War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 754 Return to Volgograd

Under the warm hospitality of Su Wu's family, Wei Ran and others counted on standing in the light of the little girl Lola. Su Lie and his little girlfriend led them to play in Chita for free for five days. time.

During these five days, not only did everyone go to the cinema to watch the second movie starring Jima, but Mr. Su Wu became Lola's long-lost grandfather as a matter of course. Korava stayed in Chita and arranged for them to go to school and so on.

Not surprisingly, this proposal was rejected very simply by Lola.For this little girl, getting along with Sui Sui and others obviously made her more comfortable, not to mention that there will be a cafe waiting for her to run in the next year.But fortunately, this girl is not stupid after all, she offered to come and see her often.

At the same time as they recognized relatives, Wei Ran and Sui Sui also got a general understanding of this family from Su Lie's mouth.Su Lie's father can be regarded as a legitimate traitor, his main job is to get all kinds of small commodities from China and supply them to various Chinese supermarkets and restaurants in Chita.His mother has inherited the grocery store run by Mr. Su Wu, and by the way, it is also a stronghold for suppliers to the surrounding partners.

His second uncle is much simpler. The couple runs a restaurant, the main business is all kinds of Northeast dishes and small barbecues.

In contrast, Su Lie himself is a bit of a loafer. It's funny to say that this guy worked hard for several years in China, but in the end he only got a dispensable auto repair major from a certain chef school. diploma.

Even his job as a tour guide can only be regarded as an unlicensed black tour guide, at most it can only be regarded as a translator.

His little girlfriend, Sasha, is also interesting. Don't look at this girl who looks fair and small, but because her family raises a thousand or two thousand sheep, she studied veterinary medicine in a daze.

Let's not talk about the veterinary medicine, this girl has not been in college for a few months, and she has already been taken down by Su Lie, who is not doing business properly. It was so beautiful, it was obvious that he had forgotten all about the sheep raised at home.

So leisurely visiting various scenic spots in Chita, seeing that there are only a few days left before New Year's Day, Wei Ran and others, as well as Lola, also boarded the flight to Volgograd in the farewell of Mr. Su Wu. flight.

"Are you really not going to stay?" Suho asked Lola who was sitting across the aisle before the plane took off.

Hearing this, Lola, who was busy fastening her sister's seat belt, looked up and smiled, "No, I know they are all good people, but I don't intend to stay."

"Why?" Sui Sui asked with interest.

"Because next year I will have a job"

Lola gave her answer full of expectations, "I can work and support me and Kolawa by myself. I don't think Su has the responsibility to take care of me. Since he and my grandfather are good friends, I There's no need to let their friendship become a liability."

"Don't worry, when we finish Christmas, your cafe will be open." Sui Sui first patted his chest to make a promise, and then couldn't help but change into Chinese and joked, "If their president... It’s good to be able to think things through so clearly.”

"Don't make it difficult for a comedian." Wei Ran glanced at the slowly receding scenery outside the window, changed the subject and asked, "Have you recruited Su Lie?"

"It's not a recruiting offer," Sui Sui said proudly, "It's just that I hope he can help me when I need a tour guide in the future."

"Let me think about it." Wei Ran turned his gaze back and asked with a smile, "Are you going to leave him the job of self-driving in the polar region?"

"Have this plan"

Sui Sui put a mask on her face while talking, "You can't always let domestic tour guides follow you, some of them don't even have a domestic driver's license. But Su Lie is different, he is serious about learning auto repair, Not only can he drive and repair, but he also has a relationship with Lola, isn’t this a natural helper for us.”

Talking about Sui Sui's career, the girl talked more and more, and the voyage seemed to be much faster.When the plane landed in Volgograd, when the group of them walked out of the pick-up gate with three pets, they saw Professor Alexis and his wife coming to pick them up from a distance.

"mom--!"

In a long-pitched call, the mother and daughter, who had just videotaped yesterday, hugged each other repeatedly as if they hadn't seen each other for a hundred years. Professor Alexey also shook hands with Wei Ran pretendingly.

"What are you smelling?" Professor Alexey pushed away Wei Ran, who kept twitching his nose, and said with extreme disgust, "Why do you look like a dog?"

"Let me see if you smell of alcohol"

Wei Ran said jokingly, but he didn't want to. After saying these words, Professor Alexey shivered uncontrollably, and immediately waved his hands. gone."

"Really?" Sui Sui leaned over and asked suspiciously.

"Really" it was Zhou Shujin who answered the question, "It was Mr. Nicholas who helped him quit drinking."

"What?" Wei Ran looked at Professor Alexei, "Mr. Nicholas helped you quit drinking?"

"Now is not the time to talk about such small things"

Professor Alexei, who obviously didn't want to talk about this matter, directly changed the subject, "Victor, aren't you going to introduce these beautiful girls? We haven't seen each other for a few months? Why did you run into the crowd of women?" went?"

