"Take this"
Before Wei Ran was about to leave from the back door of the kitchen, Artur took out a Radom pistol, a pocket watch, and a black The pen was thrust into his hand. "If the tombkeeper doesn't believe your identity, show him this pen and remember to remove the cap. Also, you must be back before five o'clock."
"Understood"
Wei Ran nodded, put away his pistol, pocket watch and pen and opened the wooden door to the outside. However, before his hand could touch the door handle, there was a loud knock on the door from the direction of the pub door behind him.
Artur's body trembled, he immediately turned around and hurriedly pulled out another pistol from his waist.
"Victor, open the door Victor!" Outside the door, a young girl's voice shouted while crying and banging on the door.
"What's going on?" Wei Ran and Atul asked each other in unison.
"Your name was called." Artur breathed a sigh of relief and inserted the weapon back into his waist. "It sounds like she is Frank's sister."
< p> "That girl named Karen?" Wei Ran immediately matched the voice outside the door with the freckle-faced little girl."Open the door first" Arthur urged, while hiding his body in the shadow of the kitchen wall.
Wei Ran nodded, put away the weapon in his hand, and opened the door carefully. Before he could react, the girl outside the door cried and threw herself into his arms. Then, he heard the girl whisper in his ear, "My brother asked me to inform you that the tavern They are already surrounded by chained dogs."
Before Wei Ran could speak, the girl hugged Wei Ran's neck tightly and began to cry.
After carrying the skinny little girl out of the tavern, Wei Ran gently closed the door, then gently patted the girl in his arms on the back, and led her to the doorstep. .
By helping the other party wipe away the non-existent tears, Wei Ran looked around vaguely. Unfortunately, except for the pouring rain, he did not see any clues about the chained dog.
"What's going on?" Wei Ran gently held the other person in his arms again and asked against the other person's ear.
"My brother was going to come to the tavern to borrow some kerosene in the evening, but he accidentally discovered a chain dog hidden around him."
The little girl named Ka Lun put her hands around Wei Ran's neck. , spoke faster and whispered, "He was worried about what the chain dog would do to you, so he asked me to come over and inform you to prepare in advance. In addition, from now on, you are my boyfriend, but my brother Frank is going to take me Marrying a rank soldier, that's why I came to you."
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded imperceptibly and said in a slightly louder voice, "How dare that bastard Frank do this. Do it! Come in and change your clothes first, and I’ll take you to him!” No! I don’t want to go back! Take me away!Port, let's go to Hamburg, to Berlin, and leave here forever! "This girl named Karen is obviously an actress. Although she cried and shouted when she spoke, there was a trace of excited smile on her freckled face.
"We're not going anywhere. After you finish changing your clothes, I'll take you to teach him a lesson! "Wei Ran had no choice but to cooperate with the other party's acting, and at the same time he also winked at her.
The freckled girl named Karen blinked her eyes and continued to cry in a cry, "Then You can't hurt him! "
"Come in with me and change clothes first! "Wei Ran said, pulling the other party open the door of the tavern.
"What's wrong? Artur frowned and asked, "Karen, did that bastard Frank bully you again?" "
"He wants to marry me to an officer in exchange for his office in the post office! "After Karen finished speaking, she threw herself into Artur's arms again, "Uncle Artur, I want to be with Victor! "
"Okay, okay, don't cry yet. ”
After being stunned for a short time, Artur immediately patiently comforted the little girl in his arms, and then gently knocked on Mia’s door, gesturing for her to take her soaked clothes with her. Karen went to change into dry clothes.
“Victor, what are you going to do? Artur lowered his voice slightly and asked meaningfully.
"What else can we do?" Wei Ran glanced at the second floor with his peripheral vision and responded indignantly, " I'll go talk to Frank in person later! "
"Don't be impulsive. If you really hurt Frank, Karen will be sad too. "Artur patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, then walked into the bar and poured him a small half glass of red wine with the lowest alcohol content.
Before Wei Ran could finish the wine in the glass, Karen also After walking out of Mia's room, Wei Ran was stunned when he saw the thick white dress.
The woman was so... Are you saying that Karen is the female corpse lying in the basement?
Suppressing the panic in his heart, Wei Ran looked at the cup in his hand, then looked at the person sitting on the dining table covering his face. The little girl looked sad. He was already shaken by the solution he had just thought of.
“Victor, don’t be impulsive. "Artur reminded with a hint.
Can I change anything?
Wei Ran held the cup and asked himself, this is undoubtedly the second cruelest thing to him. The thing was, wearing that thick white dress on this little girl who had not had much communication before, in his eyes was no different than an invitation from the god of death. However, that one seemed to have great acting talent. The freckled girl seemed quite courageous, but she didn’t know what it meant to wear that dress.
