War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 810 Greeting Cards in the Suitcase
In the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Wei Ran's parents, after exhausting their two-week annual leave, embarked on the road to return to work with a tired look.In contrast, it was Suisui's parents who decided to take a few more days off this year to spend time with them and plan to go back after the Lantern Festival.

As for Jima's family and Maya, they also decided to leave for Sichuan and Sichuan on this day to see the giant pandas that were supposed to be seen years ago.

"Are you really not going with them?"

At the gate of the high-speed railway station, Sui Sui asked sisters Katenka and Lola again, "It's the holiday time now, if you want to have fun, you can follow them."

"We won't go," sisters Katenka said in unison, "Leave some regrets, and there will always be a chance to visit in the future."

"I'm not going either"

Lola agreed without even thinking about it. Although this dazed little girl had already watched the movie played by Jima more than once, because no one explained to her, and because Jima was free, she often teased this girl. Little girl, so she still firmly believes that Jima is running the largest meat business in Kazan.

Because of the fear brought about by this small misunderstanding, she couldn't hide, and how could she go out to play with Jima—even if Maya, who also likes to tease her, was there.

Besides, this girl knows very clearly that only by following the boss can she have a good meal, not to mention that her little follower is more leisurely than the Katenka sisters, as long as she plays mahjong with her, eats snacks, and goes shopping with her, that's enough.

Seeing that the three girls were unwilling to follow him, Jima shrugged indifferently, and warmly greeted Aunt Fu who came to pick up their family, and let the latter take away the passports of the four of them.

Watching the family and Maya follow Aunt Fu into the security checkpoint, Wei Ran and the others turned around and walked into the parking lot to find their car.

"Aren't you going out for a few days?" Wei Ran asked after starting the car while driving outside the parking lot.

"not going"

Sui Sui stretched her waist vigorously, "It's time for us to work too. The route press conference last year received a good response. We must arrange everything before we leave."

"I still need to lose weight," the Kajianka sisters, who had gained nearly ten catties, reminded in unison, but their faces were full of reluctance.

"Yes, and lose weight."

Sui Sui nodded with a mournful face. These days, they ate nonsense every day, and they all gained a lot of weight. According to Wei Ran's guess, this may be the main reason why they decided to devote their energy to work.

Otherwise, with the two elderly people feeding them three times a day, the beautiful clothes these girls bought in shopping years ago would lose their meaning of existence.

"I want to lose weight too." Luo pulled at the cheeks of her steamed bun face, "I can no longer drink milk tea, and I can no longer eat that kind of fried sweets."

"don’t worry"

Sui Sui raised her finger and pointed to the direction of the car, jokingly said, "What we are about to go to will be a food desert. I believe that we will lose weight soon!"

"But I want to eat candy and I'm confused," Lola said with a bitter face, and by the way, a Chinese word I learned recently popped up.

"Candied haws" Sui Sui was instantly discouraged, and corrected while smiling.

"Hmm! Tanggulu, I want to eat Tanggulu!" Lola looked pitifully at the old man selling candied haws at the entrance of the parking lot and muttered.

Glancing at Sister Kajianka who also looked excited, Sui Sui didn't bother to correct the mistake of the name, she just kicked Wei Ran's seat, and the latter also tacitly stepped on the seat next to the old man's tricycle. brakes.

As the car door opened, the three girls who threatened to lose weight just a second ago got out in a hurry, each holding a big red ticket, gesturing for this or that.

"How do you plan to arrange these few days?" Sui Sui, who stayed in the car, asked Wei Ran, who was also sitting in the cab watching the excitement.

"Maybe I need to help you find out about Xia Shushi's affairs."

Wei Ran paused and said, "Maybe I have to go to Myanmar."

"no!"

Sui Sui didn't wait for Wei Ran to finish speaking, and refused without thinking, "Earning money is earning money, there is no need to make fun of my own waist, I haven't used enough yet."

"Okay, don't go."

Wei Ran readily agreed, "I'll be your driver honestly for the past few days, and by the way, look around the capital to see if there are any relevant archives or libraries where I can find clues."

"Remember to send the gift to Teacher Chen and his family." Sui Sui reminded and didn't care, obviously full of trust in Wei Ran.

As soon as their conversation was over, sisters Katenka and Lola got into the car happily holding a bunch of candied haws and a handful of change.

Along the way, these girls chattered about their weight loss and diet plans for the next period of time.However, when Wei Ran drove his car into the capital and finally stopped in front of the hotel, the four girls had already postponed their weight loss plan from today to tomorrow.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, Wei Ran sent the sleepy Suisui and the others to the offices of her partners before the morning rush hour.

