War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 380
With the ringing of the new year's bell, more fireworks lit up in the night sky outside the window. Professor Alexei, who was brutally slaughtered three times by Wei Ran and Sui Sui, seemed to vent all his dissatisfaction On top of the fireworks that he left on purpose, he chanted something again and again while sending the fireworks bombs into the night sky in the yard.

Until the last inventory was emptied by him and the spectator Wei Ran, Wei Ran, who had finished sharing the spoils with Sui Sui, also sent Ji Ma, who was still unsatisfied, to the closed room of the neighbor's house next door.

"Victor, what's the plan for tomorrow?" Jima asked expectantly, holding a box of memory cards in one hand and a tablet in the other.

"Wake up early tomorrow, and come over when I call you, and take you to New Year's greetings then."

"Is there still a red envelope?" Ji Ma subconsciously touched the bulging pockets of his clothes.

Hearing this, Wei Ran, who was about to go back, quickly stopped and reminded, "Tomorrow may not be certain, but you should stop giving lucky money to people who are about your age or older."

"Why?" Jima asked puzzled.

"Only the elders can give lucky money to the younger generation. If you give it wrong, you will be beaten." Wei Ran explained solemnly.

"That's not bad!" Ji Ma happily patted his pockets, "So the money is all mine?"

"It's all yours"

Before Wei Ran could finish his sentence, he had already started walking towards grandma's house again.And Jima behind him, after closing the door, first put the thick wad of banknotes on the table and took a photo, then fiddled with the tablet computer, and began to upload the experience of the past two days with great interest and knowledge.

At the same time, Wei Ran also got into the car parked at the door, and took out the metal book in the dark.In his anticipation, the metal book turned to the ninth page again.

The red and blue swirls on this page only appeared last year when the metal book gave me a New Year's gift, and what was inside was the guqin named Yaoguang.

Looking carefully at the two unchanging sentences on both sides of the whirlpool, "Ye Lan is lying down and listening to the wind and rain, and the iron horse and ice river are dreaming." and the "auspicious star shines brightly" directly above the whirlpool, he already had a vague feeling that this gift might be far away. Far less rich than expected.

He tried to lift it out, and the familiar feel and outline made him guess that it still contained the low-key, luxurious and heavy piano case.

I simply put away the metal book and started the car, and drove to the wooden viewing platform outside the village again like last year.

"Last year I gave you Guangling San, what will you give this year?" Wei Ran muttered to himself, reached into the back compartment, and took out the Guqin Yaoguang from the metal book.

He opened the piano box and looked, seeing that there was nothing extra in the box, Wei Ran swallowed his saliva, held the car door steady, stretched out his finger and gently plucked the strings.

Almost at the same time as the sound of the piano sounded, the long-anticipated sense of brain shutdown also came as promised, giving him the illusion that he could break through the first cosmic speed at any time and be thrown into space.

After a long time, when he recovered from the unspeakable and uncomfortable feeling of awkwardness, he also noticed that there seemed to be something more in his mind again.

"Don't be a piano song again?"

Wei Ran muttered with disappointment, opened the car door and took Guqin Yaoguang out of the box, walked to the stone table at the end of the viewing platform and sat down.

Following the extra things in his mind, he gently plucked the strings according to his muscle memory, but immediately stopped his hand again.

He seemed to have heard the slightly familiar melody at the beginning of this piece, and after some recollection and elimination, Wei Ran soon realized that this piece of music that had just played the beginning was precisely Volgag's melody from years ago. Le's Sui Xin talked about the piece when she asked her to borrow the piano.

"What's the name?"

Wei Ran looked at the guqin on the table and thought for a moment, then murmured uncertainly, "A madman? No, a drunkard? It seems like a drunkard?"

Picking up his mobile phone to search, Wei Ran became more and more sure that the piece he had just learned was really the drunkard that Sui Xin once played.

Although he knew that he had learned a new piece of music, he did not touch the strings for the time being, but was thinking about the routine of this guqin.

Last year, the song Guanglingsan that this broken book taught me was first played by Sui Xin using that bed of secluded springs, and the song I taught myself this year is still played by Sui Xin.

What's wrong with this broken book after falling in love with that girl named Sui Xin?

Wei Ran looked at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth with a strange expression, and finally rolled up his sleeves, sat on the stone bench with his cold buttocks, gently plucked the strings, and skillfully played the song he had just learned.

Compared with Guanglingsan, who helped him repeatedly get out of the gloomy mood after the war, after he finished playing the new song "Drunk Maniac", he couldn't help showing a sunny smile on his face, and it seemed that he even felt better. Quite a lot.

Randomly pulling the tight strings a few times, Wei Ran silently said thank you, got into the car with the guqin in his arms, put it together with the case in the metal book, and drove back slowly.

