War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 700 The Secret Inside the Bullet
When the dinner at Ji Ma's family came to an end with the last toast, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

While Jima's parents were distributing the leftovers to the villagers who were carrying tables and chairs and preparing to go back, Wei Ran also helped Jima, taking the teacher who drank a lot and the senior sister who worked in the studio They were sent into the car, and then those young gangsters who hadn't drunk on purpose drove them back to Hongqi Forest Farm.

"Aren't you going to stay?" Ji Ma asked Wei Ran a cigarette.

"There are guests waiting in the basement."

Wei Ran, who also didn't drink much, took the cigarette handed by the other party and lit it, watched as Katenka sisters sent Sui Sui, who was drunk after a few drinks, into the car, and waited for them to hug the little girl as well. After getting into the car, he asked, "Are you and Maya going to join in the fun today?"

"Are you going?" Ji Ma asked Maya, who was holding a wine glass.

Maya smiled when she heard the words, drank the remaining gin in one gulp, threw the glass to Jima, and got into the carriage neatly.

"Let's get in the car too," Wei Ran said, and he was the first to get into his armored pickup.

It wasn't until Jima greeted her parents that she also got into the rear compartment, and Anfisa, who settled the drunks, opened the door and sat in the driver's seat, then took out a bag from her down jacket pocket. The paper bag was handed over to Wei Ran.

"It was found on the girl who groped into the house"

While Anfisa was speaking, he had already started the car, followed the armored commercial vehicle in front and drove out of the yard of Jima's house.

"Uke rotten person?"

Wei Ran frowned involuntarily as he looked at the passport he took out from his pocket. The owner of this passport was a girl named Lola Koka from Kharkov, Ukran. According to the date of birth on it By reckoning, she wasn't even 17 years old.

Looking at the rest of the paper bag, there is also a smartphone that looks like it has been used for some years, and a medical report.

"I dug out the medical report from her mobile phone and printed it out"

Anfisa explained without waiting for Wei Ran to ask, "It should belong to the child in the other car. My sister and I have observed her behavior, and she does seem to have autism, which is exactly the same as what was said in the medical examination report." unanimous."

After hastily glanced at the report printed on the paper, Wei Ran handed it to Jima, "Greva said that there is nothing in that house?"

"Except for some food, there is really nothing."

Jima took the medical examination report and glanced at it, then threw it aside, took out his mobile phone, found some photos and handed it to the former, "And it seems that after a long time no one lived there, someone suddenly moved in temporarily."

"A middle-aged woman with an autistic child and an underage girl out to steal?"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he couldn't help shaking his head. To put it bluntly, with such a combination, going out to cheat may be more profitable and safer than stealing.

In addition, they took the initiative to come to the door to buy those old books before, which undoubtedly shows that the other party's goal is very clear.

"It seems that they are here for something." Jima obviously followed the channel.

"Wait until you go back and ask if you don't know."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already opened the smartphone with cracked screens. Unfortunately, because of the password blocking, all they could see was a cartoon wallpaper.

"I don't have a password either"

Anfisa took the initiative to explain again, "If you want to peek at the little girl's secret, you can use that girl's fingerprint to unlock it after you go back."

"Forget it, I'm not Ji Ma." While speaking, Wei Ran had already turned off his phone and threw it into a paper bag.

"I didn't want to see it either," Jima said with a grin, but his eyes didn't leave the paper bag containing the mobile phone.

The ghost knows how much the Katenka sisters dislike this scum who has long been "conscientious", but Anfisa stretched out her hand behind her, obviously guarding against Jima.

Suppressing a smile, Wei Ran handed the paper bag containing the mobile phone to Anfisa, Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "Jima, let your people work hard, or continue to guard the house, and we will go and have a look tomorrow. "

"Don't worry, they've been guarding." Jima, who was about to quarrel with Anfisa, responded, and was then dragged by Wei Ran to other topics.

Gossiping all the way back home, Wei Ran first sent Sui Sui back to the bedroom, at the same time, Maya also walked into the room she had stayed in familiarly, decisively sent Ji Ma who was planning to say a few words Closed the door.

