War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 693 The New Owner of the Rescue Station

"Let's go back"

In the warm off-road vehicle, Kajik had already stepped on the gas pedal while speaking, and turned the steering wheel to prepare to go back.

"Wait a moment"

Old Ivan took out a Zenit camera of the [-]th anniversary of the October Revolution from his arms and shook it, please help me take a photo here.

"Let Victor help you." Karp patted Wei Ran's shoulder while speaking, "He once wanted to be a war photographer."

"now what?"

While old Ivan was speaking, he handed the camera to Wei Ran, "I remember seeing him on TV."

"Now he is a well-known historian." Kajik said and patted his chest. "In name, I am his teacher."

"It's just in name" Wei Ran took the camera and reminded with a smile.

"Help me take a picture next to that bulldozer." Old Ivan finished speaking, opened the car door and jumped off.

After glancing at Karp, who was smiling and nodding towards him, and Gorman, who was concentrating on picking his nose, Wei Ran took the camera and jumped off the off-road vehicle after old Ivan.

"Right here," said old Ivan, putting one hand on the bulldozing blade.

Seeing this, Wei Ran raised the camera to find a suitable angle, tried his best to include all the words on the old Ivan, the bulldozer and the bulldozer blade into the lens and pressed the shutter.

After taking the photo, old Ivan took the camera handed by Wei Ran, and asked with a smile in the flying snow, "Do you know why I brought you here?"

"Why?" Wei Ran asked knowingly.

"Apart from the explosives with astonishing lethality in the collapsed mine, there are no secrets here."

Old Ivan put the camera around his neck and explained self-consciously, "Be it greed or curiosity, there were several young people around your age who gave their precious lives here for the same reason. "

Wei Ran smiled, turned around and walked in the direction of the off-road vehicle while making a promise, "Don't worry, I don't have that much curiosity. If there are no accidents, this will be the last time I come here."

"I hope so"

Old Ivan muttered noncommittally, walked slowly behind Wei Ran and re-drilled the off-road vehicle.

A moment later, Kajik stepped on the accelerator again, pulled a car of people, and slowly returned to the camp of the Agni Field Rescue Station along the wide ruts that had not been covered by the wind and snow.

"Victor, let the girls sit on your off-road vehicle first. Karp ordered before getting out of the car.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately jumped out of the car, called Sui Sui and others to end the game, and temporarily left the living cabin with their mahjong and three pets hugging by the stove for warmth.

But Jima is not here. According to Maya, during the time they left, a driver's truck had a flat tire on the distress channel, and Jima had already driven the crawler tractor of Apolly over there. helped.

Hearing this, old Ivan immediately sat on the side of the radio and started calling. He first confirmed that Jima was in the right direction, and then instructed some precautions for manipulation. Even the charging standard was explained on the public radio channel.

While he was busy here, Kajik also carefully opened the safe that was the size of a washing machine with the bunch of keys that Wei Ran had seen before.Take out the contents one by one and put them on the table.

"These are the work records of the exploration team after December 1991, 12"

Old Ivan picked out one of them while he was talking, and after opening it, he took out a document with many signatures, pointed to the name on it and said with emotion, "They all believed that the safe contained the data of the Tinder project, Some people lost their lives because of that non-existent document, and some gave up their faith without hesitation."

"what about this?"

Wei Ran pointed to the Soviet national emblem that occupied most of the table and asked, "It won't be."

"There used to be an auditorium in that mine"

Old Ivan sat down, picked up a towel and wiped the wooden Soviet national emblem and said, "At that time, their bodies were all placed in that auditorium, and they were all placed under the national emblem. Later, the building collapsed due to the earthquake. It took me a lot of effort to get it out of the wreckage."

Having said that, old Ivan looked up at Kajik who was sitting opposite him, "It's no problem for me to help you run the tavern in Tula town, but what about here? Without this rescue station, I don't know where I will die every winter." how many people."

"Don't worry, I've already made arrangements." Kajik said confidently, "As long as you are willing to run that tavern, someone will take over your job before dark."

"I will go with you after the person who will replace me arrives"

Kajik thought for a while, tapped the table with his knuckles and said, "I want to take this transport vehicle away."

"It's a real problem"

Kajik frowned, and after thinking for a while, he took out the satellite phone and dialed it, briefly describing the situation here.

Although there is some distance away, Wei Ran can still tell from the few words coming out of the receiver that the person who is talking to Kajik should be the talkative Dmitry.

