Chapter 341 The two people who asked Wei Ran for help
On the roadside in front of the store, Weiran opened the car door and was about to put the suitcase full of clothes he bought at a high price into the back seat. But then, he found that old man Gorman was sitting in the car.
It’s here!
"Why are you here?" Wei Ran, who almost took out his gun from his notebook, was really startled by the other party.
"I've been waiting for you here for a long time. It's too cold outside, so I had to come and sit in the car."
Gorman explained in a matter-of-fact tone, "As for what I'm here to do, let's get in the car first."
After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran put the suitcase into the trunk that contained a lot of sundries, and reluctantly got into the cab.
It wasn't until the car started that Gorman said slowly, "Don't be nervous, I came to see you on a private matter."
"Private matter?" Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, then asked nervously, "What private matter?"
Gorman hesitated for a moment and then asked, "How about you take a trip to Odessa for me if you have time?"
"Odessa? Ukraine? Why are you going there? Killing people?" A series of questions popped out of Wei Ran's wrinkled mouth, but his tone made it clear that he was unhappy.
"No, no, no, it's not Odessa in Ukraine, it's Odessa in the United States, in Texas." Gorman paused and continued, "You don't need to kill anyone, as long as you find someone for me,
Let’s see how she is living, and at most we can take a few photos from a distance.”
"she?"
Wei Ran immediately caught the key words in the other party's words, and deliberately looked at the old guy sitting in the rear car through the rearview mirror with a playful expression.
"My wife, my ex-wife." Gorman shook his head helplessly, "Leave here first."
"Where are you going?" Wei Ran simply stepped on the accelerator.
"Go forward and turn right at the second intersection. There is a cafe on the left. Go there."
"No problem" Wei Ran responded without asking any more questions. He followed the other party's instructions and drove the car to the destination.
It was obvious that Gorman was very familiar with this place. After leading him into the cafe, he found a corner farthest from the window and sat down.
When the waiter brought the coffee to the table, Gorman just slowly stirred the coffee in the cup, seemingly not knowing what to say.
Wei Ran sighed and lost his curiosity, "Tell me what I can do for you."
"No...no need to do too much, just see how her life is going."
Gorman showed a rare trace of panic, "And...and my son, see if he is married and has children. That's it. That's all."
Seeing the other party looking at him with hopeful eyes, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment and finally nodded, "That's all?"
"that's it"
Gorman took out a folded A4 paper from his pocket, opened it and pushed it to Wei Ran, tapped the two pictures printed on it with his calloused fingers and said, "I found her on the street view map.
What her house looks like, the photo below is hers.”
Having said this, Gorman took out an old-looking pen and wrote down a string of addresses that seemed to be detailed down to the house number on the A4 paper in English that Wei Ran couldn't understand.
"Gorman...why don't you go by yourself?" Wei Ran finally couldn't help but asked his doubts.
"I'm already dead, otherwise I wouldn't be alive until now."
Gorman said something that Wei Ran could understand but not understand, then put away the pen and continued in a calm tone, "And for some reasons that I can't tell you, I'm worried that if I go, maybe
It will cause trouble for her."
After a moment of silence, Wei Ran asked again, "How long has it been since you last saw her?"
“The last time we met was two months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
Gorman showed a sad smile, took out a roll of US dollars from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, "Let's find a reasonable excuse to give her the money. It's less than ten thousand US dollars. I didn't even declare it when I entered the country."
None of them are needed.”
Looking at the old roll of banknotes handed over by the other party, Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "You know, my aunt runs a travel agency. In addition, my parents also run a travel agency, so I have a way to bring more money.
,if..."
"Then wait for me." Gorman stood up before he finished speaking, almost jogging and left the cafe.
Less than ten minutes later, this old guy, who usually frightened Wei Ran, walked in carrying a computer bag that was not too big, lowered his voice slightly and asked, "There are more than 50,000 US dollars in it, plus the addition just now
Those are just 60,000 yuan, can you bring them over?"
"It's not a big problem." Wei Ran took the computer bag and finally asked the last question, "Why should I go?"
"Or do you have someone better?"
Gorman asked back. When Wei Ran didn't speak, the old guy sighed, "At least you are trustworthy and your identity is relatively clean. Unlike us, you will attract attention wherever you go, and you have to worry about whether there will be old friends at all times."
Knock on the door.”
"What time?" Wei Ran asked simply.
"There's no rush." Gorman paused and then added, "Of course, the sooner the better."
Doesn’t that mean you can’t wait?
Wei Ran muttered to himself, but did not break through the window paper after all, "I will make arrangements and leave immediately after returning to Volgograd."
"Okay...I'll wait for your news."
