War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 756 The Plane in the Garage
In the warm old bookstore, Wei Ran and Mr. Nicholas were watching the fireplace, chatting with each other about recent changes, plans for next year, and even friends around them.From time to time, Mr. Nicholas would give some advice, or make some jokes, but from the beginning to the end, the old and the young, who were like old friends, had tacitly never talked about any topic about the Kajianka sisters.

It felt as if Katenka was still in the bookstore in Vienna, as if Katenka had been buried in the cemetery, as if the twin girls who came back with Wei Ran and Sui Sui this time were just native Vorku The Towerman Anfisa is the same as Anfeya.

Before finishing chatting about the small town of Tula, Sui Sui, who was originally next door, ran over and pushed open the glass door, leaned most of her body in and said with a smile, "My mother asked you to go over for dinner."

"We'll be there right away." While speaking, Wei Ran put down the cup in his hand, got up and tried to help Nicholas, who was over ninety years old, to stand up.

"I haven't reached the point where I need help."

Nicholas waved his hand and rejected Wei Ran's help, put down the cup, put the little fox in his arms by his feet and stood up by himself, and asked as he walked out, "What delicious food did your mother cook today?"

"The main dishes include braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, and steamed fish. In addition, there are scrambled eggs with tomatoes and candied sweet potatoes that you like." Sui Sui said in Chinese as if giving the name of the dish, and then switched back to Russian and asked with a smile , "How much do you understand?"

"Braised pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, steamed fish, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and candied sweet potatoes?"

As he walked out, Mr. Nicholas repeated the name of the dish that the other party had just reported in fairly standard Chinese, and then changed to Russian and asked with a smile, "Am I right?"

"That's right!"

Sui Sui showed a sunny smile, and made a special gesture for holding a stick with her hand, and asked rather flatteringly, "How about letting my father drink some wine at noon today? It's so tall!"

"Unless you have a drink for me too." Nicholas said this, and imitated the other party's gestures, "I want that much, just drink vodka."

"Deal!" Sui Sui stretched out his hand to Nicholas while Sui Sui was talking.

Grandpa Nicholas was stunned for a moment, then smiled and stretched out his hand to slap Sui Sui, and followed her into the travel agency where he went to get dinner almost every day.In contrast, Wei Ran, who was busy pulling down the shutter door just now, seemed to be forgotten first.

On the second floor of the travel agency, where it is rare to have an annual vacation, everyone, including Mr. Nicholas, sat around a big table and had a lively meal. Professor Alexey, who hadn't had a drink for an untold amount of time, Also finally allowed to get a small glass of gin.

After going through the initial tension and restraint, even the Katenka sisters let go completely, enjoying all kinds of Chinese delicacies on the table that they hadn't eaten before.

In contrast, the girl Lola was the calmest, eating in a leisurely manner, while not forgetting to take care of her younger sister.

This little girl's somewhat miserable life experience won the sympathy of all "adults" including Nicholas just for this meal.

After drinking for three rounds and eating five flavors, the sisters Katenka, who did not drink alcohol the whole time, took the initiative to take over the work of sending Mr. Nikolai back to the next door to rest. Lola also fainted because she tasted a glass of wine that Sui Sui poured for her. Huhu pulled his sister back to the room.

At the same time, Sui Sui and her mother also worked together to set up a mahjong table, calling Wei Ran and Professor Alexei to play a few rounds of "family cards".

On the other side, Katenka watched Mr. Nicholas go upstairs, but he didn't hurry to go back. Instead, he just stood outside the door, looking at the tiny snowflakes falling above his head, and asked in disbelief, "So Say, are we really free?"

"Maybe so," Anfisa murmured in response.

"Except for being more relaxed, there seems to be no difference." Anfeiya looked down at her hands, the ten nails were still covered with nail art sequins that they made in Chita not long ago.

"There is really no difference." Anfisa looked at the upstairs of the travel agency next door, "This job is not bad, we seem to be able to keep doing it."

"Yeah! I like to play ranked." Anfeiya said inexplicably, "And raise rabbits."

