In the smelly bear cave, when Wei Ran woke up from his sleep, the wind outside the cave entrance had stopped, the snow had become lighter, and the faint aurora could even be seen in the far distant night sky.
In the corner on one side of the cave entrance, Kantan was still guarding the slowly burning bonfire. Looking at the other side, Gale was huddled in his sleeping bag and was mumbling something, while Dorian was sleeping soundly.
Reaching out his hand and touching Dorian's forehead, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his body temperature seemed to have returned to normal.
"Uncle Kantan, how long have I been asleep?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
Hearing this, Kantan glanced at the watch he snatched from his wrist and responded in a low voice, "Less than eight hours."
"Let me check the wound for you. Then you can take a rest." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken out a first aid kit from his pocket.
"Sorry to trouble you." As Kantan spoke, he carefully moved his body to sit next to Wei Ran, and then took out a flashlight and turned it on.
After untying the bandage on Kangtan's leg, Wei Ran took a look at the wound and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no sign of inflammation.
He changed the dressing and gauze again, and collected the replaced gauze into the first aid box. Wei Ran picked up some branches, broke them off and threw them into the helmet, "Uncle Kantan, go get some sleep."
"I'm not sleepy yet"
Kantan shook his head and put his lower body into the sleeping bag again. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "We need to reinforce this place as soon as possible."
"What's wrong?" Wei Ran immediately realized something.
Kantan didn't say anything, he just turned on the flashlight again and pointed the beam at a cracked charred wooden beam not far away.
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately got up and got out of the bear cave. Then he discovered that in these few hours, although the wind outside had become lighter, the snow had accumulated more than half a meter. Deep, not to mention the brown bear he had buried, even the buckets on both sides of the cave entrance were almost buried.
Looking up at the snowflakes that were still falling, Wei Ran got back into the hole, "This is a big project, just a few of us"
"We have enough It's time, isn't it?"
Kantan was confident, "Let's wait until Gale wakes up, and then we can put up the tent and live in it temporarily, and strengthen the place as soon as possible before the next snowstorm comes."
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded. Helping to build this shelter was one of his return tasks, so he naturally had no objections.
“I don’t know how Quentin is doing.” Kantan shook his head, “I still owe him a pair of leather shoes.”
“Leather shoes” Wei Ran looked at him in confusion. .
"I am a shoemaker"
Quantan said with nostalgia, "I used to run a leather shoe shop in Paris, and even General Charles de Gaulle asked me to make customized leather shoes."
"It seems that your skills are good." Wei Ran paused and asked, "Kangtan, how did you get this"Here"
"Maybe it's because I made leather shoes for General de Gaulle." Kantan smiled and spread his hands, "Who knows what those Germans are thinking, we have obviously surrendered. "
"It's true that no one knows what's going on in their minds." Wei Ran smiled and followed the conversation and asked, "So Quentin is also your client."
" That was a month ago."
Quantan said with a smile, "I lost my shoes at that time, and Quentin helped me get a pair. It was said that they were taken off the feet of a dead prisoner. I promised to make him the best pair of leather shoes if I had the opportunity in the future. "
"I believe Quentin will definitely come back to you to ask for leather shoes" Wei Ran slightly increased his voice.
"Quentin is back, oops" Gail in his sleep He sat up suddenly, but accidentally hit his forehead on a charred wooden beam.
"Unfortunately, he is not back yet, but I believe he will come to us." "
Kantan spread his hands and said, "Now that Gale is awake, we should start working. "
"What kind of work?" Gale asked, rubbing his forehead.
Kantan smiled and teased, "Reinforce this place to prevent it from being knocked down by your forehead next time. "
"You don't need to rest more"
Wei Ran frowned and asked. He said that he was pretty good, but the physical condition of these three people was not very good. , what they need now is to have a good rest and eat more.
Kantan waved his hand, "No, we have enough food and drink now, and the most important thing is that there are no Germans with guns. us. "
"I'm not tired either,"
Gail sniffed and said, "I just dreamed of being pushed into bear dung by those German guys. The smell was really real. It's so disgusting. "
"There is no need to talk about such disgusting dreams in the future, but the smell here is really not good.
Kantan thought for a while and continued, "In this way, let's put up the tent first, and after moving in, we will consider how to strengthen the place next." "
"You take care of the campfire," Gale said before Wei Ran. "It's just me and Victor who set up the tent." "
"The campfire is indeed very important," Wei Ran continued. "At least we don't have to worry about making Dorian smell the smell of meat before we set up the tent. ”
Kantan touched the wound on his leg, and finally nodded and agreed to Wei Ran and Gale’s suggestion.
After appeasing Kantan, Wei Ran and Gale After getting out of the hole, they found the canvas roll buried in the snow. They found a few nearby pine trees. After unrolling the canvas roll, they studied it and successfully used the light of the flashlight to remove it. It was set up.
As Dorian said before, this tent may really be used to keep the armored vehicle warm. In other words, the space in the tent is scary, big enough to stop. Each armored vehicle is rich.
However,The accumulation of oil smoke and soup stains on one side also hinted that this tent may have been misappropriated and turned into a field kitchen.
The surrounding area of the tent was buried with snow. Gale followed Wei Yan into the tent and said while stepping on the snow inside, "Maybe we might as well just live in this tent." "
"This is not a good suggestion."
