War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1031 Legitimate business and the orange tent in front of the house

Chapter 1031 Legitimate business and the orange tent in front of the house
Inta Hot Spring Camp, with the first ray of sunshine in the morning covering the abandoned mine, Wei Ran was also urged by the biological clock to walk out of the cabin where he stayed last night, and was almost in front of another wooden cabin next door. Jima who went out, and Katenka sisters who came out of the wooden house on the other side, ran in circles to the hot spring workshop in the center of the mine.

While exercising in the morning, Wei Ran was also taking a good look at this camp that he hadn't been to for a long time. This time is not long or short, and now at least a hundred belts have been built around this abandoned open-pit mine. A wooden house with a heated Kang.

Not only that, even the area of ​​the greenhouse that was built together with the wooden house had increased by at least five times, neatly occupying the deepest part of the mine.

According to Ji Ma's introduction, this greenhouse is still growing various vegetables even in the short summer. These vegetables are far more valuable than meat to Vorkuta, located two hundred kilometers away in the Arctic Circle. Popularity, at the same time, can bring more money to families of hunters who haven't hunted for a long time.

Even this summer, Sui Sui is already planning to renovate and strengthen the hot spring workshop in the center of the mine, and is thinking about sending hot springs to every wooden house.

"After the hot spring workshop is refurbished, there will be internet here." Anfisa, who was also jogging, explained, "Although the internet fee is a bit expensive, it's all worth it."

"Where's the electricity?" Wei Ran, who was jogging side by side with Ji Ma, asked subconsciously.

"In addition to the emergency oil-fired power generation and the small-scale hydropower generation, Alili and the others also bought two sets of wind turbines that were eliminated from the coal mine at a low price this year."

Jima raised his finger and pointed in the direction, "They will be installed on the hill two kilometers away, thanks to the shelter from the Ural Mountains not far away, the wind in this ghost place never stops in winter, and they will supply The electricity is enough for the use here."

"This place is almost becoming a town," Wei Ran couldn't help but said.

“Already a small town”

Ji Ma pointed to the greenhouse in the distance again, "In order to take care of those expensive vegetables, there are already 10 hunter families living here, and every two days, four An-2s will take off from here to harvest the vegetables Send to Inta or Vorkuta.

I heard from Misha that the vegetables produced here are not only fresher than those brought by trains, but also cheaper in price. They even used the supply of vegetables as a condition to exchange them for free in Vorkuta on Aurora's suggestion. Two tarmacs came. "

"Exchange the apron with vegetables?" Wei Ran looked at the Katenka sisters who were also jogging in astonishment.

Anfisa nodded with no surprise, "Here, fresh vegetables are far more useful than rubles. For example, yesterday I negotiated with Inta Airport to lease the apron. Sister Aurora's last condition was to give the airport weekly Serves a ton of fresh vegetables.

If it weren't for the fact that Inta Airport itself doesn't have any spare hangars, I doubt it would be possible to rent them at such a high price. "

"In fact we are already negotiating with the surrounding mines"

Anfeiya continued, "Sister Aurora wants to squeeze out Inta's labor force so that they can't be idle even in summer."

"What is she going to do?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.

"Building more vegetable greenhouses"

Anfisa explained, "Let more hunter families' idle labor come here to grow vegetables, and then sell them to the surrounding mines. Sister Aurora even plans to build a small cannery to digest the excess vegetables and leftovers. labor force.

Regardless of whether the surrounding mines are mining coking coal or natural gas or oil and gold, those hard-working miners will always eat vegetables, she said. "

"Tsk tsk tsk, what an excellent capitalist."

Wei Ran laughed happily, and then asked bluntly, "Jima, how much money do you make a year in this camp?"

"Actually, I don't make much money." Although Ji Ma said so, the expression on his face was exceptionally satisfied, "The profit we could share with everyone last year was less than 500 million rubles.

But every Intar that worked for us made a lot of money, and we saved up 10 An-2s and five An-6s, and of course, everything you see now. "

"There is also a military base on the other side of the Ural Mountains," Anfisa reminded, "Our investment there is also very large."

"Yes, and the military base over there."

Jima nodded approvingly, "Victor, how about we go there after breakfast? I can guarantee that you will be surprised."

"According to your arrangement." Wei Ran responded happily, and he really wanted to go there to have a look.

A group of four completed their routine morning exercises, and when they returned, the rest of the people, such as Maya and Lola, who loved to sleep late, hadn't gotten up yet.

