War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 183
Staying at my grandma's house until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Wei Ran's parents and Suisui's parents set off on their way home one after another amidst the reluctance of the two elderly people.

"Wei Ran, when are you going back to Volgograd?"

Before leaving, Professor Alexei, who was carrying large and small bags of gifts, asked.This is also one of the few times in a year when he calls Wei Ran by his Chinese name, and it is also one of the few times when Wei Ran takes the initiative to call him uncle.

"Tickets for March 10th"

"I'll pick you up then"

After Professor Alexei finished speaking, he asked Sui Sui a few words, and then reluctantly got into the car driven by Wei Ran's father.

After sending off their parents, Wei Ran and Suisui accompanied the two elderly people to the end of the Lantern Festival, and then they left the small village surrounded by Baiyangdian together.

"Sui Sui, where are you going? The high-speed rail station?"

"Where are you going?" Sui Sui, who was sitting in the co-pilot, asked with great interest.

Wei Ran thought for a while and replied, "Go home and stay for two days, and then find time to talk to your classmate's father."

"Then let me go to your house and return to the capital with you."

"Then let's go." Wei Ran didn't think much, stepped on the accelerator to increase the speed of the car, and drove the car into the community before the sun went down.

When the two of them entered, Wei Ran's parents had already returned from get off work, and even the table was full of food.

However, when Wei Ran habitually carried his suitcase and was about to go to the bedroom after dinner, he was stopped by Sui Sui who took the first step.

"What are you doing?" the two asked in unison.

After being stunned for a moment, the two said the same sentence again, "This is my room!"

Sui Sui rolled her eyes, pushed open the door and said arrogantly to Wei Ran, "You said it was yours, do you see what's in it?"

"Why don't I have anything?!"

Wei Ran turned to his parents who were busy in the living room and asked, it's fine if Sui Sui occupied this room, but it's only been a few days, why are the cardboard boxes under the bed full of his things gone? !

"I'll just say this is my room!" Suho proudly swore sovereignty with her hands on her hips.

"What about my stuff?"

Wei Ran asked again, he was really angry this time, those boxes contained all his own things, even the group photos from kindergarten to high school were in it.

Sui Sui was about to say something, but Wei Ran's mother who was busy serving dishes said, "Okay, you girl, stop teasing him, take him to have a look!"

"Then I'll take you to have a look!" Sui Sui flipped her hands, took out a bunch of keys from her pocket and waved them in front of Wei Ran, "Come with me!"

"What are you going to see?" Wei Ran asked without knowing why, but this little thing opened the anti-theft door and went straight out.

Resisting the urge to directly lock the anti-theft door, Wei Ran followed Sui Sui out of the house, and then saw that the former used the key in his hand to open the door of the neighbor next door!

"Come in!" Seeing Wei Ran standing outside with a blank face, Sui Sui simply grabbed his sleeve and forcibly pulled him into the neighbor's house.

"Isn't this Grandma Wu's house? Why?"

Wei Ran looked at the furnishings inside suspiciously, the house had obviously been recently renovated, even with the living room window half open, he could still smell the new furniture.

"Grandma Wu is in poor health and was taken away by her daughter"

Wei Ran's mother came in from behind, "Didn't you transfer two sums of money back a year ago? With those two sums of money, I dared to use the money saved by your father and me. At that time, Grandma Wu was about to sell the house. I I decided to buy it. As for the money you sent back, it has not been touched, and it is kept for you.”

As soon as Wei Ran's mother finished speaking, Sui Sui said as if asking for credit, "I'm still in charge of decorating this house, how about it? Thank you!"

"You really have to thank Sui Sui."

Wei Ran's father also came in from the door with a teacup, "Your mother and I just bought a house, and this little girl is solely responsible for the rest."

"So my stuff"

"follow me!"

Sui Sui pushed open the door of a bedroom familiarly, "Look at your stingy appearance, you have all your things here!"

Wei Ran looked into the room with his probe. This house already had one more bedroom than the two-bedroom and one-living room in his own house opposite, and the area of ​​each room was also larger.

But the bedroom that Sui Sui opened has no change in the furnishings from the bedroom she has lived in since she was a child.The solid wood desk that has been used since childhood is placed in the same position, and even the bookshelf that has also been used for a long time has a lot of things on it.

Other than that, the only thing left was a solid wood piano table, on which was the small guqin he bought for Suisui years ago.

"You did all this?" Wei Ran turned his head and asked Sui Sui, who was leaning against the door frame behind him to watch the excitement.

"Amazing?!"

Sui Sui patted the thick wall, "We didn't know you were practicing the piano when we went to Inta to play, so I specially added a sound insulation layer to the wall of this study. Don't talk about playing the piano inside, even if you are in There’s no problem playing disco in it!”

Before Wei Ran could speak, the former had already dragged him back to the spacious living room. After clearing his throat pretentiously, he said solemnly, "Attention! Next, I'm going to show you the surprise I prepared a few years ago!"

"What surprise?" Wei Ran asked curiously, this time even his parents came together.

