Rebirth of the Flying Era

Du Fei looked at Wei Duzi and asked expressionlessly, "How do you know?"

Wei Duzi swallowed and spit, lowered his head slightly and did not dare to look at Du Fei. He hurriedly explained: "I~I heard what my third uncle said..."

"Mr. Wei?" Du Fei interrupted.

Wei Duzi nodded in agreement, and then said: "Lao Yang got a few Japanese diaries a while ago. I guess the third uncle should give them to you. In fact, many people in the capital know that those diaries are related to It’s related to the treasure of a Japanese devil. But the diary passed through many hands, and nothing was found.”

Du Fei nodded, not doubting the truth of Wei Duzi's words.

In fact, Gu Bingzhong said this the last time I had dinner with Gu Bingzhong and the others.

Sumita Raishiro's treasure is not a secret in the capital. Too many people know about it.

It's not surprising that Mr. Wei knows this.

It's just that Wei Duzi waited for him here especially late at night, and even mentioned these things, his intention was quite obvious.

Du Fei said calmly: "Do you have any clues?"

Wei Duzi licked his lips. He was a real person and would not make up lies. He simply told the truth and explained: "It's not mine. It was given to me by my third uncle and asked me to honor you."

As he spoke, Wei Duzi took out a half-foot-square flat wooden box from the tool box placed next to him.

As he opened it, he said, "Here are some things that my third uncle collected back then. They may be of some inspiration to you."

Du Fei took the box.

On top was a very familiar leather-wrapped notebook.

Du Fei opened it and glanced at it. Sure enough, it was Nohara Hiroshi's handwriting.

I took another look at the date of the first diary entry: September 5, 1945, a sunny day.

This made Du Fei's heart tremble.

On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announced Japan's unconditional surrender.

On September 2, the instrument of surrender was signed on the USS Missouri.

On September 9th, the Chinese Theater officially surrendered.

In other words, after Japan surrendered, Nohara Hiroshi was still alive!

And my life is quite nourishing, otherwise I wouldn’t have the time to write a diary.

Du Fei thought this while turning to the end of the diary.

The last diary entry was found to be dated May 15, 1950.

This made him a little surprised.

Nohara Hiroshi actually stayed in China after liberation!

If it hadn't been for the discovery of a lurking Japanese woman a few days ago, Du Fei wouldn't have cared about the time in the diary.

And now, based on the time of the last diary entry, Du Fei has reason to suspect that Nohara Hiroshi is also lurking...

At this moment, various thoughts flashed through Du Fei's mind.

But in front of Wei Duzi, he didn't show it at all.

Du Fei put the diary on the lid and continued to look at the contents below.

Below are a number of newspaper clippings, as well as maps.

There is a Japanese military map and several hand-drawn topographic maps of city streets.

In addition, there is a small notepad as big as a palm, which is densely packed with information and conjectures about Sumita Raishiro's treasure.

Du Fei glanced briefly and couldn't help but look at Wei Duzi: "Is this all caused by your third uncle?"

Wei Duzi laughed dryly and said: "That's not true, this is... in 1959, my third uncle exchanged ten pounds of stick noodles for it."

Du Fei nodded. From his understanding, Mr. Wei did not have the ability to draw maps by hand.

And in the last little notepad, in addition to the very beautiful Chinese characters, there are also some Japanese hiragana mixed in. Obviously the person who collected and organized these should know some Japanese.

But Du Fei wasn't very excited either.

If what Wei Duzi said is true.

Mr. Wei Sanye got these things in 1959, and it has been six or seven years now. If there were any clues, the treasure should have been found long ago.

Now if you are willing to take it out and give it to him, it is obviously a failure.

After learning that Du Fei was also interested in this, he used the remaining value of these things to gain favors.

Du Fei put the things back into the box, looked at Wei Duzi, and said calmly: "Old Wei, I've accepted the things. If you have anything to say, just tell me."

Wei Duzi scratched his head and said: "Um, Leader Du, I have no other intention, it's just that... I just saw that you have great ability, and I want to work with you to death!"

Du Fei knowingly asked, "Wouldn't I come to you if I have something to do now?"

Wei Duzi said seriously: "That's different. Now I'm following Brother Six, but I~I want to be with you!"

Du Fei's mind turned around and he immediately thought of the key, and asked directly: "Because Lao Lei's son went to the steel rolling mill?"

