The office of the Central Patrol Room Detective Office is located in a corner of 100 square meters on the second floor of the front building, but this corner is the most powerful place in the entire front building.

"Ah, the Inspector is back!" After a loud shout, Sun Wei, who had finally found his office area, was instantly surrounded by twenty or thirty people.

"Detective, sit down."

"Detective, you drink water."

"Inspector, if you're hot, I'll fan you."

The space of 100 square meters squeezed down so many people at once is very crowded, especially these people are surrounded by Sun Wei on the inside and outside three floors, which is really breathless.

"Stop!" Sun Wei was distraught by the dozens of crows in his ears, and immediately shouted at everyone.

Sun Wei's voice was still very shocking, after his word "stop", the entire office was instantly silent, leaving only a pair of eyes staring at him, although it was eventful and groveling, but it was also a little maddening.

"Don't you have to work, what are you doing in the fishing room?" Sun Wei reprimanded.

Don't look at the three detective groups in the Detective Department of the Central Patrol Room, in fact, there are not many people in each detective group, most of them are a Class A chief inspector, a Class B deputy inspector, two to three detectives, and four to six detectives, a total of about ten people, but these people are responsible for almost all the cases handled by the Central Patrol Room, which is beyond the reach of hundreds of ordinary patrols outside.

The modern police system originated in London, England, with a history of only more than 80 years, and there are naturally many imperfect parts in it, and the concession authorities introduced the police system to the concession not only did not improve the problems, but because the Chinese and foreign mixed living in the concession brought new problems, so the development of the patrol house has now been out of the previous plan of the concession authorities.

In order to consolidate their rule, they made a lot of efforts in the patrol room, including taking over the leadership of the International Chamber of Commerce, not allowing Chinese patrols to hold the position of inspector or above, limiting the number of Chinese in the middle and high-level of the patrol room, and the inspectors, especially the Chinese inspectors, did not have the right to lead the military patrol and arrest, but many of these things changed with the surge in the number of Chinese patrols.

In the Concession Patrol Room, the only room for promotion of the Chinese Patrol is the detective, but in order to prevent the Chinese Detective from having too much authority, the Patrol House did not let him have the right to command the patrol in military uniforms, and he could only be regarded as an auxiliary member of the Patrol House.

However, in the actual handling of the case, the uniformed patrol arrest did not know the course of the case, and in many cases, the detectives would arrest whoever they thought was suspected, so the relationship between the auxiliary and the assisted was completely reversed, which completely went against the original assumption of the concession authorities.

The development of the patrol room to the present, the inspector who was originally set up to assist the patrol officer in managing the place has surpassed the inspector in terms of actual status, and the detective can command the patrol in military uniform in handling the case has also become a conventional rule, and even the top officers of the patrol room have recognized this conventional rule.

With the continuous increase of Chinese patrols in the patrol house, the proportion of Chinese patrols is also increasing, so far the Chinese patrols have accounted for 70 percent of the total number of patrols in the patrol houses, and at the same time, because a large part of the western and Indian patrols are rented to the homes of wealthy people to serve as bodyguards, so that the proportion of Chinese patrols working on the front line is higher, reaching 90 percent, which invisibly increases the rights of Sun Wei, a Chinese detective.

"Inspector, didn't you say that you came to the fishing house today, the brothers just want to come over and say hello." A middle-aged man with the rank of Class B Detective at the front bent down and said flatteringly.

"Even if you have a heart, I will invite you to dinner after work tonight, and you will decide the location." What Sun Wei wants to do most now is to learn more about the situation in the fishing room, and the most convenient way is naturally at the wine table.

"How can you let the detective break the bank, it should be the brothers who will pick up the wind and wash the dust for you, the location has been booked, it is your Huafeng Hotel." The detective quickly said when he heard this.

"Okay, the location will be Huafeng Hotel, but I said before that my treat is my treat, you don't have to fight, you can all go separately." Sun Weiwei said with a wave of his hand.

"Thank you, Inspector!" The superior's generosity was naturally what the subordinates were most willing to see, and after everyone thanked him, they dispersed in a hurry, leaving only the deputy inspector who had just spoken.

"Detective, where are we going next?" The deputy inspector was like a slave accompanying the master of the old society, and asked.

Sun Wei didn't know what to do when he first caught the house, but seeing that this person looked very skillful, he should know the habits of his predecessor, so he said casually: "Let's do it as usual!" ”

"Okay, I've put the case in the office where you're not here, you watch first, I'll go prepare the car." The detective ran out of the house as soon as he finished speaking.

