Wei Ran, who was standing on the roadside, thought for a while, walked back quickly, took out his cell phone and called Suisui.
"Are you here?" As soon as the call was connected, Suisui on the other end asked first.
"We're here, investigation has already begun."
As he spoke, Wei Ran closed the entrance door and asked as he walked towards the second-floor attic of the pointed garage, "Do you still remember the tombstones I asked you to help take pictures of at the dock north of the labor camp?"
"Remember, what happened?" Suisui added after that, "Do you need me to send you those photos?"
"We need it," Wei Ran said immediately, "don't miss even one piece."
"Don't worry, I'll send it right away." Suisui on the other end of the phone promised happily, "Is there anything else you need to do?"
"No need." Wei Ran thought for a moment and added, "Send it over as soon as possible. Don't miss any one."
After Suisui made another promise and hung up the phone, Wei Ran returned to the attic on the second floor of the garage and sat down on the recliner.
In less than three minutes, all the photos were sent over. As he searched through them one by one, Wei Ran finally had a smile on his face.
In this photo, there is the tombstone of a worker named Ivan. On the side of the tombstone, it is written in Russian and Zhaoxian dialect, "In September 1953, party member Andrei (Park Kwang-hun) returned to his hometown with his ashes.
)"
Could this party member Andre be the same prisoner of war who had lived in the same dormitory with Mesut and Ihor?
So he survived? And Ihor had written letters to him?
No, no, no, it's unlikely. There can't be such a coincidence.
Wei Ran put away his cell phone while denying his guess, and a smile appeared on his face. Regardless of whether the Japanese prisoner who moved out of the dormitory early and was transferred to work in the mine survived.
, this seems to be a good excuse.
He had just made up his mind here when, outside the floor-to-ceiling window, the car also left and returned. Immediately afterwards, he saw Diane and Jordan each carrying a large bag of things from the trunk and moving toward him.
Waved.
When he went downstairs and opened the rolling shutter door of the cold drink shop, the two women also placed the purchased items on the table.
"Here are the blankets and quilts I bought for you."
As Diane spoke, she took the insulated bag from Jordan's hand, "This is the Chinese food I bought for you. I hope it matches your taste. In addition, we also bought two boxes of mineral water. Also, if you
If you want to take a bath, the bathroom in this house can be used, you just need to put more water in it."
"Thanks"
Wei Ran paused, then asked Jordan, "Ms. Jordan, do you know where your grandfather's ancestral home is?"
"My grandfather's ancestral home?" Jordan was stunned, obviously not expecting Wei Ran to ask this question.
When she came to her senses, she immediately asked, "Isn't it Sapporo?"
Hearing this, Wei Ran waved his hand, "Forget it, just pretend I didn't ask anything."
After sending away Diane and Jordan who were hesitant to speak, Wei Ran locked the rolling shutter door again, carried the things they helped to buy, and climbed back to the second floor of the garage.
Drawing the curtains, Wei Ran took out the latest sleigh he got. After unloading the wooden boxes, he opened the dinners one by one. Then he took out the backpack from Savage Mountain, took out an enamel kettle from the inside, filled it with mineral water and put it on the shelf.
After sitting on the kerosene heating stove, he opened the suitcase again, dug out a box of hawthorn leaves, took out a few and threw them into the kettle.
Before the water boiled, he ate a modified Chinese meal that tasted barely good. Weiran poured himself a cup of hot hawthorn leaf tea from a bamboo bowl, lay on the sleigh covered with bearskin, and watched in trance.
He stared at the ceiling and tried to recall what Ihor had once said about the address of his home in Hiroshima.
It's a pity that until this attic, which was extremely warm by the heating stove, only the fire of the heating stove was left, Wei Ran still couldn't remember the address that Ihor mentioned casually. At the same time, he also vaguely felt that that address
There must be some surprise waiting for you.
After tossing and turning all night, the next morning, he put away the things he took out of the metal book. He didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so he started a targeted search of the cold drink shop downstairs.
His hard work paid off. After he took out all the drawers at the bar of this cold drink shop and checked them one by one, he finally found a real estate brochure that looked very old.
In this flyer, a property is listed for a street-facing store located on Hondori Shopping Street in Hiroshima Prefecture.
According to the handwritten price on this list, this trapezoid-shaped street-facing store with upper and lower floors, each floor less than 80 square meters, and comes with a parking space, is priced at 94.8 million yen.
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran carefully collected the real estate brochure and then took out his cell phone and called Diane.
"I'll be there soon," Diane said as soon as the call was connected, "I picked out some breakfast for you."
“Breakfast is not in a hurry”
Wei Ran asked directly, "Is it convenient to contact Mr. Mesut? I have a question that I need him to answer."
"What's the problem?" Diane asked.
"How much did little Mr. Mesut pay for this house?"
"$700,000," Diane replied without thinking.
"How much?" Wei Ran was stunned, "What was the exchange rate between the US dollar and the Japanese yen that year?"
"$700,000"
Diane was silent for a moment, and then replied, "The equivalent of about 10.5 million yen."
"Little Mr. Mesut is really rich."
Wei Ran couldn't help but was speechless. He originally thought that selling this house might not be enough to buy the house in the flyer, but now it seems that he might be a lot richer.
"Actually, the notepad that is still in your hand was also sold to Mr. Mesut," Diane said bluntly, "otherwise, the house would not have been sold for that much money."
"I see"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone, then took out the authenticator, took a photo of the flyer, and then sent it to Anfiya, asking the other party to arrange for the nearby Hela girl to go over and see if it could
What clues were found.
As soon as he put away the authenticator, Diane also rushed to the door in a car.
Taking the breakfast handed to him by the place, Wei Ran took the initiative and said without waiting for the other party to speak, "I made some discoveries."
