After using the music to relieve his depression, Wei Ran thought for a long time after putting away the guqin. Finally, he picked up the satellite phone beside the table, found Xia Shushi's number and dialed it.
In less than ten seconds, the call was connected. Before Xia Shushi on the other end could speak, Wei Ran heard the sound of rain, and his memory was instantly pulled back to the man-eating savage mountain.
"Wei Ran? Wei Ran? Can you hear me?" Xia Shushi shouted several times. When Wei Ran didn't respond, he hung up the phone.
By the time Wei Ran came to his senses, the other party had already taken the initiative to fight.
Wei Ran pinched his eyebrows hard, pressed the answer button, and before the other party spoke, he asked, "The signal over there is not good?"
"Maybe, it's obviously the dry season here, and it rained suddenly again today." Before Xia Shushi finished speaking, Wei Ran heard the thunder coming from the opposite side, and Xia Shushi and the Qin II came together.
Qi shouted "Fuck!"
"Have you found any clues?" Xia Shushi asked after the thunder subsided.
"Nothing has been found so far." Wei Ran paused, "but there are some guesses."
On the other end of the satellite phone, Xia Shushi and Qin Er, who had turned on speakerphone, looked at each other and asked into the phone, "What's your guess?"
"Is there anyone else around you?" Wei Ran asked.
"Wait"
After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he looked like the Second Emperor of Qin. The latter immediately chased away the girl who had just been sitting on his lap feeding him mangoes, just like flies.
"You tell me, it's just me and the second generation now."
"I remember you told me before that the Buddha head in the abandoned temple is no longer the original one?"
"Indeed, according to locals, it was stolen more than 20 years ago."
Xia Shushi asked nonchalantly, "You don't think there is a secret in that Buddha head, do you?"
"Have you looked for it?" Wei Ran asked.
Xia Shushi immediately replied, "A week ago, the Second Emperor removed and inspected the Buddha head attached to the back. The Buddha head was carved by carpenters from the village using wood cut from the mountain. The headless Buddha statue itself was only made of wood."
Carved from ordinary stone."
"Solid?" Wei Ran asked pointedly.
"Can't"
Xia Shushi, however, did not hear Wei Ran's hint at all, and replied without thinking, "Second and I struck with a shovel handle together."
"Replace the shovel handle with a sledgehammer, an 80-pound hammer." Wei Ran said straightforwardly.
"Are you crazy? There is no electricity here. If you smash the Buddha statue here, you must not..."
“Is all you think about is pig feed?”
The second person on the other end of the phone couldn't help but take over the topic, "Do you understand that this is called reconstruction? Doesn't that old monk in the village come to us every day to solicit sponsorship? He just happened to smash the wrong version of the Buddha statue in the abandoned temple.
Replace it with a new one. It won’t cost much in this remote country anyway.”
Having said this, the second son's voice also came much closer, "Brother Wei Ran, am I understanding this correctly?"
"Perfect marks for reading comprehension," Wei Ran responded with a smile.
"Why are you so sure that there is something hidden in the Buddha statue?" Xia Shushi asked rather inquisitively.
"As you said, there is no electricity there. If there is any secret, hiding it in the belly of the Buddha statue is probably safer than hiding it in a bank safe."
"But isn't that Buddha head already..."
"But isn't the body of the Buddha statue still there?" Wei Ran answered before the other party finished speaking.
"makes sense"
Xia Shushi grinned, turned to look at the second generation, and then continued, "In the next two days, we will arrange to smash that Buddha statue as soon as possible in the next two days... No, I mean to rebuild a Buddha statue for them.
.”
"Let me know if you find anything," Wei Ran said and was about to hang up the phone.
"Definitely" Xia Shushi asked immediately, "What about you? When will you have time to come over and take a look?"
"When I need to go there, I will go there." Weiran said casually, "Besides, I don't even have a visa to exempt myself from electricity."
"You don't have to worry about small things like this."
The Second took up the topic again and said, "Brother Wei Ran, tell me when you come over, and I will arrange the rest."
"If you find anything over there, please tell me in time."
Wei Ran responded politely, tacitly not mentioning any issues about the yard on the outskirts of Beijing or the cash. He didn't even mention that he couldn't contact the other party at all before.
After exchanging pleasantries and hanging up the phone, Er Er blew a rogue whistle, called the girl standing outside the door back, hugged her again, and said with a smile, "This Wei Ran is a smart man."
"How do you say that?" Xia Shushi asked, lighting a cigarette.
"A fool like you can't explain this kind of nonsense."
The Second Emperor waved his hand and said, "Go and talk to the local official who brought us here. We plan to carve a new Buddha statue for that abandoned pagoda and ask how much it will cost."
"Why the hell can't you go by yourself?" Xia Shushi asked angrily.
"Can I go there in person?" The second generation rolled his eyes and waved his hands with a look of hatred on his face, "Go quickly and let the people over there be more efficient."
After giving the second son a middle finger in return, Xia Shushi reluctantly stood up and pushed the door open to leave, and found the official who was responsible for entertaining them these days, who was almost equivalent to the mayor of the township.
While the two unreliable brothers were busy rebuilding the Buddha statue in Mo's village, Wei Ran finally ended his annual leave and took Suisui and other girls, who had gained a lot of weight, on board the flight to
Flights to Kazan.
One day later, when they drove from the airport back to their home nest on the shore of Lake Kaban, they saw Beria, who had grown a lot from a distance, and came up to him with two big-eared foxes, shaking their heads and wagging their tails, humming and humming.
Each of them went to their master, howling and pouring out their grievances.
Behind these three pets were Jima and Maya, and between them, they were holding hands with Korava, who was wearing a princess dress.
