Next to the entrance of the Tongzi Building in Mamayev Hill, Wei Ran leaned on the guardrail of the corridor, rarely took the initiative to light a cigarette, and quietly watched Felix walking around excitedly in the three houses.
, and Ruslan, who was holding the memoir and talking excitedly to the professor.
Waiting until the cigarette between his fingers was completely burned out, Wei Ran extinguished it, put the cigarette butt into his pocket, and then handed over the photo frame and the bunch of keys that he had taken from the room.
He handed it to the young man in his early 20s who was standing at the door. He slowly walked downstairs with his hands in his pockets and got into the back of the car parked downstairs.
Looking left and right around the car, Wei Ran took out a metal book and opened it. Sure enough, under the red vortex with the gravity knife, there was another blue vortex.
"My friend, the sky over Stalingrad is yours to protect."
Wei Ran silently recited the words under the blue vortex, sighed, put his hand into the blue vortex, and took out a brown leather winter flying hat inlaid with various trophies.
The only difference between this hat and the one kept in Tongzilou is that it is in brand new condition and it is missing the goggles that did not match it.
"I'm so sorry, Stalingrad is no longer here..." Wei Ran murmured to himself and sent the hat back into the blue vortex that had just appeared.
When he opened the car door, Ruslan and Professor Alexey, led by the middle-aged Felix, walked out of the unit door.
"Although I don't remember it very clearly, my sister just said on the phone that our house had three garages connected together at that time."
While Felix was speaking, he had already walked towards the garage facing the stairs, and kept saying, "My sister said she remembered clearly that the three garages next to each other were counted from the left.
No. 9 all the way to No. 11.”
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
At this point, Felix had already reached the door of garage No. 9, but the door lock of this garage still showed traces of being drilled by an electric drill.
Seeing this, he looked at each other and his family members who were following him, and simply tried to turn the steel handle that was as thick as a thumb.
Amidst the harsh noise of "Kerala", the iron door of this garage was opened smoothly. However, when the temperatureless sunlight shone through the wider and wider door gap, everywhere you looked, except
Outside a vehicle repair ditch, all that could be seen around were some tires that had long since been scrapped and cracked.
But at the same time, everyone can also tell from the difference in the thickness of the dust accumulated on the ground, as well as the clear tire marks, footprints and drag marks, that there seems to be a car parked here, and there should be a car parked against the wall.
Holding something.
“Looks like it was stolen”
"It seems that the station wagon that already belongs to Mr. Nicholas came from here."
Mr. Felix and Wei Ran murmured to each other openly and secretly. However, it was obvious that the former did not particularly care about the things stolen in the garage.
"Let's go to the next garage and have a look!" As Felix spoke, he led his family to the next garage.
With the help of the chemical cleaning agent provided by Weihan, Felix easily opened the dusty garage. Then, everyone saw an airplane, a Yin-16 airplane with its wings removed!
On the side of the plane's fuselage, there is also a line of Russian written in red paint - Stalingrad Aviation School, presented to our hero Comrade Ninel Ustinovich Bondu.
"I was on that plane when I was a kid."
Felix raised his hand and pointed at the fighter jet in the garage and said, "I only have a little impression of it, but I must have been on it."
"How come you didn't remember anything when I asked you before..." Professor Alexei muttered in secret.
"I was probably only three or four years old at the time. If I hadn't seen these things, how could I have remembered them."
Felix innocently spread his hands and walked around the garage. He also looked at the wings fixed on the walls on both sides. He stretched out his arms and carefully wiped the dust off the wings with his sleeves.
The line of big red writing was revealed - defend the great Stalingrad with your life!
"It's a pity that Stalingrad is no longer there"
Ruslan, Alexei, and Felix, who looked up at the wings of the plane, almost all let out the same sigh of remembrance, regret, and a little bit of joy.
"Let's go check out the next garage!"
Felix patted the dust on his sleeves and invited everyone to come with him to the door of the last garage.
As the door of the last workshop opened, what everyone saw was a square object covered with thick canvas. At the same time, they also saw tool boxes and shelves lined up almost in a complete circle around three walls.
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Felix waved to his son and daughters, and several young men immediately came to help and lifted the badly rotted canvas, revealing the remains of a formula car protected by a thick wooden frame.
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This car has a lot of damage, as well as traces of flames and a lot of rust.
"This...maybe it was my father's car at that time..."
