"Found it so quickly"
In the wilderness tavern, Suisui immediately became interested after listening to Wei Ran's retelling. She put down her beer glass with a clang and said enthusiastically, "Anfei Sa, let’s go back two days later to change the booking. Let’s go to Vorkuta early tomorrow morning.”
“Are you really planning to go?” Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded.
"Of course I want to go"
Suisui, who was a little drunk, replied without thinking, "I have been busy for so long and I haven't even found a bone, uncle. The foundation of the septic tank we ordered has not been laid yet."
"Don't mention the broken tank, and don't change the contract."
Wei Ran shook his head helplessly. , the so-called septic tank is actually just an abandoned mine connected to the sewer of the wooden cabin camp dozens of meters away, but the entrance of the mine is sealed with a tombstone found earlier, by the way It's just a dry toilet.
As for Suisui's so-called foundation laying ceremony, he just wanted to write down the experiences of the owners whose names were recorded in the tombstones on the wall of the toilet.
"Finally we have a clue"
"It really doesn't have to be so troublesome"
Misha refilled Suisui's glass with beer, "Wait a minute I'll just call my dad and ask him to check it in the population file, whether it's Inta or Vorkuta."
"I'll also ask the coal mine. Come on."
Alili sat down next to Weiran, "The population flow here is not that big. It is easy to know the specific time and the jobs in the coal mine. We can find him out."
"We will go find him after we find him out."
Ji Ma, who was holding a large glass of beer, also came over with a shy look on his face. Sitting next to Maya, she changed the subject and asked, "Aphroel, are you really planning to let Pasha and the others go to China? They haven't even left Inta."
"Air tickets and I've helped them get their visas and they still have fake ones."
Suisui burped and took a sleepy little fox from Anfiya's arms and hugged her, "Anyway You can rest assured that they will be back in a month, and after arriving in China, there will be a Russian-speaking tour guide accompanying them throughout the journey."
"And our friends will take care of them where they study. "
Wei Ran added on the side that the Pasha and others mentioned by Jima were three men and three women selected by Suisui in nearly a month, a total of 6 people with an average age of 22. young people.
These six will follow the four mason uncles to China tomorrow. Then, under the guidance of the tour guide arranged by Wei Ran's parents, they will go to Chen Luoxiang, who is studying qin in Yangzhou, and will meet Chen Luoxiang in Yangzhou. On the recommendation of Luo Xiang's master, he spent a month learning to rub his back with two bathers.
Although this proposal was Weiran’s earliest bad idea, it was obvious that Suisui would accept this idea, especially after Weiran stated that it could afford the full price.After paying for the department's tuition and travel expenses, these few unknown people even held a small-scale audition.
As for whether the six young bather apprentices with red and black thorn tattoos on their wrists could learn anything in a month, everyone present had no hope at the beginning. .
In Suisui’s words, sending these people to China to learn how to bathe was a gimmick to promote her classmates in China who were responsible for recruiting people. In order to plant a seed for those who have never been out in Inta. As for whether they can use the skills they learned after returning from a month of "gilding" in China, it actually doesn't matter at all.
When the topic came up about bathing, the clues about the corpses of the Japanese that had attracted all of Suisui's attention were thrown out of the window as the cups were raised again and again.
But it was obvious that both Misha and Alili took this matter to heart and left one after another to make phone calls. Before the lively dinner was over, the two of them received calls one after another.
"Found it" Alili and Misha said in no particular order as they hung up the phone almost at the same time.
"You go ahead and say it first" Misha raised her glass towards Alili.
"The news I asked from the Pechora Coalfield"
Alili lit a cigarette and said, "October Town had already It was abandoned, and most of the coal miners who lived there moved to other places.
Among the people who moved there was indeed an electric power inspector named Yin Saifu, according to the coalfield records. In the winter of 1994, he moved with his family to Gongqing Town, more than ten kilometers away. However, before spring came the next day, he quit his job in the coal mine. From then on, no one seemed to know that he had gone there. "Where did he go?"
