Chapter 373 Investment, connections, reporting(1/2)
"Victor, what's wrong?" Sauron looked at Wei Ran strangely and asked.
"Nothing." After coming back to his senses, Wei Ran smiled and shook his head, "I thought Mr. Olaf would care about this so-called noble blood."
"Victor, it's the 21st century now." Sauron greeted Wei Ran and joked with a smile as he walked out, "Even the skin color of the British royal family may change day and night in the future. Who cares about that kind of thing now?"
"Day and night change?" Wei Ran didn't react for a moment.
Sauron shrugged and explained in a darker tone, "I used the wrong word. I didn't mean that Britain might have a black queen in the future. I'm not a racist. I just wanted to express the views of those nobles.
Men like to bask in the sun."
"I understand, you just used the wrong word." Wei Ran agreed in a dumbfounded voice, and followed the other person to leave the cemetery.
When they came out of the forest, Olaf and Mr. Hans had already left by car and were not waiting for them at all.
Sauron seemed to have been accustomed to this kind of thing for a long time. He and Wei Ran got into a commercial vehicle that was following them and slowly returned to the Siren Tavern.
"I plan to bury Ms. Mia in that cemetery tomorrow." After Soran got out of the car, he asked Wei Ran, "Are you going to attend her funeral?"
"certainly"
Wei Ran nodded matter-of-factly, "But after the funeral, I will leave. Soon it will be our Chinese Spring Festival, which is a very important festival for us."
"Isn't it Spring Festival, right?" After Suo Lun asked, he unexpectedly said "Gong Xi Fa Cai" in off-tune Chinese.
Seeing Wei Ran's surprised look, Soran walked into the tavern and explained with a smile, "A few years ago, I was lucky enough to go to China to participate in a sailing league. Although I didn't get any good rankings, I was there.
We spent the Spring Festival with the locals and took some photos with pandas."
Having said this, Solan took out his phone and scrolled through it, and found a photo of him standing outside the glass wall, holding sugar cane with his mouth open, and a panda holding a bamboo shoot with his mouth open inside the glass wall.
Wei Ran looked at it, and then said regretfully, "If this charming little guy didn't protect animals, I would definitely keep one!"
"This is a cruel idea," Wei Ran muttered in Chinese, using the panda in the photo to change the topic and chatted with the other party about his trip to China.
We continued to spend one night in this seaside town. The next morning, the bright sunshine dispelled some of the cold wind blowing from the sea. A hearse was also escorted by the motorcade and rushed to Fairfield again.
Cemetery outside the village of Mu.
It had only been a day, but the weeds in the abandoned cemetery had been cleared away, and even the torn-down cavalry sculpture had all its parts except the cavalry head.
Next to Juliet's tombstone, under the witness of Wei Ran, Solon and his son, a priest invited from nowhere presided over Mia's funeral.
After the soil buried the coffin, Wei Ran, along with Sauron and his son, placed a bouquet of flowers in front of Mia and Juliet's tombstones respectively, which could be considered an end to this trip to Kiel.
After bidding farewell to Sauron and his somewhat arrogant father, Wei Ran took the train alone and rushed to Hamburg, where he met Mr. Hans who was waiting here in advance in a cafe with a fairly good environment.
"How was the harvest?" Mr. Hans asked with a smile after Wei Ran sat down.
"Thanks to you, I've made a lot of money." Wei Ran said politely, "Did Mr. Hans come to me to investigate something?"
"No, no, no," Mr. Hans waved his hand, "I don't have that many basements worth 300,000 euros for you to investigate. I came to see you to discuss a business deal with you."
"Do you want to discuss business with me?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion.
"Time Film Studio"
Mr. Hans smiled and said, "I recently saw in the news this studio established in Russia, and I also saw you in it."
"Do you want to make a movie about the historical truth of the last investigation?" Wei Ran became interested.
"Making a movie?" Mr. Hans was stunned. It was obvious that he had not thought of this at all.
But soon, the old gentleman waved his hand and said, "I have never had this idea before, but you reminded me, but I am not here to make movies. Victor, I want to know how to become this company
Movie studio shareholders.”
“Do you want to invest in Time Film Studios?”
"It's not just me"
Mr. Hans smiled kindly, "Although that arrogant old guy Olaf always has a bad face, he has a great investment vision. At the last auction, we accidentally talked about this movie company.
The studio, Olaf predicted that it would be a good investment project, so we had this meeting.”
"So it's actually Mr. Olaf who wants to invest in the film studio?"
"You can think so"
Mr. Hans smiled and explained, "He wanted to invest in this film studio, but he couldn't find much information at all. It just so happens that I know you. So this investigation is just incidental. Otherwise, with Olaf's
It is absolutely impossible for a stingy businessman to pay such a high investigation fee."
Before Wei Ran could open his mouth, Mr. Hans continued frankly, "Accordingly, I helped him find channels to invest in film studios, and he helped open my private hospital to Denmark. This is a great opportunity for all three of us.
Not a bad deal.
Of course, if I can afford it, if Olaf ultimately chooses to invest in that movie studio, I will invest some money in it."
Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "I will communicate this matter with the director of the film studio. If he thinks it is acceptable to invest, how about I contact you again?"