Wei Ran dug his shovel into the snow at his feet, straightened up and said, "Let's not say whether there will be a snowstorm next time. If you blow this tent away, the canvas can't block the low temperature, let alone the light of the campfire."
"That's right."
Gail sighed. Resigned to his fate, he took a figure-eight bunny step and stepped on the snow under his feet while saying, "My feet are almost frozen."
"Why didn't you get a pair of boots from the Germans at that time?" "Wei Ran asked, looking at the pants wrapped around the other party's feet.
"My feet are so cold and swollen that they can't fit into German boots." Gale quickened his pace as he spoke.
"You can get two bearskin bags later. That one will definitely keep you warm." Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "And Kangtan said he is a shoemaker. Maybe he can help you make a pair of shoes." ."
"Why didn't I think I would get two pieces of bearskin right now?" Gale ran out of the tent before he finished speaking.
Soon after, Quantan and Dorian walked into the tent dragging the bearskin, followed closely by Gale, who also walked in pulling a sled bucket full of supplies.
Looking at the two pieces of bear skin covering Gale's feet, Wei Ran shook his head in confusion. The two pieces of bear skin were completely removed from the brown bear's hind legs. Gale just Turn them over, tie one end with a rope and put it on your feet. If you ignore the remaining blood and fat on the bearskin, it looks like he is wearing a pair of real leather socks.
"Leave the work in the tent to me and Dorian"
Kantan pointed to the bear cave, "Victor, and Gale, you have to first Clean up the snow around the bear cave, and then we will study how to strengthen it."
"Dorian, how do you feel now?"
Wei Ran spoke. At the same time, he also glanced at the pair of marching boots on the opponent's feet that were the same as his own. He clearly remembered that those boots were worn on Kantan's feet before. But Kantan's feet, like Gale's, were covered with bearskin that had been removed from the brown bear's front legs.
"Much better," Dorian sniffed and said, "Although my head still hurts a little, it's much better."
"Then don't waste time," said Gale Finished, he was the first to run out of the tent.
Wei Ran walked out of the tent with Dorian one after another. Wei Ran picked up the shovel stuck at the door and put it on his shoulder and asked, "Dorian, I heard you are from Lille"
"A small town in the country," Dorian replied with a big sniffle, "a small place called Couva in Roubaix, how about you"
"Dunkirk" Weiran againgives an address that after 1940 was almost as famous in France as Paris.
"I've heard of it, but I don't know where it is." Dorian wiped his nose with his sleeve as he spoke.
"Dorian, how did you get captured by the Germans?" Wei Ran walked to the edge of the bear cave and began to clear the snow along the edge of the stone wall with Gale.
"My father is a guerrilla" Dorian gave the answer nonchalantly, picked up a piece of gravel and threw it into the sled bucket near the entrance of the cave.
The "French guerrillas" Wei Ran grinned, not knowing what kind of evaluation he should give. After all, their combat effectiveness was pitifully low.
"What about you"
Dorian lifted the second fastest stone and threw it into the sled and asked, "Why were you sent here"
"Maybe it's because when the British retreated from Dunkirk, I picked up a rifle that no one wanted." Wei Ran said in a joking tone what was originally a made-up excuse.
"Didn't you pick up the shoes and underwear lost by the British?" Gale asked playfully.
"I ran too fast and couldn't catch up." Wei Ran spread his hands seriously, and then the three of them laughed out loud.
While the three young people were chatting, Dorian sent three trucks of excavated stones to the tent, and Wei Ran and Gale had also cleared the foundation.
The foundation of this collapsed house is not large. It is basically a rectangle with a side length of four meters by five meters.
But after cleaning up this circle, the stone wall that was originally less than one meter high is now as high as the chest. Even the rest of the position is nearly half a meter high.
"Go back to the tent and take a rest first"
Gail said breathlessly. This task of clearing the snow was not easy. The most important thing is that although his physical condition is not much better than Dorian or Kantan, this can be seen just by looking at the other person's sunken cheeks due to long-term malnutrition.
"You really need to take a rest."
Wei Ran agreed, casually poking the shovel into the snowdrift, and helped Gale, who was walking in vain, back.
At this time, Kantan and Dorian had built a simple stove with the stones they had picked up. The bonfire released a heat that could not be ignored, and there were even two stoves on it. Steaming lunch box.
Beside the fireplace, Kantan, who was sitting on a bearskin, had already chopped out a small pile of firewood with an axe, while Dorian was carrying down the pile of dry wood from the tractor. branches.
"Drink some hot water." Kantan pointed to the lunch box on the stove, "I put some pine needles in it."
Hearing this, Wei Ran and Gale Without being polite, they each picked up a cup that matched the kettle, poured some hot pine needle water from the lunch box, and held it in their hands.
Speaking of it, the water was not very tasty, especially the unique smell of pine resin, which made Wei Ran unwilling to swallow it at all.
In contrast, Gale looked satisfied. Obviously, in the previous life of prisoners, even a cup of hot water was not so easy to get.
“I also cooked some bear meat,” Kantan continued. “Although it may not be as delicious as Gale’s, it is definitely cooked.
“This is already very good. "Okay," Gale said with satisfaction, "there is salty meat, hot water, and it is warm enough." "
"Don't be too optimistic."
Kantan put down the ax in his hand and breathed heavily, "We have to speed up. We have to change before the next snowstorm comes. A place strong enough to build a campfire without restraint. ", please remember:, free fastest update, no anti-theft, no anti-theft