War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 385 Gap and Trust

"It's really a coincidence." Wei Ran said dryly, but he was already thinking about how much it would cost to repair such a big house.

"Just take it...just take it as a favor." Before Karp finished speaking, he walked up to the second floor again.

Compared with the empty first floor, the space on the second floor is also not much better. Except for a few broken tables and chairs that have already decayed, few glass windows remain intact.The floor underfoot was also mostly cracked and moldy, exposing the concrete floor hidden underneath.

Silently walked up to the third floor, except that there are fewer rooms here, and two more sun rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, which can see the Kaban Lake, there is not much change compared to the second floor, it is still rubbish Everywhere, all kinds of obscenities were written on the walls, and the glass of all the windows was smashed artificially. Even the radiators and other things seemed to have been removed a long time ago.

I deliberately went to the two sunny rooms designated by Dalia, but unfortunately, except for the bones of some unknown wild animals, I did not find any personal items related to her in these two rooms.

Climbing up the stairs to the attic, Wei Ran saw at a glance that in this triangular space, there were a lot of bird droppings, feathers, broken eggshells, and incomplete corpses of various rodents. More than one-third of the area facing the sun has completely collapsed, and even the rest of it is crumbling as if it might be completely blown away by a gust of wind at any time.

"It's not easy to renovate such a big house." Wei Ran, who came down from the attic, patted the dust and feathers that were accidentally stained on his body, thinking about how to refuse.

"You can just have a headache for yourself, don't tell me about this kind of problem."

Karp didn't give Wei Ran a chance to continue talking, turned around and walked downstairs and said, "Also, Gorman and Daria have discussed that in summer, we will take you and Ji Ma to class." The five-storey building in the village will be completely renovated. If your little girlfriend brings tourists to Kazan, she can use the forest farm as a foothold, and the building can also be handed over to her to receive tourists. Of course, she has to pay Yes, but it is definitely much cheaper than hotels in urban areas.

After all, it used to be a Soviet sanatorium, and all the equipment is still available, and the girls from the studio can also provide photo shoot services for the tourists you bring. Most importantly, there is a distance from The airport is close enough to save you a lot of time. "

Wei Ran opened his mouth in astonishment and looked at Karp, who was hard at selling, and asked in disbelief after a moment of stupor, "Just to let me renovate this house?"

"It seems that yours really ate Mr. Gorbachev's dog food"

Karp, who stopped in his tracks, shook his head helplessly, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit himself up and explained, "These are to thank your little girlfriend for helping Gorman's son, And for Hongqi Forest Farm, it can also make it more lively while earning more income."

"The forest farm is short of money?" Wei Ran thought he had grasped the details.

The expression on Karp's face became more and more like looking at a fool, "Who would think too much money?"

"What about the studio?" Wei Ran, who was successfully led astray, asked curiously, "If that building is used by Aurora, where will the studio go?"

"Of course it's the main building. There are enough rooms in that building." Karp said impatiently, "What else do you want to ask?"

"Where are the courses at Hongqi Forest Farm?" Wei Ran continued to ask desperately, "No girl will go to class there in the future?"

"Of course there will be." Karp's eyes looked like he was looking at a dead person at this time, "I have already said that there are enough rooms in the main building. Now tell me, how long will it take you to repair this dilapidated house?"

"Eh, I haven't agreed to move yet"

"Okay, as you said, one month." Karp did not wait for Wei Ran to finish speaking, and as always, hallucinated the answer he wanted to hear in advance.

"When will I?"

"Or half a month?"

"One month, one month!"

Wei Ran gritted his teeth and looked at Karp who continued to walk out. At this time, he had completely realized that the Soviet Union was gone, but these old KGB bastards who survived were really more arrogant than each other. He grew up so big, I've never seen such a high-spirited person begging for help.

"A month you said yourself," Karp said as he walked out of the house. "Now there is one last thing."

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran looked at him warily.

"Your class is on the 3th of March. In other words, you now have half a month to think about how to renovate the house."

Seeing Karp with a smile on his face, Wei Ran's face became more and more ugly, "Karp, is it too much? Are you so eager to let me live in this crappy house?"

"It has nothing to do with the house"

Karp explained while patting the dust off his body, "In a few days, I will accompany Anna and Teacher Daria to Egypt to inspect the filming site, and Gorman will guide Jima to deal with the interview after the filming. In other words In other words, we really don't have time to give you lessons for the time being."

