On April Fool's Day, when Wei Ran woke up from his bedroom on the second floor of the studio, it was already drizzling outside the window, and the statue of the Mother of the Motherland on the top of Mamaev Hill in the distance seemed to be covered with a hazy light.
It's like yarn.
Outside the locked rolling shutter door, the professor who had returned with his boss Alexander half a month ago had been waiting for a long time.
"Victor, are you hiding a girl in the studio?"
Professor Alexei walked around to the side of the bedroom window, and while shouting, he bent down to pick up a pebble and hit it accurately on the glass window.
Looking at the new cracks appearing on the glass windows covered with tape, Wei Ran yawned, put on his clothes, staggered downstairs and opened the locked rolling shutter door.
"When did you come back?" Professor Alexei said as he put the breakfast in his hand on the table.
“Last night’s flight”
Wei Ran yawned again, reached out and took out a meat bun from the insulated lunch box, stuffed it into his mouth and took a big bite. While chewing, he asked vaguely, "Aren't you going to work today?"
"No rush, it's not even eight o'clock in the morning yet, I have enough time to get there."
While Professor Alexei was speaking, he took out a small bottle of gin from the historical materials on the bookshelf, opened it, took a big sip, then quickly screwed the cap on and stuffed it in.
Then he sat down opposite Wei Ran with satisfaction.
"You have something to do with me?" Wei Ran saw that the other party was hesitant to speak, so he simply put down the second meat bun, "Can you just tell me?"
"Are you really planning to move your studio to Kazan?" Professor Alexey asked...
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded simply and came up with the excuse he had thought up for a long time, "I am studying there after all. It is too troublesome to travel back and forth every month. The air tickets alone cost a lot."
"My good nephew, I will miss you in the future." Professor Alexei said pretendingly.
"Otherwise...you just tell the truth?" After Wei Ran finished speaking, he picked up the meat bun that he had just put down and took a big bite.
"When did you bastard become so smart?"
Professor Alexei, who was brewing feelings, was immediately discouraged, "Actually, it's nothing, just keep this studio that holds short memories. I'll come back with Aurora often when I'm not busy in the future."
"You..." Wei Ran, who was holding a meat bun in his mouth, looked at the professor sitting opposite in astonishment.
"What am I?"
Professor Alexey nonchalantly reached out from under the long table and pulled out another wine bottle with tape on it, unscrewed the cap and took a sip before saying, "Although I often get drunk, Aurora after all
She is my daughter, do you think you can hide this from us?"
"So...everyone knows?" Wei Ran asked awkwardly.
"They're all pretending not to know."
Professor Alexei poured the last sip of wine from the bottle into his mouth, then threw the empty bottle with the remaining tape into the trash can, and continued, "We have nothing to do with you and Aurora.
I'm worried, but I don't want to keep this kind of thing in my heart and pretend not to know.
In any case, Aurora will be handed over to you, just like I handed over this studio to you. Of course, if one day the two of you have irreconcilable conflicts, I hope you can leave this studio as you are now.
Just like returning a studio to me, I happily returned my baby girl to me like a man."
"Then you used a pebble to smash a crack in the window?"
Wei Ran stood up and took out a bottle of vodka from the refrigerator that she rarely drank, and poured a full glass for the professor sitting opposite, "Don't worry, I will take good care of her."
"Then it's settled"
Satisfied, Professor Alexei picked up the wine glass and drank it down. He burped and stood up and walked out, saying, "Okay, I'm going to work. Remember to keep what we just talked about confidential."
"I'll take you there." Wei Ran reluctantly picked up the third hot meat bun, stuffed it into his mouth, and chased him out of the studio.
"If I had known that you and Aurora would be so sensible after getting together, maybe you would both have children by now." Professor Alexei happily threw the car keys to Wei Ran and got into the back room with peace of mind.
Row.
"I'm afraid you'll be caught by the police driving drunk like last time, or like the year before last, you'd drink too much and drive in..."
"Shut up!"
Professor Alexey, who looked like a father just a moment ago, angrily patted the seat back of Weiran, "You little bastard who stole my baby girl, either drive quietly, or get out now.
Call me a taxi."
"I've grown up, so I won't let you talk anymore..." Wei Ran muttered, and gently stepped on the accelerator with a smile.
