Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

The arrested man howled at this time: "Comrade Public Security, comrade Public Security, I recognized the wrong person. I originally wanted to stop an enemy of mine so that I could beat him up, but I didn't expect that I heard the wrong information and stopped you. I know I was wrong, please let me go."

"Be quiet and leave quickly." Zhou Kangzhan didn't listen to the man's nonsense at all.

It was late at night, and the street lights were so dim. His uniform was navy blue and he was not wearing a hat. In the darkness, it was impossible to tell his identity. Yet, this man called him a public security comrade and said he was not an enemy spy, but no one would believe him.

The man kept mumbling, "Comrade, I really know I was wrong. I will change. I will definitely change. Look, you are not injured or scared, so please let me go. I have an old mother paralyzed in bed and a daughter who lost her mother at home. If the factory finds out about this, I will definitely be punished. How will my family survive? Please, have mercy on me and let me go."

Zhou Kangzhan remained unmoved and walked in front of the man, while Lin Baoyan and Li Mei followed behind pushing their bicycles.

This man cried and begged in all kinds of ways along the way. In the end, Zhou Kangzhan stopped and stuffed something into his mouth. In an instant, everything around him became quiet.

Just as the three men cleared their heads, three or four figures emerged from the darkness in the corner, waving something in their hands and smashing it towards the three men.

Zhou Kangzhan pushed the person in his hand forward, blocking something. Suddenly, a scream pierced the night.

It was as if a switch was turned on. Many people appeared from various corners and surrounded the three people.

The three men pushed the bicycles in front and behind to block the approaching person and huddled together to guard against them.

Zhou Kangzhan said: "I am Zhou Kangzhan from the Public Security Bureau. Who are you and what do you want to do?"

None of the men said a word, they just swung their sticks and attacked the few people.

Zhou Kangzhan raised his hand, opened the safety of his pistol and shouted: "Stop it, or I will shoot!"

Behind him, Li Mei also held the gun in both hands, facing the rear, alert and vigilant.

Hearing the shooting, the crowd paused, and a voice shouted, "He doesn't dare to shoot." Immediately the crowd rushed forward again.

Zhou Kangzhan fired a shot into the sky without blinking.

As soon as the gunshot rang out, the crowd immediately screamed and dispersed.

Before the crowd could run away, shouts came from the outside: "Stop, don't run."

Soon, more than twenty police officers came over escorting the group of people.

Zhou Kangzhan asked: "Have they all been caught?"

"Yes, they were all caught."

Zhou Kangzhan became even more suspicious.

Something is so wrong. The interception force is too weak. There is not even a gun. It is different from what was expected.

Zhou Kangzhan took Lin Baoyan and Li Mei, along with other police officers, and escorted the group to the Public Security Bureau. The journey was smooth and nothing happened.

When they arrived at the Public Security Bureau, Zhou Kangzhan made some phone calls and discussed things for a while. Then he came out and said to Li Mei, "Let's go on."

Li Mei nodded silently, and the three of them got into a car and drove towards the villa.

When they arrived at the villa, Zhou Kangzhan was about to drive away when a man rushed out of the villa and called him, "Captain Zhou, the net at Yard 95 has been closed."

Courtyard 95.

Shortly after Zhou Kangzhan opened fire, several men in black climbed over the wall from the west wing of the central courtyard. One ran directly to the west ear room in the backyard, two ran to the main house in the central courtyard and the east wing, and the remaining two ran to the west wing, each holding a stick of incense in his hand.

The five men had a clear goal and acted quickly. Soon, the main house in the middle courtyard and the east wing were all blown into the smoke. The Jia family in the west wing was also affected. However, something went wrong in the backyard.

The man in black who was blowing smoke into the west wing was about to leave, but then the door curtain of the east wing opposite was opened and several people walked out. Caught off guard, the two groups of people met each other.

Yan Bugui immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "There's a thief~~~~" while shrinking back into the room.

Liu Haizhong grabbed the fire tongs by the door and said with courage: "There is a thief, everyone get up and catch him."

Jia Zhang was so frightened that she fell to the ground, blocking the door. Yi Zhonghai, who was walking in front of her, had no place to retreat.

The man in black didn't expect that so many people would come out of the backyard so late at night. Not only did they come out, but they also shouted that there was a thief. It was obvious that this operation would not work today. He could only curse inwardly at the figures and ran towards the middle yard.

The four people in the middle courtyard also stopped at the same time. The leader, who was obviously the leader, looked at the door of the west wing which had been opened, cursed them as rubbish angrily, and quickly led his men to climb over the wall and try to escape along the same route.

Just after they jumped down, the five people hadn’t even taken two steps when several people suddenly rushed out and held them down one by one: “Don’t move, police.”

There was little commotion in the next yard. People in Yard 95 were gathered together and no one paid attention to what was happening next door.

At this moment, Liu Haizhong and a few others mustered up their courage and ran to the central courtyard. The courtyard was dark. They could only see a little light at the door of Zhou's house in the west wing, and a group of people gathered in the light.

"Where's the thief?"

"The thief ran away."

"Who shouted there was a thief?"

"Here he comes to rob the Zhou family again. Did Captain Zhou offend someone?"

"Where are the people from the middle court? Why aren't they getting up?"

"That's right, this is the business of the Intermediate Court, why didn't anyone come?"

Yi Zhonghai saw that all the houses in the central courtyard were dark, except for a small area outside the Zhou family's door where someone was holding a kerosene lamp to illuminate it. He was secretly worried, so he quickly asked Jia Zhangshi to go home and check, while he pushed aside Liu Haizhong and walked towards the Zhou family's door.

As he walked, he shouted, "Make way, let me see what's going on."

Liu Haizhong, who was pushed to the back, glared at Yi Zhonghai angrily and had no choice but to follow Yi Zhonghai.

Yan Bugui looked around and ran to the main house to knock on He Yuzhu's door: "Silly Zhu, silly Zhu, are you awake?"

In front of Zhou’s house.

Yi Zhonghai seemed to smell something, but he didn't care. He said, "I'll turn on the lights in Captain Zhou's house first. Let's go check and see if anyone has broken into his house."

"Okay, uncle, please turn on the light and take a look."

"Yeah, it's pitch dark here, and I don't know what's going on."

The lights were turned on and everyone stretched their heads to look inside.

There were a lot of things piled on the table facing the door, and it was blocked by the things, so nothing could be seen in other places.

Yi Zhonghai imitated how the police had done when they came to investigate Zhou's house last time and looked carefully at the ground. Unfortunately, the light was not bright enough and he could not see anything.

Before he could say anything, Jia Zhang's screams came from next door: "Dongxu, Dongxu, wake up, what's wrong with you, don't scare your mother."

At the same time, Yan Bugui's shouting also rang out: "Oh no, something happened at Shazhu's house too."

Everyone quickly split into two groups, one group went to the Jia family, and the other group went to the He family.

"Zhang Xiaohua, what happened to your Dongxu?"

"Uncle, what happened to Shazhu?"

The crowd was talking at once, and Yi Zhonghai, who was blocked at the back, was extremely anxious.

There are only a few families in the Central Courtyard. Both the Jia family and the He family have had problems, so his family cannot be spared. Aunt Yi hasn't come out yet, so something must have gone wrong.