrs. Weiya, "This is the honey I found. I'll give it to you..."
"You take care of it"
Via made a decision before Wei Ran finished speaking, "Victor, don't do anything stupid like that just now. We must prioritize ensuring that these children survive."
"What day is today?" Weiran asked abruptly. "What day is it?"
Via was stunned, then shook her head, "I don't know, I haven't paid attention to these things for a long time, but there is a loudspeaker at the intersection not far from us, and it will tell the time every day. If you want to know the accurate time
On the date, you can go there and listen to it tomorrow morning."
"You always know what year it is now, right?" Wei Ran asked in a joking tone.
"I'm only sixty years old, so I'm not old enough yet."
Via gently stroked the heads of the two little guys beside her and said, "1942, it must be 1942 now, but I'm not sure whether it's January or February."
"The days have been so long..." Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. "Yeah..." Mrs. Weiya also sighed. "I'll go and move the other things in."
As he spoke, Wei Ran turned around and left the warm basement room, pushed open the door, raised the curtain, and climbed up the broken steps to the first floor again.
First, he brought all the wooden boxes containing coal and firewood into the room. Then he dragged the wooden beams and the sledge truck into an abandoned room on the first floor. Then he took down the iron bucket that still had some embers.
With the warmth provided by the embers, I patiently used the rusty saw to cut the wooden beams into lengths suitable for burning.
By the time he finished his work, the starving and blackout city had completely fallen into darkness and silence. At this time, even the front lines unknown how far outside the city seemed to have temporarily ceased fire.
After moving the sections of wooden beams to the room in the basement dedicated to stacking firewood, Wei Ran did not rest. Instead, he pulled the sledge truck and left the ruins of the building again, heading towards the state-owned store that had been shelled for the second time.
At this time, he was also so hungry that his chest was touching his back, but he was just hungry rather than weak from hunger, so he had to do as much as possible while his body still had strength, otherwise, he would wait for him and see him.
When all the people arriving are weak, the task of finding fuel, which is not easy at all, will become an extremely difficult task.
He hurried and hurried along, and when he returned to the bombarded state-owned store, someone was already there searching for wood in the dark, and Fennette's house had completely collapsed, exposing more wood.
Without wasting any time, Wei Ran rushed forward with a saw, found a wooden beam that no one had touched yet, and started pulling the saw up and down.
"There's a body there"
In the darkness, someone murmured something, but immediately afterwards, the ruins fell into silence again, with only the sound of saws being pulled and the sliding of bricks and tiles being stepped loose.
After an unknown amount of time, those who had gained something each left here with a long or short section of wooden beams. A little later, Wei Ran also dragged the wooden beams he had worked hard to saw to the sledge outside the ruins.
.
However, just as he was about to leave, he noticed that two people walked into the ruins quickly, and he could vaguely see that they seemed to be holding something in their hands.
..
Wei Ran's heart sank, and he chased after him without thinking. At the same time, he handed the Nagant revolver from his left hand to his right hand, and a flashlight immediately appeared in his left hand.
"This is what I just saw. His blood hasn't even flowed out yet!" In the darkness, a person whispered urgently.
"Shhh! Keep your voice down! If you get caught, you might be shot!" Another person yelled in a slightly panicked voice.
"If you plan to take action, I will shoot now." Wei Ran said, and turned on the flashlight, illuminating the two people with rosy faces but looking at him in horror.
Deliberately shaking the revolver in his other hand in front of the flashlight beam, Wei Ran turned off the flashlight and said fiercely, "I remember your looks. If you don't want to die, go report to the front line now!"
"
As soon as he said these words, the two people immediately collapsed on the ground, and the knife held in one of them's hands also crashed onto the ruins that still smelled of gunpowder smoke.
"Get lost!" Wei Ran snorted coldly, and the two people immediately rolled and crawled away from here.
"Female Fennet...Comrade Fennet, we meet again..." Wei Ran sighed secretly, walked to the place where the two people just stayed, and pulled the young mother Fennet from the still intact fireplace.
He took it out, then pulled out the blanket spread in the fireplace, unfolded it, carefully wrapped the body that seemed to have no weight at all, and carefully placed her on the sledge truck.
