War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 753 Take a sip from the bar in your hometown!

In Dongfanghong grocery store, Su Lie's yelling unsurprisingly startled the hot-headed aunt.

"What's the matter?" The hot-headed aunt subconsciously protected the little girl named Sasha, and at the same time, her hands subconsciously reached for the double-barreled shotgun hanging on the wall.

"Come here quickly!"

While Su Lie was speaking, he hurriedly opened the zipper of the down jacket on his body, then pulled out a leather cord from the neckline, and then pulled out a bullet casing that was also worn out and shook it, "The bullet casing my grandfather gave me , I see the same thing!"

"What are you talking about?! Where is it?"

The hot-headed aunt immediately got up and came over, followed Su Lie's fingers and looked at Lola, who had a slightly flustered face.

"Child, don't be afraid!"

The hot-headed aunt subconsciously uttered Chinese with a strong smell of scum, then slapped her thigh, and asked in Russian, "Girl, where did you get the bullet casings on your neck?"

Lola looked at Sui Sui and Wei Ran standing beside her as if asking for help, and then at Katenka sisters who had each torn a bag of five-spice marinated eggs and put them in their mouths, and finally retreated a little Yi Yi explained, "This is left to me by my grandfather."

"Your grandfather is." Auntie Tangtou changed the question in the middle of her sentence, "Can you show me?"

"Selsey, my grandfather is Selsey Koka." While Lola took off the bullet casing hanging around her neck and handed it to Auntie Hothead, she still honestly answered the half-answered questions she asked.

"Son, what's written on it?"

After taking the bullet casings, Aunt Tang took out a reading glasses and put them on, pointing to the engraving on them and asked. Obviously, although she speaks Russian fluently, she can only speak it, and this is why many "half-way monks" came to Russia to work hard characteristics shared by the Chinese.Because their Russian is completely hardened by the surrounding environment.

"Ideas are more powerful than weapons. We do not allow our enemies to have weapons, so why allow them to have thoughts."

Su Lie took the bullet casing, read out the famous quote engraved on it in a circle, then pulled the bullet casing off his neck and handed it to Lola, "My grandfather gave it to me."

After a little hesitation, Luo La took the bullet case handed over by the other party, and softly read the famous quote of Stalin engraved on it: "A man with ideals, life is always hot."

"What are you doing?" Auntie Tangtou hesitated to speak and returned the bullet casing to Lola, and at the same time, Lola also returned the bullet casing in her hand to Su Lie.

"We passed by here and saw a store, so we came here to buy some snacks." Wei Ran answered this half-answered question before Lola, trying to create an unexpected encounter.

"Is there any demantoid in your bullet casing?" Su Lie asked while hanging the bullet casing pendant around his neck.

Lola was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and replied almost as if to a secret signal, "Demantine from Mine No. 52."

"That's really a family!"

Aunt Tangtou patted her thigh again, "Small! Quick! Call your dad, call your second uncle, no, call your grandpa first!"

After finishing speaking, the aunt turned to Lola, Wei Ran and the others and asked enthusiastically, "If you are not in a hurry to leave, why don't you have a meal together? It's not easy to meet this!"

Hearing this, Lola subconsciously looked at Sui Sui and Wei Ran again, seeing them both smiling and nodding, she nodded accordingly.

"Let's go! Let's go home now!"

The unusual enthusiasm of this hot-headed aunt is really unbearable. While talking, she already pulled the bewildered Lola out of the door as if she was carrying a little chick, and at the same time she did not forget to shout, "Son! !Close the door, and follow with little Sasha! Go to your second uncle's house! Tell him to leave the big compartment out quickly."

"okay!"

Su Lie responded, and while dialing the phone, he forced over the money he had just collected from Wei Ran, waited until he hung up the phone, and immediately asked enthusiastically, "How did you get here?"

"We have a car." Wei Ran pointed to the business bread parked at the door, and at the same time saw that Anfisa had gotten into a red BMW car with Lola.

"If you have a seat in your car, leave it for me and my girlfriend." After finishing speaking, Su Lie pointed to the plastic bags and shopping baskets in everyone's hands, "Take them all! I'll lock the door!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Sui Sui looked at each other with suppressed smiles, honestly took the snacks they had just selected, and greeted An Feiya who was holding marinated eggs and spicy sticks, and left the grocery store.

Almost on foot, Su Lie also walked out of the grocery store with his little girlfriend Sasha, and pulled down the lock of the shutter door with a "crash".

"What a cute little fox!"

