When the taxi stopped in front of a single-family house on the edge of the city, Jima knocked on Isay Popov's door holding the box of sour jam that Ms. Theda asked them to bring.
It was obvious that this old man who was nearly seventy years old had obviously known that they would come. After enthusiastically letting them into the room, he even jokingly asked who was the Queen of Inta.
Fleur.
After some mutual self-introductions and small talk, Wei Ran also had a general understanding of this old man.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, this Isaiah Popov can actually speak Chinese with a stale flavor.
According to his own statement, after he moved his family from Inta to Khabarovsk at the end of the last century, he invested in the border trade business. Before handing the business over to his son, he would go to China on the other side of the river almost every month.
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Even now, his son is still running a clothing business that is not much different from the original one. And his granddaughter was sent to study and live in China on the other side from an early age. The girl not only passed the exam of Southern China last year
In a certain university, I even made a Chinese boyfriend this spring, and I am planning to bring him back to Mr. Isai to get to know him at the end of the year.
After a chat that satisfied the curiosity of Wei Ran and others, the loud-voiced old man Isai asked slowly, "I heard Xida tell me on the phone that you came to me because of the discovery in Inta
Got something?"
"A tombstone was found"
While Suisui was speaking, she had already handed over the tablet, and then briefly described the discovery process. Finally, she said, "Although we found the tombstone, we did not find the bones, so driven by curiosity
..."
“So that’s how it is”
Isai didn't let Suisui finish what he said, and laughed loudly and said, "Of course you can't find the ashes, those ashes are all here."
"it's here?"
Everyone looked at each other in disbelief. Ji Ma was the first to ask, "Did you bring them to Khabarovsk in the first place?"
"How is it possible? Even if I am full, I will not do such boring things."
Isai first expressed his attitude with a sentence in Russian mixed with Chinese, then raised his hand and tapped the photo of the tombstone displayed on the tablet and explained, "To be precise, I found the ashes here, and even this tombstone,
I have only seen pictures of it and have no idea where it is."
"Ashes found here?"
Wei Ran and Ji Ma looked at each other again, becoming more and more sure of what they had guessed when they first heard the story.
"Those ashes, those photos, as well as the belongings and address of the owner of the ashes, are all the relics left by my father."
Isaiah Popov didn't mean to hide anything. As he spoke, he even stood up and actively invited, "While there is still some time before dinner, do you want to go with me to see what my father left behind?"
"Do you still have it now?" Suisui asked subconsciously.
"Of course!" Isai said with some pride, "There are a lot of them, come with me!"
While talking, this old man who was nearly seventy years old actually walked into the garage and personally drove out a clean Nissan off-road vehicle.
Just from the off-road tires of this Toyota Prado, the row of spotlights on the roof and the kayaks fixed on the roof rack, we can tell that this old man is probably not short of money, and
He knows how to enjoy life very much.
"Hurry up and get in the car. It will take us at least half an hour to get there." Mr. Isai even hit the accelerator as he spoke.
Seeing this, everyone was naturally not polite, opened the car door and got in.
Before Ji Ma, who was the last to get into the car, had to fasten his seat belt, Mr. Isai stepped on the accelerator and drove the car towards the outside of the city. At the same time, he did not forget to start explaining.
"Those things were originally in an apartment building in the city, but that building was demolished more than ten years ago, so I moved everything to my vacation home outside the city."
While Isai was speaking, he had already steered the car and overtaken a taxi arrogantly. Then he even lowered the window and pointed his middle finger at the rear of the car. Then he continued, "I guess my father must be a Soviet
spy."
"Soviet spy?" Suisui's eyes widened upon hearing this.
"It must be" Isai's tone became more and more certain, "There are a lot of weapons and various identification documents in his relics."
"Isai, can you tell me what you did at that time?" Wei Ran, who had been an audience just now, asked tentatively.
"I just selected some of the ashes left by my father and contacted the corresponding address."
Isai said innocently and with emotion, "It was not long after the Soviet Union collapsed, and the salary from the mine where I worked was no longer enough to support my wife and children, so I tried to write letters to the addresses on the ashes, hoping that the other party would
Use a sum of money to buy back those ashes."
"Is there really someone?" Suisui asked.
"Of course"
Isai stroked the steering wheel and said, "But it's not too much. There were only six people in total who sent money. At that time, I was hiding in Vorkuta waiting to collect the money. After receiving it, I gave it in the name of my sister Sida.
My wife sent a telegram asking him to hide the ashes somewhere and wait for the other party to come and pick them up."