Signal Anfeya to stay and take care of the two drunken ladies and the little girl who seems to be autistic but loves to laugh.Wei Ran, Jima, and the dog Beria, who had been locked in the cage all day, walked to the construction site next door in the dark under the leadership of Anfisa, and got into the basement of the workshop.

As soon as they opened the locked door with the key, the three of them heard the noise of the coin-operated game machine being knocked, as well as various electronic synthesis sounds and the cheers of the girls.Of course, this was also mixed with crying that almost collapsed.

The two looked at each other and walked into the game room that Sui Sui made, only to find that the two little girls who had been arranged to help guard the captives were having fun with a game console each.

On the mahjong table not far from them, there were two large plates of less than half-eaten braised pork and braised rabbits, as well as various delicacies that had appeared at Jima's party.

Apparently, although the two little sisters were not able to attend the gathering in the village in person, apart from being unable to drink, they did not lack anything to eat.

Ji Ma stood at the door and coughed pretendingly. The two young ladies subconsciously looked back, and immediately stopped the game in their hands and ran over.

"Boss, did you bring us something delicious?" One of the little girls with blue hair asked, but she and her companion snatched the bag that Jima was carrying without delay.

“Go and eat next door”

Jima, who has no pretensions of the gang boss at all, took out two rolls of rubles from his pocket and handed them to them while speaking, and pointed to Anfeiya who was standing behind him, "She has already arranged a room for you with long hair. Just rest here, Greva and the others will come back tomorrow to pick you up."

"Sister Maya definitely didn't share a room with you"

Another little girl with green hair took out a can of beer, opened it and took a sip, then asked with a playful smile, "So do you want to go to my room tonight?"

"Or go to my room"

Another little girl scrambled to say, but her little hand behind her back had already turned on the recording function of her phone, obviously, she was planning to trick Ji Ma.

"Shall I go to your room and beat you up?" Ji Ma angrily knocked on the foreheads of the two young ladies, and drove them out of the basement.

"Tsk tsk tsk" Wei Ran circled around Ji Ma, "Isn't this like the Ji Ma I know?"

"We are all one village"

While talking, Ji Ma gave out a middle finger, and said while cleaning up some trash left by the two little sisters, "I don't want their fathers to beat me to death together."

"The best scum of all scum"

Wei Ran gave a pertinent evaluation in Chinese that the other party could not understand, and turned off the electric heater and game console in the game room.

When they came out of the game room, Anfisa had already opened the door to the room where all kinds of vegetables were stored.

Walking into the room full of potatoes, sweet potatoes and Chinese cabbage, Wei Ran and Ji Ma saw the crying girl hugging the radiator at a glance.

The girl was only wearing a set of milky white thermal underwear, and both hands and one foot were handcuffed to the cold radiator.

Looking at the shape, you can tell that it is obviously a reference to the one on the cross. If you want to say that the only difference is the left leg that is raised up like a rubber band.

Standing here on one leg for a whole day in this posture, let alone a girl who is not yet an adult, I am afraid that even an adult will not be able to hold on.

In addition, the temperature here is not too high, and her mouth was gagged with a towel. At this time, the girl looked very embarrassed. Not only was her face stained with dust, but the towel that gagged her mouth was covered with dust. With two lines of clear nose.

Fortunately, the only foot that can touch the ground is not only wearing socks with cartoon patterns, but also a white foam board that I don't know where it came from between the sole of the foot and the cold floor.Next to the foam board, there is also a Bluetooth headset that has long been out of power.

Wei Ran glanced at the little girl struggling desperately after hearing the voice, then turned to Anfisa and asked, "You did all this?"

"I didn't put the foam board and earphones," Anfisa explained calmly.

Helplessly patted his forehead, Wei Ran glared at Ji Ma who was about to take out his phone to take a photo as a souvenir, waited for the other party to put away the phone he just took out, and then continued to Anfisa, "Take her Untie it."

Hearing this, Anfisa took out a key from her pocket, first tore off the towel stuffed in the girl's mouth, then wiped her nose with the towel wet with saliva, and then tore off her towel. Blindfold, unhurriedly opened the handcuffs on her hands and feet.

