Early the next morning after returning to reality, Wei Ran took Marta and Lu Xinda, took a car driven by Carlos's lawyer, set off from a "farmhouse"-like hotel on the Brighton seaside, and rushed to Mrs. Kate's hotel from Henry
The mansion that was inherited there.
"As soon as I woke up I received a phone call from Mrs. Kate herself."
Lawyer Carlos slowed down and said, "The things found under the buoy floor last night have basically solved her doubts, but she still has some doubts that she needs your help to solve."
After saying this, Lawyer Carlos added without waiting for Wei Ran to speak, "In addition, for your commission, I mean Mr. Henry's collection of antique firearms and weapons. You can transport them all away now. Of course.
, Mrs. Kate may not necessarily pay extra commission for the next thing she needs your help with."
"I understand, thank you very much."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he changed into Russian and greeted Marta who was sitting next to him, leaving the task of contacting Mr. Alexander to help "import" those military collections to him.
Perhaps out of caution as a lawyer, seeing that Marta had already started calling, Carlos was not in a hurry to continue the conversation between him and Wei Ran. He just waited quietly until Marta ended the call.
, then continued, "Victor, I didn't expect that things here would come to fruition so quickly. Did you already guess that those things might be hidden under the floor when Mr. Henry was alive?"
"If I had guessed it at the time, I might have told Mr. Henry directly."
Wei Ran said regretfully, how could he have guessed such a thing. Originally, according to his expectation, Henry, a military collector like him, must have inspected the buoy inside and out.
Wait! Could it be that Henry already knew where those things were hidden?
But then, Wei Ran gave up these speculations. Henry was already dead, and these speculations had no meaning. Moreover, if the fat man who liked to lie knew about it, why did he invite him there in the first place?
While thinking and chatting, the car driven by Carlos once again drove into the spacious mansion. Without waiting for the car to stop, Wei Ran and others also saw Kate and her daughter waiting at the gate on the first floor early.
Alice's family - including her ex-husband.
"They are much more enthusiastic this time than the first time we came here," lawyer Carlos joked a little in German that only Wei Ran could understand, and then he pulled the handbrake and pushed open the car door.
"Good morning, Mr. Victor." Mrs. Kate, whose eyes seemed a little red and swollen, took the initiative to say hello to Wei Ran in French.
"Good morning, Mrs. Kate." Wei Ran politely hugged her gently.
"Victor, please come with me. I have something that I urgently need your help with." Mrs. Kate said rather hastily, not even leaving time for Wei Ran to greet Alice and others.
"no problem"
Wei Ran responded happily and followed the plainly dressed old man who was incompatible with this mansion into the first floor, then up to the second floor, and finally got into the study room where he had gone when he first talked to him.
It can be seen that the other party has been waiting for me to come over. A pot of black tea and various refreshments have been placed on the tea table in the study. On the large desk not far away, there are plastic envelopes.
Get up photos.
Seeing that Mrs. Kate didn't stop him, Wei Ran stood at the desk calmly. He even opened his briefcase in a serious manner, took out a magnifying glass with a diameter as large as the mouth of a bowl, and observed it carefully.
Those laminated photos.
A considerable number of these photos were taken by him personally, including photos of bombed London from inside a German bomber, photos taken from a buoy, and photos taken of Heidi and Van in a tailor shop.
A group photo taken by Nisha and her sisters, as well as several photos of Barbara taken in the orchard.
Except for these familiar photos, he had never seen the rest of the photos. In these photos, there was William, who had only met once, and a woman standing side by side with his arm in arms, as well as Louis, whom Attila and Louis had met.
There is also a little girl I have never seen before, a little boy I have never seen before, and Heidi, who always holds a copy of "Mein Struggle" in her arms when taking pictures.
The backgrounds of these old photos that he was not familiar with were also diverse, including beaches, farms, and city scenery, but there was no such thing as the buoy.
"This poor woman is the grandmother Heidi I once told you about." At some point, Mrs. Kate walked up to Wei Ran and picked up a photo and said.
In this photo, Heidi, who is no longer young, is operating a sewing machine. There are three children surrounding the sewing machine.
