Just when everyone was silent because of the false alarm, the sound of an engine came from the snow in the distance, and an old man riding a snowmobile with a shotgun on his back emerged from the forest. The dogs immediately abandoned Song Wenbin and ran towards the snowmobile as fast as they could.
There were several squirrels and a rabbit hanging from the old man's snowmobile. The middle-aged man riding a snowmobile passed Song Wenbin kneeling on the snow and glanced at him in surprise. But he didn’t say much, and continued driving into the distance with the dog on his motorcycle.
But Song Wenbin was so excited that he quickly stood up and shouted: "Wait a minute!"
Sutina also reacted and translated for Song Wenbin: "Bata Ridi!!"
The old hunter riding a snowmobile stopped. He adjusted the shotgun behind his back and looked at Song Wenbin who was catching up with him in confusion.
Song Wenbin held his legs, ran to the motorcycle panting, and said, "Excuse me, can I ask you a favor?"
Sutina helped translate.
The old hunter looked Song Wenbin up and down, lit a cigarette slowly, and asked, "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"I am a driver responsible for delivering goods to China, and these people carrying cameras are boring guys filming documentaries. Now we have to send some winter supplies to Yakutsk, a thousand kilometers away. But because I have never been here, So lost. We would like you to do us a favor and take us to Yakutsk."
After listening to Song Wenbin's explanation calmly, the old hunter blew out a smoke ring, shook his head, and said: "I am already very old, my friend. Going to the Ice City at this time is a very risky time. The cold in that place, Even I can't stand it, so I'm sorry."
"We won't let you drive. You can sit in my car and it will be very warm. And if it goes through, we will pay you a salary. A lot of salary." Song Wenbin said reluctantly.
For some reason, the wrinkles on this old man's face and the deep-set eye sockets reminded him of those great Russian writers hanging on the walls of junior high schools. They seemed very reliable at first glance.
But Leo Tolstoy still shook his head and said: "This has nothing to do with money. I still want to live a few more years."
Song Wenbin thought of something and quickly asked the old hunter to wait. Then he hurried to his truck. After a while, he took two bottles of Red Star Erguotou and a few pieces of Harbin red sausage from the truck.
He handed Erguotou and red sausage to the old hunter and said: "This is a little gift. Please accept it. We really want to get help. And these supplies are also very important. If you can't help us, please recommend it." Someone who can help us, we can pay, and that person will be featured on our show.”
The old man picked up Erguotou and red sausage and sniffed them, stared at Song Wenbin for a while, and then looked at the photographer on the side.
After thinking for a moment, he nodded, accepted the gift, and said, "I am indeed too old to pass the test of such a long-distance adventure, but in the small town of Oyinkut, a hundred kilometers away, there is a very powerful person. She is a hunter, she knows the terrain of the Sakha Republic very well, if you have her to lead the way, you will definitely reach your destination safely."
Song Wenbin and his companions looked at each other and smiled.
Soon, the old hunter got on his motorcycle and took Song Wenbin's truck to Oyinkut.
After negotiating with the old hunter, it was already getting late. The one-hundred-kilometer road was not that easy to walk. When they passed through the frozen forest and wilderness and spent six hours reaching their destination, it was already midnight. The ribbon in the sky flashes green aurora from time to time, which is beautiful.
The old hunter did not get off his motorcycle all the way, and his dogs also ran behind him without stopping. This made Song Wenbin full of admiration for these polar creatures.
The snowmobile stopped in the woods. The old hunter knocked on the door of the liberation truck, and the three of them got out of the car. The cold air hitting his face made Song Wenbin almost unable to open his eyes.
In the cold night of -40 to 50 degrees below zero, he felt that all the clothes on his body had become decorations. He was so cold that he almost fell to the ground before taking two steps. Fortunately, Su Tina and Huo Yu quickly took him to the ground. Helped him up. The two girls are not doing well now, their hands touching Song Wenbin are also trembling.
The old hunter led three people and a group of photographers on foot into the silent forest. There was a wooden cabin standing in the extremely hard frozen snow. Before anyone could approach the cabin, crazy dog barking could be heard in front of the cabin.
The old hunter whistled a few times and called the dogs' names a few times, and then the barking of the dogs subsided a little. But only a little bit, there were still several dogs barking at Song Wenbin and the photographers of the program team.
The old hunter knocked on the door and kept shouting something.
Soon, the door opened.
