War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 978 Hila casts a net, the ambition of a rich woman
On the morning of the third day at the Sugar Maple Farm, the young people who fell asleep early yesterday because of drunkenness woke up one after another without waiting for the sun to completely jump out of the treetops.

Opening the curtains in a daze, Wei Ran found the culprit who woke him up at a glance. It was a feline lying on the oven that had been turned off, biting the leftover roast venison from yesterday. animal.

This unknown little thing looks about the same size as a lynx, with the same short tail, but the patterns on its body are much more beautiful.

It's just that the action of it biting the barbecue also made the oven made of welded steel plates make frequent noises, but it didn't know how to be afraid at all, on the contrary, it looked like it was used to it.

Even when Anfisa yawned and pushed open the door, the little thing stood up unhurriedly, bowed its back and gave a threatening haha ​​to the former.

Compared with Wei Ran, who is more or less caring for small animals, Anfisa, who has not slept well, is not used to these small animals.The girl didn't aim at all, so she raised the PSS small pistol with body temperature, and pulled the trigger decisively in the general direction of the opponent.

"clang!"

After colliding with the oven, the bullet originally specially designed for noise reduction not only successfully punched an inconspicuous hole, but also made a loud noise that was loud enough.

The unknown small feline animal also immediately ran away without a trace.

Standing at the door and yawning, Anfisa bent down to pick up the bullet case, then picked up the shovel, dug two shovels near the oven, and easily found the slightly deformed bullet head, rounded it together with the bullet case Arm thrown into a distant pond.

In the bedroom upstairs, Wei Ran turned his head to look at his side, only to find that Sui Sui, who was stretching with her eyes closed just now, fell asleep again in just a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, he simply got up alone, put on his clothes and went downstairs, intending to grab the job before Anfisa kindly prepared breakfast for everyone.

Fortunately, although the cabin is not big, Tatanka's father and daughter helped to prepare a lot of supplies in advance.The only inconvenience is that there is not even an induction cooker here, so it is a little troublesome to start a fire and cook.

After re-igniting the campfire outside and setting up a pot to cook oatmeal, Wei Ran put the coffee pot on the edge of the campfire and heated it up slowly, then he dragged over a chair that was wet with dew and sat next to the campfire down.Almost on foot, Anfeisa also walked over wearing a thin blanket.

Sitting down with Wei Ran across a throbbing bonfire, Anfisa wrapped the blanket tightly around her body and whispered, "Boss, I have some good news."

"Tell me about it" Wei Ran asked casually while taking care of the newly lit bonfire.

"The three girls that Hela is going to send to recruit and study abroad have all obtained the qualifications for studying abroad yesterday. About a week later, the first girl will set off for Osaka alone. Her code name is Dandelion."

After a short pause, Anfisa continued, "On the weekend of the second week after arriving in Osaka, Dandelion will go to Nara to participate in the local comic exhibition. At that time, she will cosplay one of Rin Kitao's favorite anime characters."

"Rin Kitao? That recruit girl I rescued in northern Burma?"

While talking, Wei Ran matched the name with the little girl in his memory that had begun to blur.

"It's her. We usually call her by clownfish."

Anfisa helped to throw a piece of firewood into the bonfire, "The clownfish also bought the admission ticket for that manga exhibition. At that time, our dandelion will have an initial intersection with the clownfish due to some small accidents, Try to be friends."

After a short pause, Anfisa continued, "In the second week after the comic exhibition, the second girl will also set off. Her code name is Kangaroo. Kangaroo will go to Tokyo. Unless there is an emergency, she will not go with you. Dandelion produces any intersection, and there will be no connection in the future."

"Continue" Wei Ran said noncommittally.

"The third girl will arrive in Osaka before school starts in September. Her code name is Apple."

Anfisa took a sip from the wooden coffee cup handed by Wei Ran and continued, "Her main job is to build a safe house."

