In the recently abandoned military base, the bearded Paulide drove the Pontiac truck that the nurse had prepared for them, and followed the truck driven by Mikita on the frozen river.
Driving along the river, Mikita was the first to drive the car onto the shore, and finally stopped next to the two two-story-high statues.
"Commissar Krechi is buried among the statues of Comrade Lenin and Comrade Stalin."
While Mikita was speaking, he had already called to his little nephew Sersi to take out a shovel from the car and distributed it to everyone. They worked together to clear away the snow between the two statues, and finally saw a piece engraved with a five-pointed star and
Tombstone with the emblem of the Soviet Union.
The epitaph on this tombstone is simple, just one sentence: "Political Commissar Krechi, an ordinary Soviet soldier."
"Seeing that he is still here, I don't dare to secretly take those things away."
Mikita murmured in a low voice, reached out and took out a bottle of vodka from his arms, opened it and placed it in front of the tombstone, which was less than half a meter high.
"Mikita, when was that abandoned military base established?" Wei Ran asked as he took out a few cigarettes from his pocket and placed them next to the tombstone as a token of appreciation.
"I don't know about this, you can ask Paulide." While Mikita asked Paulide the question, he found a seat with leeward and sat down against the base of the statue of Comrade Lenin, calmly
Light a cigarette
"Shortly after Khrushchev came to power"
Paulide also lit a cigarette and sat down to explain, "After he came to power, correctional camps in various places were disbanded. This was the first to be disbanded, because there were not many prisoners of war left at that time, and most of them had been smoked.
When they arrived at the aluminum mine in charge of Mikita, they went to work.
The soldiers who previously guarded the correction camp did not disband.
Like here, they were all gathered and reorganized at the military base we just passed by, and most of the executioners served there for a short period of time."
As soon as he finished speaking, Comrade Paulide, who was sitting against the base of the statue, also took over the topic, "During the time when Khrushchev was in power, the main task of this army was to protect the surrounding mines and smelters. I
I heard that there used to be a missile unit stationed near here, and this unit was also responsible for the security work."
"But since Brezhnev came to power, the missile troops have been transferred, and the troops here have also been transferred to Saranpaul." Mikita added at the end.
"So that's it..." Wei Ran nodded.
"Victor, do you remember the busty nurse who was in love with the prisoner of war?" Paulide asked abruptly, "the nurse who was later sent to Construction Site 501."
"Irene?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"You remember it so clearly"
Paulide muttered with a strange expression, and then he did not joke about it, but continued following the topic, "After Comrade Stalin passed away, construction site 501 was stopped, and the girl also used a special method
Back to Mine 52."
"She returned to Mine No. 52?" Wei Ran frowned and asked in confusion, "What did she do back to Mine No. 52?"
"She reported Commissar Krejci"
Paulide spat, "She made a special trip to Mine No. 52 just to report that Comrade Krechi abused prisoners of war and withheld food supplies and wages from prisoners of war."
"Did her report succeed?"
"It was successful, but not completely successful."
Paulide flicked away the cigarette he had taken two puffs from, "When she returned to Mine No. 52, most of the prisoners of war here had already been transferred to the aluminum mines on the west side of the Ural Mountains, and only a few dozen were still here.
Do some logistics.
In addition, political commissar Krechi took the initiative to stay and guard the equipment in Mine No. 52, so he did not receive too much punishment."
"Where is the nurse Irene?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously.
"I don't know." Mikita shook her head. "No one knows where she went, and no one wants to see her again."
"If she dares to appear in front of me, I will definitely shoot her five times." Paulide, who still had a big beard, said fiercely.
"Uncle Paulide, why five shots?" young Sersi asked curiously.
"The Rules of the Firing Squad"
Polyton laughed loudly, "Your father, Dr. Gusen, and Commissar Krechi set the rules together. They are both respectable soldiers. Selsi, you must be as good as your father in the future."
"I will definitely be as good as him"
Selsi, who was young and carefree, took out a pendant made of bullet casings from his neck and shook it, "Although I have no memory of my father, I was in the house of my mother or Uncle Mikita almost every day.
Hear his story from your mouth."
"Okay, let's change places to chat."
Mikita reached out for Sersi to pull him up, patted the snow on his butt randomly and said, "How about we go to the hospital? Just go to Gusen's old office."
"It's a good place." Paulide also stood up, "We can have a drink there like before."
