Chapter 452 Let’s Go to Wuguang
"What?" Zhou Yi was shocked when he heard this. He immediately slowed down and asked, "Didn't Director Xie ask us to write the 3,000-word self-criticism? Why are you still using these dirty tricks behind our backs?"
"Ahem..." Wu Yongcheng said quickly, "Why are you so anxious? I didn't say I was fired."
"Not dismissed? Then what's going on?"
Wu Yongcheng said, "Ni Jianrong will be transferred soon, and the position of detachment leader will be vacant. Director Xie spoke with me this morning and asked me to be prepared."
"Oh." Zhou Yi replied indifferently and continued to concentrate on driving.
Wu Yongcheng was stunned: "Oh? No, aren't you surprised?"
"What's so surprising about that? I knew about it the day he was transferred from the task force. It was inevitable. Besides leaking information about multiple cases at the drinking party that night, I guess he's also somehow involved with Chen Gengyun's notebook. I don't think he's the type to be a corrupt official, but he's so obsessed with connections that it's hard to believe he wouldn't get his hands dirty." Zhou Yi said calmly, "So the position of captain of this team is destined for your captain, Captain Wu."
"What if someone else is transferred here?" Wu Yongcheng said.
"Forget it. With the frequency of our crimes, who would dare to come here to survive?"
Wu Yongcheng nodded. This was indeed the truth. With regard to the recent cases, it was not an exaggeration to say that he was going through a difficult time.
"So you actually knew what I was going to say from the beginning?"
Zhou Yi chuckled: "I guessed a little bit."
"In short, that's the thing. If I really get promoted to a full-time position, I won't be able to serve as the captain of the Third Brigade concurrently. But for a short period of time, I plan to keep this position vacant." Wu Yongcheng turned his head to glance at Zhou Yi and stopped there.
Zhou Yi’s biggest problem now is that he has too little experience.
Although the performance was outstanding and was appreciated by some people, the rules are the rules.
It's not that we can't break the rules to promote him quickly, but doing so will be disadvantageous to him.
The price of breaking the rules is becoming a target of attack by those who do not benefit from the rules.
So Wu Yongcheng's idea was very simple. If he didn't take the position of captain of the third team, he would try his best to keep the position vacant until Zhou Yi was qualified to take it.
"Captain Wu, I have a question."
"You ask."
"If you become the captain of the detachment, do you plan to return to your hometown?"
Wu Yongcheng was stunned. He thought Zhou Yi would ask about the position, but he didn't expect that he actually cared about this.
He lit another cigarette, and this time, fearing that the wind would blow out half of the cigarette, he opened the window until only a crack was left.
He took a puff of his cigarette and replied calmly, "Of course I'm going back. I'm not going back home out of anger because I didn't become the detachment leader. Fallen leaves return to their roots. My parents are old, and I don't want to be left alone to support them."
Sure enough, it was just as Zhou Yi guessed.
Fallen leaves return to their roots. In fact, the biggest problem is not that Wu Yongcheng’s roots are not in Hongcheng, but that his home is not in Hongcheng.
People need to have a home, otherwise they are like rootless duckweed.
Wherever your family is, there is home; wherever your home is, there are your roots.
"But don't worry, I won't leave until I've settled your kid down."
"Thank you, Captain Wu."
"So you remember the inter-regional joint law enforcement support team thing?"
Zhou Yi nodded: "Remember, is this mechanism confirmed to be activated?"
"Yes, the provincial government has already finalized this mechanism. However, it has changed slightly from the original plan."
"change?"
Wu Yongcheng explained that the original idea was to set up a special task force, select a group of elites to join, and provide support wherever there were major cases.
But it was later discovered that this mechanism actually had certain functional overlaps with the serious crime investigation detachment of the provincial department that Liang Wei was in charge of.
The role of the Serious Crimes Brigade is to investigate major cases across the province.
The deployment of the Serious Crime Squad generally falls into two situations.
One is that the lower-level public security organs are unable to solve the case, and feel that the case is complicated and serious, and encounter difficulties during the investigation process. Therefore, they actively apply for support from the higher-level departments. After the provincial department reviews and approves it, it will send a serious crime detachment.
The second type is when a case of serious social impact occurs within the province, and the provincial department will proactively intervene according to relevant mechanisms, such as the Hongda case.
The Long Zhiqiang case happened too quickly and ended too quickly. By the time the provincial department intervened, it was already the final stage of arrest.
However, this situation is actually affected by various factors. In fact, some cases are often not reported to the provincial department immediately.
Take the Anyuan case, for example. In theory, if more than two people died in the same incident, the case should be reported to the provincial government. However, local authorities often find excuses to delay the investigation, and the reason is simple and self-evident.
Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the provincial department felt that the support team should be distinguished from the serious crime detachment, and should not be hindered or affected when carrying out its work.
