War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 315 Recognized?
After staying in Uralsk, the border city of Hasa for an extra day, Wei Ran returned to Volgograd at Anna's request.

As for the secret between the blonde woman and the man in camouflage uniform, he didn't have time to wait for the result.

On the day when he returned to the studio, Wei Ran had no time to rest, so he began to assess the theoretical knowledge he had learned before under Anna's supervision.

Although the assessment site was changed to a studio that she was more familiar with, the final result was not satisfactory. With this excuse, Anna also adjusted the focus of next month's study to theoretical knowledge. As for Mr. Gorman, it was early Before Wei Ran came back, he rushed to Finland to find Jima.

Taking advantage of the last two days of this month's class, Anna, who was eating and drinking, stopped Wei Ran's class and began to supervise him to practice the violin that had been abandoned for a long time.

Such a course arrangement that jumps faster than a rabbit not only made Wei Ran a little overwhelmed, but also tortured the ears of the employees of the travel agency next door. Even Mr. Nicholas suspended his daily work. At noon, I went to the travel agency for lunch.

After being held in the travel agency by Anna to saw the wood for the last two days, Wei Ran, who was finally relieved, sent off Teacher Anna with all the staff of the travel agency next door.

But before the taxi she took disappeared from sight, the car Gorman and Jima took stopped at the door of the studio.

"Why are you here?" Wei Ran subconsciously asked with the violin in one hand and the bow in the other.

"Mr. Gorman, it seems that this bastard doesn't welcome us."

Ji Ma's mouth was full of yin and yang, but those two legs walked into the studio with his upper body upright, and poured himself a cup of coffee familiarly.

"The bastard will welcome us soon"

Gorman walked in with a smile, took a sip from the coffee cup pushed by Jima and said, then squeezed out two cubes of sugar from the sugar dish, threw one into the coffee cup, and threw the other into his mouth, vaguely He said indistinctly, "Jima, please explain."

"Not long ago, Matthew, the little guy from Italy, called me"

Ji Ma put his two legs on the long table, and said while shaking the chair with only two legs touching the ground, "That little guy even specially found an interpreter. To put it simply, his parents have already arrived from Antarctica. I’m back, and I’m going to meet Mr. Charlotte in England, either in England or in Italy.”

"Have you asked Mr. Charlotte?" Wei Ran also poured himself a cup of coffee and asked.

"asked"

Jima nodded and continued, "Mr. Charlotte is going to visit Italy. He hopes you can go with him and talk about other things by the way, but he didn't elaborate on what it is."

"And one more thing"

Gorman took out a document from his briefcase and pushed it to Wei Ran, "A few months ago, Charlotte agreed to let Time Film Studios film the story about the oil barrel in the North African desert. This time you go At that time, by the way, ask the descendants of other parties for their opinions, and it is best to get them to sign the power of attorney."

"Actually, I don't think they need to ask for their consent at all," Jima muttered.

"What do you know?" Gorman glared at Jima, "We will continue to go to the bar tonight, if we fail again this time, you will run back from the bar naked."

"You are."

"nothing"

Gorman said with a smile before Jima spoke, "The filming of their film in Finland will start soon. I will take him to learn the characters and expressions of various people."

"Then I wish you a happy study." Wei Ran wisely stopped his curiosity, and did not continue to ask why Jima insisted on going to the bar to study.

“The learning process was really enjoyable”

Jima rubbed his lower back subconsciously, changed the subject and said, "Victor, if you have time, you'd better leave quickly, Mr. Charlotte has already arrived in Italy."

"He's already here?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, then rubbed his face vigorously and said helplessly, "I'm leaving tonight."

Before he finished speaking, Gorman had already pulled out a ticket and pushed it over, reminding him with a smile, "There are still two hours before the flight takes off."

"Thank you so much." Wei Ran glared at Jima who was gloating, and got up helplessly and walked to the bedroom on the second floor to pack his luggage.

Although the original plan to take a good rest for a few days was interrupted, after all, he had agreed to go to Italy with Charlotte in the summer, so naturally he couldn't break his promise now, and on the other hand, he really wanted to Meet the eccentric family in their current identities.

Driving the car to the airport in a hurry, Wei Ran didn't even have time to go to the bathroom, and trotted all the way to finish all the things before boarding the plane.

At the end of the long flight, when he stepped out of the airport in Turin, Mr. Charlotte had been waiting for a long time.

And beside him, there was a couple standing.These two people are also interesting, the man has thick natural curly hair, and the woman has a gentle face, but they each hold a small cup of espresso in their left hand and a corner of pizza in their right. Matthew, who was so smart, pouted beside the couple, holding a large pizza box.

"Victor, you're finally here."

Charlotte immediately introduced enthusiastically in Italian after Wei Ran walked out of the airport, "These two are Mr. Golan and Ms. Marta. As for this cute little guy, it is their son Matthew .”

