The Japanese suffered a big loss, and they had not yet found the right owner, so they naturally became angry and spread their anger on the whole city.

The whole city was under martial law, and there was a large-scale manhunt, vowing to find out this terrible anti-Japanese element.

Li Yong is an accountant who works for a trading company and earns a meager salary to support his family.

In recent years, the prices of all kinds of daily necessities have risen, especially the grain has risen the hardest. The white flour rice that the family originally ate has now turned into sweet potatoes and corn, and the meat is not to be thought about.

However, living under the rule of the Japanese, they will encounter flying disasters from time to time.

On this morning, the police closed the streets and set up sentry posts at various intersections, and a combination of a policeman, a special agent and a gendarmerie knocked on doors and searched doors.

It didn't take long for him to come to his doorstep. Li Yong didn't dare to resist, and handed the certificate of good citizenship to the police with a smiling face, "Lord Policeman, we are good citizens, great good citizens." ”

The policeman was in charge of this area, and he had a little impression of the people who lived in this area, and when he saw that his wife and children were there, he was ready to let them go to the next house without hiding.

But the spy didn't agree, "Hey, why do I think he's so familiar?" This height and body shape are very similar to the anti-Japanese elements of that day......"

The agent's tone was very long, and the second half of the sentence was pressed in his mouth and ready to go, and the casual rubbing of his hands hinted at something.

Li Yong understood the meaning of the spy asking for bribes, he thought that money was not easy to come by, and the family of three couldn't afford to live, so save a little. And these guys shouldn't be so unscrupulous, and it shouldn't be anything if they don't pay for it.

So he pretended not to know, and still swore an oath: "My lord, my lords, the small ones are the big good people, and the residents around here can testify to me, and my colleagues in my company can also testify to me!" ”

didn't get the money, the spy got impatient, snorted coldly at him, and said to the gendarme standing next to him carefully: "Lord Imperial Army, the one who gets the certificate of good people is not necessarily a good citizen, he is very much like the anti-Japanese elements of that day, it is better to arrest him!" ”

These Japanese military police officers have been in China for a long time, and they have gradually exposed their greedy and lustful nature. This time, they were sent out, so actively searching from house to house, and they also had the intention of making a handful.

The dog spies dealt with them a lot, and as soon as they showed this meaning, the two hit it off.

The dog spies are responsible for collecting money and money, and the gendarmes support them and arrest people if they disagree.

The unlucky Li Yong, before he could figure out the situation, was arrested and put in prison amid the cries of his wife and children.

But when he arrived in prison, he realized that he was not the only one who was unlucky. The prison was already overcrowded, and a room that could have been used to lock up a few people had now been locked up in a dozen of them, and there was not even a place to lie down and sleep.

He was just locked in, and he couldn't adapt to this environment at all, nor could he adapt to this mood of ups and downs, so he squatted alone in the corner, silently in a daze.

At noon, each person was given a bowl of food as black as pig food, and a bowl of soup like swill floating with rotten vegetable leaves, which was the first meal of Li Yong's prison career.

He carefully distinguished, the bowl of black rice seemed to be moldy food, and he didn't know if it was poisonous when he ate it, but there was a high chance that he would have diarrhea.

The bowl of soup is really shabu-shabu water, and a few rotten vegetable leaves are thrown at random, and you can smell a sour and rancid smell.

But he still had to endure nausea and eat such pig food. Because he didn't have a choice, he didn't want to starve to death, he had to eat, and he wanted to go back alive to see his wife and son.

It is his belief to live, and no matter how hard it is, he has to suffer.

And inadvertently, he also saw someone finish his share, and stared at his bowl of black pig food, probably very hungry.

In the afternoon, a tall man in the cell accosted him: "Friend, why did you do it before, why did you get caught in it?" ”

Li Yong answered truthfully, and asked rhetorically, "Why were you arrested?" ”

"It's all the same reason."

The tall man was very talkative and told him a lot of things.

