War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 641 The Tombstone of Unknown Origin

In the spacious yard by the lake, the lively barbecue came to an end with the last glass of cold beer being poured into the stomach.

After tidying up the kitchen waste indiscriminately, Anfeya, like a qualified housekeeper, sent Jima and Maya to the guest rooms on the third floor. As for the real owner of the house, Wei Ran, he got into the room on the first floor. darkroom.

Before leaving for the United States, he had developed a large number of photos using the latest negatives he got in the metal book, but because he left in a hurry, he didn't have time to wait for those photos to dry, let alone frame them.

But when he opened the door, he found that the walls on both sides were filled with photo frames next to each other, and even these photo frames were carefully divided into three parts according to different races. On the table, A few group photos of volunteer soldiers and prisoners of war were placed separately.

"They are good employees, and I really have to think about giving them a salary increase."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and then moved all these photo frames to the third floor, and sent them to the same room as the photos taken in Teng County and Baiyangdian.

Finally, he put the "1952 Prisoner of War Camp Inter-Olympic Commemorative Book" on the shelf, and then Wei Ran turned off the lights, locked the door, and returned to the bedroom on the second floor.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, Wei Ran rushed to the airport with Jima, Maya, and Anfeiya holding two little foxes.

If it is normal to wait for the plane to take off and even land, when they came out of Inta's simple pick-up gate, a few young people holding banners to welcome Ji Ma, and the first two people who surrounded him However, everyone, including Maya, stopped subconsciously and kept a distance from Jimala, for fear that others would know that they knew Saobao’s Jima.

Regardless of Ji Ma who readily accepted the interview, the three of Wei Ran joined Suisui and others who came to pick up the plane, and before they even had time to say hello, they fled the lobby that made their skin crawl and went straight to the tarmac.

"You two are really alike." Maya looked at the girl standing beside Sui Sui and exclaimed.

"Hi, I'm Anfisa Karenina Katenka"

The girl who had been staring at the two big-eared foxes in her younger sister's arms for the last moment introduced herself solemnly, and at the same time stretched out her hand to Maya.

"Maya Swanidzer" Maya quickly shook hands with the other party.

"How is it? Didn't expect it?" Sui Sui, who was already hanging on Wei Ran's body, asked proudly, "Did you startle when you saw her for the first time?"

“Really shocked”

Wei Ran responded dumbfoundingly, "What's the matter with you? Are you going to stay in Inta as the queen and not go back?"

"In order to reduce operating costs in winter, several uncles helped us withhold some vegetable greenhouses."

After Sui Sui got off Wei Ran's body, she took a little fox from Anfeiya and hugged her in her arms, introducing their latest work results happily and proudly.

It wasn't until Sui Sui had happily finished her plan for the next six months that Ji Ma, like a lost bastard, found them with a high-end suitcase.

"Why are you here?" Ji Ma asked dissatisfied, "I just thought about it"

"We don't want to," Aliri and Misha responded without waiting for Jima to finish, "you either go to the cabin quickly, or we strap you to the landing gear."

"Don't worry, we have plenty of time." Jima said quickly, "How about I invite you to watch a movie before going to the camp?"

"Not so good!" Now, even Sui Sui and Anfisa beside her gave the answer of rejection in unison.

"That is"

"Shall we go talk in the cabin?" Maya asked, holding Misha in one arm and Sui Sui, the first time they met in the other, without giving Jima any face.

"Good proposal" Misha hadn't finished her sentence, and she warmly greeted everyone to board the long-awaited An-2 plane.

"Can't you come up?"

Alili, who was walking at the end, asked, as if Ji Ma dared to say that he would close the cabin door immediately.

"I'm already a star, can't you bastards let me go to the city to show off?" Jima complained dissatisfiedly, and honestly got into the cabin with his flashy suitcase.

