War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 379 The Professor Who Turned Over Again

Although Ji Ma made a lot of jokes in the short few days when he came to China, it also brought a lot of joy.And as Wei Ran's father and Professor Alexei began to go door to door to drink as in previous years, Jima finally played a positive role.

Although this guy keeps saying that he is not used to Huaxia liquor, but as long as he picks up the glass, there is no time left.The key point is that this silly drink is quite good. If you drink too much, you can sleep at most, and you are more honest than Professor Alexei if you are not noisy.

In addition, in the last few days of the year, Ji Ma, who had gone out to drink a few times and gained experience, had already begun to try to grab a bottle of wine and go to the neighbors to have a meal by himself. The two old men who didn't come back, so afraid that this silly boy would fall into the pond, finally had to use the big loudspeaker in the village to shout, and then they took him from the kang of a certain bachelor in the village. Get it back.

On New Year's Eve, the two families and a very happy Jima sat around a large round table filled with food and wine. Wei Ran's grandfather, Mr. Han, raised a glass of wine and said with great enthusiasm, "Come on! Let's Let's have a drink together! Besides, Wei Ran, you told Xiao Ma that if he is willing to come next year, he can bring his parents over too. By then, Sui Sui's grandpa's house will be able to live in, and our house will probably be refurbished Well, definitely live!"

"What did grandpa say?"

Jima asked Wei Ran, who was sitting beside him, in Russian with Chinese words mixed in. He has already mastered the past few days of happy life with wine and meat. It doesn't matter if he doesn't understand Chinese, as long as others look at him when they talk, That must be said to himself, all he has to do is to use WeChat or ask Wei Ran or Sui Sui to help translate it in person.

In addition, he also used the few days when his brain was awake to successfully learn words such as "grandmother", "grandfather", "uncle", "aunt", "cousin", " Cousin", and the most slippery "cousin" and "cousin".

As for the rest to do, it is nothing more than doing a connecting question according to age and gender by relying on the social arrogance that made Sui Sui amazed.

"Let you bring your parents over next year"

Wei Ran helped to translate, dumbfounded. Over the past few days, Ji Ma has almost become a "village favorite".Even since the incident of looking for a little foreigner with a big loudspeaker in the middle of the night a few days ago, now whoever stays Ji Ma for dinner will take the initiative to call Wei Ran's grandfather or Sui Sui's grandfather to report.

"I'll definitely bring them next year!"

After Ji Ma finished speaking, he stood up respectfully and raised his glass to clink with Mr. Han, and a series of scene words such as "Thank you" and "I did it as you like" came out of his mouth. I don't know who taught him.

"This little guy is really interesting." Mr. Zhou touched Wei Ran while speaking, and took a drink from his cup with a smile on his face.

A table of people finished the New Year's Eve dinner lively, and a group of middle-aged and young children from the village who also came back to celebrate the New Year also came to the door.It's just that these children who are still in junior high school at most are not looking for Wei Ran or Sui Sui, they are all looking for Ji Ma.

And the reason is that this guy has too many firecrackers and is willing to take them to play.

Invite Wei Ran and Sui Sui who have become supporting roles, and then invite neighbors and Jima of the same age who have become international drinking buddies these days. A pile of sharp fireworks flocked to the parking lot next to Diantang.

Amidst the cheers and explosions one after another, the night sky was once again lit up with fireworks one by one and dyed in various fleeting colors.

"It's so beautiful!" Sui Sui, who personally sent a large sky-scurrying monkey to the sky, ran back and leaned against Wei Ran's arms and said.

"What?" Wei Ran asked, holding Sui Sui in his arms.

"I said, it's so beautiful!" Sui Sui said close to Wei Ran's ear, and took advantage of the opportunity to kiss him on the cheek.

Glancing at the silly girl in his arms, Wei Ran gave her an even warmer response in the night, and then, as if guilty of guilt, they separated at the moment when the next firework bloomed, and took each other out of their pockets tacitly. He took out a small handful of cannons and lit them with a lighter, and threw them behind Ji Ma's butt who was holding a stick of incense towards Er Tijiao's side.

Amidst the sound of crackling cannons, Ji Ma, who was startled, immediately jumped up on the spot, and then subconsciously followed up with a rollover evasion learned from the Hongqi Forest Farm.

"Victor, you bastard!"

Realizing that he was being tricked, Ji Ma grabbed a large handful of cannons from his pocket and threw them around Wei Ran and Sui Sui.

Amidst the slightly dangerous laughter and squabbles of the crowd, it took less than an hour for a cart full of fireworks to be exhausted, and Ji Ma, who was still unsatisfied, ignited the last two kicks and sent it into the night sky. In the midst of gunpowder smoke and laughter, I bid farewell to those new friends whose names Wei Ran and Sui Sui couldn't remember, and went home.

As in previous years, the two old people, Wei Ran and Sui Sui's parents have set up two tables of mahjong on the TV wall, chatting about the harvest and hard work of this year, while building the Great Wall leisurely, and the three of Wei Ran, Surrounded by a wooden chair, they happily fought for the landlord, but the pug dog with a crooked mouth who followed was as always scared by the sound of firecrackers and hid in the gap under the sofa, shivering.

"Victor, I'm going to post all the videos and photos I've taken these days on the social platforms you registered for me."

