"You guys be careful too. I just overheard them saying that no one lives in the surrounding courtyards, so they climbed over the wall into this one."
The gate to that courtyard was closed. If they were to break down the gate, it would inevitably alert the people inside, and there might be casualties. So Huo Haojie told them what he had just done, indicating that they could also climb over the wall from that courtyard.
After hearing his words and expressing his gratitude, the captain led his men to quietly scale the wall and enter their yard.
"Don't move!"
"Nothing needs to be moved."
"Sit down, everyone sit down."
The police officers listened to the sounds inside the house from outside the door. After determining how many people were inside, they broke down the door and arrested them all before they could react.
It only took them two minutes to handcuff all the people and bring them out.
"Behave yourselves, squat down, and don't move!"
"Two men, search the house."
"Yes, Captain."
The two went inside and started searching, and Ah Kun and Huo Haojie also went to help.
A short while later, they came out carrying a stack of letters and several books.
"Captain, look, these are all letters they exchanged with enemy agents, and a few foreign books too."
"Very good, anything else?"
"Captain, come quick!" Huo Haojie and Akun climbed down from the kitchen cabinet and discovered a cellar entrance.
After the captain came in, they shone their flashlights down and found the room filled with piles of gold, antiques and paintings, as well as several large boxes of money and banknotes.
"Bring them all back"
After they had carried all their things out, the captain had a car come and take them all back, and then bring more people to move more things.
It was almost midnight by the time they had moved all their belongings back to the police station.
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