Under the attention of Wei Ran and many girls, the Ural motorcycle with a sidecar stopped steadily in the yard next door. Immediately after, the man on the motorcycle also lifted his legs and got off the car, leisurely.

He took off his helmet and hung it on the rearview mirror, then picked up a huge travel bag from the sidecar.

At the same time, Lola, under Wei Ran's signal, called on Lu Xinda to help muzzle Beria, the dog who was chewing bones.

Before he could finish speaking, Greva put down his glass and stood up after Wei Ran nodded. He walked to the electromagnetic door in the middle of the two courtyards. While greeting him warmly, he swiped his card to open the electromagnetic door and invited him.

Came in.

"Hello, Comrade Victor, I am Channing, Channing Brando, one of Henry Spear's best friends during his lifetime."

Far away, the blond middle-aged white man proactively and enthusiastically extended his hand to Wei Ran and greeted him in proficient French mixed with a Chinese word "comrade" with a particularly standard pronunciation.

"Hello, Channing...Comrade Channing."

Wei Ran shook hands with the other party in a decent manner, "Please sit down. Also, why do you call me comrade?"

"Is there anything bad about this title?"

After Channing finished speaking, without waiting for Wei Ran's response, he raised his left hand and showed off the conspicuous tattoo on the back of his hand.

Gears, sickles, hammers, and a series of capital letters "CPUSA" on the hammer head are all tattoos that cover almost the entire back of the hand and extend from the hammer handle to the wrist.

"Is this reason enough?" Channing said proudly, "I am a party member."

“Of course it’s enough”

Wei Ran nodded immediately after recognizing the tattoo. The other party did have a reason to use the title "comrade". Even though he was not one of them yet, he was an honorable Communist Youth League member.

What's more, Channing, who has a tattoo of the party emblem, claims to be a friend of the late Henry.

Even if it is temporarily impossible to tell whether the above information is true or false, let alone whether the person's intentions are good or evil, at least enough goodwill must be shown on the surface.

Because of this, his attitude became much more enthusiastic, "Please sit down, Comrade Channing. Would you like a glass of fruit wine? It's a gift from Henry's family."

"Thanks"

Chan Ning spoke another word in Chinese before sitting down at the dining table. At the same time, Wei Ran also asked Lola to help him pour half a glass of fruit wine.

Through the wine in the cup, Wei Ran and Chan Ning finally learned about each other's origins after some exchanges.

According to Channing's self-report, his brother was Henry's comrade-in-arms, and both of them participated in the Gulf War in the 1990s. Unfortunately, his brother did not return from the battlefield alive.

This is the first level of relationship between him and Henry. In the second level of relationship, Channing's cousin and Henry were not only college classmates, but also his first wife - the American woman who died on 911.

In a third-level relationship, Channing and Henry also jointly run an antique weapons auction company in the United States.

Not long ago, Henry's 40% stake in the auction company was inherited by Henry's youngest daughter, a girl also named Kate.

In the fourth level of relationship, in addition to being the "cousin" of Henry's youngest daughter Kate, Channing is also her godfather and de facto adoptive father.

According to Channing's explanation, after Henry's first wife was killed, their youngest daughter had not yet been weaned, and Henry alone could not feed the child.

In short, he and his wife raised the girl named Kate until she reached adulthood before returning it to Henry.

"So Comrade Channing is here this time..."

"first"

Channing, who had finished his third glass of fruit wine accompanied by Wei Ran, explained, "First of all, I want to thank you for helping Henry and completing his regret.

To tell you the truth, I only learned of your existence after I accompanied Kate and her brothers and sisters to France to visit the grave of Ms. Vanessa, and chatted with Henry’s second wife Kate.

I have been eager to meet you since then."

Having said this, Channing shook the wine glass in his hand, "And I actually helped deliver these fruit wines to Kazan."

“So that’s how it is”

Wei Ran sighed as if he suddenly realized something, but in fact he was waiting for the other party to continue to tell other real reasons for wanting to see him.

"The second reason why I came to visit you is to hope that you will agree to send one of the military antiques collected by Henry to my auction company for auction.

This was something that Henry had promised me and had already publicized it. The most important thing was that the auction was at the end of May and I had no time to find a replacement.

Frankly speaking, many people are willing to participate in the auction at the end of this month because of that collection."

As if afraid of Wei Ran's rejection, Chan Ning hurriedly said before he spoke, "Of course, as long as you are willing to let the auction item go up for auction, no matter what the final transaction price is, our auction company will not charge any commission.

In short, you can definitely go to an auction in the United States at the end of the month and buy that collectible.

I am willing to bear all transportation costs and travel expenses for you and your accompanying friends.

