War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1035 Unable to Escape
In the blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of September. Sui Sui, who got the right to use two planes, was obsessed with making money every day, and the consequences were that not only the busy feet of the Katenka sisters hit the back of their heads, but even the rare one month "No quarter horse holiday" Maya has become a free labor force. She goes to and from get off work every day than when she worked as an assistant for quarter horse.

In contrast, Wei Ran, who persisted and firmly believed that he was a good-for-nothing, undoubtedly had a lot of leisure. Since he came back for half a month, the only thing he did was to help his old man, Professor Alexey After careful maintenance of the World War II German paratrooper knife that was found, it was sent to the cheongsam woman Jia Ya in the monkey country of the Philippines according to the address.

Except for this one serious matter, Luke, who had set up a tent and blocked the door to wait for him before he came back, seemed to have evaporated. Not only did he never contact him again, even the emails he sent were like It's like disappearing into the sea without any news.

Although I don't know if the Luke who called himself "Lucky Luke" encountered any unlucky things, but the other party didn't leave any clues except for his name and email address. Even if he wanted to find the other party, he couldn't find it , Naturally, I don't bother to continue thinking about it.

Just as he was thinking about whether he needed to prepare an appropriate Teacher's Day gift for Karp and others in advance as a thank-you gift for the transport plane, the "retired" or "reborn" teacher Dahlia was on September 9. No. This morning at breakfast time.

"Invite us to be a guest?" Wei Ran repeated the other party's invitation in surprise, and then simply turned on the speakerphone.

"I really intend to invite you to come over as a guest."

Teacher Dalia on the other end of the phone said with a smile, "Autumn is coming soon, and the scenery on Lake Ladoga is very beautiful, so we would like to invite you to come and play for two days, and take a look at the exhibition hall we just finished. Of course, we still need you and Aurora to help us."

"Aunt Dalia, what do you need us to do?" Sui Sui poked her head over and asked affectionately. After asking, she didn't forget to take a big bite of the steaming steamed buns.

"Olga and Olena's father is a fisherman on Lake Onega. He has always wanted to change to a job that doesn't smell so fishy, ​​so..."

"Understood!" Sui Sui immediately understood the other party's plan without waiting for Daria to finish speaking, and asked with extra confidence, "Take someone to play, right? Leave it to me!"

"I knew you were more reliable than Victor"

Dalia on the other end of the phone praised Sui Sui with a smile on her face, and then asked, "When do you have time?"

"How about going today?" Sui Sui turned to Wei Ran who was sitting next to him and asked, "We've been working hard for half a month, so it's time to go out and play for a few days."

"Listen to yourself, does this sound like a capitalist?" Wei Ran teased, dumbfounded.

"Why do I start my own business? Isn't it just for fishing for three days and posting on the net for two days!"

Sui Sui said happily, "Then it's a deal! Aunt Daria, if we can buy a plane ticket, we will leave today!"

"The weather is so good recently, don't waste your life on work, so why not bring all the girls in your family over to play!"

Daria said with a smile, "Also, you can come here by Jima's plane. I heard from him that Alili has been familiar with that plane recently, so I just asked him to fly to Petersburg to take you here."

"I totally agree with your opinion!"

Before Sui Sui finished speaking, she had already winked at Anfisa who was sitting opposite her. Seeing this, the latter immediately took out his mobile phone and called Ali who had been flying between Inta and Kazan recently. inside.

"I'll send you the address later," Dahlia hung up the phone after she finished speaking.

"Did she just say she wanted me to do her a favor too?" Wei Ran glanced suspiciously at the phone that had been hung up.

"Looking for you is not looking for me"

Sui Sui had already picked up the second steamed stuffed bun and stuffed it into her mouth while she was talking, then got up and pushed the wheelchair under Sui Xin's buttocks, and said while walking to her room on the first floor, "It's rare to have a free special plane ride , this time you go with me too!"

"I have not eaten."

