War Photographer's Notebook

In the blink of an eye, it was December 12th. Diane, the person in charge of Edelweiss, rushed to the shore of Kaban Lake with her luggage early, got into Wei Ran's armored pickup, and rushed to Kazan Airport together.

"Are you going to enroll with me this time?" Wei Ran asked curiously as he drove out after bidding farewell to Sui Sui.

"I also accepted the employment of Mr. Mesut Jr."

Diane with a round figure smiled and replied, "In fact, I have been investigating this matter before I met you for the first time, but unfortunately, there has been no progress."

"After this time, I may have to go to the port of Narvik in Finland." Wei Ran vaccinated the other party in advance. Now that there is plenty of time, he naturally has to do his best.

"No problem." Diane nodded and replied, "I will persuade Mr. Mesut Jr. to pay for the travel expenses."

"I will also help him find Mr. Mesut." Wei Ran responded confidently.

Rushing to the airport, Wei Ran successfully boarded the flight to Sapporo under the leadership of Diane.

After a transit in Hangu, when the plane landed at Sapporo Airport, Diane took Wei Ran skillfully to complete the entry, and each took their luggage. When the two of them walked out of the pick-up gate, there was already a 30 A woman of many years old, with a slightly thin body, but a well-dressed woman was waiting for them.

"This is Ihor's granddaughter. Her German name is Jordan. She is now the mother of two children. Her husband is the manager sent by Mr. Mesut Jr. to run a ski sports equipment distribution business."

"What's your name?" Wei Ran slightly disrespectfully ignored the series of bows from the recruiting woman, and turned to look at Diane in surprise.

"Jordan"

Diane repeated again, "It's the same Jordan as the basketball star's last name, but in German, Jordan can be used as a girl's name."

"Who named her?" Wei Ran couldn't help asking.

"It's my grandfather Mr. Ihor"

The woman named Jordan replied in fluent German, "According to my grandfather, Mr. Mesut's wife, the mother of Mr. Mesut Jr., was named Jordan, so he named me that."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and finally stretched out his hand to shake this woman.

"I'm so sorry, my husband hurt his ankle when he was skiing a week ago, so he couldn't pick you up."

Before the words were finished, the old lady bowed again.And Diane immediately said in German that her body was important and waited for a completely unnecessary politeness.

"Victor, do you want to take a rest first, or go to Ihor's former house to take a look first?"

Diane waited for the devil girl named Jordan in German to finally lead the two of them to the direction of the parking lot, and immediately asked in German.

"Go and see the house first"

Wei Ran paused, changed his chat partner, and asked in the way of "sprinkling salt while stabbing a knife" as he did with Ihor, "Ms. The cause of death?"

"He was frozen to death"

Jordan sighed, "It was the winter of 2002. At that time, he had just sold the house we were going to go to to Uncle Mesut. At that time, before he had time to move out, he fell down because of the ice in the yard. Broken waist, he...he was frozen to death."

"Didn't you live with him at the time?" Wei Ran sprinkled another handful of salt with a smile on his face.

"no"

Jordan shook his head, "I was studying in Germany at the time. When I received the news, my neighbor said that he had been buried by the snow in the yard."

"Actually, I've always been curious why he sold that house." Wei Ran asked seriously.

Hearing this, Jordan helped the two open the door of a car, but at the same time shook his head, "I don't know the reason, in fact, I only learned about it from Uncle Mesut after my grandfather's funeral. this matter."

Seeing Wei Ran looking at her, Diane spread her hands, "I asked Mr. Little Mesut, and he didn't know the reason."

"And I don't know where the money from selling the house went"

Jordan helped Wei Ran close the car door, and she got into the driver's cab and closed the car door and continued, "I once even suspected Mr. Mesut Jr., but according to the police investigation, my grandfather took the money from the bank after receiving the money. Take it all out."

"Where's your grandmother or mother?" Wei Ran asked casually.

'My grandmother passed away before I was born'

Jordan sighed, "My mother also remarried after my father passed away, and I haven't seen her for many years."

"Go and see the house"

Wei Ran said with a joyful mood, but at the same time, he was also a little regretful that he didn't have the chance to take revenge on Ihor who buried himself in the mine.

"Have Mr. Victor found any clues?" Diane, who hadn't spoken just now, asked with great interest.

"If there were clues, these faux questions wouldn't be asked."

Wei Ran pretended to respond, and then asked without waiting for Diane to speak, "What is that house doing now? Is there no one living there?"

"no"

It was Diane who answered the question, "The location of that house is relatively remote, and it has been vacant since Mr. Little Mesut bought it."

“The house is located in Teine”

Jordan, who was driving, added, "Although it is more suitable for life, it is not suitable for business activities."

Although Wei Ran didn't know where the so-called Teine was, he nodded his head pretendingly, it was the same everywhere anyway.His main purpose of coming here is not here.

Chatting all the way, when the car stopped, there was an elementary school across the road on the left, and some children were busy clearing the snow on the playground full of snow.

Probably less than 200 meters away from the front of the car, there is a river across. Just now, their car drove over from the road beside the river, and then turned around and stopped here.

"I finished elementary school at this school"

After finishing speaking, Jordan pushed open the car door, and after Wei Ran and Diane got off the car, he led them to a single building on the side of the road.

This two-story building with white walls and red roof is almost built facing the street. Except for a flower garden used to block the sight of passers-by, there is no wall. On the left hand side of the flower garden is a building like a pointed garage with a rolling door. There are many mottled stickers of cartoon characters on the shutter door of this building, and the prices of various cold drinks are written in Japanese on the window with a wooden baffle on the left.

Under this window, a flower pavilion was specially built with wood, and a set of simple stone tables and chairs was placed underneath.

On the second-floor attic glass of this steeple garage, there are still some neon lights that have not been used for a long time, and some tables and chairs can be seen through the glass window.

And behind the garage and flower garden, which are obviously used to operate the cold drink shop, is the main body of the two-story building.

Followed Jordan to the right side of the flower garden, and walked along a gravel road to the entrance. Jordan took out the key and opened the door and said, "Although this house has been sold to Uncle Mesut, my husband and I usually go to the house whenever we have time." Come and clean up."

"Has there been a cold drink shop here before?" Wei Ran asked, pointing to the steeple garage.

"Yes, the main customers are the children across the road. That was after my grandfather stopped running the ski sports equipment business." Jordan opened the locked iron door while speaking, "Please come in, no need to change shoes gone."

"Where is the yard?" Wei Ran asked standing at the door.

"Sorry, the door to the courtyard is sealed, you can only pass through the room."

Jordan explained with an apology that he didn't know where he came from, and led Wei Ran to a small door leading to the back of the house, and opened it with a little effort, revealing a small yard that was no more than six or seven meters square at most. .

Two sides of the yard are buildings, and the other two sides are walls nearly two meters high. Except for a tall tree of unknown species, the rest of the yard is filled with various sundries and a car that looks very vintage underbone motorcycle.

"This is where my grandfather fell"

Jordan pointed to the completely welded iron gate that was only one meter wide on the courtyard wall and said, "When he was found, he was less than one meter away from this gate."

As he spoke, Jordan bent down, lifted a metal sheet with a handle covering the ground, pointed to the lettering on the blue brick and said, "This is the only last sentence my grandfather inscribed with a belt buckle."

Hearing this, Wei Ran squatted down and took a closer look, but found that there was only one sentence in Russian on it - "Please forgive me, this is the punishment I deserve."