◎Two in One◎
After taking a bath in the bathhouse, enthusiastic citizen Xu Shengjie went to the barber at the entrance of the alley to get a shave. After all the operations, he washed away his fatigue and became a handsome man again.
Shanshan agreed to let her dad hold her this time, and her dad is not so stinky anymore.
"Do you miss dad?"
"think!"
Xu Shengjie held his daughter in his arms and played with her for a while. When he saw Xiaoya waking up from her nap, she became a little excited to see him.
“Brother!”
Xu Shengya has encountered a lot of things in the past few days, so she can't help feeling a little sad when she sees her elder brother. From childhood to adulthood, her elder brother has always been the most powerful person in her heart.
"Shanshan, go and play by yourself." Xu Shengjie put the girl on the ground and went towards Xiaoya.
"Did you take a nap?"
"Um."
Xu Shengya suddenly didn't know how to tell what had happened to her, and she didn't know whether her sister-in-law had told her eldest brother.
But as soon as she saw her elder brother, her eyes welled up.
"Silly girl, don't be afraid!" Xu Shengjie patted his sister's head. Since Xiaoya grew up, he rarely patted her head like this. "No matter what happens, I'm here. It's okay as long as you are not hurt."
Xu Shengjie told Xu Shengya that the scoundrel had been sent to the police station. "Don't worry, do what you need to do. This is your last summer vacation, just have fun. Wei Hongjun will be sentenced to several years in prison, and these criminal acts will be severely punished in the future."
"I know." Xu Shengya talked to her elder brother and gradually felt relieved. "Brother, did you really beat him up?"
"No, that guy is like a tiger, he can't take a beating at all. I, your uncle Hong, your sister-in-law's second brother, we haven't beaten him enough, and he's howling like a slaughtered pig."
Xu Shengya burst into laughter and said, "That kind of person deserves a beating!"
"Anyway, you have to tell us everything. If it's hard to tell me or Xiaowei, you can tell your sister-in-law. You're both women and it's easier to talk to her. Don't tell grandma for now. She's old and can't stand the torture."
"knew!"
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When Liang Baozhen returned home, she saw an enthusiastic citizen named Xu steaming buns.
"Are you back?" Xu Shengjie was dressed casually in a green military uniform, with an upright posture and handsome face. He no longer looked like a "vagrant" in the morning.
Liang Baozhen was almost dazzled, nodded and walked over, "Are you ready to eat?"
"Yes, put your bag down, wash your hands and get ready for dinner."
Xu Shengjie brought a plate of stir-fried pork with green onions and a plate of brine pork offal to the square table. Xu Shengya was placing the dishes and chopsticks. Shanshan skillfully took a stool and placed it in front of the table, then stood on it swiftly. The height was just right.
Zhou Yun sat down and looked around the house, but did not see Xiao Wei.
"Xiao Wei, aren't you coming back for dinner tonight?"
"Grandma, my second brother said that he would have to train later today and asked us not to wait for him." Xu Shengwei specifically said this to Xu Shengya when he went out this morning.
"Okay, hey, Xiaowei is really hardworking." Zhou Yun felt sorry for his grandson, "I wonder if he will be hungry."
Xu Shengjie didn't feel bad. Besides, it was a regular training team, how could they let the players go hungry? He sat next to Baozhen, picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat, "Grandma, don't worry about him. He's a grown man, and he won't go hungry."
"Yes, you all have ideas." Zhou Yun turned his attention to his eldest grandson and asked him about his trip to Guangdong City. "Did you have a safe trip? Did you encounter any problems?"
Zhou Yun asked this every time, and she was worried that something might happen when she was away from home.
Xu Shengjie answered casually while eating a piece of meat, "It's very safe. Nothing happened to me."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Shengjie felt his leg kicked, as if it came from his wife. He turned around and saw Baozhen looking at him with a half-smile.
"Is there really nothing wrong?"