He was the first in this cell and had spoken to many people. Almost all of the people in this cell were arrested for roughly the same reason, implicated by a legendary anti-Japanese element, and were arrested under the name of resembling an anti-Japanese element.

Gao Yong couldn't help but complain when he heard this: "Isn't it good to live well, why do you want to resist the Japanese, so that we are all implicated and arrested, my daughter is only 7 years old, I can't bear it!" ”

The tall man ignored his complaints, everyone here had similar thoughts, after all, it was not good for anyone to be implicated for no reason.

However, during the meal just now, he communicated with the prison guards who distributed prison meals and got a lot of useful information.

He called everyone to his side and said mysteriously: "Hey, my brothers are all in a cell, which is also a kind of fate, don't say that I didn't take care of you."

This time, we were implicated by a particularly powerful military commander agent, who was really awesome, and single-handedly blew up the headquarters of Agent 76 and killed a lot of gendarmes.

The Japanese wanted to arrest him, so they carried out this city-wide manhunt.

But we, these little shrimps, are completely because those arresting gendarmes and spies want to make money, and they arrested us and extorted money.

So you don't have to worry about your life. Someone will be here tomorrow morning, so be mentally prepared. When the time comes, send a message to your family, scrape together the money, and give it to the middleman the prison guard said, and we can be released. ”

A fat man asked loudly, "Big brother, how much does this cost?" ”

His problem was also everyone's problem, and everyone looked at the tall man with their eyes in disdain.

But the tall man made a gesture and reprimanded: "Don't shout, it's not good for others to hear." ”

He whetted everyone's appetite, and then said unhurriedly: "I heard the prison guards say that those like us who are not very suspicious are not too valuable, and one person can be released for 50 yuan." ”

"Ah, so many?"

All made similar noises and felt that the money was too much.

Li Yong is also among them, and he is a decent job as an accountant, and he can get 20 yuan a month. That's already two and a half months' salary.

But it's impossible for him to save money without eating or drinking, right?

In such years, it is already a blessing to earn money that can keep the whole family from starving.

He only has a dozen yuan left in his family's savings, and if he wants to come up with 50 yuan, he has to sell it, or even sell the house.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, he had known that he had stuffed two dollars for that spy, and he wouldn't have to be arrested.

The tall man also heard their dissatisfaction and explained to them: "Don't think it's too much, those people further inside the cell, at least 100 yuan per person are not negotiable."

And don't take chances, because you keep arresting people inside, and there is no empty room for you to live in this cell.

Those who don't pay for it will either enter the Huangpu River or be buried in a mass grave on the northern outskirts of the city, you can wait and see. ”

Everyone stopped talking, and they were thinking about it in a dull way.

After a difficult night, Li Yong was awakened by the sound of heavy footsteps. He opened his bloodshot eyes and saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.

A long procession continued to march out of the cell, many of them bearing blood-red whip marks, apparently tortured.

After a long time, the long line walked over, and the prison guard guarding the door of their cell said to them: "Don't look at it, those people are going to be pulled out and shot, and they don't want to be treated, so seize the opportunity to pass the news to the family in a while, otherwise they will ......."

Nobody wants the consequences of otherwise.

The tall man swallowed his saliva, the flesh on his face trembled, and he said nervously: "There are more than 200 people here, and they are evil!" ”

It wasn't until he returned home that Li Yong mentioned the experience of those two days that he felt like a lifetime away.

As far as he later knew, those people were only part of it. In this mass destruction, thousands of people were killed, and several more were graves of thousands more on mass graves.

But if you want to complain about the anti-Japanese agent, he doesn't seem to be able to complain.

Isn't it right to say that he resisted Japan?

If the Japanese are not driven out, everyone will have to live under this precarious rule.

So anti-Japanese, it's right.

But if you complain about him, that's right.

Because if he hadn't hurt the Japanese, the Japanese would not have made such a retaliatory move.

How do you count it?

The authorities were confused.