After sending away Olga who came to visit late at night, Wei Ran closed the door and lay on the bed again. He was not interested in helping her investigate the bayanqin, and he did not want Ivan to misunderstand and cause unnecessary trouble for himself.
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There was nothing to say all night, and when the next morning came, the drizzle that had been falling all day yesterday had stopped at some point, and was replaced by bright sunshine and fresh air with a slight earthy smell.
After a rare night's sleep, Wei Ran got up at Yana's call and went downstairs. After brushing his teeth and washing his face, he sat at the dining table.
"Let's go mushroom hunting today"
Yana poured milk for everyone and said, "The men will bring weapons, and the girls will bring baskets. If we are lucky, we will have mushroom pie to eat in the afternoon."
The short Olena yawned and said, "I would rather continue to sleep in the room, or lie on the bed and play games."
"You can also bring your bed and go mushroom hunting with us."
Olga finished teasing her sister, picked up the warm milk and drank it all in one breath. Ivan, who was sitting opposite her, also drank all the milk in the cup at the same time. The father and daughter vomited in perfect agreement.
He breathed a sigh of relief, as if they were drinking vodka instead of milk.
"Olena, come with us to pick mushrooms. You can't stay in the room all the time." Ivan persuaded, wiping the milk from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.
"I don't always stay in my room"
Olena drank the milk in sips and said with a grimace, "I spent half of the last week at the horse farm, and now I feel like I can smell the horse manure as long as I leave the room."
"You loved horses very much when you were a child."
Yana sat down with a basket of freshly baked bread, and was about to talk about Olena's childhood as usual, when the former quickly changed the topic to going back to school in the evening.
After finishing breakfast chatting and laughing, Wei Ran and the family put on their rain boots, and then received an old-looking SKS semi-automatic rifle from Ivan.
"Ivan, are we going hunting?" Wei Ran checked the chamber of the gun, then pressed the bullet in the magazine and asked.
"There are sometimes wolves in the forest, and the brown bears have finished hibernating this season, so it's always good to be careful." As Ivan spoke, he also loaded two rounds of bullets into an upright double-barreled shotgun in his hand.
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"What about a mushroom..." Wei Ran muttered to himself, and followed Ivan first into the wet birch forest.
"Who went to your room last night?" Ivan asked abruptly, "What did you talk about? What did you do?"
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, glanced at the shotgun that the other party was pointing at him intentionally or unintentionally, and simply took out his phone to activate the recording function, and handed it to him along with the handwritten note with her mobile phone number written on it by Olga last night.
other side.
After looking at Wei Ran, Ivan took the phone, turned down the volume and put it to his ear.
After a long time, Ivan returned the phone to Wei Ran and said sadly, "She has never told me such a thing."
"She is your daughter, not your pet."
Wei Ran took the phone and said to himself, "Ivan, your daughters have grown up, and they will definitely have their own secrets. If you overprotect them like this, you may arouse their resentment."
"Are you teaching me how to be a father?" Ivan glared at Wei Ran dissatisfied.
"whatever you think"
Wei Ran shook the phone he still held in his hand, turned around and walked forward and said, "You also listened to the recording, so can you stop pointing the gun at my butt?"
"You'd better not take advantage of them," Ivan threatened dissatisfiedly, and finally moved the gun aside.
As the two continued to move forward, some fallen dead trees began to appear around them, and mushrooms of various colors and shapes grew on them at random intervals. Yana, who was walking behind, also started working with her two daughters.
"Ivan, are we just watching? Don't you need to help?" Wei Ran asked Ivan, who was leaning against a tree trunk and smoking.
"Do you know which mushrooms are edible and which ones are poisonous?" As Ivan spoke, he took out a cigarette case from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, "Don't refuse, I even heard the sound of the lighter in the recording."
Wei Ran opened his mouth, but finally took the cigarette case and disposable lighter from the other party. When the cigarette butt started to spark, he continued to ask, "Don't you know?"
Ivan spread his hands and said, "If I had known, I would have gone to help."
"Forget it, let's just smoke."
Wei Ran, who had nothing to say, simply found a tree stump and sat down, observing the surrounding situation amidst the smoke lingering at his fingertips.
"Victor, can you help Olga investigate what she said?" Ivan suddenly approached Wei Ran and asked.
"What are you doing?" Wei Ran looked at the other party warily, "Don't worry, I won't take the initiative to contact Olga."
"If you have time, check it out for her."
Ivan hesitated for a long time, and reluctantly pushed the note that Wei Ran had just given him to Wei Ran again, "Before you call her, you'd better inform me first, otherwise..."
“Otherwise, put it in an oil drum, tie it to an anchor and sink it into the lake alive?”
Wei Ran did not take the note from the other party's hand, and said with a trace of revenge, "This kind of historical investigation is not as easy as you think, and besides, I really don't have that much time recently."
"I can help Olga investigate it myself." Ivan put away the note angrily.
