War Photographer's Notebook

"what did you just say?"

On the third morning when Xia Shushi and others came to Wei Ran as guests, at the dining table in the lobby on the first floor of Kaban Lakeside Villa, Wei Ran was holding a steaming steamed steamed stuffed bun. As for Beria, who completely ignored the manpower to get up from the edge of the table, he was carefully licking the bun in his hand with his tongue.

Last night with Qin Ershi and Zhong Zhen, Ji Ma, who had spent the whole night with Qin Ershi and Zhong Zhen, picked up a small steamed bun and threw it into his mouth. After chewing twice, he said again, "I said, I I am going to take my two good brothers to Hongqi Forest Farm to have a chat with Mr. Karp."

He glanced at Er Shi, who was devouring his food with dark circles under his eyes, and Zhong Zhen, who was drunk and had some fake fiery red lips on his face, and finally looked at Maya who seemed to be completely indifferent.

Wei Ran simply threw the steamed buns in his hand into Beria's mouth, took out two tissues, wiped his hands and said, "Jima, come here."

"wait"

Before Ji Ma finished speaking, he had already picked up a pair of chopsticks, skillfully threaded six or seven steamed buns on them, and then picked up the vinegar bottle and poured vinegar on them, then got up in a hurry, and followed Wei Ran to the second floor. floor living room.

"Where did you take them two last night?" Wei Ran asked helplessly before Jima sat down.

"The bar, the biggest bar in Kazan, we chatted all night." Jima said, like eating candied haws, opened his mouth and dropped a steamed stuffed bun from the chopsticks.

"Talking all night? You three?" Wei Ran looked at Jima suspiciously, "Talking with several girls on the bed all night using your gene exchanger?"

"Victor!"

Immediately, Jima became unhappy, got up and took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, took a sip, and then continued dissatisfied, "I'm a decent person now, how could I do such a thing?!"

"I've never seen a decent person do a decent thing"

Wei Ran waved his hand impatiently, "Speaking of business, I didn't know that the two of them could speak Russian, let alone how much Chinese you know."

"I am a modern man"

Jima took out his phone and shook it, "Can't I use translation software? Real-time translation, and it supports voice playback and text display."

"so what?"

Wei Ran patted his forehead helplessly, "What's the matter with you planning to take them to Hongqi Forest Farm?"

"I originally wanted to chat with my good friends earwax and needles, and try to see if I have the opportunity to develop business in your Chinese film industry in the future," Ji Ma said triumphantly.

"Second World, Zhong Zhen" Wei Ran helplessly corrected the other party's out-of-key pronunciation, and continued, "So you want to say that you have been bragging to them all night about the two movies you made?"

"Of course...of course not!" Ji Ma should change his tone, but also abruptly changed his nod into a shake of his head.

"So?" Wei Ran asked patiently.

"After my good friend II learned of the existence of Time Film Studio and that you are the largest shareholder of the studio, he urgently wanted to chat with the director and director of the studio."

Jima spread his hands, "I contacted Mr. Gorman on the way back, but he didn't seem to be in Kazan, so I decided to take them to talk to Mr. Karp."

Seeing the unpredictable expression on Wei Ran's face, Jima tentatively said, "Ahem, actually... there is one more thing."

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran looked at the other party vigilantly.

"Ear food..."

"Second"

"Well, pass away, no matter what my good friend or brother is called."

Ji Ma ate the last steamed bun, threw the disposable chopsticks into the trash can, took another big gulp of beer, and then continued, "Anyway, he knew that Aurora helped us develop the reason Inta, and Inta’s business is very hot. He seems to want to talk to Aurora about business, and he seems to want to go to Inta in the future.”

"Your mouth is really the same as Ukran girl's underwear." Wei Ran shook his head helplessly.

"

My mouth isn't that wet..."

"It's not that wet, but it's just as baggy and won't hold anything."

"Victor"

It was rare for Jima not to quarrel with Wei Ran, and he threw the emptied wine bottle into the trash can, and then asked seriously, "Is Time Film Studio a legitimate business?"

"Yes." Wei Ran replied subconsciously, "Of course."

"Did Aurora lose one ruble in taxes for her business? Or did she starve the Inta like those heartless oligarchs?"

"What do you want to say?" Wei Ran blankly looked at Jima who suddenly became serious.

"Since it's a serious business, since that twenty and swollen needles are your friends, why can't you make money together?"

Ji Ma spread his hands, "This is something that is good for everyone, isn't it?"

"Forehead…"

Wei Ran grinned, but Ji Ma was right. Not only was he right, but after some calculations, he found that Hela, which he alone controlled, was not a serious business, let alone a legal organization.

"So what are you afraid of?"

Jima took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and threw it to Wei Ran, "That bastard, Greva, who didn't even finish high school, knows how to partner with other gangs with good relationships to expand his influence. You How could this Kazan University graduate student be inferior to a Suka who deserved to be drowned in the toilet?"

"Forehead…"

"I think the scumbag Ji did not make a mistake this time." Before he finished speaking, Sui Sui and Maya also walked upstairs one after the other.

"Victor, you should really listen to that bastard Jima's advice this time."