Gorman rubbed his face hard and said, "I remember your English is not very good. You can hire a local translator when the time comes. In addition, if possible, you'd better start from China, which will be safer for you and her."
"
"Don't worry about this kind of thing"
Wei Ran threw the roll of cash on the table into his computer bag, "Don't you need me to bring her a message or something?"
Gorman opened his mouth, but then simply shook his head, "Forget it, no need, there is no need for the dead to disturb the living."
Without waiting for Wei Ran to say anything else, the old guy simply stood up and left the cafe.
Watching the other party go away, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to leave. From the ordinary life of the old man's children and grandchildren in the tailor shop not far away, to the things that Gorman had just asked him to help with as he walked further and further away, to the things that Gorman had just asked him to help, and then to
The experience of Mr. Nicholas and even the lesson Gorman taught himself with Sui Sui in Intali a few months ago.
These things hit Wei Ran's heart like waves one after another, making him more and more wary of the things he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm, and he became more aware of what he should and should not do in the future.
"Confucianism disrupts the law with literature, while chivalry violates the law with force..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself an ancient Chinese proverb that Gorman had given to him, and finally stood up, carrying a worn-out computer bag and leaving the cafe.
As he drove the car to the airport, he began to think about the preparations he needed to make for this trip to the lighthouse country.
Apart from anything else, the first and most important thing is a reliable translator. Otherwise, with my poor English, it may be unclear whether I can find the destination.
After thinking about it, apart from Suisui, whose English seemed to be barely adequate, the only reliable translator left was his employee Katianka.
But neither of the two seems to be a good match. Needless to say, Suisui doesn't want his family to know about his affair with Hongqi Forestry Farm.
As for Katenka, her background is equally unclean. It would be troublesome to be caught if she landed, and she might even have to be spared. And the most important thing is that since Gorman secretly chose this time to find her,
I made it clear that I didn't want others to know about this.
He couldn't really borrow a tour guide from home? After thinking about it all the way, he finally decided to go back to the studio first.
After taking the flight that day and successfully landing in Volgograd after a long and boring flight, Wei Ran drove an off-road vehicle back to the studio, only to find that the travel agency next door was particularly busy.
Curious, he opened the door and walked in. What made him dumbfounded was that except for a few people who were busy working in the spacious office, the rest had already set up a Great Wall on the mahjong table in the conference room.
As Wei Ran entered the door, those who were playing mahjong quickly stopped what they were doing. It wasn't until they saw the person coming that those who had been led astray by Professor Alexey relaxed.
"My aunt is on a business trip again?" Wei Ran asked as usual. It has long been an open secret to take advantage of the boss's absence to fish and play mahjong.
Don't talk about him, even my aunt actually knows it very well, but the nature of the work of a travel agency is actually like that. As long as the work that needs to be done is done, as long as you don't drink at work, play mahjong and games, or even have a small barbecue at the door.
These are all common things.
“Not on a business trip”
The girl at the front desk with a little tortoise painted on her face explained while playing cards, "She went to Finland to see a professor filming a movie. She went there half a month ago. She probably won't be able to come back until after Christmas, Victor,
Come here and help me fight for a while, I've lost six games in a row."
"What about you? Why don't you have a holiday?" Wei Ran helped the little girl play a card and continued to ask.
“Can’t take a holiday”
The little girl at the front desk simply gave up her seat to Wei Ran, and while wiping the amphibians with various postures on her face with a wet wipe, she explained, "There have been a lot of tourists recently, most of them are going to Inta, and there are two more tonight.
Those who came to Volgograd will be sent back to China tomorrow, and..."
"stop stop stop"
Wei Ran quickly stopped the other party from continuing, otherwise according to usual experience, he might be raped.
"Hooray!"
Mao Zizhuang, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, shouted loudly in Chinese characters, and then grabbed the cards Wei Ran had just thrown out.
"Victor, do you want to go to Finland?" Hu Pai's stupid tour guide asked in Chinese, "The boss said that the professor's acting was very good."
"I'll forget it, I have something else to do these two days."
Wei Ran, who had lost the card as soon as he sat down, had no intention of continuing to play, so he simply gave up his position to the girl at the front desk again, "You guys can continue playing, is anyone looking for me this month?"
The girl at the front desk who had just wiped her face seemed to have just remembered it. She shuffled the cards and said, "About half a month ago, Mr. Nicholas and a man took away a wooden box from your studio.
, it was the boss who opened the door."
"I know this, is there anything else?"
Wei Ranhun replied nonchalantly that the wooden box that was taken away contained the things that brought him back to the Rzhev battlefield. Dalia had greeted him before going to the Hongqi Forest Farm for class.
"No, no, yes!"
The little girl stopped what she was doing and said, "A week ago, maybe. Less than a week ago, a Chinese girl in a wheelchair came to see you."
