War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 645 Diamond and Neighbors

"What is this?" Wei Ran took the box curiously. Unexpectedly, the box was heavy and heavy, and there was a circle of scotch tape wrapped around it to fix it.

"You'll know if you open it." Dalia had already handed over a strange-looking dagger before she finished her sentence.

He took the dagger and cut the adhesive tape. When he lifted the plastic cover, he found that it was filled with translucent stones of various shapes and even colors.

The largest of these stones is about the size of a ping-pong ball, and the smallest that can be seen at a glance is only the size of the fingernail of a little finger.

"This is."

"diamond"

Dalia sat down and explained with a smile, "The uncut colored diamond was found in the safe of that orphanage, along with a lot of cash and precious metals."

"I also have a share?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"Of course I have a share." Dalia spread her hands, "After all, you provided important clues, didn't you?"

"Will it not"

"Do not worry"

Dalia said confidently, "That matter has nothing to do with you, and the fathers of those children have personally promised that they will not pursue this matter again."

Hearing this, Wei Ran's eyebrows couldn't help trembling, he finally knew why the other party gave him a box full of diamond raw materials so generously, because they probably had obtained something far more valuable than diamonds.

As long as those children and their too-young mothers are still alive, the fathers of those children, if they don’t want to be like those who are dead and in prison in the news, will inevitably be at the mercy of those who get the handle.

"What's the situation with those children now?" Wei Ran put the box in his hand on the table and asked.

"Those children don't even know who their father is, and even their mothers don't know who made them give birth prematurely. In the future, they will start a new life in Kirov."

Dalia sighed when she said this, "Although they may not be [-]% free, at least they can enjoy [-]% safety.

Although the fathers of those children mostly escaped punishment, they have destroyed the hospital in the country of cow urine. "

"very good already"

Wei Ran also sighed, neither he nor Dahlia, they are not supermen after all, it is the best of benevolence to be able to do what they are doing now.

"If you have time, you can go and see them."

Darya smiled and said, "They're in the Kirov hospital, and Gorman is there too."

"Gorman is here?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and asked in a strange way, "Will he also lose his job as the director of the studio?"

"Looks like I've been too tired lately"

Darya rubbed her temples, and said incoherently, "Just now I heard the distinguished Mr. Gorbachev speak."

"I didn't say anything just now"

Wei Ran rolled his eyes, pushed the plastic box on the table forward, and said generously, "Dalia, pick one for you and Teacher Anna, and consider it a gift from me. "

"Smart little guy"

Dalia didn't refuse either, and with a smile picked up a yellow stone the size of a peanut from the box, "Let's just leave it at that. After cutting it, you should be able to make two pretty enough earrings."

"Choose another one for Teacher Anna"

Wei Ran said indifferently, although each of these teachers requires more money than the other, they are definitely considered good for him, not to mention that he can get so much money for the orphanage without any effort. small stones.Therefore, it is necessary to share with the other party.

"Let her choose when she comes back"

Darya casually threw the stone in her wallet, and asked with great interest, "I heard that your little girlfriend did a lot of things in Inta?"

Wei Ran nodded helplessly, "Almost opened the sky".

Dalia smiled brightly when she heard the words, "What an interesting girl, remember to bring her here for a while when you have time."

"She will definitely come here often in the future," Wei Ran said, pointing to the five-story building outside the window, "She has been thinking about that building for a long time."

"I'm also looking forward to her bringing young people here as guests"

Daria responded half-truthfully, opened the drawer and found a paper bag that seemed to have been used to hold shoe boxes and handed it to Wei Ran, stood up and walked out and said, "Okay, take your bag Po Shitou, go home early, and remember to lock the door for me."

Hurriedly taking the key from the opponent's hand, Wei Ran smiled, put the lock box full of small stones into a paper bag, locked the door and chased after him.

Waiting patiently for Daria and Jima to say something alone, the two left together and drove towards the direction of the city.

"Daria listened to me explain the changes in Inta carefully." Jima, who had already started the car, said beamingly, "She is going to pay for another hot spring."

"So I can save a lot of money?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.

"Don't even think about it." Ji Ma and Wei Ran didn't know how to be polite, "I will personally deliver the bill to you."

"You are such a good person." Wei Ran teased the other party, changed the subject and said, "I plan to go to Kirov on the [-]th, do you want to go together?"

"Of course we will go together"

Jima said with a bitter face, "And the course in half a month is also arranged in Kirov. It is said that I will learn how to become a qualified psychopath."

"Mental illness?"

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and there was a gloating expression on his face. At this moment, he had roughly guessed what Ji Ma was going to do in half a month.

