"What if I say no?" Wei Ran turned around and asked with a smile at the edge of the birch forest next to the front line.
"Kena admires you very much." Lydia also joked, but immediately shuddered.
"This has nothing to do with Kena's worship."
As he spoke, Wei Ran bent down and picked up a slender birch pole that was not put into the sledge. He walked deep into the birch forest and put it on the trunk of a thick pine tree.
Put it aside, now we need to get a shelter to stay warm, otherwise we won't have anywhere to hide when it gets daylight."
"Will it be discovered by the German plane?" Lydia asked subconsciously.
"Probably not," Wei Ran said, having already picked up the second one and put it on the tree trunk.
Seeing this, Lydia also quickly picked up some thin wooden poles left over from the tree just cut down, imitating Wei Ran's example, and built them around the trunk.
Wrapping the two remaining blankets around the cone-shaped wooden pole and covering them, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel he brought and buried the surrounding circle with snow, then shoveled out the snow inside and covered it with snow.
The roof of this simple shack was covered with a layer of pine needles.
After carrying the iron bucket used to transfer fuel into the shack, the two picked up some branches that were not worth taking back, chopped them into small pieces with an axe, and lit them in the iron bucket.
After waiting for a while, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You take a rest here, I'll try it first."
Let’s see if we can find some horsemeat.”
As he spoke, he rummaged through his pocket, took out two pieces of chocolate and handed them to Lydia, who was still frighteningly thin.
"I haven't..."
"One of us must retain enough physical strength."
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking and then stated his reason, "This way, if there is any accident, at least one of you can escape, and you are not really resting."
"What do you need me to do?" Lydia asked immediately.
"Watch Heaven"
Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, then took off his goggles, wiping the water mist accumulated inside and saying, "If you hear the sound of an airplane, put out the bonfire immediately. This will affect whether the two of us will be attacked by the Germans."
Plane found."
Hearing this, Lidya opened her mouth and finally agreed to this arrangement of resting in disguise.
After putting on his goggles again, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel and saw, put the ax on his waist, and followed his memory toward the direction where he last found the corpse of the army horse.
After such a long time, there were several snowfalls in the middle. The corpses of the army horses that were discovered by the dog Joseph had already been buried tightly. Even the abandoned trench had only a few traces left.
A furrow in the snow.
After digging five or six snow pits with a snow shovel, he finally got lucky and dug out a piece of army horse rib with no meat at all.
Upon seeing this, his face immediately showed a look of surprise, and he threw a piece of chocolate into his mouth extravagantly, chewing it vigorously, and waving the snow shovel even harder.
While he was busy, all the mutilated corpses of the army horses were dug out.
Although the internal organs and horse hide had been taken away the last time I came here, this corpse still had a complete spine and horse head.
After a moment's hesitation, he swung the ax and smashed off the thick ribs and sternum, leaving only a thick fleshy spine and a complete horse head connected to the spine.
"I'm sorry..."
Wei Ran muttered secretly, dragged the spine and put it aside, and then continued digging into the soft snow.
Soon, the body of the second military horse was dug out, but this time, he chopped off the horse's head more simply and simply and threw it behind him.
Next, the bodies of the third, fourth, and fifth military horses were dug out one after another, and there were also horse heads one after another in the area behind him.
After taking a breath, Wei Ran looked up at the snowflakes that were still falling with the strong wind. Seeing that there was still some time before dawn, he immediately started digging up the bodies again.
Soon, he dug out the sixth army horse corpse. He remembered clearly that this was also the last army horse corpse here.
However, before he could chop off the only fleshy head of the army horse corpse, a flash of fire flashed in the direction of the birch forest in the distance, and less than a second later, a dull explosion of "boom" was heard.
got into his ears.
Wei Ran stood up straight and was stunned for a moment. After reacting, Wei Ran threw away the snow shovel in his hand and ran like crazy towards the direction of the explosion.
Outside the city behind the battlefield, the strong wind blowing in his face was far colder and colder than in the city. The snow under his feet was also deeper than that in the city. As a result, he fell into the snow more than once and again.
Get up again and again.
As he stumbled, he got closer and closer to the location of the explosion, and he gradually saw the shack still emitting a faint smoke in his field of vision.
"Lydia!"
Wei Ran rushed to the shack and opened the blanket that served as a door curtain. As expected, except for the charcoal fire still burning in the iron bucket and the slightly pungent aroma of birch bark, there was no one he was looking for at all!
Wei Ran put down the blanket and turned around. After looking around, Wei Ran followed a series of footprints and chased him out.
Soon, he noticed a black area on the snow in the forest glade directly in front of him.
He followed the footsteps more and more cautiously to catch up, and soon found Lydia lying in the snow!
"Lydia!"
Wei Ran rushed over quickly, but with just one glance, he saw that the girl's two hands were gone from the elbows, and her face and chest were also a mess of blood and flesh.
