War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1852 Ice Breaking Session
"You. What are you going to do?"

In the underground parking lot, the three girls who were trapped switched to Japanese and tried to stay calm and asked. The one who was protected in the middle seemed to have already put her hand into her bag, ready to take something out.

"Are you sure it's really them?"

Sui Sui asked curiously, "And the oldest of them is really 21 years old? Why do I feel like they are about the same age as Xinda?"

"It does seem that the ages don't match, but..."

“Ding! Ding!”

Before Wei Ran could finish his words, an Alpha car not far away suddenly honked its horn. Then, the door of the Alpha was pushed open from the inside, and a tall, long-haired woman dressed in black, with a baseball cap and a black mask on her head got out.

What's more interesting is that in one hand, this woman was holding a crackling, sparking electric shock device, and in her other hand, she was holding a belt.
Did she pull out her belt? A case of chuunibyou or a habitual street brawler?
Wei Ran was almost amused by his own imagination. As for danger? There was no danger at all.

"If you are fans of He Girls, it would be a shame to stop them in this way."

Before the woman holding a belt in one hand and a stun gun in the other could finish her words, Marta had already retreated to a distance, holding Sui Sui in one hand and Lu Xinda, who looked excited and eager to fight, in the other. She then picked up two mops with great skill and clamped the door handles of the two electromagnetic doors.

This action of hers undoubtedly made the black-clad woman, who was already on guard, more alert. However, almost at this moment, Wei Ran had already taken a few steps closer and said directly in Chinese, "We are from China, and we are here for these things."

As he spoke, he took out a photo of one of the threatening letters from his mobile phone, held it flat in his hand, and showed it to the other party from a distance.

“How did you find this?”

The girl realized she had let the cat out of the bag halfway through her words, and quickly changed the subject, "I don't know what this is, but how did you get into this underground garage?"

"Okay, since you don't know, I'll call the police."

Wei Ran said, and took back his phone. He deliberately asked loudly in Chinese, "Marta, what is the police phone number for the recruitment?"

"110," Marta, who had already started learning Chinese, answered quickly.

"Please wait a moment"

At this point, the girl who subconsciously answered Wei Ran's question in Chinese and accidentally let the cat out of the bag suddenly panicked and said, "Please don't."

“We have no ill intentions”

Wei Ran simply put away his phone and said, "I'm not here to worry about Hirano Haruto's life or death. I'm a historian.

I came here this time to ask you what historical truth you need to tell with the help of that fat otaku Hirano Yoto, the historical truth about Zhang Taichuan and Hirano Daisho. "

After Wei Ran finished speaking, the woman in black holding the belt and the stun gun was stunned. She didn't expect the other party to be so direct, so she subconsciously asked in Chinese with a slight Shanghai accent, "Are all Chinese people so direct?"

"You can also consider it as sincerity." Wei Ran spread his hands, "How about at least putting away your stun gun and belt?"

Hearing this, the woman hesitated for a moment, then turned off the electric shock device in her hand and put it in the pocket of her black jeans. Then, she put her belt back on her pants without any image and said, "Let's go to another place to talk. Please let them go. Also, my car can't accommodate so many people."

"Let's take your car!" Sui Sui, who was eager to hear gossip, said immediately and put her arm around Wei Ran.

"Aren't you afraid of danger?" Wei Ran and the woman in black asked the same question in unison.

"With you here, what am I afraid of?"

After Sui Sui gave the reason as a matter of course, she immediately asked enthusiastically, "Should we each introduce ourselves? Also, how come you all know Chinese? Are you Mao, the owner of this bar?"

It was obvious that Sui Sui's three questions immediately made the other party dizzy, so that she seemed a little panicked for a moment.

Even so, she still gave an answer, "My name is Chihiro Musashi, Mao is my mother, and she is indeed the owner of this bar. Please get in the car."

Hearing this, Wei Ran grabbed Sui Sui, who was subconsciously about to continue the conversation, and got into the last row of the black Alpha first.

A moment later, the three young girls dressed like little cakes also got in. Sui Sui especially noticed that the twins chose to sit in front of her, while the other one got into the passenger seat.

