War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 801 Pay to watch
In the lively farmyard, Mr. Chen Qi finally failed to communicate directly with lawyer Carlos on the other end of the phone relying on his memorized English, and it was Zhao Shengli's youngest grandson who acted as the interpreter between the two of them. A naval soldier named Guowei.

Taking advantage of the time when the old man was talking on the phone, Wei Ran also entered the house under the hint of the old man Zhao Shengli.

"Old man, you are absolutely perfect in this class." Wei Ran gave a thumbs up again.

"Hi!" Zhao Shengli waved his hand and sighed with emotion, "Old Chen has worried too much in his life."

Hearing this, Wei Ran also fell silent. For him, that war had only passed four or five months, but for these veterans, it had already passed six to seventy years.

Such a long time may not be a relief for some of them, but a torment that lasted for more than half a century.Among those people, how many people can think of Mr. Zhao Shengli like this?

"It's you boy"

Zhao Shengli looked at Wei Ran curiously, "You haven't been investigating these things for the past few months, have you?"

"No." Wei Ranhan replied with a smile, "It's just a coincidence, just a coincidence."

"Coincidentally?" Mr. Zhao Shengli smiled, but he didn't ask further questions. He just sighed and said very seriously, "You child, you have a heart."

"You guys have worked hard too," Wei Ran responded equally seriously.

The old and the young looked at each other and smiled, tacitly did not talk about the topic related to that cap badge.On the contrary, it was Zhao Shengli's daughter-in-law, a middle-aged woman who also seemed to be a soldier, looking at Wei Ran thoughtfully, as if she saw something.

Less than 10 minutes later, the young man named Guowei helped Chen Qi into the house.

"I'll leave this for you to think about it." Mr. Chen Qi waited for Wei Ran to put away the satellite phone, and put the cap badge back into Wei Ran's palm.

"Then I'll take it"

Wei Ran smiled and clenched the hat badge tightly, but he didn't ask what the other party talked about with the American lawyer named Carlos.And obviously, Mr. Chen Qi also didn't seem to have any intention of explaining, and he didn't even bring up this topic.

In the following time, under the coercion of these two old men, everyone sat down around two big round tables, and Wei Ran was also forcibly pulled to the side by old man Chen Qi.

The guests and hosts had a good meal, and Wei Ran also replaced the wine with tea, and drank several glasses with the two old men. In the afternoon, when the cars that came to pick up the old man Zhao Shengli were about to leave, he also bid farewell Standing at the entrance of the alley to bid farewell to Chen Qi's family, driving a newly bought car, followed the cars in front, and left this quiet and peaceful village.

After rushing all the way back to the capital, Wei Ran found an intersection to bid farewell to Mr. Zhao Shengli and the others, and then parked the car in a parking space on the side of the road.

Pushing open the car door, Wei Ran looked at the top of his head, then took out the satellite phone, and dialed the lawyer Carlos in the United States again.

After waiting for less than ten seconds, the call was successfully connected. Immediately afterwards, a young man said politely in Chinese with a strong Hong Kong and Taiwan accent, "Master Victor, I'm from Monk Carlosy." Translator, Monk Karosi has been waiting for your call."

"Let Mr. Carlos talk to me directly. I have an interpreter here. You just need to translate my words for him." Wei Ran made a special request.

"You wait"

"I'm coquettish." Wei Ran's brows twitched, and finally he swallowed back "Your uncle".

Within a few seconds, Carlos' enthusiastic voice also appeared in the receiver, "Mr. Victor, thank you for this surprise!"

After deliberately waiting for a while, Wei Ran responded in Chinese, "I hope my surprise didn't disturb your rest."

"Although Mr. Chen's call did wake me up from my sleep, I was having a nightmare at the time, so it was a good thing."

Carlo paused for a moment when he said this, and kindly left some time for Wei Ran's non-existent translator, and then continued excitedly, "Victor, Mr. Chen gave me the address, so in the near future I will go to Huaxia, and then I want to thank you in person."

"Mr. Carlos, thank you for nothing." Wei Ran asked with a smile, "Although we rarely communicate because of the language barrier, we are friends, aren't we?"

"You are right, Victor, we are indeed friends." Carlos said with a big smile, "In short, I will go to China soon, and you must meet my friend."

"Of course, if there is a chance, of course we must meet."

Wei Ran replied indifferently, anyway, this year the family already has a litter of wool, this one sheep is herded, and a group of sheep is also released, there is not much difference.

After some chatting, Wei Ran made up the process of finding Mr. Chen Qi with an excuse that he had thought up in advance, and then hung up the phone.

"Go see Mr. Xia Chuan again when you have time"

Wei Ran muttered something to himself, put away his phone and stepped on the accelerator again, followed the address sent by Suisui, and drove to a building next to the school she used to attend.

"You really bought a car?" Sui Sui asked in surprise after Wei Ran opened the door and got off the car.

"It's more convenient to go home this way." Wei Ran said with a smile, "And when we leave, this car can be reserved for your partners. It's much more spacious than your toy car."

"The boss is mighty!"

