War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 280 Just want to live?
In front of Karenina's tombstone, Wei Ran gently put down a bunch of blooming sunflowers, then got up and followed Mr. Nicholas out of the cemetery.

"Tell me about your experience in Vienna."

After Nicholas waited for the car to start up again, he asked casually while flipping through the "Anna Karenina" brought back by Wei Ran.

It was said that Wei Ran, who hadn't spoken much since getting off the plane, described all the experiences of the previous two days in detail.

Nicholas closed the famous book in his hand and put it on the seat beside him, "In this case, after returning to Tyumen, you and I will go to the library together."

"Mr. Nicholas" Wei Ran couldn't help asking, "The other party said that I will be her boss in the future, this."

"If you don't mind having an extra employee, then so be it."

Nikolai looked at the sparkling Tula River outside the window and said, "The Katenka I knew is dead, and the Katenka I know now is no longer the Katenka I knew. Besides, how many years can I live?" Woolen cloth?"

"But."

"But you are from China?" Nicholas smiled, "What a coincidence, none of us are from the Soviet Union, are we?"

"But it's useless for me to have such an employee"

Wei Ran finally told the truth. In comparison, Ji Ma can still run errands for him, but what about that beautiful girl named Kajianka?Is it possible to really help yourself run the Guppy Well Pasta Restaurant?Or help yourself to collect European intelligence?
But what's the use of collecting it?This kind of thing can't be avoided by oneself, the brain will be gnawed by the Poles and the rabbit riders from both sides at the same time, and then they will take the initiative to get up.

"I didn't expect Katenka to train a successor for herself, let alone she has already suffered from Alzheimer's disease."

Nicholas sighed, and said bluntly, "I can trust Katenka buried in that cemetery, but I can't trust the little girl you described. But obviously, I can't let you kill that girl." The child. And since Katenka has left all the work to her, she cannot be let out of control."

"So leave this trouble to me?"

"trouble?"

Nicholas snorted, "Katenka is the best intelligence collector. People who were trained by her since childhood, no matter how bad they are, should be enough to be your teacher in intelligence collection work. Such talents are willing to work for you. Work, why do you see her as trouble?"

"But I can't use it." Wei Ran said helplessly, "What can I ask her to do? Could you help me investigate the truth of history?"

"Why not?" Nicholas asked back as a matter of course, "You can give her some things that need to be investigated, maybe she is not necessarily worse than you in terms of being a historian. "

"Since you admire it so much, why not"

"As I said, I just don't trust the new Katenka, but that doesn't mean she isn't trustworthy or capable enough."

Nikolai sighed again when he said this, and asked, "Victor, do you know why she is called Katenka?"

"Because of the city of Kamenka?" Wei Ran slightly slowed down the car and gave the answer.

"She took a few letters from her own name, Karenina, and her parents' names, replaced the middle part of the city's name, and became Katenka."

Nicholas explained to himself, "That is a smart girl who likes reading and can write poetry. The children she raises will not be much worse than her. Victor, give her a job." , if you are not willing to bear the salary of this employee, I can decide to make up for the corresponding expenses from the profits of Time Film Studio."

"why?"

Wei Ran simply parked the car on the bank of the Tula River, turned around and looked at Nicholas and asked all the doubts in his heart, "What exactly do you want to do? Revive the Soviet Union?"

"Reviving the Soviet Union?"

Nicholas suddenly laughed and leaned back, "Thank you for thinking of it, resurrecting the Soviet Union? How could you have such a strange and idiotic idea? Don't say that the Soviet Union cannot appear on this planet again, even if someone really has such an idea , I'm afraid even I will shoot him in the head to calm him down."

"Then what are you going to do?"

"Just survive"

Nikolai's mood seemed to improve a lot, and he explained patiently, "After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, we all had our own choices.

Some people choose to work for former enemies, and some people choose to return to their hometown or escape from this circle to start a new life.Of course, there are also people like Katenka who patiently lurk and wait for new orders.Or continue to work hard for the young Russia.

But no matter what choice you make, everyone seems to have turned into a rat crossing the street overnight, and there are many more guarded and hostile eyes around you.To put it bluntly, everyone is not doing well. "

"So?" Wei Ran plucked up the courage to continue asking.

"So everyone started huddling together to keep warm again, trying to make themselves live safer, and then live more comfortably. Now and in the future, it is for everyone to live like a happy ordinary person."

"What about me?" Wei Ran looked at the other party seriously, "What do you want me to do, or what do you want to do through me?"

"Didn't you deliver it yourself?"

Nicholas asked back, "I didn't force you to find out where the gifts you prepared for your parents were hidden with a gun, and then forced you to go to Hongqi Forest Farm to study."

Ignoring the embarrassed Wei Ran, Nicholas continued, "We really want to use you to do something, but we just want to use your foreigner status, use some of the relationships we can mobilize, and earn some money. Road to clean money.

Use this money to let more old guys like me who may die at any time, or like Karp and the others who can only wait quietly to become poor wretches like me, and live better in the days to come Just be more comfortable. "

"Just these?" Wei Ran looked at him suspiciously.

"Otherwise?" Nicholas asked back, "Is it like you said, to revive the Soviet Union? There are such people, but basically they all died in the last century."

"I hope so." Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator again, and drove the car to the direction of Qiumen.

As for Nicholas' explanation just now, he has no way of distinguishing the truth from the false, but he knows that he has no way to ask anything from the other party's mouth.But fortunately, at least the untrue answer given by the other party so far relatively reassures him a lot.

"So what about that girl?" Nicholas asked hotly.

"Can I still refuse?"

Wei Ran rolled his eyes, although Bai picked up a female subordinate who seemed to be capable and really beautiful, but he couldn't be happy at all, and always had the illusion of being cheated.

Taking Nicholas back to the urban area of ​​​​Tyumen, Wei Ran found Qiumen's library with the help of navigation, and under the witness of Nicholas, he stuffed the "Anna Karenina" that was secretly brought in On the shelves filled with various Russian classics.

After finishing the last job, Wei Ran took a photo of the shelf with an extra book, and then bid farewell to Mr. Nikolai who was going to stay in Tyumen for a few more days, and boarded the flight to Volgograd alone.

However, when he hurried back to the studio, he immediately frowned.Because on the long table at the entrance, there was an open glasses case.

What was contained in the glasses case was, of course, the crucial clue items in the job about the gold treasure introduced by Herbert that he had rejected at the beginning.

(End of this chapter)