"Are you really from China?"

Without even waiting for the car door to close, the twins sitting in the front turned around and asked the same question in unison, "Does every city in China really have giant pandas?"

"Forehead"

Sui Sui thought for a moment and answered seriously, "Indeed, there are some in every city, and they have to learn Kung Fu, which takes at least 12 years!"

"I told you they would know Kung Fu!" one of them immediately cheered proudly.

"Stop being stupid, you two."

Musashi Chihiro, who was driving, said helplessly, "They are still young, please don't mislead them."

"I will be more sincere from now on, and I hope Miss Musashi can be more sincere." Sui Sui said, "Which question should we start with? Or how about we ask each other questions?"

“Questions to each other?”

Musashi Chihiro thought about it and directly asked the question that concerned her most, "How did you find us and me?"

"Through some conventional and legal technical means. Sorry, this is a trade secret." Sui Sui answered seriously.

Although Chihiro Musashi has a cool style, she is an honest child and said as a matter of course, "It's your turn."

"How come you all speak Chinese? And you all have a Shanghai accent?" Sui Sui asked what she was curious about before Wei Ran opened his mouth.

"My mom taught me that, and so did they."

After answering, Musashi Chihiro immediately asked her second question, "What are you going to do here?"

Seeing Sui Sui looking at him, Wei Ran said, "I have already given the answer to this question. You can actually change it."

"Giant Panda"

"Shut up!" The two people sitting in the passenger seat said in unison, asking the twins behind them to swallow the stupid question they were about to ask.

"How much do you know about Zhang Taichuan and Hirano Daisho?" Musashi Chihiro asked a key question that was difficult to answer.

"A lot, and a little."

Wei Ran gave an ambiguous answer, "This is also the reason why we came here. I need to verify each other and find out the truth, otherwise... Otherwise, the memoirs left by Hirano Daisho will become the historical truth."

"It's your turn to ask," Chihiro Musashi said seriously, pushing back the right to ask questions.

"Can you introduce them to me?" Sui Sui once again grabbed the opportunity to ask questions, but Wei Ran didn't care. They were just getting started and needed some topics to break the ice.

"The twins are Hoshino Shion and Hoshino Kanon. These are their names translated into Chinese." Musashi Chihiro pointed to the co-pilot, "She is Musashi Chizuru."

"I'm Hoshino Shion!" A little girl sitting in front of Wei Ran said.

"I'm Hoshino Kanon, my older sister." The little girl sitting in front of Sui Sui asked directly, "What about you? What's your name?"

"Okay, that's the question we want to ask." Chihiro Musashi said with a hint of helplessness.

After a few words of exchange, both Wei Ran and Sui Sui had already realized that the girl in black who was responsible for driving seemed to be a little too obedient to the rules.

"Let me introduce you!"

As Sui Sui spoke, she first introduced herself, then introduced Wei Ran, and mentioned his "several achievements" by the way.

"It's you?!"

As expected, Wei Ran was somewhat well-known. At least the driver, Musashi Chihiro, obviously knew him. She even slowed down and parked the car on the side of the road after it had just driven out of the underground parking lot. Then she turned around and knelt in the driver's seat, hugged the seat back and turned on the reading light. After a thorough identification, she exclaimed, "Is it really you?!"

"You know me?" Wei Ran said, and looked at Sui Sui beside him proudly.

"of course I know"

Musashi Chihiro said, "The girls around you are all very beautiful, Mr. Wei Ran, could you introduce them to me? I am a professional manager..."

"Stop, stop, wait a minute, do you know that's why I do this?" Wei Ran asked amidst the laughter that Su Su was trying hard to hold back.

"if not?"

Musashi Chihiro asked as a matter of course, "It's a complete waste for those beautiful girls to be around you. They can totally..."

"stop"

Wei Ran had to stop the other party, "Don't try to change the subject with this kind of thing, we are here to talk about those threatening letters."

Seeing that she couldn't get away with it, Musashi Chihiro simply gave up, sat back down, and drove the car while continuing to drive them on their way, saying, "I admit that we sent those threatening letters."

