vrcanaries Chapter 430 Snow House
Chapter 430 Snow House
For an instant.
Xu Wenyan felt as if a needle was pricking his heart.
"Wife? What's wrong?" Chen Sanlin asked hurriedly when he saw Xu Wenyan suddenly stop.
Xu Wenyan stretched out his right hand, rubbed his eyes, and swallowed his saliva with a sob.
"Nothing... nothing, let's go."
Chen Sanlin could clearly feel that Xu Wenyan was in a bad mood, but he didn't want to say it. All he could do was to accompany him well.
A strong wind blew and heavy snow fell.
Chen Sanlin took a few steps forward to shield Xu Wenyan from the cold wind: "Please put on your scarf."
"Ah."
As the wind and snow blew, Manager Wu felt as if his whole body was chilled.
"Stay close, don't get separated!"
The exiles gathered together, and within a few minutes, their heads turned white.
Xu Wenyan wrapped her face with a scarf, and the scarf around her mouth and nose was covered with white frost.
Even the eyelashes and eyebrows were covered in icy mist.
"Why are you two running behind here?" Luo Sanyuan and Xiaoman came over with their horses, and he handed the reins of Baihu to Chen Sanlin.
Holding Xiaoman in his left hand and Xu Wenyan in his right hand.
Xu Wenyan tilted his head and looked at Luo Sanyuan and Xiaoman, whose faces were red from the cold: "Put on your scarves, be careful not to freeze your ears off.
Following the arm that was embracing Chen Sanlin, the four of them walked forward together.
"Ah? Will I really freeze? I don't feel cold at all."
As Luo Sanyuan spoke, he let go of Xiaoman's hand and adjusted the hood of his cloak. Then he imitated Xu Wenyan's way and hugged Xiaoman, covering her face and ears.
"If you don't believe me, forget it. From now on, I will call you One Ear." Xu Wenyan lowered his head and continued walking.
"One ear is too ugly." Luo Sanyuan also wrapped his face tightly: "By the way, isn't the snow a little too heavy?"
Xiaoman looked at the horses beside her. Xiaohong and Baihu seemed unable to withstand the severe cold.
After all, it is a southern horse, and it is really suffering to follow it here.
"I've read it in a book before,
It has always been like this in the North; I've read about it in books.
The north wind blows the snow through the scars of the sword, and it is even colder for horses to drink at the Great Wall Cave. "
Xu Wenyan raised his head slightly, looking at the dim sky, his eyes also downcast: "North wind blowing snow through the scars of a knife, this through the scars of a knife is a metaphor.
The cold wind can pass through the front of the knife and leave a cold scar on the back.
"The horses were drinking water at the Great Wall Cave, the water was cold and hurt the horses' bones." It was even colder than this."
Xiaoman laughed and said, “When I read this part, I thought it was an exaggerated poem.
It seems that there is no difference, the cold wind penetrates the bones, and the sky and the earth are dim. "
Xu Wenyan heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this: "But the beauty of this fortress is not groundless, this scenery is very beautiful."
"Yes, very beautiful."
Listening to the conversation between the two, Luo Sanyuan and Chen Sanlin just listened blankly.
Although I couldn't understand what they were saying, they looked very impressive.
"Ah, yes! Xiaoman is right, Wen Yan, you are right too, hehe."
Xiaoman laughed twice: "You are right."
The sky was so dark that Manager Wu had no idea how far he had walked.
But if we keep going, half of the people will freeze to death here.
I looked around first. There were three trees not far away. They were neither big nor small. Then there were mountains, endless mountains.
"Xu Wenyan."
Manager Wu called out, but received no response.
When I turned around, I found that there were other people following me.
He could only walk back and find Xu Wenyan: "The snow and wind are too strong, we must stop and rest, do you have any good ideas?"
Xu Wenyan also looked around first, then stretched out his hand again.
After carefully feeling the wind direction, Xu Wenyan looked toward a mountain in front of him and said, "Let's go behind that mountain."
Manager Wu nodded: "Okay."
I don’t know when Manager Wu started to trust Xu Wenyan very much.
Even he had never seen such heavy snow. After all, the farthest place he had been when he started exile two years ago was a coal mountain on the outskirts of Longcheng.
He had walked this route only once last summer.
The team followed Manager Wu's orders and headed towards the hill. Sure enough, the wind was indeed weaker when they arrived there.
There is also relatively little snow here.
Manager Wu found Xu Wenyan again without stopping: "What's next?"
"There are three trees over there. Cut off all the branches from them."