"Let's go!" Anfisa smiled, took her sister's arm, and walked easily into the travel agency next door.

At the same time, in the bedroom on the second floor of the bookstore, Mr. Nicholas also quietly closed the window with a gap, and then drew the heavy curtains, and then took out a PSS micro sound from his cuff. pistol, and pressed it under the pillow.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, after breakfast, Zhou Shujin greeted Suisui and several other girls early, and drove straight to the largest shopping mall in the city, making preparations for the upcoming New Year.By the way, Wei Ran and Professor Alexei took the job of cleaning the dining table as a matter of course.

"Where do you plan to go next?" Wei Ran asked Professor Alexei on his own initiative.

"Are you interested in going to Golonide Island with me?" Professor Alexis, who was busy cleaning the table, asked with a smile.

"What are you going to do there?"

Wei Ran asked puzzledly, the so-called Goronid Island is in the middle of the Volga River, although it sounds like a river island, but in fact it is located at the bend of the Volga River, so the area is not big at all. Small.

It's just that the traffic is not very convenient, and the two sides of the strait can only be sailed by ferry, so the island is not as prosperous as Volgograd, and there are not so many permanent residents.

Or to be more precise, apart from a relatively large factory, there are only four or five villages of different sizes, large tracts of farmland and some scattered small forests.

Thinking about the last time I went there, before I graduated from university, I went to that island with Professor Alexei to hunt wild ducks.

"You'll know when you get there." Professor Alexey wiped the table indiscriminately, and threw the rag on the window sill, "Let's go!"

"Do you need to bring anything?" Wei Ran asked as he walked downstairs.

"No, nothing. Oh! Maybe you can take your Beria."

Professor Alexey obviously didn't want to explain too much, he hurried downstairs and greeted the old man Nicholas next door who was cleaning the motorcycle, but he didn't even lock the door lazily, and then beckoned Wei Ran to drive the van of the travel agency, Headed towards the pier.

Hurriedly driving the van onto the ferry, the short crossing distance of only more than [-] meters did not waste much time, and it stopped at a pier that looked very old.

"Go straight along this road." From the co-pilot's position, Professor Alexey pointed to the road covered with thin snow outside the car window.

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't bother to ask any more questions, so he simply stepped on the accelerator, and he could just drive as the other party pointed at him.However, what he didn't expect was that after driving for six or seven kilometers, the car stopped on the bank of the Volga River again.

Looking out the car window at the few woodcuts that were only a hundred meters away from the shore, before Wei Ran had time to say anything, Professor Alexey had already opened the car door, and at the same time he did not forget to say hello, "Hurry up!" get off".

"What is this place?"

Wei Ran looked around and asked puzzledly, they just drove all the way, they also passed a small town, but when they arrived here, apart from the sparse birch forest and pine forest, there was nothing left but The next piece of arable land planted with winter wheat, and the wooden house I just saw at a glance.

"This is the land I secretly bought"

Professor Alexey said as he walked towards the wooden house, "The area you see, including the small forest surrounded by fences, covers a total of two hectares."

"Are you planning to switch to farming?" Wei Ran asked while pulling the dog to prevent it from running around.

"Your aunt does plan to plant something"

Professor Alexey glanced at Wei Ran, "Especially after visiting your house in Kazan, she has always wanted to grow something. I think this small farm should be enough for her."

"So. This is your holiday farm?" Wei Ran asked with a grin.

"To be precise, it's a New Year's gift from me to your aunt. She doesn't know the existence of this place yet."

Professor Alexey fumbled through his pockets one by one, finally found a bunch of keys and opened the wooden door lock.

Following Professor Alexey into the room, Wei Ran nodded involuntarily. Although the house looks ordinary from the outside, the inside is really well done.

"The house has two floors and each floor has six bedrooms."

Professor Alexey kicked the cardboard boxes in the living room while speaking, "I've already bought all the decorations I need for the New Year and Christmas, so Victor"

"You don't want me to come and help you clean the room, do you?" Wei Ran finally realizes that he has been cheated again.

"Otherwise, what did I ask you to do? Drink with me?"

