Li Dalong walked into the courtyard gate tremblingly, and saw Xie Zhengzhong smoking a cigarette and basking in the sun at the root of the grass, and greeted him from a distance: "Old Xie is good!

Xie Zhengzhong, who has always been polite, was unusual, just looked at Li Dalong with slanted eyes, ignored him, and still smoked a big cigarette pouch by himself.

Seeing Xie Zhengzhong's arrogant appearance, Li Dalong really wanted to step forward and snatch his cigarette pouch and smack his head a few times.

However, despite the hatred in his heart, Li Dalong didn't dare to do anything, just cautiously approached Xie Zhengzhong, and flattered him in a low voice: "My son has never been out, he is young and ignorant, what offended you, please Haihan, don't worry about his hairy boy." For our brothers' sake, ......"

"What?" Xie Zhengzhong jumped up when he heard this, poked his finger at Li Dalong's face, and said mockingly, "Don't care? You said it easily, but my son's handsome face has been ruined by him! How much is your old face worth? Can it be compared with my son's face? I promised to rent the house to you cheaply to store firecrackers, and now I will give you the attic to study. Your son is going to take revenge, and this is not tolerable!"

Seeing that Li Dalong kept nodding and saying good things, Xie Zhengzhong was secretly proud. He felt that he couldn't let Li Dalong come to his senses, and he should cast the net when he saw the fish, so he impatiently stretched his tone and said: "Don't be long-winded, hurry up and go home and get a hundred yuan of the ocean, if there is one less copper plate, just wait for your son to go to prison!"

"This ...... It's too ......," Li Dalong said with tears in his eyes.

"Come on, come on!" Xie Zhengzhong didn't give Li Dalong a chance to bargain. He stood up and shoved him with the cigarette pouch rod in his hand, "Go, go, go! I don't have time to rub shoulders with you!"

......

After getting off work that day, Shen Zhaojin, who was wearing a police uniform, rode a bicycle to pick up Shen Zhaoyin and return to his home in Phoenix City as usual.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the Haizhou Mansion Yamen was abolished. Instead, the Donghai County Police Department took care of patrols, arrests, investigations, and trials.

The monthly salary of a police officer on the security patrol is four silver dollars, and the salary of the police officer investigating the case is eight yuan, while Shen Zhaojin has just finished his internship period and has a salary of six yuan.

"Brother Mu," Shen Zhaoyin said, "Will Li Dejin go to prison? You don't know this kind of person, how good it is to let him go to prison for a long time!"

"What kind of prison is this trivial matter?" Shen Zhaojin said, "Besides, the matter has not been investigated clearly, and Li Dejin will not admit to hurting people." ”

"Also, why do you want to help him?" Shen Zhaoyin asked again.

"No!" Shen Zhaojin said, "Now that there is a phone in Jinan Town, if I don't call, others will call." The folks in the township are just a gesture. ”

"You're still thinking about Xiao Dejin's sister, aren't you?" Shen Zhaoyin asked with a smile, "Aren't you already married to a daughter-in-law?"

"A daughter-in-law and a lover are not the same thing. You don't know this. Shen Zhaojin said.

"I know!" Shen Zhaoyin said, "A daughter-in-law is called a wife, and a lover is called a concubine." ”

"You really don't understand!" Shen Zhaojin said, "a lover and a concubine are not the same thing. A concubine is a little wife, and a lover is a lover, so she doesn't need to marry home. ”

"It's not interesting. Shen Zhaoyin said, "You should talk about Xiao Dejin!"

Shen Zhaojin said, "We have just investigated the plaintiff's situation, and that guy is a gambler, a drunkard, and a big smoker, and the police station has detained him several times! By the way, I will go back to Qinan Town tomorrow to visit and investigate." ”

"Are you going to investigate Li Dejin?" asked Shen Zhaoyin.

