Chapter 1052 The first colleague who needs to be buried
In this night's dream, Wei Ran returned to his childhood grandma's home, back to the small fishing village of Baiyangdian with beautiful fish and water, and went around the stove to help his grandma make delicious skin jelly.
However, before the dream ended, and before he could eat the hand-made skin jelly in the dream, Wei Ran woke up inexplicably.
He looked around with some confusion. At this time, the children were still sleeping soundly next to each other. The cast iron stove in the middle was still burning hot. Even the enamel kettles placed on the side of the stove were also burning.
Still steaming slowly.
Silently getting up, Wei Ran walked to the edge of the stove, gently opened the cast iron lid with an iron hook, first looked at the charcoal fire still burning inside, and then threw a few pieces of firewood inside before starting again.
The fire sealing lid was closed.
Returning to his position, Wei Ran was about to lie down when a whistle that made him uneasy came from outside. Almost at the same time that his face changed dramatically, a loud "boom" was heard from the direction above his head.
There was a loud sound, followed by a tremor like the earth was shaking!
"Wow!"
As he watched helplessly, a crack opened in the corner of the basement, enough for the cold wind mixed with masonry and rubble to rush in. The flying earth and rocks also hit the children who were still sleeping soundly.
Wrapped in blanket.
For a time, exclamations, screams, cries and even the sound of shelling coming from the cracks and the slap of the building collapse hit everyone's eardrums, and Wei Ran's hoarse roars and shouts also
Being completely covered up.
"Hide in the corner! Hide in the corner! Open your mouth!"
While Wei Ran reminded loudly and in vain, he picked up a little guy who was about six or seven years old and was crying loudly. He almost roughly used the blanket that the little guy was wrapped in to wrap around his chest and back.
He walked around in a circle, then pushed him to the corner, pinched his cheeks with his hands to signal him to open his mouth.
He took out his flashlight and shined a beam of light that shook the only three other adults in the room, and then the older children headed by Alexander, and finally aimed the beam at the little guy who had been placed by him.
Soon, Lydia and Mrs. Via were the first to react, and Kena and Alexander also understood what he meant.
With the help of these people, more and more children were wrapped in blankets around their backs and pushed to the corner, and were signaled to open their cheeks.
At the same time, Wei Ran also opened the door. However, before he could step out, there was a rain of bricks outside. Those large and small bricks, those large and small pieces of broken walls, and even the third floor
The two frozen corpses were all smashed down, and in a very short time, they piled up in a small pile in the open space outside the door.
Without any time to think, he immediately closed the door again, rushed to the stove as quickly as possible, and used hot water from the enamel kettle to extinguish the burning charcoal fire in the cast iron stove.
Amidst the steaming water vapor and dust, the cast iron stove that was burning red could not withstand the sudden change in temperature and cracked a gap that was enough to make it scrap. The only light source in the already narrow basement was left in Wei Ran's hands.
The beam of a flashlight.
Fortunately, this makes it easier for him to use the beam to guide children and adults to designated places to hide.
But at this time, the artillery fire coming down from outside showed no sign of stopping. The gap above the head was getting bigger and bigger, and more and more ruins of collapsed buildings were falling on the ground.
"Wow!"
There was another heart-shaking collapse sound. Wei Ran subconsciously hit the beam, but he vaguely noticed that a figure seemed to have been hit and fell into the smoke.
Regardless of the danger, Wei Ran and Ke Na rushed over indiscriminately. When they re-entered the steaming smoke, they found that Mrs. Weiya was crushed by a broken wall that was about half the size of a door panel.
The entire lower body.
But even so, she still protected the baby Galina in her arms.
Seeing Wei Ran and Ke Na rushing over to try to dig themselves out, the old lady, who was so thin that she had just had a full meal last night, ignored the dark red blood gushing out of the corners of her mouth, and her hands, which were as skinny as bones, were dead.
He grabbed Wei Ran's belt tightly, waited for him to put his ear towards him, and immediately said intermittently, "Protect... protect the children, Victor, they... are handed over to you, no, no eating... human flesh. Ke
Na…”
Hearing this, Wei Ran sighed secretly, stretched out his hands to take over the tightly wrapped Galina, and at the same time stretched out Kona who was trying to lift the broken wall, and asked her to put her ears close to her.
.
"Kona, protect...protect the child, live...survive..." As she said this, Mrs. Via tremblingly took out a small TK pistol from her arms and handed it to the tearful Ke Na with difficulty.
Na.
Finally, she glanced at Ke Na and Wei Ran, and then at the corner where the howling could be heard in the darkness in the distance. Mrs. Weiya waved her hands with satisfaction and murmured silently, "Go, go."