When asked this, Xu Shengjie almost thought that Baozhen knew that he had been involved in a train robbery. This incident should not have been reported in the newspapers because the people had not been arrested yet, and several kitchen knives in H Province were not cleared away to avoid alerting the enemy.
"Really not."
"Okay." Liang Baozhen gave him a meaningful look before turning around, which confused Xu Shengjie.
Why does it seem wrong?
After dinner, he began to "interrogate" his daughter, "Shanshan, did you make your mother angry today?"
Shanshan frowned and looked at her father in confusion, firmly defending her reputation, "Dad, Shanshan never makes Mom angry!"
Wow, you are quite good at making excuses.
"Why was Mom acting weird during dinner tonight?"
Shanshan shook her head. She didn't know. "Mom was sitting with you. You must have made her angry."
After saying that, Shanshan ran out to play.
Xu Shengjie scratched his head. He had just returned from Guangdong City and had been separated from his wife for a week. How could he possibly make her angry? Besides, shouldn’t this be the time when they are as close as a newlywed and inseparable?
Shanshan is indeed still a little kid who knows nothing.
If anyone makes Baozhen unhappy today, it can’t be me!
Entering the room, Xu Shengjie saw his wife sitting at the desk writing a manuscript, her back straight, writing intermittently.
He walked over with a cup of maltose in his hand. The aroma wafted over him before he even arrived.
"Have a drink before you write."
Liang Baozhen glanced at him after hearing what he said, put down her pen, picked up the enamel cup and drank maltose, and she felt a sweet taste in her mouth.
"What time did you arrive at the train station today?"
Xu Shengjie just wanted to talk about love with his wife, but he didn't expect her to ask him such a question. "Ah? I can't remember, maybe at dawn."
Liang Baozhen didn't want to pay attention to him and continued to write. He really didn't tell the truth.
However, Xu Shengjie had been separated from his wife for a week, and now he was very clingy. He eagerly opened another chair and sat next to his wife, leaning over to talk.
"So hard-working?"
"Um."
"Write later? Let's talk." Why is it that when I get home today, my wife doesn't want to talk to me about what happened in the past week?
It wasn't like this before.
"Do you know what I'm writing?" Liang Baozhen looked over.
"What's it about?" Xu Shengjie was a loyal listener of her radio channel, and at this moment, he was well aware of past news. "Which company was fighting with which other company? Or which company caught a thousand-year-old turtle?"
"Neither. I have to report the news tomorrow. I heard that the police arrested a vicious member of the Cleaver Team this morning."
When talking about the Cleaver Team, Liang Baozhen deliberately lengthened her tone, looked at Xu Shengjie's expression, and continued, "That person was involved in a train robbery. I heard that he happened in the next province. You didn't run into him, did you?"
Xu Shengjie would naturally not admit it, let alone say that he fought bravely and helped the police arrest people, as that would scare his family.
"I also heard that there were retired soldiers nearby who enthusiastically assisted the police in arresting the Cleaver Team." Liang Baozhen looked at Xu Shengjie seriously, "This guy is really amazing, don't you think so, enthusiastic citizen Xu Shengjie."
Xu Shengjie's head was buzzing. What was going on? How did this get known?
"Treasure..."
"Xu Shengjie, are you still hiding everything from me? Don't you know who the Cleaver Team is? They don't care about their lives. In the neighboring province, even the police and the military were chopped by them. And you, on the other hand, charge into the enemy camp without any weapons!"
Liang Baozhen couldn't hold it back any longer. This guy was full of passion, but he was too aggressive. The police still had □□, but what about him? If something really happened!
It’s scary just thinking about it.
Xu Shengjie felt a warm feeling in his heart as he watched his wife lecture him like pouring beans. He was not prepared to say it because he was worried about this kind of situation.
Who knew it had been discovered.
"Zhenzhen." Xu Shengjie grabbed his wife's arm, but Liang Baozhen was still angry and pushed him away. Xu Shengjie knew very well that if he didn't coax her down, what would happen?