But after he finished his job as a driver, he didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he rushed out of the city and headed for the airport, for fear of being stuck in the busy urban area by the morning rush hour.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, Wei Ran, who arrived at the airport, stepped on the gas pedal, and under the prompt of the navigation, he drove in the direction of the yard he bought.

In fact, as early as New Year's Eve, the uncle named Yang Haifeng had already called to inform him that he had completed the work of adding the roof, but since it was a Chinese New Year celebration, there was really no need for him to make another special trip.

And this time, I deliberately took a detour to the airport, just to actually test the length of the journey and get familiar with the route by the way.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, Wei Ran parked the car again at the gate of the small courtyard hidden in the mountains.

Compared with the last time, everything as far as the eye can see has been covered with a thin layer of snow.In addition, the small courtyard also has a roof of colored steel tiles that is also covered with snow, and the original fence gate has also been replaced with a vermilion iron gate that pushes and pulls from side to side.

Not only that, even the open space in front of the yard, which is half the size of a football field, seems to have been cleared of weeds, and a two-meter-high barbed wire fence was installed around the border with the peach forest. On the top of the fence, there is a thing like a street lamp fixed every now and then.

"No wonder the cost of labor and materials is so expensive, how much kickback did the old boy get?"

Although Wei Ran cursed, the expression on his face was extremely satisfied, anyway, all the money was spent.Now that he doesn't admit it, there is a high probability that Yang Haifeng won't return the money, and if he doesn't do it, he will lose the face of the second generation.

It was a small loss for pinching his nose, Wei Ran found the key from the mouth of the Teddy-sized stone lion on the left hand side of the gate and opened the iron gate.

Far away, he found that apart from the tractors and the agricultural machinery equipment that seemed to be spraying pesticides that he saw at the beginning in this yard, no matter the four-wheeled motorcycles placed against the wall or the towed The RV was still parked in its original position.

If it's just that, it's fine, but no matter whether it's the motorcycle or the towed RV, it seems that someone has wiped it.

Moreover, the door of the towed caravan was also adjusted to face the direction of the gate of the yard. Even on both sides of the door of the caravan, as if afraid that others would not notice it, each hung a volleyball-sized, bright red Little lantern of light!

Turning around and looking behind him, Wei Ran stretched out his hand and pressed the big red switch on the wall. At some time, the fluorescent tubes fixed on the steel beams above his head were also lit up one after another, completely illuminating the space that is more like a warehouse than a yard. Bright.

Turning around and closing the iron door, Wei Ran pressed the switch again to turn off the lights, and after making sure that there was no light around, he turned on the lights again, and carefully checked all the surrounding walls and even the steel beams above his head.

He didn't stand at the door of the trailer until he was sure that there were no monitoring facilities. He frowned and looked at the half-open door and the conspicuous suitcase inside the door.

After a little hesitation, Wei Ran stepped on the pedals and walked into the not-so-big trailer. After careful inspection, he stood beside the table with the suitcase.

Ignoring the wads of cash in the box, Wei Ran cautiously took out a pair of rubber gloves and put them on, then picked up the documents and flipped through them roughly.

In these documents, there are not only the contract signed with the local village committee, but also the property rights certificate already in his name, but what he didn't expect was that according to the plan in these documents, even the surrounding village A circle of peach trees about five acres in size has also become his own territory.

At the end, he even found a bill, which not only listed the payment for the land purchase in detail, but also the cost of Wei Ran asking Yang Haifeng to help build the roof here, and even the hard work he sent to Yang Haifeng. Fees are clearly listed here!

A total of more than 23 yuan can buy ten acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing plus a yard?But what happened to the money in the suitcase?

Wei Ran frowned and looked at the suitcase. There were five rows and five rows of cash in it.Just pick up a stack at will, and you can tell just by looking at the thickness that this stack should cost 10,000 yuan.In other words, there is 25 cash in this suitcase?This money is for yourself?

Throwing the wad of cash in his hand aside, Wei Ran cautiously picked out the wads of cash in the suitcase and flipped through them roughly.

Soon, he found a handwritten greeting card from the bottom of the suitcase, where the cash was originally pressed.

"Congratulations on the housewarming, I wish you a lot of money and wealth—Pan Qi"

"Pan Qi? Boss Pan?"

Wei Ran held the card and muttered something. After some thought, he simply took out his mobile phone and dialed the man named Yang Haifeng.

However, what he didn't expect was that after the call was made, the emotionless synthesized voice indicated that it was an empty number!

Reluctantly calling Xia Shushi, what he heard this time was a reminder to shut down the phone. After a while, he searched and dialed the phone number that the second generation had left for him, but it was still turned off!

(End of this chapter)