Quick Transmigration: Even Extras Want to Be Leading Actresses

Chapter 174 Qualifying Match (8)

Three minutes later.

What's going on? Who is this woman? How can she even dodge a gun?

The soldier who had drawn his gun was terrified; the gun was already in Gu Shijiu's hands.

"You...you...are you a human or a ghost?"

Gu Shijiu stared at him expressionlessly, which was actually quite creepy.

The soldier grew increasingly frightened, let out a howl, and spurred his horse away, with the soldiers behind him quickly following.

Through the efforts of Chen Wangnan and his capable henchmen, and with the military intimidation of Gu Shijiu, the Chen family was able to re-establish themselves on this land.

Chen Wangnan has gained considerable experience over the past few years and quickly made a name for himself in the business world.

More than a decade has passed, and the Chen family has finally established itself.

Chen Wangnan married a poor man with four brothers who couldn't even afford to eat, and they had two children together.

Gu Shijiu lived a comfortable life and enjoyed eating, drinking, and having fun everywhere.

She was going out to play that day, but it suddenly started raining halfway there.

With no other option, the group had to take temporary shelter in a nearby dilapidated inn.

The street was deserted. Gu Shijiu was idly watching the rain when he suddenly heard a noisy commotion.

An injured person hurriedly passed by downstairs, and across the alley, there were many heavily armed police officers searching for someone.

The person's appearance... Gu Shijiu felt that it was very similar to certain groups in her memory.

Thinking of this, she instructed the Chen family's attendants to wait where they were, and then jumped out of the window.

The injured man looked to be at his last gasp, so Gu Shijiu picked him up and quickly put him in her car.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he returned to the inn and went back to the city with his entourage.

The police officers all recognized her, and after greeting her respectfully, they did not dare to search her car.

Gu Shijiu mentally gave herself a thumbs up; she could now lie without batting an eye.

The person she hid in the car was named Liu Daqiang. After receiving treatment, he regained consciousness within half a day and was very grateful.

"Thank you for your help, friend. What's your name?"

I thought I had been arrested, but I was rescued instead. It was incredibly lucky.

"My name is... Liang Huanying, what's wrong with you?" Gu Shijiu almost bit her tongue because she rarely heard people call her by that name.

Liu Daqiang chuckled twice: "It's nothing, it's just that some robbers wanted to rob me."

Gu Shijiu looked at him suspiciously. His clothes were tattered, and he didn't have a single valuable item on him.

"Stop lying to me. If you're going to steal from me, you should be the one doing it."

Uh, Liu Daqiang was speechless.

Gu Shijiu recalled her earlier guess: "You're an underground party member sent out from the base area, aren't you?"

"Cough cough cough—" Liu Daqiang was drinking water when he heard this and almost coughed up his lungs. "I'm not."

Gu Shijiu didn't believe it: "If you're a member of the underground Communist Party, then we're practically family."

Liu Daqiang looked at her with a horrified expression: Is this some kind of lunatic? Rich people are terrifying.

"Really?" Gu Shijiu recalled her past experiences with a touch of nostalgia.

Is she going to take on the responsibility of supporting the base area this time?

When Gu Shijiu saw Liu Daqiang off, he gave him a lot of money.

They also tried every means to send in the base area supplies that were in short supply, including food, medicine, clothing, and even guns and ammunition.

The process of transporting the supplies did not go smoothly.

In the midst of war, roads were blocked, transportation was cut off, and enemy patrols roamed everywhere.

However, Gu Shijiu was not deterred by these difficulties.

She organized a transport team composed of like-minded individuals who were fearless in the face of danger and death, all for the purpose of delivering supplies.

The Chen family paid a huge price for this.

Many people admire Chen Wangnan's ability to make money, believing that the Chen family must live a life of extravagance and debauchery.

In particular, Liang Huanying, the head of the family, was seen meeting privately with some young men on several occasions.

Only Chen Wangnan in the Chen family knew about what Gu Shijiu had done, and she didn't quite understand it.

"Mother, we've never gotten involved in politics before, so why are we helping those farmers?"

In Chen Wangnan's eyes, these farmers were not worth the Chen family paying such a high price.

Their political ideals also frightened her.

In this day and age, political speculation is what businessmen should be doing.

Regardless of who is in power, businessmen will always be needed to revitalize the economy.

"What if it's a foreigner?" Gu Shijiu asked her.

Chen Wangnan scoffed: "How could that be? Foreigners are just grabbing some petty profits."

Once a true ruler emerges in the Central Plains, driving away those foreigners will be a trivial matter.

She is educated, and this has been the case for thousands of years; it's unlikely to be any different this time.

