War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 481 Armored Vehicle?
In the whiskey-smelling office, Gorman saw Wei Ran looking at him suspiciously, and asked, "Victor, is there anything else you want to ask?"

"Why this time?" Wei Ran asked the last question.

“It was very simple”

Gorman spread his hands, "In June, your time and energy will probably be devoted to your graduate graduation. In July, the studio's energy will be devoted to going to Egypt to prepare for the filming. Plus it just so happened that I cheated for you."

"Don't mention that ridiculous cheating." Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded before the other party finished speaking.

"In this case, is there anything else you want to ask?" Gorman asked again like a conscientious NPC.

"There's nothing I want to ask." Wei Ran replied angrily, and then he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

Before I knew it, I had been studying at Hongqi Forest Farm for nearly two years.The hard work of the past two years may only be said to be empathetic to Ji Ma.

Of course, although these teachers in Hongqi Forest Farm always deceive themselves, in fact, the two parties have become friends who can trust each other in a certain sense.

In addition, not to mention the various skills learned from here, the eight abdominal muscles that can be used as a washboard are worthy of the extremely cheap tuition nowadays.

Even if you don't mention yourself, Jima, who was a gangster two years ago, has now become a star who is about to become famous, and even the small town gang he once joined has become his. Brother, is this not enough to explain something?

"Since you have nothing to ask"

Gorman cleared his throat to interrupt Wei Ran's thoughts, and said solemnly, "Since you have been fired and you are also one of the major shareholders of the studio, starting from June, come to the studio at least once a week. How about a day at the factory?"

"I come to work?" Wei Ran looked at Gorman like a ghost, "Why am I here? Help you choose a beautiful actress?"

"Victor, you have been spoiled by Quarter Horse."

Gorman knocked on the table in dissatisfaction, "I don't need to trouble you about choosing actors, but don't forget that you are not only a shareholder, but also a historical consultant for the studio. You have to use you for the next movie we are about to shoot. guided by their expertise.”

"How can I guide you?" Wei Ran asked confusedly, "Also, what happened to the historical consultant? I had this position back then?"

"now there"

Gorman explained angrily, "How do you direct? Do you need me to explain this kind of thing? The most basic thing is that you can't just watch a group of Russian actors shoot World War II movies with AK47s in their hands, can you?"

"So you mean, I might go to Egypt with you guys to make a movie?"

"It's not possible, but it's definitely going. After all, you are a historian, and this job is perfect."

Gorman spread his hands, "Of course, you don't have to waste time there the whole time, and the time span of the movie itself is not too large, so even if you are there the whole time, it won't take too long."

"Sounds very interesting." Wei Ran muttered with great interest. After all, this is the first work of Time Film Studio, so of course he is interested.

"Okay, that's all I have to say."

Gorman stood up and said as he walked out, "Compared to these good news, there is some bad news coming."

"What bad news?" Wei Ran asked nervously.

Gorman smiled gloatingly, "As I said in their school's conference room just now, all your things have been confiscated, including your car."

"God special code 'their school'."

Wei Ran blatantly muttered something in Chinese, followed the other party out and said indifferently, "Take it back, just take it back."

"Do you want me to take you back to the city?" Gorman asked standing on the steps at the entrance of the main building, but his eyes turned to Ji who was waiting beside the off-road vehicle that Wei Ran had been driving for two years not far away. horse.

"Looks like I don't need it"

Wei Ran walked towards Jima, and at the same time kept saying, "Every Friday I will come to the studio to work for a day."

"Going to Egypt?" Gorman asked with a smile.

"Of course." Wei Ran replied without even thinking about it. He could go out with him for free for a few days in the name of the studio's historical consultant, so he naturally had no reason to refuse.

"Principal Nicola said that this car will belong to me in the future"

Seeing Wei Ran approaching, Ji Ma stretched out his hand triumphantly, "Come here, give me the car keys, and complete the transfer procedures before I return to class here."

"What else did Mr. Nicholas say?" Wei Ran happily handed the car keys to Jima, then opened the door and got in.

