Chapter 209 Extreme Cooling 5
While mumbling to myself, I drove my snowmobile home.
On the way, they encountered a truck parked on the side of the road. Xia Xiaoman was wondering if it was an unmanned vehicle. When he was about to go over to check it out, he saw several soldiers wearing breathing masks carrying out a corpse.
Judging from the postures of the bodies, two of them froze to death in their sleep, and one was probably frozen to death the moment he opened the door to check the weather outside. The bodies are still in the position of opening the door, and if the eyesight is better, you may be able to see that the eyes of the bodies are open.
Xia Xiaoman took a look, then looked away and drove home.
When she returned home, she unzipped her clothes and found that Maodan had fallen asleep at some point.
Xia Xiaoman pinched its ears with amusement. Its vigilance was too low! She climbed over the wall and made such a big movement, but it could still fall asleep.
But think about it, it's a wolf cub after all. It has such a heavy workload during the day and I've been with her for so long at night, so it's normal that it can't hold on and falls asleep.
After placing the eggs in its nest, Xia Xiaoman added some honeycomb coal to the kang and brazier, then took off his clothes and lay in bed.
When she woke up, it was already past nine in the morning. Xia Xiaoman got up to cook feed for the chickens and rabbits, and boiled duck for the eggs. Before cooking the duck, she cut off some scraps and threw them to the little turtle in the basin.
After feeding all the animals at home, Xia Xiaoman finished her breakfast, put on her coat and breathing mask, and brought all the mousetraps set last night into the house.
After checking for a long time, I found that the mousetrap was not broken, but the opening and closing part was frozen, so it could not be used.
She didn't expect it to be so cold outside that even the mousetrap could be frozen.
After the mousetrap thawed, Xia Xiaoman did not throw it into the yard again. It was useless to leave it in the yard. The weather was too cold and it would freeze again in a short time.
Mousetraps are useless, and neither are other traps. Even fishing nets used to catch skuas will freeze into popsicles if left hanging outside for too long.
After thinking about it, she decided to take back all the traps in the yard and not set any more traps. Anyway, if someone approached, Maodan would notify her immediately.
After putting away the trap, Xia Xiaoman caught a steel-toothed rabbit for Maodan to practice hunting skills. After many trainings, Maodan could catch steel-toothed rabbits without Xia Xiaoman's help, but it would take a little longer.
By the time Maodan could easily catch the Steel-Tooth Rabbit, the team heading north to the capital finally returned.
That day, Xia Xiaoman took out the eggs that she had saved for half a month and planned to make a batch of scallion pancakes so that she could eat them whenever she wanted.
Just as I finished kneading the dough, I saw Maodan, who was chasing the Steel-Tooth Rabbit, suddenly stop and bare his teeth at the door.
Seeing this, Xia Xiaoman wiped his hands, threw the dough into the space, put on his coat and went to the second-floor balcony to check the situation. Seeing a tall figure outside the wall, he saw the outline of the other person's clothes, which were exactly the same as those worn by the soldier, so he went downstairs and climbed over the wall.
As soon as I climbed over the wall, the person outside asked, "Why did you come out without a breathing mask? Didn't you get a breathing mask? Do you want me to get you one?"
Hearing the voice, Xia Xiaoman knew that the tightly wrapped person in front of her was Wang Shijin. She asked in surprise, "When did you come back?"
Wang Shijin gathered his coat and said, "Go in and tell me that you didn't bring a breathing mask. If you stay outside for too long, you may get pulmonary hemorrhage."
Xia Xiaoman responded and asked him to climb over the wall and come in.
As soon as he entered the house, Maodan pounced on Wang Shijin. Xia Xiaoman hurriedly stopped him with a stern voice, "Maodan, get down!"
When Maodan heard the voice, he reluctantly took two steps back, his eyes still staring at Wang Shijin vigilantly.
"Is this a dog? Why does it look so much like a wolf?" Wang Shijin looked at Maodan curiously.
Xia Xiaoman said, "It's a wolf. Sun Qing gave it to me when you went to the capital. It wasn't even a month old when it was given to me."
Wang Shijin was surprised. "It really is a wolf! Where did she get the wolf for you? It's a baby wolf."
As we all know, the wolf cubs in a wolf pack are the key protected objects. Generally speaking, if you want to catch a wolf cub, you have to kill the entire pack. Otherwise, as long as there is still an adult wolf left, there is no way to snatch the wolf cub from them.
"Sun Qing and his team, who were heading north to exchange snowmobiles, caught a pregnant female wolf. She had just given birth to two cubs, so she gave me one."
After hearing what Xia Xiaoman said, Wang Shijin understood. "When we were heading north, we also encountered a pack of wolves. Those wolves seemed to have mutated. An adult wolf would be at least 1.8 meters tall when standing up. They were also very ferocious. It took us a lot of effort to get rid of that pack of wolves."
"We also caught a few wolf cubs at the time, but it was difficult to travel and we didn't take good care of them, so they all died."
Xia Xiaoman poured a glass of water and placed it in front of him. "It sounds like your journey north was quite dangerous. You even encountered a pack of wolves."
"Fortunately, probably because we were driving military vehicles and were traveling with several other cities heading north, we didn't encounter any robberies or other roadblocks along the way. But we did encounter a lot of natural disasters."
Wang Shijin took a sip of water and continued, "From Fucheng to the capital, we encountered a total of seven avalanches, big and small. The worst one buried the entire Yancheng convoy under the snow, and two of our convoys were also buried."
"It took us seven or eight days, together with convoys from other cities, to dig out the entire convoy that was buried in the snow. Fortunately, we predicted that we might be buried in the snow, so we put food, water and oxygen cylinders in the cars. Otherwise, they would have died of lack of oxygen after being buried in the snow for seven or eight days, even if they didn't starve to death."
"Let's not talk about this anymore. I came here this time to ask you if you want to spend the New Year with me."
"New Year's Eve?" Xia Xiaoman was stunned. "Is today New Year's Eve?"
Wang Shijin made a disdainful sound, "Are you from Xia country? New Year's Eve has already passed, almost half a month has passed."
Xia Xiaoman smiled awkwardly, "You can't blame me for this. There are no mobile phones or calendars now, so who knows what month and day it is today? Not to mention the year, month, and day, I can't even be sure what time it is now."
"That's right." Wang Shijin nodded in agreement. "If the captain hadn't told me to give me two days of annual leave, I wouldn't have known that New Year's Eve had already passed."
Xia Xiaoman was surprised, "You still have annual leave to take?"
"It's called annual leave, but actually they just let us rest for two days since we just came back from a trip."
After Wang Shijin finished speaking, he said, "Do you want to come to my place to celebrate the New Year? Aunt Xing told me to invite a few of my closest friends over so that we can have a lively meal together. This will add to the flavor of the New Year."
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