Chapter 5 Part Four: Investigating Suzuki's Past

After I let go of my hand, in the darkness, I heard Fujisawa take a few breaths, and then he asked me: When did you come? I said: I have been here for a long time. When I came, I saw Suzuki kneeling on the ground. Fujisawa said: Then I came earlier than you. I have been hiding behind the altar. I saw Mr. Suzuki come in and knelt on the ground, but he didn't notice that I was hiding. I thought back to the situation where Suzuki was lying on the ground, and I was convinced that what Fujisawa said was true.Because looking at Suzuki's situation at that time, he seemed to be suffering from a kind of extreme pain. Let alone someone hiding behind the table, even if someone stood in front of him, he might turn a blind eye.

I took a breath: Fujisawa, what do you think Suzuki is doing while lying on the ground like that? Fujisawa didn't answer me right away, and the room was still dark, and I couldn't see the look on his face clearly. After a short pause, I said again: You once said that he is a devout Buddhist, but don't you think that his actions have surpassed a devout Buddhist? Fujisawa stayed for a while before sighing: Yes, I think he was in extreme pain when he fell on the ground, and the low moan he made was like the deep moan from hell. he looks like When Fujisawa talked about this, I connected, and we said in unison: He seems to be confessing something!

After the two of us said that sentence together, after a moment of silence, Fujisawa smiled wryly and said: However, what is he confessing? I said: He knelt down in front of the altar, and I thought that what he was confessing must be related to the things on the altar. Fujisawa said: Yes, I thought the same way, so I was going to pick up the package just now. I smiled and said: Yes, we both shot at the same time, but it's all right now, there is no need to argue! Fujisawa said: Take the package and go to my office. Let's study it in detail. If we come to a conclusion soon, we can send it back before dawn.

As soon as I reached out, I grabbed the package: go! Together we walked to the door and gently opened it. The whole house was very quiet.Suzuki seemed to live alone, without even a servant. We walked out quietly, and when we got outside Suzuki's house, Fujisawa said: My car is nearby. I walked forward with him, came to his car, got into the car together, and Fujisawa drove the car to the city. Fujisawa is almost a legendary figure in Japan. His admirers even compare him with Yukio Mishima, so his detective agency is located on the top floor of a new type of building with luxurious decoration. Detective Xiao Guolai saw it, and he must have been dumbfounded, speechless for a while.

I followed him into his office, everything is automatic equipment controlled by photoelectric.As soon as he opened the door, the light turned on automatically.I put the package on the table, and the two of us worked together to untie the knot on the package. At that time, Fujisawa and I were very nervous, but when the package was untied After watching, we couldn't help but stay for a while. The package was so light that when I held it in my hand, I felt that there could be no valuables in it.But in any case, we always thought that what was inside could reveal the secret hidden in Suzuki's heart.

Perhaps, the things in the package can indeed reveal the secrets of Suzuki's heart, but we don't understand it at all. After unpacking, what we saw were two old clothes. Of the two old clothes, one was a military uniform, and it was obvious at a glance that it was a Japanese soldier's uniform.The other one is a cheongsam, light blue, and the fabric looks like the indanthrene cloth that was quite popular many years ago.This kind of cloth cheongsam has not been worn for at least twenty years. When Fujisawa Yu and I saw that there were only two such old clothes in the package, we couldn't help but stayed for a while.Then, Fujisawa Yu and I shook the two pieces of clothing apart.

Those two pieces of clothes were nothing special at all. The long gown was torn and torn, just like the military uniform, with large dark brown stains on it. Fujisawa Yu immediately looked at the stains, and I said, "Blood!" Fujisawa nodded: It's blood, it's been a long time, maybe more than twenty years. I inspected the military uniform again. When I turned over the military uniform, a person's name was written in ink on the inner lapel of the military uniform. The ink was already very faint and blurred.But after identification, it can still be seen that it is Taro Kikui, a very common Japanese name.

I pointed out the name to Fujisawa, and Fujisawa frowned: What does this mean? I said: This name is naturally the name of this soldier. Fujisawa smiled bitterly: So, what does this soldier have to do with Mr. Suzuki? I took a breath: Fujisawa, Suzuki was a soldier before! Fujisawa sighed: Almost 8 out of 10 Japanese men at his age had been soldiers. Don't forget that in World War II, nearly four million Japanese soldiers died in battle. I said calmly: This is the fate of the invaders! Fujisawa's voice was filled with deep sorrow: You can't blame them, soldiers, what should they be responsible for?They are simply following orders.