With a hoarse voice, the girl who had been handcuffed for a whole day lay next to Guizi Jiang, holding one of her legs, and begged almost collapsed, "I want to go to the bathroom, let me go to the bathroom, please. "

Seeing that Wei Ran nodded towards him, and pushed Jima to turn around and leave the room, Anfisa helped the limping little girl with a frightened face, and brought her to the bathroom.

"Jima, it seems illegal to confine minors under house arrest?"

Wei Ran walked into the half-decorated KTV room next door, found a wooden box and sat down, and asked while stroking the dog's head.

"Indeed, but Wu Kelan's girl doesn't count."

Ji Ma spread his hands as a matter of course, "Aren't all the countries bordering Wu Keran doing this kind of thing?"

"I'm not the same as them." Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, he didn't even bother to discuss the difference with Jima, a scumbag.

After waiting patiently for a moment, Anfisa pushed the limping girl into the door.Although her attitude was a bit rough, at least that little girl had an extra down jacket that originally belonged to Anfisa.And even that too young pear blossom with rain on her little face was washed clean.

"Victor, this little girl is quite beautiful." Jima winked and threatened deliberately, "If she is not honest, how about selling her to me?"

"Sit" Wei Ran didn't bother to talk to Jima, smiled and pointed to the wooden box opposite.

Perhaps the torment of this day was too terrifying, or maybe the dog lying at Wei Ran's feet was too scary. The young girl with red and swollen eyes immediately sat on the box obediently, watching with a frightened and nervous expression. With Wei Ran and Jima, and the four-legged Beria.

"What's your name?"

"Lola, my name is Lola, Lola Koka," the little girl replied in a panic, not even louder than her sniffling.

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded, and continued to ask unhurriedly, "Lola, it's a good name. I will speak louder when I answer the question next. So, what's the name of the little girl with autism?"

"Kolava" Lola suppressed her fear and replied loudly, "Her name is Kolava, Kolava Gasanova."

"Gasanova? Isn't it a surname?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "What's your relationship?"

"She is my sister, and her mother is my aunt." Lola replied without thinking.

Cousin?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and continued to ask patiently, "Who is your aunt?"

"Alina, Alina Bonnie" Lola answered Wei Ran's question very quickly.

Wei Ran winked at Jima, who immediately got up and walked out of the room to interrogate another prisoner locked up in the basement.

Watching Jima close the solid wooden door from the outside, Wei Ran continued to ask, "Tell me, what are you going to bring with me when you come to my house?"

Lola shivered subconsciously, hesitated for a moment and then stammered, "Anything of value...anything of value."

"For example, those old books bought from Utino?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

Hearing this, Lola's face instantly turned pale.His thin body also shivered.

"You can not say"

Wei Ran stood up while speaking, walked out with the dog and said, "I will tie you to the radiator again later, of course, I will change your foot to the ground. Or I am impatient After that, I will sell you to that scumbag just now."

Having said that, Wei Ran stopped in his tracks, and said deliberately, "Also, bring that kid named Korava over, and tie him next to Lola, and tie them to them."

"I say! I say it all!"

Lola, who was already terrified, cried and begged immediately, "I'll tell you everything! Don't tie me up again."

"last chance"

Wei Ran, who was already trying to scare people, leaned against the door frame with a smile, "Tell me, what are you looking for."

"Looking for something my grandfather left behind," Lola replied, crying.

"Who is your grandfather? What did he leave behind?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"He used to be Yutino's librarian"

Lola wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, "We don't know what relics he left behind, but we know that there must be something very valuable in those relics, and we need that money to treat Kolawa's illness."

"How do you know that there are very valuable things in his relics?"

Facing Wei Ran's question, Lola boldly asked, "I said, will you let me and Korava go?"

"uncertain"

Wei Ran spread his hands, "But at least I won't sell you to that scumbag, and I won't easily handcuff you to the radiator again."

Hearing this, Luo La wiped away the uncontrollable tears and snot, gritted his teeth and explained, "Because two months ago, when I was packing up my grandfather's belongings, I found two A gem."

"Two gems were found in the bullet?"

Wei Ran frowned, hesitated for a moment and asked, "What kind of bullet? What kind of gemstone?"

"Bullets used in the Nagant revolver"

Lola said tremblingly, "There are two demantoids less than one carat inside, and... there is a note."

