Chapter 0441 – Treasure Map

It took a while for the silicone to cool down. After Zhuang Rui stirred at the hole with that thin steel wire, two eyeball-sized orb-like wax pellets rolled out of it.

“There’s really something, huh?!”

Peng Fei had been staring there with his head sideways, and when he saw that Zhuang Rui had really drummed something out of it, he was so surprised that he almost didn’t throw the carved tooth Buddha out of his hand.

“Brother Zhuang, what is this thing?”

Carefully placing the tooth carving on the ground, Peng Fei came together in front of Zhuang Rui, carefully looking at the two wax pills that were taken off in the heart of Zhuang Rui’s left hand, with a puzzled look on his face.

This wax pill secret is not very good, on the white wax skin, there are cracks everywhere, it looks a bit like it was burned with ordinary candles at home, rubbed into a ball, and then air-dried, and from the cracks there, one can vaguely see the paper ball inside.

“I don’t know what it is, just pinch it open and see.”

The answer to the mystery was in his own hand, Zhuang Rui was a little excited in his heart, took a deep breath, and with his right thumb and forefinger, he pinched a wax pellet. A little force, that wax pill shattered open, white dry wax have fallen to the ground, but left in Zhuang Rui’s hands, but a folded several ways after the color is a little yellow, rolled up paper ball.

Zhuang Rui did not rush to open this paper ball, but the other wax pill also crushed, and then from the suitcase he brought, took out a pair of white gloves on his hands, and turned over a magnifying glass, Zhuang Rui had a feeling in his heart, these two paper balls inside, seems to hide a big secret.

After the preparation, Zhuang Rui in Peng Fei that pair of eyes full of curiosity under the attention, carefully will be a piece of paper to fold open, the paper quality does not seem to be very good, because of the time is long, and seems a little fragile, a little careless, then will break.

Although folded into a ball after appearing small, but Zhuang Rui will be spread out on the table, but is enough to have a magazine page so big, do not need a magnifying glass in the hand, Zhuang Rui also recognized, this is a map, mountains and rivers and topography of railroads and highways. Above the drawing are very detailed, only …… in some of the labeling, the use of Japanese.

Although Zhuang Rui does not know the Japanese language, but the Japanese language itself is the evolution of Chinese characters, in addition to some of the text has been changed unorthodox, the rest of the Zhuang Rui can see, those marked words, seem to be the names of places in Burma.

After looking at it for a while, Peng Fei said, “Brother Zhuang, this is a drawing ……”

“You also say something constructive, of course I know it’s a drawing.”

Zhuang Rui was a bit teary-eyed by Peng Fei’s words, this drawing was drawn in such detail that an individual could see it.

“No, I mean this is a military drawing, it was drawn by the Japanese, the time should be in the 1940s of the last century ……”

Peng Fei was a little embarrassed by Zhuang Rui’s words, and hastily added a sentence, although he is still a little out of touch with the lives of ordinary people, but when it comes to military matters, Peng Fei is confident that he still won’t look at it wrong.

“This first regardless, let’s see what the other one is ……”

Zhuang Rui spread that map flat on one side of the table. Then opened the other paper ball, but this time Zhuang Rui was scratching his head a bit, this paper ball was a bit smaller, kind of like it was torn from a diary, with many words densely written in Japanese and in scribbled handwriting.

Simple Japanese, Zhuang Rui could understand, but those fonts on this diary, Zhuang Rui was a bit blinded by reading it, except for some time and common words on it, Zhuang Rui didn’t even figure out what the first sentence was written with a guess.

“Brother Zhuang, show me ……” The handwriting on this piece of paper is more down, the front side is facing Zhuang Rui again, Peng Fei on the side to see is not very real.

People can be said to be the most curious creatures on earth, although Peng Fei had received strict training in the army, but he still showed a hint of excitement at this time, for the content on top of this piece of paper, full of curiosity.

“You know Japanese?”

Zhuang Rui casually asked, he was thinking in his heart that if he couldn’t recognize it, he would wait until after he returned to his country, buy a dictionary to translate it, in any case, this thing can’t be known to outsiders except himself and Peng Fei.

“Understand some, hear and write, no problem ……”

Peng Fei nodded, the basic Japanese conversation and also writing, is his necessary course in the army, not only Japanese. It is English and Arabic including Thai-Burmese and other local languages, Peng Fei can’t say that he is proficient, but the conversation is absolutely no problem.

Zhuang Rui looked at Peng Fei after a while before saying, “This thing may be dusty with a piece of history, I don’t want to let the third person other than you and I know, can you do it?”

To be honest, if the person in front of Zhuang Rui right now was Zhou Rui, Zhuang Rui would have no hesitation in handing over that piece of paper filled with Japanese to the other party, but the time he and Peng Fei had been in contact with each other was too short, and he had yet to establish that tacit understanding and trust.

