On March 29, 1912, in a dilapidated snow-covered Antarctic tent, Royal Navy Colonel Scott lay half-lying in his sleeping bag, his frozen hands holding a pen weakly.
Scott closed his eyes briefly, then forcefully opened them again, and while dying, Scott used his last strength to leave shocking words on the thin note paper.

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Scott was a Royal Navy captain who was born into a military family in 1868.
At the age of 31, he accidentally heard from the British Geographical Society that Britain was planning an Antarctic expedition that needed the participation of naval elites.
Scott, who has an adventurous gene in his bones, suddenly gets excited and decides to join the action.
The Geographical Society agreed to Scott's request, taking into account Scott's rich sailing experience, tenacious and courageous character, and strong organizational skills.
In 1901, Scott led the first research ship of more than 50 people into Antarctica for training and preliminary research.
During this expedition, Scott and his teammates advanced their goal to 850 kilometers from the South Pole, becoming the first to reach it.
"We are 850 kilometers from Antarctica, what a pity!" Scott was still a little reluctant.
So in 1910, Scott set off again. This time, I decided not to reach the South Pole and never look back.
But Scott's journey never ends. It is pain and suffering.
Scott used all his possessions and debts to build a capable expedition and make sure everything was ready.

On June 1, Scott Yeay said goodbye to his lovely wife and two-year-old son and left for Antarctica with confidence.
But it was a bad start.
When Scott and his party first arrived in New Zealand, they were stranded in ice floes near Antarctica. It was stagnant for more than twenty days, consuming a large amount of survival materials.
After some hard work, the weather improved slightly, and the ship finally broke the ice.
However, when it reached its intended location, the tracked tractor that Scott used to carry the cargo traveled only 100 kilometers and crashed into the sea while unloading.
One day, news came from the expedition that Scott couldn't stay any longer.
"The Amundsen expedition, indeed 110 kilometers from Antarctica.
Scott jumped up directly when he heard this: "This is not allowed, we can't let you arrive first." ”

Amundsen was a very experienced Norwegian explorer. He originally wanted to explore the North Pole. He later learned that two Americans had reached the North Pole first and decided to try it at the South Pole. Coincidentally meeting Scott, a life-and-death battle began.
Scott didn't hold back.
Finally, when the sun appeared, although the sun was still very weak and it was already dark, it was enough to remove the fog in the hearts of the team members, and everyone cheered.
1911 On November 1, 2011, the expedition began to divide into groups of the first 30, 20, 10, and finally 5.

So five Antarctic warriors, dressed in tight leather suits, scarves on their heads, fur gloves on their hands, showing only their beards and eyes, in the vast snowfield, like five wild men, I can tell.
A pony drags a heavy load, and a sleigh follows behind the five explorers, forming a winding black line in the endless world of ice and snow. We encountered a snowstorm on the way. At one point, the temperature dropped below 40 degrees.
The speed of walking gradually slowed down. I originally planned to run 40km a day, but now I can only run 30km.
But something terrible happened.
Ponies are patient and live in the cold environment of the Arctic, but they cannot withstand the cold climate of Antarctica and are relatively large. Outside the tent at minus 40 degrees.
Add to that the burden of the day, not enough to eat, and I am exhausted. Soon, the pony fell into the snow.
Team members stroked these. After two years of shared grief, the ponies who finally killed the ponies in their pain died, and they called the sad place "Slaughterhouse Camp."

No cars, no horses. The teammate frowned.
It was suggested: "Throw away some fossils to lighten the burden." ”
"No, we finally found it, that's what we're here for." Someone objected.
Scott was silent for a while, suddenly raised his head, glanced at all his teammates, and finally said with a firm slogan: "Partners, humans can conquer nature!" ”
It was cold, the snow and ice turned into dry ice particles, and the sled could no longer slide, so they had to drag the sled through the smoothie, and the team members were exhausted on their legs. Over here.
They finally saw the dawn of victory and became more and more excited.

The pole position is getting closer and closer, 150 km, 137 km, 94 km, the lone five heroes are determined to win.
On January 14, 1912, hope was about to become a reality. Scott wrote excitedly in his diary: nervous. They slept all night and prepared to head to Antarctica the next day.
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On January 16, Scott and his teammates got up early and began their journey. They knew they were not far from the South Pole, so they were in high spirits. Their hearts.
Suddenly, teammate Bowers was stunned for a moment, his eyes stared straight in the direction of Antarctica, the corners of his mouth twitched and he couldn't speak, pointing forward with a trembling finger.
All teammates looked in the direction Bowers was pointing. Everyone's faces became solemn, and the light in their eyes suddenly dimmed down.
They saw a small black dot in front of the snow, but they hoped it was an illusion.
Scott and his teammates struggled to make their way to the black spot.
There are toboggan runs on the snow along the way, as well as plenty of dog trails. It turns out that in the last few tens of millions of years, people have stepped on a place of ice and snow that no one has ever set foot on.
On January 18, Scott and his teammates finally reached the South Pole. What they saw was a tent covered in snow and ice. In front of the tent, the Norwegian black flag flutters proudly in the wind.

