Along the way, Weiran went through the ownership transfer procedures for his first off-road vehicle with Jima, and also got a license plate for his newly acquired armored pickup truck. Weiran also opened his eyes to Maozi's loose motor vehicle management policy.
After completing all the formalities easily, Jima showed a rare act of generosity and drove the off-road vehicle that already belonged to him into a car wash, intending to go on a date with Maya after cleaning it.
How could Wei Ran not understand the meaning behind this bastard's words? Moreover, he himself had no interest in being a light bulb for Jima.
After deliberately driving in a circle on a busy road that was prone to traffic jams, Weiran slowly drove back to the large yard by the Kaban Lake. He put away his complicated mood of being expelled from the Hongqi Forestry Farm and devoted all his energy to his graduation thesis.
Just like Gorman said, for more than half a month after that, Weiran followed the cheap tutor Kajik and worked hard, and finally completed the graduation thesis and the graduation defense, which was almost a formality.
During this period of time, there was an endless stream of people contacting him. The most frequent ones were naturally Olga and Olena from Petersburg. The two sisters were still waiting for Wei Ran to go over and help them investigate.
What is the origin of the bayanqin in the suitcase?
Unfortunately, Wei Ran did have a reason to be busy, so after several consecutive invitations to no avail, Olga finally gave up and stopped calling every now and then to urge her.
Time flew by on June 22nd. When Wei Ran finished his one-day-a-week work at the studio and drove his ostentatious armored pickup truck back to the city, he discovered three people standing in a car in front of his house from a distance.
In front of the car, each was holding a cigarette and talking about something.
"Mr. Charlotte, why are you here?"
Weiran opened the door and asked in surprise in Italian. After nearly a month of driving experience, this armored pickup truck was good at everything. He was particularly satisfied with the fuel consumption of only 15 liters of diesel per 100 kilometers.
But if there are those who are satisfied, there will definitely be those who are dissatisfied. The biggest flaw is that the thick bulletproof car windows have no lifting function at all. Instead, there is a shooting hole as big as a bowl. But this thing besides looking very
Besides being stupid, he really didn't understand what practical effect it had on him.
"Victor?"
Charlotte was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "Is life in Russia so crazy? Victor, your car is too exaggerated."
"I'm afraid this is the effect Kapoor and the others want to see... Ha! A high-profile historian?"
Wei Ran muttered to himself, then wisely changed the subject and asked, "If I guessed correctly, you must be here to find me, right?"
"certainly"
Charlotte spread her hands and said, "I'm looking for the address where Mr. Jima wants to come. I originally wanted to give you a surprise, but it turns out you're not at home. If you come back half an hour later, I'm going to call you and ask.
Already."
"You should have called me two hours ago."
Wei Ran jumped out of the car and said as he opened the door. At the same time, he finally understood why Ji Ma, who was still attending class at Hongqi Forest Farm in the afternoon, kept asking himself when he would go home.
"We didn't wait that long." As Charlotte spoke, she had already walked around to the passenger seat, opened the door with difficulty and asked, "Do you mind if I come up and sit down?"
“Of course I don’t mind”
Wei Ran got into the cab before he finished speaking. After Charlotte came up, he gestured with his eyes to the two men who were still standing at the front of the car with local license plates at the door.
One of the two men, Wei Ran, had an impression. If he remembered correctly, that man seemed to be named Matt. He was the camouflage man who helped Charlotte bring the "treasure" back from the dry well in Libya.
.
But he didn't recognize the other old man with gray hair, or to be more precise, he had never seen that person before.
Fortunately, Charlotte, who climbed into the passenger seat and closed the thick bulletproof car door, finally gave an immediate explanation, "The old guy who looks younger than me is Edward, who is considered my best friend and business partner.
.”
After speaking, Charlotte fumbled to open the shooting hole on the passenger door window, stretched her neck and pouted, and greeted in English that Wei Ran could already understand, "Matt, Edward, can you follow the car in?"
?”
"Of course," the old man named Edward responded gently.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran gently stepped on the accelerator and drove the armored truck slowly into the yard, while listening to Charlotte explain their purpose.
"In addition to responding to Ms. Anna's invitation to review the preparations for the film shooting, I am here this time. On the other hand, I also want to introduce Edward to you."
"Does he also have any treasures he wants to find?" Wei Ran asked with interest.
“It’s hard to say whether it’s a treasure or not.”
Charlotte seemed not to hear Wei Ran's teasing, "But if possible, I hope you can help him."
Hearing this, Wei Ran slowly stepped on the brakes under the oak tree in the center of the yard, turned off the engine and asked, "Can you briefly explain it so that I can be prepared?"
Charlotte spread her hands, "To put it simply, his grandfather was a German prisoner of war captured by the British army from North Africa during World War II."
"North Africa again?" Wei Ran frowned subconsciously.
"Of course" Charlotte spread her hands and said matter-of-factly, "otherwise how could we be friends?"
"That's true." Wei Ran grinned and asked after hesitating for a moment, "So he wants to find his grandfather?"
"No, no, no, his grandfather is lying peacefully in the cemetery, and not even the vampires will disturb him."
Charlotte joked and then continued to explain, "Edward's grandfather became an employee of BP after the war and has been working in Egypt for a long time. Even in the last few years before his retirement, he also
I worked briefly for almost a year for that big-brained Captain Ka."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "In that case, what do you need me to do?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.
