War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 372 About Lineage

It wasn't until the horizon completely blocked the setting sun that Sauron ran out of the room with his mobile phone in his hands, and said excitedly, "Victor, can you imagine that I not only have Jewish blood, but also a last nobleman?" and Polish blood! And my mother was Danish! Of course, I knew that last."

"Is it just a high-level string?" Wei Ran teased secretly, and asked with a smile, "It seems that the diary and those letters contain the answers you need?"

"Although those diaries didn't say much, my father and I have just combined the contents of those letters to piece together what happened here at that time."

Sauron spoke indirectly through the keys handed over by Wei Ran, locked the anti-theft doors of the Kraken Tavern one by one, and then issued an invitation, "Victor, how about staying here for a day? My father will come over tomorrow, just Like me just now, he was shocked, and he couldn't believe that there is still a family cemetery belonging to us in Ferm."

"You don't know about that cemetery?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

Sauron spread his hands, "Before seeing that diary, my father and I always insisted that our respective grandfathers were just ordinary fishermen, so tomorrow we may need your help to find that cemetery together. "

"It's not my strong suit"

Wei Ran followed the other party to the car parked not far away and said, "And I was just lucky to find those things this time. This is the first time I have investigated the historical truth so quickly."

"Your luck is indeed good, but luck is also part of strength"

Sauron closed the car door and asked, "Don't talk about that, Victor, do you know what the [-]st Saxony Guards Heavy Cavalry Regiment is? Frankly speaking, although I am a German, I have never heard of this cavalry regiment."

"Simply put, the elite of the Kingdom of Saxony"

Wei Ran paused at this point, and corrected himself, "Perhaps it can be said that they are the elite of the elite. Although the Kingdom of Sax was merged into the Weimar regime later, this cavalry regiment is still the elite."

"No more?" Sauron looked at Wei Ran who was sitting in the co-pilot and asked.

Wei Ran spread his hands, "I don't know much about the history before World War II, and it's not bad to know so much."

"I should have known that I should check that desk in detail." Sauron joked after starting the engine, "This way I don't have to pay the agreed 30 euros."

"If you think it's too expensive, I can give you a discount." Wei Ran responded with a smile, and at the same time, he was ready for the other party to renege on the debt. After all, it seemed too simple on the surface this time.

"No, no, business is business, and we must abide by the agreement."

Sauron smiled after finishing speaking, "On the other hand, although the money is a lot, the price-performance ratio is actually very high, because you helped me find the truth I wanted to know in the shortest time, didn't you?"

You are a rich second generation, you are right in everything you say.Wei Ran slandered in his heart, but changed the topic to other aspects with a calm smile on his face.

During the chat between the two, Sauron drove the car to the entrance of a hotel not far away. As for the beach motorcycle he drove past at that time, he had obviously forgotten about it.

At Sauron's invitation, Wei Ran enjoyed a sumptuous seafood meal with the other party. During the dinner, he also got a general understanding of this employer with a fairly good personality and his father.

It's hard to imagine that the dream of this innocent rich second generation is to participate in the Olympic sailing competition.And the club he wanted to build with the reconstructed Siren Tavern turned out to be that after he missed the Olympics several times, he decided to take second place and prepare to personally train a player who could participate in the Olympic sailing competition.

However, such a grand ideal reached Wei Ran's mouth, but it was summed up vividly by the sour sentence "burn with money, eat with full".

Compared to this rich second-generation Sauron who was a little bit idle, his father, the old guy named Olaf, was the real fierce man.

To put it simply, Sauron's old father made the most successful investment in his life when he married a wealthy lady who was somewhat related to the Danish royal family.As for the return on this investment, in addition to Sauron, a stupid son who can only spend money but does not make money, and is even single in his thirties, Mr. Olaf has struggled for several years at the same age, relying on a A good wife has passed the initial stage of capital accumulation.

Since the other party's family is well-off, Wei Ran has no other ideas, so after the dinner, he honestly accepted the 200,000 euros in cash and a check for [-] euros that the other party had prepared a long time ago, beaming with joy Back at the hotel and had a solid sleep.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, when Wei Ran came down from the hotel after receiving a call from Sauron, there was not only an old man with a somewhat haughty expression in the business car waiting for him at the door, but even Mr. Hans who hadn't seen him for a long time Even came.

"Victor, long time no see."

Mr. Hans didn't wait for Wei Ran to sit down, he took the initiative to say hello, "Come here, sit next to me, that proud old guy doesn't bother to sit with us commoners after knowing that he has a noble ancestor. "

"I just don't want to sit with you" Olaf responded dismissively.

"Same, not because I'm Jewish."

Mr. Hans patted his forehead in a happy mood, "Sorry, I forgot, you also have Jewish blood, so let me put it another way, you don't want to sit with me because I don't have any nobles. "

"Can you shut your stinking mouth, you old guy?" Olaf said angrily, "Sauron, drive quickly! Let's go to Ferm!"

"I'm a dentist"

The silver-haired Mr. Hans seemed to like to tease this arrogant old man who looked much younger than him, "Because of my professional habits, I usually ask others to open their mouths."