Wei Duzi admitted unabashedly: "Leader Du, as a father, I have no ability, so I just want to give my child a certain background. Please grant it." After that, he knelt down and knelt down.

Du Fei looked at it, but did not step forward to help him. Instead, he asked: "Have you thought about it?"

When Wei Duzi heard this, he was secretly happy.

At this moment, he was most afraid of Du Fei coming up to help him.

Du Fei didn't understand. Normally, Wei Duzi was also a seven-foot-tall man, and he was a brave and fierce character when he was young.

As for getting a temporary job spot for his son, he was so humble that he even knelt down!

Du Fei said: "Old Wei, you get up first and speak."

Wei Duzi responded and stood up from the ground.

Du Fei asked: "What is the name of the child at home?"

Wei Duzi bowed and replied: "My name is Wei Degui. I am twenty-three years old this year."

Du Fei nodded and then asked: "Want to go to the security department too?"

Wei Duzi grinned, a little embarrassed to speak, but at this time he had to say: "Leader Du, let me tell you, Degui set off firecrackers when he was a child, and three fingers were blown off on his right hand..."

When Du Fei heard this, he suddenly realized.

No wonder Wei Duzi did not hesitate to kneel down. It turned out to be because his son was disabled.

Wei Duzi said vaguely, three fingers were blown off, but which three fingers were blown up made a big difference.

If the thumb and index finger are left, most of the functions of the hand can be retained.

But if you blow it up with firecrackers, it is obviously unlikely that these two fingers will be left.

If the index finger and thumb are blown off, then the hand is basically useless. If you want to learn the skills of a bricklayer or a carpenter, you won't even be able to hold tools.

Du Fei didn't ask further questions. This was the pain in Wei Duzi's heart, and there was no need to let others take it away.

He wrote lightly: "It doesn't matter, the security department is just patrolling."

Wei Duzi finally showed a smile on his face and thanked him profusely.

Du Fei calculated in his mind that last time there were two places, and now there is one more, and he will have to say hello to Jiang Dong tomorrow.

After sending Wei Duzi away, Du Fei returned to his home.

Putting the box Wei Duzi gave him on the table, he was not in a hurry to open it again. Instead, he ate his food first, then made a pot of tea, and then he freed his hands to carefully examine the contents.

Just now at the deaf old lady's house, Du Fei just glanced at her, not even just looking at her.

Especially the diary of ‘Nohara Hiroshi’.

Among the diaries Lao Yang sent last time, the latest one was dated August 6, 1945.

It has been almost a month since the first entry in this diary.

According to the description in the previous diary, after Nohara Hiroshi found out that he was trapped in the capital, he secretly stole some gold bars from a box hidden in the warehouse and prepared to find an opportunity to escape back to Japan.

But in the end, it was clear that he failed.

In other words, for some reason, he gave up his plan to escape back and continued to stay in China while hiding his identity.

So... what exactly prompted him to give up returning to China?

Du Fei's intuition was that it must be related to the old devil Chengtian's treasure.

As the saying goes, people die for money and birds die for food.

Although in the previous diary, Nohara Hiroshi did not show coveting the treasure.

But at that time, the Japanese Empire was still there, and the strict hierarchical relations prevented him from having any inappropriate thoughts.

However, on August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced his unconditional surrender.

In an instant, the empire fell and faith collapsed.

Things that I didn't dare to think or do before seem to be so rebellious anymore.

Du Fei estimated that it was during the break between the two diaries that Nohara Hiroshi's thoughts changed dramatically, which made him decide to stay.

Du Fei opened his diary while running through many thoughts in his mind.

In addition to the original text, the diary also contains a large number of annotations in the blank spaces at the corners.

Some are translated meanings, and some are key information analyzed from them.

Du Fei flipped through page after page and found it quite interesting.

It is different from the previous diary.

Before that, Nohara Hiroshi was a diary maniac, writing almost every day, no matter what happened or not, he had to make up one article.

But this diary is only available every now and then. It is written more concisely and contains more information.

Du Fei understood it through the Chinese characters and some annotations in the diary. He was surprised after just reading a few pages.

Du Fei originally thought that Nohara Hiroshi left it behind secretly.

However, according to the information revealed in these diaries, Nohara Hiroshi did not make the decision privately, but received orders from Sumita Rashiro.

