War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 508 History?Business?Work?

After waiting by the lake for more than an hour, when the plane driven by Akim made the lake ripple again, most of the goats in the oven had already been served on the folding table. As for the pot of Alec Professor Sai's high hopes for fish and sheep, but it has already been taken to the corner, apparently abandoned.

Fortunately, Professor Alexei has learned more important things from Wei Ran. In the past hour or so, Wei Ran has helped him arrange what he should do in the next few days based on what he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm. How to deal with your own boss.

Under the watchful eyes of their husband-in-law and son-in-law, the cabin door was slowly opened, but the first to run out were a few dogs with mottled coats and no breed.

However, when he saw the drooping thick tails of these dogs, Wei Ran subconsciously picked up the shotgun beside him—even though these dogs that looked very similar to wolves were all wearing muzzles.

Immediately afterwards, a skinny young man with a height of at most 1.7 meters, who didn't even look as tall as Professor Alexei, got out of the cabin.

"That's Aspen's son, Kruger."

Professor Alexey explained, "He is two years younger than you, and he has won the championship of their local dog sledding mountain race for three consecutive years."

"Is this match very good?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"maybe"

Alexei greeted the other party from a distance, "I heard from Akim that Kruger participated in the Dakar Rally on a motorcycle last year."

"Finnish strengths," Wei Ran said in a moderate Chinese voice.

Before he had time to say hello to this young man named Kruger, the latter had already turned around and helped Akeem push a short and fat man in a wheelchair off, and picked him up A heavy looking canvas bag.

"That's Akim's friend, As." Professor Alexey continued, "His leg was injured because of the fall in the shelter in the forest."

"Is the whole family here?" Wei Ran asked suspiciously.

"The boy named Kruger is quite normal, but his father, Asko, is hard to say." Professor Alexey said dumbfoundingly, "That guy is very stubborn and even paranoid."

"Generally such guys are not very good at communicating," Wei Ran responded in a low voice.

"really"

Professor Alexey said with a headache, "Although Mr. Alexander bought all the discoveries and stories, if you plan to make a movie, you must give him and his son each a role. This old guy wants to be famous too much. "

Whispering up to this point, those dangerous dogs also surrounded Wei Ran and Professor Alexei, and then a young man named Kruger also pushed his father away in a wheelchair come over.

Obviously, Aspen and Kruger and his son don't speak Russian, so the two sides just nodded and shook hands.

After a brief acquaintance, Kruger took out a clean winch from his canvas bag, fixed it skillfully on a pine tree on the shore, took off his clothes, and pulled the winch hook with one hand, Holding the rope extending from the water with one hand, he walked into the cold lake water.

The next operation will be much simpler. After fixing the winch, Kruger took out a large outdoor power supply from the cabin and connected it to the winch, and then carefully spread a wet sheet on the winch cable. After signaling everyone to stand far away, he immediately pressed the winch switch.

As the steel wire as thick as a little finger tightened little by little, the water on the shore of the lake also began to become turbid.Soon, under the watchful eyes of everyone, a half-track motorcycle with a little rust was easily dragged to the shore by the winch.

"It's really a half-track motorcycle!" Professor Alexey ran over with a wine bottle before the winch stopped completely.

"Be careful!" Kruger yelled in Finnish, and immediately stopped the winch that was still working.

No one paid any attention to Kruger's complaints about safety issues, and everyone rushed over.

"This is the equipment of the 6th Northern Mountain Division of the Stall Army!"

After Professor Alexey wiped off the mud on the side of the half-track with a towel prepared in advance, he immediately pointed to the faintly visible snowflake symbol in the center of the remaining shield-shaped badge and made an accurate judgment.

"As expected of eating this bowl of rice."

Wei Ran sighed secretly, the remaining army badge was already blurred due to the long-term corrosion of blisters, and what could be seen clearly was only less than a quarter of the size of the area.

"Akim, let Kruger continue to pull back." Professor Alexey shouted excitedly, "There seems to be something behind here!"

"If it wasn't for you old guy running over, they would have been dragged out a long time ago."

After listening to Akim's translation, Kruger blatantly complained in Finnish, and he restarted the winch until Wei Ran pulled the professor away with a smothered smile.

Soon, a trailer full of mud was pulled up.Professor Alexey, who was held back by Wei Ran, immediately shouted excitedly, "I found something good."

