After chatting with Vitali about the stupid things the Poles had done, the car also drove to the edge of a forest in the afterglow of the setting sun.
What Wei Ran didn’t expect was that this was exactly the location of one of the two sets of coordinates recorded in the metal book.
“For the next two or three kilometers, we can only walk on foot.”
Vitaly parked the car on a dirt road in the field at the edge of the forest and pointed to a The dark forest path said, "This forest was the land bought by the guerrilla village. At that time, my grandfather and many of his friends paid for it for the village. So Victor, please remind you of those Friends, don’t try to come here to dig something secretly.”
Wei Ran glanced at Diane and the embarrassed amateur digger Prohor who were standing behind him, and smiled. Guaranteed, "Don't worry, Mr. Vitali, I believe they won't do anything stupid."
"I believe it too"
Vitaly and his face-giving response After saying this, he took out a double-barreled shotgun and a large flashlight from the trunk of the car, and then took out a bouquet of flowers he bought on the road when he came here. Then he walked into the forest and said, "I'm just giving you a routine reminder, okay, let's go in."
Under his leadership, the group entered the dark forest along the winding forest path. .
Returning to the place where they fought together, Wei Ran discovered a lot of changes. Now the forest is very clean, and the pine trees as far as the eye can see are covered with swords. There were marks of cutting, and under the marks of cutting, some containers such as dirty tin buckets and plastic buckets were hung.
“The rosin harvested in this forest every year brings a lot of income to the village.”
Vitaly took the initiative to explain, “I even helped harvest here when I was young. Rosin, it was really a hard experience that people don’t dare to recall.”
“There are so many traps in this forest that people don’t dare to recall.”
Prokhor, the amateur digger who followed, said with a grimace, "I remember that there were two diggers from Gomel last summer, and those two unlucky guys were carrying metal in this forest. The detectors scanned for a whole day, and even the horns of the detectors were muted, but all they dug out were all kinds of useless nails, iron pieces, and the like. It is said that the only thing they harvested was a bucket full of feces. cans and bottles.”
“Those traps were specially prepared for the earth-digging party. About ten years ago, the guerrilla village used pesticide-spraying planes to scatter the collected traps in this forest. "Broken metal."
Vitaly said happily, "But you should be lucky, at least the people in the village didn't replace those traps with animal traps."
"I. I won't come here." Prohor shook his head without thinking, "Looking for battlefield relics is just my hobby, but cleaning up garbage is not my hobby."
Vitaly smiled. manySay something, and lead everyone along the path, and finally came to a forest clearing with many tombstones before the sun set.
With just one glance, Wei Ran recognized this place. This open space was exactly the camp where Slava took him and pilot Alisa to bury teacher Gianna and guerrilla Shula.
But today, decades later, this camp has become a true cemetery. Granite tombstones engraved with red five-pointed stars and hammer and sickle symbols are intricately distributed in this forest clearing. Everywhere, but next to every tombstone, there is basically a tall pine tree.
Perhaps because of how much time has passed, the names carved on the pine trees have become blurred as the trees grow, but those hard granite tombstones clearly record the names buried there. information.
On these tombstones, Wei Ran found the teacher Gianna and the guerrilla Shura who were buried together, the one-armed shepherd boy Vasily, the pilot Alisa and Ivan who had realized his dream. , and the female doctor Sasha who died outside Berlin.
At the same time, he also found the guerrillas Ofjei and Antip who had been mentioned in the metal book, and also found names that were completely unfamiliar to him and even had no memory at all.
In addition to these tombstones representing familiar strangers, there is also a pedestal also made of granite in the center of this forest glade.
On this granite base, which is five meters square but less than two meters high, there is also an FK38 single-barreled anti-aircraft gun heavily equipped by Germany in World War II. Around the base, there are some brightly colored or long-withered bouquets of flowers.
On the four sides of the base, the records are the dreams of the children in the roster kept by Sergey, and the realization of their dreams.
In the rows of records carved on the granite base, some of the children were like the one-armed shepherd boy Vasily, who did not persist until the end of the war and were dead. The children harbored dreams of becoming poets, writers, etc., but ended up becoming workers at the Minsk Tractor Factory or projectionists at the Salyut Cinema.
Also, their dreams seem to have changed at a certain time, and they became lawyers, doctors, teachers, truck drivers, or farmers in the collective farms of the guerrilla villages, on the stage. Actor, soldier with gun.
Of course, there are a few, like Sergey and his wife Zonya, who finally realized their dreams to some extent.
When the fire circled around the side of this obviously spontaneously built monument facing the sunset, a slightly sad but yet clear sentence was carved in red Russian on the rough granite. It contains some messages of comfort and hope.
"This future may be somewhat different from the colorful world we dreamed of when we were children. But after all, it is our own hands.The future of creation.
You can be disappointed, even desperate. But for those friends and family who have no chance to see this future in person, maybe we should try to live a happier life in this slightly different future world. ”
After reading this message, the only thing that gave Wei Ran some comfort may be the signature at the end of this paragraph and the time: Children of the Guerrillas, October 9, 1982.
“My grandfather said that this monument was built on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the guerrilla village. "
Vitaly placed the bouquet in his hand at the foot of the monument, pointed the beam of his flashlight at the anti-aircraft gun on the monument and said, "He said it was very lively when the monument was built, and people from the village came a lot of people.
He also said that before the cannon was built, it had been placed with various farm tools in the village's warehouse, and many people didn't even know why it appeared there.
But my grandfather said that it was the weapon their teacher used when he fought the Germans until the end. ”
It was the anti-aircraft gun that Teacher Gianna took away
Wei Ran sighed secretly, Sergey and the others were lucky to have a teacher like Gianna, Teacher Gianna How could she not be lucky to have a group of students like Sergei and the others?
“In this colorful future world, there are still people who remember you, and there are still people who know what you have done, and there will be more in the future. people know what you have done. "
While mumbling to himself, Wei Ran answered the question on the metal book that he had not dared to answer with an unusually positive tone, and then turned around to face Dai who had just bowed to the monument. An said, "As for those bones, Mr. Sergey will definitely give you an answer. I believe that combined with Liuban's local historical archives, the identities of those invaders will soon be revealed. ”
Diane was stunned for a moment, then said after she came to her senses, “Mr. Victor, it’s about the commission”
“No need”
Wei Ranshao Shaking his head, he turned around and walked out and said, "If you want to pay the commission, just remember to come here and give a bouquet of flowers every year. ”
Watching Wei Ran who had turned away and was blocked by the trees on both sides of the forest path, Diane opened her mouth, but in the end did not say anything else.
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