"Took it away?" Maya also asked.
"The first five ashes were indeed taken away"
Isai said happily, "But when the sixth ashes were traded, the local gangs were already looking for who placed the ashes. You must not believe it. This news is from my wife in the restaurant where she works.
Listen to what the gang members mentioned in casual chat.
So after that time, I took my wife and children back to Vorkuta temporarily. Although the Soviet Union collapsed at that time, not everyone could go there. We hid in Vorkuta for almost a year.
time, and then came back here again.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! You may not believe it, but when our family hid back in Vorkuta, someone actually sent us money to redeem our ashes. But I will not do such stupid things.
Then I returned the ashes to them, and Mr. Nicholas also reminded me to be careful at that time."
"Do you also know Mr. Nikolai?" Dima asked a stupid question.
"Of course, of course I know Mr. Nicholas, what kind of idiot question are you asking?"
Isai said nonchalantly, "After Theda and I mentioned you on the phone, I called Mr. Nicholas. You don't think that just anyone can hear these secrets from me, do you?
And if you hadn’t all found out about Xida, not many people in Inta would know that I am her brother.”
Wei Ran and Ji Ma looked at each other, and then spread their hands in confusion. They didn't want to trouble the carefree Mr. Nicholas about this matter, but they didn't want to wait for them to see Yi Sai. The other party had already taken the initiative to find Nicholas.
Gula asked.
Now that Nikolai's relationship existed, the subsequent conversation became more candid.
During the chat between the two parties, everyone also learned that the reason why the brother and sister kept their relationship secret was because the handsome old guy in front of him was worried about the identity of his father and the kid who had been tricked by him.
They only bring danger and trouble. But in fact, the connection between them as brothers and sisters is quite profound.
As the topic reached this point, the off-road vehicle driven by Isai also drove into a virgin forest outside the city, and finally stopped at the door of a forest villa next to a lake.
“This is my holiday villa”
Isai slowly opened the door of the off-road vehicle, and after beckoning everyone to get out of the car, he threw a key to Ji Ma and motioned for him to open the door. At the same time, he explained, "Every winter, I will go with my
My son comes here to stay for a few days and go hunting. In the summer, I prefer to come here to fish by myself, which is a job that requires patience."
"Are there many fish in this lake?" Maya, who was quiet along the way, suddenly became interested.
"Of course, of course there are many, and they are big."
Isai said with a smile, "This place originally belonged to a lumberjack rest area in a forest farm. Later I bought it and the surrounding two hectares of land. Although it is not too big, it is enough for a vacation. That house
There are various types of fishing rods, if you are interested, you can try them."
"I won't be polite," Maya said enthusiastically.
"Maya likes fishing?" Suisui looked at Wei Ran.
Wei Ran shook his head, "I didn't know, you should ask Ji Ma."
"This is the first time I've heard of it," Ji Ma responded slightly embarrassed, and then pushed open the locked door.
Following Isai into the room, the old man first found some fishing rods for Maya, and then motioned her to dig earthworms for bait in the vegetable field behind the house. Then he called Wei Ran and Jima for help, and put the
The ladder to the attic is set up.
"The things my father left behind are all there. If you are interested, you can go and see for yourself."
Isai sat on a squeaky rocking chair and said, half jokingly and half as a reminder, "I won't go up, but don't try to steal anything from inside."
"We are not thieves, I swear to Mr. Nicholas." Before Jima finished speaking, he was the first to climb up the ladder, and soon after, Wei Ran and Suisui heard his exclamation.
"Go up and have a look!" Suisui said, and climbed up the ladder to the attic.
When Wei Ran followed him up, he finally understood what Ji Ma was marveling at. The attic was not very large, and there were no windows at all.
But where the flashlight shines, on the wall tilted at a 45-degree angle, there are still some outdated weapons, various documents, photos and even some strange objects such as spy cameras fixed on it.
Under the walls on both sides, there were densely packed wooden boxes that were only the size of a microwave oven.
The shape of these exquisite boxes has a slight Japanese style. There is a small card hanging on the lock tongue of each box. The corresponding name and address are written on the front and back of the card in Japanese and Russian respectively.
Carefully open a wooden box painted with varnish. There is a small stainless steel jar in the not too big space inside. In the remaining space next to it, there is a watch, a pair of glasses, a wooden spoon and a wooden spoon.
A seal the size of a finger. In addition, there is a file bag at the bottom.
The three of them looked at each other, and Suisui carefully took out the dusty file bag. Under the lighting provided by Wei Ran and Jima's mobile phones, they took out a torture document and a color photo from it.
