In the brightly lit bedroom, Wei Ran looked at the photo on the tank for a long time, finally put it aside and continued to take things out of the camera bag.
In addition to the main body of the Robert II camera and the standard lens mounted on it, this bag also contains an additional wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens, and a spy-specific lens. super telephoto lens.
As briefly mentioned in the course of the Hongqi Forest Farm, this camera was used for military reconnaissance and espionage activities behind enemy lines during World War II. Even for a long time after World War II, it They are all mainstream shooting tools on the hidden front.
But in fact, it is not easy for Wei Ran to operate this outdated clockwork camera. It's even possible. In the film era, photography was a "technical job". However, after entering the digital era, the technical requirements are getting lower and lower.
"It seems that I need to find a place to systematically master the operation of various old-fashioned cameras in the future."
Wei Ran, who was playing with the camera, murmured to himself, when he When I was working as a part-time tour guide, I put a lot of effort into using a Rolleiflex double-lens reflex camera. Later, I got a metal notebook. Although I also used a lot of film cameras, I figured out how to use them on the spot. .
On the other hand, in this digital age, even the Hongqi Forest Farm, which is also "outdated", will not focus on teaching how to use various film cameras. At most, they will use "Kiev 30" Just try out a simple film camera. Most of them are mainly based on the latest production of various pinhole shooting equipment.
As for where to go, he immediately had a goal. When he followed Dima to Kirov to complete the assessment mission, the one-armed veteran named Leva was running an old-fashioned film store. It's a camera store.
Although I didn’t communicate much with him at the time, I could tell that the old guy, who was not in good health, was very knowledgeable about taking pictures. Keeping this in mind, Wei Ran picked up the small pistol and played with it again.
Even if we don’t mention the 007 who flirts with girls in the movie, even the mustache that he wanted to grow in the bunker ended up using this weapon to cancel his account. At the same time, for Wei Ranlai, this is already the third pistol in the metal book.
"Why can't we play with a T34?"
Wei Ran complained dissatisfiedly, put the small pistol back into the camera bag, and took back the metal book together.
Copying down the three sets of coordinates mentioned in the metal book as well as the medal numbers obtained by Vajim and others, Wei Ran began to think about a solution to this matter.
There is no doubt that Mrs. Valentina, who has terminal cancer, may not be able to wait long, but she must have an excuse to work together. And the most important thing is that some reliable people need to help as diggers to find Vajim's body and bring it back.
After much thought, Weiran first checked Vajim Top by serial number.Medal awarded to the tank driver he replaced.
The medal that Vajim received contains detailed records of the time when he and Roman were lurking on the front line of the battlefield to repair tanks, and risked their lives to attack German tanks to rescue the wounded. It even lists the approximate locations where they were buried. Moreover, for the medals he and Roman were awarded posthumously, the certifier and the applicant were both political commissars of Trosha.
Continuing to search according to the full name of Political Commissar Trosha mentioned in the medal file, Wei Ran also showed a smile on his face.
The files about Trosha’s political commissar also recorded the details of the battle on the outskirts of Tomalovka. It even mentioned that Trosha’s political commissar submitted “about the fifth recent war” many times. The application report and approval process of the 29th Tank Corps of the Guards Tank Army, Tank Driver Vajim's Identity Certificate".
And just like the record on the metal book, because the political commissar Trosha was killed in battle and lacked crucial certification, the report ultimately failed to pass the review and approval.
"Same as the Don River Position No. 19"
Wei Ran sighed. He clearly remembered that the Soviet Hero Application Report for the Don River Position No. 19 was also the same. Because of the lack of witnesses, he was rejected and even because of this, it was not until his later years that Mr. Nikolai finally let go and returned to "Stalingrad", which had been renamed.
After downloading the file and the application form separately, Weiran returned to the previous webpage and saved the medal file of Grigory, the tank driver Vajim replaced.
In addition, he retrieved the information of a dozen soldiers named "Vadjim" through the website's built-in search function. He then closed the computer, got up and got into the bathroom.
