Before the sun rose, Wei Yan pulled Kona and the two sledges and finally met Matvei who was waiting for them at the intersection on time.
Contrary to what he and Kona expected, what was waiting for them along with Matvey actually included the dog who could only do arithmetic problems.
At this time, the dog was not only wearing a cotton-padded coat that was obviously specially sewn for him and could wrap around his body, buttocks and even neck. He was also wearing thick little shoes on his four legs. He even wore a pair of shoes on his face.
Modified German style goggles.
"Is this little guy planning to assassinate Mustache?" Wei Ran pointed at the dog that only had its tail hanging out of the cotton coat and asked jokingly, "I think it still needs a wave.
Posa submachine gun."
"When I have the opportunity, I will equip Joseph with a Bobosha submachine gun." Matvey said humorously, "But now its mission is to help us find horse meat."
"Can he find horse meat?" Kena asked in surprise. "Of course he can."
Matvey said proudly, "Before the Germans surrounded this place, I taught him how to perform a game of finding things. Finding horse meat was not a difficult thing for him."
"His cotton-padded clothes look good," Wei Ran praised sincerely. "I made them myself."
Matvey was dragging his sledge and replied as he walked, and the dog named Joseph also wisely helped push the sledge behind - just like when he performed a baby push for the children.
Same as the car.
"Good boy, go and sit in the car." After finishing speaking, Matvey whistled.
After receiving the order, the dog nimbly jumped onto the sledge, wagging its tail and got into the small den wrapped with a canvas cover.
"What a sensible little guy," Kena, who was also sitting on the sledge, couldn't help but admire. "After the war is over, I will raise a dog as smart as this."
"Wait until the war is over"
Matvey said hopefully, "When Joseph finds a female dog that he likes and has puppies, I will give you one. I guess it will be in the spring."
"I'm waiting for that spring," Kona said with a smile. "Compared to that spring," Wei Ran pointed straight ahead, "Matvey, how long will we go?"
"It's about four or five kilometers away," Matvey replied. "We won't be able to start walking back until noon at the earliest."
"Have you eaten?" Wei Ran asked suddenly.
Matvey was stunned, nodded and said, "I have eaten, of course I have. I ate a particularly fat mouse and a piece of black bread I received yesterday evening."
"Kona, give me the bag."
Wei Ran said, but stopped, took the canvas bag handed by Ke Na, rummaged through it and found a round box that he had ventured to plunder from the wreckage of the plane not long ago, and handed it to Ma, who also stopped.
Tevey. "What is this?" Matvey did not rush to take the box. "It was just found in the wreckage of the plane we met last time."
Wei Ran passed the box in his hand forward, "Take it, it's German chocolate. This kind of chocolate is so bitter that children can't eat it at all."
"Uncle Matvey, take it."
While taking the canvas bag from Wei Ran, Kona helped to comfort her, "Although Victor found everything, we are all from Leningrad, so we should help each other, right?"
"Well...okay then" Matvey hesitated for a moment, and finally took the round iron box in Wei Ran's hand.
After giving away this small gift that might save lives, the two of them continued to pull the sledge and the passengers on the sledge, heading out of the city over the snow in the night.
As they advanced step by step, the surrounding buildings became more and more dilapidated, but even so, they could still see faint firelight or steaming smoke from some buildings from time to time.
"That building is so complete," said Kona, who was sitting on the sledge, pointing to the looming outline of a building diagonally ahead.
"Astoria Hotel" Weiran and Matvey gave the same answer in unison.
"I am also from Leningrad," Kona reminded, "I
Of course I know it's the Astoria Hotel."
"Mustache's 40th Winter declared that it would take seven months to capture Leningrad"
Wei Ran did not hide the sarcasm in his tone at all, "He also announced that the city was going to hold a celebration banquet at the Astoria Hotel. It is for this reason that the German artillery and aircraft have been avoiding there."
"Capture Leningrad?"
Matvey snorted coldly, and then said in unison with Kena, "Don't even think about it!"
"In the worst case, I'll go to the battlefield too."
Kona said matter-of-factly, "Unless he kills me, I will never allow that bastard to go to the Astoria Hotel to hold a celebration party. When I was admitted to the Leningrad Conservatory of Music, my father took me and my mother to eat there.
We had a meal once, and our family only ordered beetroot soup and pomfret pie.”
"I haven't eaten there yet," Matvey said regretfully. "There will definitely be a chance in the future." Wei Ran rubbed his stomach in an exaggerated manner, "I'll get hungry if you talk about that restaurant again.
Now let’s speed up a little bit.”
