War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1256 Rare Corpse
At noon on the day he returned to Kazan, Wei Ran, who had no appetite, personally drove to a Chinese restaurant he usually went to, packed a table of delicious food and took it home.

When the international students who were nominally recruited to work by the Katenka sisters were seated, Anfiya also called the other seven international students who were working in rotation.

Not to mention that, Mrs. Samantha, a wizard who is already half a housekeeper, also brought Lucinda together to make several tropical dishes with PNG characteristics.

There were 30 people in such a room, so the long table on the first floor was really full. As the boss, Suisui is a girl who likes fun, so she was naturally very happy, and she also opened several bottles of sweets. Wine is used to celebrate.

From noon until the sun was about to set in the afternoon, this lively dinner was not over.When Wei Ran carried the drunk Suisui back to the room, a gangster also drove Jima's armored pickup truck and sent Jima and Maya, who were also drunk in the carriage, back home.

At the same time, the Katenka sisters, who did not drink at all, also drove the girls, who were no more than a few months older than Lu Xinda, back to the international student dormitory at Kazan University.

"The boss asked you to help investigate the origin of a photo album."

After returning home, Anfisa took her sister Anfiya into the basement as she spoke. At the same time, she did not forget to remind her, "The content in the photo is quite disgusting, so be prepared."

"How disgusting can it be?" Anfiya muttered nonchalantly.

However, after seeing the content in the photo, the girl inevitably frowned.

But soon, she picked out a few normal-looking photos from the album, and said as she walked upstairs, "It's enough to leave this kind of thing to the children, they will definitely find it."

"Then let's try it." Anfisa nonchalantly locked the remaining photo albums into the safe.

In the days that followed until Friday night, Suisui finally relieved a lot of her burden because she had a group of young part-time employees, but because she had to be busy running the castle thousands of kilometers away, Her leisure is only relative.

In contrast, although Wei Ran was a hands-off shopkeeper, he had no leisure time.

When Suisui is not busy, he has to go shopping and play with Her Majesty the Queen.While the girl was busy, he also received a message from the domestic Mr. Bai about the decoration renderings of the small western-style building and the corresponding quotation.

It took a few days to determine the decoration style and prepaid part of the decoration funds. While they were busy here, at the White Rose Castle in Austria, a total of 12 girls from all over the world went through "layers of interviews" , also stood in front of Leya and his wife in formal attire.

After all, it was arranged by the "Deputy Hair Chief" of the Golden Fleece. Naturally, Leya and his wife and the maintenance team they led had no objections.

The arrival of these twelve girls also put the castle into operation in a very short period of time. While continuing to recruit people, with the help of the Hela organization, they began to skillfully monitor the castle and the distant place. A ski resort with the same name was initially promoted.

Also in the past few days, Anfiya also easily found all kinds of information about the ridiculous and filthy photo album with the help of the little helpers she was responsible for.

In the living room on the first floor of the villa, Wei Ran and Suisui were sitting on the rocking chairs beside the fireplace, grooming Beria and a big-eared fox who had just taken a bath, while listening to Anfei Ya's introduction.

"According to my investigation, the original owners of that photo album were a pair of doctors working in an orphanage."

Anfiya, who was also grooming a big-eared fox, continued, “The three children in the photo are refugee orphans they brought home from the port about ten years ago and adopted them.

Soon after adopting them, the couple began using the three children for money and extortion.They used this business to buy a large, very luxurious house in Eastbourne.

But not long after, the girl in the photo was accidentally tortured to death by a customer, and they were caught by the police while dumping the body.

After almost eight months of trial, both the couple and their guest were sent to prison. The guest was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison, and the couple was sentenced to only six years in prison. . "

"Six years?" Suisui couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. This punishment was really too light.

"It's really only six years. I don't doubt what excuse they used to ask others to help them in court."

Anfiya said and handed the tablet to Suisui, who was not far away. On the tablet was an English news report about the couple a few years ago.

"The couple were released from prison last April."

Anfiya waited for the tablet to be passed to Wei Ran's hand before she continued to comb the fox on her legs and said, "But in fact, in the second week after being released from prison, the man in this couple lost his temper because of He died in a traffic accident, and about half a month ago, the remaining woman also died of an accidental electrocution in their house."

