Just when Weiran cut off the sixth horsehide and piled it on the sledge truck, the low roar of the aircraft engine also appeared in the sky.
Immediately afterwards, just a few hundred meters away from them, an anti-aircraft gun position that Wei Ran and others had not noticed before began to roar. For a moment, black smoke exploded in the sky.
Fighters and bombers flying in the direction of the German army either raised their altitude, or failed to dodge, and were hit by anti-aircraft guns. They drew black smoke in the air and drew parabolas or spirals, or they exploded in the air and became
A huge black snowflake.
"Victor! It's time for us to get out of here!"
As Matvey spoke, he threw a large lump of horse lungs on his sledge truck. At the same time, he threw a piece of incomplete horse liver onto Weiran's sledge truck.
"Wait a minute!"
Kona said as she tried to pick up the frozen mass of the horse's stomach and intestines again, but the heavy weight made her fail again as expected.
"You take Kena first!"
As Wei Ran said, he had already stuffed the reins of the sledge cart, which contained a lot of horse skin and a horse's front leg with a lot of meat, to Ke Na, "Follow him and run!"
"But..." "Let's go!"
Wei Ran urged rudely, and at the same time, Matvey also grabbed one of Kona's arms and walked towards the city.
At the same time, Wei Ran also took a deep breath, picked up the frozen mass of internal organs and intestines that Kona had not been able to pick up just now, lifted it onto the sledge truck, and threw various tools into it randomly.
, grabbed the rope, threw it over his shoulder, and chased after him.
In such a short time, the German artillery had crossed the positions of both armies and covered the area around the anti-aircraft gun position just mentioned. However, the artillery position guarding Leningrad did not move its position, nor did it cease fire.
"boom!"
Just when Wei Ran was trying to regain his strength, a shell with a terrifying whistle hit hard less than a hundred meters away from him, easily blowing a birch tree into pieces. By the way,
It also left a huge crater!
When he heard the whistle, Wei Ran's body had already reacted one step ahead of his brain, and he fell down on the snow!
"Pooh!"
Wei Ran, who got up again, spit out the snow that had accidentally entered his mouth and hid on the edge of the sledge truck with his head in his hands. While greeting the mother of all Germans, he prayed for the dry white birches on the ground.
On one side of the tree and on the other side of the mother, the two of them had to pick up the big pieces of the sunglasses and broken branches so that they wouldn't fall on themselves.
"Snapped!"
Accompanied by a muffled sound, a Y-shaped tree with a length of more than two meters and a width of more than two meters hit the frozen viscera on the vehicle from the other side of the sledge truck, followed by a flurry of noise.
Sprinkled snow and mud that still smell of gunpowder smoke.
Patting the dead branches and leaves above his head, Wei Ran got up with a curse, raised the tree branch and threw it to the side, clutched the rope tightly and continued running forward without thinking about his life.
However, the artillery shell just fired was like a signal, guiding all the German artillery shells to this area. For a time, the rumbling sound of artillery and explosions completely drowned the curses in various languages that came out of Wei Ran's mouth.
He and his sledge truck simply hid in a large enough bomb crater, lying on the cold but smoking frozen soil and suffering, waiting for the bombardment to end.
In less than 20 seconds, Wei Ran clearly heard that the counterattack from the anti-aircraft gun position had ceased, and the roar of the aircraft overhead also became obviously denser.
Could it be that that position...
Just as he was stunned, just as the German planes lowered their altitude slightly, dense anti-aircraft artillery fire was fired from the forest in the distance!
For a time, a large number of black smoke clouds filled the cold and windy air, and the German fighter jets fell down with crackling black smoke like dumplings.
At this time, Soviet fighter jets also flew in from the direction of Leningrad city. Through the dense anti-aircraft fire, they fired a dense barrage at the German aircraft.
This wave is enough to be called
Thanks to the tacit cooperation of Kuaishou, the German fleet in the air suddenly suffered heavy losses. The remaining fighter jets that were originally escorting the bombers and preparing to fly to the city had to change their course to meet the Soviet fighter jets blocking the front.
Those bombers and dive bombers that lost their escort immediately became targets for the air defense forces to compete for.
However, compared to the fierce battle in the air, Wei Ran, who had climbed out of the crater and ran back with the sledge, was so surprised that he almost grinned his cheeks to his back molars, because just now, he watched a plane
The German plane, dragging black smoke, made an emergency landing on the wasteland directly in front of him and to the right, and rolled!
Not only that, he also saw that Kona and Matvey in front had already dragged their sledges and ran towards the German plane that had made an emergency landing!
After looking at the plane and the two people running towards it, Wei Ran turned his attention to the two wings that were broken off when the plane rolled over and were still burning with flames.
