War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1133 Wei Ran's Little Discovery
Is it possible that that person also survived?
Standing by the side of the road, Wei Ran thought for a while, walked back quickly, took out his mobile phone and dialed Sui Sui.

"Have you arrived yet?" As soon as the phone was connected, Sui Sui on the other end asked first.

"Here, the investigation has begun."

Wei Ran closed the entrance door while speaking, and asked as he walked towards the second-floor attic of the steeple garage, "Do you still remember the tombstones I asked you to take pictures of at the pier north of the labor camp?"

"Remember, what's the matter?" Sui Sui added after finishing speaking, "Do you need me to send you those photos?"

"Need" Wei Ran said immediately, "Don't miss any one."

"Don't worry, I'll send it right away." Sui Sui on the other end of the phone promised happily, "Is there anything else I need to do?"

"No need." Wei Ran thought for a while and added, "Send it as soon as possible, don't miss one."

After Sui Sui made another promise and hung up the phone, Wei Ran also returned to the attic on the second floor of the garage, and sat down on the reclining chair.

In less than 3 minutes, all the photos were sent one by one, and Wei Ran finally showed a smile on his face after searching through them one by one.

In this photo is the tombstone of a worker named Ivan. On the side of the tombstone, it is written in Russian and Korean, "In September 1953, Party member Andrei (Park Guangxian) returned to his hometown with his ashes. )”

This party member, Andre, couldn’t be the same prisoner-of-war Andre who once lived in the same dormitory with Mesut and Ihor?
So he survived too?And Ihor had a correspondence with him?
No, no, it's unlikely, there won't be such a coincidence.
Wei Ran denied his guess while putting away the phone, and a smile appeared on his face.Regardless of whether the Erguizi prisoner of war who moved out of the dormitory early and was transferred to work in the mine survived, this seemed to be a good excuse.

He had just made up his mind here, and outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the car also went back and forth. Immediately afterwards, he saw Diane and Jordan each take out a large bag of things from the trunk, and moved toward him. He beckoned.

When he went downstairs and opened the shutter door of the cold drink shop, the two women also put the things they bought on the table.

"Here's a blanket and quilt for you"

As Diane spoke, she took the thermal bag from Jordan's hand again, "Here is the Chinese food I bought for you, I hope it tastes like you, and we also bought two boxes of mineral water. Also, if you If you want to take a bath, the bathroom in this house can be used, but you need to put more water."

"Thank you"

Wei Ran paused, but turned to Jordan and asked, "Ms. Jordan, do you know where your grandfather's ancestral home is?"

"My grandfather's ancestral home?" Jordan was taken aback for a moment, apparently not expecting Wei Ran to ask this question.

After recovering, she immediately asked back, "Isn't it Sapporo?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran waved his hand, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask anything."

After dismissing Diane and Jordan who were hesitant to speak, Wei Ran locked the shutter door again, carried the things they helped to buy, and climbed up to the second floor of the garage again.

Closing the curtains, Wei Ran took out the latest sleigh cart, unpacked the wooden boxes, opened the dinners one by one, then took out the pannier from Savage Mountain, dug out an enamel kettle from inside, filled it with mineral water and set it up On the kerosene heating stove, he opened the suitcase and found a box of hawthorn leaves, took out a few and threw them into the kettle.

Before the water boiled, Wei Ran had a modified Chinese meal that could only be regarded as barely tasted. Wei Ran poured himself a cup of hot hawthorn leaf tea from a bamboo and wooden bowl, lay on the sleigh covered with bearskin, and watched Looking at the ceiling, trying to recall the address of his home in Hiroshima that Ihor had said.

It's a pity that Wei Ran still couldn't remember the address that Yihor casually mentioned back then until there was only the firelight of the stove left in the extremely warm attic baked by the stove.At the same time, he also faintly felt that there must be some surprises waiting for him in that address.

After tossing and turning all night, early the next morning, he put away the things he took out of the metal book, and before he even had time to eat breakfast, he started a purposeful search of the cold drink shop downstairs.

Hard work paid off, when he took out all the drawers of the bar counter in this cold drink shop and checked them one by one, he finally found a real estate leaflet that looked very old.

In this leaflet, a real estate with a store facing the street is listed in Hondori Commercial Street, Hiroshima Prefecture.

According to the handwritten price on this list, this trapezoidal store fronting the street has two floors, each floor is less than 80 square meters, and there is also a parking space attached. The price is 480 million yen.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran carefully put away the real estate leaflet, then took out his mobile phone and dialed it to Diane.

"I'll be right there," Diane said as soon as the phone was connected, "I picked some breakfast for you."

“Breakfast in no rush”

Wei Ran asked directly, "Is it convenient to contact Mr. Little Mesut? I have a doubt that I need him to answer."

"What's the problem?" Diane asked.

"How much did Mr. Little Mesut pay for this house?"

"$70," Diane replied without thinking.

"How much?" Wei Ran was stunned, "What was the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Japanese yen in that year?"

"$70"

Diane was silent for a moment, and then replied, "It's equivalent to about 50 million yen."

"Little Mr. Mesut is really rich"

Wei Ran couldn't help being speechless, he originally thought that selling this house might not be enough to buy the house in the leaflet, but now it seems that he might be able to be a lot richer.

"The thing that was sold to Mr. Mesut Jr. is actually the notepad that is still in your hand." Diane said bluntly. "Otherwise, that house wouldn't be able to sell for that much money."

"I see"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone, then took out the authenticator, took a photo of the leaflet first, and then sent it to Anfeiya, asking the other party to arrange for the nearby Hela girl to go and see if it can Find any clues.

As soon as he put away the authenticator, Diane also rushed to the door by car.

