On the day Wei Ran suddenly came home, the first thing he got was the complaints from his parents. After a few scoldings and no greetings when he came back, his mother who had just returned home immediately left home with a vegetable basket to buy food. Drink.
The father asked with great interest about Wei Ran’s study and work in Russia. Finally, he even found the video of his interview on his mobile phone and asked in detail about the causes and consequences. In desperation, Wei Ran could only explain the matter in detail.
"Son, you don't know!"
Comrade Lao Wei said with great relief, "You are on TV, but it makes me and your mother look bad. Even our travel agency’s business has improved a lot.”
“What does this have to do with the travel agency’s business?”
Wei Ran asked in confusion. The travel agency with two or three employees was naturally set up by my mother and my aunt Zhou Shujin, two old best friends, several years ago. The main business in normal times is to send tourists to Russia and Eastern Europe. In addition, the only domestic route is to send some low-cost tour groups to Aiyangdian, where my grandma’s home is.
“Your mother has been playing the video of your interview with the TV station on the TV at the entrance of the travel agency for almost a month, and also hung our family photo in the most conspicuous position.”
Comrade Lao Wei didn't notice the changing social expression on his son's face at all, and continued enthusiastically, "Don't say it yet! Although those nonsense words are indeed a bit noisy, the effect is really effective. ! In the past two or three weeks a few years ago, several groups were fully booked, including the hunting ones you got."
Speaking of this, Lao Wei finally got it. He noticed that his son's expression was wrong, "What's that expression on your face? By the way, after you have had enough rest in two days, remember to translate the video of the interview at that time to the translator. I will ask the kid at the company to add subtitles after the year."< /p>
"If I had known, I wouldn't have come back..."
"What did you say?" Comrade Lao Wei asked, looking at Wei Ran who was sitting next to him muttering.
"Nothing, nothing" Wei Ran quickly changed the subject, "I'll show you something good."
"What thing?"
Meet Dad Feeling interested, Wei Ran quickly opened the piano case, "This is the guqin I bought from Maozi. The parent of one of Suisui's classmates offered 800,000 yuan to buy it, but I didn't sell it."
"Eight...eight hundred thousand?!" Comrade Lao Wei's eyes widened, "How much did you pay for it?"
Wei Ran grinned and said, "Twenty thousand"
"Only 20,000? Net profit of 780,000?" Comrade Lao Wei became more and more surprised.
"Twenty thousand dollars" Weiran had to correct.
"U.S. dollars?"
Lao Wei took out his mobile phone to find out the exchange rate and calculated it, and asked in surprise, "That can earn more than 600,000! You kid What’s going on this year? These windfalls come one after another?”
“I’ve taken on a few big jobs”
p>When Wei Ran said this, there was not much excitement on his face. Compared with what he experienced in the process of investigating the historical truth, other benefits became the most insignificant things.
“You’re a bastard, you’ve finally made your mark. Call your mother and ask her to buy a bottle of good wine so we can have a drink together tonight!”
Comrade Lao Wei sighed with emotion. Leaning on the sofa, in the six months since Wei Ran graduated, he has sent a lot of money home from Russia alone. I didn’t expect that it was approaching the end of the year and I would bring back such a valuable antique. What else could it be? Not satisfied?
"There is no need to buy wine." Wei Ran opened the suitcase next to the sofa. "After I came back, I went to Sichuan to meet a friend. They gave me a lot of good wine."
< p>"What friends do you have there?"Wei Ran was sent to Russia right after graduating from high school, and most of the people he met in China were local classmates. But soon, Comrade Lao Wei's little doubt was put aside by the two bottles of good wine handed over by Wei Ran.
That night, the family of three had a lively meal. After Wei Ran’s mother listened to her son talk about the harvest of the past six months and the details of the interview, she immediately made the decision. The next day, I personally took him and various gifts to visit relatives.
Both Wei Ran and Comrade Lao Wei, who was holding a glass of wine and unwilling to put it down, naturally knew what my mother was thinking. What else could he do? It was just to show off his son!
