Chapter 164: You Dare Tease Me, Master Duo!
“Mm-hmm.”
Liu Rusi woke up in a daze, feeling herself held in someone’s arms. She was first startled, but upon looking up and seeing Cao Weida’s face, her memory instantly recalled everything that happened last night.
The muscles that had just tensed quickly softened, and she buried her head in his arms with attachment and shyness.
Seeing her ostrich-like behavior, Cao Weida originally wanted to tease her a couple of times, but after thinking about it, he decided against it and said gently:
“I’ll go to the Police Station first to check in and incidentally probe the little devils’ attitude today. It should be temporarily safe here. After I go out, I’ll lock the door. Be careful yourself.”
Liu Rusi mumbled a muffled “mm” in response, her attitude exceptionally obedient and sensible.
On the way to the Police Station, Cao Weida, sitting in the rickshaw, casually looked around as if unintentionally.
There were many more Military Police today, with checkpoints set up at every intersection. They stopped people for questioning, and even Cao Weida was forced to stop.
Only after he showed the identification given to him by Ono Shiota was he allowed to pass smoothly.
Upon arriving at the Police Station, as soon as he entered the office building, Duomen pulled him aside.
After looking around and seeing no one, he said in a low voice: “Where did you go last night, you brat?”
“Of course I was sleeping at home. What else could I be doing late at night instead of sleeping at home?”
“Don’t give me that nonsense, brat. I called both of your two concubines last night, and you weren’t home at all!”
“Uh…” Cao Weida suddenly felt a bit regretful. Why had he installed a telephone at home for no reason?
One slip in a hundred precautions, one slip in a hundred precautions!
He must be more careful in the future and never make such a mistake again.
But last night’s situation was indeed special. Who knew he would run into Liu Rusi in danger? He couldn’t just stand by and watch.
He asked cautiously: “No one else knows, right?”
“Don’t worry, only I know.” Duomen sighed helplessly in his heart. The first time Cao Weida killed someone was when he was still living in his courtyard. Duomen had known then that this kid was definitely not someone to be trifled with, and absolutely not as harmless as he appeared on the surface.
He actually had some guesses, but had always pretended not to know.
He looked deeply at Cao Weida and said earnestly: “Cao’er, I don’t want to interfere with what you do. You have your own ideas.”
“I know your character. You absolutely wouldn’t do anything harmful to heaven and humanity.”
“But everything requires thinking three times before acting. You’re not alone anymore. You have women to support. Put your own safety first in everything.”
Cao Weida grinned. “Don’t worry, Master Duo. As you know, I’ve always been timid and afraid of death.”
“Besides, I’m also greedy for money and lustful. I’ve just taken a concubine, and in the next couple of days I’ll take two more, and in a few days another one. With so many women for me to enjoy, how could I bear to die?”
With his current skills, as long as he didn’t court death by getting surrounded, and as long as he didn’t expose his identity, it was only him killing others—others wanting to kill him?
What a pipe dream!
Duomen was stunned upon hearing this. “You’re taking concubines again? All three at once?”
“Of course, who made us handsome, dashing, young, and rich?” Cao Weida smugly tossed his hair, looking extremely punchable.
Duomen rolled his eyes, feeling extremely sour inside.
Fine, your master here doesn’t even have one woman, and you, good for you, are about to have five.
He said grumpily: “You’re still young. Show some restraint. With so many women, can you handle it? Aren’t you afraid of dying on a woman’s belly someday?”
Cao Weida proudly patted his chest, thumping loudly: “Who made our body so sturdy!”
Duomen disdainfully curled his lip. “Forget it, forget it. I’m too lazy to care about your sordid affairs. Just don’t let me see you staggering in with unsteady steps supporting yourself against the wall in the future.”
“Alright, no more chit-chat. I’m really sleepy now, exhausted all over, no mood to shoot the breeze with you.”
“Huh? What’s the situation?” Cao Weida seemed to have caught the key point and winked at him:
“Third Sister-in-law told me she found you a woman. Don’t tell me you went to see that woman last night…”
“Master Duo, aren’t you too impatient? You need to take it easy. Though matters between men and women are indeed addictive, and you’ve been holding back a lot, but still, look how exhausted you’ve made yourself…”
“Get lost, what nonsense are you spouting, brat? You dare tease your Master Duo?” Duomen’s face was full of black lines, slightly flushed,
“Last night, the Military Police Team discovered the Military Statistics Bureau conducting an intelligence transaction. During the arrest, both sides engaged in a gunfight.”
At this point, he gave Cao Weida a deep look. “Based on the traces of the battle at the scene, one of the Military Statistics Bureau special agents was injured and cornered in a dead-end alley, about to be captured alive.”
“Then another person appeared, using an automatic rifle to shoot all the Military Police dead and rescued that person.”
“Although the Military Police reinforcements arrived quickly, they were still one step too late, and the person was carried away to safety.”
At this point, Duomen paused, withdrew his gaze, and said helplessly:
“So there I was, sleeping soundly at home, and someone dragged me out of bed to set up checkpoints.”
“It’s been a whole night, and I haven’t closed my eyes. How could I not be sleepy?”
“Unlike you, brat. Being a Patrol Officer is fine, and you don’t even handle affairs, just wandering around all day with nothing to do.”