"Okay, you guys go and chop branches." Manager Wu sent all the officers and soldiers to chop branches together. There was no time to waste at this time.
Xu Wenyan was piling the snow together.
"Don't just stand there, go and help!" Manager Wu urged the exiled team.
"Push the snow on the ground to the side, but don't push it all the way. Gather the snow around the outside first."
Soon someone came back carrying branches.
Xu Wenyan picked up a branch and stuck it into the falling snow: "Brother Chen, Luo Sanyuan, help me plant some on the other side."
"Oh, okay." Luo Sanyuan responded quickly.
Prop up all the branches to use as a skeleton, and then slowly add snow on top.
"Wrap your hands with cloth and avoid direct contact with the snow," Xu Wenyan reminded.
The fire hadn't been lit yet and the wind was so strong, I was afraid that I would suffer from hypothermia.
Fortunately, there were many people and Manager Wu had clear division of labor, so this low-profile version of the igloo was completed soon.
The snow in the house had been compacted by everyone, and Xu Wenyan only started to light a fire now.
Everyone's hands were red from the cold.
After the wind around was completely blocked, the body began to tremble uncontrollably.
Xu Wenyan was no exception: "It's probably more than thirty degrees below zero."
Chen Sanlin washed his nose and brought back a bundle of firewood.
The soldiers were unable to cut the big branches, so Chen Sanlin took the knife and chopped down the three trees in just a few strokes.
With just this amount of firewood, it would take at least an hour to last.
"What is minus... degrees?" Chen Sanlin squatted down next to Xu Wenyan and rubbed his hands.
"It's a unit we use to calculate temperature."
Xu Wenyan took Chen Sanlin's hand, looked at it, and squeezed it.
"what happened?"
"See if you're cold."
Chen Sanlin grinned: "Care about me?"
"Excuse me, my personal hand warmer is frozen. What should I do?"
Luo Sanyuan then took Xiaoman's hand and squatted down: "Come, come, let my husband take a look."
Xu Wenyan took Xiaoman's hand and looked at Luo Sanyuan: "Damn, you are really quick to learn."
"Of course I am Xiaoman's wife. Hehe."
Xu Wenyan shook his head. It had been warm for a while now and no one had blisters on their hands. It seemed that everyone was lucky.
Xu Wenyan boiled a large pot of snow water. Everyone drank a little and continued to go out to build a thicker snow house.
The wind late at night is no joke.
Only after all the gaps were filled did Xu Wenyan feel slightly relieved.
The top of the igloo is very low, and you have to bend over to get in.
Xu Wenyan made the two horses kneel beside him. It was uncertain whether they could survive the night.
It was hard to sleep that night.
The wind outside the house was howling and tearing like a lonely ghost.
a whole night.
Not to mention others, even people like Xu Wenyan, who were wrapped in thick clothes, couldn't sleep much.
If Chen Sanlin hadn't hugged her whole body, Xu Wenyan felt that she would not be able to survive the night.
What on earth is raining down from the sky? It’s so cold.
"Wake up, let's leave early today. When we get to the next county, we will stay there temporarily." If they continue walking in this weather, he might die here.
The team was organized and everyone was packing their luggage.
“Hey, bro, wake up, wake up.” The man shook the man next to him, and his whole body stiffened.
The man stepped back in fear.
"Ah-ah-"
"What's wrong?" Manager Wu crawled towards the place where the man was roaring.
When I went over to check on him, his body was already cold.
In addition, four people were found frozen in the team.
Five more people left the team.
But soon, a man rushed to the dead man's package and frantically looted the contents.
Seeing this, the others also rushed forward. In less than a minute, all the packages were snatched away.
Manager Wu ignored these people until most of their clothes were stripped off.
This was not going to work, Manager Wu ordered everyone to speed up their work, they had to set off immediately.
It took the two horses a long time to relax and their bodies gradually warmed up. During this period, Xu Wenyan kept rubbing the bodies of the two horses.
Looking at the pale and lifeless faces of the five people in the snow house, Xu Wenyan felt a chill in his heart.
What was even more suffocating was that the wind and snow did not subside even though everyone stood up.
The cold wind is still there, making my bones ache.
In the wind and snow, every step you take requires all your strength.
"Xu Wenyan! Why do I feel that today's wind is stronger than yesterday?" Luo Sanyuan walked forward with his head down, and the snow blowing on his face was so painful.
"It seems so! You and Xiaoman stay close to us, and don't get separated!" Under the baptism of the blizzard, they have to speak in a shout even if they are close.
Xu Wenyan just uttered a few words, and a layer of white frost covered his scarf again.
