War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 56 Bad News Good News
Isn't this a strong buy and sell?

Wei Ran, who stayed in the room, stared at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth, and suddenly became entangled. It stands to reason that as long as the gold sands are sold, the money earned in less than a month is enough to go back to his hometown to pay a down payment and prepare to marry a wife.

But after that?
Find a job and live a normal life?Or continue to make money by digging through historical archives in Professor Alexey's studio?At that time, if there is a big job to make money, should I use the help of that notebook?

After thinking about it, if you want to continue to return to the battlefield of World War II with the help of that cowhide notebook, and try to come back alive as much as possible, this money seems to have to be spent.

"Anyway, it's for nothing, just spend the flowers!"

Wei Ran gritted his teeth and comforted himself, and took out the small but heavy glass jar from his pocket in pain.Since he got this windfall, although he had warmed it up a long time ago, he hadn't had time to open it and read it, but he didn't expect that it would not belong to him so soon.

After doing a lot of psychological preparation, Wei Ran tremblingly took out his mobile phone and dialed Karp's number again.

Before the call was connected, the latter had already opened the door and came in, even holding a yellow file bag in his hand.

"Have you figured it out?" Karp sat on the dirty chair and asked without looking up while taking out a few pieces of paper from the file bag.

"Think it over." Wei Ran reluctantly put the jar on the table, "However, can I use gold to pay for the tuition?"

Looking up at the young man standing across the table in surprise, Karp picked up the glass jar and weighed it, and said unhurriedly, "Yes, it is possible, but this little gold doesn't seem to be worth 900 million rubles. "

"How many years will I study here?" Wei Ran skipped the topic and asked.

Culp puts down the canning jar, 'it will take at least three years'

Wei Ran pretended to be calm and said, "Since it's three years, how about paying the tuition every year?"

"Of course! Of course! If you use gold to pay your tuition fees in the future, I can even give you a [-]% discount." Karp agreed to Wei Ran's request this time.

"Thank you so much! If only it could be cheaper."

Wei Ran almost gritted his teeth and said, he is not worried about the other party taking the money and running away, after all, the monk can't run away from the temple if he can run away, if the other party really cheats himself, his aunt who is a legal professional can definitely sue the other party without even keeping her pants.

"The price is already the lowest now. Alright, let's fill out these forms first, and write everything circled by the pencil."

After Karp passed the thick stack of forms in his hand to Wei Ran, he pointed to the Jinsha still on the table, "You take these things first, and I will take you to melt them later."

"Enrollment agreement?" Wei Ran glanced at the form in his hand, "Is there an enrollment agreement?"

"Of course, my place is a regular school, and you are the first male student other than that little bastard Jima." Speaking of this, Karp knocked on the table and urged, "If there is no problem, sign quickly .”

"But how can you guarantee the teaching effect?" Wei Ran asked cautiously, "It's not worth the money if you just reach the level of a hunter like Ji Ma."

"Dima didn't pay a ruble for tuition, and he just learned the simplest female self-defense for the purpose of profiting from it."

Karp knocked on the glass jar, and said in a very bachelor way, "If you have doubts about the teaching effect, you can leave with your gold at any time before signing, and no one will stop you here."

The dumbfounded Wei Ran hesitated again and again, and finally decided to take the risk of trusting Nicholas once.After carefully reading the enrollment agreement, he suddenly felt that the money spent might not be considered a loss.

Among other things, during the period of studying here, I not only have a single dormitory, a car of my own, and high accident insurance.What's even more exaggerated is that during the three-year study process, I may even get a scholarship!

Looking strangely at the smiling Karp across the table, Wei Ran honestly signed his name on the corresponding position on each page.

Karp stamped each of the two copies of the enrollment agreement, put one in a file bag and handed it to Wei Ran, then threw the other into a drawer and said, "The school starts on October 10st, you have It takes about a week to prepare. Starting from October 1st, you need to come back here to complete at least 10 days of study every month. The specific course schedule will be sent to you when I am ready."

"Is there anything I need to pay attention to?" Wei Ran put away the file bag and asked quite expectantly.

"Don't be like that bastard Jima who always thinks about sleeping with the female students here. Once you find out, you will be expelled immediately and you will not be refunded a ruble of tuition."

After Karp finished speaking, without waiting for Wei Ran to say anything else, he got up and was the first to leave the dilapidated office, "Take your gold and come downstairs with me, let's find a place to melt them and see how much it's worth. "

Followed Karp down from the top floor step by step. After the two left the main building, they took a golf cart through the two-story building with the sign of "Consultation Center" and came to a five-story building that is the farthest from the main building. .