"Where are your two little boys?" Wei Ran asked.

"It's not mentioned in the public information I can find."

Anfiya shook her head, but then she said, "I guess they were sent to other cities, or they may have died. Who knows, this is the UK after all. Even if they are still in business, I don't care." Accident."

"So that photo album."

"I guess someone snuck into the house and stole it after the woman died."

Anfiya said, "Considering that you bought that photo album from a gypsy stall, I wouldn't be surprised if those greedy homeless people vacated the house."

Thinking about the various things sold at the gypsy stall that day, Wei Ran and Suisui looked at each other and accepted the guess.

"Stop talking about such disgusting and disappointing things."

Wei Ran took the initiative to end the topic. Because it was too disgusting, Suisui didn't look at the photos in the album anymore. Naturally, she didn't know that Mr. Edward, whom she had been in contact with before, was involved.

Likewise, both Wei Ran, the Katenka sisters and Ji Ma wisely chose to keep Suisui, Maya and others a secret.

As for Wei Ran, the reason why he was so concerned about the origin of the photo album was naturally because he was worried that if it really came from the same place as the negative album, someone would look for it.

Now, these people are dead, and the album of negatives has been eliminated from at least half of the suspects.He believed that as long as he kept it for a few more years, the album of negatives would really become his own.

While he was pulling the dog's head and thinking about it, Suisui also turned over the big-eared fox lying on his lap. While combing his fur, he asked, "Lawyer Carlos and Uncle Culp have discussed the matter with Mr. Henry." Are you talking about making a movie?"

"Not yet"

Wei Ran patted the dog's head, "As expected, Mr. Henry is as stingy as expected. He even wanted the studio to make the movie he wanted to make for free, and by the way pay for my hiring, and he also wanted to give it to his granddaughter. Assign a role.

As a price, he was only willing to lend us his buoy and the farm as movie props. "

"That's a pretty idea," Suisui snorted disdainfully.

"It's indeed a beautiful idea, and he refuses to give in on his share of the movie's profits."

Wei Ran said with a smile, "But he is just stingy and not poor, so Lawyer Carlos is still negotiating with him. I don't know how long it will take to get a result on this matter."

"In this case, let's talk about another more important thing!"

When Suisui said this, she became very excited, "Tomorrow is Saturday. I am going to take my new employees to find a place to have fun. Do you have any suggestions?"

“Nothing better than organizing a barbecue at home”

Wei Ran, who just wanted to be lazy, pulled the dog's head and said, "If so, then go to Jima's house. Not only can we go hunting, but we don't even have to clean up the kitchen waste."

"Can't we find some more advanced team-building activities?" Suisui shook her head helplessly.

"Or go to a hot spring?" Wei Ran gave his second suggestion with a smile.

"You think better than Mr. Henry."

Suisui rolled her eyes angrily. With so many girls going to the hot springs, how could they tire out the eyes of a certain historian?
After thinking about it, Suisui simply chose to show off, "Anfiya, I'd better listen to you. Tomorrow we will take everyone to the amusement park to play for a whole day."

"Sister has already bought the tickets."

Anfiya said with a smile, obviously knowing that the sisters' suggestions would be adopted.Or rather, they were sure that Boss Victor could not think of any other better entertainment besides barbecue, hunting and hot spring baths.

"I won't take you with me," Suisui said angrily to Wei Ran.

"If you don't go, don't go." Wei Ranba had to go, but it was a pity that this good thing was just a thought.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, the day before Women's Day, two civilian armored vehicles merged with two Vaz vans full of young international students, and drove to the largest local Kazan in this rare sunny day. playground.

To Suisui's expectation, no matter the 14 "foreign students" who will work for her next are Lola or Lu Xinda, even Sui Xin, who was carried on the roller coaster by them even though her legs and feet are inconvenient, or even those who are mentally incompetent. The little genius Korava is particularly satisfied with this playground, which is actually not that big.

It is obvious that these girls either had family conditions that did not allow it or even had no home, or their physical conditions did not allow it, so that they rarely, or probably never, went to the amusement park to play.

When the girl Suisui belatedly guessed this possibility, she immediately patted her chest and said that all future team building would be held in the playground.

