War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 480 Unprepared Expulsion

"Are you done?" Dalia asked with a smile as soon as the phone was connected.

"Just finished working," Wei Ran responded.

"Since you're done with your work, come back as soon as possible." After finishing speaking, Dalia simply hung up the phone.

Taking a deep breath, Wei Ran booked a plane ticket to Kazan at the fastest time, while secretly thinking about what new tricks would be waiting for him at the Hongqi Forest Farm.

Speaking of which, the three people I met this time did not use the post-reading testimonials of those famous books that Gorman secretly let me read before.This also made him wonder whether it was Gorman who was playing tricks on him, or Daria temporarily changed the plan.

With these doubts, Wei Ran boarded the flight to Kazan on time the next morning, and finally landed in Kazan safely after several transfers.

Without daring to delay, when Wei Ran drove back to Hongqi Forest Farm in an off-road vehicle, he found that not only Dalia and other teachers were already waiting for him, but Mr. Nicholas and Jima were also there!

"Little guy, you are finally back." Nicholas patted Wei Ran's shoulder gently, "How is it? Is Sochi very warm?"

"It's really warm." Wei Ran responded dryly, completely unaware of the current situation.

"Okay, let's go to the meeting room to chat." Karp seemed to see Wei Ran's confusion, and beckoned him to follow to the main building.

"Jima, what's going on?" Wei Ran pulled Jima and asked in a low voice.

"how could I know"

Ji Ma said with sly eyebrows, "I was watching a movie with my Maya yesterday, and then I was notified to be back immediately."

"Where's Nicholas? When did Mr. Nicholas arrive?" Wei Ran continued to ask while he was going upstairs.

"He was already there when I came." Jima glanced at the old Mr. Nicholas who was walking in the front. "I heard from Gorman that he seemed to have arrived the day before yesterday."

"You two, hurry up and get into the elevator." Teacher Anna urged dissatisfied.

"Immediately!" Wei Ran and Jima Qiqi responded, and quickly stepped into the elevator.

Led by Karp, the group went directly to the top floor of the main building, passed through two locked anti-theft doors, and finally walked into a large conference room that had never been used before.

The meeting room has obviously been carefully cleaned recently, and there are even some flower bouquets with water drops in the center of the meeting table.

When everyone was seated, Karp cleared his throat, and then said solemnly, "Gorman"

"In" Gorman also stood up solemnly.

"Victor"

"In" Wei Ran, who didn't know why, also stood up.

"Gorman, do you admit to helping student Victor cheat?" Karp's tone was still serious.

"Admit" Gorman replied without thinking, "I disclosed the content of this month's course to student Victor in advance, and helped him prepare the book list."

"Victor, do you admit it?" Karp looked at Wei Ran and asked.

"Uh..." Wei Ran glanced at everyone present, and finally replied, "It is true."

"In this case, the following is the punishment decision."

Kapoor cleared his throat again, and said solemnly, "Due to the shameful cheating this month, the teacher Gorman has been expelled from the Red Flag Women's Safety Training School. Mr. Gorman, do you have any objections?"

"No objection." Gorman still replied in a serious tone, "The days spent with everyone in this school will be my best memories."

"So are we"

After finishing speaking, Karp looked at Wei Ran, "Student Victor, in view of your shameful cheating behavior, you will be permanently expelled from Hongqi Women's Safety Training School with immediate effect, and all teaching materials, dormitories and cars assigned to you will be recovered. Victor, do you have an opinion?"

"I"

"Very well, it seems that you have no objection."

Before Karp finished speaking, Teacher Daria had already placed a thick stack of documents on the table.

Wei Ran, who was not far away, could see clearly that those documents seemed to be the test questions he and Jima had done.

"Destroy it"

Before Karp finished speaking, the two teachers, Daria and Anna, had already turned on the paper shredders at their feet, stuffing all kinds of things like test questions into them.

Amidst the buzzing noise of the paper shredder, after a short moment of stupor and astonishment, Wei Ran had already vaguely understood what the seemingly unnecessary operations of these teachers were for.

"Almost forgot the last thing." Karp patted his forehead, "Victor, although you were expelled, remember to make up for the last year's tuition."

"I will remember this"

Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded, the so-called expulsion was just an excuse, simply put, it was just that these old stubborn people did not allow a Chinese person to graduate from this school.

Feelings?For them, maybe it is, or maybe it’s just their remaining persistence and arrogance. Of course, it doesn’t rule out erasing some traces of Wei Ran’s learning here—even if it’s just in form.

"Now that you two shameful cheaters have been fired, don't stay here any longer"

Karp said in a businesslike manner, "Jima, go and burn all the scraps of paper, and take back everything that belongs to the former student Victor. If you also plan to cheat, the next one will be stuffed into the shredder It's you."

"I thought they would fire me too"

Jima muttered in a moderate voice, quickly took out the plastic bag that Gorman gave him more than an hour ago from his pocket, and poured out all the shredded paper in the shredder, like a waste collector As if walking around behind Wei Ran and Gorman, he walked out of the conference room where he also came for the first time.

"Victor, you can buy me a drink later."

Gorman walked down the stairs and said, "I was fired because of you. If there is no accident, my salary for this month may be wasted."

"Please, I invite you."

