Riverside police

August 28, 1988, sunny.

Although autumn has begun early, the weather is still hot.

The trees in the compound of the Linghai County Public Security Bureau were scorched listlessly by the blazing sun, and cicadas kept chirping on the branches, making Li Weiguo, the already bored instructor of the Yanjiang Police Station, a little more anxious.

The new recruits are joining the company, and the veterans are celebrating the New Year.

It was originally a joyful thing to come to the bureau to pick up a new comrade, but when I rushed over excitedly, I found that the person I wanted to pick up was actually a child.

There is a shortage of people in the place, but what is missing is people who can do things.

Li Weiguo had never encountered such a ridiculous thing before, and he said with laughter and tears: "Director Wang, it's not that I don't obey orders and obey orders. The main reason is that Han Yu is too young and looks even smaller."

Director Wang of the political office handed over a cigarette, sat down and said, "Sixteen years old, not too young. My nephew will replace my sister-in-law to work in the agricultural machinery factory when he is fifteen."

"We are a police station, not an agricultural machinery factory. Our job is to manage people, and what we want is deterrence. He looks like a junior high school student. How can he be a deterrent if he goes out?"

Li Weiguo lit up his cigarette and puffed out smoke and said: "He is at most 1.55 meters tall and weighs less than 100 kilograms. Even the smallest police uniform will be loose on him. Isn't it a joke to make him a police officer?" "

That kid outside is good at everything, but he looks too young to be a policeman.

Director Wang also had a headache, but he still had to arrange the work. He said slowly: "Old Li, Han Yu's family is a boat people. Their ancestors have been running boats for generations. During the battle across the river, they even requisitioned his family's boat to recruit his grandfather. For the front boatman.

Later, a shipping cooperative was established in the county, and his father served as branch secretary of the second brigade of the cooperative. Later, the cooperative was dissolved and a shipping company was established. His father served as the captain of the shipping company's motor and sailing fleet. "

It turns out that the child’s family are boat people…

Linghai and even the entire Binjiang area have always had a tradition of discriminating against boat people, especially those who live on boats.

To this day, there are still many people who have nothing to do when they are full and take advantage of their children for fun. They say that you were brought from a boat and if you don’t obey, you will be sent back.

The policy is not very good for the boat people, although when the shipping company was established, all the boat people were transferred to urban hukou.

However, many boat people still live on boats and make a living by water transportation or fishing. They live a life that is neither in the city nor in the countryside, neither working nor farming.

Li Weiguo worked as an instructor at the Yanjiang Police Station for two months and dealt with boat people every day. He knew very well how difficult it was for the boat people, and it was even more difficult for the boat people's families to have a technical secondary school student. Some of them couldn't bear to lose the child.

But police officers are just people who work. What's the use of taking back people who can't work?

He was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Director Wang, what we are talking about now is his work arrangement, not his participation in the military and political review."

"I introduced his situation. He is very ambitious and studies very hard. He took the high school entrance examination in 1985 and ranked sixth in the county in the high school entrance examination. If my son's academic performance were so good, I would wake up laughing even when I fall asleep."

"Study well. The key is that he is too young. What can you do if you take him back?"

"There are a lot of things he can do. He grew up on a ship and is more familiar with things on the river than you, the instructor of the Yanjiang Police Station. Besides, he graduated from Binjiang Shipping School and majored in water transportation management."

"What about water transportation management? Water transportation on rivers and rivers is not under our control, and we can't control it."

"Better than a landlubber."

Director Wang took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his sore nose.

Li Weiguo took two puffs of cigarette and asked puzzledly: "Binjiang Shipping School belongs to the Transportation Department. It belongs to the transportation system and should be assigned to the Transportation Bureau. How come it is assigned to us?"

Director Wang also felt strange and put on his glasses: "When it comes to job assignments for college graduates, we only have the obligation to accept them and have no right to object."

"Didn't you ask the Personnel Bureau?"

"Go and ask the Personnel Bureau, are you kidding me? I'm just the director of the political office, not the director of the county party committee office."

"Director Wang, this matter is not easy to handle. You know Xu Sanye's temper. Even if I take the person back, he will send him back to you."

"He dares!"

Director Wang snorted coldly, and then changed the topic: "Old Li, you are an old comrade with high ideological consciousness. The bureau arranged for you to work with Xu Sanye because it was worried that he would make another mistake. Today, Director Yang asked me to notify you to pick him up. Instead of informing him to come, he just wants you to do his ideological work after you return."