Felix sighed and shook his head, "I have almost no memory of him. In fact, if it weren't for the memoir upstairs, I wouldn't remember him at all."
Wei Ran sighed silently, winked at Professor and Ruslan, turned around and left silently, and got into the car again. A moment later, Ruslan and Professor Alexei also got in one after another.
Come in.
"What are your plans for the follow-up?" Wei Ran asked Ruslan, who was sitting in the back row.
"The museum will find ways to help Mr. Felix obtain ownership of the property here."
When Ruslan said this, he pointed to the memoir manuscript that he had been holding in his hand from beginning to end, "We will continue to talk with Felix about this memoir and the medals that Comrade Ninel has received. Other than that,
In addition, based on Professor Alexei’s suggestion, we decided to find a suitable time to go to the Lipetsk cemetery together to visit the graves of Comrade Ninel and Comrade Sasha.”
"Victor, do you want to come with us?"
Alexey asked, "In addition, because the truth of this matter was discovered so quickly, our interview may have to be advanced."
"Going to Lipetsk?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "When?"
"How about the day after tomorrow?" Ruslan asked with a smile, "We will also put the interview before going to Lipetsk."
Of course, Wei Ran, who was already idle, had no objection to this, and nodded happily. After agreeing on the time and place to set off to Lipetsk together, Ruslan opened the door and left the carriage, and Wei Ran also
He immediately started the engine and pulled Professor Alexei, who was obviously a little over-excited, away from this old community.
"Victor! My good nephew, I am going to become the honorary consultant of the Mamayev Kurgan Museum!" Professor Alexey trembled excitedly.
"congratulations"
Wei Ran smiled, both openly and inwardly, but he was far less excited than the other party.
All of this now has become normal for him. Moreover, Professor Alexi does not need to cultivate the image of a scholar as much as he does, so naturally he does not need someone who has to keep calm.
sane heart.
Of course, this good news was still a big deal worth knowing about for my aunt and Suisui. Professor Alexei was also able to celebrate with a whole bottle of gin to himself that day.
"What are you talking about? You're not going to go to Lipetsk with us?"
That night, after Wei Ran briefly communicated with Suisui about the itinerary for the next few days, the latter did not clamor to follow as usual this time.
"I won't go"
Suisui showed a mysterious smile and said, "I have some serious business these days. Once I'm done, I'll be ready to rush back to Kazan immediately."
"Is it the matter in Inta or the matter in Tula Town?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"neither"
Suisui smiled proudly, but she didn't intend to give a detailed explanation. And with her tough-tongued and arrogant appearance, it was no surprise that she received various forms of corporal punishment.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. Wei Ran, who successfully led his foreign uncle to handle the interview, also led by Ruslan, followed Professor Alexei, Felix and his family, together with the museum from the TV station
Together with the borrowed filming crew, we rushed to Lipetsk together.
At the same time that Wei Ran and others arrived at their destination, Suisui also rushed to the airport with the Katenka sisters and three pets under Zhou Shujin's farewell, and boarded the flight to Kazan.
On the outskirts of Lipetsk, not far from the mysterious but well-known aviation center, Wei Ran, wearing a black suit, followed the crowd into a small cemetery.
Just from the inscriptions on the tombstones, we know that most of the people buried in this cemetery are ordinary local people. The joint tomb of Niner and Sasha is hidden in this ordinary cemetery.
Stepping on the dry leaves, Wei Ran patiently searched for familiar names on the tombstones.
Finally, these foreigners from Volgograd stopped in front of a black tombstone.
This tombstone is engraved with a Yin-16 aircraft and a flying hat. In addition, there is no name engraved on this tombstone. Instead, there are only two epitaphs -
This is where young eagles take flight and where friendship begins.
This is the place where he took off and where I slept with him. Fortunately, I am no stranger to darkness. Fortunately, he can always bring me sunshine.
"I guess this is where it is"
Wei Ran touched the tombstone and murmured to himself, then bent down and placed the bouquet in his hand in front of the tombstone.
"Pilots are always so romantic"
Professor Alexei cooed in a tone of admiration and even envy, and also placed the bouquet in his hand in front of the not-so-big tombstone.
"I really envy Mr. Ninel... No, Comrade Ninel, I really envy Comrade Ninel's friendship and love."
Ruslan also sighed, placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone, and then followed Wei Ran and Professor Alexey to make way for the filming team from a distance.
