Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 928 I'll dig this grave first

Ding Dong!

Ding Dong!

This is a private house with a small courtyard located on a street in Midori-ku, Yokohama City, not far from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

As the doorbell rang, soon there was movement behind the milky white painted courtyard gate.

click!
squeak-

The gate was opened to the inside, revealing the face of a woman in her forties.

He looks like a servant.

When Li Jiankun first met Seiji Tsutsumi, Sakurai Kawana, a bank employee who was sent by Old Sun to serve as an interpreter, bowed and greeted him:
"Hello, we would like to visit Professor Tanaka."

"Oh, Professor," said the servant, "he is always at school during the day. You should go there to find him."

"I see," Sakurai Kawana said with a regretful tone, "Today is the weekend, and we thought he was at home. If that's the case, we can visit Mrs. Tanaka."

The servant glanced at her and looked at the three tall men standing behind her:

"What on earth is going on with you guys?"

"It's a very important thing."

Maid: "But it probably won't work if you look for the wife."

Sakurai Kawana: “Why?”

The servant sighed, widened the gap in the gate and made way.

Two minutes later.

Li Jiankun saw a silver-haired old lady with a good temperament in the living room on the first floor of a house. She was sitting on a wooden rocking chair with a dazed look on her face. Her expression did not change much when she saw a stranger visiting.

Li Jiankun finally understood why the servants said that it would be useless for them to contact Mrs. Tanaka.

This old lady suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

"Is this what Tanaka Hayato wants?"

Li Jiankun stared at the old woman in the rocking chair and thought.

From the many small details in the house's layout, it can be seen that the Tanaka couple have a good relationship, and Tanaka Hayato dotes on his wife, who must have been quite beautiful when she was young.

So of course I don’t want her to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, as she might not even recognize herself in the end.

"If this is the request, then... it's all over."

Tanaka Hayato was right, Li Jiankun couldn't do it.

Alzheimer's disease, also known as dementia, is an irreversible degenerative disease of the central nervous system.

The so-called terminal illness that threatens one's life.

Not to mention the 1980s, even in later generations, the medical community is still helpless.

'wrong. '

But in a moment, Li Jiankun realized that this might not be the case.

He can't do it, but Tokyo Yinghua can?
If you want to cure Alzheimer's disease, the best medical resources on this planet are useless. I believe that the knowledgeable Hayato Tanaka still has this simple medical knowledge.

Li Jiankun had to bend down and whisper in Sakurai Kawana's ear for a while.

The latter then said to the servant:

"Auntie, we understand that Professor Tanaka has always had a wish. Do you know about this?"

The servant shook his head without hesitation, indicating that he did not know about it, or perhaps he was unwilling to discuss his employer's secrets.

Li Jiankun stuffed a stack of Japanese yen into the maid's hand without leaving any trace. She was startled and jumped aside in a hurry.

"..."

This is very embarrassing.

Li Jiankun felt a headache. He thought that if he could find Tanaka Hayato's family, he would be able to find out his inner desires. However, who would have thought that the person who should know Tanaka Hayato best in the world actually had Alzheimer's disease.

The servants' ideological awareness is still so high...

"If you have nothing else to do," the servant said, "please make yourselves at home. I will take my wife to the mahjong pavilion shortly."

"Queguan?"

"They all say playing mahjong can help with dementia. The professor asked me to take my wife to the nearest mahjong parlor every day to play. It really works. Although my wife is slow at playing mahjong and we have to pay someone to play with her, she now knows how to play and hasn't forgotten it."

The servant smiled:
"Sometimes, my wife can think of other things while at the card table and become very talkative."

Mahjong in our great country has such a therapeutic effect?!
Li Jiankun's eyes were bright: "We just happen to be free, why don't we let Mrs. Tanaka play mahjong to save the money of hiring someone."

Sakurai Kawana translated his words.

The servant then realized that he was a foreigner: "Isn't this too much trouble?"

"No trouble, no trouble."

At Li Jiankun's signal, Sakurai Kawanama stepped forward to support Mrs. Tanaka, while the Fugui brothers went to open the door while the other called the driver to drive the car to the gate of the yard.

But there is a problem: there is one missing.

The Fugui brothers don't know how to play mahjong. They have been practicing martial arts in a martial arts team since they were young. The discipline is strict and they have never touched mahjong.

Sakurai Kawana does, and according to her, mahjong is extremely popular in Japan and is loved by young people. There are many prize-winning competitions, and many young people choose it as a career.

