In the exhibition hall where soft music echoed, Wei Ran put his arm around old Ivan's shoulders pretending to be affectionate and said, "I remember what Olga said in Kirov?"
At this point, Wei Ran deliberately cleared his throat loudly, imitating Olga and said, "After my father's investigation, that instrument is mine, and the management director of the musical instrument warehouse personally admitted that that instrument
And the things in that box are all mine, from when I was a child..."
"Shut up! I don't have an ugly and stupid daughter like you!" Ivan slapped Wei Ran's hands and paws away angrily, looking helpless as several girls around him covered their mouths and couldn't hide their smiles.
Said, "This was indeed the case, but recently Olga invited several of her classmates and teachers to come over to play, and then trouble came."
"What's the trouble?" Suisui, Maya, and even the idiot Ji Ma, who were all focused on eating melons, couldn't help asking the question in unison, which Wei Ran was not curious about and didn't want to know.
"Do you still remember the origin of these musical instruments?" As Olga spoke, she also pushed her new friend Sui Xin in a wheelchair and followed her.
Seeing everyone looking at her, Olga slowly stopped, put her hands on Sui Xin's shoulders and said, "Forget it, I guess the girls who came with you have never heard of the origin of these things.
So let me briefly reintroduce it.”
Clearing her throat, Olga pointed to the objects on the stand and said, "To put it simply, these things were stolen from our school's musical instrument warehouse when I was in college. I suspect that the bayan is a famous
It is a relic of the musician Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, because there is his music signature on that bayan." As soon as she finished speaking, Jima
He had already put his arm around old Ivan's shoulders from the other side and said with a playful smile, "Uncle Ivan has already helped you investigate..."
"If you continue to talk nonsense, I will kill you..."
"Oil barrel, right?" Ji Ma, who was not afraid of death, gestured outward with his thumb, "I'll find an oil barrel drill myself later... Oh——! Maya! Let go!"
Ji Ma, who also didn't have time to finish his words, was not afraid of death, but he obviously couldn't bear the pain when Maya habitually pinched the soft flesh between his ribs and rotated him 90 degrees.
After this beautiful and gentle Kazakh girl tamed her little pet Jima again, Olga continued with a smile, "Some time ago, my classmates and teachers brought a shocking surprise when they came here to play.
news."
When Olga said this, Olena had already taken out her tablet computer from her rucksack, pulled up a property sale page and showed it to everyone.
At the same time, Olga continued, "This is the news from my mentor. She said that the famous musician Mr. Shostakovich's former residence in the Benoit Apartment is ready for sale."
Seeing the confused expressions on the faces of these "country bumpkins" from Kazan, Olga had no choice but to explain in detail, "The house is located in the Petrograd district in the city center, less than ten minutes' walk from the Petrograd subway station.
But the most important thing is that although Shostakovich only lived there for four years, he wrote the "Leningrad Symphony" in that house.
In addition, even the apartment where this house is located is not simple. Although it was built in 1914, it is definitely one of the best apartments in Petersburg."
"If I remember correctly, are Kirov and Zinoviev's former residences also in this apartment?" Suisui took over and asked, "It seems that Kirov's former residence museum is still open."
"You remember correctly"
Olena said affirmatively, "We just went shopping yesterday, and you can still see their sculptures outside that apartment." "What level?" Wei Ran changed to Chinese and asked Suisui. Suisui also changed her language.
Speaking in Chinese, he explained without hesitation, "It is similar to a courtyard house in the second ring road, and it is also a courtyard house next to the former residence of a celebrity, and the former owner of this courtyard house was also a celebrity himself."
"oh-"
Wei Ran suddenly understood, but then he had a new question, "Why is such a house sold? Isn't it good to use it to build a museum?"
“Really good”
Olena took up the topic and said, "Actually, according to what we have learned these days, a museum has been built in that house a long time ago, but it has not been opened due to neighborhood disputes."
"That house is located on the fifth floor, with an area of 240 square meters," Olga added. "If it cannot be opened to the public, it will cost a lot of money just to maintain it."