I couldn't help feeling angry, that was the post-war Japanese view. They believed that only a small number of people should be responsible for the war of aggression, while the rest were innocent. This is originally a very complicated moral and legal issue, and it is not easy to argue in a few words, but I think anyone can say that, except for the Japanese who directly participated in the war. , should take responsibility for the war. My voice became very angry, and I said loudly: Fujisawa, war does not include killing civilians, I think if you are not an idiot, you should know what Japanese soldiers did in China!

Fujisawa looked very embarrassed. He obviously didn't want to debate with me on this issue. He sighed: But the entire Japanese nation also bears the shame of defeat. I sternly said: If you also felt the shame of defeat, you wouldn't say the shameless words just now! Fujisawa also blushed: you But he just yelled loudly, then suddenly lowered his voice, and said slowly: You also know that after the war, Hideki Tojo, Kenji Doihara, Heutaro Kimura, Akira Muto, Iwane Matsui, Seishiro Sakagaki, Koki Hirota Wait for seven, the seven people who are directly responsible for the war have all been hanged!

I sneered: Their lives are too valuable, one of their lives is worth 200,000 people? Fujisawa spread his hands: It is meaningless for us to argue about this issue here, more than 20 years have passed! I said bluntly: Fujisawa, the history is there, even after more than two hundred years, the history is still there! Fujisawa sighed again, and I pointed to the cheongsam again: This dress is the common dress of Chinese women before. What do you think it means when it is wrapped with a military uniform? Fujisawa shook his head: Maybe there was a Japanese soldier who fell in love with a Chinese woman Before he finished speaking, I groaned and said, "Fart, what do you want to say?"Want to weave a Madame Butterfly story? Since my attitude was so relentless, Fujisawa looked annoyed and embarrassed, he froze, for a moment, he didn't know what to say.And I really didn't want to get along with him anymore, so I turned around and walked to the door. At this moment, the phone rang suddenly, I turned around, and Fujisawa picked up the phone. I was far away from Fujisawa, but as soon as Fujisawa picked up the phone, I still heard an exclamation from the phone, calling Fujisawa's name, and then calling: I'm done, she took her Stuff, here she is again!Here she is again! That's Suzuki's voice! I quickly approached the phone, and as I approached the phone, I could even hear Suzuki's heavy breathing. Fujisawa was a little at a loss, and said: What happened? Suzuki kept shouting: She's back, she's back! Suzuki called a few times, then hung up the phone. Fujisawa was holding the phone in a daze, and I hurriedly said: I see, he found that the burden on the offering table was missing! Fujisawa is in a bit of a hurry: If this creates huge unrest, then we are doing something wrong! I sneered: why is he so disturbed? Fujisawa said in a loud voice: The incident may not have any direct relationship with Mr. Suzuki. Isn't another person's name written on that military uniform?I'm going to see Mr. Suzuki. I dodged and blocked his way: Fujisawa, don't run away, I must find out about this matter! Fujisawa was a little annoyed: I don't understand what you want to investigate. No one has done anything, let alone entrusted you. What exactly do you want to investigate? Fujisawa's words were very sharp, and it was indeed difficult for people to answer them. I just said: I want Suzuki to tell the secret in his heart! Fujisawa waved his hands excitedly: Anyone has the right to keep his personal secrets, sorry, I excuse you!please! Fujisawa issued a eviction order, I sneered, turned and left. Although Fujisawa and I went down the same elevator, we didn't exchange a word until we walked out the door. I didn't even speak to him when we parted at the gate of the building.Back at the hotel, I lay in bed and thought about the whole thing again, but still had no clue. However, it occurred to me that in order to investigate the whole matter, we must first start by investigating Suzuki's honest past. Masayoshi Suzuki used to be a military officer. It should not be very difficult to investigate his past. However, if you want to know his history in the army, unless you look up old files, it is not something ordinary people can do. When I thought about it, I immediately rolled over and made a phone call. The call was made to a senior official of the international police. Using my relationship with the international police, I asked him to arrange for me to investigate the old files of the Japanese military. After evading for a while, the gentleman finally agreed to my request.He asked me to call back tomorrow morning. As soon as I woke up the next morning, I made this call. He told me that he had already contacted me, and he gave me an address where I hoped to find the information I wanted. I was eating breakfast in the restaurant of the hotel. When I drank the last sip of orange juice, Fujisawa suddenly came to me. He smiled, spread