War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 625 The ten-year agreement ten years later
While Wei Ran waited calmly, the dazzling white light blurred the surrounding scene, and when the vision returned to normal, he had already returned to the hotel.

After a while, the metal quill pen wrote a line of text again as expected:
Act [-]

Role identity: photographer Wei Ran
Return task: take a group photo

Changed back to the identity of the Huaxia people?

Wei Ran was overjoyed, and let the dazzling white light sweep over again, but this time he didn't see anything in the metal book.

Before his vision returned to normal, he smelled the unique smell of the hospital, and immediately heard the heart-piercing cry of the baby.

When the vision returned to normal, the first thing Wei Ran saw was a doctor giving an injection to a baby.

Although this person was wearing a thick mask and doctor's cap meticulously, even though he could only see one side face, he could still recognize at a glance that this doctor was Chen Qi!
In no hurry to go up to say hello, Wei Ran looked at the calendar on the desk next to him, it had turned to June 1963, 6.

So this is the tenth year since the end of the war?

Wei Ran muttered to himself, then looked down at himself, wearing a blue liberation suit and green liberation shoes, besides a Shanghai brand 201 folding leather camera hanging around his neck, there was also a A white towel that smells of sweat.

Just as he was looking at the outfit that was very characteristic of the times on his body, there was a knock on the half-hidden door.Immediately afterwards, a foreign head with blue eyes, hooked nose and blond hair poked in, and said enthusiastically in slightly out-of-key Chinese, "Hi! Chen! I'm here again! Did you miss me?"

Chen Qi, who had just given the child an injection, glanced at Morgan at the door, and said while busy getting the medicine for the child, "Why did you come here by yourself? Where's Old Bu?"

"I am here"

As the door was pushed open, Brendon walked in with a cardboard box in his arms and asked in English, "Chen, where are these things? These two bastards, Claure and Howard, sent you here." medical books from here."

"There are also some medical equipment and all kinds of delicious gifts we bought in Peiping."

While Morgan switched to English, he also pulled in two stacked cardboard boxes from the corridor behind him.

Seeing these two people again, Wei Ran couldn't help being amused, the clothes of the two foreigners were not much different from his own, only that they were wearing leather shoes on their feet and a pair of sunglasses hanging from their necklines.

"Put it in the corner." Chen Qi pointed to the place by the door and responded in English, "I'll be fine soon, just wait for me."

"Let's wait outside." Morgan looked around, and his eyes stayed on Wei Ran for a second, "Is he the photographer I asked you to find in advance?"

"Yes." Chen Qi replied in a flat tone, "I specially invited him from the county. According to what you said in the letter, I asked him to prepare a brand new film in advance."

"Brendon, let's go outside."

Morgan greeted Brendon, who was giving candy to the child who had just received an injection, and then said to Wei Ran in half-baked Chinese, "Photograph shit, come, come with us, wait outside."

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded, but did not leave in a hurry, but raised the camera, pointed at the busy Chen Qi and pressed the shutter.

But Chen Qi didn't seem to respond, he just glanced at Wei Ran indifferently, and then returned his attention to the dispensing work.

Seeing this, Wei Ran sighed slightly, on Chen Qi's face, he could no longer see the gentleness and cheerfulness of the past, only the almost indifferent plainness, and the subconsciously frowning brows.

Leaving the room and walking all the way out, Morgan at the front sat down on a bamboo bench in the shadow of a row of poplar trees, and took out a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes, giving them to Brendon and Wei respectively. Ran divided one for each, and pointed to the bench next to him as a gesture to Wei Ran.

Seeing this, Wei Ran took the cigarette and let the other party help him to light it, then walked to another bench beside him and sat down, smoking a cigarette while listening to the conversation between the two of them.

"Brendon, how should we tell Chen about that?" Morgan asked worriedly.

"Which thing are you talking about?" Brendon took a sharp puff on his cigarette, "Is it the matter of us preparing to return to the United States, or the matter of Howard?"

"Don't tell him about Howard"

Morgan sighed, "Just like Crower said in the letter, let's continue to hide his affairs from Chen! But how should we tell Chen that we are going back to the United States soon?"

"I think it's better to just say it"

Brendon glanced at Wei Ran who was sitting on the bench next door with a blank face, and then continued to speak in English, "We have asked him to help find a photographer, and he can probably guess what we want to do. Also, do you think he will stop us?"

"makes sense."