"In a wheelchair?"
"That girl said her name is Sui Xin"
The previous male tour guide who spoke Chinese reminded, "I was there at the time, but the boss was not there either, so she left without saying anything."
"is her?"
Wei Ran finally got the right number. Isn't this Sui Xin the girl who was introduced to him by his aunt when Dalia and Teacher Culp forcibly sold the Guqin Youquan bed to him? At that time, he
I also visited the small supermarket owned by his family.
But why did she come to find him? Wei Ran suppressed the doubts in his heart and continued to ask, "Is there more?"
The little girl at the front desk thought for a while and then shook her head, "No."
"You guys can continue playing." Wei Ran didn't give the others a chance to ask for help, and simply turned around and left the travel agency.
Back in the studio, Wei Ran took out his cell phone that had been turned off for a long time and charged it up. After searching in his address book, he dialed the number of Sui Xin, whom he had met once before.
"I'm Wei Ran, I'm sorry I just came back. Just now the front desk of the travel agency told me that you came here to see me?"
"I thought you had changed your number," Sui Xin on the other end of the phone replied with a smile, "I did look for you before."
"What?" Wei Ran asked curiously, "Is something wrong?"
“There is indeed something going on”
The girl on the other end of the phone hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Are you at a travel agency? I'll go find you if it's convenient?"
"I'll go find you. The car hasn't turned off yet." Wei Ran said quickly. It wasn't that he didn't want the other party to come, but it was just that the other party's physical condition made it difficult to come here.
"That's fine, thank you."
Sui Xin on the other end of the phone obviously sensed Wei Ran's kindness. After thanking him, he hesitated for a moment and said, "Um...can you bring your guqin bed with you? I want to borrow it."
"Borrow the guqin?" Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, then simply replied, "Okay, no problem."
Sui Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly, "Thank you then. I'll treat you to hot pot tonight."
"I'll leave now"
After saying that, Wei Ran hung up the phone. Although he didn't understand why the other party suddenly borrowed the guqin, at least he had helped him in the first place, so he naturally wouldn't refuse.
As for the Guqin Youquan that the other party wanted to borrow, it's not a problem since it's still in China. There's also a Yaoguang bed in the metal book.
He picked up his barely charged mobile phone and dug out two bottles of gin he bought last time as souvenirs. Finally, he took out the piano case from the metal book. Weiran locked the rolling door and returned the engine.
The warm off-road vehicle restarted and followed its memory to find the small supermarket owned by Sui Xin's family in the city of Volgograd.
Before he could park the car, Sui Xin's father was already waiting at the door. It was obvious that the other party had recognized the ostentatious off-road vehicle, and behind the uncle, there was a wealthy man.
The middle-aged woman was standing behind the wheelchair where Sui Xin was sitting.
The other party's family was waiting for him so grandly, which made Wei Ran feel a little embarrassed. He quickly parked the car on the side of the road, picked up the souvenirs and piano case, and went up to them.
"Why are you here carrying wine again? This time, our girl is asking for your help." Sui Xin's old father refused.
"Didn't you ask me to treat you to hot pot? You have to drink some wine?" Wei Ran asked pretending to be confused, which invisibly eliminated the only unfamiliarity and restraint between the two parties.
"Okay, if you guys say that, I won't be polite. Let's have a bottle tonight!"
Sui Xin's father simply took the wine from Wei Ran's hand, pulled him inside and introduced, "This is your aunt. She went back to China when you came last time and didn't see her."
"Hello, aunt"
Wei Ran greeted the other party politely, and the latter responded gently. On the other hand, Sui Xin, who had been pushed by her, since Wei Ran got out of the car, looked straight at the car he was holding in his hand.
The piano case with its dots of reflections, and the chubby bun's face also showed a look of surprise.
The two parties walked into the supermarket politely, and Wei Ran immediately discovered that an elevator was installed near the original staircase in the supermarket. Obviously, this was prepared for Sui Xin, who was in a wheelchair.
You took the elevator to the second floor. When the elevator door opened, you went directly to the classroom where Wei Ran had been.
However, compared with last time, there is not a single student in the classroom today. At the same time, there are a few air purifiers made in China near the glass window, and on a small table on the side of the elevator,
There was also a piece of incense stick as thick as a toothpick burning.
"After your kid came last time, I brought back several air purifiers."
Father Sui Xin introduced with a proud look on his face, "Even this elevator was installed at that time. In addition, we also got a lot of thousand-layer cloth shoes from China for those idiots to wear. This time, even if there are people sitting in this room,
A hundred people can no longer smell the smell of smelly feet and body odor."
