"If you have time, go down to the river to break the ice. Why not clear the ice in front of your house first." Li Nanheng said calmly: "The problem of accommodation has not been solved yet, so we should be busy looking for food first."
Boss Li's tone sounded both reproachful and helpless, but he should be more understanding. After all, in this environment, both food and accommodation are crucial things.
"Boss, please sit inside first. It's too cold outside." Feng Ling said and pointed to the two tents over there.
Li Nanheng didn't look at her. He just walked to the cliff in front and looked down.
Feng Ling looked at the man's back and thought that she was sent here to go on a mission because she did something wrong. He gave her a chance at that time, but she didn't cherish it. It's not surprising that he doesn't bother to talk to her now.
She stopped talking and only looked back at the snow on the ground and the pile of dry firewood.
She asked San Fatty and the others to go out to catch fish because she wanted to be quiet. Those seven men sitting together were having no more time to do, and they were noisier than a group of women sitting together, talking all over the place.
Coupled with the busy life that everyone is accustomed to training, suddenly there is no need to worry too much about training for the time being, and they have to study how to live, eat and live every day, which makes it even more chaotic.
She would rather be a logistics person here, studying how everyone can eat and live comfortably, and doesn't want them to quarrel next to her.
Feng Ling suddenly went straight in to find tools, took out a strong shovel, and first drew a square space of about twenty square meters on the ground opposite the tent, then cleared away all the snow on it, and used the front of the shovel one by one to Use sharp points to hit the ice below.
Li Nanheng heard the sound and turned around to see Feng Ling working hard alone. He then watched her smashing for a long time, but she only made a few white marks on the ice.
The man watched for a while, then walked over with his hands behind his back. He walked around her and stopped next to her again. He looked sideways at her as she continued to smash the ice without giving up: "Do you know what you look like now?" ?”
Feng Ling heard the ridicule in his words and ignored him. He lowered his head and continued to smash the ice. While smashing it, he said: "This kind of ice layer that has been on the snowy mountains all year round, let's not say whether it is thick or not, but it must be very strong. It's impossible." It can be smashed open so easily, boss, please give way, lest I force myself to swing the shovel in your face again."
Li Nanheng watched her continue to work hard, and the coldness in her eyes was gradually laughed at by her clumsy movements: "Like a bear with uncoordinated limbs."
Feng Ling paused and suddenly turned his eyes to look at him. In the blink of an eye, because the hat on his head was too big, half of his face was almost buried in the hat. For a moment, he didn't see the flash in the man's eyes. With a smile, he raised his hand and pulled off the hat hard, looking at the man's still cold face: "This cold-proof suit is already too big, and it's not something I can wear at all! It's already very long for me to be able to walk normally in it now." It’s not easy! Boss, if you came here just to tease people, then please go back to the tent to rest and don’t disturb me here!”
Li Nanheng sneered, grabbed the shovel from her hand, and pointed with his chin at the off-road vehicle they drove over not far away: "Isn't there some salt prepared by the base for you on the vehicle?"
Feng Ling paused and looked at the shovel that he had snatched away. Then she looked up at him. Standing in such a cold place, his face was not even reddened by the wind. He still looked the same as when he came. She Inexplicably: "Aren't those salts used as seasonings for us to eat here?"
"You need half a car's worth of salt for seasoning? Are you not afraid of getting caught?"
"...What is that for?"
Li Nanheng thrust the shovel into the ground, propped it on with one hand, and looked at her: "Feng Ling, from the time you entered the base at the age of thirteen to now, the cultural classes and field training that have been given to you regularly in the base have all gone well. Where did you learn from me?"
Feng Ling stared back at him calmly: "Field training does not include snow-capped mountains and glaciers."
Li Nanheng raised his stern eyebrows slightly: "Then go get me more salt and sprinkle it on the ground. I will show you personally."
“…”
"Don't waste time, go quickly!" Li Nanheng looked at Feng Ling, who looked doubtful, and gave her an urging look.
Feng Ling had no choice but to turn around and go to the car to get salt. After carrying about ten bags of salt back and forth, Li Nanheng said it was not enough and asked her to continue taking it. She continued taking it, and then asked her to open it and scatter it on the ground. and they were sown on the ground as he had commanded.
Just looking at the salt all over the floor, and the man who had been just standing there watching her spreading the salt, Feng Ling stood beside him, he didn't move, and neither did she.
It's just past one o'clock in the afternoon, when you can see the sun for a little while on this snow-capped mountain in a day, but the temperature can only rise by two or three degrees at most, and in this kind of minus 30 to 40 degrees or even more In the freezing cold, I couldn't feel any warmth at all.
But the salt on the ground gradually melted into the snow in a strange way. It wasn't until he saw that the snow was gradually melting that Feng Ling's expression changed.
Li Nanheng watched the snow on the ground melt and threw the shovel directly to her. He lifted his long legs and walked towards the tent where Feng Ling lived alone. Before entering, he said without looking back: "We will cut the ice below in an hour. Wait first."
After watching the snow melt with his own eyes, Feng Ling didn't have any objections. He just looked at the melted snow on the ground and the wet snow water mixed with salt and snow on the ice, and finally remembered that he was there. There is indeed such a saying in the survival knowledge in the base and in the wild.
When the temperature of water reaches 0°C, it freezes. If salt is added, the freezing temperature will decrease. A 10% salt solution will lower the freezing point to minus 6°C, and a 20% salt solution will lower the freezing point to -16°C. This means that if you sprinkle salt on icy roads, you can melt the ice. Salt can dissolve into the liquid water in the ice, lowering the freezing point.
Feng Ling raised his hand and rubbed his face, which was slightly red from the cold, and took a deep breath. He knew that even if the ice below would not melt so easily in an hour, it would definitely be easier to break than before. , so he no longer stood there stupidly and followed him into the tent.
When she walked into the tent, she saw Li Nanheng sitting on the only bed inside. The bed was about one and a half meters wide. She had been sleeping on it for the past two days. There were a lot of quilts, automatic heating blankets and other things piled next to it.
Just as she was about to walk over, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the suitcase under the bed from the corner of her eye. In the suitcase were several bra wraps that she usually used.
At this moment, the expression on her face suddenly froze.
Oops!