Morgan sighed, "God, what happened to our friend, he is like two people when we participated in the Olympics, have you ever seen him smile? I have hardly seen him in these ten years Laughed."

"Maybe for him, that war is far from over."

Brendon also sighed, "For us, the war is not over. Morgan, we must return to the United States, and we must return to the United States as soon as possible to help Jack and Black."

"Chen will definitely understand and support us," Morgan said with too much uncertainty in his tone.

"When are you going to return to the United States?" Chen Qi's voice came from not far away, with a hint of concern for his friends in his indifferent tone.

"Did you hear that?" Brendon asked a little flustered.

"What happened to Jack and Black?" Chen Qi asked, standing less than two meters in front of them.

"them."

Morgan and Brendon looked at each other, and then explained, "Jack and Blake participated in the black civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Chen, we want to return to the United States and provide them with help within our ability, we"

"Go home." Chen Qi said abruptly, "You should have gone home a long time ago, you should have gone home ten years ago."

"us."

Morgan froze for a moment, then sighed, and said mockingly, "Chen, can you imagine? In America now, the relationship between blacks and whites is not even as equal as in the prisoner-of-war camps created by you ten years ago." .”

"I believe, I believe even more that you can always achieve the equality you want, whether it is ten years, 50 years or 100 years, there will always be that day."

When Chen Qi said this, he put his hand into his pocket, and then took out a blue handkerchief. After opening it, it was covered with a red August [-] cap badge, "This is when I crossed the Yalu River. Taken off my military cap before entering the recruiting field. Morgan, pass it on to Jack or Black for me. Tell them it's the only support I can give them.

My country has just gone through a tough time and now I want to focus all my energy on building our own country.As a friend, I am sorry that I cannot help you at this time. "

Speaking of this, Chen Qi's indifferent tone has a lot of power and sincerity, "If there is a chance in the future, I hope you can come to Huaxia together again. I hope you have won the civil rights you want by then, and I hope that we Our motherland has been built, and I will use the best things to entertain you friends."

"There will be a day"

Morgan took the cap badge and made a promise with a smile, "Chen, how about the next ten years? If we have achieved our wishes, we can write each other a letter, and then we will come You are here as a guest.

And next time we'll bring Crowe, we'll bring that bastard Howard, and we'll bring Jack and Blake. "

"Remember to let Howard take my pen"

Although Chen Qi still didn't have much smile on his face, his eyes were full of determination, "In the next ten years, let's compare and see if we can build the motherland better, or you countries become more equal."

"to be frank"

Brendon spread his hands, and said very pessimistically, "During the tenure of our President Kennedy, we have no chance of winning this bet. I just hope that when we meet again, we won't become enemies again because of that bastard."

"If I have to say that, I hope he's dead when we meet next time." Morgan also complained, and then brought the topic back, "Chen, let's take some group photos."

"Where is the filming?" Although Chen Qi said so, he was already standing by the side of the bench.

"Of course it is here." Morgan and Brendon gave the same answer in unison, and then put their arms on Chen Qi's shoulders.

Seeing this, Wei Ran hurried over, circled the three of them with the lens, and decisively pressed the shutter.

After the crisp shutter sound, the white light did not appear, and Morgan even asked Wei Ran to take more pictures in Chinese.

Seeing this, Wei Ran naturally had no objection, and happily pressed the shutter again and again until the entire roll of negatives was used up.

"Chen, tell Mr. Photographer, let him give me the film."

Morgan smoked again and said, "I'll take it to Peiping, and after washing it out, I'll send you a copy before leaving, and then we'll go straight back to America."

"Do you want me to see you off?" Chen Qi asked after allowing the other party to help him light a cigarette.

"no no no"

Brendon quickly refused, "Chen, we have been very happy in China for the past ten years, so don't let us be sad at the end."

"Brendon was right"

Morgan smiled happily, "At the beginning, Brendon and I mustered up a lot of courage to choose to stay and see this magical country, and now we also mustered up a lot of courage to choose to return to our own country. So Chen, you Don't come and see us off."

"Alright then." Chen Qi nodded, looked at Wei Ran and said, "Comrade, give them the film."

"it is good"

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took off the film in the camera, and said in Chinese while handing it to Morgan, "Chen Qi, if you still can't let it go, go and meet Zhao Shengli."

Seeing the astonishment on Chen Qi's face, before Wei Ran could say anything, his field of vision was once again filled with white light.

(End of this chapter)