Of course, it wouldn't matter if he didn't return the favor. He even had a hunch that if the favor wasn't returned, the second generation might be even happier.

"There are so many tricks in this city..." Wei Ran joked to himself, and at the same time, he stepped on the accelerator slightly to increase the speed.

In the next few days, except for going back and forth between the hotel and the small company from 9 to 5, focusing on picking up Suisui and others who had no idea what they were planning, Wei Ran spent the rest of his time on

In Chen Guangling's piano shop.

It was through the exchange with this piano fanatic that Wei Ran finally knew that the piece he learned on New Year's Eve was called "Lie Zi Yu Feng".

However, Wei Ran held back his energy this time and just played a short section pretending to be unfamiliar, for fear that the other party would hear something extraordinary from the music he played like last year.

Of course, in addition to working as drivers and playing the piano to cultivate their sentiments, the girls headed by Suisui, while working hard to lose weight, would also occasionally create various projects and take the high-speed train back to their grandma's house with Wei Ran.

At this time, the weight loss plans of these girls are undoubtedly suspended time and time again due to force majeure.

Time flies to a week later, on the 16th of the first lunar month, Zhou Shujin and Professor Alexei finally end their vacation and board a flight to Volgograd. On the same day, Jima's family and Maya finally end their vacation.

After more than a month of traveling in China, Wei Ran and others saw him off and boarded a flight to Kazan.

"How is the investigation of your friend's case going?"

On the way back to the hotel in the city from the airport, Suisui yawned and asked, "We are almost busy here. If your affairs are over, we should prepare to return to Kazan."

"Just wait two more days."

Wei Ran answered ambiguously. Ever since he took over the courtyard in the suburbs of Beijing a week ago, Xia Shushi's phone calls have been unreachable. Not only the phone calls, but even the messages sent by WeChat seemed to be lost in the sea, without even a punctuation mark.

Brought back.

"Then wait two more days."

Suisui responded indifferently, and then said, "We must go back before the end of the month. There will be a large number of tourists going to Inta on March 1st, and there will also be a team of guinea pigs visiting Maya's house. We must go back to Kakarta."

Just keep an eye on it from the other side of the mountain."

"Then buy a ticket for the end of the month."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the mobile phone used as a navigation system rang. He lowered his head and glanced at the incoming call, but Wei Ran frowned. The number of the call was not a common mobile phone number or landline number in China, but more like

Unknown number on satellite phone.

After a slight hesitation, Weiran finally pulled over and pressed the answer button.

"It's me, Xia Shushi." As soon as the call was connected, the person on the other side identified himself.

"If you don't call me again, I'm going to Russia."

Wei Ran paused, winked at Suisui, who was in the passenger seat, then opened the door, changed seats with the other person, and kept saying, "What's going on with you? It's been a week, and I can't get through WeChat on the phone."

I won’t bring them back either.”

"Don't mention it"

Xia Shushi on the other end of the phone said helplessly, "Early in the morning on the seventh day of the first lunar month, I was dragged by that beast to cut off the electricity supply. The hellish place we are staying in now not only has no signal, but even electricity is a problem.

And satellite phone Internet access is extremely expensive.”

"Have you looked for clues about the helmet?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "Did you find anything?"

"What do you mean, I found it, but I didn't find it either."

After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he fell silent, obviously trying to organize his words. Seeing this, Wei Ran did not rush him, but patiently waited for the other party's explanation.

Fortunately, within five or six seconds, Xia Shushi continued, "First of all, we found the daughter-in-law of the bed and breakfast owner who ran away. That woman was considered a gangster. On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, she was deported.

When we go back, the second generation and I came here with her."

"Aren't you two afraid of being caught and raped?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.

"No problem, who dares to touch our waist?"

Xia Shushi said nonchalantly, "Anyway, we followed the girl and found her home. It was a small village called Manton, which is where we are now. There are less than a hundred households here."

"You keep talking"

When Wei Ran saw the other party stop, he couldn't help but urge. By the way, he also took the opportunity to turn on the speakerphone and adjust the volume to the maximum. Then he snapped his fingers at Anfiya, who was sitting in the back row, and motioned for the latter to hand over the tablet.

Came over.

Xia Shushi on the other end of the phone lit a cigarette and continued puffing away, "We went through that little wife's house. Their wooden house was almost demolished and rebuilt by the second generation."

"Then what? What did you find?" Wei Ran once again reminded the other party of the important points, and at the same time opened the memo on the tablet.

"Except for a British 77 rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition found in the ceiling of the cowshed, there was nothing else."

Xia Shushi paused again, and then continued, "And the most important thing is that the little wife's family has no idea where these things come from."

