War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 461 It is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes

"Young man, what are you looking at?"

When Wei Ran looked at the boat, an old man who was grilling lobster with a knife in his hand asked in a bad tone, "Are you the recruiter?"

Although he understood what the other party was saying, Wei Ran immediately looked at Kajianka who was standing beside him.

After the latter finished translating, Wei Ran smiled and said in Russian, "Tell him, I'm looking at the name of their ship, and tell them that I'm not a disgusting recruiter, remember to emphasize the word disgusting, and then tell them They, I'm a Chinese, I'm going to rent a yacht to go diving."

Hearing this, Katenka's beautiful face couldn't help showing a little smile, and then according to Wei Ran's request, he translated it in detail, and as he said, on the word disgusting Especially accentuated the tone.

Just as Wei Ran expected, after hearing that he was not the recruiter, the attitude of the four old men who were three white and one black immediately became more enthusiastic.

"Since you're not a disgusting recruiter, come up and sit down. There's free beer and seafood here. Take it as compensation for Turner's misunderstanding of your nationality." While speaking, the skinny black uncle opened the door in person. The little door in the deck rail.

After listening to Kajianka's translation, Wei Ran did not refuse, but he was also not in a hurry to get on the boat, but pointed to the logo on the boat and said, "Kajianka, tell them that it is the name and name of this boat." The logo caught my attention, and I happen to be able to play the piece on the harmonica."

"You can play this piece?" Another shirtless white man with various tattoos and graffiti scattered on his chest and arms raised his head in surprise.

"Tell him I love that old Casablanca movie"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he glanced at the almost ancestral "Remember the Alamo" streamer tattoo on the opponent's arm. Based on this alone, he had already guessed which bastard's descendant this fat man was.

After Katenka finished translating, another silent white man flipped over the lobster on the grill with a tong in his hand, "Little guy, come up and have a drink, and let us see if you really know that song." .”

"Ask them, if I can play that song, can it be cheaper for me to rent their yacht to go diving?" While Wei Ran was speaking, he finally stepped onto the deck, followed by Ka Jian card, also translated again.

He took out two bottles of unbranded beer from the foam box filled with ice cubes and handed them to Wei Ran and Kajianka respectively. The white man who spoke first said happily, "If your boyfriend really knows how to use a harmonica Play that tune and get [-]% off your boat charter.

Of course, the premise is that he can really prove that he is not a recruiter, and it can only be for a day at most, after all, we old guys still have to eat. "

"He's my boss, not my boyfriend."

Kajianka first denied the other party's guess in a flat tone, and then conveyed the other party's request to Wei Ran. As for the beer handed over by the other party, she just held it in her hand and did not intend to take a sip at all.

And Wei Ran seemed to really not understand English. He honestly waited for Kajianka to finish the translation, then took the beer and bit it open with his teeth. After taking a big gulp, he took out his passport and showed the cover to the other party. .

"Your boss appears to be a stingy rich man"

The white uncle who is suspected to be a descendant of Marshall made a joke, and motioned to his companion to pick up a fat and tender char-grilled lobster tail and handed it to Katenka, "This one is for the beautiful lady, your boss's one needs to be reused." Wait, before that, let us hear if he really knows that song."

"You are right. He is indeed a stingy rich man. I have worked for him for a long time and have never received a bonus." Katenka took over the lobster tail and brazenly arranged Wei Ran's sentence. Only then did the rest of the words be translated.

"What an ancestral bastard old pervert"

Wei Ran cursed secretly in his heart. After Katenka finished translating, he found a seat and sat down. After taking another sip of beer, he took out the harmonica in the metal notebook and played it as if no one was there.

The moment the melody sounded, smiles appeared on the faces of the four old men on the deck, and then the uncle who was suspected to be a descendant of Marshall picked up a towel to wipe his hands, turned around and picked up the guitar from behind.