"She didn't say anything about it"

Ji Ma patted the steering wheel, and said more and more distressed, "The most important thing is that Teacher Daria actually said that Maya will accept her at the forest farm for half a month in the next few months until Christmas. Training, and it just happened to be staggered with my time, God, she will definitely miss me."

"If you think too much, she will definitely not miss you." Wei Ran paused, and continued to add, "Even if God persuades her, I guess she will not miss you."

"Victor, which side are you on?" Jima asked dissatisfied.

"I'm on God's side." Wei Ran spread his hands, "but even God won't help you persuade Maya to let her miss you."

"Shut up!" Ji Ma stepped on the accelerator angrily, and rushed to the shore of Kaban Lake under Wei Ran's sharp ridicule.

However, far away, Wei Ran discovered something was wrong, because on the side of the road next to the courtyard wall, a row of cones was erected with a blockade line.On the other side of the blockade, there was a crane parked on the highway, and a small half of the crane's boom extended into Wei Ran's yard.

"What's going on here?" Jima asked curiously, "Are you planning to build something?"

"I didn't know, go in first." Wei Ran urged while lowering the window.

Hearing this, Jima didn't delay any longer, and drove in along the spacious road between the courtyard wall and the historic winery complex.Until the car drove into the yard, Wei Ran finally saw what happened.

To put it simply, the house given to him by Mr. Dalia is separated by a seven or eight-meter-wide dead end on the south side to the winery that occupies a huge area and has a long history but has long since ceased to make wine.

On the east side of the house, across a road with a pretty good view is Kaban Lake.On the north side of the house is a birch forest with a width of more than 70 meters and a length of [-] meters.

Theoretically, this small birch forest, like the dead end, is part of the land of this yard.It's just that the more role of the birch forest is to separate the noise and sight of the two-way four-lane road on the other side.

However, the culprit who allowed the crane's boom to reach into the yard at this time came from the neighbors on the north side of the yard.

Just separated by a courtyard wall, there is a workshop that looks very old and is at most three stories high. Even the yard where the workshop is located is as overgrown with grass and piled up with various Rusty metal trash.

At this time, the crane was about to lift it up, but it slid down from the roof of the workshop, an I-beam beam more than ten meters long, and a large piece of colored steel tile and iron roof attached to it.

Surprisingly, this heavy metal beam not only smashed an unused garage in Wei Ran’s yard, but also took pictures of the color steel tiles on it and some bricks that fell along with it. On the chicken coop during business hours.

As for the result of this accident, except for the chickens, ducks and geese that my aunt bought at the beginning were killed and injured, and only a few survivors flew to nowhere, even the one that was built and had not had time to be put into use The greenhouses were hacked to pieces by the rusty color steel tiles.

"What's going on here?" Wei Ran walked to Suisui's side and asked a middle-aged man with an apologetic face.

"Hi, I'm Joseph, the owner of the yard next door."

The middle-aged man took the initiative to shake hands with Wei Ran, and explained more apologetically, "During the thunderstorm a few days ago, a bolt of lightning struck the roof of this workshop, and then the steel beam fell down. "

Joseph paused at this point, raised his finger and pointed to the boom protruding from the yard and continued, "I found something wrong when I passed by here the next day, but I knocked on your door for a long time and there was no one. Respond, so I can only send people and cars to wait here.

Sir, I am really sorry for such an accident. After we clean up the steel beam, I will pay for all the losses. "

"It's ok"

Wei Ran politely declined the cigarette offered by the other party, "Fortunately, we have been away for the past few days, so no one was injured."

"Joseph, that workshop seems to have been abandoned for a long time, why don't you tear it down?"

Ji Ma came over and asked curiously, "And even if you clean up the fallen steel beams this time, if there is any accident next time, even if there are no steel beams falling down again, once those color steel tiles are blown up by the wind , It is sharper than the sickle of death."

"It's not that we don't want to demolish it, but this is a residential area, and it's next to Lake Kaban, so no factories are allowed at all, and it can't generate any benefits at all."

Joseph sighed, "But the cost of tearing it down is too high, and I can't afford it at all. I'd rather spend that money on other things."

"But it's already a dilapidated building." Jima reminded Wei Ran, "If you leave it alone, maybe something will fall down one day, and there is only a courtyard wall between you."

"I'll try to fix the roof"

Joseph said helplessly, "It will cost at least 650 million rubles to completely demolish that workshop, and I can't afford that much money at all. And it's not a dilapidated building, except for some problems with the roof, it's actually very strong."

However, just as he finished speaking, there was a harsh noise of "squeak" from the roof of the workshop, and then another steel beam smashed into the workshop with a "bang" under the eyes of everyone. internal.

"I, I will try my best to fix the roof, I promise." Joseph said with a bitter face, but there was too much unconfidence in that tone.

(End of this chapter)