Chapter 427 Diary Maniac

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

Wei Duzi swallowed, 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 a It’s related to the Japanese devil’s treasure. But I don’t know how many hands the diary has passed through, and nothing has been 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 toolbox beside him.

While opening 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 is 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 board the battleship 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 also

Not very excited.

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 that he is 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 do, just tell me."

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

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 do 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, 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 and talk first."

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, then asked, "Want to go to the security department too?"

Wei Duzi grinned, a little embarrassed to say it, but at this time he had to say, "Leader Du, to tell you the truth, Degui blew up three fingers on his right hand when he was a child when he set off firecrackers..."

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 an extra one. He will have to say hello to Jiang Dong tomorrow.

After Wei Duzi was sent 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 took a sip of 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 took a look at her, not even just looking at her.

Especially the diary of ‘Nohara Hiroshi’.

Last time Lao Yang

Among the diaries sent, 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 then 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 margins.

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 officers from special higher education courses secretly defected to the service of state 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 was 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 I was intercepted by people from the special high school here.

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

Unfortunately, at this time, Nohara Hiroshi was no longer the 'little fellow countryman' who obeyed his words at the beginning.

Without the assistance of Nohara Hiroshi, the gang of homeless dogs in the Special High School 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 that Gray Immortal moved away the treasure were simply rumors.

Although it was not mentioned in Nohara Hiroshi's diary, this legend is likely to be a smokescreen released by the Japanese.

Du Fei found it more and more interesting when he saw this.

This is much more interesting than reading a reasoning.

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

Soon he turned to January 1949.

At this time, the three major battles were nearing their end, and the outcome was already determined.

In Nohara Hiroshi's diary, he did not hide his desire to go home, and felt that there was no point in him staying in China.

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

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

Obviously, the facts were not as he stated in his diary, and there was no point in staying.

There must be something here that he couldn't give up.

In addition to the treasure, Du Fei couldn't think of anything else that could stop a homesick person from going home.

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

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

However, due to the dramatic change in the situation, he had no way to take the treasures away, and could only continue to stay here...

Unconsciously, Du Fei actually finished reading this diary of more than 300 pages in one breath!

Although he stumbled and understood only half of it during the period.

But combined with the context, some annotations above, and the situation Du Fei originally knew, it was enough for him to complete the general outline of the whole thing.

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 some ideas.

Du Fei estimated that this group of people originally wanted to sit down and divide the spoils, but they did not expect to attract people from the Special High Section who defected to Yan Xishan.

Now things became complicated.

And because the Liberation War broke out soon, they were blocked from taking the treasure back.

As for the gray immortal, it seemed to be just a name raised as a shield.

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

It was actually past eleven o'clock!

He leaned back and closed his somewhat sore eyes.

Although getting this diary greatly advanced the story line.

But there was still no substantial progress in the specific location of the treasure.

Du Fei estimated that the previous owners of this diary, including the later Wei Sanye, had to give up for this reason.

The diary seemed to contain a lot of information, but there was no "dry goods" that could really solve the problem.

And the maps and notebooks in the box.

They were all based on this diary, and a lot of analysis was done to get the results.

It can't be said that it was completely useless, but it really didn't mean much to find the treasure.

The only thing in the diary was that it was mentioned once that Nohara Hiroshi had used a pseudonym.

"Liu Guangbei~Liu Guangbei!" Du Fei muttered, and he had an idea.