"So what is the relationship between this house and this musical instrument?" Sui Xin, who was also eating melon, raised her head and vaguely asked the question that everyone wanted to know.
"It will be relevant immediately"
Olga took a deep breath, pointed to the box on the stand in the distance and said, "My mentor wants to buy that house. Of course, she couldn't afford 400,000 US dollars, but she visited it in the name of buying a house.
More than once, and a photo of Shostakovich was found inside."
Before she finished speaking, Olena also swiped the screen of the tablet in her hand, found a black and white photo and showed it to everyone, "We saw these things on the booth in this photo."
Hearing this, Wei Ran moved closer, and Wei Ran could clearly see that there were three people in this reproduced photo. One of them, a man wearing a suit and glasses, was sitting on the steps in front of a building and was playing a bass.
Yang Qin.
At his feet, you can also see a wooden box. On top of the wooden box, there is a stack of staff paper pressed with a pen.
A little further away, there were two young people, a man and a woman, who seemed to be dancing on the lawn. The woman in a skirt, and the young man wearing a Lenin hat and overalls and overalls, all of their faces were filled with excitement.
Happy expression.
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As Olena spoke, she had already enlarged the reproduced photo, pointed to a position on the bayan that was being played, and said, "Although the photo itself is not the same as the blurry outline that can be seen,
It’s very clear. But we can be sure that the bayan being played by Mr. Shostakovich is now on our booth. The blurry outline in the photo is his musical signature.”
"Now that it can be proven..."
Before Wei Ran could finish his words, Olena switched to another photo. In this photo, it turned out to be a stamped case record.
"Then there's trouble"
Olga said with a grimace, "As far as we know, that house was robbed about ten years ago, and the things that were lost at that time included a bayan and half of Shostakovich's music scores.
draft."
"So these things are actually stolen goods?"
Ji Ma didn't even have time to think about it, so he made the most obvious guess first, and then as expected, he got a local massage from Maya.
“It’s hard to tell whether it’s stolen goods or not.”
Teacher Dalia, who had been silent just now, joined the conversation and said with a slightly sarcastic tone, "But because of the investigation by idiot Ivan, this instrument has become the instrument that Olga put in with her mother more than ten years ago.
It’s in the school music warehouse.”
"And the time Dad made up was the fourth year after the house was stolen. Forget it, he even bragged about it when my sister's tutor and classmates came over last time."
Olena said helplessly, "So if we don't figure out the origin of these musical instruments, my sister and mother may soon be taken away by the police to explain the theft more than ten years ago."
"You are still worried about this kind of thing?"
Jima, who had just been tightened again, muttered while kneading the soft flesh between his ribs, and as expected, he got another "reward" from Maya.
"A matter of reputation"
Dalia spread her hands and said in a joking tone, "Even if we can blow up the police station, it doesn't make sense. We can't kill Olga's classmates and tutor to silence them, right? What's more, objectively speaking, these things are indeed Olga's
Stolen from the school's musical instrument warehouse."
"Put it back?" Lola, who was concentrating on eating the melon, couldn't help but express her thoughts.
"It's too late," Maya and Suisui said in unison. "Sending them back now is no different from surrendering." Suisui added, "And I guess the school is not willing to admit that those stolen goods are actually the school's property anyway.
"
"So what are you going to do?"
Jima, who was desperate for life and death, finally asked a good question that made Maya not to attack him, but Wei Ran couldn't help but stuff him into an oil drum, fill it with cement and throw him into the Neva River.
Sure enough, as this question was asked, whether it was Daria or Ivan, or sisters Olga and Olena, or even Suisui, Maya, even the Katenka sisters who were making soy sauce and Lola who was sharing snacks, etc.
, all looked at Wei Ran.
"The next step is to ask Victor."
Dalia said with a smile, "If we don't want Olga and her mother to become burglars, we can only rely on our historians to investigate the origins of these instruments and find out who is their owner and who they are.
How did you end up at the Petersburg Conservatory of Music?"
