Deep in the snow-covered forest, a thick layer of snow had already clung to the tent. Compared to the bone-chilling cold outside the tent, the inside of the tent was exceptionally warm because of the red-hot cast iron stove.
On the sled covered with thick bearskin, Wei Ran, who had taken off his shoes and was lying down, did not feel sleepy. Instead, he continued to play with the knife given by Hu Bazhi that he had just found in his boot.
Thinking about the purpose of that Oroqen girl.
From time to time, he would raise his ski pole and poke the tent fabric above his head to prevent the snow above from being too thick and crushing the tent.
Not only that, but from time to time, he would go out for a walk to check on the condition of the mule to prevent it from freezing to death, or to add more firewood to the cast iron stove.
As for the coal in the airdrop box, he was reluctant to burn it. With the urine of his living ancestor, who knows when he would have to rely on that coal to save his life.
Although the night was a bit busy and he couldn't sleep well at all, Wei Ran was extremely satisfied to be able to eat well and sleep warmly.
After a long night's sleep, Wei Ran saw that the wind and snow outside had stopped, so he immediately packed up his things and transferred all the remaining charcoal fire to the brazier.
It wasn't until he shouted at the mule to start running again that he opened the lunch box that still contained two pieces of meat, half a bowl of soup, and half a pancake from last night's meal. He watched the brazier on the sledge and ate the free food slowly.
breakfast.
Before he could fill his stomach, he noticed that there was a rut mark and two rows of reindeer hoof prints on the mountain road.
It must be the girl I had sex with last night...
Wei Ran muttered secretly, picked up the torn pancake with chopsticks and pressed it on the bottom of the lunch box. He waited until the pancake was filled with thick soup with floating oil, then picked it up again and put it into his mouth.
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Less than a kilometer away, the Oroqen girl who had robbed Weiran last night was eating the same breakfast. The only difference was that she did not have exquisite knives and chopsticks, but only two temporarily cut birch branches as chopsticks.
Of course, compared to Wei Ran, who was quite leisurely, this young girl was more cautious. Even while eating while on the road, her beautiful dark eyes were constantly scanning the surroundings, but rarely
Take a look at the food that goes into your mouth.
In this way, from morning to noon, and from noon to evening, until the sky turned dark again and the wind and snow began to blow, Wei Ran, who had been chasing the sledge marks, became more and more familiar with the surrounding environment.
Just when he was thinking about whether to go directly to the abandoned mine in Langcaozigou to look for clues, a sudden gunshot sounded in the cold wind blowing in front of him!
Fighting again?
Wei Ran was startled. After a brief hesitation, he immediately shouted to the mule to get into the woods and stop!
Wei Ran put on his skis as quickly as possible, held his ski poles and rushed towards the direction where the sound of the crossfire came from.
Before I could see anyone, a small sledge pulled by two reindeer ran towards me.
What is worrying is that although there are some things on the sledge, there is no one there. Not only that, after the gunshot in front, there was no more movement.
You won't kill that girl with one shot...
Wei Ran, who was secretly aware of something bad, took a few steps, circled around to meet the oncoming sledge, and while grabbing the sledge, he turned around, put away his skis and poles, and jumped up.
When he pulled the reins to make the two reindeer stop, he immediately confirmed through the sack containing fodder and the three lunch boxes on the sledge that these belonged to the girl last night.
Looking around, he ordered the reindeer to start running again and headed straight to the forest not far away. Then he tied the reindeer to a birch tree as quickly as possible. He stepped on the skis again and rushed towards the place where the gun had just been fired.
direction of sound.
He hurriedly and slowly chased forward for about five minutes. He also vaguely saw in the wind and snow that there were two people on skis in front of him trying to use a wooden pole to tie up a small figure with a big belly like a pig.
Lifting it up, he could even hear the two people talking wantonly and excitedly.
Instead of rushing forward in a hurry, Wei Ran carefully observed the surrounding situation, and then climbed into the forest on his skis, using the cover of the trees to close the distance between the two parties.
Finding the right moment, Wei Ran shouted out the slang he had learned, "Ancestor Bodhidharma is mighty!"