While speaking, Professor Alexey had already pulled out a big brush, a mask and a pair of dustproof glasses and handed them to Wei Ran, "This is a gift I have prepared for several months, don't mess it up for me."

"Did I know it would be good for me to sleep at home?" Wei Ran muttered angrily.

"Help me clean the room well, and I'll give you a gift later." Professor Alexey had already lit the firewood in the fireplace while talking.

"What gift? Soviet rubles?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.

"Fart! Fart your Stalin!"

Professor Alexey laughed and cursed and threw a bunch of keys to Wei Ran, "It's in the garage next door. If you're interested, go and see for yourself."

Hearing this, Wei Ran took the key suspiciously, ran out of the room, and rushed to the nearby garage.The area of ​​the garage is not small. Judging by the width of the door, I am afraid that there is no problem in parking two trucks side by side easily. Even the height is enough for a crawler tractor to drive in.

It took a lot of effort to open the rusty padlock. When Wei Ran opened the rusty iron door, the first thing he saw was a dusty GAZ 24 sedan with the tires removed. .

"Is it just this shit?"

Wei Ran murmured in disgust, but then he found that it was not that simple, because there seemed to be two broken wings on the cargo bed of a walking tractor on the right side of the car.Forget it, there is still a broken airplane propeller hanging on the wall behind the car!
Trying to flip the old-fashioned switch on the wall of the garage, with a crisp "click", several incandescent lamps hanging on the ceiling were successfully lit, and Wei Ran quickly walked around to the other side of the car.

Carefully lifting off an old dusty canvas in the corner, Wei Ran's eyes widened involuntarily. Under the canvas, it turned out to be the main body of an airplane!

No, no, maybe it should be more accurate to say that this is a Me-109 single-seat, single-engine, single-wing, all-metal aircraft that was dismantled and lost the second half of its body. It was heavily equipped by the German army during World War II. Piston Fighter!

What is quite commendable is that although the wings of this plane have been removed and the tail is missing, the nose of the plane is basically intact. Even the glass of the cockpit, the two front landing gears, and even the paint on them remain intact. Complete!

Turning around and climbing onto the cargo bed of the walking tractor, Wei Ran wiped off the dust accumulated on it with the mask he had just received, and then found that there was still an iron cross drawn with white paint strokes on the wing!Not only that, but under a piece of canvas in the cargo bed of the walking tractor, there were actually four tires of the car and the seat that seemed to be removed from the car!
At this moment, Professor Alexey also walked in from the outside.

"Where did this come from?" Wei Ran jumped off the cargo bucket and asked in surprise.

"They were in this garage when I bought the land."

Professor Alexey said proudly, "At that time, the car was covered with a layer of canvas, and all kinds of sundries were piled up on the top of the car. I only discovered these things when I was cleaning it."

"Where was the previous owner?" Wei Ran, who suffered from an occupational disease, subconsciously asked.

"died five years ago"

Alexey pointed to the direction of the village not far away, "The owner of the house is from that village. His son wants to leave this island and move to the city in autumn, so he sold the place and the property in the village. house."

"So he didn't even know there was a car and a...er...three-quarters of an airplane here?"

"Who knows"

Alexis spread his hands, "But I guess that plane should have been dug out in this cultivated field. If you look carefully, you will find that the paint on it is hand-painted, and there are still some leftovers in the dashboard." Lots of dirt."

"It's the past"

Wei Ran nodded involuntarily, among other things, during the Battle of Stalingrad, there were many fighter jets flying around like flies above the city on the other side of the Volga River.

"Help me clean up this house, clean up that GAZ car by the way, and then that plane will be yours?" Professor Alexey asked with a smile.

"Your abacus, my grandparents heard it clearly in Baiyangdian."

Wei Ran joked as he walked out, "That broken plane can't fly into the sky, so there's no need or value to repair it. In contrast, you might as well give me that broken car."

"That's not okay." Professor Alexey refused without thinking, "Why don't you help me clean the room first? Let's talk about the car and the plane later?"

"For the sake of preparing a gift for my aunt," Wei Ran took the new mask from the other party while speaking.

　The order has been updated, and the time is running out, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)