Chapter 804: Happy Country Life
Sergei's kindness was to completely let Yang Meng live up. He didn't even take the road to Yakutsk.
It's really because the road conditions here are really bad------ I walked well today, and I got up tomorrow to see that the road was gone!
It often happens that Yang Meng slept in the tent all night, and when she got up the next morning, she saw that the whole tent had been buried in snow!
Even if you can start a motorcycle in such road conditions, you can't walk!
Yang Meng also understood why Sergei said that he was playing with his life by taking this road in winter!
On the road, you often see trucks buried in the snow and unable to move----- trapped outside in winter? As long as the car breaks down or can't be fired, it almost means that the car can be thrown in the wilderness and the driver can find his own way!
This is the reason why Sergei and his truck drivers have to form a convoy to dare to run this route: if you run alone, you can't go to the village or the store, and if the car breaks down, you have to wait to feed the wolves.
The winter of Tsarist Russia has a nickname, called "Bug in the History of War", and many people jokingly say that the two "epic" big bosses in Europe were defeated in the winter of Tsarist Russia: Napoleon once subjugated most of Europe at his feet, but he was ousted because of the failure of the expedition to Tsarist Russia, and Hitler, who swept across Europe, also returned from Tsarist Russia and lost World War II.
This can only be described as a 'joking', which is not worth scrutinizing.
You must know that the war between the two countries was not fought for only one year, but for four whole years! Even if the Germanic soldiers lacked winter clothes in the first year, it did not mean that the following winters also lacked winter clothes! Moreover, if you pay attention to that period of history, you will find that almost all the large-scale wars between the two countries were fought in summer----- and the Tsarist Russians were also afraid of the cold!
The most critical reason for Germain's loss to Tsarist Russia should be said to be the loss in supplies.
At that time, the Germanic 'blitzkrieg' attacked the former Soviet Union, and in 18 days it broke through the territory of Tsarist Russia for 600 kilometers! More than one million former Soviet soldiers were captured.
How did the former Soviet Union achieve the final victory?
First of all, they moved their industry eastward, like the Irkutsk aircraft factory, which was on the edge of Outer Mongolia!
In such a big place in the Far East, when the Germans hit the Far East, it would take the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month? This also gave the former Soviet Union and Germania the confidence to die!
Moreover, when the former Soviet troops retreated, they also implemented a 'scorched earth policy'!
The so-called 'scorched earth policy' is, to put it bluntly, to destroy one's own city, no matter what city or village, as long as it is possible to be used by the Germans?
At that time, Germanic industry was fully engaged in the production of aircraft, artillery, tanks and other weapons of war, but they neglected the means of transport. The logistical forces could not keep up, and the 'scorched earth policy' of the former Soviet Union left the Germans without supplies even if they occupied the city.
On the other hand, what about the former Soviet Union? There was also an industrial production supply front in the Far East, and there was a steady stream of war materials transported by the Stars and Stripes countries, and in addition to weapons, there were also cement and other construction materials that were being fought and built at the same time.
But in any case, this winter in Tsarist Russia is indeed terrible.
In comparison, it is much easier to walk by river, and many car drivers will go directly to the Lena River if they want to take this road, but this road is also relatively dangerous: there are many wild animals here!
But Yang Meng is not afraid of this thing, and he can't wait for more game----- at least those two little golden eagles have food, right?
Hunting was legal on the side of Tsarist Russia, and every autumn and winter was the hunting season in Tsarist Russia. To be precise, except for hunting from April to August, you can hunt at any other time!
Along the way, Yang Meng caught hares, pheasants, deer, lemmings, and foxesγγγγγγ Either it will enter your own stomach, or it will enter the belly of the little golden eagle.
Think about it from another angle, although the Tsarist Russians are poorer, they really can't starve to death.
Take the Valery family as an example: they have a vegetable garden at the back of their house, in which Natasha grows potatoes, carrots and beets. In the spring, she will also raise seedlings to sow cucumbers, pumpkins, peppers, etc., and if they can't be eaten, they will be made into pickled vegetables and eaten in winter, which is why there are so many pickled cucumbers here.
Things like potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, etc., are all high yields, and Natasha can give them away or sell them for money if she can't eat them herself. And next to the Lena River, salmon is caught in all kinds of salmon during the salmon spawning season, and the fish can be made into fish jelly or smoked fish, and the fish roe can be used as caviar: how much caviar does her family have? The big wooden barrels that are more than one meter high and two meters in diameter are stored in a whole warehouse! And nearly a third of the families in Ust-Kut do this!
In addition, they are surrounded by forests, and there are more mushrooms and wild fruits, and the mushrooms are dried until winter, which are all food!
And in winter, it was a paradise for the Russians.
What did Valery's two Siberian wolves do? They were kept to play when they were well fed, and when they were not sufficient, they were emergency food------ there was nothing they could not eat, and the meal at his house that night consisted of bear meat and venison.
