War Photographer's Notebook

It's another new day, the difference is that this time Wei Ran confidently used the sledge to pull Ke Na out of the small concrete house, and among the children watching them at the door, the girl named Oujia held her hand. Li, also held the small TK pistol again.

Just like sending Lydia to work, Wei Ran and Ke Na separated near the ruins of the nursing home.The latter went straight to the direction of the distribution station, while Wei Ran waited for the other party's back to be blocked by the ruins of the building, and immediately got into the blasted basement of the ruins of the nursing home.

However, what disappointed him, and even despaired, was that at this moment, not to mention catching mice in the basement, even the mouse trap he had arranged before was gone!

With a gloomy face, he exited the almost completely collapsed basement. After searching around, he finally found a series of footprints.

Not long after following the footprints, the series of footprints walked straight into a building ruin.

With little effort, he found the mousetrap cages on the fireplace in a not-so-big room, and beside the fireplace, a young man who looked about fifteen or sixteen years old.And, of course, two mice simmering in an enamel pot in the fireplace.

Of course, he also noticed that there seemed to be an old man lying on the small bed-like sledge beside the hunched young man guarding the campfire.

At the same time he saw the sledge, the young man obviously noticed Wei Ran standing at the door.

Almost subconsciously, he picked up a rusty ax in his hand, and those eyes full of panic stared at Wei Ran.

"I came to find my mousetrap"

Wei Ran pointed to the cages that the other party put on the fireplace, "I arranged them in the basement of the nursing home, there are six in total, bait made of cloth strips dipped in honey."

As soon as he said this, a trace of embarrassment and shame flashed across the young man's face.After a while, he finally put down the ax in his hand with despair on his face, and then looked back at the sledge beside him.

"Feel sorry."

After a long time, the young man said with a hoarse voice, "My grandpa and I are too hungry, I guess it might be arranged by others, but I"

"It's okay." Wei Ran expressed his attitude without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, and then asked politely, "Can I go in?"

"Of course. Of course, please come in." The young man responded weakly.

Stepping into the room, Wei Ran finally saw the old guy lying on the sledge.

This bearded old man is not only thin and frighteningly thin, but his face is also extremely pale, and in his mouth, there is actually a piece of cloth stained with honey that he put in the mouse trap as bait before. .

Seeing the young man tremblingly trying to stand up, Wei Ran quickly waved his hand at him, "Don't get me wrong, those mice are yours if you catch them, I'm not here to retrieve them."

"You mean you are willing to leave these mice to us?" The young man's stunned expression was full of surprise and surprise.

"certainly"

Wei Ran nodded pretendingly, sat down by the fireplace, and pointed to the mousetrap on the fireplace, "Of course, if possible, I hope to take a mousetrap with me, as long as I have a mousetrap The cage is fine, and when I catch another mouse, I promise to send this cage back to you."

Seeing the puzzled expression on the other party's face, Wei Ran simply changed the subject and pointed to the old guy with the sledge, "What's wrong with him?"

"I got sick"

The young man sighed, "Maybe he was hungry, we haven't eaten anything decent for several days."

"What's your name?"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already taken out the portable jug, then picked up a glass cup from the fireplace, poured some honey into it, picked up the enamel kettle placed by the campfire, and poured a small amount of honey into it. some hot water.And picked up a small spoon hanging on the fireplace and stirred it carefully before handing it to the other party.

"Cairello, my name is Cairello Neva"

The young man hastily took the cup from Wei Ran, swallowed subconsciously after answering, but then moved to the sledge with difficulty, put the cup to the mouth of the old guy, and took it away by the way He took the piece of cloth stained with honey and put it in his pocket.

"What should I call you? Kelelo or Neva?" Wei Ran asked politely.

"Bar Carello"

The young man said weakly, and then urged anxiously, "Old guy, open your mouth and drink it quickly."

The old guy lying on the sledge opened his eyes with difficulty, looked at Kaileluo, then looked at Wei Ran, but closed his mouth and shook his head, and said almost dryly, "Drink, good boy, you drink"

"Hurry up and drink"

Wei Ran also came over, sat on the side of the sledge and helped the old guy up, let him lean into his arms, and at the same time took out the wine jug from his pocket and shook it, "I still have a lot of honey, as long as you Drank what's in the glass, and I'll have another for Carello."