"You are finally back." Before Ji Ma finished speaking, Lola, whose face became more rounded, had already opened her hands and ran over.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Seeing this, Jima immediately opened his arms and greeted him with a smile. Unfortunately, Lola's target was not him, but her sister Ke, whom she had not seen for a holiday.
Rava.
As expected, while the two sisters were hugging each other, Maya also kicked Jima's shoe.
Ignoring Jima who was jumping on one leg while holding her feet, Weiran, Suisui and Katenka sisters each said hello to Maya.
"Why have you four gained so much weight?"
After Maya gave Ji Ma a critical blow, she then casually gave a critical blow to the girls led by Suisui. At the same time, she subconsciously reached out and pinched Lola's slightly rounded face.
"It's only been a holiday since we last met, why are you so good at chatting?" Suisui retorted weakly, rolling her eyes.
"We can lose it back in a month," the Katenka sisters said in unison, holding the little fox.
"You said the same thing at the airport when we came back first." Maya smiled and gave out the second round of critical strikes.
"Stop talking about weight."
Suisui wisely changed the subject, "The first batch of mice will be coming to your house in a week. How are your brothers preparing?"
"Everything is ready as you said."
Talking about business, Maya finally stopped teasing Suisui and others. While introducing the situation at her home, she followed Suisui and others into the room. Only Jima and Jima who were still swinging their feet on the tree trunk were left.
Wei Ran is comforting Beria.
"What's going on Beria?" Wei Ran asked as he pulled the dog's head and walked into the room.
“I was bullied by Teacher Daria”
Jima grinned, "I heard from Greva that if you come back any later, Beria and the two foxes will have to learn to wrap their own feet and salute."
Hearing this, Wei Ran couldn't help grinning, wrapping his feet in cloth and saluting. These are the two most basic skills that Soviet and even Russian soldiers need to learn.
Although Greva was just joking, he could still tell that these three poor little animals probably didn't have a good day while they were away from home.
"What about you?" Wei Ran chatted with each other, "What are the arrangements for the next step?"
“Nothing planned recently”
Jima raised her chin, "In addition to helping Maya entertain the tourists sent to her home by Aurora, I'm just waiting for the weather to get warmer to go to Belarus to shoot a movie."
"That movie about the guerrillas?" Wei Ran asked, tilting his head.
"Yes" Jima nodded and said proudly, "Maya will also participate in the performance this time."
"Maya?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows and was about to say something when the satellite phone in his bag rang.
Taking out the satellite phone and seeing that it was Xia Shushi's number, Wei Ran immediately pressed the answer button. Ji Ma also took a few puffs of his cigarette and walked into the room first.
"Wei Ran, we really found something!" As soon as the call was connected, Xia Shushi excitedly revealed the result that Wei Ran had expected.
"What did you find?" Wei Ran patted Beria's head and asked as he walked to the basement of the library next door.
"We found a hidden grid on the rosette of this Buddha statue."
Xia Shushi said excitedly, "Inside, we found a letter, and the recipient was a man named Guochang. However, the letter did not have the other party's address written on it, and it was not opened at all when we found it.
opened."
"There is only one letter? What is written in the letter?" Wei Ran asked.
"I don't know. The second generation decided to find this person named Guochang and let him open it himself."
Xia Shushi made a decision in a matter-of-fact tone that almost cut off the clues, and then said, "In addition to this letter, we also found some other things."
"What?" Wei Ran stopped and asked.
“Not much stuff”
Xia Shushi paused and introduced in a clear manner, "The main ones are a loaded Webley pistol and a Japanese lunch box. In addition to many silver coins and gold bars, there is also a black and white photo in the lunch box."
"No more?" Wei Ran asked.
"Gone"
Xia Shushi paused for a moment and then continued, "I have taken pictures of everything and sent it to you. In addition, there is a very strange picture on the envelope. I took a close-up of it. Please take a look at it."
"good"
Wei Ran responded and hung up the phone. After waiting for a moment, he finally accepted the photo sent by the other party. Then he opened the door and walked into the basement of the library. He got into the room he had specially set aside for himself. There was neither surveillance nor surveillance.
Window room.
After locking the door and doing a rough inspection of the room, Wei Ran pulled over a chair and sat down, clicking on the photo Xia Shushi sent.
In these photos, although the Webley pistol was rusty, Wei Ran could still recognize it as the one they had seized on the way from Mansi Town to Mo's Village.
And the Japanese lunch box filled with gold bars and silver coins happened to belong to Zhou Guochang back then. Even the black and white photo, Wei Ran had seen it in the backpack in the red vortex.
The only difference between the two is that there is no trace of Wei Ran in the photo sent by Xia Shushi.
Continuing to turn back to the photo of the envelope, I saw that on the kraft paper envelope, the words "My righteous brother Guochang personally express" were neatly written in black calligraphy.
What is striking is that in the corner of these words, there is an inconspicuous mark the size of a dime.
In the next photo, the mark was enlarged, and Wei Ran was able to recognize that the red mark that looked like a stamp depicted a British FS fighting knife.
However, the red fighting knife in the mark is inserted straight up into a red flower cluster.
This is... fighting knife and dragon boat flower?
Wei Ran frowned. Although he did not recognize the flower cluster at the first time, after seeing the mark of the fighting knife, he subconsciously thought of the patch of flowers in front of the temple in Mo's Village.
Watered flower bushes.
After turning off the screen of his mobile phone, Wei Ran did not rush to call Xia Shushi back. Instead, he waved his hand and took out the platoon boat from the metal book.
The bright light allowed Wei Ran to see clearly that the bamboo poles on the boat had been restored to their original state, but there was an extra canvas bucket with a fishing net at the bow.
"You really gave me everything you have..."
Wei Ran said with great gratitude and put away the boat, and then began to think about how to reasonably involve the address he knew.