"I can refuse..."
"I'm going to use all my savings to buy the musician's former residence." Old Ivan said, pretending to be pitiful. "In order to buy that house, I not only have to bear more than ten years of loan debt, but I also have to
Just sell Olga’s piano.”
"I'm also going to use my life savings to buy another house that has a neighbor dispute with that house." Dalia said with a smile, "Of course, I will also be saddled with debt for more than ten years." "Otherwise.
Can I help you pay off the loan?"
Wei Ran asked eagerly. Rather than losing his family fortune, he did not want to find out the historical truth behind the instrument. After all, it was the defense of Leningrad...
“We can just repay the loan ourselves”
Dalia patted Wei Ran's shoulder lightly, and said with a smile as if she was optimistic about you, "You just need to help investigate the things just mentioned, and besides -"
"It's going to be bad again!"
Wei Ran had just uttered this in his heart when he heard Teacher Dalia say with a smile, "After we open up and renovate those two houses, the tourists sent by Aurora to Petersburg can go there to visit, and
We can guarantee that we will only visit the tourists sent by you."
"make a deal!"
Suisui, who was obviously tempted, didn't even give Wei Ran a chance to speak and helped him agree happily. In the eyes of this girl who had fallen into the eyes of money and didn't want to crawl out, nothing could be more difficult than this.
Is it difficult to find an American captain who has been missing for more than half a century?
As for the danger... except that the last time she went to Mukong was really dangerous in her opinion, how dangerous can the work of opening archives like historical investigation be?
Ancestors…
Wei Ran looked at Suisui, who was arm-in-arm with him, with tears in his eyes. Although he knew that even if the girl didn't agree to help, he would probably not be able to escape, but this girl with a ruble in her left eye and a renminbi in her right eye still helped.
He patted his chest and made a promise, "Don't worry, Aunt Dalia, I'll help you keep an eye on him! I'll definitely let him investigate those things as quickly as possible!"
"I feel most at ease leaving this matter to Victor."
Dalia didn't give Wei Ran a chance to speak at all, and greeted with a smile, "Okay, it's almost time. We should go to have lunch. Olga's mother has been busy since she learned that you were coming."
Hearing that there was delicious food, everyone followed them out of the steel-framed glass building with great interest, and walked towards the row of particularly beautiful wooden houses built along the edge of the island not far away.
And Wei Ran, who deliberately stayed at the end, looked at the booth that was not locked at all with the feeling of visiting his own grave.
The decorative cover of the bayan qin was also engraved with a small piece of staff. Although it had been a long time, he still remembered what the name of this thing was. It was the musician who converted his initials into
a string of notes.
Pick up the small tk pistol placed in the box. The wooden grip patch of this pistol is clearly engraved with the words "Soviet Bank" and the Soviet sickle and hammer logo in Russian.
In addition to these two items, there are also more than half a piece of black bread wrapped in yellowed newspapers on the booth, and a piece of dried fish with clear tooth marks still left. Judging from the size of the tooth mark, it seems that the person who left the tooth mark is still
A child.
In addition to these, there is also a small bottle of coarse salt on the platform, an old-looking necklace, and the crucial quarter of a book of music.
There is no doubt that even if he ignores the location where these things were found, even if there is no detailed account from Olga, even if there is no bayan, no small pistol, even if there is only half a piece of black bread mixed with sawdust, he almost
We can all be certain that these things all came from the 900-day siege.
Gulu!
Wei Ran looked at everything on the booth, swallowed hard, and finally decided to delay as long as he could.
From now on, we should set up a pure altar at home and pray sincerely every day... Wei Ran muttered as he walked out. Only then did he put aside the psychological shadow of starving in the desperate Pacific Ocean with several meals of braised pork.
and Big Steamed Buns were wiped out, and now they were going to starve in Leningrad, which was under siege.
It was hard for him not to stare at the tattoo on his left hand and wonder if he had provoked something dirty.
It couldn't be that the little wild boar caught at Ji Ma's house last time was Bajie's illegitimate son, right?