"Sui Sui, come on." Wei Ran would not be fooled by this old guy, and directly gave up the job of introduction to Sui Sui.Taking advantage of this opportunity, he himself went to his aunt's side and whispered the reason why old man Nikolay helped Professor Alexei quit drinking.

It's funny to say that the cause of this incident was simply that Professor Alexey secretly hid the wine in the studio next door that had been turned into a bookstore as before.

It's a pity that Professor Alexei must have not tightened the cap tightly, and poured most of the bottle of gin into several volumes of poetry published in the Soviet era.

The result can be imagined, although the old man Nicholas was not angry, but from that day on, he never let Alexei have a sip of alcoholic beverage that could be called wine.

Seeing his own scandal being exposed, Professor Alexei, who had already met and greeted Katenka sisters and even Lola in the video call, smiled awkwardly, and then warmly greeted everyone to leave the airport. He got into a large van, and handed over the driving work to Wei Ran as a matter of course.

During the chatting along the way, Wei Ran drove the car to the door of the travel agency in a familiar manner.From a long distance, he saw a polished Harley motorcycle parked in front of the studio that once belonged to him.On one side of the door of the studio, there was a wooden sign with the words "Tree Hole Bookstore" crookedly written in hot Russian.

Through the rearview mirror, Wei Ran glanced at the Katenka sisters who were staring at the windows in a daze. Wei Ran asked while slowing down the car, "How is Mr. Nikolai now?"

"Now he has moved into the second floor of the studio, which was your bedroom before."

Alexei paused and continued, "However, his bookstore's business doesn't seem to be very good. It's been a long time, and there seems to be very few people going there except I often go there to browse."

"The location here is not good. I am going to stop the guest rooms above the travel agency."

Zhou Shujin took over the conversation, and finally answered the question Wei Ran wanted to know, "Mr. Nicholas is in good health, as before, and goes out for a walk on a motorcycle every day."

Before the words were finished, Mr. Nicholas had already pushed open the glass door of the studio, and Wei Ran stepped on the brake at the same time.

"Mr. Nicholas!" Wei Ran opened the car door and beckoned. After not seeing him for more than half a year, the old man didn't seem to have changed much.

"Victor, I haven't seen you for a few months. Why did you fall into the crowd of women?" Nicholas' voice was still full of enthusiasm, but compared to before, it was a little more cordial, and even his arms , and a fox with big ears in a floral padded jacket.

"It's not my fault"

Wei Ran smiled and waved to the Katenka sisters, and when they came over, he introduced them solemnly, "They are the Katenka sisters, this is Anfya Karenina Katenka, she is the younger sister .The other is Anfisa Karenina Katenka, she is the older sister. Now they are both working for Aurora."

"Mr. Nicholas, hello." Sister Katenka was extremely respectful at this time, and there was even an uncontrollable tremor in her voice.

"A good boy is a good boy."

Nicholas, like an ordinary and kind old man, turned to Lola and Korava, who was pulled by Lola, and raised his chin, "What's the matter with the two of them?"

"Let them explain it to you"

With a smile, Wei Ran dumped the explaining work to the Kajianka sisters who looked a little flustered, took their suitcases, and said as they walked upstairs to the travel agency, "I'll help you send your luggage first." go up."

"What happened to them both?"

Sui Sui, who had just pulled the dog Beria out of the car, and with the help of Lola, hugged the two little foxes, asked strangely, "Why are they standing so straight?"

"I don't know, maybe it's out of respect for the elderly." Wei Ran randomly found an excuse, "Let's go, take this opportunity to help them carry their luggage up first."

"Oh oh oh!" Seeing this, Sui Sui didn't think much, and with the help of her parents, she climbed up to the second floor of the travel agency with everyone's luggage.

"We'll celebrate New Year's Day here this year," Zhou Shujin said, pointing to the extraordinarily beautifully furnished lobby on the second floor.

It stands to reason that this family does not pay much attention to this "Gregorian year" or even the Orthodox Christmas a week later, at most it is just a matter of occasion.After all, even for Professor Alexis, the so-called religious beliefs have long been ravaged to pieces, and a dissatisfied Chinese stomach has grown in its original position.

In other words, for this family, the Spring Festival in China is the real highlight.But this year not only Mr. Nicholas, Sui Sui brought back so many girls, so the festival that was originally improvised, naturally had to be well arranged.

Even because the family couldn't accommodate so many people, the couple not only arranged everyone in the guest room upstairs of the travel agency, even the couple moved here temporarily.

However, before Wei Ran and the others had assigned the room, and before the conversation between the sisters Katenka and Mr. Nicholas had finished, Alexander, who hadn't seen or contacted him for a while, rushed over.

(End of this chapter)