War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 647 Temporary Diversion
On the day when the factory was bought, Ji Ma had already recruited four No. 50 members who belonged to the gym.

These gangsters, whose average age is probably less than 25 years old, burst into great enthusiasm for work after learning that the workshop would have an office in the gym in the future. Knowing where a forklift and a garbage truck came to help.

Under the busyness of these people, in just half a day, the garbage in the yard was cleaned up, revealing the cracked concrete floor, and at the same time, countless scraps of copper and rotten iron were also cleaned out.

"Look, these are all windfalls."

Jima, who helped Maya hold the sun umbrella, pointed to the scraps of copper and iron stacked together in the corner and said gloatingly, "A total of 29 tank turrets were cleared from the corner, and Greva and the others found this on the anchor."

Looking in the direction of Ji Ma's finger, Wei Ran shook his head involuntarily. Although the two anchors were covered with rust, the casting inscription exposed by the position obviously polished by the wire brush clearly read , they were minted in July 1994.

"Although my historical achievements are not very good," Jima shrugged, "but I guess the First World War definitely did not happen after the disintegration of the Soviet Union."

"No wonder that Joseph agreed so happily at that time." Sui Sui rolled her eyes, "I thought I missed it."

"There are a few fools who can open their own factories"

Wei Ran waved his hand indifferently, "It's from 94. It was originally used as a display. If it was from World War I, I really can't bear it."

"This anchor chain is just used to tie Beria," Jima joked as he kicked the leg-thick iron chain by his side.

"It's really just right, the anchor chain of another anchor just tied you here." Wei Ran had already pulled aside the circling dog at his feet who was being bullied by the little fox. Obviously, this little dog The performance at this time, I am really sorry for such a good name as Beria.

As for why such a scary name was chosen, the reason is actually similar to Sui Sui's belief that naming the two little foxes "Zhao Cai" and "Jin Bao" would definitely make him rich.

It was nothing more than the naive Wei Ran, under the suggestion of the equally naive Jima, who agreed that this name could definitely sanction the honorable Mr. Gorbachev of Hongqi Forest Farm.

After making enough jokes, Wei Ran looked up at the workshop not far away and said, "We need to find someone to remove or repair the roof of the workshop as soon as possible."

"They can't help you with this."

Ji Ma pointed to the gangsters in the distance who were busy cleaning up the garbage and said, "If you count on them, it's better for the two of us to dismantle it by ourselves."

Hearing this, Wei Ran gave Jima a nonchalant look, he naturally understood what the other party meant, it was nothing more than the two of them blasting the steel structure roof.

Knowing that he said something wrong, Ji Ma fooled it with a hippie smile.But Sui Sui said affirmatively, "Leave this matter to me, I have a solution."

"You have a solution?" Wei Ran looked at Sui Sui curiously.

"You can't count on the Russians for this kind of thing"

Sui Sui changed into Chinese and said as a matter of course, "There are many Chinese engineering teams in Russia. Back then, they helped renovate the hotel above our travel agency. It was not only fast but also cheap."

"How did I forget about this?" Wei Ran patted the back of his head, "You mean to call someone from Volgograd?"

"Just let my mother have a headache." Sui Sui's tone became more natural, "She will definitely find the cheapest and most useful construction team."

I knew that Teacher Dalia's house should have been built in the same way.
Wei Ran regretted it secretly, and simply handed over this matter to Sui Sui to be responsible.

"Are you planning to go to Kirov the day after tomorrow?" Sui Suo asked abruptly.

"Are you following too?" Wei Ran asked with great interest.

"I guess I don't have time to go to Kirov with you guys"

Sui Sui paused, and finally couldn't help asking, "But I plan to go to Khabarovsk before the first tourists come, and ask that Mr. Isai Popov, what is the tombstone in the camp? what's going on."

"This sounds more interesting than going to Kirov." Maya was the first to agree, "Aurora, I'll go with you."

"Maya is right, let me go too! Inta's camp is more important." Jima instantly betrayed Wei Ran, "And I will stay in Kirov for the next half month, so there is no need hurry over."

Wei Ran opened his mouth, and finally under Jima's begging eyes, he said before Maya could speak, "If this is the case, let's go together, when are you going to leave?"

"I was planning on the day after tomorrow"

Sui Sui scratched her hair, "Forget it, let's go together, Anfeiya, let's book tickets for everyone."

"Nice job!" Jima secretly gave Wei Ran a thumbs up, as for Maya, she rolled her eyes and let Suisui lead her to the next yard.

In the next two days, Jima was recalled by his parents to a small village outside Kazan City, and Maya finally got rid of the dog skin plaster and returned to Kazan University with ease.

At the same time, with the addition of Sui Sui's Dafa, a Chinese foreman who came from Volgograd also rushed to Wei Ran Xinjin with two helpers and a rented crane to buy it. workshop door.

