Chapter 1117. Drinking party and prison break on a snowy night
"That's about it"
Uncle Sergey looked at the three people sitting in front of him, "Next Monday, the 12th, the three of you will follow me to build a canteen in the mine at the north dock.
I have to take all the reindeer with me at that time, so remember to prepare enough feed for them in advance. I went to the north dock today. There is really nothing there, and the mine is only less than 20 meters deep. Before and
Andre, who lives in one of your dormitories, has already lost a big toe from the cold."
After a pause, Sergey lowered his voice and said, "Also, if you still have money, you must buy more clothes to keep out the cold. There are no shops there."
After saying that, the old guy didn't wait for the three of them to say anything, raised the curtain and walked out of the quiet stone house.
"Today is Friday," Mesut said in a low voice. "I will probably have to work tomorrow, but I will definitely have a rest on the weekend. By then, this camp may be full of people."
"So when are we?" Yin Hoer asked, looking at Mesut hesitantly.
"Be prepared first"
Mesut paused and then said, "We haven't gotten the shotgun, tent, and crucial candles yet, so we will think of a way tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. If it doesn't work, we can only go to the north dock.
We started on the road."
"Are you going to kill Sergey?" Yin Hoer asked viciously.
"If you want to die, you can kill everyone." Mesut snorted, "If we want to escape from here alive, we can't kill anyone."
Hearing this, Yin Hoer didn't say anything. He just stood up and said, "I'll go to the store to see if I can buy anything useful."
After saying that, the Japanese prisoner of war had already opened the curtain and walked out of the stone house.
Seeing this, Wei Ran and Mesut also got into the dormitory next door, got dressed, and followed them to the store.
This time, the three of them didn't waste any time and exchanged all the tokens in their hands for various things they could buy.
Wei Ran used the few tokens in his hand to exchange for a pair of cotton trousers with a layer of wolf skin sewn on the outside, a sweater and a set of shirts, and then they were completely exhausted.
In addition to changing the same things, Yin Hoer also changed into an extra reindeer skin blanket.
Mesut, on the other hand, used all his money to buy only a thick aluminum pot with a lid, three large bottles of vodka, a small bottle of canned oranges, which are extremely rare here, and a small pack of fruit-flavored hard candies.
However, looking at the way he put these things away very carefully, you could tell that he was not planning to have a drink with Wei Ran and Yin Hoer to soothe their sorrows.
It was another night of silence. When they were woken up by the whistle on Saturday morning, Mesut didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he called Wei Ran for help and gave a large number of the strong female deer among them a head.
The antlers of the deer were trimmed and the physical condition was carefully checked.
On the other hand, Yin Hoer also took the opportunity to work in the stables and used a knife made of horseshoes to loosen the horseshoes of several of the fastest horses and mix it into the feed of all the horses.
Some dirty snow.
Wei Ran also had his own solo mission. He took advantage of the afternoon to walk around another stone house next to the store. Then he went back to the blacksmith shop and rummaged through the boxes and found two thin steel wires.
Ready.
This afternoon, a white-haired wind blew in the sky. The large snowflakes caught in the strong wind and the increasingly violent cold wind itself also made everyone realize that a snowstorm might be coming soon.
“This is a rare opportunity”
In the blacksmith's room, Mesut whispered, "Tonight we invite Uncle Panin and Sergey to have a drink. Before that, it's time to assemble our sled."
"I have been waiting for this day for a long time." Yin Hoer clenched his fists excitedly.
"Yin Hoer, you go and watch outside." Mesut whispered, "If anyone comes, buy us at least a minute."
"Leave it to me!" Yin Hoer said, immediately put on the leather hat and got out of the stone house.
"Come and help"
Mesut called to Wei Yan and together he opened the wooden boards piled up beside the fireplace and took out all the iron or wooden parts mixed in there.
Some of these parts have been combined with each other, and the joints have even been reinforced with metal joints. Especially the three-meter-long birch poles hidden in the corners are not only exceptionally straight but also processed into eight
It has a square cross-section, and there are thick iron hoops at both ends. Even the birch pole itself is wrapped with an extra layer of white canvas that is glued extremely firmly.
Under Mesut's command, the two of them assembled the first sleigh in less than half an hour.
This sled is exactly the same as the design drawing that Weihan saw in the horse-skin notebook, especially the two wooden sleds at the bottom of the sled, which are 15 centimeters wide and almost as long as the body of the sled.
The board is also extremely thick and seems to have been waxed.
Even the front of the sled, which is curved and slightly inward, is covered with a thin iron sheet that extends from the bottom of the car to the rear.
