Chapter 18: Rites of Passage

In the next few days, the Prosecutor's Office conducted daily arrest training and studied the past cases of assassination. Yu Bule also has time to walk around with the other four divisions and connect their feelings. The four directors also knew that the Prosecution Division was about to be upgraded to the Prosecution Division, and the order had been approved. On January 1 next year, Yu Bule will be promoted to lieutenant colonel, and everyone is at the same level, of course, he will not put up any shelf for Yu Bule to see.

Originally, because Yu Bule was young, he didn't look down on his Wu Datong, because in the process of arresting the Liangzhou and Yanzhou cases, the Operations Department and the Prosecutor's Office had cooperated many times, and more importantly, at his invitation, he and Yu Bule enjoyed two secret exchanges. Although the results of the two confrontations were tied under Yu Bule's control, Wu Datong saw Yu Bule's unfathomable nature after all, and naturally he would no longer treat him as a nepotistic little white face. The upper echelons of the Bureau of Investigation gradually kneaded into a whole.

The promotion order of the Prosecutor's Department was approved together, and there was also the application jointly applied by Director Ding Xiaolei and Deputy Director Jiang Feng to cancel their military status, retain their honorary military positions, be included in the police system, and be directly under the control of the national government. In addition, the government will formally begin to deliberate on a series of proposals to continue disarmament, expand the police force, completely transfer the management of urban law and order to the police force, abolish the establishment of the city defense force, reduce the number of troops stationed in various localities, make the army semi-professional, and assume only training and patriotic tasks.

Unlike the promotion of the Prosecutor's Office, once the news of the transfer of the military to the public is announced, it will inevitably cause turmoil. Especially some soldiers who have been transferred from the front-line army to the Investigation Bureau, as well as the young master Gongzi who has been established to gild the new system, even Yu Bule is not sure whether his large number of female subordinates with backgrounds can accept the conversion of military to civil servants. This will also be the focus of the investigation bureau departments in the coming month, to probe the situation at the grassroots level and ensure that the turmoil within the bureau is minimized.

The Big Seven frequently go back and forth with each other, which is also an important reason.

Sunday, December 21. Yu Linglong received the admission letter of the Central Military Academy with the first place. Originally, Yu Bule also planned to limit her exam results and not allow her to play too much, but now that Linglong is her junior sister and has become a student of her teacher Wu Jingzhong, genius should be, so there is no need to restrict it. The major she will choose is detective science, which will be changed from an advanced training course to a specialized discipline due to political needs after Yu Bule leaves. And officially received military status.

It was her birthday, and a grand celebration was held in Yufu. However, as a personal maid who has been raised in Yufu since the age of eight and barely leaves home, as an orphan, this is her first official birthday party. In the past, Yufu never held external banquets, and even when it was Yu's birthday, he almost never invited relatives and friends to attend, but only celebrated with the help of nannies, housekeepers, and subordinates. Although she studied at a public school, she basically didn't even go to classes except for exams

At Linglong's first birthday party, Yu Bule naturally didn't want her to be lonely, so her "only" friend, a member of the full physical examination center who participated in the winter outing, got her birthday invitation card. Unpacking the mountain-like pile of birthday gifts, although most of them were worthless gifts, Yu Linglong cried a lot. The "friends" who participated in the birthday party didn't know why Yu Bule's "little sister" was so excited, this was the first time she got a birthday gift from a friend other than the young master, the wet nurse, and the housekeeper, and more importantly, this was a grand "birthday party" that even the young master had not enjoyed. She felt so happy.

The birthday party started at noon and lasted until the evening, everyone first held a buffet and barbecue in the courtyard, and played some small games, and in the evening it was a drinking party and a dance party, Yu Linglong accepted everyone's congratulations like a noble lady, enjoyed the blessings of friends, and danced the opening dance and the finale with Yu Bule. Make her happy like a free bird and hope that this day will never end.

When she slept at night, she snuggled in Yu Bule's arms, and the tears of happiness flowed wantonly and silently, even if Yu Bule persuaded her for a long time, she couldn't stop. Repeatedly, he would only say one sentence, "I love you, young master, I will always be yours." ”

On the 23rd, it snowed lightly in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Falling snowflakes gently sway in the breeze, turning the world white in silver. The snowy weather also brought a touch of warmth to the capital area in the severe cold. Children frolic in the streets, chase and fight, squandering their childhood.

Beginning at nine o'clock in the morning, the youth of Xicheng District or in groups, or accompanied by relatives, began to gather in Xicheng Square, women eighteen, men twenty, thousands of young people in Xicheng District who are in the most dazzling age of their lives this year, with a little nervousness and excitement, waiting for the beginning of the ceremony.