A letter was left in the tent. Scott opened the letter, trembling, and silently accepted its request. Give the letter to the King of Norway and prove to the world that he was the first to get there. Amundsen, the man who wrote the letter in Antarctica, pointed this out.
Amundsen arrived at the South Pole five weeks earlier than Scott.
"The newcomer has everything, the returner has nothing," Scott wrote poignantly in his diary.
Scott was enraged and planted the Union Jack next to the Norwegian flag.
Everything in Antarctica makes them feel monotonous. So they prepared to go home. But the way back was even scarier for them.
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If I hadn't come with enthusiasm, I would have dragged my tired body 1300 kilometers.
Scott and his teammates went home elated and saddened by their defeat.
Naivety has no sympathy for these brave losers. The weather on the return trip was very bad, taunting Scott and his teammates, and the blizzard raged, as if spurring them on.

You can guide them with your compass when they come, but when they come back, you must follow the steps you took before.
Blizzard is the kind of guy who hides in Scott's tracks and grunts.
Their steps were cautious, cautious, and there was endless confusion in their minds. Losing food equates them with death.
While human beings conquer nature, they are also ruthlessly destroyed by nature.
Teammate Evans was initially unable to withstand the aggression of this harsh environment. The two nails were frozen, and the spirit almost collapsed, and gradually could not keep up with the pace of the team.
Scott and his teammates pitched their tents for lunch, but Evans couldn't catch up.
As they looked around, they could see Evans in the snow in the distance.
A teammate rushed up to help Evans, but his gloves and a shoe were missing, his hands were full of ice crystals, and his mouth was slurring what to say. He's crazy
Everyone helped me walk slowly, and before I could take two steps, I fell down again, and my whole body froze. By the time he was finally carried into the tent, he was unconscious.
At 1 p.m. on February 17, the unfortunate British Navy Sergeant Evans passed away peacefully in his tent.
Scott and his teammates buried him in the snow in grief.
The next day they walked to the "slaughterhouse camp" and Rand found that the pony had been slaughtered the previous month, eating for the first time and drinking fragrant horse soup.
However, new problems have arisen.
Due to the design of the oil drum, most of the kerosene at each storage point leaked out. Without kerosene, they cannot burn and cannot tolerate the cold. The icy feeling of clothes seeped into my bones. The threat of death is constant.
They prayed for God's blessing and sighed in despair.
Misfortune always comes one after another.
British cavalry captain Oates was now frozen on his feet and limping on the snow.
Oates asked Wilson for 10 painkillers. I'm always ready to end my life because I don't want to be a burden to my team members. He asked his team members to put him in a sleeping bag and let him die.
Captain Scott said firmly, "I will not give up on any of you.
Early one morning, the wind outside the tent howled, and the ice and snow flew. Oates suddenly got up and said, "I'm going out for a walk, maybe I'll be out for a while!" ” “

Several people did not dare to speak, but quietly sent Oates away with helpless and solemn eyes.
In the end, Oates never returned.
Putting away their sadness, Scott's teammates dragged their tired bodies forward.
On 21 March, the snowstorm intensified, unable to move forward and camped on the spot. But they are only 20 kilometers away from the next storage site.
Cold and hunger are like two demons that haunt three teammates. They waited quietly, waiting for a miracle.
During the days trapped in the tent, Scott continued to write in his diary until his fingers froze and the pen slipped from his hand.
But that's the only thing he can do.
On March 29, Scott went out. His pen wrote the last diary of his life, and his hand was already writing uncontrollably.

Then sadly decided that I must cross out the word "my wife" and write "my widow" firmly.
At this point, the great and tragic journey of life is over!
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A snowstorm prevented the Base Camp rescue team from reaching Scott in time. It wasn't until October 29, after the snowstorm subsided, that rescuers traveled to Antarctica to find Scott's expedition.
On November 12, rescuers finally found Scott's tent in the Antarctic snow. The bodies of the three teammates were already frozen in sleeping bags. Scott hugged Wilson tightly like a best friend's brother.
Also inside the tent is a 16-kilogram rock specimen of a sarcophagus, a fossil of an extinct plant. Scott had promised the British Academy of Geography that he would bring back the rock specimens to help confirm the theory of continental drift.
Scott and his teammates kept that promise until the day they died.

