War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 761 Celebrity Effect?

In the fluttering snowflakes, Wei Ran drove the van out of this small forest with difficulty, and after making a big circle, he drove to the wooden house with colorful lights on.

However, Wei Ran did not park the car at the door of the house, but drove straight to the door of the garage before stopping.

"Get out of the car, Mr. Ruslan."

While talking, Wei Ran pushed the door and got out of the car, took out the key to open the repainted garage iron door, and then waved to Ruslan.

Although he didn't know why the other party brought him to the garage, Ruslan didn't ask much, and followed Sui Sui, who was walking in front, into this extra spacious garage.

"This is."

Ruslan was stunned when he saw the old-fashioned Soviet car parked on the repair ditch on the side of the garage, and waited for him to see the half of the plane at the rear of the car and the wings hanging on both sides under the guidance of Wei Ran. When, immediately thought of something.

"I found this when we were cleaning the garage the day before yesterday"

Wei Ran pointed to the wreckage of the plane, and pointed to the wings and propellers hanging on the wall, "This is the ME-109 fighter jet equipped by Germany in World War II. They should be the same as the half of the tail section we saw just now." together."

Before Ruslan could say anything, Wei Ran rummaged in his pocket again, took out two front-line flight badges and handed them to the other party, then pointed to the repair ditch under the car, "These two flight badges It was found there."

"And these"

Hearing this, everyone turned their heads to look in the direction of the garage door, only to find that Professor Alexey had already walked over, and in his hands, one on the left and one on the right were holding a P38 pistol and a TT33 pistol. pistol.

"These were found in the attic a few days ago." Professor Alexey put the pistols on the roof of the car before he finished his sentence. By the way, he did not forget to take out the magazines of the two pistols, and then repeatedly pulled the slides.

"Didn't you say it's already sold?" Wei Ran asked in Chinese.

"It's sold, but I haven't received the money from the seller." Professor Alexey blinked and said generously in Russian, "Maybe there may be some clues there."

After finishing speaking, the old man waved to Suisui, "Talk about the rest, Aurora, come back with me, your twin employees just baked muffins that glow red."

“Definitely burnt again”

Sui Sui muttered something, Chao Wei Ran made a show, followed her father out of the garage talking and laughing, obviously planning to leave enough room for Wei Ran and Ruslan to talk.

"It seems that you are going to donate?" Ruslan is not a fool either, he obviously heard the hint from Professor Alexei.

"I do have this plan"

Wei Ran smiled, thought for a while and then said with a smile, "Originally we planned to talk to you after Christmas, but those gypsy people are obviously worried that we will go back on our word."

"So I want to thank those gypsy people?" Ruslan picked up the two pistols on the roof of the car and looked at them while speaking. "Mr. Victor, can I go to your car and make a phone call?"

"Of course." Wei Ran nodded with a smile, and watched the other party get into the van outside the garage.

Professor Alexey hinted at the plan to donate the plane, but Wei Ran could not be clear about it. To put it bluntly, this is the same routine and purpose as the two photos he donated at the beginning, and it was nothing more than to help himself gain fame.

However, Wei Ran is now a serious consultant of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, and this reputation is already enough.In other words, he is not a star, so he really does not need too frequent exposure.

But after all, this is from the kindness of the old man, and there may even be some suggestions from Mr. Nicholas in it.While he was thinking wildly here, Ruslan had already hung up the phone, opened the car door and entered the garage again.

"Mr. Victor, are you interested in becoming an honorary advisor to our museum?" Ruslan asked straightforwardly.

"Me? Become an honorary advisor?"

After thinking for a while, Wei Ran roughly guessed what the other party meant.To put it simply, this is the benefit of celebrity effect. First of all, I have the title of consultant of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, so the museum on Mamayev Hill also does not mind sending their olive branch. Good thing.

After thinking for a while, Wei Ran asked with a smile, "Why don't you take Professor Alexey with you? After all, this plane was donated in his name."

"How about donating a good story together? A good story like those two war movies you directed not too long ago."

Ruslan proposed new conditions without even thinking about it. Obviously, he, or the person who just talked to him on the phone, had already calculated that Wei Ran would make such a request.

After taking the two front-line flight badges handed back by the other party, Wei Ran weighed them in his hands, nodded after thinking for a while, "I will try my best to restore the historical truth, but I can help investigate the previous owner of this house. Master? See if any of his family were at Stalingrad."

"sure"

Ruslan readily agreed, "The day after tomorrow at the latest, we will send professionals to dig out the half of the tail section, if necessary."

"Send it here temporarily." Wei Ran took the initiative to say without waiting for the other party to finish, "This garage can be used as a temporary investigation workstation. If your people want to participate in the investigation, they can also join in."

"This is the best way." Ruslan reciprocated and pointed to the Soviet car, "I have a friend who specializes in helping the museum refurbish this old Soviet car. May I contact you?"

"I'm going to ask Professor Alexei about this." Wei Ran cupped his hands, "Let's go, let's sit in front of the fireplace and have a cup of tea to keep warm.

