Chapter 126: Arrest
It is said that Rosen sent everyone in his family out to hide, and now he himself has used another identity according to the backup plan and has become another person to hide in the slums of Wuhan. His new identity didn't even know about Ouyang Xiaohua and Aunt Zhang, who had been with him for a few years, and this was another retreat he had prepared for himself.
The Japanese military police and puppet police imposed martial law in Wuhan for several days, and at the same time, many secret agents were planted in various hospitals in the city, and checkpoints were set up on all major traffic arteries to prevent fugitives from escaping. But after a few days of searching, there was not even a shadow of a person.
To no avail, the top officials of the Japanese gendarmerie began to send people to search the Wuhan sub-districts, and various government departments began to be required to conduct self-inspections. It is required that any abnormality must be reported to the gendarmerie or the pseudo-police, otherwise, if it is found that the escaped spy is related to that department, and no one reports it, the entire department will be punished.
As soon as this order came out, the people of the entire puppet government were in danger, for fear that their colleagues around them would be abnormal, and they did not speak out, and then not only themselves but also the people in the entire department would be affected. Under such circumstances, people began to stare at each other and suspect each other, and this situation was more in line with the mind of the supreme leadership of the gendarmerie.
And the head of the military administration department of the puppet government, Xia, has had the most headache in the past few days, and his most powerful assistant Rosen has not come to work for several days, and he has not called him to ask for leave to explain the reason.
But early this morning, his adjutant took a self-inspection notice issued by the Japanese gendarmerie. He disapproves of the practice of one person in that department who has a problem and does not report it, and then the entire department is punished. If that's the case, then what else are you doing? Staring at each other and doubting each other!
But now he can't help Rosen hide it, because the entire military administration department is staring at each other, you know, there is no such person in this world who does not do the slightest plan for himself. Director Xia didn't know about other places, but in his department, he knew that everyone had their own selfishness, including himself.
It's not. The adjutant handed him the self-inspection notice. He asked, "Director Xia." That Chief Luo hasn't come to work for a few days, is he going to report to the Gendarmerie Department? Otherwise, ......"
Although the adjutant's words did not continue, the implication of Director Xia was still very clear. He smiled self-deprecatingly, "Report it!" I hope Chief Luo has good luck! ”
It was only reported this morning. In the afternoon, several Japanese soldiers came to the gendarmerie department. The attitude of these Japanese soldiers was very arrogant. They separated the people from the military administration office one by one and questioned them. Mainly to ask Lawson's usual cousin, who he likes to come into contact with, and what was abnormal in the first few days before he came to work. Who did you come into contact with in those days? …… The question was very detailed.
Before leaving, he also asked Director Xia in detail about the address of Rosen's family, and the family members ...... Director Xia didn't hide it, like these materials, there is no need to hide it, a little check, it will be clear. Seeing those gendarmes nervously recording these things, he vaguely guessed that something had happened to this Lawson.
Soon after the gendarmes left the military administration of the puppet government, the small western-style building of the Rosen family was surrounded by the gendarmerie and the puppet police. After the captain of the gendarmerie and the captain of the pseudo-security team made people break open the door, they rushed into the small western-style building with their men.
Needless to say, it was certainly for nothing. You must know that during the time when Luo Sen felt nervous, he cleaned up all kinds of important things a few times, and when he asked everyone to evacuate this place, he asked Ouyang Xiaohua to clean it up again, as for after he was injured, everything that was stained with his blood was quietly received by Xigui to the small space, and at this time, there was naturally no suspicious thing in the small western-style building.
The two squad leaders who were sent out to carry out the task of arresting people thought that they would not be able to catch people this time, and they would always be able to search for some valuable information. In a fit of rage, these people are like robbers who rob a house, taking away all the more expensive and important things.
When the principal, Teacher Li and Director Liao of the Academic Affairs Office were gathered by the military police for questioning, they knew that Xigui's father might be a spy of the Communist Party.
When the gendarmes who came to arrest people knew that Xigui hadn't come to school for several days, they finally had to leave in disgrace. After all, most of the students in this school are powerful in their families, and if they provoke public anger, it will be difficult for the senior officials to take care of them.
The news that the gendarmes had come to the school to arrest people, and that they were going to the second-class middle school, where most of the school's family backgrounds were pseudo-government officials or pro-Japanese families, was like dropping a heavy bomb on the calm waters, setting off a huge wave.
