War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 211 Time to go home
In the hunter's hut protected by barbed wire, Ralph lit the firewood piled under the fireplace. The crackling bonfire only took a short while to warm the cold hut again.

On the sofa facing the fireplace, Wei Ran and Andy each held half of the script, carefully reading every line and every narration on it.

"Andy, look at this sentence, when the setting sun shines through the narrow window and into the ice cellar entrance in the utility room."

Wei Ran held up the part of the script manuscript he was in charge of and approached Andy and asked, "Which side of this house is facing south?"

Andy subconsciously raised his finger in the direction of the window, and then realized the problem.

Wei Ran returned the script in his hand to Andy, "Since the window is facing south, the utility room in the script should be on the west side of the hunter's cabin, which is where the entrance is now, otherwise the setting sun would not be able to enter From the utility room."

"I'm going to lift the floor of the platform outside the door now"

Andy put down the script in his hand, reached out and took down a rusty ax hanging on the wall, and walked towards the door.

"Ralph, go and help Andy, maybe he has found the entrance to the basement."

"Oh! Good!"

Under Wei Ran's reminder, Ralph quickly put down the firewood he just brought in, took an ice pick hanging on the wall, and followed Andy.

On the other hand, Wei Ran did not stand up from the sofa from the beginning to the end, but reached out to pick up the other half of the script that Andy had just put down, and continued to read the familiar lines above:
In the cold utility room, Dr. Jason took off his military cap and lowered his voice to a minimum, "Mr. Conon, even without your chasing, even without this blizzard, we would have already missed the opportunity to send us to the hospital." The ship back to Germany. In other words, we have no chance of leaving Finland or Norway alive."

Conon blocked the narrow wooden door of the utility room with his body, and asked in a cold tone, "Are you trying to surrender to me?"

Dr. Jason held his military cap in one hand, and took out a cloth bag from his pocket with the other hand, "Surrender? No, no, no, it doesn't make any sense to surrender or not. But if you can, please do so in this stupid situation." After the war is over, send Yannick's relics back to his home."

Conon, who blocked the door of the house, said after a long silence, "I can accept your surrender and do my best to let you enjoy the treatment that prisoners of war deserve under the Geneva Convention."

Dr. Jason put back the military cap with the eagle emblem and edelweiss on his head, "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Conon. But let us retain the last dignity and honor of being a soldier."

It was only at this time that Conon took the cloth bag that the other party had been holding and put it in his arms, "After the war, if I am still alive, if I can go to Germany, I will give these relics to Yannick's family .”

"If I am alive by then, we can sit together and have a drink like real friends. There is a bar opposite Yannick's gallery. Of course, if I don't live, please tell Yannick's wife, her father will never die. Love her."

"You are."

Dr. Jason nodded, "Yannick is my son-in-law. I tried a lot to find a way to make him my ambulance driver. I thought it would protect his safety, and I thought I could bring him back home's"

"Is there anything else I need to do?"

"Leave her some hope of being alive, try... try not to let her know that Yannick is dead, they still have a child to support, she...she needs an excuse to live."

Closing the unfinished script, Wei Ran leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes. He didn't know that Dr. Jason called Conon to the utility room alone after Yannick died until he saw the completely handwritten script. chat content.It wasn't until this time that he realized that Yannick was actually Dr. Jason's son-in-law!
Finally, recalling everything that happened in the hunter's hut, Wei Ran secretly sighed. He couldn't imagine how the serious German doctor endured the grief and gave the other living people a smile. Weaving the dream of going home.And what kind of mood is it to find the enemy who stands on the opposite side when he is alive, and muster up the courage to give the other party trust and the relics left to his daughter.

"Found it!" Outside the door of the hunter's hut, Andy and Ralph exclaimed in unison, pulling Wei Ran back to his thoughts.

Putting the script in his hand back into the waterproof bag with great care, Wei Ran rubbed his face vigorously, got up and walked out of the warm hunter's hut.

After such a short time, the wooden platform at the door has been lifted by Andy and Ralph, revealing a small square wooden platform slightly above the ground.

Seeing Wei Ran coming out, Ralph immediately took out his mobile phone and turned on the recording function, stuffed it into Wei Ran's hand, and then communicated with Andy by gestures.The two of them worked together to pry open the firmly nailed planks on the small wooden platform with the tools in their hands, and the ice cellar, which had been covered in dust for more than half a century, was shrouded in sunlight again.

Tilting his head to see the situation at the bottom of the ice cellar, Wei Ran nodded secretly. Compared with the original ice cellar, the ice cellar has been carefully reinforced. Not only is there a log frame smashed into the permafrost around it, but also a layer of animal skin on it.

And at the bottom of the frosty cellar, you can still vaguely see a few corpses wrapped in animal skins, lying quietly on a wooden board about half a meter above the ground.

After turning off the recording function, Wei Ran returned the phone to Ralph, "When will Mr. Noah arrive?"

Ralph took the phone and replied hastily, "Tomorrow noon, at the earliest, we can arrive at noon tomorrow."

Hearing this, Wei Ran turned his head and suggested to Andy, "Mr. Andy, one of the descendants of those bones in the ice cellar will arrive at noon tomorrow, why not wait for him to arrive and send them away."

"No problem, of course no problem!"

Andy, who was startled by the bones in the ice cellar, hastily agreed to Wei Ran's suggestion. Although he had always wanted to find the ice cellar of this hunter's lodge, he was only curious about the script that had been passed down in the family for two generations. Whether the story is true or not, now that the story has been verified, all that remains is the fear of the corpse.

"Victor, I want to stay here tonight." Ralph, who was also taken aback just now, calmed down and said, "Translate for me, I hope to get Andy's consent."