While speaking, Maya reached out and snatched the lit cigarette from Jima's mouth, crushed it, and asked in a very serious tone, "We are all trustworthy friends, why can't we do something together?"

Letting Sui Sui take away the unlit cigarettes in his hand and throw them into the trash can, Wei Ran thought for a while, and finally explained helplessly, "I didn't refuse, but I didn't expect Ji Ma to give such a constructive proposal. Opinion." "Jima is actually very smart. Although he is just an actor, his gang has developed very well, and now they have established a branch in Volgograd."

Maya smiled and praised, the tone was very similar to Wei Ran's usual praise of Beria, and the only difference between Jima's triumphant virtue and Beria's praise is that there is only one missing Go for the big tail.

"Volgograd?" Wei Ran and Sui Sui looked at the smug Jima in surprise.

"I opened several gyms there"

Jima explained proudly, "The nearest one is just across the road from your travel agency. This is my father's suggestion. It will also make it easier for us to take care of Principal Nicholas."

After finishing speaking, Jima was afraid that Wei Ran and Sui Sui would misunderstand, and then added, "Of course, it's not that I don't trust Uncle Alexei and Zhou, it's just that my father thinks that I can't always bother you, and some troubles are handed over to you." A gang solution might work better than the police."

"It seems that Jima has taught you a lesson?" Sui Sui said happily from behind the sofa with her arms around Wei Ran's neck.

"Sorry Jima, I admit that I underestimated you." Wei Ran spread his hands apologetically.

"Mr. Gorman said being underestimated is an advantage."

When Ji Ma said this, the aura of a gangster that everyone was accustomed to disappeared, and his gentle appearance was more like a scholar than Wei Ran, "Look, although I am not a historian, I am an actor , I can play a scholar.”

"Your acting skills are good, even Maya is fascinated by you."

Wei Ran made a half-true joke, and before Maya could say anything, he changed the subject and asked, "So when are we going to Hongqi Forest Farm?"

"Now?" Sui Sui patted Wei Ran's shoulders lightly, and gave a suggestion with a smile.

"Then let's go." Wei Ran also stood up while speaking, letting Sui Sui hold his arm and walked towards the direction of the stairs.

"well done"

With a smile on her face, Maya patted Jima's cheek lightly, and the latter immediately turned into a dog-licking appearance again, sitting up and following Maya.

After a while, two armored pickups drove out of the yard one after another, heading straight for the Hongqi Forest Farm outside the city.

And in the lobby on the first floor of the villa, the Katenka sisters who stayed behind pushed Sui Xin and the other carried a notebook, followed behind Lola who led her sister, and walked to the library next door. Only Xia Shushi was left Alone, he was always looking for the Soviet books he was interested in on Wei Ran's private bookshelf.

"Victor, I'm starting to look forward to the next scene."

On the car radio channel, Jima said expectantly, "Beria has grown up, I wonder if he will beat his shit out after meeting the honorable Mr. Gorbachev. "

"When you say that, I'm also looking forward to it." Wei Ran said, and couldn't help but glance at the dog who was sitting side by side with the Second King in the rear seat through the rearview mirror.

"Why are you and Jima targeting that dog so much?"

Sui Sui asked helplessly, she had already seen that both Wei Ran and Ji Ma seemed to have a lot of resentment towards the popular husky in Hongqi Forest Farm.

"Targeted? This is not targeted." Wei Ran patted the steering wheel and said almost gnashing his teeth, "I can't wait to hang it on the street lamp."

"You can be nice to it"

Sui Sui patted his forehead, "Honorable Mr. Gorbachev is very popular with tourists. Almost every group of tourists who go to Inta will rush to meet him when they are staying in the hotel of the forest farm. Photograph."

"Is it so popular?" Wei Ran asked angrily.

"Of course welcome!"

Sui Sui flipped through the presents brought from Austria to Dalia and others, and Ge said naturally, "Do you still remember the previous owner of the Aurora Tavern in the small town of Tula?"

"Remember, didn't you trick you into running the convalescent room at the Hongqi Forest Farm?" Wei Ran asked without knowing why.

"The boss used to be named Vitaly." Suho had a weird smile on his face, "Now his name is Mr. Nikita with the leather shoes in his hand."

"What?"

"Mr. Nikita with the leather shoes in his hand." Sui Sui spread his hands, "It's not an exaggeration at all, he really has a leather shoe hanging on his belt."

"Mr. Culp didn't kill him..."

Wei Ran muttered with a strange expression, Mr. Nikita with the leather shoes in his hand is really a perfect match with the distinguished Mr. Gorbachev!
"What are you muttering about?" Suho asked curiously.

"Nothing, nothing."

Wei Ran quickly waved his hand, and asked curiously while increasing the speed of the car, "Why did he take such a...um... stage name?"

"It's just a stage name"

Sui Suile explained irresistibly, "Although I haven't visited the forest farm much, I have also heard from the tour guide that the versatile old guy has already regarded the action of knocking on the bar table with his leather shoes as the signature action of that nursing home. , and he somehow collected a lot of black jokes from the Soviet Union as catchphrases.