"What did you find?" Diane became interested immediately after hearing this.
"Let's go to the yard."
Wei Ran put down the hot breakfast, took the other person into the yard and asked the first question, "In the winter of 2002, why did an old man who was at least 80 years old come to the frozen yard?"
"Why?" Diane asked subconsciously.
Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled and said according to the excuse he prepared last night, "Come with me, I will take you to see the answer."
Before he finished speaking, he took Diane out of the yard again, walked around to the outside of the house, pointed to the red mailbox on the other side of the road, and said, "That's the answer. Look, if you come out of that sealed door, you just have to go through it."
You can reach the mailbox just across the road.
But if you go around from the entrance or the door of the cold drink shop, it is almost equivalent to walking half a circle around the house. Only if you go in this direction or this street where the mailbox is, Ihor will take the shortcut in the yard.
.”
"He might also go shopping nearby." Diane raised her finger and pointed in the direction, "Look, there is a store there."
"Ihor had already sold the house, what did he need to buy?"
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "The greater possibility is that before leaving here, he wants to inform the friends he corresponds with about his new address."
"Friends who write letters to each other?" The expression on Diane's face became more and more confused.
"Friends I met in the labor camp, I guess."
Wei Ran spread his hands, "Maybe he wasn't even a friend in China. Who knows, in short, his letter was probably sent, but he died here before he could move to a new address."
"So we're going to find his new address?"
"To find his old friends, the old friends he contacted through letters."
Wei Ran corrected the other party's statement, "Contact Mr. Mesut and ask him if he knows anything. I have been to the labor camp before coming here. There are many tombstones there, including the one belonging to Mr. Mesut."
The tomb has been dug up, and I guess it must be related to little Mr. Mesut, so help me ask him if he has any clues."
"I'll contact him right away"
Diane had already taken out her cell phone while speaking, and at the same time she did not forget to ask, "Do you need me to ask anything else?"
"Ask him if he knows where Yihor's ancestral home is."
"You mean to say that Ihor is not from Sapporo?"
“Who would choose to leave their homeland in their eighties?”
Wei Ran asked seriously, "In comparison, it is more possible to return to your hometown at such an old age. This can also explain the missing house sale money. I guess that Ihor must have taken
The money from the sale of this house went to buy a house in his real hometown."
"I knew it would be right to ask you for help."
Diane praised with great satisfaction and pressed the dial button at the same time. However, before the call was connected, he found that Wei Ran had already walked towards the car he drove.
"Help me find a hotel."
Wei Ran said before the other party could speak, "If possible, please find a hotel with a good enough environment and a large enough bed and room."
"You're not staying here tonight?" Diane asked in shock.
“Of course I can’t live anymore”
Wei Ran opened the car door as he spoke, "There are no clues here anymore. I have been waiting for news about Mr. Mesut for a long time."
Diane was about to say something when the call she just dialed was answered.
Seeing this, Wei Ran got into the back compartment, closed the door, looked at Jordan who was driving, and then closed his eyes to rest.
"I have checked and found that my grandfather does not have any real estate in his name." Jordan said while sitting in the driver's seat.
"Yeah, I understand." Wei Ran nodded, but didn't say anything more.
"Are you averse to recruiting people?" Jordan asked, somewhat desperate.
"Yes" Wei Ran responded calmly. Since the other party was embarrassed to ask, why was he embarrassed to answer.
Hearing this, Jordan opened his mouth, but wisely did not continue to make himself uncomfortable, and honestly closed his mouth.
After a while, Diane also locked the door, hurriedly got into the car and said, "Little Mesut agreed to help investigate."
“Let’s go to the hotel”
Wei Ran thought for a while and deliberately said in German, "In addition, help me arrange a beautiful female translator. It is best to be Chinese or Russian, but German is also acceptable. I plan to walk around in the next few days, Xiao Meisu
If you have any feedback from Mr. Te, please inform me as soon as possible."
"no problem"
Diane responded happily, then greeted Jordan and drove to Sapporo city, arranged Weiran in a luxury hotel, and prepared a new breakfast.
Before Wei Ran could finish the breakfast, Diane knocked on the door. Behind her was a white man who was about 1.7 meters tall and was definitely considered fair-skinned and beautiful.
girl.
"This beautiful girl is Marta, a medical student from Donetsk and a model."
Diane helped introduce, "She is very fluent in Japanese, can also speak English and Russian, has a driver's license, and I have just rented a commercial car for you."
"Hello Marta, does my translator need to go back to class these days?" Wei Ran asked politely in Russian to the beautiful girl standing at the door.
"Ms. Diane paid me enough to take a month's leave." The girl named Marta spread her hands. "Actually, I'm about to graduate, so I don't have many courses."
"You guys talk first," Diane said at the right time, "Marta's room is next door, and I have already given her the car key."
After bidding farewell to Diane, Wei Ran politely invited this pretty girl, who was obviously nervous and wary, to sit down and pretend to be enthusiastic about topics related to medicine and Donetsk.
The reason why he did this was naturally to show off to outsiders. But it was through chatting with this girl that he unexpectedly learned that the parents of this beautiful Marta were actually Donne
She was a member of Cike's so-called "anti-corruption armed forces", and she had already died under the bombardment of Wu Kelan before she went out to study abroad.
Not only that, this girl came out to study medicine, and she was actually preparing to return to Donetsk after graduation, pick up her late parents' classes, and join the anti-corruption armed forces as a field doctor. And she worked hard to earn money, and she turned out to be
In order to have enough money to buy some more medicines to take back when I go back.
With such a dreamy girl, Wei Ran was embarrassed to use her to create a character for himself, so he simply left the next two days to her arrangement.