Jima, who snatched the landlord, threw out two small cards and said, "When I get back to Kazan, I will send those things to other platforms."

"You can do it if you want." Wei Ran threw out two cards on the pipe indifferently, not taking Ji Ma's idea seriously at all.

"Remember to come up with a good name." Sui Sui suggested with a suppressed smile after throwing out two cards, "Why don't you just call it Ji Fei Dan Duo?"

"That's a good name! Remember to change it for me later."

Although Ji Ma still doesn't know what the auspicious words written on the Spring Festival couplets mean, but the selfie he posted won him countless likes and comments, which made him more sure that he definitely did something Star talent.

"Bring me your phone, and I'll change it for you right now!" Sui Sui, who watched the excitement and didn't think it was a big deal, immediately put the cards in her hand on the chair, and urged Ji Ma to hand her the phone. kicked Wei Ran's heel.

Receiving the other party's hint, Wei Ran also put down his cards, and tacitly chatted with Ji Ma about the steps to prepare to collect the New Year's money after 12 o'clock next time.

Taking advantage of Ji Ma's attention being diverted, Sui Sui not only helped the other party change his name, but also enthusiastically added a sentence in the introduction, "This foreigner can't speak Chinese, please maintain a proper understanding."

After this short episode, the last day of the year was drawing to a close, and when the countdown on the TV reached zero, Sui Sui was the first to jump up, stretching out her little hand happily asking for red envelopes one by one.At the same time, Wei Ran also felt a flash of heat from the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand.

"That broken book gave gifts again this year?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, suppressed the expectation in his heart, and motioned to Ji Ma to follow him, and under the witness of the camera fixed on the other's shoulder, he received a bulging red envelope from each of the elders.

"Victor, Aurora, it's your turn!"

Ji Ma held a handful of red envelopes in his hand, "Where's my sleeping money? Oh oh! By the way, this is the sleeping money I prepared for you!"

While talking, Ji Ma took out two red envelopes printed with "Happy Moon" and "A Hundred Years of Love" from his pocket and handed them over, while explaining, "The RMB I changed when I came here has already been spent. It's all gone, so I'll give you rubles."

"Is this the red envelope you prepared for you, that wicked and smoldering one?"

Wei Ran and Sui Sui glanced at each other, then looked at Professor Alexai who was the instigator, and finally put away the red envelope Ji Ma sent with a grin, and took the pain from the red envelope he just received Each took out one and handed it to Ji Ma.

"It's a loss, it's a loss! It's a big loss!"

Sui Sui opened the red envelope given by Ji Ma, which contained only a 1000 denomination ruble, and then looked at the red envelope that Ji Ma just took away from her, there must be at least a dozen big red tickets in it Zhang's appearance.

"It's really a big loss!"

Wei Ran glared at Professor Alexey viciously. In his red envelope, there was only a half-new 500 ruble and a 100 ruble pasted with tape. In addition, there were even two steel coins worth [-] yuan. Son!
"Auntie, actually my uncle is in my studio."

"Wei Ran!"

Professor Alexey realized that the car was about to overturn again, so he quickly took out a wallet from his pocket, and made a pale excuse in a panic, "I suddenly remembered, Mr. Alexander asked me to bring you a copy of the New Year's money too! "

"Really?" Sui Sui, who was also cheated, asked with a smile, "Why didn't Mr. Alexander bring me a copy?"

"Take it, take it! Bring it to you both!"

Professor Alexey took out all the cash in the wallet, picked up a piece of red paper left over from the Spring Festival couplets and stuffed it to Sui Sui, "You two share it yourself! But."

"But I remember that Mr. Alexander said last time that he would give me a Leica camera." Sui Sui snatched the red envelope and put it into his pocket, saying loudly on purpose.

"Is there such a thing?" Alexei looked blankly at Wei Ran beside him, turned his back to his wife and started winking for help.

"No?" Sui Sui asked urgently, patting the rest of the red envelopes still in her hand.

"It seems to be there." Professor Alexis nodded without tears.

"It seems that he also said that he would give me a shotgun." Wei Ran followed suit with a playful smile.

"I remembered! There is such a thing!" Professor Alexis gritted his teeth and recognized the two unnecessary gifts.

"So what did your uncle hide in the studio?" Zhou Shujin asked with a smile after seeing enough excitement.

"Of course it's a surprise for my aunt." Wei Ran hurriedly poured a cup of tea for the other party, "But I remembered that my uncle told me to keep it a secret, so I can only wait for you to see it when you go back."

"Really?" Zhou Shujin held a teacup and looked at Professor Alexei with a smile.

"Is it right?"

Professor Alexey, who wanted to cry without tears, was bleeding from his heart at this moment. He saw that there was another gift, and the gift for his wife had to be a surprise gift, which he had to figure out for himself. This isn't something a camera or a shotgun can fool.

"I hope it will be a surprise and not a shock." Zhou Shujin finally saved the professor's face, did not continue to ask the bottom line, and let him go.

"What did my dad hide in the studio?" Sui Sui asked in a low voice next to Wei Ran's ear after the stubble was over.

"I don't know, I cheated him." Wei Ran replied in a low voice, holding back a laugh, "But if he wants to hide something, he can only hide it in the studio."

(End of this chapter)