War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 473 Olena and Olga

In the aquatic product market filled with the smell of fish and grilled fish, Wei Ran skillfully completed the change, and then handed a bag full of perennial fish to a fat aunt.

After glancing at the little miscellaneous fish left in the plastic washbasin, Wei Ran sat back on the folding chair bored, flicking the phone screen to kill time.

Near noon, the bearded old man gathered all the dead fish left over from Wei Ran's sale into a plastic bucket, and gave them to a young man who came to him at a low price.

"Okay Victor, we should go back."

The old man in the baseball cap held back his anger and joked, "Ivan's two daughters are very beautiful. If you want to become friends with them, I can recommend a flower shop to them."

"no need"

Wei Ran waved his hand without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, and walked outside the market while pulling a small cart full of plastic basins and plastic baskets, and said, "I don't want to be thrown into the lake by Ivan tied to an anchor."

“What a smart lad”

The bearded old man laughed and patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, "Your worry is not exaggerated at all. Three or four years ago, there were a few gangsters pestering those two girls. What happened? Wan broke his nose."

"More than a broken nose"

The old guy in the baseball cap took over the conversation, and continued to scare Wei Ran, "It is said that those gangsters were stripped naked by Ivan and thrown into the square just after they came out of the hospital."

"That's why our village has a saying," the bearded old man continued in harmony.

"What?" Wei Ran asked with great interest, as for being afraid?He has nothing he shouldn't have, why should he be afraid?
The old man in the baseball cap said with a suppressed smile, "The dogs in the village will wag their tails to show their bellies when they see Ivan's daughters, otherwise even the dog's owner will be dragged into the forest by Ivan and beaten up."

"His two daughters must have been spoiled?" Wei Ran asked deliberately, spoiled?How can those who can be admitted to those two schools be spoiled?
"Just the opposite"

The bearded old man glanced at the approaching fishing boat, "His two daughters are much better educated than Ivan."

While chatting with these two old fellows, Wei Ran, who smelled like fish, drove back to the pier with a small trolley, intentionally being the last in line, and walked onto the fishing boat along the gangway.

From a long distance, he saw three deck chairs set up side by side under the parasol on the bow deck. At this time, two girls in jeans and leather jackets were lying on them, holding fruit juice in their hands and having fun with Ivan. What are you talking about.

And on the small table surrounded by three reclining chairs, there was actually a big watermelon in two halves.However, just looking at the small stainless steel spoons inserted into the two watermelons, it is obvious that the watermelon probably has no part in Wei Ran.

Seeing Wei Ran boarding the boat, Ivan didn't give him a chance to speak, let alone introduce him, so he pointed to the cockpit, "Victor, drive the boat back, remember to be steady."

This old thing. Wei Ran cursed secretly, fixed the trolley obediently, and got into the cockpit.

Glancing at the two girls who were surrounding Ivan asking questions on the bow deck, Wei Ran quickly started the engine, carefully steered the fishing boat back a little bit and left the pier, then turned around and headed for the small fishing village. direction.

Along the way, he also blatantly looked at the two girls on the bow deck by observing the course.

Although both of them are the daughters of Ivan and Yana, one is tall and the other is short.The taller one had golden long hair that almost reached his waist, while the shorter one had neat short hair, and even the ends of his hair were sparsely dyed in the color of Jima, which gave Wei Ran a headache when he saw it.

Fortunately, it is precisely because of such a sharp difference that he can easily distinguish it from the back, and the one who brings him an inexplicable sense of familiarity is precisely the relatively shorter girl with short hair.

Although he couldn't see the opponent's face clearly yet, in order not to be sunk into the lake, after confirming the target, Wei Ran refocused all his attention on manipulating the fishing boat.He drove back to the special pier in the small fishing village in a stable manner.

Until the fishing boat stopped and the engine was turned off, Wei Ran, who had just left the cockpit, was arranged by Ivan to the stern of the boat, using the lake water to clean the plastic basins and baskets, while he walked back with the two baby girls talking and laughing. A wooden house a hundred meters away.

"It can be seen that Ivan is very wary of Victor, for fear that this hardworking young man will take away his precious daughter." The old guy in the baseball cap joked gloatingly before getting off the boat.

"Victor, I have a piece of advice for you."

The bearded old man said solemnly, "You must wear a life jacket when you sleep at night, lest you cannot swim back alive when you are thrown into the lake."

"Thank you for your advice, I will remember to wear a life jacket."

Wei Ran responded angrily, then turned on the water pump, and used a high-pressure water gun to carefully clean the plastic basin and deck that were not actually dirty.

