Tie Jun had long arms and reached out to pick up the wind chime. Sergey grabbed it with such force that Tie Jun was shocked.
"Sorry kid, I'm a little excited, wait a minute!"
Sergey stood up, and Anna wanted to follow, but Grandpa waved her hand to refuse, and Sergey entered the back room.
"Well, you are the first Chinese to hear my grandpa talk about this experience. I hope you can help grandpa realize his dream."
Anna came back and sat down and said to Tie Jun.
"Looking for that welder?"
Anna nodded.
"It doesn't seem too difficult. My father is an eighth-level welder. It shouldn't be difficult to find someone of his master's generation. I just don't know if he is still around?"
"Yes! After all, it has been forty years!"
As he was talking, Sergey came back with a book and a wind chime.
When they saw the wind chime, the people sitting there were stunned. It was the same as the one sent by Tie Jun, except that it was missing a coiled dragon column.
"If I hadn't seen this wind chime, I wouldn't have told you my story. When I saw it, I seemed to see hope, alas!"
Sergey sighed heavily and put the books and wind chimes in Tie Jun's hands.
Tie Jun first looked at the wind chimes. They were really similar. He recalled that Lao Tie made this wind chime and seemed quite emotional. He kept it and never saw it hanging.
Taking the book, it turned out to be a yellowed copy of "Dream of Red Mansions". Tie Jun opened it and saw a row of small characters on the title page. It looked like a woman's characters, beautiful and small.
"Once the beauty is gone in spring, the beauty will grow old, and the flowers will fall and people will die without knowing it!"
It was actually a song about funeral flowers, and the last sentence conveyed a deep sense of desolation and helplessness. It was not signed, so it should have been written by Zhang Wan.
There are also two black-and-white photos that are also yellowed. One is of three people, including a young Sergey, wearing an air force jacket and an air force round cap. He is very handsome.
There is another person who must be Zhang Wan. She has big braids that hang down to her chest. She looks like Huang Rong in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". She is very eccentric, but her eyes are very big.
The last person is wearing a volunteer uniform. No need to guess, he must be Gao Fei. He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks very military.
Zhang Wan was sitting, and the two of them stood behind, very seriously, without leaning on each other or putting their hands on their shoulders.
There is also a single photo of Zhang Wan, wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket, black pants, and embroidered shoes. The background is a birch forest. Zhang Wan smiles very sweetly, revealing two small tiger teeth.
"Under my careful care, Zhang Wan slowly returned to normal, and we both fell in love. I applied to the state.
Because I am a fighting hero, Comrade Stalin personally sent a message to your chairman, asking to marry Zhang Wan to me. At that time, it became a political marriage."
"Grandpa, are you married?"
Yelena said, her palms were sweaty, and she pressed Tie Jun's shoulders.
"No, a lot of things happened, and we didn't get together after all."
Sergey's face darkened again, and this time Tie Jun pulled Yelena and told her to stop asking random questions.
"These two photos were taken two days before our wedding.
The day after the photo was taken, we received the mission to cover a batch of supplies to the front line.
On that mission, we encountered the American Ace Flying Group, and the fight was fierce. I ran out of shells and knocked down one of them with my plane.
Fortunately, my plane hit a big tree, and the enemy plane fell directly into the cliff and exploded. My arm and this leg were injured that time."
Sergey rolled up his left trouser leg, and Tie Jun took a deep breath. From Sergey's thigh to his knee, there was a thick scar bulging out, like a small snake.
The medical team rescued me, and Zhang Wan also came. As we were approaching the bottom of the mountain, a shell landed right next to the stretcher, and I was thrown away.
When the collapsed debris fell, I saw Zhang Wan lying in a pool of blood. I didn't care about the bandage on my arm and crawled forward quickly.
A nurse held me down, and I saw Zhang Wan clearly. Her right knee was blown off, exposing her bones, and blood spurted out like a fountain.
We were sent to the rescue together. I heard Zhang Wan's scream and the sound of a saw on the other side of the curtain, and then I fainted.
After my operation was completed, I asked the doctor and the doctor said that she needed a second operation and had been transferred to the rear.