This voice frightened the two people carrying the girl. Almost subconsciously, they stopped and released the lifting pole in their hands, took out the Spanish drum from their waists, and looked warily towards the forest.
Wei Ran came slowly out on his skis.
Following Hu Bazhi's example, he clasped his fist and raised it over his left shoulder and weighed it three times. Wei Ran laughed and took off the dog-skin hat on his head and threw it at his feet. Then he took off the cannon box and threw it on the hat at his feet, flipping it up with both hands.
He opened his dog fur coat and spun around.
His active display of kindness immediately made the two people relax their vigilance. One of them even put the box cannon in his hand on his belt again, also clasped his fist over his left shoulder and weighed it, and said an arrogant words in a friendly manner, "Go out."
When you are out wandering around, what kind of gods will come to visit you?"
Which sentence to use?
Wei Ran muttered something while his mind was spinning, and a cliche he heard from Hu Bazhi came out of his mouth, "A flower hangs in the sky in the northwest, and the green forests in the world are one family."
"A friend?"
"It's a friend!"
Wei Ran showed a simple and honest expression and continued, "If you don't kiss people, you will kiss each other at the handle of the gun; if you don't kiss at the handle of the gun, you will still kiss at the top of the mountain!"
"Men, let's report that we are going to meet you!" said the bandit who was still holding a gun in his other hand. Not only did he have a gun in his hand, he also carried a horse with four rings wrapped in rags and animal skins on his shoulders.
"Boil the dry pot vines," Wei Ran replied with a smile.
"It turns out to be Brother Hu! TOEFL TOEFL! I wonder which Honghua Pavilion you are worshiping at?" the man who put away the gun asked with his fists clasped.
"I heard that Sun Da is in charge of the plate coding. I want to ask Sun Da to be in charge of the plate... I can't make it up anymore!"
Wei Ran, who was mid-sentence, was already close enough to the person who had put away the gun. He pushed forward and grabbed his arm that was still clasped, twisting and tugging, and the person had already hid behind him!
"Bang!"
Before the other bandit could react, Wei Ran already held a box cannon in his left hand, stretched out from the waist of the bandit in front of him, and pulled the trigger towards the bandit who was very close to the opposite side!
"Crack!"
Before the bullet casing could hit the ground, Wei Ran, who put the gun back into the metal book, had already hugged the bandit in front of him and violently smashed his brain, breaking his spine skillfully.
Holding the body in front of him, he looked around and saw that no other bandits appeared around him. Then he pushed down the body in his arms and looked at the girl who was tied up very strongly.
As he got closer, he also noticed that the girl not only had a torn sack on her head, but also seemed to have her mouth blocked.
Wei Ran did not rush to help her untie them, but first searched the two corpses one after another.
The weapons used by these two bandits were the Spanish drums used by his minions when Shopkeeper Cao was still alive.
On the other hand, the one whose neck he had just broken still had a three-handle box hidden in his arms.
Although the weapons are okay, these two people don't even have the Nine Dragon Belt on their bodies. They are obviously just minions.
After collecting the weapons of the two corpses and taking off an extra pair of skis, Wei Ran directly cleared the snow on the spot, buried the two corpses, and used his skis to smooth the snow and pat it firmly to prevent it from being blown out by the cold wind.
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It wasn't until he finished taking care of his hands that he walked over to the girl who was tied up. He first pulled off the sack on her head, and then pulled out a towel stuffed in her mouth.
"Is it really you?" The young girl asked in astonishment, and then subconsciously looked around.
"Stop looking, those two have been buried. Also, I'm here to save you, not to kidnap you."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already taken out the knife that Hu Bazhi had given him as a gift from his boot and cut the rope on the opponent's body, "You know how to use a fast horse, right?"
The girl first glanced at the food knife in Wei Ran's hand, then nodded and said, "Give me back the gun!"
"I'll give it to you later, leave with me first." Wei Ran said, pulling the other person up, and then took a step back.
The shrewish girl glared at Wei Ran and quickly tied the skis to her boots, "Gun..."
"Come with me"
Wei Ran didn't answer the question at all. After greeting the other party, he rushed directly into the forest on his skis.
After looking around, and subconsciously pinching the roe deer horn hat on her head, the girl muttered something and caught up with Wei Ran on her skis.
