Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

"If you save the land but lose the people, you lose both; if you save the people but lose the land, you save both the land and the people?"

Upon hearing Ma Hongwei's words, Chief of Staff Ni's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Comrade Hongwei, your summary is excellent!"

"Sir, this isn't my conclusion!"

Ma Hongwei quickly replied, "It's the one who stayed in the Soviet area!"

Upon hearing this, Chief of Staff Ni knew who he was referring to.

Come to think of it, they were able to escape the Kuomintang's encirclement and suppression because of his brilliant leadership.

It's not surprising that such a conclusion could be drawn.

"Commander!"

Looking at the deciphered cipher, Ma Hongwei slowly said, "I think we can find a way to behead the 5th Division Commander, Seishiro Itagaki, from a distance!"

"If we can kill this lieutenant general-level division commander, it will definitely affect the morale of the Japanese army."

"Moreover, this division commander doesn't always command from the rear; he also goes to the front lines to observe."

"Just like during the Battle of Xinkou, he was able to travel by car to high ground 2-4 miles from the front line in places like Xinkou, Pingxingguan, and Niangziguan. It wasn't that he didn't have the opportunity."

"We have also mastered the four-digit code for Japanese divisions, so it is still possible for us to track down Seishiro Itagaki."

"Um!"

Chief of Staff Ni nodded and said, "We can only try. After all, Itagaki isn't stupid. He would take the risk and hide in a place protected by the Japanese army."

After saying that, he said to Ma Hongwei, "Alright, it's getting late, let's eat quickly, or the food will get cold."

"good!"

This time, no one refused.

"I'll arrange it!"

Chief of Staff Ni left the room after saying that.

Once outside, he found his bodyguard and asked him to inform Xia Weiwei.

He then had several soldiers bring the dishes into the house.

Once all the food was served, Xia Weiwei arrived.

Chief of Staff Ni said somewhat embarrassedly, "You've been such a great help, yet I haven't been able to properly entertain you. I'm truly ashamed!"

"How about this, tomorrow I'll have someone hunt a few more pheasants for you, and we'll make pheasant stew with wild mushrooms."

"Eh!"

Ma Hongwei waved his hand and said, "Chief, please don't say that, and please don't let anyone go hunting."

"I only eat it occasionally. If I came back every time, wouldn't I drive the pheasant species to extinction?"

"Furthermore, wild game is not suitable for frequent consumption."

As he spoke, he looked at everyone and said, "Don't just sit there, pick up your chopsticks, pick up your chopsticks, eat whatever you want."

Chief of Staff Ni also said with a smile, "Did you hear that? Comrade Hongwei has already spoken. Why don't you start eating?"

So everyone picked up their bowls and chopsticks and began to eat.

Ma Hongwei picked up a piece of braised pork with vermicelli and cabbage with his chopsticks, nodding as he ate, "This is the best time of year... The cabbage here is delicious and I feel safe eating it!"

"Um?"

"I can't explain it!"

Ma Hongwei shook his head and sighed, "Those unscrupulous vendors are too rampant! They actually use cabbage to extract formaldehyde; they deserve to die!"

He thought of the news reports from a few days ago, about cabbages in a certain area of ​​Hebei Province being soaked directly in formaldehyde solution, which was simply murder for profit.

It's no different from the previous tainted milk powder and tainted capsules.

They're all driven by money, blinded by greed, and disregard the lives of others.

"formaldehyde?"

Section Chief Yang was taken aback and asked curiously, "What's that?"

Ma Hongwei looked at the other person and asked, "Have you heard of formaldehyde?"

"I've heard of it!"

Section Chief Yang nodded and said, "Isn't that thing used to soak corpses and dissected organs to prevent them from rotting?"

"Formalin is a 37% formaldehyde solution!"

Ma Hongwei sighed, "Formaldehyde is highly toxic. Drinking it directly will corrode the mucous membranes of the mouth, throat, esophagus and stomach, and cause severe vomiting and pain, diarrhea and bloody stools. In severe cases, it can lead to laryngeal edema, ulceration and perforation of the digestive tract and shock."

"Although the amount of formaldehyde absorbed by the cabbage is not large and is concentrated in the root, it can still contaminate other parts. If consumed over a long period of time, it will still harm the body."

"In particular, formaldehyde is a type of carcinogen. Even in small quantities, repeated exposure over many years can cause digestive tract tumors and increase the risk of leukemia, also known as blood cancer."

"What?"

Upon hearing this, one soldier immediately retorted angrily, "Those merchants and capitalists are simply wicked! Selling people poisonous cabbage—isn't that deliberately harming people?!"

Anything related to cancer is considered incurable.

If the cancer developed on its own, it's just bad luck.

However, if it's done by human intervention, then that's utterly despicable.

Chief of Staff Ni's face also darkened. He said, "These illegal merchants have indeed gone too far. They should all be executed one by one when they are caught!"

At this point, he looked at Ma Hongwei and said, "Comrade Hongwei, I will have someone prepare some cabbage, radish, potatoes and sweet potatoes. You can take them with you when you go back. We don't have any formaldehyde or formalin here that you can soak."

"Thank you, sir!"

Ma Hongwei thanked him.

Although his family has some land, they can grow their own cabbages.

But in another timeline, it's summer now, and the fields are planted with corn and pumpkins.

Chinese cabbage is planted in winter.

Therefore, he did not refuse.

Anyway, he doesn't need many, just five or six will do.

Because he can't finish eating all of it if he takes too much.

When they were children, their family's winter produce was almost always cabbage.

Especially in the morning and evening, it's just stir-fried cabbage, without even pork.

After eating cabbage for so many years, Ma Hongwei was tired of it.

He can eat it with some meat, but he can't eat plain cabbage.

I don't know how those Koreans manage to eat so much cabbage.

It's either this kimchi or that kimchi, it's basically a meeting of pickled vegetables.

Thinking that the cabbage came from Hebei Province, Ma Hongwei immediately thought of another matter concerning that province.

That's an underground surrogacy agency in Zhuocheng, performing 150 egg transfer surgeries every month.

No sooner had Shangguan Zhengyi reported the illegal surrogacy operation than it was cleared out and the owner had already moved to Lijiapo.

Twenty days later, they moved back to their original location and resumed business as usual. Then, they were reported again, but before the police arrived, all the staff changed clothes and fled once more.

The doctors inside were all retired doctors from top-tier hospitals. Some of them even went straight to the operating table without anesthesia, which was simply horrific.