War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 178
At noon that day, under the management of Li Weizhong and a middle-aged man surnamed Zhou at the opposite door, the two families gathered five tables full, and hosted a grand banquet for Wei Ran who came to visit.

During the banquet, under the insistence of Mr. Li Wangchuan, Wei Ran recounted the experience of the Li family brothers and the old shopkeeper of Cangfengzhai during the Teng County Defense War. The photo album was also circulated in the hands of the two families more than once. .

The guests and host enjoyed a meal of local special Yanbang dishes, and Wei Ran, who was drunk by the two families, had to stay.

In the early morning of the next day, after discussions between the two families, more than a dozen cars of various types pulled the two families and Wei Ran, who had just barely woke up from a hangover, to Chengdu, which was more than [-] kilometers away.

Before noon, the motorcade of the two families stopped near the Sichuan Army sculpture.A group of four, NO.50 people, including Wei Ran, each with a strand of black gauze tied on their arms, walked to the bottom of the sculpture.

Mr. Li Wangchuan personally filled a bowl of warm glutinous rice balls from the thermos bucket he brought and placed them in front of the monument, while the rest of the juniors, including Wei Ran who accompanied him, each presented a bouquet of flowers under the monument.

"salute!"

The old Mr. Li Wangchuan gave a loud shout, and then solemnly raised his right hand to the peak of his eyebrows.

Following this command, several middle-aged people aged 50 years old and young people aged 30 years old from the Li family and Zhou family also gave a military salute.The other men, women and children silently lowered their heads.

Wei Ran looked at the two families with some surprise. The three generations of old, middle-aged and young people had a total of nearly fifty people, and nine of them were marching!There are one or two families in almost every generation of the two families, including Li Weizhong, the owner of the grain and oil store!
"Libi!"

Following Mr. Li Wangchuan's command, those people who had exchanged cups with Wei Ran last night lowered their arms in unison.

Seeing old Mr. Li Wangchuan looking at him, Wei Ran nodded solemnly. Amidst the crowd of passers-by, he led the two families into the park and found the sweet-scented osmanthus tree.

Mr. Li Wangchuan once again took out a bowl of glutinous rice balls from the thermos bucket he brought and placed them under the tree. He respectfully led the juniors of the two families to kowtow three times, then slowly scraped away the soil, and set off Wei Ran, the genius of the day before yesterday. The white porcelain urn buried in it, and his son Li Weizhong had already propped up a black umbrella in advance.

Although the white porcelain urn contains only a piece of loess from Mteng County, it is a relative who has not returned home for a long time for the two families.

After the middle-aged man from the Zhou family filled up the shallow hole under the osmanthus tree, the two families left the park and drove back to Zigong under the leadership of Mr. Li Wangchuan.

That afternoon, the convoy drove straight into a cemetery, and put the altar of loess into Li Hexian's tomb, and the photo of Li Hexian and Miss Zhou's family was also framed on the mottled tombstone.

Wei Ran, who was watching silently, glanced at the cemetery hidden in the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain, and found Li Suian's tomb. He watched the tombstone with moss remaining standing there for a long time.

After the brief ceremony was over and everyone went down the mountain, Wei Ran also tendered his resignation.It's just that the two hospitable families flatly refused without even thinking about it, determined to let Wei Ran stay for a few more days.

However, in the past two days, Sui Sui has repeatedly urged him to go back and prepare the report card that may be sent home at any time. Wei Ran can only reassure him that he will make a special trip to visit after some time in the future. This is what makes Mr. Li Wangchuan nod .

Before leaving, Wei Ran found an opportunity to secretly stuff the belly box into the neatly folded quilt on the bedside of old Mr. Li Wangchuan.Perhaps this potbellied box really should have been sent to a museum, but it should have been sent by the Li family themselves.And with old Mr. Li Wangchuan and three generations of retired soldiers from his family, Wei Ran didn't have to worry that this gun would be used for other things.

While he secretly left the pistol, the Li family also prepared various gifts filled with two large suitcases for Wei Ran.Under the choice of going home or accepting the gift, he could only be disrespectful, and took all kinds of tribute specialties, and let Li Weizhong drive him personally, and sent him to the high-speed rail station.

After bidding farewell to Li Weizhong who saw him off, and repeatedly promising that he would come to play for a few days after the next year, Wei Ran walked into the security checkpoint carrying two heavy suitcases.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wei Ran took the flight from Chengdu and returned to the capital smoothly with overweight luggage.It's just that it's different from the last time. He just walked to the pick-up gate when he saw Sui Sui who had been waiting for a long time.

"Aren't you going to class today?" Wei Ran asked while the other party snatched the suitcase full of gifts from his hand.

"What class do you have on Saturday?" Sui Sui said as a matter of course, "And I just finished the last subject yesterday. If it wasn't for waiting for you, I would have gone back to my grandma's house."

"Are you on vacation?"

"Two days later you asked if we still started school." Sui Sui asked while walking, "Where have you been these few days?"

