Siheyuan: A Family of Loyal and Brave People

"After holding it in for a long time, I finally said something human.

If it weren’t for the second half, I would have left immediately.”

Cheng Hao shook his head and laughed at the director.

The director spoke passionately at first, but he did not consider Cheng Hao's feelings and personal interests at all.

Cheng Hao has no lack of merit, what he lacks is age and experience. As long as he sits firmly in the position of director of the subdistrict office, he will naturally be promoted step by step in a few years.

Successfully catching the criminal is at most icing on the cake, adding another piece to Cheng Hao's brilliant resume, but it won't have much effect.

If it fails or if you encounter any danger, it will be a real loss.

There's really no need to take this risk.

"What are you standing there for? Take me to the crime scene.

Let's actively mobilize the masses and look around carefully, maybe we can find some clues.

If you go too late, the scammer will run away and it will be hard to find him. "

Cheng Hao patted the director's shoulder and urged him.

"This...are you really going..."

This time it was the director's turn to be a little dazed. He didn't expect Cheng Hao to be willing to take the risk to help.

"Didn't you invite me?

Now that the time has come, why are you still hesitating?

Most of what you just said is bullshit, but there is one thing that is true.

We are all government officials, and we must serve the people.

No matter how ignorant the people are and how much they have deserved to be deceived by scammers, we must try our best to catch the bad guys and help them recover their losses.

Otherwise, how can I get up and sit down?"

Human beings are creatures of flesh and blood and it is impossible for them to completely follow rationality, just like Cheng Hao now.

Even if it requires taking risks and there is not much benefit, there are some things Cheng Hao will not refuse.

Back then, Cheng Hao chose to join the army and fight the enemy not only for personal gain, but also because he truly had a passion to serve his country.

Otherwise he would definitely not be able to endure the cruel environment of the battlefield.

If Cheng Hao only wanted to make profits for himself, he could have stayed in the inner city, relied on his foresight to develop slowly, and lived a peaceful life.

There is no need to risk your life by going abroad to fight with others.

The system is not omnipotent. Although his body has been strengthened, he is still a mortal. He will bleed, get injured, and die.

I almost died for my country several times, and I can't lie about that.

"Director Cheng, I'm sorry to trouble you this time."

The director nodded seriously and looked at Cheng Hao with a bit of admiration and relief in his eyes.

Cheng Hao is impartial, and so is the director.

Apart from his selfish desire to gain merit, he was truly worried about the people who had been deceived.

……

"How's it going? Did you find any clues?"

After walking around Luoguxiang separately and interviewing the people who were almost cheated, Cheng Hao met up with the director at the entrance of the alley.

“We didn’t find it. The gang was pretty smart. They just ran away after defrauding the money without any hesitation.

It’s been so long, it’s long gone.”

The director sighed helplessly.

It is not easy to handle the case, especially in this era when cameras are not widely used. Finding a few people in the old city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

“It’s no use searching like this.

Those scammers are not stupid. They certainly wouldn't dare to stay around after they succeed.

However, making counterfeit money is not an easy task, and they cannot just do it once.

They will definitely try to use the information gap to commit fraud multiple times in order to make a profit.

Therefore, we should turn our investigation direction to areas with information blockage.

See if we can catch the person, and then follow the clues to catch the whole gang in one fell swoop."

Cheng Hao thought for a moment and came up with an idea.

“That makes sense. News spreads fast in the city, and it won’t be long before most people are on high alert.

Then they couldn't cheat anymore.

If they want to continue their fraud, they should go to remote areas, to villages outside the city.

The village was lagging behind in information and was unaware of the scammers.

Besides, there is no police station, no street office, and no currency exchange office in the village.

If a scammer comes to the village under the guise of a mobile currency exchange, the villagers will be easily fooled.”

The director is also an experienced policeman with many years of experience. With just a slight touch from Cheng Hao, he understood everything.

“However, there are many villages outside of the Forty-Nine City, and we have limited manpower, so it is impossible for us to take care of all directions.

We have to decide on a direction to search in.”

When it comes to understanding the surrounding areas of Sijiu City, Cheng Hao is not as good as the director.

After all, he has been working hard in this city for many years, and his life is not wasted.

The director knows everything about how many villages there are outside the city of Sijiu, the terrain around the villages, and the general situation in the villages.

“We are in the western district, and if the crooks want to get into the village, there are only two directions, north or west.

I guess they will run west.

First, there are more villages and a larger population in the west, providing more opportunities for fraud.

Second, the terrain in the west is more complicated, making it easier to escape if the police are chasing you.

Especially in the Qinjia Village area, you can enter the mountains by walking a short distance to the northwest.

Once you enter the mountains, it’s hard to catch them even if you spread a wide net and search.”

Based on his many years of experience, the director quickly locked on the target.

"Qinjia Village?"

When Cheng Hao heard the word Qinjia Village, he was slightly stunned.

"Yes, it's the area in Qinjia Village.

If I were a liar, I would have looted a few items and then gone into the mountains and escaped."

The director was so focused on the case that he didn't notice Cheng Hao's abnormality and just responded in a serious tone.

"Okay, let's go there without further ado.

By the way, I would like to remind the villages along the way not to be cheated by scammers.

The village is different from the city. They save a little money by living frugally all year round. It would be a pity if they were cheated out of it. "

After the country decided to develop industry, it implemented a policy of price scissors between industry and agriculture, obtaining profits by controlling the purchase prices of agricultural products to subsidize industry.

Therefore, in the next few decades, the lives of farmers in the village were much more difficult than those of workers in the city.

Many families work hard all year round and can barely make ends meet.

During years of disaster, the whole family would go hungry.

Cheng Hao can't control natural disasters, but he has to control man-made disasters.

We must not let those scammers succeed.

They acted right away. They each took a bicycle, met up in the west of the jurisdiction, and headed non-stop towards Qinjia Village.

Every time I passed a village along the way, I would stop and find the local village party secretary to give him a few reminders.

However, Cheng Hao and his companion arrived a little late, and victims had already appeared in the first two villages they passed by.

When the villagers learned that the "public official" who came to the village this morning to help exchange money was actually a liar and that the money they exchanged was all counterfeit and unusable, many villagers burst into tears.

Some even excitedly grabbed Cheng Hao's arm, hoping that he could help catch the scammers and recover their losses.

Faced with these villagers, Cheng Hao couldn't send them away harshly as he did with the troublemakers in the city. He could only comfort them with kind words and repeatedly promise to do his best to recover the stolen money.

After receiving the guarantee, the villagers thanked the two men profusely and sent them away.

"Oh, it seems that my mass work is still not solid enough."

Riding his bicycle on the rugged country road, Cheng Hao suddenly began to blame himself.

"How do you say this?"

The director was a little confused. Since Cheng Hao took over the Xining Sub-district Office, he has been very dedicated in all aspects of work.

Even if the residents near Luoguxiang were deceived this time, it cannot be blamed on Cheng Hao for not doing a good job.

Cheng Hao had reminded me of this more than once before.