Chapter 150: Good And Evil Will Be Rewarded In The End
He didn’t deceive Li Xiangxiu. He had indeed contacted several little devil officers to eat together in the evening, including that little devil named Kato Senzhang.
That Kato Senzhang little devil was also a Battalion Commander. After Cao Weida explained the reason, Fujita Sosuke agreed without hesitation, guaranteeing that no one would touch Bai Jingqi, and stating that he would definitely make Kato Senzhang attend the evening banquet.
Why was Fujita Sosuke so confident?
Naturally, there was a reason.
In fact, many people didn’t know that the Gendarmerie Headquarters was also divided into different departments.
Japanese Army China Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, Japanese Gendarmerie Headquarters, and Special Beiping Gendarmerie Headquarters—three departments in total.
Specifically, the China Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters was subordinate to the China Garrison Army Commander.
The Japanese Gendarmerie Headquarters was the core institution of the Japanese Military Police locally, maintaining business guidance and collaborative relations with the China Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, jointly responsible for Military Police affairs in North China.
The Special Beiping Gendarmerie Headquarters was established to strengthen control over the Beiping area, commanded by the China Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, responsible for tasks such as military police, releasing spies, and suppressing anti-Japanese activities in Beiping and surrounding areas.
Simply put, the Special Beiping Gendarmerie Headquarters was subordinate to the China Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, while the Japanese Gendarmerie Headquarters had a collaborative relationship and was not subordinate.
Fujita Sosuke was a Battalion Commander in the Garrison Army Gendarmerie Headquarters, while Kato Senzhang was a Battalion Commander in the Special Beiping Gendarmerie Headquarters.
To put it bluntly, Fujita Sosuke, as this Battalion Commander, crushed Kato Senzhang in both rank and authority.
Even because of the subordinate relationship, his words carried more weight than those from other units.
Previously, Cao Weida didn’t agree immediately. One reason was naturally to maximize the favor, but another reason was that he didn’t have 100% certainty.
He had already planned that if the matter couldn’t be handled, he would follow the method in the original drama. Although Bai Jingqi might still suffer some grievances, rescuing him would still be no problem.
However, after learning about this relationship and with Fujita Sosuke agreeing outright, Cao Weida was now certain that Bai Jingqi’s matter was basically no problem.
“Thank you, truly thank you so much!” Seeing that her husband had hope, Li Xiangxiu couldn’t contain her joy, stood up, and bowed repeatedly in thanks.
“Madam Bai, no need…” Cao Weida sprang up, stepped forward wanting to help her up, but because of the distinction between men and women, physical contact was inconvenient. For a moment, he was in a dilemma and could only watch helplessly as Li Xiangxiu bowed nine times.
Don’t think that with new ideas emerging now, the old rules are no longer followed. The concept of strict separation between men and women was still very common in this era, especially in big families.
Only the lower-class people would consciously or unconsciously ignore this.
When they couldn’t even afford to eat, who could still afford to be particular about these things?
He had no choice but to step back and move to the side. After Li Xiangxiu finished bowing, he smiled wryly: “Madam Bai, there’s no need for this. Any Chinese person with a conscience would never stand idly by in such a situation.”
“With you doing this, you’ve instead made me somewhat at a loss.”
Hearing this, Li Xiangxiu suddenly realized. She had only wanted to express the gratitude in her heart. After all, at her most desperate moment, Cao Weida had suddenly given her hope, making her gratitude surge uncontrollably.
But Cao Weida’s reminder made her realize that her actions were tantamount to putting him on a hot grill.
She hurriedly waved her hands: “Officer Cao, I didn’t mean that. I was just too excited, so…”
“I know,” Cao Weida interrupted: “Madam Bai need not explain so much. Rest assured, I will do my utmost to help with this matter. You just go back and wait for news.”
Li Xiangxiu nodded gratefully. “Rest assured, no matter if this succeeds or not, the Bai family will never forget this favor. This matter is entrusted to Officer Cao.”
Standing by the window, watching Li Xiangxiu leave the Police Station, Cao Weida then walked back to the desk and sat down.
As the former ratings champion, 《Big Manor》 this TV series he had naturally watched, but because it was so long ago, he couldn’t remember most of the plot.
For example, what Bai Jingqi looked like when he was young, he had no impression at all.
However, he still had some impression of the plot after the little devils invaded China.
He had a quite favorable impression of the character Bai Jingqi.
Not for anything else, but because Bai Jingqi upheld national integrity, resisted foreign aggression, protected the industry’s lifeline, and passed down national skills with noble sentiments.
He might have this or that flaw, but in the face of major issues of right and wrong, Bai Jingqi was quite a man. Even knowing he would die, even tortured beyond recognition, he held his bottom line, never betraying China, never becoming a traitor!
Just this alone made him worthy of the title of a true Chinese man.
For such a person, within his capabilities, Cao Weida had no reason not to save him.
