War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 419 Boring Theory Course

On the morning of April 4, Wei Ran drove Ji Ma's car to the Hongqi Forest Farm in the suburbs on time.

"Welcome back"

Teacher Daria, who had already been waiting at the entrance of the main building, greeted with a smile, and handed Mr. Gorbachev's leash and a heavy backpack to Wei Ran, "Do you know what to do?"

"Know"

With a bitter face, Wei Ran took the leash and backpack, and resigned himself to running around the forest farm in circles.As for the pain on his thigh, he didn't mention it himself, so naturally he could only endure it.

Tired and heavy, but it gave him a little bit of practical study and life began.In the room on the second floor of the counseling center, Karp, Gorman, and teacher Anna each held a telescope, chatting and chasing Wei Ran, who was running out of shape, and the idiot who seemed to be drugged. The dog moves its gaze.

"What do you think is wrong with him?" Karp asked with a smile while holding the binoculars, the satisfaction in his tone was undisguised.

"Practical experience"

Anna responded without thinking, "This little guy has excellent grades on paper, but he obviously lacks experience."

"He's not really KGB, what's the use of accumulating those experiences?"

Gorman said dissatisfiedly, "For Victor, he probably learned these outdated things just to fulfill his inner dream of being a little boy who wants to be a hero. Are you really going to let him assassinate some big man?"

"Gorman was right"

Teacher Dalia walked in slowly from the outside, "And for us, we don't need him to do those wet jobs, which is not in line with the captain's expectations. In contrast, training him to be a well-known historian Obviously the benefits are greater."

Upon hearing this, Karp put down his binoculars, smiled and beckoned everyone to sit down at the coffee table in front of the window, "At least now he no longer insists on being a ridiculous war photographer."

"What exactly does the captain want to do?" Anna asked puzzled, "Is it really just to find something for us to do and earn some money to live better?"

“This goal is already very good”

Teacher Dalia poured a cup of coffee by herself, and asked with a smile, "It's better than you guarding a thermal power station that burns corpses in Yakutsk, isn't it? Anna, now you are a film producer The deputy director of the factory, I envy this position."

"That's right." Teacher Anna once again raised the binoculars to look at the constantly moving scenery outside. For a moment, she didn't know whether she should express her inner guess.

"Is it because of that incident?" Gorman didn't have any concerns about Anna. "Could it be that the captain is going to use Victor to attack that bastard?"

"That matter has passed, so don't mention it again."

Karp reminded, "Other things, you will know when the little guy outside graduates. Now let's talk about his study plan for the next half month. I believe you have also noticed that one of his There seems to be something wrong with the leg."

"Take this opportunity to reduce the time taken up by physical exercise." Dalia said nonchalantly, "It can just be used to learn theoretical knowledge."

"I guess he won't thank you." Gorman seemed to have thought of something interesting, and he didn't hide the joy in his tone at all.

Dalia said indifferently, "When did I ever need his thanks?"

While these old guys were discussing the course content for Wei Ran in the next half month, Katenka, who was far away in Turin, Italy, was thinking about the trip to the United States in half a month.

"Let me go this time," said a girl who was running on a treadmill in the messy room.

"Didn't you say you didn't want to go yesterday?" Katenka, who was doing push-ups on the carpet not far from her, asked sweatingly.

"I regret it." The girl on the treadmill gave an impeccable reason of course.

"Then you go." Katenka, who was doing push-ups, replied cheerfully, "The rabbit meat made in that way is delicious. You can try it when the time comes. I can't make that kind of taste."

"Don't worry, I'll do it when I learn it." The girl on the treadmill replied very confidently.

Hearing this, Katenka subconsciously glanced at the nearly carbonized piece of baked bread on the table not far away, and immediately lost any expectations.

As time goes by day by day, May is getting closer and closer. Like a professional dog licking Ji Ma, Chao Weiran's nominal classmate Maya is showing her hospitality, while the latter enjoys the daily gifts Ji Ma gives her every day. The door-to-door flowers and various invitations to play perfectly practiced what is called sugar-coated cannonballs after eating.

But compared to them, Wei Ran from Hongqi Forest Farm has not had an easy time. The half-month course has been extremely busy from the beginning. Although I don’t know why the physical exercise is only less than half an hour of swimming every morning. But various theoretical courses, etiquette courses, and luxury appreciation courses squeezed his every day to almost only the time for eating, sleeping and going to the toilet.

Even when he was sleeping at night, he didn’t have enough time to sleep. Every now and then, he would be held to his head with a submachine gun by the fully armed Gorman or Anna who broke in suddenly, and then asked a question by the loudspeaker attached to his ear. Nonsense questions such as "what were the main literary trends in Europe during the Renaissance and what are their masterpieces".

