War Photographer's Notebook

"You really misunderstood"

Wei Ran raised his hands helplessly and took a step back, "Things are not what you think, so if possible, I hope you can listen to my explanation first."

"Say." As Marta spoke, her index finger was already on the trigger.

With a helpless sigh, Wei Ran recounted what the truck driver had just said, as well as his decision to take several people, including the Kudlik family, to Volgograd.

“That’s pretty much the situation”

Wei Ran, still raising his hands, finally said, "But I want to hear your advice on this matter, and..."

"What else?" Marta, who was lying on the hospital bed, looked at Wei Ran warily.

"Besides, there are actually no bullets in your pistol. Didn't you notice?"

Wei Ran asked helplessly. Although he didn't expect this girl to come out like this, some subconscious habits made it impossible for him to make such a low-level mistake in this kind of thing.

Hearing this, Marta panicked, then pointed the gun directly at the ceiling and pulled the trigger.

The mechanical noise when the firing pin was released made a trace of panic and unconcealable despair appear on the young girl's face.

"Give you a bullet"

As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a few rounds of bullets from his pocket, held them with one hand and slowly walked to the bed, placed them on Marta's pillow, took a step back and said more helplessly, " Before you give your opinion, you can load the bullet first, at least this will give you some confidence."

After saying that, he took a few steps back again, pulled a chair, and sat by the wall about two meters away from the hospital bed.

After a moment's hesitation, Marta tremblingly pulled out the magazine, loaded two bullets into it, and loaded the gun again.

Seeing that Wei Ran was still sitting there without making any movement, Marta finally breathed a sigh of relief and said after a moment of silence, "I'm sorry, I may have really misunderstood you."

"So what's your suggestion?"

Wei Ran put his hands on Erlang's legs, keeping his hands visible to the other party at any time and asked, "We don't have much time, it's best to make a decision before dawn."

"The elderly, children and disabled people, if you can really guarantee their quality of life, take them away."

Marta hesitated for a moment and then continued, "But I want to stay, even if I die on the front line, I will stay. When I returned to Donetsk, I was prepared to die at any time. "

"I knew I couldn't persuade you." Wei Ran sighed helplessly again, "Can I make a call?"

"Of course." As Marta spoke, she once again tightened her grip on the old TT33 pistol.

"Thank you"

Wei Ran thanked him first, then took out his cell phone and called Suisui who was far away in Kazan.

"What's wrong? Have you got any results from your investigation?"

Suisui on the other end of the phone asked vaguely. As he spoke, Wei Ran could vaguely hear that the girl seemed to be chewing something.

"What are you eating?" Wei Ran switched to Russian and turned on the hands-free function of his mobile phone.

"Night snack"

While eating, Suisui replied in Russian, "Gleva and the others recently delivered a lot of tropical fruits to our family today. Our wizard housekeeper, Mrs. Samantha, made something similar to fruit fishing for everyone. It tastes pretty good.”

"I'm encountering some trouble here and may need your help." Wei Ran said with a hint of helplessness in his tone.

"What's the trouble?"

Suisui curiously guessed, "Are you short of money to spend? Let me tell you, I have money now, just tell me how much you want! One million and eighty million is definitely no problem."

"I'm going to pick up a pretty girl and go back."

Wei Ran said deliberately, "But the other party is not willing, so I need your help to persuade her."

"What did you say? Pick up a pretty girl?"

When Suisui said this, there was not only no doubt in her tone, but also a hint of excitement, "Tell me quickly! What's going on? Whose girl is she? How beautiful is she? How old is she?"

"No, don't you doubt it?" Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded.

"Is there anything to be suspicious of? If there really was something going on between you and that pretty girl who I don't know who she is, you wouldn't have called me."

Suisui asked matter-of-factly, "Besides, don't you have a lot of pretty girls at home? You've been squeezed out so much that you went to set up a tent outside Jima's village and camp. I haven't seen you hooking up with anyone. What should I suspect?"

"Yeah, you're the smart one."

Wei Ranquan did not notice Marta who was obviously eavesdropping, "I went to the front line in Donetsk two hours ago."

"puff--"

On the other end of the phone, Suisui, who was having a company team-building party with her girls at home, sprayed all the fruit and yogurt mixture in her mouth that she had not yet swallowed on the faces of the two big-eared foxes. The stainless steel basin in her hand, which was almost as big as the small washbasin, was thrown onto the coffee table with a clatter.