A long-haired girl whom Wei Ran felt impressed yelled in a funny voice, "Sui Sui, if this car can really be driven for us, I can contribute a license plate. I just got it last month."

"Boss dad?"

"Women are called Boss Wife, but men can't be called Boss Dad?" The long-haired girl proudly expounded her theory.

"Let me take advantage of this." Wei Ran looked at Sui Sui with a half-smile.

The latter rolled his eyes and said unceremoniously to the girl, "I'll leave it to you to hang the sign. Come and stand, let me introduce you."

Under Suisui's attention, Wei Ran also greeted these people. Speaking of which, most of her partners seemed to be the girls who followed her to Inta for the first time.

There are a few guys who have never met before, judging by the names they call, they are probably not someone's boyfriend, but classmates from the same school or even the same major.

Not only that, but under the introduction of Sui Sui, Wei Ran was surprised to find that this group of people even pulled their university supervisors into this entrepreneurial team.

And the purpose of doing this is simple enough and straightforward. After all, their alma mater is next to them. With such a big sheepfold, it is natural to hold it firmly in the palm of your hand.

Enough greetings, Wei Ran followed Sui Sui upstairs and asked, "Where are your three little followers?"

"They're cracking the secret formula," Sui Sui said helplessly, "The three of them don't know what to think, but they want to crack the formula of milk tea."

"And then?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion, and then at the girls or boys with strange faces around him.

"Wait until you see for yourself"

Before Sui Sui finished speaking, everyone had already arrived on the second floor. From a long distance, he saw, behind the glass door, sisters Katenka and Lola were huddling on a sofa. There were no less than forty or fifty cups of milk tea on the table.

However, looking at the three girls clutching their stomachs and obviously full of drinks, one can tell that although the process of cracking the secret recipe is delicious, the result does not seem to be so satisfactory.

Selectively ignoring these three foodies, Wei Ran, accompanied by Sui Sui and her partner, briefly visited this small company, which is not too big, and then everyone, led by the long-haired girl, directly Walked to a nearby BBQ restaurant.

When Wei Ran came all the way to invite the girls and boys who helped Suisui kill the sheep to have a barbecue, Xia Shushi also rushed to a certain tourist city in Yunnan Province in the drizzle.

When he followed the address to the door of a rather beautiful B&B inn, a young man with a string of Vajra Bodhi in his hand and a circle of porcelain Xingyue Bodhi hanging around his neck had already been waiting at the door for a long time.

"You're finally here"

The young man who came out to greet him helped Xia Shushi open the car door, and said with a tired face, "The boss raised the price."

"The price has increased?" Xia Shushi raised his eyebrows, "How much has it increased?"

"Rising to [-]"

The young man helped Xia Shushi move the luggage out of the trunk, but instead of pushing it into the inn, he put it directly into the trunk of an imported off-road vehicle at the door, and then beckoned him into the cab .

"Now he's asking for one hundred and eighty thousand"

While the young man was speaking, he took out a pack of cheap Baita cigarettes from his pocket that didn't match the temperament of this car, and deftly popped one into his mouth.

"No, beast, are you a jerk? How did you talk about the special price? Why did the price go up?" Xia Shushi reached out to take the cigarette handed by the other party.

"What do you call me?" The young man flicked away the cigarette he was about to hand to the former, and asked in a threatening tone.

"Second Emperor, is Second Emperor the head office?"

Xia Shushi had no choice but to perfunctory. After confirming that the other party didn't intend to hand him another cigarette, he bent down to pick up the cigarette that fell on the floor, blew it and stuffed it into his mouth. After lighting it, he asked again, "What are you doing?" What was the code talking about?"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

The young man known as the Second King took a sharp puff of cigarette, "I will follow what you said, and say that if there is nothing else to prove the origin of the helmet and the meaning of those orthographic characters, it is not worth much at all."

"Then he raised the price?" Xia Shushi lowered the car window halfway and asked.

"No!"

The second generation also lowered the window of the car, allowing the cold wind mixed with drizzle to blow into the off-road vehicle, taking away the lingering smoke by the way, "But the boss took out a lot of things, saying that he found it together with the helmet. of."

"Isn't it over for you to take a picture for me?" Xia Shushi asked puzzledly, "My grandfather's memory has failed these two days, and I have to go and stay with him."

“I would rather take a photo”

Ershi spat out of the car window, "The damn boss didn't allow me to take pictures at all, saying that he was afraid that I would post them up and violently attack him on the Internet. Besides, I took a look at those things afterwards except when I took them out for the first time." Besides, even the steel helmet now costs 500 yuan to take a look at it, and 500 yuan can only be seen for half an hour, which is more expensive than pinching a foot."

"Aren't you really good at doing business?" Xia Shushi asked dumbfounded.

"The old boy is sure I'm interested in that thing," said the second helplessly.

"Speaking of which, why did you insist on that helmet?" Xia Shushi asked in confusion.

"Don't ask me about this"

The second waved his hand, "I want to buy it as a gift for me as an elder. By the way, where is your young friend Hara? Didn't you say that he is very powerful? Why didn't you bring it here?"