Ruslan, who came from the city early in the morning, naturally would not refuse, and followed Wei Ran into the extraordinarily lively room, but he never mentioned anything about the plane from the beginning to the end.

If he didn't mention it, Wei Ran and Professor Alexei would certainly not mention it.Anyway, with those two flying badges, as long as we find out who this land and this house belong to, we can easily know what happened back then, even without using a metal book.In other words, this is nothing more than the other party taking the initiative to release water and form a good relationship with them.

This Ruslan is also a wonderful person, after drinking a cup of tea, he excused that there was a police speedboat waiting for him to leave, and asked Wei Ran to take him to the dock.

Specially calling for Professor Alexei to follow along, Wei Ran drove the other party to the pier of Goronid Island, and watched the other party get on the boat and drove to the other side, then he took the "deal" in the garage and followed him. Professor Alexis recounted it in detail.

"So, I can also become a consultant of the museum?" Professor Alexis asked in surprise.

"As long as we investigate the experience of that plane," Wei Ran started the car while speaking, and drove along the ruts to the direction it came from.

"My good nephew, it seems that this time I am in your favor."

Professor Alexey took the initiative to change into Chinese and said that he knows his own affairs. Although he once held the title of a professor, in fact, at his level, it is obviously not enough to become an honorary consultant of an official museum. Quite qualified, this time it was really like Wei Ran's light as he said.

"My good uncle, I have brought you to the top, how are you going to thank me?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.

"I gave you my daughter, what else are you dissatisfied with?" Professor Alexey, who was grateful a second ago, turned his face instantly, "Besides, that was my plane."

"Yes, you are right in everything you say." Wei Ran muttered angrily, obviously unable to withstand the killing move used by this shameless old thing.

When the car was slippery all the way back, several girls who are not afraid of the cold and the crazy dog ​​Beria had already had a snowball fight in the open space in front of the door, and even the aunt looked decent A snowman with a missing head was built.

And at the door of the warm wooden house, Mr. Nicholas sat on a rocking chair covered with a thick blanket and looked at the young people in front of him with a smile. The big-eared fox in the padded jacket was looking at the excitement.

"Oh!"

Before Wei Ran turned off the fire, a snowball flew from nowhere and hit the windshield accurately. Immediately afterwards, these girls also switched their firepower and fired a wave of snowballs.

Seeing Professor Alexei whose face was blurred just after he pushed the door out, Wei Ran's mood improved a lot, he put on his hood and opened the car door to join the melee.

After being thrown down by the dog Beria twice in a row, and then nearly buried in the snow by the mischievous professor, Wei Ran resolutely confessed, and ran into the bathroom while shaking the snow off his neck.

Not long after he took a hot bath and got into the sauna room on the first floor, Professor Alexey and even Mr. Nicholas also came in with a small handful of birch branches.

"Victor, there is bad news."

Professor Alexey handed Wei Ran a handful of tied birch branches while speaking, and then handed Wei Ran the tablet computer in a waterproof bag.

"What's wrong?" Wei Ran didn't understand, so he took the tablet.

"I looked it up according to the numbers on the two flight badges while queuing up to take a shower."

Professor Alexey helped Mr. Nicholas to sit down, and then put the drinks and fruits brought in on the table, and then continued, "You can see the rest yourself. The two flying medals are separate It belongs to two people, and no matter which one, it is different from the name on the gravity knife I gave you."

After finishing speaking, Professor Alexey said as he walked out, "The specific information is on the tablet. I'll take a shower first, and we'll have a good chat later."

Watching the other party leave, Wei Ran first picked up a wooden spoon and poured a spoonful on the hot stove, waited for the water vapor to evaporate, then lit up the screen of the tablet computer, watching Professor Alexei find out data of.

Just like what the other party said before leaving, these two front-line flying medals are really divided between two people. Not only that, but according to the information found, the winners of these two flying medals probably don't know each other, because they are from Two completely different teams.

Forget it, the time and place where the night flight medal was obtained was in Kursk in early August 1943, when the Battle of Stalingrad was over.

German fighter jets crashed in the Volga during the Battle of Kursk?Wake up, even if the person who flew the fighter jet was a drunk guy, it is absolutely impossible.

"It seems that you are not in the mood to go to the sauna anymore?" While speaking, Nicholas poured a spoonful of water on the heating stove. Immediately, steaming steam came over the surface, temporarily blocking Wei Ran's sight.

"I thought it was easy"

Wei Ran turned off the screen of the tablet with a wry smile, now he can only hope to find out the past experience of the owner of this house.

"How can there be any simple things in this world?" Nicholas said with a smile, "So it's better to enjoy the joy of going to the sauna, at least no one asks you to go out to do things at this time, right?"

Not always.
Wei Ran muttered secretly, but he remembered clearly that he was called out while taking a sauna in the Finnish battlefield.

So what about this time?
Wei Ran rubbed the tattoo on the tiger's mouth indiscriminately, wondering whether he would need to return to Stalingrad.

(End of this chapter)