Li Jiankun had to call Ran Zi over from Ginza.

……

……

Mahjong halls are called "queguan" in Japanese.

The decoration style of this mahjong parlor is obviously Chinese. There is the word "Shanghai" on the billboard outside the door. There are dozens of mahjong tables inside, all of which are occupied.

It's really lively.

People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang generally don't play mahjong, they are busy making money. In Li Jiankun's memory, the only mahjong scene that can be more spectacular than this is what he saw during a trip to Sichuan and Chongqing.

Card tables were set up on the sidewalk, stretching for two miles.

They asked for a private room, and that was the only room left.

Pop, pop, pop!

At the card table, Li Jiankun, Ran Zi and Sakurai Kawana teamed up to feed cards to Mrs. Tanaka.

The old lady was very happy.

His expression was no longer so dull, and he even dared to laugh at the poor skills of the three people.

Li Jiankun was secretly delighted. Seeing that the time was almost right, he was ready to give it a try. He nudged Sakurai Kawana and asked her to do the translation.

At this time, Mrs. Tanaka suddenly said, "I understand you speaking English."

Be nice!

Li Jiankun suddenly thought of his old mother who was far away in the capital, and thought that this had to be arranged. As long as the time was well controlled, it would be of great benefit to the elderly.

"Mrs. Tanaka, I have met Professor Tanaka twice. During our conversations, I discovered that he had a deep-seated wish. I asked him many times, but Professor Tanaka did not know our strength and thought we could not do it, so he refused to tell me.

"That's why I took the liberty of coming to your house and bothering you."

"His wish," Mrs. Tanaka paused holding the cards and sighed, "that's the only one."

Li Jiankun asked: "What?"

"Recover his father's bones."

"Ok?"

As Mrs. Tanaka explained, a sense of hostility suddenly rose from Li Jiankun's chest. The hand holding the cards became extremely strong, causing his knuckles to turn white, as if he was going to crush the tiles.

squeak--

The moment Mrs. Tanaka finished speaking, Li Jiankun also pushed away the soft-backed chair and stood up:

"Farewell!"

After saying that, he led a few people out of the door amid the puzzled expressions of Sakurai Kawana and the Fugui brothers.

"Hey? Don't go. The fight isn't over yet..." a voice came from behind.

The only person who understood why Li Jiankun suddenly left and even looked so cold was Ran Zi.

She not only understands English, but is also familiar with her boss's background.

boom!
Arriving at the curb outside the Queguan Gate, Li Jiankun kicked the right rear tire of his commercial vehicle, and a blue vein on the side of his temple was throbbing.

Sakurai Kawana didn't dare to breathe.

The Fugui brothers were completely confused.

Ran Zi hesitated for a moment, then mustered up the courage to move closer to Li Jiankun, who was smoking heavily, and whispered:
"Maybe he was just an insignificant soldier who was just following orders."

Li Jiankun turned his head and looked at her: "That's also a war criminal!"

"But, when a person dies, it's like a light goes out. What this skeleton can be exchanged for is photoresist, which is of great significance to you and your country-"

"Stop talking!" Li Jiankun shouted, interrupting her.

Ran Zi sighed secretly and didn't dare to speak again.

To be honest, no one in Japan is more likely to accomplish this than the boss.

But the boss's character...

Li Jiankun threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and stepped on it hard with his casual leather shoes, again and again, as if it was some despicable and shameless villain.

He made an important decision:
It’s better not to have Hayato Tanaka’s photoresist technology.

Even if he didn't want to, he wouldn't help let the remains of a war criminal return to his hometown.

There is too much debt that this country has not paid back.

The remains of those heinous men must remain on the land where they committed such heinous crimes.

Atonement!

How old it is!
……

……

This evening, the large Ginza apartment was devoid of its usual laughter and joy.

The atmosphere was extremely depressing.

Everyone sat around the sofa in the living room, but their attention was focused on the floor-to-ceiling windows.

There, Li Jiankun sat in the coffee booth, facing the night outside the window, and had smoked most of a pack of cigarettes.

Zhang Gui whispered, "The boss must be unhappy. Photoresist is what he has been longing for. Coming to Japan to get these core materials for chip manufacturing is his main purpose.

"Now that photoresist technology is in front of us, we cannot use it..."

Ran Zi stuffed a piece of information into Wu Yingxiong's hand.