The frantic Sui Sui signaled the family of three to stand with their backs to the TV, and then picked up a remote control the size of a cigarette case from the sofa facing the TV and stood beside Wei Ran's mother.

"3! 2! 1! Clang clang clang!"

Along with Sui Sui's own soundtrack, this gadget pressed the red button on the remote control. In an instant, the glass window on the wall behind the sofa lit up with a dim yellow light, and the huge picture inside was illuminated. The details reflected in the landscape painting are fully revealed.

"That's it?"

"It's not over yet!"

Sui Sui proudly pressed the second button, and with the slight sound of gears, the landscape portrait slowly rose like a miniature rolling door, revealing two large lifting poles crossed behind her!And on both sides of the two large poles, there are still two rusty anti-Japanese swords fixed!

"How did you get this thing back?" Wei Ran asked dumbfounded, "Where did those two big knives come from?"

"Of course it is used to ward off evil spirits!"

Sui Sui gave an impeccable reason as a matter of course, "My grandpa said that this kind of thing that killed little devils can ward off evil spirits, so I put it here, and I asked my grandpa to help find those two big knives. How about it! This Doesn’t the background wall feel particularly safe!”

"Those two big iron sticks are the big lifting poles you took out from the pigsty?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, "If you say that, maybe these things can really ward off evil spirits."

"No, what kind of evil am I trying to ward off?" Wei Ran said dumbfounded.

"Aren't you just like being possessed by an evil spirit?"

Sui Sui pressed the remote control switch again while talking, and suddenly two dim spotlights hit the big lifting pole, and then the little thing whispered in Russian against Wei Ran's ear, " When you were in that abandoned military base before, you kept talking about Hans, Rocky, and Marco Mario in your sleep, thanks to the fact that I have learned German for a semester, otherwise Thought you were talking to aliens."

"Really?" Cold sweat was already breaking out on Wei Ran's forehead.

"It must be true." Sui Sui rolled her eyes, "otherwise why would I call you up over and over again to accompany me to the bathroom?"

"What are you two muttering about?" the mother who had visited the other two bedrooms asked curiously.

"nothing!"

Sui Sui returned to her eccentric and arrogant look, "My brother said that next year he will bring a daughter-in-law back to give birth to a few grandchildren for you!"

"That's good!" Wei Ran's mother was immediately fooled, without even taking a cover, she asked directly if Wei Ran had a girl he liked.

After finally fooling the gossiping parents away, Sui Sui blocked the door again.

"What's wrong?" Wei Ran asked helplessly.

"I can't work in vain, right?" Sui Sui rubbed her fingers familiarly while speaking.

"Didn't I buy you a guqin?" Wei Ran pointed to the study room, "It's still in there."

"One yard is one yard, and my brother is still clear about it!" Sui Sui raised his chin, "That piano is a New Year's gift from you, and it has nothing to do with me helping you decorate the house."

"Okay, tell me, what do you want!"

Wei Ran lost his temper a long time ago. Although the purchase of a house was unexpected, this little thing is indeed a lot of work, especially the untouched furnishings in the study. Obviously, the other party put his heart into it.

"It's enough to have your words. I'll talk about what I want after I think about it." While speaking, Sui Sui happily handed over the bunch of keys in her hand.

That night, Wei Ran moved into the new house as a matter of course. Although the two houses were only separated by a wall, he was the only one living in Nuo Da's room, and he inevitably suffered from insomnia.

Unable to fall asleep, he simply went into the study and took out the metal book for himself as a New Year's gift.Ever since he got this guqin and learned and played a piece of Guangling San with it, in order to avoid suspicion, he never took it out again.

Adjusting the lamp to the brightest, Wei Ran took a closer look at the piano case reflecting the light, and then opened it, and carried out the dark guqin again.

During the first half of the first month, he was not idle. Although there was an endless stream of people coming and going from his grandma's family, and Sui Sui made trouble every now and then, he still found an opportunity to take pictures of the piano that the metal book gave him. Several photos were sent to Chen Guangling who was far away in the capital.

With the help of the other party, Wei Ran at least knew that the two ancient Chinese characters engraved above the Longchi on the back of the bed were "Yaoguang" written in big seal script.

After thinking for a moment, he sat upright, plucked the strings and played the Guangling San again.When the song ended, Wei Ran felt more and more peaceful in his heart, as if all the negative emotions in his heart had been vented out along with the song just now.

"Is this guqin really calming, or is there something wrong with that piece of music?"

Wei Ran secretly made a decision, he must ask Chen Guangling before leaving, maybe the other party can see something.

Putting away the piano case and leaving the study, Wei Ran glanced at the large lifting pole on the wall of the living room that was still covered by spotlights, hesitated for a moment, but finally did not summon the metal notebook that turned into a tattoo.

Of course he wanted to know the secrets behind these two big lifts, but he still wanted to wait until he had replenished enough ammunition for the semi-automatic rifle before going there. In that case, at least he would have less regret in his heart.

(End of this chapter)