Hou Zhenkun took a step forward, grabbed Liu Xiao's clothes and scolded: "What nonsense are you talking about him! Let me ask you, did you steal the rice from the township grain depot? The last time you committed a crime, Lao Liu felt that you were quite innocent and coerced, thinking that you were a first-time offender, and you should be dealt with lightly, but now it seems that there is no need at all! I think you are a dog and can't change eating!"

"I ...... I didn't!" Liu Xiao's eyes wandered.

At this moment, an old woman with white hair came out of the earthen house and shouted anxiously, "What's the matter? What are you doing?"

Qin Shanhai used to be classmates and good friends with Liu Xiao, and he was very familiar with this old man, this is Liu Xiao's mother. Liu Xiao is a single-parent family, his parents divorced early, he has never seen his father since he can remember, his mother raised Liu Xiao alone, suffered a lot, and looked abnormally old, he was only in his fifties, and he looked like an old man.

"Auntie!" Qin Shanhai shouted.

Liu Xiao's mother had a bitter face, grabbed Qin Shanhai's hand and asked, "Dahai, what's wrong?Don't catch Xiaoxiao, you took him away, what should I do?!"

Hou Zhenkun grabbed Liu Xiao's hand and loosened it.

The old man said very reasonably: "Son! If you make a mistake, you have to admit it! You take someone else's things, and the police station will arrest you, as you should be! You don't have rice to cook, tell me, can you still eat without you? Is this what a man does?" He turned his head and persuaded Liu Xiao's mother: "Big sister, let Liu Xiao go to the police station to explain things clearly!

"No! No, you can't arrest my son! Dahai, help me quickly, beg your leader, don't arrest my son!" Liu Xiao's mother slumped on the ground.

"Mom!" Liu Xiao broke away from Hou Zhenkun and ran to his mother and bent down to help him up.

Du Wenbin walked over and grabbed Liu Xiao's arm, Hou Zhenkun said, "Take it away!"

"Don't touch me!" Liu Xiao roared.

Qin Shanhai opened his mouth and said: "Xiao! You go to the police station to explain the matter clearly, I will compensate for this rice money! If you are detained, I will take care of your aunt!"

"Dahai, you arrested me once, arrested me again, I think you are stupid to be a policeman! Is it addicted to arresting people? Don't keep rushing at me! Don't keep rushing at me! Am I not unlucky enough? After more than half a year of work, I didn't get a penny, and I took a lot of money, and now my mother and I don't even have to eat rice! At this time, you want to arrest me again! I don't want to live anymore, I'll fight with you!" Liu Xiao became more and more excited the more he spoke, got up and picked up the fire hook next to the house, waved it and shouted: "Don't come, don't come over!"

Hou Zhenkun ordered: "Hold him down!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw the old clock's figure flicker, and he threw Liu Xiao to the ground, and two pairs of big hands pressed Liu Xiao's shoulders.

Liu Xiao struggled left and right, not moving at all, and looked down to see that Lao Zhong had a pair of swarthy, calloused big hands, stuck on his shoulders like iron tongs.

The old bell has been making artemisia all his life, and the arm strength of his hands is amazing, although he is older, but he does not accept the old age, and his temper and strength seem to have not decreased back then.

Qin Shanhai and Du Wenbin held Liu Xiao down on the left and on the right, and set it up.

Liu Xiao glared at Qin Shanhai and scolded: "Dahai, I'm not done with you, wait for me to come out and kill your whole family!" Qin Shanhai frowned when he heard this.

Hou Zhenkun ordered: "Take it away!"

Lao Zhong instructed: "Escort me to the house!" Lao Hou, you go and drive over to pick me up and take him back to the office. ”

"Okay! Dahai Wenbin, you two have taken care of the person for me!" Hou Zhenkun finished speaking, went out and got on his bicycle and left.

Liu Xiao's mother kept crying and shouting, Qin Shanhai wanted to comfort her, but she had no choice but to have a task at hand, so she had to escort Liu Xiao with Du Wenbin and follow the old bell to Qinghe Bridge.

The bicycle was thrown in Lao Zhongtou's room, Lao Zhongtou and Qin Shanhai kept trying to persuade Liu Xiao, but Liu Xiao's eyes were round, and he looked at Qin Shanhai viciously, and persuaded for a long time, just one sentence: "Wait for me to come out and settle accounts with you!"

At noon, Lao Zhong roasted a few sweet potatoes to satisfy everyone's hunger, and Liu Xiao didn't look over, didn't eat, and didn't speak. By the time Hou Zhenkun opened the broken bread and escorted Liu Xiao back to the police station, it was already afternoon.

Hou Zhenkun asked a few words, and Liu Xiao told the whole story, and made 1510 moves.

It was because I worked for Sun Million's factory for more than half a year, and I didn't get a penny, the original savings were all spent, and I still owed hundreds of yuan outside.

Qin Shanhai entered Hou Zhenkun's office and asked: "Waiting place, the value of two bags of rice is only a few dozen yuan, this Liu Xiao is also for a reason, others have cheated on wages, and there is an old mother at home, there is no rice to cook!"

Hou Zhenkun pointed at Qin Shanhai and scolded: "Let me tell you, like the policemen in our police station, they are all locals, which one does not have three relatives and six relatives? Which one has no relatives and friends? Oh, classmates give face, relatives give face, friends have to give face, seven aunts, eight aunts, three uncles, four aunts and two uncles all come to ask for favors, how can you still work? How can you still be a policeman?!"

Qin Shanhai whispered, "But the police are also people." You can't live without a little human touch, right?"