"Where are you? The front line in Donetsk? Are you crazy?" Suisui, who was choking and coughing, asked in panic after taking a breath.

“It’s back now”

Wei Ran added the second half of the sentence as if he was breathing heavily, "Now I'm in Rostov, Rostov on the Don River. It's safe here, and I'm safe too."

After first comforting the girl on the other end of the phone, he told what happened and the causes and consequences, as well as the fact that Marta was injured and might be offered a reward, and even that he deceived Mr. Alexander into resettling refugees, and that Marta still wanted to return. Everything on the front line was told in front of the girl on the hospital bed.

"That's probably what happened."

Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and finally said, "The doctor said it will take at least a month for Marta's injury to heal. What's more dangerous than her injury is that after a month, she will most likely be kidnapped once she returns to the front line. .

But now she doesn't accept my suggestion, so I can only ask you for help.No matter what, this girl was hurt because she reminded me out of kindness, so I can't just walk away. "

“It’s easy”

Suisui, who finally felt at ease with Wei Ran's explanation, agreed, "Give her your phone and I'll talk to her!"

"Okay" Wei Ran said and looked at Marta, "Can you listen to my girlfriend's advice?"

After a slight hesitation, Marta finally nodded, took the cell phone from Wei Ran, turned off the hands-free function, and put it to her ear.

Taking two steps back, Wei Ran sat on the chair again and lit a cigarette. Then he saw that the expression on Marta's face changed from alert and indifferent at first, to suspicion, and then from Suspicion turned to consternation.

After waiting for another minute, the expression on the girl's face had turned into one of surprise, excitement, and undisguised heartbeat. Among these subtle emotions, there was even some enlightenment.

"Miss Aurora asked you to answer the phone." Just when the cigarette in Wei Ran's hand was about to burn out, Marta also handed the phone back at this time.

"It's me," Wei Ran said as he took the phone.

"solved"

Suisui on the other end of the phone has already switched to Chinese, "You take her directly to Kazan. From the day she arrives, she will be our personal doctor."

"Personal doctor? What did you say to her?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

Suisui hummed proudly, "I told her the story of Mr. Lu Xun."

"The story of Mr. Lu Xun? From Baicao Garden to San."

"You know how to carve words on the table, can't we talk about something you learned in high school?" Suisui asked disgustedly, "Ah, I forgot, your high school grades were really not that good."

"Stop being so pretentious, what exactly did you say?"

Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded. He knew it was right to ask Suisui for help with this kind of thing, but he didn't expect it to be so easy.

"I just settled an account for her."

Suisui didn't seem to think this was such a difficult thing, "Calculate how many people she can save on the front line 365 hours a day, 24 days a year.

Then I did the math for her. She came to us, and with the help of her channels in Donetsk and the video production and editing capabilities of the studio, as well as the card girl’s ability to influence everything on the Internet, we can enable her to promote effectively through the Internet. How many people in Donetsk we help can make them see the situation in Donetsk and how evil the enemy is. "

Speaking of this, Suisui said in a tone of voice, "In a sense, Marta and Mr. Lu Xun are very similar, aren't they? They both studied medicine, and they both studied medicine with the Japanese, both for their own benefit. My hometown can be self-reliant.

In this case, studying medicine cannot save Donetsk, and the same applies to Marta.Hum!Anyway, bring her back as soon as possible. She will follow us as a personal doctor from now on! "

"What's going on with the private doctor?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.

"There has to be something to tie her up to prevent her from running back again. I don't want those Wuji Baifengwan to catch Marta one day, and then publicly threaten you, and finally cause some embarrassing scandal for a certain historian. .”

Suisui joked proudly, "In addition, the resources of the studio and the resources under the card girl can't be given to her for free, right? She has to give something in return, so that I don't lose and she feels at ease. .

And it just so happens that we also need a reliable private doctor, so even if we encounter something like Alexander's daughter being kidnapped again, we can't rely on sister Cinda who only studied in nursing school.

To tell you the truth, I originally wanted to lure Sister Zoya to my side, but Mr. Alexander stopped me.This is not bad, so is Marta. We can also have multiple Japanese translators, and saving the life of a beautiful sister is better than building a seven-level beautiful pagoda. "

"Salary?" Wei Ran ignored the other party's nonsense and instead asked a slightly stupid question out of nowhere.

