War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 798 Xia Shushi's Call
On the flight to China, Jima's parents, Jima's Maya, and Kajianka were all discussing the trip to China with full anticipation.

For Jima's parents, this old couple from rural Kazan, all the topics revolve around the Soviet Union, which will never reappear, and the China they once remembered. By the way, they still don't forget to look forward to this For the first time, they can experience those things that Quarter Horse showed them in the video last time.

For foodies such as Kajianka and Maya who are biased by tassels, various Chinese delicacies are obviously the top priority of this trip.

As for Lola, the girl's face was more bewildered and frightened.If someone could read the thoughts in her mind at this time, they would find that the girl only had three thoughts in total.

How is Corava doing now?Will he be sold in Huaxia?Can I see Korava again in this life?
In her wild imagination, after a long voyage, the flight finally landed at Huaxia's Capital Airport smoothly.

However, before the cabin door of the plane opened, Wei Ran discovered that the mobile phone that had just connected to the Internet jumped out a series of notification sounds.

"Why did he send me a message?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, curiously clicked on the message that Xia Shushi, who hadn't contacted him for a while, began to scroll up.

However, apart from a dozen "Are you there?" and a few call requests that were not connected, the only value in the message sent by the other party was just two photos.

The one taken in the first photo seemed to be a small hanging pot with a wide edge at first glance, but the remaining rust and paint on it made Wei Ran immediately realize that it was a helmet, or more precisely , is a British MK2 type "pot lid helmet".

Objectively speaking, this kind of pot lid helmet developed with the trench warfare of World War I as the background is considered outdated equipment for the environment of World War II.

But in fact, since World War I, a considerable number of Commonwealth countries have used this helmet.

In addition, in the land of China at that time, there were definitely not a few armies equipped with this kind of helmet.

Swipe the screen to turn to the second photo. The protagonist in this photo is still the helmet, but the focus of the shooting is the close-up of the "brim" inside the helmet.

But what surprised Wei Ran was that on the brim of this circle of hats, red paint was used to write neatly arranged orthographic characters one after another in neat lowercase script!

With just two photos, he really has no way of distinguishing the meanings of these closely arranged orthographic characters.But the exceptionally neat handwriting seems to imply that the owner of the steel helmet tried hard to record something with those red lettering.

But what made him scold his mother was that Xia Shushi didn't say anything substantive except for the dozen or so "are you in heat" that seemed to be in heat. He just posted these two photos to seduce Wei Ran. curiosity.

"What's the matter?" Sui Sui leaned over and asked, probing his head.

"It's from a friend in China, the friend who helped you translate the devil's tombstone."

Wei Ranhun nonchalantly showed Suisui the photos that Xia Shushi had just sent, and then asked, "What's the next arrangement?"

"Auntie Fu from the godmother travel agency is acting as an interpreter for Ji's scum." Sui Sui also shook her mobile phone, "She is already waiting at the airport."

"What about us?" Wei Ran put away his phone and asked, "When shall we go home?"

"Go home in no hurry"

Sui Sui pointed to Sister Katenka, "I'm going to take the two of them and Lola and my classmates to meet up later. I think we'll have dinner together tonight. How about you? Do you want to go together?" ?”

"I won't go," Wei Ran replied with a smile, "I'll go to Teacher Chen's house later."

"Remember to bring the presents for them!" Seeing that the cabin door opened, Sui Sui immediately stood up, greeted everyone and went out.

When the group of people came out of the airport, Sui Sui hugged a middle-aged aunt immediately, and stuffed the gift she had dug out in advance into her hand.

This pan-headed aunt, Wei Ran, is also familiar with her, she can be regarded as one of the veterans of his parents' small travel agency.Now that Ji Ma's family is handed over to her, she can't be more at ease.

It's just that Wei Ran is really a little afraid of this aunt.

"Xiao Ranran, it's not that Auntie said you, you look at you, didn't you mean to bully our Sui Sui? Why did you bring back so many little girls? Don't say hey, your eyes are really good"

"Aunt Fu, Aunt Fu!"

Wei Ran quickly stopped waving his hands to stop the other party's stand-up comedy, "This is not what you think, why don't you ask Suisui? Suisui, stop laughing, explain quickly!"

"Sui Sui, tell me"

This Aunt Fu stood beside Sui Sui with her hips akimbo, looking at her posture, she seemed to be ready to have a meal at the airport at any moment.

After seeing enough excitement, Sui Sui finally explained the identities of sisters Katenka and Lola.

"You damn girl"

Aunt Fu stuck her finger on Sui Sui's forehead, and said dumbfoundedly, "You said on WeChat that Xiao Ranran brought back several little girls, you scared me, I didn't dare to tell your godmother, for fear She came here to kill relatives and clean up the household tiger poison."

"Aunt Fu, Aunt Fu"

Sui Sui, who was also overwhelmed, quickly changed the subject and said in Russian, "Aunt Fu, my good friend Maya, and my brother's good friend Jima and his parents will be left to you. These days they want to You can go wherever you want, and we will pick you up at the high-speed rail station before the Chinese New Year."

"Do not worry!"

Aunt Fu responded confidently in Russian with a little Jinkou accent. At the same time, she and Jima's parents gently hugged each other, and even added Davari to the couple's address. hope.

