Wei Ran put away his cell phone and looked down at the box of cash. Although he was a little confused for a moment, he at least knew that whether it was the things in front of him or the unreachable phone call, these were probably arranged by the second generation.
.
Is this because he wants me to owe someone a favor, or is he prepaying the investigation fee? Wei Ran picked up a wad of cash and patted it in his palm, secretly pondering the twists and turns.
If it is a favor owed, this second generation would be too wishful thinking. If it is a prepaid investigation fee...
Although Wei Ran didn't know how much the land in the ravine was worth, he knew very well that even if the second generation was a playboy who was not short of money, he would never do something like this when everything was still unknown.
Not even being able to get through on the phone.
So this is going to let me choose?
After pondering over and over again, Weiran finally came up with something. Whether it was a so-called favor or a prepaid investigation fee, since the other party's phone number was blocked, it was obviously for him to decide what these things counted for.
If it counts as a favor, after he investigates the matter about the helmet, the favor can be repaid. Both parties, you helped me get a piece of land, and I helped you investigate the matter clearly. When no one loses, naturally
They became friends who could benefit both sides - especially a few years ago, Xia Shushi had hinted that the other party wanted to be friends.
If you count the prepaid investigation costs, it would be even simpler. As long as the origin of the helmet is investigated clearly, it will be considered worthy of what the other party paid.
At that time, all you have to do is choose a suitable method and tactfully reject the olive branch offered by the other party. And the second-in-command who looks unattractive can also use the boss Pan, whom he has never met, as a stepping stone.
, so that both parties will not be embarrassed.
"What is the family background of this second generation?"
Wei Ran couldn't help but muttered again. Although he didn't have much contact with the other party, he could still tell that this second generation was completely different from Xia Shushi, and he was even different from the equally inconsistent Ji Ma.
There's a huge difference.
If we had to make a classification, Ji Ma was a young gangster with good roots, Xia Shushi was an ordinary person from a good family, and this second generation... Wei Ran shook his head secretly, although that unattractive peer looked at
It looks like a collection of Ji Ma and Xia Shushi.
But in doing things, or to be more precise, at least in terms of giving gifts and dealing with people, I am absolutely impeccable.
Wei Ran shook his head to suppress the incomprehensible comparison in his mind, and calmly put the cash back into his suitcase.
He is not stupid, nor is he blind to money, but he clearly knows that whether it is the property rights documents or the cash, he will accept it, even if he tactfully rejects the friendship of the second generation, it will not matter.
But if he is really like a fool and returns these things to the second generation intact or still here as if he didn't see them, then it is tantamount to slapping the other person in the face and then spitting in his face.
Old phlegm.
"This is a gift that I can't even refuse..."
Weiran threw the last wad of cash and the documents into the suitcase. While muttering, he waved his hand to summon the half-track motorcycle, connected it to the trailer hitch of the trailer, and then fumbled to collect it.
With the aid of a hoe, he relied on a half-track motorcycle to move it to the position of the gate, allowing it to act as a screen wall.
This was not over yet. After collecting the half-track motorcycles, he pushed the four-wheeled motorcycles one by one to the side of the entrance, lined them up against the wall, and then took out bundles of thick motorcycles from the incoming car.
The canvas tightly covers all these things that do not belong to you.
After everything was done, Wei Ran carefully took out a box of tape measures and measured the height, length and width of the enclosed space until he was sure it was enough to accommodate the huge DT30 crawler all-terrain transport vehicle.
Then I breathed a sigh of relief.
Like an old hen about to lay a nest, he walked around the courtyard again. Wei Ran worriedly used his car to block the door from the outside, then went in again and locked it. Then he took a deep breath and tightened his grip.
Jia Guan, in severe pain, summoned the huge transport truck that was going to be used as a safe!
"Plop!"
The moment he took out the transport truck, Wei Ran, who had been tortured by the needle, his legs softened and he fell down on the ground covered with a thick layer of gravel. Then he simply lay down directly and looked above his head blankly.