"You are a good person"

The old guy murmured something in a weak voice, and finally squeezed the cup that was close to his mouth, took a sip of honey water miserly, then looked at Wei Ran imploringly, and said intermittently, "Take the rest. Leave it to Carello I've just... already tasted the sweetness."

"Drink, keep drinking." Wei Ran gently comforted him, "At least drink up this glass of honey water. Only when you finish drinking can Carello drink the honey water."

Hearing this, the old guy could only sip the cup brought to his mouth again, and poured the remaining half cup of thick honey water into his stomach.

Helping the old guy to lie down again, Wei Ran poured a large lump of honey and half a cup of hot water into the cup again under his gaze.

"You drink it all too." Wei Ran hurriedly passed the mixed honey water to Kaileluo before the other party could speak, "Only if you drink it all, will you have another glass."

Hearing this, Kaileluo looked at Wei Ran, then at his grandfather lying on the sledge, tremblingly brought the cup to his mouth, and poured all the thick sweet water into his stomach one mouthful at a time.

"I've never seen you around here before"

As Wei Ran spoke, he poured honey and hot water into the cup again, and then winked at the old guy on the sledge, "Old guy, it's still the same rule just now, you finish this cup, Kaileluo You can have another drink."

"We moved here at noon yesterday"

Carello took the cup and put it to his grandfather's mouth while explaining, "The day before yesterday, the place where we lived was blown up by a German plane. I dragged the sledge and searched for a long time before I found it. .”

"It's just the two of you?" Wei Ran asked hard-heartedly.

"It's just the two of us," Kelelo responded, and a tear fell from his eye socket.

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran didn't continue to ask any more questions, but waited patiently for the old guy to finish drinking the honey water in the cup, took out the kettle with the cover of his backpack and unscrewed it, and stared at Kaileluo and the old guy in shock. Next, pour a glass full of viscous and energy-rich honey.

"Cairello, how about doing me a favor?" Wei Ran said while putting away the kettle.

"What do you need me to do?" Carello asked tremblingly.

"I will arrange all the mouse traps in the basement later, and you will be responsible for watching for me to prevent others from taking the cages away."

Wei Ran paused and continued, "If I catch mice tomorrow, no matter how many mice I catch, I will only take the smallest one, and the rest will be yours. In addition, as long as the cage is still there when I come here tomorrow , whether I caught the mouse or not, I will give you another full cup of honey."

"There is such a good thing?" Kaileluo looked at Wei Ran in disbelief.

"So do you agree to the deal?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"Agreed! I agree!" Kelelo replied hastily.

"Then it's settled." Wei Ran stood up while speaking, took out the camera and pressed the shutter on the grandpa and grandson without saying hello, and made an agreement at the same time, "survive, we will see you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow"

Kaileluo stood up hard, leaning on the fireplace, and watched Wei Ran, who took a picture of him, leave this small ruined room with a mousetrap cage.

After re-arranging the cage in the basement of the ruins of the nursing home, Wei Ran dragged the still empty sledge and wandered among the ruins.

However, when he walked to a familiar building, he was stunned for a moment. He clearly remembered that there was a pair of brothers and sisters starving to death in that building, and he even had the key to that house in his pocket. .But at this time, only a pile of collapsed ruins buried in snow remained of that house.

Taking a deep breath, Wei Ran tremblingly took out the camera, pointed at the ruins and pressed the shutter with difficulty.

Putting away the camera, he walked quickly towards the ruins where the mother and daughter who committed suicide were.However, when he walked over, he found that even there, under the bombardment of artillery fire or aerial bombs, it turned into a huge crater that covered everything!

Staggering back, fortunately, when he came to the ruins where Mrs. Via and others were buried, the cracked basement was still there, the brick tomb was still there, and the message on the wall was still there.

Even, next to the message, someone added a passionate oath, "Hunger can't defeat the great Leningrad, and death can't defeat the great Leningrad either. The great Leningrad people will surely Victory over hunger, death, and fasci will surely win this!"