After a close observation and knocking on the inside and outside of the workshop and the roof on the gondola of the crane, the middle-aged foreman surnamed Li said confidently, "This job is easy to do, but it's not easy to do."

"How do you say that?" Wei Ran asked at the same time, and offered a pack of cigarettes to the uncle with his native accent.

"The sunken floor and the walls of the first floor in this workshop are indeed all poured in one piece, similar to the Soviet buildings left in our country before. They are stupid and clumsy, but they are absolutely strong and resistant to construction."

Boss Li lit a cigarette, pointed at the second floor with a laser pointer and said, "But starting from the second floor, the main body is a steel structure. The walls you see are all painted in red." They are made of bricks, and they are not load-bearing at all. The third floor is simpler, with a steel structure and a circle of glass windows, and a steel frame roof on top."

After roughly explaining the overall structure, the boss looked at Wei Ran and continued, "Just now I went up to have a look, except for a few steel beams on the roof that were a little seriously rusted due to rain leakage, and also a little damaged due to lightning strikes, the overall situation is not good. It’s not bad, but the red brick wall on the second floor can’t bear the wind and rain.”

"Uncle Li, just tell me what to do."

Sui Sui said from the side, "You helped build our hotel, and we can trust you this time."

"You little girl said so, and I'm sure I can't be sloppy."

The boss laughed and explained, "The most dangerous thing is not the roof, but the red brick walls on the second floor. If they fall down, not only will they damage the surrounding things, but if there is a draft, the roof will definitely be destroyed." Lift it up. So in addition to removing the roof, the brick wall around the second floor also has to be removed. If you are willing to spend money, making it into a glass curtain wall is the best."

Glass curtain wall?

Wei Ran and Sui Sui looked at each other, pointed to the yard next door and said in unison, "No, that direction can't be the glass curtain wall."

"Okay, is there any other request?" Boss Li took out his artificial leather notebook and asked after jotting down two strokes.
"Keep the gantry crane on the first floor." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he pointed to the anchor and turret in the corner, "You can't lose those things either."

"We still have to get some offices," Sui Sui also suggested.

Even Anfeiya, who was following behind, said that maybe the sunken floor could be used as a basement, and a server room could be created by the way.

Seeing more and more requests, the boss Li who came all the way here became more and more happy. After all, the more requests, the more money he will make.

You communicated all the requirements and ideas sentence by sentence. While Boss Li promised to complete the demolition of the roof and the walls of the second floor within a week, he also negotiated the cost of the roof removal project.

Rest assured that the yard and workshop are all handed over to Boss Li, and Katenka sisters will be left as supervisors in the next few days, Wei Ran and Suisui, as well as Jima and Maya who came on time, Take the same car to the direction of the airport.

Flying from Kazan to Khabarovsk is definitely a long process. Not only did it stop for more than an hour in Ulan-Ude on the shore of Lake Baikal, but even before landing, it also caught up with a slightly scary thunderstorm.

But even so, the flight still landed at Khabarovsk airport a full half an hour earlier.

For Wei Ran, a Chinese person, this city is called Khabarovsk, the 40 square kilometers of Khabarovsk that Tsarist Russia snatched from the once weak China.

But for Jima, the name of this city is Khabarovsk, and it is the administrative center of the Far East—although the development is not very good.

Of course, for Suisui, it doesn't matter whether the place is called Khabarovsk or Khabarovsk, because in her memory, this is just the city where her mother Zhou Shujin worked hard when she was young.

If time goes back to the years after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Zhou Shujin, who was not much older than today's Sui Sui, relied on her inexperienced Russian language and her family's boldness to go back and forth to this city again and again. In the city, selling all kinds of light industrial goods from China earned the first pot of gold in life.

It was also the money earned at that time that gave Zhou Shujin the idea of ​​going to Moscow for a while and earning more money, and shortly after putting it into practice, she met Alexei, who was barely young and handsome at the time.

There is no need to mention the latter, after the university teacher who has not been paid for several months became her employee.Not only did Zhou Shujin not have to take the risk of taking the Trans-Siberian Railway herself, she also didn't have to worry about the sales of those goods after they were transported to Moscow by Alexei, and Alexei was also rare in keeping promises and not being greedy for money.

After the two cooperated for several years, although the smuggling business could no longer be carried out, they had saved a lot of money, and even Sui Sui was born inconceivably.

But Zhou Shujin never came to this city named Boli.In her words, even the air is bitter in the memory of this city.

Of course, returning to reality from her mother's memory, for Sui Sui, this city is filled with the twilight and faint bleakness that is common in any city in Russia.

For Wei Ran, the first feeling is that there are really many Chinese people here.Whether it's the friendly and harsh voices of pedestrians around, or the Chinese signboards that you can see along the street after taking a taxi, it proves that there are already many compatriots who have taken root here.

Of course, for Jima and Maya in another taxi, everything here was full of novelty, so that when the car stopped in front of Isai Popov's house, the two unexpectedly They all look a little unfinished.

(End of this chapter)