So he put a little more strength to hold the man. Seeing that Xu Shengjie's arms were as strong as a copper wall and an iron wall, Liang Baozhen gradually gave up and just held him.
She is still angry.
"I have been in the army for several years and I have some skills. That day I saw that group of kitchen knife soldiers were too crazy and I couldn't help it!" Xu Shengjie also admitted that as a soldier, even if he was a veteran, he could not retreat at a time like this. If a conflict broke out on the train at that time, he would and must go to protect the civilians.
But now that I think about it, it did cause worry to my family. I can only say that it’s a good thing that my daughter-in-law doesn’t have access to the specific details.
If he knew that he was fighting a man with a kitchen knife with his bare hands, he would probably be more worried.
How could Liang Baozhen not know this? After hearing what was said, her expression eased a little. But when she thought about the scene and the ferocity of the Cleaver Team that everyone was talking about, she couldn't help but worry and get angry.
"But if something happens to you, what will happen to this family? They are the Cleaver Team, not just ordinary hooligans."
"So what if they are the Cleaver Team? We will still... ahem." Xu Shengjie put away his arrogance in the eyes of his wife and immediately changed his words, "I am following the public security comrades to ensure safety, don't worry."
"Then what happened to catching the Cleaver Team this morning?"
It was fine once, but there was a second time! Liang Baozhen was so upset that she couldn't stand it, especially when she heard that Ren Qiang had hacked a driver to death while on the run, stole his truck, and drove it all the way to Beijing in disguise.
Xu Shengjie had a good attitude and honestly confessed everything that happened between him, Hong Saner and Liang Baojun from yesterday afternoon to tonight. He did not dare to hide anything from his wife.
Liang Baozhen was horrified when she heard this, even though she understood that Xu Shengjie must have simplified the series of actions again and again and told her about them.
"Are you really not hurt?" When she saw the three enthusiastic citizens, they seemed to be fine.
Even though he hadn't slept all night, there was still a gleam in his eyes.
"No! I told you, this is a safe operation."
Xu Shengjie hugged his wife and coaxed her for a long time, and then promised solemnly, "Don't worry, I will definitely not do anything I am not sure of."
Liang Baozhen rolled her eyes at him and took the opportunity to push him away. "I tell you, this matter is over. You are helping others, and I understand that it is a good thing. However, it is wrong for you to keep hiding this from me. I have given you so many chances just now, and you didn't take the initiative to speak up.
What did we say at the beginning? We had to tell each other everything. If I hadn’t realized that I hadn’t asked you today, you wouldn’t have told me! "
Xu Shengjie was indeed not prepared to say it, but he didn't dare to say it now. Licking his lips, he said carefully, "How is that possible? I was going to tell you tonight."
Liang Baozhen: "..."
Do you think I believe it?
Xu Shengjie swore earnestly, "I will tell you everything in the future and will never hide anything from you, okay?"
"You talk nicely! You just talk, but in the end you still don't want to tell me. Forget it, I won't bother with you. You can sleep in the guest room tonight."
"No, Zhenzhen! We haven't seen each other for a week." He has already returned home and he still can't have a wife and children to live in. What else does he want?
On this side, Xu Shengjie was still trying hard to coax his wife when there was a sudden noise at the gate of the courtyard.
Xu Shengya hurried to her brother and sister-in-law's house, knocked on the door and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, my second brother and the others have been...arrested!"
Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen were startled, looked at each other in shock, and turned around to look at Xu Shengya.
"What's going on?" Xu Shengjie stood up and walked over, asking with a stern face.
"I don't know. The police have brought my second brother, Fang Zhibin, Zhou Long, and Zhou Hu back."
Liang Baozhen walked out of the house and looked outside. It was indeed the police who came.
A few people rushed to the yard and found that it was an acquaintance.
Song Jun, wearing the 83rd police uniform, stood in the middle of the yard, with four guys beside him: Xu Shengwei, Fang Zhibin, Zhou Long, and Zhou Hu.