Olaf glared at Mr. Hans, then snorted coldly, but closed his eyes directly to keep out of sight and out of mind.

Wei Ran smiled helplessly, and wisely decided not to interfere with the bickering of the two old men, and sat honestly in his seat and counted the number of street trees that were rapidly receding outside the window.

Fortunately, the short distance of seven or eight kilometers did not waste much time. When the car stopped, as the door opened, Olaf immediately left the car, obviously tired of Mr. Hans.

"Do you know where the cemetery is?" Olaf asked his son Sauron.

"It's just in the forest south of Ferm Village." Sauron glanced at the large area of ​​cultivated land around him, and said with a blank expression, "I'm worried about whether the cemetery is still there."

At the same time, Wei Ran, who helped Mr. Hans get out of the car, was also looking around. Obviously, the relatively peaceful half a century after the end of World War II has brought earth-shaking changes here.

Not only was the area of ​​Ferm Village at that time expanded several times, but the surrounding cultivated land was also contiguous, and the surrounding forest was correspondingly much smaller.

After comparing the topography and landforms of the last time he came here, Wei Ran pointed to the remaining small piece of forest and suggested, "Why don't we go inside and look for it?"

Olaf glanced at Wei Ran, and then waved his hand to another commercial vehicle that came with him. Immediately, several staff members in suits walked into the forest.

Before making them wait long, a man in a suit trotted back, "Sir, we found a cavalry sculpture in the forest, which is less than 200 meters away from here."

"Come on, let's go in and have a look together." After Olaf finished speaking, he refused the support of his son Sauron, and stepped on the fallen leaves all over the ground into the forest.

"I'm not going"

Mr. Hans, who came with him, saw that Sauron had already caught up, so he smiled and whispered to Wei Ran who was supporting him, "Victor, how about we chat alone after the business here is over? "

"Of course, it's my honor." Wei Ran replied politely.

Mr. Hans nodded, raised the walking stick in his hand and pointed to the forest beside the field road, "Alright young man, don't stay with me here, go and have a look, I guess you must be interested."

Wei Ran nodded when he heard the words, helped Mr. Hans get into the car and sat down again, and then trotted after him.After he joined Olaf and his son, he saw at a glance that the two-meter-high cavalry sculpture was now torn apart. The cavalry that was originally riding on the horse had been broken at the middle, and now most of them were buried in the soil. , even his head was gone.

As for the horse he was originally riding on, all that was left was a bare body lying on its side. As for the horse's legs, tail, and head, they also ran away to nowhere.

That's not to mention, even the house where Wei Ran killed the tomb keeper, there is only a remnant stone foundation left.In addition, the neatly arranged wooden crosses in this cemetery at that time were even less visible, replaced by a waist-high piece of withered yellow weeds.

Bending down to pick up a piece of dead wood and breaking off a branch, Wei Ran pulled away the dense weeds, and together with Sauron and the staff, carefully searched for the tombstone recorded in the metal book.

"Victor, tell me about the history of the First Saxony Guards Heavy Cavalry Regiment." Olaf sat on the remaining body of the stone sculpture of the war horse and asked Wei Ran who was not far away.Obviously, this old man has the same history as his son Sauron.

Fortunately, last night, Wei Ran carefully inquired about the history of this cavalry regiment, and even called Professor Alexei to ask for advice, so now he can speak clearly and clearly.When he showed the iconic lion helmet and coat of arms of this cavalry regiment on his mobile phone, and was recognized by Olaf at a glance as exactly the same as the weathervane on the roof of the Kraken Tavern, good news came from Sauron.

Everyone heard the sound and moved over, and then found that under an oak tree at the edge of the cemetery, there was a black tombstone that had just been cleaned.

Just like the description in Wei Ran's metal book, this tombstone is inlaid with a gorgeous flower in red stone.And under this flower, the remaining soil outlines a clear epitaph - "The war is over, some people did not survive, but those who survived chose to end their lives."

"Victor, what kind of flower is this?" Sauron asked curiously.

"Whispering flowers, the national flower of Poland." Wei Ran sighed, gently stroking the inscription on the tombstone, "The one buried here should be the relic of that Ms. Juliet."

"Thank you Victor, I am very satisfied with the results of your investigation."

The proud old man Olaf thanked abruptly, then turned around and said as he walked out, "Clean up the weeds in this cemetery, and carefully look for the missing part of the cavalry sculpture, and find a way to put it back together." it is good."

"Are you going back now?" Sauron asked in surprise, "How about we get the cavalry statue back? It must be placed with the anchor."

"What must it be?"

Olaf walked without looking back and said, "We must let others know that we have that ridiculous aristocratic blood? Sauron, if you have this time, why don't you bring someone to send that poor Ms. Mia in the basement as well?" Come here to be buried, and remember to find her a priest and a decent tombstone when the time comes."

"Then why did you come here?" Sauron muttered in a moderate voice, and then found that Wei Ran was looking at his father's back with a strange expression.

(End of this chapter)