War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 146 This group photo finally has my shadow.

On the night of arriving in Berlin, Wei Ran had a rare nightmare and had a good night's sleep.Early the next morning, when he woke up, the Spree River facing the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows had already reflected most of the fiery red sun.

"Maybe they also want me to come back here to have a look."

Standing in front of the window, Wei Ran stared at the small single-family clinic on the bank of the river and murmured a word of comfort to himself. He relaxed and took a cold shower that could make people howl.Calling Ji Ma, who was also urged by the biological clock next door, after the two had breakfast, they followed the staff who came to pick them up and returned to the clinic where they stopped for a long time yesterday.

Before they entered the door, they heard the young girl Anna categorically say, "Mr. Hans, we appreciate your willingness to help us, but my mother and I will not leave Ukraine to settle in Germany. Life in Ukraine is difficult, but it is our home."

"I respect my daughter's decision."

Ms. Mora said in a gentle but firm tone, "Mr. Hans, my daughter and I cherish the friendship with your family, just like the friendship between my grandfather Ivan and Mr. Mario. Therefore, we do not want to use What good is this friendship in exchange for? Of course, if we really need help one day in the future, we will contact you unceremoniously."

Hans was playing with a half-thumb-sized gold bar in his hand. After a moment of silence, seeing Wei Ran and Jima had walked in, he had no choice but to say, "Since you insist on staying in Ukraine, please allow me to help you change to a better one in Kiev." Some living environment, just like Mr. Ivan was willing to take my family to escape the war as Jewish survivors and doctors."

"This..." Mora and Anna looked at each other, and finally nodded, agreeing to Hans' request.

Hans finally showed a happy smile on his face, "In this case, I will let my son take you to Berlin to have fun for a few days, and then send you back."

"Then I will trouble you, Mr. Hans." Mo La said rather awkwardly.

"No trouble, no trouble at all." Hans smiled and stood up, "Victor, how about we talk alone next?"

"My honor." Wei Ran nodded with a smile, and followed Hans to the second floor along the creaking wooden stairs.

After the two parties sat down around the table, Hans sighed, "I want to leave them in Berlin to start a new life, but they all want to go back to Ukraine."

Wei Ran looked around, looked at the particularly familiar layout in the room, thought for a while and said leisurely, "Perhaps Mr. Mario and Dr. Rocky also received the same invitation from Mr. Ivan back then. Didn't they stay in the room in the end?" Is it Berlin?"

Hans was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help laughing, "That's right, it seems that I didn't think about it well. Don't talk about this, young man, how should I thank you?"

"Just pay for the investigation as we agreed"

Wei Ran picked up the coffee pot on the table and poured a cup for the other party, and said half-jokingly, "Of course, if possible, it is best to pay in cash in Russia, which will save me a lot of tax."

"Haha! It's not a problem!"

Hans laughed loudly and took out a check from the inner pocket of his suit and pushed it to Wei Ran, "In addition to the investigation fee of 2 million rubles, this check for 20 U.S. dollars should also be accepted."

"This is?" Wei Ran looked suspiciously at Hans who was sitting across from him, but he didn't touch the check.

"Mr. Ivan's Memoirs Manuscript"

Hans explained gently, "Although you don't want to say more, it must have taken a lot of effort to find it. Even so, you are still willing to return it to Mora, which is very rare. So of course I can't let young people There is no gain in exchange for hard work.”

Wei Ran smiled, "Mr. Hans, if I accept this surprise, are you also willing to accept the surprise I prepared for you and Ms. Mora?"

"What surprise?" Hans asked with great interest, and seeing that Wei Ran just looked at him with a smile, he immediately nodded happily, "I'm looking forward to the surprise you prepared."

Seeing this, Wei Ran put down his coffee cup, took out a kraft paper package from his backpack and handed it to the other party.

For some unknown reason, he opened the hemp rope and thick kraft paper, and there were only three square wooden photo frames inside.The photos in the first two photo frames are of the wounded outside the clinic and Father Hans and Dr. Rocky who are busy in the tent in the tent after Wei Ran got the camera.

In the third photo frame, a few minutes before the surrender of the commander of the Berlin city defense, Wei Ran took a group photo for everyone in the conference room full of wounded.

"This is." Hans raised his head and looked over and over at the framed shot in the photo frame, "Where did this come from?"

"I found it together with that manuscript." Wei Ran smiled, "Of course, what I found was only the negatives, and the photos were developed by myself."

"Very good, already very good, thank you Victor!"

Father Hans stood up excitedly, "Come on, go with me and hang them on the wall in the basement. Also, put away that check. Or how about I change it for you with a larger denomination ?”

"This one is enough." Wei Ran put the check into the mezzanine of the backpack with peace of mind, and took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Hans, "This is the electronic version of the negative."

Putting away the USB flash drive, Hans went downstairs and immediately showed everyone the photos he just got from Wei Ran, and the latter naturally received a wave of surprise and thanks.

"Mr. Hans, and Ms. Mora."

Wei Ran took out a Rollei DSLR with a horse fur camera bag from his backpack, and even a gold Melee Assault badge on it, "Before you hang those photo frames on the wall in the basement, How about I take a group photo for you?"

"That's a good proposal!" Hans looked at the photo frame in his hand, "Well, let's take pictures outside the clinic!"

Hearing this, the people in the room immediately moved their chairs to the outside of the clinic, and stood in two rows under Jima's command.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wei Ran loaded the camera with a box of color film, and after they had settled their poses, he moved the lens slightly to capture everyone, the clinic behind them, and a small circle of the Spree River shimmering in the morning sun. Hold, gently pressed the shutter.

"Victor, how about taking a picture with us?" Mora's proposal was immediately agreed by everyone.

Hand over the old-fashioned camera in his hand to Jima, and point him to the position of the shutter.Wei Ran stood behind them at the insistence of Hans and Mora, and stood side by side with Anna and Hans' son.

As the shutter sounded again, the smile on Wei Ran's face was frozen by the silver salt film, and at the same time, he murmured inwardly, "This time the group photo finally has my shadow."

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(End of this chapter)