Therefore, it was finally decided to adjust the focus of the support group to talent cultivation and public security team building, which was the off-site rotation system that was originally planned as a secondary direction.
Wu Yongcheng had originally applied for Zhou Yi and Chen Yan's places.
"So Brother Yan and I are going to take turns on duty in other places?" Zhou Yi asked.
Wu Yongcheng nodded. "Not immediately, but I estimate it will be arranged within the next two months."
"Oh, sure, I have no problem with that."
"Is there a city you'd like to visit? I can say hello to Team Liang."
Zhou Yi thought about it and realized that Luo He was actually a good choice because Lu Zhengfeng was there.
However, Luohe is too far from Hongcheng, and it is inconvenient to go home on weekends when there are no cases.
"Captain Wu, why don't you let me go to Wuguang?"
"Wu Guang? Why?"
"My mother is from Wuguang, and my grandmother's home is in Wuguang. When I was in school, I went there every summer vacation, so I am quite familiar with Wuguang."
Wu Yongcheng nodded and said, "Yes, sure. Wu Guang is right next to Hongcheng. If anything happens, we can support you."
Wu Yongcheng snapped his fingers and said, "That's settled. I'll call Liang Wei later. You guys should get some rest before we get any more notice. But I have one request: you better avoid wandering around. No engineer on the battlefield is as good at clearing mines as you."
Zhou Yi smiled and said nothing, but his mind had already started to recall what cases Wu Guang had.
…
In June in Hongcheng, the weather has started to get hot, but many people waiting for work have unknowingly appeared in the streets and alleys. They are mainly men, but there are also some women, most of whom are over 40 years old.
They hid under the shade of trees and eaves, looking anxious and confused.
Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang walked hand in hand along the roadside. Lu Xiaoshuang couldn't help but glance at the people on the roadside.
Then he asked quietly, "I feel like there are a lot more people on the roadside recently. What are they doing?"
Zhou Yi said in a heavy tone: "Laid-off workers."
The emergence of the Hongda case has, to a certain extent, slowed down the wave of layoffs in steel mills.
But what is coming will come. At the end of May and the beginning of June, a large number of workers at No. 1 Steel and No. 2 Steel were unemployed, leaving less than 10% of the workers.
However, those "lucky ones" who were not laid off had nothing to be happy about, because the factory did not pay them any wages at all.
Almost overnight, Hongcheng suddenly had tens of thousands of unemployed people.
Some brave young people saw no hope here, so they packed their bags and headed south to work without hesitation.
But for those who are married, have ties, and especially those who are older, the future is one of fear and helplessness.
As a result, there were suddenly many more people on the street.
Perhaps only those who had "made trouble" with Zhou Jianguo at the beginning were better off and received part of the compensation, which was much better off than those who came later.
But Zhou Yi could only achieve this much, and that was only with the efforts of his father and third uncle.
After all, human resources are limited, and no one can compete with the wheel of the times.
Due to the large number of workers being laid off, social security suddenly became much more severe.
However, this pressure is mainly put on the grassroots. Zhou Yi went back to the Nanhu Street Police Station to visit them last week and learned that they now have to patrol in shifts 24 hours a day to ensure that nothing happens in the jurisdiction. Once there is a situation, they will rush to deal with it as soon as possible to prevent the situation from escalating.
This shows how worried the city leaders are.
Zhou Yi has been thinking recently about when to ask his third uncle to come back, because he has to rely on him for some things in the future, and he also needs to introduce him to Qian Hongxing.
While Zhou Yi explained what happened, he took Lu Xiaoshuang into the Yigang dormitory.
"Do I really not want to buy something for my uncle, aunt and grandpa?" Lu Xiaoshuang asked.
Zhou Yi said nonchalantly, "It's not your first time visiting my parents' house. What are you buying? Besides, as a student, why would you bother with such social etiquette?"
Lu Xiaoshuang bit her lip and said, "This time it's different."
Zhou Yi understood immediately and said nonchalantly, "What's the difference? You know my mother. She has treated you as her daughter-in-law for a long time."
Lu Xiaoshuang smiled a little embarrassedly. Although Zhou Yi's mother was a bit nagging and liked to talk to herself, for her who had been away from her parents at the age of thirteen, she felt a long-lost sense of intimacy.
"By the way, Brother Zhou, something happened in our girls' dormitory recently."
"What happened again?" Zhou Yi now has a bit of a stress reaction to places like universities, because under the university system many things will be concealed, leaving him in an unaware state.
"It's nothing serious, actually. It's just that a girl's pregnancy was discovered by her roommate and then told the school. Later, the school found out that this girl was dating two boyfriends at the same time, and she didn't even know whose the child was." Lu Xiaoshuang said in shock, because for her, this was something that destroyed her worldview.
"Mo Youyou told you, right?" Zhou Yi asked.