The time spent entering the battlefield this time was less than 24 hours, but behind that short combat experience, Mrs. Valentina had waited a whole life.
After taking a scalding hot bath, Wei Ran came out again. After hesitating for a moment, he took out his cell phone and called Teacher Dalia.
"Found it" Teacher Dalia asked directly as soon as the call was connected.
“It’s not that simple.”
Wei Ran denied it in a calm tone, and then said, “Teacher Dalia, I plan to go to Egypt later, I don’t know if it will happen. It won’t affect Culp’s and their filming work.”
“It won’t affect it,” Teacher Dalia immediately replied, “How long do you need, I will help you change your ticket.”
After thinking for a moment, Weiran decided to leave a week for this matter, "If possible, I will go to Egypt on July 5th."
"Then the 5th" Dalia He happily agreed, "Do you need me to do anything else?"
"No need at the moment," Wei Ran said simply, "If I find anything in the past few days, I will contact you in time."
Before he could finish his words, Teacher Dalia on the other end of the phone simply hung up the phone.
Weighing the phone, Wei Ran lay on the bed again, andI bought a plane ticket and then continued to think about when to go to Kirov to visit the one-armed veteran Leva again to see if I could get some outdated knowledge about film cameras from him.
In the blink of an eye, the next morning, Wei Ran said goodbye to his aunt who was still thinking about planting something in the yard. He drove Teacher Dalia’s car out of the house and went straight to the airport to take the earliest flight there. Kursk city.
Such a very purposeful itinerary was naturally made for Teacher Dalia. Even after arriving, he didn't even go to the hotel, but took a taxi directly to the local Kursk Battle Military History Exhibition Hall.
This city is less than 500 kilometers away from Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, in a straight line. However, in 1943, in order to regain the land seized by the French, the tragic Kusi broke out here. Branch battle.
In comparison, the Battle of Belgorod may only be regarded as a continuation and branch of the Battle of Kursk. That battle may not be as good as the latter in terms of scale, popularity and even tragedy.
But the Soviet Red Army soldiers who died in that battle were actually just ordinary people with flesh and blood like the heroes in the Battle of Cusco. The difference may be that they are nameless.
It took a whole day to carefully visit this exhibition hall, which was not too big. When Weiran was about to find a hotel to rest, and then rushed to Belgorod, he took a vacation Katianka, who was in a state of disarray, sent an email.
After carefully checking the hotel room, Wei Ran took out the food box from the metal book while covered with a quilt, found the authenticator inside and linked it to the computer.
After a while, a text document appeared on the desktop, followed by a download page.
"What is this?" Wei Ran put on the wired headset connected to the computer and asked, "If it's convenient, let's communicate directly by voice. I'm a little busy now."
"Okay. "The boss" Gu Chao
Katenko's voice immediately came from the earphones, "I am currently in Lille, France. I have already been to the address you asked me to investigate."
The speed is quite fast
Wei Ran glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen. This was only the third day since he informed the other party of the holiday.
"Have you discovered anything?" Wei Ran asked with a normal expression.
"That address is a furniture store"
Katenko, who also wore headphones, walked to the bedside, hid most of her body behind the heavy curtains, and raised one hand Looking out the window at the furniture store across the street through the telescope, he paused for a moment and said, "This store is not too big, but the location is very good. The owner is an old man named Dorian. He looks very old. From visual inspection, it should be Around the age of ninety."
Closing his eyes, he let his memory return to the French prisoners of war on the Finnish battlefield, and matched the name Katenka mentioned with the young French prisoner. Called the number, and then asked, "Any other discoveries?"
"When I went to this store, the old man named Dorian was writing his memoirs. Through oral narration, there were many children around who were not too old. It should be him if nothing else. "Katenka put down the telescope, sat back on the sofa in the hotel room and continued, "It should be his grandson who helped him type the contents of his memoirs into the computer. I will try to hack into it. I have access to his computer, and what I just copied into your computer is the content of the memoir.
