Binjiang Police Affairs

The past half year that just elapsed, Linghai has been constantly in meetings.

Since it is a crackdown, it must create an imposing atmosphere. There were many public arrests, public trials, and ceremonies to return stolen goods to their rightful owners, and now a meeting is to be convened to summarize and commend the crackdown efforts.

Bailong Port Police Station is not just Linghai's "stationed force," it also joined the Linghai Police Bureau in launching a crackdown on waterborne crime, which achieved significant victories. As expected, they received an invitation to attend and could even foresee receiving commendation from the Linghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

Han Yu was going to take a self-study exam, the last two subjects, and as long as he passed, he would get his bachelor's degree. If he really couldn't make it, he could only have Chen Zikun represent Bailong Port Police Station to attend.

Han Xiangning had been looking forward to this day for a long time. She switched shifts with Director Jin. The happy young couple took Little Han Han back home in a cheerful mood, and Mrs. Han also seized this opportunity to return to Sansing to visit Grandma, as well as to see her eldest son, her daughter-in-law, and Xiao Xunxun.

It's unknown whether it was because the crackdown was successfully concluded, but the examiners were in a good mood, not wanting to trouble the grassroots police officers who had to deal with the crackdown and self-study; this time the exam papers were not very difficult.

Han Yu took the exam quite comfortably, went back to his father-in-law's house to check the standard answers, and felt that he could not only pass but even score high marks this time.

With a soon-to-be college-educated intellectual in the family, Master Han was very pleased, urging his spouse and his second daughter and son-in-law to take a day off, to all go back to their hometown to visit Grandma.

Just like before, Han Yu took personal advantage of the public vehicle, driving the police car belonging to the station, taking along his in-laws, his sister-in-law, Little Han Han, and his sister-in-law's husband back to Si Gang.

This time he didn't tell Old Lu, as he couldn't always trouble him.

They set out from Binjiang District at 6:30 in the morning and arrived at 8:40.

Grandma had asked the second uncle to slaughter two chickens early in the morning. After finishing with the chickens, he went to Dinghu Vegetable Market and bought a lot of vegetables. The eldest aunt, the eldest uncle, and the second aunt and her husband all came.

It's rare for the family to get together, and it was incredibly lively.

Little Han Han was the most popular, everyone jostling to hold her.

The little one didn't act shy, not only did she not cry, she even laughed when teased.

Han Yu watched the delight of his daughter and felt pleased. He was thinking that in the future, his daughter could do as his sister-in-law had, and find a good lad to marry into his family. Just as he was indulging in this thought, the second uncle couldn't restrain himself and started to complain about the new Police Special Envoy who had recently taken post in Liangzhuang.

"We initially didn't understand why that Special Envoy Han wanted to catch those who were buying cocoons. This morning when I went to Dinghu to buy vegetables, I ran into Huang Er from the cocoon station and learned why he was giving those buying cocoons a hard time."

"Why?"

Han Yu couldn't speak Si Gang Language but now could understand it; he put down his chopsticks and looked at the second uncle with a smile, asking.

After finishing his drink, the second uncle said resentfully, "He wasn't from the police originally; he was previously the Deputy Director of the security department at a state-owned silk weaving factory. You know what the silk weaving factory does, it's in cahoots with the silk company!"

Silk production was low in Linghai, but there were many textile factories and few silk weaving factories.

Han Yu wasn't very familiar with the silk industry and asked curiously, "How are they in cahoots?"

Before the second uncle could speak, the eldest aunt indignantly explained: "All the cocoons produced in Quansigang are monopolized and bought by the silk company, which then sells the cocoons to the silk weaving factory. If the traders take away the cocoons, the silk weaving factory won't have raw materials and will have to buy high-priced cocoons from other places!"

The second uncle gnashed his teeth with his chopsticks in hand: "San'er, we answer the county's call not because we don't want to, but their purchase price is seven or eight yuan per kilogram lower than others. Besides, they frequently complain about the moisture content of the cocoons and even deduct from our scales."

The eldest aunt summarized, "This is what you call a monopoly!"

Master Han was busy playing with his granddaughter and wasn't interested in these matters.

Nurse Chief Xiang went to the kitchen to help with dishing out soup; even if she were present, she wouldn't have any opinion to offer.

Han Xiangning suddenly realized and couldn't help but sigh: "To have a silk weaving factory, which is in need of cocoons, arrange for someone from their security department to come to Liangzhuang as a Police Special Envoy. This silk weaving factory is quite powerful, and they have even bought off the county committee and county government."

"You don't even need to buy them off, I heard that the head of the silk weaving factory is about the same as the county leaders, enjoying the treatment of county leaders."

"That's just too corrupt!"

Thinking of the second aunt who now lives in Liangzhuang, Han Xiangning subconsciously looked towards her.

The second aunt felt a little embarrassed under the gaze and put down her chopsticks with a bitter smile: "Special Envoy Han isn't only arresting the cocoon buyers from Dinghu but also the ones from our Liangzhuang; more were arrested in Liangzhuang than Dinghu. During those days, in Liangzhuang, if a family was raising silkworms, almost every single one had restless nights."

The second uncle's husband said with feeling: "Thankfully, we have Secretary Lu. Secretary Lu said that you can make the arrests, but whoever owns the cocoons, they belong to them; you can't just confiscate everything without compensating a single penny."

"Don't think that Special Envoy Han is soft due to his young age, he is quite unyielding, and only Secretary Lu can subdue him. At first, we had high regard for him. As soon as he arrived, he shut down the game arcade in the cultural station and even helped the construction station recover several million yuan worth of project funds from Jiangcheng. Little did we expect, he would soon cause the whole township's sericulturists to lose sleep."

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Just as they were discussing the new Police Special Envoy of Liangzhuang, a lot of people unknowingly gathered at the doorstep, all were neighbors seeking medical advice!

With the zealous showing-off from Grandma and the second uncle and second aunt, especially the sick villagers, everyone knew not only that Han Shuqun's spouse was the Nurse Chief at the City People's Hospital, but also that Han Shuqun's second son-in-law was a doctor at the Changzhou People's Hospital.

Dr. Liang couldn't continue eating his meal and quickly went out to give "voluntary medical consultations," prompted by Grandma's expectations. The entrance of the Old Han Family became a scene of "delivering medical assistance to the countryside."

Diagnosing symptoms, looking at medical records, some old neighbors even brought their diagnostic films from the hospital.

Dr. Liang didn't understand Si Gang Language, so Nurse Chief Xiang and Han Xiangmeng acted as translators, with the three of them bustling about and thoroughly enjoying themselves.

After eating his fill and drinking enough, Han Xiangning watched his sister animatedly translate and couldn't help but feel emotional: "San'er, it seems that out of our family, we're the least useful."