Under the dazzling lighting, I gasped for breath to relieve the severe pain that had long since subsided.
"This... using it once... is like giving birth to a child..."
The pale-faced Wei Ran cursed tremblingly, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, struggled to get up, staggered to the back of the car, opened the heavy hatch, stepped on the metal steps and got into the living room.
cabin.
Opening the safe that was not locked at all, he habitually took out the tinder information in the secret compartment and glanced at it. Then he put it back in place and summoned the food box. He placed the gold bricks stored in it one by one.
It's at the bottom of the safe.
This wasn't over yet. Then, he opened the backpack he brought and took out two lock boxes and put them in.
In addition to the rough diamonds that Teacher Anna gave to me, there are also demantoid garnets from Mine No. 52.
These stones that had not yet been cut were hand-picked by Wei Ran and Suisui one by one and ready to be packed at the bottom of the box. Originally, Suisui was responsible for preserving these small stones, but this girl had some new ideas.
Later, in order to avoid worrying about losing it every day, the storage work was once again handed over to Wei Ran.
After looking at the large space left in the safe, Wei Ran simply took out the suitcase he had just found in the RV with the door blocked, and put all the cash and documents inside.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Gold, gems, cash, documents. Tsk tsk tsk! There are many of them in the safe of corrupt criminals. There is really a lot of them here." Wei Ran laughed at himself like a lunatic.
After a while, he closed the safe door with satisfaction.
He stood up and pulled out an enamel kettle and filled it with water. Wei Ran carried it out of the living cabin, opened the door and got into the cab, and poured some water on the dwarfed apple tree inside.
I don’t know if there are no seasonal changes in this metal book. It’s already mid-February, but this small fruit tree is still full of leaves and fruits.
I don’t know if all the fruits will grow again if they are all picked...
Wei Ran muttered secretly, but in the end he let go of the fruits that were not too delicious. He took the kettle and pushed the door to get out of the car and sent it back to the living cabin. Then he walked out of the first section of the transport vehicle.
A bundle of cables was found in the cargo hold and plugged into the power outlet on one side of the cargo hold door, and the other end was connected to the power distribution room in the corner of the yard.
With the external power supply, the battery in the cargo compartment immediately started charging, and the sanitary ignition device in the living compartment also turned on the electric heater in the car to its maximum power.
Naturally, he was not doing this to kill time. After all, no matter how comfortable the living cabin of this transport vehicle was, it was definitely not as good as a hotel room.
But he had to verify the safety and privacy here - for example, after he blocked the door and consumed some electricity, would anyone be overly curious and sneak in to take a look while he was away?
While waiting for the temperature in the cabin to heat up, Wei Ran took out the engineer shovel from the metal book and dug out the gravel on the ground less than one meter away from the iron door, clearing out a hole one meter wide and no more than ten centimeters deep.
, but the length exceeds the width of the gate.
Standing at the door and taking a step forward to try it out, Wei Ran opened the backpack he brought and took out a plastic box and a purple flashlight that could be used as a simple currency detector.
Opening the plastic box, there were two rows of twenty ampoules that were only the size of a little finger.
Wei Ran bought these ampoules online, and the liquid inside was sealed by himself.
Of course, the liquid inside is not dangerous in any way, and ten of them only contain the most common fluorescent paint.
As for the other ten, they were just a little bit of dog blood extracted from the crooked pug he kept at home at the cost of two big chicken legs.
After some research, Wei Ran placed these ampoules irregularly in the shallow pit he had just dug, and then carefully buried them stone by stone, and restored the shallow pit he had dug so hard to its original state.
.
After crossing this "minefield" with a standing long jump, Wei Ran climbed onto the roof of the transport truck and installed the camera he brought on the steel beam so that it faced the direction of the gate.
After everything was done, he returned to the living cabin that had become extra warm. He took off his clothes and sat in the wooden tub. He took a comfortable bath and then used the well in the yard to transport the animal.
