Chapter 537 Taking the financial owner to visit the desert
After most of the day's filming, the two teachers and the actors led by Ji Ma returned to the camp dejectedly, escorted by numerous security vehicles, as if they had lost a battle.
"What's going on with you?" Wei Ran asked after stopping Ji Ma.
"Don't mention it"
Jima, who was wearing a World War II German uniform, said angrily, "Those amateur actors are more suitable for acting in comedies! Even becoming the president is better than coming here to participate in a movie shooting!"
"Shut up!"
Culp nudged the back of Ji Ma's head gently, "They only received less than four months of acting training. It's already very good to be able to do this. Besides, when you make a movie for the first time,
It doesn’t seem to be much better than them.”
"But..."
“Nothing to worry about”
Anna calmly took the signal receiver from Weiran, "We have enough supplies to last here for two or three months, no problem, and you may have to act with them often in the future, so be patient."
, if you think their acting skills are not good, use your experience to teach them how to act, instead of complaining here like a resentful woman."
"Try Harder"
Wei Ran patted Ji Ma on the shoulder. Although he did not follow the first day of filming, he had already seen through the brief contact that the other actors had little experience.
"Don't you often say that you are a very talented actor?"
Maya, whose voice was slightly hoarse, also came over and said, half stimulating and half encouraging, "Since you are so talented, teaching others shouldn't be a problem for you, right?"
"Of course it's not a problem!" Ji Ma, who was dejected a second ago, immediately promised, patting his chest, "I'll teach them how to act!"
"This idiot..." Anna shook her head helplessly, "Victor, come on."
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately followed the former into his armored pickup truck, while the rest of the group also got into the car again at Culp's greeting and drove to the camp two to three hundred meters away.
It wasn't until the car door closed that Anna, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked at the sunset outside the window and asked, "How is the situation?"
"Stared at me for most of the day."
Wei Ran spread his hands and told his previous guess about Edward, and then pointed at the signal receiver in Anna's hand, "I drove the pickup truck around a few times in the afternoon, and the whole process was within sight of the camp. That old man
The thing has been looking at me. So although I don’t know what he is talking about, he is basically aiming at me.”
Anna lit a cigarette and said in a tired tone, "Solve your trouble as soon as possible."
"If we don't need him here, why don't I take him away first?" Wei Ran said impromptuly.
"Take it away? Take it to where?" Teacher Anna became interested at this time.
Hearing this, Wei Ran took out his laptop, retrieved the scanned pictures stored in the USB flash drive that Edward had given him before, pointed to the contents inside and said, "This is a scanned copy of the work notes left by his grandfather. Mr. Edward paid 500,000 euros
For a price, please let me find the remains of his grandfather Mr. Rouse’s other colleagues.”
"It's so easy to make money in your job," Teacher Anna joked while flipping through the pictures on her computer casually.
“Not easy at all”
Wei Ran spread his hands pretending to be helpless, "These work notes are all written in English, and they must contain important values. It has taken me almost a week just to translate them into understandable Chinese."
"Do you need my help?" Anna asked with a smile.
"I won't cause any trouble to you."
Wei Ran waved his hand, "If you are interested in the contents of these notes, I can give you a copy to kill some time."
"Forget it, I won't waste my time on such boring things."
After Anna said this, she had already returned the laptop to Wei Ran, "Having said that, you haven't said where you plan to take Mr. Edward."
“Of course I’m going to visit some of the places mentioned repeatedly in these work notes.”
Wei Ran closed the notebook and threw it aside, took out the map left by Edward, pointed to the red circle on it and said, "And according to Mr. Edward's description, his grandfather Mr. Rouse was on the border between Libya and Egypt today, close to Egypt.
He was captured by the British not far from here.
That location is only about a hundred kilometers away from our camp, and I plan to invite Mr. Edward to go there and have a look."
At this point, Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "Not only will this not cause you any trouble, I can also make some extra money along the way."
"Let Saleh and his son be with you."
Anna took the map from Wei Ran's hand and looked at it, then continued, "In addition, Jima's off-road vehicle will also be lent to you. These 100 kilometers are almost entirely in the depths of the desert. It is easy for you and Edward to have accidents while cycling there. And Sa
Lihe can also speak English. Let him drive Edward when the time comes, and we can also see what he wants to do."
