The Cycle of Reincarnation in the Four-Courtyard House: A Journey Through the Heavens

"Hey, you fat woman, why are you running? We'll shoot if you run any further!"

Jia Zhangshi's short, stout, and plump body was immediately spotted by the puppet army leader.

The puppet army leader picked up his rifle, pulled the bolt, and made a clicking sound.

Jia Zhangshi's legs gave way, and she fell to the ground with a "thud".

"Sir, please don't shoot! I'm not running away, I'm just going home to get my good citizen certificate!"

At this moment, Jia Zhangshi's intelligence regained control of her mind, and she immediately came up with a brilliant excuse.

"Why are you running away with a certificate of good conduct? Are you tired of living?"

"No, no! Sir, I was just scared!"

"Go get your documents right away!"

The puppet army leader waved her off impatiently!

As if receiving an imperial decree, Madam Jia scrambled to her feet and headed home. This time, she dared not run away again.

Li Xiao, accompanied by his family, walked into the central courtyard, where his family members lined up behind him.

There were no unexpected incidents along the way. After checking the good citizen certificates, the four puppet soldiers, along with two Japanese soldiers, began searching house to house.

After a chaotic scene of chickens and dogs running amok in the No. 95 courtyard, the Japanese soldiers and their collaborators walked out of the courtyard gate.

"Oh dear, my ceramic jar! This is an old piece that we've used for many years, and it's been smashed like this!"

When Jia Zhangshi returned home and saw the mess her house had been ransacked, she immediately burst into tears and wailed.

At this moment, all the houses in the courtyard had been ransacked. The residents here were probably used to this situation, and they all silently began to tidy up their houses again.

After Li Xiao and his mother returned home, the quilts and clothes that were placed in the closet, as well as the teapot and teacups on the table, and the pots, pans and ladles in the kitchen, were all thrown everywhere.

Li Xiao had actually made this preparation long ago. He once told Wang Xia to take out two or three silver dollars and some copper coins from the house and put them in the wardrobe.

If Japanese soldiers or puppet troops were to enter the yard to search, and they didn't get any benefits, these greedy dogs probably wouldn't leave easily; they wouldn't be satisfied until they had completely destroyed your house.

As it turned out, the pack of vicious dogs had looted all the silver dollars and copper coins that Li Xiao's family had hidden in the wardrobe in the east bedroom of the main house, so they quickly left Li Xiao's house.

The house was a bit messy, but some household items were not damaged.

For three whole days, the Japanese soldiers and their puppet troops in Beijing practically turned the ancient city upside down, but they found nothing.

When the news was reported to headquarters, Okamura Yasuji was no longer angry, but rather felt a deep sense of fear.

If it were just ordinary military supplies that were lost, he could suppress the matter with his current status and power.

Now, a full 600 poison gas bombs have been lost. Even if he wanted to suppress it, he couldn't suppress this earth-shattering event!

At this moment, Li Xiao had just walked out of Zhengyangchun Restaurant.

After more than ten days of continuous work, the renovation of this restaurant is nearing completion.

According to the plan, Zhengyangchun Restaurant will officially open for business on December 12th, but today is already December 3rd.

He had been in Beijing for more than half a month, and Lu Yuan and his team had found more than a hundred homeless orphans there and settled them in a three-courtyard house in Beibingmasi Hutong.

Lu Yuan's wife, Wang Xiuying, and Qin Feng's wife, Cheng Xiaojuan, are two super female warriors who are specifically responsible for taking care of and educating these children.

The oldest of these children was 12 years old, the same age as Li Xiao; the youngest was only 5 years old. Almost all of them were illiterate, unable to recognize a single word.

Therefore, Li Xiao asked the two women to teach them cultural knowledge while they were treating their bodies.

If these orphans are properly trained, they will become Li Xiao's most capable assistants in the future.

When Li Xiao walked to Jingyang Hutong in Nanluoguxiang, he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps coming from ahead.

"Slap slap~"

"Stop! Don't run!"

Just then, two gunshots rang out from the main road ahead, followed by a loud shout.

Li Xiao paused, then looked around and found an abandoned courtyard just five meters in front of him.

Li Xiao lightly pushed off the ground with both feet, and his whole body floated lightly into the courtyard through the half-collapsed wall.

He listened intently and realized that the footsteps were getting closer and more urgent, and in the distance, it seemed that four more footsteps were also chasing after him.

Li Xiao cautiously peeked out from the gap in the wall. In his line of sight, a woman wearing a gray cotton-padded jacket and a dark red headscarf was limping toward Jingyang Hutong, leaving a trail of blood behind her.

This woman is clearly injured!

With just one glance, Li Xiao had already clearly seen the woman's appearance. It was as if his mind had activated a facial recognition function, and he immediately recognized the woman's identity.

Because Li Xiao had inherited all of his predecessor's memories, and because his soul was greatly enhanced by an unknown energy during his transmigration, his memory was practically comparable to that of a humanoid computer.

Li Xiao recognized the flustered woman in front of him at a glance—his aunt, Wang Min.

That's right, Wang Xia has four siblings in her family, two boys and two girls.

Wang Xia is the third child in her family; her only younger sister is Wang Min.

His two older brothers perished in the great flood of 1938, along with Wang Xia's parents.

Only the two sisters, Wang Xia and Wang Min, escaped this calamity; one had already married and moved to Handan County, Hebei Province, while the other had always lived away from home.

Li Xiao clearly remembers that his aunt visited his home once in 39 and stayed for four days.

Accompanying her aunt was a young man named Zhao Yi.

It was only after being introduced that I learned that Zhao Yi was Wang Min's boyfriend, and the two had been married for three months.

As Wang Min's only relative in this world, Wang Xia naturally wanted to bring her husband to meet her sister and brother-in-law after getting married.

Three years have passed since Wang Min and her husband left the Li family. Li Xiao never expected that they would meet again in Beijing.

Judging from Wang Min's current state, she was clearly being targeted and had suffered a serious injury.

He had originally planned to hide behind the courtyard gate and wait for Wang Min to come over before pulling him into the courtyard.

Unfortunately, the two gates of this abandoned courtyard were already dilapidated and made a creaking sound when pushed.

The only place he could successfully rescue Wang Min was the gap in the collapsed wall.

Li Xiao waited silently without showing any emotion. When Wang Min limped to the gap in the wall, he felt a blur before his eyes, and the scene before him rapidly changed.

Her mouth had been gagged, and then she was thrown into the air.