War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 164 Signed Photo

Inside the abandoned military base where the wind and snow were blowing, Wei Ran pretended to be sitting cross-legged on the wolf fur blanket facing the window, pulling the guqin in his hand.

In the fragmented piece, Alili held a small notebook in his hand, and carefully recorded the various thoughts and suggestions that Sui Sui put forward to their camp.On the upper floor, Ji Ma, who fell into the money trap, was rummaging through the rooms for the missing treasures, and from time to time, he would pick up an ax and chop vigorously.

Unfortunately, although under his busy schedule, more and more firewood piled up in the lobby on the third floor, but Jima, who was busy from morning to noon, found a vertical double-barreled shotgun that was fairly well-made and several large boxes of matching 12 Apart from the No. [-] bullet, there is no valuable harvest at all.

"I plan to go to another building in the afternoon to continue searching"

Beside the bonfire, Ji Ma, who was called back to have lunch, said in a greedy way while biting the grilled deer steak, "Which one of you wants to go with me?"

"Save it"

Alili said angrily, "I wouldn't be surprised even if a pack of wolves were hiding in that building now, why can't you honestly wait in this building for two days?"

"Don't look at me, I'm going to continue practicing piano in the afternoon." Wei Ran blocked Jima's words without raising his head.

Ji Ma looked at Sui Sui, who was holding a tablet computer to watch Chinese TV series, and shook his head to give up. Even if the girl wanted to follow, she probably wouldn't be able to help her.What's more, the other party obviously has no interest.

After simply eating something to fill his stomach, Wei Ran pulled the wolfskin blanket back to the window and continued to practice the piano, Sui Sui was still watching her TV series, and from time to time, she would laugh and cry.And Alili, who had just drank most of the bottle of vodka, simply lay down on the wolf fur blanket by the campfire, and started snoring not long after.

Impossible to rest, Ji Ma looked around, picked up the kerosene lamp, and climbed up the stairs again.Amidst the noise caused by the friction of various furniture and floors, time passed little by little, until the window was once again shrouded in night, the disheveled Ji Ma ran down the stairs with a kerosene lamp in his hand, yelling.

"Victor! Come and help me see if these things are worth anything!"

"What did you find again?" Wei Ran put the guqin on the wolf fur blanket, and asked as he kneaded his sore fingers.

With a proud smile on Ji Ma's face, he shook the iron box in his hand, which was only half the size of a brick, and then put the kerosene lamp in the other hand on the table, deliberately waiting for Alili and Suisui to be curious. After getting closer, he triumphantly lifted the slightly rusty cover.

In this not-so-big box, the most conspicuous thing is a plastic-enclosed color photo.In this photo, a fully armed astronaut is saluting, and behind him, in addition to a Soviet flag fluttering in the wind, there are rockets waiting to be launched.

Jima waited for the three of them to read it, and immediately turned over the photos, and then everyone saw a slightly scribbled Russian signature-"Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov".

"This is the first Soviet cosmonaut to walk in space?" Wei Ran looked at the photo displayed in Jima's hand in surprise, "Could it be his signature behind the photo?!"

"How do I know?" Jima proudly handed the photo to everyone, and he took out a long paper box from the tin box.

Gently opened the box, Jima poured out a watch with a plastic bag from it, and at the same time explained proudly, "This is a Wrigley watch, and Mr. Nicholas also has one. It is said that this watch has been in space. of."

"My dad also has one!" Sui Sui said immediately, "I remember he said more than once that this watch is the first chronograph in the Soviet Union."

Wei Ran nodded in agreement, the watch Sui Sui mentioned was still on Professor Alexey's wrist.

And I have to admit that even today, this watch originally designed for the Soviet Air Force and astronauts is not outdated.And half a century ago, this watch won the reputation of "Soviet Speedmaster" in the Western world shortly after it came out.

Ji Ma carefully tore open the plastic packaging bag, and after adjusting and winding the watch according to the instructions inside, the watch, which had been left unused for an unknown period of time, started to move again. The crackling is still clearly audible.

"Victor, don't tell me how much this watch is worth now." Jima said while wearing it on his wrist, "From now on, it's mine."

Wei Ran returned the photo passed to him to Jima, "It's hard to say how much that watch is, but if the signature on the photo is true, it must be worth more than the watch."

"At that time, I will ask Professor Alexei how much it can sell for." Jima took the photo and put it on the box cover, continuing to show off the watch he just wore.

"What are these?" Wei Ran said as he took out a cylindrical kraft paper roll from the tin box. Such a roll of paper almost filled the remaining space in the tin box.