The four of them were good brothers who grew up together in a large compound, and it can even be said that they were close friends. There was also a boy named Biaozi who joined the army last year, fulfilling his dream of becoming a soldier since he was a child.
Xu Shengjie felt a little emotional when he saw the four people standing like this. They had grown up so big in the blink of an eye, and they were all tall.
Xu Shengwei joined the table tennis training team and received a subsidy every month. Fang Zhibin entered the steel rolling mill as an apprentice. He inherited his father’s handsome looks and was spotted by the publicity department of the steel rolling mill soon after entering the factory. They took promotional photos for him. He had a handsome face and a tall stature, with a few big words next to him - We workers have power, and steel rolling workers have the most power!
Xu Shengwei even brought this painting back to show his family.
Liu Nianhua and Zhou Qingdang established a relationship, and the two children accepted it well. After all, they liked Uncle Zhou very much. Zhou Long was learning carpentry. He was smart and deft, and he was doing quite well and could make money. Zhou Hu, who was sturdy and cute when he was a child, was actually doing well in his studies and was now in junior high school.
Now, the four guys stood obediently beside Public Security Officer Song Jun.
"Xiao Xu, my sister-in-law, they are all here."
"Brother Song."
"Brother Song, what's going on?" Xu Shengjie never thought that his brother would be brought back by the police. Xiao Wei used to be a naughty boy, but he has been working very hard since joining the table tennis training team. It is impossible for him to do anything illegal.
"Brother Song, what's wrong?" Liang Baozhen asked Xu Shengya to go out and see where grandma was. If something really happened, don't let grandma come back and let her stay at the neighbor's house for a while, so that she won't be too emotional at her age and her body can't bear it.
Xu Shengya really wanted to hear what happened to her second brother and why he was brought back by the police. She was extremely anxious, but she had to take care of her grandmother's health, so she could only run out quickly.
Song Jun pointed at the four guys standing in a row next to him and said to Xu Shengjie and his wife, "We are preparing to severely crack down on those scoundrels. This afternoon, we went to stake out and arrest people, and found these four, sneaking around."
"Brother Song, you know Xiao Wei. How could he be a second-rate person?"
Song Jun laughed a few times and patted Xu Shengjie on the shoulder, "Xiao Xu, luckily I know your brother, otherwise they would really be taken back as second-rate people."
It turns out that today, all major police stations are preparing to arrest people everywhere based on the intelligence they collected previously, strictly implementing the orders from above to crack down on criminals.
As a result, these four people were found in a place where a group of second-rate people often hang out.
Four people were sneaking around, one was keeping watch, two were watching in one place, and the third was preparing a weapon, a few sticks.
Very suspicious!
Three police officers stepped forward to question them, but the four men just ran away. It would have been fine if they didn't run, but when they ran, wasn't that suspicious?
The four guys were arrested by the police in no time.
"What are you doing there?" Xu Shengjie didn't understand. These kids were just playing around, and it was impossible for them to do anything shady. He had watched them grow up.
"Brother, we are not doing bad things!" Xu Shengwei argued strongly.
Song Jun disagreed, "How can it not be a bad thing?"
"Ah?" Liang Baozhen felt cold in her heart when she heard this. He must have done something bad. How could it be possible? Xiao Wei was not that kind of person. "Brother Song, is there any misunderstanding? You must investigate it clearly."
Song Jun knew they had misunderstood, and continued, "The four of them have been arrested, and the Donghua Squad is going to take them back to the police station for interrogation. Today, all the police stations in the city are in action, and we have arrested too many people. If I hadn't known your brother, they would have been wronged."
"What's going on?"
"Your brother and his friends went there to beat someone up."
When they heard about beating someone, Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen understood that they were going to beat Wei Hongjun.
"We didn't know that Wei Hongjun had been arrested." Xu Shengwei was angry. He had been preparing to take revenge ever since he knew that some second-rate people wanted to bully Xiaoya. Although Uncle Hong and his sister-in-law told him not to interfere, how could he bear it?
