War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 357
In the small wooden house where the wind and snow were blowing, a few old guys from KGB sat around the warm campfire, enjoying a big pot of braised rabbit meat, and on the table not far away, there was a big bucket of soaked rabbit meat. Spicy rabbit head in marinade.

"Victor, are those rabbit heads still inedible?" Karp asked while pinching a soup-stained rabbit leg.

"At least wait 8 hours and re-boil before eating."

Wei Ran picked up his wine glass and touched Teacher Anna beside him, and explained absently that he was not in the mood to listen to these old guys deliberately chatting in English that he could not understand. He just wanted to find a quiet place as soon as possible and use the The metal book went to that POW Olympics.

"It's okay, the snow hasn't stopped outside yet, we have plenty of time." Teacher Dalia said nonchalantly.

"How long do you plan to stay in this small broken house?" Wei Ran asked helplessly. These old guys have been eating for almost two hours since the meal was ready. There is no plan to end for a while.

"Don't worry, just be patient." Teacher Anna comforted me gently, "We can go back when those rabbit heads are ready to eat."

"Are you worried that someone will follow me?" Wei Ran guessed the thoughts of these old guys in a flash.

"Always be careful." Karp threw the gnawed rabbit legs into the tin bucket aside, admitting Wei Ran's guess.

"Will someone really come?" Wei Ran frowned.

"It's best if no one comes here." Although Gorman said so, the expectation in his tone was not concealed at all.

"It made me nervous." Wei Ran muttered to himself, but he had already put down the cup in his hand.After all, he is not a kid, and alcohol has no buff to his combat effectiveness.

"It's just out of caution." Teacher Anna gently comforted her. While speaking, she picked up the wine glass and touched Dahlia beside her, pouring it into her mouth as usual.

Regardless of whether he was scaring himself or not, in the next few hours, Wei Ran, who was struggling with alcohol and drowsiness, did not dare to close his eyes at all. From time to time, he would get up and go to the bedside to see the still falling outside. Goose feather heavy snow.

On the other hand, those teachers found a warm place to sleep on the ground after eating and drinking, and they didn't seem to worry about anyone touching them at all.

The ten-hour period seemed extremely long in Wei Ran's tense waiting and vigilance. Fortunately, until the sky outside the window was illuminated by the unwarming and invisible sun again, until the heavy snow had stopped After coming down, these old guys also woke up one after another, and Gorman even took the initiative to put the spicy rabbit head full of a tin bucket in the fireplace that had been burning with a bonfire.

When the spicy and spicy smell filled the not-so-big wooden house, Gorman immediately poked a fork into what seemed to be the largest rabbit meat, took a tentative bite, and then spat out the peppercorns in his mouth and asked , "Victor, how do you eat this thing?"

"Its flesh and bones are edible, but the bones are best chewed."

Wei Ran took out a wet towel and wiped his hands, picked up a rabbit's head and opened his chin, and performed a demonstration with his usual expression.After all, he didn't tamper with the bucket of marinade, but even so, it is estimated that these old guys still couldn't escape the result of multiple dates with the toilet.

"Are you sure this thing is edible?" Karp picked up a maroon rabbit head and blew off the peppercorns on it and asked suspiciously.

"Of course you can eat it. It's the most popular delicacy in China." Wei Ran explained solemnly, taking advantage of the situation, he also broke off the head of the rabbit's head in his hand, and ate the brain inside.

"It's a strange diet, it really tastes like being poisoned." Teacher Dalia frowned and commented.

"This kind of thing should be served with cold beer." Wei Ran put down the half-eaten rabbit head and said while taking a breath, "It really doesn't taste right to eat this kind of thing without beer."

"Then take it home and eat it." Karp wisely chose to give up.

"Can I go back too?" Wei Ran asked with a sigh of relief.

"sure"

Gorman replied while moving his numb mouth, "We will send you to the airport later."

"Don't forget the interview in Moscow on February 2," teacher Daria reminded, "You'd better arrive one day in advance."

"No problem, no problem." Wei Ran started to help clean up the wine bottles and various food packaging bags all over the floor while speaking.

After simply cleaning up the hygiene in the hunter's hut, Wei Ran followed Gorman into the van that was almost buried in the snow, and was the first to leave the hunter's hut hidden in the coniferous forest.

It wasn't until their car disappeared that Karp asked, "Hasn't anyone been here?"

"No, not even a dog."

While responding to Karp, an old man in his fifties, wearing a white auspicious suit and carrying an SVD sniper rifle on his shoulder, came out from behind a pine tree not far away.

"Thank you." While talking, Garp handed over a package of spicy rabbit heads to the other party, "That little guy made it, and it tastes very good."

"Thank you." The old man took the plastic bag containing the spicy rabbit head, turned around and went into the coniferous forest again.