"How did the succubus arrange it?" Wei Ran poured himself a cup of coffee while changing the subject.

"The Succubus headquarters in Kiev and the branch office in the French red light district have both been set up. The former is a shell company, and the latter is now open for business."

"Open for business?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Although the name of this company is not serious, but the business project is serious."

Holding the cup, Anfisa explained, "Except for the fourth Hela girl we sent over, the rest of the employees, including the manager, were all recruited online.

They have now opened a body management course, and according to the feedback, it is very popular with the lonely women around the company. Although there is no way to smooth out the office expenses for the time being, there is no need to spend extra money every month. "

"Is there any other good news?" Wei Ran continued to ask noncommittally.

"We're ready to start our charging program"

Anfisa poured another cup of coffee, and at the same time kept saying, "But we don't have enough manpower, and we haven't found suitable candidates to send to the country of cow urine to help recruit new members."

"Let's put this matter aside for now." Wei Ran said abruptly, "Suspend the plan to recruit new staff for now."

"Any other arrangements?"

"Maybe someone can help us find the right person in a low enough and stealthy way."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the little rich woman Kou Kou also walked out of the cabin sleepily, stood at the door and stretched her body.

"Wait for my news about this matter." Wei Ran finally explained, and then greeted Kou Kou.

"Why did you wake up so early?"

Kou Kou asked as she walked towards the campfire. At the same time, Anfisa picked up the coffee pot again and helped him pour a cup.

"A wild animal came to look for food half an hour ago," Anfisa said and yawned. "I thought it was a man-eating Wendigo."

Hearing this, Kou Kou yawned subconsciously, "I only heard a loud noise, and thought you fell from the hammock."

"I thought so too, so I went downstairs to take a look." Anfisa yawned involuntarily as if infected, "Where's my sister? Is she still awake?"

"I'm already awake, washing my face." Kou Kou looked at Wei Ran who was also yawning involuntarily, "Did Aurel come down?"

"Still sleeping." Wei Ran pointed to the window of the bedroom on the second floor, "If no one calls her, she can sleep until the afternoon."

"Probably my sister has gone to wake her up"

Anfesa said affirmatively that when she was in Kazan, it was Anfeya's job to use various methods to wake up Sui Sui and Lola who were lying in bed for morning exercises.

"Victor, how did you think about my proposal last night?" Kou Kou changed the subject while refilling his cup of coffee.

"Proposal? What proposal?" Wei Ran asked knowingly and pretending to be confused.

"That shell case, and the missing captain."

Kou Kou pointed to the direction where the wooden house entered, "Whatever you find out, you can open the commission. Anyway, you know what price I can afford, and what price I can't afford. And frankly, I now almost every day When I opened my eyes, I was worrying about how to spend the living expenses that belonged to today.”

"I thought you were drunk and talking drunk last night." Wei Ran perfunctoryly said in a joking tone.

“I did not drink less last night”

Kou Kou couldn't help but yawned again, and then she said, "But I don't want to always be labeled as 'heir of good luck', it will only make others think that I am very rich and easy to cheat idiot."

Seeing that Wei Ran was silent, Kou Kou sipped his coffee and continued, "No matter what interesting things you find out, I will arrange reporters to follow you and make news just like the Gravett family who hired you this time."

"And then?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"I just wish this had been done sooner"

Kou Kou said seriously, "For example, I made a special trip to Russia to invite you to come here to investigate the missing captain. This is my great-grandfather Mr. Dominique's last wish, and it is also the regret I want to help him make up for. How about it? "

"It's not that good, it's a bit blunt."

Before the words were finished, Sui Sui, who was sleepy, came over with disheveled hair, and lay directly on Wei Ran's back. Behind the girl, An Feiya, who was still in her pajamas, followed.

"Why are you so stiff?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"Who knows if it was mandatory in Dominic's will?"