Fang Zhibin, Zhou Long and Zhou Hu happened to go and play with him, and when they heard about this, they wanted to help beat the guy up.
They couldn't tolerate anyone bullying someone who came out of a brothel, especially their brother's sister!
They were all passionate young people. After making a rough plan, they prepared to stake out the places where Wei Hongjun often appeared, ready to teach him a lesson when he was alone.
result...
The people were arrested early in the morning. They had been squatting for the whole afternoon just to get some air, but they were arrested instead.
The police from Donghua Police Station arrested them. The four said they were not bad people. The police thought, isn't this the standard answer for a second-rate thug? They always say this when they catch them, so they take them back first.
"Tell me, isn't this a misunderstanding?" Song Jun saw Xu Shengwei, who was about to be taken to the police station for questioning, stopped him and asked him about the situation before leading him out. "Why did you run away when you saw the police?"
Fang Zhi blurted out, "Uncle, we're going to fight, how can we not be afraid of the police?"
Song Jun: “…That’s right.”
A fight was about to break out, so how could they not run away when they saw the police?
Song Jun looked at the group of rats and expressed his understanding. How could they not run away when they saw a cat?
It was a misunderstanding, Xu Shengjie invited Song Jun to drink a bowl of water before sending him out.
"Brother Song, please come to my house for dinner some other day. I am sorry to bother you today."
"Why are you being polite? Isn't your brother also my brother?" Song Jun was busy going back to interrogate a room of scoundrels. He really couldn't waste time. They were very busy at this time. "I have to thank you for providing clues today. Otherwise, how could we have caught Ren Qiang so smoothly? He just arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon, and we arrested him at dawn today. The leader praised us very much. I haven't forgotten you either. I specially told others about you three enthusiastic citizens. I will apply for a commendation for you when the time comes! Don't worry!"
Xu Shengjie nodded with a complicated expression, "Brother, you meant well, but you made me reveal myself in front of my wife."
Just now, he listened to Baozhen say a few words - enthusiastic citizen Xu Shengjie, his face almost blushed!
After seeing Song Jun off and returning home, Zhou Yun was also brought back by Xu Shengya. She did not realize that her grandson was brought back by the police. She showed concern for everyone as usual and went to bed early.
Xu Shengya almost laughed out loud when she heard her sister-in-law tell the story of how her second brother and his friends were arrested. After she finished laughing, she felt warm in her heart.
"Brother, don't go and beat people up secretly. What if you can't beat them? It's too dangerous."
Fang Zhibin patted his chest and said proudly, "Xu Shengya, you don't know us yet? The four of us are not bad!"
"That's right, don't worry." Zhou Long felt that he was more capable as a carpenter. He didn't believe that four people could beat one.
Xu Shengwei felt a little sorry, "It's a pity that Wei Hongjun was caught too early and managed to avoid our beating."
Wei Hongjun never imagined that so many people wanted to beat him up!
"If you have any problems in the future, be smart. If you see a scoundrel, just chase him, grab him, bite him, or kick him in the crotch!"
Fang Zhibin shared his experience with Xu Shengya, and Xu Shengwei nodded repeatedly, but frowned when he heard the last sentence, "What are you teaching?"
"What's the matter? Isn't kicking the crotch the most effective?"
"That's right." Xu Shengwei simply added, "Kick harder."
Liang Baozhen took out some watermelons from her home that had been kept in cool water and treated the children to some. No matter what, it was always heartwarming to have a group of people protecting you.
Xu Shengya, her second brother and his friends were eating watermelons, chatting and laughing. Although they failed to defeat Wei Hongjun, it might as well give the four of them some time to imagine.
Xu Shengwei: "I came up and slapped him on the head!"
Fang Zhibin: "I kicked him so hard that he knelt down in front of me and admitted his mistake."
Zhou Long: "Then I have to twist his arms and twist his head back."