Wei Ran replied angrily that the so-called dismissal was nothing more than an excuse. After all, Gorman was only fired from Hongqi Forest Farm, but not from Time Film Studio, and he was one of the major shareholders of the studio anyway. Woolen cloth.

"Victor, would you like to buy me a drink too?"

Ji Ma, who was carrying a large bag of waste paper, came up to him and comforted him, "Don't be so depressed, I was..."

"Do you think I seem depressed?" Wei Ran shook his head dumbfoundingly, Ji Ma is also a genius this time, and he is also pretending to be stupid.

"Just a little sudden?" Gorman asked with a smile.

Wei Ran froze for a moment, then nodded, "It's indeed a bit sudden, this formalism really catches people off guard."

"Sometimes it is necessary to walk around the form"

Gorman took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and lit it on his own, "Come on, go to my office for a while, I believe you must have a lot of questions."

"Where's the office?" Wei Ran asked with great interest.

"Of course the studio director's office"

Gorman gave Wei Ran's expected answer as a matter of course, then glanced at Jima, and said pretendingly, "My good student, I have been fired, so don't follow me, go and do your work .”

"Mr. Gorman, I will miss you."

Jima, who seemed to be a playful upper body, actually squeezed out two tears, and then gave Gorman a hug that almost suffocated him, and winked at Wei Ran by the way.

After sending Jima away, Wei Ran followed Gorman to the area allocated to Time Film Studio on the first floor of the main building, greeted the girls working here and walked into an office in the farthest corner.

It wasn't until Wei Ran closed the door that Gorman stubbed out the cigarette butt, took out a bottle of whiskey from the drawer, and then took out an ice box from the small refrigerator behind him.

"What do you want to ask?" Gorman poured half a glass of wine for Wei Ran while speaking, and threw some ice cubes into it.

Wei Ran spread his hands, "Except for the way I'm going today, I'm not prepared, there's actually nothing I want to ask."

"Smart young man"

Gorman picked up his cup and took a sip, and said to himself, "After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ivan completely gave up his previous occupation, returned to the village where he grew up, and became a fisherman like his father. It was a bit difficult for a few years, but fortunately he saved some savings before he became a fisherman.

You probably saw it?He is now a happy, ordinary man, after breaking away from his Soviet-era job. "

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded, Gorman continued, "Stepan was a student of the Suvorov Junior Military Academy in the Soviet era, a student with excellent grades, and he has some blood relationship with Anna.

If the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed, he would have been recruited into the GKB.After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, he was admitted to the Krasnodar Police University with the help of Anna, and became an anti-smuggling policeman in Sochi after graduation.

Now that his son is in high school, he is also a happy ordinary person. Of course, it is undeniable that he occasionally does some smuggling. "

"Where's the croupier?"

Seeing that the other party actually picked up the cup, Wei Ran couldn't help asking. In comparison, the croupier in Kaliningrad was the person with whom he had the shortest contact time, less than ten minutes before and after.

Gorman sighed, "He should be considered successful in a certain way."

"He?" Wei Ran frowned, "It was a woman who met me."

"Pretty woman?" Gorman asked with a strange look.

"At least the breasts are big." Wei Ran said half jokingly and half seriously.

"It's probably just his employees."

Gorman put down his glass, "It's normal if you haven't seen him. He lives very carefully, like a mouse in the sewer. But at the same time, he has never lacked enthusiasm and generosity for old friends. But in comparison , he should be regarded as the most tiring one in life."

"So." Wei Ran was silent for a moment, and looked up at Gorman, "The same kind of people live different lives because of different choices?"

"You are right to understand that"

Gorman spread his hands, "There is no other purpose for you to meet them. It is just to give you a reference in advance, so that you will not cause troubles that cannot be solved by relying on what you have learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm. As for the people you met Will you help me, I personally advise you not to have any hope."

"I'm just a historian." Wei Ran's tone this time was extra firm.

"I'm glad you think so," Gorman said, raising his glass. "Cheers."

"cheers"

Wei Ran picked up the cup and touched the other party. When his lips touched the mouth of the cup, he finally couldn't help asking the question that had been accumulated in his heart for a long time, "Gorman, what are you going to do?"

"What do what?" Gorman asked after gulping down the whiskey in his glass.

Wei Ran hesitated for a while, and simply confessed all the doubts he had had all along, "Including accepting me to study here, setting up a film studio, and just expelling me, all of these."

"First of all, you are a good partner, an equal partner."

Gorman poured a second glass of wine on his own, "So we don't mind helping our partners learn some useless knowledge to settle down. On the other hand, according to Mr. Nicholas, it seems that you took the initiative to send Come to the door."

“It was indeed delivered to my door”

Wei Ran grinned. There was no way to refute this matter. Although the study experience at Hongqi Forest Farm was not a good memory, it did teach me a lot.

It can even be said that the things learned here played a vital role in entering the battlefields of World War II.In fact, the most important thing is to perfectly hide the existence of the metal book and the fact that the metal book teaches those things, and this is one of the reasons why he rejected the so-called talent show in Sochi.

"You were fired just for your own good. I don't think I need to explain this matter." The smile on Gorman's face became more and more kind. "As for the film studio, of course it's just for making money."

"This sentence is false." Wei Ran made a judgment almost subconsciously, even though the expression on the other party's face was extraordinarily sincere.

(End of this chapter)