Chapter 4 Old Photographs

After reading the list, Song Yixue couldn't help but feel big.

That's a lot of pressure.

Originally, the proportion of men and women in the Internal Affairs Department was balanced and the ecology was harmonious.

But now, there are only four girls in this group of people, and there is a real man "Brother Chun" among them.

On the other hand, on the boys' side, all of them are young heroes.

Song Yixue was really afraid that after Ke Jiajia joined the black butler group, he would be abducted by others, or he would chase a "national boyfriend" like Lou Fan upside down.

It's terrible, how can this be good?

Thinking of what might happen next, Song Yixue clenched his fists and strengthened his determination that he must pass the test.

As soon as his mind moved, something strange appeared in Song Yixue's body, and a wave of energy began to surge in his blood.

With the acceleration of this energy, Song Yixue could clearly feel the temperature in his body rising.

"Here we go again. ”

Song Yixue secretly screamed in his heart.

He had already experienced this feeling twice today, and every time as soon as there was an impulse in his heart, this feeling would involuntarily come out.

The heart was hot, as if it was about to burn, followed by a burst of pulse.

But he didn't feel much discomfort, everything seemed to come naturally, as if it was a matter of course.

Sudden anomalies come and go quickly.

He now knew how to get rid of this feeling, and as soon as his mind calmed down, it would naturally subside.

Song Yixue usually reads some essays when he is fine, and he remembers that he used to explain this feeling in a Zhiwei novel, which they called a "whim", indicating that something big was about to happen.

Legend has it that in the last years of Yin Shang, there was a Taiyi real person sitting in the Jinguang Cave of Qianyuan Mountain sitting on the Biyou bed, and he was lucky with the Yuan Shen, and suddenly he had a whim, and then sure enough, a disciple came to report, and Nezha had an accident.

Thinking of this, Song Yixue trembled, and was so frightened that he hurriedly called the old lady in his hometown to say hello.

The old lady's voice on the other end of the phone was hard and powerful, full of energy, Song Yixue was relieved, and before hanging up the phone, he still reminded the old lady to live more and go out less if she had nothing to do.

Although Song Yixue knew that the abnormality that appeared on his body just now was mostly related to Xiaobai biting him, there are some things that are always not wrong to be careful, especially in this era when animals can become sperm, those ethereal legends can't help but make people more faithful.

The work of the archives department is boring and boring, but Song Yixue has been doing it for almost two years, and he is almost used to it.

Now that he is a full-fledged compiler, he is qualified to handle incident-based files, which adds a bit of fun to the job, as opposed to looking at the basics as he used to.

Colleagues continue to come in with materials, and what Song Yixue has to do is to review the text for omissions or errors, and then make electronic backups, and classify and archive the physical texts.

Recently, the situation in Shuzhou has been unstable and incidents have occurred frequently, so most of the files transferred are the action information of the Foreign Affairs Department.

Song Yixue flipped through the pages one by one, and most of them were relatively similar.

A shopping mall in Chunxi Square in Rongcheng was attacked by demons, three people were killed, and 16 people were injured to varying degrees, causing damage to public facilities and property losses valued at more than 10 million.

The Foreign Affairs Department's action team stationed in Rongcheng rushed to the scene as soon as possible and killed three untransformed demon spirits on the spot, among which the demon spirit that had transformed entered the crowd in the chaos and escaped.

Incidents such as these have occurred frequently in recent times.

For a time, the entire Shuzhou people were panicked.

The Foreign Affairs Department Task Force is exhausted, but it still often cares about one thing and the other, and those demon terrorists are committing crimes all over the province at the same time.

Shuzhou is too big, and the Demon Spirit Bureau wants to take into account the overall situation, so it can be said that it has more than enough heart but not enough strength.

Now the entire Demon Spirit Bureau is facing huge pressure from public opinion, and this pot is naturally carried by the Foreign Affairs Department.

Song Yixue even found an application report from the Foreign Affairs Office to the Administration Office in the file.

The Foreign Affairs Office has applied for the expansion of the Task Force in the hope of forming two more Operational Brigades on the basis of the original four Brigades to deal with the current frequency of terrorist attacks.

The application was rejected by the administrative department, and the deputy bureau of Tang signed and made a reply.

Deputy Director Tang instructed that the Foreign Affairs Department should stick to its post, withstand the pressure, conscientiously do its own work, and not bow to difficulties, and the unit will do its best to provide them with support in all aspects, but the matter of the expansion should not be mentioned again, and the current situation cannot be solved by expanding two or three task forces, and the top level is studying how to eradicate this crisis and let the Foreign Affairs Office persist for a while longer, and the situation will improve.