Yu Linglong and Sun Yanyan were muttering and waiting together, the two were the same age and had become friends who talked about everything. Behind the two of them, a straight figure and a weak and docile figure were projected on the snow in the square by the light that struggled through the clouds, almost invisible and shallow overlapping, it was Yu Bule and Tan Jiaren who were watching the ceremony as relatives and friends.

"I didn't expect Yanyan to invite you to accompany you to watch the ceremony." Yu Bule sighed softly.

"Her father lives in the dormitory of the campus staff in the western suburbs of Lixi, and he is about to start classes and is not good at doing it, so Yanyan asked me out." Tan Jiaren replied lightly. "As for why I was invited, I wonder why. In the department, Yanyan is doing things with Sister Zhen Na and Sister Ren Na, and has more contact with them. Maybe it's because I'm old-fashioned. "Smile lightly, like a snow lotus blooming in winter.

"Didn't you just go through the coming-of-age ceremony two years ago? Now standing in the team, others will only wonder where the innocent little sister came from, and she came to participate before she was old, who would think you were overage? Your tranquil temperament probably fits the image of her sister in Yanyan's mind, and Linglong seems to like you more. Yu Bule replied.

Tan Jiaren smiled faintly and did not continue the topic, and said softly, "Watching the ceremony like this, I really have a sense of satisfaction that my sister or daughter is an adult." ”

"I've forgotten to formally apologize to a few of you. Last mission, I didn't think it through, and I almost put you in danger. Yu Bule raised his hand and interrupted what Tan Jiaren wanted to interject, "Originally, I was very relieved of the strength of Zhenna and Yuanyuan, and the only one who was not worried was you." I followed you in the back, and when I saw you enter the courthouse, I probably guessed what you thought before leaving, and the court dormitory where you live is the third room in the west. I didn't expect ...... It's me who can't think about it anymore. I'm sorry to say to you seriously. ”

Tan Jiaren opened her eyes wide, looked at Yu Bule's side face in a daze, and didn't find any better words for a while, and smiled more gently. "It's okay."

The snow gradually stopped, the wind gradually settled, the world after the snow became clearer and brighter, and the ceremony began, and the two figures on the snow became clearer, so harmoniously fitting and standing side by side, and there was no gap in sight.

Today, the Xicheng District coming-of-age ceremony was presided over by the district mayor and a city councilor, and the loud voices echoed in the sky through the loudspeakers in the square

“…… No matter what kind of life experience you have, maybe you will enter a federal institution of higher learning to continue your studies, maybe you will enter the army, industrial and mining enterprises, maybe you have already shouldered the burden of the family and work day and night, or maybe you are already a wife or even a father and mother. But today we are still here to celebrate and applaud you.

Today, when you talk about gaining the recognition of adults in the true sense, winning the rights of a person in the full sense of the law, and becoming a citizen granted by the Federal Constitution, you will also officially assume the responsibilities of a citizen, acquire an independent personality, an independent mind, and hope that you will be financially independent. You are no longer the future of the Federation, you are the present of the Federation.

Most of you will get your own words, the respect of the adults for you, and the admiration of the children. Perhaps many of you have already entered the society in advance, and have worked with your fathers, brothers, and grandparents in various industries to shed blood and sweat for the Federation, and pay silently. Before today, you can complain, you can cry, you can accuse you of the injustice that life has imposed on you. But today, you need to understand that this is a responsibility that every citizen of the Federation must shoulder.

Our dedication, our dedication, and our hard work are precisely to allow our future generations to enjoy the free air and grow up happily under the sun. You will take over the burden of us and countless generations, work hard, forge ahead, and build a better future together. All for the Federation.

Over the past decade, I have witnessed the growth of tens of thousands of people here. Looking back on the past, I seem to be able to see countless young faces that have crossed the long river of history and presented in front of me. It seems that you can see the four million smiling faces lying in the federal cemetery. Seventy percent of them hadn't even had time to experience a coming-of-age ceremony, but they were laughing, laughing so young, so arrogant. Yes, they deserve to laugh, they should laugh, thirty-seven years ago, my coming-of-age ceremony was in a nameless small valley in the west of Liangzhou, and 7 of the 11 brothers who were with me fell on the way to the charge within a few days, including the company commander who presided over the coming-of-age ceremony for us. Yes, they are laughing, and their sacrifice has earned you to stand here in peace today.

I hope that in a few decades, all of you will be here to witness the coming-of-age ceremony for the next generation. I hope that at that time, you can be more proud than us, and you can be more proud to say that your contribution is more meaningful than ours, and that we, together with our ancestors, can sing loudly under the nine springs. As a person who has come over, I can't give you any advice and suggestions, only a heavy sentence - everything is for the Federation. ”

"All for the Federation."

The words of the head of Wang, who was unknown to 90% of the people present, made the young men and women excited, and shouted the oath of the coming-of-age ceremony.