This night, Xiao Yao and Yuan Yuan sat like this, chatting while waiting for the dawn to come. It wasn't until they were both very sleepy that they fell asleep in a daze.

When Xiao Yao woke up, he saw Yuan Yuan on the opposite side lying crooked on the bulkhead and sleeping. He hurriedly got out of bed, lightly removed her shirt and jacket, lay her down, covered her with a quilt, dressed himself neatly, and went out to investigate the situation.

Last night, there was another light snowfall, and the thick ice was covered with a thin layer of snow, and the temperature dropped even more than yesterday. Xiao Yao came to the front of the boat from behind the boat, and when he walked in front of the wheelhouse door, Qin Manjiang, who was on duty, called out to him.

"Brother Xiao, I'm really sorry this time, I didn't expect such a thing to happen, in previous years, we were also at this time, and we sent goods to Wuyang Town, but nothing like this happened. Alas, this is a catch-up. ”

"Forget it, you can't solve the problem by apologizing. I don't blame you. I'm just wondering, how many days is it going to take?"

Through last night's incident, Xiao Yao's attitude towards him was much better. In any case, people are equivalent to saving the lives of both of you, not to mention the grace of saving lives, but you can't be a good person.

"Alas, our ship is not equipped with a radio, and the captain of the ship is discussing, and we will send someone to Chongmiao today. Yesterday, the man sent from the wooden boat in front of him came back, and he said that the ice in front of him could not bear it, and people walking on it heard a noise, so they did not dare to go. The ice is thicker today, and it doesn't seem like much of a problem. ”

Xiao Yao was dumbfounded when he heard this, his feelings were in vain yesterday. No one has been notified yet, and I wonder how long it will take for the damn icebreaker to come?

Xiao Yao stopped talking depressedly, he followed the tugboat on the springboard on the ice, walked to the ice on the lake, held a handful of snow, and rubbed his face indiscriminately to wash his face. There was not much water left in the kettle, and he wanted to leave it for Yuan Yuan to wash up.

The breakfast that Xiao Yao was looking forward to did not arrive as scheduled, so he only made some dry food for the second mate who went to Chongmiao for help and the sailors on the wooden boat behind. With the expectation of the entire fleet, they slowly left on the snow-covered ice.

The captain told everyone to be patient, and gave each person a bowl of rice and a bowl of vegetables by noon. For most people, they can only eat half full, but everyone is happy, and they are also afraid of three meals a day, which will make them even more hungry.

The whole fleet spent the day anxiously waiting, but the mood was stable and there was no noise.

Xiao Yao and Yuan Yuan used the same method to sit and sleep again for the night, but this night was much better. Because he was fine during the day, he took turns sleeping in two turns, and he slept all the sleep. If it's not too cold, you can not sleep.

Actually, the second mate left, and Qin Manjiang came to ask Xiao Yao if he was going to sleep on the second mate's bed. But Yuan Yuan didn't dare to let Xiao Yao leave. With him, Yuan Yuan will not be afraid, and Xiao Yao has no choice but to stay.

At noon on the third day, the second mate returned, but he came back alone, and the captain saw that the second mate was red-eyed, and his heart was just full of doubts, and the second mate had climbed onto the boat, and fell to his knees at the captain's feet with a "poof".

It turned out that after walking with the sailor for more than two hours, as he walked, he heard a cry from the sailor and fell into the ice cave.

The second mate hurriedly arrived, checked the ice situation around him, and only went to the rescue when he felt that he was safe here.

He was afraid that the two of them would walk together, and the ice could not bear the weight of the two of them, so he left a distance of about thirty or forty meters, and when he came to the ice cave to help, there was no trace of the sailor in the ice cave.

When the captain heard this, he was very sad and indignant, and he angrily rebuked the second mate, how could he not catch up with the rescue at a distance of several tens of meters? In winter, people wear thick clothes and will not sink into the water quickly, and only when they are soaked in water will they sink.

Besides, it was a sailor, and which sailor couldn't swim? The second mate had no choice but to run over because he was worried that the ice would break, for fear that he would also fall into the ice cave, so he crawled over on the ice. And I saw weeds under the ice and a whirlpool of rushing water.

The second mate's rescue method is obviously correct, if he runs desperately to the rescue, maybe he won't be able to come back. However, in this way, the rescue time was delayed, and a living life was gone, how do you tell the captain to go back?

Fortunately, when the second mate was looking for the sailor to no avail, he thought that the entire fleet was still waiting for rescue. He didn't look back, and resolutely insisted on walking to the heavy temple.

However, when he came to the safe harbor of Chongmiao, only one person was on duty, and the only icebreaker had already gone out on a rescue mission.

He had to tell the officer on duty in detail the location of this place, and after that night, he hurried back, and he wanted to tell the captain the bad news in time.

He was asked about how long it would take for the icebreaker to come, and he only said that the duty officer said it could take three to four days.

Someone asked him why he didn't bring some food, and the second mate was furious, saying that it was dangerous to walk on this ice surface, and he didn't even think about whether he could come back, where did he dare to bring heavy objects?