"Wouldn't it have any impact on your place?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously. He didn't expect Teacher Anna to be so generous.
"Won't"
Anna returned the map to Weiran, picked up the signal receiver again, weighed it in her hand and explained, "The reason why we are willing to bring Mr. Edward here this time is because we want to use his influence to do something. If
It’s also a good thing to take this opportunity to find out his background.”
"Find out the details about Mr. Edward?"
Wei Ran frowned, but he remembered clearly that Katenka traced the surveillance virus back to a small financial company. Obviously, Hongqi Forestry Farm was definitely not interested in that financial company.
.
But it was obvious that Anna had no intention of explaining in detail. She just opened the car door and asked, "How about leaving early tomorrow morning?"
"I'm available anytime"
Wei Ran quickly responded. He suddenly wanted to take Mr. Edward away because he simply did not want to cause trouble to Teacher Anna and others.
As for the job of searching for his grandfather, Mr. Rouse, he naturally has to have enough fun in the desert first. This is a rare trip to Egypt. Since he has no chance to see the pyramids, he must be allowed to wander in the desert, right? Is it possible?
Wasting time sitting in the shooting camp every day?
"Clean up this place and move it back to the camp." Anna jumped out of the car, "This damn place is not safe at night."
"Shall I drive you back first?" Wei Ran asked before the other party closed the door.
"Need not"
Before she finished speaking, Teacher Anna had already closed the heavy car door, holding a cigarette in her mouth and slowly walking towards the camp alone.
Looking at the setting sun that was about to be blocked by the sand dunes, Wei Ran honestly dismantled the tent and canopy he had set up during the day, rolled them up randomly, and threw them into the cargo bed of the armored pickup truck along with the tables and chairs he had moved down, leaving only
There are watermelon rinds and cans all over the floor.
Driving the car slowly back to the camp, Wei Ran got into the shower car and took a comfortable bath. On the way, he grabbed a hearty meal and went into the big tent in the center of the camp.
"Isn't Mr. Edward here for dinner?" This time, Wei Ran took the initiative to sit next to Mr. Charlotte and asked.
"He said he seemed to have high blood pressure and was a little dizzy, so he didn't plan to have dinner."
Mr. Charlotte, who was still wearing an outdoor suit, said with a look of disgust, "I suggested to him as early as ten years ago that he often do some outdoor activities, but he always shuts himself in the office and wastes his life. See? He is just
He's only fifty, he's not as good as me, but I stayed at the filming location all day and was fine."
He doesn't have high blood pressure...
Wei Ran secretly laughed, holding a telescope and peeping for a whole day, and it was not like Charlotte had Matt accompanying her to help, so it was strange that Edward was not dizzy.
"what a pity"
Wei Ran spread his hands pretending to be helpless, "I have just recently finished translating the work notes left by Mr. Edward's grandfather Rouse, and I am planning to visit the place where he was captured tomorrow."
"Any clues?" Charlotte asked in surprise, but then, a trace of hesitation flashed across his face.
"No clues"
Wei Ran spread his hands pretending to be helpless, "It's because I haven't found any valuable clues in those work notes yet, so I plan to visit the place where Mr. Laws was captured."
After hearing this, Charlotte hesitated for a moment, then turned to Matt sitting next to her and said in English, "Go and ask Mr. Edward...forget it."
Charlotte looked at Wei Ran again and said in the Italian they used to communicate, "Victor, how about we go sit in Edward's tent and have dinner together?"
"Of course," Wei Ran nodded happily.
"Matt, go get some food for Edward and send it over." Charlotte finished speaking in English, immediately stood up, picked up the plate full of food, and was the first to walk out of the big tent that served as the restaurant.
He smiled discreetly at Teacher Anna, who had been secretly paying attention to this place, and Wei Ran also followed out with an Egyptian flatbread rolled with various meats.
Under the leadership of Charlotte, the two of them got into Edward's tent one after another. Compared with the tent used for sanitary ware, Edward's was obviously much more spacious. It not only had a kerosene heating stove, but also a
There was an electric fan that was still rotating slowly, a small refrigerator, and even a light hanging above the head.
The electric wire half-buried in the sand outside the tent extends all the way to the edge of the camp in the direction of the generator car. Obviously, this is a special treatment only for guests.
"Why are you here?"