"We are going to go up the mountain ahead, so please be alert," Manager Wu reminded.
It is difficult to walk on flat ground, let alone walking uphill.
It can be seen that the team's forward speed has obviously slowed down, and they can only move a few meters in half a day.
"Oh, shit." Luo Sanyuan slipped and fell heavily to the ground.
Xiaoman pulled him up: "Step firmly before walking."
"what--"
The sound came from the back of the team, but the wind was so strong that the people in the front had no idea that one person had slipped and happened to be at the end of the team.
The whole person slid down the cliff.
Xu Wenyan's eyes narrowed into slits, the ice on his eyelashes was too heavy. The vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart gradually intensified.
"what is that?"
"Not good!" Xu Wenyan just glanced forward.
I saw a silver-gray storm blowing towards the team like a beast.
The northwest is a vast and windy place. Xu Wenyan was not surprised to see the wind, but he was surprised that the blizzard brought about by the wind looked so terrifying.
Xu Wenyan immediately pulled Chen Sanlin and Xiaoman and said, "Luo Sanyuan! Back off!"
The four of them hugged each other tightly, and Xu Wenyan ordered two horses to lie down.
"Run! Run!"
The people in the team naturally saw the horror ahead, and out of human instinct, they ran backwards like crazy.
Manager Wu saw Xu Wenyan lying on the ground, and he, Xu Dashan, and Luo Feng also lay on the ground like Xu Wenyan.
It would be a lie to say that I wasn't panicking, but at this moment I could only think of Xu Wenyan.
"Brother, run!" Zhang Qiaoer pulled Zhang Chengjin's arm back.
"No, Qiao'er, mother, get down quickly!"
The storm blew in gusts, and Xu Wenyan could only lower his head, not daring to raise his head at all.
Soon, Xu Wenyan felt layer upon layer of snow accumulating on his body.
I don’t know how long they lay in the strong wind. When they felt that the surroundings had calmed down, Xu Wenyan pulled Chen Sanlin and Xiaoman’s hands.
The four of them stood up together and shook off the snow on their bodies. The two horses were fine.
Looking around, there was no sign of human being except for two bulges not far away.
"Oh my god, they are probably dead."
As soon as he finished speaking, two bulges floated up.
"Mother! Mother——"
Zhang Qiaoer cried and everyone looked at her.
She hugged Madam Yang Er and saw a bloody hole on her head.
Blood flowed out, dyeing a small piece of snow red.
It must have been the strong wind that brought the boulders down from the mountain.
Xu Wenyan could only be thankful that the stone did not hit more people.
Just listening to the cries, everyone felt uncomfortable.
As if she had realized something, Zhang Qiaoer walked towards Xu Wenyan with difficulty, falling several times during the walk.
You have to know that the snow is now up to an adult man's thighs. If Zhang Qiaoer falls once, she will almost be buried in the snow.
"Cousin... Cousin, please!! Save my mother, save my mother!"
Zhang Qiaoer grabbed Xu Wenyan's trouser leg and begged.
"Get up first, I'll go take a look. Don't cry, your eyes will get frozen." The eyes have no pain nerves, so it is difficult for people to judge whether the eyeballs are injured.
It would be too dangerous to cry in such cold weather.
Xu Wenyan was kind to this cousin. At least, she was polite.
After just one look, Xu Wenyan knew there was no hope. He checked her pulse and artery again and said, "Cousin, feel your mother's heartbeat to see if she still has one."
Zhang Qiaoer obediently tried it out, then collapsed to the ground.
The results are obvious.
Zhang Chengjin hugged her and comforted her softly: "I know you are upset, but Xu Wenyan said that you will cry your eyes out.
Er Niang is gone, brother will protect you, Qiao Er, be obedient."
Xu Wenyan shook his head, and Manager Wu came over at this time: "What should we do now, the wind doesn't seem to be stopping at all.
After observing the surroundings, Xu Wenyan looked down and said, "Let's go down the mountain. We can't leave today."
Manager Wu knew that it would take at least five or six hours to reach the next county.
Given the current weather, I'm afraid the time will have to be doubled or even longer.
Xu Wenyan and his group searched the area carefully and took away everything they could.
Zhang Qiaoer looked dazed, but no one would blame her.
She was just a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old.
This is the age when one is loved by his mother.
The way down the mountain was also not easy and it took more than an hour.
Another reason is to look back and see if you can run into other people in the team.
The whole team was eerily quiet.
In fact, for Xu Wenyan, there was not even a ripple.
The life and death of these people is not even as sad as the death of Xiaohong.