"Victor..."
After being held in Wei Ran's arms, the girl said with difficulty, "The can...don't...open it, it will...explode..."
"I heard it, the cans are going to explode!"
While repeating what the other party had just said, Wei Ran hurriedly took out the first aid kit he had been carrying with him ever since he picked it up. He took out a shot of Demerol distributed by the German army to pilots and injected it into Lydia, and then took out another shot.
The rope tightly tied the elbows of her hands to prevent her from dying from excessive blood loss.
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Lidia took a deep breath and tried with difficulty to reach out to her chest with only half of her remaining hand, "The hearth...take it away...it's very warm...Victor, give it to you...give it to you"
Now, you and the children...have to...survive..."
"Lydia? Lydia?!"
Wei Ran, who had just found the bandage, stopped all his movements, looked down at the girl lying in his arms, lowered his head tremblingly, and put his ear to her bloody mouth and nose to listen. But that call
In the howling cold wind, he couldn't hear even a trace of the girl's breathing.
"Crack!" The gauze in his hand and the styptic powder he had not yet torn open fell onto the snow splattered with blood.
Carefully putting his hand into Lidya's arms, he could still feel the girl's body temperature.
He gently pulled out the body stove that the children had found. At this time, the cloth bag containing the body stove was stained red and soaked with Lydia's blood.
But except for a little bit of body temperature inherited from Lydia, this hearth furnace is not releasing any heat at all - this kind and strong girl is as stingy as Mrs. Via, which makes people feel distressed!
"This body stove is really warm..."
Wei Ran murmured to himself and put the blood-stained body stove into his arms, carefully put down the body, picked up the brown Budyonni hat from a distance, helped her put it on again, and also helped her to block it.
His eyes were bloody and bloody from being bombed.
He turned to look at the opened German airdrop box not far away.
The box is less than half a meter square and more than a meter long. On one end hangs two sets of intertwined speed parachutes, and on the other end is a T-shaped metal handle. On both sides of the box, there are two more that are almost as long as the box.
sleigh.
But the box that had been opened contained German cans one next to another!
Looking at Lydia who had died in her arms, Wei Ran secretly sighed. These cans were undoubtedly thrown here intentionally by the Germans. They probably did so in the hope that hungry Soviet soldiers would throw them away.
The can was pulled back to the position, shared with the surrounding comrades, and then when they opened the can like Lydia...
In fact, Wei Ran from later generations knew better that more such mine cans were actually air-dropped onto the ice highway on Lake Ladoga, where there were more hungry people who could not resist the temptation of food.
But he never expected that such a vicious trap would be dropped on the front line of Leningrad.
After a moment's hesitation, he poured out the cans in the airdrop box as quickly as possible, then carried Lidya's body and the broken limbs into the airdrop box, and dragged them back to the shack.
On the edge.
After a slight hesitation, he still hardened his heart and hugged Lydia's body tightly into the warm shack. Then he picked up the saw and felled the birch trees that could be seen everywhere around him alone, sawing them one by one into about one meter.
Five long paragraphs.
While he was busy, the sky gradually became brighter, but the wind and snow became more and more intense. As a result, the front line became extremely quiet, but this quietness made Wei Ran even more tormented.
After sitting in the shack and escaping for a long time, Wei Ran finally put Lidya's body into the small airdrop box, and then stacked thick or thin logs horizontally on top of them, and carefully tied them with ropes.
Well and covered tightly with a blanket.
Finally, he picked up the six horse heads and a spine, wrapped them in blankets and tattered umbrella cloth, and threw them to the top. Wei Ran took a big sip of honey and held it in his mouth, dragging the heavy airdrop box with both hands.
, braved the cold wind and the goose-feather university, and walked step by step towards the besieged city of Leningrad.
At about ten o'clock in the morning, he passed by the gate of the zoo. After a short pause, he took steps again, walking step by step towards the north of the city.
Before noon, he once again encountered the corpse of a German pilot hanging from a wooden beam by his own hands, crossed the frozen Neva River, and passed by the abandoned basement where Mrs. Via was buried.
But when he saw that he was only a hundred or ten meters away from the abandoned school playground, he stopped.
After a long time, Wei Ran took another step and walked to the door of the small cement house step by step with great difficulty.
Before he could knock on the door, the little girl named Olga opened the door that was locked from the inside and came out with her two classmates, Ivan and Sasha.
"Victor, why are you back so soon?"
Olga asked in surprise, "Sister Kona said that you and sister Lidya won't be able to come back until night! Where is sister Lidya?"
"The German planes were not going to come out in this weather, so we came back early."
As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the baggage with the horse head to the young man named Ivan. At the same time, he changed the subject without leaving a trace and asked, "Kena and the others are back already?"
"came back!"