Cao Weida touched his nose. This matter really wasn’t his fault; he had just happened to be there.
Who could have thought things would coincide so perfectly right in front of him?
Honestly, he hadn’t expected the story’s development to turn out like this. Liu Rusi, with whom he had no prior connection, had suddenly become his woman. All of this was too magical.
“By the way, Master Duo, do you know who it was? Man or woman? Too badass—did such a big thing and still got away unscathed!”
Duomen: “Who knows? All the little devils who knew the specifics last night are dead. The ones who caught up later were too far away, and it was dark, so who knows who it was.”
So even the gender is unknown. Then I’m relieved.
At that moment, a burst of dog barking came. Cao Weida asked puzzledly: “When did our Police Station start keeping police dogs?”
“What police dogs? Those are military dogs.” Duomen replied: “I was just about to tell you—they were urgently transferred overnight from Changxindian specifically to track the Military Statistics Bureau special agent who escaped last night and the person who rescued him.”
“They even brought in military dogs?” Cao Weida frowned, a flash of killing intent in his eyes.
If it weren’t mentioned, Cao Weida really wouldn’t have realized he had overlooked this!
After Beiping fell in 1937, the Japanese Army selected a railway factory in Changxindian and converted it into a dog breeding base. The base was surrounded by walls with electrified barbed wire on top, watchtowers built, and eleven dog kennels, specifically for training military dogs.
At its peak, it housed over a thousand ferocious Japanese wolfdogs. To ensure their aggression, the Japanese Army even used Chinese war prisoners and even civilians as live feed for the wolfdogs!
According to war criminal interrogation records, from 1938 to 1940, an average of three people were thrown into the wolfdog pit every two days here.
After the victory in the War of Resistance, military and civilians from Changxindian stormed the base. Angry people used farm tools to end the lives of these military dogs and, during the cleanup, discovered 378 human skeletons.
But was that all?
Definitely not. How many more went undiscovered?
No one knows!
The little devils’ inhumanity is utterly outrageous.
Those later generations’ keyboard warriors and public intellectuals who whitewash the Japanese are either stupid as hell or have ulterior motives, and there might even be quite a few bought-off traitors—walking half a million!
Those who say the World War II era is in the past and shouldn’t be repeatedly mentioned, forgiving the little devils’ atrocities on behalf of the ancestors, are all scum among Chinese people!
If people really want to forgive the Japanese Army’s atrocities on behalf of the ancestors, the country should set up a special institution to let them personally experience the tragic ordeals suffered by the ancestors.
If they still feel these shouldn’t be remembered afterward, Cao Weida would absolutely give them a thumbs up.
“Still killed too few devils. Now it’s about one year and four months from the victory in the War of Resistance. Need to hurry and kill more devils, otherwise, once Japan surrenders, it’ll be hard to kill them again.”
“Also, this military dog base needs to be taken out somehow!”
“Isn’t that right? After the military dogs arrived last night, they started searching along the route. I heard they went all the way toward the North Grand Red Building. What courage.”
Cao Weida was slightly startled inside but said calmly: “Did they ultimately track them down?”
Duomen glanced at him with the corner of his eye. “No, I heard too much time had passed, the scent had dissipated, so they ultimately failed to track. However, the North Grand Red Building and all nearby streets and alley entrances have been completely sealed off, and they’re going door-to-door for inspections.”
Cao Weida breathed a sigh of relief inside, secretly glad for his caution last night in transferring places overnight. Otherwise, he might really be in danger today.
With his mind relaxed, he said lightly: “Search away. Better to find them early, so Beiping doesn’t stay under martial law every day like this. The people are almost afraid to go out.”
Duomen gave him a meaningful look. Seeing him so relaxed, he was also relieved. He let out a big yawn and said sleepily: “Alright, no more talking. I’m going to find a place to hole up and sleep. Don’t disturb me if it’s nothing, and don’t come to me if it is.”
“Oh right, there’s a list on my desk—all people grabbed by the little devils and the Chinese collaborators. Prices are written on it. Take a moment later to go negotiate and get them released.”
“Got it. I’ll handle it in a bit. You go catch some shut-eye first, Master Duo.”
Watching Duomen’s back, Cao Weida felt deeply moved inside. He wasn’t a fool—how could he not see that Duomen had already guessed something?
The things he just said were deliberately for him to hear!
Otherwise, how would Duomen know so much?
He wasn’t the type to meddle in others’ business. This was him helping gather intelligence to tip him off!
He called Little Ear and handed the matter to him.
At the beginning, he might have had to handle such small money matters personally, but now that the operation was expanding, except when necessary, he no longer needed to do these small things himself. Greetings had already been exchanged up and down.
Little Ear naturally patted his chest in guarantee. He’d done this more than once already.
He leaned in and whispered: “For those grabbed yesterday, we had them denounce each other and used some punishments. Five of them had blood debts on their hands, including that Hua Mao who went to the hospital to bandage his wound. All secretly detained.”
“The rest were sent to Jingshi Prison early this morning. Xiao Jianbiao’s home was ransacked, yielding over four thousand silver dollars, two gold bars, and five small gold bars, all placed in your office.”