"What do you mean by this?" Wei Ran asked in confusion.

"To put it simply, according to the little daughter-in-law and her father, their family fled here during the food shortage in 1967.

This house originally belonged to a distant uncle of the young daughter-in-law's father. Although the blood relationship between the two parties was very thin, the old man still took in the family.

However, the old gentleman passed away in the 1980s, and the house he lived in was turned into a utility room, and the downstairs was turned into a cowshed. The rifle I just mentioned, and the

The things the B&B owner brought back were all found in the utility room above the cowshed."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Having said this in one breath, Xia Shushi took two puffs of cigarette, and then continued, "Although we only found a rifle and bullets in their house, there are many local people."

There are few legends and traces about the expeditionary force.”

"Tell me more details?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"First of all, there are quite a few American ten-wheel trucks in this village. Of course, almost none of them are usable and most of them are wrecks."

Xia Shushi smiled and added, "And I discovered that there are several stoves here that are modified from the wheels of American ten-wheel trucks. Even the troughs for feeding pigs and sheep are made of tires from ten-wheel trucks.

of."

"What else?" Seeing that the other party had stopped here, Wei Ran had no choice but to ask again.

"well"

Xia Shushi sighed inexplicably, "I heard the oldest blind man in this village say that he had known since he was a child that during World War II, there used to be a field hospital near this village, and there were almost a thousand expeditionary troops at that time.

The wounded are recovering in this field hospital.

But later, the expeditionary force stationed here abandoned all the cars and heavy equipment and either blew them up, set them on fire, or pushed them directly into the water.

Then they hiked into Savage Mountain, and the more than a thousand wounded, in order not to drag down the larger army, chose to commit mass suicide."

"What did you say?!" Wei Ran frowned immediately.

"Yes, mass suicide and self-immolation. Although there is no official record of this incident on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, it was indeed mentioned in the book "The Yunnan-India-Myanmar War During the Anti-Japanese War", which is considered a memoir. In May 1942

On the 14th, the headquarters of the 5th Expeditionary Force and the main force of the 65th Regiment, as well as about 1,500 wounded soldiers, stationed in a village called Mo.

It was only after I heard the old blind man mention mass suicide that I realized that the village translated as Manton was probably the village of Mo mentioned in the book."

After Xia Shushi finished speaking, he sighed again, "According to the old blind man, these wounded who committed suicide were buried near the pagoda in this village."

"Who buried those expeditionary soldiers who committed suicide?" Wei Ran subconsciously grasped the key question.

"According to the old blind man, it was the monks who practiced in that pagoda at that time. Moreover, it seems that only the monks who once practiced in that pagoda knew about the suicide of the wounded soldiers of the expedition. The villagers in this village did not know about it.

matter."

"So the old blind man you just mentioned was a monk in that pagoda?"

"It's not just him"

Xia Shushi didn't say until this moment, "The little daughter-in-law's father's distant uncle is also a monk in that pagoda. But this old blind man was born after the end of World War II. When he was young, he grew up as an old man who served the pagoda.

What I heard from the monk’s mouth.”

"Now that Buddha..."

"It has been abandoned for a long time. There are no monks inside. Even the head of the Buddha statue inside is not original."

Xia Shushi said regretfully, "Not only is the monk gone, the second son and I, as well as the helpers he hired, have been busy around the pagoda for two full days and still haven't found the bones of the expeditionary force. Our deepest pit has been filled with

After digging for more than two meters, water began to seep from the bottom of the pit, but no bones were found."

"so..."

"I'm wondering if you have any ideas. Regardless of me or the Second World War, we not only want to unlock the secret of the helmet, but we also want to know whether there are any expeditionary soldiers who committed suicide buried here."

Xia Shushi paused for a moment before saying, "Of course, it would be best if you have time to come over. If you don't have enough time, you can provide some ideas. We have reached a deadlock here."

Hearing this, Wei Ran subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Suisui, who was concentrating on driving. The latter didn't say anything after feeling his gaze. He just pretended to sit up straight and stretched out his hand to hit his lower back.

Seeing this, Wei Ran turned off the screen of his tablet and said, "Well, first send me the photo of the pagoda. If you have an aerial video of the village, send it too, and I'll think about it."

"Then you have to wait," Xia Shushi said helplessly, "I have never experienced such a slow Internet speed when I used an abacus to surf the Internet."

"Stop complaining," Wei Ran thought for a moment and asked, "You won't leave for a while, right?"

"Is that possible?" Xia Shushi answered very simply, "We only went back a week before Qingming Festival."

"That's ok, I'll wait for the photos and videos you send."
Chapter completed!