After successfully delivering Professor Alexei to the museum in Alexandria, Wei Ran took a taxi back and before he could take the change from the taxi driver, he found a fat woman in a windbreaker standing at the door of the studio's rolling shutter door.
This is...Diane?
Wei Ran was stunned. When he was in Germany years ago, he had an encounter with this woman under the introduction of Mr. Hans. At that time, the other party also invited him to join the World War II organization called Edelweiss as an investigator.
The missing soldiers recovery organization is here.
I didn’t seem to agree at that time?
While the driver was giving the change, Wei Ran thought about it secretly, until he was sure that he did not agree, then he took the change from the driver, opened the door and greeted him with enthusiasm.
"Why is Ms. Diane interested in coming to my place?" Wei Ran asked while shaking hands with the other party.
"Of course I'm here to invite you again. Mr. Hans reminded me that it's not easy to get through on your phone, so I came over directly." Diane said with a smile, "Can you please come in and sit down?"
"Wait a minute," Wei Ran said, bending down and opening the rolling shutter door that was not locked at all, and warmly invited the other party to sit at the long table.
"Mr. Victor, I wonder how you have considered what we talked about last time in Germany?" Diane asked while Wei Ran was making coffee, "To be honest, I watched your latest
After the interview, I rushed to Volgograd."
"So...you waited for a month?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
“Almost three weeks”
Diane politely accepted the coffee from the former, "But it's not as hard as you think. I took advantage of this time to take a walk around Volgograd, and I also gave myself a holiday."
"To be honest, I haven't thought about the things we talked about before."
Wei Ran sat down and said apologetically, "The main reason is that I don't actually have enough time. In addition to being busy with this studio, I also have to take classes. At the same time, the work at the film studio also takes up most of my time.
time."
"Can I understand that you are refusing?" Diane asked with a disappointed look on her face.
"It's not that I'm refusing." Wei Ran spread his hands regretfully, "It's just that my time is really not enough, and I may not be able to devote too much energy to my job as an investigator."
"If you just help us promote the Edelweiss organization, it won't waste too much time." Diane said sincerely as she made her last effort.
"Ms. Diane, I don't value fame and wealth." Wei Ran said nonsense seriously, "I don't want to be hindered by those illusory things in exploring the truth of history."
"Then..." Diane sighed in disappointment, "Okay, Mr. Victor, but if we need to investigate some historical truth in the future, can I trouble you?"
"Of course, of course no problem!" Wei Ran replied cheerfully, "This studio exists to uncover the truth of history."
Hearing this, Diane reluctantly showed a slight smile and changed the topic to other aspects.
After wasting a whole morning to send the other party away, Wei Ran immediately put this episode behind him.
Speaking of which, he had mentioned this matter as early as the Chinese New Year when Professor Alexei was rarely awake. Professor Alexei's advice was to try not to touch the work of the investigator.
, but there is no need to refuse the investigation of the historical truth itself.
According to this old guy, not only can't you make money by working for these corpse middlemen, but if something happens to you, you will be blamed for it.
Apart from anything else, especially for such a small organization that has just emerged, it is not new to run away with corpses. Will the investigators who exist as "guest guests" care about it?
If you don't care about it, you'll get a bad reputation. If you don't care about it, how can you control it?
A corpse costs at least one hundred dollars. The key is that it’s good to be able to exchange for the corpse. At least it can be sold to another organization to get the money back. If you are lucky enough to catch up with any mayoral elections in Germany, among the charity activities for World War II veterans
Something like that, maybe you can still make some money. But the problem is that if the other party really rolls up the body and runs away, then you really can't even see the bones.
After locking the rolling shutter door again, Wei Ran began to think about what should be taken from the studio to Kazan.
But after wandering around upstairs and downstairs, he realized that except for the weapons, ammunition and real money and cash in the safe, there were not many personal belongings in the studio that were truly his own.
There were only toothbrushes and towels in the bathroom, clothes in the closet, and the SUV parked at the door.
As for the rest, they are basically Professor Alexey's things. No wonder this old guy came here so early in the morning. He was not worried about Suisui. The old man was afraid that Wei Ran would steal the books and materials he had collected so hard.
Pack it up and take it away!
After realizing it, Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded, and sent all the boxes of gin he had just accidentally dug out to the travel agency next door as if to retaliate, intending to give them to Professor Alexei on April Fool's Day.