The car's water tank is filled with fresh water.
After everything was arranged, Wei Ran lay down on the gravel on the ground as if resigned to his fate, and with a shrill scream that he was too lazy to cover up, he gritted his teeth and put away the transport truck.
When the severe sting subsided, Wei Ran shivered involuntarily, then stood up unsteadily, walked to a telegraph pole that acted as a steel beam load-bearing column, and stretched out his hand to pull the
Old style power switch pull cord attached to it.
As the power was turned on, the bright camera on the steel beam also lit up with a faint red light. However, Wei Ran knew very well that although the camera looked very professional, in fact there was not even a lens in it.
No.
And the reason why he installed this thing was purely to cooperate with the trap at the door to scare people. After all, there was no Internet in this ravine, so even if the camera could capture something, he would not be able to see it in time.
However, he firmly believes that as long as someone comes in, he will definitely step on the trap at the door. When the time comes, as long as any ampoule is trampled on, it will be proved that someone has come here quietly without his permission.
As long as he knows that someone has been here, it is enough for him. As for who the person is, it is completely unimportant.
After everything was arranged, Wei Ran once again crossed the inconspicuous trap with a standing long jump, and then opened the locked iron door.
When the sunshine outside shone into the yard with the colored steel tile roof again, he turned off the lights inside. He slowly locked the big push-pull iron door, and then stuffed the key into the left hand corner of the door again.
On the side, there is a gap in the mouth of the stone lion that is no bigger than Teddy.
He took out his cell phone and checked the time, but he was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he first went to look at the open space opposite the creek in front of the door, and then walked around the newly added barbed wire fence.
This two-meter-high barbed wire fence is extremely strong. Whether it is the materials used or the green spray paint, it is no different from the barbed wire fence used to surround the basketball court when I was in school.
After passing through the barbed wire gate that was open when he drove in, Wei Ran walked around the peach trees outside with great interest.
Although it is impossible to see peach trees blooming in this winter, anyone who comes can see that this peach forest has been taken care of extremely carefully. Not only are there no weeds or dead branches under the trees, but even every tree
There is also a small stainless steel sign nailed to the trunk of the tree, which details the species of the tree, the color of its flowers, etc.
After strolling around the unattractive peach forest, Wei Ran slowly drove the car out, then closed the barbed wire gate and locked it with the padlock that was originally hung on it.
He put the key into his pocket smoothly.
Wei Ran got back into the cab and drove away, but he no longer paid attention to the open space behind him surrounded by barbed wire.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Unless necessary, he is destined to not come to this place often in the future. But he has to think about how to repay this passive favor.
Of course, it wouldn't matter if he didn't return the favor. He even had a hunch that if the favor wasn't returned, the second generation might be even happier.
"There are so many tricks in this city..." Wei Ran joked to himself, and at the same time, he stepped on the accelerator slightly to increase the speed.
In the next few days, except for going back and forth between the hotel and the small company from 9 to 5, focusing on picking up Suisui and others who had no idea what they were planning, Wei Ran spent the rest of his time on
In Chen Guangling's piano shop.
It was through the exchange with this piano fanatic that Wei Ran finally knew that the piece he learned on New Year's Eve was called "Lie Zi Yu Feng".
However, Wei Ran held back his energy this time and just played a short section pretending to be unfamiliar, for fear that the other party would hear something extraordinary from the music he played like last year.
Of course, in addition to working as drivers and playing the piano to cultivate their sentiments, the girls headed by Suisui, while working hard to lose weight, would also occasionally create various projects and take the high-speed train back to their grandma's house with Wei Ran.
At this time, the weight loss plans of these girls are undoubtedly suspended time and time again due to force majeure.
Time flies to a week later, on the 16th of the first lunar month, Zhou Shujin and Professor Alexei finally end their vacation and board a flight to Volgograd. On the same day, Jima's family and Maya finally end their vacation.
After more than a month of traveling in China, Wei Ran and others saw him off and boarded a flight to Kazan.
