War Photographer's Notebook

Early on the third day after arriving in Kiev, Diane, the head of the Edelweiss organization who came to Kiev last night, approached Wei Ran. After Anna came out of the room, the two of them walked to the hotel's cafeteria together.

"Victor, the people I know in Wuklan are basically diggers and war artifact dealers."

Diane apologized, "I don't know if they can help, but I posted a reward last night."

"Reward? What reward?" Wei Ran asked in shock.

"Whoever finds Mrs. Uma alive will get $10 in cash. If it's Mrs. Uma's body, it's worth $[-]."

Seemingly satisfied with the look of astonishment on the faces of Wei Ran and Anna, Diane smiled and said, "Mr. Hans saw the scandal about you two on the Internet, and he asked me to indirectly ask you two if it happened. What, and then I told Mr. Hans what you asked me to do."

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Diane nodded again, "This is the reward I issued on behalf of Mr. Hans. He is still very grateful for your help to him, so he is very happy to help with this matter."

"I have to thank Mr. Hans very much."

Wei Ran said dumbfounded, but at the same time he couldn't help but worry about whether any traces would really be discovered under such a reward.

Of course, although there are hidden dangers, it is not without benefits. If no one can find Mrs. Uma who fell into the river despite such a high reward, then she is undoubtedly "dead."

Of course, considering the methods of Nineel and those old guys, this worry inevitably seems a bit unnecessary.

"Mr. Hans expected you to say that."

Diane smiled and said, "He said there is no need to call him to thank him, and just go about your business first. In addition, Ms. Mora asked me to tell Miss Anna that Victor is a good young man, but unfortunately he already has a daughter. Friends. Of course, this sentence was said in a joking tone."

Hearing this, Anna rolled her eyes angrily. It was obvious that this was really just a joke, otherwise she would have been taken to Germany by now.

"Diane, stop joking."

Wei Ran said helplessly, "It's not like you've never met Aurora and her employees, so can't you explain it to me?"

"If I hadn't explained it to you, Ms. Mora would have returned to Kiev with me."

Diane, who had had enough joking, suddenly became serious, "Victor, leave it to me to follow up on things here. It's time for you to leave here."

"Leave here?" Wei Ran couldn't help but be stunned, "Why?"

"Although you are Chinese, you are also a well-known historian of World War II in Russia. Not to mention that you have discovered many Soviet heroes during World War II over the years, and some of them have even been made into movies."

Diane spread her hands after speaking, "This is Ukolan, you don't really think you are safe here and as popular as in Russia, do you?
Or let me put it another way, if Mr. Hans hadn't issued that astonishing reward, if it weren't for the fact that you are Chinese, you might have been detained at this time. "

"Diane is right."

Anna sided with Diane this time. "The heroes of the Soviet era were almost equivalent to sinners who deserved to be burned to death in the Ukolan era. You, a historian, are indeed not very popular in Ukolan."

"Can"

"I will take care of that friend of yours"

Diane assured confidently, "His American identity itself is equivalent to a talisman, so don't worry, he will be much safer here than you."

"All right"

Wei Ran borrowed Poxia's donkey's nod and said in a very formal manner, "Diane, I owe you a favor, and I also owe Mr. Hans a favor."

"I will convey it to you"

Diane said seriously, "I will also cherish the favor you owe me. Victor, if there is nothing else, go say hello to your friend, introduce me to him, and then let Anna and I send him off." You go to the airport."

"So urgent?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.

"I bought you a first-class ticket to fly back to China this morning."

As Diane spoke, she pushed a plane ticket to Wei Ran, "In fact, in the comments about the scandal between you and Anna on the Internet, some people have already begun to incite you to buy this beautiful Wu Kelan girl. Some people even Threaten to take revenge on you."

"I already guessed which idiot it was." Anna rolled her eyes, "I just quarreled with them the night before yesterday."

"It's useless even if you know who it is."

Diane said apologetically, "There are many such hateful remarks. To avoid unnecessary trouble, Victor, you'd better leave here as soon as possible."

"All right"

Wei Ran let a trace of panic appear on his face in time, but he didn't even eat breakfast. He got up and led Diane to find Ma, who had already gotten up and was sitting stupidly at the door of the hotel. Karl, after introducing the two of them, briefly described the current situation.

"Victor, in this case you should leave as soon as possible."

Makar immediately said, "I am very grateful that you can accompany me here and introduce so many friends to help me. Victor, I"

"It goes without saying thank you."