And the one with the knife in his hand at the beginning also replaced the meat-cutting knife with a harmonica that was almost exactly the same as that in Wei Ran's hand, and they started playing together.

As for the remaining white man, he turned around and took out a saxophone from the cabin, and the black man also sang the adapted lyrics in English following the melody that gradually became harmonious:

Although sighing year after year, the friendship is passed down along with the blood.

Let time go by, the true meaning of friendship will never change.

Let time go by and things change.

Once a brother, God will be a witness.

This is a bloody story from the battlefield. He sacrificed his life for his friends and went through all kinds of hardships for his friends.

Let time pass by.
Until the end of the song, the lead singer's black uncle was the first to raise the beer, "For the music teacher"

"For the stretcher soldiers!" The white man playing the harmonica also raised his beer.

"For God!" The white man playing the saxophone followed suit and raised his beer.

"For the Alamo!" The white man, suspected of being a descendant of Marshall, put down his guitar, and the last one raised his beer.

"For women! For God! Cheers!" The four old men shouted a common toast together, followed by a series of hearty laughs.

"I remember the lyrics of the song not like this"

Katenka was the first to express her doubts. The same melody had been sung by the American martial arts master Jerry when she was on Makar’s farm, but the lyrics were about love rather than love. friendship.

"Of course the original lyrics were not like this"

The black uncle said with a smile, "The current lyrics were changed by my grandfather. He is not only a pastor, but also the music director of the church choir. This song is written for him and his friends."

"That's our grandfather"

The white uncle who was suspected to be a descendant of Marshall said with a smile, "Your boyfriend, your boss, your boss plays the harmonica well, even better than Cody."

"Brown is right, he does play the harmonica better than me."

The middle-aged man holding a harmonica stretched out his hand towards Wei Ran, "Especially the octave part, I played it when I was young like him, my mouth was ulcerated and I didn't learn it."

Listening to Katenka's translation, Wei Ran shook hands with the old man named Cody, and asked with a smile, "So you can give me a [-]% discount?"

After Katenka finished translating, the old man named Brown looked like a man who just played the saxophone, "Turner, just now you promised this young man a [-]% discount."

"I did promise"

The white man who had sent Sachs back to the cabin walked back to the deck, personally made a plate of charcoal-grilled lobster tails and handed it to Wei Ran, and at the same time said to Kajianka, "Ask your Huaxia boss, when is he going to leave? diving."

"Are you really planning to go diving?" Katenka looked at Wei Ran, who had already taken a big bite out of the lobster tail, "This person should be Turner we are looking for, and he asked when we are leaving."

"Tomorrow." Wei Ran replied after thinking for a moment, "Tomorrow morning, ask them if they need a deposit. And if I can visit their yacht."

Perhaps because of the song just now, the old man named Turner not only did not collect any deposit, but also turned on the whole ship lighting of this sightseeing yacht, and enthusiastically led the two of them into the cabin.

The first time he entered the cabin, Wei Ran couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

Because the bridge is next to the rudder, in addition to various screens and switches, there are two additional hemispherical glass covers fixed on the instrument panel.

In these two glass cases, the blood-stained Bible still inlaid with bullets and the luxurious 1911 sidearm belonging to Reverend Tom are stored respectively.

And in the middle of the two hemispherical glass covers distributed on the left and right sides of the rudder, there is also a ribbon-shaped stainless steel plate inlaid with a sentence "God is with you" that Wei Ran has heard countless times in English.

"They are the relics left by my grandfather, and they are also the lucky charm of this ship." The old man named Turner explained with a smile, "He was a chaplain who participated in the Battle of Guam."

"It sounds like there is a very legendary story behind this," Wei Ran sighed after Kajianka translated.

"If you are not in a hurry to go back, you can go to the deck and have a drink with us." Turner said with a smile, "We would like to tell you the stories of those old guys."

Naturally, Wei Ran had no objection to this, and Kajianka even nodded his head in agreement.