After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, the slightly excited look on Peng Fei’s face disappeared and was replaced by a solemn expression, saying very seriously, “Brother Zhuang, you can rest assured that I will use Ya Ya’s name to guarantee that not a single word will be uttered from my mouth about the top of this piece of paper …….”

From the time his sister went to Zhuang Rui’s house and recovered her smile and happiness, Peng Fei secretly resolved to guard what he had now, because Peng Fei knew how important family was to a child’s healthy growth, and that was not something that could be bought simply with money.

Zhuang Rui nodded and moved the piece of paper in front of him and placed it in front of Peng Fei.

Peng Fei lowered his head. Carefully looked at it, as his eyes moved, his face, too, gradually became grave, a trace of incredulity appeared in his eyes, it was obvious that the content on the paper, gave him a great shock.

After four or five minutes, Peng Fei let out a long breath, his eyes finally moved away from the top of the paper.

Zhuang Rui also did not say anything, quietly looking at Peng Fei. Waiting for him to speak out and explain the content above.

Peng Fei didn’t say what was written above that paper first, but pointed to the map next to him and said, “Brother Zhuang, this …… this map, it really …… is a treasure map!”

“Tell me in detail, what’s going on?”

Zhuang Rui had actually guessed a few points earlier, to put a map so detailed, so hidden inside the tooth carving Buddha carving, certainly buried something.

“What is written on this piece of paper was left behind by a man named Yamaki Ichiro.”

With Peng Fei’s narration, a history that had been dusty for nearly sixty years was unveiled in front of Zhuang Rui.

It turned out that in 1941, the Japanese army, while sneak attacking Pearl Harbor, divided their troops into Southeast Asian countries and occupied the southernmost town of Burma, such as Gaodong, and three airports, and by the beginning of ’42, 100,000 Japanese troops invaded Burma in three different ways, quickly routed the British army, captured Rangoon, and occupied the entire territory of Burma.

The Japanese army took Burma at that time because of the military necessity to cut off the Yunnan-Burma highway, but it was also for the purpose of plundering the materials in Burma as well as in Thailand, etc. While carrying out the military invasion, they made a great deal of plundering of property and transported it back to the Japanese country.

This officer called Yamagi Ichiro was one of the main persons in charge of transporting the plundered goods back to Japan, and what is recorded on this piece of paper is the last batch of goods that were not transported out of Burma when the Japanese army withdrew from Burma.

It was in 1945, the Japanese army was already in the sunset, the Chinese and American allied forces with a heavy cost of more than 5,000 casualties, captured Myitkyina, formed a three-sided encirclement of the Japanese army’s favorable situation.

Yamagi Ichiro saw that with these things, is not able to escape the allied forces encirclement, so this batch of gold, silver and jewelry, all buried in Burma in a hidden place. And drew a map, hidden in the tooth carving Buddha statue, in order to wait for the future counterattack, and then come back to dig out this batch of treasure.

In order to prevent the news from leaking out, those who excavate the cave buried treasure of the Burmese civil workers, were killed by Yamagi Ichiro, and is responsible for the supervision of the Japanese, also all on the spot, only Yamagi Ichiro with this hidden great secret of the tooth carving, with the army breakout.

The paper above the record, to this end, just how the tooth carving fell into the hands of Li Yunshan grandfather, which is not known, and Yamagi Yilang whether in the world, has also become a mystery, may only Li Yunshan that dead grandfather, can answer the clear.

In fact, things are not complicated, as the first expeditionary force failed soldiers, Li Yunshan’s grandfather and a group of veterans stayed in Burma, and when the Second Expeditionary Force into Burma, this group of veterans took up arms again, to participate in the purging of the remnants of the Japanese army, and that Yamagi Ichiro, is dead in the hands of Li Yunshan’s grandfather, this tooth carving, also became his trophy.

At that time, after the end of the Burma Expedition, the Allied Forces still left some people stationed in Burma, Li Yunshan’s grandfather was among them, and then the civil war broke out, the Kuomintang defeated Taiwan, Li Yunshan’s grandfather and a group of veterans, there is no opportunity to return to the country, this tooth carving, has been left in Burma.

“Brother Zhuang, this batch of property, a total of ten tons of gold, and thirty boxes of emerald gemstone jewelry ……”

Peng Fei pointed to those Arabic numerals on the paper, and uttered a number that made Zhuang Rui dumbfounded, the value of ten tons of gold, has been above one billion RMB, not to mention those difficult to value jewelry and emerald.

Zhuang Rui took out cigarettes from his pocket, handed Peng Fei one, gave himself a fire, two people smoking, are silent, they do not know, how to deal with this wealth, even if it is Zhuang Rui, now is also confused.

Hand over to the Burmese government? That is naturally impossible, Zhuang Rui and they have not that friendship.