"My father also helped find this person"
Misha said with a strange expression, "If this person named Yin Saifu is still alive, he is still alive." To seventy years old."
"Wait a minute" Wei Ran immediately realized something was wrong, "He is not yet seventy years old"
"He was born in 1955"<. /p>
Misha’s expression became increasingly weird, and she even glanced at Alili and Jima before continuing, “When he was 19 years old, he joined the Abez Coal Mine and became a circuit inspector. . From then on until 1988, he worked in the Abez Coal Mine. Later, when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Abez Coal Mine could no longer pay wages, he went to Vorkuta."
" "Abez Coal Mine"
After hearing this name, Jima subconsciously looked at Alili, who looked surprised. At the same time, many people in the tavern subconsciously looked at him after hearing this name. Come over.
"What's wrong?" asked Suisui, who was already drunk and a little confused.
"Alili used to be the captain of the air patrol at the Abez Coal Mine," Jima explained in a dumbfounded voice.
"That's rightNot surprising."
Alili spread his hands and said, "Although this deposit produces iron ore, it did fall under the jurisdiction of the Abez mine during the Soviet era, and the distance between here and Abez , even closer than going to Inta. "
"There is no record of where this Yin Saifu went afterwards. "
Misha glanced at Ji Ma again, and then continued, "But his sister is still alive, and she is in Inta. "
"What did you say?" As soon as the words were spoken, everyone at the table immediately looked at Misha.
"His sister's name is Xida, who is younger than him. She turned 15 years old."
Misha glanced at Jima and Alili, who had their eyes rounded, and continued, "She married Inta in 1988, and she is still serving as a teacher in Inta's middle school. Chemistry teacher, his husband is Guliye, a dispatcher at the Upper Inta freight station, whom you all know. "
"I do know each other."
Jima replied dumbfounded, "When I was a hunter, it was Gu Liye who helped me get a seat in the high-end sleeper car. Even their son is now with Greva in Kazan, but I have never heard that Aunt Theda actually has a brother. "
"Teacher Sidda even taught me," Alili continued. "I was also caught by her for stealing alcohol lamps from the chemistry laboratory. "
"This world is really small," Maya, who had been listening to the excitement, couldn't help but sigh.
"It's not that this world is too small."
m Sha sighed, "It's because Ta is too small, and everyone living here basically knows each other. As Arili said, Sidda was also my teacher, but unfortunately my grades in chemistry were not very good. "
"How about we visit that teacher Xida before we leave tomorrow?"
Suisui asked after taking another sip of cold beer, "I am getting more and more curious. What happened here. "
"As long as you can stay awake tomorrow," Wei Ran said while reaching out and taking away the beer cup in Suisui's hand.
"Then it's settled" Sui Sui responded confidently.
"It seems we will leave early tomorrow" Wei Ran took the cup he got from Sui Sui and clinked it with Alili.
"Don't worry, there's still enough time. " Before Alili finished speaking, he had already picked up the cup and greeted him.
In the midst of the banquet, the lively party finally came to an end, and Wei Ran also walked into the temporary store carrying Suisui, who was drinking and staring.
The next morning, the hungover Suisui let Wei Ran lead her in a daze, followed by her four uncles and Ji Ma who were also drunk. They left the camp and took the plane piloted by Alili to return to Inta.
It happened to be the weekend, and Xida, who was a teacher in the local middle school, definitely didn't have to go to work, so Jima took Wei Ran and He directly. Suisui, the Katenka sisters and Maya rushed directly to Xida's house.Sha and Alili stayed at the airport, accompanying the four uncles who were masons who were still wandering around the lake in the lounge, and the six local friends who were preparing to go to China with them.
On the slightly muddy road, Ji Ma drove the van out of the city and drove straight to a small village on the edge of the town.