his hands, made a sorry expression, and sat down opposite me: OK Yes, it's settled! I stared at him: what do you mean? Fujisawa said: I went to see Suzuki yesterday. When I first met him, he was very excited. Later, he gradually calmed down. He told me that he was really surprised when he found the package missing. I said coldly: What explanation does he have for kneeling in front of those two old clothes? Fujisawa said: Yes, that cheongsam belonged to a Japanese girl. The military uniform belonged to his subordinates. He once broke up the relationship between the two of them. Later, the Japanese girl committed suicide, and the soldier died because of it, so he felt inner guilt. I said again: Then, why did he feel scared when he saw the tour guide lady? Fujisawa shook his head: I also asked him, he didn't know that lady at all, he said that his actions at that time may have been a little abnormal, but it was just that he suddenly felt unwell. I stayed for a long while before I said: According to what you said, you have completely accepted his explanation? Fujisawa said: Yes! After he said yes, he paused for a while, and then said: This matter is over, you don't need to investigate, there is absolutely no possibility of crime in this. I stayed for a long while before I smiled: You don't really believe what he said! Fujisawa sighed: Who knows, in war, anything can happen. I said coldly: Yes, anything can happen in a war, the only thing that won't happen is what you just said, which will make an officer of the invading army feel so terrified! Fujisawa didn't say anything more, sat for a while, and then left. Of course I would not believe Suzuki's words relayed by Fujisawa. Suzuki just wanted to use this to prevent me from investigating further. If he thought that I would give up after listening to these few words, it would be ridiculous! According to the original plan, I arrived at the Wartime Archives Clearance Office. I was interviewed by a very young female staff member who asked me what I wanted. I thought about it, and said: I want to check the file of an officer. This officer served in World War II and participated in the invasion of China. His name is Suzuki Masao. Is it possible? The female clerk said: "The officer's file is indeed still there, but it is very difficult to check it. You I immediately picked it up: I must find out, it is a very serious matter. The female staff was stunned: why?Is he a war criminal who slipped through the net? I said: Sorry, miss, I can't tell you. The female clerk said: "Okay, please come with me, I want you to see how difficult it is to find such a file!" I followed her, left the office, passed through several corridors, and came to a corridor with ten rooms on both sides. She said: The files you want are in these ten rooms. I frowned: miss, I don't believe your files, there is no classification. The female staff member said: In fact, these files were handed over by the U.S. military, and should have been destroyed long ago. Perhaps it is because no one has noticed this matter at all, so no one knows whether they exist or not. I understand, I think there may be classifications, what is the name of the person you are looking for? I said: Suzuki is upright! The female employee muttered the name of Suzuki Zhengzheng, and said: There are many people with the surname Suzuki, yes here She looked at the card on the door, pushed the door open, and turned on the light. There are shelves all over the room, and the shelves are full of kraft paper bags and hard clips, which are piled up in a mess. I have already seen that there are at least three shelves with the words Suzuki written all over them. The female employee spread her hands and said: You saw it! I smiled and said, "If you don't have time, then I can find it myself." The female employee laughed: Can't find time?Our agency can be said to be the most idle agency in the world! I said: Well, let's look for it together. Tonight, if you are also free, then I would like to treat you to dinner. The female staff smiled and said: Thank you! She smiled and bowed to me, and she moved a table, two chairs, and we got to work. There are so many files, and they are very messy, we don't have a list to check, so we have to take them down one by one.It was a very tedious job, and it was not until four hours later that the female employee said: Look, this is the file of Suzuki Zhengzheng! I hastily took over a thick stack of files from her hand. Yes, my name is Suzuki Masaoka, my military rank is a second lieutenant, and I am a platoon leader of the engineering corps. However, judging from the yellowed photos, no matter what, this second lieutenant, It won't be the current Suzuki Masato! I shook my head: this is not the one I was looking for. The female employee spread her hands, and we began to search again. Many of the people in the files are no longer alive. As Fujisawa said, Japan lost more than four million soldiers and officers in the Pacific War and the war of aggression against China. .But we still had to look through yellowed photos and forms, hoping to find out Suzuki Masao's previous experience. As a