If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 894
The sky is getting dark outside the window, but the fire is still in the window of the hunter's wooden house. Through the snow-stained glass of the window, a wooden table can be seen.

On the wooden table, a birch-carved 'horse' was put into the chess board by one hand, next to the 'rook', filling the last vacancy on the sand table battlefield.

The huntress withdrew her hand, and every scattered chess pieces on the ground were picked up and placed in their proper positions. The firewood burning in the fire cast their shadows on the chessboard. Camp, the crackling sound of the firewood is the sound of golden drums when the chess pieces are moved.

This chess set is very old, about ten years old. It is purely handmade, from the brush strokes on the chessboard to the wood-carved chess pieces. The effort required to make such a complete chess set far exceeds The value of chess itself.

But no one will laugh at the person who made it and the meaning of its existence, just like the neatly stacked toys in the corner of the wall, this chess has its unique meaning.

But at this moment, no matter how meaningful the chess set is, it will not attract the attention of other people in the cabin, and even if it is carved from ivory and jade, it will definitely not compare with the boiling stew on the front of the stove.

In the iron basin licked by the flames, after lifting the lid, you can see the red eleuthero buds floating on the boiling soup, and a few mushrooms can be vaguely seen churning under the white foam, but the most mouth-watering The big heads are still pieces of flesh-colored 'eel segments', which are undoubtedly meat, and it is also the last meat in the wooden house.

The glass jar contained the viscera and scales of the snake. It can be guessed that the meat in the stew came from the arctic adder. It had been chopped off by the huntress to drain the snake's venom, but it did not escape the end of being eaten and wiped out.After all, the fable of the farmer and the snake is outdated, and this time it uses its own flesh and blood to provide warmth to the victims in the snowstorm.

"Isn't it alright?" Dusha's voice was weak, and she was probably so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back. She regretted that she had wasted too much energy by yelling and venting her emotions during the day.

Her physical fitness is at the end of the group of people in the wooden house. Interestingly, it seems that the little girl who has been carrying her brother has a much stronger physical sense than her.

"Don't worry, the snake meat needs to be cooked more." Vika, who was squatting next to the stew, comforted his sister patiently. Compared with Dusha, who doesn't like to use her brain very much, he clearly knows that parasites in snake meat can easily cause diarrhea and high fever. This makes sense.

The berries in the cloth bag brought back by the huntress had already been eaten, and it was not enough for eight people. This pot of stew was a life-saving meal, but it might also be a life-threatening meal. In this situation, he had to be patient.

He kept flipping the snake meat and the bright red and green shoots in the stew pot with the dagger until Dusha didn't know how many times he asked, Vika finally moved the stew pot away from the stove, grabbed the handle of the stew pot and put the contents inside. The average was poured into a wooden bowl.

Originally they thought that there might not be enough tableware due to the number of people, but after the old hunter woke up and followed his instructions, he actually dug out a few broken wooden bowls from the corners of the cabinet.

The huntress took the bowl from Adam and glanced at the pieces of snake meat and mushrooms inside.In terms of food sharing, although Vika may have some selfish intentions to pour more into his sister's bowl, but generally speaking, he still doesn't pay much attention to it.

After all, everyone knows who brought back the stew in the wooden bowl. If they still can't find a way to leave tomorrow, they may have to rely on the huntress to go deep into the coniferous forest if they want to eat their next meal.

Now these wooden bowls are filled with stews and distributed to everyone. There is no Catholic or Christian prayer before meals, and everyone bows their heads and eats as soon as they pick up the bowls.

"This stew is such a beautiful thing." After Adam sighed sincerely, there was only the sound of soup and chewing in the whole wooden house, and he really wanted to crush all the bones of the snake and eat them together.

The old hunter was lying on his side on the kang, and he could basically eat the stew by himself. The little girl beside him still chose to feed her younger brother before thinking about whether she was hungry. Dusha was sweeping while eating with a bowl. With the untouched bowl of stew on the kang, she looked a little weaker. She was weaker than everyone else, and her eyes were a little green, but she didn't dare to do anything after all, so she could only hold back her thoughts and turn her head to go elsewhere.