“It’s a good idea”
Mikita responded by imitating the other person's tone, and asked Selsi to get into the cab of the truck with a shovel. At the same time, he did not forget to shout, "Paulide, drive the truck into the lobby on the first floor, just like us
Like when I went to suppress the riots."
"clear!"
Paulide, who was no longer young anymore, responded with a standard Soviet military salute. After Weiran got into the car, he immediately jumped into the cab and started the car, stepped on the accelerator and drove straight to the hospital not far away.
Mikita, who was in the lead, drove backwards to the entrance of the first floor of the hospital, jumped out of the cab with a fire axe, and smashed open the door nailed with wooden boards in two or three strokes, almost without driving.
He and Selsi also jumped down, pushed open the door one on the left and the other on the right, and blocked it with their bodies.
Amidst the roar of the engine, the truck driven by Paulide was the first to drive into the lobby on the first floor in reverse. Before he could turn off the engine, Mikita also drove the truck in reverse and waited for Weiyan and
After closing the door, Selsi blocked the door with the head of the car and then turned off the engine.
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Polyton pushed open the car door and waited for Mikita to turn off the engine. He immediately said excitedly, "I even brought my whip here."
"It's a pity that there are no more whipped animals here."
Mikita sighed with regret, pulled out the TT33 pistol from his belt, pulled the slide and loaded the bullet.
Without any need to say hello, the young Sersi immediately pulled the bolt of the AKM rifle with his backhand to load the bullet, and stood side by side with Mikita.
"Check this building first to see if there are any wild animals."
While Mikita was speaking, he pointed in the other direction of the corridor, while he and Selsi covered each other and walked toward the nurse's station where Zoya once worked.
He and Paulide looked at each other, and the two of them shook their heads inconspicuously. The former took out the pistol he had received not long ago and loaded it, while Paulide opened the safety on the long gun in his hand, covering each other, moving carefully from room to room. He searched in the other direction of the corridor.
"Why have the doors here been torn down? Even the furniture is gone?" Wei Ran, holding a gun, asked in a low voice as he walked forward.
"When this place was abandoned, many things were moved to the newly built military base next to it." Paulide's answer was filled with undisguised regret.
"Why don't they just use the barracks here?"
"There are two reasons for this"
Polycom pointed in the direction outside, "There are many corpses of prisoners of war piled up in those trenches. Not only does it smell very bad every summer, but it also attracts a lot of flies and mosquitoes. In addition, the statues of Comrade Lenin and Comrade Stalin are too high. Already."
"I understand the first one, but what does the second one mean?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.
"According to Comrade Khrushchev's request, the statue of Stalin must be torn down, or even a statue of Khrushchev must be built. Of course, it may be possible to carve a large enough corn. Anyway, he only asked for the destruction of Stalin's statue, not A clear request for a statue to be erected in his honor.”
"But there is still a statue of Khrushchev erected in that military base."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he quickly reached into a room with his upper body and the pistols he held in both hands, took a look, then immediately retracted, then reached in a second time for a closer look, and then continued, "Maybe I saw it wrong. No, it’s just a corn statue that looks like Comrade Khrushchev.”
“That’s true”
Paulide's tone was full of sarcasm, "It is easy to knock down the statue of Comrade Stalin, but it is not easy to carve a corn statue as tall as Comrade Lenin next to it in its original position, and because Comrade Lenin stood There, Comrade Maize must also stand there.
The statue of Lenin and the statue of Stalin were completed in a competition manner by the first batch of German and Japanese prisoners of war sent here under the command of Commissar Krechi.
But that idiot from the country, Khrushchev, let go of all the free labor. Do you expect everyone to carve a two-story statue of him by themselves in this freezing weather?"
Without waiting for Wei Ran's answer, Bao Lid snorted coldly, "For this reason, the new military base was not chosen here, and I heard from the execution team members who stayed behind that even Khrushchev of the new military base
The statues of husband and wife were all carved in three months by dozens of prisoners of war left behind by political commissar Krechi to be repatriated.
Coincidentally, just when the statue was about to be completed, the nurse Irene, who only had breasts and no brains, led people here.
Thanks to the fact that they were carving a statue of Comrade Khrushchev at that time, otherwise Commissar Krechi would definitely have been punished."
"Why didn't she die on the 501 construction site?"
Wei Ran smacked his lips in regret. A Holy Mother like Illini could not be considered at fault, but if she was in the same camp as him, she would definitely be the first group of people Wei Ran wanted to kill.