result of a full day's work, we found a total of seven Suzuki Masatos.But from the photos and experiences, none of the seven Suzukis are the one I'm looking for. It's time to get off work, and the female staff member who worked with me stretched her waist: "There is no way, we have to start tomorrow." Although I was impatient, I couldn't rush out, so I had to give up.When parting from the female staff member, I asked her address and made an appointment with her to pick her up. I spent a very pleasant evening with her. I don't think I know much about Japanese psychology, so I took an opportunity to ask her, a middle-aged man with a successful career, why he would be afraid of a girl he had never met, and why he would face her Some old clothes came to confess, but the lady couldn't answer. That night, shortly after I returned to the hotel, I received a call from Fujisawa. He said with a smile on the phone: You haven't left yet? I said coldly: Why should I leave? Fujisawa said: The lady with you seems very gentle, no wonder you don't want to leave! My anger rose sharply, this dog breed, he must be following me secretly, otherwise, how would he know that I am with the female staff who manages the files?I was about to scold, but in a flash, I endured it. Fujisawa is still following me, which at least shows that he is still accepting Suzuki's commission, so, that is to say, what he told me this morning is all false! After a day of searching for old files, I've lost all confidence that I'll be able to find Suzuki's past in the files. Under such circumstances, Suzuki continued to entrust Fujisawa to follow me, which can be said to be beneficial to me.Because Suzuki could know what I was doing, which made him even more afraid. When I thought of this, I suddenly became calm, and I said: You are well-informed, yes, this lady is very gentle, she is in charge of file management! Fujisawa obviously didn't expect me to answer him so bluntly, so he stayed for a while before saying: Good luck. I'm not letting up: what do you mean by wishing me luck, I'm married. Fujisawa laughed, and I could hear his laughter, which was very embarrassing, and he said: I mean, what you are doing now. I have already forced some of his words out, he naturally knows what I am doing, considering Fujisawa's ability, it would be ridiculous if he couldn't even find out this point. Therefore, I know that Fujisawa's attention to me is still beyond my imagination.I said: Thank you, there will be results. Having said this, we can say that there is nothing else to say. But Fujisawa still refused to put down the phone. After half a minute of silence, Fujisawa said: "Wei, you are a gentleman, and I admire your character. Do you think it is interesting to try to discover the past of a person to satisfy your curiosity?" Good guy, Fujisawa actually used such words to deal with me! I thought about it for a while, and then said: Fujisawa-kun, since you mentioned a gentleman, I can tell you two words: a gentleman is magnanimous, and a villain is always close. .If there is nothing shady about a person's past, he will never be afraid of being investigated. Fujisawa smiled bitterly a few times: Good night! I said good night to him too, and lay down.I slept well that night, perhaps because I realized that I had many boring and monotonous days ahead of me. Early the next morning, I went to the institution again, and the female staff still took me to search through the old files.The day was even worse, not even a Suzuki Masato could be found.On the third day, at noon, all the military files with the surname Suzuki had been searched.The female clerk looked at me sympathetically: After three days, you still can't find the person you are looking for! I smiled wryly: The old files here are naturally not the files owned by soldiers during the war? The female clerk said: Of course not all of them. During the war, military archives were kept by several agencies. During the bombing, a lot of them were lost. After the war, all the old archives were gradually gathered here. I asked again: Are there similar institutions in other places? The female clerk shook her head. At this time, I was really indescribably frustrated, because I couldn't find Masao Suzuki's words in the old files, which meant that I had failed, and even if I stayed in Tokyo, it would be useless! I thought of Fujisawa's sneer, and Suzuki Masao's ferocious look, so I was absolutely unwilling to fail, but what can I do?In fact I have failed! I sighed, stood up among the messy files beside me, and said: I can't help it, I'm sorry to disturb you for three days. The female staff hurriedly said: Where!where! I sighed again, and left the room, which was full of old personnel files. These files were only classified according to surnames. The files stored in the room, their surnames, were marked with a card on the door. At this moment, I stopped suddenly, standing in front of the door of a room marked with the card of Kikui. As soon as I saw the surname Jujing, I immediately thought of a person's name: Taro Kikui.This is a very common Japanese name, but when I saw this name, it was unusual. This