I have probably read it, and it is divided into two volumes. The first half is about Dorian being a prisoner of war when he was young. He has finished writing about his experiences, and the final editing time was in April this year. He is currently dictating the second volume, which is not yet finished. The content is basically about various things after the end of World War II. ”
< p>At this point, Katianka paused, opened his mouth to take the grape that a girl put into his mouth, and then continued to ask, "Boss, do you need me to translate or summarize the contents of these two memoirs? They are both Written in French.""No, I will leave this to others."
Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "If it's convenient, then. Please keep an eye on this unfinished memoir, and remember to send me a copy when you finish it."
"No problem," Katenka continued to ask after eating the second grape. Is there anything else to do?"
"Have a good vacation, this is enough." After that, Weiran unplugged the authenticator.
"Aren't you talking to the boss?" asked the girl holding a bunch of grapes in the hotel room.
"I was about to do it, but the link has been disconnected." Katenka spread his hands and said with a relaxed look, "It's not my fault."
"Then let's find another opportunity in the future"
The girl carrying grapes spread out on the soft sofa, "Where should we go to play next?"
"Let's go back to Paris"
Kajianka took out a bank card and shook it, then asked with expectation, "How about we spend all the bonus the boss gave us last time"
p>"I have no objection"
The girl eating grapes said enthusiastically, "But before that, let's visit all the amusement parks in Paris"
"You can also go to this place, there is bungee jumping here." Katenka shook the screen of his mobile phone and came up with a new idea.
At the same time, in a hotel room in Kursk, Weiran disconnected the Internet connection from his laptop and opened the memoirs sent by Katenka.
In the memoirs of the first volume, French prisoner of war Dorian described in detail his experience of helping rich people clean chimneys and doing petty theft as a child. He also introduced his parents' participation in the French guerrillas. matter.
After a relatively happy childhood, Dorian was sent to Finland by the Germans. In his subsequent memories, everything that happened in the polar night in northern Finland at that time also appeared in Wei Ran's mind. in mind.
Frozen hands and feet, cold low temperature, smellyThe descriptions of the dry bear den, the gradually getting better underground shelter, and the increasingly unappetizing bear meat were not very different from Wei Ran's memory.
It took him more than two hours to read this memoir. When he turned to the last page, it finally recorded the tragedy of the shoemaker Kantan who committed suicide by drowning after the war.
Pinching his eyebrows, Wei Ran opened the unfinished second half of the volume. This half volume of memoirs records Dorian’s postwar experience, from returning to his hometown to reunite with his parents, to running a fur business with the help of Gale and Quentin, and even meeting a beautiful girl.
But the experiences recorded in the half-volume of unfinished memoirs reached 1958, and Wei Ran finally knew what happened at that time.
This year, Quentin, a Jewish chef who settled in Finland, killed his two main competitors and their families in order to seize more market share
It was also Because of this incident, Dorian and Gale terminated their cooperation with Quentin, and the friendship between the three of them for more than ten years immediately fell apart.
In the following time, Gale switched to running a restaurant, and Dorian also gave up the fur business and started running furniture.
Continuing to turn back, this half-volume of memoirs has not yet had time to write about the avalanche that Quentin and his family of three encountered, but the memories and regrets about the friendship between the three people in the lines are sad.
Wei Ran was no longer interested in what happened next. After sighing, he even deleted the two memoirs that almost recorded Dorian's life.
Compared to the unknown soldiers like Vajim who used their lives to fill the battlefield and regain their homeland in the Battle of Belgorod. People like Quentin, who were lucky enough to survive until the war, have a sense of absurdity about the boy who slayed the dragon and eventually turned into an evil dragon.
Is it wrong?
Perhaps there is nothing wrong. In order to pursue the right to survive, the space for survival, and the resources for survival, war and conspiracy seem to be eternal topics.
From the conflicts of interests between a few fur traders to the differences in race and belief between countries, the essence is nothing more than living and living better.
But there are always some people who stick to their inner beliefs until death, even if they are forgotten by future generations.
Similarly, there are always some people who will eventually forget the scars on their bodies, even if they abandon more precious friendships, even if their former friends write down their evil deeds in their memoirs without reservation. No matter what.
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