"You're a fucking star"

After Alili waited for the other party to come up, he closed the cabin door with a bang, "Even if you, a scumbag, become the president, Jainta is still the one who accidentally fell off the heating pipe because he peeked at Jania taking a bath. "

"To shut up!"

Ji Ma's face turned red in an instant, he dropped the suitcase, changed the topic noisyly, and at the same time clamped Alili's neck under his arm, "Shut up! That kind of thing never happened! "

"Misha, who is Jania?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"The Baker's Daughter"

Misha smiled and raised her voice, "She is about ten years older than us, almost the woman with the biggest breasts in the entire Inta."

"Oh!" The rest of the people, including Sister Katenka, responded immediately with long voices.

"What happened after Ji Ma fell?" Sui Sui asked intentionally holding back her anger.

"He fell and smashed Jania's kennel, and was chased by the less than one-year-old Caucasus for a long time on the street."

"And his pants were ripped off!" Alili added as he struggled to remove his dirty hand covering his mouth, and then he was covered tightly by Ji Ma again, with a look of killing people.

"The whole street saw it"

Misha didn't have the slightest thought of saving face for Jima, "The most important thing is that Jania wasn't taking a bath at all at that time."

"Jonia's father is taking a bath!" Ariri broke free from Jima's shackles again and continued to break the news.

"Jonia's father opened the window and asked him"

Misha glanced at Jima, who was about to cry without tears, cleared her throat, and said in a serious tone, "You cute little guy from the city, do you want to buy bread? The bakeries in our country are all located on the street. The ones on the first floor will not be placed in the bathroom."

In the roaring cockpit, Jima's rebuttal didn't even make a splash, but after seeing that Maya was laughing so hard that she was almost out of breath, this guy also showed a smirk.

After making enough jokes about Jima, Alili, whose entire face was as red as Jima's after being strangled, finally managed to get into the cockpit, and flew the plane to the hot spring camp under the command of the control tower.

However, shortly after the plane landed at the abandoned airport, there was a drizzle in the sky.After they rushed to the wooden camp on the side of the hot spring camp, the sudden rain was already pouring down.

Regardless of taking their luggage, everyone walked into the largest wooden house in the center under the leadership of Alili.

This one-hundred-square-meter wooden house with a pointed roof has a thick floor. Although there is no earth kang, except for a large fireplace, there are two rows of solid wooden tables and chairs against the wall, facing the door. There is even a log-style bar in the direction. The bar is facing the gate, and there is even a large two-person saw fixed on the saw. There are even Soviet-style lumberjack comics drawn on the saw.

When they came in, there was not only a burly young man at the bar, but also men and women of different ages sat on the surrounding tables enjoying their drinks, and even the four uncles from China, Davari, were among them Drinking five delusions and three ways.

"This can be regarded as our restaurant, tavern, banquet hall, whatever you want. In short, it will be a place for tourists to gather in the future. Even if it is used as a KTV, it will be fine."

Sui Sui deliberately switched to Chinese and said, "Did you see that big guy at the bar?"

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran asked inexplicably after greeting the four uncles who were clearly drunk.

Sui Sui smiled and explained triumphantly, "When you left last time, the restaurant we went to eat was opened by his father. When there are guests here in winter, it will also be handed over to them for operation.

Not only do we not need to invest in costs, but we can even make a small profit.And once tourists don't rate their service high enough, restaurants in Inta City will immediately replace them. "

"In the future, you might as well come here to be the mayor." Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded, "

What about those vegetable greenhouses? "

"not here"

Sui Sui pulled Wei Ran to the window, pointed to the direction of the end of the mine and said, "It's at the corner of that direction, and I'll take you there after the rain stops. And it's just right for you to come here this time. It’s time to show you what we’ve recently discovered.”

"What?" Seeing the strange look on the other party's face, Wei Ran was immediately aroused with curiosity.

"A Cemetery"

Sui Sui took Wei Ran and sat down at a table, and when Misha came over with a plate of food and drink, she immediately changed into Russian and explained in detail, "The cemetery is in the forest on the edge of the mine deposit, and we also unintentionally found."