Chen Wangnan had looked at the maps of those countries. A dozen or so countries pieced together would only be such a small place. What could they possibly do?

Gu Shijiu waved her hand, not arguing with her: "You'll find out later."

Although Chen Wangnan disagreed, she couldn't interfere with her mother's decision.

To express their gratitude, the base area sent Gu Shijiu some storybooks made locally.

Some of these books depict how landlords and capitalists exploit the people, exposing the true nature of the feudal class and the bourgeoisie;

Some of them encouraged the masses to fight;

Others described the measures taken by the local government in the form of stories to make them easier for the public to understand.

Gu Shijiu really liked these short stories and even showed them to Chen Wangnan.

Chen Wangnan politely declined: "I'm exhausted. I don't know which side my mother is on."

As a target of dictatorship, she didn't want to know whether her fate would be hanging from a street lamp or being thrown into the river.

Gu Shijiu objected: "How could you throw it into the river? It pollutes the environment so much."

Chen Wangnan: Is this the key point?

In short, that's how things ended up.

Chen Wangnan would occasionally sneak off to visit the base area and, observing the life there, surprisingly found it quite pleasant.

She seemed to understand her mother somewhat.

Although I don't believe my mother's claim that the Chen family can save their lives through this, I'll treat it as doing a good deed and saving some people is not bad.

As the days went by, the situation became increasingly tense, and things were bound to be anything but smooth sailing.

During the transportation of supplies, the Chen family's transport team always encountered precise interception by the enemy.

This made everyone realize that there might be a mole within the team or that their actions had been discovered by the enemy.

Gu Shijiu was inspecting a pharmaceutical factory when he received the news.

She had studied medicine, but she didn't know much else. However, she could tell the quality of medicines from anyone.

This time, the problem was with the medicine produced by the pharmaceutical factory; its effectiveness on the battlefield was far less than that of the previous batch.

After Gu Shijiu went there in person, he indeed discovered the problem.

The head of the pharmaceutical factory embezzled funds by mixing expired raw materials with those that were still valid, which affected the efficacy of the medicine.

"Kill him." Gu Shijiu didn't say anything more.

Those involved were executed, and other unsuspecting officials were dismissed; the punishment was very severe.

Since coming to Shaanxi, Gu Shijiu has rarely killed anyone.

Some of the newly hired managers take advantage of the fact that the three people in charge of the Chen family are all women and like to cause trouble.

In the past, Chen Wangnan had handled this.

Everyone says the head of the Chen family has a good temper, but no one expected him to be so fierce.

The factory director who was in charge cried and begged for mercy, but before his family could even pull some strings to smooth things over, he was taken away and executed.

The Chen family had maintained a fairly good relationship with the local warlords over the years, and those medicines were nominally supplied to the warlords.

Privately, Gu Shijiu sent most of his production to the base area.

Only a few underground party members who were working in the factory knew about this, and it was they who gave the factory director the information that he was selling inferior goods as superior ones.

After dealing with this matter, Gu Shijiu immediately went to deal with the interception of supplies.

Instead of launching a large-scale search for clues, we can only investigate in secret.

In order to find the person who tipped him off, Chen Wangnan devised a trap by deliberately releasing false information about the transportation route.

The Chen family arranged a fake transport team, pretending to deliver supplies.

Meanwhile, Gu Shijiu was secretly observing with another team.

As expected, the enemy fell for the trap and attacked the fake transport convoy.

With Gu Shijiu around, none of these people managed to escape.

After catching the spy, Chen Wangnan found it hard to believe: "Butler, it was actually you?"

This is an old man who has worked for the Chen family for decades, starting from his grandfather's generation.

She never imagined that it would be this person who kept sending messages to the other party.

Chen Wangnan was furious: "Uncle Chen, why did you do this? Why did you betray us?"

The housekeeper denied it and instead protested, "I didn't do anything, don't frame me."

Chen Wangnan found it somewhat tricky.

The steward has many followers in the Chen family. If he is forcibly dealt with, it may cause trouble in the family.

Furthermore, it's unknown who he contacted or what information he sold.

How much does the other party know about what the Chen family is doing?

Chen Wangnan went to Gu Shijiu again for advice: "Mother, what should we do with the housekeeper now?"

"Give him a beating?" Gu Shijiu tilted his head.

Chen Wangnan: It's really strange for someone your age to do this.

“They have already been tortured, but they still refuse to confess.”

These days, as long as you have a good relationship with your superiors, it's not uncommon to use private punishment on servants who betray their masters.

Gu Shijiu frowned: "Using torture is not a good idea."

Chen Wangnan had a headache: "So what do you mean?"