After adjusting his direction slightly, Wei Ran ran towards a wing that was only a hundred meters away from him.
Almost as he used the snow cover to extinguish the remaining flames on this section of the wing, a faint gunshot was heard from the main body of the crashed aircraft in the distance, which was masked by the sound of crossfire in the sky.
Standing on the sledge and tiptoing to make sure that the two men were still alive, Wei Ran did not dare to waste time and took out the oil barrel that had been empty in the metal book as quickly as possible. After a lot of effort, he finally got it.
Before Matvey and Kona left the burning wreckage of the fighter jet, they filled the empty barrel with still-warm aviation fuel. Then, they buried the still-preserved barrel with the snow that could be seen everywhere.
A lot of fuel for the wing.
At this time, the firefight in the air had been pushed higher in the air by ground anti-aircraft firepower and Soviet fighter jets. Even at the front line behind them, the sound of firefights became more and more intense.
Not daring to waste any more time, Wei Ran pulled the sledge and ran towards the city as hard as he could. At the same time, he took as few detours as possible and tried his best to shorten the distance between him and Matvey.
Perhaps after all, Wei Ran was hungry for a shorter time, or maybe after all, Matvey and Kena were hungry for too long. In more than ten minutes, Wei Ran finally caught up with the panting two, and the three of them were hungry.
A fully loaded sledge also maintained its speed and formation.
"What did you just find?" As Wei Ran spoke, he reached out and pulled off the thick scarf on Ke Na's face and stuffed a piece of chocolate into her mouth.
While he stuffed chocolate into Matvey's mouth, Kona said breathlessly, "One...a pistol, and, and, a canvas bag, the same as the one you gave me, but
,But, wait..."
After taking a few hard breaths, Kona swallowed the chewed chocolate in her mouth and said out of breath, "But it's not as much as the stuff in the bag you gave me, but I gotta get this."
He looked at the other party and pointed at the German goggles on his face with his bear-skin-gloved hand. Wei Ran was about to speak when Matvey next to him reminded him, "There are also gloves on my hand. You also killed one."
The Germans also saved me. Congratulations, Kena, you are now a qualified, qualified soldier."
"right!"
Kona shook the P38 pistol that Wei Ran had given her for self-defense, "I killed that German pilot."
"You killed a German pilot?"
Wei Ran glanced at Ke Na in surprise. He didn't expect this girl to be so courageous, but considering that this girl dared to secretly follow him to the front line and kill a German, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
"He originally planned to shoot me," Matvey explained helpfully, "Thanks to Kona's quick reaction, I killed him first."
"I hit his shoulder with the first shot, and it was only the second shot that hit his head."
Kona explained while putting away the gun, "Thanks to Mrs. Via for teaching me how to use a pistol a long time ago."
After a pause, Kona asked tentatively, "Victor, I gave Matvey the bag of things we just found. I know the children also need..."
"I have no objection to this kind of thing." Wei Ran expressed his attitude before the other party finished speaking, "We are all from Leningrad.
"Thank you," Matvey said seriously, "I..."
"You don't need to explain." Wei Ran spread his hands, "You two are acting as if I discovered the thing."
Hearing this, Kona and Matvey looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their faces.
At this time, the battle group above them also began to move toward the distance, and the three of them were undoubtedly much safer.
However, this is a dangerous battlefield after all. Even though the three of them were exhausted and panting, they still did not dare to stop.
After running slowly and hurriedly for more than half an hour, the three of them, who were really out of strength, fell on the thick snow one after another, huffing and puffing.
But soon, no matter Matvey, Kona or Wei Ran, they all started to giggle with joy.
In that laughter, there was rejoicing, happiness, hope, and relief.
"Those little guys can have a few good meals again."
Matvey pointed to the horse lungs stacked on the sledge and said, "Especially the picky black vulture Veroshka, he likes these horse lungs the most."
"Brothers and sisters...well...Victor, I still want to confirm, are these things we brought back really edible?" mid-sentence, Kona turned her head and looked at Wei, who was also lying on the snow next to her.
Burn.
"It's edible, of course it's edible." Wei Ran assured again, "Believe me, I will make them very delicious."
"I hope it tastes good..."
Kona murmured cautiously, and then muttered, "Before the war, my parents occasionally bought some offal and chopped it up to make sausages, but I had never eaten horse stomach or horsehide."
"You will fall in love with them," Wei Ran said, already turning over and getting up, "Speed up, let's go back as soon as possible while we still have the strength."
"When will we come back next time?" Kena also stood up and asked, pulling the sledge which was relatively easy.
"Let's talk next time." Wei Ran and Matvey gave the same reply in unison, followed by each other's hearty laughter.