"How is the investigation of your friend's case going?"
On the way back to the hotel in the city from the airport, Suisui yawned and asked, "We are almost busy here. If your affairs are over, we should prepare to return to Kazan."
"Just wait two more days."
Wei Ran answered ambiguously. Ever since he took over the courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing a week ago, Xia Shushi's phone calls have been unreachable. Not only the phone calls, but even the messages sent by WeChat seemed to be lost in the sea, without even a punctuation mark.
Brought back.
"Then wait two more days."
Suisui responded indifferently, and then said, "We must go back before the end of the month. There will be a large number of tourists going to Inta on March 1st, and there will also be a team of guinea pigs visiting Maya's house. We must go back to Kakarta."
Just keep an eye on it from the other side of the mountain."
"Then buy a ticket for the end of the month."
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the mobile phone used as a navigation system rang. He lowered his head and glanced at the incoming call, but Wei Ran frowned. The number of the call was not a common mobile phone number or landline number in China, but more like
Unknown number on satellite phone.
After a slight hesitation, Weiran finally pulled over and pressed the answer button.
"It's me, Xia Shushi." As soon as the call was connected, the person on the other side identified himself.
"If you don't call me again, I'm going to Russia."
Wei Ran paused, winked at Suisui, who was in the passenger seat, then opened the door, changed seats with the other person, and kept saying, "What's going on with you? It's been a week, and I can't get through WeChat on the phone."
I won’t bring them back either.”
"Don't mention it"
Xia Shushi on the other end of the phone said helplessly, "Early in the morning on the seventh day of the first lunar month, I was dragged by that beast to cut off the electricity supply. The hellish place we are staying in now not only has no signal, but even electricity is a problem.
And satellite phone Internet access is extremely expensive.”
"Have you looked for clues about the helmet?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "Did you find anything?"
"What do you mean, I found it, but I didn't find it either."
After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he fell silent, obviously trying to organize his words. Seeing this, Wei Ran did not rush him, but patiently waited for the other party's explanation.
Fortunately, within five or six seconds, Xia Shushi continued, "First of all, we found the daughter-in-law of the bed and breakfast owner who ran away. That woman was considered a gangster. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, she was deported.
When we go back, the second generation and I came here with her."
"Aren't you two afraid of being caught and raped?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.
"No problem, who dares to touch our waist?"
Xia Shushi said nonchalantly, "Anyway, we followed the girl and found her home. It was a small village called Manton, which is where we are now. There are less than a hundred households here."
"You keep talking"
When Wei Ran saw the other party stop, he couldn't help but urge. By the way, he also took the opportunity to turn on the speakerphone and adjust the volume to the maximum. Then he snapped his fingers at Anfiya, who was sitting in the back row, and motioned for the latter to hand over the tablet.
Came over.
Xia Shushi on the other end of the phone lit a cigarette and continued puffing away, "We went through that little wife's house. Their wooden house was almost demolished and rebuilt by the second generation."
"Then what? What did you find?" Wei Ran once again reminded the other party of the important points, and at the same time opened the memo on the tablet.
"Except for a British 77 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition found in the ceiling of the cowshed, there was nothing else."
Xia Shushi paused again, and then continued, "And the most important thing is that the little wife's family has no idea where these things come from."
"What do you mean by this?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.
"To put it simply, according to the little daughter-in-law and her father, their family fled here during the food shortage in 1967.
This house originally belonged to a distant uncle of the young daughter-in-law's father. Although the blood relationship between the two parties was very thin, the old man still took in the family.
However, the old gentleman passed away in the 1980s, and the house he lived in was turned into a utility room, and the downstairs was turned into a cowshed. The rifle I just mentioned, and the
The things the B&B owner brought back were all found in the utility room above the cowshed."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Having said this in one breath, Xia Shushi took two puffs of cigarette, and then continued, "Although we only found a rifle and bullets in their house, there are many local people."
There are few legends and traces about the expeditionary force.”