She thought that in this house, only Mr. Wu could go over and speak without being scolded.

She still believed that as her boss's personal assistant, she needed to give her boss advice at times like this... which might not be correct, but was for the overall benefit.

Wu Yingxiong came to the window and placed the information given to him by Ran Zi next to Li Jiankun.

Li Jiankun, with bloodshot eyes, turned his head and looked at him: "Why, you want to persuade me too?"

Wu Yingxiong shook his head: "I won't advise you, I think you are right. However, Ah Zi's background is different from ours after all. She is just thinking about you wholeheartedly, you can't blame her.

"She carefully compiled this information to tell you: This is not a precedent, and our individual power may not be able to change anything."

Li Jiankun picked up the information at hand.

This information mainly introduces a special group of people called "bone collectors".

During World War II, more than three million Japanese soldiers and civilians died, half of whom died overseas.

In recent years, many civil groups have emerged in Japan and started searching for the remains of Japanese soldiers. These people are called bone collectors, and they are usually funded by major Japanese companies.

This is one of the reasons why Hayato Tanaka wanted to find a large company to transfer technology.

In addition to wanting to promote his research results, Hayato Tanaka also wants to use this big company to recover his father's remains.

Wu Yingxiong said: "You see, even if you don't take action, they still have a chance to get it back, and you will miss out on an important technology."

He paused:

"My opinion is: let Azi check to see who this Tanaka Hayato's father is. If he is just an ordinary soldier or a commoner...

"You can decide then whether it's worth it."

……

……

Ran Zi originally thought that the investigation into Tanaka Hayato's father would definitely not be a quick process.

This is no different from looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, when she gave this instruction to Hong Kong City and the Special Administrative Region as Li Jiankun's personal assistant, she received a call back from Hong Kong City just two hours later.

Now, Ran Zi was holding a stack of information faxed from Hong Kong City, and she felt her scalp tingling.

She suddenly regretted her repeated persuasion yesterday.

However, she has to report the results to her boss.

In an office on the second floor of the Trust Bank, Ran Zi found Li Jiankun tremblingly.

Li Jiankun glanced at the information in her hand and was surprised: "So fast?" Then, he thought of something and raised his eyebrows:

"Still a big shot?"

"……Yes."

Ran Zi handed the information to him.

Li Jiankun picked up the document and just glanced at it casually, and no longer wondered why it was so fast.

Hayato Tanaka's father was named Hisaichi Tanaka.

In the later period of the war of aggression against China, Tanaka Hisaichi was the supreme commander of the Japanese army's invasion of Guangzhou.

In 1941, after the Japanese army occupied the port city.

The Hong Kong city experienced three years and eight months of Japanese rule.

Tanaka Kyuichi was the Governor of Hong Kong at that time.

Of course, Hong Kong City has records of him.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Tanaka Hisaichi was imprisoned in Shanghai and was sentenced to death in both Shanghai and Guangzhou. He was finally executed by firing squad in Guangzhou.

"Humph!"

Li Jiankun's cold snort fell into Ran Zi's ears, causing the latter to tremble slightly.

Li Jiankun continued to read, and veins were clearly visible on his hands holding the documents.

Before executing Tanaka Kyuichi, the Yangcheng Military Court verified the many crimes he had committed in southern China:

For example, in January 2000, when Tanaka attacked Huizhou, he massacred more than civilians; he dispatched six planes to carry out a brutal bombing on a hospital in Huizhou, causing many casualties among patients and doctors.

In July 240, Tanaka sent people to Taishan to extort food, but was resisted by the people. The Japanese army killed more than villagers.

During the attack on Kaiping, the seven captured civilian defenders were massacred and dismembered.

In October of the same year, they captured Mengxu and massacred the captured soldiers of the National Government.

...

Too many to write!

The Japanese army led by Tanaka Hisaichi caused unprecedented damage in South China!

What is shown in the data are only those that were verified at that time. There are who knows how many times more crimes there were because people were silenced and it is difficult to find solid evidence.

For such a serious war criminal, Li Jiankun went to retrieve the bones for him and let his soul return to his hometown?
Don't even think about it!
Snapped!
The information was thrown on the wooden floor, and Li Jiankun felt it was contaminated if he touched it for a few more times.

"Don't mention this matter again."

"Yes."

……

……

Li Jiankun forgot one thing.

When he visited Tanaka's home two days ago, he asked Sun Zhenyi to pay close attention to the developments at Tanaka Research Institute.