This decision undoubtedly won the cheers of all the girls, including the Katenka sisters, and it can be regarded as a mistake in achieving the goal of team building.

However, compared to those girls who queued up to ride the roller coaster over and over again, Wei Ran received a call from Professor Alexei, his father-in-law, foreign uncle and teacher when he followed Suisui into the Ferris wheel.

"Victor, why do you only have a little gangster with colored hair, a dog and two foxes at home?"

As soon as the call was connected, Professor Alexei on the other end asked loudly.

"Dad, why are you here in Kazan? Is my mother here?"

Suisui grabbed the phone and asked in surprise. Then, without waiting for Professor Alexei's answer, the girl asked dissatisfiedly, "Also, why didn't you call me?"

"I'm worried that you're sleeping in. Besides, your mother has to be busy with her work, so I'm the only one here this time." Professor Alexei randomly found a lame excuse, and then asked impatiently, "Anyway , where have you been? When will you come back?"

"We are at the playground"

Suisui completely took over the phone and said proudly, "I'm taking my employees to do team building."

"Since you are busy, let Victor come back first." Professor Alexei said, "I have something to ask him for."

"whats the matter?"

"Anyway, just let him come back first," Professor Alexei urged vaguely, "I have important business with him."

Hearing this, Suisui and Wei Ran, who had not spoken to each other the whole time, looked at each other and said happily, "I'll let him go back now. Are you going to leave today?"

"Of course not leaving"

After Professor Alexei finished speaking, he hiccupped inexplicably, "I will stay here for a few days, so you don't have to come back in a hurry."

"He must be drinking." Wei Ran gestured silently.

"I got it"

Suisui also gestured silently, then reassured Wei Ran that he would go back, and then hung up the phone.

"If he is drinking, remember to take a picture of him for me." Suisui said while returning the phone to Wei Ran.

"no problem"

Wei Ran readily agreed, but then, he and Suisui inevitably became curious about the important reason why Professor Alexei suddenly came from Volgograd.

Fortunately, since the old gentleman is in the mood to drink, it shouldn't be a problem.Thinking of this, the two of them calmed down. After the Ferris wheel had completed one circle, the two of them went to ride the bumper cars again. Only then did Wei Ran say goodbye to Suisui for the time being, and drove back from the amusement park alone.

When he drove the car into the yard, he saw from a distance an old guy sitting on a lounge chair and basking in the sun behind the floor-to-ceiling windows, carrying a wine bottle.

After taking a photo of the old guy from a distance, Wei Ran opened the door and got out of the car, and entered the door with the warm welcome of Beria the dog.

"Victor, you're finally back."

Professor Alexei shook the half-empty wine bottle in his hand and greeted enthusiastically, "Come and sit down."

"Are you secretly drinking because my aunt kicked you out and you have nowhere to go, so you come here?" Wei Ran walked over and asked with a smile. Not only did this old guy have half a bottle of wine, but there were also several different things on the coffee table next to him. Do you know where to get the side dishes to go with the wine?

"Fart! Fart your Stalin!"

Professor Alexei retorted with a pale face, "I came to you this time for a serious matter!"

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran sat down on another recliner opposite the professor and asked while pulling the dog's head.

"Do you have any time recently?" Professor Alexei put the cup on his face and asked mysteriously.

"You tell me what's going on first, and I'll tell you later if I have time." The ghostly Wei Ran was not fooled, he had already figured out the old man's tricks.

"How about going to Arkhangelsk with me?" Professor Alexey was not happy this time.

"Arkhangelsk?" Wei Ran couldn't help but be stunned, "Why are you going there?"

"Buy a corpse" Professor Alexei answered as if he was talking nonsense.

"What to buy? A corpse?"

Wei Ran looked suspiciously at Professor Alexei, who smelled faintly of alcohol, and suddenly asked in his native language, "Um, uncle, are you afraid that you have encountered a telecommunications fraud?"

"fart!"

Alexei, who had just poured a glass of wine and was about to drink it, choked in anger at Wei Ran's words.

After finally coughing and catching his breath, Professor Alexey took out a photo from his pocket angrily and pushed it to Wei Ran, "See for yourself, this corpse is worth a lot of money."

"This is..." When Wei Ran picked up the photo, he immediately noticed something special.