Whether it is vanity, or whether it is to let Wei Ran come back to his hometown in fine clothes, her own son has settled down well, and does not attack the relatives and friends around him, isn't she a mother? Too unqualified?
After Wei Ran resisted several times to no avail, he finally had no choice but to nod his head and agreed to his mother's decision. As for the questions he wanted to ask several times about the furnishings in his bedroom, his mother was fooled by the food he put into the bowl one chopstick after another.
That night, Wei Ran kicked the stuffed bear that occupied most of the bed under the bed, and slept soundly under the influence of alcohol.
It was a rare night to sleep until dawn. When Wei Ran was woken up by the knock on the door, the quartz clock hanging on the wall had just passed seven-thirty.
At the urging of his mother, Wei Ran, who had resisted to no avail, put on the suit he was wearing when he was interviewed. He was dressed like a man buying insurance, carrying large and small bags, and went to the airport last night. Mom picked out the gift and started the dizzy visitor journey.
It took two full days to satisfy his mother's vanity of showing off her son. After Wei Ran attacked the peers of his relatives and friends, his own salary also saw a decline, so that after the third In three days, he will start preparing breakfast and dinner for the second elder.
"You have nothing to do when you come back, why don't you go to the travel agency to help?"
Early in the morning, Wei Ran's mother asked her son after finishing breakfast asked.
"Who said I have nothing to do?"
Wei Ran, who was busy cleaning up the kitchen waste, raised his chin towards the guqin placed on the table on the balcony, "I have been practicing the piano after you guys went to work."
"So You’re really willing to get rid of expensive things, and you just turn them over and over like cotton every day to get the same tune.”
Wei Ran’s mother complained with a painful look on her face. She had done it before. Buy a bargain, put away the guqin that is said to be worth tens of thousands, and keep it as a heirloom.
However, she took Wei Ran's father to several piano stores and found out that not only was the guqin used for serious playing not cheap, but it was also easy to break if it was not used. Come up with an alternative idea.
"How about you play?" Wei Ran said extremely bachelorly.
"I'll slap the back of your head!"
Wei Ran's mother put down the chopsticks in her hand and said, "Forget it if you don't want to go to the travel agency to help. You should go out more in these two days. Go, hang out with your high school classmates, or go to your grandma's house. Don't hold it in at home every day, and be careful of getting into trouble."
"Come on, go to work quickly." Wei Ran. The father finally said something to his son, "If it's too late, I won't be able to catch the bus."
After seeing his parents off, Wei Ran shook his head helplessly. After clearing the table, he sat cross-legged on the balcony. At the table, he continued to practice the piano based on the CD that Chen Guangling gave him.
After realizing that he might have a psychological problem, he did not see a psychiatrist. After all, his experiences were too bizarre. The Chinese New Year was about to come soon. What if he was sent to a psychiatrist again? The mental hospital is a lot of fun.
On the other hand, he also found that he felt much more at ease after returning home. Apart from anything else, at least I no longer have nightmares, and playing the piano every day seems to be really helpful in calming my mind.
However, not long after the melody of Benbenkankan sounded, there was a knock on the security door behind him. After he stood up and opened the door, a postal boy wrapped tightly in a cotton coat immediately handed over an express document bag.
After looking at the sender's information, Wei Ran thanked the courier boy and sent him away. After closing the door and tearing open the courier, he took out Suisui's transcript.
The results in most subjects on this report card are pretty good, but the three red zeros among them are also particularly conspicuous.
Wei Ran took out his cell phone and took a photo first as evidence of incrimination. Then he took out a lighter and went into the bathroom, burned it to ashes in the sink, and also took a video of the whole process and posted it. I gave it to Suisui, who asked almost every few hours these days.
Before he could clean up the ashes in the sink, Suisui called. When he pressed the answer button, he immediately heard the other party whispering in a pretentious voice, "Officer Wei, your undercover work is over. Now after organizational discussion and decision, you can retreat!"
"Speak nicely. !"