"This is Henry"
Kate pointed to the little boy in the photo holding ice cream and wearing only a pair of white briefs and said, "The little boy wearing glasses next to him is Sean, and the girl is me."
As if remembering something interesting in her childhood, Kate couldn't help but reveal a smile on her old face, "I remember very clearly that when I took this photo, it was because of Henry, Sean and me.
During the tree climbing competition, Henry's new pants and T-shirt, as well as my skirt, were ripped open when they fell from the tree. Grandma Heidi sewed them up for us and concealed them for us.
"
At this point, Mrs. Kate seemed to realize that she was off topic, and picked up another photo and continued, "The melancholy woman in this photo is what Grandma Heidi looked like when she was young."
"Are these children next to her your fathers?" Wei Ran put the magnifying glass in his hand over the photo and deliberately pointed at Attila in the photo and asked.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Yes"
Kate nodded, pointed at Attila and said, "He is my father, Attila Klinsmann. The man next to me is Phil Harrington, and he is Sean's father."
"Where are these two left?" Wei Ran asked, pointing to the two remaining children in the photo.
"The boy's name is Louis Basten"
Kate said while looking through the photos, "In my memory, he didn't always live on the farm. The last time I saw him was at the funeral of William's grandfather, and I haven't seen him since.
I’ve seen him before, including at my father’s funeral later, but he never showed up. But I vaguely remember that the reason why he left the farm seemed to be related to Aunt Vanessa.”
Having said this, Kate finally pointed to the last little girl in the photo, "She is Henry's mother, Aunt Vanessa, and the only daughter of Heidi's grandmother."
"them..."
Before Wei Ran could ask the question, Heidi sighed, "Just like Henry and I, Uncle Louis admired Aunt Vanessa when he was young, but was strongly resisted by Heidi's grandmother. From then on,
Uncle Louis just left... as did Henry's family later.
Of course, after Grandma Heidi was shot to death by my mother, my father secretly told me this before I was discharged from the hospital. As for the specific situation, I am actually not very clear about it."
That French woman...
Wei Ran sighed silently, and then heard Kate continue, "Victor, the thing I want to ask you has to do with the name Vanessa."
Something to do with this name?
Wei Ran's heart skipped a beat when he found that Mrs. Kate had opened the desk drawer and took out a copy of "Mein Struggle" with black blood stains remaining and the spine almost torn. She opened it carefully and took it out.
I took a black and white photo that was only about the size of my palm.
With just one glance, he could tell that this photo was a photo he took personally of sisters Heidi and Vanessa in the backyard of the tailor shop.
"Grandma Heidi had a lost sister, also named Vanessa."
As Kate spoke, she pushed the bloody book and the two envelopes over, "Why don't you take a look at these things first? This book was left by Heidi's grandmother, the smaller envelope was a relic of my father, and the larger one was left by my father.
The envelope... everything that happened is recorded there, and it also records the things I want to continue to ask you."
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran put down the magnifying glass in his hand, took out a pair of brand new silk gloves from his briefcase and put them on in a very formal manner, and then carefully opened the nearly torn-through book "Mein Kampf".
In this bloody book, in addition to the escape plan that Spier had hastily written in French before his death and the Hebrew letter, there are also pages of fragments also written in Hebrew.
.
Just from the descriptions in these fragments, we can see that it was Heidi who wrote these words, and most of these words record scattered memories.
Among these memories are the experiences of the sisters climbing over stone walls on their grandfather's farm when they were children, as well as the three sheepdogs raised by their grandfather and the past when she took her sister Vanessa to the city to set up a stall and shine shoes. Likewise, there are
There are also some things that happened between their sisters in the tailor shop, and even some setbacks and troubles that the girl also named Vanessa encountered while growing up after Heidi's daughter was born.
But without exception, in these fragments, there was not even a single mention of where his grandfather's farm was, where the tailor shop was, etc. So when he read the whole story, he felt as if Heidi was deliberately hiding her ordinary life.
Nisha's message.
No, that's probably not hiding, but protecting...