"boom!"
Just at this moment, there was another loud noise outside the cracked gap. Upon seeing this, Wei Ran, who was holding the child in his arms, immediately grabbed Ke Na's wrist, forced her to hide in the corner, and pushed her away.
and the baby Galina in her arms.
"Grandma Via! Grandma Via!"
Ke Na, who was being held down by Wei Ran, cried hoarsely, but her cry was completely covered up by another collapse sound coming from the direction of Mrs. Via.
I don't know if it was ten seconds or a minute, or even longer, but the position of the bombardment finally moved away from where they were, and the one-meter-wide crack above their heads finally stopped falling.
The bricks and tiles were broken. But this originally warm basement was completely destroyed.
"Kona! Victor! Are you still alive?" Lydia shouted in panic and asked in the darkness.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately fired the flashlight beam, and then looked in the direction. Like an old hen protecting her chicks, Lidya squatted on the ground with open arms, protecting the children huddled in the corner behind her.
It seemed...as if she could block falling bricks and concrete blocks with her thin arms.
"We're still alive!"
Wei Ran responded loudly, "Kena, Galina, and I are all still alive. What about you? Are any of you injured? Alexander! Are you there?"
"I'm here!" Alexander was the first to respond before Lydia could speak. "There are five of us here, and each of us is holding a younger brother or sister."
"I have five children here," Lydia responded immediately, "We are all still alive! Mrs. Via? Where is Mrs. Via?"
As soon as these words came out of her mouth, Ke Na, who was still protected by Wei Ran, trembled subconsciously.
"Mrs. Via..."
"She was buried," Wei Ran said, having already stood up and pointed the beam of his flashlight at the place where Mrs. Weiya was buried.
After a while, the pile of broken bricks and tiles was almost one meter high, and only one of Mrs. Via's arms was still exposed.
After a brief period of sluggishness, Lydia, the older children, and the younger children all gathered around, hurriedly trying to move away the broken bricks and dig out their Grandma Via.
"How could this happen? How could this happen..."
Ke Na, who came to help, repeated over and over again with a tearful voice, "Didn't we just eat for the first time last night? Didn't we already have food? Why are you torturing us like this?"
"Kona, Lydia."
Wei Ran grabbed the two girls' belts and easily pulled them back a meter, "Now is not the time to dig her out, we need to let the children survive first!"
"Let me go!" Kena cried, turning around and trying to break free from Wei Ran's restraint.
"If we don't find a warm place soon, we will all freeze to death soon."
Wei Ran pointed the beam of his flashlight at the young girl's eyes, forcing her to cover her eyes with her hands while continuing, "We now have 16 children to take care of, and we need to do everything we can to keep them alive.
There needs to be a warm shelter, the fire needs to be rekindled, and their bellies need to be fed like they were last night.”
Seeing that the girl gradually calmed down and stopped struggling, Wei Ran looked at Lidia again, and then he looked at the older and younger children who were still trying to dig out Mrs. Via, "Alexander, take the
Your people are responsible for dressing our brothers and sisters and wrapping them in blankets. We need to find a warm enough place as soon as possible before we freeze to death. We also need to load all our food and drink into the car before others come over.
take away!"
After saying that, he directly loosened the belts of the two girls and continued to speak loudly, "We have a lot to take away, including our clothes, blankets and even the pine needles and dead grass spread on the floor. We cannot waste them. We also need to take them with us."
Carry firewood and food next door, so kids, I need your help."
"Victor, what should I do with Grandma Via?" Alexander, who has become the king of children, stood up and asked.
"When we survive, if we survive."
Wei Ran gave a big premise, and then continued, "We will take Grandma Weiya away when the time comes, but right now, we have to give priority to ensuring that those who are still alive continue to live."
"I..." Alexander gritted his teeth, "I listen to you, we all listen to you."
"What about you?" Wei Ran looked at Lidia and Kena. "What do you need us to do?" Lidia was the first to express her attitude. "Lydia is responsible for taking care of the baby Galina and the youngest ones.
child"
Wei Ran paused and continued, "In addition, I am responsible for instructing Alexander and the others to take away everything they can from this house, and by the way, think about where we should move to."
After saying that, Wei Ran looked at Ke Na who was still crying and said, "You and I go next door to check the supplies and take away everything you can." Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran handed over the flashlight.
Lydia, after searching through his memory for a while, found the candlestick with half a candle fixed under the smashed table.
