War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 105 The Box in Ahola Village

In the warm room, Wei Ran stood by the window and looked through the binoculars for a long time before sitting on the carpet again and sending it back to the leather notebook.

"Now that the medal number has been obtained, all that remains is to verify my guess." Wei Ran muttered to himself but stopped in the middle, "Maybe we still need to go to Ahola Village."

After sorting out his thoughts, Wei Ran took back his notebook, took the flag and found Chris who was preparing dinner on the first floor.

"Where are Jima and Akim?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"They went hunting," Chris said with a smile. "That assistant of yours looks very energetic."

"too full"

Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, and asked seriously, "Aunt Chris, I want to ask you some questions."

"What's the problem?" Chris took out a large plate of freshly baked blueberry pie from the oven, cut it in threes and twos, and brought it to the dining table. Then he wiped his hands and sat opposite Wei Ran.

"May I know your surname?" Wei Ran asked straight to the point and asked with the most concern.

"Räikkönen, my name is Chris Raikkonen"

Hearing Chris's answer, Wei Ran was no longer in doubt. It seems that she is the descendant of Mika and his wife Sally's only son.

And Chris didn't know about Mika's combat experience, probably because after he died in Viborg, Mika's wife died unexpectedly prematurely, and the old hunter adopted their child, that is, Keli. After Reese's father, it seems that for some reason something is hidden.

It seems that it is really necessary to go to Ahola Village, I hope there are still traces left by Ino's father.
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Wei Ran changed the subject and started chatting. After Jima and Akim came back with some prey, everyone had a lively dinner, and Wei Ran also made excuses during the dinner. I moved back to a glass house where I could see the stars.

In the steamy sauna, Jima held a can of cold beer and asked, "Victor, it will be the 14th tomorrow, when do you plan to go back?"

"Aren't you going to the bar?" Wei Ran asked absently.

"I just asked when you plan to go back because I wanted to go to the bar." Jima had a cheated expression on his face, "I thought I could go to a big city like Helsinki, but I didn't expect you to come here, here Apart from being colder, what is the difference with the Hongqi Forest Farm on the outskirts of Kazan?"

"At least there are no teachers Karp and Dalia here"

Ji Ma shivered subconsciously when he heard the words, "Don't mention them, or you will easily have nightmares at night. But when do you plan to go back?"

"The day after tomorrow"

Wei Ran picked up a beer and touched the other party and Akim who was sitting and listening to the excitement, "Tomorrow we will go to a place for a walk, and then fly to Kazan on the night of the 16th."

"Your investigation has made progress?" Akim asked in surprise.

"I can't talk about progress, but I happened to find some clues in the relevant historical records, and I will check the details tomorrow."

Wei Ran sighed secretly when he said this, he had no intention of commenting on the retired Akim and his wife Aunt Chris.However, Chris, as a descendant of Mika, seems to be instigated by Akim, and accidentally wants to "recognize the thief as his father" to have a relationship with the commander of the 163rd Division, which really makes him a little unspeakably sad.

After taking the sauna enough, Wei Ran went back to the room and closed the curtains, then turned on the desk lamp and summoned the cowhide book turned into a tattoo, and took out a few negatives from the paper bag on the side of the black and white photo.

With the help of the light, Wei Ran could barely see the content of these negatives. As expected, there was no shadow of himself in these negatives. Even in the group photo of the three of them holding the flag, only Mika and Ino's father and two people.

After putting away the negatives again, Wei Ran opened the tablet computer he brought, and logged on to the official website of the Finnish Axe. After a lot of searching, he finally managed to find the relevant records of the medals recorded in the cowhide notebook.

After trying his best to save the screenshots one by one, Wei Ran put away the leather notebook and fell asleep on the big soft bed.

In the early morning of the next day, after having a hearty breakfast, Wei Ran took out his tablet computer and showed Chris and Akim the screenshots saved last night, "This is the screenshot I saved from Suomusar in the past two days. Relevant clues found in the list of medals obtained in the Battle of Mi. According to the military exploits recorded in these medals, a Citizen Guard sniper named Mika Raikkonen and a sniper named Ino Vatanen Because they captured the flag of the Soviet infantry division, they were awarded the Freedom Cross of the 2nd class."

"and many more"

Chris pointed to the screenshot on the screen with his finger and reminded, "It didn't say that what they captured was the flag of the 163rd Division, and looking at the records on it, these two people came from a village called Ahola, which gives I've never heard of that place."

"Compared to these, how do you understand these Finnish words?" Jima asked suspiciously.

"I don't know how to use translation software?"

