Chapter 337 - 239: Coming at the Wrong Time

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Chapter 337: Chapter 239: Coming at the Wrong TimeLinghai City District is not large, the relatively bustling commercial street is just a single east-west People Road, while the City Government and Police Bureau, among other units, are located on both sides of the relatively prosperous East Sea Road. Today, not only is the road cleaner than usual, but there are also police and auxiliary police stationed at every intersection. People who usually jaywalk or go the wrong way on the road have to obey the traffic rules today, and merchants along the street have also taken in the stalls they usually set out in front of their shops. There aren’t traffic lights like in big cities in the district, and the busiest intersections all have roundabouts. Usually, at the intersections, everyone follows the roundabout, but now they are blocked off by the traffic police and auxiliary police. A few grandmas in a hurry to pick up their children from school were about to argue with the traffic police when two Santana police cars with flashing lights drove over from the east. Following the police cars was a convoy of high-end small passenger cars, heading west along the roundabout. Chen Da from the Traffic Police Team personally opened the way for the convoy. Just as he drove past the roundabout, he suddenly noticed a few crestfallen youths not only with their hands tied, but also strung together with rope, paraded through the streets and approaching face-on from the south side of the road. Wang Xiaomeng, the Deputy squad leader of the city squad, also noticed and asked anxiously while gripping the steering wheel tightly: "Chen Da, what should we do?" "Speed up, let’s move over there and see if we can block a bit so that car number 2 can continue leading the way." "Yes!" Wang Xiaomeng quickly turned on the turn signal, but there was a barrier in the center of the road separating the east and west lanes; it was not possible to knock down the barrier to get across, so they had to accelerate and go around from the front. The convoy’s speed was very fast. By the time they turned around and came back, they saw the leaders sitting in the small cars looking through the windows toward the south side of the street. In a hurry yet not hurrying enough, they still didn’t catch up in time. Chen Da realized the trouble was big. Waiting for the few small cars to pass by, he pointed ahead. S~eaʀᴄh the Novёlƒire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. Not daring to delay a moment, Wang Xiaomeng quickly drove the car to the side of the road and stopped in front of the embarrassing "parade." "What’s going on?" Chen Da got out of the car and pointed at the youth walking in the front asking. There were already many onlookers along the way, and now with the police coming, the "big brother" at the lead was scared out of his wits, hanging his head and not daring to make a sound. Han Yu hurriedly pushed his bicycle over and explained, "These youngsters, young and learning nothing good, attempted extortion and when they failed, they even resorted to armed robbery. I caught them red-handed and was just about to send them to the station." "Which unit are you from, and what’s your name?" "My name is Han Yu, I’m from Yanjiang Police Station." Yanjiang Police Station... After Xu Sanye’s death, if no one mentioned it, one would hardly remember that Yanjiang Police Station even existed. Chen Da froze for a moment, his face darkened as he asked, "Don’t you know the superiors are coming for an inspection today?" I was wondering why the roads were so clean today, it turned out that the superiors were coming for an inspection. Han Yu caught on and said with an embarrassed smile, "I didn’t know, what are they inspecting today?" "Creating a sanitary city, it’s been over a year now. Are you really a police from the Police Bureau? Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?" "I really didn’t know." Yanjiang Police Station may be called a police station, but it actually only has three boats, and all of them are on the river. Things on the shore have almost nothing to do with them, sometimes they are not even notified when there is a middle-level cadre meeting at the bureau. Chen Da realized that the person in front of him was likely Xu Sanye’s apprentice and probably genuinely unaware of the city’s ongoing hygiene campaign. He pointed in the southeast direction and asked, "Even if you didn’t know, couldn’t you have paraded them through the city less conspicuously? Why didn’t you send the people to the Southern City Police Station?" "I haven’t been to the Southern City Police Station; I don’t know where it is." "You are called Salted Fish, right?" "Yes." "Do you recognize Xu Mingyuan?" "I know him, Captain Xu is my senior brother." "Since Xu Mingyuan is your senior brother, then you should at least know where the Criminal Investigation Team is, right?" "I know." "Why didn’t you directly send the people to the Criminal Investigation Team?" Han Yu scratched his head, his face showing embarrassment as he said, "I only know that the Criminal Investigation Team is next to the Southern City Police Station but I have never been there before, besides, the City Bureau is right ahead..." He really is with the Water Police, completely clueless about things on land. Chen Da was at a loss for what to criticize him for when Director Li’s call came through the radio. "Chen Youshan, what exactly happened with those people just now? The inspection team’s leaders saw it, Mayor Wu saw it too, what exactly are you guys doing with your work!" "Director Li, I just figured it out, it’s Xu Sanye’s apprentice Salted Fish who caught several in the act. He didn’t know the superiors were inspecting for sanitation; he was just taking a few lawless punks to the station." "Xu Sanye’s apprentice?" "The small apprentice, the one called Salted Fish." "He... why did he not stay as he should at Bailong Port and come to the city district to make a mess with his arrest!" "Director Li, what should we do now?" "First, help him take the people back to the station, and we’ll settle the score with him later." "Yes!" Han Yu heard everything loud and clear, thinking to himself, did I screw up the leaders’ event? Chen Da put down the radio, sighed silently to himself, and with a bitter smile turned around and pointed at the police car: "First, get the people onto the car, we’ll discuss any issues back at the station." Han Xiangning had a rough understanding of the sequence of events, silently thinking, is welcoming the inspection by leaders more important or maintaining social order? Han Yu then carefully asked: "May I ask who you are...?" Wang Xiaomeng