Next to Scott is an open diary and more than 300 letters. The helpless, scribbled handwriting that truly documents this great expedition is heartbreaking.
Rescuers buried the body on the spot, made an ice grave out of ice and snow, and erected a cross made of ski poles on it. Since then, they have been buried forever in this vast land of ice and snow.
At England's National Cathedral, where the King of England knelt in mourning for these heroes of the expedition, Scott was posthumously ordained a Knight of England.
During the winter vacation of 2017, in the training room of Hubei University of Economics, a skinny girl did one thing every day: kill 20 chickens, then clip one on the board, pick up a bone-removing knife, and make a piece of meat cut by a large chicken from the hip of a chicken.
Starting with the blade, she quickly removed the chicken hamstrings and meat, then the toe bones, and then the torso and wing bones, in just 90 seconds.
90 seconds! No matter how good her eyesight is, you can't see how she did it.
This girl's name is Shen Shijin.

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Born in 1998 in Suizhou City, Hubei Province. After the college entrance examination in 2016, she applied for the engineering fee and computer science major of Hubei University of Economics.
"Is cooking a profession taught cooking? Did you come to college to learn cooking? Shen Shijing was not admitted to her favorite major, and she was a little disappointed.
Parents are also in a hurry. Should I send my child to college to learn to cook? Do I have to take the exam for another year?
However, Shi Jin's uncle, who is engaged in education, does not think so, Shi Jin is a college student.
After entering the university, Zhijing still maintains a strong desire to learn, and her cultural course grades are always at the top, but she is still very confused, where is her future?
In my sophomore year, my life came to a turning point. The school selects contestants to participate in the cooking (Western food) project of the 45th WorldSkills Competition.
Shi Jin, who rarely stood in the kitchen and could not even hold the pot and spoon, was curious and signed up.

At first, the teachers were not optimistic about this baseless girl.
Cooking is also a physically demanding job. Shijin is thin and thin, but his physical strength is somewhat lacking. Also, I don't carry a knife and I don't wear a chef's uniform ...
"Don't worry, you will come." Shen Shijing, who had always been serious, was not discouraged.
Under the guidance of the teacher, she wrote down every word and continued to improve in practice. Always come first when training. At halftime, the other team members were playing with their mobile phones, and only Shen Shijin practiced quietly many times.
In the process of practice, she deeply realized that cooking is not just a dish to fill the stomach, but an art and a science, and Sijing has developed a strong interest in cooking.

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"If you practice martial arts without practice, the first game must be empty", one sentence expresses the importance of basic skills.
Si Jing was well aware of her own gap, and repeatedly practiced boring basic skills such as peeling olive-shaped radish, stir-frying onions, tying chicken with rope, and pinching soybeans.
To build my hand muscles, I fry the onion with the whole pot in my hand.
A 7-8 pound frying pan takes more than an hour on the Sijing side. Because of their short stature, they have to use hand-held pots, use their feet hard, their upper limbs and arms are weak, and their feet are numb.
During the winter and summer vacations, teachers and students are on vacation.
In the hot summer, the training room has an oven and a four-eye direct stove, and even with the air conditioner on, the temperature is close to 40 degrees.
In this case, meditation is practicing silently, never complaining, never slacking.

In order to get the teacher's guidance as soon as possible, I got up every day at dawn, always entered the training room first, killed 20 chickens as soon as possible, and waited for the teacher to arrange the training program.
In April 2018 and May 2018, during the preparation for the provincial competition, Shen Shijin lined up at 2 a.m. every day on the way to the training ground or training ground.
"Training is a race against time, not only to eat fast, but also to walk and go to the toilet." Did it.
In addition to 17 hours of training per day, you'll practice chopping 20 carrots, deboneing 20 whole chickens, and making hundreds of chicken rolls.
Constantly practicing speed, knife skills, and skills, Shen Shijing started with a boneless chicken, which took thirty minutes, and it took only one and a half minutes to complete.