The girl named Sasha and Olga helped unload the logs one by one and said, "They are catching up on their sleep in the basement and are going to pick you up in the evening. Where is Sister Lidya?"
"Of course she went to work," Wei Ran said matter-of-factly, "Okay, go and wake up Ke Na."
"I'll go right away"
Sasha and Olga responded in unison, and at the same time, they each picked up a log and walked into the cement house. Soon after, Kona hurried out with a group of children.
Compared to the cheering children carrying firewood to the concrete house, Ke Na had a look of panic on her face.
But soon, under the signal from Wei Ran's eyes, she and the children carried all the firewood into the cement house.
"Olga, lock the door."
Wei Ran said hello, and then motioned for Kona to sit on the airdrop box whose lid was tightly tied with ropes and blankets.
"What are you going to do?" Alexander, who was still holding a piece of wood in his hand, asked subconsciously.
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Wei Ran responded before Ke Na, who had already covered her mouth, spoke, "Remember to lock the door, we can be back before dark."
Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran had already taken steps, pulling the airdrop box and Ke Na, who was sitting on the airdrop box, out of the empty playground and out of this abandoned school.
Just after turning a corner on the edge of a ruined building, Kona stumbled down from the airdrop box and asked with a cry, "Where is Lydia? Where is Lydia?"
Wei Ran stopped, turned around and was silent for a moment. Finally, he raised his hand with difficulty and pointed at the airdrop box, "Over there."
Hearing this, Ke Na shivered subconsciously, and knelt down beside the box with tears streaming down her face. She tried to untie the parachute rope that was tightly tied to it, but failed several times.
Sighing secretly, Wei Ran took out the gravity knife he had collected, helped the other party cut the rope, and helped the other party lift the blanket that was originally tightly tied to the airdrop box with the rope. As the wooden cover was lifted
Opening it, Kona also saw Lydia curled up inside.
"She found a box of cans dropped by the Germans." Wei Ran paused and sighed, "Those cans were actually mines. She was killed. I'm sorry, I..."
"It's not your fault," Kena said, but she was already crying until she lost her voice, and she was lying on the airdrop box.
"This is what she left for you"
Wei Ran took out the blood-stained cloth cover containing the furnace from his arms and placed it on the other party's hand, "She hopes you can lead your younger brothers and sisters to live a strong life together."
"Yes... younger brothers and sisters, and younger brothers and sisters."
When Kona grasped the hearth, it was as if she had grasped a life-saving straw, but the dark red blood stains on the cloth bag seemed to have a scalding temperature, making her shiver subconsciously.
The body stove in the bag also fell onto the white snow.
In a panic, she picked up the stove and wiped it on her scarf. Kona put it back into the dark red cloth bag, put it into her arms, and then clumsily wiped it with her cold sleeves to stop it.
With uncontrollable tears, I hurriedly closed the lid of the airdrop box and carefully wrapped it in a blanket.
"Victor, what are we going to do next?" Kena asked helplessly.
Taking a deep breath, Wei Ran said, "Let's go, let's bury Lidya, and then you are responsible for bringing back the children's bread today."
"Yep!"
Before she finished speaking, Ke Na had already grabbed the handle of the airdrop box, stubbornly refused Wei Ran's help, and pulled Lidya alone towards the direction of the basement where Mrs. Via was buried.
In the strong wind mixed with the blizzard, in the rumbling sound of cannons entering the city from outside the city, and in the sound of explosions that could be heard from far or near, the two of them escorted Lydia back to the room one after another.
basement.
At this time, there was almost knee-deep snow accumulated in the basement, and there were lines of red chalk writing on the cracked wall:
"Are you okay? Where have you been? I will come back tomorrow at noon - Matvey"
"We are still alive, see you tomorrow, comrade breeder"
"Mrs. Via testified that I owe the children a performance, and the children owe me 16 rubles in performance fees."
"When was this written?"
Kona asked with a tearful voice. Along the way, white frost had frozen on her long eyelashes, and even her cheeks were frozen together with her scarf because of the tears that streaked across her face.
"The first two sentences were from three days ago and two days ago respectively, and the last sentence was probably from yesterday..." Wei Ran paused and added, "I just saw the last sentence."
"Uncle Matvey is dead too." Kona didn't even finish her words. She was already lying on the airdrop box, wailing in pain and venting the accumulated despair in her heart.
After gently patting the girl's shoulder, Wei Ran took off the blanket and covered her body with it, and then silently took down the bricks he had laid one by one.
After a while, Kona finally stopped crying. After waiting for a while, the thin girl with red eyes also helped to move the large and small bricks away.
While the two were busy in silence, Mrs. Via, Fennet, the mother of the baby Galina, and the body that had died on the third floor and that Wei Ran didn't recognize at all were also revealed one after another.
"Who is she?" Kona asked, pointing to Fennet's body.
