In the process of growing up, there are often many choices, either active or passive, no matter which one it is, when it happens, it means that your life has changed. When you stand at such a fork in the road, you will never know if the road you are entering is uneasy or tortuous, everything is unpredictable, but it is predictable that your destiny has changed......

Wu Zhong is a police officer, since he graduated from the police academy, he has worked at the Tengshan Police Station in Tengshan District, Baishan City, Province A, for 13 years, and his life has been plain and fulfilling. The focus of the police station's business is at the grassroots level, and every day it is basically faced with all kinds of contradictions and disputes at the grassroots level, and often encounters some cases of fights and beatings, catching a fugitive, catching a bad guy or something, compared with the criminal police team, economic investigation and other more professional departments, Wu Zhong has always felt that the work of the police station is more interesting. There is the tension and excitement when arresting people, the happiness and satisfaction when the case is solved to recover the loss for the owner, the crying and laughing when mediating the dispute between husband and wife, and the righteous indignation when encountering the old man who slanders people. It may also be because of this mentality that Wu Zhong missed several opportunities for promotion, and Wu Zhong didn't care about it, because he loved this career from the bottom of his heart.

Wu Zhong's wife's name is Zhao Mei, she is also a people's policeman, she works in the Tengshan District Bureau, the two were lovers when they were in the police academy, and they naturally formed a family after participating in the work. In mid-May last year, Wu Zhong's child was born, a big fat boy weighing 8 pounds, which brought infinite joy to the ordinary life.

Time always passes inadvertently, whether you cherish it or not, it will flow indifferently from your fingertips. Today is his son's first birthday, Wu Zhong hurriedly changed into civilian clothes after work and wanted to leave, when he walked to the door of the unit, he bumped into his colleague Zhou Cheng head-on, the two collided head-on, and the information was scattered all over the ground. Zhou Cheng is a young man in his twenties, he was assigned here after graduating from the police academy, and he has not been working for two years, and the unit arranged for him to follow Wu Zhong to learn business, so Zhou Cheng became Wu Zhong's little apprentice. At this time, Zhou Cheng had just come back from outside, and hurried back to the unit with a stack of materials, just now he was distracted because he was thinking about things, and he didn't pay attention for a while and hit Wu Zhong head-on.

"Is it Ah Cheng? are you okay?" Wu Zhong squatted down to help pack up the materials, and looked up to Zhou Cheng and said.

"Master!" Zhou Cheng's eyes lit up, and he quickly lowered his body and said mysteriously in Wu Zhong's ear: "Master, that matter has eyebrows!"

"Really, let's go to the office and say," Wu Zhong grabbed Zhou Cheng and walked towards the office.

Wu Zhong's master and apprentice said that the matter, naturally refers to Liu Dabiao, a dispute that occurred in the jurisdiction a month ago, this is an ordinary sales dispute, the seller is the owner of the fruit shop, the buyer is a worker, with many years of work experience, Wu Zhong effortlessly mediated on the spot, and both parties to the dispute are also very satisfied with the mediation results. The matter should have ended here, but when Wu Zhong was verifying the identities of both parties, he clearly saw the dodge in the worker's eyes, and Wu Zhong repeatedly and carefully verified the worker's information and ID card, and there was indeed no problem at all, which made Wu Zhong feel very puzzled, why did ordinary people have fear and hatred for the police? Yes, Wu Zhong was very sure that he saw these emotions in the eyes of this worker. The worker's name is Liu Dabiao, his hometown is in an ordinary village in S Province, he is less than 30 years old, this person is honest and honest, from the outside, he is not married, and he has no criminal record. Wu Zhong gave Zhou Cheng a color, which meant to let him follow Liu Dabiao and find out his situation, more than two years of work and tempering made Zhou Cheng very aware of Wu Zhong's every eye intention.

Zhou Cheng's work is still very efficient, Zhou Cheng brought more detailed investigation results that night, it turned out that Liu Dabiao worked at a construction site in Tengshan District, and it has been more than two months since he arrived in Baishan City, during which he has been living in the dormitory of the construction site, this person does not like to get along with people, and does not like to talk, and has no bad habits, usually after work will go to the city to stroll, usually two or three hours will return to the dormitory, but never spend the night outside, in general life is still very regular. Zhou Cheng learned about these situations from the foreman at the construction site, and the foreman had a good impression of Liu Dabiao, and kept praising Liu Dabiao in front of Zhou Cheng for how honest and responsible he was, and how he could endure hardships and so on.

Judging from the current situation, Liu Dabiao has no problem, although he has doubts in his heart, Zhou Cheng is not in a hurry to say his doubts to Wu Zhong, because he knows that Master Wu Zhong has his own way of thinking, and he can't interfere, and he believes that Master Wu Zhong will explain it to himself.