Although Ivan is absolutely guarding against Wei Ran, it is not enough to let him live on the boat.So after Wei Ran carefully cleaned those broken pots and baskets, this old thing no longer had any reason to stop him from entering.

In contrast, it was Yana who was as enthusiastic as ever, urged Wei Ran, who smelled like fish, to take a bath and change clothes, and then took the initiative to introduce him to the two smiling girls.

Of course, unlike the day when he first arrived, Wei Ran, who was introduced by Yana at this time, has become the business manager of a travel agency from Volgograd.

Unfortunately, not long after the name of the business manager came out, the tall girl named Olga said doubtfully, "No, Mom, you have been deceived! Victor seems to be more than just a business manager!"

Before Yana, Ivan, or Wei Ran could speak, Olga took out her mobile phone, and after some searching, she pointed to the interview video playing on the screen and said, "I thought you looked familiar when I was on the boat, Victor , are you that historian? The Chinese historian who found that precious photo?"

"Oh--!"

Olena, who was sitting on the side, immediately followed up and said, "It's really you! I watched your interview a long time ago, and even tried to make a clay sculpture of a Soviet soldier with a red flag! Victor, why did you come to us? This small village? Did you come here to investigate some historical mystery?"

Wei Ran deliberately glanced at Ivan with a warning face, then smiled and shook his head and explained, "I really came here this time as a business manager of a travel agency to experience the life of fishermen. My daughter My friend’s parents run a travel agency in Volgograd, and I have been working in that travel agency before I found that historical photo, including now.”

"Who will come to play with us?" the tall Olga asked suspiciously.

"Those rich people's brains are not normal, maybe they like our poor village." After Ivan finished speaking, he looked at Wei Ran, "Victor, am I right?"

"That's right, the minds of those rich people are indeed not normal." Wei Ran agreed with the other party while trying to maintain a normal tone, but secretly curled his lips inwardly.

Although the two girls sitting on the opposite sofa were dressed in ordinary clothes, he had secretly checked it on his mobile phone in the past two days. The Bolansler piano upstairs alone was worth more than [-] U.S. dollars. The thing that will appear in the small village of ".

And this is just a piano. Although he couldn't find the corresponding brand of the complete set of carving knives in the same room, he found that the cherry wood boxes containing the carving knives were all signed.

Maybe it was because Wei Ran was still on the road, and Ivan somewhat let go of his old father's vigilance for the time being.In the ensuing chat, Wei Ran, who purposely kept his words to a minimum, also gradually discovered that the tall Olga has a much more cheerful personality.As the younger sister, Olena is more or less quiet.

What made Wei Ran even more puzzled was that after seeing Olena in real life, the sense of familiarity that had been brought to him by that photo had disappeared, and he could even be 100% sure that It's definitely the first time I've met each other.

As the sun went west, Yana and her two daughters began to prepare dinner, while Ivan left the house with Wei Ran and a few clean plastic bottles.

Following the other party to the edge of the birch forest, Ivan used an electric drill to drill a hole in each of several waist-thick birch trees, and then took a hole from a small canning jar. A stainless steel tube the size of a cigarette came out and inserted into it.

Without asking, Wei Ran took the initiative to bring the plastic bottle over, tied it to the tree with a rope, and picked up the birch sap slowly dripping down the steel pipe.

He also drank a lot of this stuff at Hongqi Forest Farm, no matter last spring or this spring, Ji Ma or Teacher Dalia and the others would get a lot of this stuff to drink as water.

While fixing the bottle on his side, Ivan had already drilled holes in the second tree, and at the same time kept saying, "Both of them like to drink this."

"Like you like drinking?" Wei Ran joked.

Ivan smiled, but did not continue the topic, "Victor, tomorrow you and those two old guys will go fishing by yourself, and I will stay at home with my daughter."

"I go by myself?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in surprise, "You are not afraid that I will run away with the boat, or drive the boat into the lake."

"I even kind of expect you to do that, so I can get a new boat for free."

While speaking, Ivan had already installed the stainless steel pipe for the third tree, and continued to fix the bottle while continuing, "If you don't cause any trouble tomorrow, you can go to the forest with us to pick mushrooms and go hunting the day after tomorrow. Then you can leave."

"Is there no assessment?" Wei Ran asked in surprise what he had been worrying about these days.

"No." Ivan shook his head with a smile. "I've finished your assessment. At least I'm satisfied with the result. I believe your teacher will be very satisfied too."

　Thanks Sui Chengzhifeng for rewarding 500 points

　　
　
(End of this chapter)