Wei Ran patted the other party's shoulder and said seriously, "Makar, I still said what I said to you yesterday, no matter what misfortune Mrs. Uma encounters, you still have your family waiting for you.

Before you leave here, I will ask Aurora to leave Jessica and your children in China, and let them wait for your return in China. They need your company even more now. "

"I know I know."

Makar cleared his throat, suppressed the sadness in his heart and made a promise, "I will go back to accompany them as soon as possible."

"I'm sorry, I can't help you anymore here."

Wei Ran said apologetically at the end, and at the same time, he gave Makar all the unspent hryvnia in his pocket.

Without daring to waste too much time, Wei Ran ran back to the room and picked up his briefcase at the urging of Diane and Anna. He then left the room and hurriedly got into Anna's car, said goodbye to Makar and rushed to the airport. .

He walked into the boarding gate accompanied by Diane and Anna and waited until he entered the first class cabin in advance. Then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

This was part of the plan, and even if Anna's admirers didn't incite hatred against him, Hella would take action.

The purpose of doing this is naturally to let him leave Wu Kelan as soon as possible and get away from the attention of interested people as soon as possible.

As for Makar, after introducing Carlos, a professional and notorious lawyer, Wei Ran believed that Makar would not be in any danger even if he stayed here. At the very least, the police had no chance to conduct a seductive interrogation of him.

What's more, the huge piece of bait thrown out by Mr. Hans, who acted righteously halfway, is bound to make the water in the Dnieper River increasingly turbid.

After a slightly long wait, the flight took off smoothly. Weiyan also put on a mask and baseball cap, and picked up a steam goggle to cover his eyes.

While he was waiting for the flight to land, far away in Grozny, Chechnya, a woman with her face wrapped in gauze also left the beauty hospital in an inconspicuous truck and completely disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people.

When Weiran's flight finally landed at the Capital Airport of China, a cargo ship departing from Makhachkala happened to cross the Caspian Sea and docked at a port in Hassa.

Slightly earlier than this boat, fisherman Ivan also left Ukolan and entered Belarus through a hidden route with his two sailors. After a brief stay of less than an hour, he crossed the border again and entered Russia. Bryansk.

As for Apoli, who was still in Ukolan, although he had already arrived in Kharkef, he missed the interview that was crucial to him because he had been hijacked before, so he had to continue delivering. Resume, trying to find a new job.

After walking out of the Capital Airport, Wei Ran looked up at the bright sunshine. After letting out a long breath, he called an online taxi and rushed towards the city.

After such a delay, the money-making gangs in Suisui had already ended all their trips and left China on their own flights. As for Makar's wife and children, they were continued to be accommodated by Suisui. In the hotel, she and several English-speaking girls took turns accompanying her every day.

"How is the situation?" Suisui asked immediately when she saw Wei Ran at the door of the hotel.

"It's not too good. I'm afraid she's been killed." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he asked, "How is Jessica's condition?"

"She is very worried, and she is letting Kamei and the others accompany her now." Suisui paused and then said, "She doesn't know you are back yet."

"Where are you here? Are you okay?" Wei Ran asked as he walked into the hotel.

"There's nothing wrong. During the few days you went to Wukelan, I took the time to visit my grandma's house."

Suisui followed step by step and said while going upstairs, "If we weren't accompanying Jessica and her son, we would have been ready to go back to Kazan."

"Just wait another week"

Weiran said while the elevator was going up, "I guess Makar will come back to pick up his wife and children in a week. After putting them on the plane to the United States, we will go to Kazan."

"also"

Suisui nodded indifferently, "Just in time to give the girls a holiday before May Day. Speaking of which, I saw on the Internet that you went to Kiev to meet your little lover?"

"No, I almost got that little lover's bitches fanning the flames on the Internet to keep me there."

Wei Ran laughed at himself while following Suisui into their room, and told the relationship between Anna and Mr. Hans in detail and how they met in the first place.

On the other hand, Suisui seemed quite satisfied with Wei Ran's attitude, but looking at the way she hesitated to speak, Wei Ran knew that this girl might have many questions in her mind.

Before the other party could speak, Wei Ran took off his clothes and said first, "I'll change clothes and take a shower first. Can you come with me to grandma's house later?" "Okay!"

Suisui responded expectantly. She had roughly guessed that Wei Ran was about to explain the truth behind all this to her.

After taking a good bath and changing into clean clothes, he locked the briefcase that he had followed him to Kiev to show off, along with the missing items in it and the [-]% new spare mobile phone, into the hotel safe.