After seeing these files, Song Yixue had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

No wonder Lao Jitou knows everything, this is just some ordinary incident action files and administrative files, Lao Jitou, as the head of the archives section, has the privilege of position, so that he is even qualified to consult the orange top-secret files, and it is estimated that there are really not many things he doesn't know in the unit.

The files that follow are basically field operations of the Foreign Affairs Office.

In recent days, they have been seen in almost every region of Shuzhou.

Where they are needed, they will appear there, in order to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people of Shuzhou, they can be called the best firefighters.

But even with such hard work, they are still questioned and ridiculed by the big media in various societies.

What ironic titles such as "The Little Prince After the Fact", "Professional Floor Washer" and so on were buckled on their heads.

Song Yixue smiled helplessly, and the dissatisfaction with the external affairs department had turned into sympathy at this moment.

"Huh?"

Song Yixue, who was continuing to flip through the files, suddenly let out a soft voice of surprise, and at the end of this batch of files, an application report on the personnel transfer of the Foreign Affairs Office caught his attention.

The application report was written in the name of the Operations Team of the Foreign Affairs Department, but the recommender was Xia Liangcai, the Director of Foreign Affairs.

Under his leadership, the first group of the Second Action Brigade has performed prominently in recent operations, repeatedly made meritorious achievements, prevented the attacks of demon terrorists in advance many times, ensured the safety of the lives and property of the people of Shuzhou, set a good example for all field operators, and maintained the image of the Demon Spirit Bureau in the hearts of the people.

Xia Liangcai, Director of the Office of the Operations Corps and Director of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Foreign Affairs Office, jointly recommended Xu Xin to be transferred to the post of deputy head of the First Operations Brigade of the Foreign Affairs Office.

The administrative department decisively approved the application, and expressed affirmation and praise for Xu Xin's contributions, hoping that he would make persistent efforts in the next work and reach a higher level.

After Song Yixue finished reading this file, he looked confused.

The silver fox who served in the public security system defected, but Xu Xin, who was in the Demon Spirit Bureau, was promoted across the team, why is this such a big difference?

Although Song Yixue didn't know much about the promotion system of the Foreign Affairs Office, he always felt that this matter always revealed a strange feeling.

He didn't know Xu Xin's ability, but he didn't think it would be bad, and as for Xu Xin's character, it was recognized by the entire Shuzhou.

But even then, it's too fast, too fast to be true.

A new "person" who has been in the company for less than a week is still a demon spirit, or is it in this sensitive period when demon terrorist attacks are frequent, Xu Xin is promoted at this time, is he not afraid of causing dissatisfaction among other field personnel?

What's even more incredible is that the administrative department has been approved like this, and it doesn't even go through the assessment process.

Moreover, the promoted position is still the deputy captain of the first action team, and the current leader of the first action team is still Xie Kaiyang, and everyone in the whole unit knows how extreme Xie Kaiyang's attitude towards demons is.

Could it be that he plans to wait for Xie Kaiyang to join the Black Butler Group and let Xu Xin take over Xie Kaiyang's position?

Song Yixue didn't understand, and he didn't plan to think about it anymore.

God knows what the higher-ups were thinking.

Just like in the plots of some novels he has read in the past, there are usually words such as "layout" and "the next big game of chess" in the description of high-level bosses, and if the people below are accidentally involved, the end will basically be miserable.

Song Yixue couldn't help but feel a little pity for Lao Jitou, he had only come into contact with such a little bit of information himself, and he had a big head for a while, and Lao Jitou personally handled some confidential files, I don't know if he couldn't sleep every night, maybe this is one of the reasons why Lao Jitou likes to work overtime late at night.

Due to the implementation of the overtime rule, the end time of the office post is now adjusted to 9 p.m.

Although the rumors seem to be very nervous, they are actually busy with the Foreign Affairs Office and the Administration Department, and the Archives Section of the Internal Affairs Department is still very leisurely.

After Song Yixue sorted out all the files and put them in the warehouse, there was nothing to do, and it was already dark at this time, but there was still a while before he got off work.

Lao Jitou ordered some supper and called Song Yixue to the office.

There is a bit of meaning for Song Yixue to practice, and the scene is a little sad about parting.