“This incense smells pretty good”
Wei Ran complimented her sincerely. It can be seen that this father loves his daughter enough, otherwise he would not have made so many changes just because of his casual words at that time.
When Sui Xin's mother brought a pot of jasmine tea, Wei Ran accompanied the family of three and continued to greet each other. It wasn't until Sui Xin's mother and father left the classroom on the pretext of preparing ingredients for hot pot that he and Sui Xin
Bringing the topic back to business.
"Are you planning to open a Guqin training class?" Wei Ran asked in surprise after hearing what Sui Xin said in a wheelchair.
"After you came here last time, there were several idiots clamoring to learn. Later, more and more people wanted to learn. Those idiots insisted that the guqin has fewer strings than the guzheng, so it is easier to learn."
Sui Xin said with a headache on her face, "Because of this, I deliberately practiced by myself for almost half a year before picking up what I had learned before."
"and you..."
"I actually want to borrow your piano to record some teaching videos."
Sui Xin glanced at the piano case that had been placed at Wei Ran's feet, then raised her finger to point to the beds of guqins hanging on the wall not far away, and explained with a distressed look, "Guqin is too expensive, especially from
It’s even more expensive to mail it here domestically. Those amateur guqin can be used to practice for novices, but when used to record teaching videos, the sound quality is too poor.”
"Did you buy so many guqins?" Wei Ran asked in surprise. From the moment he entered the door, he noticed that there were twenty guqins hanging on the wall.
"I don't have that much money"
A look of pride appeared on Sui Xin's face, "I actually bought only five beds myself, and the rest were purchased by students who wanted to learn piano."
"These idiots are really everywhere..."
Wei Ran couldn't help but murmured, and then he happily picked up the piano case at his feet and put it on the table, "Then you can try this piano. That Youquan bed was sent back to China by me last year, and this one
It's called Yaoguang, I bought it not long ago."
"This piano case alone doesn't look cheap. It seems like... is it really Babao gray paint? Who is this idiot rich man who is not short of money? He actually uses Babao gray paint to make a piano case?!"
Sui Xin's eyes widened. She had noticed this piano case from the moment they met, but she didn't expect that the craftsmanship of this piano case was actually as expected.
"Who knows what idiot rich man who is not short of money?" Wei Ran held back a smile and glanced at the tattoo on the left tiger's mouth, but he felt a lot more comfortable. It had been so long, and finally someone helped him to curse.
"You can buy all this, I suspect you are a tomb robber."
"Perhaps I accidentally stabbed Qinwo," Wei Ran said nonsensically and brushed off the topic.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Sui Xin swallowed, but did not touch the piano case on the table. Instead, she took out two wet wipes and wiped her hands carefully, and then waited.
After drying, I carefully opened the buckle on the piano case.
With some effort, Sui Xin took out the frighteningly heavy Guqin Yaoguang. After looking at the silk strings on it, Sui Xin looked at Wei Ran with a strange expression and asked, "Have you learned how to play the piano?"
"Why do you ask?" Wei Ran asked curiously as he helped move the piano case aside.
"They all use silk strings. Novices can't play well with these strings."
"Just a few pulls," Wei Ran said modestly.
"How about you play a song first?" Sui Xin seemed to be intrigued, "Let me see how you're doing."
"I'll forget it"
When he came back from Moscow, Wei Ran, who had already decided to keep a low profile and not be pretentious, quickly excused himself and said that although the metal book only taught him one song Guangling San, he knew how difficult the song was. He would really want to do it when the time came.
If it pops out, it will be regarded as a monster.
But if he were really asked to play the song "Xian Weng Cao" that had been neglected for who knows how long, this girl might have to curse in her heart that people are stupid and spend too much money. In short, this is a simple scolding, and she thinks she is not stupid.
Wei Ran can’t do it.
Seeing this, Sui Xin didn't force herself. She took out two paper towels and wiped her hands carefully before gently placing them on the strings of the Guqin Yaoguang.
In a moment, a piece of piano music that Wei Ran had never heard rang out in the warm and empty classroom, and the look of surprise on Sui Xin's face became heavier and heavier.
Although Sui Xin can play the guzheng and the piano, her skill in playing the piano is far inferior to that of Chen Guangling. Even Wei Ran can tell that this girl is much better than Chen Guangling's son Chen Luoxiang.
The gap. Of course, even so, it is definitely enough to fool Maozi.
But for Sui Xin, even though her skills are not good, she can still feel that this Guqin bed is still superior to the Youquan bed she saw before!
"Where on earth did this stupid rich man find all these good pianos? Not to mention a novice, even I was wasting my money using this piano..."
Sui Xin secretly glanced at Wei Ran, who was sitting cross-legged and drinking tea, and finally secretly made a comment that the latter thought would not appear as long as he didn't touch the strings.
