On the shore of the frozen lake, the satellite, which had been searching the night sky for a long time, finally turned slightly, reset the telescope's elevation angle to zero, kept it parallel to the frozen lake directly in front, and moved left and right to observe the surrounding environment.
Thanks to the wide field of view of this telescope, he discovered after some observation that the shape of this frozen lake seemed to be somewhat special - it seemed to be a natural heart shape, with the apex of this heart-shaped lake almost pointing directly.
In the north direction, he and the several abandoned wooden houses hidden in the coniferous forest behind him were located exactly at the "heart" of the south side of the lake.
When he realized this, he immediately pulled out the GPS and compared the coordinates at this moment with one of the sets of coordinates provided by the metal book.
After looking at the values displayed on the screen, Wei Ran put away the telescope and led his dog into the coniferous forest on the shore of the lake under the guidance of the GPS.
Just as he had guessed in a flash of inspiration, the coordinates provided by the metal book were not the three abandoned wooden houses, but a forest clearing less than a hundred meters away from them.
Just looking at the uplift of the snow on the surface, you can tell that this forest glade is probably also scattered with many boulders left behind by geological changes.
When the coordinates displayed on the GPS were exactly the same as those provided by the metal book, Wei Ran also stopped in front of a stone that was soon buried in snow.
After looking around at his surroundings, Wei Ran took out his engineering shovel, scraped away the snow on the ground, and dug out a rock the size of a 24-inch suitcase.
On the side of this stone facing the three wooden houses not far away, two names and the corresponding times of life and death are carved on it.
Lyubov Zik 1895-1926
Igor Augustovich Petrov 1893-1942
This is...the grave of Regina and Yuri's parents?
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, then reached out and touched the name carved on it.
It can be seen that the name Lyubov Zik and the time behind it were carved with great care. The carved handwriting is also beautiful in Russian cursive and curly numerals.
But in comparison, the name Igor Augustevich Petrov was carved in an extremely hasty manner. He could even barely tell from the slightly weathered handwriting that the name was entirely made of
Engraved on tools like axes.
So did Regina bury her father when she came back one time? Or did she bury him before she left?
Wei Ran didn't know about this, but finding this place finally relieved him of every trace of regret.
He took out cigarettes, lit three and placed them on the natural tombstone. Then he turned around and left the open space with his dog Beria, and returned to the tent set up by the lake.
Looking through the food and drinks he had purchased before entering the historical episode, Wei Ran watched the blazing cast iron stove and made a large pot of tomato and beef brisket soup, and poured a large piece of big ribba cut into mahjong pieces into it, and paired it with some from the
A large glass of vodka poured from the barrel filled my stomach.
He also soaked the remaining half of the pot of cool beef brisket soup with two large lobsters and served it to the dog Beria. Wei Yan also filled the cast iron stove in the tent with briquettes, and then lay down on the bed in a drunken state.
On the polar bear skin sleigh, he covered himself with a reindeer skin blanket and fell asleep with peace of mind, leaving the duty of guarding to Beria, the dog who concentrated on cooking.
In his sleep, Wei Ran felt like he was back in the cold polar night, braving the biting cold wind, looking for the hidden enemy with his rifle raised.
But just when he was about to shoot, Regina's sled dogs swarmed around him and surrounded him. You and I licked his face happily as if we were eating ice cream.
Finally, Wei Ran finally woke up from the "baptism" of the dog Beria licking his face from the left to the right with his big bright red tongue, and then from the right to the left.
Pushing away the dog who kindly asked him to get up, Wei Ran then wiped the smelly saliva on his face with his sleeve. After sitting up, Wei Ran noticed that the cast iron stove in the middle of the tent and the kerosene lamp hanging above his head were still there.
It was burning, but the tent door that was originally closed not far away was pushed open enough for Beria to enter and exit, and there was a snowshoe hare that had been bitten to death beside the stove.
He took out his phone and checked the time. He had slept for six or seven hours. No wonder the dog Beria came back with a rabbit in his mouth - the big guy was hungry again.
