War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 648 Benefits of Hiroshima Refinement

When the taxi stopped in front of a single-family house on the edge of the city, Jima knocked on the door of Isai Popov's room with the box of cranberries entrusted to them by Ms. Sida.

It can be seen that this old man who is nearly seventy years old obviously knew that they would come.After enthusiastically letting them into the room, he jokingly asked which one was Aurora, who was called Queen Inta.

After some mutual self-introduction and chatting, Wei Ran also had a general understanding of the old man.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, this Isai Popov can speak Chinese with a big stubble 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 over the business to his son, he went to Huaxia on the other side of the river almost every month. .

Even until now, his son is still running a clothing business that is not much different from the original.And his granddaughter was sent to the other side of China to study and live in China since she was a child. Not only was that girl admitted to a university in southern China last year, she even made a boyfriend in China this spring. Come back and meet Mr. Yisai.

After a chat to satisfy the curiosity of Wei Ran and the others, the loud-voiced old man Yisai asked slowly, "I heard Xida tell me on the phone that you came to me because you found me in Inta. something?"

"Found a Tombstone"

While Sui Sui was speaking, she had already handed over the tablet, and then briefly described the discovery process, before finally saying, "Although we found the tombstone, we did not find the bones, so driven by curiosity .”

"It was so"

Yisai didn't let Sui Sui finish her sentence, so she laughed and said, "Of course you can't find the ashes, those ashes are here."

"it's here?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and Jima asked first, "You brought them to Khabarovsk?"

"How is it possible, even if I'm full, I won't do such boring things."

Yisai first expressed his attitude with a sentence of Russian mixed with Chinese, then he raised his hand and knocked on the photo of the tombstone displayed on the tablet computer and explained, "To be precise, I found the ashes here, even this tombstone, I've only seen pictures of it, and I don't even know where it is."

"The ashes found here?"

Wei Ran and Ji Ma looked at each other again, and they became more and more sure of their guess when they first heard this story.

"Those ashes, those photos, and the relics and addresses of the ashes' owners are all relics left by my father."

Isai Popov didn't mean to hide anything, and even stood up and invited him during his speech, "Since there is still some time before dinner, do you want to come with me to see what my father left behind?"

"Still keeping it now?" Sui Sui asked subconsciously.

"Of course!" Yisai said rather proudly, "There are a lot of them, come with me!"

While talking, the old man in his seventies actually walked into the garage and drove out a clean Nissan off-road vehicle himself.

Just from the off-road tires of this Toyota Prado, the row of spotlights on the roof, and the kayak fixed on the roof rack, this old man probably has a lot of money in his hands, and Know how to enjoy life.

"Hurry up and get in the car, we'll take at least half an hour to get there." Mr. Yisai even kicked the accelerator while speaking.

Seeing this, everyone was naturally not polite, and each opened the car door and sat in.

Without waiting for Jima, who was the last to get in the car, to fasten his seat belt, Mr. Yisai 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.

"The stuff was in an apartment in the city, but that building was demolished more than a decade ago, so I moved everything to my holiday home outside the city."

While Yisai was talking, he had already manipulated the car to overtake a taxi arbitrarily, and then he did not forget to lower the window and gestured a middle finger to the rear of the car, before continuing, "I guess my father must be a Soviet spy."

"Soviet spy?" Sui Sui's eyes widened upon hearing this.

"It must be." Isai's tone became more and more affirmative, "There are a lot of weapons and various identification certificates 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 picked some from the ashes left by my father and contacted the corresponding address."

Isai said innocently and emotionally, "It wasn't long before the Soviet Union disintegrated at that time, and the wages paid by the mine where I worked were 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 be able to help me." Use a sum of money to buy back those ashes."

"Is there really someone?" Sui Sui asked.

"Of course there is"

Isai stroked the steering wheel and said, "But it's not too much. There were only six people who sent money. At that time, I was hiding in Vorkuta waiting to collect the money. After receiving it, I gave it to you in the name of my sister Sida. My wife sent a telegram telling him to hide the ashes somewhere and wait for them to come and pick them up."

"Take it?" Maya also asked.