After waiting for a month, Gao Fei sent these things and said that Zhang Wan made me forget her, just like that poem.
This wind chime has always been hanging on her bedside. When we agreed to get married, we would hang it on the wedding bed.
Later, when the war ended and I returned to China, I wrote many letters to Gao Fei and asked him to deliver them to Zhang Wan.
Later, a letter finally arrived, written by Gao Fei, saying that Zhang Wan was married to an old worker and was living a good life!
Alas, Gao Fei passed away less than two years after I returned, and I never heard from her again.
Young man, at my age, I don’t have any other ideas. Please help me look for her. If she is still alive, I would like to see her again."
Tie Jun nodded and said: "Don't worry, grandpa, I will try my best to find you and let you know as soon as I have any news!"
"I'll look for it with you. Dad promised me to go with you."
Anna patted Tie Jun excitedly, and Tie Jun nodded.
"Let's go, let's go have a meal. Are you already hungry just listening to me, a veteran, blabbering?"
Tie Jun and Yelina quickly shook their heads. In fact, Tie Jun was already hungry. He hadn't eaten for a whole day!
When we walked into the restaurant, dinner was already prepared. It was very simple, without white wine, and there was Georgian wine in the middle.
"The food culture of our two countries is very different. Your dishes have too many types and are of high quality.
We value being practical, nutritious, and delicious. Both potatoes and cucumbers can be served at the state banquet. Haha, you won’t have an appetite, right?”
Tie Jun hurriedly said: "Grandpa, Anna has told you, I just left college and this is my first time to come to the Soviet Union. To me, these are all luxurious meals!"
"Hahaha, that's best. Come on, everyone, sit down!"
Tie Jun sat down next to Sergey. He was so stressed that he sat in Gutou, responsible for dividing dishes and pouring wine. There were no servants at home, so Tie Jun was a little surprised.
"You like 6, 8, 9, we like 7, this is the cultural difference.
Zhang Wan is my Chinese teacher and has taught me a lot of Chinese knowledge. It has been so many years, but I don’t know if it has changed a lot.”
"Things passed down from generation to generation will not change."
"Well, you people pay attention to strategy, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, but we like to be direct. Whoever has the strongest fist will be the boss, hahaha!"
Sergey swept away his previous depression and became bold and domineering, exuding the aura of a soldier.
"Come on, let's raise a toast together and wish the friendship between our two countries will last forever!"
Everyone raised their glasses and clinked glasses with the old man respectively, just like a family having a meal, the atmosphere was very relaxed.
Sergey is very talkative and has a wide range of knowledge. When talking to Yelena, Anna whispered to Tie Jun.
Sergey is not involved in politics now. During the Red Square incident in the first few years, a private plane landed on Red Square, but the Soviet Union was completely unaware of the air defense.
At that time, Sergei happened to be Deputy Minister of Defense and Air Force Marshal. After this incident happened, he took the initiative to take responsibility, resigned and returned home.
Last year, he was invited to serve as a defense consultant, but Sergey was very dissatisfied with Gorba Woodcutter, so he was just pretending.
Tie Jun didn't think so. One look at the old man showed that he was a powerful man. Don't look at him now. Once he moves, he will definitely be a fierce dragon.
They are also different from those rich people who are always worried about their wealth being confiscated and being shot dead.
The old man is an important minister in the army. He has many generals under his command, and his son is the commander of the garrison. Anyone who dares to touch him will definitely get no good results.
The meal was very comfortable. Tie Jun felt that the old man was like his grandmother, domineering and caring for everyone.
Sergey also likes Tiejun very much. Although he has just left school, he respects the elderly and is a stable person, unlike those irritable officers who make him angry.
Sergei never mentioned politics and seemed very disappointed with the situation in the Soviet Union. He only told the Iron Army that if anything happened, just ask his adjutant Gorky.
Tiejun felt very at ease. Although the Soviet Union was in chaos, the army had always been stable because they had many veterans like Sergey.
Thinking that he still had one year to operate, Tie Jun avoided talking about business and politics, and just played the emotional card to coax this grandfather.