"nothing"

Jima waved with Gorman first, then got into the cab, and said while skillfully starting the car, "He will return to Volgograd by boat tonight."

"Go back by boat?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.

"Although it takes a little longer, he has plenty of time, doesn't he?"

Jima patted his forehead when he said this, "One more thing, Mr. Karp asked you to hand over the last year's tuition to me, and hand it over to him when I come back to class in a few days."

"I'll give it to you when you send me back"

Wei Ran said indifferently, this kind of thing was originally agreed, he naturally wouldn't blame Jima, besides, the latter had no say in this kind of thing at all, on a certain level, in fact, Jima Yuan free without him.

It's just that Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai, one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. Some things that are bound to him are rare benefits to Ji Ma.

Along the way, the two brothers tacitly did not talk about any words related to the Hongqi Forest Farm, as if Wei Ran was fired, and even the memory of the two of them being abused in the forest farm together disappeared.

"Victor, I secretly left this for you."

When Ji Ma stepped on the brakes at the gate of the courtyard by Lake Kaban, he immediately reached out and pulled a dirty camouflage backpack from behind and stuffed it into Wei Ran.

"How did you bring this here?"

Wei Ran asked dumbfoundedly, he couldn't remember how many times the dog had walked around the Hongqi Forest Farm with this backpack on his back, let alone how many times he had put dumbbells in this backpack.

"I wanted to bring back all your things for you as a souvenir"

Jima said helplessly, "But Teacher Anna said that everything you use must be destroyed and incinerated. In the end, I still used the excuse of packing garbage to bring this backpack out."

"Thank you so much"

Wei Ran patted Jima on the shoulder, "After I put the luggage back first, and then I give you the tuition fee, we will transfer the ownership of the car. By the way, Teacher Dalia doesn't plan to take back this house, does she?"

"No." Jima said uncertainly, "She only said to take back the things you used in Hongqi Forest Farm, and she didn't mention anything else."

"That's fine." Hearing this, Wei Ran opened the door and jumped out of the car, took out the key and opened the locked courtyard door, beckoned to Ji Ma to drive the car in.

In just half a month, a row of wooden garages with electric shutter doors have been repaired on the wall facing the gate, and even the motorcycle that Diane gave as a gift half a month ago seems They've all been sent to the garage.It is a pity for him that now that the garage has been repaired, the car is gone.

No longer paying attention to the newly repaired garage, Wei Ran sent the suitcase and the dilapidated backpack that Ji Ma helped to keep into the lobby on the first floor, and then went to the attic on the top floor, and took out the bag from the safe on the mezzanine that had been prepared half a year ago. Good final year tuition fees.

"Let's go, now go to transfer the ownership of the car?" Wei Ran asked after handing the leather bag containing the tuition fees to Jima.

"don't worry"

Jima took the bag and threw it on the table, and said expectantly, "Victor, how about we go and see your garage?"

"Look at the garage?" Wei Ran was stunned, thinking he had guessed what Ji Ma was thinking, "Do you want to try that motorcycle?"

"motorcycle?"

Ji Ma glanced at Wei Ran with a strange expression. Although he didn't say anything, Wei Ran already realized that there might be some surprises waiting for him in those newly repaired garages.

Almost trotting out of the room, Wei Ran pressed the switch of the remote control to open the door under the guidance of Ji Ma.As the rolling shutter door was raised little by little, Wei Ran's eyes and mouth opened wider and wider, and there was actually an armored vehicle parked in the leading garage!

"Ji Ma, what's going on?" Wei Ran asked, turning his head to look at Ji Ma.

"There are many reasons why it appears here. Of course, these reasons are all told to me by Teacher Anna."

Ji Ma Tan Tanshou, "First of all, the first reason is that the lady named Diane a month ago, the sponsor behind her invested a lot of money in the studio, and Teacher Anna said that most of it is yours. Credit, so I want to give you some rewards."

"What else?" Wei Ran asked while looking at the armored vehicles in the garage.

"The second reason is that before you were expelled, you could have received a scholarship. Although you were expelled this semester, the scholarship from the previous semester will still be honored to you." Jima shrugged, " That's the second reason."

