Chapter 042: Newspaper
"A little to the left, a little to the left, no, no, not this way, this is right!"
"Brother Zhao, that idiot Xiao Wang hasn't been able to tell left from right for a day or two. Why don't you let him get off and let me take over?"
"Zhang Lei, don't be ridiculous! I'm not confused about left and right. I just didn't react! So, Brother Zhao, take another look at me this time to see if I'm doing it right."
The guys in the security department attached great importance to Shi Yue's certificate. Just as Zhao Hui was about to ask Xiao Wang to stick it on the wall with adhesive tape, Lao Liu stopped him.
Old Liu: "How can you just use tape to stick such an important certificate on? What if it gets damaged? Listen, let's take down the group photo in the office and put the certificate in the frame. There are nails on the wall, so we can hang the frame directly. This way, we can also save the certificate from dust!"
When everyone heard this, they thought, hey, what Lao Liu said makes sense, and immediately nodded in agreement.
Anyway, those group photos were taken two years ago, and everyone is tired of seeing them, so it’s just right to take them down.
Xiao Wang acted quickly and replaced the group photo with Shi Yue's certificate. Now, he hung the certificate up.
"Hey, don't move. I'll take two steps back and go to the door to see if it's straight." Zhao Hui took a few steps outside and came to the office door. He observed it carefully for a while and nodded. "Well, this time it's almost done. Let's leave it like this."
"Okay!" Xiao Wang hung up the photo frame, jumped off the chair, and while brushing the dust off his hands, he admired the certificate he had just hung up.
Hey, look at the certificate he is hanging, it’s hung so nicely!
"Hey, what are you doing? We can hear you making noise from next door." Just when everyone in the security department was admiring the award certificate that had just been hung up, someone from the factory office next door came over curiously.
Hearing this, Zhao Hui showed a proud smile on his face. He nodded and signaled the person asking the question to look inside the office.
"Here's the certificate of award, the one the Public Security Bureau sent over specially!"
Zhao Hui was extremely proud. Although he was not the one who received the certificate, it was his employee who received the certificate. As the section chief, he still felt very proud.
"Award, what award? Who in your security department has made a great contribution?"
Zhao Hui was waiting for this question, and he spoke impatiently, "Shi Yue from our department helped the Public Security Bureau apprehend two fugitive fraudsters, so the Public Security Bureau sent him a certificate of commendation."
"Oh my god, that's amazing! A fugitive fraudster, it's not something that ordinary people can find!"
"That's right! Shi Yue, tell us how you caught the scammer!"
"Yes, tell me..."
Shi Yue smiled and said, "Okay, let me tell you. This story has to start from last Sunday. That day..."
The news that Shi Yue had received the award quickly spread throughout the factory. When Li Xiuying was leaving get off work that evening, she overheard people talking about this as she walked out. A look of surprise appeared on her face. "Hey, those two scammers were caught?"
The woman who worked next to her was surprised when she heard her ask this: "Xiuying, I haven't even told you yet, how do you know they're scammers?"
Li Xiuying: "Well, because I've seen those two scammers. When Shi Yue and Xiao Gong ran into them in the park that day, I was right there."
"Really? No wonder! Hey, Xiuying, let me ask you, did those two scammers also use the drug that lured people away? I heard they were able to deceive so many people because they used the drug to lure away their souls, so people would believe whatever they said."
"What? What kind of love potion? That's not true!" Li Xiuying waved her hands. She didn't feel like she had been drugged.
She said, "Those two swindlers aren't that evil. They just have a few tricks, just like the jugglers on the streets in the old society..."
While Li Xiuying was gossiping with her colleagues, Yao Dazui had already returned to the compound. While she was at work, she had already gossiped with the old ladies who worked with her in the workshop, and now it was her turn to gossip with everyone in the compound.
As she stepped into the compound, she chattered, "Hey, Lao Yang, Lao Gao, did you hear? The Public Security Bureau went to the factory today to give Xiao a reward!"
"What? A reward from the Public Security Bureau? What's going on?"
"What reward?! Money?"
Old Lady Yang and Gao Cuifen spoke one after another. Although their focus was different, they were both equally curious.
Yao Dazui didn't keep the topic a secret and started talking directly: "This is what happened. When I was a kid, I ran into two scammers, and then..."
Shi Yue didn't know that Yao Dazui had returned to the compound and started telling him gossip. He had just connected with Shi Qiu Shui.
Shi Qiushui put his hands on his hips, raised his head and walked in front of Shi Yue, his eyes curved into a crescent moon, and said, "Dad, guess what good thing happened today?"
Shi Yue raised his eyebrows: "Did Public Security Fang go to the kindergarten to praise you?"
Although it was a question, there was no trace of doubt on Shi Yue's face.
"Hey, Dad, how did you know?" Shi Qiushui looked at Shi Yue in surprise, then quickly realized, "Dad, did Sister Fang also go to your company today?"