Of course, if there are those who love to sleep late, there will naturally be those who are diligent.For example, in the center of the wooden house group, in the rather beautiful wooden house restaurant, a rich buffet breakfast has been prepared for everyone.

Sui Sui, who also likes to sleep in at first, came to the restaurant alone with a laptop shortly after Wei Ran went out for morning exercises.While absent-mindedly eating the breakfast that Misha helped bring, he clattered on the keyboards of the calculator and laptop amidst the sound of "return to zero" from time to time.

It was obvious that this girl, who had been insomnia almost all night, was undoubtedly thinking about the Il-76 transport plane that had flown back to Kazan last night.

After eating breakfast one after another, Suisui called Wei Ran and Jima and said, "I want to go back to Kazan, the sooner the better."

"Back to Kazan?" Misha looked at Sui Sui in surprise, "You just did it yesterday."

"If we go back one second late, we will make less money."

Sui Sui explained rather anxiously, "Now we have to go back immediately to refund part of the air tickets for our tourists and rebook part of the air tickets. Just the saved air ticket money can more than double our profit."

"Can"

"Use that ugly thing to send you back!"

Jima wiped his mouth carelessly with a napkin and said with a smile, "Aurora, let's make that plane worthwhile! Although it only has more than 30 seats, it's better to let it fly than to let it sit idle."

"Then let it fly to Maya's house!"

Sui Sui responded without hesitation, obviously already eyeing Ji Ma's special plane, "That plane looks pretty good-looking, and I can consider buying another one in the future when I have money."

"Your appetite is not small." Wei Ran put down his chopsticks dumbfounded.

"Who has trouble with money?" Sui Sui stood up while speaking, "Since this is the case, don't waste time, let's go back now."

"I'm going to take Victor to the military base." Jima, who just said that he would use his special plane to send everyone back to Kazan, stood up with regret on his face.

"You can go there"

Sui Sui hurriedly walked out of the restaurant and said, "By the way, take Anfeiya along. When we were still in Palau, didn't we just say that there was something wrong with the equipment there? Just ask her to help with debugging."

After a short pause, the girl continued, "Maya, you and I will go back. If you want Jima's plane to fly to your home, you must coordinate with the local people. You need your help in this matter."

"No problem." Maya also got up and walked outside the restaurant.

Soon, several vans drove to the airport runway a few kilometers away.After a short wait, Jima's private plane took off with Sui Sui, Maya, Anfisa and Lola on board.

Less than 5 minutes later, Wei Ran and Jima also jointly drove an An-6 plane, carrying Anfeya and Misha, to the other side of the Ural Mountains.

"Misha, where did you get these An-6 planes?" Wei Ran curiously asked in the communication channel after the flight stabilized.

"The last time when Alili and you went to the No. 52 mine further south, I accidentally saw it in the hangar of the local natural gas company. There were only 8 planes in total, and we bought them all at scrap iron prices. Now there are three more. The racks have not been repaired, and they are all lost in the railway warehouse in Inta."

After a short pause, Misha continued to explain while pressing the communication headset, "It is said that these planes were equipped in the Soviet era to monitor the Ob River's annual freezing and thawing, and occasionally they will perform some personnel transportation tasks.

However, since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the opportunities for these aircraft to be used have become less and less, and they were completely forgotten in the hangar. "

"The performance of these planes is good." Wei Ran responded with great satisfaction, "It feels much better to fly than An-2."

“There is also a first-class cabin with a very good view at the rear of the plane”

Jima then introduced, "I heard from Alili that this kind of plane is very popular, and those tourists like to rent these planes very much."

"Jima is right"

Misha added in the channel, "We are looking for ways to buy more An-6 aircraft before winter comes, and this morning Aurora has suggested that we set up an airline."

"Establish an airline?"

The one who was surprised by this was not Wei Ran who listened to Suisui talking about it most of the night last night, but Ji Ma who was sitting in the driver's seat.

"She just mentioned something during your morning exercise," Misha replied irresponsibly, "She didn't say much about it."

"Don't look at me, I don't know." Wei Ran hurriedly said before looking at Jima himself.

Amid the gossip and speculation about the airline, the rumbling An-6 finally landed lightly and smoothly on a flat runway that could be one kilometer long.

In Wei Ran's memory, this runway does not exist. When they came here, they always drove the An 2 with buoys in the lake not far away, or drove the An 2 with skids in winter. landed on flat ice.

"This airstrip is also built by ourselves"

After the plane's engine stopped, Misha skillfully opened the hatch and said, "In order to build this runway, we almost disassembled two bulldozers and two excavators into parts and sent them over by plane."