"Of course," Mr. Hans nodded happily.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I am very curious, why is Mr. Olaf interested in Time Film Studio?" Wei Ran asked the doubt that was deep in his heart.
Mr. Hans spread his hands and said, "I don't know about this, but I trust Olaf's vision. His investments rarely fail."
"No wonder you are so arrogant." Wei Ran shook his head in confusion, "Mr. Hans, you can actually just call me for this kind of thing."
Mr. Hans smiled and said, "In addition to that arrogant old man Olaf, I also want to introduce a young man to you."
"young people?"
"To me, she is indeed a young person." Mr. Hans smiled, "If you are willing, I can ask her to come over now?"
Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded without thinking. He would only refuse this kind of connections that came to his door unless his brain was crazy.
Mr. Hans waved to the assistant who had been standing beside him, and the latter immediately walked out of the coffee shop. Soon after, he walked in with a fat woman who looked to be in her forties and whose figure rivaled that of Teacher Dalia.
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"This is Ms. Diane"
Mr. Hans did not stand up while introducing. Instead, he waited for Wei Ran to shake hands with the other party and sit down again before continuing, "Diane, please introduce yourself."
The fat woman named Diane nodded, handed Wei Ran a business card with both hands, and introduced herself in proficient Russian, "Mr. Victor, I am the executive director of Edelweiss, an organization for the recovery of missing German soldiers in World War II.
, I wanted to get to know you from the moment you noticed the Soviet red flag on the Capitol."
Organization for the recovery of missing German soldiers from World War II? If you don’t go to the Eastern Front battlefield to buy corpses, why are you looking for me?
Wei Ran suppressed his doubts and politely accepted the business card from the other party. Although he had never heard of the so-called Edelweiss Organization, he was not unfamiliar with the organization for the recovery of missing German soldiers in World War II.
The so-called organization for the recovery of missing German soldiers from World War II, at least in Russia, is actually a collective name for a certain type of semi-public welfare organization. However, without exception, the funders behind these organizations with various fancy names are basically
German tycoons and even politicians.
As for retrieval organizations, you can tell what they do just by listening to their names. Not to mention, at least half of Russia’s excavation parties maintain cooperation with various similar retrieval organizations.
As for the content of the cooperation, they naturally packaged and sold the remains of German soldiers from World War II to these organizations in exchange for money. As for whether the business of selling dead people was ethical, it was not considered at all.
After all, by selling the excavated corpses of German soldiers in exchange for money, the Diggers can earn a fairly considerable income. Occasionally, they are lucky enough to dig up mass graves that are not in the existing records. They will not be able to eat or clothe themselves for more than half a year with a shovel.
Worry may be an exaggeration, but at least living and drinking for a month is not a big problem.
At the same time, the forgotten corpses of German soldiers were saved from being exposed in the wilderness, and the living relatives of the missing soldiers were somewhat comforted. Even those who funded such organizations could rely on this to get rid of their wounds.
A wave of reputation. To put it simply, this is a "dead man's deal" where you are good to me and everyone is good to you.
Seeing Wei Ran looking at him, Mr. Hans spread his hands and said, "I'm just helping with the introduction. You can discuss the details yourself."
"Ms. Diane, do you have any business with me?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
After hearing this, Ms. Diane said straight to the point, "Mr. Victor, I wonder if you are willing to cooperate with us?"
"How to cooperate?"
"In order to send more missing soldiers home, we need to have some visibility in Russia." Ms. Diane paused and continued, "So Mr. Victor, we would like to hire you as an honorary investigator of the Edelweiss Organization.
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"What do you need me to do? What can I get?" The other party was so straightforward that Wei Ran didn't bother to beat around the bush and directly asked the core question.
"You don't have to do anything, just occasionally cooperate with us as an investigator to do some publicity. Correspondingly, you can get a commission after each publicity."
Diane handed Wei Ran a brochure with both hands and continued, "Of course, there is a second way of cooperation. During the period after the establishment of the Edelweiss organization, we searched for some people whose identities could not be confirmed, and there was no way to confirm them.
The corpses of unknown soldiers from which battles they participated in, and even the excavation party that cooperated with us used the corpses of the Soviet Red Army to pass them off as German corpses. This has happened more than once.
So we will investigate these unknown corpses from time to time. If you can participate as an honorary investigator, you can also get a lot of rewards."
"Mr. Victor has the right to actively choose or reject both of these methods, and your publicity plan can only be used after Mr. Victor's written confirmation." Mr. Hans, who had been watching the excitement, suddenly said.
opened his mouth to remind.
Ms. Diane was stunned, then nodded in agreement, "Of course, as Mr. Hans said, no matter what kind, Mr. Victor can refuse to cooperate with publicity or investigation at any time, and every time we publicize, we will
Confirm it in writing and promote it strictly in accordance with the plan."
After flipping through the brochure provided by the other party, it turned out that this retrieval organization named Edelweiss had only been established for less than two years. Weiran had never heard of any of the earth-digging party teams that cooperated with them in Russia.
However, for this little-known Edelweiss organization, the introductions of the people in their list of sponsors seemed more and more bluffing. And in subsequent presentations of their results, many of them returned missing soldiers to
Cases of living relatives, as well as detailed introductions to the battles the soldier participated in and even the crimes he committed.
To be continued...