There are only about twenty households in this village. Behind it is a dense forest, and not far in front are the railway and the road leading to the train station.
It can be seen that Ji Ma is very familiar with this place and clearly remembers every ditch and bump along the way.
Finally, he drove the car and stopped in front of a yard. What's more interesting is that although the yard is not big, the surrounding walls are surrounded by shipping containers, and on the top of the container on one side of the gate is a satellite cauldron for receiving TV signals. On the door of this container, two strong-looking and somewhat scary Caucasian dogs were tied.
“Don’t get out of the car yet”
Ji Ma warned nervously, “His two dogs are also patrol guards at the freight station. These two dogs every month A dog can get a salary of three thousand rubles."
"A dog can get a salary, too?" Anfya, who had been quiet for the past few days, asked in surprise, and then looked down subconsciously. A cute little fox in my arms.
“I couldn’t”
Jima honked the horn, swallowed and said, “But three years ago, a wanted criminal who was about to hijack the train driver was captured by the two of them. After biting off both arms, I started to collect wages."
Hearing this, Suisui, who was sitting next to Wei Ran, simply closed the window that had just been opened. The Katenka sisters, in unison, stuffed the little fox they were holding in their arms into their bags.
Speaking of which, Suisui specially asked Anfiya to bring these two little foxes from Kazan. It's a pity that she was too busy these days in Inta and had no time to play with these two cute little guys.
After Ji Ma pressed the horn for the third time, a balding old man wearing a sea soul shirt finally came out of the small courtyard. Until this moment, Ji Ma dared to lower the window and say hello.
Seeing that the visitor was Ji Ma, this old man who looked completely Asian immediately waved his hands enthusiastically, and then drove the two ferocious dogs that were taller than humans into the container and Closed the cabinet door.
"Jima, come down quickly"
The old man greeted enthusiastically, "Xida and I just went to see your movie last weekend. I didn't expect you to be so quick. Come to us."
"How's my performance?" Ji Ma jumped out of the cab and hugged the old guy happily, and then handed the two bottles of wine he had prepared in advance to him.
"The acting is very good"
The old guy said after drinking, "In the future, we must make more movies that you can go to the cinema to watch without buying a ticket."
"I"
Ji Ma, who was waiting for praise just now, grinned, glanced at Wei Ran and others who were laughing hard just after getting out of the car, and wisely changed the topic and asked, "Uncle Gu Liye, no Can you please come in and have a seat? Also, is Aunt Xida at home?"
"Yes"
Gu Liya looked curiously at Wei Ran and others who got out of the car. But he was not in a hurry to bring everyone in. Instead, he pointed at Suisui and said, "Let me guess, she must be Aurora, so the young man next to her is her boyfriend."
"You Okay, I’m Aurora.”
“I’m Victor”
Wei Ran and Suisui shook each other’s hands one after another.
"So who of the remaining three beautiful girls is your girlfriend?" Gulie asked with a smile, obviously an old man who likes to joke.
However, before Jima could speak, the Katenka sisters and Maya stepped aside in unison, making it clear that they did not want to take the blame.
Jima patted the back of his neck, pointed at Maya and said, "This is mine"
"Agent"
Maya was the first to say it The Katenka sisters, who knew their identities and did not want to be affected, had already stood behind Wei Ran and Suisui, and proactively said in unison, "We are Aurora's assistants."
" Come in."
Gu Liye laughed loudly and said as he walked into the yard, "I feel relieved to see that this little bastard Jima is still so unpopular with serious girls."
p>"You old bastard" Ji Ma muttered angrily.
"It seems that naughty girls like you very much" Maya teased Jima in a calm tone, and walked into the small courtyard holding the energetic Suisui.
Under the leadership of Gu Liye, the group walked into the wooden house facing the gate. The house didn't look very old, and it was clean inside and out. When they entered, a middle-aged woman who looked particularly gentle was busy baking bread.