In the early morning of the first day of the new year, before Wei Ran got up from the bed, Sui Sui, who was wearing a bright red padded jacket, ran in excitedly holding a tablet computer.

"Don't sleep! Wake up! Look at this!" Sui Sui said while reaching into the quilt with her cold little hand and pressing it on Wei Ran's chest.

Wei Ran, who was dazed and staring at him, woke up in an instant, pulled away the opponent's hands and claws, wrapped the quilt tightly and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Ji Ma! Ji Ma is on fire!"

Sui Sui lit up the screen of the tablet computer, pointed to a line of words that ranked tenth on the hot list of a certain short video platform, and said, "Look at this, 'chicken and eggs'!"

Before Wei Ran could see clearly, Sui Sui had already clicked in, and then a selfie of Ji Ma with Spring Festival couplets on his face popped up.

Looking at the dense comments on this photo and the scary number of likes, Wei Ran finally regained his sobriety.He snatched the tablet from the opponent's hand and clicked into Ji Ma's account, and then he was surprised to find that this guy had posted dozens of videos in just one night!Forget it, each of these videos has a lot of likes and comments, and the most common comment in it is the sentence that Sui Sui wrote in Ji Ma's profile yesterday, "This foreigner can't speak Chinese, please keep it up." due tacit understanding.”

"Is this guy crazy?" Wei Ran asked dully.

"I don't know if he's crazy or not." Sui Sui casually gave a thumbs up to one of the comments, "but he's definitely popular."

"It became popular before the movie he made was finished"

Wei Ran, who came back to his senses, shook his head helplessly, and said as expected, "Let's see, it's not sure how this guy will be in trouble in the next few days."

"he has come"

Sui Sui, who was helping to open the curtains, saw at a glance that Ji Ma was holding a mobile phone in one hand, a tablet in the other, and an action camera on his shoulder, grinning like a husky, rushing into the room. up the yard.

"Victor!"

After Ji Ma rushed into the room and saw that Sui Sui was there, he quickly greeted him and said "Happy New Year" out of tune, and then he couldn't wait to hand over the phone, "Quick! Help me translate, these people are in my What is said under the video and photo!"

Wei Ran and Sui Sui glanced at each other, the latter took over Ji Ma's beeping cell phone, and the former began to put on his clothes.

After a while, uncontrollable laughter came out of the two people's mouths, and within a very short time, it evolved into a pig or a goose call.

"Could you two stop laughing and tell me what they said?" Ji Ma hurriedly urged.

"It's nothing! I praise you for being handsome!" After Wei Ran finished speaking, the uncontrollable laughter burst out again.

Most of the comments and private messages popping up from the background of Jima’s account are basically saying that this foreigner who doesn’t understand Chinese has been cheated by his friends. There are even a few comments in Russian, and they are also serious about boasting about Jima. , and seriously gave him bad ideas and prepared to follow along with this foreigner who doesn't understand Chinese.

Even a few of them were holding back bad ideas, and even suggested in Russian in the comments that he should go out to pay New Year's greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year with the "chicken, fat and egg" Spring Festival couplets, and vowed to get more red envelopes.

In addition, in the private messages this guy received, there were even invitations for him to bring goods to advertise, but these private messages hoped that he would help with advertising, and it was not a serious thing, almost all of them were to make men The health care medicine that takes the lead alone.

As for those who told him the truth, it wasn't that there were none, but there were very few of them. Wei Ran even took the initiative to delete those comments for him.

Of course, except for the funny ones, the bad ones, and a few honest people.Jima posted it in a certain video. He chatted with Wei Ran about his father on the high-speed rail, and it was translated into Russian and posted in the comment area.

The comments here are rare and serious, almost all of them are full of pride and friendly invitations, and even recommended for him where to go in China, which city to visit, or where to build a cemetery, Buried are the Soviet heroes who once helped China.

“The recommendations are good”

Wei Ran saved several screenshots of representative comments, held back his smile and asked, "Jima, do you want to go to other cities in China after two days? Go and take your father around to see the place."

"Where are we going? When are we going to leave?" Jima was immediately attracted, and in a blink of an eye he forgot his original purpose of coming here early in the morning.

"A week later!"

Wei Ran picked up his mobile phone and looked at the calendar, "A week later, Aurora and I will take you out for a few days, and then I will go back to Moscow for an interview. After the interview is over, if you have time, we will also have time." , you can continue to change a few cities and go around more.”

"Then it's settled!"

Jima happily took over his mobile phone and tablet, "I'm going to take more pictures these days, Victor, I now believe that posting those red papers can really bring good luck, maybe when I return to Kazan Before, she was already a star."

"Well, you're right to understand that." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he and Sui Sui looked at each other, and the uncontrollable laughter filled the room again.

(End of this chapter)