Sui Xin, who was still holding a small steamed stuffed bun with her chopsticks in her hand, was pushed into the room by Sui Sui before she could finish her sentence. Immediately afterwards, the girl handed a pair of chopsticks to Maya who was nearest, and at the same time Not forgetting to greet everyone anxiously to pack their luggage quickly.

In less than an hour, Wei Ran and a group of girls who hadn't had time to put on makeup rushed to the airport by car, met the captain, Comrade Alili, who was waiting for them in advance, and boarded the milky white painted plane. Installed An 74 transport aircraft.

Now, after more than half a month of adapting to help Inta and Vorkuta to transport miners and various supplies, Aliri and his partner can already fly this private jet alone, and just Even the crew that Uncle Chubb had sent to help them familiarize themselves with the pilot had left.

However, I don’t know whether it was due to the professional habit of flying An 2 aircraft or because of the fear of death of a certain 18-line movie star. The more than 74 seats in this An 30 are now all stuffed with parachutes. Bags, and there are medical kits stuffed all over the cabin.

It stands to reason that such redundant and unnecessary preparations are enough to make people feel at ease, but until the plane took off and climbed to the predetermined altitude, Wei Ran became more and more uneasy.

Naturally, his uneasiness was not because he was worried about what might happen to the plane piloted by his good friend Alili, but because he always felt that there seemed to be a big hole waiting for him when he was invited to Petersburg this time.

In the midst of this inexplicable anxiety, Wei Ran accompanied a group of chattering girls, but he couldn't talk to him, after a flight of more than two hours, the An 74 also landed lightly and smoothly on Peter Fort Airport.

When a group of them with high heads turned walked out of the airport pick-up gate, Wei Ran saw Ji Ma with a baseball cap and sunglasses mask waving towards him from a distance.

"Why are you here?" Maya, who was originally happy, also had a cheated expression on her face when she saw Jima.

"I'm here to pick you up?"

Ji Ma spread his hands innocently, "I have been filming commercials in Petersburg a few days ago, and I just finished work last night to get a chance to rest."

"It's rare to come out to play together, so don't talk about work"

After all, Wei Ran pulled his good brother, and gagly called everyone to leave the waiting room, followed by Jima who was winking at him, and got into an Iveco loaf that he borrowed from no one knew where.

"So why are you here?" Until the car started running, Maya asked Jima, who was in charge of driving, holding the back of the driver's seat rather unwillingly.

"Of course Teacher Dalia invited me to come and play"

Jima grinned silly and said, "But I don't know where to go. I was in the hotel this morning to catch up on sleep, and then Teacher Dalia asked me to rent a car that is big enough for all of you to come and pick me up." You guys, I will take you to the Neva River pier to find Olga’s father, Mr. Ivan, and I don’t know where to go next.”

After a short pause, Jima continued with a smile on his face, "Also, we will go back to continue filming that movie in a week, and that plane will take us there."

"At least a week left to play"

Maya sat back in her seat and stretched, helped to support Sui Xin's wheelchair beside her and said, "Finally, I have a chance to rest. The days of helping Aurora are much better than the stingy one I gave to Kajik." The old guy is still tired when he works."

"I think so too." Sui Sui nodded with a sympathetic look, looking at her innocent appearance of the same enemy, as if Sui Sui and Aurora were completely two people.

No matter how hard the work was in the previous half month, amidst the chatting among the young people, this semi-new Iveco only drove a distance of more than ten kilometers, and then stopped at a fairly beautiful car on the south bank of the Neva River. In the parking lot of the pier.

You don’t need to look at the signboards around the pier at all, just look at the beautiful white sightseeing boats parked on the berths of the pier to know that this is a Onega specially designed for taking a boat along the Neva River to Lake Ladoga and beyond. Prepared for tourists visiting the lake.

However, when the group of them pushed Sui Xin, who was looking around in a wheelchair, and their respective suitcases onto the pier, they found a strange creature in those beautiful white sightseeing boats far away.

