boyutpedia Chapter 848: Difficulties in Guarding the Border (1)
Chapter 848: Difficulties in Guarding the Border (1)
The two drove to the Linshan Town Revolutionary Committee, and it was almost time to get off work.
After returning the car to the owner, the two siblings packed their bows and arrows for self-defense and prepared to return to the production team.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was getting darker. If the two didn't speed up, they didn't know when they would get home.
Not long after the two walked out of the town, the sky became completely dark. All they could see around them was a vast expanse of white snow, and they could not even tell the road ahead.
As his vision was blocked by the heavy snow, Liu Jianjun could not help but complain, "Can't the snow fall later?
Even if it’s two hours later.”
Liu Jingxue pretended to take out a flashlight from her bag, turned it on, and consoled her.
"Second brother, stop complaining and hurry up.
If I don’t go back, my uncle and aunt will be waiting anxiously at home.”
"You should be thankful that the snow fell on our way back. If it had started snowing last night, we wouldn't know how to get them there.
If it starts raining in the morning, they can deliver it, but we probably won't be able to come back and don't know how many days we'll have to stay in Xi City.
If the car is not returned to the owner by then, that will be even more troublesome.”
Liu Jianjun was very relieved when he heard this. "Now that you said that, I feel that the timing of the snow is just right."
Use your spiritual power to protect the flashlight, so that the lens won't be frozen and cracked, Liu Jingxue replied casually,
"Stop talking, and hurry up.
I hope we have better luck and don’t encounter any wild animals strolling around at night on our way back.
There is no shortage of meat at home now, so we don’t need them to come and deliver vegetables.
But if they are right in front of you, it would be a shame to ignore them if you ignore them.
But it’s so cold, and I really don’t want to carry them all the way back.”
Letting out a long sigh, Liu Jingxue sighed, "I just want to curl up on the kang and warm myself up."
This was of course a lie. Protected by the spiritual shield, she couldn't feel the cold at all.
If it weren't for the flashlight, Liu Jingxue would not have wanted to use her legs for fear of being discovered by Liu Jianjun, and would have simply used her spiritual power to float back.
But now there is a flashlight, and after Liu Jianjun's strengthening, although his five senses are not as good as hers, they are still much stronger than others. She should be careful and not dance wildly on the edge of exposure.
"Little sister, I heard you say before that this place is not the coldest, right?" Liu Jianjun suddenly asked.
"We are in Liaoning Province now, which is not the coldest place. Heilongjiang Province is even colder.
It is said that the coldest place over there has a temperature of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, and some places may even be minus 50 degrees Celsius. "
Liu Jingxue was not very clear about the specific situation, she just heard it from the villagers.
The picture of the rooster of Xia State appeared in Liu Jianjun's mind, and he thought about the location of Heilongjiang Province.
"That's the border of Xia Country, and I'm afraid there are quite a few people guarding the border there.
It's so cold, and we still have to guard the border. I'm afraid our comrades over there must have a hard time." Liu Jianjun sighed.
"I heard from my mother a few days ago that many people in the production team had frostbite on their hands and feet in winter, which was painful and itchy and very uncomfortable.
If it weren't for the medicine you invented, they would have had a hard time."
“The weather is even colder in Heilongjiang Province, and my comrades there are probably suffering from the colder weather.
I don’t know what their food supply is like, or whether they are wearing warm enough clothes.
How can they hold on if they are cold, hungry and have frostbite?"
The more he talked, the more uncomfortable Liu Jianjun felt.
Before coming here, he only heard people say that it was very cold here, but he couldn't imagine what it was actually like.
But since he came here and experienced it personally, he understood it and became more worried about his comrades here.
Liu Jingxue sighed inwardly. It was so cold and the soldiers guarding the border couldn't hide in the house. It would be useless no matter how many clothes they put on.
As for food, she estimated that there would not be enough.
After all, transportation nowadays is not as developed as it will be in later generations, and those border areas are mostly sparsely populated areas, making it even more difficult to transport daily necessities.
Liu Jingxue couldn't help but think of a program she had watched in modern times, which specifically introduced those border outposts.
Because she only saw it by chance, she can't remember the specific content clearly.
She only remembered that some border outposts were located on mountains with an altitude of four or five thousand meters. The outposts were on cliffs with a vertical slope of nearly ninety degrees. Not to mention people, even eagles found it difficult to fly up.
It is covered with snow all year round, with the lowest temperature reaching minus 40 to 50 degrees Celsius.
Even though the later generations were so developed, the soldiers' daily supplies were carried up by manpower, and their daily drinking water was snow.
The soldiers have to patrol every day, and if they are not careful during patrol, they will roll down the cliff.
You have to know that it was in the future and the conditions were so difficult. If it were today, the degree of hardship would probably be even more unimaginable.
Liu Jingxue felt a little regretful. She had been here for more than two years, so why didn’t she think of these things earlier?
If I had remembered it earlier, I could have provided them with some help sooner.
Her emotions fluctuated so much that they alarmed Tuanzi.
After asking her what she thought, Tuanzi comforted her.
"Master, it's not too late for you to remember this now.
Even if you had thought of these things before, you probably wouldn't be able to offer any help other than just worrying about it.
You forgot that you only mastered the skill of flying with a sword in July and August last year.
Later on, we will have the autumn harvest and go to treat your second brother, so I am afraid I won’t have time to deal with these things.”
Tuanzi's words made Liu Jingxue feel better.
"Tuanzi, how much food do we have in our space now?"
“You asked me to plant vigorously a few days ago, and I have already harvested two batches in the past few days.
Although the yield of grain in the space is high, our land is limited after all. Now the total amount of various grains is about 100,000 kilograms.
Of course, this does not include the previous ones. After all, those have a high spiritual energy content. You don’t intend to let them flow out.”
Liu Jingxue frowned when she heard that. There were only 100,000 kilograms of grain. What could they do with it? It was still too little.
But this cannot be blamed on Tuanzi. If anyone should be blamed, then only myself can be blamed. I did not think about these things before, which resulted in the land in the space being abandoned there.
Now that they need food, Tuanzi has stepped up its planting efforts, but it’s only been a few days and it’s unclear how much food it can produce.
It seems that I have to change my previous plan.
I had been thinking about sending food to the troops, but now it seems that there is too little food. With so many people in the troops, I’m afraid they won’t be able to eat it for long.
Moreover, although the conditions in the troops are difficult, they are definitely much better than those of the border guards at the border outposts.
After all, it’s impossible to transport food to their side, so I don’t know how difficult it is.
It would be better to send these 100,000 kilograms of food to the border guards first. When there is more food, we can send it to the troops later.
In addition to food, we also had to send them some cold-proof cotton clothes. We didn't have any cloth for military uniforms, so we could only make some cotton jackets to wear underneath.
There are also medicines for treating colds and frostbite, so get more of them.
After calculating all this, Liu Jingxue felt that she had too much to prepare and she was afraid that she couldn't do it all by herself, so she had to seek help from outside.
And we can’t find anyone else to help us, so it has to be Tuanzi.