In this photo, there is a Japanese soldier wearing full Japanese military uniform but without weapons. On the table next to him, there is a plate full of fruit, a glass of milk, a piece of bread and an unidentifiable piece of bread.
What animal does the meat come from?
Turning over the old-fashioned document printed on a typewriter in her hand, Suisui's face turned a little pale, "This seems to be a transcript."
"Let me see"
Wei Ran handed the phone and the color photo to Jima, took the page Suisui had just read and read it line by line.
On this slightly yellowed paper, various questions and corresponding answers are recorded starting from the names. When it comes to questions such as names and place names, there are also things that Wei Ran and others cannot understand.
Japanese annotation.
These questions not only involved the personal information of the man who seemed to be named "Sakai Shono", they even asked in detail about the names of his neighbors and their corresponding interpersonal relationships, who he liked the most and who he hated the most.
Who is the person, what is the address of the corresponding person, and even the appearance and characteristics of the surrounding buildings, the placement of some items in his home, the diseases that his family has suffered from, etc.!
After taking turns to read the more than thirty pages of torture records, on the last page, there was a red stamp with the words "Camp 66".
The most bizarre thing is that at the end of the seal, there is a series of handwritten numbers that look irregular, as well as the words "No one can survive a fire."
In the quiet and stuffy attic, the three of them looked at each other under the light of their mobile phones. After a moment of hesitation, Suisui put everything back into place and carefully opened the second wooden box.
There is no difference in what is contained here, except that the jar that seems to contain the ashes has been changed to white porcelain. At the same time, the items in the box, apart from the files, are only a wakizashi that looks particularly exquisite. The wakizashi's
There is also a seal fixed on the leather sheath.
Opening the file bag again, in addition to the same torture record, there was also a photo. In this photo, he was still a Japanese soldier dressed neatly and without weapons. The background of this photo also changed into a library-like environment.
place.
Putting down the photo, Wei Ran directly skipped the first few pages of the torture record. Sure enough, on the last page, there was also a seal pattern, but the two lines of red writing on it were particularly interesting - "From Hiroshima, and after
Confirm that no human relationship survives.”
At the end of the seal pattern, there is also a handwritten number "83".
Handing the torture record to Suisui, Wei Ran stood up after thinking for a moment and carefully observed the various items fixed on the sloping walls on both sides.
After a long time, he carefully took off a plastic bag in the corner. On the slightly yellowed bag, there was also the word "83" written in black mimeographed handwriting.
Carefully open the bag. In addition to three frontal and left-side photos of the same man's face, there are also two full-body nude photos and a Russian-Japanese bilingual repatriation certificate, which proves the soldier's identity recorded on it.
The home address is exactly Hiroshima.
This is the benefit of Hiroshima Refining...
Wei Ran murmured to himself. In fact, after seeing these things, all his questions had been solved.
To put it simply, at that time, the Soviet Union wanted to send some agents to the country of the Japanese. What was the simplest and safest way? Of course, it was to release a group of prisoners of war back one after another, and to include intelligence personnel among them.
Especially for prisoners of war who came from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the two big flowers dropped by the Americans at that time were of great help.
As long as the KGB members at that time pretended to be repatriated prisoners of war from these two cities, and took the ashes of one or two prisoners of war who were also from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, they would follow the large troops on the train and board the island singing and laughing.
Afterwards, even if Lihuang's second uncle and grandfather were called up to investigate in person, they would not be able to find out anything.
There is no way, all things, all relationships, all personal and material evidence have been blown up by the fireworks rewarded by their American father. As long as they are exactly the same, then it really is what they say.
As for why the Soviet Union sent the KGB to the Japanese country, it is actually not difficult to guess. If nothing else, the American soldiers stationed in the Japanese country alone is a sufficient reason, and the remaining reasons seem to be more important than
The reason why the U.S. military stationed in Japan is even more valuable.
Thinking of this, Wei Ran squatted next to Suisui again and said, "It seems that these things cannot be leaked out."
“Really can’t”
Suisui buttoned up the box and said very soberly, "I'm here to make money, not to cause trouble. I'll call Misha later and blow up the stone tablet and everything else and throw it into the mine."
"Victor, I'm not worried about that stone tablet." Ji Ma pointed to the surroundings, "But what to do with these things?"
“Do you think it’s luck that Isai has been able to keep these things for so long?”
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already started walking downstairs, "Wait a minute and ask Isai, let him give us a price to sell these things to us, and then find a place with feces and urine to dump all the pots and jars."