Compared with the white and petite sightseeing boats around, the dark blue Zook-class 1400 patrol boat driven by the fisherman Ivan is indeed a well-deserved one in terms of appearance, noise, taste and ancestral black smoke. Heterogeneous.

If you find a reasonable analogy, it's like a walking tractor full of catches driving into a parking lot full of supercars, emitting black smoke and full of catches.

Before he could get this absurd picture out of his mind, old fisherman Ivan waved his hands enthusiastically to them, calling these young people to get on the boat.

"Uncle Ivan, why did you park your broken boat in such a place?" Wei Ran and Jima immediately asked the same question in unison after they lifted Sui Xin and her wheelchair to the deck.

"Do you still expect me to drive the boat to the airport terminal to pick you up? Besides, she's not a broken boat. With all the rubbish around her, you can't even try to catch up with my Sasha."

Old Ivan pointed to the cockpit angrily, "Victor, you go and sail the boat. Jima, you bastard, quickly help me to collect the cable. The parking fee here is too expensive, we have to take advantage of the fee The people who don’t need to leave quickly.”

"It's Sasha again."

Wei Ran muttered with twitching corners of his mouth, wondering whether the country would turn into a desert without people if all the Sasha in Russia disappeared. Familiar with the road, the fishing boat, formerly known as a patrol boat, left the pier and sailed along the Neva River to the direction of Lake Ladoga.

Under the guidance of Ivan, this rather old fishing boat sailed for more than 20 kilometers, but it came to a pier on a river island.

After Ji Ma tied the cable, Wei Ran also turned off the engine, and asked Ivan curiously, "Old guy, what is this place?"

"Fish Island"

While helping Wei Ran to carry Sui Xin and her wheelchair onto the pier, Iwan explained, "The building you can see on the island is a salmon breeding farm, which is a very old enterprise."

"Salmon breeding ground?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion.

"A subsidiary company of No. 33 Fishing Ground"

Ivan abruptly switched to French and explained, and then said in Russian louder, "To tell you the truth, I used to be a technician in this breeding farm."

"Could it be?" Wei Ran looked at Daria, sisters Olga and Olena who were driving a golf cart from a distance.

"You guessed it right"

Before Sui Sui and the others came down with the box, Ivan pointed to the forest in the northeast of the island, "Daria's exhibition hall is in that forest, and this is the only piece of land she can afford. "

I believe you ghost. Wei Ran warmly greeted the three of Dalia who were getting closer, and curled his lips secretly. This island may belong to No. 33 Fishing Ground. Buy the land here Still need to spend a fart of money.

Sure enough, whoever tells the truth is a barking pug!

Of course, at least he wouldn't say these words, and Ivan, who seemed to have no reservations about him at all, had already opened his arms to meet the daughters who were running towards him.

"Get in the car!"

Teacher Dalia, who seemed to be a little thinner, stopped the car steadily, and greeted everyone to get on the car with a gentle face, "Would you like me to show you this island later?"

"Aunt Dalia, you didn't buy this island, did you?" Sui Sui, who had just jumped onto the pier, asked while hugging each other affectionately.

"I just bought a small piece of land on the northeast side of the island"

Dalia responded with a smile, "Of course, this breeding farm has a good relationship with the boss and me, so if you are interested, you can visit the factory later."

After finishing speaking, Darya first introduced the sisters Olga and Olena to Sui Sui and the others, and then Maya introduced the girls who followed.

After these girls got to know each other, sister Katenka, with the help of Lola, helped Sui Xin sit in the car and lifted the wheelchair up.

The only thing Wei Ran and Ji Ma, the two quarrelsome species, had to do was to move everyone's luggage to another car as soon as possible while the girls got to know each other.

Soon, the three golf carts drove along the road inside the island to the hatchery workshop and visited several large ponds full of fry, and then drove slowly along the quiet cross road in the forest to the island An open space on the northeast side.

The area of ​​this trapezoidal open space on the edge of the island is not large, but there is a steel-frame glass house with a design sense in the middle.

Around this glass house covering an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters, not only is there a lush lawn, but also pieces of milky white sunshade canopy are supported. There are even many lovely tree houses built on the edge of the lawn.