Inexplicably, Wei Ran once again thought of the blue dress in the Battle of Stalingrad. The pieces of cloth that shattered when the blanket exploded reminded me of the little girl who couldn't speak or hear.Mother, I remembered the way she grabbed her trouser legs to ask for a grenade, and remembered the explosion that even Gu Qin Yaoguang couldn't help him forget.
"Victor?" Artur asked in a low voice.
"Bang!"
The goblet in Wei Ran's hand hit the floor and shattered into pieces, and he himself took a step forward as the cup fell to the ground. , walked to the side of the door, took out a raincoat from the hanger, and personally helped Karen, who was startled by the sound of the cup falling, put it on.
"I'm going to have a good talk with your bastard brother Frank." As Wei Ran spoke, he reached out and took off another large raincoat, put it on and pulled up the hood.
"Victor, don't be impulsive!" Artur reminded again.
"I won't be impulsive."
As Wei Ran spoke, he reached out and took out another umbrella and the kerosene lamp placed on the table and handed them to Karen, and then placed them on her He bent down and said, "I'll carry you back."
Karen was stunned, quickly took the umbrella and kerosene lamp, lay on Wei Ran's back obediently, and after going out, He immediately held up his umbrella and used the umbrella cover to shield the former from the rain blowing directly in front of him, while also covering most of Wei Ran's face.
"Today's young people..."
In the Siren Tavern, Artur took out two clean goblets and poured each into them. Some scarlet wine, then lit a kerosene lamp and said to Mia, "I'm waiting here for Victor to come back, in case he really does something stupid. What about you? Stay and have a drink with me, or go back to bed ?”
“Just one drink”
Mia yawned, walked slowly to the bar and sat down, elegantly picked up the goblet and chatted with Artur. A light touch.
At the same time, while Wei Ran was acting and accusing Frank with Karen who was carrying him on his back, he was also paying attention to the surrounding environment along the way.
"Don't look back." Wei Ran felt the little girl lying on his shoulder move and immediately warned in a low voice in advance.
Hearing this, Karen immediately put her chin on Wei Ran's shoulder and continued to complain about how greedy her brother Frank was for money.
With the cover of this little girl, Wei Ran walked to the door of the wooden house where Frank lived without any danger while speaking harsh words.
I don’t even care if there is a tail behind me, and I don’t care if it disturbs the neighbors. Wei Ran carefully put Karen down and stood still, and then banged the dilapidated wooden door.
The moment Frank opened the door, Wei Ran had already raised his fist and hit Frank in the face.
"Frank, you scumbag! How did you promise me?" Wei Ran yelled while gesturing wildly at Frank with winks.
"What did I promise you?! What did I promise you?"
Frank stood up, holding the punched cheek, and met the guard at the door in the heavy rain. The fire startedCome, and Karen also starts to break up the fight in a decent manner.
It took five or six minutes for the two people who were struggling together to move the scene of the fight to the room under Karen's push. Karen, who had been following them, was also very anxious. The girl followed up and continued to break up the fight, and the girl even waited on purpose before turning around and slamming the door violently, blocking the view outside.
Looking at the tightly drawn curtains on the surrounding windows and the kerosene lamp on the dining table, Wei Ran adjusted the angle slightly so that his shadow could be perfectly projected on the curtains, and then raised his fist. He gently put his hand on Frank's shoulder.
Frank, on the other hand, also let out a muffled groan, staggered back a few steps, then picked up a stuffed animal from the sofa and placed it on his chest, continuing to scream and let Wei Ran Sitting on his lap, he gently punched the stuffed toy on his chest with his fist again and again. From time to time, this "eldest uncle" would still have time to stretch out a hand and push down the chair next to him, or he would look at the shadow on the curtain and scream, adjust his angle, and return his hand a few times.
And his sister Karen also sat down on the floor, pressing her back against the wooden door while continuing to cry.
The three young men acted out this farce for more than ten minutes, and then Frank, at Wei Ran’s signal, took a breath and began to beg for mercy.
"So now you are willing to sit down and talk about what you promised me before?" Wei Ran stood up and asked, pinching his nose.
"I should ask you this!" Frank said angrily, turned and shouted to his sister, "Karen, go back to your room! Don't come down until I call you!" /p>
"I'm not going up! I'm right here!" Karen responded loudly in a hoarse voice, and locked the door again, "Don't even think about running out!"
Frank Angrily, he kicked down a chair again, and then, under the threat of fire, he raised the chair again and placed it next to the burning fireplace. By the way, he also picked up a newspaper from the floor, and then took out two pencils only as long as his fingers from his pocket.
The two men sat down around the coffee table by the fireplace, tit-for-tat discussing Karen's ownership and the price Victor had to pay, while using pencils to write on the newspaper. Intelligence from both sides and Weiran’s next plans.
"Isn't it too risky?" Frank wrote his doubts in the newspaper while denying Weiran's price.
