Tuluhanks is participating in a music performance. You must know where Tuluhanks is, right?"

"Where?" Suisui looked at Wei Ran subconsciously.

"The intersection of the Lower Tunguska River and the Yenisei River," Wei Ran explained with a smile, "was one of the places where Stalin was exiled."

"Standard answer, reward you with a cup of coffee."

While the funny Lauritz was talking, he poured Wei Ran a cup of coffee, "So you guys came here to see me. Is there anything I can help you with?"

After thanking the other party for the coffee, Wei Ran took out the photo of the auditorium from his pocket and pushed it to the other party, "Mr. Lauritz, we want to know where this photo was taken. Ruslan from the dock and us

Say, you might be able to point us in a direction."

Hearing this, Lauritz slowly picked up the glasses on the table and put them on. He held the photo and looked at it before shaking his head, "Sorry, I have no impression of seeing such a place, but I'm sure this should be somewhere."

The auditorium of a mine.”

Without waiting for anyone to ask, Lauritz took the initiative to explain, "My wife once took her students to many mines for musical performances. The chandeliers used in those auditoriums are almost exactly the same as the ones in the photo. Many of them still have the same chandeliers."

It’s an old antique made in the Soviet era.”

This old guy can do it...

Wei Ran secretly admired it and took out the clues he had prepared long ago and asked, "Lauritz, do you know which mines were abandoned between 1960 and 1965?"

"1960 to 1965?" Lauritz looked at Weihan in confusion.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing this, Wei Ran pointed at Khrushchev in the photo and the taunt written in red paint on the other side of the national emblem, "Since the portrait is hanging

It is Khrushchev who is wearing it, and there is also the taunting sentence from Beria, so this place must have been abandoned at the end of Khrushchev's reign.

And it must have been before Brezhnetsov came to power and extended his influence here, otherwise there should be at least 20,000 medals in the frame in the photo."

"Twenty thousand medals? Hahahaha!"

Lauritz couldn't help but let out a series of hearty smiles, then stood up and walked to the bookshelf in the corner of the living room. While rummaging through it, he said, "For the sake of those 20,000 medals, I can't tell you the photo."

Where is the auditorium inside, but you can probably look for it yourself."

Having said this, Lauritz had already pulled out a hard-cover book from the bookshelf that seemed to be three fingers thick and at least the size of A4 paper.

Picking up the rag and gently wiping the non-existent dust on the hard-cover book, Lauritz handed it to Wei Ran, "This is the information left by my father, and it may contain the answer you want.

"

I took the hard-cover book and opened it. There were only two photos on the first page. The black and white photo on the left showed a young man with a Prussian hazelnut hair. The color photo fixed side by side on the right side of the page showed a

An old man with white hair, a cigarette butt in his mouth, and a cane.

"That's my father"

Lauritz explained with a normal expression, "As you will definitely hear, he is a German prisoner of war."

"Put this away..."

Dima hesitated for a moment and asked the question that had been in his mind for a long time, "Mr. Lauritz, why didn't your father leave the Soviet Union at that time?"

"This is probably the question I hear most often"

Lauritz took a sip of his coffee and explained gently, "My father is a Sudeten, which is the main reason why he did not leave. In addition, after he was sent to Siberia as a prisoner of war, he soon became

For various reasons, he became a prospector, and with this job he mastered a lot of geological information. This is the second reason why he couldn't leave here. Of course, there is another important reason, he fell in love with my mother.

.”

"Where is the Sudetenland?"

Ji Ma and Suisui, who were unlearned and unskilled, looked at Wei Ran in no particular order. Immediately afterwards, Maya and Katenka sisters also looked over. Even Lauritz looked at him with a serious look on his face.

.

Secretly curling his lips, Wei Ran replied with a normal expression, "To put it simply, this is not a place name with a geographical concept. It represents the three places where German-speaking residents lived in Czechoslovakia and the land close to Germany before the end of World War II.

A large piece of land. Of course, after the Munich Conference, the Sudetenland was occupied by Germany."

"So?" Suisui asked.

"Germany lost World War II"

Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "Czechoslovakia wanted to return to the Sudetenland and drove all the German-speaking residents there to Germany. I think Mr. Lauritz's father was unable to go back because there was no place to go back to.

?”

“That’s pretty much it”

Lauritz nodded with satisfaction, as if the person they were talking to was not his father at all, "So young man, are you also studying geography?"

"History" Wei Ran replied frankly.