"And in June, we installed an additional server here."

Anfeya, who just hid in the observation cabin with the best view at the tail of the plane to enjoy the scenery, introduced, "Earlier, we also purchased several sets of small hydropower and wind power generators and a lot of solar power panels. delivered here."

After a short pause, Anfeiya jumped out of the cabin with her computer bag, and then continued, "In addition, we also solved the problem of no network signal here. Although the basic investment is a bit expensive, the network speed is very fast."

Before she finished speaking, several off-road motorcycles roared up the simple runway in the distance, and finally stopped at everyone's reluctance.

As for the motorcycle riders, half of them gave up the four motorcycles in unison, and then warmly greeted Ji Ma and Misha, stepped on the other motorcycles ridden by their companions, and walked away.

"Let's go and have a look"

As Misha said, she had already stepped on a motorcycle that hadn't turned off at all, turned the accelerator and rushed out without even wearing a helmet.

Seeing this, Wei Ran randomly chose a motorcycle to ride on, and drove towards the abandoned military base along the gravel road less than two meters wide.

But compared to what I saw when I came here a year ago, not only the two buildings in this abandoned military base have been renovated, but even the observatory on the top of the hill in the distance seems to have been renovated. again.

Of course, the big red banner of "Three Days of Hungry and Nine Meals of Incubation Base" that I saw last time must be gone.

But compared to these trivial things, even in summer, there are actually quite a few tourists here. Some of these tourists are Chinese with black hair and yellow skin, and some are white people with a strong hairy smell.

But without exception, when these people communicate, they all use standard or non-standard Chinese.And most of those tourists are carrying all kinds of military or civilian rifles, some are driving off-road motorcycles, and some are driving four-wheel all-terrain motorcycles.

Others were driving a side tricycle that they got from nowhere, and there were two action cameras on the sidecar, and in the sidecar were things such as tents, stoves, shovels, saws, pans, etc. Camping equipment such as bowls and pans.

In addition, he also noticed that not only the two buildings and the extraordinarily clean open space at the entrance have been firmly surrounded by barbed wire fences, but also a large number of internal and external security guards have been installed on the barbed wire fence walls. Camera.

"At the beginning of May this year, a non-public wilderness survival invitational competition was organized here. Those who win will not only be exempted from round-trip travel expenses, but also get a bonus of 23333 yuan."

An Feiya abruptly changed into an Italian language that probably only she and Wei Ran could understand, and said, "Although I don't know the special meaning of the bonus numbers, there were about 15 people in total in that 50-day invitational tournament." Multiple interested tourists."

"And then?" Wei Ran asked in Italian while sitting on the motorcycle that had just parked.

"A considerable number of tourists give up within four days, and then they go back to the hot spring camp to continue enjoying their vacation."

Anfeiya also sat on her motorcycle and did not get off in a hurry. She just supported the fuel tank with her hands and explained slowly, "The remaining dozen or so tourists have basically persisted for a week. On the 11th day, continue to persist." There is only one person left, and he got all the prize money of the game."

After a short pause, Anfeiya continued, "That was a non-public test organized by us. In the middle of next month, Sister Aurora is going to organize a formal competition. This time the prize money is 66666 yuan and exempt all Travel expenses, the number of registered people has exceeded 30 at present, as long as there are enough 50 people, the competition will start, and if there are not enough, it will be changed to the hot spring camp next door."

"Can this make money?" Wei Ran frowned and asked, "Why do I feel that there is danger?"

"Will not"

An Feiya raised her chin towards the tourists, "If you want to participate in the competition, you must have been here at least once, and each contestant has a full-time guide and translator who can speak Chinese. When they participate in the competition, we No one is more than 50 meters away from them."

"The registration fee is expensive, right?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

“Five times the price of going to a hot spring camp”

An Feiya spread her hands, "But as long as their brains are a little more flexible or they win the game, these can definitely be earned back through methods such as shooting videos."

"Black-hearted capitalist" Wei Ran couldn't help but tease, and then asked, "You didn't change to Italian just to introduce this, did you?"

"Those children who are able-bodied will also come here for initial training in the future."

Anfeiya said seriously, "The environment here is bad enough. After our game is broadcast, we may be able to reach middle-class people from all over the world who can speak various languages ​​in the future. The point is, the external communications and transportation here are affected by us. absolute control."

"Who will train them?" Wei Ran asked the second question.

"Training what?"

