War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 484 Reasoning Between the Prospective Weng and Son-in-Law
"Professor, why did you think of calling me?" Wei Ran sat down on the stone steps at the gate, and asked while looking at the lake outside the yard reflecting the night lights.

"Your aunt and I have already landed at Kazan Airport. If you have nothing to do, drive over to pick us up." Professor Alexey on the other end of the phone said, "Remember to hurry up, the plane is about to stop .”

"Have you come to Kazan?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, but then complained, "Why are you talking now?"

"I wanted to tell you before getting on the plane"

The person on the other end of the phone was replaced by Zhou Shujin, Wei Ran's aunt and mother-in-law, "I thought your uncle told you, and he thought I told you, but when the plane landed and turned on, we realized that we didn't talk to each other." you say."

"My uncle didn't drink too much again, did he?" Wei Ran teased with a smile.

"As long as you have been away from Volgograd, it has been so long since he has touched alcohol." Aunt Zhou Shujin said happily, "In short, if it is convenient for you, come to pick us up quickly, and if it is not convenient, please send your address again. Send it again, we will take a taxi there by ourselves."

"It's convenient," Wei Ran said quickly, "You guys rest at the airport, and I'm leaving now."

After hanging up the phone, Wei Ran glanced at the briefcase and binoculars that were still on the table in the hall on the first floor. After thinking for a while, he put them all away and sent them to the storage room.

Anyway, that Edward gave him a month's time, and the early and late days were not so bad at all.In contrast, he was more curious about the reason for the sudden visit of his aunt and professor.

With this in mind, Wei Ran didn't waste any more time. After locking the door, he drove the armored pickup still parked under the oak tree and left the yard.By the time he rushed to the airport as fast as possible, it was already more than an hour later.

"Victor, are you changing your car?" Professor Alexey immediately threw the suitcase aside after seeing Wei Ran open the door of the armored pickup truck, "Where did this come from?" The big guy you got?"

"It was exchanged with the previous car." Wei Ran explained vaguely.

"Give me the car keys, I'll drive, and you will show the way." While speaking, Professor Alexey took out the alcohol detector attached to his waist, opened it and blew, "Don't worry, I didn't drink wine."

"Then go ahead"

Wei Ranmu threw the car keys to the professor indifferently, and then helped his aunt to climb up to the co-pilot seat, while he himself sat in the relatively more comfortable back seat with a few heavy suitcases.

When Professor Alexei drove the car and left the airport under the guidance of the navigation system, Wei Ran asked curiously, "Auntie, why do you remember Kazan?"

"Stop by the way to see how your life is going here." Zhou Shujin, the aunt sitting in the co-pilot seat, explained with a smile, "Then fly to Finland at noon tomorrow, Wei Ran, if you have time, why don't you come with us?" ?”

"Go to Finland?" Wei Ran thought for a while, "Is it because of the movie I made before?"

"This time it has nothing to do with the movie"

Professor Alexis, who was in charge of driving, asked back, "Victor, do you remember Akim and Chris?"

"of course I remember"

Wei Ran replied without thinking, "At that time they entrusted me to help investigate the missing commander of the 163rd Soviet Infantry Division, but they didn't expect the final investigation results to be quite different from what they thought."

"It seems that your memory is good," Professor Alexis said with satisfaction.

"I don't get drunk every day." Wei Ran joked, holding back his anger. Of course he remembered the couple, but they rarely communicated with each other.

"I've quit drinking"

Professor Alexey made an excuse in dissatisfaction, and then continued, "About half a month ago, Akim and his friends accidentally discovered an underground shelter in the forest."

"Underground shelter?" Wei Ran became interested when he heard this, "The kind filled with World War II weapons?"

"arms?"

Alexei shook his head, "Apart from two shovels and a chainsaw, there is nothing decent, mainly because there are three corpses in that underground shelter, to be precise, they should be wax corpses, the lifelike ones. "

"During World War II?" Wei Ran asked.

"probably"

Alexei took out his mobile phone, pulled out a photo and handed it to Wei Ran, "This is a photo sent by Akim. The chain saw in the photo is a KS43 double saw equipped by the German army during World War II, so at least it can be The time is determined to be after 1943."

"They won't be thinking of using it as a gimmick to attract tourists again this time?" Wei Ran finished teasing, and then turned his attention to the photos on the phone screen.

In this high-resolution photo, one can clearly see three wax corpses sitting against the wall in an underground shelter whose roof has been lifted by half.Although the clothes on them were in dilapidated condition, after enlarging the photo, something interesting appeared.

One of the three wax corpses was wearing a protective overcoat specially designed for German motorcyclists in World War II.

The one on the right is wearing a very Soviet-style Budyonny winter hat and a pair of German marching boots on his feet.As for the one on the far left, he is wearing a Soviet Shapka winter hat that looks very warm on his head, but his feet, like the one in the middle wearing a motorcycle protective coat, are all made of beasts. Leather wrapped.