Because of what happened later, Li Jiankun's mind was not very clear and was mostly occupied by anger, so much so that he forgot to contact Sun Zhenyi and ask him to give up the surveillance.

Jingle Bell!
Sun Zhenyi made a call to the Trust Bank, in the office that Old Sun had specially cleaned up for Li Jiankun.

"Hey?"

"Mr. Li, the situation is not good!"

"Ok?"

"It seems that Tanaka Hayato and Tokyo Oka have reached an agreement. After the meeting today, both sides looked very happy."

Sun Zhenyi paused and said, "I also heard a strange piece of news: they bought tickets to China, but I don't know what they are going to do."

Li Jiankun clenched his fists, suppressed his anger and said, "I understand. You can withdraw and do your work."

Snapped!
The microphone was smashed hard against the seat.

go for what?
What else can you do?

Li Jiankun's teeth were clacking and he was furious.

He thought that if the remains of a man as evil as Tanaka Kyuichi were brought back to Japan, the people in the relevant departments would really deserve to be killed!
Not only will Li Jiankun not help, he will also do his best to trip him up.

With endless anger, Li Jiankun finally contacted Hu Ziqiang, who was now a high-ranking official in the Special Administrative Region, after a lot of effort.

"Hey Kunzi, do you still remember your brother? He disappeared for quite a long time this time. Where can you be so carefree?"

"I don't have time to talk to you. Let's talk when I get back. Listen, I have something serious to tell you..."

Li Jiankun told the story on the phone and finally asked:
"You guys are building a plane. If they succeed in this, whose heart will be broken?
“Are we worthy of the heroic souls of those anti-Japanese martyrs?!”

On the other end of the phone, Hu Ziqiang put away his playful attitude and said thoughtfully:
"This matter should be handled by the Foreign Affairs Department. As you said, considering the identity of Tanaka Kyuichi and the bad things he did, if we want to bring back his remains, we must get the approval of the Foreign Affairs Department.

“I’ll go check.

"But Jiankun..."

Brother Qiang hesitated to speak.

"what?"

"I understand your anger. Every Chinese with a bit of blood in his veins can understand it. But sometimes, perhaps we have to put the overall situation first..."

Damn the overall situation, Li Jiankun just wanted to curse.

Hu Ziqiang's voice on the other end of the phone continued:

"You have to understand that the situation is different now. It can be said that we are in the honeymoon period. China and Japan are cooperating on many levels, especially economic cooperation, which is particularly important and urgently needed by us.

“We must admit that our current economic level is far behind that of Japan.

“They want our market, but we want their technology even more.

"Not good...losing the big picture for the small."

Doesn’t Li Jiankun understand the truth?

But the longer people live, the more they see and hear, and the more they cannot forgive those executioners, nor can they forget the fate of their ancestors.

Shortly before his rebirth, Li Jiankun visited Ice City.

There is an "Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes of Unit 731 of the Japanese Army in China".

I remember it was a cold winter. When I walked out, my tears had frozen into icicles on my face.

Most of the Chinese people who traveled with him were like this.

The devil is not a human being! !

It’s a beast!!!
"Go check it out quickly and find out what's going on. I'll call you later," said Li Jiankun.

That evening.

Li Jiankun contacted Hu Ziqiang again.

"I thought you would call sooner."

Hu Ziqiang said on the other end of the phone:
"The matter is not complicated. The descendants of Tanaka Kyuichi commissioned a large Japanese company to contact the Guangdong Foreign Affairs Department through their offices in China, requesting assistance in finding Tanaka Kyuichi's remains and permission to bring them back to Japan.

“The above considerations are most likely the same as my analysis. After careful consideration, I agreed.

“The descendants of Tanaka Kyuichi should be arriving in a few days.

"Kunzi, this matter is not something you and I can change... Even if it can be changed, if there is a dispute and it affects the overall situation, is it really... worth it?"

Li Jiankun felt mixed emotions and was still very angry. He was not angry at anything else but at himself.

I am angry that my generation, the best of our country, is not living up to expectations.

If our motherland is strong enough now, why should we agree to such a request?

Can't it be changed?
No, he had to change!
"Brother Qiang, I have also collected some information. It is said that Tanaka Jiuyi was executed by firing squad in Sanyuanli, Yangcheng. After his death, he was buried in a random wasteland nearby?"

"Yes, that's what I learned from the foreign affairs department. Times have changed, and we don't know if the people who took part in burying the bodies are still alive, so it's quite difficult to find them."

