War Photographer's Notebook

On the evening of the end of the May Day holiday, Wei Ran also returned to Kazan on Mr. Dominique's private plane.

Just two hours after the plane landed, a young mother also left the still cold town of Tula alone in the night, took a cargo plane to Irkuts, and then took a passenger train to Irkut Bryansk Oblast on the border with Ukeran.

For this young girl who had a kidney removed, gave birth to two children, and just barely mastered the basic Russian language, besides some cash and a mobile phone, she didn't even have anything that could prove her identity. No passport.

Not only that, her next journey is also extremely long. When she arrives in Bryansk, she will not only immediately meet with the smuggler who has arranged in advance to smuggle from Russia to Ukeran, but also contact another smuggler non-stop. Wu Kelan smuggled to Poland.

Only when she arrived in Poland safely, the girl who had changed her name to Joanna Grochowska could obtain a Polish passport that symbolized rebirth.

Next, she will rent a house in Katowice, a city in southern Poland, and live alone for about one to two months. During this time, she will frantically submit resumes, look for jobs related to physique teachers and etiquette teachers, and do a lot of work. online interview.

And after one to two months, she will receive an interview invitation from a French company called "Succubus" and a plane ticket to Paris, France.

Five hours later than her, the three girls in the small town of Tula who were about to go to the nuclear recruitment also arrived in Irkutsk by cargo plane.

In contrast, the treatment of these three girls is slightly better.Before departure, they each got a Wukeran passport, and they will be sent to various cities in Wukeran by the old Ivan, the owner of the Aurora Tavern.

After arriving in Wu Kelan, these three girls who have been away from school for an unknown number of years will also be arranged to study in different schools for a short time in the name of transfer students.

They also have to wait patiently for a few months. With their excellent grades, they will get the opportunity to study abroad in a completely legal way.

Girls from the Hela organization were far from the only ones who started the layout early. Zhong Zhen, who had sneaked back in Mandalay, also hid in a mine deep in the mountains in Mandalay, thousands of miles away. Xueying Investment Plan "Dungeon, patiently preparing for his revenge.

Even Qin Ershi and Xia Shushi were not idle. Since returning to China, the former flew directly to Chuncheng, Yunnan Province on the Yunnan-Burma Highway, and personally took two beautiful partners in Suisui's country to inspect the route and prepare for them. public welfare self-driving project.

And in Bincheng in the north of China, Xia Shushi, who stays at home all day, is not only taking care of Mr. Xia who is different every day, but also busy looking up information and supplementing details, trying to record in the photo album that was remade from the UK. The tragic expeditionary action of the Chinese Communist Party has become a movie script that can be used to great effect.

Compared to these busy partners who were busy kicking the back of their heads, Wei Ran and Sui Sui were ready to rest again.

For Wei Ran, whether it was the previous battle in Shetgen Forest or the burial of Dominic not long ago, it was like a big stone in his heart.

For Sui Sui, although she spent almost the first half of April wandering around the world with Wei Ran, the busy work in the second half of April and even the entire May Day holiday made her eager to take a good rest.

While finding all the excuses to go out two days late, Sui Sui finally decided where to go for fun.

"We won't go far this time." At the breakfast table, Sui Sui finally made a decision, "So let's go camping and hunting in the forest near Jima's village!"

"Camping and hunting? Or in the forest near Jima's village?" Wei Ran repeated while reaching out to touch Sui Sui's forehead.

"Get up." Sui Sui patted Wei Ran's hand away, "I don't have a fever."

"Why did you think of going camping when you didn't have a fever?" Wei Ran asked curiously, this was never Sui Sui's hobby.

"Maya recommended it to me before you came back yesterday"

Suho is full of expectations

Said, "She said that there was a light rain recently, and a lot of mushrooms grew in that forest, and Jima's mother made her delicious mushroom pies, and they also made canned and dried mushrooms together .”

Speaking of this, Sui Sui looked at Wei Ran, "So let's go too! Get more mushrooms, after drying them, you can eat chicken stewed mushrooms in the future."

"What about hunting?" Wei Ran asked with interest, "What about hunting?"

"What else can happen"

Sui Sui swallowed subconsciously, "It's spring, and the wild boars in the forest have given birth to a lot of cubs, and many of them have already started to flood. I heard from Maya that Jima's village has recently opened up for hunting again. We can catch wild boars at that time. Order the little piglets and come back and roast them."