"The first five ashes were indeed taken away"

Yisai said happily, "But when the sixth ashes were traded, the local gangsters were already looking for who placed the ashes. You won't believe it, but the news is still in the restaurant where my wife works, dear Listen to what the gang members mentioned in the small talk.

So since that time, I have temporarily returned to Vorkuta with my wife and children.Although the Soviet Union disintegrated at that time, not everyone could go there.We hid in Vorkuta for almost a year before returning here again.

You won't believe it, when our family hid in Vorkuta, someone actually sent us money to redeem the ashes.But I would not do such a stupid thing to return the ashes to them, and Mr. Nicholas also reminded me to be careful. "

"You also know Mr. Nicholas?" Jima asked a stupid question.

"Of course, of course I know Mr. Nicholas. What kind of idiotic question are you asking?"

Isai said casually, "After Xida and I mentioned you on the phone, I called Mr. Nicholas, you don't think anyone can hear these secrets from me, do you?
And if you hadn't found out about Xida, not many people in Inta knew that I was her brother. "

Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, and then spread their hands dumbfounded. They didn't want to bother the carefree Mr. Nicholas, but they didn't want the other party to ask Nicholas before they saw Isai. Gula asked.

Now that there is such a relationship with Nicholas, the conversation that follows will become more frank.

During the chats between the two sides, everyone also learned that the reason why the brothers and sisters kept their relationship a secret was because the handsome old guy in front of him was worried that his father's identity and the little devil he had cheated would give Xi It brings danger and trouble.But in fact, the connection between their siblings is nothing short of nothing.

At this point in the topic, the off-road vehicle driven by Yisai also drove into a virgin forest outside the city, and finally stopped at the gate of a forest villa next to the lake.

“This is my vacation home”

Yisai slowly pushed open the door of the off-road vehicle, and after calling everyone to get out of the car, he threw a key to Jima and motioned him to open the door, while explaining, "Every winter, I will go with my My son comes to live here for a few days, and hunt by the way. In summer, I prefer to come and fish by myself, which is a job that requires patience.”

"Are there a lot of 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."

Yisai said with a smile, "At first, this place belonged to a forest farm's lumberjack rest area. Later, I bought this place and the surrounding two hectares of land. Although it is not too big, it is enough for vacation. The house There are various types of fishing rods, if you are interested, you can try it.”

"I won't be polite," Maya said enthusiastically.

"Maya likes fishing?" Sui Sui looked at Wei Ran.

Wei Ran shook his head, "I don't know, you should ask Jima."

"It's the first time I've heard of it too," Jima responded with a little embarrassment, and then pushed open the locked door.

Following Yisai into the room, the old man first found a few fishing rods for Maya, then motioned her to dig earthworms in the vegetable field behind the house as bait, and then called Wei Ran and Jima for help, The ladder to the attic is set up.

"My father's things are all there. If you are interested, you can go and see for yourself."

Isaiah sat on a creaking rocking chair and said half jokingly and half reminding, "I won't go up, but you don't want to steal anything from it."

"We are not thieves, I swear to Mr. Nicholas." Before he finished speaking, Jima was the first to climb up the ladder, followed by Wei Ran and Sui Sui who heard his exclamation.

"Go up and have a look!" Sui Sui said, and also stepped on the ladder to climb up to the attic.

When Wei Ran also followed, he finally knew what Jima was marveling at.The area in this attic is not too large, and there are no windows at all.

But where the light of the flashlight can reach, on the walls inclined at a 45-degree angle, there are still some outdated weapons, various documents, photos and even some strange objects such as spy cameras.

Under the walls on both sides, there is a wooden box that is only the size of a microwave oven.

The shape of these exquisite boxes has a bit of Japanese style. A small card is hung on the lock tongue of each box. On the front and back of the card, the corresponding names and addresses are written in Japanese and Russian respectively.

Carefully opened a wooden box painted with varnish, a small stainless steel jar was placed in the not too big space, and a watch, a pair of glasses, a wooden spoon and a wooden spoon were placed in the remaining space beside it. A seal the size of a finger, in addition to that, there is also a file bag on the bottom floor.

The three looked at each other, and Sui Sui carefully took out the dusty file bag, and under the lighting provided by Wei Ran and Ji Ma's mobile phone, took out a document of torture and a color photo from it.