Wei Ran, who was acting as a law enforcement officer, also did not dare to waste time and left here pulling the sledge and the wooden beams tied to the sledge again.
This time, the length of the wooden beams he sawed was about three meters, which was undoubtedly a huge gain. However, compared with these, how to place Fennet's body gave him a problem.
After thinking about it, he simply returned to the ruined building and after habitually making sure that there was no tail behind him, he climbed up to the third floor with Fennet's body and placed her side by side with the body on the third floor.
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"Your child is downstairs, don't worry."
Wei Ran muttered goodbye to the mother again, turned around and went downstairs, sawed the wooden beam into two pieces and carried it to the basement.
Ignoring his growling stomach, he left the ruins again. However, when he rushed to the state-owned store again, he couldn't find anything useful at all, and it was completely dark.
The weather and the blackout regulations also made it impossible for him to see the surrounding situation clearly, let alone turn on the flashlight for a long time at the risk of being shot by law enforcement as a spy.
In desperation, he could only go back the same way empty-handed this time. After hiding the sledge, he got into the warm but crowded basement.
Lying down against the wall on one side of the door, Wei Ran looked at the slowly burning fire in the distance and the sleeping children. He gradually closed his eyes and fell asleep hungry.
That night, he did not dream, but he inevitably woke up again and again due to stomach cramps. From time to time, he saw the girl playing the bayan adding firewood to the stove in the middle of the night, and saw her giving the children
Even with him covered with a blanket.
When he woke up again, he happened to hear Mrs. Via feebly introducing the little baby who was sent here by Wei Ran last night. The young girl who sang to the children yesterday was now putting on the stove.
I was filling the enamel pot with water, but the girl who played the bayanqin yesterday was missing.
"Sister Ke Na, today's soup tastes better than yesterday's." A little boy who looked about six or seven years old, although his voice was weak, still tried hard to show a smile with missing front teeth.
"This is thanks to Galina who just joined us last night." The little girl who sang Katyusha last night deliberately picked up the boiled and almost boneless hind legs of an unknown animal with a spoon and showed it to the children.
With a smile on her face, she encouraged the children in a nice voice, "Look, Jialina's mother brought us such a big leg!" "Wow--" The children who were drinking the eight-hand broth immediately
They let out a weak exclamation. Obviously, the piece of meat that was almost cooked was a huge temptation for them.
"Why is there one missing?"
Wei Ran took the enamel cup handed to him by the girl named Ke Na and asked. Although this girl was as hungry as skin and bones, she didn't seem to be very old. If Wei Ran were to estimate, she might be sixteen years old.
Seven years old is considered too old.
"Sister Lydia has gone to work," Jana said feebly, while also filling Mrs. Via a cup of broth with not much oil at all.
"Can you tell me about her job?"
"She is the statistician in charge of food rationing, don't you know?" Ke Na looked at Wei Ran in confusion, and then poured herself a bowl of broth with no visible meat at all.
"Of course I know she's a statistician"
Wei Ran deliberately took a sip of the hot soup and waited until he swallowed it before adding, "I mean, do you know her previous job?"
"Looks like an accountant from the Soviet Bank"
Kona responded uncertainly, then turned to look at Mrs. Via next to her, "Grandma Via must know, she used to work in the Soviet Bank."
"Lydia used to be a bank teller"
Via carefully fed broth to the little guy in her arms who liked to eat her fingers and said, "But I didn't know her before. I had reached retirement age before the war started, and she had just started working.
.”
Having said this, Mrs. Via looked at Wei Ran and said, "Victor, give Galina some honey. She is too young to drink broth."
"No problem," Wei Ran said, and once again used the cover of his clothes pocket to take out the wine bottle containing honey.
At the same time, Mrs. Via had already prepared a milk bottle that she didn't know where it came from and handed it to the surprised Kona.
"Where did you get the honey?"
Kona, who had obviously just learned the news, asked in surprise. At the same time, she took the bottle and poured some hot water into it. Then she shook it quickly with her hand, poured the water out, and poured some more.
The hot water was handed to Wei Ran.