After pondering for a moment, Wu Zhong asked Zhou Cheng, "Does Liu Dabiao have frequent contact with his family?"

"No, his co-workers and foremen have never seen him call home to report his safety," Zhou Cheng replied simply and directly.

"Find out his trajectory, especially what he does every day when he goes out, I feel that this person is very wrong, figure it out, be cautious and right", Wu Zhong made a decision.

Zhou Cheng followed the instructions of his master Wu Zhong and quietly followed Liu Dabiao around the city for two or three hours in the past few days, and there was really nothing abnormal in the first three days, Liu Dabiao seemed to wander around without a purpose, and then returned to his residence. But on the fourth day, there was finally an anomaly, and it rained heavily on this day, and the whole city was full of dense rain, and there were few pedestrians in sight on the streets, and many shops closed early. Zhou Cheng wrapped his whole body in a raincoat, and carefully followed Liu Dabiao into a remote alley, and then saw Liu Dabiao flash into a small hotel, about an hour later, Liu Dabiao quickly left the hotel and blended into the street again. In this way, every fourth day, Liu Dabiao would enter this small hotel, and the whole behavior was very regular. Today, Zhou Cheng followed Liu Dabiao as usual, according to the previous law, Liu Dabiao would go shopping casually today and return to the dormitory of the construction site, but today he ran directly to the beauty shop after coming out of the construction site, and walked out of the hostel with a middle-aged man in a short time, and both of them wore masks and hats, and Liu Dabiao changed into a coat, which looked very mysterious. Zhou Cheng has been following the two to a high-end community, the strange thing is that the two did not enter the community, nor did they observe the obvious action of the layout of the community, the two just circled around the periphery of the community, and then stopped in a place to rest, during which they smoked a few cigarettes, chatted for a while, and finally left. After the two left, Zhou Cheng walked to the place where they were smoking, and after careful searching, he found an irregular pattern carved in stone in an inconspicuous place, this symbol was like a hexagon, and there were several crossed diagonal lines drawn in it. After Zhou Cheng recorded the pattern, he hurried to the unit, because the mobile phone was out of power and turned off, so there was no way to call Wu Zhong to report it as soon as possible. After Zhou Cheng finished talking about the situation, Wu Zhong patted him on the shoulder with relief, and said with a smile: "Good apprentice, well done!"

"Master, are these two people planning to burglary, when are we going to arrest someone?" Zhou Cheng said excitedly.

"Don't worry, they made a mark today, indicating that the fastest time for them to do it will be tomorrow night. In this case, we have more time to prepare. Wu Zhong took out a cigarette, threw one to Zhou Cheng, lit one himself, and comfortably spit out the smoke ring. "And who told you that they must be two people, and they must have gone to burglary? Ah Cheng, I told you, don't rush to conclusions when you encounter something. Wu Zhong said earnestly.

Zhou Cheng leaned over and hung on the chair, with a cigarette in his mouth, he looked like a hanger, what he couldn't stand the most was that his master Wu Zhong always liked to put on a posture of 'I'm a cow B, I'm very dragging', and then educate him in the same tone as educating his son. Although, in his heart, the professional level of the master Wu Zhong is indeed very good, Zhou Zhou Cheng is still very convinced at this point, in terms of the thinking, ability and experience of the police handling the case, the ability of the master Wu Zhong can be ranked in the top ten in the entire bureau, but unfortunately the master is unwilling to leave the police station, as if he has taken root, and has refused to be promoted several times.

Zhou Cheng replied angrily: "I know, I have been taught, thank you for being old!"

Wu Zhong didn't care about Zhou Cheng's tone, maybe it was because he was used to it for a long time, Wu Zhong continued to smile and said: "You send this person's information to his hometown, and as for the symbol pattern, also send it over to see if you can find valuable clues." In addition, you take two people to touch the guy who lives in the small hostel, and then get a bird's-eye view of this upscale neighborhood ready, I want to see the results of your work tomorrow morning, do you understand?".

"Got it, master" Zhou Cheng didn't complain about the hard work, and replied in a casual tone, as if the work he had to do was as simple and easy as taking a sip of water.

After Wu Zhong arranged his work, he hurried to the hotel again, and his wife Zhao Mei was already waiting in the hotel with her son. As for the work, now that it has been arranged, there is no need to worry about anything. These two years of work experience has made Zhou Cheng gradually grow up, although he can't be independent, but he can also take on some relatively simple work independently, and the most important thing is that young people need the opportunity to exercise independently.