"Go to Sichuan and Shu"

"Chuan Shu? Hot pot?! I would have gone with you if I knew it earlier!" Sui Sui said and opened her hands, "Where is the gift? What gift did you buy for me?"

"It's all in the box you're pulling, and you'll pick it up first when you get back." Wei Ran changed the subject at this point, "Since it's a holiday, when do you plan to go back?"

"Well, before going back, my classmate's father wants to meet you."

"What? Your classmate's father?" Wei Ran stopped in his tracks, looking at Sui Sui in confusion, "Why does your classmate's father see me?"

"Because of your Qin," Sui Sui said with a troubled face, "I took a few photos of that Qin two days ago and sent it to Moments, do you still have an impression?"

Wei Ran nodded, "I have an impression, and I even liked it."

Sui Sui said helplessly, "It was the trouble caused by the circle of friends. One of my classmates saw it, and then showed it to his father, and then his father came to the school directly, wanting to see that piano."

"Did you show him?"

Wei Ran frowned and asked, he was not too worried about any accidents, although according to Karp, the bed piano came from a wrong way, but when he brought it back to China, there were many purchase procedures. , There is no problem with the customs, so naturally there is no need to worry too much.

"Why should I show him?"

Sui Sui rolled her eyes, "Don't say that the piano is yours, even if it is mine, I can't show it to him, but my classmate and his father have been blocking me downstairs in the dormitory these two days. I'm getting bored to death."

"Who told you to show off that you're okay?" Wei Ran continued to take a step, and at the same time asked happily, "Did they say anything else?"

"He also said that he wanted to buy that broken piano." Sui Sui followed Wei Ran's footsteps, and begged coquettishly, "Why don't you meet me, so that you don't come over to bother me after the New Year school starts."

"It's not impossible to meet you." Wei Ran glanced at Sui Sui, "But is there any benefit?"

"What benefits do you want?" Sui Sui doesn't like Wei Ran, "Isn't it enough for me to help you come back early?"

"Just pretend I didn't say it." Wei Ran immediately confessed, "Let's book a car, and go meet your classmate's father."

"Okay!" Sui Sui immediately took out her mobile phone with a smile on her face, and after making an appointment for a car, she sent a WeChat message to her classmate.

When the two arrived at the gate of Sui Sui's school, they just got out of the car when they saw a father and son walking towards them.

I can guess that this is a pair of father and son, naturally because the eyebrows and eyes of these two people are so similar, the same tall and thin, the same curly hair, the same pair of rimless glasses, even Even the strong bookish air on their bodies is the same, the only difference is that one is a more mature and stable middle-aged man, and the other is a young man who looks a little shy.

"This uncle is my classmate's father, and this is my classmate Chen Luoxiang."

Sui Sui put her hand on Wei Ran's arm with a calm demeanor, "This is my boyfriend Wei Ran, and also the owner of that broken piano."

Wei Ran secretly glared at Sui Sui, it was not the first time that she pretended to be her boyfriend.It can even be said that regardless of whether it is the high school that Sui Sui studied in Volgograd or the university next to her, as long as Wei Ran has the opportunity to go to their school, as long as there are her classmates next to her, this wicked little thing will definitely regard Wei Ran as a shield.

Even for this matter, when Wei Ran first arrived in Volgograd, he ran into a suitor of Sui Sui on the road, and was blocked for a fight.

After all, who doesn't like a mixed-race girl, especially a beautiful one?After all, Wei Ran, who almost grew up together, didn't take this ghostly little girl seriously.

"Mr. Chen, hello." Wei Ran shook hands with that elegant middle-aged man, and then shook hands with his son, a young man named Chen Luoxiang.

"Mr. Wei, you are welcome. I will cause you trouble if I take the liberty to meet you."

The middle-aged man surnamed Chen obviously didn't regard Wei Ran as the same age as his son, and held Wei Ran's hand in a very formal way and shook it gently. After Wei Ran shook hands with his son, he took the initiative to explain, "My name is Chen Guangling. If it is convenient for you, I would like to talk to you about the Guqin Youquan."

"Mr. Chen is polite." Wei Ran looked around, "Shall we find a coffee shop?"

"If it's convenient, how about going to my shop?" Chen Guangling asked earnestly.

Wei Ran was taken aback for a moment, then understood what the other party meant, and said to Suisui with a smile, "Suisui, you can send those two suitcases to the dormitory first, and then bring the piano box by the way."

"Student Zhou Sui, let me help you!" The young man named Chen Luoxiang said proactively, helping him with his high-definition glasses.

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded, Sui Sui handed one of the suitcases to Chen Luoxiang, and the two of them each rode an electric car parked inside the school gate, carrying the huge suitcases and ran away without a trace.

And Chen Guangling also apologized, trotted across the road and got into a semi-new car, drove to the intersection and made a U-turn, then parked steadily beside Wei Ran.

(End of this chapter)