War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 418 Writing a Diary and Washing Photos
The day before returning to Hongqi Forest Farm for class, Wei Ran bid farewell to Sergey's family, Diane and others, and took a flight back to Kazan alone.

Along the way, he typed all the historical fragments he personally experienced, the monument hidden in the forest, and the roster in Sergey's hand, etc., into the notebook in a nearly journal way. in the computer.

It may be a good story for Time Film Studios, but for me, it's more like a battle diary, a record of friends who have disappeared in the long river of history, and it's more detailed than a metal book diary.

When he finished this diary amidst the sound of tapping the keyboard intermittently, the flight also landed at Kazan Airport smoothly.

Cleaning up the depression caused by the memories, Wei Ran drove the off-road vehicle parked at the airport back to the big house by Liuban Lake.

It's only been a week since I went out, and the circle of Lingxiao flowers that were planted against the fence when the house was renovated have now sprouted, and some of the impatient ones have even grown complete leaves.

Not only these lotus flowers, but also the re-paved lawn, the two tall oak trees left in the yard and the row of white birch trees behind the yard, all began to sprout again, and the whole yard was filled with a faint fragrance of green grass.

In addition, there are several huge crates at the door of the newly renovated house.Wei Ran knows where these things come from without taking them apart.

After the house was refurbished, he ordered a full set of photo printing equipment, various processing consumables, and a large number of photo frames, and asked Jima's cronies and friends to help deliver them after receiving the goods.

First, he waved his hand at the camera fixed on the wall of the house, and greeted Kajianka who was thousands of miles away to help watch the house. Then Wei Ran walked to the door of the house and collected the yard on the crate. The door key, and then opened the heavy solid wood door, found a crowbar from the utility room, and took apart all the crates placed at the door.

After tidying up the packaging materials, Wei Ran pushed these devices one by one into the darkroom reserved in advance on the first floor and connected them to the power supply.After debugging all of them, he climbed up to the attic and disconnected the switch specially used for remote monitoring. By the way, he went upstairs and downstairs to check carefully until he was sure that the arrangements left before he left were not touched. Only then did he return to the darkroom on the first floor.

Not caring about rest at all, Wei Ran locked the door and summoned the metal book.

From the Battle of Stalingrad to Position 19 on the Don.Then to the battlefields in Finland, the defense of Tengxian County, the Baiyangdian battlefield, and even Berlin covered by artillery fire, the deserts of North Africa, Lezhev like a meat grinder, and even the Liuban forest that I experienced not long ago, and so on.

Except for the photos taken in Germany during the Cold War when he helped investigate the death of Nikolai's wife and children, and the photos taken by the liar Herbert who was sent to prison once tried to trick him into investigating on Bear Island , All the rest of the photo negatives in the metal notebook were developed by him one by one.

In his busy schedule, more and more photos were aired during the unannounced visit, and the sky outside the room was getting darker and darker.

Finally, when he developed the big group photo of the guerrillas and hung it on the drying rack, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.And more than half an hour before, Ji Ma, who finished the half-month course at Hongqi Forest Farm, had already arrived here with food and wine.

"You finally came out"

Seeing Wei Ran limping out of the darkroom, Jima immediately asked curiously, "Victor, what happened to your leg?"

"When I went to Belarus a few days ago, I accidentally slipped and fell in the bathroom."

With a normal expression, Wei Ran once again took out the excuse he had used to prevaricate Diane, sat on the opposite side of Jima, and asked while gently kneading the injured part of his thigh, "How did the past half a month go?" Sample?"

"I never took it this seriously when I was in school"

Jima proudly took out two concert tickets and shook them, "I asked my Maya to go to the concert tomorrow, and she has already agreed."

"Can you understand a concert?"

"It's not that I don't have ears! Why can't I understand?"

"Then I wish you success"

Wei Ran said something perfunctory indifferently, then picked up a can of beer, opened it and took a sip, and continued to ask, "So all your experiences in the next half month are going to be on Maya?"

"That's about it"

Jima happily replied, "However, we will start to be busy in May. Aurora informed Misha a few days ago to let them start preparing for the transformation of Inta's hot spring camp. I will go to help out when the time comes." .”

"Help renovate the camp?" Wei Ran, who asked knowingly, teased.

"Could it be that the girls who reformed Inta?"

Jima showed his middle finger, and then said happily, "I'm going to invite Maya to play with me for a few days."

"What about your movie?"

Wei Ran was too lazy to chat with the other party about his nominal classmate Maya, so he changed the subject and asked, "When will that movie be released?"

