Chapter 1076 The truth about another survivor and the box
On the morning after visiting Galina and Zurab's house, Wei Ran and others rushed to the Osinowitz Cemetery and found Kona and the children, as well as Mrs. Via, Lidia and the breeder.
Tombstone of member Matvey.
After carefully cleaning the tombstones, which were not dirty, everyone placed the flowers in front of the tombstones. Wei Ran took out a bottle of honey from his bag and opened it among the flowers.
"Why did you place a bottle of honey?" Suisui asked in confusion.
"Because honey is sweet enough"
Wei Ran hugged the girl and stared at the ceramic photo inlaid on one of the tombstones.
In that group photo, there were a total of 35 children, 23 of whom were wearing Budyonni hats. In addition, there were also Kena and Kelailuo in the group photo, with their young or youthful faces.
They were all smiling - but they had no idea that it was the last group photo they would take together in this world.
Look at the names on the tombstones around them. They are still protecting the children with their weak bodies as before. Their tombstones also intentionally or unintentionally surround the children's graves.
After a moment of preparation, Olena held the bayan in her arms, while her sister Olga took out a violin from the piano case.
Soon, along with the music, the other girls also sang the unnamed song they learned yesterday.
Wei Ran, who was singing out of tune, stood to the side, silently raised his camera and took a photo.
Putting away the camera, he also noticed that not far away, there was a man in his fifties or sixties, using a wheelchair to push an old lady covered with a blanket with a bouquet of flowers on the blanket and slowly stopped.
Coming down, the old lady and the man pushing the wheelchair seemed to be singing along with the song.
After thinking for a while, Wei Ran walked to the old man's wheelchair while the song was singing, and became more and more sure that she and the man pushing the wheelchair were indeed singing the unnamed song.
Could this person be...that Anastasia who likes to eat her fingers?
Wei Ran glanced at the old lady sitting in the wheelchair with uncertainty, but she just sang along with the song extremely seriously, neither stopping nor looking at him.
Seeing this, Wei Ran simply waited patiently, until the ensemble music ended and the girls' chorus ended, then he squatted down and asked politely, "Grandma, can you also sing that song?"
"Did Galina teach you?" the old lady asked kindly, but did not answer Wei Ran's question.
"Yes, we went to visit her yesterday." Wei Ran paused, "Excuse me, are you..."
"The keeper of this cemetery"
The old lady said with a smile, "Of course, this is before I retire. Young man, do you want to come and sit at my house?"
"Do you want to invite only myself?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"Just one person is enough to satisfy my curiosity," the old lady joked. "My home is not too big, but it can't accommodate so many people."
"I'm honored to receive your invitation," Wei Ran responded extremely seriously.
"Then help me place this bouquet of flowers in front of the tombstone of Mr. and Mrs. Bogdan." The old lady paused, "I'll wait for you at the gate of the cemetery, Alyosha, let's go."
Bogdan Alyosha?
After Wei Ran heard the name, he was already sure that the man named Alyosha should be Bogdan's son, and the old lady in the wheelchair was Alyosha's adoptive mother.
Little girl Anastasia pointing fingers.
Placing the bouquet handed by the other party in front of the grave where Bogdan and his wife were buried together, Wei Ran said goodbye to Suisui and others for the time being, and quickly caught up with the wheelchair who was still walking out.
After taking a long look at Wei Ran, Anastasia said softly, "Since retiring, I have been coming here every Saturday, but the only people I met were Galina and her children.
I have never seen you children before."
"We accidentally found a wooden box..." Wei Ran followed the other party and told the story in detail, and also introduced himself at every opportunity.
Almost at the same time as he finished telling his story, the wheelchair next to him also stopped at a wooden house with a small garden only two streets away from the cemetery.
The garden of this house is not very big, but there are no flowers planted in it. Instead, there are only an apple tree that is also full of fruits, and a sweet potato that seems to have finished harvesting, but has not had time to clean the seedlings.
field.
"Come in and sit down"
The old lady slowly extended the invitation, and then said to the middle-aged man behind her, "Alyosha, you go ahead and do your work. Just let this little guy accompany me this morning."
"Call me if you feel unwell"
After Alyosha finished speaking, he looked at Wei Ran apologetically, "I'm sorry to bother you about my mother. She has a heart disease, so don't let her get too excited. If she feels unwell, there are some in her grocery bag.
Just take one pill at a time, and I’m still in it..."