"Yes. Shen Zhaojin said, "The original defendant did not admit that the knife wound was committed by himself, and we did not have advanced technology to verify it." Therefore, it can only be inferred based on whether the two parties usually have bad deeds and so on. Our bureau has already sent someone to investigate your school, and the principal and head teacher have completely opposite opinions about Li Dejin. ”

"What's the opposite?" Shen Zhaoyin asked.

"Well," said Shen Zhaojin, "it seems that the principal is saying that Li Dejin is of very bad character and very bad, while the head teacher says that he is a rare talent." Because your freshmen have just entered the school, and the teacher's comments are not much basis, the bureau sent me to Jinan Town to investigate. ”

"Where do you need to go back to Chunan Town to do this?" Shen Zhaoyin patted his chest and said, "I have always been in the same class as Xiao Dejin, you can investigate me." In my opinion, Li Dejin is very much like him, he is a snob: when he needs you, he scurries favor with you and curries favor with you, and when he doesn't need you, he blows you away in one breath. ”

"You are all listening to what Da said!" Shen Zhaojin said, "That's a grievance between their adults, let's not go to the theory! Besides, I studied in his private school for six years, and I haven't seen anyone in their family who has done anything bad! Hey, by the way, Da Da also interfered with my free love with Delan, don't you also object to Da Da? You also helped me send a letter to Delan!"

"By the way, big brother, I remember," Shen Zhaoyin said, "During the Chinese New Year, Xiao Dejin wanted to tell his sister-in-law about his mother-in-law's family, and I heard that his sister was going to throw herself into the river! ”

"I know all of this! But I don't have the heart to talk to you about this right now. Shen Zhaojin said this in his mouth, but he was thinking about Li Delan in his heart.

A few years ago, when Shen Zhaojin was studying in Haizhou, he thought of eloping with Li Delan more than once, but he didn't have enough courage because he was worried that he would not be able to support his family, so he looked forward to graduating early and finding a job.

Now, Shen Zhaojin has a job, and he will soon be a police officer, and he is really reluctant to lose Li Delan in his heart. However, he still struggled to change Shen Yunshan's old concept.

What happened to Li Dejin this time, he deliberately asked the director repeatedly to let him go to Jinan Town to investigate, just to go back to see Li Delan by the way.

......

Shen Zhaojin took a patrol officer to Chunan Town in a horse-drawn carriage, had lunch at home, and in the afternoon prepared to go to the No. 3 Primary School and Da Li Zhuang to investigate Li Dejin's situation. Shen Yunshan called two village soldiers to accompany him.

When he left the house, Shen Zhaojin asked the patrol police to take a township soldier to the No. 3 Primary School, and he took another villager to visit several neighbors of Li Dalong on Hekou Street.

Seeing Shen Zhaojin, who was thinking about it for a long time, Li Delan seemed to have something full of things to tell him. However, when she thought of her miscarriage after taking Wu Pandi's fetal pills, her throat seemed to be blocked, and she couldn't say a word.

Seeing that Li Delan was just sitting on the edge of the bed and crying, Shen Zhaojin took out a handkerchief and wanted to wipe her tears.

Li Delan hurriedly turned his face away from Shen Zhaoyin's handkerchief.

Shen Zhaojin talked a lot about freedom, independence, equality, and women's emancipation.

Li Delan cried as he listened, feeling like a bird in a cage. When Shen Zhaojin said goodbye, she woke up like a dream, took Shen Zhaojin's hand and asked, "Can you take me out?

"Yes, surely!" Shen Zhaojin held Li Delan's hand tightly and said, "You wait for me, when I am promoted to police officer, I will come back immediately to marry you!"

"You—Didn't you say before that you would marry me when you graduated?" asked Li Delan eagerly.

"Listen to me," Shen Zhaojin said, "that's right, this is a major event in our lives, and we can't rush it." I have to do a lot of work first. ”

"Oh my God!" Li Delan thought, "I'm twenty years old, why aren't I in a hurry?" She looked up and saw Shen Zhaojin's careless demeanor, she was very uncomfortable, so she broke free of his hand, lay on the pillow and cried, "I don't listen......!