In tacit agreement, they each took out the canvas prepared in advance from the sledge truck, covered the harvest in the truck, and tied it tightly with ropes. The three of them quickened their pace and pulled the sledge towards the inner city.
Thanks to the energy provided by those chocolates, as well as the urging from the artillery fire and fighter jets, the three of them finally made it back to the entrance of the zoo before two o'clock in the afternoon without any danger.
"Before I go to the front line next time, I will go to your place to give a performance to the children one day in advance." Matvey said as he released the great hero in the cage - the one wearing a human-looking dog.
Joseph the dog.
"The children and I will be waiting for you to come," Wei Ran said, and he held his hand with the other person's.
"Wait a moment, I'll give you some gifts."
After Matvey finished speaking, he let go of the hand holding Wei Ran's hand, turned around and walked to the ruins of a building on the side of the road. He bent down and pulled out a bulging sack from behind a collapsed wall and handed it to
Got Wei Ran.
After taking the sack bag, Wei Ran opened it and was surprised to find that it was filled with rat cages!
"So many?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, "For me?" "Yes, for you and the children."
Matvey showed a simple smile, "Zoos used to have many mouse traps like this, specially used to catch mice in feed warehouses. After discussing with my colleagues, I decided to separate 10 cages for you and the children.
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"Thank you, I really appreciate your help." Wei Ran said gratefully. With these cages, he could complete the task of catching 11 mice earlier.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Nothing" Matvey waved his hand, "The rats in this city have been caught long ago, and we don't need so many rat traps at all.
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"Then I'll take it," Wei Ran said, having already tied the sack again and threw it onto the sledge pulled by Ke Na.
After bidding farewell to Matvey and his multifunctional dog Joseph, Weiran and Kena each pulled a fully loaded sledge and walked towards the
A place that can be called "home".
Halfway through the journey, when they passed by the wreckage of the plane again, the body of the German pilot hung on the wooden beam by the enemy was still floating in the cold wind.
The surrounding residents who passed by with sledge trucks would subconsciously glance at the corpse, and then either muttered something, or greeted his mother, or slowly pulled off their scarves and moved toward the corpse.
Spit on it.
But no matter what kind of reaction, the faces of these Leningrad residents finally had some vivid light.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and Ke Na looked at each other, each took a deep breath and quickened their pace again.
At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Ranran finally pulled two sledges back to the ruins where the basement was located.
Before they could stop, Alexander, who seemed to have been keeping watch on the roadside, spotted them.
When the young man saw this, he immediately put his hands in his sleeves into his mouth and blew a barely loud whistle.
Immediately afterwards, the other older children swarmed around Mrs. Via who looked worried and walked out.
"You are not in danger, are you?" Mrs. Weiya grabbed the wrists of Wei Ran and Ke Na with her thin hands.
"No, we haven't encountered any danger."
Kona hugged the thin and shapeless old woman, and at the same time, she did not forget to wink at Lidya, who was walking at the end. Then, she fluently spewed out a series of lies, describing the dangers she had encountered before.
It was all understated and changed to "With help from a few well-meaning Red Army soldiers."
At least they fooled the old lady, and everyone immediately cooperated with each other to unload all the items on the two sledge trucks and carry them to the room originally used to store firewood like an assembly line.
"Victor, can these things be eaten too?"
As Alexander spoke, he put the corner of the horsehide, which was as cold as a steel plate and had hair on it, into his mouth, and tried to take a bite with his big set of teeth.
"Of course it's edible, but definitely not like you." Wei Ran said, having already walked into the room filled with firewood and frozen offal. But with just one glance, he saw the three mouse traps he had set out yesterday.
Cages. But the most important thing is that these three mouse traps all contain a mouse with red fur!
"This was caught in a cage?" Wei Ran asked in surprise. "Yes!"
The eldest child named Alyosha said proudly, "In the morning, Alexander and I accidentally discovered the cage you arranged, then moved them to another place, and then caught these three mice."
"You...where did you catch them?"
Wei Ran was even more surprised. He had been busy for two days and didn't even catch a single hair. These two half-year-old children were really good, and they caught three in less than one day.
"there"
Alexander pointed in the direction, "There was a burned down and collapsed house there. We arranged the cage there and captured it."
"We were going to dig out some burnt furniture there," Aleutian added. "We just put the cages there and caught three rats."
"Take me to see it later," Wei Ran said subconsciously.
"I'll go with you later," Lidya, who had been silent just now, said abruptly.
Hearing this, Wei Ran was startled, then nodded. "Okay, you two should take a rest first."
Mrs. Via clapped her hands, "Lydia, let us take charge of the kitchen today. Let's make a pot of broth with the three mice that Alexander and Alyosha caught, and add the carrot left yesterday.
put in."