Shi Yue took out the envelope Fang Xiaoke handed him and waved it in front of Shi Qiushui: "Yes, it's here, and I got a reward."
Shi Qiushui's eyes lit up, she knew that the envelope must contain money!
Every time her father brought back his bonus, it was always in an envelope!
She leaned close to Shi Yue's ear and whispered, "Dad, how much is the bonus this time?"
Shi Yue replied in the same low voice: "Two hundred."
Not long after Fang Xiaoke left, he quietly went to the bathroom to take a peek and saw two hundred-dollar bills in the envelope.
Shi Qiushui blinked, feeling puzzled: "Not as much as last time?"
Shi Yue: "This was given by the Public Security Bureau, not the factory. The factory has better profits and can give more. The Public Security Bureau is definitely not as generous as the factory."
Shi Qiushui: "Oh oh."
Shi Yue: "Besides, I think the factory will give me rewards later. I think this time the reward should be better than the last two times. Maybe they will give me a raise."
Shi Qiushui: "Wow!"
Salary increase!
Shi Qiushui was happy but also a little aggrieved. She pouted and said, "Sister Xiaoke just gave me a certificate and nothing else."
Shi Yue patted Shi Qiushui's head in amusement and said, "You're just a kid. What else can she give you besides a certificate? Is she going to give you money?"
“That’s right—”
Shi Qiushui nodded with a long tone. She didn't dwell on this question anymore and said, "By the way, Dad, someone took a picture of me today. That person came with Sister Xiaoke. He seemed to be a reporter."
Shi Yue nodded: "Yes, it's a reporter. After she came to our unit, she interviewed me."
"Wow, they really are reporters!" Shi Qiushui said excitedly, "Dad, are we going to be in the newspaper?"
Shi Yue: "They should be. I asked, and that reporter Wei said they are from our local daily newspaper. They should be published in the newspaper in the next two days. Let's take a look then."
"Yeah!" Shi Qiushui clenched her fists, her face flushed with excitement. "When the newspaper comes out, I'm going to buy a lot of copies!"
She counted on her fingers: "I want to buy one to read, and one to keep. I also want to buy one to take to school for Xiaopang and Xiao Taozi to see. I also want to buy one for your colleagues at work to see. I also want to buy one for our hospital to see. And, Dad, let's buy two more copies and burn them someday for the original Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui to see."
Shi Yue nodded generously: "Well, buy it. I'll buy as many copies as you say."
Shi Qiushui looked up, a hint of worry in her big, watery eyes, and said, "Dad, if we burn paper here, will Mom and Grandma be able to see it? I also want them to see what we are doing now."
The mother and grandmother that Shi Qiu Shui was talking about were, of course, her own mother and grandmother.
Shi Yue was silent for a moment. He really couldn't say for sure about this matter.
After all, they are no longer in the Dayu Dynasty, and they don’t know whether the underworlds on both sides are the same. Can the burned paper be delivered?
He touched Shi Qiushui's head and said, "I don't know either. Let's try burning it. Maybe it will work."
He knew that Shi Qiu Shui asked this because he missed his grandmother, so he gave this vague answer.
A few newspapers don’t cost much anyway, so it’s no big deal to buy a few more!
Shi Qiushui nodded: "Okay!"
She did the math and said, "Then we'll buy nine newspapers!"
Shi Yue: “Okay!”
The newspaper office was quite efficient. Within two days, the newspapers with Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui's names printed on them were delivered to newsstands in the streets and alleys.
Shi Yue, who was paying special attention to the newsstand, bought nine newspapers at the first opportunity. He spread the newspapers in front of Shi Qiu Shui. Shi Qiu Shui blinked and came forward, looking up and down, left and right, and asked.
"Dad, what's written on it?"
Well, it’s not her fault that she can’t read. It’s mainly because the characters of the Dayu Dynasty look different from those of the 1990s.
Besides, it’s normal for her, a child who hasn’t even graduated from kindergarten, not to know how to read!
Shi Yue raised his lips and chuckled, "Ah, it says here that the Xuanwu District Public Security Bureau, with the help of our enthusiastic citizen Comrade Shi Yue and his daughter Shi Qiushui, successfully arrested two fraudsters..."
He read the contents of the newspaper to Shi Qiushui word by word.
The newspaper didn't actually contain much about the father and daughter, simply mentioning what they had done, and the city's public security bureau thanking them and saying their actions were good. The majority of the newspaper's coverage was devoted to the two scammers' methods and warning citizens not to trust them.
The photos of Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui taken by reporter Xiao Wei were not published in the newspaper.
Shi Qiu Shui didn't know the reason, but Shi Yue had a rough guess. The newspaper didn't publish their photos probably to protect the safety of him and his daughter.
Although the two scammers were sent to jail, there was no guarantee that other scammers out there would be angry with them because their fraudulent methods were exposed in the newspapers.
Shi Yue raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect the newspaper to be so considerate.
However, even if the newspaper did not have any photos of them, but only their names, it still caused a huge uproar.
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