The moment the little blond haired girl got into the carriage, her eyes lit up and found the little fox locked in the cage, and Su Lie also caught sight of the dog Beria who was staring at him.

"It doesn't bite, does it?" Su Lie asked nervously while protecting the little girl named Sasha.

"Don't bite, get in the car." While speaking, Wei Ran put a muzzle on Beria and drove him to the rear of the car. next to the child.

Hearing this, Su Lie and his girlfriend got into the carriage and sat in the seats specially reserved for the two of them.

"Follow that red BMW." After closing the door, Su Lie pointed to the car waiting for them with double flashing lights in front of him.

Before he finished speaking, Anfeiya, who was in charge of driving, had already started the car and stepped on the accelerator. She also jumped and double flashed, and followed the red BMW steadily.

"Su Lie, what's going on?" Wei Ran asked knowingly.

"That's a long story to say"

Su Lie turned around, pulled out the bullet casing pendant from the neckline again, and explained, "My grandfather had a few very good friends in his generation, and this pendant was given to him by one of my grandfather's uncles. After the Soviet Union disintegrated, A few family members lost contact. A few years ago, when my grandfather was in good health, he went to Kazan almost every year to find those friends. Now I go there every year for my grandfather. By the way, are you Where did it come from?"

Wei Ran and Sui Sui looked at each other, and replied in unison, "Kazan!"

"I knew it! It must be Kazan!" Su Lie laughed loudly, "It's such a coincidence that we can meet him from such a long distance!"

After a little thought, Wei Ran asked knowingly, "So your family came to Russia from China quite early?"

"That's not great!"

Su Lie tucked the bullet casing pendant back into his neckline, "When my grandfather came, the little devils had just surrendered. At that time, this place was still called the Soviet Union."

"So long?" Sui Sui asked in surprise, "It's been so long, and you still speak Chinese so well?"

"No." Su Lie said quite proudly, "Our family's situation is a bit special. When we get home, let our old man explain it to you and you will understand."

Before he finished speaking, the red BMW leading the way had already parked in the parking lot in front of a Huaxia restaurant.

When Anfeiya also parked the rented car, a Mercedes-Benz almost stopped next to the red BMW.

Immediately afterwards, everyone who was getting out of the car saw a middle-aged man with a thick back coming out from the door of the hotel. He pushed down the door of the compartment, and then opened the door of the rear compartment, and the hot-headed aunt who had walked over ahead of time helped an old man out.

It's also interesting to say that although this old man has chicken skin and white hair, he has obvious mixed-race characteristics. Among other things, at least his skin is not as white as the Slavs, but it is far whiter than the old man of descent. At the same time, the tall man The straight nose bridge and blue eyes are also particularly conspicuous.

On the other hand, the middle-aged man who supported him, except for his more three-dimensional facial features, could no longer see any Slavic features.And the middle-aged strong man who came out of the restaurant and greeted him was a proper Asian.

"That's my grandfather"

Su Lie pointed to the old man, and helped to introduce, "The thin and tall one is my father, and the strong one is my second uncle. My aunt is probably busy in the back kitchen at this time, so I will introduce you to him later. "

At the same time as he was introducing, Anfisa also brought Lola to Wei Ran and Sui Sui, and the old man also looked over under the guidance of the hot-headed aunt.

"Let's go, let's get acquainted in the past." Wei Ran winked at Suisui, who immediately took Lola's little hand and followed her to meet her.

"Are you Sercy's granddaughter?" The old man asked excitedly in Russian, "Are you this old?"

"Yes, I am. I'm Lola, Lola Koka." Lola obviously wasn't used to such a crowded scene, and almost everyone could hear the tension in her tone.

"Good boy, how is your grandfather?" The old man asked with a smile, "Does he still suffer from asthma?"

"He passed away almost three months ago." Lola said with a rather downcast expression.

The old man raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, wisely he didn't continue the topic, but turned around and said in Chinese with a big stubble smell, "Second brother, let your daughter-in-law go."

"Hey!"

The middle-aged man with a thick back and waist responded angrily, took off the walkie-talkie pinned to his waist, and yelled, and then helped hold the glass door of the hotel with Su Lie's father.

"It's cold outside, let's go inside and talk."

The old man let Su Lie and his mother support him, and walked towards the gate of the hotel, but from the beginning to the end, he held on to Lola's sleeve, as if he was afraid that this somewhat bewildered girl would run away.

