He made a special inquiry on the Internet, and knew that the Japanese like to eat light food, sushi sashimi, etc., so he sent someone to purchase a batch of salmon from the provincial capital and put it in the freezer, and also hired a cook who was good at cooking Japanese food, and paid 8,000 yuan a month to make Japanese food for the search group.

Jinfan Hotel is the best hotel in the county, there is no one, the hardware and software conditions are not lost in the provincial capital, especially the presidential suite located on the eighteenth floor, it is the luxury of luxury, even the bathtub faucet is gold-plated, all the service personnel are technical secondary school or above, good appearance, high quality, people who can enter the Jinfan Hotel, are the best among the people in the county.

The luncheon was held in the banquet hall of the Jinfan Hotel, the hall played soothing Japanese music, the well-dressed host and guests were gentle and elegant, talking and laughing, Japanese friends presented exquisite gifts to the county leaders, Secretary Zhang was very graceful on the spot in Japanese to express his gratitude: "Ariado! The Japanese guests smiled knowingly.

After the luncheon, the restaurant manager took the bill to the county party secretary Li to sign, the well-informed secretary Li couldn't help but be frightened after seeing the scary number, and found Secretary Zhang to report a few words in a low voice, Secretary Zhang took the bill and looked at it, frowned slightly, and said: "Sign, I will find a way to go back." ”

Secretary Li hurriedly went with the bill, and Secretary Zhang beckoned the director of the county finance bureau over and asked, "Can you squeeze out some of the funds financially?" ”

The director of the finance bureau was embarrassed: "Secretary Zhang, our county's finances have always been tight, and we really can't draw extra money." ”

Secretary Zhang resolutely said: "That's not good, diplomacy is no trivial matter, you must not drop the chain on this issue, and lose the face of the people of Nantai in front of international friends, I don't care what method you use, you must withdraw some funds." ”

As he was talking, Deputy County Magistrate Tang hurriedly said, "The guest proposed to visit the county seat." ”

Secretary Zhang said: "Then you hurry up and arrange that the newly renovated fountain square in our county is good, you can take them to visit." ”

Deputy County Magistrate Tang said: "They said that they wanted to visit the old city and see the original Nantai old town. ”

Secretary Zhang frowned: "Then what is there to see, the tattered ones cannot represent the spiritual outlook of our Nantai County." ”

Deputy county magistrate Tang said: "Fortunately, I have already made arrangements and decorated the places that are unsightly, so even if I visit, I will not be ashamed." I heard from the comrades of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office that these people came to find their roots, so they were more interested in the old city. ”

The Secretary of the Treasury interjected and asked, "What roots are you looking for?" Wu Dalang is not from our county. He is Secretary Zhang's brother-in-law, the town finance office accountant, the cultural quality is low, it is understandable, Deputy County Magistrate Tang not only did not laugh at him, but patiently explained: "These people's fathers fought in China back then, and they were stationed in Nantai County, President Ono's father died in our Nantai County, and the old man in a wheelchair has been to China in person, so he has such feelings for our county." ”

"My day, it turned out to be a bunch of Japanese devils." The Finance Secretary exclaimed.

"Watch the words!" Secretary Zhang glared at him sternly and said, "If you talk nonsense in front of the guests, don't do it to you, the director!" ”

Secretary Zhang was extremely majestic, the director of the finance bureau suddenly didn't dare to talk nonsense, and retreated stupidly, and Secretary Zhang said to Deputy County Magistrate Tang: "Xiao Tang, the task of accompanying them to visit is handed over to you, you must accompany them, and nothing can go wrong." ”

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In the old street of the county seat, more than ten Japanese old people walked slowly, they were all sixty or seventy years old, wearing casual clothes, fisherman's hats and glasses, and cameras on their chests.

The old town of Nantai is relatively dilapidated, the shantytowns are low and dilapidated, many families are still using briquette stoves for heating and cooking, the roads are bumpy, vegetable leaves and briquette dregs are thrown on the roadside, and the sewage in the public toilet flows out sideways, which is pungent and unbearable, but this is all in the past, after the arrangement of the deputy county magistrate Tang, these unsightly scenes are blocked by plastic colored striped cloth, and the words are under construction written on it.

The county government mobilized some cadres to act as passers-by on the streets, dressed appropriately, and there was an endless stream of polite pedestrians, who did not watch or follow foreign friends, which showed the spiritual outlook of the people of Nantai.

The visiting group walked around, these old people were obviously a little disappointed, gathered together and chattered, the old man in the wheelchair was also a little gloomy, found a translator and said a few words, the translator immediately found the deputy county magistrate Tang to ask, said that Mr. Hashimoto wanted to find a building, is such a structure and style, an introduction with a comparison, the county magistrate of Tangfu suddenly realized, said: "That is our old county party committee compound, now it is the location of the tourism bureau, want to visit there, no problem." ”

The group quickly killed the tourism bureau, before the deputy county magistrate Tang secretary had already used his mobile phone to contact the tourism bureau office, when the international friends came to the door, dozens of staff of the tourism bureau stood at the door to warmly welcome them.