The youngest, Zhou Hu, is still as chubby and cute as he was when he was a kid: "I spit on him!"
"cut!"
I was rejected and severely rejected by my brothers!
Xu Shengya was eating watermelon, listening to everyone imagining that they had beaten Wei Hongjun again, and looking at the setting sun in the sky, which dyed a large area red with orange. Her eyebrows and eyes were also filled with smiles, making her face even more delicate and beautiful.
Fang Zhibin was eating watermelon, and when he looked up, he saw Xu Shengya, with a halo around her face, handing him the watermelon with a gentle look in her eyes. He was startled and his heart skipped a beat. He took the watermelon and took a big bite. This watermelon seemed to be even sweeter.
The excitement died down, the matter finally came to an end, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest.
Xu Shengya was going to go to the post office tomorrow to call Baoling and tell her that everything had been resolved. However, Xu Shengjie said that he would connect the phone line to the family in a while, which made her very happy.
In fact, she also wanted to go to Damian Village for some fun. She wanted to play in the mountains and rivers with Baoling. This was her last summer vacation.
When this idea came up, Liang Baozhen agreed on behalf of her family.
"Call home tomorrow and ask them to come over this afternoon and pack some clothes and other things for you."
"Really?" Xu Shengya was a little excited. It seemed like she was going to go out and play these days. "Sister-in-law, will it bother your parents?"
"Of course not. My parents are busy with their land every day. Besides, they like to be lively, especially my mother. She likes you too!"
Xu Shengya went back happily to pack her things, and Xu Shengjie felt that his sister seemed to have grown up.
Those little radishes in my eyes have grown up. Now looking at myself, I am already over 30 years old. Time really makes people grow old!
"Zhenzhen, our Shanshan will become a big girl in the blink of an eye, right?"
Liang Baozhen found this person's feelings inexplicable. She looked at Shanshan, who was only five years old and was chewing a watermelon with her mouth full of red juice. There were watermelon seeds around her little mouth. After eating the watermelon, she licked her fingers to wipe away the sweetness on her little hands. Her chubby cheeks were like little dumplings and were moving from time to time.
Uh, it seems like this little girl is still a little far from being a grown-up girl?
Xu Shengjie looked at the lovely appearance of the lady and smiled. He carried her to wash her hands and face and prepared to go back to the house to rest. "Let's go."
"Why are you leaving?" Liang Baozhen took Shanshan and said to Xu Shengjie, "Let's go back to sleep. You go to the guest room."
"Ah? Hasn't this been explained clearly?" Xu Shengjie felt bitter.
"I've explained everything else. It's good that you're a caring citizen, but you haven't finished hiding this from me yet. You can sleep in the guest room."
After that, Liang Baozhen took her daughter back to the house. Shanshan only had time to wave to her father and said in a baby voice, "Goodbye, Dad."
Oh no, once the wooden door was closed, my wife and children were far away from me.
Xu Shengwei in the east room had already lain down, but he couldn't fall asleep yet. Too many things had happened today, and he was still restless. Then he heard some noise next door!
He lived in the east wing, and the room next door was empty, yet there was a sound!
Xu Shengwei immediately became alert, stood on tiptoe, holding the ping-pong paddle on the table as a weapon, ready to see which blind thief it was and give him a slap on the head.
In the dark night, their eyes met, and Xu Shengwei saw his elder brother holding the bed sheets and quilt covers and opening the next room.
"elder brother?"
"You haven't slept yet?" Xu Shengjie pretended to be calm, trying to act like a steady big brother. "Go to bed early. You still have training tomorrow."
"Oh, okay."
Xu Shengwei returned to his room, but still felt something was wrong. He opened the door and rushed over, unable to believe it. "Brother, were you chased out by your sister-in-law?"
My brother and sister-in-law have a very good relationship!
Xu Shengjie: "..."
Don't mention the pot that's not open!
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Just a hot note: I wrote Shanshan’s age wrong earlier. I wrote her as four years old. It should be five.
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