name was written on the blood-stained old military uniform, and that old military uniform was on Suzuki on the altar. At that moment, I thought that Suzuki Zhengzhi must know this Kikui Taro. In the army, they may be in the same team, and the relationship must be very close. Otherwise, Suzuki would not have kept Kikui until now. of old military uniforms. Since I can't find Suzuki's file, can I find Kikui's file? If I find Kikui's file, can I get a glimpse of Suzuki's past from Kikui Taro? I was completely disappointed at first, but when I thought about it, new hope was born! Before I could speak, the female staff member said: What did you discover? I turned my head: Yes, I found something, I want to find the file of an old soldier named Kikui, his name is Taro Kikui! The female staff frowned: There may be thousands of soldiers named Taro. I said: It doesn't matter, I can identify them one by one. The female staff smiled: OK, let's start again! I waited at the door, and she went to get the key. After a while, she and I entered the file storage room together. For the rest of the day, I found more than a dozen Kikui Taro.It's much easier to tell if the eponymous Masao Suzuki is the one I'm looking for.Because I met Masao Suzuki and was extremely impressed with him.However, it is much more difficult to distinguish Kikui Taro! Because, I have never seen this Kikui Taro. The next day, I found out all the files of Kikui Taro. There were more than 70 files in total, and I read them slowly. Among the more than 30 files I have read, some Taro Kikui is an officer, some is a soldier, and one of them is a naval officer. According to the files, he disappeared when the Yamato ship was attacked and sank by the Allied forces. I think those are not the Kikui Taro I was looking for. Since I was immersed in digging through old files for days, my neck bone felt extremely uncomfortable. While turning my head, I took another kraft paper bag, sighed, and took out the files in the bag together. And when I took out the file in the bag, I was suddenly stunned! The first thing I saw was a form, an application for admission to a military academy, with a photo attached to it of a young man, no older than eighteen, with a crew cut. The reason why I was stunned when I saw this photo is really simple, because even though this photo was taken nearly thirty years ago, I still recognized it at a glance, this person, It is the current Suzuki Masao! My heart was beating wildly, I spread out all the documents on the table, and found all the papers of the photos, it was not bad at all, they were all photos of Suzuki Zhengzheng. This is really beyond my expectation! I set out to find information about Taro Kikui. It turned out that he was a dead horse as a living horse doctor. I really didn't expect that Suzuki Masao's real name is Kikui Taro, and I have now found his file! Why did he change his name?Why keep old military uniforms from the past? I took a deep breath. At this time, the joy in my heart was indescribable. I sorted out the entire file and began to read it carefully. Kikui Taro's life can be summed up in simple words as follows: He was a student of a middle school in Kyoto. He was excellent in character and learning when he was in school, and his family was well-off. Incorporated into the army as a second lieutenant officer. In his first journey in the army, he was sent to fight in China and was soon promoted to lieutenant.In one battle, he led thirty soldiers to make a breakthrough like a vanguard.He made a contribution to attacking the outlying base of Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, China, and was promoted to captain. As a captain of the Japanese Imperial Army, he led a team into Nanjing. At that time, Tang Shengzhi was the Chinese guard in Nanjing. Another achievement of Captain Kikui in the file is that he took the lead in entering the city and intercepted a large number of guards in the Xiaguan area. For this matter, Taro Kikui was interviewed by Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma of the Japanese Imperial Army. At the same time as Kikui, more than a dozen military officers were interviewed. There are still interviewees in the files. , and the photo taken with Nakasho Honma, although many people stand in two rows, I can still immediately point out which one is Taro Kikui (Masao Suzuki). Seeing this, I couldn't help closing my eyes. Kikui was subordinate to Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, and the most tragic and inhumane thing in the history of modern warfare was the massacre after Masaharu Honma invaded Nanjing. In the world-famous Nanjing Massacre, he died under the bayonets and bullets of the Japanese Imperial Army, buried alive by the Japanese Imperial Army, bitten to death by the Japanese Imperial Army's wolf dogs, and died when the Japanese Imperial Army tied people into strings with iron wires and then energized them. At least more than 400,000 Chinese civilians died under the cruel methods of the Japanese imperial army's gang-rape and caesarean section.In fact, there are no precise statistics at all, and it may far exceed this figure.