"It's so beautiful here," the girls sitting in the same car exclaimed in unison.

"Designed by Olena"

Dalia's tone was full of undisguised pride and pride, "Although she is a sculptor, as you can see, she is also very talented in architectural design."

"I found inspiration in some crazy Soviet architecture," Olena explained a little shyly, "and the structure of the steel frame glass curtain wall is the only choice that can be built in such a short time."

"Let's go in and take a look together!"

As Daria spoke, she was the first to leave the golf cart, stepped on the black and white stone steps that looked like piano keys, and led everyone into the interior of this indescribably beautiful building.

"This will be the place where Olga holds concerts in the future"

Dalia stood in the center of the hall and said, while her voice, which was originally not too loud, echoed repeatedly in the building.

"I heard from Aunt Dalia that the Chinese musical instruments you play are very beautiful, do you want to try it later?" Olga asked while squatting beside Sui Xin's wheelchair, hugging the taciturn young genius Kolava, and said sincerely I was also invited.

"Sister Aurora asked me to bring Youquan." Lola, who was in charge of pushing the wheelchair, didn't wait for Sui Xin to speak, and pointed to the golf cart outside the building, which was used to pull luggage.
These girls are discussing when they will have a concert here at night.Dalia also enthusiastically introduced the patchwork sculptures around to Wei Ran and others.

Continuing to walk into the next hall, Dalia pointed to the shelf in the corner of the hall and the barrels of sculpture mud and said proudly, "If someone comes here in the future, in addition to camping outside and enjoying recitals, You can also experience the fun of sculpture with Olena."

"I want to try it later"

Wei Ran, who knew a lot of inside information, glanced at the happy Dahlia without a trace, and said jokingly, "Actually, I wanted to try it when I was a guest at Ivan's house last time. When I was young, playing in mud was something that I and Aurora is one of the few common hobbies."

Sui Sui grinned, trying to hold back her smile, and reminded in Chinese, "My brother, take it easy, the Pot Breaking we play is far from Olena's sculpture."

"Anyway, it's not all about playing with mud," Wei Ran replied with peace of mind.

"Why didn't you tell me when you were a guest at my house last time?" Ivan, who had been following along, hooked Wei Ran's neck with his thick arms and asked with a kind smile on his face.

"I didn't say it last time because I was worried that Lake Onega was too deep." Wei Ran said loudly on purpose, and not surprisingly, he was greeted with laughter from several insiders around him.

Going forward under the leadership of Dalia, when they entered the next exhibition hall, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment. There were quite a lot of things in this not-so-large exhibition hall.

There are not only the rusty signboard of "Kaban Lake Candy Company" that should have been placed in the attic of his home, but also the two desperate group photos he saw at the home of the veteran Leva, and more There is a long outdated Sony Walkman, and a Kiev 30 camera with the Walkman.

Of course, there is also the wooden box with metal corners that he saw when he went to the apartment of sisters Olga and Olena in Petersburg, and the TV with a story that should have been packed in the box. Bayan, half a sheet of music, half a piece of black bread mixed with sawdust, half a dried fish, a small bottle of coarse salt, a necklace and a small TK pistol.

The objects exhibited above are either hung at a height that is difficult for ordinary people to touch even if they jump up, or they have an independent platform with a tempered glass cover.

In addition, in this not-so-large exhibition hall, the "House" that Wei Ran and Death Knell's friends had heard countless times on the Grozny battlefield echoed repeatedly with a seemingly non-existent volume. Green Grass by the Bank.

"Victor, the next thing is that we need your help"

While Wei Ran was secretly fascinated by this song by the Earthman Band, Dalia used a key to open the tempered glass cover that was fastened on the bayan and half of the music score.

Worse!

Wei Ran's heart turned cold, he finally knew where the source of his uneasiness was all along the way!

Before he could speak, Daria said, "Victor, I hope you can help us find out the origin of this bayan and the half of the music."

(End of this chapter)