In front of Karenina's tombstone, Wei Ran gently put down a bouquet of blooming sunflowers, then stood up and followed Mr. Nicholas out of the cemetery.
“Tell me about your experience in Vienna”
After Nikolai waited for the car to start driving again, he asked casually while flipping through the "Anna Karenina" brought back by Weihan.
After hearing this, Wei Ran, who had not spoken much since getting off the plane, described in detail the experiences of the previous two days.
Nicholas closed the famous book in his hand and put it on the seat aside, "In this case, after returning to Tyumen, you and I can go to the library together."
"Mr. Nicholas," Wei Ran couldn't help but ask, "The other party said...I will be her boss from now on. This..."
"If you don't mind having one more employee, then so be it."
Nikolai looked at the sparkling Tula River outside the window and said, "The Katenka I knew is dead. The Katenka now is no longer the Katenka I knew. Besides, how many years can I live?
Woolen cloth?"
"But..."
"But you are Chinese?" Nicholas smiled, "What a coincidence, we are not Soviet, isn't it?"
“But it’s useless for me to have such an employee.”
Wei Ran finally told the truth. In contrast, Jima could still run errands for him, but what about that beautiful girl named Katenka? Is it possible that he really helped him run Gubijing Pasta Restaurant? Or was it?
Tell me to help you collect European intelligence?
But what's the use of collecting it? You can't even hide from this kind of thing. Your brain has been chewed by the Poles and Rabbit Riders from both sides at the same time, so you can take the initiative to get close to it.
"I didn't expect that Katenka would actually train a successor for herself, let alone that she was already suffering from Alzheimer's disease."
Nicholas sighed and said bluntly, "I can trust Katenka buried in that cemetery, but I can't trust the little girl you described. But obviously, I can't let you kill that girl.
Child. And since Katenka has left all the work to her, she cannot be let out of control."
"So you just left this trouble to me?"
"trouble?"
Nicholas snorted, "Katenka is the best intelligence collector. People who have been trained by her since childhood, no matter how bad they are, should be enough to be your teacher in intelligence collection. Such talents are willing to work for you
Work, what reason do you have to regard her as trouble?"
"But I don't have any use for it," Wei Ran said helplessly, "What can I ask her to do? Could she help me investigate the historical truth?"
"Why not?" Nicholas asked matter-of-factly, "You can try giving her some things that need to be investigated. Maybe she is not necessarily worse than you in being a historian.
"
"Since you admire it so much, why not..."
"I've said it before, I just don't trust the new Katenka, but that doesn't mean she's untrustworthy or not capable enough."
When Nicholas said this, he sighed again and asked, "Victor, do you know why she is called Katenka?"
"Because of the city of Kamenka?" Weiran slightly lowered his speed and gave the answer.
"She took letters from her own name, Karenina, and from her parents' names, and replaced the middle part of the city's name, and it became Katenka."
Nicholas murmured and explained, "That's a smart girl who likes reading and can write poetry. The children she raises will not be much worse than her. Victor, give her a job."
, if you are not willing to bear the salary of this employee, I can make the decision and make up for the corresponding expenses from the profits of Time Film Studio."
"Why?"
Weiran simply parked the car on the bank of the Tula River, turned around and looked at Nikolai and asked all the doubts in his heart, "What exactly do you want to do? Resurrection of the Soviet Union?"
“Resurrection of the Soviet Union?”
Nikolay suddenly burst into laughter, "How could you even think of resurrecting the Soviet Union? How could you have such a strange and idiotic idea? Don't say that the Soviet Union will never appear on this planet again, even if someone really has such an idea.
, I’m afraid even I have to shoot him in the head to calm him down.”
"Then what exactly are you going to do?"
"Just survive"
Nikolai's mood seemed to have improved a lot, and he patiently explained, "After the collapse of the Soviet Union, we all have our own choices.
Some people choose to work for their former enemies, and some choose to return to their hometowns or escape from the circle and start a new life. Of course, there are also people, like Katenka, who patiently lurk and wait for new orders. Or
Continue to work hard for young Russia.
But no matter what choice we make, everyone seems to have turned into a street rat overnight, and there are many wary and hostile looks around. To put it more bluntly, everyone is not living a good life."
"So?" Wei Ran mustered up the courage to continue asking.
"So everyone started to huddle together for warmth again, trying to make themselves live safer, and then live more comfortably. Now and in the future, it is just to let everyone live like a happy ordinary person."
"What about me?" Wei Ran looked at the other party seriously, "What exactly do you want me to do, or what do you want to do with me?"
"Didn't you deliver it to your door yourself?"
Nicholas asked back, "I didn't force you with a gun to find out where the gifts you prepared for your parents were hidden, and then forced you to go to Hongqi Forest Farm to study."
Ignoring Wei Ran's embarrassed look, Nicholas continued, "We do want to use you to do something, but we just want to use your status as a foreigner and the connections we can mobilize to make some money.
Money for clean roads.
Use this money to let more old guys like me who may die at any time, or like Culp and others who can only wait quietly to become poor bastards like me, live better in the future.
It’s just more comfortable.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Is that all?" Wei Ran looked at the other party suspiciously.
"Otherwise?" Nicholas asked, "Are you going to resurrect the Soviet Union as you said? There are no such people, but they basically all died in the last century."
"I hope so." Wei Ran stepped on the accelerator again and drove the car in the direction of Tyumen.
As for Nicholas's explanation just now, he had no way of telling whether it was true or false, but he knew that he could no longer ask anything else from the other party. But fortunately, at least for now, the answer given by the other party, which he did not know whether it was true or false,
Relatively speaking, it made him feel at ease a lot.
"So what should we do about that girl?" Nicholas asked, chasing after her.
"Can I still say no?"
Wei Ran rolled his eyes. Although he picked up a female subordinate who seemed capable and indeed beautiful, he couldn't be happy. He always had the illusion that he had been cheated.
Taking Nikolai back to the city of Tyumen, Wei Ran found the library of Tyumen with the help of the navigation system. Under the witness of Nikolai, he stuffed the copy of "Anna Karenina" that he had secretly brought in.
Bookshelves filled with various Russian classics.
After completing the last job, Weihan took a photo of the bookshelf with an extra book, then said goodbye to Mr. Nikolay who was going to stay in Tyumen for a few more days, and boarded the flight to Volgograd alone.
However, when he rushed back to the studio after a long journey, he immediately frowned because there was an open glasses case on the long table at the entrance.
The glasses case contained, of course, the crucial clue items in the job related to the gold treasure that Herbert had rejected at the beginning.