Returning to the deck, Katenka reused Karenina's name in her self-introduction, and also knew that the black man who sang just now was named Dooley.As for Wei Ran, he was subconsciously ignored. It seemed that these four incomprehensible old men were not interested in knowing his name at all.

And during the mingling with them, Wei Ran also matched them with those friends he was familiar with.

The old man named Turner was Tom's grandson, but also the driver and largest owner of the boat.The man named Cody is the grandson of Randy, the stretcher soldier. He is also the other one of these people who has never met his grandfather except Turner.

Even Cody's father followed his mother to Hawaii to join Turner's parents long before he was an adult, and worked in that weapon store as a salesman for a long time.

And the old man named Brown is undoubtedly the one who sold the farm to Makar. When Katenka deliberately brought the topic to the reason why he sold the farm, the explanation given by the other party was embarrassing, because the old man was only Just to raise money to help my wife who has cancer.

It's just a pity that Brown's wife still failed to survive in the end, and after he lost the farm, he simply came to Hawaii.

Fortunately, his son is doing well, and will soon graduate from Harvard Medical School.

In addition, Brown and Randy's grandson, Cody, both served in the Seabee army when they were young, and they are both full-time underwater demolition frogmen.

It is also for this reason that after the death of his wife, Brown came to this boat at the invitation of Turner and Cody, and was responsible for teaching people to dive.

As for the black Dooley, even if they didn't introduce him, Wei Ran could guess that he was the grandson of the black Will. Of course, according to the Chinese name, it would be more accurate to say that he is the grandson of Will.

Compared with the previous three, Dooley's life is not bad. He originally ran a small music restaurant in Georgia.More than a year ago, at the invitation of the previous few people, he left the restaurant to his son, and moved here alone to gather with old friends to eat, drink, have fun and have fun. Usually, he is mainly responsible for the work of the chef on the ship.

In addition to confirming the identities of the four people in the chat, Wei Ran also learned that their grandfather, basically every year from July 21st to August 8th, would get together in Hawaii to have fun. , is a bar in the Courier Field.

Naturally, the fine tradition that this man could not refuse was also inherited by the fathers of these people, and finally passed on to their own hands.

Of course, what was inherited together was the adapted song and the cartoon logo that was said to be designed by Turner's grandmother, Tom's wife Laura.
But what made Wei Ran even more dumbfounded was that he and Katenka ran all the way from Texas to the Ferraro weapons store they were looking for in Hawaii, but as early as the last century, due to the increasingly strict gun control in Hawaii , and moved to Texas, where gun control is relatively free.

In other words, the weapon store didn't actually close down, it just changed its address.

At present, the gun shop has already been handed over to Turner's son and Cody's daughter to jointly manage it. Even the logo of the gun shop is exactly the same as the logo of the boat under his feet.

Hear enough stories, drink enough beer, and finally fill your stomach with seafood.Wei Ran took a business card with the same logo printed on it from Turner, and agreed on the departure time the next morning, then pretended to be drunk, and left the pier with Kajianka's support.

When the lights on the sightseeing yacht behind him went out, Wei Ran, who was originally sloppy, regained his sober appearance in an instant, and said while walking to their parking place, "Help me book a ticket to Kazan the day after tomorrow."

"Why didn't you talk about that photo album just now?" Katenka asked curiously.

"No need"

Wei Ran shook his head, smiled and said in Chinese that Katenka couldn't understand, "It's better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes", and then switched back to German and said, "Forget about the photo album, when you have time, find them just now." The gun store in Texas, and then inform Makar that when he has time, send the things I bought there for free, and remember to help him find a good excuse."

"No problem." Katenka readily agreed, and then asked, "Are we really going to go diving on their sightseeing yacht tomorrow?"

"why are you not going?"

Wei Ran asked back as a matter of course, "Of course, if you are not interested, you can help me find another translator today, and then you can do what you are interested in."

"Forget it, why don't you go?" Katenka imitated the former and asked back.

(End of this chapter)