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    However, he had to worry about the boat a lot, because the lake would freeze in winter, so he didn't dare to park the boat in the water.  Fortunately, the boat has to be pulled ashore every year, and the hoist can still be used after repairing it.  Pull the boat ashore along the wooden track, and then put away the sails and keep them safe.

    No one came to bother me throughout the winter, not because no one was there, but because the herdsmen had winter pastures.  There is a lot of snow here, which is not suitable for grazing and living in winter.

    Most of the herdsmen were also removed when the tourist area was established, leaving only a few. It is estimated that they either turned into zombies or hid in relatively gentle valleys. It is hard to say whether they will appear after the spring.  .

    So what did Hong Tao live on all these years? He couldn't carry enough food for seven years on the plane.  Yes, Hong Tao didn't plan to eat compressed biscuits every day.  He once told Chu Qiu that if he was left alone, his life would be no worse than that of the rescue team.

    This is really not bragging, except that the first winter was a bit embarrassing, and I could only huddle in the cabin, not daring to go deep into the surrounding mountains to find prey.  In the beginning of spring, after the ice and snow melted, he followed suit.

    It's a lot of fun to play with traps, animal traps, and traps.  Hunting with thermal imagers and night vision goggles, whoever comes is one shot, or two shots at worst.

    ?If you don¡¯t want to eat wild game, you can go fishing in the lake with a small sailing boat. You don¡¯t need bait at all, and you can still catch fish with lures. The whitefish and rainbow trout in the water are all delicious.

    After eating and drinking enough, put the reclining chair by the lake and hold up the sun umbrella, looking at the mirror-like lake, you don¡¯t have to think about life or death, and don¡¯t worry about those who are not developing.  Throw a few broken biscuits, and a whooper swan will come to perform water ballet.

    After a few times, as long as Hong Tao's figure appears by the lake, they will come over. Even if Hong Tao goes fishing in the lake, these flat-haired beasts with elegant appearance but actually robbers and thieves will follow closely, waiting  Share the heads and guts of the fish you catch.  Steal if you don't give it, grab it from the hook if you can't steal it!

    After the beginning of spring, Hong Tao removed many parts from several staff vehicles in the visitor center parking lot, such as radiator fins, exhaust pipes and metal fuel tanks.  After cutting and welding, it was rattled and installed in the engine room, and a heating system for burning wood and coal was installed.

    The stove uses an oil drum, and the inner wall is pasted with mud and burned thoroughly, which is a good insulation layer, and the exhaust pipes are welded around the outside, which is the water jacket.  When there is a fire, the hot water inside will flow along the exhaust pipe to several heat sinks, and then flow back to continue heating after cooling down, which is also true of earth heating!

    The cabin was also sealed again by him with materials removed from the visitor center, and then divided into three sections.  One section is the bedroom, the other is the living room, and the aft cabin is the kitchen.  There is not only a stove chimney, but also an exhaust fan.

    Don't mess with toilets and bathrooms. There are toilets all over the floor, so you can go wherever you want.  With so much crystal clear water, what bathroom is needed?  winter?  Who said you can't swim in winter.  It's coldit's called winter swimming if it's not cold!

    And in the spring of the second year, he also had a neighbor, a local herdsman.  It's strange to say that Sailimu is Mongolian, and it translates to a lake on a mountain ridge.  But the herders grazing here are basically Kazakhs and Kirgizs.

    This herdsman is from the Kyrgyz ethnic group, named Bahati Kerim, who is 15 years younger than Hong Tao.  But they are much older. If Hong Tao didn't grow a beard, the two of them would look like brothers standing together.

    Kerim said that he has three homes, one in Huocheng County, which was prepared by the government a few years ago, saying that nomadism is not allowed and he wants to settle down.  But he is not used to it. For generations, his ancestors rode horses and drove sheep to chase water and grass. What do the sheep eat when they settle down?  The wool of the sheep that eats hay and fodder is not good, and the meat is also not good, and cannot be sold at a high price.

    Once there is no flock, how will the family live?  So he still grazes here. In winter, he goes to the winter pasture deep in the Tianshan Mountains in the east, and comes back in spring.  Even if the zombie disease infected her wife and two children, leaving him alone, he still lived like this.  He didn't need anything but salt anyway.