"Okay!"Sui finally started talking again, "When will you come over? I went to your grandma's house yesterday to have dinner, and they kept asking me."
Wei Ran walked out of the bathroom with his cell phone and thought for a while, coming back here After a few days of sweet time with his parents, it was almost time to shut down the phone due to arrears. It would be better to go to grandma's house to continue enjoying it for a few days. Thinking of this, he simply said, "How about today, I will leave in a while."
"Come here with your 800,000 yuan," Suisui said immediately, "I told your grandma and grandpa that you were learning to play the piano, and they wanted to hear it."
"I Thank you so much."
Wei Ran said through gritted teeth. During the past two days at home, her mother had invited several friends over to show off her son who could play the piano. Unexpectedly, Suisui had also dug a hole for him. .
Suisui, who had no idea that the knife was almost on her neck, continued, "And the pink suitcase in my room."
"Your room?" Wei Ran couldn't wait to hear it. Crushing the phone, she said, "That's my room!"
"How many times a year do you only stay here? Anyway, you must get it for me!" Before she finished speaking, Suisui hung up arrogantly. Telephone.
"Can't I cure you?"
Wei Ran sent Suisui the transcript he had taken in advance, then muted his cell phone and took the things the other party needed and I prepared the gifts in advance, and took my own crooked pug with me as well, and left home in the car my father left in advance.
Less than two hundred kilometers away, by the time he arrived near his grandma’s house, both sides of the road were already covered with withered yellow reeds and remaining dry lotus leaves.
Although this dilapidated appearance may look depressing, in the summer, the scenery here will definitely not be overwhelming. The lush green reeds swaying in the breeze, the endless lotus ponds and the wooden boats floating by from time to time are not only childhood memories of Wei Ran and Suisui, but also attracted countless tourists from out of town.
If we push the time further back, during the Anti-Japanese War, the village where Wei Ran’s grandma’s family was located on the same lake was once home to the famous anti-Japanese armed Yanling Brigade. Main position.
So no matter Wei Ran or Suisui, they have heard the old people in this village say more than once since they were young, which reed swamp in the surrounding area once sank a Japanese steamboat, and so and so from which village nearby? In what year and where did he die, or maybe the prototype of the gazi blocking the chimney in the movie was actually so and so from which village.
At the same time, Wei Ran, who came here to spend the summer vacation when he was a child, often took Suisui, who also came here for the summer vacation, to fish in the water, fish in the trees, dig out bird eggs, and even blocked the chimney of his grandma's house. At the same time, he also I hope that one day I will be lucky enough to fish out a tortoise box from the water.
Recalling his childhood memories, Wei Ran drove the car into the village and finally stopped at the entrance of an ordinary farmyard.
This is Wei Ran’s grandma’s house, and the neighbor next to it is Suisui’s grandma’s house. Thanks to the relationship between the two mothersIt's so good that although the two courtyards still have their own doors open, there is also an additional door hole in the wall between the two courtyards.
Before Wei Ran opened the door, Suisui ran out of the yard. With a flattering look on his face, Wei Ran came up to him and asked politely, "Are you tired from the journey? Can I help you carry your luggage?"
"Young Master." Wei Ran took the lead and put his phone into his pocket, "Honestly. Come on, or I'll send the transcript to my aunt."
"You're so cruel!" Suisui gritted her teeth and picked it up with an aggrieved look on her face. Various things were in the trunk, and the silly dog with its tail wagging like a propeller was the first to run into the yard.
Wei Ran, who was following behind, could smell the aroma of fish and pancakes before he entered. Under Suisui’s shouts, Wei Ran’s grandma and grandpa also walked out of the courtyard. Welcomed from different directions. < /p>
"Grandma, are you waiting for me to take the pot?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.
The old lady then noticed the kitchen knife in her hand, "Hey! I was chopping vegetables here, and I forgot to put it down in a hurry."
"Suisui said you would come back at noon. Your grandma started preparing it after dinner."
