Isn’t this forced buying and selling?
Wei Ran, who was left in the room, stared at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth and suddenly became entangled. It stands to reason that as long as he sells those gold sands, he will earn enough money in less than a month to make a down payment when he returns to his hometown. Got a wife.
But what happens after that?
Find a job and live a normal life? Or continue to make money by digging through historical archives in Professor Alexei's studio? If there is a big money-making job at that time, should I use the help of that notebook?
After thinking about it, if you want to continue to use the help of that cowhide book to return to the battlefield of World War II, and if you want to come back alive as much as possible, this money seems to have to be spent.
"It's all for nothing, just spend it!"
Wei Ran gritted his teeth and comforted himself, and took out the unused one from his pocket with pain. A large but extremely heavy glass can. Since he got this windfall, he had kept it warm for a long time, but he hadn't had time to open it yet, but he didn't expect that it would no longer belong to him so soon.
After a lot of mental preparation, Wei Ran took out his cell phone tremblingly and dialed Culp's number again.
Before the phone was connected, the latter had already opened the door and came in. He even held a yellow document bag in his hand.
"Have you thought about it?" Culp sat on the dirty chair and asked without raising his head while taking out a few pieces of paper from the document bag.
"I've thought about it" Wei Ran reluctantly put the cans and bottles on the table, "But can I pay for the tuition with gold?"
Looked up in surprise. Looking at the young man standing across the table, Culp picked up the glass can and weighed it, and said calmly, "Yes, yes, but this little gold doesn't seem to be worth 9 million rubles."
"How many years will I study here?" Wei Ran asked, skipping the topic.
Culp put down the cans and bottles, "It will take at least three years."
Wei Ran pretended to be calm and said, "Since it is three years, how about paying the tuition once a year?"< /p>
"Of course! Of course! If you pay your tuition with gold in the future, I can even give you another 10% off." Culp agreed to Wei Ran's request this time.
"Thank you so much! It would be nice if it could be cheaper."
Wei Ran almost gritted his teeth and said, he was not worried about the other party getting away with money, after all, he could run away. A monk can't escape from the temple. If the other party really tries to trick me, my aunt, who is a legal professional, can definitely sue the other party so hard that she won't even be able to keep her pants.
"The price is now the lowest. Okay, fill out these forms first, and write in the places circled by pencil."
Culp put the thick After handing the thick stack of forms to Wei Ran, he pointed to the Jinsha still on the table, "You take these things first, and I will take you to melt them later."
" "Enrollment Agreement?" Wei Ran looked at it.He glanced at the form in his hand and asked, "Is there an enrollment agreement?"
"Of course, this is a regular school, and you are the first male student besides that little bastard Jima." He said. Here, Culp knocked on the table and urged, "If there is no problem, hurry up and sign."
"But how can you ensure the teaching effect?" Wei Ran asked cautiously, "So many It’s not worth the money just to reach the level of a hunter like Jima.”
“Jima didn’t pay a single ruble for tuition, and he only studied the simplest women for the purpose of profiting. It's just self-defense."
Culp knocked on the glass can and said in a very bachelor manner, "If you have any doubts about the teaching effect, you can leave with your gold at any time before signing. There will be no such thing here. Someone stopped you."
Wei Ran, who was speechless, hesitated again and again, and finally decided to take the risk and believe Nicholas. After carefully reading the enrollment agreement, he suddenly felt that the money spent might not be a waste.
Among other things, while studying here, I not only have a single dormitory, a car of my own, and high accident insurance. What’s even more exaggerated is that during the three-year study process, I may even get a scholarship!
Looking at the smiling Culp across the table with a strange expression, Wei Ran honestly signed his name in the corresponding position on each page.
Culp stamped each of the two copies of the enrollment agreement, put one into a document bag and handed it to Wei Ran, then threw the other into a drawer and said, "The start of school is on From October 1st, you have about a week to prepare. Starting from October 1st, you need to come back here to complete at least 15 days of study. The specific course schedule will be sent to me when I am ready. You."
"Is there anything I need to pay extra attention to?" Wei Ran put away the document bag and asked with some anticipation.
"Don't be like that bastard Jima who always wants to sleep with the female students here. If you find out, you will be expelled immediately and you will not be refunded a ruble of tuition."
Karp After saying that, without waiting for Wei Ran to say anything else, he stood up and was the first to leave the dilapidated office, "Take your gold and come with me downstairs. Let's find a place to melt it and see how much it's worth."< /p>
Following Culp down from the top floor, the two left the main building and took a golf cart through the two-story building with the "Consultation Center" sign on it, arriving at a building farthest from the main building of Sickle. In a single-family five-story building.