As for the reason, it is quite simple. Instead of sending such a Holy Mother to God to help, it would be a waste of talent to stay in the human world instead.
"Then you can only ask the manager of the 501 construction site." Paulide had already entered the last room as he spoke.
After checking to confirm that the window in the room was still intact, the two immediately turned around and walked back, joined Mikita and the other two, and climbed up to the second floor while covering each other.
"Why was the staircase leading to the third floor bombed?" Young Sersi asked Wei Ran the question he had wanted to ask for a long time.
"To hide something"
Paulide explained with a smile, "When this place was abandoned, the anti-Stalin movement had already begun, but who can guarantee whether Stalin will come back to life tomorrow? So those things were all transported together for storage, and these were blown up
The stairs were just used as a cover up at the time."
"Where is that building?" Selsi asked excitedly.
"You'd better not go, there are a lot of mines there." Paulide reminded nervously, "Captain Mikita, see this little guy."
"Don't worry, Selsi won't run around." As Mikita spoke, he had already raised his gun and started searching the corridor on the second floor where there was no anti-theft sliding door.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran and the other two men immediately chased after him with their own weapons, and together they helped to inspect half of the corridor on this floor.
Fortunately, apart from the dust, no traces of wild animals were found here.
"Celsi, open the door," Mikita said, pointing to the padlock on the anti-theft sliding door.
"immediately"
Selsi quickly turned off the safety of the rifle, put the gun on his shoulder skillfully, then pulled out the pendant hanging around his neck again, and found a brightly polished key from the leather cord that passed through the bullet casing.
, thrust it into the padlock keyhole on the sliding door.
"I often take it hunting"
Mikita took advantage of Sersi opening the door and greeted everyone as he walked downstairs and said, "This little guy's shooting skills are very good, and he is not severely short-sighted like his father. This summer, he used SKS
The semi-automatic rifle accurately hit a running wild boar 350 meters away."
"Maybe he can be a sniper in the future," Paulide praised. "This marksmanship can make him a sniper."
"No, he has asthma." Mikita shook his head, "Congenital asthma is the same as my sister's. Fortunately, it is not too serious. As long as it is not strenuous exercise, there will be no problem."
"What a pity." Wei Ran sighed and hit a wild boar from a distance of 350 meters. This was really considered a gift.
“It’s nice not to have to join the army.”
Mikita was extremely satisfied. He opened the canvas curtain at the rear of the truck and pulled out a wooden box filled with supplies. "When we find those gems, I'm going to let him become a jewelry maker."
"It seems that you have learned all the crafts from your father?" Wei Ran asked while helping to carry a box and walking upstairs.
"certainly"
Mikita said happily, "I have even prepared various tools, which are now in the basement of Sersi's house. I have been preparing these tools since Brezhnev announced economic reforms. Something happened."
Wei Ran opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He just suppressed the feeling of powerlessness in his heart. While listening to Mikita's plan for his future life, he helped move the supplies in the two trucks to the second floor bit by bit.
When they were done, Selsi also briefly cleaned several adjacent rooms with a large brush that he found somewhere, and lit the stove that everyone had brought up in one of the rooms. At the same time, , there was also heavy snow falling outside the window, and the short day had long been replaced by night.
"The bread I baked on the road has been cooked. Let's eat something first and then take a rest. Victor, help me open all those lunch boxes."
While Mikita was speaking, he had already placed a chopping board on the newly cleaned bed, then put a few roasted and fragrant big ribs on it, and cut it into finger-thick slices of bread with a knife.
Inexplicably, Wei Ran couldn't help but think of the sentence "There are few horses and horses in front of the door, and the boss married a merchant's wife." Although the poem is not so appropriate, the former execution captain Mikita now looks more like a middle-aged man. My honest father, if it weren't for the Nagant revolver on his waist, it would be hard to imagine that this man cutting bread had killed at least a thousand prisoners of war.
After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran opened the hot lunch boxes one by one. Suddenly, the strong aroma of food wafted out of the office, which was slowly warming up again.
Thick beetroot soup, surprisingly caloric Russian stew, as well as beef patties with plenty of ingredients and mutton finger rice that is enough to feed everyone.
Before Wei Ran could distribute the food to everyone, Paulide could not wait to place four transparent glasses on the table. While pouring the wine, he said, "Sersi, go and sit on the seat to my left. That is your father's seat." The place where you are used to sitting. This office also belongs to him, so you should treat us like the owner here."