Lao Jitou casually tidied up the messy desk and put the wine and food on the table, "Xiao Song, come on, come on, why don't you two drink one." ”

Song Yixue helped clean up a few times, and asked in surprise: "Is it okay to drink in the unit?"

Lao Jitou said casually: "It's okay, my place is a little special, the director can't take care of it, the above won't care, don't talk about this, come, do it, remember to come back and see it more when you have time in the future." ”

Lao Jitou usually doesn't drink, and he doesn't say such unabashed words, Song Yixue knows this very well, looking at his appearance at the moment, he is really a little sad.

Song Yixue picked up the cup and snorted with Lao Jitou, and said stupidly: "Isn't this a word, Lao Jitou, are you so sure that I can pass the test?"

After a glass of white wine, Lao Jitou's face turned red, obviously not strong enough to drink, but he poured himself another glass, shook his head and said, "Young man, you have to have confidence in yourself." ”

Song Yixue nodded and continued to drink with Lao Jitou.

Perhaps it was the reason why he had drunk with Niu Qianzhu and Jiu Lao once recently, and Song Yixue's alcohol consumption has increased significantly.

Lao Jitou was already drunk, but Song Yixue could barely stay sober.

This is the first time Song Yixue has seen Lao Jitou lose his temper in the two years since he went to work.

The administrative inspector walked outside the office, glanced into the drunken room, and frowned.

Song Yixue was terrified for a while, in his previous cognition, the severity of this matter could even make him be dismissed.

But the result was really as Lao Jitou said, the above didn't care about his place, and the patrol stopped a little and then left, without even saying a word of warning.

When it was time to get off work, Lao Jitou was still lying on the table like a pile of mud.

Song Yixue cleaned up the office in an orderly manner, and then took a taxi and sent Lao Jitou all the way home.

Along the way, Lao Jitou vomited in the taxi, and the carriage was full, and Song Yixue paid the driver 200 yuan to get out of the way.

Lao Jitou lives in a house that was divided a few years ago in the unit, because he has never started a family, so he only got a one-bedroom apartment.

Song Yixue found the key on Lao Jitou and carried him inside.

The room was messy, just like his office.

Except for some simple basic daily necessities, the most things are actually cigarette butts and takeaway lunch boxes, cigarette butts are almost everywhere, in the garbage can in the living room, on the balcony, in the bedroom water glass, and even in shoes.

After Song Yixue cleaned Lao Jitou's body, he put him still on the bed, and then began to clean it.

While tidying up the desk, Song Yixue accidentally found a photo.

There were three people in the photo, and Song Yixue took a closer look and found that he knew them all.

Deputy Bureau Tang stood in the main position, and on the left and right were Lao Jitou and Ge Yuning.

Judging from the appearance of the three people, the photo was taken almost seven or eight years ago.

At that time, Deputy Director Tang's body still looked very strong, standing between the two, smiling, but there always seemed to be a trace of sadness between his eyebrows.

Ge Yuning in the photo is still a slightly green girl, wearing a refreshing sportswear, looking energetic.

If it weren't for the fact that Song Yixue and Lao Jitou had been together for two years, and they were very familiar with some of the details of his appearance, they wouldn't have recognized that the sturdy and capable young man in the photo would be the current "Lao Jitou".

The young man in the photo looks like he is in his early thirties, wearing a Western-style uniform of the administrative office, with a tall and strong figure, a determined expression, and the whole person is full of confidence.

In the background of the photograph is a complex of buildings that appear to be hidden in the woods, and armed men can be faintly seen on duty in the distance.

Song Yixue put the photo back in its original place and began to continue cleaning.

He didn't know what Lao Jitou had experienced after that, which made him change from a confident young man who was full of energy to a "Lao Jitou" who now lives on tobacco.

When Song Yixue came out of Lao Jitou's house, it was already late.

It's not far from the Xicheng apartment where he lives, and it's almost half an hour's walk away.

Song Yixue's living budget today has been seriously exceeded because of Lao Jitou's vomiting, so in line with the guiding ideology of being diligent and thrifty and marrying a daughter-in-law, Song Yixue decided to walk home.

When he walked to the old street and alley not far from his home, a cold wind suddenly blew, which made Song Yixue shiver.

"Whew...... It's April, and it's still so cold, what the hell is the weather. ”

He scolded softly, his steps quickening slightly.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed before his eyes.

"Damn, what the hell?"

A low breath sounded, and a huge black shadow appeared in front of Song Yixue.