The situation here is not much better than that of the main building. The first floor is a huge swimming pool that has long since dried up, and even the tiles have fallen off. The corridors on the second floor are covered with various propaganda posters from the Soviet era. In several of the rooms with open doors, you can still see dilapidated saunas and various consulting rooms filled with strange and strange medical equipment.
As Culp walked into a small room on the second floor, this handsome manBrother opened the cabinet, took out bottles of chemicals, and directed Wei Ran to take out the bottom-level financial furnace without any hesitation.
"Karp, what is this place?" Wei Ran asked while the other party was using chemicals to dissolve the gold sand.
"The medical room has been abandoned for a long time." Culp replied without raising his head.
“No, no, no, I mean this whole building, including the one we just visited.”
“This was a high-standard sanatorium in the Soviet era. "
While stirring the solution in the glass beaker, Culp explained, "At that time, those who were eligible to come here for recuperation were all the big shots in Kazan. During the most tense years of the Cold War, It also served as the Kazan backup wartime command center for a short time. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it gradually fell into disuse, and finally I bought it at a low price along with the surrounding forest."
" And then you keep panicking like this?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.
"It's just a lack of funds for renovation and maintenance."
Culp said matter-of-factly, "Besides, there are not many people here at all, so there is no need for too many rooms, and even if they are cleaned If it's clean, it will become what it is now sooner or later, so just make sure it doesn't leak."
"No wonder the tuition is so expensive," Wei Ran muttered to himself and closed his eyes honestly. Watch each other's actions with your mouth.
With Culp's busy work, the small can of gold sand was quickly cast into a small, slender gold bar after chemical purification and heating and smelting in a gold melting furnace.
After the melting furnace, crucible and mold were all cooled down, Culp asked Wei Ran to take the gold bars and go downstairs with him and leave, walking to the consultation center not far away.
Wei Ran asked the aunt at the front desk to pull out an electronic scale, and after using unopened mineral water to prove the accuracy of the electronic scale, Wei Ran put the gold bars on.
"A total of 974 grams. According to today's gold price, these golds are worth 3.05 million rubles."
Culp threw the calculator to Wei Ran and waited for him to check it against his mobile phone. After confirming that the gold price calculation was correct, the handsome old man stretched out his hand to Wei Ran shamelessly, "But because the origin of your gold is unknown, and I also helped you complete the purification and casting, you still have to give me 100,000 rubles."
"Why don't you go and grab it?!" Wei Ran, who had been preparing for the other party to give him 50,000 rubles, suddenly widened his eyes. How could this person be more shameless than Professor Alexei?
“Am I just robbing you?” Culp raised his fingers again as a matter of course, his handsome old face that was well maintained looked particularly arrogant.
"Invoicing!"
Wei Ran, who has been working in his aunt's travel agency all year round, grasped the opponent's every inch with just one sentence. Invoicing requires paying tax, and the other party is so happy to agree Collecting gold must be an attempt to evade taxes.
“Forget it, I’ll give you a discount of 100,000 rubles.”
Karp said reluctantly, but he knew that the extra 100,000 rubles would be waived, but the extra 50,000 rubles, Weiran would not want to get back. .
“I’m so grateful to you eight generations of ancestors! "Wei Ran gritted his teeth and said.
"Don't think I can't understand Chinese," Culp responded abruptly in jerky Chinese.
"You know Chinese? ! "Wei Ran's eyes suddenly widened.
"I know more than you think. Culp tossed the gold bars in his hand and reminded with a threatening tone, "I will report here at nine o'clock in the morning on October 1st. You'd better not be late." ”
Before Wei Ran could say anything else, the handsome old man walked out of the consultation center humming an unknown tune, and drove the golf cart out of sight.
Reluctantly, he took out his cell phone and made a call to Ji Ma, and then Wei Ran found Ji Ma peeping at the beautiful woman outside a dance studio on the first floor of the main building.
"Victor. , am I right! "Jima raised her chin towards the beautiful girls in tight yoga clothes doing stretching in the classroom, winked obscenely and said, "Heaven, this is a man's paradise! ”
“Let’s get back to reality first”
Weiyan pushed Jima’s shoulder and walked out, “You have to take me to Kazan Airport first. I have something to go back to.” A trip to Volgograd. "
"We have just arrived." Ji Ma's eyes did not leave the classroom full of girls at all, "Aren't you going to hunt? Why did you just come and leave? "
"There will be plenty of opportunities for hunting in the future." Wei Ran was not going to tell Ji Ma that he would spend three years studying here, "Anyway, send me to Kazan first!" "
"Okay, Kazan, I will send you back now. Ji Ma reluctantly followed Wei Ran out of the lobby on the first floor, "When will you come to Kazan again?" Mr. Nicholas's birthday will come soon. "
"October 1st, I will definitely come by then. "Wei Ran responded vaguely.