Hearing this, young Selsi rolled his eyes, changed his position obediently, and reached out to the already full glass.
"Celsi, you are not old enough to drink."
Mikita, who was busy opening the can, reminded him without raising his head, "There is a large bottle of kvass in the box I opened. That is for you."
"I'm just helping Uncle Victor carry the wine." Selsi smiled politely but awkwardly, and pushed the cup that had just been moved in front of her to Wei Ran's side.
"I can testify that he really wanted to help me bring more wine glasses." Wei Ran kindly helped the young man block the knife, "Mikita, why did you bring this little guy here?"
"One of those gems belongs to his father, Dr. Gusen, so of course he must be present." Mikita said matter-of-factly, "In addition, Pontiac Nurse also provided help, although she did not know the existence of these gems.
, but I’m still prepared to give her a share.”
"You really should give her a gift. After all, she gave us a truck, right?"
Paulide put down the bottle and continued, "Celsi, fill your glass with kvass. Are you going to let me pour it for you?"
"oh oh!"
Upon hearing this, Selsi quickly bent over and pulled out a glass bottle containing kvass from the box. After opening it skillfully, he poured himself a glass.
Seeing Mikita looking at him, Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "Of course I have no objection either."
"Let's eat"
Mikita smiled, put the pickles he had just taken out of the can on a plate and placed it in the center of the table. He picked up the cup and said, "First cup, cheers for us to return to Mine No. 52!"
"Cheers!" Including the first time here... No, no, strictly speaking, it was not even the first time for Selsi, but he was not born yet at that time.
Regardless of whether it was the first time or not, everyone, including Selsi, raised their glasses and drank the wine or kvass in one gulp. It seemed that everything was different from what it was 15 years ago.
Big difference.
Mikita picked up the wine bottle and poured wine into the three glasses except Selsi. "The second glass of wine, cheers to those gems that have been waiting for us for 15 years!"
"Cheers!" Everyone responded loudly again, drank all the wine in the glass, and then reached out in unison to pick up a pickle, brought it to the tip of their noses, smelled it, and then threw it directly into their mouths.
“Third glass of wine”
Mikita smiled and said, "To our better life in the future. Cheers!"
"Cheers!" Everyone responded again and drank all the wine in the glasses for the third time.
Obviously, these three glasses of wine were just the beginning. In the next hour or so, Mikita and Paulide each drank an entire bottle of vodka, and even Wei Ran was forced to drink half a bottle of wine.
After drinking and eating, Mikita glanced at the sky outside the window, thought for a while and said, "Celsi, after you wake up tomorrow, you and Victor will stay and try to find a way to build a fireplace next door using oil drums. By the way,
Go get some more firewood from the surrounding areas and come back."
"What about you?" Selsi asked as he loosened his belt.
Mikita burped, took out a cigarette, lit it, and said slowly, "Tomorrow, Polyd and I will go to the mine to check the situation. There is no power supply here now, so if we want to find those gems, we just need to
It will take a long time to be able to walk down, but the most important problem is that I am very worried about the water inside the mine and even collapse."
"This is indeed a problem," Paulide agreed with a frown, "We didn't bring any diving equipment."
"You won't have any more headaches after seeing these problems in person tomorrow."
After speaking, Mikita stood up unsteadily and said matter-of-factly, "Celsi, clean the table quickly and find the sleeping bag. Also, you will be on duty tonight."
"oh"
Selsi reluctantly agreed, and quickly pulled the table with messy cups and plates out, then carefully cleaned the floor with a large brush, and filled the stove with the coal he brought, and finally
Then he helped everyone find sleeping bags and laid them out, and at the same time adjusted the brightness of the kerosene gas lamp to the lowest level.
"It seems that you often make this little guy do things." Paulide, who was the first to get into the sleeping bag, said with some envy, "It would be great if my daughter was so obedient."
"My daughter is as obedient as him," Mikita said proudly, "even more obedient than Selsi. Victor, what about you? I haven't even asked, do you have children?"
"No," Wei Ran replied with a yawn.
"In this case, you'd better go to bed early." Mikita said proudly, "You are not qualified to join our conversation."
"I have no interest in joining your conversation."
Wei Ran glanced at Selsi sitting on the chair by the window one last time, yawned and got into his sleeping bag.
