Tibetan Snow Mountains Chapter 43: The Last Comfort Zone
At this time, there was still a long time before dawn, and the long-lost warmth allowed my already frozen body to be fully stretched.
Heaven and hell are sometimes really separated by a door, or a barrier.
After putting down my backpack, I picked out some fine wood to start the fire, threw it into the stove, and spread a few lumps of coal on it. Then he took out a cigarette and a lighter from his backpack, lit the cigarette and took a puff, then lit some scraps of wood under the wood, and threw them into the bottom of the stove along with the cigarette, so that it would be a part of the fire!
My cigarette is always in my bag because of its small size and light weight, which is a fixture item in my backpack.
Like the fat man, I don't have any addiction to smoking, and the reason why I put a box is that I have my plan!
The business I have come into contact with, and the struggle between these chaotic forces that I have been involved in, has made my life impossible to secure at all. In the unlikely event that I was cornered during one of my actions, this box of cigarettes would be the sacrificial offering I had prepared for myself.
Of course, I'll enjoy this burial offering before I die. People say that it is also romantic to die under the peony flower, but I am so that I can do "a few cigarettes before I die, and I am a ghost......
The fire was quickly ignited, and after a few lumps of coal had melted into the fire, I continued to add a few smaller pieces of coal.
After Yiyi sorted out the things in her backpack, she took off the thick animal skin clothes that Meiduo had prepared for us, put on only the down jacket inside, gathered around the stove, and sat down opposite me.
Looking at the burning fire, he said with a smile:
"I didn't see it, Su Mo, you still have this technique..."
As soon as the temperature in the room rose, her little face, which had been frozen red, was now bloody, and her delicate face was restored again. From my position, her body was reflected in the fiery red of the fire, and even the gauze I wrapped around her shoulders and neck was reflected red, making her look a little charming.
I took the bag of compressed biscuits she handed me and said to her, "Yiyi, you forgot, I grew up in the north!" In our place, in the winter, every house lights a stove like this! The Tibetan-style architecture here is a lot worse than the fire-fire structure I used to have when I was a child. We all connected a steel pipe to the stove and connected a heater to the end of the pipe. Add water to the pipes and a simple heating device does just that! ”
The fire in front of me brought me back to my childhood, when my father lit the fire and added water to make the house warmer, as I said!
"Well, in the rural areas of many northern cities in my country, it is the kind of heating mode you said. However, the construction of that kind of stove may not be suitable for this place! You have to know how precious water is in Tibet at such an altitude. In the northern mode, water is constantly poured into the pipes to fill the water that has evaporated due to the high temperature of the furnace. And here, that way is a luxury! You will be scolded by the local people for not knowing how to save water! ”
Yiyi narrated to me with a serious expression, looking at her serious appearance, I wanted to laugh. Her expression made her look a little charming and replaced by cuteness just now because she was set off by the fire!
We gathered around the fire and ate some food, me
Then he found an iron kettle in the house, scooped some water from the jar, and put it on the stove to heat it! Being able to take a sip of hot water in such a bitter cold place makes me feel like a luxury experience that I can't even imagine!
This kind of thought, when Yiyi and I stepped on the road to the snowy mountain, I had already broken this thought, I didn't expect to feel the warmth of this satisfaction.
Along the way, the two of us have achieved the ultimate in water savings, which is related to our shared experience! I really don't want to try that taste of pee!
The container full of water in the corner of the room not only solved one of our big problems, but also allowed the two of us to drink hot water that we had not seen for a long time!
I'm not afraid that the water here will poison me and Yiyi after we drink it, and since the villagers here didn't take all their daily necessities with them when they left, then there must be no problem with the water in these tanks!
In addition to the water, I also found some potatoes that I didn't process and put them on the stove and roasted them with the skin!
My body, which was already very tired, suddenly became tired with the energy replenishment of hot water and baked potatoes.
Yiyi's body was weaker than mine, and I asked her to go to bed and sleep.
After Yiyi fell asleep, I gathered around the stove alone, in a daze. Even if I wasn't energized by the hot water and warm food, I wouldn't have been able to sleep. Now, in this environment in which the two of us live, there must be unknown dangers!