Reluctantly, he got up and added some briquettes to the stove. Wei Ran skinned and disemboweled the rabbit and threw it into the pot to cook.
While waiting for the rabbit meat to be cooked, he also took out his satellite phone and dialed Professor Alexei. Approximately, almost a day had passed. The other party must have seen Kandalaksha, but not
I don't know whether the old guy is busy looking for clues or just looking for good wine.
It was both expected and unexpected. Although the call went through, the other party neither answered nor hung up.
Putting away the satellite phone indifferently, Wei Ran got out of the tent and found a promising small tree to urinate in. Then he drove his snowmobile in the falling snow and returned to the three abandoned wooden houses.
Once again, he took out the airdrop box, placed it on the plastic bucket, and dragged it back to the edge of the tent.
After the rabbit meat in the pot was cooked, Wei Ran collected the tent, sled, cast iron stove and other items, and then threw the cooled boiled rabbit onto the plastic bucket for Beria to chew slowly.
He himself drove the snowmobile in front, dragging the food dog and the harvest of the trip, and took a long circuit back to Saveli's home.
This back and forth was delayed for more than ten hours, but Saveli's father Nikita was not at home. Fortunately, the gate of the yard was not locked, and the fireplace in the wooden house was still in place.
Burning charcoal fire.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not knowing how to be polite at all, Wei Ran fumbled and lit the stove in the sauna room, boiled the bath water, took a comfortable bath and steamed the sauna, and then changed
He put on clean clothes and slumped down on the chair by the fireplace.
Almost immediately, Professor Alexei called for the fourth time after missing the call three times.
He pressed answer and then pressed speakerphone. Before Wei Ran could open his mouth, he heard the old guy on the other side shouting proudly, "Victor! My good nephew and son-in-law, how do you know that I have gained something here?"
?”
"What have you gained?" Wei Ran asked confused.
"I found a list of amnesty for members of Kornilov's 1st Commando Detachment after the February Revolution of 1917." Professor Alexei on the other end of the phone said excitedly, "I found it in the archives in Moscow.
Yes, the name of Igor Augustevich Petrov was on the pardon list."
"Wait, you went to Moscow?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows.
"Of course not, I'm still in Kandalaksha." Professor Alexey said matter-of-factly, "I also have some friends in Moscow."
"So that's what you found?"
"Of course more than that!"
Professor Alexei's voice rose with excitement, "In this year, after the October Revolution, this name appeared on the wanted list again, for being against the October Revolution."
"No more?" Wei Ran asked while pulling the head of the dog next to him.
"What's your tone?"
Professor Alexei said angrily, "It only took me such a short time to find out so much, which is already a huge gain."
"Then what's the next step?" Wei Ran asked, "How do you plan to investigate next?"
“Of course I’m going to Moscow.”
Professor Alexei replied matter-of-factly, "But I have no money. My good son-in-law, I need you to buy me one..."
"I'm afraid not"
"Victor! My baby girl..."
"I'm afraid you have to come back right away." Wei Ran spoke faster to block the other party's stupid words, "I also made some discoveries here."
"You also discovered something? What did you discover?" Professor Alexei on the other side of the phone asked casually.
“I discovered the grave of Igor Augustovich Petrov”
"Pfft! Ahem! Ahem!"
As soon as Wei Ran finished speaking, there was a violent coughing sound on the other end of the phone, and the obvious sound of a wine glass bouncing on the table.
It gave the old guy some time to breathe, and the other party immediately heard a suspicious question on the phone, "How is this possible! Where did you find it?!"
"After you left yesterday, I went to town for a drink."
Wei Rankong made up the lie with white teeth, "Then he found some hunters and invited them to have a drink. Later, a hunter who drank too much told me that he seemed to have seen this name somewhere."
"And you found it?"
“It’s not that easy”
Wei Ran breathed heavily on purpose and then explained, "I bought that hunter two large bottles of the most expensive vodka before he remembered and told me the approximate location. I spent a long time after I got there.
It took me a long time to find his tombstone from the knee-deep snow."
"That hunter..."