Wei Ran's grandpa said as he walked over from the pig pen with a shovel. This old man's surname is Han. Like most of the old people in the village, he fishes in the summer and prepares banquets in the winter. Although he is not a rich man in his life, his prestige in the village is not small because of his seniority. Who has a red and white family? If anything happens, this old man will basically be invited to take charge.
Wei Ran handed the gift in his hand to Suisui, who had already run around, and asked curiously, "Grandpa, what are you doing?"
"The first two There was a strong wind, and the roof of the old pigsty collapsed."
Mr. Han led Wei Ran into the house and said, "I don't want to just tear it down and replace it before the Chinese New Year. I haven’t raised pigs in the vegetable plot for more than ten years anyway, so keeping it will take up space.”
“I’ll help you tear it down after dinner.”
“Don’t do anything. , Mi Tai is here."
Wei Ran's grandfather said as he took off his apron, mask and hat, "Go to the back room, the tea is ready, Suisui, don't run away, let you Brother, you can move it by yourself."
"Grandpa said that you can move it by yourself."
Suisui, who had already finished her third trip, said with her arms crossed, but when she saw Wei Ran smiling, After taking out his cell phone, Wei Ran immediately gave up and changed his mind, "But I'm losing weight, so I'd better move!"
"I'm both cowardly and stubborn"
Wei Ran put away his cell phone, He picked up a few gifts and said to the old man who was washing his hands and face, "I'm going to sit in the east courtyard and I'll be back later."
Wei Ran's grandfather wiped his face and said, "Go ahead. !Invite them to come over for dinner then. ”
Passing through the small door on the wall of the two courtyards, Wei Ran was warmly welcomed again by the two old men before he even entered the house.
Unlike Wei Ran’s grandfather, this old man of the Zhou family is a serious traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. Unfortunately, by the time it was passed down to his generation, the only skill left was massage and bone setting.
When Wei Ran was young, it was not uncommon to see unlucky guys from all over the country in this courtyard who had broken bones or dislocated their hands and feet for various reasons, screaming in agony. Even he himself had experienced the grand scene of having this old man set a splint on his bones.
Although more than ten years have passed, I still remember the crisp "crack" sound when the old man easily pushed the dislocated bone back into place when I was a child.
Mr. Zhou naturally also likes Wei Ran, a bastard who has blocked his chimney more than once. If Wei Ran's grandma hadn't already prepared a meal, I would have left him behind. .
After putting down the gifts and chatting with the two elders, the two elders sat at a table with the two young men, Wei Ran and Suisui, and had a lively lunch.
After having enough food and drinks, Grandpa Wei Ran put on his old clothes, put on his mask, gloves and hat and prepared to continue dismantling the pig pen. Wei Ran had nothing to do, so he also found a suit I put my son's ragged clothes on to help.
On the other hand, Suisui, this little thing, cleverly brought her grandparents and Wei Ran's grandmother to a table together, and started playing mahjong loudly.
In the yard with a slight wind blowing, Wei Ran was waving a pickaxe vigorously under the command of his grandfather, dismantling the pigsty made of blue bricks. At the same time, he also listened to the latter's talk about ancient times.
According to Grandpa Wei Ran, this pigsty was originally a wing of an old house, and it has a history of at least seventy or eighty years. Later, when he got married, he built a new house on the original site, and the family crowded into a small wing. After the new house was built, most of the old house was demolished, leaving only the last small room and converted it into a pigsty.
"Grandpa, there seems to be something in this hollow wall."
The gray-headed Wei Ran pointed to the half-dismantled wall and said, in order to save materials, this kind of old house is tiring. They were all hollow, and they had just been dismantled all the way, and it was really a nest of snakes and rats inside, filled with a lot of moldy grains and snake skins mixed in.
"What is it?"
Mr. Han, who was responsible for transporting bricks under the courtyard wall with a trolley, came over to take a look, and then grabbed a brick covered with moldy grain and dust. If there is any rust on the iron rod, prepare to take it out.
However, contrary to their expectations, this seemingly inconspicuous iron rod turned out to be terrifyingly long. When it was pulled out by half a meter, not only was the head not visible, but the back half of it was Got stuck.