"You can try it, but there are certain risks."
After Wei Ran struggled to write this sentence that concealed countless dangers, he continued to pinch his nose and spoke in a thick nasal voice. He quoted a new price and complained about his crooked nose.
"Then give it a try!"
After Frank wrote this sentence, seeing Wei Ran nodding, he immediately threw the newspaper into the still burning fireplace not far away. But he had already quietly climbed to the wallKaren, who was by the stove, also gently picked up a piece of firewood at the same time, scattered the ashes of the newspaper, and placed it on the blazing fire.
At the same time, while Wei Ran and Frank continued to talk about the "human trafficking" transaction, they each took off their clothes, pants and even shoes and handed them to each other, and then handed the clothes that the other party handed them. Wear it on yourself.
"Victor, how about you give me one night to think about it?"
When Frank saw that Wei Ran was fully dressed, he immediately thought about it, "Tomorrow morning! If tomorrow morning I will go to the tavern to find you as soon as I accept your offer. However, if I do go, I hope you can prepare the money to buy Karen in advance, not even a penny less!"
< p>"It seems you still want to taste the fist!"Wei Ran said, waving his fist again and giving the opponent a light punch, "This punch is for Karen!"
"This punch was also for Karen!"
Frank also used the same excuse to fight back, and the two struggled again and finally fell heavily to the floor. However, by the time they fell to the ground, Wei Ran and Frank had already exchanged positions.
"I will take Karen to the tavern first to prevent you from sneaking him away today."
Wei Ran lay on the floor and shouted breathlessly, and then , Frank had already stood up and pulled Karen to the door.
The brother and sister quickly put on their large raincoats, and Frank even took a towel to cover his nose before carrying his sister on his back, borrowing the umbrella, clothes, towel and his sister Using the cry of comfort as a cover, he took on Wei Ran's identity and walked to the Siren Tavern fearfully.
On the other hand, the sister Karen on his back had a very good psychological quality. Before leaving, she not only remembered to say a harsh word, but also closed the door tightly to avoid the possibility of Wei Ran revealing her secret.
As soon as the other party walked away, Wei Ran, who had been holding his nose while talking, immediately let go and tried his best to imitate Frank's voice and let out a series of gasping screams and curses at Victor. .
While he waited patiently, the Frank brothers and sisters also returned to the Siren Tavern without any danger.
"Uncle Artur, Victor is injured, do you have any medicine?" Karen asked anxiously before he could get off the fake Victor.
Artur only glanced at it and understood the current situation instantly. He immediately picked up the oil lamp on the bar and led the way. He walked upstairs and said, "Yes, they are all on the third floor. Come on. Let him come up with me. Mia, take Karen to change some clothes."
"Come with me"
Mia secretly put away the clothes hidden in the sleeves of her pajamas. Pistol, pulled Karen into his room with a worried look on his face.
On the stairs leading to the third floor, Artur, who was holding a kerosene lamp, deliberately blocked the light of the kerosene lamp with his body, leaving Frank behind him to cover less than half of his face with a towel. always out of darknessAt the same time, a series of impulse-related sermons kept coming out of his mouth.
When the two of them arrived at the third floor, which was not open to guests, and got into Artur's bedroom, Frank continued to follow what Wei Ran taught him before, while taking chills from time to time. With a sigh of relief, Atul whispered the expected time of Wei Ran's return and the arrangements for that time.
At the same time, in Frank's room, Wei Ran carefully listened under each window, and then waited patiently until after the agreed time, there was no sound from the pub. When the gunshots came out, he breathed a sigh of relief. He quietly climbed up to the second floor with the only kerosene lamp in hand, and looked out carefully from every window.
Until he was sure of the surrounding situation, he went to the first floor in the dark, put on the Soviet cloak in the metal book, put on the flashlight found in Frank's room, and crawled in the cold muddy water. , clinging to the sprouting weeds, like a very patient lizard, leaving Frank's house little by little.
Having not gone far at all, Wei Ran hid in the shadow of a building and observed the house he had just left. Until he was sure that no one was passing by, he ducked and circled back to the Siren Tavern. back.
Looking at his bedroom on the third floor of the tavern, which had already been lit with weak candles as agreed, he immediately took out the pocket watch that Artur had given him and took a look at it, then slowly turned around. Clinging to the wet turf, he crawled toward the oak forest to the north of the tavern.
Thanks to the cover of the heavy rain, he was not discovered by anyone until he entered the oak forest. Even before entering the oak forest, he discovered in advance that he was secretly smoking under a tent made of raincoats. german soldier.
Without daring to waste too much time, Wei Ranmao crouched and moved quickly through the oak forest, and finally found a small hunter's cabin in the deepest part.
