On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Wei Ran came to visit Chen Guangling, who was half a master, with a gift.

"Where is Luo Xiang?"

Wei Ran put down the souvenir and followed Chen Guangling to the upstairs while asking.

"I'm going to Sui Xin's house to celebrate the Lantern Festival"

Chen Guangling responded, "I said I would go around the country by the way, and I guess I won't be back until the first month of the year."

"You won't go out and go around?"

"Why am I doing that light bulb? My wife has also returned to her parents' home, so it's rare to be quiet."

Chen Guangling laughed and said, "Come to the piano room, I'm enjoying your bed with the secluded spring while they are away."

Upon hearing this, Wei Ran smiled and followed the topic, "When it comes, I will bring you a song this time."

"What song?" Chen Guangling asked with interest. He would not underestimate this young man.

"You will know later," Wei Ran said as if he was keeping a secret, but in fact he didn't know what the song was.

After talking about the topic, the two of them had already walked into the piano room.

Wei Ran was not polite to the other party, and changed the round-mouthed cloth shoes prepared by the other party and sat down at the piano table where Youquan was placed. He played the song taught to him without any preparation.

After the song, Wei Ran held the strings and looked at Chen Guangling sitting opposite him.

"As strong as the wind, as fast as the thunder."

Chen Guangling sighed, "This is Fenglei Instinct, which is different from the Fenglei Instinct I have heard of. The Fenglei Instinct I have ever heard of, but I can still hear that this is Fenglei Instinct."

"That's Feng Lei," Wei Ran just smiled, but did not intend to continue to extend the topic.

"This song Feng Lei Yin, like the Guangling San and Jiuman you played before, is a version I have never heard of before."

Chen Guangling poured tea while saying in a joke, "I doubt whether you played these songs by yourself..."

"Learned by chance"

Wei Ran said calmly without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, and also took the small teacup handed to him by the other party.

Upon hearing this, Chen Guangling wisely stopped asking questions, and instead talked about the achievements made by his son Chen Luoxiang and his satisfaction with Sui Xin. It was not until the end that he asked, "Where are you and Sui Sui? When are you planning to go to the Russian side?"

"It is estimated that it will be after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month at the earliest."

Wei Ran said apologetically, "I can't stay for too long today, I have to go to the high-speed train later."

"It is a good thing for young people to be busy with their own affairs"

Chen Guangling said gently, "And I am satisfied to hear this song Fenglei today."

Taking advantage of this topic, Wei Ran and Chen Guangling, two friends who had forgotten each other, drank tea and spent the whole morning. Then he said goodbye and left, and drove to the high-speed rail station.

He made an appointment with Xia Shusei and others to meet tomorrow, and the reason why he set the meeting place in Hangzhou was actually because he had other different ideas.

While rushing to the road, Wei Ran finally had time to take out the backpack sent by the Japanese who brought by Xia Shushi before the New Year, took out the thick stack of manuscripts from it, and started reading it from the catalog.

Even from an objective perspective, Hirano Daisuke, who wrote this memoir manuscript, seemed to have not reflected much on war in his heart. Of course, there was not much praise for war and his enthusiasm for licking yellow.

In this memoir, Daisuke Hirano looks at the war from a slightly strange perspective.

Or rather, he has been looking at the war from the perspective of a businessman.

Hirano Daisuke has an older brother, sister and sister at home. Of course, she also has a widowed mother and a wife who is a sister to her sister-in-law.

In his words, his brother Taro Hirano was an excellent businessman and always was his role model. Even when his family got better, it was after his brother started running the rice business.

Before that, even their family even had a full stomach a problem that they often worry about.

It is precisely because of this that Hirano Daisuke regards his brother as a role model. If there was no war, he might have become his brother's business assistant.

But later, the war began, and Hirano Daisuke became a soldier in the Osaka Division.

For a long time since then, Hirano Daisuke was repeating how he went from being a big-headed soldier to the position of chief of the commander, and how his brother was moved when he learned about this.

After skipping a long paragraph of nonsense in the middle, Hirano Daisuke in his memoir followed the Osaka Division to Shencheng as the chief officer.

Due to the work of the chief clerk, he was assigned to an interpreter. The translator did his best and took him to many places during this period and experienced many things, so he often wondered whether they could make greater profits if there was no war or through business methods.

Continue to look back, there is another period of time recording everything he saw and experienced in Shencheng. These memories include food, foreigners from all over the world, various women, expatriates and Chinese.

He even mentioned in particular that he fell in love with a dancer from Poland, and his translator sent the dancer to his bed the next day.

It was also during these trivial matters that his sister Hirano Ao came to Shencheng, China as a nurse.

He also found that his translator seemed to have a crush on his sister, but he didn't care about it.

He believed that his sister would not like such a "man who was like a wild dog who was waving his tail and begging for mercy."

It seems that it was since his sister came to Shencheng that his translator Kawaguchi Kiyoshi began to pull him into some "dangerous businesses".

But because of the dancer who is raised in the hotel, in order to make his sister Hirano Aoi live a better life, Hirano Daisu has fully utilized the "racial talent" of Osaka people.