The curiosity was aroused. Wei Ran immediately became energetic. He picked up the pickaxe again and dug out the blue bricks stuck with yellow mud and threw them on the cart. Then he opened up the accumulated bricks. More than half a century of dust and various garbage mixed in it.
However, even so, when he finally dug out the second half of the rusty iron rod, he had almost demolished that wall. Along with this, he also found a second iron rod and two heavy aluminum lunch boxes.
What Wei Ran couldn’t understand was that each of the two large iron rods was nearly three meters long, with dots of green paint still remaining on them. The lengths of the two iron rods were the same. , the shape is similar, the thin end is as thick as a fertilized cucumber, and the thick end even exceeds the wrist.
And not only the thin end is inlaid with a piece of wood that looks like a spear head, but the thick end is also bound by two thick iron pieces to a piece of bad wood in the shape of a shoehorn. In addition, an iron pin in the shape of a "bow" was tied to one of the iron rods with hemp rope.
"Grandpa, what is this for?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.
“You don’t know?” Grandpa Wei Ran came up with a look of emotion on his face, “This is the big lifting pole, which the Yanling team used to beat the little devils back then.”
"Is this a big lift?" Wei Ran's eyes widened, "So old?"
"It's not just a big lift. I used this thing to hit wild geese when I was a kid, but I use The kind that is much shorter than this one."
Wei Ran's grandfather skillfully pulled off the rough wood on the thin ends of the two iron rods, and then exposed the black muzzle of the gun. , Wei Ran went up to take a look, and could still smell a strong smell of engine oil.
"Why do we have this thing at home?"
As Wei Ran asked, he couldn't help but put his finger into the muzzle of the gun. With 20 mm, this can be called a small cannon!
"That's what you asked."
Grandpa Wei Ran said matter-of-factly, "When I was young, not only did every family have it, but at least half of the ten households had it." Well. But our two big lifters might have actually beaten the Japanese." Seeing Wei Ran's confused look, Mr. Han knelt down and untied the bow tied to the big lifter. The iron pin was then moved directly to the thicker end of the two large lifting rods without getting up. After tightening them, he moved the iron pin to the end and then said, "This kind of large lifting rod The pole is specially placed on the boat, the muzzle of the gun is placed on the bow, and the rear buttocks are fixed on the boat with the iron pin and hemp rope."
Waiting for Wei Ran to squat down on the side, sweating. The old man casually picked up a chicken feather at his feet, found one end at the end of the big lift pole, and then poked a small hole that was also sealed with a thin wooden skewer, and continued to explain, "The fire doors of these two big lift poles are Together, when you need to fire the gun, just push the thick incense stick up. When the two large lifting rods are fired together, if they are on the water, they can push the crib back several meters. ”
"Grandpa, how many meters can this thing hit?" Wei Ran asked after him.
"That's hard to say." Mr. Han thought for a while, "I guess a hundred or ten meters should be no problem. If it's four or fiveAt a distance of ten meters, two or three layers of cast iron pots can be penetrated. "
Wei Ran subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at the tattoo on his hand that was covered by two band-aids. But after calming down, he immediately gave up the idea that had arisen for a moment. Now the tattoo on his chest and elbow The bruises haven't completely faded yet, not to mention that although the pistol doesn't have to worry about bullets for the time being, the crucial semi-automatic rifle has been empty in Teng County.
His side was empty. While thinking about it, Mr. Han also opened the two heavy aluminum lunch boxes. Wei Ran went over to take a look curiously. One of the lunch boxes was filled with iron sand, which could be used as an inner lid for a plate. There was also a piece of incense stick thicker than a cigarette butt, a roll of rags and a box of matches.
The other lunch box was filled with damp black powder and two rotten sticks. In addition to the transparent goose feather, it was a small funnel made of ox horn buried in black gunpowder.
Wei Ran took it out of the agglomerated black gunpowder and saw it at a glance. I discovered that there were several crooked Chinese characters engraved on the horn funnel.