Siheyuan: I am a big capitalist after the founding of the People's Republic of China

On the morning of the fourth day, the kidnappers brought some old bricks and cement, and placed a wooden toilet, a pot of water and six steamed buns in the secret room, and then knocked Li Zihang unconscious. Then the kidnappers began to block the door of the secret room with bricks, leaving a fist-sized vent hole.

What the kidnappers didn't know: When the kidnappers used sackcloth to knock Li Zihang unconscious, Li Zihang held his breath and pretended to be unconscious.

Li Zihang, who was lying in the secret room pretending to be unconscious, closed his eyes and listened to the kidnappers building the wall and moving the cabinets. After the kidnappers built the wall, he waited for a while and then stood up carefully. He put his ear to the wall and listened carefully to the movement in the next room. After listening for a long time, when he was sure that the kidnappers had really left, Li Zihang thought about how to escape in the secret room.

On the other side, Mr. Li, who received the kidnapper's letter, quickly notified the police and a comrade from the National Security Bureau sent by Director Zhao. Several people looked at the letter written by Li Zihang, studied it for a while, and then deciphered that Li Zihang had deliberately left the information.

(My grandfather was at Dashanlan Street, very close to the stationery store. I could hear the hawking of tofu vendors and the crowing of roosters. There was a skylight in the secret room, and there were two kidnappers.) Thirty or so words interspersed in two letters of more than 2 words each did not arouse the kidnappers' suspicion.

Little did they know that the kidnappers took a newspaper and ran to a teahouse, pretending to read the newspaper. They marked the words they didn't recognize in the letter and matched them to the words in the newspaper. They then asked others in the teahouse for help. After all this, they took the letter and went to deliver it to demand a ransom.

The police secretly sent people to find Li Zihang's location based on the information, and asked the old man to deliver the ransom according to the kidnappers' requirements, at the specified time and place. Then they deployed personnel in those places to monitor every move around.

Li Zihang, after making sure that the kidnappers had really left, waited for a long time until he saw the weather outside the skylight and it felt like noon before he started to take action.

Li Zihang scratched the newly built wall with his hands. He found that the cement was not yet dry, so he carefully and forcefully broke off the bricks one by one along the fist-sized vent. The kidnappers were too confident and did not check whether Li Zihang was really fainted. They did not tie Li Zihang up either. The kidnappers were not very wary of Li Zihang, who was only a little over 1 meter tall and 7 years old.

This also led to the action being taken before the wall became solid. As a 1-meter-high, 50-centimeter hole was dug into the wall, the wooden cabinet that blocked the wall was exposed. Through a small gap in the middle of the wooden cabinet board, Li Zihang put his eyes on the gap and saw that there was really no one in the room. He used his shoulder to support the wooden cabinet and moved it little by little. He stopped only when the wooden cabinet was tilted and moved out of a 35-degree angle to a width that Li Zihang could pass through.

After coming out of the secret room, Li Zihang looked through the window in the house to observe the situation in the yard. After seeing that there was no movement in the yard, he opened the door and went out. He pushed the gate of the yard and found that it was locked.

Li Zihang took out a long bench from the yard, leaned it against the wall and crawled out. He crawled out to a dead end alley, which was rarely visited by people. So he did not attract anyone's attention.

Time came to the other side. Two kidnappers, one in the open and one in the dark, were waiting at the agreed place for Mr. Li to deliver the ransom. Little did they know that the police had already laid a net to catch the kidnappers.

Li Zihang, who had escaped death, felt much better when he looked at the sky he had not seen for a long time. After carefully walking out of the dead end, he ran towards a crowded place. He stopped a random person on the street and asked where the police station was. Then he ran to the nearest police station.

Li Zihang ran into the police station, panting, and his uneasy heart finally calmed down. The police station receptionist looked at Li Zihang, who was panting, and asked hurriedly, "Little boy, what can I do for you?"

Li Zihang quickly told the police about his experience. After hearing Li Zihang's story, the police officer who received him immediately knew that Li Zihang was the protagonist of the kidnapping case that was reported internally by the police in the city of Beijing in the past few days.

So he took Li Zihang to call his superiors. Five minutes later, Li Zihang was taken home by a police comrade on a bicycle.

The public security leaders who arranged to monitor the kidnappers, upon receiving the news that Li Zihang had saved himself and the intelligence about the kidnappers from Li Zihang, immediately arrested the two kidnappers based on the actual situation...

A week had passed since the last kidnapping incident. Li Zihang was protected by a young man arranged by the old man. Whenever he went out, the young man followed him closely. He was also picked up and dropped off at school by bicycle. After the last incident, grandpa and grandma looked even older. They were only 57 years old, but their hair was gray, like people in their 70s. Li Zihang was heartbroken when he saw the appearance of his grandpa and grandma.

Li Zihang: "Grandpa, when I was kidnapped last time, I heard the kidnappers say that we had offended a lot of people. There were two people in our yard who wished I could never come back."

The old man was shocked when he heard what his grandson said. He touched Li Zihang's head and said, "What did you hear? Tell me carefully."

Li Zihang: "Master! I heard the kidnappers say that they knew the Jia family in the courtyard. And the information they got was revealed to them intentionally or unintentionally by Jia Dongxu's father. And they also said while drinking that there was a masked man who somehow got the information about them. Then they paid money to let them sell me to the mountain area, and then wait for the news from the masked man."

After hearing this, the old man's eyes flashed coldly. He squatted down and looked at Li Zihang, and said, "Grandson! Those people just have pink eye disease and don't want others to get better. Also, don't say these things to others."

Li Zihang: "I know. They all want to take advantage of us. They hate you for what you have, laugh at you for what you don't have, despise you for being poor, and fear you for being rich."

The old man listened to Li Zihang's words and smiled and said: "My eldest grandson is very smart. He knows a lot at such a young age."

Li Zihang replied to the old man unhappily: "Grandpa, although I am young, please don't treat me as a fool."

The old man sat on the rocking chair next to him, rocking it and saying, "Grandson, be low-key in the future. Times are different now, and there are many methods I can't use. If something really happens to you, I can only stare at you helplessly."

Li Zihang: "I see. What happened to Grandpa's two kidnappers?"

The old man took a look at Li Zihang and said, "One dead, one injured. Don't ask anything else. The police will handle the rest. Oh, by the way! Tomorrow, you and I will go out. We, the grandfather and grandson, must thank the people who helped us."

Li Zihang was bored and holding the bird cage to tease the bird: "Grandpa, how much did you spend to save me this time?"

The old man held the teapot, sipped the tea and said, "Grandson, I donated all the small yellow croakers that the robbers wanted to the police. There are still a few large yellow croakers left. So if you get into trouble again, our family will really go bankrupt."

Li Zihang said speechlessly: "Grandpa, don't take me for a fool. I don't know how much our family property is, but it can't be just that!"

The old man smiled and said nothing, and then he lay down on the rocking chair and took a nap. Seeing his grandfather's expression, Li Zihang stopped asking questions and went back to the house with the bird cage...