"Jima, I'll give you a piece of advice."

Wei Ran grabbed the expectant Ji Ma, leaned close to his ear and lowered his voice to remind, "You must not mess with this Ms. Katyusha."

"Why?" Ji Ma asked curiously, "She knows Chinese Kung Fu?"

"She doesn't know much." Wei Ran shook his head, "but she is scarier than the two Gormans."

Hearing this, Ji Ma shivered subconsciously, and involuntarily moved away from Aunt Fu who was chatting with his parents in a very harmonious way.

At the same time, Sui Sui also pulled Maya, pointing her thumb at Aunt Fu and whispered some instructions, and the latter also nodded seriously.

Until Aunt Fu who watched the pan-haired man left with Ji Ma's family, Wei Ran and Sui Sui both heaved a sigh of relief.

"Tsk tsk tsk! Xiao Ranran, Xiao Ranran~" Sui Sui teased Wei Ran with a tone of voice.

"Why did you invite this great god out?"

Wei Ran asked in a cold sweat, pretending he didn't hear that childish nickname.

Speaking of which, this Aunt Fu went to the Soviet Union to study in a serious way when she was young, but compared to that period of the past, it is no longer recallable.

Wei Ran, Sui Sui, and even Wei Ran's parents were even more impressed by her fighting power. It was really a master who would not lose weight for an hour when her upper lip touched her lower lip.

"I'm worried Maya is being bullied by Jima"

Sui Sui said as if it was none of my business, "Maya is also worried about what Jima will do to her, so there is no one more suitable than Aunt Fu."

"I hope he has a good time this holiday"

Wei Ran joked mercilessly, packed his luggage, and together with Suisui, left the airport with sisters Katenka and Lola, and found her classmate in the parking lot.

Taking the car rented by the other party in advance, they returned to the urban area and rushed to the hotel they booked in advance. After the girls changed their clothes, they immediately rushed to their office address under the leadership of Suisui's classmate.

And Wei Ran, who was staying at the hotel, finally found time to call back a voice call to Xia Shushi.

After a somewhat long wait, Xia Shushi's face that was so delicate that it looked a bit feminine appeared on the screen.

"Brother, didn't I bother you?" Xia Shushi asked with a smirk as soon as the video was connected.

"no"

Wei Ran smiled, and simply maximized the video window, looked at Xia Shushi who was wearing a floral shirt and jeans, sunglasses, and holding a green coconut on the screen and asked, "Are you out to play?"

"My grandpa misses me"

Xia Shushi grinned and said with a smirk, "It's strange to say that, since the few days ago, my grandfather's memory seems to have improved again, and he yells for me to practice calligraphy every day, and he still remembers you? "

"Remember me?" Wei Ran couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

"No!"

Xia Shushi casually found a bench by the side of the road and sat down, and said with a smile, "This old man has been talking about it every day recently, asking where the young man who dared to blow the charge for him has gone."

"It's amazing"

Wei Ran glanced at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand without a trace, and asked with a normal expression, "Since when did the old man start to have a good memory?"

"If you don't say much, it will probably take almost a month."

Xia Shushi put down the coconut in his hand, "At that time, my grandpa was taken care of by a nanny at my parents' side. I don't know exactly what happened, but I have been here for more than a week, and I took the old man to do it these days. Various inspections did not find out why."

Almost a month?Wouldn't that be the time to signal that the endgame mission is complete?

Wei Ran remembered clearly that the things in the vortex under the finale mission could not be taken out yet.

Are these two things really related?
Or just pure coincidence?

But if it's a coincidence, isn't it too coincidental?
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but feel the urge to look for an opportunity to visit Chen Qi and Mr. Zhao Shengli, as well as Xia Shushi's grandfather, the trumpeter Xia Chuan.

"Brother, what are you thinking?"

Xia Shushi on the other end of the phone couldn't help but shake his hand in front of the camera when he saw Wei Ran's fuzzy look, and asked wretchedly, "Didn't I delay your business?"

When he came back to his senses, Wei Ran didn't answer the other party's words at all, "It's a good thing for the old man to remember, in a few days, when it's convenient for you, I'll go and see the old man."

"It's best if you can come. It's convenient for me to come here anytime. I guess you'll have to give my grandpa a charge."

"As long as the old man is willing to give me the Charger, it will be fine!" Wei Ran patted his chest to make a promise, then picked up the mineral water beside the table and took a sip.

"You set a time, I'll buy it for you to go back to China?" Xia Shushi changed the question in the middle of speaking, apparently seeing the packaging of the bottle of mineral water in Wei Ran's hand.

"Just came back." Wei Ran put down the water and replied with a smile, "I just found a hotel to stay in."

"What a coincidence"

Xia Shushi looked around, and finally got back to the topic, "Did you see the photo I sent you?"

"I see." Wei Ran nodded, "Where did you find the British pot helmet?"

"I didn't find this." Xia Shushi quickly shook his head, "We presume that this helmet was found from Savage Mountain."

"Where is it?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.

"Savage Mountain" Xia Shushi repeated.

"That Savage Mountain of the Expeditionary Army?" Wei Ran reconfirmed.

"Yes, it's the Savage Mountain." Xia Shushi nodded seriously, "How is it? Are you interested?"

(End of this chapter)