"Remember to keep the rat's internal organs," Wei Ran reminded worriedly, "I'm going to use them as bait."
"Go and have a rest," Lydia urged with a smile. "Forget it."
Wei Ran waved his hand, picked up a horsehide half a meter square and said, "Alexander, go bring me a pot of boiling water. I want boiling water."
"No problem!" Alexander ran into the warm room without thinking.
But Wei Ran picked up the saw and first cut off a small piece of horse intestine that was frozen into lumps of ice, and then took out a piece of dark red horse liver as big as a fist.
Finally, he took a wooden basin and walked to the open space outside the room. Wei Ran first put the furry horsehide into the wooden basin, and Alexander poured a full pot of boiling water on it.
Under the high-temperature washing, a fishy smell suddenly filled the space where circus performances were held, and the horsehide also softened visibly.
When the pot of boiling water was poured all over, he didn't even take off the German pilot's leather gloves he was wearing, and began to rub the horse hair on it hard, pulling it off easily.
Seeing that this method was equally effective, Wei Ran threw the frozen horse intestine into a wooden basin filled with hot water and soaked it.
As the children and Kona watched with their noses covered, the hair on the half-meter-square horsehide was gradually plucked, revealing the white fleshy skin. The intestines soaked in the basin were also exposed to the second pot of boiling water.
Pour it onto the horsehide and soften it completely.
First, he spread the horsehide on a wooden table and hammered nails into the four corners. Wei Ran took off his gloves again, endured nausea, turned over his intestines, cleaned them carefully, and scalded them carefully with hot water.
once.
After all, the disgusting smell of tinkering with internal organs on his side couldn't compare to the steaming aroma when Mrs. Via and Lydia were cooking dinner, so soon, except for Kona, the other children all hid in the warmth and filled with the aroma of food.
in the room.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "There is a gasoline stove in that canvas bag, give it to me."
Wei Ran wiped his hands and said while carrying the table with the horsehide and intestines nailed on it to the room where the wood was stored.
Hearing this, Ke Na immediately opened the canvas bag that was still on her shoulder and found the small oil stove inside.
"Go get me another pot."
Wei Ran arranged a new job for the girl, who was obviously so tired that her legs were shaking but was unwilling to rest at all. He lit the small gasoline stove before the girl came back with an enamel pot.
While the stove was preheating and pressurizing itself, he also put ice cubes in the enamel pot and placed it on top.
He took out the gravity knife he had collected in the morning and threw it out to test the sharpness. Under Kona's gaze, Wei Ran cut the horsehide that had been cleaned and had not had time to refreeze into long strips half a centimeter wide. Then, he cut it into strips half a centimeter wide.
Cut the similarly washed small intestine into small circles.
Finally, he roughly rinsed the piece of horse liver with hot water, but Wei Ran directly found an ax and chopped it into ice-crusted pieces.
Naturally, he was doing this to make pig skin jelly, but he definitely couldn't find the pig skin, but using horse skin instead would not be much worse. And the most important thing is that he is too
I know how to do this.
When I was young, almost every holiday, Suisui's grandma would cook fish scale jelly and pig skin jelly with braised pork head in it. It was not only the best appetizer for Suisui's grandpa and his grandpa when they were drinking, but also for them.
For both of them, it is also the most commonly eaten snack in childhood.
Accordingly, if you want to eat, you have to help. Whether it's lighting a fire or boiling pig skins, whether he or Suisui, these are family skills engraved in childhood memories.
While recalling the happy past of his childhood, Wei Ran blanched the cut horsehide and small intestine twice in water. After changing the water in the pot again, he directly cooked it in one pot and took advantage of Ke Na being called.
When I went to sing to the children, I took out some seasonings such as ginger, chili and coarse salt and soy sauce from my backpack and added them in.
It continued to cook until the firepower of the small gasoline stove weakened, and then Wei Ran sprinkled the chopped horse liver into it. Considering that although this stuff might be able to supplement some vitamin A, it would definitely be painful to eat, so he
I also took it upon myself to add some honey to it and mix it randomly.
Finally, he turned off the fire and closed the lid. He then left the room, went into the next door, and took a cup of oily broth from Lydia's hand, as well as a corner of black bread that was definitely not delicious.
"Victor, when can we eat the things you made?" Alexander approached Wei Ran and asked.
"Don't you think it stinks?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"I want to fill my stomach more." Alexander, the child, answered extremely straightforwardly.
"How about you take me to see where the mice were caught first, and then we'll see if those things are edible?"
"Should we go now?" Alexander asked immediately. "What about you?" Wei Ran looked at Lydia. "Let's go."
Lydia said, having already drank all the broth in the cup, she stood up unsteadily while holding on to the wall.