Although the body in the photo is covered in frost, it can be distinguished at a glance. He is wearing a Soviet woolen coat, and his feet are also long-standing Soviet felt boots.Wearing a Soviet steel helmet, there was still some rust-colored fabric left on the helmet.

But underneath the open coat, the corpse was wearing a set of rare fragmented camouflage winter clothes.

Just from the color exposed at the collar, it can be seen that this winter coat is double-sided, just like the historical records that Wei Ran has learned about. One side is pure white suitable for camouflage in the snow, and the other side is the color of Germany during World War II. Developed fragmented camouflage.

But compared to this rare set of camouflage uniforms, the death scene of the victim wearing this set of camouflage uniforms was too miserable.

On this person's face, a complete ax is firmly embedded.I don't know whether it was intentional or just accurate, but the ax split the unfortunate man's nose and eyebrows almost from the middle, and embedded most of the ax body into his brain.

"Frozen corpse? Don't tell me it was found in Arkhangelsk." Wei Ran raised his head and asked Professor Alexey.

Frozen corpses are different from wax corpses. They are rare items that can only be found near the Arctic Circle.

It is indeed a rare commodity. This thing is as "fresh" as the mammoth buried in the frozen soil. Just like the guy in the photo. If it weren't for that outfit, he might have been killed by an ax just yesterday. Everyone believes it.

From another perspective, rarity means value. Even excluding the tragic corpse, the camouflage uniform he was wearing could be sold for a good price.

"Don't worry, there's a second photo."

As Professor Alexei spoke, he took out a photo from the other pocket and pushed it to Wei Ran. Then he picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in one gulp.

"Brandenburg?!"

Wei Ran exclaimed when he saw the content of this photo. There was only an oval cloth armband with a white circle and a black background in the photo.The word "Brandenburger" embroidered in German can be clearly recognized on it, as well as the logo of the three leaves in the middle, and even the words "800" under the leaves.

This is indeed the armband of the Brandenburg Special Forces, but the actual correct name of this unit should be "Special Mission Training and Construction 800th Squadron", and this is also the meaning of the number 800 in the armband.

As for why this army is called Brandenburg, it is just because Brandenburg is their home base.

It was not until Wei Ran recognized the armband in the photo that Professor Alexei said proudly, "This body was not found in Arkhangelsk, they found it on the outskirts of Murmansk."

"Where did you get the news?"

Wei Ran asked strangely. Volgograd is almost at the southernmost point of Russia, and Murmansk is almost at the northernmost point of Russia.

If I use a more vivid metaphor, this is almost the same as if I couldn’t help but fart while eating a chicken stand on Wu’ai Street in Fengtian, and if you’re watching a waterfall in Qian Province, call me and ask me. It’s not like I ate too many white radish yesterday.

"A friend of mine told me"

Alexei said proudly, "To be precise, his son-in-law accidentally discovered it while hunting. This was also discovered together."

It was only then that the old guy, who was almost drunk, was willing to take out the third photo.

In this photo, there is an almost intact airdrop box, but there are only two tattered parachute bags and a few pairs of tattered skis in the box.

"I'm going to take a look, and if the price is right, I'll buy him and the airdrop box."

When Alexei said this, his eyes were shining, "Victor, my good student, come with me to see it!"

"Just buy him?" Although Wei Ranhua asked, he had already guessed the old guy's plan.

To use another vivid metaphor, it is like a doctor encountering a rare medical record that he can name himself during a consultation. For the doctor, this case is almost a thesis.

For Professor Alex at this time, the value of the corpse to him, even if it was not equivalent to a paper, was not much different.

And unlike Wei Ran, who can get a PhD degree next year even if he is idle all day long, if Professor Alexei wants to make some achievements in the field of history, that rare corpse may be the only shortcut.

Thinking of this, Wei Ran happily pushed the three photos back and responded happily before Professor Alexei could speak, "No problem, I'll go with you. When will we set off?"

"Great!"

After hearing this, Professor Alexei immediately stood up and asked impatiently, "How about we set off now!"

"So urgent?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in astonishment.

"Of course it's urgent! If it's a little later, your aunt will be chasing you." Professor Alexei accidentally let it slip.

(End of this chapter)