I have to be vigilant all the time! After Yiyi's advice, there was no prevarication, and he went to bed directly!
I know what she thinks, she won't sleep too long, and when she recovers her strength, she will force me to go to the shift with her to rest!
The reason why she didn't shirk my advice and went to rest first was because her physical strength had reached its limit! Even if I was persuaded by her to go to bed and rest that I would be the one who went to bed and rested, with her current mental state, she would fall asleep in a blur around the fire!
In this way, if something dangerous happens, the two of us will become meat on the chopping board, swallowed by danger without warning!
All the buildings in this village have closed windows, and all but the door in front of me are covered with thick walls! All the walls of the building are stacked with thick bricks, there are no windows, and the walls are so thick that the warmth in the house is very good!
If I hadn't lit a fire, I'm afraid the whole house would have been in absolute darkness! This feeling is similar to the absolute darkness of the closed space of Altay and I!
I found that there are many similar scenes in Tibet and Xinjiang, all the places I have experienced! The "code of life" must have a lot of clues in both places! As for what this clue is, I'm still confused!
Under my watch, the fire in the stove is getting hotter and hotter, and the temperature of the whole room is getting warmer and warmer!
I looked back at Yiyi, who was lying on the bed not far behind me, she was sleeping soundly, and I could clearly hear her slight snoring! It's hard for anyone to bear this rush, and I think that if the person lying on the bed were me, at this moment, the whole room would definitely sound like a fat man and a scorpion, and the snoring sound would be earth-shattering!
The thought of a scorpion makes my heart flutter
Get up, I'm curious to know what the hell the scorpion went through under the cliffs of the fog!
Is the Heavenly Soul of the Punishment Heaven that the Headless Country Organization used to summon the Soul Banner really exist! If it really exists, what are they leading it to the bottom of the cliff for? Could it really be that there will really be a resurrected Xingtian from the bottom of the cliff through the thick fog and return to this world again?
My mind is messed up and my thinking isn't that clear! If this person has gone through too many complicated things, he will become complicated in his thoughts! Sometimes, I feel that my head is a little insufficient, and I can't figure out the problem at all!
Yiyi and the fat man always advised me that anyone who came across these things would become like me, and even worse, some people would go crazy. To say that I can keep it this way and think rationally is very, very good!
I have never seen my second uncle in person, and this is an experience I haven't had since my father committed suicide! Aunt Ming between us, although it can make me feel a little like seeing my second uncle, but I really hope to have a long talk with him, say all these questions in my heart, and get his answers!
But, I know, it's a hard idea to implement! Our situation, our family mission, all these people who are connected with us, like Mei Duo, Sister Ning, Aunt Ming, Master Liu, etc., our fate cannot let me realize those ideas of mine!
In this game, we can't leave where we rightfully are! The second uncle is not a paper chess player in this game, he is just a pawn in this big chess game, just like me! We can't go around, take a wrong step, and lose everything!
So, I have to endure and take every step of my way! And you can't go wrong every step of the way! I walked very carefully and tired!
Me and the fat man, Yiyi, we should be a component of this move! But there is also a division of labor!
My thoughts were a little confused, and I forcibly stopped this chaotic thoughts! I find that these days, whenever I'm alone, I get cranky. Sometimes, it's not that I deliberately want to think about these things, but these thoughts are always wandering around in my mind, and I will jump out from time to time and sort out the relationship between them by myself!
It's been a long time since I've used my special ability, Duan Yu's ability, to predict what is going to happen to us! The last time I dreamed about returning to the underground world of Lop Nur, dreaming of scorpions, dreaming of fat people, I don't know what the revelation is!
However, I think it must be the dead scorpion that is giving me some inspiration! It's a gut feeling of mine, and this intuition has nothing to do with my Duanyu-style family heritage!
The fire in the room was warm, and I leaned against the wall next to the stove, flickering, but there was still a string that kept me from sleeping!
In a daze, I looked up at the door, trying to see if I could tell when it would light up from the color of the night!
But when I looked up at the door, I saw a shadow in the doorway! A huge shadow!