Across the river from Volgograd, on the western side of Golonid Island, a two-story wooden house gradually warms up with the smoke from the chimney.

Inside the room filled with various cardboard boxes, Professor Wei Ran and Professor Alexei, who were wearing dust glasses, masks, gloves, and plaid aprons, each held a large brush and worked hard.

Cleaning the dust everywhere in the room.

"Professor, haven't you cleaned this house since you bought it?" Wei Ran asked while he was busy.

“Why hasn’t it been cleaned?”

Professor Alexei stopped what he was doing, and while pushing open the wooden window that still smelled of beeswax, he said, "I started to renovate this place two months ago. Not only did I replace the roof with a new one, but also re-paved the floor.

, all broken areas have been repaired, and even the furniture has been re-polished.”

As he spoke, the old man knocked on the TV, which had not even removed the protective film. "All the appliances and bedding are new."

"Then why is it still so dirty?" Wei Ran asked dissatisfiedly. In just a few hours, they both had already cleaned out two large buckets of garbage.

"I just found someone to do the repairs, not the cleaning." Alexei said matter-of-factly, "Originally, I wanted to clean this place completely myself, but I never had the time. But you just happened to be back, and this

It’s really…”

"I really asked for this," Wei Ran said in a moderate voice.

"I've already sent you a plane, what else do you have to complain about?" Professor Alexei blew his beard and glared at Wei Ran.

"How about you keep the plane and drive it? The car is mine?" Wei Ran mercilessly exposed the other party's little thoughts.

"I'm old." Professor Alexei found a perfect excuse without even thinking, urging Wei Ran to go upstairs to work in a rude manner.

Under the busy work of the old and the young, by three or four o'clock in the afternoon, all the rooms upstairs and downstairs had been cleaned, and the various decorations and bedding originally packed in the boxes were sorted into categories.

The house was well placed, and even the refrigerator was filled with all kinds of food and drinks. Not only that, Professor Alexei even set aside a large enough room on the first floor for Mr. Nicholas.

"We can come over again tomorrow and clean out the garage." As Professor Alexei spoke, he also lit various garbage piled in the incineration pit.

"Come again tomorrow?"

Wei Ran took off his dirty mask and cotton gloves and threw them into the fire, "We're not celebrating the New Year in the garage, so why are you cleaning it?"

"Should I clean it myself after you leave?"

Professor Alexey accidentally told the truth, but then he encouraged him, "What if we find something good in the garage again, then everything except the car will be yours."

"Let's talk about tomorrow's matters tomorrow."

Wei Ran responded vaguely. Seeing that there were only a few days left before the new year, if he had known that he was so tired, he might as well have gone shopping with Suisui and the others.

"Remember to keep it secret from everyone when you go back," Professor Alexei reminded while taking off his apron.

"What's the benefit?"

"I'm not..."

"Except for airplanes." Wei Ran blocked the stingy old man's escape route first. The broken airplane he wanted was of little use.

"Whatever, you can say it if you want." Professor Alexei just lay down on his back, obviously convinced that Wei Ran would not spill the beans. "I gave you my daughter, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

.”

"You old man is so boring," Wei Ran said angrily. He really couldn't accept the other party's cruel words of hurting the enemy by one thousand and damaging himself by thirty-two thousand.

“Stop wasting time”

Professor Alexei said as he walked towards the bathroom on the first floor of the room, "Go and take a shower. We have to go back quickly after taking a shower."

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't waste any more time and ran up to the bathroom on the second floor.

When the two of them took a shower and drove back to the travel agency with the dog that had been running around all day, aunt Zhou Shujin had already returned with the girls headed by Suisui carrying large and small bags of things, and even even

Mr. Nicholas next door was also sitting on the sofa on the second floor, surrounded by three little foxes, waiting for dinner.

"Where have you been today?" Suisui approached Wei Ran and asked while pulling the furry dog's head.

Seeing the professor frantically coloring himself next to him, Wei Ran replied with a smile, "I'm going to Chacha Lake. There is the last farm market of the year there."

"The one you and my dad used to go to?"

"He hadn't been there with me in a long time, so we went to revisit it." Alexey said, sitting down on the other side of Wei Ran.

"Did you buy something good?" Suisui suddenly became interested.

"Pies, all kinds of pies." Although Wei Ran and Professor Alexei did not make confessions to each other, they gave the same answer in unison.

“No need to ask”

Zhou Shujin, who was serving food to the table with the help of the Katenka sisters and Lola, said habitually, "Every time they go to that pie market, they come back with all kinds of pies."

“There’s still some good stuff there.”

Wei Ran and Professor Alexei once again murmured in unison, but this time, the former subconsciously rubbed the tattoo on the tiger's mouth, while the latter remembered something interesting, and his old face could not help but

A smile couldn't help but appear.

I also don’t know if it was because they had been together all day during the day. Compared to yesterday’s meal, both the Katenka sisters and Lola had relaxed a lot this time, which also made the atmosphere a lot more relaxed.