"Do you think everyone is like you? Doing nothing every day like the old man at the door of the shampoo room?" Xia Shushi flicked off a few puffs of his cigarette, "Come on, let's go in and look at things first."

"Wait"

The Second took two puffs on his cigarette, took out a tattered wallet from the glove box, pulled out a wad of cash and said, "The boss is too cautious, he only accepts cash."

"What's the origin of this boss?" Xia Shushi, who was about to get out of the car, slammed into the car door again after hearing this.

"The little daughter-in-law ran away with someone else, her head is green, she is inevitably a little too nervous for fear of being cheated again."

The Second King grinned badly, "Let's find a girl from northern Burma to have a drink to stimulate him."

"Hurry up and stop eating. After drinking the wine, the boss won't increase the price again?" Xia Shushi pushed the car door angrily, "Let's go, let's go and see his 1000 yuan first."

"When will your friend come over and take a look?" Er Shi put the cash in his pocket, and asked while walking in with the former after getting off the car.

"Why are you doubting my professional ability?" Xia Shushi asked dissatisfied.

"You have a fart professional ability"

Er Shi said with a look of disgust, "We have known each other since we were wearing crotch pants, I don't know your two brushes anymore."

"My two brushes are enough for you to check clearly," Xia Shushi boasted confidently.

“Qa pig eats beef”

The second generation praised it with a perfunctory attitude, and then didn't bother to talk nonsense, and walked into this homestay with Xia Shushi, who was cursing, and directly counted out 1000 yuan and patted it in front of the boss, "Let my friend see the 1000 yuan Money."

"You can't bring your phone, you can't bring your camera, you can't bring your bag, and you should take off your coat."

While the bald middle-aged boss was speaking, he had already taken the cash and stuffed it into the banknote detector on the bar counter, and swiped it twice.

"Cha Zhushi" II snapped his fingers while calling Xia Shushi's nickname.

"Beast Whip, can your uncle speak properly?" Xia Shushi cursed and threw the phone to the other party, and then took off his rain-soaked jacket.

"I want to search myself"

The owner of the hotel interrupted the bickering between the two neurotics, and flipped out a metal detector for security inspection from the bar in a decent manner.

"Boss, is this necessary?" Xia Shushi asked dumbfounded.

"Do you want to see it?" the boss asked simply.

"Look"

Xia Shushi nodded helplessly, and let the boss scan his body with the hand-held metal detector, and then changed into a pair of disposable slippers provided by the hotel, and then he took him into the bar A room in the back.

The size of this room is not small, and the shelves placed against the wall are also full of various guest room linen supplies. On the wall facing the door, there is also a surveillance camera installed, and in the center, a bamboo On the table, there was a not-so-big camphor wood box.

However, what made Xia Shushi want to laugh was that beside the table, there were several wedding photos that were the size of a refrigerator door.

In this photo, the owner of the homestay in a white suit is smiling extraordinarily brightly and greasy, but in the photo, the bride who was originally held in his arms, from the neck up, was painted with a black marker. .

“Everything is in the box”

While the owner of the hotel was talking, he took out a rope from his neck, and used the key worn on it to unlock the padlock of the wooden box. Then he called Xia Shushi for help, and moved the box to the floor to open it.

Before that was over, the boss took out his mobile phone, set an alarm clock for an hour in front of Xia Shushi, then turned off the screen and put it in his pocket.

Watching the boss push the door away, Xia Shushi lifted the lid of the wooden box and took out the contents one by one.

However, beyond his expectation, although there were quite a lot of things in this wooden box, except for the British steel helmet wrapped in newspaper, there was nothing he thought, such as documents and documents, and he What was brought out was mostly things that seemed to have no clue.

"How the hell do you check?" Xia Shushi was completely dumbfounded when he saw an American double-headed oil pot that was finally taken out of the wooden box.

Subconsciously, he wanted to take out his phone to take a few photos. Xia Shushi belatedly patted the back of his neck, then put all these things back into the camphor wood box, pushed open the door and walked out.

"It took 38 minutes." Si Shi, who was sitting on the sofa, gloated and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"It's impossible to check"

Xia Shushi sat down on the sofa, snatched his mobile phone, and edited the names of the things he saw just now, "And those rags can't prove anything at all."

"That's because you are not capable enough"

There was undisguised contempt in the shopkeeper's tone, "In short, everything is there, and I brought it back personally. It's your business if you can't find it out. But if you want to buy it, it's a thousand and eighty thousand , not less than a dollar."

"Boss, the business is not in a hurry, please open a room for me first."

Xia Shushi secretly kicked the second king's heel, and a gentle smile appeared on that face that was so delicate that it looked a bit feminine, "We will stay here for a few days, and there may be another Friends are coming to see, so there is no rush."

"Can your friend come over?" The Second King couldn't help asking.

"Ask me"

Xia Shushi said indifferently, "If you invite someone over, you can't help him buy a plane ticket or something? You can't arrange for him to go out for fun? They can help you look at these things. You can't prepare some hard work?"

"No problem, I'll arrange these." The Second Emperor patted his chest and agreed, not paying any attention to the subtle expression on Xia Shushi's face where the scheme was successful.

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