"Jima said that if we are interested, we can catch some and keep them in his home."

Anfisa, who was also having breakfast, jokingly added, "When those little piggies grow up, we can organize another party like last year, and maybe we can catch another Lola by then."

"Can you forget about that incident?"

Holding a small steamed bun in one hand, he said pitifully, "I don't want to recall what happened that day for the rest of my life."

"Will Ji Ma and the others go too?" Wei Ran continued to ask after taking a sip of soy milk.

"They came here to invite us to go with them, but you haven't come back yet."

Sui Sui drank the milk in the glass in one breath, "There are so many questions, are you going or not? If it wasn't for waiting for you, we would have gone yesterday."

"Go, why don't you go." Wei Ran readily agreed. Although he only came back last night, he also wanted to relax in another way.

"Cami, are you ready to buy?" Sui Sui immediately turned her head and asked.

"bought it"

While speaking, Anfisa pointed to the storage room on the first floor, "All the camping supplies and hunting tools have been bought."

"Hurry up and eat!"

Sui Sui took out a piece of paper and wiped her mouth indiscriminately, "After eating, we all go to change clothes, and then we set off together!"

"Sui Sui, I won't..."

"You want to go too." Without waiting for Sui Xin to finish speaking, Sui Sui made a decision for her, "Take that 80 yuan and go, then we will play the piano, drink and eat roasted suckling pig and roasted mushrooms together!"

Sui Xin opened her mouth in astonishment, and finally nodded helplessly, "Okay...Okay."

Now that a decision has been made, everyone stopped wasting time, each speeded up to eat breakfast, and then began to frantically prepare things for camping.

However, compared to Sui Sui's camping, which can be called moving, Wei Ran has very few things to prepare.

Among other things, the things in the metal book are enough. What he has to do is at most just a symbolic loading of a few boxes that fill up the space in the cargo bed of the armored pickup truck, and then give it to the truck. Just stock the fridge with enough vegetable beer for the occasion.

In the end, she helped Sui Sui put several sets of fishing gear into the cargo bucket, but the girl said unexpectedly, "I won't take the car this time."

"If you don't take the car, you still plan to go on your legs?"

Wei Ran's voice hadn't finished yet, and with the roar of the engine, Anfeiya had already ridden the Zundup sidecar motorcycle that had been dusted for an unknown amount of time from the garage.

"What about this motorcycle..."

Wei Ran stared blankly at the motorcycle parked beside him. He admitted that although he never touches this motorcycle, let alone ride it out, he still needs to do a lot of maintenance.After all, this old antique is a rare collectible, no matter what.

But it's only been a few months... No, no, no, no, he remembers it clearly, he even changed the oil on this motorcycle before going to Hawaii.

But how long has it been? Although the painting of this German elephant has not changed, there are two more warm and windproof sheepskin handlebar covers, and a windshield cover installed on the handlebar and sidecar respectively!

Even the iron cross originally painted on the car body has become the logo of white feathers and luminous little fat sheep.

"I
Going to ride this! "

Sui Sui, who specially changed into a leather jacket and boots, had already put on a helmet while talking, and then handed a retro helmet of the same style to Sui Xin who was watching the fun in a wheelchair, "You sit on my sidecar, if you are not afraid , when the weather gets warmer, I'll teach you how to ride."

Hearing this, Sui Xin's eyes flickered with excitement, and after some hesitation, she gritted her teeth, and finally reached out to take the helmet, and put it on her head awkwardly.

"That's right! It's so boring to be bored at home all the time!"

Sui Sui crossed her waist and nodded in satisfaction. After Sui Xin put on her helmet, she personally helped her sit in the sidecar of the motorcycle, and handed her a fancy leather jacket and a pair of sheepskin gloves. And put two big-eared foxes also wearing leather jackets into the sidecar.

"We set off first, you guys quickly follow!"

Before Sui Sui finished speaking, she had already stepped onto the motorcycle with her long legs, and started the motorcycle while introducing it to Sui Xin.

Under the sudden roar of the engine and Wei Ran's stunned gaze, the motorcycle left the yard with the two girls first.