Miss Lu asked in surprise: "How did you know?"
"When I hear about this kind of thing..." Zhou Yi suddenly thought of something.
Regarding Xu Liu's pregnancy, the police later conducted further investigation, starting with the pregnancy test stick.
The police inquired with all the pharmacies that sold pregnancy test kits within a few kilometers of the school, but no one had any impression of Xu Liu.
However, this does not completely mean that Xu Liu has never bought it.
So Qin Beihai personally went out to conduct a second autopsy on the body parts of the Hongda case. His main purpose was to find evidence that Xu Liu was pregnant.
Unfortunately, I didn’t find it either.
But Chen Gengyun repeatedly emphasized that Xu Liu did take out a pregnancy test stick, but he later burned it together with the sheets and quilt covers.
So where this pregnancy test stick came from became a mystery.
There is another thing, which is why Xu Liu suddenly went to force Chen Gengyun on April 27th. Zhou Yi thought of the night of April 26th when he called Lu Xiaoshuang in Anyuan.
Later, through special inquiries to six roommates, possible answers were obtained.
When Lu Xiaoshuang heard the dormitory manager's announcement and went out to answer the phone, there were three other roommates in the dormitory besides Xu Liu, not including Mo Youyou.
The three roommates made heartfelt comments and blessings on the changes in Lu Xiaoshuang's life, and felt that her personality had become much more cheerful.
No one was sarcastic, and no one was making indirect accusations.
Only one girl said this: It turns out that meeting the right person really makes people better.
Zhou Yi felt that it might be because of this sentence that Xu Liu's mentality completely collapsed.
Because in the previous life, there was no Lu Xiaoshuang who became a better person.
So when Zhou Yi heard Lu Xiaoshuang say this just now, he suddenly wondered whether the pregnancy test stick that Xu Liu forced Chen Gengyun to use was actually from the pregnant girl.
Maybe the girl threw it in the public toilet on the floor and Xu Liu happened to see it.
That sentence was just a spark, and this pregnancy test stick was the real fuse that ignited the bomb.
"What's wrong?" Lu Xiaoshuang's voice brought his thoughts back to reality.
"It's okay. I just understand more and more the significance of the eight words 'Just do good things, don't worry about the future.'" Zhou Yi said, pulling Lu Xiaoshuang. "Let's go. Let's let the past be the past and look forward."
"Oh, okay." Lu Xiaoshuang followed Zhou Yi upstairs, not quite understanding what she was doing.
"Mom, we're back!" Zhou Yi shouted towards home from a distance.
…
In the Zhou family's living room, several women were making dumplings. Zhang Qiuxia and Zhou Aihua were chatting about family matters, while Lu Xiaoshuang was patiently teaching Zhao Min how to make dumplings.
"Sister-in-law, are you and my brother really together this time? I just saw you coming in hand in hand." Zhao Min asked.
Before Lu Xiaoshuang could answer, Zhang Qiuxia and Zhou Aihua immediately stopped talking, even slowed down their movements, and pricked up their ears to listen.
Lu Xiaoshuang hummed and nodded.
The two elders immediately looked at each other, raised their eyebrows and laughed.
Zhao Min asked curiously, "Then how did my brother confess his feelings to you?"
Lu Xiaoshuang said a little embarrassedly: "Why don't you ask your brother?"
Zhao Min was not polite and shouted directly to the second bedroom: "Brother, come out quickly, I have something to ask you!"
Zhou Yi, who was chatting with his grandfather in the room, came out and asked, "Why are you yelling? What's going on?"
"Brother, how did you confess to my sister Xiaoshuang?" Zhao Min asked with a smirk on her face.
"You're just a kid, don't ask about adult matters. Have you finished your homework?"
Zhao Min was immediately dissatisfied when she heard this: "Who said I was a child? I'm seventeen this year, okay? Next year I'll be eighteen. The law stipulates that I'm an adult."
Zhou Yi laughed: "Talk to your brother about the law. The law stipulates that anyone under the age of eighteen is a minor, so wait until you turn eighteen next year and then ask again."
Zhao Min pouted and said, "Stingy."
Then he turned around and pulled Lu Xiaoshuang's sleeve and shook it: "Sister-in-law, if my brother won't tell you, then tell me."
Lu Xiaoshuang looked at Zhou Yi and said with a smile, "Actually, it doesn't matter what he said. What matters is that I know he cares about me because I've heard all the nagging he said to me."
Zhou Yi was stunned for a moment. Mumbling?
When did I...
Suddenly, he remembered that he had indeed muttered to Lu Xiaoshuang.
She was still in a coma and receiving treatment in the provincial capital.
Could she hear herself at that time?
Could it be that she already knew about her rebirth?
Zhou Yi looked at Lu Xiaoshuang's gentle smile and felt a little dazed.
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