Continue to move the photos, and you can clearly see that in this underground shelter, which is not too big but is spacious enough for three people, there is also a KS43 double-person chainsaw that Professor Alexey just mentioned, This thing was almost the best saw used by engineers during World War II.

In addition to the chainsaw, a Mauser rifle and an MP40 submachine gun, as well as two gasoline barrels and two water jugs hung on the walls of the log-built shelter.In the corner not far away, there was actually a small fireplace built with stones and mud, and two German helmets used as pots were placed on it.

Returning the mobile phone to Professor Alexei who was driving, Wei Ran joked with a smile, "Professor, they are not planning to create a second friendship in a snowstorm, right?"

"No kidding, Akeem really thinks so."

Zhou Shujin, who was taking a selfie with her mobile phone just now, took over after posting in Moments, "He has always been jealous that your uncle still has the opportunity to make a movie, so after discovering that underground shelter with his friends, he has been in it these days Call and invite your uncle to come with you to help investigate."

"Victor, tell me your opinion." Professor Alexey asked without looking back.

"It doesn't look like a soldier." Wei Ran's tone was uncertain, "It's more like"

"Prisoner of War" Professor Alexei and Wei Ran made the same guess at the same time.

"It really looks like a prisoner of war." Wei Ran nodded.

"Look, I said his guess must be the same as mine, right?"

Professor Alexey winked triumphantly at Zhou Shujin who was beside her, and then a well-spoken idiom popped out of his mouth, "Will you bet and admit defeat?"

"I would like to admit defeat," Zhou Shujin said angrily, "Just a bottle of wine, and it can only be from Wei Ran's family. He is a good boy, maybe you can only find a bottle of cooking wine."

"Cooking wine is also fine," Alexei said beamingly, but Zhou Shujin noticed the strange look on Wei Ran's face at the first time.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Shujin turned around and asked curiously.

"Auntie, I'm afraid you're going to miscalculate this time." Wei Ran grinned and replied, "Although I don't drink, I have saved a lot of wine."

"You are really my good nephew and son-in-law!"

Professor Alexey immediately cheered, and even slammed the gas pedal, which also startled the Nissan sedan in front of the car, so that it immediately changed to the lane next to it.

"I like this car!" Professor Alexey speeded up and overtook the car beamingly, and then said, "Tell me about your judgment in detail, lest she think I'm cheating."

“It was very simple”

Wei Ran explained with a smile, "The boots on the corpse on the left and the overcoat worn by the man in the middle are the same set, but the hats on him and the corpse on the right are from the Soviet Red Army, so there is no doubt that their The clothes must have been snatched or picked up.

Considering the winter cotton hats, they were probably in winter at the time. Since it was winter, no matter if it was Germany, Finland or the Soviet Union, even guerrillas, as long as their brains were normal, they would not fight barefoot and needed animal skins. Wrapping their feet can only show that their previous shoes were not warm at all or even had no shoes. "

"You are really a good student of your uncle"

Zhou Shujin couldn't help laughing, what she said just now was almost the same as the basis for the judgment that Alexei made when he just received the scary photo.

"Can you find anything else?" Professor Alexey continued to ask like a test.

"And a chainsaw"

Wei Ran replied without thinking, "Those who are qualified to wear a motorcycle protective coat don't need to operate that kind of double chainsaw, and those who need to operate a double chainsaw can't wear that kind of protective coat. The most important thing is, no matter where One, not enough warm shoes to wear, unless it is a prisoner of war."

"A prisoner of war from the south," Professor Alexey added with a smile, "That underground shelter was discovered in the forest on the northern border between Finland and Norway. Victor, can you think of anything?"

"Is there a road nearby?" Wei Ran asked with a smile on his aunt Zhou Shujin's blank face, "The road built by the prisoners of war."

"The road you mentioned is less than 40 kilometers south of that forest," Professor Alexei replied tacitly.

"what are you guys saying?"

Zhou Shujin looked at Professor Alexey with undisguised admiration in her eyes. Perhaps in her eyes, that was the charm of Professor Alexey.

"Victor, tell me the answer!" The professor pretended to be profound and gave Wei Ran the job of uncovering the mystery.

"Before the Battle of Lapland"

Wei Ran paused, and continued after his aunt looked at him, "According to historical records, before that battle, the German army stationed there had mobilized a large number of prisoners of war in the winter of 1943 to build the road from Norway to Finland, because Most of the prisoners of war used were from southern Europe, so many people froze to death at that time."

"It's the same as my guess." Professor Alexei nodded. "What I can't explain clearly now is where the Budyonny winter hat and the Kapusattva winter hat came from."

　Thanks to the flag-planting madman Hongbai, and book addiction for rewarding 1500 points respectively

　　Thanks to the cat that climbed the wall for rewarding 1108 points

　　Thank you Mantou for rewarding 500 points

　　Thank you Flying Hands for rewarding 200 points

　　
　
(End of this chapter)