As soon as Mr. Hashimoto entered the gate, his mood was a little abnormal, and when he saw the tall locust tree in front of the main building, he became even more excited, and actually stood up from his wheelchair with a slight tremor and tried to touch the big tree.

Accompanying the staff to help the old man, Mr. Hashimoto sighed and bowed deeply to the tree, which surprised everyone even more.

"The old gentleman probably thinks about the past." The female translator explained.

Everyone expressed their understanding, and Deputy County Magistrate Tang also whispered to the translator: "It can be seen that the old gentleman is a person who misses the old." ”

As everyone knows, in the eyes of Takayoshi Hashimoto at this time, the compound of the tourist bureau has quietly changed its appearance, there are sandbags and horses at the door, sentries with bayonets and guns standing in the sentry box, and light machine guns with crooked handles behind the bunkers.

There is a wooden sign hanging on one side of the big iron gate, and a black brush is written on it: Nantai County Garrison Military Police Headquarters!

And on the big locust tree in front of the main building, there is a bloody bandit, the sound of the leather whip on the body is very crisp, the blood falls under the tree drop by drop, the big wolf dog sticks out his tongue and shows a fierce light, and the two front legs are in the air, if it is not pulled by the iron chain, it would have pounced on it and tore the person to pieces.

And the young gendarmerie Shozo Takayoshi Hashimoto stood under the tree, with a meticulous yellow tweed military uniform and a white gendarmerie armband on his arm. The saber and pistol are sonorous, heroic and dashing, indescribable.

He stared at the dying guy with cold eyes, and said in an unskilled Chinese dialect: "Zhao Sang, your quick confession." ”

The man looked up, his eyes covered in blood, and he whispered something, but Hashimoto didn't hear it clearly, and continued to put his ears up......

"Mr. Hashimoto, let's go inside the building." The female translator smiled like a flower, and woke up the elderly gendarmer Shao Zuo from the long river of memories, and he nodded and said, "Hai." "Although he is old, his movements are still crisp and neat, with a deep military nature.

The cadres of the tourism bureau came to the scene, they accompanied the international friends to visit their offices, and by the way, they introduced to them the tourism resources of Nantai County, the great mountains and rivers, and the guests and hosts visited the building before liberation in a pleasant and friendly atmosphere.

The basement used to hold the guerrillas' underground Chongqing agents has been converted into a warehouse, and the wooden floor during the Japanese occupation has been replaced with terrazzo.

The visit ended smoothly, the sightseeing group temporarily returned to the hotel to rest, Zhou Wen, as the main escort, stayed in the hotel on duty with Deputy County Governor Tang, and the two sat in the café chatting, Deputy County Governor Tang is fifty or six years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, with a master's degree, is a reserve cadre trained by the above, and is higher than Zhou Wen in terms of knowledge and experience, they are of the same age, there is no conflict of interest, and they are both high-level intellectuals, so they are closer.

"County Magistrate Tang, I'm afraid the purpose of these Japanese guests coming to our county is not for sightseeing." When the two were talking, Zhou Wen, who was familiar with the doorway of officialdom, naturally removed the deputy character of Deputy County Magistrate Tang.

"Yes, I talked to the leaders of the Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, the main purpose of their trip is to find the bones left by their fathers, that Xiaoye farm, is a posthumous son, and was later raised by Mr. Hashimoto, his biological father is missing in our county, if the bones can be found this time, donations and investment must be indispensable, so Secretary Zhang attaches so much importance to it."

Deputy County Magistrate Tang told the story, and Zhou Wen suddenly realized, so it was.

Sure enough, during the dinner, President Ono proposed to Secretary Zhang to donate 10 million yen for education and welfare in Nantai County, and Secretary Zhang expressed his sincere gratitude to Mr. Ono on behalf of the people of the county, and the two sides toasted together to toast the friendship between the two peoples for generations.

Subsequently, Mr. Ono put forward his own request in due course, asking the county government to assist them in finding the remains of their fathers, this issue was already expected by Secretary Zhang, he first talked about some practical difficulties, after all, more than 60 years have passed, after experiencing the Liberation War, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, reform and opening up and other events, I am afraid it is difficult to find the traces left before.

Obviously, this issue was also under consideration by the other side, and Mr. Ono thought for a moment and proposed to build a stone monument in the place where his father disappeared to mourn the innocent victims of the war.

Secretary Zhang asked where Lord Ling Zun disappeared, Ono Kosaku bent down and asked Hashimoto Takayoshi in the wheelchair, and the old Hashimoto said the three words that made him unforgettable in incomparably clear Chinese: Wild Boar Yu.