War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 659 Everyone's Job
On the top of the cab of the DT-30 transport vehicle, Wei Ran, wrapped in a wolf-skin blanket, sat cross-legged on another wolf-skin blanket, holding an AK rifle in his arms, leaning against the metal fence wrapped in canvas, silently looking at Look at the area around the transport vehicle illuminated by the halogen headlights.

From time to time, he would stand up, step on the roof of the car all the way to the rear, and watch the sampling work of the four students condescendingly.

Gradually, he also noticed that among the four students, the Taras from Moscow and the bald Agwan from Latvia seemed to be in the leading positions, and the work they were mainly responsible for was only to drill The stems that come out are sampled, and then each of them conducts a preliminary observation with a microscope, and then decides whether to throw those stems outside the tent or lock them into those metal drawers.

The remaining two students, Shalip and Gennady, were responsible for more laborious work such as operating the sampling machine.

But even so, Wei Ran can hear from their few words that the two young people seem to enjoy this job with little technical content.

After inspecting the surrounding environment again, Wei Ran thought for a while, then climbed off the roof and got into the warm living cabin.

Dr. Murat and Dr. Pavel were much more comfortable than the four young men outside who were braving the wind and snow. At this time, they each occupied a table and were manipulating a computer that looked like a laptop. Weird equipment, beside this equipment, there is actually a mechanical typewriter that should have been outdated.

Seeing the two doctors staring at him vigilantly, even Dr. Murat had already put his hands on the revolver next to the typewriter, Wei Ran quickly raised his hands, "I just want to go to my bed Get something."

"Soldier, put your guns outside and come in quickly." Dr. Pavel said casually.

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly hung the rifle on the handle outside the door, then got into the living cabin and closed the door.

When he turned around again, the two doctors had already buckled the white portable device on the table.Murat dropped his hand under the table, and at the same time, the revolver on the table was gone.

On the contrary, Dr. Pavel stood up with a smile on his face, picked up the coffee pot beside the table, and poured Wei Ran a cup of warm coffee.

"Thank you"

Wei Ran took the coffee and drank it down, then walked to his bed, pulled out the wooden box from under the bed, and took out the camera from the box.

"Do you need me to take a picture of each of you?" Wei Ran shook the camera in his hand and said sincerely, "I will avoid the display screen."

"Take a picture for me!" Pavel said enthusiastically, "Wait a minute, I need to change into decent clothes."

"I have enough time"

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already retreated to the edge of the stove, lifted the lid with a hook, and slowly threw a few logs of firewood into it.

After waiting for a while, Pavel changed into a silver-white suit, sat upright at the table, and then gently lifted the screen of the device, allowing Wei Ran to see " PC-16".

"It's time to start," Pavel said while putting on a pair of glasses for himself.

Seeing this, Wei Ran, who had already adjusted the camera, immediately pointed at Pavel from the side at 45 degrees, and motioned for him to put his hands on the keyboard and straighten his back, and then pressed the shutter.

"Murat, come and take a picture too!"

Pavel said as he took off his suit, "Your wife and daughter definitely need a photo of you."

Hearing this, Murat hesitated for a moment, finally nodded, and put the pistol on the table blatantly, "Then take a picture."

"Do you need to change clothes?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"No, just like this." Although Murat said so, he still stretched his tie and neckline.

Seeing this, Wei Ran did not insist, and also took a work photo of the other party from the side.

Putting the camera away, without waiting for the other party to speak, he walked towards the door of the cabin and said, "I don't want to disturb you, if there is anything I need to do, just use the flashlight to shine outside the window."

Before the words fell, Wei Ran had already closed the heavy hatch with insulation from the outside of the living cabin.

Looking around, Wei Ran moved to the side of the sampling equipment first, and took a close-up of each of Sharip and Gennady amidst the rumbling noise.

These two young people are almost the best to get along with among the seven people, even when they noticed that Wei Ran was pointing the camera at them, they each made faces.

Taking a more serious work photo of each of them and a group photo of the two holding the sampling equipment, Wei Ran stepped on the soft snow and got into the tent with the coking coal stove.

"Can I take a photo of each of you?" Wei Ran asked standing outside the tent door. Although there was a coking coal stove inside the tent, the temperature was not much warmer than outside.

"of course can!"

The bald-headed Agwan was the first to respond, "But you have to wait for a while, we have to finish our work before the wind and snow pollute the samples."