An office was separated from the window in the office hall of the Detective Department, and although the sign outside the office door was marked in English, Sun Wei knew that it should be his office even if he couldn't read it, so he pushed the door and walked in.

Compared with the office of the chief inspector of the detective unit and the chief inspector of the central patrol room, Sun Wei's office is much smaller, with only an ordinary desk and a few chairs, but the whole office is very clean and tidy, and it should be cleaned often.

There were indeed two stacks of documents on the desk, Sun Wei sat down and opened one of them, fortunately, it was not written in English, although the traditional Chinese characters looked troublesome, but most of them were still recognized.

Although there are many cases in it, they are not all big cases of murder and arson, most of them are small cases of theft and robbery, one of which is a case that has been solved, and the other is a case that is being investigated, and there are several cases that are not small, the largest of which is the case of a wealthy businessman in Nanjing who came to Shanghai and was stolen, of which the stolen money was 50,000 taels.

"Knock knock!" Just as Sun Wei was concentrating on the case, someone knocked on the office door.

"Come in!" Sun Wei said casually.

"Detective, the car is ready, shall we leave now?" It was still the same deputy inspector as before, and the tone was as respectful as before.

"Well, let's go." Sun Wei put down the case file, stood up and said.

The deputy detective did not walk out of the office directly after receiving Sun Wei's instructions, but walked to Sun Wei's desk, picked up the stack of files of the previous unsolved cases, and then followed Sun Wei out of the office.

When Sun Wei walked out of the office building, there were already two rickshaws waiting downstairs, and the driver of the rickshaw was sitting on the car to rest, but when he saw Sun Wei, he immediately stood up, and one of them bent down and said to Sun Wei: "Sir, please get in the car." ”

The rickshaw driver should have known where to go, and after Sun Wei got in the car, he pulled the car directly out of the central patrol room, and the deputy detective who came down with the documents got into another rickshaw and followed outside.

Ten minutes later, the rickshaw pulled Sun Wei to the door of a place called Yongan Theater, but before Sun Wei came down, the two doorkeepers at the door of the theater ran over, bent down and saluted: "Master, Madame is already waiting for you upstairs." ”

"Hmm!" Sun Wei realized at this time that the place where he was should be the theater left for her by Xie Xiaoshu's deceased husband, and after getting out of the car, he turned to the coachman and asked, "How much?" ”

"Huh?" The coachman was stunned by Sun Wei's words, and then replied, "Go back...... Back to the chief's words, Huang ...... Inspector Huang has already paid. ”

"Oh, it's for you." Sun Wei saw that the coachman was obviously lying, and then took out a silver dollar from his body and handed it to the coachman.

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" The coachman did not expect that the loss-making business would actually earn a silver dollar, and even though he would have to share it equally with another coachman, the rest of the money was still earned by him in four or five days.

"Detective, this ......" Inspector Huang, who was getting off the rickshaw with a file, happened to witness the scene of Sun Wei rewarding the rickshaw driver, but he didn't understand why Sun Wei broke the previous convention.

"It's okay, I'm just in a good mood today, and I'll give them a reward." Sun Wei said.

In the concession, rickshaws are a profession that is strictly supervised by the patrol house, and the patrol house has set up a rickshaw management department for this purpose, and in order to show their superior status, the Chinese patrol who is suppressed by foreigners in the fishing house always likes to oppress people who are weaker than them in status, including the rickshaw drivers at the bottom of the society.

Sun Wei knew that he was just a detective in the patrol room, even though this inspector was the most powerful inspector in the patrol room, but he still did not have the ability to change this state, but although he could not achieve the ability to help the world, he could be alone.

Yongan Cinema is the only property left to her by Xie Xiaoshu's husband, but this property is worth at least 200,000 taels of silver in Shanghai, and it can make at least 50,000 or 60,000 taels of profit every year, which naturally aroused the peeps of various forces in Shanghai.

"Inspector Huang, just hand over the things to them, and you can go back to your business." Sun Wei then said.

"Okay detective, then I'll go to the fishing room to help you watch first, and I'll send someone to inform you if there's something." As he spoke, Inspector Huang handed over the documents to a porter who greeted him, and then drove back.

Yongan Cinema covers an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, divided into two floors, with thousands of seats, but this point is not the opening hours of the theater, except for the personnel rehearsing on the stage, there are only a few reviews left in the first row.

"Ah Wei, you're here, let's go up and talk." The first time Sun Wei walked into the theater, Xie Xiaoshu, who was watching the rehearsal, turned her head as if she had telepathy, and then she said to the people who were watching the rehearsal with her: "Gentlemen, you watch first, and I'll leave for a while." ”