Behind the upturned tail of the sled, in addition to a small step for people to stand on and two extra strong handrails, there is also a wooden box. At this time, this box has even been filled with various things.
Possible carpentry tools, as well as a pair of skis and poles, plus a pair of snowshoes.
It is from these details that we can see that Mesut has been preparing for this escape for a long time.
"We took it outside and put it under the dormitory."
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded silently, and after the other party blew out the kerosene lamp, he and he lifted the exquisite sleigh out of the stone house, and stuffed it under the suspended floor of the dormitory under the sky.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Looking at Yin Hoer who was standing guard at the door, Wei Ran and Mesut did not dare to delay, and followed as quickly as possible
, he assembled another sled with exactly the same shape and carried it to the shadow under the dormitory floor.
Fortunately, perhaps Mesut, a veterinarian who was a part-time blacksmith and part-time carpenter, was too diligent. Even if the people around him saw it, they were not curious. It seemed that they had long been accustomed to this kind of thing.
After assembling the two sleighs, Mesut even took out a few wooden stakes from the trash can and skillfully raised the pile of wooden boards that had become much shorter to their original height.
After the two of them finished everything, the whistle that represented dinner came from outside. However, due to the increasingly fierce white-haired wind, the whistle also became particularly erratic.
When Wei Ran brought back the dinner for the three of them, Yin Hoer also invited Panin over. On the temporary table built with wooden boards, three bottles of vodka with unscrewed caps and a bottle of particularly precious
There are cans and even a handful of fruit candies in the middle of the table.
"Are you planning to celebrate your birthday again?" Panin sat down with his lunch box and asked in surprise.
"We're going to work in the mines on Monday."
Mesut smiled and explained, "So we plan to treat you and Father Sergey to a drink. Also, where is Father Sergei? Why didn't he come?"
"He can't come tonight"
Panin unscrewed a fruit candy and stuffed it into his mouth and said, "He took Marina to the north pier to deliver food in the afternoon. Looking at the weather like this, he probably won't come back."
“What a shame”
Mesut said, having already filled the enamel jar in front of Panin with vodka, "In this case, you can only drink it for him and the vodka."
"This is really a difficult job." Before the young man finished speaking, he had already picked up the cup and took a sip from the boss.
"Come on, let's have a drink together!" Mesut said, winking at Wei Ran and Yin Hoor.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and Wei Ran immediately sat down, picked up the enamel cups, and clinked them with Panin, who had just put down the cups.
"For the first cup, let's celebrate the blizzard brought down by the shaman god." Wei Ran said a toast that Panin could not and would not refuse.
"Cheers!" Before Panin finished speaking, he once again brought the enamel bar that had not been placed on the table to his mouth and took a second sip of vodka.
"For the second cup, let's toast to Father Sergey and our friend Panin." Yin Hoer said immediately.
"Cheers!" Panin drank the third glass of wine.
"Third cup"
Mesut filled the cups of the three of them one by one and said, "Let us respect our friendship, Panin, how long have we known each other?"
"I remember that you and Victor were sent here in the winter of 1949, and Yin Hoer was earlier. He started working here in 1948." Panin burped, "At that time
I am not yet a militiaman."
“We didn’t work here either at the time.”
Yin Hoer shuddered subconsciously, "I remember the mining field before. The environment there was so bad. Many of my friends died there. Many of them froze to death. I was frozen there."
I lost three toes. If Mesut hadn't bandaged my wounds, I probably wouldn't have survived that winter."
"Yes, I remember it too"
Panin took a sip of wine, scooped up a spoonful of fish stew with potatoes, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, and said with a slur, "That place used to be the forest of our tribe. Sergei, Marina, and I, I haven’t been back for two years.”
"What's the situation there now?" Mesut asked while filling Panin's cup. "I don't even know where the camp is."
"On the west bank of the Yenisey River, 70 kilometers from Dudinkanen."
Panin said subconsciously, "A lot of coal was dug out there, but many people died. Some of the people from our tribe stayed to help manage the coal mine, and some came here."
"Do you want to go back there?"
As Mesut spoke, he used a spoon to scoop out a few orange segments from the small can, and put them into Panin's wine glass together with some sweet soup. "Try it, this is our new discovery." The way you drink it, the citrus flavor is stronger and very sweet.”
"It's such a luxury to drink like this. I haven't even eaten canned oranges."
As Panin spoke, he picked up the wine glass and took another sip. Unfortunately, although he drank a third of it in this sip, the orange segments sank to the bottom of the glass, so the only thing he tasted was the tang. It's just sweet with the smell of orange.
However, due to the temptation of the orange segments in the glass, young Panin obviously had the urge to drink the whole glass of wine.