Well...... It's not as delicious as I thought, but it can be eaten.
Valery told Yang Meng that he would hunt two deer every year in winter. One for his family, one for Sergei, and the meat for the two families in one winter is enough. So don't look at the lack of supplies here, but you really can't starve to death.
But he wouldn't have just hunted two deer in the winter! Otherwise, where would Valieff get the bear meat for entertaining him?
Why are the Russians so happy to see bears? Not because they like bears, but because they γγγγγγ Money!
There are quite a few Han Chinese in Ust-Kutri. What do Han people like?
Valery and his family would go hunting in groups in the winter, targeting wolves and bears. Bear skin and wolf skin are all money! Bear paws are even more delicacies in the eyes of the Han people!
After a bear skin is cooked, it is still no problem to sell it for a few thousand rubles (about 500 yuan). Coupled with the sale of bear paws or something, a bear catches up with a month's income of their old couple!
Tang Junjun drank the beauty that night and told Yang Meng: They who run transportation want to make money by relying on gray income, such as smuggling! What kind of fur, bear paws and the like are not treasures here, after all, there are too many! Like bear paws are fed to dogs here. Of course, now the catch is also strict, but the old drivers still have some methods, bringing liquor from the Han Kingdom and bringing wild meat back from hereγγγγγγ
Sometimes I think about it, this Tsarist Russian lived a life that many Han city people yearn for: eating game and farm food every day.
But it really doesn't feel so good to eat game every day, at least that's what Yang Meng thinks now! He built a bonfire and sat by the fire to pick rabbit skins: this is the prey he just caught.
This stupid rabbit, when he ran away, he threw himself into the snow nest in a panic and had no way to escape, Yang Meng didn't even use a bow, so he took it out directly.
One of the advantages of going out on his own trip is that no one next to him will say, 'Why do you want to eat it?' After feeding the internal organs to the two little golden eagles, he took out the condiments and the iron pot, and made a stand by supporting the branches on the bonfire.
During this time, he baked and ate every day in order to save trouble, and it was okay to eat one meal, and it was okay to eat two mealsγγγγγγ I can't bear to eat it every day!
He's going to treat himself well today, no matter what!
He deboned the rabbit meat, tore off the fascia on the rabbit meat and cut it into thin slices, then soaked the rabbit meat in the evolved snow water and marinated it with iodine and salt. Then take out the eggs found in the woods and mix them with starch, and then stir the marinated rabbit meat together.
At this time, the iron pot was already hot, pour in peanut oil to heat, put the rabbit slices in it and fry them and take them out. Then stir-fry the chili pepper with oil, then put in the pepper and green onion segments and fry the pot until fragrant, then put the rabbit slices in, add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, chili oil and stir-fry, and wait until it is fried and sprinkled with sesame seeds, and a hot spicy rabbit meat will be out of the pot!
Scratch a few knives on the hard noodles, insert them with branches and put them by the fire to roast, brush some oil and sprinkle some chili powder, and roast them with spicy rabbit meat!
Yang Meng picked up a piece of rabbit meat and tasted it, well, it tasted good, it had the taste of beating rabbits in the mountains when he was a child, he licked his fingers, and was just about to take a big bite when suddenly there was a loud noise in the distance!
He sat on the ice and could feel it shaking. What's going on with this Nima?
He stood up and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see two high-speed black shadows, one large and one small, rushing towards him, the one in front was a behemoth, and the one behind was a little smaller, but it wasn't a small one.
It's two cars, but γγγγγγ
Yang Meng wiped her eyes to confirm that she was not mistaken.
Both vehicles are tracked vehicles, in front of which is a GT-T tracked armored transport vehicle, which is an all-season transport vehicle developed in the former Soviet Union seventy years ago to deal with the complex roads of the cold climate in the Far East, it stands to reason that this thing should have been retired a long time ago, but as long as it can be used in Tsarist Russia, it has not been scrapped, and many military supplies have become civilian goods after retirement, and it is not strange to drive tanks at home here. The car has also been modified from an open-air compartment in the back, which is now an enclosed compartment.
And the car behind Yang Meng was even more shocked: it was a Bentley Continental GT, but the wheels had been removed, and the lower half of the body had been sawn off and replaced with tracks----- Do you have a mine at home?
The combination of these two cars is also visually stunning.
The GT-T is an old guy from seventy or eighty years ago, and the Continental GT is a new car that has not been around for a long time, and it really feels weird to put these two cars together!
Seven or eight people got down from the two cars, and a man who was quite old looked at Yang Meng, walked to his side and smelled the spicy rabbit meat in the pot, his eyes lit up, and he said a few words to the people behind, and a young man took out a bottle of vodka and said to Yang Meng in English: "How about exchanging a bottle of vodka for your rabbit meat?"
βγγγγγγ Are you sick?"