Gathering herbs to save Huang Ying is of utmost urgency, so the plan to go into the city to the American army's side has to be postponed again.
Jiang Wan sent Mi Jun a text message, asking him to notify her as soon as he had any results.
The group consisted of ten people. Cheng Zhen said to Fen, "Bring all your supplies. We'll travel light."
Yu Fen had always mistakenly believed that his boss had activated a spatial ability. Upon hearing that he no longer needed to carry heavy loads in the field, he immediately agreed happily and had his brothers move all the supplies they had prepared to the boss's room.
Everyone knows that there is a spatial cheat, so the supplies piled up in Cheng Zhen's room were quite exaggerated, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was a small mountain!
Needless to say, there were essential supplies such as compressed biscuits, water, oxygen cylinders, and some work tools. They even had protective suits, cotton-padded clothes, and several sets of cotton quilts!
There were also people with induction cookers and pots and pans!
That wasn't enough. Yu Fen also brought over a bundle of tents and sleeping bags, and the brothers behind him carried two solar and diesel generators!
This is incredible!
Did you think we were going on a picnic?
Cheng Zhen was speechless, but Jiang Wan didn't think much of it. They were going out to find some medicinal herbs before they could come back. Now that the snow was covering the area, they had to clear the snow first, which would be much more difficult than usual!
Therefore, it is simply impossible to return in one day; it is essential to bring supplies for overnight freezing!
Although she has plenty of tree hole space, she doesn't intend to give it to this group of men.
So she didn't say a word, signaled Cheng Zhen to keep an eye on the outside, and then quickly put all the supplies into the tree hole space.
This pile of things belongs to outsiders, so it's all put together on the top shelf.
When they arrived in the wilderness, Jiang Wan checked her phone and still received no news from the US military.
It's already the second day. Is this research really that difficult?
Cheng Zhen chose a slope where the trees were not so dense and there were relatively more herbaceous plants, so everyone started shoveling snow.
Yu Fen grabbed a shovel and, without thinking twice, scooped up a handful of snow and threw it out.
Jiang Wan quickly stopped her: "Don't waste it, collect all this snow! This snow is very clean, you can drink it after boiling it!"
Considering how scarce water resources are in the city, wouldn't it be foolish to waste all this snow?
Yu Fen and the others learned from the lesson and split into two groups. First, a few people used clean shovels wrapped in cloth to gather the clean snow in one place and pile it up. Then, the other people used shovels and brooms to sweep away the last layer of snow, revealing the vegetation on the ground.
Jiang Wan and the twins lagged behind, using a large plastic bucket that Cheng Zhen had retrieved from the portal to collect snow, which he then delivered to the camp.
Of course, she would also secretly store some snow water in the tree hole space. She didn't drink the snow water, but she could use it to take a bath and clean.
"Mom! This is so much fun!" Jiang Xiaoxin was having a great time.
Before the post-apocalyptic world of oxygen deficiency, Xiangcheng's geographical location meant that even in the cold winter, it wasn't too cold. So, this was the first time the twins had ever seen such thick snow. The snow inside the city looked different from the snow outside, so the two little ones played around quite a bit.
Jiangwan strictly limited them from going far, allowing them to run wild within the designated area.
Not far away, Yu Fen and Cheng Zhen whispered to each other as they shoveled snow: "Captain! I heard that after we finish collecting herbs this time, we're going to go out and collect more supplies. Is that true?"
Cheng Zhen said indifferently, "We don't know when the harsh winter will be over. If we don't go and salvage all this grain now, are we just going to let it rot?"
"That's impossible!" Yu Fen suddenly lowered his voice and leaned closer to him, saying mysteriously, "I heard that Old Chen is going to collect supplies in secret this time. Does that mean we don't have to send the supplies we collect into the city?"
"Damn it, we risked our lives to get so many supplies for them, and what happened? We didn't even get a single grain of rice to eat ourselves!"
"They only gave us a tiny bit of potatoes and peanuts!"
"Is this some kind of beggar's money?"
Yu Fen became increasingly angry, channeling his anger into power as he swung the shovel with tremendous force!
"Who told you that?" Cheng Zhen asked coldly, glancing at him sideways.
Yu Fen's expression froze, and his hand movements immediately slowed down.
"Stop overthinking and making wild guesses. Let's just remember our roles and do our jobs!" Cheng Zhen warned him pointedly.
Yu Fen is usually carefree and easygoing, but he's not stupid when it matters. He almost immediately understood the implication in his words, and so he immediately straightened up and assured him, "Yes! Captain, please rest assured!"
Seeing that they had cleared a plot of land of more than ten square meters, Jiang Wan came over to examine it carefully. Since he couldn't find anything useful there, he continued up the slope.
In the evening, they found a clearing on the mountainside, pitched their tents, started the generator, and cooked a pot of wild vegetable soup on an induction cooker. They ate it with compressed biscuits, filled their stomachs with the hot soup, and then continued shoveling snow.
The twins didn't like the food, so Jiang Wan made pancakes for them separately.
When no one was looking, Jiang Wan opened a bottle of meat sauce for them. It was so cold here that the meat sauce froze into ice cubes as soon as it was scooped out, making it inedible. So Jiang Wan came up with a solution: she wrapped the meat sauce inside a flatbread as a filling.
This way, the food is nutritious and warm, and the two little ones don't pick and choose anymore.
After eating and drinking their fill, the two little ones were drowsy. Jiang Wan laid out four thick layers of cotton quilts in the tent, took out two down comforters, set up two heaters on the side, and then coaxed them to sleep.
The conditions were naturally not as comfortable as at home, but the two little ones surprisingly didn't complain. They hugged each other, their feet resting on the warm hot water bottles their mother had prepared, and soon fell asleep.
But at midnight, a sudden wind picked up and heavy snow began to fall, and the temperature seemed to drop by more than ten degrees compared to the daytime.
The guys shoveling snow outside couldn't take it anymore and stopped working, taking refuge in their tents.
They were wrapped in sleeping bags and two or three people shared a quilt. The small tent was crowded with people. Outside the tent, Cheng Zhen summoned four large stone slabs from his card to block the wind. The spaces between the stones were filled with snow, which soon froze, leaving only a passage for people to walk through. So it wasn't cold inside the tent.
Everyone was dozing off in the warmth, while Cheng Zhen and Yu Fen each took turns leading one person to stand guard outside.
A moment later, Jiang Xiaoxin, who had been fast asleep, suddenly stirred restlessly: "Mommy, I need to poop..."
Jiang Wan immediately got up, then faced a dilemma. There were so many people in the tent, all men, and the main problem was that she needed to relieve herself. If she did it inside the tent, the smell would be...
"Mommy, let's go outside, okay?" Although Jiang Xiaoxin was only three years old, she had a great deal of shame and awareness of the difference between boys and girls.
Cheng Zhen heard this and stood up to call them out, but a quick glance outside made him roar, "Everyone get up! Prepare for battle!"
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