"Couldn't it be that chatterbox came here to guard the rescue station?"

Wei Ran gloated and thought to himself, if that was the case, Dmitri would probably go crazy without a single winter.

After hanging up the phone, Kajik said to Karp with a painful face, "One thousand and two million rubles."

"Then one thousand and two million rubles." Karp nodded noncommittally.

Hearing this, Kajik breathed a sigh of relief, stacked the work records on the table together with the document signed by Dr. Murat and others and asked, "Old Ivan, can we take these things away? "

"Of course." Old Ivan put down the towel in his hand, "but you can't take other things with you."

"Of course, of course." Kajik repeatedly assured, "The people who will replace you have already set off, and they are expected to arrive when it gets dark."

"Tell me about those girls." While changing the subject, old Ivan returned the things on the table that he planned to keep to the safe one by one.

"Victor, explain the first half." Gorman, who had been silent for a while, ordered, "Bring a pot of coffee by the way, thank you."

Wei Ran, who had already slipped to the cabin door, reluctantly let go of the doorknob he was holding just now, and while making coffee, he briefly told about those underage mothers and the illegal organ trade found in the United States.

"This is roughly the case"

Gorman waited for Wei Ran to finish speaking and continued, "Because of the kindness of this young man, those girls and their children were sent to us, but if we want the Hela organization they founded to have value, we need a Enough quiet environment."

"What do they need to learn?" Old Ivan asked casually after taking the coffee from Wei Ran.

A meaningful religious word popped out of "Church" Gorman's mouth.

Old Ivan raised his eyebrows, and finally nodded in agreement, "I still need to hire two cultural teachers."

"Victor will bear and pay the corresponding expenses." Karp took the coffee delivered to him by Wei Ran with a smile, raised his head and confirmed, "Right?"

"Yes" Wei Ran reluctantly agreed, even if he wanted to blame this, he could only blame himself for greedily accepting the box of diamonds.

"Mr. Karp, I have a question." Wei Ran asked while handing the last cup of coffee to Kajik.

Karp picked up his coffee and took a sip, "Ask, maybe I'll give you an answer."

"If I don't find Mr. Ivan this time, those girls"

Wei Ran spoke halfway, then said again, "As far as I know, when we came, Maya had already started negotiating with the tavern owner."

"If you fail to find Mr. Ivan, you can only come here if you want to see Gorman in the future." Karp replied casually, "Of course, the dead Mr. Ivan is indeed a better choice, but He's not the only option."

"Why did you choose this place?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"You have to choose a place, don't you?"

Karp gave an answer perfunctorily, "Okay, we have satisfied all your curiosity, now should you give us a private space?"

"It's not what I want to hear." Wei Ran put down the coffee pot, turned around and left the living cabin.

Almost at the same time as he closed the cabin door from the outside, Old Ivan, Karp and the others also stood up and pulled the metal lever by the window, closed the steel shutters outside the window, and then closed the curtains.

It is not known what the four old men talked about in the living cabin next, and Wei Ran naturally had no interest in eavesdropping.

However, after Jima came back, the old Ivan arranged a new task for them-to move all the flour loaded on the scrapped truck to the two Ural 375 trucks driven by Gorman and others.

This is definitely a heavy labor. According to the driver who is still lying in the off-road vehicle, the scrapped truck is loaded with more than five tons of flour, but with so much cargo, the porters are only Wei Ran and Jima. personal.

Fortunately, after learning that the two trucks were gifts for the two drivers, Sui Sui and Maya also volunteered to bring Katenka sisters over to help, even the driver who only injured his finger Struggling to get up, relying on the shoulders to help transport the flour together.

With the concerted efforts of all of them, all the flour in the scrapped trucks was evenly distributed to the cargo hoppers of two Ural 375 trucks after six o'clock in the afternoon.

"These two trucks were given to you for free by this young man named Victor and his girlfriend Ms. Aurora, hoping to help your life and family."

While old Ivan was speaking, he handed the two keys to the driver whose fingers were bound with splints and whose shoulders were covered in flour, and the other driver whose thigh was injured and was still lying on the bed.

Before the two grateful drivers could speak, Old Ivan continued, "As we all know, I am not a traffic policeman, so I have no right to judge whose fault the accident happened between you, but you all lost the most important thing. van, so how about the two of you taking the loss of the cargo together?"

"Old Ivan, we all listen to you."

