Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Sijiucheng, the Japanese gendarmerie headquarters.

Takeuchi Hisaichi had a dark face throughout the whole process, and his eyes were full of rage. After listening to the stories of his subordinates and puppet soldiers, he cursed loudly: "Baka! Waste! Good-for-nothing!" As he said that, he pulled out the samurai sword he carried with him, stood in front of the desk and chopped it around. In a short while, he had chopped the thick desk into pieces.

The Japanese soldiers and puppet army leaders in the house immediately lowered their heads in fear, fearing that they would trigger the anger of Takeuchi Hisaichi and cause another death by his sword in the house.

Takeuchi Hisaichi hacked around to vent some of his anger, then looked coldly at the many Japanese soldiers and puppet army leaders in the house, gnashing his teeth and shouting, "All of them."

After hearing this, the Japanese and puppet army leaders quickly stood at attention and lowered their heads, waiting for Takeuchi Hisaichi to speak.

Takeuchi Shouichi said loudly: "Today, the whole city is under martial law and a large-scale search is underway. All suspicious persons will be brought to the military police. Do you understand?"

The devils and puppet army leaders bowed their heads at the same time and shouted loudly: "Ha Yi!"

Takeuchi Hisaichi sat back in his chair, leaned back with his eyes closed, and waved to everyone in the room, signaling them to get out.

When the Japanese and puppet army leaders saw Takeuchi Hisaichi waving his hand, they immediately ran out of the office. Several puppet army leaders wiped the cold sweat from their heads with their sleeves at the same time, looked at each other, sighed, and went back to the camp to announce Takeuchi Hisaichi's mission.

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Li Qingfeng arrived at the police station and found the atmosphere inside a bit tense. He checked in, went to the armory to get a weapon, then walked up to Ma Baofu, gave him a cigarette, and lit one himself. Seeing that no one around him paid attention to him, he whispered to Ma Baofu, "Brother Ma, what's going on today? Why is the atmosphere a bit tense?"

Ma Baofu took a puff of his cigarette, glanced at the people around him, and whispered to Li Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, you don't know! The bank the devils went to last night was the 'Zhengjin Bank', you know it!"

Li Qingfeng nodded to Ma Baofu to show that he understood.

Ma Baofu saw Li Qingfeng nod, and then whispered: "I don't know who robbed the Japanese bank last night. I heard that the Japanese killed more than 20 people. I don't know who did it."

Hearing this, Li Qingfeng pretended to be surprised and asked, "Brother Ma, is this true?"

Ma Baofu nodded to Li Qingfeng, didn't say anything, just lowered his head and kept smoking.

Li Qingfeng pretended to be surprised and said, "Fuck! These people are really brave." He took a puff of cigarette and continued, "Alas! The city is in turmoil again."

After a while, Bai Guangquan returned to the office of the second team after the meeting. He clapped his hands and said loudly, "Everyone, the higher-ups have issued an order. Director Sun asked us to cooperate with the military police and the Imperial Army to conduct a full-scale search. Our task is to cooperate with the military police at various important intersections to assist in the inspection. Do you understand?"

"I heard it clearly." All the members of Team 2, including Li Qingfeng himself, responded loudly.

Bai Guangquan nodded and said, "Okay, everyone go to the important checkpoints in your respective areas to report in!"

After hearing this, everyone in the house dispersed immediately, and walked out of the police station in pairs to their respective jurisdictions.

Li Qingfeng followed Ma Baofu, both smoking cigarettes and carrying guns on their backs, as they staggered into the jurisdiction. When they arrived, they found that a checkpoint had already been set up at the intersection of Chenghua Street. There were two Japanese soldiers and six puppet soldiers checking the passers-by.

Li Qingfeng followed Ma Baofu and ran over quickly, lowering his head slightly and said, "Madam, the police asked us to cooperate with the ladies in the inspection."

As he spoke, Ma Baofu took out cigarettes and handed them to the two Japanese soldiers, while Li Qingfeng took out cigarettes and distributed them to the six puppet soldiers, then struck a match to light cigarettes for several of them.

Alas! There is no way, when you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head!

One of the Japanese soldiers was smoking a cigarette, nodding and smiling, saying, "Hey! You guys, good people, do your job."

Ma Baofu also smiled and nodded and said, "We are all good citizens."

Li Qingfeng had to suppress the nausea in his heart and nodded and smiled at the two devils, just as if he, Li Qingfeng, was nodding and smiling at a dog.

Afterwards, the Japanese asked Ma Baofu and themselves to stand on both sides of the checkpoint to cooperate with the puppet army in checking passers-by.

What Li Qingfeng was doing at the checkpoint was happening at every important intersection in the old city, causing the citizens in the city to groan and complain. The citizens dared not disobey the inspection and could only cooperate with their pride.

There were also some more passionate people who would shout or take action to stop the Japanese soldiers when they checked women or touched their private parts. However, these people were facing the butts of the Japanese soldiers' guns, and in serious cases, they would be hit by a bullet.

During the day, bursts of gunfire were heard from time to time in the city. There were also Japanese trucks carrying the bodies of citizens. No one knew which road they were from, but there were still a few Japanese bodies in the trucks. Li Qingfeng looked at them and smiled in his heart.

There were also quite a few people tied up by the Japanese in the car, all of them were men, but they were all dressed brightly and beautifully. They must be wealthy people in the city. The Japanese wanted these people to make up for the losses of the Japanese bank!

The Japanese's city-wide search lasted for a week, during which they removed all the checkpoints at important intersections in the city, and Li Qingfeng returned to patrolling the streets every day.

The city of Sijiu also returned to its previous peaceful life. Perhaps this was only life on the surface, but life underground was not peaceful. At night or in the middle of the night, Li Qingfeng would hear bursts of gunfire in the city at home.

During the seven days of the Japanese's large-scale search, many people died. Li Qingfeng alone knew about fifty or sixty people, so there was no way he didn't know about them.

The losses of the Japanese bank were also reported in the newspapers. It was unknown how much money the rich people who were captured by the Japanese paid to the Japanese before they were released by the gendarmerie. Li Qingfeng didn't know about this.

However, Li Qingfeng deeply apologized to those who died in the bank incident, no matter they were ordinary people or from which party, and could only say silently in his heart: "I'm sorry."

On the day when the Japanese withdrew the checkpoint, Li Qingfeng went directly to Liu Chuanzhi's house after getting off work at the police station instead of going home.

As soon as he entered the yard, Li Qingfeng asked Chuan Liu and Wang Shenghua: "Lao Liu, Sister Wang, has anything happened to our comrades during this period?"

Liu Chuanzhi handed Li Qingfeng a cigarette, then smiled and replied, "Nothing happened. On the night when the Japanese bank incident happened, our insider reported the situation and said that the Japanese were going to conduct a large-scale search, and asked us to move or wait quietly, so nothing happened."

Li Qingfeng took a puff of cigarette. Hearing this, his worries were put to rest. He was glad that nothing happened to our party members. He nodded and said with a smile, "It's good that nothing happened."

"Yeah." Liu Chuanzhi nodded and responded to Li Qingfeng.

After finishing a cigarette, Li Qingfeng said hello to Liu Chuanzhi and Wang Shenghua and went home.