"But we are not allowed to pay wages. We didn't just buy a maid," Suisui said matter-of-factly, "Don't worry, I can afford it."
Wei Ran grinned, "Okay, thank you."

"Thank me for what?" Suisui on the other side seemed to have started eating again and asked vaguely.

"I thought you had to be suspicious of my motives," Wei Ran said with a silly grin.

"What's the relationship between us brothers? We still have this little bit of trust."

Suisui became more and more proud, "Anyway, come back soon. I will go to the studio to talk to Uncle Culp early tomorrow morning. I am sure that the studio will be very happy to provide some help."

"I will rush back as soon as possible with our personal doctor."

Wei Ran made a promise, then hung up the phone and turned to Marta and asked, "So you agreed?"

"Aphroel's reasons are enough to impress me. My current method seems to have taken a detour." As Marta spoke, she pulled the sleeve repeatedly, allowing the two bullets inside to be thrown out and hit the floor. .

"In this case, I will make arrangements to go to Kazan."

Wei Ran said as he walked towards the door of the ward, "As I just said, there are 10 quotas for the elderly, 10 quotas for the disabled, and 20 quotas for children. You must know who should leave the front line more, so as soon as possible Give me a list of people.”

"it is good"

Marta responded absently and dug out a mobile phone with a lot of cracks on the screen from the pile of personal belongings on the bedside.

Upon seeing this, Wei Ran didn't waste any time and approached the truck driver waiting at the door of the ward. They communicated about the return to Kazan and subsequent "immigration" issues and exchanged contact information.

Less than 15 minutes later, Marta, who was lying on the hospital bed, was pushed into a truck carrying a medical cabin and drove towards the airport.

Before and after, Wei Ran also took his dog Beria into another off-road vehicle driven by the truck driver, and left the big yard together.

Without wasting much time, the two cars drove unimpeded to the airport, drove straight onto the tarmac, and finally parked next to the private plane belonging to Uncle Chubu with big ears.

First, let the medical staff carry Marta onto the plane, and then Weiyan dragged Beria into the cabin.To his relief, Uncle Chubu with big ears was not in the cabin.

"Sir, your phone number."

Almost as soon as he pulled the dog and sat down next to Marta's hospital bed, the only flight attendant in the small plane came over holding a phone.

"Thank you"

Wei Ran thanked him politely, then took the phone and put it to his ear. After a pause, he said, "Hello."

"do not worry"

The big-eared Uncle Chubu on the other end of the phone did not identify himself at all, but said straightforwardly, "This plane will send you home safely. I will also help you take revenge for the danger you encountered on the front line." , and no one will know what happened."

"Thank you for the trouble."

Wei Ran finally thanked him sincerely, and the latter hung up the phone with hearty and unrestrained laughter.

When the flight attendant took back the phone, the equally cute and cute little plane began to taxi.Marta, who was lying on the hospital bed, turned her head with difficulty to look in the direction of the porthole, and then sighed sadly.

"It's a bit different from your ideal, right?" Wei Ran, who was sitting in the seat next to him, asked.

"Maybe, I don't know." Marta looked at the ceiling above her head blankly, and then asked, "Can you smoke in here?"

"I guess it's ok"

Wei Ran fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a crumpled cigarette case, took out the last two cigarettes, and handed one of them to Marta's mouth.

"Thank you." Marta thanked her, then took the cigarette holder in her mouth and let Wei Ran light the cigarette for her.

"I mean, thank you for all your help," Marta added after puffing out her first puff of smoke.

"It's nothing. It's my turn to thank you."

Wei Ran, who was also fuming, waved his hand. Without this girl's reminder, it would be hard to say where he is now.

"I have compiled the list." Marta changed the topic and picked up the mobile phone on the bedside and asked, "Do I want to send it to you?"

"send it"

Wei Ran also took out his mobile phone while speaking, and after the other party sent over a list of names and addresses, he forwarded it to the truck driver.

"Are you familiar with these people?" Wei Ran looked at the list and asked curiously.

"We often go to those villages."

Marta explained arrogantly, "There are seven villages in total. My companions and I know everyone in each village, and they all know us.