"Just kill them." Gu Shijiu didn't want to concern herself with those complicated matters.

Chen Wangnan: Killing people is great, isn't it?

Since Gu Shijiu had said so, Chen Wangnan had no more concerns and went to great lengths to entertain the butler.

The butler was not as tough as he thought; he confessed during the second round of torture.

He is a foreigner.

That makes sense; if it were a local warlord, they would have come looking for trouble with Gu Shijiu long ago.

At this stage, the great powers mainly seize profits by controlling warlords as proxies, but there are also occasional conflicts between the great powers.

The country behind the one coveting the Chen family's supplies and the local warlord is not the same one.

Unable to untangle the messy relationships, Gu Shijiu had no choice but to kill them all.

With so many foreigners dying in Shaanxi, the warlords were under immense pressure.

Unfortunately, Gu Shijiu's combat strength far exceeds that of ordinary people, and killing several people without making a sound is not difficult for him.

The warlord investigated for a long time without finding anything, but Gu Shijiu managed to find someone: Shi Qi.

"Hey, I thought I'd never see you again. What are you doing here?"

For so long, Gu Shijiu hadn't encountered any other contestants, but unexpectedly, Shi Qi was also in Shaanxi.

"I was sent here from Yan'an by my superiors to guide the work."

Shi Qi had just arrived in this big city from Yan'an when she heard that the Chen family might be in trouble.

Although he didn't know Gu Shijiu was here, he would definitely help a comrade who had been supporting the revolutionary cause for many years.

Gu Shijiu gritted his teeth: "Guidance work?"

Why is it that Shi Qi can become a leader before she has even infiltrated the base?

"Oh, don't be angry. Everyone has their own expertise. I'm just getting used to it after a few tries."

He had done the same thing before, so this time he was naturally more than capable and did it even better.

Sure enough, with Shi Qi's help, the warlord not only dispelled his suspicions about the Chen family, but also provided Gu Shijiu with a more secretive path.

When Shi Qi appeared, the number of comments in the live stream suddenly increased.

"Isn't this 6187? I watched him move from another battlefield to the countryside."

"Don't even mention it, why don't you stay in that unit? With Shi Qi's abilities, you should be able to be an officer."

"Does everyone remember Chen Wangdong, the eldest son of the Chen family? He was also in that army."

"Yeah, their military uniforms are so nice. I can't even be bothered to look at 6187 after he went to the countryside."

"Me too. I almost got arrested at the beginning, which gave me a shock. After that, I spent all my time farming in the countryside."

"Hey, wait a minute, why did they all choose the rural regime at the same time as 6187? It seems like they know something."

"This might be something that happened in their hometown. With their minds, how could they possibly know the future?"

"Yes, that's what they were talking about."

"What world is this? I've been in the Immortal Realm for thousands of years and have never heard of it before."

"Judging from the development, it should be a low-level world. Maybe 6187 and I are the first people in this world to ascend."

"How can there be cultivators in such a backward place?"

......

Time flies, and several years have passed in the blink of an eye.

With the help of Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi, the base was built up to be quite prosperous.

The government established a market in Liyuanbao and designated the first day of each ten-day period of the lunar calendar as the market day.

The market was bustling with activity, attracting people from dozens of miles around.

There were vendors selling mountain products and medicinal herbs, and others setting up small stalls to sell miscellaneous goods. The sounds of hawking and bargaining rose and fell.

The bank was located in Zhaiziwan, the mint was in Youfanggou, and the government issued "Su coins" made of cloth to regulate the local financial order and support economic development.

We strongly encourage farmers to develop animal husbandry and provide cattle, sheep, and horses to poor farmers from government-run ranches.

At the same time, it called for the management of Red Army public land, the establishment of small ranches, the planting of grains and vegetables, and the raising of pigs and sheep to supplement the needs of the Red Army and its organs.

The government also established primary schools, which, although equipped with rudimentary facilities, offered courses in culture, politics, and military affairs.

They published several periodicals to promote the Party's policies and revolutionary ideas, among which were storybooks that Gu Shijiu loved to read.

More importantly, the armed forces have been greatly strengthened.

Shi Qi had memorized many blueprints for firearms and ammunition, and Gu Shijiu was also quite accomplished in firearms.

If the conditions weren't so restrictive, they could have even produced those massive machines.

This time, Shi Qi is confident that she can defeat the final enemy when they arrive.

On the night of September 18, 1931, troops from a certain country stationed in Northeast China blew up the South Manchurian Railway tracks according to a meticulously planned conspiracy.

That protracted war was about to begin.

Gu Shijiu and Shi Qi were sharpening their knives, ready to go into battle.