In this photo, there is a devil soldier wearing a full Japanese military uniform but no weapons. On the table next to him, there are also a plate full of fruit, a glass of milk, a piece of bread and an invisible Meat from what animal.

Flipping through the old-fashioned document printed out by a typewriter in her hand, Sui Sui's small face turned pale, "This seems to be a transcript."

"Let me see"

Wei Ran handed the phone and the color photo to Jima, took over the page that Sui Sui had just read and read it line by line.

On this slightly yellowed paper, there are corresponding answers to various questions starting from the name, body and when it comes to questions such as names and place names, there are still questions that Wei Ran and others can't understand Japanese notation.

And these questions not only involved the personal information of this man who seems to be named "Shoye Sakai", but also asked in detail about the names of his neighbors and their corresponding relationships, who is his favorite person, and who he hates the most? Who is the person, where 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 members have suffered from, and so on!

After reading the more than 66 pages of torture records in turn, on the last page, there was a red stamp with the words "Camp [-]".

The weirdest thing is that at the end of the seal, there is a series of handwritten numbers that look random, and the word "fire does not survive".

In the quiet and stuffy attic, the three of them looked at each other under the lights of their mobile phones.After a little hesitation, Sui Sui put everything back in place, and carefully opened the second wooden box.

There is no difference in the things contained here, except that the jar that seems to contain the ashes has become white porcelain, and at the same time, in addition to the files, there is only a very delicate Wakizashi in the box. There is also a seal fixed on the leather sheath.

Opening the file bag again, in addition to the same torture record, there is also a photo, which is still a fully dressed Japanese soldier without a weapon, and the background of this photo has also become a library-like place.

Putting down the photo, Wei Ran directly skipped the first few pages of the torture record.Sure enough, on the last page, there is also a seal pattern, but the two lines of red writing on it are particularly interesting-"From Hiroshima, to 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 Sui Sui, Wei Ran stood up after thinking for a moment, carefully observing the fixed objects on the sloping walls on both sides.

After a long time, he carefully took off a plastic bag in the corner. On the slightly yellowish bag, the word "83" was also written in black mimeograph.

Carefully opened the bag. In addition to the three frontal and left and right photos of the same man, there were also two full-body nude photos and a Russian-Japanese bilingual repatriation certificate, which recorded the soldier’s identity. The home address, happens to be Hiroshima.

This is the benefit of Hiroshima Refinement
Wei Ran muttered to himself, in fact, after seeing these things, all doubts have been solved.

To put it simply, the Soviet Union at that time wanted to send some agents to the devil country. What was the easiest and safest way?Of course, a group of prisoners of war were released one after another, and intelligence personnel were mixed in by the way.

Especially for this kind of prisoners of war from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the two big flowers left by the Americans at that time really helped a lot.

As long as the KGB members at that time pretended to be repatriated prisoners of war from these two cities, by the way, they would carry the ashes of one or two prisoners of war who were also from Hiroshima or Nagasaki, and then boarded the small island with a large army singing and laughing on the train. After that, even if he called his second uncle and grandpa to check it out himself, he wouldn't be able to find anything.

There is no way, all the things, all the relationships, all the witnesses have been blown up by the fireworks rewarded by their American father, as long as the difference is not bad, it is really what they say.

As for why the Soviet Union sent the KGB to the devil country, it is actually not difficult to guess, not to mention other things, the American soldiers stationed in the devil country alone are a sufficient reason, and the remaining reasons seem to be more important than others. The reason for the US military stationed in Japan is even more valuable.

Thinking of this, Wei Ran squatted beside Sui Sui again and said, "It seems that these things must not be leaked out."

"Really can't"

Sui Sui clasped the box and said very soberly, "I'm here to make money, not to cause trouble. I'll call Misha later and blow up that stone tablet and throw it into the mine."

"Victor, I'm not worried about that stone tablet." Jima pointed around, "But what about these things?"

"Isai can keep these things for so long, do you think it's luck?"

Wei Ran started to walk downstairs while speaking, "Ask Yisai later, ask him to sell these things to us at a price, and then find a place where there is shit and urine and dump all the pots and pans. .”

(End of this chapter)