"Really?" Wei Ran looked at Karp suspiciously.

"Or you can go to Egypt with us," Karp said nonchalantly, "We can teach you something on the way."

"No need"

Wei Ran decisively ended this topic. According to what Dalia said at the beginning, he had finished the course almost a year earlier. Now it doesn't matter if it's half a month earlier or half a month later, but he doesn't want to follow three A teacher went out to be a bag-carrying boy, otherwise, wouldn't serving tea and pouring water be my job?

Besides, if any of these three old bastards got their heads up and gave him another temporary assessment, it would be a surprise that Tema couldn't refuse.

"What a good and understanding student"

Karp nodded in satisfaction, and led Wei Ran out of the dilapidated house through the waist-high grass, then took out a new padlock from the car and handed it to Wei Ran, "Victor , I wish you a happy life here."

"Thank you so much." Wei Ran thanked the other party with a smirk on his face, and then reluctantly took the lock, and locked the simple broken door on the colored steel tile wall by himself.

It wasn't until Karp restarted the car and drove towards the hotel that Wei Ran said abruptly, "Mr. Karp, I suddenly discovered that there is a profession that is really suitable for you."

"teacher?"

Karp had expected to ask back, "When I was teaching in the small village of Jima, those children liked me very much."

"no no no"

Wei Ran waved his hands solemnly, "It's a pity that you don't do real estate sales. I even firmly believe that there is no house in the whole of Russia that you can't sell."

"So you want to buy a house?" Karp turned to look at Wei Ran with a smile.

"No, no money."

Wei Ran, who was frantically probing on the verge of death, decisively stopped his dangerous behavior of teasing the other party, and instead asked about various plans for the first movie that Time Film Studio was going to shoot.

"Okay, the studio business doesn't have much to do with you."

Karp, who explained all the way, parked the car at the entrance of the hotel and finally said, "During the half month we were away, in addition to repairing that dilapidated house as soon as possible, you should also remember your graduation thesis. Go to Kazan University and find your advisor, only he can help you in this regard."

"It's just about the thesis?" Wei Ran, who did not give up, asked pointedly.

"Are you sure you want to know?" Karp asked with a smile, looking at Wei Ran who was about to jump from the co-pilot at any time.

"forget it!"

Before the words were finished, Wei Ran, who had already unbuckled his seat belt and opened the car door in advance, immediately jumped off, slammed into the car door and ran into the hotel lobby.

"Smart little guy"

Karp, who seemed to be in a particularly good mood, muttered noncommittally, stepped on the brakes slowly, and turned around to drive in the direction of Hongqi Forest Farm.

Watching Karp's car go away, Wei Ran, who was hiding in the hotel lobby, immediately ran into the parking lot, and drove the rented car back to the almost abandoned house by the Kaban Lake.

But this time, he didn't go in. Instead, he walked around the colored steel tile wall carefully, and sorted out the surrounding environment.

To put it simply, there is not only a wall between this house and the winery next door that has a long history and seems to have been out of production, but also a deserted dirt road in the middle that is enough to drive a car to make a U-turn. Because of the previous use, this dirt road, which is only 60 meters long, has also been occupied by weeds and various construction wastes.

After carefully strolling around inside and outside the wall, he found nothing extra, so he drove away again, planning to find out if there is a cheap and easy-to-use construction team in Kazan who can take over the renovation work here.

Although this dilapidated house was almost given to him by Karp and the invisible teacher Daria, no matter what, those teachers were willing to lend the Hongqi forest farm to Suisui as a fat sheep The slaughterhouse, there is really no need for him to continue to refuse.

And on the other hand, he can also see that whether it is the dilapidated house, the Time Film Studio established earlier, or the Inta Camp that Suisui took over, now he and Hongqi Forest Farm are already inseparable to some extent. Bound together to form a community of interests.

The only defense between the two is that the Hongqi Forest Farm headed by Mr. Nicholas can't understand Wei Ran's real plan, and at the same time Wei Ran can't understand the real purpose of the Hongqi Forest Farm.

But fortunately, this only estrangement has little effect, at least it will not affect the unconditional trust between the two parties to another degree.Otherwise, don't say that Gorman won't let himself help to find his wife and children in the United States, don't say that Daria won't ask him to help take care of this house full of sad and happy memories in a shameless way.Even the earliest old Mr. Nicholas would not ask him to help investigate the cause of death of his wife and children.

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