Sui Sui yawned against Wei Ran's ear, and continued with sleepy eyes, "The media will definitely guess this way, and then give Sister Kou an additional label of a marionette."

"So what should I do?" Koko asked immediately after Anfisa helped translate Russian into French.

"Let me think"

Sui Sui, who was not in shape, rubbed her nose on Wei Ran's shoulder after speaking, and then yawned and sat beside him.

After Anfeiya also sat down next to her sister, she said, "I don't think we need to make excuses in a hurry. It's better to see what clues we can find first, and then see what we can gain based on the clues we find."

Waiting patiently for Anfisa to finish translating, Sui Sui continued, "Assumption, I am assuming! Assuming that the captain is found, and his bones are sent to the US Navy Headquarters to make a big news,
If you can't find the captain, and you can only prove that the ax is his personal property, then organize a charity auction, and then divide the money from the auction in two, and give a quarter of it to the captain. Descendants, with an additional three-quarters donated to Indians in the United States. "

Speaking of this, Sui Sui raised her face and looked at Wei Ran, "You must know why the distribution is like this?"

"Captain Evans is three-quarters Cherokee Indian, so donating three-quarters of the auction proceeds to the Cherokee Indian reservation that may still exist in the United States, suggesting that the captain not only An American hero and an Indian hero."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at the former, "Is that so?"

"That's right!"

Sui Sui kissed Wei Ran deliberately as if throwing dog food, and said jokingly, "The American Indians will be proud of it, and they will also thank Kou Kou by the way. Of course, you are not bad. "

"Really not bad"

Wei Ran nodded. If everything goes as expected, he and the missing captain he might find are almost the ambassadors of Kou Kou's image in the United States.

What he will have to do at that time is to mention from time to time on some occasions that his investigation is all thanks to the sponsorship of his boss, Ms. Coco Love, and how his boss, a rich woman Obsessed with Indian culture, even sympathized with the tragic experience of Indians hundreds of years ago and so on.

Come to think of it, a girl from an old part of the French Revolution accidentally inherited a large fortune in America.

She could have been a rich man quietly waiting to die, but this kind and righteous girl not only invited a "third-party historian" who was fair enough to help the Indians find their heroes, but also helped the Indians find their heroes. Stand up bravely and speak out for the injustice suffered by their ancestors hundreds of years ago.

With such a set, Kou Kou, a little rich woman, and even him, a wage earner working for the rich woman, will definitely win the favor of most Indians in the United States and Jiama.

And objectively speaking, in the United States today, the black people who are almost biologically invaded belong to the noble life, and the white people who are also biologically invaded are the cheap life, but only the aborigines are a special existence.

In any case, the special treatment enjoyed by this minority group, which is less than 3% of the total population of the United States, is really the result of their ancestors trading their heads one by one!Precisely, that period of history is the black history that the white people who occupy the main body of the United States are the last to mention.

But this matter is different for those present around the bonfire. At the very least, exposing the faults, especially the faults of the Americans, not only Wei Ran is willing to do this matter, but even the Hela organization that sister Katenka is in charge of , those ill-fated girls are all very willing to do it!

Regardless of other people, even for Wei Ran himself, in the final analysis, the first time he as a historian appeared in the newspapers was not because he found the photo of the red flag on the Capitol at that time, but because he helped find a missing person in Finland. The end of the Soviet division commander.

In the same way, it can be proved that if he can find clues about the captain of the missing American destroyer, it will be far more than just helping Kou Kou, helping the Indians, and even helping himself improve his popularity and presence.

What he values ​​more is that who would doubt that a historian who helps Americans find their own heroes is actually a murderer?Even if someone doubts, someone will stand up and speak up for Wei Ran immediately, because at that time, anyone who "smears" Wei Ran is obviously retaliating!
Wei Ran subconsciously glanced at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand, but did not rush to make a decision.

While he was thinking wildly, Sui Sui had already given a new suggestion after Anfisa translated the conversation just now.