“July at the earliest”

Speaking of the movie, Ji Ma became more and more proud, "I will be able to get paid after the movie is released, and then I will really be a well-known actor."

"What about the other one?" Wei Ran didn't give the other party a chance to show off at all, "What's the progress of the movie in the desert?"

Ji Ma, who was about to show off a few more words, changed the subject helplessly, "The filming of that movie will probably not start until September, but the name of the movie has already been decided."

"The name has been decided? What's it called?" Wei Ran asked with great interest.

"It's the same name as the script you provided, it's called Treasure at the Bottom of the Well."

Jima mocked, "Let me tell you, this name is really bad. Even asking soldiers to look for water is better than this name."

"It is necessary to read more"

Wei Ran reminded the other party maliciously, finished eating the pie brought by the other party in two or three bites, stood up and said, "Okay, since you are here, come and help."

"What can I help you with?" Jima asked in confusion, "I didn't come here to help, I came to ask you to borrow a car. Tomorrow I plan to drive your car and take my Maya to the concert."

"I can lend you the car, but I'd better hurry up and help you now." Wei Ran said as he stood up and walked into the darkroom again.

"It's really time for me to come." Jima muttered, raised his head and emptied the can of beer in his hand, then reluctantly followed Wei Ran into the darkroom.

"Our job is to frame all these old photos"

Wei Ran turned down the ventilation fan in the darkroom while speaking, "Remember to put the photos fixed by the same color clips into the photo frame and put them together, so as not to confuse them."

"Where did you get all these old photos?"

Jima casually took down a black and white photo, which was exactly the photo of the red flag on the Capitol that put Wei Ran into the spotlight.

"It's all my collection." Wei Ran said and threw a pair of silk gloves to Jima, "Don't leave your fingerprints on them."

“Just some pictures”

Jima, who didn't know what these photos meant to Wei Ran, pouted, and finally put on his gloves obediently. Under the command of the former, he put all the photos that had been dried into a wooden box with a glass cover. photo frame.

The scales of these photos vary, and accordingly, the frames used in them also vary in size.

But despite this, Wei Ran still divided them into four major parts: the Eastern Front, the European Battle, the North African Battlefield and the Chinese Battlefield.

With the help of Jima, a free labor force, most of these sorted photos were sent to four spare rooms on the third floor, and all of them were hung on the walls.

In addition, there are a small number of representative ones, such as the red flag of the Capitol, some group photos taken on various battlefields before, and for example, in Berlin before, asking Jima to help him and Mr. Hans's family The photos taken were hung on the wall on the first floor.

"Victor, are you going to hold a photo exhibition of war correspondents?"

Jima, who has been helping for more than an hour, joked with a smile, "If the tickets are free, maybe I will take my Maya to visit here in the future."

Wei Ran took out the keys of the off-road vehicle and threw it to Jima, "You first find a way to turn Maya into your Maya."

"In the next half month, I will definitely be able to complete this small goal!" Ji Ma took the car keys with a vow, "I promise!"

Wei Ran looked at Ji Ma with the eyes of a fool, "I hope you will be so confident in half a month."

"After half a month, I will definitely have won Maya!"

Before Ji Ma finished his sentence, he had already thrown the key of his car on the long table, and ran out of the house in a hurry, driving Wei Ran's off-road vehicle and disappeared.

However, Wei Ran just left the room to lock the courtyard door. When he came back, he found that there was an extra spam text message on behalf of Ka Jianka on his phone.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran dug out the notebook that the other party had sold to him from the suitcase that he hadn't had time to open, sauntered upstairs and got into the bedroom, closed the window and drew the curtains, and then took out the notebook from the food box. authenticator.

After some operations, Wei Ran directly asked the notebook connected to the authenticator, "What's the matter?"

Soon, a new folder was created on the laptop screen, and a line of German appeared, "Miss Aurora contacted me not long ago, and she invited me to Take the tourists she sent to America to play on that farm."

"It's up to you to decide"

Wei Ran said cheerfully, "If you have time, are interested, and there is no danger or hidden danger, then go."

"Will you go?" Another German line jumped out of the document.

"Maybe" Wei Ran replied leaning on the bed, "Maybe I will go to see the excitement, maybe I can't go because of other things."

"understood"

Scanning the text on the screen, Wei Ran changed the subject and asked, "Is there anything else? How is your side?"

"No," Katenka replied briefly, "everything is normal here."

"so be it"

Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "If you plan to go to the United States to play, don't make up your own mind to interfere with Makar's life."

"No problem." After Kajianka responded again, he took the initiative to delete the newly created document on the desktop.

(End of this chapter)