Chapter 149: Stay Curious About This World

Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get.

This famous quote comes from "Forrest Gump" starring Tom Hanks. The movie "Forrest Gump" was released in the United States in July 1994. Hu Xiaojun, who graduated from junior high school, naturally would not know this sentence. However, at this moment, his mood is a true reflection of this sentence.

In his view, this was an incident with clear cause and effect.

In less than three hours, he was basically certain that Gao Ming was the culprit, so Hu Xiaojun immediately decided to go to No. 1 Middle School in the city to bring Gao Ming back. However, before he could leave, his immediate superior, Chen Guangming, the director of Nanhu Police Station, sent someone to call him into the office in a hurry.

His chief actually decided to personally investigate such a small case which had no difficulty in investigating and had no social impact for the first time. Of course, it was not the turn of their police station to handle a case with social impact.

Hu Xiaojun just felt a little bit unbelievable about Director Chen Guangming's professional attitude. It was too strange. In his opinion, Chen Guangming should be playing Jiangchuan Mahjong in a private room of a hotel at this time.

In the director's office, Hu Xiaojun reported the entire incident at Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Powder Shop to Chen Guangming in detail. Chen Guangming looked at several transcripts and said, "You said that Gao Ming was the mastermind behind the incident. What substantive evidence have you found?"

Hu Xiaojun said: "These transcripts are evidence. Judging from the entire case, Gao Ming should be the mastermind behind the scenes. Director, give me an hour."

Chen Guangming's expression turned a little dissatisfied: "Is this the attitude a police officer should have when handling cases? I have repeatedly asked the police officers in the station to be objective and pragmatic when handling cases, but you just ignored me, right?"

Hearing this, Hu Xiaojun suddenly found it a little ridiculous.

Last month, your sister-in-law, Chen Guangming, teased two young people on the roadside. Was there any witness? Any physical evidence? No! How did you, Chen Guangming, such an objective, pragmatic and good policeman, do it?

Of course, Hu Xiaojun was not stupid enough to compete with Chen Guangming on such a matter. He knew that no matter what his superior said or what instructions he gave, there must be an underlying intention behind it.

As for himself, all he could do was to listen to every word of the leader's instructions and then implement them. As for the rest, Hu Xiaojun really didn't want to think about it, because the more he thought about it, the more boring life would feel.

As expected, after Chen Guangming gave a profound ideological instruction, he threw the transcript of the interrogation of Yu Tao and the other two directly to Hu Xiaojun. He tapped his fingers on the table and said meaningfully: "This case ends here. The transcript is redone. As a people's policeman, you must be objective and pragmatic!"

After leaving Chen Guangming's office with the three transcripts, the first thing Hu Xiaojun did was to investigate Gao Ming's family background through the household registration files.

When he saw the three words "Gao Qitian" written in the column of the head of Gao Ming's household registration information, Hu Xiaojun completely understood the profound meaning of the eight words "be objective and seek truth, be pragmatic and work hard" from Chen Guangming's mouth.

After reading the confession and the video, Chen Guangming's expression became a little more amiable. He handed the confession to Hu Xiaojun and asked him to complete the procedures and submit it to the procuratorate as soon as possible.

Hu Xiaojun nodded and said yes.

When he stood up and prepared to leave, Chen Guangming said, holding a Furong Wang cigarette, "The criminal police captain of the station has not been decided yet, and I think you are a good one."

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May 5th was like a Meiji Snow Kiss pure dark chocolate to Zhang Yunqi, bitter at first, then sweet, and then sweet again. When school was over that afternoon, the business of the Qifengdu fish powder shop at home did not decline. On the contrary, the customer flow was more than ever and more popular.

By this time, the whole school knew about Lei Ming's incident. From the principal Wang Daozhong to the gatekeeper Old Man Liu, and even the street vendors who set up stalls in front of the school gate, everyone in the school knew about it!

This had not happened at Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School for decades, so it caused a huge sensation. Naturally, the rumor that there were cockroaches in the fish meal made by Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Meal Shop was self-defeating, but the teachers and students of the school all remembered this fish meal shop.

Zhang Yunqi felt that even if he put up ten more advertisements at the school anniversary performance, the advertising effect could not be as good as this one. Next time he meets Gao Ming, he will express his gratitude.

In the following two days, the incident seemed to be getting more and more intense. Media reporters kept running to Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School and Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Powder Shop to follow up on the incident. Even Lin Shiyu contacted Zhang Yunqi through his pager to inquire about the matter.

Lin Shiyu is a reporter for the Xiangnan Daily. During the school anniversary performance of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, Zhang Yunqi had a brief exchange with her. They exchanged contact information, but Zhang Yunqi almost forgot about this woman. After seeing the message on the pager, he called Lin Shiyu back, reminisced about the past with her, and told her the general situation.

Zhang Yunqi felt that Lin Shiyu was just a little curious about this matter because she had reported at the No. 1 Middle School in the city before, and she was purely asking him about it privately. After all, Lin Shiyu was a reporter from the provincial capital, and a reporter for a major media outlet like the Xiangnan Daily in the provincial capital. It was unlikely that he would take this news too seriously, and this news was unlikely to be published in the provincial newspaper, so he spoke very briefly and dealt with it casually.

However, what Zhang Yunqi didn't expect was that two days after he finished talking with Lin Shiyu, Lin Shiyu called him again. She said excitedly on the phone: "Zou Jielun, I want to go to your Jiangchuan to learn more about this case."

Zhang Yunqi was a little surprised: "You are a big reporter from Xiangnan Daily, why are you so curious about this small case?"

Lin Shiyu said: "The basic quality of a journalist is to maintain a sense of curiosity about the world. Comrade Zou Jielun, you are a bit unqualified as a reporter for Jiangchuan Evening News. How come you don't have any insight and penetrating power for news points?"

Zhang Yunqi said happily: "What reporter Lin said makes sense. My insight needs to be improved. But I would like to ask reporter Lin, what insight did you get from this matter?"

"You see, you are just being modest, but you don't take it seriously at all. Comrade Zou Jielun, let me tell you, I have read a lot of materials in the library these two days and found that juvenile delinquency has always been a prominent social problem in our country. Did you know that?"

Zhang Yunqi was a little surprised after hearing this.

"So juvenile delinquency is a big problem that should be taken seriously by the whole society. I have researched a lot of information and feel that now is a critical period for the country to further promote reform measures. The socialist market economic system has been formed. As American scholar Louis Shelly said: The process of social development can lead to changes in the nature and quantity of crime, and can also lead to changes in the characteristics of the criminal population."

"And then, what are you going to do?"

"I would like to do a special topic now, using this case as a starting point, hoping to attract some people's attention and discuss how to make juvenile crime prevention more legalized and standardized, especially how to establish a juvenile crime prevention mechanism that meets social needs."

Zhang Yunqi leaned on the phone booth and said, "Reporter Lin, you really care about the country and the people. I admire you."

Lin Shiyu said unhappily: "Why are you admiring me? Be practical. When I go to Jiangchuan, treat me to your delicious food. Oh, that's right! It's Zhangji Qifengdu Fish Noodles."

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(End of this chapter)