"Found it yesterday at Galina's house"
Wei Ran took the milk bottle and unscrewed it as usual, then picked up the portable wine bottle, and slowly poured out an amber filament under the envious gazes of all the little ones, including Ke Na.
When the sweet, sticky filaments dropped into the bottle and dissolved in the misting hot water, all the children and Kona couldn't help but swallowed with a "gurgling" sound.
"Okay, Victor, that's enough." Mrs. Via reminded, "That honey is all her food, we have to..."
"Do not worry"
Wei Ran responded with a smile that made the other party feel uneasy no matter what, and let some honey flow into the bottle. Then he slightly raised the spout of the wine bottle, and used the rubber nipple to wipe off the outside of the spout.
Some remaining honey.
He tightened the lid and shook it gently until the temperature was almost the same, then he handed the glass bottle to Via.
While Via was feeding Galina the honey water, Wei Ran also put away the wine bottle with honey in the eyes of the other children with disappointment.
"Let me see, who has finished drinking their own broth?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, "Those who have finished drinking, please turn your enamel cups bottom up for me to see."
"Victor, what are you going to do?" A little boy said weakly, "Grandma Via said that we should move as little as possible, which will make us less hungry."
"I'd like to buy you a drink"
Wei Ran pretended to put his hand into his cotton coat, and after some exaggerated fumbling, he took out a British Army P44 kettle in a canvas cover.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Okay, kids, now let me pour some delicious things into your cups, and then let me take a picture of each of you.
Sample?"
"What is it?" a little girl said, not forgetting to lick away a drop of transparent broth dripping from the enamel cup in her hand.
“Of course it’s a good thing”
Wei Ran ignored Via's questioning look, patted the kettle in his hand and said, "Okay, everyone prepare their own cups. Mrs. Via, and Kona, you also have a share. As for Galina,
Forget it, she's too young to drink this."
"Victor, there is..."
"It's just black tea," Wei Ran quickly gave an obviously perfunctory answer before Mrs. Weiya could ask.
Soon, the enamel cup in the hands of the first little guy was half full. The enamel cups used by these children were all of the same model, and according to the label on them, the total capacity was only 200 ml.
Thanks to the fact that these enamel cups, which were probably used for drinking, had a 100ml mark at the waistline, Wei Ran was able to ensure that they were fair enough.
He poured a full 100 ml of hot cocoa for each child in turn. After shaking the kettle, he first poured a third of Jana's cup and supervised her to drink it all. Then he walked to Via.
Beside the wife, she looked at him with a smile.
Hearing this, Mrs. Via sighed helplessly and stretched out her cup.
He also poured a third of the cup for the other party and supervised that she drank it into her stomach. Wei Ran shook the almost empty water bottle again and said, "Keep the rest for Lidya."
"Victor, what should we do tomorrow?" Kona asked while sucking the last drop of hot cocoa in the cup. "Let me figure out the food."
While Wei Ran stuffed the kettle into his arms, he secretly took it back into the metal book, and then said, "I picked up a camera in the state-owned store yesterday. I'll go get it back and take a picture for everyone!
"one
"Why did you pick up so many things?" Kena said with great regret, "If I had known, I wouldn't have been lazy and went with you yesterday."
Hearing this, Wei Ran's heart trembled, and he had roughly guessed who brought the baby Galina back in the history without him.
"I was lucky yesterday." Wei Ran had already walked to the door as he spoke, "I'll get the camera back and I'll take pictures for you later."
With that said, Wei Ran deliberately did not look at Weiya, endured hunger and quickly walked out of the room and climbed to the first floor.
After confirming that the sledge truck was still there, he deliberately waited for a while, then took the Rolleiflex camera he took out from the metal book, opened the cotton curtain, opened the door and walked in again.
After only a moment, he discovered that Via was holding a steaming blue towel and carefully wiping each child's cheeks and hands, while Kona was helping the children tidy up their clothes.
After picking up the dry pine needles hanging on top of their clothes, they also randomly took out a brightly colored Budyonni hat from the box and put it on the heads of these little guys who were shaking when they walked.
"Let's go outside and take pictures," Mrs. Via, who was still weak, suggested while holding the baby Galina. "Let's go outside and take pictures in a sunny place."