"No wonder"

Lauritz pointed to the hard-cover book still in front of Wei Ran, "Before retiring in 1984, my father went to most of the mines in the Tunguska coal field, including, of course, the various small mines where he served his sentence.

.

After retiring, he sorted out the conditions in most of the mines he visited, and they are all there. Young man, I hope my father can help you."

Hearing this, Wei Ran turned a page at the back of the room, and Suisui and others also gathered around. Only the Katenka sisters looked normal and took small sips of their coffee, while the other pretended to appreciate it.

From the group photo on the wall, I secretly paid attention to the cars outside and the kind old man.

As for Wei Ran and others, at this time, they really don't know whether to attribute the detailed information they saw to the so-called "German seriousness" or simply to the love for their work of an old man who has worked in a mine all his life.

Because in this thick book, the name of each mine, the mining time, the type of minerals mined and the degree of enrichment, as well as the time and reason for closure, are simply but detailedly recorded.

Not only that, at the end of each mine, there is also a hand-drawn map, clearly marking the specific location!

Lauritz even proudly took the initiative to explain that he helped draw all the maps in this full book.

After obtaining the other party's permission, Suisui immediately asked Anfisa next to her to help her get her SLR from the car and take a photo of each page.

At the same time, Weiran, with the help of Anfisa and Maya, sorted out all the mines in this book that were closed between 1960 and 1965. As expected, there were twenty

The list of several mines includes the No. 119 mine in Nizhny Tunguska!

By the time Suisui took a photo of the last page, the cold sun outside the window had already hidden most of her body below the horizon, and even Lauritz had prepared a sumptuous dinner that could feed all of them.

The other party was so enthusiastic that they naturally couldn't refuse, so they simply stayed and had a meal with Lauritz.

During the chat at the table, everyone also accidentally learned that almost every weekend, students who he and his wife had taught would come here to gather.

The oldest among them already has children, and the youngest is still in high school. Even the long table that is rarely used by ordinary people was specially made for the convenience of him and his wife’s students coming over for dinner.

prepare.

After dinner, everyone responded to the old gentleman's request and took a group photo in his living room before leaving various gifts and leaving.

After traveling upstream along the frozen Lower Tunguska River, they drove the car back to the town of Tula and parked again at the entrance of the Aurora Tavern, which had resumed business. It was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

"Where should we go next?" Suisui kicked off her shoes and sat cross-legged on the soft leather sofa in the empty hall on the third floor of the tavern.

“Go to Ukta”

Weiran replied while swiping the satellite map, "We still have to go to Yukta to visit, and I just looked at the information I compiled. On our way to Yukta, we will pass by a man named Yeika.

place.

This place is only about 40 kilometers away from Yukta, but here, there is a tributary of the Lower Tunguska River extending to the north. We sorted out the twenty or so that meet the requirements from the information left by Lauritz's father.

Six of the abandoned mines are within the basin of this tributary."

Suisui obviously followed Weiran's channel, "So if Yukta doesn't find anything, we will go north along the tributary from the place called Yeika?"

"That's it." Wei Ran nodded, "I may have to waste some time next."

"So when are we leaving?" Suisui asked impatiently.

"Why are you so interested?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.

"Because I had a bold idea"

After Suisui finished speaking, she saw Wei Ran looking at her with a strange expression. Obviously, their bold ideas did not seem to refer to the same thing.

But this time, Suisui rarely gave an explanation. She just urged, "If you have decided, don't waste time. How about we set off as soon as possible?"

"Ji Ma, are you going to follow?" Wei Ran asked Ji Ma, who was sitting on the other side.

"Maya, come with us." Suisui didn't wait for Ji Ma to speak, and took the initiative to invite Maya who was applying a facial mask next to her. "I need your help this time."

Her words almost moved Jima to tears, while Maya took off her mask, turned her back to Jima and winked at Suisui.

"Not because of that scumbag"

Suisui leaned into Maya's ear and said, "But you have to be responsible for driving the car the whole time. When we return, I need to know how you feel."

"As long as you find a way to prevent Jima from getting into the car where I sleep in the middle of the night, it will be fine." Maya put forward the only condition.

"I'll leave it to you." Suisui turned to look at Wei Ran.

"I'm going to take Dmitry with me this time. He's already making preparations. When the time comes, just let Jima sleep in the same car with him."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the talkative Dmitri also walked up to the third floor. He habitually picked up Beria, the dog who was about to bare his teeth at him, and said with great enthusiasm, "Victor, I

It’s ready, we can leave at any time.”
To be continued...