As the weather got colder and colder, Wei Ran, who had not received any serious business for several months, simply settled down and stopped worrying about money. Anyway, the worst he could do was go back to China and sell a few gold bricks.
In addition to the confidence brought by those gold bricks, Suisui's business in Inta has become more and more prosperous due to the weather and seasons. Now she can even afford her daily expenses.
Not only that, the girl also provided Lola, who was staying overnight, with a job on the pretext that she needed a nanny to clean the house.
Although the salary of this job is not high, it is better than taking care of food and housing, and the salary is paid every Monday, which will not leave Lola, who is dependent on others, without any pocket money.
Of course, the most important thing is that because Lola took on the housework, Wei Ran, who had free time every day, had more time to think about the research topic that he still had not finished reading.
However, now that there were only a few days left before the end of November, he still could not find any valuable clues from the nearly finished research materials. He even couldn't even find the location of Mine No. 52.
None were found.
Not only did he fail to find it, but even the Katenka sisters failed to analyze the specific location of Mine No. 52 from the map in the photo.
Maya, on the other hand, after learning about the existence of those three projects, became very interested in the unfinished project - the research on how to artificially create mental illness.
Because of this, this girl has never left since Jima went to Kirov to take classes. Not only did she spend most of her time studying that half of the topic every day, she even unceremoniously occupied Wei Ran's room.
desk.
"My habitat is becoming less and less."
Wei Ran secretly sighed before starting lunch on the last day of November, and then his mouth was blocked by the red cabbage soup brought to him by Lola, the little cook.
Although this little girl's cooking skills are just mediocre, at least they are not too unpalatable, and no matter what, the traditional Slavic dishes she makes are always much more reliable than the dark dishes that the Katenka sisters are always trying to figure out.
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However, before the meal was finished, Jima's subordinate Greva parked on the roadside outside the yard with four container trucks and a truck pulling a container forklift.
"Gleva, what's going on?" Wei Ran ran out with half a piece of bread in his hand and asked.
"Sent to you by Mr. Nikolai from Volgograd"
Greva, who was holding a walkie-talkie in his hand, paused and added, "These containers are all shipped from Kiev via railway. Mr. Nikolay called me this morning and asked me to help
I will accept it at the station and bring it to you. He said this is a gift for you."
"A gift to me?" Wei Ran was stunned, "Why did he give me a gift?"
"I remember he said before that he would give you a gift after the renovation of the workshop next door is completed?" Suisui came up and said, "I remember he asked Jima to tell you?"
“But it’s not decorated yet.”
Wei Ran subconsciously glanced in the direction of the next door. Although the interior of the workshop has been completed with wiring and painting, and thick solid wood floors have been laid.
However, things such as display racks, walls and even lamps are not yet in place. Nowadays, the workers are mainly focusing on decorating the office.
"Victor, where should we unload the containers?" Greva couldn't help but ask.
"Don't worry, let me see what's inside first."
After saying that, Wei Ran threw the piece of bread in his hand to the dog at his feet, strolled out of the yard, and stood at the back of one of the container trucks.
Under his witness, the driver cut off the lead seal, opened the padlock, and then opened the dusty cupboard door with a soft squeak.
However, when he saw the contents inside, Wei Ran was stunned. Everything inside was actually cardboard boxes.
He casually tore open a cardboard box, and from the faint musty smell, Wei Ran could tell at a glance that the contents inside were all old books that were already yellowing! He tore open the second and third cardboard boxes without believing it.
There are still old books lying there!
"Lock the cabinet door, and then find a place to stack them next door."
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he already walked back and took out his cell phone to call Mr. Nicholas, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"Did you receive it?" As soon as the call was connected, Nicholas asked with a smile.
"received"
Wei Ran paused, and seeing that Nicholas didn't seem to want to take the initiative to explain, he took the initiative to ask, "Old man, why did you give me so many old books?"
"You are a successful historian, so of course you must have a library of your own."
Mr. Nicholas on the other end of the phone explained with a smile, "After you renovate the workshop next door, won't there just be a place to put those old books?"
"Why does it seem like someone told me this?"
Wei Ran grinned, changed the topic and asked curiously, "Where did you get so many old books? They must be expensive to buy, right?"