Wei Ran pretended to have a headache and said, "It took me a lot of effort to find these two people from the list of awarded medals. As for Aunt Chris's question, if the translation given by the translation software is correct, I would like to confirm Whether these two Citizen Guard snipers from Ahora have anything to do with the flag found in your house, I'm afraid we'll have to go there ourselves."

"Shall we set off now?" Akim asked impatiently.

Chris looked at Wei Ran and nodded without hesitation, "In this case, let's go now!"

After talking to these two, the rest of the matter was much simpler. In less than ten minutes, the old station wagon was driven by Chris himself to leave Plassey Village, and went straight to Suomus under the guidance of the navigation. Ahola Village, more than ten kilometers north of Salmi.

There are not many houses in this village. It can even be said that most of the villages in Finland have a relatively small population, and correspondingly, everyone lives in a scattered manner.

However, it is not without benefits. The distance between the neighbors is too far away, not only perfectly alleviating the ancestral social fear of the Finns, but also facilitating the needs of their group to inquire about information.

After driving around the village for a long time, Chris parked the car at the door of a very beautiful wooden house, and walked towards an old man who was repairing the sleigh at the door of his garage.

After some inquiries, she successfully got a satisfactory answer, got back into the car and drove along the country road to the door of a red spire house near the lake.

"This is the family." Chris turned off the engine. "According to the old man just now, there is only such a family named Vatanen in this village. But he has never heard any stories about that Ino."

"Aunt Chris, shall I go with you?" Wei Ran said with a smile.

Chris nodded, pushed the door open with Wei Ran, walked to the door of the house and rang the doorbell.

Two or three minutes later, as the door was opened, a middle-aged woman with glasses opened the door a crack, revealing half of her head, and looked at the two standing outside the door in doubt, "What's the matter?" ?”

"Hi ma'am," Chris asked with a kind smile, "is this the Vatanen family?"

The woman nodded, "Excuse me."

"I'm Chris, Chris Raikkonen, and this young man is Victor."

"Jana Vatanen" After the woman reported herself, she continued to look at the two suspiciously.

"That's it." Chris briefly explained the old hunter Ino in the screenshot provided by Wei Ran this morning, and then frankly told the purpose of the trip to the man who still hid most of his body in the door Middle-aged woman.

After listening to Chris's description, Jana hesitated for a moment and finally opened the door completely, revealing the double-barreled shotgun hanging on the inside of the wooden door, "Come in and sit down."

"Thank you." Chris showed a gentle smile, led Wei Ran into the living room behind Jana, and sat on the soft sofa.

"Sorry Chris"

After serving coffee to the two, Jana explained apologetically, "My husband died of cancer five years ago. I don't know much about the history of Vatanen's family, and I have never heard of him. His grandparents fought in wars."

"Is that so?" Chris sighed regretfully, "I'm sorry, Ms. Jana, for bringing up your sadness."

"It's ok"

Jiana shook her head and said instead, "But you can go to the warehouse and look for it. There are many relics left by my husband and his father during his lifetime. If the facts are as you said, my son and I will also would be proud."

"Is it really possible?" Chris, who had already given up any hope, asked in surprise. This sudden trust really surprised her and Wei Ran, who was eavesdropping.

"It doesn't matter," Jana said with a smile, "I was also a soldier when I was young, and it is very meaningful to me to help those veterans regain their glory."

"Thank you" Chris stood up and thanked sincerely.

"Come with me." Jana waved her hands nonchalantly, motioning for the two to follow her out of the house, and walked to a wooden warehouse next to her.

The area of ​​this warehouse is not too large, and the things in it are also sorted into wooden boxes of different sizes, neatly stacked and stacked together, and on the lid of each box, there is also a The blue paint says the packing time.

Look at one of the walls of this warehouse, covered with dusty animal head specimens.And on the gun rack fixed on the opposite wall, there are civilian shotguns of different models but wiped exceptionally clean.

"If there's anything to be found, it's here."

Jana turned on the light, walked to the innermost part along the narrow gap, and after some searching, she pointed to the dusty long wooden boxes in the farthest corner and said, "It should be these, the house and the warehouse are both My husband inherited it from his dad, and it seems like the boxes have been sitting there and never been opened."

After Chris finished translating for Wei Ran, Wei Ran, who pretended not to understand Finnish, went to the innermost part, and carefully carried out the three wooden boxes placed against the wall.

These three long boxes were unexpectedly heavy, and were even sealed with rusty iron sheets, but without exception, the sides of these boxes all had names written in paint on them.

"Mika Raikkonen?"

Wei Ran wiped the remaining paint writing on one of the wooden boxes with his sleeve, and then wiped the writing on the other box, revealing the words "Ino Vatanen".And on the third box, the words "Sally Brin" remained!

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(End of this chapter)