The teachers of the school, the students of other classes, were surprised and unbelievable, but for the more than 20 students in the second intermediate class, they had their own thoughts. But this mind, in the final analysis, are also two major factions with clear banners, two camps dominated by Pan Lili and Xie Meina.
Pan Lili was remorseful, why didn't she find out first that the newcomer Luo Xigui was the daughter of a communist? I should have known that I should have tried every means to get close to her, become her best friend, and be able to enter and leave her house, so that she would definitely be able to discover the abnormality of her family, then now she will definitely be able to make a great contribution, and her position in her father will be even more unbreakable.
And Xie Meina is also very remorseful, but her mind is just the opposite of Pan Lili, she knows that her father actually loves her own country very much, and is dissatisfied with Japan's invasion of her own country, and is hateful. She could feel these words from her father's conversation with her mother at home.
Although she didn't understand why her father hated Japan's aggression against her own country so much, why did the Japanese soldiers act recklessly in their own country, why did they still translate for the Japanese generals? Why don't you want to leave, let alone defect to the Communist Party, even to the National Army? You must know that she and her younger brother are very disliked by teachers and classmates at school because of their identity, and they are scolded as 'little traitors' behind their backs!
But today, because those gendarmes came to the class to arrest Luo Xigui, it gave her a new idea, because her new guess about her father made her heart excited and scared. At the same time, he naturally developed a sense of closeness to Luo Xigui.
Before the gendarmerie captain led the people to leave, he asked the students of the second middle class to report to the gendarmerie as soon as they saw it, or Luo Xigui went to find them, and then the gendarmerie would have a grand prize for the person who reported the news. After hearing this, Pan Lili and Xie Meina had different thoughts, and soon a new undercurrent was set off in the second-level middle class.
In this way, within a few days, the streets and alleys of Wuhan were plastered with portraits of Tongji Lawson, Ouyang Xiaohua, Luo Xigui, and Aunt Zhang. The whole of Wuhan knew that this family was a gangster, and the gendarmes and puppet policemen who were searching from house to house and making the city of Wuhan crazy were just trying to arrest these four people.
Rosen changed his identity as an old man and hid in the slums, while Xigui hid in a small space with a leisurely face, living a leisurely farming life. Yes, Xigui is okay in the space, and she is taking advantage of her free time in the past few days to take care of her three acres of land in the small space. You must know that those three acres of land have been abandoned by her since they fled the famine.
Luo Sen and Xigui are safe for the time being, so are Ouyang Xiaohua and Aunt Zhang as good as these two?
Ouyang Xiaohua left the small western-style building early that morning, thinking that there was no safe place to go. You must know that she usually deals with not some broad wives, or the wives of pseudo-officials or pro-Japanese people, and the interaction with these people is a work need, and her true identity cannot be exposed, so naturally this kind of interaction is superficially intimate, but in fact, there is still a certain distance.
At this time, how can she go to those people in such a predicament? Isn't that self-defeating? Although she didn't want to die, she didn't want to betray the organization in exchange for a chance to live. She didn't dare to wander around the streets, because the streets were full of gendarmes and pseudo-police, and if she wasn't careful, she would be caught in the net.
Ouyang Xiaohua stood on the side of the street and thought for a while, and when she was a little dazed, a smiling face flashed in her mind, it was a hairstylist named Ajie in the barbershop she frequented, this hairstylist made her feel different from other hairstylists.
He never came forward to receive the Japanese customers in the store, and once when she was helping her with her hairstyle, she only asked him about the information of the customers in the store intentionally or unintentionally, but what she didn't expect was that every time she went to do her hair, he seemed to be unintentional but deliberately told her some people and things she wanted to know.
Later, she deliberately inquired about the life of this barber named Ajie, but she didn't expect that his parents and sister died at the hands of Japanese soldiers when Japan captured Wuhan that year. At that time, Ouyang Xiaohua understood why this hairstylist named Ajie didn't accept Japanese customers!
Ouyang Xiaohua hesitated for a while, there was nowhere to go anyway, after all, she still had the mood to gamble, and went to wait outside the barber shop where she usually did her hair.
When she went, it was still too early, and the barbershop hadn't opened yet. In order not to arouse suspicion, she bought some bread at a breakfast stall not far from the barbershop, squatted aside and gnawed slowly, while keeping her eyes firmly on the way to the barbershop. (To be continued......)