On the night of arriving in Berlin, Wei Ran rarely had any nightmares and had a good sleep. Early the next morning, when he woke up, the Spree River facing the hotel's floor-to-ceiling windows had already reflected most of the red rising sun.
"Maybe they also want me to come back here and have a look..."
Wei Ran stood in front of the window, staring at the small independent clinic on the river bank and murmured He muttered something to comfort himself, relaxed and took a cold shower that could make people howl like ghosts. Calling Jima next door, who was also urged to wake up by the biological clock, the two of them had breakfast and followed the staff who came to pick them up back to the clinic where they stopped for a long time yesterday.
Before they entered the door, they heard the young girl Anna say decisively, "Mr. Hans, we are very grateful that you are willing to help us, but my mother and I will not leave Ukraine." Although it is indeed difficult to live in Ukraine, it is our home after all.”
“I respect my daughter’s decision”
Ms. But he said in a firm tone, "Mr. Hans, my daughter and I cherish the friendship with your family, just like the friendship between my grandfather Ivan and Mr. Mario. Therefore, we do not want to trade this friendship for What a benefit. Of course, if we really need help one day in the future, we will contact you without hesitation."
Hans played with half a thumb-sized gold bar in his hand, and after a moment of silence, Seeing that Wei Ran and Jima had walked in, they had no choice but to say, "Since you insist on staying in Ukraine, please allow me to help you change to a better living environment in Kiev, just like when Mr. Ivan was willing to take me The family members were hiding from the war as Jewish survivors and doctors."
"This..." Maura and the lady looked at each other and finally nodded, agreeing to Hans' request.
Hans finally showed a happy smile on his face, "In this case, I will ask my son to take you to have fun in Berlin for a few days, and then send you back."< /p>
"Sorry to trouble you, Mr. Hans." Maura said rather awkwardly.
"No trouble, no trouble at all." Hans smiled and stood up, "Victor, how about we talk alone next?"
"My It's an honor." Wei Ran nodded with a smile and followed Hans along the creaking wooden stairs to the second floor.
When both parties sat down around the table, Hans sighed, "I wanted to leave them in Berlin to start a new life, but they all wanted to return to Ukraine."
Wei Ran looked around and saw the very familiar layout in the room. After thinking for a moment, he said leisurely, "Perhaps Mr. Mario and Dr. Rocky also received the same invitation from Mr. Ivan back then. In the end, they didn't Are you still staying in Berlin?"
Hans was stunned, and then laughed, "That's right, it seems I didn't think about it well.Young man, how can I thank you? "
"Just pay the investigation fee according to what we said."
Wei Ran picked up the coffee pot on the table and poured a cup for the other party, and said half-jokingly, "Of course , if possible, it would be better to pay in cash within Russia, which would allow me to pay a lot less tax. "
"Haha! This is not a problem!
Hans laughed and took out a check from his suit pocket and pushed it to Wei Ran, "In addition to the investigation fee of 12 million rubles, this check of 200,000 US dollars also Take it. "
"This? "Wei Ran looked at Hans sitting opposite him with confusion, but did not touch the check.
"Mr. Ivan's Memoir Manuscript"
Hans' gentle explanation He said, "Although you don't want to say more, it must have taken a lot of effort to find it. Even so, you were willing to give it back to Maura, which was rare. So of course I can't let young people's efforts not be rewarded with any benefits. "
Wei Ran smiled and said, "Mr. Hans, if I accept this surprise, are you also willing to accept the surprise I prepared for you and Ms. Mora?" "
"What surprise? Hans asked with great interest, and then saw Wei Ran just looking at him with a smile, and immediately nodded happily, "I'm looking forward to the surprise you've prepared." ”
Seeing this, Wei Ran put down his coffee cup, took out a kraft paper package from his backpack and handed it to the other party.
Unexpectedly, he opened the hemp rope and thick kraft paper. There were only three square wooden photo frames. The photos in the first two frames were the photos taken by Wei Ran of the wounded outside the clinic and Mr. Hans who was busy rescuing in the tent just after he got the camera. Dad and Dr. Lodge.
In the third photo frame, a few minutes before the Berlin city defense commander surrendered, Wei Ran took a group photo of everyone in a conference room filled with wounded people.
"This is..." Hans raised his head and looked at the fixed shot in the photo frame, "Where did this come from? "
"I found it together with the manuscript." Wei Ran smiled, "Of course, all I found was the negatives, and I developed the photos myself. ”
“Very good, already very good, thank you Victor! "
Dad Hans stood up excitedly, "Come on, come with me and hang them on the wall in the basement. Also, put that check away. Or how about I exchange it for you with one with a larger denomination? "
"This one is enough." Wei Ran put the check into the mezzanine of his backpack with peace of mind, and took out a USB flash drive and handed it to Hans, "Here is the electronic version of the negative." ”
Putting away the USB flash drive carefully, Hans went downstairs and immediately showed everyone the photos he had just received from Wei Ran. The latter naturally received a wave of exclamation and thanks.< /p>
"Mr. Hans, and Ms. Mora. ”
Weiran took out a machine with horse fur from his backpack.The camera bag even has a Rolleiflex double-lens reflex camera with a gold melee assault medal on it. "Before you hang those photo frames on the wall in the basement, how about I take a group photo of you?"< /p>
"This is a good suggestion!" Hans looked at the photo frame in his hand, "Well, let's go take pictures outside the clinic!"
Hearing this, everyone in the room immediately went their separate ways. He moved the chairs outside the clinic and stood in two rows under Jima's command.
Taking this opportunity, Wei Ran loaded a box of color film into his camera. After they posed, he gently moved the camera to capture all the people and the clinic behind them, together with a short section sparkling in the morning sun. Surrounded by the sparkling Spree River, I pressed the shutter lightly.
"Victor, how about taking a photo with us?" Maura's proposal was immediately unanimously agreed by everyone.
Hand the old-fashioned camera to Jima and show him the position of the shutter. Wei Ran stood behind Hans and Maura at their insistence, standing side by side with Anna and Hans' son.
As the shutter sound sounded again, the smile on Wei Ran's face was frozen in the silver salt film. At the same time, he secretly muttered in his heart, "This photo, I finally have my shadow."