"I wish you success"
Wei Ran said with an indifferent expression, this investigation work is destined to not bring much profit, not to mention that it is not like the time in Guam where he could learn English that was a shadow of his student days, so he naturally does not have much profit.
power.
Ivan shook his eyebrows and did not continue the topic after all. He just held the cigarette butt and took a big puff, as if the cigarette paper was not rolled with shredded tobacco, but with the cigarette smoke next to it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Accompanying Yana, mother and daughter like bodyguards, and Ivan, who was blowing his beard and staring with eyes, picked mushrooms all morning, and the group rushed to
We left the forest at noon before the sun reached its highest point.
In the remaining half a day, Yana baked three large plates of pies and a basket of bread with mushrooms using the fresh mushrooms she picked. Then she made a large pot of cheese cheese mushrooms that was considered heretical by Wei Ran.
Stuffed dumplings.
When the sun was about to set in the afternoon, sisters Olga and Olena, and Wei Ran, who was also preparing to leave, each boarded the fishing boat with an insulated lunch box filled with pies.
"Victor, you should drive the boat." Ivan, who was wearing a suit and ties, stood on the deck and said, "When you go to the city, remember to drive steadily."
"no problem"
Wei Ran waved to Yana who was standing on the pier, and while the sisters were not paying attention, he asked, "Ivan, can I come to your place as a guest in the future?"
"Of course." Ivan glanced at his daughter beside him and said in a particularly stingy manner, "But it's best if you come during a working day."
"Come to help you fish?" Wei Ran deliberately did not reveal the other party's thoughts, and also did not wait for the other party to answer, so he simply turned around and got into the cockpit.
"Smart young man," Ivan said with emotion, and then called his two daughters to sit on the deck chairs on the bow deck.
Wei Ran, who was in the cab, skillfully maneuvered the dilapidated fishing boat and arrived at the Petrozavodsk pier on the southwestern shore of Lake Onega smoothly.
However, what he didn't expect was that after he steered the fishing boat to the dock, Ivan, who had been guarding him all the way, arranged another unexpected task for him.
"You want me to send your two daughters to Petersburg?" Wei Ran looked at Ivan in surprise. Even the two sisters who were about to disembark had a look of surprise on their faces.
"Perhaps you were right when we were in the forest this morning."
Ivan said incoherently, "And don't you happen to be going to Petersburg? So help me send them to school on the way. I'm sure you won't refuse. I want to keep an eye on the fishing boats and refuel them.
That’s all, I’ll leave the two of them to you.”
Wei Ran opened his mouth, turned to look at the two sisters not far away, and finally nodded reluctantly. On the way? On the way! But the other party made it so obvious. If he refused, he would wait until he returned to the Hongqi Forest Farm.
Maybe there will be some bad luck waiting for you.
"Okay, let's leave early."
Ivan hugged his two precious daughters respectively, then hugged Wei Ran, and whispered in his ear, "Take care of your mind."
"You forced me to send them, but I didn't go along with it at all!" Wei Ran also shouted back amidst the roar of the engine.
After bidding farewell to Ivan who was standing on the deck with a worried look on his face, Wei Ran followed the sisters and left the pier, took a taxi and headed straight to the train station.
"Victor, what did you say to my father? How could he ask you to send us to Petersburg?"
As soon as the taxi started, Olga, who was sitting behind Weiyan, hugged the back of the passenger seat and asked curiously.
"Maybe it's because I already have a girlfriend," Wei Ran said nonsensically.
"It's really rare." Olena said as she tore off a piece of chewing gum and stuffed it into her mouth. "Dad, didn't he accidentally eat a poisonous mushroom?"
"You just ate poisonous mushrooms"
Olga knocked her sister on the head, then looked back at Wei Ran who was sitting in front, "Victor, since you are going to send us to Petersburg, why not stop by and see what I said yesterday?
Sample?"
"Yes! Let's go and see it together!"
Olena said with equal interest, "If the accordion Olga found was really used by a famous musician, maybe after we sell it, we can help dad replace the fishing boat with two new engines."
"Wait, change the engine?" Wei Ran turned his head in confusion, "For that fishing boat?"
"That boat's engine breaks down all the time."
Olga said distressedly, "The boat stalled on the lake a month ago. My father and his guys worked for more than three hours to get it started again. It was already night when they rushed home that day.
It’s past nine o’clock.”
"And this kind of thing has happened several times." Olena, who is a little introverted, said, "Victor, how about you help me? There is... on that accordion..."
"Bayang Qin, to be precise, it should be called Bayan Qin"
Olga interrupted what her sister was about to say with a completely unnecessary explanation, "Anyway, since you are going to Petersburg, why not take a look at it? As for whether you want to help, I will wait until you have seen it."
"It's hard to help with this..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and finally nodded and agreed to go and take a look. Anyway, the worst thing he could do was avoid being found out, but if he didn't go, what kind of trouble would that Ivan cause to him if he couldn't protect himself.