If Xu Sanye's ideological work was so good, he would not be called Xu Sanye, let alone be assigned to be the director of the newly established Yanjiang Police Station.

Li Weiguo didn't think he could do the work of the director, and said with a sad face: "Director Wang, our Yanjiang Police Station is a newly established station. Although there are not many boat people and fishermen in the area under its jurisdiction, they are all floating on the water. It is difficult to manage. We only need to handle the household registers and registration of boat people." You are too busy to get the boat citizen certificate, so even if you can’t give us a person, you can’t give us a child.”

In the past few days, except for wages, everything has skyrocketed, causing people to panic.

Many people went to banks and credit unions to withdraw money, and then went to department stores, commercial companies and various large and small stores to buy.

Everyone is worried that money will be worth less, so they buy whatever they see, and snap up all the goods on the shelves and counters, regardless of whether they will be of any use when they buy them back.

The bureau leaders divided areas according to the requirements of their superiors, and they all stayed outside to maintain order and prevent anyone from causing trouble.

As a member of the party committee of the bureau, Director Wang also has an area to be responsible for. He will soon go to the Agricultural Bank of China to prevent bank runs. He does not want to listen to the complaints of old comrades anymore.

"Old Li, I don't have time to gossip with you. You must take Han Yu away. He reported on July 2nd. Today is August 28th. We can no longer ignore work. Xu Sanye's ideological work, you We have to do the same thing, and we have to do it!”

"Another political mission?"

"That's understandable."

"He is a technical secondary school student and is educated. Why not keep him in the bureau."

What would it be like to leave people in the bureau and let people see a little kid running around in the agency?

However, Director Wang would not say these words. He stood up and patted him on the arm: "Old Li, in fact, the bureau party committee arranged Han Yu to your office for another reason. I hope you will carry forward the tradition of helping and guiding, and help you well." Banding."

"Let me take care of the children...I have never taken care of my own children!"

"That's your family matter. What I'm telling you is business. Take good care of him for three years. When you retire and he has grown up, the bureau will make arrangements for it."

…

Han Yu was sitting on the bench at the door of the political office. He could clearly hear the conversation between Director Wang and the old instructor, but he didn't hear a word because he was confused.

He is not worried about work. As a technical secondary school student uniformly allocated by the state, he will definitely have a job. It's just a matter of good or bad.

I don’t have to worry about the money being worthless, because I don’t have much money to begin with.

Not to mention the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, the end of the thirteen-year Angolan civil war and other international events.

The reason why I feel so confused is because I don’t know whether I have dreamed or experienced everything that happened before me. I feel that this situation and this scene are so familiar.

I have felt this way before, but not as strong as today.

I asked the classmates in the class at that time and most of them also had it.

Some students even joked that it was like what was said in "UFO Exploration" and "Mystery", where they encountered a UFO and had special powers.

Later, when I asked the teacher, he said that this was not a premonition, but a psychological phenomenon called the "hippocampal effect." It's just that the brain has wrong preconceptions and regards the things in front of it as things that have happened in the memory.

However, at this moment, Han Yu had some doubts about the teacher's words.

Because today’s illusion is not only familiar and clear, but also creates a series of associations!

If he went to the Yanjiang Police Station with the old instructor in the office later, he would probably be sent back by the director named Xu Sanye because he was young, short, and thin.

The director surnamed Xu is very strong. He dares not to listen to the words of the bureau leaders, and he will set a bad example.

If Yanjiang Police Station doesn't want it, other units will follow suit.

The bureau leader has no choice but to arrange for himself, a newcomer, to do odd jobs at the Golden Shield Hotel.

It’s okay if you just go to the Golden Shield Hotel to pick vegetables and wash the dishes. Anyway, the work assignments in recent years have rarely been matched. Otherwise, there would be no "I am a brick of the party, and the party can move it from southeast to northwest. I am not proud to be in the building." , the jingle "Don't be pessimistic if you put it in the toilet".

But if you really go to the Golden Shield Hotel to work as a handyman for a few years and have a resume of picking vegetables and washing dishes, you will be looked down upon by everyone. In the future, people making movies will doubt whether you have that ability, and maybe you won't be able to turn around in this life.

It is impossible to stay in the bureau, and it is even more impossible to want to be reassigned by the Personnel Bureau.

Han Yu secretly made up his mind that when he arrived at the Yanjiang Police Station, he would act according to the situation and would not be turned back by the director named Xu.