Inside the windy and snowy abandoned military base, Wei Ran pretended to be sitting cross-legged on a wolf-skin blanket facing the window, playing the guqin in his hand.
In the fragmented song, Alili held a small notebook in his hand, carefully recording the various ideas and suggestions that Suisui put forward to their camp. Upstairs, Ji Ma, who had fallen in Qian'er's eyes, was working hard.
I rummaged through each room for missing treasures, and from time to time I would pick up an ax and chop hard.
Unfortunately, although with his busy work, more and more firewood was piled up in the hall on the third floor, Ji Ma, who was busy from morning to noon, found only a fairly well-made vertical double-barreled shotgun and several large boxes of matching 12
Apart from the bullets, there is no valuable gain at all.
"I plan to go to another building to continue searching in the afternoon."
Beside the bonfire, Ji Ma, who was called back for lunch, bit into the grilled deer steak and said in a dazed way, "Which of you wants to go with me?"
"Save it"
Alili said angrily, "I wouldn't be surprised if a pack of wolves were hiding in that building now. Why can't you just wait in this building for two days?"
"Don't look at me, I have to continue practicing the piano in the afternoon." Wei Ran blocked Jima's words without raising his head.
Ji Ma looked at Suisui, who was holding a tablet computer and watching Chinese TV series, and shook his head to give up. Even if this girl wanted to follow, she probably wouldn't be able to help. What's more, the other party was obviously not interested.
After simply eating something to fill his stomach, Wei Ran pulled the wolfskin blanket back to the window and continued to practice the piano. Suisui continued to watch her TV, and from time to time, she would laugh out loud. And she had just drank most of it.
Alili, who was holding a bottle of vodka, simply lay down on the wolf skin blanket by the campfire, and soon began to snore.
Unable to rest, Jima looked around, then simply picked up the kerosene lamp and climbed up the stairs again. Amidst the noise caused by the friction between various furniture and the floor, time passed little by little, until the window was once again shrouded in night.
The disgraced Jima ran downstairs shouting and carrying a kerosene lamp.
"Victor! Come here and help me see if these things are worth anything!"
"What did you find again?" Wei Ran put the guqin on the wolfskin blanket and walked over and asked while squeezing his sore fingers.
A proud smile appeared on Jima's face, and he shook the tin box in his hand, which was only half a brick in size, then placed the kerosene lamp in his other hand on the table, deliberately waiting for Alili and Suisui to also be curious.
After he came over, he proudly opened the slightly rusty cover.
In this not-so-big box, the most eye-catching thing is a color photo sealed in plastic. In this photo, a fully armed astronaut is saluting, and behind him, except for a piece of paper fluttering in the wind,
Besides the Soviet flag, there is also a rocket waiting to be launched.
After reading it, Dima and the other three people immediately turned over the photo, and then everyone saw a slightly scrawled Russian signature - "Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov".
"Is this the first Soviet astronaut to perform a space walk?" Wei Ran looked at the photo displayed in Jima's hand in surprise, "Isn't there his signature behind the photo?!"
"How do I know?" Jima proudly handed the photo to everyone for circulation, and he took out a long paper box from the tin box.
Gently opening the box, Jima poured out a watch with a plastic bag inside, and at the same time explained proudly, "This is a Wrigley watch. Mr. Nicholas also has one. It is said that this watch has been in space."
of."
"My dad also has one!" Suisui said immediately, "I remember he said more than once that this watch was the first chronograph in the Soviet Union."
Wei Ran nodded in agreement. The watch Suisui mentioned is still on Professor Alexei's wrist.
And we have to admit that even today, this watch originally designed for the Soviet Air Force and astronauts is still not outdated. Half a century ago, this watch won the "Soviet Super Award" in the Western world not long after it was launched.
The reputation of "hegemony".
Ji Ma carefully tore open the plastic packaging bag, and after adjusting and winding according to the instructions inside, the watch that had been stored for an unknown period of time started to move again. In the quiet hall on the third floor, the ticking of the second hand was heard by the bonfire.
The crackling sound is still clearly audible.
"Victor, don't tell me how much this watch is worth now." Victor said as he put it on his wrist, "From now on, it is mine."
Wei Ran returned the photo that was sent to him to Jima, "I can't say how much that watch costs, but if the signature on the photo is genuine, it will definitely be worth much more than the watch."
"At that time, I will ask Professor Alexei how much it can be sold for." Jima took the photo and placed it on the lid of the box, continuing to show off the watch he just wore.
"What are these?" Wei Ran said as he took out a cylindrical kraft paper roll from the tin box. This paper roll almost filled the remaining space in the tin box.
