In the underground shelter shrouded in wind and snow, the rich aroma of meat mixed with the aroma of bread spread out, easily overpowering the aroma of jasmine tea in the enamel kettle.
The source of this fragrance comes from the two steel helmets on the fireplace that are stewed with braised bear sausage and braised bear paws, as well as the oven where Gale has just opened the wooden baffle.
While everyone was waiting, Gale first took out two baguettes that were nearly half a meter long and as thick as an arm from the oven, and then took out a tray of sausages that were roasted brown.
While Gale was pouring soup on the sausages, Wei Ran also scooped out the braised pork sausages and braised bear paws from the two steel helmets and put equal amounts into four lunch boxes.
This was indeed the first time he had made this braised bear sausage, but so far, at least it smelled pretty good. As for the braised bear paws, his aunt had brought them to him as early as the first day he arrived in Russia to study.
He made the main dish for the Jie Feng Banquet.
In the following years, during the hunting season, even if Professor Alexei could not hunt or did not dare to hunt a brown bear, my aunt would always receive bear meat from the travel agency employees. After hearing and seeing it, Wei Ran could really do it.
It can be said that I have seen a bear running and even eaten bear paws.
According to my aunt, this bear paw tastes best after it has been dried and sugared. However, as long as you are willing to add ingredients, the taste is not much different even if it is fresh. At most, it just needs to be simmered for a longer time, which is simple.
It is actually not much different from braised pork trotters.
When all the food was served, Gale used a bayonet to cut the toasted bread and distributed it to everyone. Then he poked a piece of sausage he had made by himself and sandwiched it in the bread.
Dorian, on the other hand, had already poked a small piece of bear paw meat filled with thick soup with his fork and stuffed it into his mouth.
"This tastes really good!" Before he could finish his words, Dorian picked up his baguette and took a big bite. He said with a satisfied look on his face, "I finally got some bread."
"You have to thank me for preparing a small piece of dough for fermentation on the day we moved in." As Gale spoke, he took out a piece of braised sausage from his lunch box and stuffed it into his mouth.
"This tastes really good, Victor, what's the name of this dish?" Gale asked curiously.
"Life has no intestines" Wei Ran responded vaguely in Chinese, obviously too lazy to figure out how to translate the word "braised in red".
"What?" Gale looked at Wei Ran blankly, but before he could say anything else, Kantan had already unscrewed a bottle of potato wine, "Don't worry about what it's called, come and have a drink!"
"It's really worth a drink!" Gale immediately picked up the cup.
When Wei Ran and Dorian also raised their glasses, everyone clinked them with each other before finishing their drinks in one gulp.
"It would be nice if there was wine," Gale said with regret.
“It’s good to have some to drink”
Kantan put down his wine glass and took a big bite of the sausage covered in sauce. "When I make shoes for myself, I plan to repair those animal traps. If they are still usable, we can try to catch more prey."
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"We really need to catch more." Gale nodded. "That bear is not enough for us to eat for a whole winter, and there are not many onions and potatoes."
Dorian took another big bite of bread, "Now I just want to dig out the bathtub quickly and boil enough hot water to take a good bath."
"After the bathtub is dug out, we can also find a way to disassemble the engine of the half-track motorcycle."
Gale also said, "If we can repair its engine, it will be much easier to retrieve Quentin or go to the Soviet Union after surviving the winter."
"Quentin must still be alive!" Gale said with a frown.
"Gail"
Kantan put down the wine glass he just picked up, "You have to calm down. We are very lucky to be able to escape here, eat meat and bread, and drink wine. If..."
"what if?"
Gale stood up and raised his voice and said, "It was Quentin who lured the Germans away and saved us! What do you want to do? Hide here all your life eating meat, drinking wine and taking hot baths, waiting for flowers to grow outside and waiting for the Germans.
After fighting this war, do you want to wait for them to arrest us again?"
"That's not what we meant," Kantan explained in a pale tone, "but..."
"But Quentin is probably dead, that's obvious." Dorian whispered, "It's not worth the risk for us."
"Isn't it worth it?" Gale's tone became colder, "Have you forgotten who lured the Germans away for us?"
"Gail!"
Kantan emphasized his tone, "We have not forgotten, we have not forgotten Quentin. But have you ever thought about it? If Quentin dies, what's the point of finding him? If he is caught by the Germans, and then continues to build roads?"
If he is not dead, but just found a place to hide, or was caught by the Germans again, do you think we can find him? Or can a few of us rescue him from the Germans? "
"How about we finish this meal first?"