Before they could sit down, several fluffy Caucasian cubs came over wagging their tails, followed by the four women who came with them, each holding them on their laps.
"Our big star from Yinta is here." The gentle middle-aged woman brought a teapot and enthusiastically poured a cup of black tea for everyone.
Ji Ma showed a rare hint of shyness, "I'm not a star, Aunt Xida, please don't make fun of me."
"Ji Ma, yes It’s not Tonya who’s causing trouble for you.”
Gulier pulled a chair over and sat down, and asked rather nervously. After he said these words, Xida also subconsciously tightened his grip. The apron was stained with flour.
“No, of course not”
Jima said quickly, “Tonya worked very well at the Kazan Railway Station. I heard Greva say that he seemed to have paid A girlfriend."
"He has a girlfriend."Theda asked in surprise.
"I also heard what Greva said. You can call and ask him."
Jima smiled and brought the topic to the topic, "Aunt Xida , We actually came here to ask you something."
"Look for me"
Xida was stunned for a moment, and then nodded happily. "Whatever you want to ask, as long as I know it, I will tell you."
"That's it"
Jima paused and briefly explained the discovery of the hot spring camp. After describing it for a while, he finally said, "Aunt Xida, we followed the clues and accidentally discovered that your brother Yin Saifu seems to be related to this matter. We want to find him and ask him what happened there at that time.
Of course, as I said just now, Victor is a historian, he is just curious about the historical facts.”
“I do have a brother”
Sida picked up the cup and took a sip of the warm black tea, "But my brother moved to Khabarovsk more than 20 years ago."
"Khabarovsk"
p>Wei Ran and others looked at each other. The so-called Khabarovsk is only separated from China by a river. The other name of that city may be better known as Khabarovsk.
"The last time he came here was six or seven years ago, but we often communicate on the phone."
Xida shook his head, "Those things you said, I I probably know something. I remember very clearly that he did make a lot of money around 1993." Sidda sighed, "Even when my Sasha and Tonya were born. Because of his help, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to support these two children. My life was really tight in those years.”
“So” Jima looked confused and hesitated to speak.
"That is indeed his handwriting"
Xida picked up Wei Ran's mobile phone on the table again and took a look at it, and gave a positive reply to the scanned letter on the screen. .
"Aunt Xida, those tombstones" Suisui rubbed the dog's head that was leaning towards her, and for a moment she didn't know how to say it.
"This matter actually starts with my father." Xida smiled, put Wei Ran's cell phone on the coffee table, then stood up and walked into the bedroom.
After a moment of waiting, Xida sat back on the chair in the living room holding an old-looking photo album.
After some searching, Theda pointed to a black and white photo in the album and said, "This is my father. He used to be colleagues with Mr. Nikolai."
"We are colleagues with Mr. Nikolai"
Wei Ran and Ji Ma patted their foreheads in unison. They really didn't think of this and forgot that Mr. Nikolai once worked in Inta. Live a long time.
“Of course I’m a colleague.”
Xida turned back a few pages, pointed to a group photo and said, “Look, this is me.A photo of Dad and Mr. Nicholas. ”
Everyone looked over and saw, as expected, that the photo was indeed the young Mr. Nicholas.
In this photo, his shirtless body was exposed Nikolai, who was covered in tattoos, was holding a bottle of frothy beer and laughing heartily against the wooden railing.
Beside him, there was a thin young man with an Asian face, who was also holding his hand. A bottle of beer, and a Moscow accordion hanging around his neck.
“I remember my mother saying that my father used to be the director of the Abetz mine in charge of prisoners of war. Later, after my brother was born, he was sent to the Far East to work in the mineral and timber trade. "
Far East
Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, and the Katenka sisters also looked at each other subconsciously, obviously aware of something keenly.
Xida continued to scroll back, "From the second year after my brother was born, my father might not be able to come back once a year. In order to facilitate meeting with my father, my mother also moved her brother to Haba. Rovsk, I was born in Khabarovsk.