"The drag bucket?" Wei Ran asked without knowing why.

"Standard trailers are on wheels"

Professor Alexey pointed to the remaining half of the metal sled seat on the side of the trailer and said, "This should be specially modified for the Finnish environment. There are not many of it in stock, and I have only seen it once."

"I have one too, and the quality is much better than this piece of scrap metal."

Wei Ran secretly showed off in his heart, until Kruger stopped the winch, and then let go of Professor Alexei.

"Victor, help me clean up the silt inside." Professor Alexei greeted while running towards the tow that had just come out of the water.

"Do you think there are clues here?" Wei Ran looked around, took off the winch hook that was still hanging on the track wheel, and hung it on the side of the trailer instead.

There was no need for him to ask Akim to help explain. Kruger who was not far away immediately started the winch again after Wei Ran pulled the professor back again.

After flipping the trailer with ease, Akim immediately fetched a bucket of lake water with a plastic bucket, and poured it into the trailer with the remaining mud.

It's a pity that the towbar was empty when it was intentionally left here, and it was naturally impossible for Professor Alexei to find any valuable clues.

While the professor was looking for clues in the smelly mud, Wei Ran looked at the lake that had not yet recovered its clarity. Gail had left the two sled trailers here at the beginning, but the rear one was fixed with a belt. Just the one in front.

After more than half a century, the belt used to connect the two trailers has naturally broken long ago, but the belt buckle is still stuck on the butt of the trailer.

But on the other hand, as he saw clearly just now, Professor Alexey immediately tore off the belt buckle and stuffed it into the mud on the lakeshore.Undoubtedly, this old thing must have guessed that there might be other things dragging behind, and he must have done it to get some cheap money.

But for Wei Ran, he is even more curious at this time, whether there is a second drag bucket in the water, and if not, will the second drag bucket that disappeared be the one in the metal book? that.

“Can't find much useful stuff”

Professor Alexey stopped after hiding the belt buckle, "At present, we can only confirm that this half-track motorcycle comes from the 6th Northern Mountain Division. The rest of the verification process may be a very long process. We can only I hope that Mr. Alexander can find some clues through the media."

"Can't you just make up a story?" Akim leaned forward and asked, "For example, a group of righteous Finnish hunters helped a group of prisoners of war escape from the control of Naju."

"Come on Akeem"

Professor Alexey said mockingly, "This kind of thing will not happen in Finland. Before the Battle of Lapland, Finland was basically either controlled by the Germans or brainwashed by the Germans. They are as good as the Germans." Almost in bed."

"You are prejudiced, from the prejudice of historians." Akim pouted, "Although I am also a Russian, but I think."

"History is history"

Professor Alexey's tone at this time was extraordinarily serious, "What really happened is called history, even if those things that happened are black material that some people or a certain country are ashamed to tell, even if they are outrageous and totally untrue." It is logical, but as long as it really happened, it is real history. As for your opinion or my opinion, that is prejudice."

"Stop doing this!" Akim said sarcastically, "Don't think I don't know, have you fabricated a lot of fake history these years?"

"That's my business," Professor Alexey argued shamelessly.

"Is this not a business?" Akeem kicked the sled trailer lying on its side.

"of course not"

Professor Alexey shook his head and said, "This is the job assigned to me by my boss, Mr. Alexander. My job is to restore the historical truth."

"Why are you as shameless as the Americans?" Akim asked with his beard blowing and his eyes staring.

"What Americans can do, why can't I? Why are you as shameless as Americans?"

Professor Alexey, who had never been coaxed before, squatted by the lake and washed his hands. Shi Shiran took out a wine bottle from his pocket, unscrewed it, and took a sip. He said vaguely and perfunctorily, "Wait patiently." Well, soon Mr. Alexander will use the media to find out the truth here, and you and your friends may have the opportunity to be interviewed by then. After a few months, if no one knows what happened here, we will put It’s not too late to treat it as a business, isn’t it?”

"History is history, business is business, work is work, huh!"

Wei Ran, who was listening to the excitement, shook his head, and couldn't help sighing almost the same as the metal book, "Human nature is too complicated, so complicated that sometimes you can choose to be an inappropriate person."

　Pay off the debt and add more for Pula Xiaobu
　　
　
(End of this chapter)