In the windy and snowy abandoned military base, Wei Ran pretended to be sitting cross-legged on a wolfskin blanket facing the window, playing the guqin in his hand.
In the fragmented song, Alili held a small notebook in his hand and carefully recorded the various ideas and suggestions Suisui put forward for their camp. Upstairs, Ji Ma, who had fallen in love with Qian'er, was rummaging through various rooms for missing treasures. From time to time, he would pick up an ax and chop hard.
Unfortunately, although due to his busy work, more and more firewood was piled up in the hall on the third floor, Ji Ma, who was busy from morning to noon, found nothing but a vertical double-barreled shotgun of relatively good workmanship. Apart from a few large boxes of matching 12-gauge bullets, there was no valuable gain at all.
"I plan to go to another building to continue searching in the afternoon."
Beside the bonfire, Ji Ma, who was called back for lunch, was biting into the grilled deer steak and looking for money. He said thoughtfully, "Which of you is willing to go with me?"
"Save it for me."
Ali said angrily, "Now even if someone is hiding in that building I'm not surprised if there is a pack of wolves, but you can't just wait in this building for two days?"
"Don't look at me, I have to continue practicing in the afternoon," Wei Rantou said. He raised his head to block Ji Ma's words.
Ji Ma looked at Suisui, who was holding a tablet computer and watching Chinese TV series, and shook his head to give up. Even if this girl wanted to follow, she probably wouldn't be able to help. What's more, the other party obviously has no interest.
After simply eating something to fill his stomach, Wei Ran pulled the wolfskin blanket back to the window and continued to practice. Suisui continued to watch her TV, and would laugh out loud from time to time. Call. Alili, who had just drank half a bottle of vodka, simply lay down on the wolf-skin blanket by the campfire, and soon began to snore.
Jima couldn't help but looked around, then simply picked up the kerosene lamp and climbed up the stairs again. Amidst the noise caused by the friction between various furniture and the floor, time passed little by little, until the night was once again shrouded outside the window, and the disgraced Jima ran downstairs screaming with a kerosene lamp in his hand.
"Victor! Come here and help me see if these things are worth anything!"
"What did you find again?" Wei Ran put the guqin on the wolfskin blanket , walked over and asked while rubbing his sore fingers.
With a proud smile on Ji Ma's face, he shook the iron box in his hand, which was only half a brick in size, then placed the kerosene gas lamp in his other hand on the table and deliberately waited. Alili and Suisui also came over curiously, and then proudly opened the slightly rusty lid.
In this small box, the most eye-catching thing is a color photo sealed in plastic. In this photo, a fully-armed astronaut is saluting, and behind him, in addition to a Soviet flag fluttering in the wind, stands a rocket waiting to be launched.
After Ji Ma and the other three finished reading, they immediately turned over the photos, and then everyone sawA slightly scrawled Russian signature - "Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov".
"Is this the first Soviet astronaut to perform a space walk?" Wei Ran looked at the photo displayed in Jima's hand in surprise, "Isn't there his signature behind the photo?! "
"How do I know?" Jima proudly handed the photo to everyone for circulation, and he took out a long paper box from the tin box.
Gently opening the box, Ji Ma poured out a watch in a plastic bag, and at the same time explained proudly, "This is a Wrigley watch. Mr. Nicholas also has one. It is said that This watch has been in space."
"My dad also has one!" Suisui followed, "I remember he said more than once that this watch was the first chronograph in the Soviet Union. "Watch."
Wei Ran nodded in agreement. The watch Suisui mentioned is still on Professor Alexei's wrist.
And we have to admit that even today, this watch originally designed for the Soviet Air Force and astronauts is not outdated. Half a century ago, this watch won the reputation of "Soviet Speedmaster" in the Western world shortly after its launch.
Ji Ma carefully tore open the plastic packaging bag, and after adjusting and winding it according to the instructions inside, the watch that had been there for who knows how long started to move again. In the quiet hall on the third floor, the second hand The ticking sound was still clearly audible amidst the crackling of the campfire.
"Victor, don't tell me how much this watch is worth now." Victor said as he put it on his wrist, "From now on, it will It's mine."
Wei Ran returned the photo to Jima, "I can't say how much that watch costs, but if the signature on the photo is genuine, it must be true. It’s much more valuable than a watch.”
“I will ask Professor Alexei how much it can sell for.” Ji Ma took the photo and placed it on the lid of the box, continuing to show off what he had just seen. Wear a good watch.
"What are these?" Wei Ran said as he took out a cylindrical kraft paper roll from the tin box. This paper roll almost filled the remaining space in the tin box. .