Taking the satellite phone and mobile phone that Suisui had kept these days, Wei Ran drove her out of the capital and went straight to her grandma's house in Baiyangdian.

When the car drove to the entrance of the village in the dark, Wei Ran stepped on the brakes, signaled Suisui to leave her cell phone in the car, and then led her to the wooden viewing platform where he played the piano every New Year's Eve.

Sitting at the edge of the leisure table, Wei Ran looked around and said with a smile, "Just ask if you want to know! I promise to tell you everything."

"Is Mrs. Uma still alive?" Suisui leaned forward and whispered into Wei Ran's ear.

"Alive" Wei Ran also whispered.

Hearing this, Suisui was obviously relieved, "That's fine, that's fine! Next question, can Makar still meet her?"

"Let's see the opportunity in the future"

Wei Ran said uncertainly, "It may take a long time, but I guess there should be a chance."

"That's good"

Suisui completely relaxed after hearing this, stood up, patted her butt and said, "Let's go to grandma's house!"

"Aren't you going to continue asking?" Wei Ran asked in astonishment as he looked at the girl who was smiling particularly relaxedly and brightly.

"Because you are so honest, Queen Beninta will let you go!"

Suisui put her hands on her hips and said in a pretentious manner. Immediately afterwards, this smart girl stood on the chair beside the table, "As a price for allowing you to keep the secret, I will reward you for carrying me back!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled, stood up, let the girl lie on his back, and slowly walked towards the conspicuous large vermilion iron door of his grandma's house not far away.

"You really don't ask?" Wei Ran said as he walked away.

"Don't ask!"

Suisui rested her chin on Wei Ran's shoulder, and said calmly but soberly to her ear, "I need to fake death to escape. There must be some big secret. I'm worried that I'm not strict enough, so I'm still not curious. ”

At this point, the girl hesitated for about a second, and then asked in a low voice, "You won't encounter any danger, will you?"

"What danger could I be in?" Wei Ran replied with a smile, "It's just a show of cooperation."

"Is this a scene about meeting a sweet lover in Kiev?" Suisui asked with a smile, "Let's go back and drive into the village. I don't want to be judged by people in the village tomorrow."

"I'm just going to Kiev to meet my lover."

Wei Ran and the girl talked nonsense about a non-existent affair, but without stopping, he slowly carried her to the yard of his grandma's house, and as expected, he helped her get a piece of cake from the two elderly people. A joke.

That night, it was rare that Wei Ran and Suisui, who did not bring their friends back, had a sumptuous dinner with the two elderly families. The elders of the two families chatted with each other about the embarrassing childhood stories of the two young people.

During the next whole week, in addition to waiting for news with Makar's wife and children, Weiran and Suisui also took the time to take the Katianka sisters and the purchased monitoring equipment to Xiaoyang in Tianjin. Building, it took two full days to install a hidden and blind monitoring system.

"It seems like something sprouted in here?"

In the courtyard of the small western-style building, Suisui, who was holding two potted plants, looked at the buds sprouting from the flower bed and asked, "Isn't this the vegetable grown by my godmother?"

"That's jasmine"

Not far away, Wei Ran replied while taking out the wall-climbing rose seedlings he bought, "When we come back next time, the yard will probably be filled with the scent of jasmine."

"I hate jasmine"

When Suisui said this, she touched her nose subconsciously, obviously thinking of some bad experiences in her childhood.

Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled but did not say anything. Those jasmine seeds were obtained after investigating the USS Johnston destroyer. Now that they have successfully sprouted, it is always a happy thing.

Fortunately, although she said she didn't like it, Suisui didn't destroy the seedlings that had just sprouted. She just called sisters Lu Xinda and Katenka who had come to help with the arrangement, and moved the other potted plants they bought together. The terrace on the third floor.

Ignoring the girls who were busy decorating the terrace on the third floor based on the old photos provided by Wei Ran, Wei Ran took the flower seedlings he bought and walked to the small flower bed where the two vents were, and personally placed the flowers that could bloom in various colors. The seedlings fell down one by one.

"It would be great if I could have a big parrot."

Wei Ran, who had planted the flower seedlings, looked at the smiling flower still hanging on the bird stand in the corner with regret and nostalgia and muttered silently, then patted the soil off his body and left the flower bed full of flower seedlings. .