"I also found three abandoned wooden houses, and found the second airdrop box from inside." Weiran didn't give the other party a chance to ask questions at all. "There was a Schneider 25X105x telescope and a Zeiss telescope inside.
meter rangefinder as well as a diary and..."
"I'll go back now!" Professor Alexei said anxiously, "You guard those things, I'll go back immediately!"
After looking at the hung up cell phone, Wei Ran threw it aside, then walked out of Mukoleng's house, opened the airdrop box he brought back, took out the oversized telescope and set it up on the place where Yuri's body was stored.
Next to the ice cellar, the direction of the North Star was once again pointed.
"This is the starry sky your sister Regina saw."
Wei Ran touched the ice cellar made of ice blocks, muttering to himself, and moved his eyes to the edge of the eyepiece.
After all, it has been abandoned in an abandoned wooden house for so many years. Even if this telescope is still in good condition, it is far inferior to the one given to me by the metal book. Some stains accumulated in the mirror will inevitably make the field of view appear slightly dim and blurry.
.
Without touching the telescope again, Weiyan took out the one-meter rangefinder, installed the eyepiece, raised it and pointed at the night sky.
This heavy thing can also be mounted on the tripod, but from today's perspective, if you just turn on the ranging function of Baidu Maps, you can easily throw this big iron rod a few blocks away.
Fortunately, Weiran didn't need it to measure distance at all. He just wanted to see the optical performance of this rangefinder.
What's a pity is that compared to that telescope, which is in pretty good condition, the lens of this rangefinder is almost filled with moldy fog.
Putting it away again, Wei Ran washed his hands carefully and was about to grab something to eat when Suisui called.
"Wai Wai Wai Wai? Are you going back to Murmansk soon?" As soon as the call was connected, Suisui asked in a very fast and low voice.
"Where did you get the letter?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"really!"
Suisui sighed helplessly, "Is my father with his friend? His friend is a man wearing a dark blue down jacket, bald, with a Stalin beard and a nose that is rosy. He is now preparing to take the train from Kandalaksha.
Murmansk?”
"Did you ask Kamei to find out?" Wei Ran thought he had guessed the answer, but at the same time he also secretly wondered whether Anfiya had hacked into the professor's phone.
“No need to bother at all”
Suisui said helplessly, "My father's friend named Pasha posted a photo of him and my father on the social platform five minutes ago. Not only did it have a location, but it also showed off the new mobile phone my father gave him.
, and by the way, he also mentioned that they will be getting on the bus soon."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well...it is true, but I didn't follow them. I was waiting for them in Murmansk."
Wei Ran said truthfully, he really wanted to help his father-in-law cover up, but his friend was unreliable, so don't blame him for passing the blame.
"My mother also said that my father plans to buy a dead body imported from Germany to study?" Suisui continued to ask.
This should be considered smuggling rather than import...
Wei Ran muttered secretly, and simply recounted the causes and consequences as well as the latest findings without any reservation.
"My mother is going to pretend not to know."
Suisui finally whispered, "But you'd better ask my dad to drink less and bring back some decent souvenirs. Also, when will you come back?"
"I can go back in two days."
Wei Ran immediately replied that he really didn't plan to stay here any longer, and he didn't want to get involved in what was going to happen next and steal the professor's limelight.
Secondly, this is not a city like Moscow or Petersburg or Kazan, this is Murmansk, which is almost full of secrets and nuclear radiation.
As a foreigner running around here, he could easily be caught as a spy, let alone go to Pechenga to find Regica's burial place. In other words, the rest of the matter can only be left to the professor.
"When you come back, how about going back to Volgograd with me?" Suisui asked on the phone.
"Okay." Wei Ran nodded happily. It's true that he hasn't gone back for a while.
"Then it's settled!"
Suisui immediately settled the matter with a smile on her face, and then hung up the phone without waiting for Wei Ran to ask again.
He dialed Arili and asked him to help him buy a ticket that would allow him to take Beria on the plane. As soon as he hung up the phone, Saveli's father, Uncle Nikita, also opened the door and walked in.