After listening to Wei Ran's translation, Andy nodded and agreed to Ralph's request without hesitation, and at the same time said that he would stay tonight.

Both of them stayed, and Wei Ran naturally couldn't go back by himself, so after Andy and Ralph repeatedly promised that they would send him directly to the airport by helicopter tomorrow, it was logical to stay again in this city full of people. A hunter's lodge filled with memories and stories.

As the night fell outside, Andy skillfully dug out a kerosene lamp and an oil drum used by the German army in World War II from the utility room that had been changed.

Wei Ran, who was watching the excitement, shook his head dumbfoundingly. These things were pulled here by sleigh carts at that time, but he didn't expect that they were still in use after more than half a century.

Under Andy's busy schedule, the not-so-big hunter's lodge was quickly illuminated by chirping kerosene lamps.Afterwards, he moved out a plastic box from the utility room, took out some self-heating food and bottled water frozen into icicles, and explained, "In winter, I occasionally come here with friends to hunt, so prepare Lots of food and drink."

"A Finn and a German are really similar to the winter of 1944." Wei Ran couldn't help muttering.

Andy was taken aback when he heard this, and nodded with a smile, "Fortunately, we are not both friends and enemies like in the winter of 1944. Even more fortunately, there are probably not many Soviets left in this world. But frankly speaking, Until we discovered the entrance to the ice cellar, I thought it was just a wild story in a script."

"The reality is far more absurd than the story," Ralph lamented after listening to Wei Ran's translation, "It would be great if there was a chance to interpret that script."

"Act that play?"

Wei Ran did not expect that Ralph's flash of ideas would be approved by Andy, so that for the next half an hour, the two of them have been discussing the feasibility of this matter with the help of Wei Ran's translation .

As the night fell, the three sat down around the table next to the window at Wei Ran's suggestion after eating and drinking, picked up the box of playing cards produced during the war, and started playing at the suggestion of the initiator. Fight the Landlords.

What surprised Wei Ran was that Andy seemed to have inherited some talent from his grandfather Carl. Among other things, at least this card skill is really powerful.After figuring out the rules of the game, this seemingly kind and honest ski instructor managed to win almost everything.Even the few banknotes on Wei Ran and Ralph became his spoils of war.

Unsurprisingly, he lost the last paper ticket in his hand, and there was no need to continue the game.And at some point outside the window, there was already a breeze.

The three of them slept by the warm fireplace until dawn, and a helicopter landed on the open space outside the hunter's hut with the roar of propellers.

As the cabin door opened, the silver-haired old lady Tinia was the first to be helped down, followed by a wheelchair stained with various colors of paint, and the last one to be helped down was Mr. Noah who rushed from Germany urgently.

For the next thing, Wei Ran hid in the corner with interest, silently watching Noah and the old lady Tinia, who was not a few years younger than him, talking in proficient Finnish, watching the two old people read carefully. Listening to every line in that script, and hidden in those lines, about their father's experience.

After a long time, Noah closed the script carefully, "Tinia, can I take them home?"

Tinia nodded, "Of course, my friend, they have been waiting for a long time."

Noah nodded gratefully, then walked to Wei Ran's side, and handed over a hard wallet with the same grateful attitude, "Mr. Victor, you really helped me find my father. This is your reward. The rest Please let me do it myself."

Wei Ran took the leather wallet and opened it, and inside was a check for 10 euros.

Putting the check away, Wei Ran said with interest, "The rest will be troublesome for you. If it is convenient, please arrange a helicopter to take me to the airport. My flight will take off soon."

Noah nodded in satisfaction, "Ralph, take Mr. Victor to the airport."

After bidding farewell to Noah, accompanied by Ralph, Wei Ran boarded the helicopter to the airport with a check for [-] euros.As for the [-] euros in cash that Noah paid before, the two parties did not mention it as if they forgot.

For Wei Ran, although the final ending left a trace of regret because of the deliberate secrecy of the two old people.But on the other hand, I have to admit that since I got that weird book, the benefits of this Lapland campaign are almost the most rewarding and the most relaxing.

Not to mention that the time experienced on the battlefield is short enough, and there is no actual firefight throughout the whole process.Most importantly, he also harvested an amazingly powerful anti-tank gun with ample ammunition.Of course, there is also a full 16 euros paid by the generous Noah.

Thinking about the semi-automatic rifle obtained during the last battle between the Finns and the Soviets, Wei Ran in the business class has already classified Finland as a "treasure of geomantic omen". Brush the "copy" of Finland, maybe one day if you are lucky, you can get a German 88mm anti-everything, and then it will be exciting.

Thinking wildly all the way, the long flight also became much faster.After an eight-hour flight, as the plane landed at the Capital Airport, Wei Ran, who had slept comfortably in the second half of the flight, also woke up in a daze.

He secretly moved his left hand, which was covered with a blanket before going to bed, and saw that he didn't take out anything from the metal book that could scare people to death, so he stretched himself, yawned and stood up in a daze .

It took more than half a day to rush back to his hometown in Cangzhou. Before returning home, Wei Ran went to the supermarket and bought a big bag of seasonings and two big boxes of chocolates.These things are naturally prepared for the food box. Even if they don't need it this time, at least they can be used in the future.

Before his parents got off work, Wei Ran quietly sneaked into the house Sui Sui helped him decorate.After carefully checking the rooms to make sure no one else was there, he immediately locked the door and drew the curtains, then took out the food box, and filled the gaps on the two floors with seasonings and chocolate bought on the road.

Retrieving the full food box, Wei Ran looked up at the two large poles serving as the background wall, and then patiently checked all the used and unused items in the metal book, until After making sure that there were no omissions, he stood under the background wall composed of two large lifting poles, and solemnly summoned the metal book that turned into a tattoo.

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