The one with the injured thigh said flatly, "We have already discussed it just now. He will share half of the flour in my car, so we will only lose half of the goods. Although the next winter will be difficult, Victor will With the new truck sent by the doctor and Ms. Aurora, we are confident that we will survive."

"It's good for you to think so"

Old Ivan smiled and took out two stacks of banknotes from his pocket and handed them to the two drivers respectively, "I borrowed this from you. Although each person only has [-] rubles, it should be able to help you survive this winter easily."

"Old Ivan, I will pay you back before next summer." The driver with the injured finger patted his chest and made a promise, and then took the cash from Old Ivan.

"I will return the money to you before tomorrow winter." Another driver who was seriously injured also made his promise.

"Not urgent"

Old Ivan glanced at Wei Ran and the others, who were covered in flour, and said with a smile, "From tomorrow, I will go to the small town of Tula to open the Aurora Tavern. You can go there for a drink then."

"You don't work here anymore?" The two drivers asked in unison. Although their tone was reluctant, they quickly gave their blessings one after another.

"Congratulations old Ivan"

The driver with a thigh injury said happily, "Finally, you don't have to suffer in such a ghostly place every year."

"We will definitely go to your tavern for a drink at that time." Another driver said happily, "Old Ivan, is the Agni channel still available?"

"Of course, of course it works."

Old Ivan replied affirmatively, "I just don't work here anymore, but the Wild Fire Rescue Station will not disappear. Someone will replace me tonight."

"Old Ivan, you don't have any physical problems, do you?" the driver lying on the bed asked with concern, and another driver followed up after hearing the words.

Seeing that the three of them chatted more and more intimately, Wei Ran and the others quietly exited the off-road vehicle, Maya went to line up to take a bath in the off-road vehicle owned by the Katenka sisters, and Jima got into the off-road vehicle driven by Karp and the others Li casually washed off the flour stained on his body, as for Wei Ran and Sui Sui, they naturally went back to their own car.

When these young people took a shower, changed their clothes, and got out of the off-road vehicles one after another, a big red DT-30 transport vehicle with the logo of the Tunguska Coalfield also crushed the forest on the edge of the river, and rumbled to the front of the fire camp. Barbed wire outside.

This transport vehicle is far more exaggerated than the old Ivan's transport vehicle, because at the end of its second carriage, it is additionally dragging a pallet that also uses crawlers. On the oil storage tank, on the oil tank, on the carriage, and even on the roof of the driver's cab, there are also fans of frozen hard venison tied up.

When Wei Ran and Ji Ma hurriedly cut out a large enough entrance and exit on the barbed wire fence, the big red transport vehicle also extinguished the engine outside the barbed wire fence.

Immediately afterwards, an old man with a pipe in his mouth pushed open the car door, and enthusiastically waved to Wei Ran and the others.

"This is... old Peter?"

Wei Ran didn't realize until Beria at his feet let out a threatening and immature growl that this old man was exactly the old Peter who rented a car to him in the vehicle inspection yard outside the small town of Tula!
It's not over yet, the door on the co-pilot's side was pushed open, and the talkative Dmitry also got out, waving at them enthusiastically, and shouting loudly, "Victor, Jima, we meet again !"

"Why is this bastard here?" Jima grinned.

Before the two of Wei Ran could respond, Kajik took a few steps forward and asked, "Dmitri, is he here to take over the job?"

"Yes, Mr. Kajik"

Dmitry beckoned Old Peter to get off the transport vehicle, and helped a simple woman who looked about the same age as Old Peter from the cab.

The three of them walked through the barbed wire fence that had just been cut, and Dmitry put his hand on Old Peter's shoulder and introduced, "This is Old Peter, the dispatcher of the Auto Repair Plant in Tula Town, Tunguska Coal Field. There is his wife, who are willing to take over the work of this rescue station.

And before I came here, I had already talked with the person in charge of the rescue station in the coal field. In the future, he and his wife can get the same high salary. Of course, this salary will be paid to Mr. Ivan first, and Ivan will be troubled later. The husband will call the account of their husband and wife again. "

"This time to trouble you"

While talking, Kajik handed Dmitry a bunch of car keys, "Drive the car we drove back."

"Don't be polite to me, Mr. Kajik, I really have to go back to Tula overnight to fly, remember to call me when you want to go back."

"Be careful on the road"

Kajik patted Dmitri on the shoulder affectionately, and watched him get into the off-road vehicle and drive up the river in the dark.

It wasn't until the off-road vehicle driven by Dmitry completely disappeared from sight that Kajik shook hands with old Peter and enthusiastically introduced the couple to old Ivan.