Edward, who was lying on the bed, asked in English quite tiredly. For most of the day, he had been secretly staring at Wei Ran with a telescope, and he was already dizzy.
Glancing at the other party's slightly red and swollen eyes, Wei Ran's face remained calm, but he was already smiling in his heart.
No matter how powerful Edward is in the city, in this desert, no matter who he wants to monitor, he can only do it himself. It is obvious that Mr. Edward is not skilled in this job.
"Victor plans to visit the place where your grandfather Mr. Laws was captured tomorrow, and he also wants to invite you to go with him."
Charlotte sat on a folding chair, explained in English the purpose of their visit, and then asked, "Edward, do you really plan to continue to hide the truth from Victor who works for you? The pair found the truth and
Nothing helps."
"I don't trust him"
After Edward finished speaking, he directly switched to German and changed the communication partner to Wei Ran, "Victor, I heard from Mr. Charlotte, you plan to visit the place where my grandfather was captured? Did you find anything valuable?
Got a clue?"
"No clues"
Wei Ran spread his hands and replied matter-of-factly, "It is precisely because there are no clues that I plan to go to the place where he was captured to see if I can find anything. I originally wanted to invite you to go with me, but now your physical condition
seem..."
"I'm fine." Edward sat up as if nothing was wrong, "When do we set off?"
"How about tomorrow morning?"
Wei Ran asked with a smile, "According to the map comparison, that place is more than a hundred kilometers away. We will set off tomorrow morning and we will definitely arrive before the sun sets."
"Then tomorrow morning"
Edward agreed without thinking, then switched back to English and asked Charlotte, who was sitting opposite the folding bed, "Can Mr. Matt come with me?"
"Sorry, I'm not interested."
Edward responded to Matt who came in with a plate of food. This taciturn old man said straightforwardly, "I am not Charlotte's servant, and you and I are not friends."
"Matt, can't you say it more tactfully?" Edward reluctantly took the food from the other party.
"sure"
Matt replied perfunctorily as he turned around and walked out, "I'm going to have diarrhea starting tomorrow and can't stop it, so I'm sorry, Mr. Edward, but I can't go for a ride in the desert with you. I'm going to find you tonight."
A quiet and undisturbed place, and get yourself an outdoor toilet in advance where you can defecate safely.”
Edward shook his head helplessly, losing his appetite for the sumptuous dinner on the plate. He raised his voice and said to Matt, who had already walked out of the tent, "Forget it, I take back what I just said. Mr. Matt, you should express your opinions directly in the future.
Just the idea.”
"No problem, I just don't want to work with you. Diarrhea is just an excuse."
Matt, who had already walked out of the tent, also raised his voice in response. Apparently, for some reason, he had an undisguised prejudice against Mr. Edward.
Charlotte glanced at Wei Ran, who had a confused look on his face, and shook her head helplessly, "Edward, how did you provoke Matt? Why do you two become like this whenever you stay together for more than 24 hours at a time?"
What does it look like?”
"how could I know?"
Edward looked at the fragrant Solyanka soup and Russian kebabs on the dinner plate, and then thought about what Matt just said... no! It must be an excuse to disgust himself, and he suddenly lost any appetite.
.
"never mind"
Charlotte stood up as usual, "Whether Matt is willing to follow you or not, Edward, believe me, Victor is a trustworthy young man. No matter whether you are willing to tell him what he really wants to investigate, at least he can definitely
Take care of yours.”
"Why do you trust this young man so much?" Edward glanced at the confused look on Wei Ran's face and asked as if he didn't exist.
Hearing this, Charlotte, who was about to walk out of the tent, stopped and said, "When he helped me investigate the treasure left by my father, in order to prevent the French liar from seeing the treasure map he found, he even took the initiative to find the treasure map in England.
, and even took the initiative to stay until Matt brought back the treasure."
Charlotte patted Wei Ran on the shoulder and continued to speak in English with a smile, "I had the same concerns as you at the time, but this young man was very smart. Not only did he guess that the French liar was not the real employer, but at that time
He also didn't know that the so-called treasures were actually just some worthless relics, but he also chose to hand over the treasure map. Isn't this enough?
Edward, look at the staff outside the tent, these are all given back to me by this young man. Needless to say, you know that the value of this film has already exceeded the commission I paid."