Whenever there are tourists staying there, he will also perform some hilarious pantomime that he and his wife came up with with the venerable Mr. Gorbachev.In short, he is now as popular as the venerable Mr. Gorbachev. "

"How... how can you do this?"

"Didn't Jima tell you?" Suho asked curiously.

"He's all about Maya, how can he have time to talk to me about this?"

Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded, then subconsciously passed the rearview mirror again, glanced at the straight dog sitting on the seat, but began to look forward to it more and more in his heart, when Beria, Corn Xiaofu and Gorbachio Husband, the headache scene when the three giants meet.

No matter how weird Sui Sui Dao's hearsay is, and no matter how crazy Wei Ran's imaginary scene is.When the car drove into this forest farm that hadn't been to it for a short time, Wei Ran was still there after all.
I can't help but bring back all kinds of not so good memories here.

It's just that there are no beautiful seniors who have learned various self-defense techniques. Even the five-story building that used to belong to him and Jima has a conspicuous enough cartoon dog's head sign and a A cartoon big-toed leather shoe signboard that is no smaller than a dog's head.

And in the middle of these two signs, the same name is written in Russian and Chinese - the distinguished leather shoe convalescence hotel.

"It's a bad name..."

Wei Ran couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth, and then looked at the sickle-shaped building directly in front of him.On the roof of this building, there is a logo of Time Film Production Factory, at least four or five meters high, which was originally designed by Wei Ran himself.

And in the center of the square in front of the building, a piece of rust-colored stone the size of a truck was also chiseled with red Russian letters one by one, and finally formed the name "Time Film Studio".

Lightly tapping on the car door, Wei Ran woke up Qin Ershi who was dozing off against Beria, "Get out of the car, we're here."

"Ah? Oh oh oh!" Qin Ershi stretched his waist, and quickly jumped out of the car following Beria.

At the same time, Zhong Zhen in another pickup next to him also jumped out of the car under the call of Jima and Maya.Almost on foot, Karp and Daria also came from a distance one after another.

However, to the great disappointment of Wei Ran and Jima, when Mr. Gorbachev who came with him broke free from the leash in Darya's hand and ran happily to Beria, the two dogs just They spun around and sniffed each other's butts, and then wagged their tails!
"Beria! Why don't you judge this Soviet traitor with your teeth and claws!" Jima cursed in disappointment.

"Disappointed you two little ones"

Dalia hugged Suisui affectionately, and while accepting the large bag of gifts from the other party, she explained, "During the time you went to China for the festival, the two of them have become friends. "

"Alas!" Wei Ran and Jima Qiqi sighed, and the disappointment on their faces turned into hatred for Beria.

"Hello, welcome to come here, I'm Karp as a guest here."

Karp said frantically in Chinese with a hint of broadcast accent, "Sorry, I haven't used Chinese to communicate with others for a long time, so it may be a little rusty."

"Mr. Culp, your Chinese is better than I expected."

Qin Ershi held the other party's hand and said sincerely, "It's simply better than Wei Ran's Chinese, and he still has an accent."

"I don't like hearing that from you"

Wei Ran jokingly said, of course he knew that Karp could speak Chinese, but even when he was studying at Hongqi Forest Farm, he never heard a few words from this handsome old man.

Patiently waiting for Karp and Zhong Zhen to shake hands, and introducing Mrs. Dalia to him, the handsome old man immediately warmly greeted a group of people into the main building, and by the way, brought Qin Ershi and Zhong Zhen, who was obviously a little hungover, visited the film studio and the rooms where various functions had been developed.

When it was finally time to discuss cooperation, Wei Ran and Jima wisely found an excuse to reminisce with Mr. Gorbachev and left the meeting room, while Sui Sui and Maya followed Darwin in the middle of the visit. Teacher Li Ya got into the office.

"I'm already looking forward to going to China to act in a movie after I cooperated with Mr. Culp when I was a child."

While Jima was speaking, he had grabbed Gorbachev's two hind legs with both hands, and took revenge on this intelligent dog like pushing a cart.

Wei Ran, who was already too lazy to correct Jima's mispronunciation, also subconsciously looked up at the window of the meeting room upstairs, and at the same time couldn't help but began to think about what kind of cooperation Karp and Qin Ershi would reach, and what kind of relationship between them. What is there to collaborate with?

Before he could come up with a [-], Beria, who saw his good friend being bullied, jumped out while he wasn't paying attention, and jumped up with his own hands, hugging Jima's body with his big furry paws.

waist, then opened his mouth and bit his coat and pulled it back forcefully.

Amidst Ji Ma's yelling and cursing, this guy sat down on the ground as expected, and then his eyes, mouth, nose, ears and neck were covered by two big bright red tongues.

As for Wei Ran, after fastening the leashes of the two dogs around Ji Ma's ankles as fast as possible, this scumbag turned around and walked towards the pickup truck not far away, and pulled out the specially brought bag from the carriage. The World War II German three-barreled survival shotgun ran into the small shooting range in the corner of the forest farm, completely ignoring his good brother Jima who was being dragged around on the lawn by two dogs and scolded.