However, when I was three years old, my father was in an accident due to a car accident. My mother also moved my brother and me back to Abetz.
So I really don’t have much memory of my father, except that my brother said he spoke Japanese very well and that our house in Khabarovsk was very big. "
After talking about this, Xida continued to turn over a few pages, pointed to a young man wearing a helmet in a group photo and said, "In 1984, our mother also passed away. This photo was taken half a year before my mother passed away. This is my brother Yin Sai. I was only 12 years old at that time. My brother’s first child was only seven years younger than me.
Later our mother passed away, and my brother took me to Khabarovsk and buried her with our father. From then until I met Guliye and decided to marry him, it was my brother who took care of me. "
"When Yin Sai knew that the two of us were getting married, he took his friends and gave me a hard lesson. "Gu Liye said sadly.
"Later I followed Gu Liye to Inta"
Xida held Gu Liye's hand and continued to recall, "That moment The coal mine where my brother worked could no longer pay wages, so he moved to Khabarovsk with his children and wife. It was not until the beginning of 1992 that he came back on his own, leaving his wife and children behind. to Khabarovsk. "
"Soon after he came back, he went to Vorkuta and still worked in the coal mine. "
Gulier took up the topic and said, "I was also unemployed at that time, and Theda was still pregnant with Tonya's sister. Although he scolded me, he still took our family over and didn’t let us go back to Inta until Sasha was born. ”
“Then one day, my brother suddenly gave meFive thousand dollars, at the time, was a lot of money. "
Sida sighed and said, "He asked Guliye to take me out of Inta, to Moscow, to Petersburg, even to live in a city like Kazan or Khabarovsk. . "
"You didn't leave," Suisui couldn't help but ask.
"We went, we went to Moscow in high spirits.
Gulier shook his head bitterly, "But it was only after I went there that I realized that five thousand dollars was not enough for our family to live there for a long time, so we still couldn't find a decent job after wasting five hundred dollars." Afterwards, we returned to Inta.
Although this place is not as good as Moscow, the money was not spent until 1995 when Tonya was born. "
"Why didn't you go when Mr. Nikolai helped everyone move to Kazan?" Dima asked subconsciously.
"We had just returned from Moscow at that time. Yin Sai helped me get a job as a train dispatcher before leaving here, and Xida also found a stable job at Inta School with his help. "Gu Liye spread his hands when he said this, "This is better than going to Kazan and starting over, isn't it?"
"That's right." Jima couldn't help but nodded.
"I once asked my brother where the money came from"
Sida said in a dumbfounded voice, "He told me at that time that he found some things left by his father in Khabarovsk's house. He sold those things for the money, but he never said that what he was selling was the ashes of prisoners of war. "
"So those ashes really exist?"
Suisui asked in surprise. She never expected that there was such a story behind the tombstone she accidentally discovered.
"If you are interested, you can ask my brother."
Xida said as he took out a pen and a palm-sized notebook from his coat pocket, and wrote fluently Then he tore off the next string of addresses and a phone number and handed it to Jima, "You can call him or go to him directly. "
"Thank you" Ji Ma quickly took the note handed over by the other party.
"It's my turn to ask questions"
Xida told everyone He refilled the tea one after another and asked enthusiastically, "You just said that Tonya found a girlfriend. What's that girl's name? Where is she from?"
"She is from Samara, a beautiful girl." "White girl"
While Ji Ma and Xida were exchanging information, Wei Ran was looking at the young people taking photos with Nikolai in the album, comparing them with the ones Xia Shushi sent yesterday Scanned copy of the letter.
In addition to the incomprehensible Japanese and Russian addresses, there is also a group photo. A group of Japanese prisoners of war each held a piece of bread as big as two bricks stacked together. In their other hands, they each poked a piece of steak the size of a bowl with a fork and ate it happily.
