Chapter 230: Not Afraid You’ll Be Greedy, Just Afraid You Won’t
During this period in Beiping, leaving aside other trades for the moment, let’s talk about patrolmen.
The working hours were twelve hours a day, six-day workweek.
Moreover, even after getting off duty, if there was a sudden situation, they had to put on their police uniforms and immediately go to work overtime.
For someone like Cao Weida, who clocked in before nine in the morning and left at five in the evening, and didn’t have to worry unless Officer Ono Shiota or Xu Hancheng specifically called to notify him, there were very few such people in the entire police station.
“Cough cough~~ Master Duo, please continue.” Cao Weida touched his nose. Since he had already gotten the benefit, he naturally couldn’t act coy. If he showed off, he was afraid Master Duo would give him a monkey stealing a peach.
“Last night late, we were called to carry corpses. That scene, you didn’t see it, bloody, pieces here and there. Thinking about it now still gives chills. Tsk, you didn’t see it, that guy was really ruthless!”
Mentioning last night’s scene, Duomen couldn’t help but shiver.
Ruthless?
In Cao Weida’s view, as long as it was against the little devils, no matter how ruthless it was, it was not too much.
“So, today we have to cooperate with the search again?”
“The search definitely has to be done, after all, such a big thing happened.”
So many years had passed, Duomen had long gotten used to it.
Whenever something big happened in Beiping, a round of searches was inevitable.
This had already become a practice.
However, as for whether they could search out anything, Duomen was not optimistic.
Patrolmen were also people, and people get tired and would have annoyed moods.
Especially with searches every few days recently, who could stand it?
At the beginning, it was okay, they could still get some extra money.
But with such frequent searches, the people had no spare money left!
If they continued like this, they were really afraid the people couldn’t stand this exploitation and would bludgeon them in the dark!
As for those big families, they occasionally gave some rewards because they didn’t want trouble. If they went to extort every two or three days, did they really think they had no temper?
Without the benefits of extra money, the patrolmen’s enthusiasm naturally waned, and the searches would inevitably be perfunctory.
Anyway, it wasn’t them who died, why should they hurry.
Obviously, the little devils also knew this.
Sure enough, Officer Ono Shiota came out with Xu Hancheng’s diligent accompaniment.
“Hurry hurry, everyone stand properly! Officer Ono has something to say!”
With Xu Hancheng’s order, the sergeants, no matter how unwilling, could only make their patrolmen stand in formation.
But that formation was a bit unsightly.
They were all crooked and slanted, looking like they’d jerked off all night.
“Okay okay, stand properly, no whispering!” Seeing the formation like this, Xu Hancheng also felt ashamed.
But there was no way, not to mention before, in these ten-plus days, basically searching every day, setting up checkpoints every day, his younger brothers under him had suffered a lot, he knew that in his heart.
They were all so tired, you couldn’t expect them to be full of spirit.
After slightly admonishing the formation, he didn’t demand more and directly started painting a big pie:
“Everyone must know about last night’s incident, I won’t waste words.”
He gestured to Officer Ono Shiota, “Police Station Consultant Officer Ono has spoken: for each infiltrator from last night’s attack caught, reward five hundred silver dollars!”
“For each infiltrator found, reward two hundred silver dollars per person!”
“For finding privately hidden Type 38 rifles, Japanese light machine guns, and other guns and ammunition, also get fifty to one hundred silver dollars reward!”
The patrolmen standing in the field gave sparse applause. Although the conditions sounded very tempting, few showed interested expressions.
Not to mention they were already very tired, just those fierce people who maltreated and killed over eighty Imperial Army and Chinese collaborators!
They would have to hate their lives to provoke them.
Even if they really found one or two, who knows, maybe the money was collected in the daytime, and the life was lost at night.
They killed Imperial Army like killing chickens, killing them would be even more effortless?
Xu Hancheng on the speech platform had a slightly embarrassed expression. He had worked so hard on the speech, but his younger brothers were not enthusiastic, which made him somewhat unable to step down.
But what could he do? Wasn’t this all the sins committed by the Taijun?
He originally wanted Officer Ono Shiota to say a few words on stage, but seeing the current situation, better forget it, to avoid Officer Ono Shiota also being embarrassed and then venting anger on him.
“Cough cough~~ I know brothers have worked hard, but to clear out the rebellion and return Beiping to a clear sky, we”
Listening to the half-baked speech on stage, the patrolmen below rolled their eyes inwardly to the sky.
Clear out rebellion, return clear sky.
To say the biggest rebels, shouldn’t it be the little devils?
If there were no these little devils, we would have been clear long ago.
We just didn’t go to school, doesn’t mean we’re stupid. Do they really think we’re that easy to fool?