When Wei Ran, Suisui, and Kajianka sisters, led by Su Lie's little Maomei girlfriend, also walked into the restaurant, they immediately smelled the barbecue aroma coming from the shop, and at the same time, they also saw those people in the hall Maozi diners sitting around the dining table drinking and eating skewers, or compatriots who speak Chinese.

Under the guidance of the little hairy girl, everyone took the elevator up to the second floor, and got into a private room big enough for two large round tables.

After everyone was seated, the two sides introduced themselves to each other with the help of Su Lie.As expected, the old man was exactly Su Wu mentioned in the notebook, and the two middle-aged men were his sons.

But what makes Wei Ran dumbfounded is that the old man's name seems to be based on famous people in Chinese history.

His eldest son was named Su Qin, and his second son was named Su Dai.Coupled with his eldest grandson Su Lie, the three generations of this family almost took up the old Su family's awesome name.

Not only that, even the only daughter of his second son was given a good name of "Su Mulan" by the old man.However, this girl is currently in Huaxia, so there is obviously no chance to meet her this time.

After getting acquainted with their family, when it was Wei Ran's turn to introduce themselves, they encountered difficulties when talking about their relationship with Lola.After all, they couldn't say that they had just captured Lola at their doorstep almost a month ago, could they?
Fortunately, this innocent and confused little girl was finally clever at the critical moment, and took the initiative to erase the tragic experience of being locked up in the basement, and only said that Wei Ran and others rescued her from her black-hearted aunt. Not to mention her and Korava, they also gave the two sisters food, accommodation and even Russian passports, and planned to help them open a coffee shop after the year.

Not only that, but under Wei Ran's suggestion, the girl took the initiative to tell the fact that they just came back from No. 52 mine, and the reason why they went to No. 52 mine, etc.

"You went to Mine No. 52?"

Mr. Su Wu first glanced at Wei Ran who was smiling all the time with a strange expression, and then asked with a normal expression, "So you saw the tombstone of Commissar Krech? Did you see Uncle Mikita's body?"

"See it"

Lola quickly nodded and replied, "We also placed food and drink in front of the tombstone, and blocked the gate of that building."

"Ugh!"

The old man sighed, "Speaking of which, I haven't been there since my mother passed away."

"Have you been to Mine No. 52?" Wei Ran couldn't help asking in surprise.

"Of course I have!"

Mr. Su Wu picked up his glass and took a sip, "Since Uncle Mikita passed away, until my mother passed away in 80, I went to see it every winter."

Having said that, Mr. Su Wu pointed to the two sons sitting next to him, "At first it was my mother, and Uncle Baolide took me there. Later, she couldn't move, and Uncle Baolide also passed away unexpectedly. It became me to go by myself, and later, I took the two of them with me."

"That place is too cold." The middle-aged man named Su Qin said with lingering fear, "I remember when I went there once, I was almost caught by a wolf."

"No," Su Dai, a middle-aged man next to him, said, "I was only seven years old when I went there for the first time. I was so scared by howling wolves at night that I didn't dare to leave my sleeping bag to pee."

"Old man, do you know what happened in mine No. 52?" Wei Ran asked tentatively.

"This matter has been talked about a long time ago. Of course, these are what Selsey and Uncle Baolid told me."

Mr. Su Wu paused, and recounted what happened in the No. 52 mine, and by the way, overturned the false truth originally constructed by the confession.

Lola looked down at the bullet case pendant hanging around her neck, and muttered to herself, "I didn't expect my grandfather and the others to have obtained those gems a long time ago."

"In 66, I remember that it will be New Year's Eve soon, and Uncle Paulide took Selsey to my house."

Su Wu sighed, staring at the liquor in the glass and recalled, "That was also the first time I saw them, before that, I only heard about them in my mother's description.

They told my mom that Uncle Mikita died in Mine 52, and they sent a lot of gems.But thanks to those little rocks, after my mother sold those gems, our family got a car and a TV.Later, I moved into a big house, so I finally didn't have to squeeze my family into a tube building of less than 30 square meters.

But even then, we still have a lot of gems left in our hands, and of course, we also saved a lot of money.At that time, our family went to Yutino to visit Celsi and his mother almost every year.

Then my mother suddenly wanted to go back to Khabarovsk in the last few years, and the contact between us became less.Later, Selsey and his family also moved to Harkov.My second child is also born, everyone is busy with their own families, and contact has become less and less. "

Speaking of this, Su Wu drank the last sip of liquor in the glass, and the hot-headed aunt also took the small wine glass from his hand. Obviously, the old man's liquor consumption for today is not enough.