"They are all Russian-language books that have been eliminated by libraries all over Ukraine. I just paid the shipping fee and some handling fees to get them. It didn't cost much at all."
Mr. Nicholas's tone did not sound happy because he got a bargain, but instead contained a trace of helplessness, "I opened a second-hand bookstore in your and Professor Alexei's former studio, but it has been so long.
Not many were sold at all, so I thought, since they couldn’t be sold, I’d just find a good place for them.”
"How about you come too?" Wei Ran sincerely extended the invitation, "I will help you prepare the room in advance."
"I'll forget it. I heard from Ji Ma that there are almost as many women in your family as there are in the Hongqi Forest Farm, so I won't bother you."
Nikolai joked and rejected Weiran's invitation, "Besides, life in Volgograd is very good, Alexei is a good drinking buddy, and your aunt is also very good at cooking. I have even cooked with both of them.
I learned how to cook scrambled eggs with tomatoes and make dumplings by myself.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Listening to the old man's Chinese words for "scrambled eggs with tomatoes" and "making dumplings" in a clear and fluent manner, Wei Ran's face was filled with pain.
He couldn't help but smile and asked jokingly, "Old guy, let's go back next month and see how you do? I guess you must have missed me."
"Victor, how long have we not seen each other? How come you have become as shameless as Ji Ma?"
Nicholas laughed and said, "Your aunt asked me to tell you that you can come back before Christmas, bringing her Aurora and your girls from Vorkuta."
"I will let Aurora take them back for Christmas."
Wei Ran couldn't laugh or cry and made a promise. No need to ask, it was probably Ji Ma who didn't keep the secret secret on purpose and leaked it to Mr. Nicholas.
"That's it. Remember to bring back some vegetables grown in your yard. Your aunt asked me to tell you this." After finishing speaking, Mr. Nicholas simply hung up the phone.
"This old man" Wei Ran couldn't help but put his cell phone into his pocket.
In the time it took for such a phone call, the container forklift had already driven off the truck hauling it. At the same time, a container truck also stepped on the brakes under Greva's command.
After the forklift unloaded the heavy container, the truck left the yard and drove directly to the train station. Immediately afterwards, the second container truck also drove into the yard in reverse.
It only took at most half an hour to unload four containers. After Weiran sent Greva and others away, he took Gouzi to find the contractor, Lao Li, and prepared to discuss with him what should be done.
How to reasonably pack so many old books into this workshop, and how much extra money he should pay for this.
While they were discussing business, Maya, who had occupied Weiran's desk, found that there seemed to be something wrong with the topics she had been studying these days.
"Aurora, where is Victor?" Maya raised her head and asked Suisui, who was not far away.
"What's wrong?" Suisui asked without looking back. She was busy communicating with her classmates about the feasibility of the Siberian self-driving tour project and where to find fat sheep.
"I discovered something in this project"
There was a little uncertainty in Maya's tone, "I'm not sure if this is a coincidence, but the word demantoid is mentioned in it."
"What did you say?!"
Suisui stood up with a bang, put on her laptop and took off her Bluetooth headset, and quickly ran over to Maya's side.
"Look at this"
Maya took out a piece of A4 paper and spread it on the table, "Look, these words are all misspelled words on this page. I just spelled them on the paper accidentally."
Having said this, Maya used a red pen to draw a circle around a certain letter of these words, "These letters are all misspelled. Some of them are one letter less, and some are one or two letters more. The correct spelling should be
yes..."
As she spoke, Maya used the red pen in her hand to make changes to the wrong letters. Then she changed to a pencil and marked out the misspelled words on the original information.
"We just need to reverse the wrong letters and the correct letters in the corresponding positions in the order in which the wrong words appear, and then spell them together..."
"Demantoid? Wealth?!" Suisui exclaimed as she looked at the two words spelled out.
“Look here again”
Maya pointed to the bottom page number of this page. This page happened to be page 52. Before and after the page number, there was a "C" that seemed to have been inadvertently drawn with a blue pen, and a
It seems to be the Cyrillic letter "r" stamped on it with something like a steel seal!
"CR?CR52?!"
Suisui exclaimed, and while dialing the phone to Wei Ran, she shouted excitedly, "Lola! Kamei, hurry up! Come and help! We have found a second fortune!"
