In 1988, a Japanese male guest was welcomed to an anti-Japanese memorial hall in Jiangsu. The Japanese guest was in his 60s, wearing a suit and leather shoes, with a dignified expression. He had originally gone to the museum to take a casual look, but inadvertently saw a very old bicycle in the memorial hall, and suddenly looked very excited, took off his glasses several times, wiped and wiped, and then carefully examined the bicycle. After a long time, the man turned back to look for the staff of the memorial. After talking, the staff learned that the Japanese old man wanted to buy the bicycle and bring it back to Japan. According to him, the bike used to be his, snatched by a Chinese heroine during the Sino-Japanese war in 1943.
What's going on here?
It turned out that this old Japanese man had been a Japanese veteran of the invasion of China, named Sada Masahito, and his main job was to spy north of Jiangsu in China, specifically to collect the movements of the Chinese army in northern Jiangsu.
One day, Sada gathered intelligence and prepared to return to the garrison. He rode forward on a bicycle produced in Puppet Manchukuo, encountering several other colleagues on the way. Several people greeted each other and chatted, and suddenly someone proposed that it was still early, it was not interesting to go back, it was better to go to the countryside to grab some things, maybe there was good luck! So several people went to the nearby countryside to grab the peasants' things.
Unexpectedly, this trip encountered an accident. At that time, in the countryside of northern Jiangsu, there were some Chinese soldiers active, and Sada and others happened to meet them this time.
Generally speaking, the Japanese went to the countryside to grab mostly chickens, ducks, sheep and other poultry, because there was nothing valuable in rural China at that time. Before grabbing his things, Sada parked his bicycle on the side of the road at the entrance of the village, and then several people walked to the farmer's house, but before they could get to the farmer's house, they heard a gunshot. Sada and the others were frightened and immediately fled to the farmland or forest on the edge of the village. With no weapons and ammunition on their bodies, Sada and the others were unable to fight back and watched as the Chinese soldiers snatched their bicycles, which had their ammunition bags on them. Sada remembers that it was a female soldier riding a bicycle.
The female soldier, named Li Chunhua, was only 21 years old at the time, and later she handed in her bicycle, but her superiors gave her the bicycle award. Later, Li Chunhua rode this bicycle and made many military achievements and became a real anti-Japanese heroine. After the liberation of the whole country, Li Chunhua lived a happy life, and even more regarded the bicycle as a treasure and was reluctant to ride it.
In 1986, Jiangsu built a memorial hall to commemorate the War of Resistance Against Japan and collected relevant materials everywhere. Li Chunhua donated the bicycle, and she felt that only in the memorial hall was the bicycle valuable. Coincidentally, two years later, in 1988, Japanese veteran Sada visited the memorial hall in Jiangsu, only to recognize the bicycle at a glance. Sada would love to buy the bike back, should the memorial agree?
The truth is that the memorial did not promise. Because the bicycle is no longer a commodity, it is the ironclad evidence of Japan's invasion of China, and it is also the witness of the Chinese people resisting Japanese aggression in that period, and its value lies in letting the Chinese people remember that period of history, in waking up to the hard-won peace of the world, and it is not something that can be measured by money.
As for Sada, as an aggressor of the year, he should repent, and his attempt to buy back the bicycle is suspected of recovering the evidence.