War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 780 Welcome Home
In the forgotten room, Wei Ran gently closed the manuscript of the memoir, and carefully restored it to its original position.

However, he didn't leave in a hurry, instead he frowned and went through every room in this room again.

What puzzled him was that although this room was hidden in a tube building, it had three spacious bedrooms. Not only that, but there was also a separate bathroom in the room, which was absolutely standard at the time.

But the problem lies here again. Standing in the room, you may only be amazed at the spaciousness of this room, but standing outside the security door, you can tell at a glance that one of the bedrooms has extended into the next room .

Could it be that.
Wei Ran pondered for a moment, left the room, and went to the door next door to observe carefully.

Sure enough, the door to this room was also rusty and dusty, apparently also long forgotten.

After a little hesitation, he once again took out the chemical cleaner and sprayed it on the keyhole, then used the lockpicking tool to pry open the door lock.

As the thick wooden door on the inside was pushed open, Wei Ran was stunned. This room only had a living room, and it was different from the room he had been to just now. The windows in this room were actually bricked. Where the windows belonged, the walls were painted with white paint, and even the floor was covered with carpets with complicated patterns.

And facing the wall, there is also a projector, an old-fashioned VCR and an old-fashioned record player, as well as a TV and a radio.

Look at the walls on both sides. On the metal shelves, there are various books and video tapes, as well as a large number of vinyl records.

Roughly flipping through, those books are basically professional content related to aviation and mechanical design, but the handwritten names on the film protective cases are all familiar.

Among them are old films such as "Lenin in 80", "Song of the Forest", "Oath", and some such as "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears" and "See for Yourself". "New Movie" shot.

Walking into the kitchen of this room and taking a look, Wei Ran could not help but smile on his face when he opened the dusty ЗИЛ brand refrigerator.There is nothing else in this refrigerator that has long been out of power. It is almost full of vodka and wine. Of course, even the remaining space is occupied by various cans.

"Will men be happy?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and took the bunch of keys hanging on the entrance wall.After some attempts, he found the key to this room and locked the door, and then went straight to the door of the room next to this room, on the other side.

As always, he observed the keyhole carefully, and Wei Ran repeated his tricks and sprayed some chemical cleaning agent inside, then tried with the bunch of keys, and successfully opened the security door.

In contrast, this room is much more normal and warm.

Although the windows are also blocked by iron sheets and wooden boards, it has a lot of breath of life.The furniture in the living room was covered with dust-proof plastic sheets, and there were some children's toys that had not been cleaned up on the floor.

Even, in the refrigerator in the kitchen, you can still see food residues that have long since rotted and dried in the shade. It feels as if the owner of this house was only on a short business trip for a few days and may return at any time.

Looking at each room in this house one by one, he found that there was not nothing, at least he found an envelope in a drawer.

The remaining postmark on the envelope shows that it was mailed in August 1984, the mailing address is in Lipetsk, and the receiving address happens to be the house at the foot.It's a pity that there is no letter paper in this envelope, it's just a photo.

In this photo, Niner, who was wearing the Soviet Air Force flight suit of World War II, and Felix, who was wearing the Soviet Air Force flight suit after the war, and Neva, who was wearing the ground uniform, stood side by side in front of a La 7 fighter jet , maintaining a salute posture.

Beside the three of them, there were Sasha with full head of white hair, and two blonde girls holding a little boy and a little girl respectively.At the top of this photo, the words "40th Anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad" are also written in gilded Russian.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran put the envelope and the photos inside into his pocket, stepped on his own footprints and left, and locked the door very carefully.

Leaving the community next to Mamayev Gang with a normal expression, Wei Ran once again removed his disguise with the help of the street garden not far from the community.Then took a taxi and rushed back to the supermarket not far from the travel agency.

Almost at the same time he found the car borrowed from his aunt in the parking lot, he also called the professor.

"What are you talking about?"

On the second floor of the travel agency, Professor Alexey, who was still worrying for a second and secretly disliked Wei Ran for disturbing his thoughts, stood up abruptly, "Have you investigated everything?"

"Everything has been investigated. I actually found the envelope and the bunch of keys I just mentioned on the roof of the garage yesterday. I followed the address and found a manuscript of memoirs. Describe everything that happened at that time."