"There must be a third reason, right?" Wei Ran leaned on the front bumper and asked.

"There is even a fourth one," said Jima with a hint of envy. "Principal Nikolai wants you to be more high-profile. Another reason is to celebrate your move to Kazan. Teacher Daria said that if If you think the reasons are not enough, let me make up a few more on the spot."

Before Wei Ran opened his mouth, Jima continued, "It's not just you, they said that if I perform well, I will get such a fancy armored vehicle when I graduate next year."

"When did this happen?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, "I mean when was this car delivered."

"About a week ago, Karp and I went to Nizhny Novgorod to check it back." Jima pulled the back of his head and said, "I remember the car key is in the cab, you can drive it out Try it, it is said that it is a new product that only appeared last year.”

"For military use?"

Wei Ran asked cautiously, the car in the garage is better called an armored pickup rather than an armored car. The cement-gray body is estimated to be six meters long, and there is a four-door crew cabin behind it that takes up nearly a quarter of the room. One-length cargo bed with body-colored canvas canopy.

"It should be considered civilian use"

Jima said uncertainly, "Although this thing is called the Bran armored vehicle, it is actually a thing made by a small private defense company using the chassis of a broken truck like the GAZ-3308."

"Why do you always send this kind of thing?" Wei Ran couldn't help muttering, this armored vehicle drove out, but it was far more ostentatious than the previous off-road vehicle.

"You don't want the free gift"

Ji Ma said in a sour tone, "This armored vehicle is much more fuel-efficient than that off-road vehicle, and it's all made of bulletproof materials. You don't have to worry about shooting at close range with an AK. Of course, it's from the company that sells the vehicle." If you don't believe me, we can try it."

"Use it for you?" Wei Ran scolded the other party, and then asked, "Ji Ma, do you know how much this car costs?"

"Seems to be under $20"

Jima replied in a more uncertain tone, "I just heard from a beautiful saleswoman. I'm afraid only Mr. Culp knows how much it cost."

"20?"

Wei Ran shook his head and smiled wryly. His tuition fees at Hongqi Forest Farm were not even worth 20 US dollars. He co-authored not only learned for nothing in the past two years, but even earned some interest back?
"You also think it's too expensive?" Ji Ma said painfully, "20 US dollars is enough to build several more hunter cabins on Inta."

“Not expensive at all”

Wei Ran muttered to himself, half a month ago Diane was able to send an antique motorcycle as a gift from a long distance, half a month later today, Karp found all kinds of excuses to send such a motorcycle. A valuable armored pickup truck, what can this explain?
Undoubtedly, it only shows that the sponsor behind Edelweiss and the studio must have reached a relatively pleasant and in-depth cooperation, otherwise, they would never have given such a generous gift to their "matchmaker".

"I almost forgot that you are also a damn rich man." Jima laughed dumbly, "It's really not expensive for you."

"Leave it alone"

Wei Ran gave a middle finger, "After the movie you made in Finland is released, I'm afraid it won't be long before your salary can buy several armored vehicles like this."

"If you have this time, you might as well drive it out quickly." Jima even helped Wei Ran open the car door while speaking, "Then go with me to go through the transfer procedures, and get a license plate for this car by the way."

Seeing this, Wei Ran no longer refused, and got into the cab neatly.Compared with the angular appearance, the interior of this car does not look much different from that of a high-end civilian car, except that there is a small refrigerator that is not too big between the two business seats in the rear row.

After scanning the shift lever of the automatic transmission and the control switches of various functions on the instrument panel, Wei Ran fumbled to start the engine and drove it out of the garage.

At the same time, Ji Ma had already gotten into the off-road vehicle that was about to belong to him with the tuition fee Wei Ran gave him, and drove out of the yard in the first place.

"Since you want me to be a ostentatious historian, then I might as well be more ostentatious."

Wei Ran, who locked the courtyard door again, knocked on the thick bulletproof glass, then got into the cab again and stepped on the accelerator, driving this eye-catching armored pickup truck to catch up with the quarter horse waiting for him in front.

(End of this chapter)