"Smack!" Hou Zhenkun slapped the table, "Let me tell you Qin Shanhai, no matter how big the favor is, it can't be the law, you remember, if you want to be a good policeman, you must have a heart of stone! Otherwise, you may make mistakes at any time and leave with your skin! This is for your good future! Slimy grinding and chirping, you can't be a good policeman! Understand?"

After hearing this, Qin Shanhai was not angry in his heart, so he turned his head and left.

Du Wenbin probed on the side and asked, "Waiting place, are you detained?"

Hou Zhenkun sat on the chair, took a sip of water and thought about it, and only said after a few minutes: "In Liu Xiao's case, as long as the money is compensated, even if the circumstances are minor, according to the public security administration punishment regulations, the minimum punishment will be imposed." ”

"Three days of detention?" Du Wenbin asked.

Hou Zhenkun decided: "Hmm. Rice money, I'll report to Lao Liu, donate a few money, first plug the hole in the rice money in the grain depot, and if there is any excess, give it to Liu Xiao's mother as living expenses!"

"Mi Qian, Lao Zhongtou and Qin Shanhai have already handed over the money. Du Wenbin took out the money from his pocket.

"You don't have to give it to me, you can find a piece of paper to write it down, and I'll donate 50 too!" Hou Zhenkun said while taking out the money: "You also have to remember that human favor cannot be greater than the law at any time, but for the common people, if you can help, you have to help!"

"Hey, waiter, I remember. ”

"What about the sea?"

"I rode a bicycle away, and in the afternoon, I was talking about going to Liu Xiao's house to have a look, I should have gone just now!" Du Wenbin replied.

Hou Zhenkun didn't speak with a gloomy face, Du Wenbin saw that the leader was unhappy, so he wanted to ease the atmosphere, "Waiting place, you said that old hour, looking at his age, talking and doing things in a hurry, why is he so neat when he moves?"

"Don't underestimate this old hour, Shanghe Village to the branch secretary down to the child, who doesn't look down on him? In the past, the Qinghe Bridge was not built, and the people of Shanghe Village had to take a ferry to cross the river, this old hour was a ferryman, and he had been doing it for more than 50 years, more than 50 years, what is the concept? It has caught up with the age of you and the sea, this old clock is a grandson, it is said that he is quite promising, and he wants to take the old clock to live in the town, this old clock is stubborn, and he is unwilling to leave Shanghe Village, so he lives at the Qinghe bridge. The old clock has an upright personality, jealousy and hatred, all retired and spontaneously became a security officer in our office, guarding the nearby village, I also heard the old people in the village chatting when they said, this old clock is not simple when he was young, he fought the Japanese devil when he was fifteen or sixteen years old, the old man in the village used to go to his house, and saw his collection of knives, which is the Japanese katana, and he took it out to wipe the oil every day, which is very infiltrating, but I have not seen it, when I came to this police station, the old clock has been ferrying, although these are rumors, but with the old bell ferrying in Shanghe Village for 50 years, this is worthy of respect。 ”

Heroes cherish heroes, Hou Zhenkun and Lao Zhongtou have something in common in their personalities, and they are both more straightforward, so Hou Zhenkun admires this senior, and his tone softened when he talked, and Du Wenbin couldn't help but nod.

Qin Shanhai rode a bicycle, bought two packs of dim sum from the village shop, came to Liu Xiao's house, and saw Lao Zhong standing at the door without entering the house.

"Old Zhong, why don't you go in?" Qin Shanhai asked after stopping his bicycle.

"Not suitable! An old woman is at home, and it is not appropriate for me to go in as a big man, and I think you should come in a moment, so I sit at the door. The old bell said.

Qin Shanhai, who listened to it, was happy in his heart, the old clock was over seventy years old, and he also paid attention to the difference between men and women, which was a bit funny, but he admired the old clock a little much.

"Then let's go and see. Qin Shanhai took down the dim sum hanging on the handlebar.

Pushing the door, I saw Liu Xiao's mother sitting on the ground wiping her eyes, and she hadn't recovered yet.

Qin Shanhai looked at the furnishings in the house, and felt sad in his heart, his family was poor enough, there were no decent furniture and electrical appliances, but his mother was more diligent, and the house was cleaned up very cleanly, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it as a house with four walls, except for a dilapidated bed, there was not even a piece of furniture that was perfect.

"Aunt!" Qin Shanhai shouted.

"Get out!"

"Big girl!" Old Zhong Tou's voice was still very loud.

"......" Liu Xiao's mother looked at the old hour and didn't speak.

"Auntie, don't be sad, Xiaoxiao will be back in a few days!" Qin Shanhai persuaded.

"Get out, my son has been caught by you several times, why are you still coming to my house?"

"I ......" Qin Shanhai was choked and speechless.

"Sister, you should eat, I have paid for the money with the sea!" The old man turned his head to Qin Shanhai and said, "Let's go!" ”

"Auntie, you can keep this dim sum and eat it!" Qin Shanhai put the dim sum in his hand on the shabby and dark wooden table.

Liu Xiao's mother stood up as soon as she could, grabbed her heart and threw it out, "Stay away from my son in the future! Since you came back from out of town to meet my son, you haven't had a day of stability, you plague god!"

The old bell said angrily: "Big sister, why don't you know what to do?"

"You get me out too!

"Come on, let's go, the sea. The old man laughed angrily.

Qin Shanhai had no choice but to leave.

It was getting dark, and after saying hello to the old clock, Qin Shanhai pedaled his bicycle home.