"Let's go back too"

As Karp said, he picked up the rope connected to the small sled and put it on his shoulders, pulled the leftovers and the garbage they made, chatted with Daria and Teacher Anna, and walked towards the cross-country park that was parked a few hundred meters away. car.

At the same time, the van driven by Gorman also drove out of the coniferous forest with difficulty, crushing the thick snow and heading towards the city of Vladivostok.

"Thanks to your help this time," Gorman said abruptly.

"It's nothing." Wei Ran shook his head, and took advantage of the situation to put away the cap badge that he had been looking at just now.

"It's really nothing to you, but it's very important to me." Gorman paused here, and continued, "I also want to thank your girlfriend for helping Makar."

"It's just mutual benefit." Wei Ran said frankly, Sui Sui did help Makar, but she didn't suffer at all.

Gorman smiled, and did not continue the topic. He drove the car all the way to the city of Vladivostok in silence, and sent Wei Ran to the door of a hotel that looked clean.

"Tomorrow there will be a flight to Huaxia, and I have already bought the ticket for you." Before Gorman left, he handed a ticket to Wei Ran, "Okay, I also dare to fly back to Kazan. Victor, Happy Chinese New Year."

Hearing the out-of-key Chinese blessing that came out of the other party's mouth, Wei Ran smiled and replied, "Happy Chinese New Year, Mr. Gorman."

Watching Gorman's car disappear at the end of the street, Wei Ran looked back at the hotel behind him. After hesitating for a while, he turned on his mobile phone to search, then stopped a taxi, and changed to a hotel at random.

After checking in, he got into the room, locked the door, and carefully checked the room, which was not too big and the environment was definitely not good, until he was sure there was no problem, then he drew the curtains and summoned the metal book.

On the way back from the United States, he had been looking up information about the sports meeting. If it hadn't been delayed by Gorman's affairs, and it was inconvenient for Sui Sui to be by his side at that time, he would have wanted to take action a long time ago.

While he was waiting nervously, the metal book flipped to the blank page 17, and the metal quill also drew a big hand. In the palm of this hand lay the five-pointed star cap badge.

However, just when Wei Ran took a deep breath to remember his identity and return to his mission, and then greeted the glaring white light.But the metal quill pen wrote four flamboyant characters under the pattern just drawn - the military rank is too low.

"What's the matter?"

Wei Ran let out an exclamation full of doubts, and at the same time, the metal quill also fell on the paper with a thud, and the pattern drawn just now, and even the four big characters seemed to go back in time, visible to the naked eye. The speed dissipated, and finally turned into a pale yellow blank paper again!
"There is a military rank requirement for this thing?"

Wei Ran unbelievably turned the metal book to the first page, under his photo and name, the column of military rank was still a second lieutenant.

What does this rank represent?Wei Ran gently picked up the cap badge on the table and held it in the palm of his hand, muttering to himself suspiciously.

He is now used to the existence of this unreasonable metal book, and he is also used to all the conveniences it brings to him, and he is even more used to the sinister intentions of the metal book that always wants to kill him and the various tricks it does from time to time.But even so, the scene just happened still made him more and more confused while being surprised.

In other words, some historical events have requirements for military ranks.So this situation may also be encountered in the future?Wei Ran flicked his palm again, secretly thinking about the criteria for judging the requirements of the military rank in this metal book.

The intensity of the war?Obviously not, objectively speaking, whether it is the Battle of Stalingrad or the Battle of Berlin, whichever one is taken out, it is more bloody and cruel than most battlefields that took place after World War II, so obviously, there should be no difference between military rank and the intensity of the war. Logic.

But if it has nothing to do with the intensity, in which aspect is there a requirement for military rank?After thinking about it to no avail, Wei Ran could only take out the medical box in the metal book with regret on his face, and put the cap badge in his hand on the bottom of the medical box. The letter that the little nurse left for him during the battle against Teng County put together.

Putting away the medical kit, Wei Ran lay on the bed with the metal book, and began to think about ways to advance to the military rank.

This point is a little simpler than the question just now. The first time I got a military rank was when I was in the defense of Teng County. After I came back that time, not only got the military rank, but also changed the notebook in my hand to a rusty one. Metal skin.

Was it because he almost died on the battlefield that time?Wei Ran shook his head the moment he thought of this, obviously not, although this metal book has always been difficult for him, but its purpose is probably not to really want to kill him.

Keeping this unanswerable doubt in his heart, Wei Ran put away the metal notebook and wrapped it in a quilt. Since the military rank is too low now, let’s talk about it later. Besides, it seems that the Chinese New Year is about to happen, so what if we meet again? Tengxian made himself half dead like last time, can't he survive this year?

(End of this chapter)