After receiving the breakfast from the place, Wei Ran took the initiative to say without waiting for the other party to speak, "I have some discoveries."

"What discovery?" Diane immediately became interested when she heard this.

"Let's go to the yard"

Wei Ran put down the hot breakfast, took the other party into the yard and asked the first question, "In the winter of 2002, why did an old man who was at least 80 years old come to the frozen yard?"

"Why?" Diane asked subconsciously.

Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled, and said according to the excuse he made up last night, "Come with me, I will take you to see the answer."

Before he finished speaking, he took Diane and left the yard again, went around outside the house, pointed to the red mailbox on the opposite side of the road and said, "That's the answer, you see, if you come out from that sealed door, just go through You can get to the side of the mailbox by a road.

But if you go around from the porch or the door of the cold drink shop, it is almost equivalent to turning half a circle around this house.Only when going to this direction or this street where the mailbox is located, Ihor will take the shortcut in the yard. "

"He may also go shopping nearby." Diane raised her finger in the direction, "Look, there are shops there."

"Ihor had already sold the house, what did he need to buy?"

Wei Ran spread his hands, "It is more likely that before leaving here, he will inform the friends who correspond with him of his new address."

"A friend who exchanges letters?" The expression on Diane's face became more and more puzzled.

"A friend from the labor camp, I guess."

Wei Ran spread his hands, "Maybe he wasn't even a friend in Zhaohe's country. Who knows, anyway, his letter had probably been mailed, but he died here before moving to the new address."

"So we're going to find out his new address?"

"To find his old friends, old friends contacted by letter."

Wei Ran corrected the other party's statement, "Contact Mr. Mesut Jr. and ask him if he knows anything. I have been to that labor camp before I came here. There are many tombstones there, including the one belonging to Mr. Mesut. The tomb has been dug up, and I guess it must be related to Mr. Mesut Jr., so ask him if he has any clues."

"I'll call him right away"

Diane took out her phone while speaking, and at the same time did not forget to ask, "Do you need me to ask anything else?"

"Ask him if he knows where Ehor's ancestral home is"

"You mean to say that Ihor is not from Sapporo?"

"Who chooses to leave their homeland in their 80s?"

Wei Ran asked solemnly, "In comparison, it is more likely to return to the hometown at such an old age, which can also explain the disappearance of the house sale money. I guess that Ihor must have The money from the sale of this house went to buy a house in his real hometown."

"I knew it was right to ask you for help."

Diane sighed with great satisfaction, and pressed the dial button at the same time, but before the call was connected, he found that Wei Ran had already walked towards the car he drove.

“Help me find a hotel”

Wei Ran hurriedly said before the other party could speak, "If possible, please find a hotel with a good enough environment and a big enough bed."

"You don't live here tonight?" Diane asked in astonishment.

"Of course I can't live anymore"

Wei Ran opened the car door while speaking, "There are no clues here, and I will wait for news from Mr. Mesut for a long time."

Diane was about to say something, but the phone she just dialed was connected.

Seeing this, Wei Ran got into the back compartment and closed the car door. He exchanged a glance with Jordan who was driving, and then closed his eyes for a moment of rest.

"I checked before, and my grandfather doesn't own any real estate." Jordan, who was sitting in the driver's seat, said.

"Well, I see." Wei Ran nodded, but didn't say anything more.

"Do you dislike recruiters?" Jordan asked rather recklessly.

"Yes" Wei Ran responded calmly, since the other party was embarrassed to ask, why would he be embarrassed to answer.

Hearing this, Jordan opened his mouth, wisely he didn't continue to find himself uncomfortable, and closed his mouth obediently.

After a while, Diane also locked the door, hurriedly got into the car and said, "Little Mesut promised to help investigate."

“Let's go to the hotel”

Wei Ran thought for a while, and said in German deliberately, "Also help me arrange a beautiful female translator, preferably Chinese or Russian, German is also fine, I plan to go shopping around in the next few days, Xiao Meisu If you have any feedback from Mr. Te, please let me know as soon as possible."

"no problem"

Diane responded happily, and then called Jordan to drive to downtown Sapporo, arranged Wei Ran in a luxury hotel, and prepared a new breakfast by the way.

Without waiting for Wei Ran to finish the breakfast, Diane knocked on the door. Behind her was a white man with a height of about 1.7 meters. girl.

"This beautiful girl is Marta, a medical student from Donetsk and a model."

Diane helped to introduce, "She is very fluent in Japanese, can also speak English and Russian, has a driver's license, and I have just rented a business car for you."

"Hello Marta, do you need to go back to class these days when you're my interpreter?" Wei Ran changed into Russian and asked politely to the pretty girl standing at the door.

"Ms. Diane paid enough for me to take a month's leave." The girl named Marta spread her hands. "In fact, I'm almost graduating, so I don't have many courses."

"Let's talk first," Diane said in a timely manner, "Marta's room is next door, and I have already given her the car keys."

After bidding farewell to Diane, Wei Ran politely invited this pretty nervous and vigilant girl to sit down, pretending to be enthusiastic and chatting about topics related to medicine and Donetsk.

The reason why he did this was naturally to pretend to be seen by outsiders.But it was also through chatting with this girl that he also unexpectedly learned that the parents of this beautiful Marta turned out to be members of the so-called "anti-corruption armed forces" in Donetsk. Before he came to study abroad, he had already died under the shelling of Wu Keran.

Not only that, this girl came out to study medicine, and she was planning to return to Donetsk after graduation to pick up her late parents' class and join the anti-corruption armed forces as a field doctor.And she works hard to earn money, so that when she goes back, she can have money to buy more medicines to take back.

With such a dreamy girl, Wei Ran was embarrassed to use her to set up a person for himself, so he simply handed over the next two days to the other party for arrangement.

(End of this chapter)