"Galina's mother"
Wei Ran sighed, "After I brought Galina back, I brought her mother back and placed it on the third floor. Do you know whose body this is?"
"That's Mrs. Serkina"
Kona responded absently, "Sergey and Kalyuzhina were adopted by her in the first place. Before Mrs. Serkina retired, she was a nursery nurse at the nursery. We also listened to her suggestions and guessed what was said in the ruins of the nursery.
Maybe we could find some food, and then we found you. Unfortunately, when we came back, she was already starving to death..."
At this point, Ke Na finally reacted and turned to look at Wei Ran, "Don't you know her?"
"I know him, of course I know him."
Wei Ran sighed. It was only then that he noticed that there was a sword and shield badge belonging to the NKVD pinned to an inconspicuous position on the inside of the lapel of the woolen coat worn by this skinny woman.
Gently taking off the almost patinated badge, Wei Ran pinned it on the inside of his lapel. At the same time, he did not forget to say, "She is a nanny of the NKVD. She was responsible for taking care of war orphans before she retired. Of course,
It will be the same after retirement."
"Are you too?" Ke Na asked subconsciously.
"At least from now on"
Wei Ran covered the badge with his collar, "Kona, let's bury Lydia here too."
"I can only be buried here."
Ke Na sighed secretly, endured the grief and opened the airdrop box again with Wei Ran, lifted out Lidya who was curled up inside, and helped her stretch out her curled legs as gently as possible, and used the torn umbrella cloth to
, and tied her stumps and arms together as much as possible.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Finally, after helping the poor girl put on the brown and warm Budyoni hat, Kona took off her coat again and stood in the bathroom.
With the help of Ran, she put it on for Lydia, which covered the incompleteness of her arms.
But even though she tried so hard, the girl's face, which was bloody and bloody after being bombed, could not return to its original appearance.
Wiping away her uncontrollable tears, Kona reluctantly took off her scarf and wrapped it around her. She even took out the goggles she had seized from a German pilot and helped her put them on, barely covering her face.
A terrible wound.
Finally, the girl covered her face, staggered back a few steps, slowly sat down against the wall, and buried her face in her knees and arms.
The girl was covered with a warm blanket again, and Wei Ran alone covered the four female corpses with another blanket, and then placed bricks on top of them one by one, and covered all the gaps with ice and snow.
I just hope that this natural big refrigerator can preserve them for a longer time.
When he finished all this, the indescribable feeling of brain downtime came suddenly without warning. He had never been so hopeless. He didn't expect the metal notebook to teach him any new skills.
First it turned red, then it turned black, and the whole person was spinning for a while before sitting down on the ground.
"Victor?! Victor? What's wrong with you?"
When Wei Ran regained consciousness due to the pain caused by the fall, he also saw the panicked expression on Ke Na's already pretty face.
Subconsciously wiping the blood flowing from his nostrils, Wei Ran grabbed a handful of snow and pressed it on his nose. He waved his other hand carelessly, "It's okay, I'm okay. I suddenly felt dizzy just now.
That’s all.”
"Your eyes are all bloodshot."
As Kona spoke, she panicked and took out a small round mirror the size of a pocket watch from her pocket. On the back of the mirror, there was a photo of a chubby little girl and a middle-aged couple.
Bringing the mirror closer, Wei Ran discovered that he in the mirror was also hungry, with his cheeks sunken and his cheekbones protruding, but his eyes, as Kona said, the whites of his eyes were all congested and turned red.
"I'm fine"
Wei Ran returned the mirror to the other party and changed the subject and asked, "Is this a photo of you and your parents?"
"This was taken on my 15th birthday," Kena sniffed and took the mirror and said, "It was probably also the time when I was the fattest."
"You will be so fat in the future." Wei Ran wiped the blood and snow on his nose, but for a moment he didn't know what to say.
"Do we still have a chance to take the children to the zoo to watch the show?" Kona murmured to herself.
"Of course there is a chance, there is definitely a chance!" Wei Ran responded more firmly.
"Um!"
Kona nodded vigorously, stood on tiptoe and reached out to pick up the red chalk stuck in the crack of the wall. After thinking for a moment, she wrote lines of red Russian words on the wall.
"In December 1941, Mrs. Serkina, a retired nursery nurse, died. She died of starvation, but she left all her bread to her children."
"In February 1942, Mrs. Vya, a retired Soviet bank accountant, died. She ended up eating a meal of horsehide aspic that was enough to fill her stomach."
"In February 1942, Uncle Matvey, the keeper of the zoo, died. He owed his brothers and sisters an animal show, and we owed him 16 rubles for the performance fee."
"In February 1942, sister Lydia also died. She was killed by a German can bomb."
"If we win this war, I hope those Germans can come to Leningrad and take a good look at the good things they have done."