"What is demantoid?" Wei Ran subconsciously asked Anfisa.

"I've never heard of it," Anfisa said, pointing to the girl, "but she has that bullet casing hanging around her neck."

As soon as Anfisa finished speaking, Lola wrapped up the down jacket that didn't belong to her, and her whole body curled up like a quail.

However, Anfeisa pulled out a shiny leather rope from her neck without any effort at all, and easily unfastened the buckle on the rope, and handed the bullet worn on it to Wei Ran , By the way, I also took out my phone and turned on the flashlight function.

After receiving the bullet casing, Wei Ran leaned under the light and looked around in circles.

This bullet casing, which still has body temperature, has obviously been worn as a necklace for a long time, and thick patina has even appeared on the brass casing.

But in addition to the patina, there is also a famous quote from Stalin engraved on the bullet case in smooth handwriting-ideas are more powerful than weapons. We do not allow the enemy to have weapons, so why should we allow them to have thoughts?

Looking at the primer that had never been fired before, and then at the countersunk bullet at the other end, Wei Ran found that the middle of the bullet's bullet seemed to have been carefully cut out a cross flower a long time ago, looking at the size , as if it could just be unscrewed with a screwdriver.

Shaking the bullet in his hand, seeing that there was no movement at all, Wei Ran did not unscrew the bullet head, but carefully tied the leather rope that passed through the position of the buried bullet, and handed it to the other side of the face. Desperate Lola.

Seeing the girl staring at him blankly, Wei Ran shook the rope and bullets in his hand, "You don't want it? Then I lost it?"

"Yes!" Lola reacted, snatched the bullet from Wei Ran's hand, and hung it around her neck again.

It wasn't until the other party wrapped his neck tightly with the down jacket that originally belonged to Anfisa that Wei Ran continued to ask, "What is written on the note?"

"This is the first fortune I left you," Lola whispered.

"what?"

"This is the first fortune I left you." Lola slightly increased her voice.

"So you suspect that there is a second fortune?" Wei Ran gently patted Beria's head and asked gently.

Lola hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded indiscernibly, "We need to raise money for Korava's medical treatment."

"Change the question." Wei Ran sat back on the wooden box again, "Where are your parents?"

"died"

Holding the collar of the down jacket tightly, Lola replied, "My mother died when I was born, and my father also died two years ago because of gang conflicts."

"Where's your grandfather?"

"Dead two months ago," Lola replied, and tears began to drip from the corners of her red and swollen eyes again.

"Tell me about your aunt. What's her name?"

"Alina Bonnie," Lola replied.

"Yes." Wei Ran nodded, "Tell me about how you and her found Yuchino?"

"After my grandfather passed away, I was picked up by Aunt Alina to live with me."

Lola explained with tears in her eyes, "Later, we decided to sell my grandfather's house and car because we wanted to treat Kolawa. Then I found the gems hidden in the bullet casings, and my grandfather's work permit. It says the address of the Yutino library."

"So where are the gems?" Anfisa, who had been silent just now, asked abruptly.

"Sold one by my aunt"

Lola shivered, looked at Anfisa in horror, and continued with a little reluctance, "The other one is in the bullet casing."

"Are you still studying?" Wei Ran asked an insignificant question.

"I didn't go to school after the summer vacation"

Lola said cautiously, "At first it was my grandfather who needed to be taken care of, and later it was Korava who needed to be taken care of, and my grades were not good."

Looking at Anfisa, Wei Ran shook his head secretly, the girl was obviously tricked by her unreliable aunt.

"Where's Korava's father?" Seeing that Wei Ran didn't speak, Anfisa simply asked himself.

"I was killed together with my father two years ago." Lola lowered her head and added after a moment of silence, "When selling unique products."

Anfisa was not ready to end the question, and asked blankly, "What does your aunt usually do for a living?"

"Huafan read" Lola's voice was even softer.

Anfisa glanced at Wei Ran, and carefully checked the girl's sleeves. Seeing that there were no pinholes on it, she nodded in satisfaction and continued to ask, "The last question, how did you start from Wu Kelan?" From Russia?"

"My aunt drove us here."

Lola's voice was a little softer, adding an important word—"smuggling"—in a voice that almost only she could hear.