"Hi!" Wei Ran waited for the couple to take the pizza in their mouths in unison before shaking hands with them.

"Please forgive our faux pas"

Matthew's father Golan said apologetically, "We just came back from Antarctica not long ago and sat in that big refrigerator for half a year. Now these pizzas are too tempting for us."

"It's okay." Wei Ran complimented with a smile, "Italian pizza is really delicious."

"Mr. Victor, would you like a piece?" the little guy Matthew asked with his neck raised, and at the same time opened the pizza box in his hand.

"Of course." Wei Ran nodded with a smile, took out a corner of the pizza from the pizza box in the opponent's hand, and took a big bite.

Using a piece of pizza to close the distance between the two parties, Charlotte immediately greeted everyone out of the airport and got into a business car.Under Matthew's guidance, the car drove out of the airport smoothly and drove straight to the farm outside the city.

It wasn't until Matthew's parents led them into the house where Matthew's aunt Monica lived that Wei Ran noticed that the clean freak Tassie had been waiting in the living room for a long time wearing a protective suit.

"This is Tassie"

Charlotte took the initiative to introduce, "He just has some slight cleanliness, not."

"It's okay, I understand." Wei Ran smiled and waved his hands.

"In that case, let's get to the point."

As Charlotte said, she opened one of the two suitcases she brought, took out wooden boxes from inside, and said at the same time, "Victor, it's your time now, please put the Let’s repeat the story of North Africa and your investigation experience.”

Wei Ran looked at Charlotte with an old face, then at Matthew's father and the clean freak Tassie who sat a little further away, took a deep breath, and then started from seeing the oil drum, and described the investigation process , and what happened at Charlotte's home, and at the end, he also mentioned in passing that Time Film Studios is going to make their story into a movie.

"The general thing is as Mr. Victor said"

Charlotte waited for Wei Ran to finish telling the story, then opened another suitcase, took out the oil barrel from inside, and then opened the wooden box that was taken out before, and took out bottles of red wine and a A silver flagon.

"I read it in the memoirs co-authored by Mr. Trento and Mr. Pierre. Mr. Trento opened a bar on the second floor of the Guppie Pasta Restaurant. I went there to sit there yesterday."

Charlotte looked at Taci, who was a little far away, and asked, "I want to ask for your opinions. Is it okay to put the gift my father gave you and this oil barrel in that bar?"

"Of course we don't have a problem"

Golan, who had been listening to the story just now, hugged his son Matthew and said, "But that bar is the property of Tassie, so he needs to nod and agree to this matter."

Tassie, who was covered in protective clothing, said, "Of course I have no objection, but the bar has been rented out together with the restaurant downstairs. Although the woman who runs the bar is very unhygienic, she at least puts It is well protected there, let Matthew go talk to the woman tomorrow, it will definitely be fine."

Hearing this, Charlotte heaved a sigh of relief, while Wei Ran, who had finished most of the work, tried his best to hold back his smile, trying not to let the flat expression on his face show any flaws.

"Since Mr. Charlotte has decided to send these precious gifts to that bar for preservation."

Matthew's father, Mr. Golan, glanced at Tassie, waited for the other party to nod, and then continued, "In this case, take Tassie's grandfather, Mr. Trento, and my grandfather, Mr. Pierre, from North Africa. Put that bottle of red wine from the war in that bar, too, Tassie, and I hope the girl who rents the bar won't drink it secretly."

"I'll let Matthew talk to her," Tassie said solemnly, and Matthew's mother immediately got up when she saw this, and took out a bottle of red wine fixed in an old-fashioned wooden ammunition box from the inside.

"Is this the bottle of red wine mentioned in the memoirs of those two gentlemen?" Charlotte asked in surprise.

"It's that bottle of red wine," Golan said proudly. "It has been preserved for seventy or eighty years, and it has always been packed in this wooden box."

"you."

Charlotte tentatively asked, "Just now Tassie said that the bar has been rented out. Would it be more dangerous to put this bottle of wine there?"

"No." Taci glanced at Wei Ran, "I will talk to the person who rented the place, he may be a trustworthy person."

Wei Ran, who was originally watching the play, was heartbroken, and after looking at each other for half a second, he chatted with Matthew about the academic performance issues that all adults love to hear.

"I hope so"

Charlotte was still a little uneasy, "Maybe I can pay the liquidated damages to put the restaurant and the bar upstairs"

"Never mind Mr. Charlotte"

Tasi Tanshou, "Unless you go there and run them yourself, they will be taken care of by others, and you have also seen my situation. It is obviously not realistic to run restaurants and bars."

"We can't give up our current job"

Matthew's father, Mr. Golan, said freely, "Mr. Charlotte, that's just a bottle of wine. What's more precious in comparison is the friendship between me and Tassi's grandfather and your father, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)