regained her composure and quickly introduced, "This is Chen Da from our Traffic Police Team." "Hello, Chen Da." "Hello, what? Hurry up and shove the people into the car!" "Yes!" Shoving four unruly brats into the police car, and clamping the "big brother"’s bicycle into the trunk of the Santana, Han Yu dons his helmet, rides the light motorcycle with his senior sister following behind the police car to the station. The superiors were inspecting, and there weren’t enough traffic police, so any office police who could were out on the roads on duty. Han Yu handed the four brats over to the duty police and recounted the process of catching them red-handed. Zhang Lan happened to be at the unit, and when she saw such a commotion downstairs, she hurried down, only to find it was the Salted Fish couple, stifling her laughter as she helped with taking the record. "That’s all for the sequence of events, but I’m sure they’re not first-time offenders." "Okay, when the people from the Criminal Investigation Team arrive, have them interrogate them thoroughly." The duty police had just spoken when Han Xiangning angrily said, "Sister Zhang Lan, later have the big senior brother clean up that chubby one for me good and proper." Zhang Lan put down her pen and laughed, "He just wanted to snatch your bag, we will handle it according to the law." "It’s not just about my bag, he also called me auntie!" "Hahaha." "You can actually laugh?" "No more laughing. That chubby one really went too far, not just too far, but extremely vile. Don’t worry, we won’t let him off easily." Han Yu didn’t expect his senior sister to get angry because someone called her "auntie." Seeing the duty police trying not to laugh, he quickly said, "Sister Zhang Lan, later you must speak to the big senior brother about the state of security in the city district. Even a few teenagers around fifteen or sixteen dare to rob with knives, he’s the Major Case Captain, he can’t just do nothing!" There were a total of five investigators in the Major Case Team, but they had a ton of cases to investigate. Being too busy was one thing, but there wasn’t even funding. The situation was similar in the brother police stations, no money, no manpower, even in debt to the outside world, making good public security seem unattainable. Zhang Lan really didn’t know how to explain, so she stood up urging, "I got it, aren’t you two going to treat someone to a meal? You should head to the restaurant early, don’t keep people waiting." "Then we’re off." "I’ll walk you out." "No need." "It’s fine." The three walked to the car shed, and Han Yu couldn’t help but turn around to say, "Sister Zhang Lan, when I was escorting those brats into the station earlier, the leaders who were inspecting the public health campaign saw us, and Chen Da even got criticized by the bureau leadership." Zhang Lan peeked toward the main gate and said with a wry smile, "Your timing wasn’t great, it’s normal for Chen Da to be criticized." Han Yu asked in confusion, "We are building a healthful city, the leaders were inspecting public hygiene, not something else, why would the city leaders criticize Director Li, and why would Director Li criticize Chen Da?" "No matter what work is being inspected, the ones who come are leaders. Moreover, for the sake of creating a healthful city, everyone has been busy for over a year. Secretary Chen even followed the example of Zhangjia Port across the river, leading everyone to go out on the streets to swat flies, sweep roads, demolish open latrines, and spent several hundred thousand on brooms alone." "Buying several hundred thousand brooms for what?" "To sweep the streets, haven’t you noticed how clean it is outside? We swept it all up. Sweeping in the morning, evening, on holidays, every unit is assigned a responsibility area, and whoever’s area has a problem will be held accountable." "Sister Zhang Lan, you also have to sweep the streets?" "Not just me, as long as one feeds on the public’s grain, everyone has swept the streets and picked up cigarette butts." ... Meanwhile, Jianghai, the Deputy Captain of the Security Team, was being reprimanded. Once Director Li understood the situation, he bluntly asked, "What was arranged at yesterday’s meeting? Every intersection should be manned, if there aren’t enough police then assign auxiliary police, where did everyone go?" "Everyone was on post, I just inspected an hour ago." "If everyone truly was, how could it be possible for Xu Sanye’s little apprentice to escort four outlaws, like parading through the streets all the way to the intersection of East Sea Road and Jianghai Road?" "He escorted the four outlaws by himself?" "He caught them in the act, and they are at the station right now, Xiao Xu from the office has just finished questioning them, it was indeed a roadside robbery, and it was an armed robbery. Not only is public security bad, but even intersections are not well guarded. What have you guys in the Security Team been doing all day, how are you even serving as Deputy Captain!" The whole city’s government departments have been busy for a year and a half, facing a big test for the public health initiative today. Everything went smoothly after a day of inspection, with both provincial and Binjiang City leaders giving high praise to Linghai’s public health efforts. But just as the inspection was concluding, a big mishap occurred, and one can imagine how the city leaders felt. Jianghai really didn’t know how to explain, his face reddened, and he dared not lift his head. Director Li had his outburst, equally frustrated. Because for the initiative’s part on public health, he was the one responsible in the bureau. Now he was criticizing Jianghai, but the city leaders would be criticizing him later. Just thinking about how to explain to the city leaders later, Commissioner Ding rushed over in a hurry. Director Li briefly recounted what had happened and murmured, "That Salted Fish, really, he should learn good things instead of bad, always escorting outlaws through the streets. Who does he think he is, thinking the city district is Bailong Port!" Later the city leaders would definitely want to understand the situation, and after understanding it, they would definitely ask about the state of public security in Linghai at the Police Bureau... Commissioner Ding was also very troubled, helplessly saying, "It’s not Salted Fish’s fault, he would certainly have to capture them if he accidentally encountered the robbers, and after capturing, he would have to send them to the station." "Commissioner, what do we do now?" "One step at a time, we just listen to whatever the city leaders say later on."

Chapter 337 - 239: Coming at the Wrong Time

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