After leading the other party all the way to the reindeer sledge, Wei Ran said before the other party could speak, "Come with me on your sledge."
"gun..."
"I told you I'll give it to you later," Wei Ran said, and rushed out on his skis again.
Hearing this, the girl threw off the skis on her feet, sat on the reindeer sledge, shook the reins vigorously, and shouted at the two reindeer to run up and catch up with Wei Ran, who was riding alone on the skis.
By the way, she secretly took out a fancy-mouthed musket from the bundle of bedding tied to the sledge and loaded it with bullets.
Wei Ran naturally didn't know about this, but even if he knew it, he didn't take it seriously. He just stepped on his skis leisurely and found his mule sledge. After taking off his skis and getting on the sledge, he immediately shouted to the mule to change.
He started running in the direction.
The snow was not heavy enough at this time, and the origin of the girl was a mystery. Naturally, he couldn't take her straight to the abandoned mine. Moreover, a gunshot had just been fired here. Even if he wanted to ask, he would have to run far away first.
Under his leadership, the two sledges ran in tandem for more than an hour. It was not until the sky darkened completely and the snow became heavier that Wei Ran ordered the mules to stop in a leeward mountain col.
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"Aren't you going to run away?" the Oroqen girl who had been chasing behind asked angrily.
"Come here and warm yourself up"
Wei Ran greeted him cheerfully and added a few pieces of firewood to the brazier.
"A gun..."
"Here you go, you look like you're picking at it, I don't care about your gun."
As Wei Ran said this, he picked up the horse-shaped four-ring that was casually placed on the sledge, and handed it over with the guard in hand.
"There is also a box cannon and three boxes."
As the Oroqen girl spoke, she got off her reindeer sledge, walked a few steps forward with one hand behind her back, and grabbed the rifle in Wei Ran's hand.
"this?"
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out the box of cannons he had previously seized from the bandits and handed them to him.
After taking the gun, the girl first closed the nose of the box gun, then put it in her arms, and then slung the rifle over her shoulder.
"Come up and warm yourself up"
Wei Ran extended the invitation again, "If you haven't finished eating the lunch box you took last night, bring it over and heat it up. If you finish eating, I still have roasted potatoes and roasted sweet potatoes here."
After hesitating again for a moment, the girl walked back to her sledge, carried a lunch box and walked over, sitting across a brazier from Wei Ran on the sacks placed on the sledge.
"From the Oroqen tribe?" Wei Ran picked up a piece of boiled sweet potato and handed it to the other party as he spoke.
Glancing at Wei Ran warily, the girl took the baked sweet potato, took a bite, and said unceremoniously, "Show me your knife."
Hearing this, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, then he happily took off his bearskin mittens and pulled out the food knife from his boot.
After looking at the light from the brazier, the girl glanced at Wei Ran's hands again, muttered something that he couldn't understand in disappointment, and then asked in Chinese: "Where did this knife come from?"
"It was a gift from a friend." Wei Ran took the knife that the other party had returned and put it back into his boot, and asked casually, "Are you looking for Hu Ba Zhi?"
Sure enough, when he said these words, he got what he expected and saw the surprise and vigilance in the other person's eyes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Did you just tell the bandits that your surname was Hu?"
"Lie to them"
"What's your last name?" The girl sat down again and asked cautiously.
"Don't tempt me, I'm not Tian Xiaohu either."
After speaking, Wei Ran also picked up a piece of roasted sweet potato and took a bite, "It's your turn. You have to reveal something so that I can trust you before we can continue the conversation."
After a long silence, the girl said, "Sister Hongxia, Song Hongxia, she has met me, she knows me."
"Do you know where to find the three of them?" Wei Ran continued to ask.
"Langcaozigou," the girl replied briefly, "it's my turn to ask, and I can't believe you either."
"Who asked you to come?"
Wei Ran continued to ask unmoved, "Shiyi or..."
"Do you still know Shopkeeper Yang?"
"Yang...Yang what? Shopkeeper Yang?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in astonishment, "That girl has become the shopkeeper?"
"Who the hell are you?"
