War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1068

Starting from March 3rd, Wei Ran, who officially joined the nursery, got a new job because of yesterday's action of playing the bayan before taking up his post. Tully's wounded soldiers served as music teachers together.

Fortunately, he didn't need to sing with his broken voice, as long as he was responsible for playing the bayan, it was enough.

Naturally, Wei Ran has no objection to this. Anyway, this music class does not divide classes and grades. It just takes out a class every morning to sing together with five children, big and small, who live in the air-raid shelter. Not only is the work not tiring or troublesome, but you can also meet with Alexander and other children, and ask them how they were doing yesterday.

First, he carefully changed the medicines of the injured little ones in the nursery. Wei Ran, who had finished his work, had no time to rest, so under Vitali's urging, he took the bayanqin to the place where the children were in class.

The appearance of Wei Ran, not surprisingly, secretly relieved Alexander and the other younger children who had just arrived here, and the girls like Oujia, Sasha and Laishia secretly pinched He squeezed the letter paper he wrote to Ke Na yesterday in his pocket.

"If only Matvey and his little animals were here"

Wei Ran looked at the children who filled the classroom and sighed secretly. If he was still alive, if he was here, these children might be able to have an extra animal performance class.

Shaking away the random thoughts in his mind, Wei Ran simply introduced himself in the way of Vitaly, and then concentrated on doing the accompaniment work, and also attended Vitaly's basic music class by the way, hoping that he would This music idiot who is no longer a music idiot can learn something.

After a babbling music class, Wei Ran found that he was still just a music player relying on muscle memory, so he simply took advantage of the crowd and took pictures of the children and the military band soldier Vitaly surrounded by the children. took a group photo, and then generously lent Kona's bayanqin to the other party.

After taking a break and returning to the ward of the nursery, Wei Ran did not expect that in just one class, there would be a little guy who was only three or four years old. The nursing nurse quietly left this world while crying bitterly.

Gently patted the shoulder of the little nurse who was not much older than Ke Na, Wei Ran took out the camera, and took a single photo of the little guy with burns on his face to prove that he had come to this world.

Silently put away the camera, he gently picked up the little guy who didn't weigh much at all, and left the ward led by the little nurse with red eyes.

During the day when he was officially working in the air-raid shelter, Wei Ran pressed the shutter time and time again, recording the suffering and laughter in the air-raid shelter as much as possible.

Time came to March 3th in a blink of an eye, and Wei Ran once again followed the military band soldier Vitaly into the classroom where the children were given music lessons.

But this time, Vitaly didn't ask Wei Ran to help with the accompaniment, let alone lead the children to practice chorus. Instead, he pointed to the horn above his head and gestured for silence.

Before the children were kept waiting, a passionate voice came from the loudspeaker, "I dedicate this work to our future victory and to my hometown, Leningrad."

After a moment of silence, the children chattered excitedly and whispered something.

"Shh-"

Vitali smiled and made a silent gesture again, "This is the Leningrad Symphony by the great Leningrad musician Comrade Shostakovich, children, let us listen carefully now This is a piece of music dedicated to this city."

Before Vitaly finished speaking, a calm and lively sonata came to mind on the loudspeaker, and the chattering children also fell silent one after another.

"Alexander, Alyosha, Ivan, Sasha, Olga, Lysia, Andrei, Sergey, Kalyuzhina."

At the edge of the classroom, Wei Ran was looking for those colorful Budyonny hats in the heads of the heads amidst the music and the faint explosions outside the air-raid shelter, and at the same time, he was silently doing roll call in his heart.

Except Anastasia and Bogdan, Galina are all there
Wei Ran heaved a sigh of relief, and quietly left the room, first found Anastasia and Bogdan who were playing hide-and-seek in the room, and then picked up Galina who had just nursed and was fast asleep , took them to the music classroom together.

After seeing these three little guys, Laishia and Oujia immediately showed surprise, and subconsciously opened their arms, one hugged Anastasia who ran past, and the other took Wei Ran's arms. Pass Galina.As for Bogdan, the little guy had already opened his arms and threw himself into Alexander's arms.

Now it's all done. No, it's not all there. There's still one child left.
Wei Ran muttered something to himself, and under Vitaly's gesture, he also sat in the pile of children, letting Bogdan lie on his lap, and letting Andre catch him own sleeves.

In this quiet but extraordinarily long music class, Wei Ran and the children listened to the 70-minute symphony together.