No wonder Xu Hancheng could be bureau chief, these words came out smoothly without any embarrassment, we are inferior.
With the mobilization meeting ending, a team of about a dozen little devils walked in with not-so-neat steps.
These were the little devils who would lead them to search soon.
“Just this many people?”
Cao Weida was speechless, but he guessed in his heart that not only the patrolmen were tired of searches, the little devils were also fed up.
Plus going to search those desperate people, with such fierce firepower, no one wanted to touch that bad luck.
Did they really think little devils were not afraid of death?
What are you thinking!
From this, it could be inferred that this search was probably just going through the motions.
After the patrolmen dispersed, Cao Weida followed behind Officer Ono Shiota’s butt to the office.
After the two sat down, he first lit a cigarette and smoked, then Cao Weida asked:
“Ono-kun, I heard that last night Imperial Army soldiers were ambushed?”
Officer Ono Shiota sighed, “Yeah, ambushed, thirty-two lives sacrificed. For this, Officer Miyamoto was furious and threw a big tantrum.”
He pointed to his eyes, “Look, didn’t sleep all night, got dark circles.”
Cao Weida laughed inwardly, but on his face showed a puzzled look: “How could this happen? How did the resistance elements know the Imperial Army soldiers would gather there?”
“It’s not that bastard Lin Yuanjiang!” Officer Ono Shiota angrily slapped the sofa. Nothing else, slapping the sofa arm didn’t hurt.
Cao Weida seemed to remember something and probed: “Lin Yuanjiang? Director of the East Asia Academic Research Association? What’s his relationship to this?”
“The relationship is huge!” Officer Ono Shiota took a breath, leaned back softly on the sofa, twisted to find a comfortable position, and said:
“This damn bastard insisted that our intelligence… a plan was leaked, and they used this plan to lure the resistance elements into a trap, to catch them in a jar.”
“But who would have thought, we didn’t catch them, instead we became the turtle in the jar!”
“Now it’s good, such a big loss, someone has to take responsibility, and as the planner of the plan, Lin Yuanjiang absolutely can’t escape responsibility.”
“You say, can’t we just honestly make money? Why mess around, really asking for trouble!”
His tone was full of disdain, obviously very dissatisfied with someone’s actions.
Ever since the money in his pocket bulged more, the already life-loving Officer Ono Shiota was even more reluctant to die.
Whether Japan wins or not was not important to him. Now, nothing was more important than money.
And anyone who disrupted his money-making would arouse his dissatisfaction and hostility.
“So, Lin Yuanjiang might be sanctioned this time?” Cao Weida asked hopefully in his heart.
Ever since Liu Huai was killed, Cao Weida planned to kill Lin Yuanjiang too.
However, perhaps Liu Huai’s fate scared Lin Yuanjiang, this guy suddenly got smart. At nightfall, no one knew where he hid, even his bodyguards didn’t know.
Couldn’t find the person, how to kill him? After searching continuously for two days without finding him, Cao Weida could only temporarily give up.
If he could eliminate this big traitor Lin Yuanjiang through this incident, it seemed quite worth celebrating.
“That won’t happen.” Officer Ono Shiota waved his hand listlessly. Old people all knew, the older you get, the less you can stay up late.
Officer Ono Shiota, who hadn’t slept all night, couldn’t resist the tiredness on his face even with a cigarette in his mouth.
“Recently in Beiping, many ‘friends’ have been killed, many with ambiguous attitudes, not many trustworthy people left.”
“If Lin Yuanjiang is sanctioned, who will take his position?”
“I think at most a small punishment to teach him a lesson, and it will end up with nothing done.”
That was really too bad.
Cao Weida felt sorry inwardly. They say good people don’t live long, scourges last a thousand years, that saying was true.
Even like this, still couldn’t kill him, not even dismissing him from director position, too lenient.
“You’re right, but it’s a pity for those thirty-two Imperial warriors, just gone like that.” After dropping a not-too-small eye medicine, no longer dwelling on the issue to avoid overdoing it, he changed the topic:
“By the way, that Lou Steel Rolling Mill I mentioned to you before, because of the city lockdown, raw materials and such can’t be transported in, still prohibited now. A couple days ago they came to me saying if no more materials, the workers in the factory would have to eat northwest wind. What do you think?”
Officer Ono Shiota, who was originally very sleepy, suddenly perked up a bit, eyes rolling, said troubled: “This matter is a bit difficult…”
Damn it, as soon as you move your butt, this old man knows what fart you’re going to fart!
Isn’t it just wanting to seize the opportunity to make money?
Not afraid you’re greedy, afraid you’re not greedy!
He smiled and said: “Ono-kun, the Lou family is sensible, generous in their spending. Their ‘meaning’ should not disappoint you.”