The chicken chop was not made, worked overtime until the early hours of the morning, and tried and tested until the chicken chop was white and delicious, and the taste was smooth.
With his unique skills, Si Jing has just passed the school examination and won the Hubei Provincial Finals of the 45th WorldSkills Competition Cooking (Western Food) Project.
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In June 2018, Shen Shijin went to Shanghai to participate in the national selection competition under the guidance of her teacher.
The day before the competition, Shen Shijing got the competition schedule. She then learned that the ingredients provided by the landlord to make salmon rolls were thin salmon tails, while the ingredients she usually practiced were plump fish belly. This is a difficult situation.
The instructor took the other team members around and bought more than 20 pounds of fish tail from the supermarket. With the help of her teacher, Shen Shijing found a new cooking method and cut the fish tail meat with a knife. In the process of making salmon rolls.
From 5:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. the next morning, Shen Shijin practiced knife skills over and over again in the hotel bathroom, roaring, and finally reached the complete competition standard.
When the sun came out in the early morning, Sijin walked onto the field full of confidence and entered the national training team with the second place.

Before the 5-on-1 match of the national training team, she worked overtime until 1 or 2 p.m., and everyone else was resting in the hotel, so weak that she could hardly move. I passed out, and the next day it was still 6 a.m. and I got up to continue training.
During the recess, Shen Shijin took the initiative to apply for a part-time hotel internship with Mr. Zou Zhiping. From morning to night, Shen Shijin is always busy in the kitchen.
She wakes up at 5 a.m. every day, and by 7 a.m., she debones 30 whole chickens, cuts 20 shredded carrots, and completes more than 60 dishes a day.
After making the puff pastry of dessert, Shen Shijin concentrated his attention, paid attention to the oven and air humidity standards, and finally made a dish with a smooth surface and a crispy taste.
With superb ball skills and diligent spirit, Shen Shijin, who won the third place in Chinese cuisine (Western food) in the 45th WorldSkills Competition, was specially hired as a coach assistant.
One night in 1943, a policeman said to a Jewish boy, "I don't want to shoot you, but if you run away, I have to shoot." ”
To the surprise of the police, the boy really had to be stopped. He also calmly replied to the officer: "Okay, so be it, I won't bother you." Many years later, when the officer recalled the scene, he sighed. I have to say: this kid will definitely be a later character. ”
The boy was Sigi Wiltziger.

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He was born on March 11, 1926 in a small town in eastern Germany. His father usually buys and sells scrap metal and furs to support the happiness of the family of ten.
Because his father was Jewish, he was often mistreated and forced trafficking. In Germany at that time, the hostility of all walks of life towards Jews was deep-rooted, and the hopes of youth were not affected by it, and they were often bullied by those around them.
One day, Xiao Xi and his father went to work on the farm, and they put the pig legs and internal organs in a waist-high meat grinder.
Shiki was curious and was about to walk around to see what was going on, but just as he approached the meat grinder, someone next to him suddenly grabbed him and hung him on the serrated blade of the meat grinder.
"Now we're grinding kosher minced meat," the farmers laughed. After being teased, Xiaojin was finally knocked over and fell to the ground, screaming and fleeing the barn.

This nearly fatal experience made Hope realize that he was living in a dangerous environment.
Since then, Little Hope has become very cautious. He always pays attention to the people and things around him. So you can accurately judge your situation from the details. This will help him later. He fled. Countless deadly disasters.
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In 1932 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. From then on, the cultural hostility of German society towards Jews became an outright political threat. Unable to continue their business in Sigi's father's hometown, the family fled to Berlin.
Don't they run away from foreign countries? The Xiji family has loved Germany for six generations, and Xiji's father also participated in the First World War and made military achievements for Germany.
They naively believed that no matter how much they hated the Jews, the Germans would do a little better under the Berlin Olympics and the eyes of the world.
It turns out that they made a fatal mistake.
Beginning in 1936, Nazi Germany began to restrict Jewish life. A large number of Jewish businesses were closed or acquired. Jews were sent to factories for forced labor. Jewish children were not allowed to attend school. As slave labor in factories.

On the way to the factory for the night shift, Higi was arrested by the police and taken away by a group of Jews. A Nazi officer shouted into the crowd.
The convoy was forced to line up on an open runway. Sigi spotted his parents and brother in the crowd but could not get close to them, and the SS pushed the two separately into a truck.
The convoy has already set off.
Twenty minutes later, when the convoy reached the tracks, the SS unloaded the men from the truck.
In the dark crowd, Xi Ji anxiously searched for his family, but unfortunately found no trace of them.
After waiting in the field for three days, the train finally came. The SS guards of the sentries crammed the crowd into ox carts. Each person gets only a slice of bread. People stick together. Nobody knows. Where are you going. Go.
The train has already started...