"Koukou, is there a housekeeper missing by your side?" Suisui asked with a smile.

"really"

Kou Kou spread her hands, "Ms. Horta talks too much. With her by my side, my freedom may be reduced by half."

"What if you have an Indian steward by your side?"

With the help of Anfisa, Sui Sui suggested, "For example, Sister Tantu is good, she can speak French, German and English, at least she can be a translator, and her major is also similar to what you want to learn. The place.

On top of that, she's a divorced, Indian woman on a reservation, and while it's cruel to say that, at least in America, that's a symptom of the disease, right?With her around, it may be more useful than the law in many cases. "

"That's a good proposal!"

Kou Kou's eyes lit up immediately after listening to the translated suggestions. Although she didn't know Tantu for a long time, at the wine table last night, everyone was able to chat very well, and the woman's talent for telling horror stories It seems to be very good, and it wouldn't be too bad to be a spokesperson for myself.
Seeing that Kou Kou also began to lose her mind, Sui Sui was still not satisfied. The girl took a large bowl of vegetable oatmeal from Anfeya and replaced the coffee cup that she had only drank a few sips of, pointing at the Superior behind her. In the direction of the lake, he said like a mature little fox, "Coco, Mr. Tatanka is the person Mr. Dominique trusts the most, even in order to protect his Indian friends, Mr. Dominic is willing to risk bankruptcy , spent a lot of money to buy this land and gave it to his Indian friends to manage themselves."

"Is that so?"

Kou Kou waited for Anfesa to finish the translation, and asked with a half-open mouth and a dull face. She clearly remembered that Tatanka seemed to be Dominique's driver before.She clearly remembered that this piece of land seemed to be a gold mine where Mr. Dominique's investment failed. How did it become so high-level when it got into the mouth of her good sister?

"Of course it is! Even if it wasn't before, it has been from now on."

Sui Sui clenched her fists and continued to fool the little rich woman friend sitting next to her, "What does this mean? It means that Mr. Dominique was a friend of the Indians a long time ago, and you, the successor, will also inherit the relationship between you and the Indian friends. friendship!"

Seeing that Kou Kou, a little rich woman with a face full of admiration, was about to be bent by Sui Sui, Wei Ran even began to wonder if that old bastard Gorman secretly stuffed Sui Sui with something serious teaching materials.

Looking at Suisui again, the girl took a sip of the hot thick oatmeal and vegetable porridge happily, and after she swallowed it, she pretended to pat Wei Ran on the shoulder, pointing her finger at the shell casing in the distance and shouted, " Come on, Pikachu! It's all up to you! Find the missing captain, or even find a way to prove that the broken ax belongs to the captain."

Speaking of this, Sui Sui was taken aback for a moment, and then asked excitedly, "Pickup, ah, no, brother, Wei University scholar, Wei University curator, besides the missing captain, can you also take his warship as well?" Get it out?"

"can!"

Wei Ranpa pulled the opponent's claws away, and said solemnly, "I'll buy a magnet the size of a brick later, and tie it with a rope to see if I can suck that destroyer up from the sea."

"Uh, you mean it's hard to find that boat?" Sui Sui asked with a grin.

"Grandfather, what do you think?"

Wei Ran asked back, dumbfounded, "If it's so easy to find, how can we return it? And even if you find it, do you really think you can salvage the sunken ship by buying a magnet? The cost of that thing is high."

"I haven't caught it yet"

Sui Sui muttered something indistinctly while sucking on the oatmeal, but just by looking at her eyeballs, she knew that this girl probably didn't hold back anything good.

Just when Kou Kou came back to his senses and was about to say something, three quad bikes also drove up from the direction of the entrance of the farm.

Among the three motorcycles, Tantu was naturally the one in the lead.But on the second motorcycle behind her, Ania was wearing a hunting suit with a shotgun on her shoulders, and Ninel was slowly following behind.

(End of this chapter)