When the song ended amidst the dense drumming, the horns hanging on the wall also fell into silence amidst a crackling noise. Immediately afterwards, the sound of explosions from outside the air-raid shelter became clearer.

Sighing in succession with Wei Ran, Vitaly refused the support of Wei Ran and the children, leaned on crutches alone, rubbed his shoulders against the wall and stood up firmly, announcing the dismissal of get out of class.

Almost front and rear, Galina, who had been in Olga's arms just now, also started crying.

"This little guy loves music"

Vita gently touched Galina's small head with her bandaged hand, "She will become a great musician like Comrade Shostakovich, I swear."

"thank you for your good wishes"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at the children around him, "If everyone has time, how about we take another group photo? With teacher Vitali and future musician Galina Valentinovna Ait How about taking a group photo with Man?"

The little joke immediately got the kids laughing, and they graciously agreed to a request for a group photo.

"Victor, we wrote to Cora, can you send it to her when you have time?"

While the children were busy taking their positions, Laishia and Oujia approached Wei Ran who was busy lighting the calcium carbide lamp, and handed Wei Ran a stack of extra thick triangular letter paper.

"And this, we saved it at dinner last night." Oujia said while handing a worker's lunch box to Wei Ran.

Opening the lunch box curiously, he was stunned. It contained five boiled potatoes that were only the size of eggs.

"These five were saved by us and Alexander." Oujia looked at Wei Ran with hope, and asked cautiously, "Can you send them to Sister Kona? We are worried that she will not have enough to eat."

"Yes. Of course!"

Wei Ran came back to his senses, quickly closed the cover, and put it in his pocket together with the envelope, "I'll send it out for you when I finish taking the group photo!"

"Thank you!"

The two girls thanked each other in unison, turned around, and happily stood side by side with their new classmates.

Waiting for the children to surround the wounded soldier Vitali in the middle, Wei Ran also adjusted the brightness of the calcium carbide lamp to the maximum, then raised the camera, and showed these children with sweet smiles, as well as the wounded Soviet Union Red Army soldiers took a group photo.

"Crack!"

With the unusually crisp shutter sound, Wei Ran's field of vision was filled with white light.Immediately afterwards, he noticed the chill all over his body that could not be ignored, as well as the biting cold wind blowing from the pavement.

Blinking his eyes hard, when his vision returned to normal, the first thing he saw was the splendid aurora above his head.

Looking around again, he realized that he was sitting on a horse-drawn sledge, besides himself, on the left side of the sledge was a thin shadow driving animals, and behind him were two wounded people leaning against each other. In the middle of the four of them, there was a tin bucket emitting charcoal fire.

Moving his eyes to the farther surroundings, he could see a red light every not far away. It was only when the sledge approached that he noticed that those red lights were hung on the waists of the soldiers.These soldiers are male and female, but they are generally young, and they all walk on skis.

Is this the ice road on Lake Ladoga?

Just when Wei Ran came back to his senses, beams of light suddenly appeared in the night sky far away, followed by the loud noise of dense anti-aircraft guns firing, and the night sky being hit by volleys. Exploding aircraft exploded with fireballs.

Almost at the same time, those red lights also began to flash rapidly and began to move laterally.And the sledge that Wei Ran was riding on immediately moved laterally in the direction opposite to those red lights!

"Cover the charcoal fire quickly! Cover it with a camouflage cloth!" The thin figure sitting beside Wei Ran yelled anxiously.

Hearing this, Wei Ran looked left and right, and immediately picked up an iron cover to cover the charcoal fire, and then untied the white sheet tied to the handrail, covering himself, the wounded behind him and even the entire sledge.

Before he could fasten the white sheet, the sledge also stopped, and the thin figure also told the mule to lie down, and covered it tightly with a piece of canvas.

After such a short time, Wei Ran could already hear the roar of the plane, and those red lights that were fading away were also turned off one after another.

In the sound of whistling wind, under the aurora in the night sky, the confrontation between ground air defense firepower and fighter jets became more and more fierce. Amidst the whistle, the flames exploded far away, as well as the slowly landing flares dropped by the planes.

Compared with the battlefield above his head where he was powerless, Wei Ran finally distinguished from the light from the flares above his head and the shout just now that the man next to him who was in charge of manipulating the animals was actually the young man he had rescued with honey Lo!
(End of this chapter)