"That's good, we'll be able to catch up with Mr. Nikolai's birthday party by then. "Ji Ma breathed a sigh of relief, opened the door of the van, and stepped on the accelerator immediately after Wei Ran got into the car.
It wasn't until the car drove onto the road in the forest that Wei Ran asked, "Ji Ma, tell us about Principal Culp. How much do you know about him? "
"So you came to see Mr. Culp? "
Jima suddenly understood, and said like pouring beans from the bamboo tube, "Mr. Culp used to be our math teacher. After the school closed, he bought the Hongqi Forest Farm. Since then, he has I lived here until about ten years ago when the current Hongqi Women’s Safety Training School was opened. ”
During the chat with Ji Ma, Wei Ran also got a general understanding of Culp. It was hard to imagine that this old handsome guy was actually a handsome old bachelor, and the so-called school behind him, At most, there are less than 20 students.
As for the teachers, except for Culp who teaches most of the courses himself, most of the others are part-time teachers hired from outside. This configuration looks somewhat similar to Pheasant University.
While chatting about the forest behind them, the van drove smoothly to Kazan Airport. The two of them found a place nearby to have a meal, and Weiran immediately took the nearest flight back. to Volgograd.
Returning to the studio where he had been away for many days, Professor Alexei was browsing the information on the computer screen with squinted eyes. Behind him, there is a bronze statue of Marshal Zhukov about one and a half meters high.
"You bastard, you are finally willing to come back. How was your outing?" Professor Alexei said particularly happily.
"I almost froze to death," Wei Ran said vaguely, then changed the subject and asked, "Where did this bronze statue come from?"
"A few days ago I accompanied your aunt to Moscow and bought it when I passed by Bryansk on my way back." Professor Alexey said proudly, "This statue may be the work of a master sculptor. When I find out, it may be sold ten times. Price."
"I hope so." Wei Ran looked up at the electronic watch hanging on the wall, "You didn't go to school today?"
Talk about this issue. , Professor Alexei's expression changed slightly, and after a long hesitation he said, "Victor, I'm ready to work for Mr. Alexander. He made an offer that neither your aunt nor I can refuse."
"That museum that hasn't been completed yet?" Wei Ran asked anxiously. This news directly disrupted his plan. If Professor Alexey went to work for Alexander, wouldn't the studio stop?
Professor Alexei obviously saw Wei Ran’s worries, “Victor, if you want to work in Mr. Alexander’s museum, the job of technical consultant is still yours. , you can also go to school for graduate school, or continue to work in this studio."
"Continue to work in this studio?"
Seeing Wei Ran look at him in confusion. Professor Alexei said treacherously, "This studio legally belongs to your aunt, so you can continue to work here."
"What about you?" Wei Ran asked.
"I don't work for Mr. Alexander 24 hours a day, and he is not the only client we have. It's just that you will have to bear more work in the future."
Said At this point, the old guy took out a few printed photos from the workbench and handed them to Wei Ran, "And now there is a chance for you to get used to it first."
Took the photos and looked at them. , the first two photos were taken of a corpse with remnants of a German uniform and a BMW sidecar motorcycle with the front wheel falling off.
The next few black and white photos have mottled light spots as if they were used on expired film, but even so they can be managed.Qiang clearly saw that the content captured was basically a war-torn battlefield, including everything from bombed-out tanks to German half-track armor stuck in the mud with only its head left, to German soldiers in the trenches.
"This is?"
"A corpse dug up by a few lucky rookie diggers in the forest outside Bryansk"
Ale Professor Kesai took the photo and flipped it through, pointing to the bones in the color photo and said, "This was taken at the excavation site. In addition to the BMW motorcycle, there was also a miscellaneous person who was dug out. "Tell me the key, Professor," Wei Ran urged.
“The point is that they found two film seals and a badly rusted camera in that box. These things were given to me as gifts for the statue of Marshal Zhukov. And these black and white photos are I used the negatives taken out of the film seal tube to successfully develop a few pictures.”
At this point, Professor Alexei pointed to one of the pictures where only the front of the car was exposed outside the swamp. Photo, he said whimsically, "So Victor, although it is a little more difficult this time, if we can find out where this photo was taken, it is only possible to dig up clues about the half-track armored vehicle. The most important thing is that we can sell this kind of news more than once!”
Compared to Professor Alexey who is still talking about pie, Wei Ran But he fell into a sluggish state, and he suddenly realized that he seemed to have used that magical cowhide notebook in the wrong place!