"Forget it, let's follow." Wei Ran came back to his senses and waved his hand, beckoning the dog Belia into the compartment of the armored pickup truck.

When he also pulled the dog and drove away, Anfeya immediately greeted Lola and took her younger sister Korava into the armored commercial vehicle that also contained a lot of belongings, and then took out a tablet computer to operate it. The monitoring system of the villa and the library next door was installed.

At the same time, Anfisa also drove away from the yard, and by the way, closed the iron gate of the yard with the remote control.

Under the bright sunshine, a sidecar motorcycle with a high rate of return, escorted by two equally ostentatious armored vehicles, drove straight along the road to the northwest outside the city, and finally converged at the entrance of the village. Tima and Maya who have been waiting for a long time.

Honking the car horn from a distance, the armored pickup truck driven by Ji Ma jumped and flashed twice, then accelerated and drove along a forest logging road full of weeds into the early spring forest.

"Jima, where are we going?" Wei Ran simply picked up the microphone of the car radio and asked.

"Just follow me," Jima said pretending to be mysterious, "Don't worry, it's not too far away, we'll be there soon."

Hearing this, Wei Ran simply didn't ask any more questions, and just focused on the sidecar motorcycle directly in front of him.

I have to admit that the motorcycle that the German guy has followed in various battlefields does have its unique features.So don't look at the two girls and the two big-eared foxes in the car dangling and yelling because of the bumpy road, but they were never trapped because of the bumpy road.

After driving along the logging road for about two kilometers, a forest fire protection belt about 200 meters wide appeared in front of it.

After crossing the isolation zone and continuing along the logging road for about one kilometer, a forest glade suddenly appeared in front of it. In the center of the clearing, there was a calm lake about [-] meters in diameter.On the other side of the lake, there seemed to be several abandoned wooden houses.

It wasn't until this time that the quarter horse in the front stepped on the brakes by the lake.At the same time, Sui Sui also overtook the armored commercial vehicle in front, driving a sidecar and yelling around the lakeshore in a circle.

"Why is she here on a motorcycle?" Ji Ma asked curiously after Wei Ran jumped out of the car.

"Let's make fun of her." Wei Ran waved his hand and politely rejected the other's cigarette, "What is this place?"

"It was a logging camp more than 20 years ago. According to my father, when they first came to settle here from Inta, they all worked in this logging camp, but it closed down not long after.

Now this place is basically deserted, but every spring, everyone will come here to pick mushrooms, and in autumn or winter, they will occasionally come here to hunt. "

While speaking, Jima had already pulled out the gun case from the cargo compartment of the armored pickup he was driving, and put his baby-like MTs-116M sniper rifle on the hood.

By the time Maya also greeted everyone and walked around to the rear of the car, the guy had already

Two more exquisite mahogany gun cases were taken out of it.

"They are high-end goods that I paid a lot of money to customize at the Tula Arms Company"

As Jima said, he had already opened the gun case, picked up the wooden butt and the barrel of the gun from inside and assembled them together with a bang, and then handed it to Wei Ran in a showy manner.

Looking at the various patterns carved on this stand-up shotgun, Wei Ran is really convinced by this big show bag. The content of the relief on it describes two things----the movie scene in the blizzard hut, and the desert scene. A scene from that scene.

Returning the shotgun to Jima, Wei Ran glanced at the shotgun in Maya's hand again. It was the same vertical double-barreled shotgun, also engraved with silver.Fortunately, Maya is more normal than Jima after all, and the engravings on it are all kinds of wild animals that can be seen in Kazakhstan.

"We mainly come to hunt wild boars"

Jima pointed to the surroundings, "Of course, because it has just rained recently, there are a lot of mushrooms here. In addition, there are fish and wild ducks in the lake. Of course, hunting wild ducks is illegal in this season."

"How many days shall we play here?"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had pulled out several fishing gear bags from his pickup truck and handed them to sisters Katenka and Lola who came to help, and then pulled down the tent and stove they had bought in advance.

"It doesn't matter if it's two days or three days"

Jima spread his hands, "Recently Daria and Karp are going to entertain their friends at the forest farm, so Maya and I are on vacation. We will wait for their notice when we will go back."

"Entering friends?" Wei Ran glanced at Jima strangely, but wisely did not ask any questions.