"I haven't opened it yet. I ran down after seeing that watch." Ji Ma responded without raising his head. He was busy comparing the time on his phone at this time, looking at the watch It is accurate from time to time.

Weighing the weight of the kraft paper roll, Wei Ran already had a rough guess in his mind that most of the bread here should be coins.

After obtaining Jima's consent, Wei Ran carefully opened a paper roll, and then proved his guess. There were ten coins that still had a metallic luster, or more precisely, the Soviet Union's April 1965 coin. The commemorative coin "Commemorating the 4th Anniversary of the Anti-Fasus Victory" was issued on the 28th.At the same time, it is also the first commemorative coin issued by the Soviet Union after the war.

It is a pity that this copper-nickel alloy commemorative coin with a face value of 1 ruble was issued at that time with a total of 60 million pieces, so even though it has been out of print due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, its collection value is still not compared with other commemorative coins of the same period. too high.

The reason is all because the Soviet Union was not only the country with the most medals and medals, but also the country with the largest circulation of various commemorative coins.

From this type of commemorative coin in hand until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, in just a few decades, the Soviet Union issued a total of 64 kinds of commemorative coins of various themes. On average, at least two commemorative coins were issued a year. pieces.

And such a dense issuance interval and huge circulation have made many commemorative coin collectors numb. After all, even if they are cutting leeks, there is no need to sharpen the knife so sharply.

Rewrapping the commemorative coins in his hand and putting them into the box, Wei Ran was too lazy to look at what was wrapped in the other kraft paper rolls, but asked curiously, "Jima, where did you find these things?"

“In a single dormitory on the fifth floor”

Jima seemed to have just remembered, and pointed to the top of his head, "I found it in the drawer of that dormitory, but I only found these things."

Wei Ran got up and walked towards the wolf fur blanket by the window, "It's already a good harvest, just that autographed photo can probably be sold for a lot of money."

Ji Ma flattened his cuffs to cover the watch he just put on, "Of course it's a good harvest, there's one last room up there, do you want to look for it with me?"

"Not interested." The three of Wei Ran rejected Ji Ma with one voice.

The latter didn't care, and confidently picked up the kerosene lamp again, and climbed up the stairs again.

However, I don’t know if the tin box used up all his luck until he carefully searched the last few rooms, and only found a few pornographic magazines with hot content but a lot of mildew. That's all.

After a night of nothing, when Wei Ran and Sui Sui were woken up by knocking on the door early the next morning, although the snow was still falling outside, the wind had completely stopped at some point.

The four of them looked out of the window, and most of the belly of the An-2 plane and the two huge skids had been completely buried by snow.

"Let's go downstairs!" Alili said after hanging up the window, "We have to dig out the plane and get out of here as soon as the wind dies down."

"Remember to take your gun," reminded Jima who had already packed his luggage, "The wolves around here have been hungry for two days."

"Are you staying in the building?" Wei Ran said to Sui Sui while walking towards the room where the weapons were stored.

"Who do you look down on?"

Sui Sui rolled her eyes, stepped into the room first, picked up an AK rifle with a folded stock, put it on her shoulder, and conveniently put a grenade and two ammunition loaded with bullets in Alili's pocket the day before yesterday. box.

Alili and Jima looked at each other, and they each put a grenade in their pockets in tacit understanding.Although they knew that it was useless to deal with wolves, but they couldn't be compared by a girl?

As for Wei Ran, there is no such inexplicable comparison at all. The wolves are not fools. Even if they are hungry, they can be chased away with a single shot of a magazine at most. Why put so much burden on yourself?

After checking the rifles in their hands, everyone followed Ali to the first floor.However, when they pushed the iron door through a narrow gap and got out, they found that the snow outside was already waist deep.

"Sui Sui, you look around."

"Leave it to me!" Sui Sui directly pushed and loaded the bullet, even pulling the safety off.

Everyone put on their snowshoes, took the tools they found on the first floor, and walked towards the plane not far away by stepping on the thick snow.

However, before they raised the shovels in their hands, there was a deep wolf howl from the roof of another building!

"Da da da!"

Sui Sui, who was walking at the end, didn't care where the wolf was hiding, raised the muzzle of the rifle in his hand, and pulled the trigger directly in the direction of the mountain!
The deafening gunshots not only suppressed the wolf howl completely, but also startled the three people who were preparing to dig.

But before they could say anything, more than 20 wolves ran out of the building on the left like a swarm!
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