The situation here is not much better than that of the main building. The first floor is a huge swimming pool that has long since dried up and many tiles have fallen off. The sides of the corridor on the second floor are covered with various posters from the Soviet era. You can also see dilapidated sauna rooms and various consultation rooms piled up with strange medical equipment.

As Karp walked into a not-so-big room on the second floor, the handsome old man opened the cabinet, took out a bottle of chemicals, and directed Wei Ran to hold the melting furnace on the bottom floor out.

"Karp, what is this place?" Wei Ran asked while the other party was using chemicals to dissolve the sand.

"The medical room, it's just been abandoned for a long time." Karp replied without raising his head.

"No, no, I mean the whole building, including the one we just went to."

"It was a high-standard sanatorium in the Soviet era."

While stirring the solution in the glass beaker, Karp explained, "At that time, those who were eligible to come here for recuperation were all big figures in Kazan. During the most tense years of the Cold War, this place served briefly as the The duty of the backup command center in wartime. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, this place gradually fell into disrepair, and finally I bought it together with the surrounding forest at a low price."

"Then just keep panicking like this?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.

“Lack of funds for renovation and maintenance”

Karp said as a matter of course, "Besides, there are not many people here at all, and there is no need for too many rooms, and even if it is cleaned, it will become what it is now sooner or later, so as long as it does not leak, it is enough."

"No wonder the tuition is so expensive," Wei Ran murmured to himself, and honestly closed his mouth and watched the other party's operation.

Under Karp's busy work, the gold dust in the small jar was quickly cast into a small, slender gold bar after being chemically purified and smelted in a melting furnace.

After the melting furnace, crucible, and molds were all cooled, Karp called Wei Ran to take the gold bars and went downstairs with him, and walked to the consultation center not far away.

Calling the aunt at the front desk to find out an electronic scale, and after proving the accuracy of the electronic scale with unopened mineral water, Wei Ran put the gold bars on it.

"A total of 974 grams. According to today's gold price, the gold is worth 305 million rubles."

Karp threw the calculator to Wei Ran, and after he checked the gold price from his mobile phone and confirmed that it was correct, the old handsome guy reached out to Wei Ran shamelessly, "But because your gold origin is unknown, and I still You have completed the purification and casting for you, so you still have to give me 10 rubles."

"Why don't you grab it?!" Wei Ran, who was about to give him [-] rubles, suddenly widened his eyes. How could this person be more shameless than Professor Alexei?
"Aren't I just robbing?" Karp hooked his fingers again as a matter of course, that handsome old face that was well maintained was extraordinarily arrogant.

"Billing!"

Wei Ran, who has been working in my aunt's travel agency for many years, can grasp the other party's seven inches with one word. The invoice requires tax payment. The other party is so happy to accept gold, it must be tax evasion.

"Forget it, I'll give you a discount of 10 rubles."

Karp said reluctantly, but he knew like that that the extra 10 rubles would be waived, but Wei Ran would never want to return the extra [-] rubles.

"I really thank you eight generations of ancestors!" Wei Ran gritted his teeth and said.

"Don't think I don't understand Chinese," Karp responded abruptly in jerky Chinese.

"You can speak Chinese?!" Wei Ran's eyes widened.

"I will do more than you thought." Karp threw the gold bars in his hands, and reminded with a threatening tone, "Come here to report at 10:1 am on October [-]st. You'd better not be late."

Before Wei Ran could say anything more, the handsome old man walked out of the consultation center humming an unknown tune, and disappeared in a flash while driving the golf cart.

Reluctantly, he took out his mobile phone and called Ji Ma, and then Wei Ran found Ji Ma outside a dance classroom on the first floor of the main building, who was peeping at beautiful women.

"Victor, I'm not wrong!" Jima raised his chin to the beautiful girls in the classroom who were stretching in tight yoga clothes, and winked wretchedly, "Heaven, this is a man's paradise!"

"Back to reality first"

Wei Ran pushed Jima's shoulder and walked out, "You have to send me to Kazan Airport first, I have something to go back to Volgograd."

"We just came here." Jima's eyes never left the classroom full of girls, "Aren't you going to hunt? Why do you just come and leave?"

"There will be opportunities to hunt in the future." Wei Ran does not intend to tell Jima that he will spend up to three years studying here, "Anyway, send me to Kazan first!"

"Okay, Kazan, I'll take you back now." Jima reluctantly followed Wei Ran out of the lobby on the first floor, "When will you come to Kazan again? Mr. Nikolai's birthday will be here soon."

"October 10st, I will definitely come over then." Wei Ran replied vaguely.

"That's good, it will be just in time for Mr. Nicholas' birthday party." Jima heaved a sigh of relief, opened the door of the van, and stepped on the accelerator immediately after Wei Ran got into the car.