"Do the three of them have a share?" Sui Sui asked subconsciously, "Are you adults?"

"Of course we are adults. We are already 18 years old."

The twins said in unison, "Chizuru is already 19 years old, and Chihiro is even..."

"Stop talking, you two big mouths," Chizuru Musashi who was sitting in the passenger seat reminded helplessly.

“Of course I’m an adult too.”

Chihiro Musashi, who was driving, continued, "I am already 22 years old, and I just graduated from Kyoto University with a degree in law last year.

Chizuru and the Hoshino sisters are both students at Kyoto University of Arts."

"Ms. Musashi, stop trying to change the subject."

Wei Ran reminded with a hint of helplessness. He had already seen that this girl was a complete rookie. She was even awkward in changing the subject.

After he finished speaking, the car fell into a brief silence.

"It seems that you all had a hand in sending the threatening letter."

Wei Ran said this and looked at Sui Sui. Now that the real culprit had undoubtedly been found, the next key point would be how to make these girls let down their guard.

There is no doubt that Sui Sui is better at this than Wei Ran. That is why, after the two looked at each other, Sui Sui said, "Why don't we talk about the issue of mutual trust first."

Before Chihiro Musashi, who was driving, could say anything, Suo Suo said bluntly, “We want to know the true historical situation and possibly make it into a movie.

Secondly, the threatening letter should be treated as if it never happened. Thirdly, our goal this time is not only to restore history, but also to find Zhang Taichuan and reunite him with his family. "

"We have found Jang Tae-cheon's son"

Wei Ran added, “In addition, no matter what kind of character Hirano Daisho is in the historical stories you know, Hirano Yoto, who was threatened by you, is now a popular cartoonist. He wants to draw the story of his great-grandfather Hirano Daisho into a cartoon.

So if you don't tell him the truth, then he can only paint according to the description in his grandfather's memoirs."

After another round of silence, Musashi Chihiro sighed and said, "We'll be at our home soon. Can I take a look at the memoirs left by Hirano Daisho first?"

"Of course," Wei Ran nodded happily, "I brought the manuscript."

"If you don't mind, you can stay at our house today. After I finish reading the manuscript of Hirano Daisho's memoirs, can we talk about everything about Zhang Taichuan?" Musashi Chihiro asked very earnestly.

"No problem." Wei Ran nodded and agreed to the other party's arrangement. He must have enough patience in this matter.

After reaching a temporary verbal agreement, Su Su immediately started chatting with them about family matters.

It was through these few words, as well as the seemingly casual questions that Wei Ran asked from time to time, and the answers he got with the tacit cooperation of Sui Sui, that Wei Ran had a general understanding of these four girls.

Simply put, the twins Hoshino Shion and Hoshino Kanon are the grandchildren of Hoshino Gentaro, and Musashi Chizuru, who is sitting in the passenger seat, is the grandchild of Musashi Chiyoko.

Wei Ran already knew all this from the Metal Book. Chihiro Musashi, who was not mentioned in the Metal Book, was actually the eldest daughter of Ichiro Hoshino and the great-granddaughter of Sachiko Musashi!

Combining the fragmentary information obtained indirectly and Wei Ran's guess, it seems that this Musashi Sachiko was already pregnant when she returned to Zhaohe from Yinni in 1953.

Wasn't her husband dead at the time? So whose child was it?
Even if he asked Chihiro Musashi directly, he probably wouldn't get an answer. And before he could decide whether to ask this question, the black Alpha and the white Alpha driven by Marta drove to a Japanese-style courtyard that looked almost unchanged from the past, and occupied the only two parking spaces.

"This is our home, please come with us." Musashi Chihiro said as she pushed open the car door.

Under their guidance, Wei Ran, Sui Sui and the girls, each carrying their small luggage, walked through the wooden door that Wei Ran was very familiar with and entered the courtyard which had hardly changed from the past.

just
Wei Ran sighed silently, then took a deep breath. He was already looking forward to it.

I look forward to seeing whether that unique recruiter can change some other recruiters by setting an example for them.

He believed that she must have done it, at least just one.

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