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As time passed, no one knew how long the train would take, and most people could only stand the whole time. Sigi saw several old people, one by one, perhaps because of hunger, perhaps because of depression, inside people moaning pain and fear.
Four days later, the train arrived.
"Get off the bus and line up!" A German officer shouted. People staggered out of their cars, and those who were slow were beaten on the spot. , howling and crying one after another.
"Where am I?" Xi Ji thought to himself, and suddenly heard others say "Auschwitz".
Xi Ji was thus sent to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp as prisoner No. 104732.
In the days of the concentration camps, Hope faced countless unimaginable catastrophes, life and death every day.
Once in the camp, he was faced with a choice between life and death. "Actually, what Zhigui said is a lie.
He was 17 years old and had not yet worked as a craftsman for a day. But it was this lie that saved his life, and there were 3,800 people on the train to Auschwitz, who were sent directly to the gas chambers.
After years of training in harsh environments, I hope to understand the logic of survival. It's about always proving that you're still worth it.
It was this logic of survival that allowed Siggy to experience one disaster after another in Auschwitz.

At first, Sigi was assigned the task of carrying building materials, and his shoulder soon bled out.
Si Ji's shoulder hurt unbearably. "This job is cruel, sooner or later you will die, you have to find a way to change jobs."
One day, on his way to work, an SS soldier hoped to order prisoners to join the bricklaying team. Without thinking about it, he immediately jumped out of the line, ran to the security guard, took off his hat and saluted, telling him that he had been a bricklayer for six months.
The jailer shrugged his shoulders and felt that Zhigui was valuable, so he sent Zhigui to the brick construction site and asked him to pass on what he knew to other bricklayers. Of course, Zhigui lied again. In fact, he did not work as a bricklayer for a day.
At that time, the habits could only be learned and sold now, so as not to expose their shortcomings. Every day I would find a bricklayer to learn something, and then I would teach it to another bricklayer. He deceived the Nazis in this way.
Bricklaying is more expensive than dragging reinforced concrete, and the winter in Auschwitz was cloudy and cold, and working in the rain and cold wind for a long time made Higgie's physical condition deteriorate rapidly. Prison hospital, where he could find a better job. ”

Auschwitz Hospital was also a dangerous place, but in order to survive, Cigiel decided to take another risk. Polish Doctor Sigie, whose hometown is on the Polish border, speaks a little Polish, so he boldly recommends himself to the doctor: "Need help?" I have experience as a male nurse. ”
Anyone can guess that Zhigui also lied, and strangely, the doctor did not test whether he was really a male nurse step by step, but only spoke Polish. Lady Luck once again supports Shiki.
Hijiri later recalled: his situation. ”
It was this belief that allowed Sigi to leave the camp alive.

On May 5, 1945, U.S. forces occupied the camp and liberated Sigiria.
After recuperating for two months at the Red Cross hospital, Zhigui decided to work for free in U.S. intelligence to hunt down Nazi remnants in Austria as a sign of gratitude to the U.S. military.
The sharp judgment I have gained over the years is very useful for intelligence activities. His team achieved many remarkable achievements, catching Hans Goebbels, a Nazi officer who slipped through the net. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' younger brother and one of Hitler's ardent supporters.
After two years at the U.S. Intelligence Agency, Higgy was given a free U.S. ferry ticket in return. Hope seems to see the Statue of Liberty standing in New York Harbor beckoning to him, and a new life is about to begin.
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Nishi worked as a laborer, a salesman, and a toilet cleaner in the United States, but no matter what he did, he always worked hard, worked hard, and never complained. Life, he never let go.
My first job in the U.S. was shoveling snow on sidewalks. It was a snowstorm in New York. Siji shovels snow and earns $2 a day. I shovel the snow myself. 50 cents per person.
And just like that, Hope was rewarded, netting $1 a day and $20 a month. After receiving $20, I realized I might have a talent for business.

1953 was Xi Ji's sixth year in the United States. At this time, Kikichi and his friends partnered to open a small factory and make coin purses. While filling my stomach, I also got my wallet. Love.
This woman is also Jewish, Naomi is eight years younger than Shigui, but Naomi comes from a wealthy family, and her father is a powerful local real estate agent.
Because of class differences, Naomi's family was very opposed to the marriage. Please try to imagine. Who would allow a baby daughter to marry a helpless refugee?
But Naomi made up his mind. She likes Xi Ji's spirit of not admitting defeat no matter what difficulties she encounters.
In 1954, the two finally got married. After marriage, the responsibilities of the family made Shidi work harder, and through continuous efforts, Shiji finally made a career achievement, and Naomi's father also accepted this son-in-law wholeheartedly.

So far, it can be said that Xi Ji has a happy family, a successful career, and a middle-class life that many people dream of. For the camp survivors, it was paradise on earth.
However, these did not satisfy Hope. In his view, every day is an afterlife. Only by embracing life with greater enthusiasm can he respond to God's grace and gifts to him.