In the half month that was not so much about learning cultural knowledge, it was more about pleasing a few idle teachers, Wei Ran became more and more vigilant when sleeping, and also remembered a lot It is defined as "talking stuff" by Mr. Gorman, but it is cold knowledge defined by him as "pretending to be B material".

Of course, compared to these, the serious theoretical courses that have never stopped and take up more and more time are the real headaches for him.

These things can not only be fooled by rote memorization, but also the once-a-day assessment and the ingenious and never-repeated punishment items after the assessment fails, so that he does not dare to slack off at all, and has to be tense all the time. Nervous.

Half a month later, when the time came to the afternoon of April 4th.After finishing the last class for Wei Ran, Gorman handed Wei Ran a book list.

"What is this?" Wei Ran shivered subconsciously.

"take it easy"

Gorman held back a smile and said, "You don't need to read these books, you just need to find five copies of each of these books from the Internet and read them carefully to know what they are talking about."

"After reading it?"

Wei Ran glanced at the book list, all of them were full of tomes that were not interesting just by hearing the names, among them there were many classics such as "How the Steel Was Tempered" and "War and Peace", but he did not He couldn't bear to read the classics, and besides these artistic masterpieces, there were books such as economics and philosophy that he was even less interested in.

"Things that enhance your self-cultivation"

Gorman said with a smile, "I can see from your expression that you are not interested in these, and it is not worth wasting time to read them. So you just need to go to the Internet to find some after-reading impressions of them. That's it. Whenever you need to talk about these in the future, at least you can pretend to have read them and express your own opinions.

Believe me, unless you meet someone out of their wits, they generally won't be able to tell if you've actually read it. "

"Koke really saves trouble." Wei Ran stared at the other party dumbfounded, he never thought it would be like this.

"So you see, there is a shortcut to reading."

Gorman patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, lowered his voice and said, "For the sake of helping my son Makar, I would like to remind you that when you need to attend class next month, Anna will use it for half a month. Time to take you to meet some of the studio's minority shareholders.

If you can't chat with them, or act as rude and stupid as Khrushchev, Anna will probably arrange a surprise for you. "

Hearing this, Wei Ran swallowed subconsciously. After getting along for such a long time, especially since he helped Gorman go to the United States to see his wife and son, now he no longer has any fear of Gorman, even In a way, Gorman's attitude towards himself could almost be described as "baby-guarding".

But correspondingly, Teacher Anna, who once made him feel worthy of being called the gentle sister of Hongqi Forest Farm, has gradually become the protagonist in every nightmare.

Don't look at Teacher Anna's soft-spoken voice, but once she feels dissatisfied, it's like stealing the treasure chest of the big devil and being discovered, which makes people's backs chill, especially those ingenious punishment methods, Every time, Wei Ran has the urge to immediately go through the VIP channel and reincarnate as a human being again.

As for the two teachers, Karp and Daria, they are much more normal. They have put Wei Ran in the equal position of collaborators since some time ago.Of course, it's only relatively normal.

Secretly reminding Wei Ran, Gorman waited for him to put away the book list, and then said, "Before you said that your girlfriend was going to send a group of tourists to my son's farm?"

Wei Ran nodded, rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the dial on his wrist, "They should already be on the plane by this time."

"Aren't you going?" Gorman asked with a hint of expectation.

"I won't go, I have to be busy with my graduation thesis recently."

Wei Ran naturally knew what the other party wanted to say, and took the initiative to make a promise, "But don't worry, my girlfriend will take more photos of your precious grandson and send them over."

Hearing this, Gorman's face immediately showed satisfaction, and then changed the subject and said, "The story of the guerrillas in the Liuban Forest that you mentioned half a month ago, Anna and I have already discussed the result. "

"What result?" Wei Ran asked with some expectation.

"Tomorrow Anna will leave for Liuban to see for herself, and then maybe talk to that old man named Sergey."

Gorman said with a smile, "If the old man is willing, maybe this story will also be included in the future shooting plan."

"What about the organization called Edelweiss?" Wei Ran asked, "Are they reliable or not?"

"Currently, the information Anna found is pretty reliable."

Gorman gave an affirmative answer, "This time when she goes to Minsk, she will also try to get in touch with the woman named Diane you mentioned."

Hearing this, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. Since even Gorman said that the other party was reliable, maybe in the future, he might not have to be too wary of Diane and the Edelweiss organization behind her.

(End of this chapter)