Soon, he pulled up two of his friends, deducted some scarce medicines and seized weapons through various names, and sold them to the local gangs in Shencheng through his translation.

Although this business is particularly dangerous, it also made Hirano Aoi save a lot of property for him, her brother, and by the way, his evaluation of his translation has become a "reliable Kawaguchi Jun".

In this part, Wei Ran reads the transaction in particular.

But I don’t know if I am worried that this memoir will cause trouble to my friends or that I am worried that I will cause trouble to myself.

Therefore, not only did his memoirs not mention the names of the two accomplices from beginning to end, but he did not even write down the time, location and quantity of any transaction in detail.

Correspondingly, he used vague descriptions such as "I remember once", "Another time", "some injections" and so on in these memories.

"The caution of businessmen..."

Wei Ran muttered vaguely, continued to turn back a few pages and made a physical "fast forward" and finally found the relevant description of Hirano Daisuke's when he was about to leave Shencheng.

In this passage, his translation of Kawaguchi Goodwill has become "my most trustworthy friend and business partner."

Before leaving China, Hirano Dasu "has been an absolutely generous salary" to hire "my most trustworthy friend and business partner" as his sister Hirano Aoi's "translator and bodyguard".

He even donated the ancestral fuse of his ancestral fame to Kawaguchi Kiyoshi, "My Most Trusted Friend and Business Partner".

The latter also swears, "I will use my life to protect Miss Hirano Aoi."

Although this description, which has already been second in the second place, Wei Ran almost entered the text version of slow motion and memory killing, in fact, when he turned to the next page, the whole article was full of curses about "my most trustworthy friend and business partner" and concerns about his sister.

Of course, there is also the "bad news" he learned when he accidentally encountered "Kawaguchi Goodwill" in his 25 years of recruiting nuclear weapons.

Continue to look back and see that the next memories have become the part where he was transferred to the Flying Funeral, Wei Ran also quickly goes forward again and finally finds Hirano Daisuke and decide to set off to look for Kawaguchi Kenyan and his sister Hirano Ao.

By the way, he also mentioned that his mother, brother, sister-in-law and nephew died in the US bombing of Osaka in 1945, while his sister was "deadly killed" in Saipan before that.

It is precisely because of this that he has to find his only remaining relatives no matter what.

"We are really destined to be together..." Wei Ran muttered vaguely and continued to read with an unconcealed smile.

In the later description, Hirano Daisuke went through a long preparation before rushing to the ink, but when he followed the address, he only found the hilt of the knot that he gave Kawaguchi to kindness and the comb of his sister Hirano Ao.

Although these are almost inconsistent with what Xia Soseki said before the New Year, Wei Ran still noticed a detail.

In the description of the hilt of the hibiscus, Hirano Daisuke's statement is "This hibiscus, which symbolizes the glory of the Hirano family, has been artificially broken. Is it because my sister doesn't plan to see me? Otherwise, why would she not even want the comb left to her by her mother?"

Was it broken by man?

Wei Ran temporarily put the manuscript aside, took out the handle of the knife from his bag, and carefully observed the broken fork for the first time.

“It’s really…”

Wei Ran muttered inwardly that there were obvious signs of annealing after heating and traces of being chiseled when in the red state.

Throwing the handle of the fringe knife back into his bag, Wei Ran picked up the manuscript again and read it back. However, what he had not expected was that the subsequent description only lasted until he returned to Osaka in disheartened manner, and decided to save money to search in Shencheng and then ended abruptly.

Apparently, he died, in that perhaps an unexpected fire.

Putting this memoir manuscript that could only be roughly flipped back into the Japanese cowhide backpack, Wei Ran picked up the album and read it carefully.

Most of the photos taken in this album are photos of Hirano Daisu and his sister or single photos.

Fortunately, he found a photo of Kawaguchi Kiyoshi or "Zhang Taichuan" here.

In this photo, Kawaguchi Monkey stands on the right hand of Hirano Daisu, while Hirano Aoi stands on his left hand.

However, Wei Ran keenly noticed from the shadows of the three people in the photo that Kawaguchi Kiyoshi seemed to be playing hand in hand with Hirano Ao, behind Hirano Daisuke.

Kawaguchi Goodwill... Zhang Taichuan...

What kind of person are you...

Wei Ran looked at the young man in the photo and thought secretly that from the perspective of his face, whether it was Kawaguchi's kindness or Zhang Taichuan, he might be called a bit "greasy-headed and pink" in today's era, but in that era, he was definitely a handsome young man.

Especially his face doesn't look big. This may be the last photo taken by Hirano Daisuke before leaving China. Zhang Taichuan looked at only twenty-four or twenty-five years old at most.

However, Hirano Aoi looks younger, and it is probably good to be 20 years old.

At this point, Wei Ran still believes in his own vision, especially this large-size group photo was indeed very clear.

I continued to look back and forth through the album. The second half was mostly tropical scenes, and in the last part of the photos, there was a scorched earth cityscape and a tree burned with only one meter high trunk.

Daisu Hirano even took a photo next to the charred trunk.

Then later, the dead trees in the photo began to sprout, and there was a building next to it, with the sign on it saying "Hirano Home Sakuraya". This is also the last photo in this album.
To be continued...