Anfeiya raised her finger and pointed to the satellite dish on the top of the mountain in the distance, "Before they reach adulthood, it is enough for them to learn social etiquette, at least one foreign language and basic office skills here, all of which can be learned through the Internet.

In addition, those experienced Inta hunters will teach them how to hunt and handle prey. I will also select some teachers to teach them loyalty and simplicity. Of course, they will also have proper physical exercise, which is enough up.

In any case, those little guests who will come to live here are still underage after all. Rather than cultivating a group of psychologically distorted monsters, my sister and I would rather cultivate some trustworthy, loyal and diligent young partners.As for those other things, there will be time and opportunities in the future. "

"This is the best." Wei Ran secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"Didn't you say you want to do legal business?"

Anfeiya smiled and murmured Wei Ran's original promise, then switched back to Russian and said, "This is probably the surprise. Well, I'm going to debug the network equipment here."

Before the words were finished, the girl had already left the motorcycle with her long legs, and walked towards the only entrance and exit of the barbed wire fence with her computer bag in her hand.

"Victor, what surprise did I hear from her just now?" Jima asked with a wink, "Is it a surprise prepared to celebrate my own private jet?"

"You heard it wrong." Wei Ran also left the motorcycle while speaking, changed the subject and asked, "Would you like to introduce this place to me?"

"Of course!"

Immediately, Ji Ma became interested. After leading Wei Ran through the barbed wire gate responsible for collecting and registering weapons, he started a passionate introduction while visiting.

At the same time, a dangerous liquefied natural gas ship slowly reduced its speed on a piece of high seas near the equator in the central Pacific Ocean, near Nauru.

After a while, a series of four dark blue fully enclosed lifeboats with no power and the hatches were locked were placed on the relatively calm sea by the crane on the ship, and the liquefied natural gas ship was also slowly raised. The ship left the sea quickly.

Less than 10 minutes later, an ocean-going container ship that had been watching from a distance slowly arrived at this sea area. After some busy work, it lifted the four lifeboats onto the deck and opened the hatch with the key obtained in advance.

As people wearing one-piece overalls and black helmets walked out by themselves, were supported and carried out, or were roughly dragged out of the lifeboat by their legs and feet, they were still on a certain beach in Australia. Niell, who looks at beautiful women on the Internet, also received an advertising sales call from Australia.

After carefully listening to the real estate sales on the phone, Ninel hung up the phone in satisfaction, and then directly changed a phone card, and broke off the original phone card, wrapped it with a small piece of bread dipped in jam, and threw it to someone else. Seagulls poking their heads in the distance.

It wasn't until the seagull happily flew away with the stuffed bread in its mouth that he restarted the BlackBerry in his hand and said, "I have received it, Ania, and it's time for us to end our vacation."

"I'm flying to France tonight"

On the reclining chair next to her, Ania, who was wearing a big red bikini, stood up while speaking, and said affectionately in French with a hint of country accent, "Oh! Fidel~ my dear French cousin, I wish you a happy birthday! The United States has a good academic record, if I think about it, I will miss you occasionally."

Ninier smiled, picked up the Coke on the table next to him and raised it towards the former, and responded in French, "Oh! Jenny~ My dear American cousin, I also wish you an early graduation from the French fashion school.

Besides, I wouldn't miss you even if I did.Finally, stay out of trouble in France, it seems to be Charon's territory, and I don't want to buy you back with our business. "

"Don't worry, I can't wait to go to Paris to hold the rainbow flag to participate in the parade, and I don't have time to cause trouble for you." Before the words finished, Ania had already put on a thin blanket and ran to the not far away Vacation hotel.

Thousands of kilometers away in Nagasaki, where the nuclear program was recruited, and after so many days, I finally learned from the news that the whole family had died in internal strife a few days ago. Kano Qianxia was also at the house of her new friend who was an international student of Ukrainian. With generous funding, I boarded the flight to Palau with hesitation and despair.

Compared with these things that are too far away, when Sui Sui, who was in a hurry to go home to do business, took Lola and Anfisa back to Kazan and back to the shore of Lake Kaban on Jima's special plane, she was so far away. It was discovered that in the alley outside the yard, there was a particularly eye-catching orange tent.

Outside this tent, there is not only a small gas stove with a coffee pot on it, but also a pair of bright yellow underwear, a few pairs of red socks, and a pair of orange hiking shoes that are still dripping on the metal fence next to it to dry.

And in that slightly dilapidated tent, apart from the loud snoring, a pair of stinky feet sticking out from the door of the tent with a few flies on them.

(End of this chapter)

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