"Why don't you just ask Mr. Edward?" Charlotte asked Wei Ran with a smile, "He speaks German and can communicate with you without any barriers."
"That's right." Wei Ran smiled, took out the key and opened the car door.
After the two of them got out of the car, Mr. Edward, who had followed the taciturn Matt to the door of the room, also took the initiative to say hello to Wei Ran in German.
Wei Ran enthusiastically let the three of them into the lobby on the first floor. Wei Ran poured a cup of coffee for each of them, "Sorry, this house has just been renovated, so the only thing we can provide is coffee. But wait until we finish talking about business."
Later, if you have time, I can invite you to try Georgian food. It is a restaurant opened by my teacher’s wife and it tastes very authentic.”
"Although we really wanted to try it, unfortunately we had just had dinner."
As she spoke, Charlotte took out a very familiar silver wine flask from her pocket and took a sip, "Later, Ms. Anna will pick us up and take us to the studio's headquarters, where we can rest for the night.
.”
"You've done a really good job keeping confidentiality," Wei Ran said, dumbfounded.
"I told you I would give you a surprise."
Charlotte seemed very satisfied with the surprise she had created, but he brought the topic back in time, "Edward, why don't you tell us about your grandfather? Believe me, this young man will definitely help you."
"Please take a look at this first"
Edward, who was over fifty years old, took out an old-looking photo frame from his briefcase, pointed at a man in a suit and said, "That is my grandfather, Mr. Claus. During World War II, he was sent by Germany to
Prospectors looking for oil in North Africa.”
"Mr. Edward, why don't you first tell me how you need me to help you?" Wei Ran had to remind him, "This way I can at least know what information I should focus on."
"I'm sorry." Edward put down the photo frame in his hand, "I wanted to help my grandfather find his colleagues who were killed. That was his lifelong wish, but he worked in the North African desert for almost his whole life and failed to find the bodies of his colleagues.
"
"In distress?" Wei Ran looked at Edward, the meaning was self-evident.
Edward nodded, but then shook his head, "This is the trouble. My grandfather, Mr. Claus, didn't say what happened to him until his death. He even went back in time to the 1940s.
When questioned by the British, he just insisted that he was just a German oil prospector who lost his way in the desert."
"Is there any record of where the British captured him at that time?"
Facing Wei Ran's question, Edward took out a map from his briefcase, pointed to a red circle on it and said, "Here, deep in the desert near the border between Egypt and Libya today, closer to Egypt.
A little to the side.”
"Are there any other clues?" Wei Ran glanced at the map and continued to ask.
"There is another thing that my father left behind," Edward said, and took out a badly worn Zeiss telescope from his briefcase.
After taking the telescope and looking at it, Wei Ran couldn't help but frowned. The telescope only had one lens tube left and it could still work normally. The glass lens in the other tube was gone. Look around the eyepiece again.
There is no sign related to Natalia at all.
This can only prove two possibilities. Either when this telescope was produced, the crazy and frustrated painter had no intention of going to the beer hall for a drink, or to cover up something, he deliberately erased all the information related to Natalia.
trace.
"That's all?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked.
"that's it"
Edward nodded and said, "He kept this telescope locked in the safe. Before he died, he held it tightly and begged my father to help find his colleagues and bury them."
"Are there any more?" Wei Yan put down the telescope and asked, "Are there any other clues? For example, the specific time when he was captured by the British army."
"September 27, 1941"
Edward replied without thinking, "After being captured, he was imprisoned in Cairo for about a year, and then suddenly became an employee of BP. However, how he managed to escape from his status as a prisoner of war has never been clear.
Never said that."
"This doesn't seem easy to investigate..." Wei Ran said with a deliberate frown.
For him, the difficulty of investigation is basically inversely proportional to the amount of commission the other party can pay.
"How about 100,000 euros?" Edward asked expectantly.
"Of course 100,000 euros"
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "What matters is what you want to exchange for these one hundred thousand euros. Mr. Edward, do you want me to find the colleague of your grandfather, Mr. Klaus, who was killed, or do you want me to investigate the truth about his death?"
Hearing this, Edward and Charlotte, who was sitting next to him, looked at each other and said without hesitation, "What if you want both?"
"If you want both, 100,000 euros may be a little less." Wei Ran smiled and reminded in a calm tone.
Speaking of which, since his trip to the United States in early May, not only has he not had any serious income, but he has also spent a lot of money. Now it is rare to send a fat sheep, so Wei Ran naturally doesn't mind being a little more ruthless when using the knife.
"Make a price." Edward's equally flat tone was full of confidence.
“You set the price”
Wei Ran had already picked up the coffee cup while speaking, "The more activity funds you can provide, the more things I can investigate. For me, there is no upper limit on the investigation fee, but I think for you
Said, this transaction must have an upper limit."
"500,000 euros"
Edward said abruptly, looking at Wei Ran seriously with a pair of old eyes, "This is the upper limit of what I can do. I hope you can investigate this matter in the same detail as what Mr. Charlotte's father went through."
"How about letting Mr. Charlotte be the judge?" Wei Ran looked at the other party equally seriously, "Of course, even if you are not satisfied with my final investigation results, I will still get at least a guaranteed fee of 300,000 euros.
"
"One month" Edward also stated his conditions.
"Deal" Wei Ran happily extended his hand to the other party.
"Deal" Edward, who was over fifty years old, stretched out his hand and shook Wei Ran's hand.