Li Jiankun asked this question to confirm one thing:

Tanaka Kyuichi was buried in the wilderness with no one to guard it.

"I have a plan, Brother Qiang. You don't have to participate in the details. Just use your connections inside to find out some information. For example, who were the people who participated in burying Tanaka Kyuichi's body back then?"

"What do you want to do? I tell you, Jiankun, don't do anything rash. This matter is a diplomatic incident if we take it too seriously!"

Li Jiankun did not hide it from him: "I plan to dig up Tanaka Hisaichi's grave before his descendants show up and before the relevant departments take action."

"This...if they didn't find the bones in the end, they might have done something bad, like saying we hid them, or saying one thing and doing another. The problem is, we really hid them. No, no, no, Jiankun, we can't do this. Isn't this going to cause trouble for the organization?"

"I will let Tanaka Kyuichi's descendants gain something and take away... a part of it."

Li Jiankun said word by word: "But his knees must remain in our country!"

Hu Ziqiang: “…”

"Brother Qiang, even if you don't help me with this, I will do it too."

"...You bastard, you did everything to make a good impression in front of the heroic spirits of our ancestors and to ask for blessings. You didn't even bring your brother Qiang with you. You wishful thinking!"

Li Jiankun smiled knowingly:
"I'll have Shinka contact you."

……

……

Yangcheng, Sanyuanli.

In a wilderness, there were several Jeep 212s, two Crown sedans with black license plates, and three Liberation trucks parked.

Dozens of strong laborers, each holding a shovel and a pickaxe, dug holes all over the originally flat wilderness like groundhogs digging holes.

An old man with very little hair left on his head actually enjoys special treatment.

He sat on a small stool, with Seven Star cigarettes on both ears and two packs in his arms.

There were several men in suits around him.

Tanaka Hayato squatted on the ground and spoke to him with a very flattering expression: "Uncle, please think about it again. It doesn't look like there is any place like this."

A young translator from a Japanese agency in China translated his words.

The man he called uncle said with gritted teeth: "If there is no more here, then I really can't remember it——"

"Please don't, you must remember it, I beg you!"

Tanaka Hayato almost knelt down in front of him.

There's nothing we can do. It's been more than 40 years and things and people have changed.

It is a blessing in disguise that we can find him, the person who buried the bodies back then. According to the Chinese side, two elderly people who had clues before him were found to have passed away many years ago after visiting their homes.

He may be the only person alive who knows about this.

The little old man sitting on the bench glanced at Tanaka Hayato out of the corner of his eye, feeling quite happy as he thought that the descendant of that high-ranking Japanese official had come to the point where he had to bow down to him today.

readily!

"It's no use forcing me."

The old man thought, I definitely can’t remember…

He thought again that his two grandsons would soon be able to build a two-story red brick building each, and the corners of his wrinkled eyes curved slightly.

Tanaka Hayato's face was full of bitterness. This was the most hopeful time.

But if this person can't lead him to find his father's bones, who else can he count on?

He looked at the endless wilderness, thinking of the terrifying area of ​​this Chinese land, and felt despair...

"Professor Tanaka, professor!"

I heard a sound next to my ears, and a car appeared at the scene without me noticing.

Two people walked towards this side quickly.

The leader was someone whom Hayato Tanaka knew; he was an office clerk at an agency in China that was helping.

"Hiroki-kun."

Hayato Tanaka bowed to express his gratitude to the other party and his organization for their help over the past few days.

Beside him, several people from Tokyo Yinghua who came this time also cast inquiring glances at Ito Hiroki.

"Well, there's a call from home."

Ito Hiroki explained: "They said someone has helped find your father's remains and asked you to go back as soon as possible."

"what?!"

Not only Tanaka Hayato was shocked, but also the people in Tokyo Yingka.

In an instant, Hayato Tanaka was overjoyed, although extremely surprised.

The expressions of Tokyo Yinghua and others became very ugly.

"This is impossible!"

They had put so much effort into it, and the Chinese and Japanese agencies had worked together, but nothing had been accomplished. Neither agency had mentioned that there were other people looking for Tanaka Hisaichi's remains.

Without going through government agencies, who would have the ability to find Tanaka Hisaichi's remains before them?
"Professor Tanaka, this is definitely a scam!"

The person leading the team from Tokyo Yinghua said this with great certainty.

(End of this chapter)