In the blink of an eye, the next day came. Zhou Shujin, who was still fresh and energetic like yesterday, drove a few girls and left the travel agency early. When they left, Professor Wei Ran and Alexey also set off immediately and arrived again.

Wood carving in front of the house on Golonid Island.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "How to do it?" While Wei Ran was talking, he deliberately changed into yesterday's dirty clothes, and also put on protective gear such as masks and gloves.

"First drive out the walking tractor, then put the tires on the car and pull it out."

Professor Alexei thought for a while and continued, "Finally, pull out the plane too so that we can clean it inside."

"Is that tractor still usable?" Wei Ran, who looked suspicious, had already tied the dog to the pillar at the door.

"Of course," Professor Alexei replied matter-of-factly, "I just tried to start it a week ago and filled it with oil."

Seeing that his father-in-law was sitting in the passenger seat with no intention of moving, Wei Ran was too lazy to compete with him. He took the key from the other party, opened the garage door, found a familiar handle and started the car.

Dusty walking tractor.

Speaking of which, his grandma's house used to have one. During the summer vacation in high school, he often drove that thing to help pull lotus roots. With his experience at that time, he would naturally not be in a hurry now.

Amidst the deafening roar of the engine, Weiran easily drove the tractor out. Until this moment, Professor Alexei pushed open the door without haste and approached the bed of the tractor.

He went up, pulled off the tires inside, called on Wei Ran to help, and loaded them all one by one on the shabby old Soviet car.

Compared to the single-cylinder walking tractor, trying to start this car and drive it out is just a dream. Fortunately, the two of them have no such plans for the time being, they just need to make room for it.

Without using the tow hook at all, the two of them pushed the car from behind and held the steering wheel in front, and easily brought the black GAZ sedan, which had been gathering dust for who knows how long, outside.

Compared with the car that had been lying there for who knows how long, the wreckage of the plane without its wings and tail was easier to transport. The two of them held the broken fuselage and helped it out like a trolley.

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At this point, there were no big items left in the garage, and the two of them stopped wasting time. They picked up a large brush and a vacuum cleaner and started fighting against the dust that could be seen everywhere.

"Victor! Stop for a moment!" Not long after it started, Professor Alexei waved his hand to Weiran to turn off the vacuum cleaner.

"What's wrong?" Wei Ran waited until the vacuum cleaner stopped running completely before asking.

"First remove this broken steel plate. It has tripped me several times."

While Professor Alexei was speaking, he threw away the big brush in his hand and kicked the steel plate that was originally laid under the car chassis with his toes.

This rusty steel plate is almost half a centimeter thick, and is big enough for a car to park on it. But the problem is that its raised blind corners are indeed a bit obstructive, let alone Professor Alexei.

Wei Ran almost tripped over it just now.

"I'll bring the car in, you go find a rope." Wei Ran put down the vacuum cleaner as he spoke, turned around and walked out of the workshop, backing up the car they drove into the garage.

He randomly wrapped a few ropes around the steel plate and finally hung it on the trailer hook. After Professor Alexei left the garage and hid away, he immediately stepped on the accelerator and pulled the car amidst the clanking noise.

This huge steel plate moved forward little by little and out of the garage.

"We may have to put it back to its original position later." As soon as Weiyan opened the car door, he heard Professor Alexey shouting to him.

"Why?"

Wei Ran walked over in confusion, and found the answer at a glance. The place that was originally covered by an iron plate turned out to be a car repair ditch less than one meter wide. At this time, there were still piles of garbage in the car repair ditch.

There are a lot of messy things, from bags of cement that have agglomerated, to cans and cans in mesh bags, to bicycles that have become rusted into iron eggs, and there is even a bicycle inside that I don’t know if it can still be used.

Marine outboard engines.

Not surprisingly, the garbage that has been there for who knows how long has filled the repair ditch completely. No wonder it has to be covered with a steel plate. If it accidentally falls in, the propeller attached to the engine alone is probably enough.

Drink a pot.

"Before that, you have to help me clean up this garbage." Professor Alexei had already picked up the vacuum cleaner as he spoke, "You will be responsible for repairing the ditch, and I will do the rest."

"You are lazy"

Wei Ran grinned and stretched out his hand to pick up a mesh bag filled with glass cans. However, before he could exert any force, the bag burst open with a crash, and the various cans and bottles also clinked and rolled.

Everywhere.

Seeing this, he simply restarted the walk-behind tractor, first pulled the wing off the cargo bed, then put the front of the tractor on the edge of the repair ditch, and threw all the garbage inside directly into the cargo bed.

As he cleaned up bit by bit, as the garbage became less and less, concrete steps gradually appeared under his feet. Then, he found several niche-like things dug out on the walls on both sides of the ditch.

, this niche even has iron sliding cabinet doors.
To be continued...