Chapter 33: Cockfighting
Xie Dan took Tan Wenlin to the police station and found the director of the police station, and after the director heard that Xie Dan was coming, he explained the process of household registration migration in detail, saying that as long as Xinhe Village was willing to accept it, he would go to the other police station and the Nantou Town Police Station and the Household Affairs Department to go through the relevant procedures.
Tan Wenlin thought that the New Year was approaching, and he had to run back and forth, it seemed that he would not be able to do it at the end of the year, so he had to wait until next year.
He thanked the director and was about to leave with Xie Dan, when an auxiliary police officer hurriedly entered the office to report that there were people fighting cocks and gambling on the street.
The director immediately took people forward, Tan Wenlin had only watched cockfighting matches on TV before, and he had not seen it in reality, so he smiled and said to Xie Dan: "Let's go and see it too." ”
Xie Dan was also okay at this time, so he agreed with a smile, and the two drove behind the police car at the police station and drove down the street of Nantou Town.
When I arrived at the scene, I saw a group of people around a large circle, shouting hoarsely, and I didn't notice the police car coming.
When the director of the police station got out of the car and saw it, his eyebrows furrowed, and he asked the driver to turn the siren, and the siren sounded loudly in an instant, and the people involved in the cockfight dispersed in a hurry when they heard it.
The scene was suddenly empty, except for a couple in shabby clothes, like a husband and wife, each holding a rooster and being stunned.
The couple was in their thirties, looking honest and honest, and they didn't know why they were involved in cockfighting.
"This chicken is yours?" The director asked the couple.
"Well, it's our chicken." The husband replied honestly that Tan Wenlin's accent was not local, and he should be a foreigner.
"Don't you know that cockfighting gambling is illegal? He even openly fought cocks and gambled on the street, and went to the police station with me. As the director spoke, he asked them to take down the cocks in their arms and take them back.
The couple was shocked when they saw that the police were going to take them to the police station, and the wife begged for mercy: "We know it's wrong, we are picking up garbage, it's not like the car is out of gas when we go home, so we want to make some money by fighting cocks, we won't dare next time." ”
The husband was also anxious to plead.
Tan Wenlin saw that there was a dilapidated tricycle parked next to the husband and wife, the carriage was tightly covered with canvas, and I don't know what it contained? Squirming from time to time.
"What's in there?" The director also pointed to the trunk of the tricycle at this time and asked.
"It's our sons and daughters." As she spoke, the wife opened the canvas and poked out two small heads, a man and a woman and two children, who looked at the police timidly.
The director of the police station couldn't help frowning when he saw it, he was a little troubled, this cockfighting gambling violated public security punishment, and detention and fines can be fined, but now the other party has no money, how can he be fined? If detained, what will happen to the children? Do you want to keep it at the police station?
But now you can't just let it go, with the current embarrassing situation of the other party's family, what if something happens to the other party's family?
The director couldn't help but curse the one who called the police, so much nosy; In the end, he looked at Xie Dan, and now he had to let the town government take care of it.
Of course, Xie Dan understands what the director means, but she is also embarrassed, now there are a lot of people in Nantou Town, if one or two have difficulties finding the town government, the town government will not be busy!
Tan Wenlin saw the dilemma between the director of the police station and Xie Dan on the side, he looked at the couple and the fighting in their arms, and asked, "You raised this fighting yourself?" ”
The couple nodded and said, "Yes." ”
"You can actually raise fighting cocks, why don't you rely on this craft to do things, but put away the garbage?" Tan Wenlin asked.
The couple sighed and said, "Now cockfighting can only be used for ornamentation, and the demand is very small, and you can't support your family by relying on this." ”
Tan Wenlin nodded, he thought about it and smiled at the director next to him: "Director, I think they are quite pitiful, you educate them, and I will handle the rest." ”
The director looked at Tan Wenlin in surprise, he didn't know why Tan Wenlin took this hot potato, but he had heard of Tan Wenlin and knew that the other party was not a person with bad intentions.
The director nodded, reprimanded the couple a few times, then made another note, and hurried away with his men.
When Xie Dan saw that the director was gone, he frowned slightly and looked at Tan Wenlin and said, "How did you take over this burden?" ”
Tan Wenlin smiled: "I only have intentions. ”
Turning around, he said to the couple: "You can't go now, even if I give you money to refuel, but the tricycle is not allowed to carry people, if you let the traffic police stop you on the road, you will be fined, it is better for you to leave the car in the town government, I ask you to work." ”
When the couple heard this, they looked at each other in amazement, and the husband muttered, "You want to ask us to work?" ”
"Yes, a thousand yuan a month, I don't know if you can do it? But then you won't be able to go home for the New Year. Tan Wenlin said.
"Okay, let's do it." The couple looked at each other again, one thousand a month, which was a high salary in 97, how much garbage do you have to collect! It's worth it even if you don't go home.
In addition, they saw that Tan Wenlin came with the police station, and they believed that he would not be a bad person, so the two happily agreed.
Next, Tan Wenlin asked everyone to help get the tricycle of the two to the town government compound, and then said goodbye to Xie Dan, and then returned to the farm with the couple and two children.
On the farm, Li Zhongyuan and the three of them were surprised when they saw Tan Wenlin coming back with a few foreigners dressed in tatters.
After Tan Wenlin asked Liu Xiuxiu to settle down the couple's family, he asked Li Zhongyuan: "Zhongyuan, have you ever raised a cockfight before?" ”
When Li Zhongyuan heard this, he touched the back of his head, and said embarrassedly: "I have heard of cockfighting, but I have never raised it, and I have been wanting to raise it for a while, but I don't have a good master." ”
Tan Wenlin smiled: "I'll help you hire a master now, I don't know if you want to learn?" ”
Li Zhongyuan was overjoyed when he heard it, he liked to deal with animals by nature, it was not enough to have a dozen dogs, he always wanted to try other animals, and now when he heard that Tan Wenlin invited a master to teach him to fight cocks, why was he not happy?
"Where is Master?" Li Zhongyuan asked impatiently.
Tan Wenlin said with a smile: "The couple I brought back today are good at raising cockfights, and I want you to learn to raise cockfights with them." ”
When Li Zhongyuan heard this, he said suspiciously: "Can they raise fighting cocks?" Looks like begging. ”
Tan Wenlin said with a smile: "Don't care what they do, but they do know how to raise fighting cocks, I will take you to talk about it now, and then start learning, you can choose all the little chicks on the mountain." ”
Li Zhongyuan nodded and said, "Okay, as long as they really understand, I will learn from them." ”