The huntress was sitting in front of the chessboard on the wooden table, eating the stew and staring at the chess pieces in a daze, probably thinking about how to get out, but when she was thinking of being engrossed, she heard the sound of the chess pieces moving and falling. She looked up. Looking across the wooden table, I found that it was the KGB lieutenant colonel who moved the white 'pawn' of e2 to move two squares.

She spat out the snake's bones, and without thinking too much while drinking the soup, she casually moved her opposing 'pawn' forward two squares.The lieutenant colonel probably guessed her next move, and when the sound of the chess piece falling sounded, his move was completed, and the white 'queen' flew directly to h5.

The huntress paused, and subconsciously moved the pawn closest to the white 'queen' one square forward.In the rules of chess, the "pawn" is a chess piece that can only move one square at a time except for the first step in the game, but the piece is captured by going straight and diagonally.

The lieutenant colonel looked up at the huntress, "You won't go down?"

"Only a little." The huntress said honestly.

The lieutenant colonel nodded, probably meaning that he recognized what the huntress said, and then moved the queen horizontally to eat the 'pawn' that the huntress had advanced two squares in the first hand.

The huntress raised her hand, looked at the chessboard, was stunned for a moment, and then put it down again, because the lieutenant colonel drew her general in two simple steps, and if she didn't want to lose in the next step, she would lose a rook. This kind of opening is basically fine. It's too bad, if the two sides are equal in strength and one side makes this kind of mistake, it will basically be useless in the follow-up.

"The queen is just a bait." The huntress looked at the 'queen' who was pulling the car and nodded, before pushing down her own 'emperor', "Excellent. People from the KGB also learn chess?"

"I just had a very good teacher." The lieutenant colonel reset the chess pieces, moved the chess pieces again, moved two 'pawns' forward, and opened another chess game.

"Do you still have time to play chess now?" Adam came over with a stew bowl, and was a little dumbfounded when he saw the chess on the table.

"It's just for fun." The huntress twirled the chess piece and dropped it. "Being anxious is of no help except to waste energy in vain and eat more like a pig."

Not far away, Dusha, who was buried in her bowl, looked up.

"Actually, I feel like I can last for a while if I eat this kind of wild vegetables every day. I will save the snake bones for the next meal to make soup." Adam stared at the tender shoots floating on the soup in the bowl and licked his lips.

"It's not that easy." The huntress sighed while waiting for the lieutenant colonel to settle down, "Do you think wild vegetables are inexhaustible? Maybe we won't have so much food for the next meal, or even find nothing to eat. of."

"No way? Is there still time to finish picking wild vegetables? There is such a big forest." Adam was stunned, and even Dusha who was not far away pricked up his ears and looked towards this side.

"It's not that the picking is finished, but that it can't be picked. I went out for a stroll today and found that the snow in the coniferous forest was too deep after the snowstorm. The wild vegetables growing on the ground were buried, and the berries of a few shrubs were also beaten Falling into the snow. The physical exertion of digging through the snow to find wild vegetables far exceeds the calories we can replenish from wild vegetables and berries. Maybe we can't find a way to leave here tomorrow, and we can only use local materials to eat trees Skinned."

"Bark. Is that edible?"

"People are so hungry that they will eat anything. Maybe the only good news for us is that there will be no shortage of water. After all, Siberia is full of snow."

"Drinking water is not a big deal." Adam carried the cold kettle and walked around the house to pour water for everyone.

Vika saw that his sister had finished drinking before he took the water glass. He shook his head and handed over his water glass under the eager eyes of his sister.

The little girl on the heated kang also took the initiative to come over with two cups at this time, and Adam, who was carrying the kettle, glanced at the old hunter on the heated kang.

The old hunter has fallen into silence alone since he woke up. He didn't shout to Vika and Dusha, the two culprits who caused his injuries, and didn't seek justice from the KGB lieutenant colonel.

