War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1134 The Forgotten House
In the blink of an eye, on December 12th, Wei Ran, who posted about various landmarks in Sapporo for two or three consecutive days on social platforms, also received an open invitation from his friend Jima, who happened to be on vacation in Kobe, in the comments. Go to Kobe for a few days.

Seeing that the time was right, Wei Ran also greeted Diane, and at his own expense let the beautiful translator Marta buy two first-class air tickets, and rushed to Kobe to attend the appointment with great fanfare.

"The life of the rich is really enviable," Marta secretly sighed in the first-class cabin.

This is the first time she has flown in first class, and the first time she has traveled since studying in this island country-even if this trip is also a job.

After just two or three days of getting along, she has also seen that this Chinese historian from Russia does not seem to be as playboy as the public information and rumors she found on the Internet.

At the very least, she is quite confident in her figure and appearance.But this generous historian, apart from asking her to take pictures, run errands, buy this and that, and ask questions, has always maintained the most comfortable social distance.

"Marta" Wei Ran casually asked while flipping through the content on the tablet, "How much do you know about Kobe?"

"Nothing to know"

Marta said truthfully, "In fact, I have never been to Kobe, but I know that the beef there is very famous."

"In this case, help me find a store and let's try it."

"Okay Mr. Victor" Marta agreed happily. She knew that she would be able to eat Kobe beef soon.

Finding something casual to dismiss the little translator who had been secretly watching him, Wei Ran also focused on his tablet.

In just two or three days, Little Mesut did not provide any useful clues, but the Hela girls under Anfeya have already found the building in Hiroshima that was sold in 2002. property, and took photos and sent them by email.

In these photos, it is a khaki two-story building built at the angle of a Y-shaped fork.The first floor of this nearly trapezoidal building has rusty rolling shutters on three sides. The "trapezoidal upper bottom" is near the intersection of the fork and outside the rolling shutter. There is also a special parking lot that is enough to stop a light truck bit.

On the second floor of the building, there are large brown windows on three sides, and there are some mottled advertising signs on it. It seems that it has operated an izakaya before.

Continue to look through the photos taken by Hela girls. On the lower side of the trapezoidal building, there is a doorway that can barely drive a car. This doorway is now full of bicycles and motorcycles. The innermost part of these cars is a rolling shutter door with remnants of street graffiti. On the wall on one side of the rolling door, there is a slender opening marked in Japanese for delivering letters.

However, in the photo, the opening has obviously been filled with various letters and advertisements, so much so that a lot of them are scattered on the ground.

Turning back, the Hella girls who took the photos seem to have entered the building.The protagonist in this photo is a letter box embedded in the wall, which is almost filled with letters and has a glass door.

Swipe the screen again, but it is a video.Seeing this, Wei Ran connected the earphones and started playing.

In this slightly shaky video, where the beam of the flashlight reaches is a tavern with many tables and chairs by the window, and there are even a lot of wine bottles on the wine rack behind the bar.

Go through the small door behind the bar and follow a narrow staircase to the second floor. There are not many rooms on this floor, and there is no furniture at all in the room, but almost every room has a big dark brown window , you can see the bustling streets outside and at the same time protect the privacy inside.

With the rotation of the video camera, the girl Hela who took the video has already climbed to the top of the building.There are still a lot of tables and chairs on the roof of this two-story building, and there are still a lot of sunshades that seem to be retractable on the surrounding chest-high parapet.

The video stopped abruptly at this point, and there was only one line of German text left in the email, "All letters in the mailbox have been delivered to the Kobe Hotel."

Unplugging the authenticator and putting away the tablet, Wei Ran took out a blindfold and put it on, waiting patiently for the flight to land.

After a short flight, the flight landed smoothly, and Wei Ran walked out of the pick-up port under the leadership of the interpreter Marta.

"Hey! My good brother!"

Far away, Jima opened his arms, walked towards Wei Ran, and greeted Wei Ran loudly in Russian, without any hesitation about the surprised eyes of those devils who were full of shit and thieves around him.

"I didn't expect you to come to recruit nuclear players." Wei Ran warmly bumped his fists and shoulders with Jima, and at the same time greeted him loudly in Russian.

"I came to play with Maya 5"

Jima said and waved towards Maya who was walking slowly, and the latter also greeted Wei Ran, and then asked jokingly, "Is this beautiful girl your girlfriend? You are not afraid Fleur buried you in Inta's permafrost?"