Taking out the lighter and lighting the candlestick, Wei Ran walked out of the room on his own. After a moment of hesitation, Ke Na took one last look at Mrs. Wea who was still buried underneath. Finally, she followed Wei Ran out of the basement and walked close to the corner.
next door.
The round of shelling just now, as expected, caused cracks to appear on the walls of the basement, and even the door tilted to one side, which saved the trouble of unlocking it.
Pushing open the wooden door that was useless but could still be used as firewood, Wei Ran lit a candle and walked into the basement.
Fortunately, although the top of the head also collapsed, the wooden table, as well as the boxes and musical instruments placed on the table were intact, and were only covered with a thick layer of dust.
"Move them all out"
Wei Ran arranged the work for Ke Na without any explanation, then placed the candlestick on the table out of the wind, picked up the iron bucket filled with coking coal, and picked up the locked wooden box. By the way, he also put the
His personal wine bottle was stored in a metal book.
"Victor, you will bury Grandma Via, right?" Ke Na asked sobbing before Wei Ran walked out of the basement.
"Yes." Wei Ran stopped and said, "I promise." "I want to bury her with you."
While Ke Na was speaking, she had already hung the bayan on her chest, and then picked up the snare drum that belonged to her father.
"No problem," Wei Ran said, taking steps again and walking out of the basement that had turned into a dangerous house.
In the course of going back and forth, the few supplies in the basement, as well as tables, door frames and even door panels, were all moved out.
At this time, the sky was still gray, but not far away, several buildings lit up with flames due to shelling, dyeing the night sky a dangerous red.
They didn't dare to continue using the flashlight. Under the command and leadership of Wei Ran and Lidya, many children moved like ants, moving all the things they could take away from the three basement rooms to the outside of the completely collapsed building ruins.
Two sledge trucks, an inverted table and door panels were installed.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a rough inventory of these things, all kinds of firewood can barely fill a sledge truck, and the rest of the space is filled with dismantled scrap cast iron heating stoves and pieces.
iron chimney.
Another sledge truck contained the box containing bread, dried fish, and most of a frozen pike, plus the horsehide and offal that had been plundered from the front lines, and of course, two bayanqins and a set of snare drums.
As for the door panel and the upturned table, there were packed dry pine needles and weeds, as well as pots and pans and other sundries.
Finally, looking at the 16 children of different ages and wearing various budjoni hats on their heads, Wei Ran looked at Lidya and asked, "Have you decided where to move?"
"Think about it"
Lydia took a deep breath and finally looked in the direction of the basement, "Come with me, I'll take you there. It's a bit far there, but it's definitely safer than here."
"Then let's go"
As Wei Ran spoke, he picked up the reins of the first sledge truck and threw it over his shoulders. This truck was the heaviest, so naturally he would pull it.
The second car was pulled by Lydia, and the upside-down table was helped by several older children led by Alexander. By the way, one of the girls was also responsible for carrying the baby Galina.
The door panel was pulled by Kona. On top of the door panel, in addition to the pine needle packages, sat the youngest children such as Anastasia and Bogdan who liked to eat their fingers.
In the pre-dawn night, this "convoy", which was not huge but moved at an extremely slow speed, was led by Lydia, facing the biting cold wind and the cold snowflakes blown up by the cold wind, step by step.
headed towards the relatively safe northeast direction.
Before the sun rose completely, Lidya led Wei Ran and others to the edge of a dilapidated playground, pointed to a locked cement house on the edge of the playground and said, "That's right there, that small house is the playground.
The sports equipment warehouse has a semi-underground basement, where my mother and I hid at the beginning of the war."
While talking, Lidya had already pulled out a necklace from her collar, took out a key from the necklace, and opened the padlock on the iron door. At the same time, she did not forget to continue introducing, "My mother used to be the school nurse of this school.
, this small house is also where the medical room is set up every time the school holds a sports meeting."
Having said this, Lydia had already pushed open the relatively thick iron door and greeted everyone to come in.
This small house has only one floor on the ground, with an area of no more than 20 square meters. On one wall is an iron door for entry and exit, and the other three sides have glass windows with metal frames. There is also a layer of iron railings outside that look particularly strong.
, even inside, each window has two additional wooden boards wrapped with iron sheets. As long as they are closed, the outside light can be completely blocked.
But in this small room, except for two empty iron cabinets, a rusty cast iron stove, and some tools such as brooms and snow shovels, there was not even a single piece of firewood, and even the floor was hard.
of cement paved.
Correspondingly, the temperature here is as low as a refrigerator. The only thing that is better than outside is that it blocks the biting cold wind. "The warmth of this room is too poor, and since the water supply was stopped, the water consumption is very high."
