Xiao Tao pouted: “When I set out, my dad helped me wrap my feet. My feet are fine! It’s just that my legs are a little tired!”

“We have nothing to do!”

Wang Chao and Ma Liang looked at each other and shook their heads.

As soldiers themselves, the two brothers are both experienced in this kind of long-distance walking business.

After listening to everyone’s situation, Uncle Wu nodded and said, “It’s okay! I brought some medicated powder. After dinner, prick the blisters and sprinkle some medicine on them. The pain will go away overnight!”

You kids all have pretty good leg strength, much stronger than I expected.

I thought I would walk 40 kilometers at most today, but I didn’t expect that I would have walked nearly 60 kilometers by now!”

“Uncle, according to the current progress, how many days will it take us to reach the Holy Maiden Lake? Are two days enough?” Yue Feng asked curiously.

Wu Keji shook his head: “Two days is not enough! Just to adapt to the altitude change on the way will take an extra day! If everything goes well, three days should be enough!”

Yue Feng calculated in his mind that it would take five days from departure to arrival at the destination, which was still plenty of time before the fifteenth.

“That’s fine! There’s still time!”

Soon, the broth was cooked again, and the compressed biscuits that they brought with them were cooked, and then some strips of meat were cut from the roe deer legs, sprinkled with salt, and grilled.

Although the dinner was not sumptuous, it was delicious!

Everyone finished their hot dinner and lay down on the insulated blankets in the tent, holding their stomachs.

After taking a short break, Xiao Tao sat up again.

There was no need for Grandpa Wu to give any instructions. Xiao Tao was very tactful and poured the unfinished food in the camp stove into a basin. After a simple cleanup, he took a large amount of snow from outside to continue boiling water.

The snow water soon boiled over, and Xiao Tao found the only black rubber basin on the sled and brought it into the tent.

“Uncle, the water for washing feet has been boiled. Please wash your feet first! Your legs and feet must be tired after walking all day!”

Wu Keji was slightly stunned. This young man still had a thoughtful side. He nodded: “Okay, the old man will also benefit from the nephew for once! I’ll wash first!”

I saw Uncle Wu untying several knots on his calf boots, untying them by holding the edge of the boots with both hands, and then pulling his feet out of the boots.

To everyone’s surprise, Uncle Wu’s feet had no noticeable odor and were even quite dry.

The old man didn’t wear socks on his feet. Instead, his feet were carefully wrapped with white cotton strips. As the cotton strips were untied, his right foot with only three toes left was exposed.

“What’s wrong with you, sir? Did you get your foot injured?”

Yue Feng took a look and saw that Uncle Wu’s little finger and ring finger were both missing, and the wounds were quite neat. He didn’t know what had happened.

Wu Keji curled his lips and said, “When I was young, I went into the mountains with the Can Gang and encountered a white-haired typhoon. I went out of the snow den to look for my companions but got lost. When I came back, two of my toes were frozen!

I was young and inexperienced at the time, and my feet were frozen and changed color. I just soaked my feet in hot water, and the frostbitten parts were completely ruined!

Think about it, if your hands and feet are frostbitten, rub them with snow little by little until the color turns reddish and you can feel it.

Unless you encounter severe frostbite, most cases can be saved!”

Yue Feng nodded and continued to ask, “Is there any saying about your boots?
It doesn’t look very thick, but it fits the feet well and doesn’t cover the feet! ”

Uncle Wu pursed his lips and said, “These are called two-sided leather boots. The outer surface is made of red deer calf skin. They are light, soft and wear-resistant.

The inner lining is made of leather from the back of a large sable, which is warm and breathable without covering your feet.

It is comfortable to wear, but the material is hard to collect!

Just this pair of boots is equivalent to the wealth accumulated by an ordinary mountain herder in half a lifetime!

I was lucky that year, I got an old mountain ginseng, and I exchanged it for this pair of boots, plus a few other things!”

When Yue Feng heard that boots were made from the skin of a male mink’s back, his heart skipped a beat.

Others may not know the specific value of this thing, but Yue Feng knows it very well.

An adult male sable has only a tiny bit of skin on its back. How many sables would you need to make a pair of knee-high boots?

The old man was still keeping a low profile. As an ordinary mountain herder, without any great adventure or good fortune, he probably couldn’t earn enough to buy a pair of boots even if he worked hard all his life.

“Awesome!! This is a rare thing!” Yue Feng gave a thumbs up sincerely.

Wu Keji: “Haha! I made this in the early years when there were still a lot of sables. Now the price of a large skin has risen to 700 or 800 yuan or even over 1,000 yuan. I can’t bear to make such a flashy thing!”

As he spoke, Uncle Wu took off his shoes and untied the cloth strips that bound his feet. He then tested the water temperature with his hand and steadily placed his feet in the basin.

The water temperature is over 40 degrees, slightly hot but bearable. After walking on the mountain road for a day and a half, taking a soak in the water will soon get your blood flowing and you will feel indescribably comfortable.

After a while, Uncle Wu finished scalding his feet, and Xiao Tao added some hot water.

“Brother Feng, it’s your turn!”

Yue Feng didn’t hesitate and immediately untied his cotton shoes, revealing his steaming feet.

Yes, you read that right, the feet are steaming.

On my feet were the protective cotton socks distributed by the coal mine.

Although Yue Feng usually pays attention to hygiene, dust is inevitable in his shoes after long journeys. He is young and energetic, so when he takes off his shoes, the smell is very strong, like salted fish.