"Victor, when did you come back? Have you had dinner?" Nikita greeted enthusiastically, "I just went to the lake to catch a lot of fish. Do you want to have a drink together?"
"Then I'm not welcome."
Wei Ran saw that the other party did not notice the extra airdrop boxes and the telescope set up in the yard, so he did not take the initiative to remind him. He followed the other party into the warm wooden house and disemboweled all the frozen fish.
Wash the scales and make a few plates of dishes to go with the wine according to different Chinese and Russian methods.
After a few glasses of wine, Uncle Nikita became more and more enthusiastic and brought the second bottle of wine to the table.
The old man and the young man ate like a storm. After drinking too much, Nikita burped and went into another room. Wei Ran, who also drank a lot, lay directly on the bed by the fireplace.
When Wei Ran woke up again, Professor Alexei had already walked into the courtyard with his good friend Pasha, and the young couple Saveli and Zoya.
However, the old guy didn't even enter the house. He just said hello in a hurry and ran to the telescope set up in the yard.
"Victor, where did you find it?"
Professor Alexei asked excitedly while inspecting the telescope and the airdrop box containing many items, "Look at this telescope! Just by looking at the retractable hood, you can tell that it is relatively early.
Model, and it is so completely preserved, but this telescope is just..."
"I'll take you there later, professor. Why don't we buy those two corpses first?" Wei Ran interrupted what the other party was about to say and reminded him.
"Ah! Yes! Yes!"
Professor Alexei patted his forehead, and this time he said particularly generously, "Pasha, Nikita, and of course Saveli and Zoya, at what price do you plan to sell these two corpses?"
"Come on Alexei"
Pasha said nonchalantly, "It's not every day that corpses are sold in my shop, and it's not every day that Nikita fishes out corpses from the lake, and Saveli and his two little guys don't go on the Arctic Ocean route."
We often encounter corpses, how can we know how much we should sell them for, so you just ask for the price, even if it can be sold for 10,000 rubles, it will be good."
"Good nephew, I plan to buy these two corpses for four million rubles."
Alexei switched to Chinese and said, "I know the price is high, but Pasha is an old friend of mine. He can't live in a store forever. In addition to buying a house for Zoya and the others, this money can also
help..."
"Send me your account number and I'll transfer the money right away."
Wei Ran nodded in agreement before the other party finished speaking. After all, they are a family, and they are his father-in-law. This old guy wants to help his friends, so of course he will not be stingy.
Hearing this, Professor Alexey naturally smiled brightly, and changed his compliments in Russian, and asked Zoya to send her bank account number to Wei Ran.
The decent handwritten agreement was signed by everyone present, and then Weiran transferred four million rubles to Zoya's account.
It can be seen that this price is far beyond the expectations of Pasha and others, so even if the transfer is successful, the four members of their family are still a little unbelievable.
"Saveli, Zoya, I have a business here worth one million rubles, do you want to do it?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"What...what business?" Zoya asked first.
"Professor, I'm afraid I'll have to stay here for a while."
Wei Ran said with a smile, "So I want to rent this yard of yours as his working space. In addition, I may also hire you to look for more on the other side of the mountain where the corpses were found."
Corpse.
In addition, we will also need manpower to go to the three abandoned cabins I found later and move everything back."
Before the family could agree, Wei Ran reminded him in a joking tone, "Of course, since I am hiring everyone to help with this... um... archaeological, yes, archaeological activity, so no matter what is discovered,
It is owned and handled by the professor. In order not to affect our friendship, I still need everyone to sign an agreement and keep it confidential."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No problem! It's absolutely fine for you to do this!"
Nikita, who had just had a big drink with Wei Ran, immediately said, "If you are really willing to spend another million rubles, this house will be given to you directly. Anyway, we will move to Albany soon."
I left Hangelsk and will probably rarely come back in the future."
"Then it's settled"
Wei Ran stopped the professor who was about to say something with his eyes, and made a decision happily. Anyway, he and this family don't know if they will have a chance to meet again in the future, so this villain who is a villain first and a gentleman later,
It is most appropriate for him, a "foreigner" who is the son-in-law, to be the son-in-law.