"This is my translator Marta"

Although Wei Ran knew that his nominal classmate was joking, he still explained, and at the same time, he did not forget to add a sentence, "I introduced her when Aurora and I made a video call two days ago. "

"You are really honest"

Maya, who failed to eat the melon, grumbled regretfully, then reached out to Marta, who was a little at a loss, and introduced herself, and also took Jima's arm by the way, pretending to be intimate with him. Also introduced.

"Are you really Jima? Jima Allah?"

Marta shook hands with Jima excitedly, "I have seen the movie you acted in, and I have seen both movies! My friends and I like those two stories very much!"

"Have you seen my movies?"

Jima, who rarely met a fan, was a little overjoyed, but soon, under the reminder of Maya's eyes, he put on his serious look again, and walked out of the airport while chatting with Marta reservedly, and reluctantly Sign this girl up.

Following the two actors leaving the airport and getting into an Alphard, Jima directly dismissed the middle-aged male driver who did not know where he hired, and left all the work of driving, tour guide and translation to the still excited little face of Marta.

Talking and laughing all the way back to a hotel where Jima and Ma stayed, Wei Ran pushed his luggage to his room, and immediately saw a small locked suitcase on the luggage rack.

Lock the door, and open the suitcase according to the password provided by Anfeiya. It contains envelopes of different sizes and a thick stack of leaflets.

I flipped through the leaflets. There are recruiters and prostitutes, and there are some notices such as door-to-door inspections by the natural gas company, or inquiries about trying to buy the house or even recycle various old appliances and furniture, and even various Advertisements and stuff like that.

Putting the rubbish aside, Wei Ran took out a stack of letters, which were basically tax payment receipts.

What is quite interesting is that the earliest of these tax payment receipts was in 2003, and the latest was in April of this year.The person who sent these receipts was the tax management department of a local real estate agency company in Hiroshima.

Open the latest receipt, which not only lists the detailed tax records for this year, but also provides an account number, and indicates that the balance in this account is less than 100 million yen and so on.

But the most interesting thing is that the title used in this receipt is actually "Mr. Ihor Yaxin" written in Russian!
this old thing.
Wei Ran muttered something to himself, obviously, Ihor, the devil prisoner of war, managed to get the identity of a Russia, or a country that was once a member of the Soviet Union.

Is it difficult?It is difficult to say, but it is also simple to say simple.

Not to mention anything else, the Katenka sisters, Lola and her sister, and even Lu Xinda who have seized Wei Ran's habitat, aren't they all native Vorkuta people now?

This is still today. If it was the years when the Soviet Union disintegrated, it would be easier to do these things.

Throwing the receipt aside, Wei Ran picked up a large kraft paper envelope that was sent in December 2002 and tore it open.

It contains all kinds of documents of that house, and although Ihor's name is marked in the column of the owner, and his nationality is also Russian, the photo of the owner does not look like an old man. ihor.

Throwing this bag of things aside, Wei Ran continued on, and then found three letters from Irkutsk, Russia!

The most recent of these three letters is from 2005, and the earliest one is from February 2003!And the sender's name turned out to be "Andre Suharya"!
Sukhaya, Sukhaya Tunguska?So Andre, could it be that Andre?

While muttering, Wei Ran took a picture of the mailing address on the envelope, and sent it to Anfeiya.

The envelope was torn open, and the letter paper inside had a faint musty smell, but the Russian language on it was still clearly legible.

The content expressed in these sentences is to congratulate Ihor for opening his own izakaya, and at the same time express regret that his body is not as good as before, and he can't even get out of bed. In an izakaya, try the taste of Siberian raw and frozen fish Yunyun.

The second letter was torn open, but it was asking about Ihor's current situation and how the izakaya's business was doing, and also mentioned that he might have to pay back his loan later.

Looking at the last letter again, the font on the letter paper is obviously different, and the content of the statement is also very simple. There are only two things. All the loans owed at the beginning have been transferred to your account, and "My father Ann Mr. Andre passed away late at night on June 2005, 6".

Throwing this letter aside, Wei Ran rummaged through the rest of the letters, and saw that there was nothing valuable in them, so after some sorting, he put all the useful letters in a file bag Stuffed it into his briefcase.

(End of this chapter)