"It is said that they are mainly friends of Teacher Daria," Jima explained, lowering his voice slightly, "and there seem to be many of them."

"a lot of?"

"There must be a lot!"

Maya said affirmatively, "Since the forest farm stopped teaching, the big restaurant in the main building has not been opened even if Aurora sent tourists there. But when we left, not only the restaurant had already started cleaning, but we also watched There were several refrigerated trucks driving into the forest farm."

"Forget it, let's not be curious about such things."

While speaking, Wei Ran took out two more beers and handed them to Jima, then jumped off the cargo bed, opened the door and pulled out the metal box containing the survival shotgun from the compartment, and released Beria by the way.

"That's right," Jima had already hung a cowhide ammunition bag on his shoulders as he spoke.

At the same time, Suho, who was driving a motorcycle, also stopped beside the crowd after going around the lake for a week.

"We are going hunting, are you going?" Maya asked, who also hung the ammunition bag on her shoulder.

"We won't go," Sui Sui said, taking off his helmet, "We're going to catch some fish, Kamei, how about you?"

"After we finish setting up the tent, we will go mushroom picking"

Lola hurriedly replied, "I used to go to the forest with my grandfather to pick mushrooms. I know several kinds of mushrooms that are particularly delicious."

"In that case, I'll go pick mushrooms with you later."

Maya changed her mind without hesitation, put the shotgun in the car casually, ignored Jima's pitiful appearance, and hugged Lola like a girl, talking and laughing towards the busy The Katenka sisters pitching a tent.

"It seems only..."

"Looks like you're the only one going hunting by yourself."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Jima also took off the ammunition bag and sent it into the carriage together with the shotgun. At the same time, he said shamelessly, "How can the hard work of setting up a tent be left to the ladies."

"You have to show some face..." Wei Ran twitched the corners of his mouth, already wondering if he should shoot this scum in the head.

"Go hunting," Maya said without looking back, "don't come back if you can't catch a suckling pig."

"Victor, my good brother! Let's go hunting now!"

Before Ji Ma finished speaking, he happily picked up the custom-made shotgun that had just been thrown into the carriage.

He also took out a bulging rucksack and a sack of lasso from the cargo box and threw it on his shoulder.

Patting his forehead, Wei Ran, who was too lazy to talk anymore, gave Maya a thumbs up from a distance, picked up the bullet belt and hung it obliquely on his shoulder, followed Jima into the surrounding birch forest with a gun in his hand.

As for the dog Beria who was having fun around Sui Sui, he didn't take it with him. After all, although it was a good guard dog, it was definitely not a qualified hunting dog.

"I asked you to come over to play this time, but there is actually another very important thing."

After finishing speaking, Ji Ma broke a branch casually, pulled off the leaves that had just grown on it and rubbed them vigorously, and then continued to walk forward, wiping vigorously with the leaves all over his body.

"Is it related to the teachers who are entertaining the guests?" Wei Ran, who was also using leaves to cover up his smell, asked in a low voice.

"It's about you too"

While talking, Ji Ma stopped beside a thick-waisted white birch tree, handed the shotgun in his hand to Wei Ran, and he took off his backpack, and took out a metal pipe the size of a cigarette and a small gun from it. A handaxe, followed by a plastic water bladder tied to a string.

"Did they mention me?" Wei Ran asked while observing the surrounding environment.

"Um"

Jima nodded, nailed the metal pipe into the tree trunk and inserted the rubber stopper of the plastic water bladder at the other end, and then tied the water bladder to the tree trunk with a rope. Walking forward, he said, "Maya overheard."

"What did she hear?" Wei Ran asked.

"She heard Mr. Karp and Dahlia say"

Jima glanced around, then lowered his voice, and said close to Wei Ran's ear, "Mr. Karp said, maybe let Victor try it, maybe he can be of some help."

"Just this sentence?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Yes!" Jima nodded, "Then Teacher Daria said she had to think about it, that's all."

Before Wei Ran could say anything, Jima continued, "Victor, if you need me to help you, please don't be polite."

"Let me help?"

Wei Ran pondered for a while, then shook his head, "It shouldn't be a big deal, don't worry, it's because of this..."

"Do not"

Jima shook his head without waiting for Wei Ran to finish speaking, "Victor, I don't think this time is a trivial matter."