    Crime, who had just returned from driving sheep and horses in the winter pasture, was really frightened when he saw an extra plane suddenly appearing on the gentle slope grassland.  He is not afraid of zombies or wild animals, but he is afraid that someone will rob his flocks and horses.  Without these livestock, he is a waste and can only wait to die.

    After two days of cats on the mountain, and two days of careful observation, Kerim still didn't understand what the Han man was busy with on the plane every day.  But what is certain is that there is only one person on the other side.

    Don't be afraid of this. Shepherds are not afraid of anyone one-on-one. Drinking a bottle of wine and holding a knife is not afraid of one-on-two!  So he groped over in the middle of the night, trying to catch the man who had invaded his ranch and question him carefully. If he was planning to rob the ranch, he would kill him!

    As a result, he failed naturally, and was beaten up by Hong Tao.  Fortunately, he can speak a few words of Chinese, and evenThe planner showed his identity, and was escorted to the back of the mountain to see the sheep and horses that were not slaughtered.  See how important it is to know a foreign language.

    Two lonely old men, neither of them is in the way of the other.  One herding and the other hunting and fishing complement each other.  You take some fish and I'll give you a piece of meat, light a bonfire and roast it, and drink some wine.  Although the language is not very good, there is no need for small talk at this time.

    Wine and meat friends, since then, the two have become standard wine and meat friends.  Whoever finds something delicious will invite the other party to enjoy it together, and work together after eating.

    Hong Tao has a gasoline saw, and Crimea has a pack horse. These are a pair of bald men.  After going up the mountain, a large number of logs were pulled down by pack horses, and after a year of drying in the shade, they became building materials for the construction of sheepfolds and engine room cabins.

    But in late autumn, Crimea still has to leave and drive the sheep to a winter pasture 100 kilometers away, and return in about May.  When he left the next year, Hong Tao gave him a gift, a shotgun and dozens of rounds of shotgun.

    When Crimea came back in the spring, he also reciprocated and gave Hong Tao more gifts, a tall black horse and several pieces of deerskin and goatskin.  These are the ones he played in transition and at winter pastures.  Herdsmen with guns are simply animal killers.

    To put it succinctly, Hong Tao never left Sailimu Lake for the first three years.  Hunting, fishing, repairing cabins and cabins every day, taking time to grow some vegetables, and learning how to herd herds, slaughter sheep and horses to make horse intestines with Crimea, how to find a way and life in the mountains, and have no time to think about other things.

    Speaking of it, this place is really rich. There are dozens of hundreds of animals of all sizes, including hares, snow chickens, foxes, lynxes, badgers, goats, antelopes, deer, snow leopards, brown bears, golden eagles, and vultures.

    There are also dozens of kinds of herbs such as spruce and tasong that cover the sky and sun, as well as fritillaria, sealwort, codonopsis, snow lotus, etc., picking wild fruits, picking mushrooms, and logging, everything for eating and drinking.

    But in 2027, Hong Tao had to leave the lakeside hut. His radiator broke down. The car radiator is not a radiator after all. The pipes inside are too thin and blocked by scale.

    He also needs to find solar panels and replacement batteries, as well as precious gasoline and diesel.  Older tractors and generators will do just fine, if not for sophisticated car engines.

    Then he saw a different world. In just seven years, the survivors had already begun to have a class.  The management of the base is like the nobles in ancient times. They have food, drink, weapons, and troops. They come in and out with bright clothes, and they drive or ride horses.

    Technicians and soldiers should be considered middle-class. They have a house and a family in the base, and they can enjoy material rations after paying a certain amount of labor. They can live a worry-free life and have the possibility of becoming nobles.

    Grassroots workers and farmers will still be workers and farmers even in the last days.  The largest quantity, the most work, the least reward.  However, they can also enjoy material rations, but the amount is smaller, but they will not starve or freeze.

    The bottom one is the unlucky ones who can't enter the base, but have to live nearby, relying on the small amount of food paid by the base.  Some of them were kicked out for various reasons, and some came too late to catch up with the good times.

    Every day, I count on the various temporary jobs assigned by the base in exchange for some basic living supplies, or go to towns outside the human-controlled area to search for the things needed by the base and exchange them for food. These people are collectively called refugees.
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