"You can just take two orange slices and taste them," Mesut said, scooping out two orange slices again, but this time he put them directly to Panin's mouth.
“Let me have a taste”
As Panin spoke, he had already eaten the orange in the spoon. At the same time, Yin Hoer also filled his cup with vodka again.
Under the persuasion of these three prisoners of war who were evil and had ulterior motives, Panin drank half of the bottle of vodka without even waiting to fill his stomach.
Seeing that the amount was almost enough, the three of them stopped urging him to drink, and instead began to greet him to eat and eat, raising glasses every now and then.
After eating like this for more than an hour, the sky outside had completely darkened, and the howling wind became more and more terrifying. There was no sign of anyone moving outside the small window.
Seeing this, Mesut winked at Wei Ran and Yin Hoor, "It's getting late, you two, please send Panin back. He has to be on duty tonight, so he can't drink too much. "
"I almost forgot about it"
Yin Hoer said, helping Paning up, and asked with concern, "Paning, can you still walk on your own?"
"Yes, of course I can!"
Panin, whose face was red from drinking, had already stood up while talking, and Yin Hoer helped him out.
"Remember what we need"
Mesut leaned against Wei Ran's ear and reminded again, "Candles are the most critical, followed by tents, shotguns, bullets and animal skins, but don't touch Panin's weapons, and keep an eye on Yin Hool, don't let him He killed Panin."
"I know," Wei Ran said, getting out of the door and catching up with Yin Hoer and Paning.
The two of them worked together to send the drunken Panin back to the store. Yin Hoer pretended to help add firewood to the fireplace while winking at Wei Ran.
Resisting the urge to poke out the devil's mung bean eyes, Wei Ran easily pried open the iron-covered wooden door leading to the warehouse and walked in carrying the store's kerosene lamp.
There were far less things in this warehouse than he imagined, but fortunately, he found a large package of the most important candles on one of the shelves.
Wei Ran put this thing into his pocket first, and after rummaging around for a while, although he couldn't find the tent, he found several tanned wolf skins, fox skins, a heavy bear skin, and a bundle of
Rubberized tarpaulin and several bundles of rope.
Knowing that he was running for his life and not shopping in the mall, Wei Ran only took a few relatively light wolf skins and fox skins, and then moved the bundle of canvas and ropes out of the warehouse one by one.
After rummaging through the warehouse, he finally found an old-looking dragoon rifle and only two boxes of ammunition.
Putting the bullet in his pocket, Wei Ran fumbled around for a while, then filled an unknown Soviet kettle with kerosene and hung it on his waist. He also picked up a pair of knee-high deerskin boots and two pairs of goggles.
, then walked out of the warehouse and locked the door.
Throwing the rifle to Yin Hoer, Wei Ran picked up the rolls of animal skins, blew out the kerosene lamp and was the first to walk out of the store. Following closely behind, Yin Hoer also carried the roll of canvas on his shoulders and used a hand in his hand.
Gun picked up several bundles of rope and chased after him, not forgetting to help close the door of the store.
Using the shadow of the building, he carefully returned to the door of the stone house. At this time, Mesut had already put a lot of supplies on each of the two sleighs.
"Did you get them all?" Mesut, who was hiding under the dormitory floor, asked in a low voice.
"I didn't get the tent, but I found a bundle of canvas." Wei Ran replied close to the other person's ear, "I found the rest."
"Let's go!" Mesut said, being the first to push the sled and run towards the deer pen not far away.
Under his leadership, Wei Ran followed with a sled cart, but after Yin Hoer put the supplies on the sled cart, he ran towards the stables not far away.
Braving the wind and snow, the two of them struggled to hitch two female reindeer with trimmed antlers to each sleigh, and then tied three reindeer to the back of each sled.
Not to mention, before setting off, Mesut also knocked open the railing of the deer pen deep in the forest, while Yin Hoer released three draft horses from the stable.
"Walk!"
Mesut said, putting on his goggles, and was the first to call the reindeer, rushing into the vast forest.
"Let's catch up quickly!"
As Yin Hooer spoke, he had already jumped onto the reindeer sleigh that Wei Ran was shouting at, but he had no idea that if the metal book hadn't stopped him, he would have been kicked to the ground with a knife on his neck.
Silently putting away the Finnish knife that subconsciously slipped out of his cuff, Wei Ran gently shook the leather reins, urging the two strong reindeer, and moved his brisk hooves to catch up with Mesut who was running in front.
Soon, under the cover of the blizzard and darkness, the two sledge trucks, together with the reindeer who had lost their fences, disappeared into the depths of the boundless coniferous forest.