Who is in this photo?Wei Ran didn't know the victim of the tragedy, Yukichi Hanai, but he found a prisoner of war who looked very much like Sida's father in this group photo.
Thinking back to the clues we got before, Xida’s brother Yin Saifu was born in 1955. Just now Xida said that their father was sent to the Far East the second year after his brother Yin Sai was born. Timber and mining work. Before that, he was responsible for the management of prisoners of war.
In addition, in Xida’s memories, her brother once said that their father spoke Japanese very well. And the name Yin Saifu is also very strange, because he does not have a middle patronymic name at all.
In addition, their father died unexpectedly, and their mother took them away from Khabarovsk and returned to Abez, which was inaccessible to foreigners during the Soviet era.
Based on these clues, the identity of Xida’s father is actually ready to be revealed. Looking at the slightly slender photo of prisoners of war on the phone screen, Wei Ran was almost certain that Xida's father was most likely an espionage agent who pretended to be a Kwantung Army prisoner of war and infiltrated the Japanese country
Waiting back Afterwards, whether to go to Mr. Nicholas to verify his guess. Regarding this idea, Wei Ran only hesitated for less than a second and shook his head secretly.
Mr. Nikolai, who is now in his nineties, lives a carefree life in Volgograd every day. There is really no need for him to recall the past. Moreover, Xida has already given Jima her brother's address and phone number. If she wants to satisfy her curiosity, she can just wait until she has the opportunity to go over and ask him in person.
Of course, even without asking, Wei Ran had already guessed. After all, for a fake prisoner of war to be repatriated, what better way can he integrate into local interpersonal relationships than to bring back the ashes of his comrades and help send them home? Even the tombstones and graveyards are likely to be They are all props used by Xida's father to disguise his identity.
In fact, he had no doubt that Xida's father might have been married and had children in the Guizi country before his death, and had a disguised family.
The only thing he didn't know was maybe why the man whose name he didn't even know lost his life.
"Should we go to Khabarovsk to satisfy our curiosity?" Suisui whispered into Wei Ran's ear.
"Don't go there for now."
Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "Let Alili and the others plaster the tombstone in the dry toilet with cement later."
"Why?" Suisui asked in confusion.
"The fact that Mr. Yin Saifu can give five thousand dollars to his sister Xida is enough to show that the Japanese have been fooled."
Wei Ran paused and simply changed to just them They continued in Chinese that they could understand, "So if it comes out that you changed the stone tablet into a toilet urinal, it might cause unnecessary trouble to Yin Saifu. After all, Xida's son is still in Jiji." Ma’s subordinate is my younger brother.”
“That’s right.”
Suisui Yi.He sighed regretfully, "I'm going to do what your friend did and burn a pig to ashes and send it back to that little devil."
"What do you think the son of the prisoner of war named Huajing will do?" "I don't care whether the ashes you send back are his father's ashes or pig's ashes"
"What do you mean?" Suisui looked at Wei Ran in confusion.
"You can just send back a piece of dried shit and tell him that it is his father. I think he would be happy to believe it."
Wei Ran is extremely sober. Said, "For the living, that jar of ashes is a psychological comfort. If you send it, his son will have no regrets. Even if it is not his father's ashes, as long as you don't tell him the truth, his heart will They are all satisfied."
Looking at Suisui who suddenly understood, Wei Ran said with a smile, "So even if it's just a piece of shit, I won't just send it to him. It's a pity that I had to ask for it until my death. I didn't tell him that I had found it, or that I hadn't found it, or even told him where the tombstone was taken."
"Wei Ran. Comrade, what you said makes sense."
Suisui patted Wei Ran on the shoulder seriously, "You little comrade has great ideas and a bright future. I will cultivate you well."< /p>
"Speak nicely"
Wei Ran angrily pulled away the other party's paws covered with dog hair, and smoothly lifted the belly-up puppy on the other party's knee to him on the legs.
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