“Hey, my feet smell a bit!”

Yue Feng had nothing to be embarrassed about. He hung his socks next to the stove, tested the water temperature and put his feet in the basin.

As soon as my feet entered the water, a piercing pain immediately hit me. There were at least four thumb-sized blisters on the soles of my feet, one on each side. After being stimulated by the warm water, the pain became even more intense.

“Fuck! Hiss~~~” Yue Feng took a breath of cold air and endured the pain for a long time. After soaking for a while, Yue Feng lifted his feet up, pulled out the leg plug from his calf and pretended to pick the blisters himself.

“What are you doing? You can’t be so picky about this blister! Give me the knife!”

Uncle Wu patted Yue Feng on the shoulder and reached out to take the knife.

“Can’t you just use the tip of the knife to squeeze out the pus?” Yue Feng asked, scratching his head.

“You’ve saved yourself a lot of trouble. How are we going to travel tomorrow? Learn from me!”

Uncle Wu warmed the leg stick over the fire before aiming it at the big blisters on Yue Feng’s feet.

Cut the skin of the blister along one edge, then use the spine of the knife to squeeze out the water from the blister along the other side.

For a moment, Yue Feng grimaced in pain.

After picking the four large blisters, Uncle Wu took out a small medicine box from his arms.

After opening it, there was grayish-white powder inside, exuding a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine.

“It hurts a bit, just bear with it! Sprinkle some medicine on it and it will be gone overnight!”

As he spoke, he left Yue Feng almost no time to think, and the tip of the knife picked up the powder and smeared it directly on the broken position.

Yue Feng felt as if the wound was suddenly burned by a hot iron, and the pain rushed straight to the top of his head.

“Fuck~~~”

“Why are you howling? Hold it in!”

Uncle Wu glanced at Yue Feng, and Yue Feng immediately stopped talking. The skin on his face twitched due to the pain.

After a few seconds, the pain slowly eased and Yue Feng’s forehead was covered with sweat.

“Fuck, sir, your medicine is so powerful!” Yue Feng said a little weakly.

“Some of the medicines in there are hard to deal with, but this is good stuff! Don’t wear your stinky socks, didn’t you bring new ones? Put on new socks, and you’ll be fine overnight!”

“Uh-huh!”

……

“Who’s next? Xiaowu, you wash!”

Xiaowu curled his lips and said, “Oh! Brother Feng, is it that painful? It’s just a few blisters. How much more painful can it be?”

A few minutes later, Uncle Wu repeated the old process again.

“Fuck, fuck, fuck, sir, sir~~~~~”

Xiaowu’s face turned pale with pain.

“Hahahaha, didn’t you say that no matter how much it hurts, it can’t hurt that much? If you have the guts, stop howling! Will it stop hurting if you call me uncle?”

Xiao Tao laughed so hard that tears came out after watching his best friend Xiao Wu’s performance.

After the episode where Yue Feng and Xiao Wu chose to soak their feet, the atmosphere in the tent immediately became much more lively.

After treating the two wounded, Xiao Tao, Wang Chao and Ma Liang took off their shoes and washed their feet one by one.

All three of them took protective measures for their feet, so their feet didn’t get irritated by the blisters, but the smell of their sweaty feet was unbearable.

Let’s put it this way, by the time the six people had their feet scalded, everyone in the tent had temporarily lost their sense of smell.

If an ordinary person were to lift the curtain and come in, the worst that could happen is that he would fall flat on his face from the smoke.

After the six men finished soaking their feet, there was nothing else to do except to keep watch. Brother Yuefeng and Xiaowu put on spare cotton socks and lay on the leather mat to act silly. Uncle Wu put on his boots calmly, said hello, and went out of the tent with his gun.

After Wu Keji walked away, Xiao Tao asked curiously, “Brother, why did Uncle Wu dress up and go out again?”

Yue Feng waved his hand and said, “It’s nothing serious, just go out and walk around the camping area!
If there is prey, hunt it. If there is no prey, take care of the environment!

The older generation of mountain hikers are more meticulous when they go up the mountain, and they bring us young people with them to pave the way for us and reduce risks!”

“Captain Yue, just now Guide Wu said that his boots are made of mink fur. Is that true or false?

Isn’t mink fur expensive? How many mink furs are needed to make a pair of boots?”

Wang Chao, who was relatively outgoing, also came over and asked curiously.

Yue Feng glanced at Wang Chao and said, “What are you asking for? Just listen to what he says. You are so serious. Do you want to consider whether it is true or not?”

“profound!”

Wang Chao shrank his neck and kept silent.

Wang Chao and Ma Liang, the two brothers, had received instructions from their leader before they came here. They were to obey all orders and not ask questions that were not necessary.

Yue Feng has such a good relationship with the young master of the Wang family, and a soldier on a mission like me shouldn’t ask around.

Seeing Wang Chao realize that he was being rude and stopped talking, Yue Feng slowly explained, “These old-school mountain hikers have a lot of rules to follow, and they hate being talked about behind their backs!

Uncle Wu is my master’s friend, so he is willing to take us into the mountains! I hope you two brothers will respect him as much as we do!”

“Captain, we get it!!” Ma Liang pulled Wang Chao’s collar and echoed.

Just as a few people were talking quietly in the tent, suddenly there were three consecutive gunshots outside. (End of this chapter)