The old hunter seemed to be resigned to his fate. He would only drink water, eat and sleep repeatedly.

But even so, he probably won't be able to hold on for long. If he dies, no one will waste his energy to bury his body in the snow. Then what will they do with the old man's body?

Adam had been in a daze for too long, and the huntress reminded him softly, before he reacted and lifted the kettle, almost pouring boiling water into the little girl's hands.

The huntress looked at him and shook her head. I don't know how many times she sighed. She raised her hand and was about to move. The little girl who was about to leave glanced at her hand holding the 'pawn' and then at the chessboard. Another corner of the room, but didn't say anything, and was about to go back to the bed with the water glass in hand.

These two gazes from the little girl were barely noticed, yes, almost.

"Wait." The lieutenant colonel who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke up.

The huntress paused while playing chess and looked at the lieutenant colonel, only to realize that the lieutenant colonel was not calling her, but the little girl who was about to leave.

The little girl stopped and looked back at the lieutenant colonel.

The lieutenant colonel looked at the huntress and motioned for her to make room for her. The huntress was stunned for a few seconds and realized what the lieutenant colonel meant. She showed a strange expression, then slowly moved her body and turned to look at the little girl.

The lieutenant colonel wants the little girl to sit on the table.

The little girl stood still. She didn't move until everyone looked at her. Then, under the guidance of the lieutenant colonel's gaze, she sat down at the table and in front of the chess set.

The lieutenant colonel stretched out his hand and returned the chess move played by the huntress. He folded his hands on the table and looked at the little girl, "Do you know how to play chess?"

The little girl met the lieutenant colonel's eyes, and she nodded slowly after a long time.

"How do you know she can play chess?" the huntress looked at the lieutenant colonel and asked.

The lieutenant colonel waved his hand and said, "Where did you learn it?"

The little girl didn't answer, just shook her head.

"Can you play a game of chess with me?" The lieutenant colonel's expression on the little girl wasn't serious or solemn, only calm, a kind of calm that no one could understand, including his current request, which made everyone in the wooden house feel touched Not clear mind.

At the time of life and death, this man still has the mind to let a half-grown child play chess with him?
The huntress re-examined the lieutenant colonel and raised her eyebrows again, without making any comments on his "whim".

"What are you doing?" Dusha muttered, looking at the lieutenant colonel and then at the little girl sitting at the table, she wanted to say something but gave up, her face was full of tiredness and discomfort, she didn't know Is it too tiring to make too much noise during the day?

Indeed, no one can understand the brain circuit of the lieutenant colonel, because he really played a game of chess with the little girl, without any communication, just moving and putting down the chess pieces again and again.

Both the huntress and Adam gradually discovered that the two played chess very fast. It should be that the little girl played chess very fast. Every time the lieutenant colonel moved the chess piece, she would complete her corresponding move at the moment the chess piece fell.

The lieutenant colonel also accelerated the speed of his chess pieces in silence, and the sound of "tapping" of the chess pieces in the wooden house was endless.

Until the end, the lieutenant colonel stopped touching the chess, withdrew his hand and glanced at the little girl, then nodded.After getting permission, the little girl put down her hand holding the 'queen', got off the table and turned back to the kang.

They didn't communicate at all during the whole process.

The lieutenant colonel glanced at the little girl on the heated kang who had put on her coat and cup again, and she was convinced of something.

"That's the end of the game?" Adam was a little dazed, he didn't know chess better than the huntress, let alone fast chess.

He didn't understand the chess game that ended in less than a minute. He didn't realize who was winning until the end, and the chess pieces on the table were restored by the lieutenant colonel.

The huntress stared blankly at the restored chess game for a long time, until finally she said abruptly, "I lost a hand of 'Wang Che Yi Shi'."

Not many people in the wooden house could understand what the words "hunter" meant, and the lieutenant colonel didn't seem to have any intention of explaining the chess game that started out of nowhere just now. nothing.

　ps: One thing to say, I know that snake venom can only be infected by blood.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)