After these old people, disabled people and orphans leave, my companions will probably be able to relax a little bit. I just hope they won't blame me for deserting. "

"You just changed the place to fight"

Wei Ran looked at the smoke swirling around his fingertips, but he couldn't help but think of the women and children in the Love Letter Apartment. Wasn't that a fortified position?
"I don't know when the war will stop," Marta murmured with some anticipation.

"There will be a day." Wei Ran sighed, but he put out the cigarette he had already smoked between his fingers.

After a short but long flight of more than two hours, the private plane landed smoothly at Kazan Airport in the deep night and drizzle.

When the hatch opened, there was already an ambulance driven by a gangster waiting outside. Beside the ambulance, there were sisters Suisui and Katenka, as well as Lola and Liang who were helping to hold the umbrella. Lu Xinda, these two little followers.

"Take a turn and let me see"

Suisui said immediately after Wei Ran came down. The latter was already accustomed to such inspections. He handed the dog to Lu Xinda and started jumping around.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong with him jumping around, Suisui was completely relieved and complained angrily, "You are so brave, how dare you go to a place like Donetsk?"

"How did I know that the place I went to was so close to the front line?"

Wei Ran grinned, seeing that Marta behind him had been carried down, he immediately winked at Suisui.

“I’ll settle the score with you later.”

Suisui rolled her eyes, took the flowers from Lu Xinda, led her followers to greet them, and cordially expressed condolences to the new employees Wei Ran picked up for him.

Looking at Suisui's temperament or aura, Wei Ran couldn't help but shake his head.

Now, this girl can be regarded as pulling her own team together, and she is becoming more and more like a strong woman.

Not to mention the "HeLa overseas students" who work for her, she also has the Katenka sisters, two "business assistants and bodyguards", and Lola, who brings tea, water, umbrellas and bags, and seems to be a guest driver recently. "Life Assistant".

She will even have her own personal doctor soon, and this personal doctor will also have a little nurse Lu Xinda as her partner.

But when I look at myself, I am not as motivated as before to make money in the past two years. Instead, I have made a lot of scumbag friends, and I seem to have been labeled a scumbag by many people.

In contrast, it is Ji Ma, that bastard, who has recently been packaged as the best fighting man in the entertainment industry of the Russian Federation.

I'm afraid that in the eyes of outsiders, I have become more and more like a "soft rice" historian like Professor Alexei, right?
Forget it, if you want to eat soft rice, just eat soft rice. It's not bad to be a pretty boy.
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and ignored Marta who was being escorted into the ambulance by the girls. He called Beria the dog and got into the armored pickup truck parked not far away.

Soon after, Suisui also got in alone, sat in the passenger seat and put on her seat belt.

"Go home," Suisui said and couldn't help but yawned.

Seeing this, Wei Ran turned up the power of the heater and drove out following the ground service vehicle in front of him while asking, "You don't want to ask anything else?"

“Nothing to ask”

After Suisui finished speaking, she yawned again, "Aren't you back intact? I just didn't expect you to come back so soon."

"It was the person who sent the plane back who sent us back."

Wei Ran took the initiative to explain, "When I went to Donetsk, I was the one who asked Teacher Culp for help, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen."

"Fortunately it wasn't you who was injured." Suisui was silent for a moment and then looked out the car window at the night, "Be careful in the future."

"Yeah" Wei Ran responded briefly and drove back home.

The ambulance came back with the two civilian armored vehicles.

Not only that, in just a few hours, the room on the first floor where Sui Xin originally lived was not only equipped with a hospital bed in advance, but also equipped with monitors and other equipment.

"Let Marta recover at home. After I got the news, I asked Greva to ask his friends to borrow these equipment from the hospital."

Suisui, who had adjusted her mood along the way, put her hands on her hips and said proudly, "Let Cinda be responsible for taking care of Marta. Anyway, she graduated from a nursing school, so she will definitely know how to do it. Moreover, they both can speak English, so there is no barrier to communication." .

This way she doesn't have to go to any nursing school. She can learn from our private doctors first, which can save a lot of tuition. "

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't dare to get involved at all, so he simply let the girl arrange it. He himself took the dog Beria, who realized something was wrong and sat down with his legs straightened, and walked away. He entered the bathroom, which was the last place he wanted to go in his early life as a dog, and reluctantly jumped into the bathtub specially prepared for him amidst howling ghosts and howls.