While the old Ivan was leading the couple to hand over the work in the rescue station, Wei Ran also stopped Kajik and asked curiously, "Boss, is Dmitry also one of yours?"

"He? He's just an ordinary person"

Kajik said indifferently, "I lived in Irkutsk for a while, and I rented his house at that time."

After a brief explanation, Kajik pointed to the two trucks and said, "You and Jima are ready. After Ivan decides to return to the small town of Tula with us, you will be responsible for sending the two injured drivers and the truck back. in their respective gathering areas, and then rush back to Tula as soon as possible."

"Shall we go?" Ji Ma came over and asked reluctantly.

"Should we go?" Gorman wrapped his arms around Jima's neck and asked affectionately, "Since you don't want to go, Kajik, let your good student Maya go."

"Who said I don't want to go?" Ji Ma immediately changed his tone, "I can't wait to go."

"Or let Maya go for me?" Wei Ran asked shyly.

"sure"

Kajik nodded cheerfully, but Wei Ran changed his mind immediately with that half-smile expression.

While they were chatting here, old Ivan also explained all the situation of the aid station to Peter and his wife, and left the big red crawler tractor with flame patterns to them.

Under everyone's gaze, old Ivan started the transport vehicle that had been here for an unknown amount of time, broke free from the snow and ice that buried the tracks, and drove into the camp along the gap that Wei Ran and Ji Ma had just cut in the barbed wire In the coniferous forest outside.

Without waiting for him to stop the car, Old Peter also drove the DT-30 transport truck he drove in along the gap in the barbed wire fence, and skillfully manipulated the front of the truck to move back and forth, little by little pulling the storage truck at the end. The oil tanks are placed next to the container containers.

At the same time, Wei Ran also learned from Kajik's explanation that he had no choice but to buy this transport vehicle in the name of Maya, and it was a replacement for the transport vehicle that Ivan just drove out. An identity, and the price of all this, is 1000 taels million rubles.

Fortunately, as a bonus, the off-road vehicles driven by Wei Ran and others have also become the property of Aurora Tavern.

After being busy for more than ten minutes, Old Peter disconnected the link between the second carriage and the crawler trailer, and maneuvered the transport vehicle with only two sections left to stop at the place where Ivan once parked the transport vehicle.

Immediately afterwards, Old Peter opened an idle container, and together with his wife, he pulled a large roll of felt and several large bundles of dry weeds from the gap of the flatbed truck pulling the oil tank and threw them into it.

After the husband and wife spread weeds and felt in the container, they took out a cast iron stove from the cargo compartment of the transport vehicle and lit it, and after obtaining the consent of old Ivan, they cut the container with a grinder. Out of the chimney mouth, and the air intake duct of the stove.

After all these tasks were finished, Old Peter greeted everyone to get into the off-road vehicle, and then opened the living cabin door at the rear, and greeted three Caucasian dogs that were as strong as calves and walked around the barbed wire fence lap.

After the three Caucasians pissed around the barbed wire, they shrugged their bright red tongues and followed Old Peter into the container specially prepared for them.

It wasn't until the old couple closed the cabinet door together that everyone breathed a sigh of relief, pushed the door open and walked out.

"Comrade Peter, I leave this to you."

While old Ivan was speaking, he also handed a satellite phone to the other party, "Usually the drivers along the way will communicate on the distress channel, and I have marked the positions and coordinates of each rescue point. If you encounter even you If there is any trouble that can’t be solved, if you need any supplies, you can call the Aurora Tavern at any time.”

The old Peter took over the satellite phone and handed it to his wife, "We will definitely cherish this job."

"That's how it is." Old Ivan looked at the big red crawler tractor with nostalgia, "Remember to add lubricating oil to it frequently."

"Ivan, I'm a car repairman with more than [-] years of experience." Old Peter said confidently, "I'm sure I won't treat it badly."

Hearing this, old Ivan shook hands with the other party vigorously, and beckoned Kajik and others to get into the transport vehicle that he had driven out of the barbed wire fence, started the engine, and followed the rut of the transport vehicle that replaced it, in the gradually rising In the wind, snow and night, with a circle of dazzling headlights, it rumbled towards the direction of the small town of Tula.

However, just when the white transport vehicle with flame patterns completely disappeared from Wei Ran's field of vision, he felt a flash of hot feeling from the tattoo on the tiger's mouth again.

(End of this chapter)