"It's special there?" Wei Ran asked.

“really special”

Alili handed a glass of beer to Wei Ran, sat down beside Misha and said, "Misha asked her father, and I also asked the retired workers who worked in this mine before, but none of them Know who built that cemetery."

“Mainly the tombstones in that cemetery”

While Sui Sui was talking, she had already taken out her mobile phone, opened the photo album, took out a photo and handed it to Wei Ran, "Look, all the engravings on this tombstone are in Japanese."

"Japanese?"

Wei Ran zoomed in on the photo, and it was really like what Sui Sui said, the tombstone that Sui Sui stepped on in the photo was probably one meter high and two meters long, and even the thickness was about [-] centimeters.

The rough carving traces on it are enough to prove that it is completely handmade, and the Japanese characters with a large number of Chinese characters on it are also mottled.But no matter how it is done, the plaster flag carved in the middle is particularly conspicuous.

"I used a translation software to look through the names on it. In fact, I don't need to translate much. I can guess them all. They are all names."

Sui Sui explained on the side, "And those names are all men's names. There are more than [-] people who can recognize them, and more than ten people who can't recognize them. There are about a hundred people."

"Only the name?"

"only name"

Sui Sui took a big gulp of cold beer from the cup, took a deep breath and said pretendingly, "Comrade historian, I will leave the investigation of that tombstone to you."

"What are you investigating it for?" Wei Ran asked without knowing why.

"Ariri said that the owners of those names on the tombstone are likely to be the little devil prisoners of war who were sent here after the end of World War II."

Sui Sui put down the draft beer mug that had dried up a third of it with a bang, wiped the foam from her mouth and said happily, "So I want to build a septic tank there, so that the greenhouse not far from there may even Fertilizers are all free.”

"You are a genius"

Wei Ran couldn't help grinning, let's not talk about whether it makes sense to build a septic tank in a place where it snows for several months this year, Sui Sui's operation made it clear that it was purely for the purpose of disgusting dogs.

Don't look at this mixed-race girl who thinks about it, but she has a hairy nationality, but she has never regarded herself as an outsider.Especially the stories about beating devils that my grandparents told me in Baiyangdian when I was young, did you really think it was just to coax children?That is also ideological education, and the effect is no worse than that of schools.

"That's not!"

Sui Sui became more and more complacent, "Even grandma and grandpa praised me for my idea, and my uncles promised to repair the septic tank to make it smell good."

"Stop, stop, let's eat"

Wei Ran hurriedly stopped Suisui, "Send me the photo, I'll ask someone who is more professional than me about this matter, there are so many names, he will definitely be able to find out something."

"Anyone more professional than you? Your graduate teacher?"

Sui Sui asked curiously, "Anyway, I asked my father, but he said he couldn't find any relevant records at all."

"Boss Kajik may not be able to do anything"

The next table was listening to the lively Maya saying, "He seems to be better at the history of the period between the post-World War II and the disintegration of the Soviet Union."

"It's not Mr. Kajik, it's a colleague I know in China."

Wei Ran directly picked up Suisui's cell phone and forwarded the photo to his own cell phone, but he waited for a long time before he realized that the other party's cell phone had no signal at all.

“The only downside here is that there is no internet signal”

While Sui Sui was speaking, she had already dug out a satellite phone from her bag, turned on a hotspot and said, "It's too expensive to use a satellite phone to surf the Internet, and the speed is also very slow."

"No way to solve it?"

"No way at the moment"

An Feiya, who followed, took up the conversation, "Although the speed of satellite broadband is not bad, it is still very expensive."

"Take your time, there will always be a way in the future."

Wei Ran, who also had nothing to do, responded, and by the way, forwarded the photo sent by Suisui to Xia Shushi, a domestic colleague whom he met not long ago.

(End of this chapter)