It was a girl holding an oil lamp.
She held an oil lamp in one hand and a shotgun in the other. Wearing a brown short coat, she stood at the door without saying a word.
The old hunter and the girl stood at the door and chattered something. After hearing this, the girl looked at Song Wenbin and Sutina behind them.
Song Wenbin was very worried. It seemed that they came in while others were sleeping. He hoped that the other party would not be too angry because of this.
Soon, the old hunter waved to Song Wenbin and the three people behind him.
The three of them breathed a sigh of relief and helped each other on the snow to the wooden house.
"This is my niece, a very famous young hunter in Siberia. If you can convince her, she can bring you safely to Yakutsk." The old hunter said briefly.
After saying that, he carried the gun neatly and walked out of the forest. It seemed that he planned to rush home at night.
Having no time to care about the cool old man, Song Wenbin looked at the female hunter guarding the door with a gun and swallowed.
This is a woman of similar age to him. Although she is located in Siberia, she does not have much Mongolian blood. On the contrary, her face has the unique coldness of Caucasians. Thin lips, deep face, and ginger hair.
She is very tall, almost as tall as Song Wenbin. Song Wenbin would not be surprised if he saw her on the catwalk, but the shotgun and the ancient oil lamp in her hand were a bit depressing.
"Please...please...can we go in...?"
Sutina asked stammeringly. She saw a fire in the room. I don’t want to freeze anymore.
The photographers behind him also slowly gathered around.
The woman was indifferent.
She held the gun, pointed and said a few words.
Sutina quickly translated: "Don't let those people get close, you have three minutes to convince me."
Song Wenbin's mouth was numb from the cold. He was already afraid of the cold, but now in the cold Siberian night of minus 40 degrees Celsius, his body had almost lost most of its functions. Even my brain is going numb.
Huo Yu saw that Song Wenbin was shaking from the cold, so he had to stand up and said: "I hope to hire a local to take us to Yakutsk. Your uncle recommended you to me. We hope you can take us there, uh, for a fee." of."
Sutina translated.
But after hearing this, the stern woman shook her head indifferently and said: "I have been very busy recently. Winter is the season for hunting sables. I don't have time to take you there. You should go find someone else."
When Huo Yu heard this, he became anxious and asked him to explain his purpose, but he was unwilling to do so. Come on, is it easy to run at night when the weather is minus 50 degrees?
"We can pay, lots and lots of money!" she said quickly.
"Where do you come from."
"We are Chinese." Sutina replied.
The stern woman raised her eyebrows and said calmly: "If the sable has not arrived in winter, I will not hunt it. If the reindeer is pregnant, I will not hunt it. However, some greedy people see that the sable hair has not yet fully grown. They will be killed when the time comes, and some hunters will even go crazy setting traps after spring, so that the prey in the traps are all pregnant female animals, and that is what I hate the most.”
After Sutina finished translating, Huo Yu was confused.
She didn't understand what the woman was talking about at all. She just thought that this guy thought the money was too little, so she said, "We are willing to pay higher wages than hunting. You will definitely not lose money on this trip."
But the stern guy took a step closer and stared at Huo Yu with his big blue eyes. Huo Yu didn't know what she was doing, so he also stared at her.
This was the first time that Song Wenbin saw Huo Yu encounter an opponent, and his brain was sober from numbness.
"I don't welcome you, get out of here."
The woman said calmly.
boom!
The door of the cabin was closed.
The dog outside the house started barking instantly.
Huo Yu, whose eyebrows and hair were frozen, was stunned. Then she became angry and gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, we have been fooled! We met such an arrogant guy!"
"You...you are so...stupid..."
Song Wenbin couldn't help but scolded: "Stupid... Huo Yu... If... this guy... is interested in salary and work, how could he... live in a house like this in Siberia... "
"Huh??" Huo Yu was even more angry: "If you're not stupid, why don't you try?"
Sutina said with a worried look on her face: "Let's... let's get back to the car quickly. It's... too cold outside. If we wait a little longer, I'm afraid... I'm afraid we'll freeze to death outside..."
Song Wenbin didn't talk nonsense, "Try... just try..."
He pushed the two girls away, walked forward tremblingly, and started knocking on the door.
After knocking for a while, there was no response.
Song Wenbin kept knocking for a while.
The door opened, but there was something dark in front of me.
The woman who had just closed the door was holding a shotgun directly and pointed it at Song Wenbin and the others.