"I haven't opened it yet. I ran down after seeing the watch." Ji Ma responded without raising his head. He was busy comparing the time on his phone to look at the watch.
The walking time is sometimes accurate.
Weighing the weight of the kraft paper roll, Wei Ran already had a rough guess in his mind. Eighty percent of the bread here should be coins.
After obtaining Jima's consent, Wei Ran carefully opened a paper roll, and then proved his guess. It contained ten coins that still had a metallic luster, or to be more precise, they were coins that the Soviet Union had issued in April 1965.
The commemorative coin "Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Victory" issued on September 28th. At the same time, it was also the first commemorative coin issued by the Soviet Union after the war.
Unfortunately, a total of 60 million pieces of this copper-nickel alloy commemorative coin with a face value of 1 ruble were issued at that time, so even though it has long been out of print due to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, its collection value is still not as high as other commemorative coins of the same period.
It's too high.
The reason is entirely because the Soviet Union, in addition to being the country with the most medals and medals of all kinds, was also the country that issued the most commemorative coins in circulation.
Starting from this type of commemorative coin in hand, until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, in just a few decades, the Soviet Union issued a total of 64 types of commemorative coins with various themes. On average, at least two were issued a year.
pieces.
Such a dense issuance interval and huge circulation volume have made many commemorative coin collectors numb. After all, even when cutting leeks, there is no need to sharpen the knife so sharply.
After re-wrapping the commemorative coins in his hand and putting them into the box, Wei Ran was too lazy to look at what was wrapped in the other kraft paper rolls. Instead, he asked curiously, "Jima, where did you find these things?"
“In a single dormitory on the fifth floor”
Jima seemed to have just remembered, pointing to the top of his head, "I found it in the drawer of that dormitory, but that's all I found."
Wei Ran stood up and walked towards the wolf-skin blanket by the window, "It's already a good harvest. The signed photo alone can probably be sold for a lot of money."
Ji Ma stretched his sleeves to cover the watch he just put on, "Of course it's a good harvest. There is one last room up there. Do you want to go look for it with me?"
"Not interested" Wei Ran and the other three rejected Jima in unison.
The latter didn't care, and confidently picked up the kerosene lamp again and climbed up the stairs again.
However, I don’t know if all his luck was exhausted by that iron box. Until he carefully searched the last few rooms, he only found a few erotic magazines with hot content but a lot of mold.
That's all.
There was no talking all night. When Wei Ran and Suisui were woken up by a knock on the door early the next morning, although the snow outside was still falling, the wind had completely stopped at some point.
The four people looked out the window and saw that most of the An-2 aircraft's muscle belly and the two huge skids had been completely buried by the snow.
"Come downstairs!" Alili said, hanging up the window. "We need to dig out the plane and leave here as soon as the wind stops."
"Remember to bring your gun," Jima reminded, who had already packed his luggage. "The wolves around here have been hungry for two days."
"Will you stay in the building?" Wei Ran said to Suisui as he walked towards the room where the weapons were stacked.
"Who are you looking down on?"
Suisui rolled her eyes, got into the room first, picked up an AK rifle with a folding stock and put it on her shoulder. She also put a grenade and two Ali's loaded with bullets into her pocket.
box.
Alili and Ji Ma looked at each other, and each of them put a grenade in their pockets in tacit understanding. Although they knew that this thing was useless against the wolves, they couldn't be compared with a girl?
As for Wei Ran, he has no such inexplicable desire to compare. The wolves are not fools. Even if they are hungry and anxious, they can be driven away with at most one magazine shot. Why put so many burdens on themselves?
Everyone checked the rifles in their hands, and everyone followed Alili to the first floor. However, when they pushed the iron door open through a narrow gap and got out, they found that the snow outside was already waist deep.
Already.
"Suisui, keep an eye on your surroundings."
"Leave it to me!" Suisui pushed the bullet directly into the chamber and even pulled down the safety.
Everyone put on their snowshoes, took the tools they found on the first floor, and trudged through the thick snow to the plane not far away.
However, before they could raise the shovels in their hands, a low wolf howl came from the roof of another building!
"Da da da!"
Suisui, who was walking at the end, didn't even care where the wolf was hiding. He raised the muzzle of the rifle in his hand, pointed it in the direction of the mountain, and pulled the trigger!
The deafening gunfire not only completely suppressed the howling of the wolf, but also startled the three people who were preparing to dig.
But before they could say anything, more than 20 wolves ran out of the building on the left like a swarm of swarms!