At this point, Charlotte also walked out of the tent again, leaving only one sentence: "This is why I am willing to believe him."
"If I can praise you, can I praise you a few more times?"
Wei Ran, who had been pretending not to understand English, muttered to himself, then turned to look at Mr. Edward.
"I'll think about it"
Edward first loudly responded to Charlotte who had left in English, and then changed to German and said to Wei Ran, "Victor, do you need me to make any preparations for setting off early tomorrow morning?"
"There will be a truck following us tomorrow as a support vehicle."
Wei Ran responded carefully with his expression and tone, "In addition, I have prepared a separate off-road vehicle for you, so you can bring more things you think you need. Of course, if you feel uncomfortable, I will go by myself.
Or you can go a few days later."
"My body is fine," Edward replied with certainty, "I'll just take it early tomorrow morning!"
Having agreed on the itinerary with Edward, Wei Ran didn't delay too much. He found Saleh and his son at the edge of the camp while carrying the big cake without even having time to take a bite.
"Anna has already told me," Saleh said immediately after Wei Ran sat down, "I will prepare supplies in advance tonight."
“Don’t worry too much”
Wei Ran picked up the flatbread and took a big bite. While chewing, he explained vaguely, "Let Mr. Edward play in the desert for a few days, and then we can get there slowly."
"To play with Mr. Edward, or with you?" Saleh asked with a half-smile.
"Is there any difference?" Wei Ran took his second bite of the cake as he spoke.
"There's really no difference." Saleh grinned, his old face already full of teasing looks.
Early the next morning, before the sun even jumped over the horizon, Edward was woken up by Wei Ran, carrying the luggage he had packed last night, and boarding the off-road vehicle waiting at the edge of the camp in his ridiculous pajamas.
At the same time, Saleh's son, a young man named Soliman, had also attached load-bearing boards to the rear of a Ural truck with a canvas hood for smoothing ruts.
"Do we need to leave so early?"
Edward yawned and asked. It was just before five o'clock in the morning. When he was woken up by Wei Ran, he even thought that the camp was attacked by Kongbu elements.
“Start early and arrive early”
Wei Ran explained seriously, and while speaking, he handed two hot lunch boxes to Mr. Edward in the off-road vehicle, "Take them with you to eat on the road."
"Thank you." The sleepy Edward reluctantly took the lunch box and let Wei Ran close the car door for him.
"Let's go when you're ready," Saleh, who was responsible for driving the off-road vehicle, had already raised the window and stepped on the accelerator before he finished speaking.
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately got into the armored pickup truck next to him and followed him along the ruts left by the opponent.
Behind them, a young man named Soliman also started the truck and followed the ruts. At the same time, he also used the long wooden board pulled by the rear of the truck to easily smooth out the traces on the sand.
The three vehicles drove at a 90-degree angle to their destination for more than half an hour. Saleh, the leader, slowly stepped on the brakes next to a sand dune that was not too high and turned on his double flashers.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Why did you stop?" Edward asked warily.
"Nothing, just pee." Saleh responded in broken English and opened the car door as he spoke.
Seeing this, Edward closed his eyes again, but after a moment, he opened them again, bent down and got out of the car, chose the opposite direction to Saleh, pointed at a stone in the desert and peed out of the bed.
The rising sun dyes a golden parabola.
Soon after, Wei Ran, who was following far behind, also stepped on the brakes. Soliman, who was watching the rear of the team through the rearview mirror, skillfully removed the wooden board at the rear of the truck and fixed it to the side of the cargo bed.
It wasn't until Soliman also flashed a double flash that Saleh asked Edward to get back in the car and stepped on the accelerator.
From here, the three cars started to drive straight towards their destination, but Saleh, who was leading the way, slowed down the car a lot. Along the way, he enthusiastically introduced Edward to the scenery in the desert and various indistinguishable things.
True and false legends.
Also doing the same thing as him was his son, Soliman, who was responsible for driving the truck. However, Soliman's listening partner became Wei Ran on the other end of the radio.
"Soliman, do you often come to the desert?" Wei Ran asked curiously, holding his hand, "It sounds like you are very familiar with things in the desert."
"certainly"
Soliman responded in Russian, "When I was 12 years old, I started driving a car to help my father take guests to the desert."