After signing a second handwritten agreement and paying an additional million rubles, Weiran immediately asked the Savely family to ask their neighbors and borrowed several snowmobiles and tractors, leaving only Zoya.
The girl and the dog Beria stayed at home to guard the body and the things he brought back. Then they drove the snowmobile and took Alexey and others to the tombstone of Timofei and his wife, and then they
He led them to the three wooden houses that had been abandoned for a long time not far away.
"The airdrop box was found in that wooden house."
Wei Ran pointed to the wooden house where the airdrop box was found, and then said, "Professor, now that the second airdrop box has been found, I guess more bodies will be found, so after cleaning up this place, I feel very
We need to go to the south side of the building where the body was found and search again."
"Why the south side?" Saveli, who followed, asked in confusion.
"Because the wind is blowing from the north," Wei Rantan replied matter-of-factly, "so the probability is higher in the south."
"Why don't I leave this to you..."
"I'll forget it"
Wei Ran didn't wait for the professor to finish speaking, then took out a thick wad of rubles from his pocket and stuffed it into the other person's pocket, "I bought a flight ticket back to Kazan tomorrow morning, and now there are only a few hours left before departure.
Already."
"You want to go back?!" Alexei asked in surprise.
"I have to rush back to Volgograd with Suisui."
Wei Ran switched to his native language and reminded him bluntly, "In addition, my aunt already knows that you are here. You must know how to make up for it. She is just pretending not to know now."
"She knows?!" Alexei raised his voice several times, "You little traitor told her?!"
"Not the little traitor like me"
Wei Ran raised his chin towards Uncle Pasha who was busy cleaning the collapsed roof of the wooden house, "It was your old friend who betrayed you. You will know after checking Uncle Pasha's social platform. Okay, I should too
When I go back, I won’t be involved in this matter, by the way!”
Wei Ran stopped and said, "I found a lot of film in that airdrop box, maybe..."
"Take those films with you."
Professor Alexey obviously understood Wei Ran's intention of leaving at this time, and said with extra assurance, "As usual, the job of developing the photos will be left to you. Remember to send me the electronic version. Also, then
Take the telescope back with you, and remember to find someone to help me repair it. That is my gift to your aunt."
"Tell me if you are short of money," Wei Ran finally ordered, "and you'd better drink less."
"Why are you more verbose than your aunt?" Alexei waved his hand, "Don't worry! I will remember to drink less."
After hearing this, the work was done and the money was spent, Wei Ran drove his snowmobile and returned to Saveli's home alone with peace of mind.
After some preparations, they took away all the film canisters and the heavy telescope in the airdrop box. Weiyan and his dog Beria got into the van driven by Zoya and asked her to take him to the airport in Murmansk.
"Victor, thank you for your help."
Seeing that the car was about to arrive at the airport, Zoya suddenly said, "We all know that those corpses are not worth that much money at all. You and Uncle Alex are just helping..."
"Not always"
Wei Ran, who was hugging Gouzi, said with a smile, "Maybe to you, those are just some corpses, but to the professor, those corpses are treasures."
"Anyway, I still want to thank you."
Zoya said with longing, "With this money, we can not only buy a bigger house, but also buy a small house for my dad and Saveli's parents, and renovate my dad's shop."
That’s it. Victor, remember to bring Aurora with you when you come next time. The last time I met her was when I was in the third grade of elementary school."
"Next time I come here, I will definitely bring her with me." Wei Ran promised sincerely.
"Then you can be guests at my and Saveli's new home," Zoya said with a smile.
"You can also come to Kazan to visit us when you have time in the future." Weiran also extended an invitation. "Of course, you can also go to Volgograd or China."
"I will go, we will definitely go." Zoya responded very seriously.
They made promises and invitations to each other, and the car drove to the airport. After Weiran put a muzzle and a leash on Beria, he opened the car door and said goodbye to Zoya, and then called Alili.
One of the flight attendants who helped contact him, after paying an extra small bribe, led him into the departure hall with his dog Beria, who was much larger than the allowed size.