The girl sitting opposite the brazier suddenly raised her hand. Hidden in her sleeve this time was a flower-mouthed roller.
"Do you want to go to that abandoned mine?" Wei Ran used a question to prove his identity.
After another long silence, the girl finally lowered her hand and nodded, then said with a hint of despair, "I...I don't know the road."
"Shiyi sent you here?" Wei Ran asked again.
This time, the girl shook her head, and her big eyes with frosty eyelashes were a little red.
"Who else could it be..."
Wei Ran thought for a while, "It can't be Zhao Jinyu, right? Or Zhao Jinge? Zhao Jinshan?"
"When can you take me to find them?" The girl did not respond to Wei Ran's speculation, "I have something urgent, very urgent."
"Let the animals rest first"
As Wei Ran spoke, he stood up and opened a sack, poured out the fodder inside, and distributed it to the mule and the two reindeer. At the same time, he asked casually, "My name is Wei Ran, what's your name?"
"Wunakan" the girl replied, "I don't have a Chinese name."
"What happened just now?"
Wei Ran asked a new question while putting ice and snow on the lid of the lunch box.
"I haven't slept for several days."
Unakan replied, "I fell asleep on the sledge while running. When I woke up, the two bandits had already dragged the reindeer and pointed a gun at me."
“Let’s eat something first”
Wei Ran said, handing the lunch box that had been heated by the stove to the other party, "Have a rest after eating. When the snow covers our sledge marks, I will take you to the mine."
Looking at Wei Ran warily, Unakan did not take the lunch box. Instead, she opened the lunch box she snatched away yesterday, took out a knife from her boot and stirred the soup that was still not completely dissolved.
Then he tore open the half-eaten pancake and threw it in.
Seeing this, Wei Ran smiled indifferently, sat on the sledge again, picked up a big bone and took a bite.
"Can you really find that mine?" Unakan asked worriedly.
"It should be possible. I haven't been here for a few years."
Wei Ran answered ambiguously, but at the same time he was also secretly wondering about something he had been thinking about since last night.
According to what Yang Shiyi said in the previous letter sent to Zhao Jinyu, Hu Ba pointed out that they had joined Wang Yachen's anti-alliance group. Why were they still active here?
Since this Oroqen girl named Unakan was not sent by Yang Shiyi or Zhao Jinyu's brothers, who could she be? It couldn't be the legendary Commander Zhao, right? No, no, no, it shouldn't be possible.
Seeing Wei Ran looking up at him, Unakan continued to eat without taking it seriously.
By the light of the brazier, he could see that the girl's cheeks and nose were red from the cold, and there were thick dark circles under her eyes.
I guess she has been traveling for a long time, right? Then where did she come from?
Amid increasing confusion, the two of them filled their stomachs in almost the same time. Unakan couldn't wait to ask, "When will we set off?"
Looking up at the large snowflakes still falling above his head, Wei Ran picked up the lid of his lunch box and took a sip of hot water. "Let's go now. Follow me. Don't rush to shoot when you encounter bandits."
"If you want to cheat..."
"Just kill me," Wei Ran responded quickly, "Anyway, if you walk behind me, you can shoot at any time."
Hearing this, Unakan was stunned for a moment, but then she couldn't help but smile. She left the warm brazier neatly and stepped onto her reindeer sledge.
"Chirp! Chirp!"
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to be ready, so he shouted at the mule and started running.
The two sledges drove along for more than half an hour, and under the cover of wind and snow, they successfully arrived at the Sancha Gold Rush Ditch where they killed shopkeeper Cao Da.
Without stopping at all, Wei Ran continued to shout his mules into the woods, took advantage of the darkness and entered the Langcaozi ditch, and found the abandoned mine buried in snow.
However, what made him feel chilled was that when he dug through the thick snow, he found that the iron fence door staring at the wooden board seemed to have not been opened for a long time, especially the thick chain, which was not only rusty, but also rusty.
And even the iron lock has been frozen with the ice on the rock mass.
"Did you find the right place?" Unakan asked suspiciously.
“Can’t go wrong”
As Wei Ran spoke, he had already brought the brazier over to the iron locks and chains and was baking them patiently.