By the time he arrived on the third floor, Suisui had already taken the other three girls to replace the potted plants with various beautiful flower pots and placed them all over the terrace, and the Katenka sisters also arranged a A drip irrigation system that can be controlled remotely.

"Marta just called."

When Suisui saw Wei Ran coming up, she immediately said, "Jessica told her that Makar has boarded the plane from Kiev and is expected to land this evening."

"Have you found Mrs. Uma?" Wei Ran asked.

"No"

Suisui cooperated with Wei Ran's inquiry and replied with regret, "Currently, Kiev has confirmed that Mrs. Uma was unfortunately killed. Although the search is still going on, everyone knows that it is unlikely to be found."

"This is also impossible"

Wei Ran sighed regretfully, then cheered up and asked, "In that case, let's go back later. By the way, have you figured out how to allocate rooms?"

"Let's live on the third floor."

Suisui led Wei Ran through the glass door of the terrace, opened the door of the bedroom where Qiushi lived and the ghost woman Yumi also lived, and said, "Please make the bedroom next to it vacant, so we will live in this one when we come back." Bar.

In addition, I asked my godfather and godmother, and they didn’t want to climb the stairs or even live here. They also said that they would only stay overnight when they work overtime, so they would live on the first floor. "

After saying that, Suisui called sisters Wei Ran, Katenka and Lu Xinda downstairs and said, "When you bring Kamei and the others back in the future, let them live in the room on the second floor. Anyway, even if you don't move, you can spare the room." It can fit in three rooms, not to mention there are so many rooms on the first floor.”

"It's all up to you"

Wei Ran still looked like he was a business owner. Anyway, he had vacated and locked the rooms where Nian Meixiang and others had lived. How to allocate the remaining rooms depends entirely on the girl's happiness.

He went to the boiler room that was going to be allocated to Beria the dog, and tried the automatic drip irrigation, monitoring and ventilation systems that could be remotely controlled. Then Weiran locked the door and waited for Suisui to turn the car over. After leaving the yard, the thick wooden door was locked.

Finally, he glanced at the carefully carved Traditional Chinese character "Wanggui" on the small wooden board he had nailed on the door stack. Then Wei Ran got into the cab that Suisui had given up, stepped on the accelerator and drove to the capital. direction.

That evening, Wei Ran and Suisui accompanied Jessica and Gorman to pick up Makar, who was unshaven and seemed to have lost weight.

Without much communication, Wei Ran and Suisui greeted the family into the car and drove towards the city.

"Victor, thank you for your help."

Halfway through the journey, Makar rubbed his face vigorously and said with force, "Lawyer Carlos is discussing compensation issues with the Kiev Police Department and is also prosecuting the kidnappers. There is also Ms. Diane, who is still helping to find her." My mother's body.

Before I left, Miss Anna also helped me pack up the relics left by my mother and mailed them all to the United States. This is all because of your help, me."

"We're friends"

Wei Ran replied in Russian as a matter of course, "Although we do not meet and contact each other often, there is no doubt that we are indeed friends, so there is no need to thank you.

Makar, look at your wife and children. Are you ready to start a new life? "

"I'm ready"

Makar hugged his wife and let his son throw himself into his arms. "We have decided to return to the United States tomorrow. It will be Labor Day soon. Aurora will definitely send many tourists to us." The farm is too busy for Diego and his family alone.”

“You do need busy work to distract you”

Suisui, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the busy traffic outside the window and said, "You will be very busy during the next holiday. Makar, after this holiday is over and you have adjusted your mentality, can you come to China as a guest again?"

"Okay, we will definitely come." Makar said with force, "I haven't even walked through the Great Wall yet."

After looking at each other with Wei Ran, Suisui used the topic to talk about work that could distract Makar.

That night, Wei Ran and Suisui, accompanied by sisters Marta and Katenka, who had recovered from the disease, treated the Makar family to a sumptuous dinner as a farewell farewell.

Early in the morning on April 4, as Wei Ran and many beautiful girls headed by Suisui bid farewell, Makar, who was still in a depressed mood, took his wife and children and boarded a flight to the United States.

"It's time for us to go back to Kazan and get busy with work."

In the waiting hall, Suisui ignored the passengers who were secretly filming their group, clapped her hands and said in Russian, "Everyone will be very busy after going back this time, but after this holiday, everyone will get a generous sum of money." Bonus! I will also take you to visit all the amusement parks in Moscow!"

As expected, all the girls were very satisfied with the cake. The busy waiting hall also echoed with enthusiastic responses from the girls.