Oh right, there was another character who left a deep impression on him, and that was Bai Jingqi’s sister Bai Yuting.
This guy was a ruthless one. Nearly thirty and still unmarried, crazily chasing the star Wan Xiaoju. That fanaticism was far more intense than those modern star-chasers, and her rewards to her idol were counted by the box.
And in those boxes weren’t copper coins or silver dollars, but various precious jewelry and jewels, each worth a fortune!
Her obsession with chasing stars reached an extreme. After Wan Xiaoju died, she even pasted up a memorial tablet with the dead person’s photograph and held a wedding, and thereafter never remarried for the rest of her life—something she could do. Ask any modern star-chaser, who could match her?
A woman from a great family, doing such things for an actor. In this era, that would get her ridiculed behind her back to death.
“Tsk, what a pitiful and lamentable woman.” Cao Weida shook his head. The current era was a somewhat distorted one.
The suppression of feudal thoughts, emptiness, and the impact of ideals of romantic love and freedom from the West created a spiritual landscape in this society that was polarized and somewhat twisted and entangled.
And Bai Yuting was one of the victims under these two kinds of thoughts.
He shook his head, no longer thinking about these things, because thinking wouldn’t help. Issues of thought couldn’t be turned around with a few words from others.
Besides, others might not even want your intervention. If you rashly meddled in others’ affairs, they might even blame you for being nosy.
Besides, whether Bai Yuting was tragic or not had nothing to do with him. Was he so bored as to worry about these things?
With this time, wouldn’t it be better to do some more meaningful things?
Respect others’ fates and prevent mental exhaustion.
A thought flashed through his mind, and he stopped thinking about it. He opened the box Li Xiangxiu brought, exclaiming ‘whoa’ in surprise:
“As expected of the wealthy Bai family—they’re generous!”
This box was actually packed full of gold bars!
Taking them out and counting carefully, there were a full twelve!
According to the current exchange rate, even if calculated at just a few hundred silver dollars each, it amounted to fully over ten thousand silver dollars!
It could be said he was the most generous among all those he had ‘mediated’ for!
And this was just the initial ‘token’. If he could rescue Bai Jingqi, could the later ‘token’ be any less than this?
He wasn’t polite about it either, confidently storing all the gold bars directly into the Space.
Helping was helping, but benefits should be accepted when due—there was nothing to be shy about.
Speaking of gold bars, a place suddenly popped into his mind—Heshen’s residence!
In 1799, during the Jiaqing Emperor’s confiscation of property, a large amount of gold, silver, and jewels were found in hidden places like wall compartments and cellars, totaling 26,000 taels of gold, over 3 million taels of silver, and countless pearls and agates.
Some say 58,000 taels of gold were found.
As for the exact amount of gold, opinions varied, so it was unknown.
However, in his previous life, he had seen an online rumor that during the large-scale renovation of Prince Gong Mansion in 2008, another cellar was discovered inside a cellar, containing a large number of gold ingots, silver ingots, and various treasures, with inestimable value.
At that time, because of this rumor, many netizens went there for tourism and confirmed there was indeed a cellar within a cellar, so the rumor should be true.
“So, should I go look for it now…”
But thinking about it, he gave up the idea.
At this time, Prince Gong Mansion had been bought by Fu Jen Catholic University, with many people living inside. Going rashly would easily get him discovered.
If noticed by those with ulterior motives, it would be bad.
Anyway, those gold, silver, and jewels wouldn’t be discovered until 08, so better not to stir up trouble.
“Big Brother Cao.” Little Ear walked in, holding a property deed. “The matter is settled, and the subsequent money will all be sent there.”
The so-called subsequent money was the respect money from those black-hearted merchants.
“Good, thanks for the hard work.” Cao Weida took the property deed, glanced at it, folded it, and tucked it into his pocket.
This property deed was for the house in Sesame Hutong—more precisely, Tong Mazi’s courtyard house.
Tong Mazi had already been killed as a scapegoat, and his wife was no good either, directly ordered by Cao Weida to be driven away.
As for whether she was dead or alive now, or where she had ended up, Cao Weida didn’t care.
In this way, that courtyard house naturally became ownerless. Cao Weida just made a greeting, paid the Police Station a ‘transfer fee’, and the courtyard house legally became Cao Weida’s courtyard house.
It was essentially wiping out everything Tong Mazi owned.
Tong Mazi had done plenty of such things before, and being treated this way after death could be considered as retribution finally catching up.
This courtyard house was a two-courtyard siheyuan, about 450 square meters, with the courtyard space much more spacious than the single-courtyard ones he bought.
When he had other women in the future, he would definitely transfer this courtyard house to her name; it was only temporarily under his name now.
“Of that money, take one-tenth to divide among the brothers, one-tenth for yourself, another one-tenth to Bureau Chief Xu’s residence, three-tenths to Ono Shiota’s residence, and send the rest to the courtyard.”