For a poor woman who is mentally ill, for a poor woman who may spend the rest of her life immersed in the fact that her sister is separated and her fiancé dies in front of her eyes.
Her time, space, and thoughts may always be fixed on the dangerous night of September 16, 1940.
"Can you understand these Arabic characters?" Kate couldn't help but ask when Wei Ran was distracted.
"I can't understand"
Wei Ran came to his senses, put down the bloody book and picked up an envelope while denying it, "But I understand German and can recognize what this book is, so when I saw these words written in such a book,
It’s hard to avoid feeling a little emotional.”
Hearing this, Kate couldn't help but sigh, "I can't understand it either, but I remember clearly that when Grandma Heidi was alive, she always carried this book with her, including when my mother shot and killed her.
when.
I still remember it, but I still don’t understand it until now. She laughed after she was shot, and she smiled very happily, like..."
"It's like being relieved," Wei Ran said subconsciously.
Mrs. Kate's body trembled involuntarily, and then she nodded, "Yes, it's like being relieved. That poor woman must have been burdened with too much misfortune."
"maybe..."
As Wei Ran spoke, he carefully opened the shriveled envelope in his hand.
This was a letter that Mrs. Barbara left to Attila before she committed suicide, but there was no word related to hatred recorded on that thin piece of paper. The instructions in German throughout were all in the hope that Attila
Let go of indifferent hatred, be an ordinary person, be a healthy and happy person, be a person who does not harm others, and... I wish him to stay away from war forever, whether on the side of the aggressor or the invaded.
"What's written on it?" Kate couldn't help but ask when she saw Wei Ran fell silent again.
"An ordinary mother's great love for her children"
When Wei Ran handed the letter to the other party, his tone was rare formality and admiration, "This is a suicide note that is enough to eliminate hatred and end tragedy. It is also... it is also the legacy your real grandmother left to your father and family.
Your most precious treasure."
“Thank you for such a high rating”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Kate said, taking the yellowed letter paper and envelope with both hands, carefully putting them back together and gently putting them in the drawer.
Finally, he picked up the bulging envelope that Phil had left behind before committing suicide, but Wei Ran pulled out a dozen pieces of letter paper filled with words.
Only the first two pages of this long letter were written to William in English. They were all about some instructions about his posthumous affairs and the reasons for his suicide. He also hoped that William could take good care of Attila, Louis, and Heidi. By the way,
, and also hoped that he could help find Heidi's lost sister Vanessa.
This part was translated into French by Mrs. Kate herself and read to Wei Ran without reservation.
The second part of this long letter is written in German and Latin.
Between the lines, Phil objectively and detailedly described everything that happened in the buoy in two languages. He also recorded Mrs. Barbara's experiences during her lifetime and the reasons for her suicide, as well as his inner feelings for Heidi, Attila, and even...
Brothers Hans von Basten and Louis Basten were inextricably linked to guilt and regret.
At the end of the letter, Phil used humble words to sincerely request Attila to consider forgiving Heidi when he becomes an adult, forgive Spear for killing Julian, and also forgive him for what he did in the buoy and on the bomber.
Everything and everything not done.
At the same time, he also asked Heidi and Basten brothers for forgiveness in the same humble words.
And the price he was willing to pay for all this pleading for understanding was his own life stained with blood and gunpowder smoke.
"This part is what I want you to help me with."
Mrs. Kate waited until Wei Ran carefully read the last word of the letter, then took out a part written in English from the long letter, pointed at Phil and told William, "Fortunately, Alice's ex-husband read it
He knows quite a bit of Latin, and he spent all night yesterday translating the Latin part of this letter, so I already know the reason why Grandma Heidi prevented me from being with Henry, and I don't blame her.
In addition, I want to find Grandma Heidi's sister for Grandfather William, which can be considered...it can also be considered as atonement.
To atone for the sins of my real grandfather, the German bomber pilot who invaded other countries."
"It's not you who should atone for your sins..."
Wei Ran sighed in his heart, and then gently put down the letter in his hand, "Don't worry, Mrs. Kate, I will help you find her."
