The wind howled, whistling snow chips and raging against the ground.

The four fields were white and swollen, and everywhere was covered with a foot of thick snow. The trees were all deprived of their vitality, and their dry branches screamed in the wind.

Nikolaev, Taganlaig, shipyard.

The entire land was covered with snow, and the sea was black and deep with a mist of mist.

Less than a kilometer from the shipyard, there is a row of pine huts, which are buried in snow and feel like snow castles, and the walls of the houses are all piled up with thick snow like cotton wool.

"Crunch," "Crunch," "Crunch"......

The big suede shoes stepped on the snow on the ground, and a string of heavy footsteps was heard far away with the cold wind.

"How far is it?" Zhang Xingming put his hand on the pergola and looked around, his eyes couldn't see far in the snow-covered plains, and everywhere was a bright white, so piercing that his eyes couldn't open at all.

"It's here, it's here, that's it. Wang Sheng pointed to the green smoke rising from the roof not far away and said, "That's it." ”

Li Chun asked: "Has the other party arrived? Or did there be people living inside?"

The king took off his hat and scratched his head, the sweat on his head turned into white smoke and steamed, and said, "There is no one, and I can't live in this winter." ”

Zhang Xingming pointed to the front and said, "The footprints are there, they came from there." "In winter, there is no way to hide in the ice and snow, because it is this kind of place where no one is active, and no one can fake it with one foot and one pit.

After walking by, Li Chun squatted on the ground and looked at the other party's footprints, and said, "Five or six people, at least four people have weapons." ”

"Who?" asked from the corner of the room.

Wang Sheng said, "I, Wang. How long have you been here?"

They said, "You're really good at choosing the time, the stove just burned, damn it, it's too cold in here." ”

Wang Sheng said, "There are seven of us, can we come over?"

And they said, "Come on, man, come in." Did you bring any wine?"

Wang Sheng said: "If you bring it, what I promised will definitely be done." Vodka, barbecue sausages, it's sure to make you have a good time. ”

When I got closer, standing in the corner of the wall and looking at the wind, he was a burly man, one meter nine tall, with a body like a mountain, carrying an AK on his back, wearing a woolen hood, and his nose was red from the cold.

Wang Sheng introduced: "This is Ivan. Ivan, this is my colleague, this is my boss. Both nodded in greeting. Tang Xin said: "They all say that we have a high rate of renaming, I feel that foreign countries are much higher than us, right? Why are they all called Ivan Sergei here, how can they be distinguished?"

Zhang Qisheng said: "If you have a full name, you have to read it for several minutes when you write the full name, and it is too difficult to repeat the name, unlike us with four words at most." ”

The group followed Ivan into the cabin, which was very large, with a fire burning in the middle, and five people sat or stood around the fire and turned their heads to look at it.

Wang Sheng threw the pocket he was carrying in his hand and said with a smile: "Let's start the carnival, brothers." ”

A big man took his pocket and opened it, took out the plastic-wrapped cured meat and sausages from it, and whistled in his mouth: "Oh oh oh, look at what's there, oh oh, small sausages, pork legs, wow, beef, come on baby, let's start the barbecue, I can't wait." ”

Zhang Xingming and a few people walked over, Wang Shengtang took the pocket in his hand and handed it to a white-bearded man sitting next to the fire, and said, "Hoinovich, this is my boss, Your Excellency Baron John." ”

Hoinovich took his pocket, looked at Zhang Xingming, stood up and stretched out his hand: "Welcome to Taganlaig, Your Excellency Zhang." ”

Zhang Xingming stretched out his hand and shook his hand: "Hello, it's a pleasure to meet you, Hoinovich, Norwich, Noyachevsky." ”

"Sit down, there's nothing to entertain friends now, and I am ashamed that you need to bring wine and sausages. Hoinovich pointed to the chair in front of him: "But there is no way, there is a shortage of materials now, at least we can still eat our stomachs, and we don't know when this day will be the end." ”

Zhang Xingming took off his coat and gloves, took off his hat and sat down on the chair, and said: "Yes, this is something that no one expected, the situation is changing too quickly, and he is caught off guard." ”

Li Chun dragged a chair over and put it next to Zhang Xingming, and Xu Xiaoya, who had taken off her dogskin coat and hat, sat down next to Zhang Xingming.

Hoinovich opened his pocket, took out a bottle of vodka from it, unscrewed the lid and took a sip and said: "Yes, that's how it feels, it's wonderful." ”

Several big men had already put the meat and sausages in strips of shaved wood, and soon the house was filled with the sound of barbecue, and the smell of barbecue rose as soon as the grease dripped on the fire.

The new firewood should be burned in the fireplace next to it, and then the charcoal should be moved to the stove in the middle, because the house here is quite well ventilated because of the eating habits, and the cold air from the outside does not flow in backwards.

Zhang Xingming took a bottle of dark beer in his hand, roasted it on the fire and talked to Hoinovic, and a group of Maoist men each had a bottle of vodka in their hands, entered the carnival mode, and pulled Wang Sheng and them to sing and drink at the same time. Li Chun didn't drink, he sat silently behind Zhang Xingming, Tang Xin and Zhang Qisheng were making trouble together in the past, and Wang Honghua also took a bottle of dark beer and sat together to watch the excitement.

After eating some meat and half a bottle of wine, Hoinovich wiped his mouth and said to Zhang Xingming: "The boys have been depressed for a long time, this kind of life has not been over for a long time, don't laugh." ”

Zhang Xingming said: "No, I can feel their happiness at this moment. And, Hoinovich, I have the power to keep your pleasure going, and that's why I've come to see you. Of course, I respect your choice. ”

Hoinovich took a sip of vodka and said, "Call me Norwich." How long will these bad days last? No one knows. You look at these boys, they have the power, they have the power, but they don't need it. I know you have money, a lot of money, money is a good thing, who doesn't want it? But if you look at this terrible city outside, what's the use of money? Nothing but cold. ”

Zhang Xingming handed the small sausage that he had roasted by hand to Hoinovich and said, "How can it be useless? I have never thought of making a deal with you only once, if you want to work, if you want to have a life of wine, meat and women, then why don't you come to me? I think I still have a way." Norwich, I've never let my friends down. ”

Hoinovich shook his head and looked out the window: "It's too difficult. I understand what you want, it's too hard. ”

Zhang Xingming said: "You have to work hard. Norwich, your homeland is gone, but your great cause remains, believe me, everything will be fine, Nikolaev will always be strong. ”

Looking out of the window, on the water not far away, a huge steel monster was parked there, but unfortunately there were no more people around it, no welding sparks, and no more non-stop vehicles, the hustle and bustle of the past had dispersed with the wind, and the heavy snow had completely closed the place for the first time in decades.

A little further on the steel monster, there was a larger, two-stage deck monster, and around the two monsters were a number of other ships, some already painted, some just a large frame, hidden in a mountain-like scaffolding.

Several submarines were neatly arranged on the perching dock, and the heavy snow could not suppress its huge body.

It used to be the world's largest shipyard, but it is no longer beautiful. It has already died with the Motherland.