War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 86
"So that anti-tank gun is from the same war as this flag?"

In the brightly lit studio, Wei Ran asked with an ugly face, the Battle of Suomusalmi was not much easier than the Battle of Stalingrad.

In this brutal battle between infantry and infantry, the Soviet soldiers faced more than just the Finns who were elusive on skis, and the low temperature enough to freeze them into ice sculptures.

"Hard to say"

Professor Alexey shook his head and gave a negative answer, "According to my old friend's wife, her father was a local hunter. In her memory, it seems that the anti-tank gun was shot by her father. It was found in the forest decades ago. There are several mountains around the village, and avalanches often occur in winter. This anti-tank gun has been used for a long time to artificially create avalanches to eliminate danger.”

"Where is that village?" Wei Ran asked after him.

"In Finland"

When Professor Alexey said this, he found a roll of maps from the bookshelf and spread them out, and drew a line with a pencil on the border between Finland and Russia, "This is the famous Rath Highway, and it was also the place in that battle." , the main route for the Soviet army to flee. The old house I just mentioned is about 10 kilometers southeast of the Rath Highway, in a small place called Plassey."

“This place is out of the way”

Wei Ran was tongue-tied, just looking at the contour map around the position Alexey pointed with a pencil, he knew that the so-called Plassey was surrounded by mountains, and in the north direction, there were also a large number of lakes densely covered. ,river.But as long as these obstacles are overcome, no matter whether you go north or east, you can reach the border between the two countries at most as long as 10 kilometers.

"It's really remote, but whether it's summer or winter, the scenery there is very beautiful. You can camp and hunt in summer, and not only can you ski in winter, but if you're lucky, you can even see the aurora."

While talking, Alexi threw a few photos to Wei Ran, "This is the house I just mentioned. My old friend and his wife are going to run a resort there after retirement. Victor , if you are interested in helping them, you can drop by and play there for a few days."

"I don't have that much feather time"

Speaking of this, Wei Ran has a headache. Although he has a week's rest, the postgraduate study materials that Kapoor prepared for himself take up at least half of the time.

"For the sake of [-] US dollars, you must have this time." Professor Alexey gave Wei Ran a business card without any explanation, "Victor, this is the one I managed to help you take over. Work, as long as you can earn the forty thousand dollars, at least you won't be short of money until Christmas."

Seeing Professor Alexei with sincere eyes and the trace of guilt hidden in his eyes, Wei Ran took the business card with a wry smile. The old man is probably still blaming himself for the studio.

Your kindness really pushed your nephew into the fire pit, or the fire pit at minus 40 degrees
Wei Ran looked at the name and contact number on the business card, and then pretended to be reluctant and said, "Then I will contact him when I have time."

"Victor, you bastard is gone! Can't even $[-] impress you?" Professor Alexei's Russian was also mixed with a young Chinese adjective.

Wei Ran shook the business card in his hand, "Correct me, it's not $[-], it's an anti-tank gun worth $[-]."

"As long as you can investigate this matter clearly, I will sell that anti-tank gun for you."

Professor Alexei pushed everything on the table to Wei Ran without any explanation, and then finally told the truth, "And you'd better hurry up, my old friend's resort hotel is going to start snowing in early November It's time to open, and if you can investigate the results before then, maybe he will give you some extra benefits."

"A gimmick?" Wei Ran immediately guessed the other party's intention when he heard the words.

Professor Alexei nodded indifferently, "What they use has nothing to do with us, no, no, to be precise, it has nothing to do with you. After all, the studio is yours now, and even the name has been changed, so you just need to Think about how to figure out the missing teacher as soon as possible before the middle of next month."

Having said that, Professor Alexey bent down and opened the rolling door, "Victor, don't let me down, if you can find satisfactory results from your own investigation this time, I will introduce you to more profitable ones in the future." Work."

"I really thank you eight generations of ancestors." Wei Ran muttered in a low voice, watching as Professor Alexei disappeared into the night in his car.

Locking the shutter door again, Wei Ran threw all the business cards and photos still in his hands on the table, turned around and went into the bedroom to sleep soundly.

Early the next morning, just as he woke up here, Nicholas and Jima rushed over together. The purpose of the two men was also very straightforward - to have breakfast, a Chinese-style breakfast.

"What about your two friends? Aren't they coming to eat together?" Wei Ran asked while pouring soaked beans into the soybean milk machine.

"They drove back to Kazan an hour ago." Jima looked at the humming soymilk machine in disgust, "Is that spoiled milk really made of beans?"

"Could it be that you thought it was the cow that took the medicine?" Wei Ran replied angrily, then turned around and took out the frozen bean paste buns from the refrigerator and put them on the steamer.

Before breakfast was ready, Wei Ran found a seat and sat down, "Mr. Nicholas, how did you sleep last night?"

Nicholas took the coffee and said with a sigh, "I have been dreaming all night, dreaming that there are always Germans rushing in with submachine guns, and when I wake up, I find that not only the Germans have been beaten away, but even Stalingrad is gone. It's ironic."

"You should go out and take a walk." Wei Ran looked at the huge statue in the distance outside the window, and gave his own suggestion.

"I'll go out for a stroll in the next few days." Nicholas looked out the window, "Although I've already done it the last time I came to see you, I'm still surprised to see how much this place has changed."

Wei Ran was about to say something when the mobile phone on the table rang at this moment.Picking up the phone and looking at it, the caller turned out to be an unfamiliar number.

When he got on the phone, an old smoky voice said, "I'm Akim, is this Victor? Victor, a student of Professor Alexei."

"It's me." Wei Ran responded suspiciously, quietly waiting for the other party's next words.

The other end of the phone immediately explained, "I'm a colleague of Professor Alexei a long time ago. Has he told you about the missing teacher? I just called him, and Professor Alexey said that you have Promise to help me investigate that matter."

So it was him?

Wei Ran hurriedly looked at the business card that was casually thrown there last night from the other side of the long table, and then replied, "The professor did tell me last night, but."

“That would be great”

The smoky voice on the other end of the phone who called himself Akim did not wait for Wei Ran to finish, and said urgently, "Victor, are you sure when you can come over? I will book a ticket for you right away. Anyway, this matter I'm counting on you!"

This.
Wei Ran didn't know how to respond to the other party for a while, he didn't even have time to do psychological training, but the other party was in a hurry, what the hell was he afraid that his death would not be happy enough?

　Thanks to the lurking lonely second lieutenant for rewarding 1500 points

　　Thank you for being impatient 888 for rewarding 500 points

　　
　
(End of this chapter)