"What else do you know?" Wei Ran frowned.

"Just yesterday afternoon"

This time, Jima leaned closer to Wei Ran's ear, "Greva's younger brother at the train station accidentally saw Teacher Dalia greet a middle-aged man in military uniform at the gate."

Looking around again, Jima continued in a low voice, "The man in our gang, he served in the army before, so he recognized it at a glance, the rank of the man that Teacher Daria is welcoming is a colonel, Colonel of the Army."

"Colonel?" Wei Ran finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

"But the colonel saluted Miss Darya."

Jima narrated an even more frightening scene, and then added, "Our people said that Darya quickly stopped the colonel who was about to salute, and then took him away from the train station."

"Teacher Daria... it shouldn't be... not the active army..."

"Certainly not, how could she be an active soldier."

Jima replied resolutely, "But this is what I'm most worried about, Victor, or...you...you pretend that there is something urgent at home, and go back to Huaxia to hide?"

hide?
Wei Ran shook his head secretly, as the saying goes, could it be possible to escape past the fifteenth day?
And just because Jima's younger brother saw Teacher Dalia picking up a colonel at the train station, and saw that the colonel was about to salute Teacher Dalia and hid?Just because Karpt mentioned asking him to do Darya a favor and hide?
Even without considering the K prefix of Karp and others
The background, the relationship accumulated by the two parties for so long, can he really stand by and watch when the other party really needs his help?
On the other hand, now he is no longer the stunned young man who came to Nikolai like a headless chicken, and he is not the rookie who is chased by the honorable Mr. Gorbachev every day in the Hongqi forest farm. .

Or to put it more directly, relying on the relationship between the two parties, he really couldn't refuse to do a little favor for the other party.But he is also qualified to say "no" when necessary.

"There's nothing to hide"

Wei Ran, who wanted to understand the cause and effect, waved his hands calmly, and continued walking forward with a shotgun, while pretending to be indifferent, and said, "If Teacher Daria and the others really need help, I will definitely help them as much as I can."

"It's up to you, anyway, I reminded you." Jima nailed the second metal pipe to the trunk of another birch tree, and promised again, "Anyway, if you need my help , I will definitely help you unconditionally.”

"I'm not polite when I need your help," Wei Ran said with a smile.

Next, the two brothers ended the topic in a tacit agreement. After arranging the remaining water bladders for receiving birch sap, they each loaded their shotguns with No. 00 deer bullets and more powerful slugs. , just like the birch forest around Hongqi Forest Farm, started the already familiar wild boar hunting activities.

At the same time, on the open space by the lake behind the two of them, Katenka and the others had already set up several colorful tents. After lighting the bonfire together, they each took a shotgun and a small basket they brought, Following the confident Lola, she looked around for wild mushrooms that could be used.

And on the edge of the sparkling lake, on the clean and flat gravel beach, Sui Sui and Maya also helped Sui Xin set up a fishing platform and a chair with a backrest and armrests specially prepared for her, one on the left and one on the right He taught this quiet girl who hardly ever goes out how to hang the bait and how to throw the hook.

Near noon, with several muffled gunshots coming from the forest, the dog Beria, who had been lying beside Sui Sui, immediately stood up and watched the direction of the gunshots vigilantly.

In less than half an hour, Wei Ran and Ji Ma came back with two young wild boars that were not yet weaned, talking and laughing.

Seeing this, Beria immediately rushed over with his bright red tongue, jumped up and caught a little piglet thrown by Wei Ran.

Almost front and rear, the Katenka sisters who also carried shotguns but only for self-defense also came back with a basket of mushrooms. Behind the two sisters, Lola also carried a bag of mushrooms in her hands Half full plastic water bladder.

"That...Victor"

Jima stared blankly at the Katenka sisters who were getting closer, and asked in a low voice after a brief hesitation, "Do...do you think...the mushrooms they picked...can be eaten?"

"Can...should...should be able..." Wei Ran said with difficulty.

"I leave the work of collecting the prey to you, I think I'd better check the mushrooms they picked up myself."

Ji Ma swallowed with difficulty, threw the little piglet he brought back into the cargo bin of the pickup truck, and enthusiastically greeted the Katenka sisters with a proud expression on their faces.