It wasn't until the car drove into the road in the forest that Wei Ran asked, "Jima, tell us about Principal Karp, how much do you know about him?"

"So you came to see Mr. Culp?"

Jima suddenly realized, and said like beans pouring beans into a bamboo tube, "Mr. Karp used to be our math teacher. After that school closed down, he bought Hongqi Forest Farm. He has lived here since then until about Ten years ago, the current Hongqi Women's Safety Training School was opened."

During the chat with Ji Ma, Wei Ran also had a general understanding of Karp. It is hard to imagine that this old handsome guy is still a handsome old bachelor, and the so-called school behind him was only less than 20 years old at most. students.

As for the teachers, except for Karp who taught most of the courses himself, most of the rest were part-time teachers invited from outside.No matter how you look at this configuration, it is somewhat similar to Pheasant University.

Chatting about the forest behind them all the way, the van drove smoothly all the way to Kazan Airport, the two found a place nearby to have a meal, Wei Ran immediately took the nearest flight back to Volgograd.

Returning to the studio where he had been away for many days, Professor Alexey was squinting his eyes to browse the information on the computer screen.And behind him, there is a bronze statue of Marshal Zhukov about 1.5 meters high.

"You bastard is finally willing to come back, how are you going out to play?" Professor Alexis said happily.

"Almost frozen to death" Wei Ran said vaguely and perfunctorily, then changed the subject and asked, "Where did this bronze statue come from?"

"I went to Moscow with your aunt a few days ago, and I bought it in Bryansk when I came back." Professor Alexei said proudly, "This statue may be the work of a master sculptor. After I find out, it may be possible. Sell ​​for ten times the price."

"I hope so." Wei Ran looked up at the electronic watch hanging on the wall, "You didn't go to school to teach today?"

Talking about this question, Professor Alexei's face changed slightly, and after hesitating for a long time, he said, "Victor, I am going to work for Mr. Alexander. He offered a condition that neither your aunt nor I can refuse. .”

"That museum that hasn't been finished yet?" Wei Ran asked anxiously, this news directly disrupted his plan.If Professor Alexis went to work for Alexander, wouldn't the studio stop?

Professor Alexei obviously saw Wei Ran's worry, "Victor, if you want to work in Mr. Alexander's museum, the job of technical consultant is still yours. If you don't want to, you can also go to school for graduate study , or continue working in this studio."

"Continue to work in this studio?"

Seeing Wei Ran looking at him in confusion, Professor Alexei said treacherously, "This studio is legally owned by your aunt, so you can continue to work here."

"What about you?" Wei Ran asked.

"I am not working for Mr. Alexander 24 hours a day, and he is not the only client of ours, but you will have to take on more work in the future."

Speaking of this, the old man took out a few printed photos from the workbench and handed them to Wei Ran, "And now there is a chance, you can get used to it first."

I took a look at the photos, and the first two photos were of a skeleton with a German uniform and a BMW sidecar motorcycle whose front wheel had fallen off.

The next few black-and-white photos have mottled light spots like expired film, but even so they can barely be seen. The content of the shots is basically a battlefield full of wars, from bombed tanks to The German half-track armor with only a head left in the mud, and the German soldiers in the trenches can be described as everything.

"This is?"

"Corps dug up by a few lucky rookie diggers in a forest outside Bryansk"

Professor Alexei took the photo and flipped through it, pointing to the skeleton in the color photo and said, "This was taken at the excavation site at that time, besides the BMW motorcycle, there were also A glove box."

"Speak to the point, professor, point to the point." Wei Ran urged.

"The point is that they found two film seals and a heavily corroded camera in that box. These things were given to me as gifts for the statue of Marshal Zhukov. And these black and white photos were taken from the film seals. A few of the negatives that came out were successfully developed."

Speaking of this, Professor Alexis pointed to one of the photos in which only the front of the car was exposed outside the swamp, and said whimsically, "So Victor, it's a bit more difficult this time, but if we can find out Where was this photo taken? Just because there is a clue that it is possible to find a half-track armored vehicle, it can be sold for a high price in the earth-digging party circle! Most importantly, we can sell such news more than once!"

Compared with Professor Alexei, who was still chattering and drawing big cakes, Wei Ran fell into a sluggish state. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have used the magic leather notebook in the wrong place!
　Because I wanted to see if I could go to Sanjiang, the launch was postponed to the 6th.
　　Thanks to book friends 202103011054156 for rewarding 500 points

　　Thanks to Fei Wushou and Kai Hai for rewarding 100 points respectively

　　
　
(End of this chapter)