While Wei Ran was using random thoughts and nonsense to dispel the fear in his heart, he walked towards the row of wooden houses at the other end of the exhibition hall, which was only forty or fifty meters away from the shore.
From a long distance, he could smell the unique rich aroma of grilled food, and also saw a row of exceptionally beautiful outdoor ovens, as well as Heda, who was wearing an apron and working at those ovens.
Yana, a woman of the same age as Liya.
When he walked to the long table on the lawn, Olga's mother Yana also happened to bring a plate of freshly baked pies to the table. Immediately afterwards, the kind old aunt warmly
He hugged Wei Ran, asked him to sit down, took a piece of pie for him and stuffed it into his hand, while thanking him for his willingness to help.
How can you refuse this...
Wei Ran looked at the mushroom pie in his hand that he had already bitten off, and in the end he could only sigh helplessly and decided to fill his stomach first before talking about anything else.
Under the busy work of Yana and Dalia, old best friends, the long table was gradually filled with all kinds of delicacies.
The girls of similar age also raised their cold Baltic beers and happily bumped into each other again and again, as if they had become good sisters who have known each other for many years.
Before finishing the meal, Olga returned to the exhibition hall to get the bayan. Sui Xin, who had also had a few glasses of wine, also asked Lola for help. Golf, who was carrying luggage not far away,
In the golf cart, the Guqin Youquan brought by Suisui was taken.
After a moment of debugging and discussion, Sui Xin, who came as a guest, first played a guqin piece that Wei Ran had never heard before.
Under the instigation of Suisui and Jima, even Wei Ran, who had been distracted, took over the Guqin Youquan and played a song that suited the occasion, and made Sui Xin, who was a little drunk, widen her eyes.
"Drunken Madness".
After their performance was over, Olga immediately played the cheerful Cossack song "You Ya You" on the bayan with a story, and Sui Xin took out a song from her wheelchair bag.
A harmonica provided accompaniment.
While this familiar music was playing, Olena had already taken down two decorative Cossack cavalry swords from the wall of the cabin, and performed the highly ornamental Cossack double sword dance without any stage fright.
Looking at the two sisters' skillful cooperation, it is obvious that such playfulness has become part of their repertoire.
Those who take the lead will naturally join in the fun. Ji Ma, who can barely be considered versatile, gulped down the remaining beer in his cup. Amidst the cheers and whistles of the girls, he danced a very ornamental Cossack dance.
Knee burning dance.
I have to admit that these young people really have artistic talent. With the cooperation and guidance of these three young people, everyone except Wei Ran also followed the rhythm and sang the folk song praising the Cossacks.
Before the song ended, Jima couldn't hold on anymore and sat down on the ground. But immediately after, Maya, who was usually annoyed when seeing him, bent over and stretched out her hand to pull him up while singing.
Amid even more enthusiastic cheers, he and Jima danced a pas de deux.
"Let's go too!" Old Ivan said, and joined in with his wife Yana, who was waving her hands.
"Little guy, can you do it?" Dalia had already stretched out her hand towards Laura as she spoke.
Seeing that even the Katenka sisters were holding hands and dancing together, Suisui, who was a little confused from drinking, also pulled Wei Ran to join the dancing demons.
Fortunately, although he is an idiot in music, he still stepped on the toes of countless beautiful senior sisters at Hongqi Forest Farm. Wei Ran's dance finally barely reached the passing mark.
However, while dancing, Wei Ran couldn't help but think of the reproduced photo he just saw on Olena's tablet.
He couldn't help but wonder what the musician who was playing the same bayan in the photo was thinking and what tune he was playing when he took the photo.
He couldn't help but wonder whether the young man and woman dancing at that time were as carefree and relaxed as they were - at least they had enough food.
"What are you thinking about?" Suisui, who was almost face to face with Wei Ran, asked with a hint of drunkenness, "Why did you become two?"
"That's because you drank too much." Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded and stretched out his hand to support the man who was almost unsteady on his feet after spinning twice.