Cautiously approaching the door of the hunter's cabin, Wei Ran lay on his stomach and looked through the window, which was only as big as a bowl. Not to mention that the cabin was dark and smelled of excrement. The smell, and before he could see it clearly, a big wet nose had already protruded from the small and pitiful hole, and then he heard the crunching sound of teeth.
Wei Ran touched the tip of his nose with lingering fear. Fortunately, he had retreated in time, otherwise his nose would have been bitten off just by that blow.
"Can I ride on this crap?"
Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, and finally opened the chain that had been wrapped around the fence door several times, and used the With the light of Bu's flashlight, he could barely make out the sturdy black horse that kept snoring.
"Don't bite me. If you dare to bite me, I'll stew you."
Wei Ran swallowed and carefully reached out to the reins tied to the post. . At most, he had experienced horse riding in domestic grassland scenic spots before, and even then, it was still the same.Let the groom lead him away. So to put it simply, he can only be regarded as a theoretical person at best.
But if he only relied on his own two legs, the 14-kilometer round trip would not be enough for him to get back to the Siren Tavern before dawn.
Just when he stretched out his hand fearfully and held the reins tremblingly, Wei Ran suddenly felt a familiar feeling that seemed familiar to him. It was only then that he realized that the skill task he had completed and what he had learned was actually riding a horse!
"What a huge profit this time!"
The moment Wei Ran took hold of the reins, he lost his timidity. There was an indescribable sense of familiarity. Just like when I first learned massage and bone-setting, I feel like I can do it at my fingertips.
The reason why he said he made a lot of money is naturally because after so many visits, the battlefield he returned to most often was the battlefield of World War II. On the battlefield around 1940, even if he was defeated by the Germans of later generations, The German army boasted of a mechanized army that was unprecedented in the sky and relied heavily on mules and horses for transportation and transportation.
In other words, in the 21st century, this horse riding skill may be a sport for the rich to show off their letters, but in World War II, it was a real BUFF that increased movement speed.
With a smile on his face, he pulled out the black horse and tied it to the railing. Wei Ran turned on the flashlight again and used the faint light to find a saddle and a whip from the wooden house. and a canvas bag filled with beans and wheat. Not to mention, there is a rusty cavalry sword hanging on the other wall!
Finding a tin bucket from the wooden house, Wei Ran poured out a small half bucket of beans and wheat from the canvas bag and placed it in front of the black horse that was still snoring. At the same time, he naturally Gently caress and pat its long and powerful neck. It wasn't until the horse lowered its head and put its mouth into the tin bucket that he breathed a sigh of relief.
While the horse was eating its pre-trip meal, Wei Ran, who could not restrain his curiosity, fixed the saddle, reached out and took off the cavalry sword hanging on the wall, and removed it from almost The sword was pulled out of the rotten scabbard.
With just one glance, he recognized that this rusty cavalry sword was the standard heavy cavalry sword used by Germany during World War I.
"It's a very good thing, but the place where it was hung has been soaked by water vapor and horse dung."
Wei Ran shook his head with regret, and put this thing in his place Times are not cheap. When he followed Professor Alexei to visit various underground trading markets, he once saw a heavy cavalry sword that was in almost perfect condition and had not been bladed. When that sword was sent to the underground auction house , the starting price alone has reached a frightening five-digit US dollars.
But where did this thing come from?
Wei Ran held his heavy cavalry sword that was no longer sharp and thought to himself that when he was acting at Frank's house just now, he exchanged a lot of information through that newspaper.
If nothing else, he at least knew that the Romeo in the basement was hiding in the basement as a primary school teacher.In a small village near the port of Kiel. The information obtained by the Siren Tavern has always been delivered to Romeo by Frank using his identity as a postman, and Romeo would then contact his next family.
But not long ago, Romeo attracted the attention of chain dog Adam without any warning and exposed his identity. But Frank didn't know exactly how it was exposed.
Now, Romeo's injuries have not healed yet, but he has been given a new meeting place and person. If there is nothing strange in this, the horse around him may not believe it.
In addition to this suspicious point that makes Wei Ran secretly wary of Romeo, this stable, which is only a few hundred meters away from the Siren Tavern, is even more abnormal.
After all, Artur and others fled from Poland a few years ago. It is normal for them to hide some pistols and submachine guns here, a cavalry sword from the First World War, and a horse that needs to be timed. The horse you take care of is so awkward no matter how you think about it.
Before he could figure out the reason, the bad-tempered and biting black horse had already kicked over the iron bucket it had emptied. The clanking noise not only frightened Wei Ran. The jump made him want to slash the leg of this bastard with a knife.
Looking at the heavy cavalry sword in his hand, Wei Ran accidentally did not put it back to its original position. Instead, he took it in his hand and turned directly onto the horse. He held the reins with one hand and leaned his upper body on the horse's back. on the horse's buttocks. The horse immediately spread its hooves and ran out of the oak forest.
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