"Take her back and take a shower and change into clean clothes."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took off his down jacket and threw it to Anfisa who was only wearing a thin sweater on his upper body, and at the same time stood up and walked out of the room.

Taking Wei Ran's down jacket and putting it on her body, Anfisa waved her hand at Lola nonchalantly, "Come with me, if you dare to make any small moves, my boss will be happy to sell you to the man who runs Kazan The scum of the biggest skin business. You are so beautiful and young, he must be able to make a lot of money from you."

This fabricated threat is obviously more effective than anything else. Lola immediately stood up in a panic when she heard this, and let Anfisa support her obediently, and limped out of the basement.

Ji Ma, who was almost front and rear, with a cigarette in his mouth, also leaned out from another room far away, and waved his hands vigorously at Wei Ran.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stepped closer, declined the cigarette offered by the other party and asked, "What did you ask?"

"Come in and talk"

Ji Ma greeted Wei Ran and walked into the semi-finished room that was going to be renovated into a sauna room, pointed to the middle-aged woman who was still handcuffed to the radiator, didn't even take off the blindfold, and even gagged her mouth again, and said, "This is a scumbag." .”

"You have the nerve to judge others as scum?" Wei Ran joked happily.

Hearing this, Jima turned on the faucet in the corner, squeezed the water pipe and poured cold water on the middle-aged woman, "She is going to find some gems from Lola's grandfather's relics, and then sell Lola to the Kazan locals." The gangs are engaged in flesh and blood business."

Speaking of this, Jima paused, and directly pinned the water pipe to the woman's belt, and then continued, "She is also planning to use her own daughter to cheat some donations, and when she has enough money, she will send that woman The little girl with autism was sent to an orphanage, and then went to America to start a new life by herself."

Speaking of this, Jima pointed to the documents on the pile of bricks next to him, "This scumbag got an American passport a year ago, and a few months ago, it seems that he got two passports from Lola. That gem sold for a lot of money."

"Wait, two?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.

"It's really two"

Ji Ma shook the recording function interface on the phone that had already stopped, "She also used a piece of beer bottle crumbs to make a fake gemstone for that silly little girl and put it in a bullet casing necklace."

"I finally found a scumbag who is even more scumbag than you."

Wei Ran picked up the stack of documents and looked at them. In addition to a Ukrainian passport and an American passport, there was also a flight ticket to Hawaii in a week, as well as almost a thousand dollars in cash and a wad of nearly $[-]. Bills of one hundred thousand rubles.

In addition, there is a scary Stechkin submachine gun and a police certificate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Although there is a photo of this woman on the certificate, the whole certificate is workmanship. Even if Beria To judge, it has to suspect that this stuff is fake.

"Where did this gun come from?" Wei Ran asked curiously, "Why do you still have the certificate from the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Ji Ma turned the faucet to the maximum, "The documents are fake, and the gun is also fake. According to her own statement, these things were all exchanged for a bag of unique products when they were smuggled across the border.

I just checked, the firing pin of this gun has been broken long ago, I guess she must have been tricked. "

"Don't water it, she won't take root again."

Wei Ran looked at the stagnant water all over the ground, frowned and said, "It will freeze to death, I don't want people to die here."

"I take her away?" Jima asked, turning off the tap.

Wei Ran grabbed Beria who lowered her head and was about to drink, and asked as she walked out, "Where are you going to take her?"

"Of course it's the warm south!"

While winking, Ji Ma took out his cell phone, followed Wei Ran and dialed it to his little brother as he walked out.

After waiting at the door of the workshop for less than 5 minutes, a van drove straight into the construction site. Immediately afterwards, Greva pushed the door open and jumped out of the driver's seat.

"Temporarily find a place that only you know and lock it up."

Ji Ma gave the other party a cigarette and whispered, "Don't let her run away, let alone let her freeze to death and starve to death."

"Let me take her to the warehouse at the freight station"

Greva didn't shy away from Wei Ran, and directly told the address of the detention, and then trotted into the basement.A moment later, he dragged the woman whose hands were tied behind her back, and pushed her roughly into the van.

Watching the car go away, Ji Ma spread his hands, "Don't worry, even the police can't find her."