It wasn't until the iron lock melted the ice and was finally dried by the charcoal fire that it became covered with rust. Then Wei Ran moved the brazier aside, then took out the lighter from the metal book, unscrewed the oil storage tank, and pulled out the absorbent cotton inside.
Come out, squeeze out a few drops of kerosene at the keyhole and drip it in.
After waiting for a while, he fumbled around on the two people's sledges, removed a small piece of thin wire and inserted it into the keyhole. After a while, with a soft click, the iron lock was successfully opened.
Opening the door with some effort, Wei Ran took the kerosene lamp handed to him and lit it, and was the first to walk into the dark mine.
I returned to the "living room" of this mine with familiarity. I haven't been here for "several years" and now the place has long been empty, leaving only dust on the floor and hard dry horse dung and mule dung that have not been cleaned.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Without going further in, Wei Ran called to Unakan and said while walking back, "Bring the animals and sledges in first, and the rest will wait.
More details later."
After a slight hesitation, Unakan nodded, and first helped Wei Ran to bring in all the animals and the food on the sledge. Then he let Wei Ran help and brought in her two reindeer, the sledge and other things.
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Finally, the iron fence door was closed and locked with an iron chain. Wei Ran took Unakan along the original mine tunnel and returned to the "inner room" where the loot was stored and the wounded were taken care of.
Except for the clay stove built of mud and stones, everything else has been evacuated. And judging from the dust accumulated on the leftover grass, I'm afraid they have moved away a long time ago.
"You really found the right place?" Unakan looked at Wei Ran suspiciously, and the barrel of a box cannon was poked out of her sleeve again.
“Nothing wrong”
As Wei Ran spoke, he had already entered a mine tunnel with an oil lamp. He wanted to see if the things that Mr. Cao had hidden back then had been taken away.
Following his memory, he searched all the way. When he came to the small mine, he found that except for the smoke paste in the tin can, there were no other items, such as submachine guns or silver coins.
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Not only that, he also noticed that diagonally opposite the mine, there was a mine sealed with mud and stones. There was also a small incense burner at the entrance of the sealed mine.
Bringing the kerosene lamp closer, he could clearly see that in the middle of the wall, on a stone about the size of a thermos, the words "Anti-Union Fighter Sun Sisters Buried Together" were written in red paint.
A small word.
"Do you know the Sun sisters?" Wei Ran asked without looking back.
"I know, Sister Hongxia mentioned it to me," Unakan replied, "Sister Hongxia said they were dead."
"yes"
Wei Ran pointed to the sealed mine, "This is the tomb of their sisters, they are buried here."
"I can't read," Unakan said after taking a look.
"Who taught you Chinese?" Wei Ran continued to ask.
"My dad"
"Did your father ask you to come here?"
"no"
Unakan paused and suddenly said proactively, "It's the bearded uncle."
"Cui Big Beard?"
Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, moved the oil lamp in his hand to Unakan's face, and then saw the girl nodding.
"he..."
"He's dead"
Unakan said guiltily, "I'm here to report the news for him. I want to see Hu Bazhi, Tian Xiaohu, or Sister Hongxia. Any three of them will do. Do you know where they are?"
"I..."
Wei Ran shook his head, "I don't know, I'm sorry, I thought they were here."
"The bearded uncle said the same thing"
Unakan said blankly, "It's impossible for him to lie to me."
"He...how did he die?" Wei Ran asked tentatively, "Cui Dabeard, how did he die?"
"The recruiter's standing-eared dog chased us in the mountains for five days."
Unakan hugged his knees and sat down against the dusty rock wall, curling up little by little. "My father was shot to death by them, and he was also shot in the stomach. Before he died,
He asked me to come to Langcaozigou to report the news."
"What...what letter should I report?"
"I can't tell you"
Unakan, who had almost cried just now, suddenly became alert, and the gun in her hand was faintly pointed at Wei Ran again, "I can only trust the three of them and Shopkeeper Yang."
"I will find a way to help you find the three of them." Wei Ran sighed, "I promise."
"You have to hurry up"
Unakan gritted his teeth and continued, "If it's too late, someone will die, and Shopkeeper Yang will also be in danger."
"I will do it as soon as possible," Wei Ran said worriedly.
