Led by the priest, the three people soon arrived at the tombstone engraved with Hermann T. Schroeder.
When the priest arrived, he pointed at the tombstone and turned away.
Yang Jing secretly pulled the reluctant Gege, and the two of them placed the flowers in their hands in front of the tombstone. Then they took two steps back, bowed their heads, clasped their hands together, and pretended to pray.
"Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Heavenly Lord, I am not here to pay homage to Martin Bowman. I have a mission to accomplish. Please do not blame me, gods and immortals..."
Yang Jing almost laughed out loud when he heard Gege whispering these words in Chinese beside him. This girl is really generous, she dares to say such things here.
But Yang Jing was not much better, what he said was almost the same as what the princess said.
If it wasn't for verifying some clues, Yang Jing wouldn't have dragged the princess here to pay tribute to the executioner.
The two of them whispered to each other for a while before looking up.
It was obvious that no one had visited this tomb for a long time. The tombstone was covered with moss, and even the few words on it were a little unclear.
The tombs of foreigners are a little different from those of Chinese. Chinese tombs have burial mounds, but foreigners' tombs do not have burial mounds, only a tombstone.
Yang Jing used his Sky Eye skill to carefully inspect the tomb, but found nothing. However, when his eyes fell on the tombstone, he found something different.
This tombstone is very simple, just an ordinary tombstone about half a meter high and about sixty centimeters long. There is a cross right above the center of the tombstone, and the alias of Martin Baumann is engraved on the tombstone. Yang Jing knew that the alias Martin Baumann used when he left Argentina and entered Paraguay was Hermann Thomas Schroeder, so the name engraved on the tombstone is Hermann T Schroeder.
Below the name are the years of birth and death: July 1900 - February 1959.
Apart from these two lines, there are no other words on the tombstone.
When Yang Jing used his Sky Eye, he discovered that something seemed wrong with the tombstone, so when he switched his Sky Eye to X-ray, he immediately discovered the trick with the tombstone.
It turns out that the cross on top of the tombstone is actually hollow. In the center of the stone cross, there is a small hole about five centimeters square, and in this small hole, there is a small box hidden...
This discovery shocked Yang Jing's heart, and he immediately realized the importance and uniqueness of this tombstone. However, there was still the priest standing next to him, so Yang Jing did not make any extra moves, but just pulled Gege, and the two of them left.
The priest came up and asked a few questions in a babble. After Yang Jing shook his head to indicate that he didn't understand, the priest switched to his rather broken English.
"What is your relationship with Mr. Schroeder? Mr. Schroeder has been buried here for sixty years, but his grave has hardly been cleaned. I have been a priest here for forty years, and I have never seen anyone come to pay tribute to Mr. Schroeder. You are the first people to come to pay tribute to Mr. Schroeder in these forty years."
Although the priest's English was a little poor, he spoke slowly, so Yang Jing could understand him. So Yang Jing said, "Mr. Schroeder had some relationship with my great-grandfather, but after Mr. Schroeder came to Argentina from Germany, there was no news of him. Some time ago, my fiancée and I came to Argentina for a trip, and we met a German man in his seventies by chance. During the chat, he talked about Mr. Schroeder. The father of this German actually lived in the same town as Mr. Schroeder. His father once told him that Mr. Schroeder later went to Paraguay and eventually died of illness in Paraguay. We only then knew that he had actually been buried here."
After hearing these words, the priest crossed himself and whispered, "May God bless you!"
Yang Jing continued to explain: "At first we were a little skeptical about this, but after seeing Mr. Schroeder's tombstone, we were sure that this was the Mr. Schroeder who had some relationship with my great-grandfather."
The priest looked at Yang Jing and Gege, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Sir, I see that you and your fiancée seem to be Asian?"
Seeing the priest's puzzled expression, Yang Jing smiled and explained, "Yes, we are both Chinese. But my great-grandfather studied in Germany when he was young, and he met Mr. Schroeder at that time. At that time, Mr. Schroeder took great care of my great-grandfather, so my great-grandfather was very grateful to Mr. Schroeder. In China, there is an old saying, 'a drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water', and it was for this reason that my great-grandfather always remembered Mr. Schroeder, but it was a pity that Mr. Schroeder lost contact with us later. This time we were able to find Mr. Schroeder's tomb, which can be regarded as God's blessing."
Yang Jing's words made the aged priest nod in satisfaction. He then said, "The previous priest of the church, Father DeCavour, once told me about Mr. Schroeder. He said that he was a good man. He donated a lot of money to the church and helped many people. So after he died, the previous priest decided to bury him here. But Mr. Schroeder doesn't seem to have any relatives. I heard from Father DeCavour that even when Mr. Schroeder was dying, no relatives showed up. It was very pitiful."
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