"Okay, go get busy. Why are you more verbose than your sister Via?"
The old lady in the wheelchair waved her hands helplessly, "Remember to give Galina some sweet potatoes and peanuts we grew, and check to see if they have finished digging their potatoes. If not, help them."
"I'll go right away"
After Alyosha finished speaking, he took out a push-button mobile phone from his bag and shook it, "I only have my phone number in it."
"If something happens, I will call you." Wei Ran promised seriously, and then watched the other party open the door and leave with a smile on his face, and then had time to look at the room.
Contrary to his expectations, this room was almost the same as the house where Galina and her family lived. The only difference was that there were no musical instruments and glass display cabinets.
Especially next to the fireplace in this house, there is an identical cast iron stove. On the stove with the charcoal fire, there are also the words "Putilov Military Factory Casting" on it.
"That was the stove we used for heating."
Anastasia, who had never introduced herself, followed Wei Ran's eyes and explained slowly, "Sister Lai Xia left it to me. I have been using it for so many years, and every time it is used
When I lit it up, I was very happy, as if those friends were back."
"I heard your stories from Grandma Galina"
"Grandma Galina?"
The old lady in the wheelchair pointed to the sofa by the fire and motioned for Wei Ran to sit down, and then said with emotion, "She was still a little baby who always wet the bed. What could she know?"
"So what she said..."
"Those are what Ke Na's mother told her."
The old lady in the wheelchair smiled and gestured with her hands, "I remember it very clearly. At that time, Galina was only a little bit older and as thin as a little monkey. Everyone loved her so much at that time.
This youngest sister, everyone would pick out shreds of meat from the broth and rub it in her mouth. Otherwise, how could she have survived?"
Before Wei Ran could say anything, the old lady pointed outside and said, "Young man, how about you help me pack some firewood? I can tell you why the box you found appeared in the school warehouse."
"Do you know why?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, "I am willing to help you chop firewood."
"Push me to the door."
The old lady who liked to give orders smiled and ordered, letting Wei Ran push her down to the door, and then pointed to the wooden box on the side of the door, "There is an ax in there, and there is firewood outside the corridor."
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took out a Finnish ax from the old-looking wooden ammunition box, walked to the door and started chopping firewood.
At the same time, the old lady in the wheelchair also explained slowly, "That was in 1980. After Kona's mother retired, she seemed to have lost her motivation. What a hard-working woman she was, that thin little girl
This young woman has received a total of four Red Banners of Labor. Do you know that ballet dancer Galina Ulanova? She only received four Red Banners of Labor."
"I remember that the most medals of the Red Banner of Labor that I have ever received are only six." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he swung his ax vigorously and split a thigh-thick log in half.
"Yeah, maybe..."
The old lady in the wheelchair said with emotion, "Kona's mother suddenly had nothing to do after she retired, so she simply returned to the conservatory to audit and help clean the house."
"Then what?" Wei Ran asked after splitting the firewood into two pieces again.
"Then she saw that many musical instruments in the warehouse of the Conservatory of Music had been forgotten, and some were even bitten by rats."
The old lady spread her hands helplessly, "Kena's mother was very angry, so she put the box there. She wanted to see how long it would take for someone to find those things, and to see how little those moths didn't care for those things.
Expensive instruments.”
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"then..."
"From the time that idiot Gorbachev came to power until he ruined the entire country, no one has ever discovered that box."
The old lady spread her hands and said, "I accompanied her to put the things in. I also took away a piano without anyone noticing. That piano is still in the living room of Galina's house."
"That Lilly Cards piano?" Wei Ran asked in astonishment.
"right"
The old lady said helplessly, "Moreover, Ke Na's mother also wrote a letter of complaint on the day she stole the piano, anonymously reporting that she had stolen the piano.
It's a pity that the report letter was lying in the mailbox until her death, and she didn't wait for the police to arrest her until her death."
"Then how do you..."
"Then the Soviet Union collapsed"
The old lady sighed, "Although disintegration did not happen overnight, after Kona's mother passed away, when I remembered to pick up the box, I couldn't find it in the musical instrument warehouse. I thought someone had finally discovered it.
I didn’t expect that no one would find that box until today.”
"Forehead..."
Wei Ran shook his head helplessly. Not to mention that the old lady in front of him didn't expect it. I'm afraid even Ke Na didn't expect to wait for so long. Just like she didn't expect that the country she dedicated her life to would be here.