It’s not convenient, you have to walk for half an hour to the river to get water.”
As she spoke, Lydia pushed open the two iron cabinets, revealing a wooden door on the floor that was only half a meter wide and one meter long.
Using another key on the necklace to open the small lock on the wooden door, Lidya opened the wooden door, took the flashlight from Wei Ran and opened it. As she walked down, she explained, "This basement used to be a school storage facility."
This is a place for chemistry class chemicals. After all, there is only a playground around here. Even if there is a fire or explosion, you don’t have to worry about losing anything."
Having said that, Wei Ran, Ke Na and the children also lined up and walked in. Compared to the cold ground, this semi-underground basement was surrounded by glass windows with anti-theft railings.
Each of these long glass windows is one meter and a half long and almost 30 centimeters high. However, when the flashlight beam is swept over, the outside of these windows has all been buried by the snow on the ground.
In addition to being shielded by the snow outside, there is also an iron baffle that is almost the same width and length hanging from the bottom of each glass window.
Obviously, as long as the iron baffle is lifted up and hung on the hook on the window, it can completely block the windows that are not too big.
In addition, there are two layers of relatively thick sponge mats in the basement, and there are still some metal shelves and several large glass jars containing chemicals against the walls.
Of course, the basement was unsurprisingly cold. There was a rust-colored ice shell frozen on the edge and sill of one of the windows. It was obviously caused by the melted snow outside that flowed in and then froze on it.
“The advantage here is that you don’t have to worry about being bombed.”
Lydia explained, "After all, it is surrounded by a playground, and the classrooms in the distance have been bombed more than once. The Germans will not be interested here."
“Just here”
As he spoke, Wei Ran was already the first to step on the cement steps to the ground. At the same time, he did not forget to say, "Children, let's move everything in the sledge truck into the room outside, and then clean this place well. While it's dawn,
Let’s get some more food out!”
Hearing that there was food, the children, who were still immersed in the sadness of losing Mrs. Via, finally gained some motivation.
With their help, two sledge trucks, plus the inverted tables and door panels that temporarily served as sledge trucks, and the things carried on them were moved into this small cement house and placed in various categories.
Neatly.
While Wei Ran was busy on the ground, Ke Na and Lidya also took a few children to take out all the sponge mats used for sports activities in the basement and pat them carefully. They also cleaned the basement and re-paved it.
After picking up the bags of pine needles, the sponge mats were spread back.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After everything was cleaned, Weiran placed the cast iron stove in the above-ground room on the side of the entrance and exit steps in the basement, and connected the iron chimney from the basement.
The chimney he brought was pushed out through the hole in the wall.
After handing over the task of lighting the fire to the two girls and the children, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel and cleared the snow around the small cement house, letting the early morning sunlight shine through the narrow windows in the basement.
Got in.
That wasn't over yet. He also used the snow that could be found everywhere to build a wind-shielding wall outside the basement window.
When he returned to the basement after finishing his work, the rusty cast iron stove was already burning red, and the already small basement became extremely warm.
"The children will be taken care of by you."
When Lidya saw Wei Ran coming in, she immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to work, and I'll bring food back in the evening. And... I'll hide Mrs. Via's situation, so... so that the children will still be there every day."
You can get 100 grams more bread."
After saying that, the girl had already stepped on the clean cement steps and left the warm basement alone.
"My children and I are responsible for making aspic"
Kena also stood up and said, "Only when we are full will we have the strength to bury Grandma Via."
"In that case, I'm going to take back the mouse cage I set up yesterday."
Wei Ran said and looked at Alexander who was hesitant to speak, "Alexander, starting from today, you and your friends will be mainly responsible for helping sister Ke Na make aspic and collect firewood."
"Don't you need our help in catching mice?"
Alexander asked subconsciously, but he had no idea that Lydia, who had returned to the surface and was about to open the door, also stopped what she was doing and quietly waited for Wei Ran's answer.
"No, I can do this."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a plate of chocolate and gave one to each child, including Ke Na, "This is today's breakfast. As for whether we can have delicious aspic for dinner, it depends."
Thank you for your hard work and that of Kena."
"I will make sure that all my brothers and sisters eat aspic!" Alexander replied loudly while chewing the chocolate that Wei Ran stuffed into his mouth.
"I feel most at ease leaving this kind of thing to you."
Wei Ran said, already walking up the steps, "Remember not to close the basement door completely, and don't block the damaged corner of the window, otherwise everyone will be starved of oxygen."
After saying that, most of his body had already left the basement, and then he saw Lydia standing at the door eavesdropping.