"Take guests to the desert?" Wei Ran was stunned and asked curiously, "Are you a tour guide?"
"Barely so"
Soliman was a little shy and gave an answer that made Wei Ran's jaw drop. "I usually receive some tourists, from Asia, Europe, and North America. I have accepted them all."
"Is this still barely enough?"
“It’s not profitable to be a tour guide”
The content of Soliman's words became more and more outrageous, "In comparison, smuggling makes money. Whether it is smuggling weapons to Libya, smuggling weapons to Egypt, or other things, as long as you run once, it is basically better than doing it for a month."
Tour guides make a lot of money.”
"Then why do you still want to be a tour guide?"
"My dad said I need to have a real job"
Soliman replied matter-of-factly, “And by contacting different tourists, not only can I learn more foreign languages, but I can also learn how to deal with people.
I think it makes sense. Although the job of a tour guide is indeed not profitable, I have been dating two girlfriends at the same time through this hard and unprofitable job. One of them is from France and the other is from the United States, and they are both beautiful."
What a departure!
Wei Ran was silent for a moment, but his curiosity was aroused. He asked without saying anything, "Where is your buddy? I think his name is Haba, right? Is he also a tour guide? Or does he specialize in smuggling with you?"
"It's not Haba, it's Baha. He is our driver. Whether he is transporting tourists or weapons, he is the one driving most of the time."
Soliman replied knowingly, "Of course, this does not mean that his driving skills are better than mine, it is just because his mother is a nomadic Berber. Not only can he speak Berber, but he can also get...
Help from some nomadic tribes.”
"Isn't your smuggling business dangerous?"
Wei Ran continued to ask, and he admitted that he had really made a mistake. Originally, he thought that this young man who didn't like to talk much was an honest boy, but he didn't expect that the other man was not showy, but actually passed the competition season.
Mana is like a toad playing with a frog.
“It is indeed more dangerous”
Soliman's tone was both sincere and helpless as he replied, "Egypt's borders have become more and more strict in recent years. Our business is not big to begin with. It often takes several months to have a single smuggling business. At most, we can only sell some rifles and rifles."
Bullets and stuff.”
Where the hell did you find this person?
Wei Ran cursed secretly, but in fact he already had a rough guess in his heart. Regardless of the information he had received from Jima before, or Saleh's proficiency as if he were his mother tongue... No, maybe Russian is Saleh's mother tongue.
.From this point alone, he could basically guess Saleh’s identity.
There is no doubt that the bald old man, like Katenka who once suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was an abandoned son who was hidden and forgotten during the great changes almost thirty years ago.
But if we push it back thirty years, wouldn't Saleh at that time be about the same age as he is now? How did he end up living in Egypt? Why didn't he go back, and instead chose to marry a wife and have children in Egypt?
, and also started a smuggling business?
In the boundless sea of sand dyed golden by the sun, while chatting with Soliman, Wei Ran became more and more curious. In the 1990s, the teachers at the Hongqi Forestry Farm, and even Saleh and more
For those of you who don’t know, what exactly did you go through to end up like this?
And, today, almost 30 years later, for what reason did they choose to come back to the world? Not only did they not remain anonymous, but they made movies with great fanfare.
These doubts are destined to get no real answers from Soliman or his father Saleh. All Weiyan can do is listen to the Egyptian stories on the radio while admiring the dazzling scenery outside the window.
From morning to noon, the sun had risen to its highest point, and Soliman had already stopped explaining. At this time, they were only less than 40 kilometers away from their destination in a straight line.
On the radio channel, Saleh asked abruptly, "There is a Berber settlement behind the stone mountain in front of you. Victor, do you want to go there and take a look and take a rest?"
"What's there?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"A small oasis, a well and, of course, the Berbers and their camels and goats."
Soliman took over the topic and introduced, "We can have a meal and rest there, and there are some interesting things there that you might be interested in."
"What?" Wei Ran, who had gotten up early and had been exposed to the sun through the car window all morning, immediately became energetic.
"A jeep." Saleh answered the question, "It seems to be an American jeep left over from World War II. How about it? Do you want to take a look?"
"Of course, since it's not far away, of course I have to go and have a look."
Wei Ran agreed without even thinking about it. He was just going out to kill time and take a walk with Mr. Edward. Now that there was a "new attraction", he naturally wanted to go there and experience it.