"Tell me more details?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"First of all, there are quite a few American ten-wheel trucks in this village. Of course, almost none of them are usable and most of them are wrecks."
Xia Shushi smiled and added, "And I discovered that there are several stoves here that are modified from the wheels of American ten-wheel trucks. Even the troughs for feeding pigs and sheep are made of tires from ten-wheel trucks.
of."
"What else?" Seeing that the other party had stopped here, Wei Ran had no choice but to ask again.
"well"
Xia Shushi sighed inexplicably, "I heard the oldest blind man in this village say that he had known since he was a child that during World War II, there used to be a field hospital near this village, and there were almost a thousand expeditionary troops at that time.
The wounded are recovering in this field hospital.
But later, the expeditionary force stationed here abandoned all the cars and heavy equipment and either blew them up, set them on fire, or pushed them directly into the water.
Then they hiked into Savage Mountain, and the more than a thousand wounded, in order not to drag down the larger army, chose to commit mass suicide."
"What did you say?!" Wei Ran frowned immediately.
"Yes, mass suicide and self-immolation. Although there is no official record of this incident on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, it was indeed mentioned in the book "The Yunnan-India-Myanmar War During the Anti-Japanese War", which is considered a memoir. In May 1942
On the 14th, the headquarters of the 5th Expeditionary Force and the main force of the 65th Regiment, as well as about 1,500 wounded soldiers, stationed in a village called Mo.
It was only after I heard the old blind man mention mass suicide that I realized that the village translated as Manton was probably the village of Mo mentioned in the book."
After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he sighed again, "According to the old blind man, these wounded who committed suicide were buried near the pagoda in this village."
"Who buried those expeditionary soldiers who committed suicide?" Wei Ran subconsciously grasped the key question.
"According to the old blind man, it was the monks who practiced in that pagoda at that time. Moreover, it seems that only the monks who once practiced in that pagoda knew about the suicide of the wounded soldiers of the expedition. The villagers in this village did not know about it.
matter."
"So the old blind man you just mentioned was a monk in that pagoda?"
"It's not just him"
Xia Shushi didn't say until this moment, "The little daughter-in-law's father's distant uncle is also a monk in that pagoda. But this old blind man was born after the end of World War II. When he was young, he grew up as an old man who served the pagoda.
What I heard from the monk’s mouth.”
"Now that Buddha..."
"It has been abandoned for a long time. There are no monks inside. Even the head of the Buddha statue inside is not original."
Xia Shushi said regretfully, "Not only is the monk gone, the second son and I, as well as the helpers he hired, have been busy around the pagoda for two full days and still haven't found the bones of the expeditionary force. Our deepest pit has been filled with
After digging for more than two meters, water began to seep from the bottom of the pit, but no bones were found."
"so..."
"I'm wondering if you have any ideas. Regardless of me or the Second World War, we not only want to unlock the secret of the helmet, but we also want to know whether there are any expeditionary soldiers who committed suicide buried here."
Xia Shushi paused for a moment before saying, "Of course, it would be best if you have time to come over. If you don't have enough time, you can provide some ideas. We have reached a deadlock here."
Hearing this, Wei Ran subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Suisui, who was concentrating on driving. The latter didn't say anything after feeling his gaze. He just pretended to sit up straight and stretched out his hand to hit his lower back.
Seeing this, Wei Ran turned off the screen of his tablet and said, "Well, first send me the photo of the pagoda. If you have an aerial video of the village, send it too, and I'll think about it."
"Then you have to wait," Xia Shushi said helplessly, "I have never experienced such a slow Internet speed when I used an abacus to surf the Internet."
"Stop complaining," Wei Ran thought for a moment and asked, "You won't leave for a while, right?"
"Is that possible?" Xia Shushi answered very simply, "We only went back a week before Qingming Festival."
"That's ok, I'll wait for the photos and videos you send."
After saying that, Wei Ran exchanged casual greetings with the other party and hung up the phone without mentioning the suitcase full of cash or the yard.