As soon as the second mate came back, it attracted everyone's onlookers, and what they said at this time, Xiao Yao also heard it on the side. The sailor who fell into the ice cave, he also watched him leave yesterday, but he didn't expect him to leave forever.

By the evening of the fourth day, the ship ran out of food. Everyone had to drink water to satisfy their hunger. Xiao Yao asked Yuan Yuan how many pastries she still had, and asked her to take them all out and distribute them to the captain.

Yuan Yuan took out two boxes of white cuts, two boxes of black cuts, two boxes of inch gold, and a box of baked cakes and sesame cakes, all of which were originally double, Xiao Yao and Yuan Yuan ate a box of hemp cakes and baked cakes in the past few days, and the rest are here.

"Xiao Yao, keep these sesame cakes and baked cakes for you to eat, take them out, I'm afraid you'll be hungry. Those six boxes are small, and they are good points. ”

Xiao Yao didn't agree, he waved his hand and didn't speak. He quietly called the captain and asked him to solve the distribution problem.

As soon as the captain saw these four major pastries, he knew that they were taken home by Xiao Yao and them for the New Year, but at this time, he couldn't care much about it.

"Brother Xiao, thank you for taking these things out for emergency relief, I thank you on behalf of everyone for your heart. However, don't talk about it tonight, you can keep it until noon tomorrow. Good steel should be used on the blade, and we won't eat it until we have to, which will save people. ”

Xiao Yao also understood the captain's arrangement. On this vast lake, these boxes of pastries, which are more precious than gold, are life-saving things.

After the captain left, Xiao Yao asked Yuan Yuan to put away the pastries, Yuan Yuan took out a piece of hemp cake to satisfy Xiao Yao's hunger, Xiao Yao refused, when he could bear it, he would bear it first. The captain's words, he had to take to heart.

That night, the entire fleet was starving. Although Xiao Yao and Yuan Yuan were hungry, they finally didn't touch the pastries.

Before lunch on the fifth day, the captain called all the people in the wooden boat behind him to the tugboat. He asked Xiao Yao to leave the hemp cake for emergency, and all the rest was taken to the empty deck at the bow of the ship.

"Listen, everyone, these cakes are the ones that this little girl on our ship is going to take home for the New Year. Now in a special situation, they take out all these pastries for everyone to satisfy their hunger, I suggest that the box of baked cakes should be left for the two of them, and the rest will be divided equally among all of us. ”

But as soon as the captain's words fell, a discordant voice was immediately heard.

"No, why can he divide a box for two, and only seven or eight of us can share a box. ”

"It's just that maybe they still hid their secrets and didn't take them out all. ”

"Yes, let's all go and search their quarters, there must still be one. ”

At this time, these crew members, who have always obeyed the captain's words, have not disregarded the captain's majesty, and the inferiority of human selfishness has been fully exposed.

The captain didn't expect these people to refute him at this time. He was so angry that his eyes cracked, and he scolded loudly:

"Do you guys still have a little bit of humanity? If they don't take it out, do you know? Don't say that they took it out on their own initiative, it's our own things, it's not an exaggeration to give more to the two children, don't you have any children of your own?"

"At this time, what kind of adults and children? Eat one more bite and maybe you can live, in this cold frozen lake, no one wants to be special. If you want to die, everyone will die together, and if you want to live, everyone will live together. ”

"We'll check again and see if they still have any. ”

"Yes, there is also a box, I asked you to stay in the emergency, why, you don't even listen to me?"

Seeing that some people on the ship were going to search, the situation was uncontrollable, and the captain had to tell the fact that he had left a box of pastries. If they really searched for it, I don't know what these people would do to the two children.

"One box? Who believes it? As long as there is a private collection, there must be more than one box. Take them all out, and if we find them, we'll throw you both into the Ice Cave. ”

"I think any of you dare?"

The crowd was angry and intimidated Xiao Yao, and the captain's intimidation could not suppress everyone's emotions.

If you don't take out these pastries, Xiao Yao's conscience can't get over. But this will be taken out, but it has produced such a negative situation, Xiao Yao feels that he has done something wrong.

He kept looking at the scene in front of him coldly and didn't speak, Qin Manjiang was already so frightened that he was in a cold sweat, and he didn't know how to control the scene.

"You can go and search, but what I want to say is, if you want to search, we will all search, I don't believe it, there is no food on the eighteen ships behind you. I still have a box, it was the captain who said that he wanted to stay for emergency, I won't use it, everyone who dares to move, don't say I'm welcome. ”

As soon as Xiao Yao's words came out, several of the fiercest people immediately stopped talking, but someone else immediately chimed in:

"The little brother is right, everyone searches together. At this time, whoever wants to hide his secrets is our public enemy, and the captain deliberately left a box that we will not touch, leaving it to those who are in urgent need to save their lives. But whoever wants to have excess is not taken out, not to mention who I am fighting with. ”

Xiao Yao also admires the person who dares to stand up and speak like this at such a time, at least, he has no secrets.