Wei Ran, who originally didn't want to get involved, saw that the atmosphere between the three of them was getting more and more tense, so he had to hold up his cup to smooth things over, "Even if we go to Quentin, we must at least repair the half-track motorcycle. That's all.
Said, Gale is indeed not wrong.
But Gale needs to calm down. Not to mention that we only have one Mauser rifle and one submachine gun. Even if it’s the fuel that the half-track motorcycle needs, we don’t have much at all, right?
Although the reality is hard to accept, the hope of finding Quentin is really low with just us people, and most importantly, Gale, do you remember the way we came here?"
"I..." Gale was stunned for a moment, then sat down on the bed again in despair.
“Have a drink”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran, who was holding the cup, winked at Kantan and Dorian, and after the two of them picked up the cup, he said, "We will help you
We are repairing the engine together, how about we wait until the engine is repaired and then we can discuss how to rescue Quentin?"
After a long silence, Gale finally picked up the cup and clinked it with the three of them, then raised his head and drank it all.
After the differences were temporarily resolved, everyone seemed to have lost their appetite. They even drank less than half of the half bottle of potato wine and hastily ended the long-awaited meal.
After clearing away the leftover food, Kantan sat under the oil lamp again and began to make bearskin wooden shoes for himself. Dorian also continued to pick up the ax and began to make a bed. Gale seemed to have forgotten the conflict at the dinner table.
Picking up the pickaxe again, Wei Ran and Wei Ran dug out the remaining soil in the shelter.
I have to admit that after a week of training, with an almost unlimited supply of meat every day, and with enough food and warm clothes, the physical conditions of the three people in Kangtan have almost recovered, but Wei Ran also knows
, the differences they had just had during the meal had already buried a trace of estrangement in the hearts of these three people.
Amidst the clanging sound of knocking, Dorian made two additional beds with walls attached to them, and covered them with pine needles from outside and two layers of thick canvas.
Obviously, one of these pictures was prepared for Quentin, and Gale could naturally see it, which made his attitude slightly better.
After Dorian also joined the excavation team with a pickaxe, the cleanup speed accelerated again.
When there was a scratch on the wooden board on the fireplace chimney, and when Kantan made himself a pair of warm and thick bearskin wooden shoes, the three of them finally dug out the buried enamel bathtub.
However, when they opened the bathtub, a corpse suddenly appeared inside, which shocked all of them!
"How could...there be a corpse here?" Dorian said with a pale face.
Wei Ran frowned as he looked at the corpse that had completely turned into bones. The remaining clothing and fabrics on the corpse had been carbonized and shattered at the touch. He still held a Finnish knife in his hand, and the tip of the knife was still stuck.
The position of the ribs on the chest.
"There seems to be something carved in the bathtub?" Kantan, who was holding a kerosene lamp, and Gale, who was holding the bathtub, said in unison.
Hearing this, Wei Ran walked over, and at a glance he discovered that there were two lines of rusty Finnish inscriptions on the bottom of the bathtub: "It was Eero and his accomplices who robbed my wife and daughter, and also took me
Trapped in the basement and setting the house on fire, it’s Eero! Eero, the German fur trader from Inari! He’s a robber! He’s a murderer!”
"Barren mountains and ridges are a good place for killing people and burying corpses..." Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh.
"Do you know what's written on it?" Kantan turned his head and asked.
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran nodded, "It's Finnish. It probably means that a German fur trader Eero from Inari trapped the man in the bathtub in the basement, set his house on fire, and then robbed him.
His wife and daughter."
"Ha! Germans!" Kantan said with ridicule and hatred in his tone, "Just like what they did in France, Finland is still their ally!"
"I don't care if Finland is their ally, but I didn't expect that we would live with a corpse for so long." Dorian shuddered, "I no longer want to use this bathtub to bathe."
It's okay if you don't want to wash it...
Wei Ran muttered in his heart and said in a calm tone, "It's not the bathtub that's wrong. Why don't you wash it?"
"But..."
“Nothing to worry about”
Wei Ran pretended to be disgusted and said, "After living here for so long, we already have lice on our bodies. Taking a hot bath and washing our clothes will be good for our health. It won't hurt our health."
Just brush this bathtub carefully."
"Victor is right."
Kantan took advantage of the topic and said, "We really need to ensure our health, and after we decide to go find Quentin, we may not continue to take a shower."
"Are you willing to go with me to find Quentin?" Gale looked at Quentin in astonishment.
Kantan spread his hands, "As Victor said, at least the half-track motorcycle must be repaired first. Moreover, the wound on my leg has not healed yet. You can't let me limp to fight with you."
Are you going to die? Let me think about it, we might have to prepare enough food in advance."
Gale was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and muttered "Thank you" to himself.