"I haven't opened it yet. I ran down after seeing the watch." Ji Ma responded without raising his head. He was busy checking the time on his phone at this time. By comparison, see how accurate this watch is from time to time.
Weighing the weight of the kraft paper roll, Wei Ran already had a rough guess in his mind. Eighty percent of the bread here should be coins.
After obtaining Ji Ma's consent, Wei Ran carefully opened a paper roll, and then proved his guess. It contained ten coins that still had a metallic luster, or to be more precise, , is a commemorative coin issued by the Soviet Union on April 28, 1965 "to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the victory over France and Russia". At the same time, it was also the first commemorative coin issued by the Soviet Union after the war..
Unfortunately, a total of 60 million pieces of this copper-nickel alloy commemorative coin with a face value of 1 ruble were issued at that time. Therefore, even though it has long been out of print due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, its collection value is compared with that of the same period. Compared with other commemorative coins, it is still not too high.
The reason is all because the Soviet Union, in addition to being the country with the most medals and medals of all kinds, was also the country that issued the most commemorative coins in circulation.
From this type of commemorative coin in hand to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, in just a few decades, the Soviet Union issued a total of 64 types of commemorative coins with various themes. On average, At least two coins must be issued every year.
Such a dense issuance interval and huge circulation volume have made many collectors of commemorative coins numb. After all, even when cutting leeks, there is no need to sharpen the knife so sharply.
After re-wrapping the commemorative coins in his hand and putting them into the box, Wei Ran was too lazy to look at what was in the other kraft paper rolls, but asked curiously, "Jima, what do you think of these things?" Where did you find it?"
"In a single dormitory on the fifth floor"
As if he just remembered, Jima pointed to the top of his head, "I'm here I found it in the drawer of the dormitory, but that's all I found."
Wei Ran stood up and walked towards the wolf-skin blanket by the window, "It's already a good harvest, just the signed photo. It can probably be sold for a lot of money."
Ji Ma flattened his sleeves to cover the watch he just put on. "Of course it's a good harvest. There is one last room up there. Do you want to join me? Let’s go look for it together?”
“Not interested” Wei Ran and the other three rejected Jima in unison.
The latter didn't care, and confidently picked up the kerosene lamp again and climbed up the stairs again.
However, I don’t know if it was because of the iron box that he had exhausted all his luck. Until he carefully searched the last few rooms, he only found a few books with popular content but a lot of trouble. It's just an astringent magazine with few mildew spots.
After a night of silence, when Wei Ran and Suisui were woken up by a knock on the door early the next morning, although the snow outside was still falling, the wind had completely stopped at some point.
The four people looked out the window and saw that most of the belly of the An-2 aircraft and the two huge skids had been completely buried by the snow.
"Come downstairs!" Alili hung up the window and said, "While the wind stops, we have to dig out the plane and leave here quickly."
"Remember to take it "The wolves here have been hungry for two days," Ji Ma reminded, having already packed his luggage. "Will you stay in the building?" Wei Ran looked towards the room where the weapons were stored. He said to Suisui as he walked.
"Who are you looking down on?"
Suisui rolled her eyes, got into the room first, picked up an AK rifle with a folding stock, and put it on her shoulder. I put a grenade and two Alili bags in my pocket.A fully loaded magazine.
Alili and Jima looked at each other, and in tacit understanding, they each put a grenade in their pockets. Although they knew that there was no need for this thing to deal with wolves, they couldn't be beaten by a girl?
As for Wei Ran, he has no such inexplicable desire to compare. The wolves are not fools. Even if they are hungry and anxious, they can be driven away with at most one magazine shot, so why bother hanging on themselves? So much burden?
Everyone checked the rifles in their hands, and everyone followed Alili to the first floor. However, when they pushed the iron door open through a narrow gap with difficulty and got out, they found that the snow outside was already waist-deep.
"Suisui, keep an eye on your surroundings."
"Leave it to me!" Suisui directly pushed the bullet into the chamber and even pulled down the safety.
Everyone put on their snowshoes, took the tools they found on the first floor, and walked hard through the thick snow to the plane not far away.
However, before they could raise the shovel in their hands, a low wolf howl came from the roof of another building!
"Da da da!"
Suisui, who was walking at the end, didn't even care where the wolf was hiding. He raised the muzzle of the rifle in his hand and pointed it at the mountain. direction and pulled the trigger directly!
The deafening gunfire not only completely suppressed the howling of the wolf, but also startled the three people who were preparing to dig.
But before they could say anything, more than 20 wolves ran out of the building on the left like a swarm of bees!