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry." Wei Ran said with a smile.

After waiting for a while, the two scribbled a few words on the folder next to them, then put the core sample just delivered into the metal drawer, locked it, and sent it to the tent next door.

They posed for a work photo of manipulating a microscope and a group photo of Shale each holding a metal drawer. Wei Ran took out a bottle of vodka from his arms and handed it to them, "Warm and warm." , remember to leave some for Sharip and the two of them."

"Victor, you are such a good man!"

Talas took the wine bottle and unscrewed it, tore off the mask covered with frost and took a sip.

"Give me a bite too"

Agwan snatched the bottle and took a sip, hiccupped and said comfortably, "This sip of vodka is like the prisoner in the correctional camp who heard that he was pardoned."

"If your teacher finds out, you'd better say you stole it from the driver's cab." Wei Ran joked half-truthfully, then turned and walked towards the front of the car.

Climbing up to the roof of the car again along the sunroof of the cab, Wei Ran wrapped the wolf fur blanket tightly again, leaned against the railing wrapped in canvas, and looked at the surrounding situation boredly.

I don't know how long it took, when he felt his upper and lower eyelids start to fight, two consecutive clear gunshots were suddenly heard from the front of the car in the forest they had passed by.

At the same time as the gunshot sounded into his ears, Wei Ran woke up instantly, and immediately looked in the direction of the gunshot.

It's a pity that although the row of halogen headlights on the roof of the cab are bright enough, but because of the angle of the front of the car, they can only illuminate a distance less than a hundred meters ahead.

Getting into the cab with the fastest movement, Wei Ran finally found a dirty telescope after searching in the row of glove boxes above the windshield.He saw Apolly used this thing on the road, but he was not sure if he took it away just now.

Looking in the direction of the gunshots through the telescope, although there was only a pulsating light beam in the field of vision, fortunately, the light beam kept moving, and there was no gunshot again.

After waiting quietly for more than half an hour, Apoli, dragging the oil barrel sled, gradually appeared within the range illuminated by the headlights.

At this time, the oil barrel was already full of cut firewood, and a piece of wolf skin was laid out on top.

"Fortunately, I met a lone wolf."

Apoli greeted Wei Ran on the roof with a cheerful tone, "And I found a carcass of a reindeer in that forest, maybe when I go next time, the traps there will have caught more wolf."

Aiming at Apoli who was waving towards him and pressing the shutter, Wei Ran responded with a smile, "Do you need me to do something?"

"Then this!"

While Apoli was speaking, he had already thrown up a piece of frozen wolf fur, "Dry it on the railing near the heat dissipation grill, and remember to tie it tightly with wire."

"Leave it to me!" Wei Ran hurriedly stepped on the pieces of wolf fur thrown up, and tied them to the railing on the roof of the car.

"After you're done, go back and rest!"

Big bald Agwan stood at the door of the tent and greeted, "The first sampling point has been completed. Now as long as we don't lift the drill bit, we don't have to worry about our equipment being blown away by the wind, so we can rest."

"Looks like I'm coming back just in time"

Apolly laughed and said, "What do you want to eat? I'll make you something to eat."

"Just a bowl of hot broth is enough." Talas also came out of the tent with a microscope in his arms. "Of course, a glass of vodka is best."

"There is no problem with these"

While talking, Apolly had already pulled the sleigh cart full of firewood to the door of the tent where the fire was burning, and shouted loudly, "Victor, go and get the soup pot, spoon and table knife in the living cabin." Bring it here, and get an onion and a piece of venison."

"Immediately" before Wei Ran finished speaking, he opened the door of the living cabin again.

When he walked into the tent with the necessary kitchen utensils and ingredients in a soup pot, Apoli had already filled a few pieces of firewood into the red-burning stove.

For the next half an hour, Wei Ran, who originally thought he could take a break, completely turned into a cooking assistant, and helped Apoli cook a large pot of thick broth, and baked a basket full of sliced ​​bread by the way.

When the two of them brought a pot full of broth and a basket of toast slices into the living cabin, the two four-seater tables had been put together again, and not only eight tables filled with vodka had already been placed on it. In the middle of the enamel jar, there is an opened can of condensed milk and a plate of sliced ​​apples.

It's just that I don't know if it's to avoid being affected by the mood, but this time the radio never appeared on the table again.Instead, there was an accordion on a chair, and Dr. Murat was playing a violin.

(End of this chapter)