"makes sense"
Before Matvey finished speaking, he had already taken steps, trying to increase his speed. At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly opened the chocolate box Wei Ran had just given him, and broke off one of the round chocolates into eighths.
He stuffed a piece of it into his mouth.
Before he could put the lid back on the tin box into his coat pocket, the chocolate in his mouth had already released a bit of bitterness, a strong sweetness, and the unique aroma of coffee.
"Didn't you say it was bitter..." Matvey murmured to himself in the biting cold wind, and at the same time glanced gratefully at Wei Ran, who was about two meters behind him.
Even with the help of this box of chocolates, Matvey, who is exhausted, needs to stop and sit on the sledge to take a rest every half hour at most. Not only him, but also Alone, who has only been hungry for a few days, and there are some problems every day.
As an energy supplement, Wei Ran also secretly stuffed a piece of chocolate he brought into his mouth while he was resting.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As they hurriedly hurried, the sky gradually became brighter, and they also heard the increasingly clear sound of artillery fire, gunshots and vague shouts of death coming from the front.
Voice.
"The front is our position."
Matvey pointed straight ahead, and then released Joseph, the dog in human-like clothes. At the same time, he kept explaining, "After our troops and horses are killed in battle, there will be soldiers dragging them to the back of the position."
After cutting it up, the edible meat will be sent to the field kitchen, and the inedible meat will be discarded at will, and the location of the discard is not fixed, so we need Joseph to help us."
With that said, Matvey patted Joseph's butt gently, "Good boy, go ahead."
After receiving the order, the dog immediately rushed out, first circled a few downed birch trees in the distance and peed, then arched his nose and started searching.
"There are so many firewood here," Kona said while looking at the fallen trees around her.
"It's not worth dragging them back. They're too heavy and they're too far away from you."
Matvey said, having dragged his sledge to the edge of an abandoned trench and stopped, "Let's take shelter here first. Joseph will come to us after he finds it."
After following the opponent and climbing down the trench, Matvey wrapped his blanket tightly and leaned against the cold trench wall. Then he fumbled and took out the cigarette case Weiran had given him, pulled out a cigarette from it and gave it to him.
Wei Ran and Ke Na both shook their heads, then put the cigarette into their mouths, held the lighter with their hands and lit the cigarette.
For a moment, the abandoned trench fell into silence, and Ke Na subconsciously moved closer to Wei Ran, while constantly moving her feet to try to keep herself warm.
"Will Joseph be in danger?" Kona couldn't help but ask before Matvey finished smoking a cigarette.
"Don't worry, it won't happen." Matvey was confident enough, "It has been here many times."
Hearing this, Ke Na nodded silently and continued to move her feet to resist the cold.
I have been waiting for almost half of this excruciating time.
At one hour, the dog named Joseph flew over the head, kicking down some snow at the same time.
“It’s good luck that I found it so quickly.”
As Matvey spoke, he was the first to stand up and crawl out of the trench. He took something out of his pocket and put it to the dog Joseph's mouth. After he ate it, he gently patted the furry dog's head.
.
Under the leadership of this dog, a group of three people dragged the sledge truck in the side direction for almost 20 minutes. The dog who led the way sat down on a wooden pile.
Next to the wooden pile, you can clearly see some bulges in the snow on the ground.
Seeing this, Matvei immediately took off his coat and patted the upturned snow, revealing the corpses of several war horses that had been buried and frozen together.
The meat on the legs and necks of these war horses was basically gone. What was left was only a relatively intact horse head, the horse hide frozen into a board, and the internal organs and intestines without the heart, liver, and intestines.
"What parts do you need?" Matvey said, already pulling out a saw from the sledge truck.
"What parts do you need?" Wei Ran gave up the choice to the other party. "Lungs, spleen, kidneys, and neck and tail." Matvey said slightly embarrassed, "If you need me, I can..."
"Don't you want a horse head?" Wei Ran asked in surprise. "Horses are also animals," Matvey said awkwardly, "and they are also warriors, so..."
"Sorry, I understand."
Wei Ran nodded, pondered for a moment and then said, "We need horse hides, stomach bags, intestines, and spine. If there are any, we also need an extra horse liver, which can supplement vitamins for children." "These places."
Can it be eaten?" Matvey asked subconsciously. "It's better than mice." Wei Ran had already picked up the ax as he spoke, "Don't waste time, start quickly."
"Victor, are these things you mentioned really edible?" Kona asked as she picked up a saw to help break down the body of the first army horse she had just discovered.
"If you can eat it, don't worry, you will definitely be able to eat it."
Wei Ran confidently answered in the affirmative, and at the same time, he swung the ax fiercely and struck the horse's hide, which was as frozen as a steel plate.
