Rebirth of the Flying Era

Du Fei was also a little anxious in his heart.

While listening to Lao Yang's words, he picked up the top diary.

When I opened the cover, I saw two messages written in Japanese on the title page, with Nohara Hiroshi's signature underneath.

The handwriting of the signature was exactly the same as the diary in Du Fei's hand.

Turn the page.

The date of the first diary entry is Thursday, December 7, 1944. The weather was snowy...

Although the diary is written entirely in Japanese, "Taiyuan" is mentioned several times, indicating that Nohara Hiroshi should still be in Shanxi at this time.

Du Fei just glanced briefly.

He was not interested in what Nohara Hiroshi, a Japanese devil, did every day.

Turn directly to the pages that Lao Yang said were torn out.

These torn-out diaries are not coherent, and the earliest entry is from June 6, 1945.

And to Du Fei's surprise, these torn-out diaries have been translated!

However, it is not a complete translation, but only some Japanese hiragana and katakana words are translated, with Chinese characters directly marked on them.

Although this kind of translation is not fluent, the meaning can be roughly understood.

Du Fei estimated that Fan Ming was the one who tried to find someone to translate.

He was afraid of revealing the secret of the treasure, so he only cut out the words and showed them to others.

It's a pity that his behavior can only cover up the truth.

At this time, anyone who can translate Japanese is not a smart person. I am afraid it won’t take a few times to guess what he is going to do.

But Du Fei was too lazy to guess what happened at that time.

Simply take these diaries and read them carefully.

In June 1945, there were only more than two months left before Japan surrendered.

At this time, Germany in Europe had surrendered unconditionally.

As a senior Japanese military officer stationed in China, Sumita Raishiro has realized that failure is inevitable.

Begin to transfer the wealth collected over the years to the country.

Nohara Hiroshi, as his confidant and a descendant of his close family friend, also participated in it.

According to Nohara Hiroshi's diary, Sumita Raishiro's treasures were loaded into three trucks and divided into three batches.

The convoy plans to start from Taiyuan, pass through the capital, go to Tianjin Port, be transshipped and shipped, and finally be transported to Ehime Prefecture of Shikoku Island, the hometown of Sumita Raishiro...

Du Fei quickly read these diaries of Nohara Hiroshi.

I finally have a clearer understanding of the ins and outs of Sumita Raishiro’s treasures.

Although North China was still a Japanese war zone at that time, after Germany surrendered, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the Japanese were like grasshoppers after autumn and could not survive for a few days.

The puppet soldiers and traitors who had been keeping their peace and contented themselves had other thoughts and no longer obeyed the Japanese.

In addition, wealth and silk are attractive to people.

It was really not that easy for Sumita Raishiro to transport these seven truckloads of fine gold and silver from Shanxi back to Japan.

For insurance purposes, the entire fleet was divided into three batches.

Two in the front, two in the middle, and three in the last batch.

If we set off two days apart, even if something happens to one of the groups, the entire army will not be wiped out.

Based on Nohara Hiroshi's diary.

On July 21, 1945, the first two trucks set off from Taiyuan and were mixed into a transport convoy of a chamber of commerce.

The journey turned out to be very smooth, passing through Beijing and Tianjin and then directly onto the ship.

And twelve days later, it successfully arrived at Matsuyama Port in Ehime Prefecture.

But in the next two groups of convoys starting on the 23rd and 25th, they were not so lucky.

The general situation is similar to what Du Fei had grasped before.

The second batch of two trucks were blocked in Tianjin.

The third batch of three trucks was trapped in a warehouse near the Lumi warehouse in Beijing, and all the treasures were eventually lost.

The treasures that Gu Bingzhong, Lou Hongyi, and Fan Ming are looking for are the belongings of these three trucks.

It is a pity that although Nohara Hiroshi participated in the concentration from beginning to end, he was also in the third batch of evacuation convoys at the end.

But after his convoy was trapped in the capital, he decisively chose to escape alone.

At this point, his diary came to an abrupt end.

I don’t know if it’s because he lost his luggage and changed his diary, or if he’s simply dead.

However, after reading these diaries, Du Fei finally understood why Fan Ming searched so hard but found nothing in the end.

Because these diaries actually do not record the real key information.

The real reason why Sumita's three truckloads of treasures have not been found so far is not that the Japanese hid them somewhere.

In fact, as early as Japan's unconditional surrender, someone found the cargo boxes pulled by the three trucks in the warehouse near Lumicang.

What’s really amazing is that when people hurriedly opened these cargo boxes, they found that they were actually empty inside!

Therefore, Fan Ming thought that he could find the so-called treasure with these diaries.

However, this diary is not completely worthless to Du Fei.

At least this is first-hand information, which can confirm that the so-called 'treasure' is not groundless.

Another point is that it is certain that at least before Hiroshi Nohara escaped, the three trucks of treasure were still there.

Because he wrote in his diary that he secretly pried open one of the wooden cargo boxes and stole ten large yellow croakers from inside.

And described the process in detail in the diary.

He moved the weight of the box to determine what was inside.

The lighter ones must be calligraphy and painting antiques.

Although these things were valuable, they were of little use at the time.

If Nohara Hiroshi wants to run away, gold bars are the most reliable option.

So he only looked for those particularly heavy wooden boxes and pried open one of them. Sure enough, it was full of gold bars!

This diary is from August 2nd.

It was the sixth day that the convoy was trapped in the capital.

There is still half a month until the Japanese Emperor announces his unconditional surrender on August 15th.

Comparing what Gu Bingzhong said when he invited him to dinner last time, on August 21, 1945, the capital was liberated.

In late September, the then-juntong BJ Station found the cargo boxes hidden in the warehouse.

But after opening it, it was empty, and some of the boxes were found to have been gnawed by rats...

In other words, in the two months between Nohara Hiroshi's departure on August 2 and the end of September, these treasures suddenly disappeared!

Du Fei's brain was spinning rapidly, sorting out the currently known intelligence information.

Although the puzzle pieces of the whole thing have gradually become clearer.

But as the ultimate goal, the whereabouts of the treasures remain a mystery.

What happened in those two months twenty years ago? In whose hands did those treasures fall?

Du Fei still has no clue.

Fortunately, he didn't have high expectations from the beginning, and he couldn't say how disappointed he was.

Du Fei had some free time and expressed his gratitude to Lao Yang.