Victor, how about just pretending to be on vacation in the United States?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran looked at Marta, and while Anfisa was translating the conversation just now for Suisui and others, he asked in Russian, "Marta, please come to those antique weapons that Mr. Alexander brought back."

Where is it?"

"We arrived at the Petersburg port yesterday and prepared for customs declaration."

Marta, who was specifically responsible for keeping an eye on this matter, immediately said, "It is expected to be loaded onto the freight train tomorrow night and will be delivered to Kazan at noon the day after tomorrow at the earliest."

Hearing this, Wei Ran looked at Channing again, explained in French, and then asked curiously, "Channing, I wonder what collection makes you so anxious?"

"a rifle"

Channing said, "To be precise, it's a prototype gun, a Stoner 63A rifle that fires 6mm XM732 steel-cased bullets."

As if talking about a topic he was interested in, Channing took the initiative to explain, "That was not a successful rifle, and the ammunition it used was not successful ammunition. Otherwise, there would not be anything more chaotic than the British royal family today."

AR series rifles and 5.56 NATO series ammunition.

But precisely because of this, that prototype gun is extremely precious and has collectible value."

"In principle I have no objection"

Wei Ran tried his best to make his perfunctory sound more sincere, "But as I said just now, those weapons will not be delivered to Kazan until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, and I am not sure whether the prototype gun you mentioned is in those containers.

So if you can wait and are willing to take a gamble, you might as well wait in Kazan."

"No problem! No problem!"

Channing immediately responded excitedly, but seemed not to hear the uncertainty in his words - "Is the prototype gun in those containers?"

For Weiran, before verifying the identity of Channing who came to the door, let alone whether the gun would appear in the container, whether those containers could reach Kazan was another matter.

After talking about the business, Wei Ran also took advantage of the situation and asked about the small flags on the other party's car.

The answer was surprisingly simple. He borrowed the motorcycle from the CPRF office in Kazan by virtue of his party membership.

Naturally, the three small flags were put up by the person who lent him the car on their own initiative to show friendship and solidarity.

When asked by Wei Ran why he borrowed such a sidecar motorcycle, Channing straightforwardly gave an irrefutable reason: "Of course it's because I like motorcycles."

After a pleasant conversation, they exchanged contact information and agreed to contact him after the military collections arrived in Kazan to look for the prototype gun waiting to be sent for auction. Channing also declined Weiran's offer to arrange a hotel for him.

, drove the motorcycle alone and left the courtyard where the library was located, disappearing from everyone's sight.

Before Wei Ran could ask, Anfiya took the initiative and said, "It has been verified that Channing is indeed a member of CPUSA."

"Thank you." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already taken out his phone and called Carlos' lawyer.

"Victor, let me guess, you called me because of Mr. Channing Brando... no, should you say Comrade Channing Brando?"

As soon as the call was connected, lawyer Carlos asked uncertainly.

"He just said goodbye and left." Wei Ran tactfully admitted his intention of making this call.

"I know what you want to ask"

Lawyer Carlos took the initiative to introduce, "Comrade Channing was the most trusted person of the late Mr. Henry, but he was also a weirdo."

"Weird?" Wei Ran repeated a key phrase in the other party's words in confusion.

"At least in the eyes of Americans, he is indeed a weirdo."

Although lawyer Carlos said this, there was no sarcasm in his tone, "He openly worships Mao and Castro, opposes war, especially the United States' export of war, and has organized anti-war demonstrations more than once.

Once arrested and investigated.

When Mr. Henry was alive, I accepted Mr. Henry’s employment more than once and used legal channels to get him out of various troubles time and time again.”

"So you're an idealist?"

Wei Ran asked bluntly, such red faith represents patriotism, pragmatism, innovation and hard work in China.

But on the other side of the ocean, in the United States, he can only be an idealist - even though he may also love his motherland deeply.

"At least in the American context, that's true."

Lawyer Carlos agreed with Wei Ran's description, "Isn't a person who wants to transform the United States into socialism an idealist?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran glanced at the Katenka sisters subconsciously, and the latter two's eyes lit up at the same time, and they looked at each other.

Obviously, these three non-staff members with the prefix K have thought of the same thing - this person is suitable for Hela to try to get in touch with, maybe they can accidentally realize that distant dream?

"He wants to take away one of the collections that once belonged to Mr. Henry and send it to the auction." Wei Ran said bluntly.

"It does happen"

Lawyer Carlos also brought the topic back, "I even gave him your address, and he took the initiative to deliver the fruit wine.

As for whether you are willing to comply with Channing's request, Victor, that is your own business, and now the collection is yours."
To be continued...