Mr. Su Wu apologized to Chao Weiran and the others, smiled, took a mouthful of food and put it in his mouth, and continued to speak slowly, "After the Soviet Union disintegrated, Halkov became the Halkov of another country. Me and Selsey was also completely out of touch.

But even so, the gemstones he polished for us at the beginning were still of great help. Without those beautiful little gemstones, our family would probably be hungry again in the years after the disintegration. "

After telling the story, Mr. Su Wu first pointed to Su Lie who was sitting closest to the door, then he glanced at Wei Ran meaningfully, and continued to say slowly, "In that pendant, there is our last piece left." Stone. Speaking of which, it was my wedding present from Uncle Mikita.

Now that Su Lie has a girlfriend, I will give him the pendant.It's just that I didn't expect that I would run into you in less than half a year after I sent it out. "

"Maybe this is what we say in the old saying that we are destined to meet thousands of miles away."

While speaking, Wei Ran picked up the cup and toasted the old man sitting opposite him from a distance.Just from the look in the old man's eyes, he already knew that the other party must have guessed something.

The topic about Mine No. 52 came to an end, and a large table full of people began to chat about various topics, even after Mr. Su Wu took Lola to chat for a while, he even called Wei Ran Arrived in front of him.

It was also through chatting with this old man that Wei Ran also learned from insinuations that the name of old man Su Wu has nothing to do with that Su Wu who shepherds sheep.It's just because of his father, the soldier who died in the Northeast Anti-Japanese War in 45, with "wu" or "five" in his name.

As for the Pontiac head nurse, no, maybe it should be said that the mother named Su Shengnan, according to the tradition of the Slavs, let their son inherit his father's name.

Of course, in Su Wu's memories, his mother let him inherit not only the name, but also the hometown of him and his father, a city famous for its barbecue and low housing prices in China in this era - Hegang.

But at the same time, Wei Ran also knew that in the memory of head nurse Su Shengnan, when she went to Huaxia in 1945 to Hegang, she only found a mass grave washed out by rain in her husband's hometown.

Now the head nurse Su Shengnan has passed away long ago, but her son Su Wu never gave up looking for the way home.

This blue-eyed, high-nosed mixed-race man married a Chinese woman by chance in the 60s of the last century, and gave birth to two sons. He also gave him two sons based on the Chinese he learned from his mother and his wife. The son took two extremely classical Chinese names.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, he finally had the opportunity to go to China and found the small city that he had heard of countless times but had never been to.After that, I went to see and look for it again and again.

"What do you want to find there?" Wei Ran couldn't help interrupting Su Wu's memory and asked.

"I do not know either"

Su Wu, who was in his seventies, spread his hands, "My mother said, if it weren't for the war, I might have been born and raised there, I would have many relatives there, and I would become a Chinese. Before I went there, I would have Always thought so."

"And then?" Sui Sui asked while listening to the story.

"Then"

Su Wu smiled bitterly, "But when I went there again and again, I realized that I, an old man with blue eyes and a high nose, seemed to never be able to become a Chinese. In that city, most likely my relatives Those people are just one or a few of the countless bones in the Dongshan mass grave."

Speaking of this, Su Wu pointed to his second son again, and said with a smile, "Although I didn't find my relatives in Hegang, this bastard did find his relatives, and his wife is from there. A large table of dishes was prepared by his wife."

"No wonder your barbecue is so delicious." While speaking, Sui Sui took a handful of beef skewers from Anfisa.

“Stay two days longer if you like to eat”

Su Wu said and pointed to his eldest son Su Qin, "His wife is also from Huaxia, from Manchuria, and Su Lie's child is with his mother's household registration. Tell me, this is also my ancestry, right?" "

"Calculate!"

Wei Ran nodded vigorously, there is nothing to say that this old man can do this, and the head nurse Su Shengnan can be called a qualified mother if he doesn't let him forget his roots.

"The biggest regret in my life is that I lost contact with Selsey." Su Wu lowered his voice slightly when he said this, "Young man, thank you for bringing her here so I can meet her."

"You know?" Wei Ran asked in pretended surprise.

"I watch the news every day"

Su Wu smiled and said, "After you introduced yourself, when Lola said that you helped her find Mine No. 52, I guessed that you must not have come here by chance. How can there be such a coincidence in this world? .”

"Sorry, I'm late." Wei Ran took out a delicate portable flagon from his pocket while speaking and shook it, "Old man, take a sip of the bar in his hometown!"

(End of this chapter)