And it directly takes orders from the intelligence department under Yan Xishan.

Nohara Hiroshi revealed in his diary that there are not a few lurkers like him.

Having a premonition that Japan was about to be defeated, Sumita Raishiro reached a secret agreement with Yan Xishan very early in order to save his life and property.

After Japan surrendered, there were more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers under the command of Old Japanese Sumita, who directly became Yan Xishan's mercenaries.

Later, during the Liberation War, they were all wiped out by our army.

But this is only apparent.

Nohara Hiroshi's diary stated that in addition to the regular army, Shanxi and even North China were at that time.

A large number of intelligence personnel from special higher education courses have secretly transferred to the service of state government executives and local warlords.

Seeing this, Du Fei had an idea.

Thinking of the Japanese woman who was arrested before, this was probably the case.

Du Fei continued to look back.

Finally, I saw a direct reference to Sumita’s old devil’s treasure.

The time is November 6, 1948.

By this time the three major battles had begun.

In the two major battlefields of Liaoshen and Huaihai, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party were retreating steadily.

At this time, Nohara Hiroshi was still hiding in the capital, using the pseudonym Liu Guangbei.

According to the description in the diary, until this time, the treasures trapped in the capital by the old man Sumita were still there.

It's just that he was intercepted by the people from the special high school here.

For this reason, Sumita Raishiro even sent a telegram to get angry with Nohara Hiroshi, asking him to recover these treasures.

It's a pity that Nohara Hiroshi is no longer the 'little fellow countryman' who obeyed his words at this time.

Without the assistance of Hiroshi Nohara, the gang of bereaved dogs in the Special High School Class would not even know the existence of this treasure!

Seeing this, Du Fei suddenly realized.

It turns out that the rumors circulating in the market about the Gray Immortal taking away the treasure were simply rumors.

Although Nohara Hiroshi's diary did not mention it, this legend is likely to be a smokescreen put out by the Japanese.

When Du Fei saw this, he became more and more interesting.

This is much more interesting than reading mystery novels.

Leaning on the Luohan bed, he took a sip of the slightly cold tea and continued to flip through the diary.

Soon the page turned to January 1949.

At this time, the three major battles are coming to an end, and the outcome has been decided.

In Nohara Hiroshi's diary, he made no secret of his desire to return home and felt that it was meaningless to continue to stay in China.

But until the end of this diary, that is, in May 1950.

That is, nearly a year and a half later, he still stays in China.

Obviously the facts are not as stated in his diary, and there is no point in staying there.

There must be something here that he can't let go of.

Apart from that treasure, Du Fei couldn't think of anything else that could stop a homesick person from returning home.

In other words, at least in May 1950, the treasure was still there.

And Hiroshi Nohara knew, at least where some of it was hidden.

It's just that because of the drastic change in the situation, he has no way to take these treasures away, so he can only continue to stay here...

Unconsciously, Du Fei read the more than 300 pages of diary in one go!

Although I stumbled a lot during this period, I only had a little understanding of it.

But combined with the context, some of the annotations above, and Du Fei's original grasp of the situation, it was enough for him to complete the general outline of the entire incident.

Because the last treasure of the old devil Chengtian was trapped in the capital and could not be transported out.

Until Japan announced its surrender, the originally loyal subordinates naturally had certain thoughts.

Du Fei estimated that this group of people originally wanted to share the spoils, but they did not expect to attract people who defected to Yan Xishan's special high school.

Now things get complicated.

And because the Liberation War was about to break out, their way back with their treasures was blocked.

As for talking about the Great Gray Immortal, it seems to be just a name used as a shield.

Du Fei closed the diary and looked up at the time.

It’s past eleven o’clock!

He leaned back and closed his sore eyes.

Obtaining this diary has greatly advanced the story line.

But there is still no real progress on where the treasure is hidden.

Du Fei estimated that this was the reason why the previous owners of this diary, including later Mr. Wei, had no choice but to give it up.

There seems to be a lot of information in the diary, but there is no "dry information" that can really solve the problem.

And there are those maps and notepads in the box.

They are all the results of extensive analysis based on this diary.

I can’t say it’s completely useless, but it really doesn’t mean much for finding treasure.

Only once in the diary was there an inadvertent mention that Nohara Hiroshi had used a pseudonym.

"Liu Guangbei~Liu Guangbei!" Du Fei muttered, already having an idea.