Wei Ran didn't know that at this time, Professor Alexis was almost about to compile an exciting air battle and a forgotten legendary hero, so he casually picked out what he could say, and briefly described it with his uncle Yang .

"Why didn't you tell me yesterday?" Alexei asked rather angrily.

"You didn't ask again"

Wei Ran pouted at the other party pretending to be proud, and suggested before the other party could speak, "Professor, I think you should contact the person who sold the house to you, and at the same time, I also need to inform Mr. Ruslan from the museum. "

"Hmm, that's a good idea!"

Professor Alexey guessed Wei Ran's mind by the way, and happily agreed, "I'll call the person who sold the house to me, my good nephew, how about meeting at the travel agency later?"

Looking out of the car window at the travel agency that was just across the road from him, Wei Ran agreed with a smile, then stepped on the accelerator and drove the car to the parking space in front of the travel agency.

In less than half a minute, Professor Alexey ran down with the phone in hand, opened the car door and got into the co-pilot.At the same time, Wei Ran also called Ruslan, and in front of the professor, explained the discovery just now.

After Wei Ran finished speaking, Ruslan immediately said excitedly, "Mr. Victor, I'm going to apply now, and tomorrow morning at the latest, we can go and have a look at the house you just mentioned."

Seeing Wei Ran making a questioning mouth-shape towards him, Professor Alexei nodded immediately and gave a thumbs-up silently at the same time.

"Mr. Ruslan, maybe we can hurry up."

Wei Ran paused, and continued, "We just contacted the previous owner who sold the house to Professor Alexei. Although he didn't know the existence of the house, he is currently in Stadt Volgograd. He would love to go over there with us and have a look."

"Mr. Victor, the integrity and selflessness of you and Professor Alexis is really admirable."

Ruslan complimented him first, and then immediately said, "In that case, shall we meet at the gate of Mamayev Post? I'll go down and wait for you and Professor Alexei."

"See you later"

Wei Ran hung up the phone with a smile, then immediately turned around and asked, "Would the previous owner come?"

"He's already on his way," Professor Alexey replied with suppressed excitement, "He's not far from us, just in the city center."

"Tell him to meet at the gate of the museum!"

Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator again while speaking, and at the same time did not forget to ask, "By the way, what's his name?"

"Felix, what's the matter?" Professor Alexis asked in confusion.

"No, it's nothing, it's really a good name." Wei Ran responded perfunctorily, really too lazy to discuss whether it is necessary to pass on a good name for three generations.

When he deliberately went around in circles and arrived at the entrance of the museum, which was only a few hundred meters away, a middle-aged man with a well-proportioned figure and slightly bald head had been waiting for a long time with a gun-gray van. But Wei Ran could already see clearly that there was a middle-aged woman sitting in that van, three young girls who looked like high school students at most, and a young man who looked at least in his early 20s.

When Wei Ran stepped on the brake and Professor Alexey pushed the car door out, the middle-aged man immediately came up to him, pulled the former excitedly and started asking questions.

It's a pity that Wei Ran didn't have time to elaborate on the content of the story during the journey just now, and Professor Alexey was busy making up the story before that, so it's naturally a little embarrassing that he can't answer at this time.

Fortunately, before Wei Ran turned off the engine, Ruslan also drove up in a van with several staff members holding cameras.

After the two sides introduced themselves, the three cars circled Mamayev Gang counterclockwise for half a circle, and once again drove into the community where the tube building that Wei Ran had just been to was located.

Before going upstairs, Professor Alexey cleared his throat under Wei Ran's hint, and after the two cameras were aimed at him, he told Wei Ran about the clue discovery process he just made up. After reading it again, under Wei Ran's hint, he led the way up the stairs, and opened the three adjacent rooms with the bunch of keys that Wei Ran brought.

“I have an impression of this house”

The middle-aged man also named Felix held the security door of the room in the middle and said, "I was very young at that time, maybe only three or four years old. But I remember this room very clearly. At that time, I and I My sister is watching a movie here.

Then one day, Uncle Neva took me away from here. Since then, I have never come back. I always thought that this house was in a city far away, but I didn’t expect it to be in Volgograd! "

Wei Ran rubbed the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand, patted the other person's shoulder lightly, and congratulated him gently, "Mr. Felix, welcome home."

(End of this chapter)