"Your business seems to be getting bigger and bigger," Wei Ran hinted.

Jima grinned honestly, and sent the recording of the torture just now to Wei Ran, and said with a shy smile, "Greva and I don't do business with laws and regulations, at most we just send her to When the train to Inta arrives at the station, Misha's father throws her into prison for a few years."

"Remember to imprison her autistic daughter and that little girl who is not very smart." Wei Ran mockingly reminded the follow-up troubles of doing so.

"I'll ask Misha," Jima responded jokingly.

Too lazy to talk nonsense with this scumbag, Wei Ran forwarded the interrogation recording sent by Ji Ma to Anfisa, and when he returned home, he picked up the down jacket that Anfisa had placed on the long table on the first floor and put it on again. After dressing up and sending Jima to the guest room under the pretext, he went to the third floor and walked into the room belonging to Teacher Dalia again.

Gently found the "Soviet Medical Encyclopedia" that contained the Nagant revolver. Wei Ran took out a pair of rubber gloves and put them on, took out the Nagant revolver hidden inside, and the 14-round set The sinker.

Carefully withdrawing the seven bullets from the magazine, Wei Ran turned on the old-fashioned desk lamp on the table and checked them carefully one by one.It doesn't matter if you look at it, it really made him discover something different.

Of the 21 rounds in total, 7 seemed fine in the pistol chamber, but of the other 14 rounds stuck in the grooves dug out in this book, [-] of them were The warhead has a cross pattern that seems to be filled with wax or something.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to open the two bullets. He didn't even remove the wax on them. Instead, the gun and the bullets were restored to their original state, and they were hidden in the tome again.

"It's a revolver, gems and Kajik again, which is too coincidental."

Before Wei Ran left the room, Wei Ran murmured to himself, the origin of these old books is ultimately because the cheap teacher Kajik took him to lie in Yudino a few months ago, and found the revolver in the old books, and now the And possibly hidden gems.

Thinking about the cause of the Apoli Tinder incident, it was also because of the revolver provided by Kajik, and the diamond polishing was also involved in the remuneration. In addition, this new incident happened to be caught up by Maya all the way. All these coincidences really made Wei Ran have to wonder whether Kajik arranged it on purpose.

Which old bastard told me that Kajik was just an ordinary university teacher?Fortunately, I was so caring to take pictures of his son and grandson and send money and projects.

Wei Ran took Gorman who was lying on the gun with him, and got into his and Sui Sui's bedroom cursing.

At the same time, in the room temporarily lent to Lola and her little cousin Korava, Anfisa also handed the Bluetooth headset connected to the mobile phone to Lola who had just come out of the bathroom, and played it to her Watching the tape of Jima's interrogation with her aunt Alina, she put her pajamas and full set of clean clothes on the head of the bed.

When the interrogation recording ended, Lola, who was wearing a bathrobe, was already huddled in the corner of the bed, covering her mouth and crying again, but at the same time trying not to let herself cry, so as not to wake up the girl on the bed who seemed to be sleeping. A little girl with an innocent smile.

Sighing secretly, Anfisa took out two lollipops from her pocket, tore open the package, pinched Lola's chin to make her open her mouth, and stuffed the peach-flavored lollipop into her pocket. In his mouth, he stuffed the mango-flavored one into his mouth again.

Almost forcefully pulling Lola up, Anfisa put a blanket on her, led her to the first floor, opened the door of the house, and got into the armored commercial vehicle parked on the side of the door.

"You can cry all you want until the lollipop melts in your mouth. The car is soundproof enough that you can't hear it even if you're yelling inside.

I will wait in the car next to me. When I finish my lollipop and open the car door again, I hope you have vented all your grievances and finished the dinner I prepared for you. "

After finishing speaking, Anfeisa simply closed the heavy car door regardless of whether the other party agreed or not, turned around and got into Wei Ran's armored pickup.While eating her favorite mango-flavored lollipop, she quietly listened to the faint crying from another car.

At the same time, she couldn't help but think of the grievances she and her sister had suffered when she was a child, the lollipops she got from their mother every time, and the small room in the basement that was well soundproofed and where she could cry wantonly to vent her emotions.

(End of this chapter)