Inside the Coast Guard compound, a squadron leader came over and yelled at the trainees when he saw them fighting. Plus, there were people trying to stop the fight, so the ones being beaten stopped fighting again. However, they continued to yell and curse at the dark-skinned young man.
Su Tianyu stood aside and made a quick judgment in his mind. He thought it was fortunate that the squadron leader came, otherwise, with the explosive power of the dark-skinned young man, those shouting people would probably be beaten to the point where they swallowed the basketball.
"What's going on?" asked the squadron leader.
Before the dark-skinned young man could say anything, the kid who got hit first stood up, holding his chest and saying, "Our basketball fell on the grass outside, and this kid kicked it into the ditch. I came out to ask him why he kicked my ball, and he punched me in the face."
The squadron leader turned his head and looked at the dark-skinned young man: "Who did you hit first?"
"He scolded me first." replied the dark-skinned young man.
"Stop talking nonsense. I'm asking you if you were the first to start the fight?!" the squadron leader asked with his hands behind his back.
"If he scolds me, I will definitely beat him up." The dark-skinned young man replied bluntly.
"Come on, follow me to the office." The squadron leader waved his hand, turned around and looked at the people watching the excitement and shouted, "Alright, alright, everyone go away."
As soon as he finished speaking, the squadron leader turned around and walked towards the building with the two fighting gangs.
The temporary workers and regular police officers who had witnessed the entire incident all didn't say a word to help the dark-skinned guy. It was obvious that he didn't have many friends in this police force.
Su Tianyu had just arrived and was not familiar with the young man. He was too lazy to meddle in other people's business, so he put out his cigarette, turned around and left.
…
About ten minutes later.
The squadron leader sent the two people who were fighting to the patrol office of the Coast Guard. To put it bluntly, this department is responsible for internal discipline, focusing on the work discipline, job training, and life discipline of new police officers, but not much care about the old team members.
The captain of the patrol team was a bald middle-aged man in his fifties. He looked fat and broad, and didn't look like a judicial officer at all. Normally, he would have been off work at this time. But in the afternoon, he went out for a big drink with his friends, and slept until now.
"What's going on?" the bald middle-aged man asked, holding up the cup of hot water.
As soon as he finished speaking, the people who had been beaten took the lead in interrupting and narrating the incident with a certain bias.
After listening to this, the bald middle-aged man turned his head and looked at the dark-skinned young man: "What's your name?"
"Hou Guoyu." The dark-skinned young man replied.
"You are Hou Guoyu?" The bald middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, then slowly put down his teacup and said, "Why are you hitting someone?"
"They were playing with a broken ball and threw it out six or seven times, asking us to pick it up. They were also very rude." Hou Guoyu frowned and said, "I ignored him and he scolded me. If I don't beat him, who should I beat?!"
"Even if I scold you, you can't hit me. Do you know what this place is? This is the Coast Guard, a disciplined unit!" The bald middle-aged man looked Hou Guoyu up and down and said, "You are a temporary editor, how can you be so arrogant? Can't you be more low-key?"
"Can you keep a low profile when someone scolds you?" Hou Guoyu spoke very aggressively, as if he was full of complaints about his job. He even openly contradicted the captain of the patrol team: "We are all human beings. We are fighting. There are five of them beating me up. Why don't you say anything to them?"
"Who are you talking to?!" The bald middle-aged man was a little embarrassed and pointed at Hou Guoyu and shouted, "Do you know how many complaints I have received about you in the past few days? You are not serious about your work. You are either taking a shit or smoking. What do you want to do?"
"I don't want to do anything. Anyway, I have done what I should do."
"What's your attitude?!" The bald middle-aged man had been the patrol captain for so many years, and he had never seen such an arrogant new police officer: "Don't you want to do this anymore? Believe it or not, I will fire you directly!"
Hou Guoyu gritted his teeth and looked at the other person fiercely: "You lowly official, do you really think you are God?! I don't need you to drive me, I quit!"
After saying this, Hou Guoyu, who had an extremely bad temper, actually untied his belt in public, took off his uniform pants, jacket, and shoes, and threw them on the ground one by one.
Everyone was stunned, wondering what kind of creature this was? It didn't look like a normal person at all!
Hou Guoyu threw away his clothes and pants, turned around and pointed at the five coast guards and said, "Once you leave this door, your parents may not be able to help you anymore. It's best not to let me see you on the street!"
“Bang!”
After Hou Guoyu finished scolding, he felt very relieved. He went downstairs in a cross-bar vest and boxer shorts with red strawberries printed on them, ignoring everyone.
Hou Guoyu had been gone for quite some time before the patrol captain, who was still not fully sober, finally reacted and pointed at the door and cursed: "Isn't this a mental patient?! Can anyone with a bad brain be recruited now?"
"Uncle Yu, I'm sorry to trouble you." The young man who was beaten immediately said with a smile.
"Okay, stop causing trouble and go back." The bald middle-aged man waved his hand softly.
…
After leaving the compound, Hou Guoyu went directly to the street parking lot, sat in his old pickup truck, and smoked a cigarette.
This car belongs to Hou Guoyu's father. It is at least 15 years old. None of the paint on the outside is intact. It looks very worn out and all the parts make noises. But the "lazy" Hou Guoyu still doesn't want to squeeze into the bus or take the subway to work, so he drives it every day.
After smoking a cigarette in the car, Hou Guoyu drove straight to the foreign trade port.
About an hour later, when it was already dark, a pickup truck seemed to have lost control and stopped abruptly in the loading area, leaving a row of simple and rough brake marks behind the rear of the vehicle.
"Master, can you give me a try?" Hou Guoyu lowered the car window and shouted.
"Is your car from here?" asked the head of the cargo department below.
"No, I just want to make some money temporarily. You workers can get on the car with me and I will pay you when you get to the destination." Hou Guoyu replied with a smile.
"Twenty dollars per trip, and you have to follow the unloading." The other party replied.
"Okay!" Hou Guoyu did what he said, and got out of the car like the wind, wearing big shorts and a big vest, and asked, "Where do I put it?"
The head of the wholesale shop was also confused: "... Whose panties did you wear? What's wrong? Are you hot?"
"It won't delay anything, let's do it!" Hou Guoyu replied with a smile.
A cargo trip took two hours, and Hou Guoyu also had to help with unloading and loading. He worked until nearly ten o'clock in the evening and only earned forty yuan.
As soon as he got the 40 yuan, Hou Guoyu went directly to a better food stall and ordered a set of seafood dishes to go with the wine, along with five bottles of beer. He drank until his face turned rosy and he felt comfortable all over.
A cool breeze blew gently as Hou Guoyu smoked a cigarette and looked at the waves, feeling extremely free.
Drink while you can, that’s life!
…
There were not many people in the municipal building late at night, only the security guard was watching TV programs boredly in the security room.
Sitting on a chair in the hall, Gu Baishun had been waiting for Director Liu for seven or eight hours.
Finally, it was almost twelve o'clock in the morning when footsteps came from the direction of the elevator. Gu Baishun looked up and saw Li Mingsheng and Director Liu coming out.
Gu Baishun immediately stood up, smiling.
Li Mingsheng didn't even look at him and walked out of the hall. Director Liu walked over and asked softly, "Are you Gu...Gu...?"
"My name is Gu Baishun."
"Oh, President Gu! I'm sorry, the internal meeting lasted too long today." Director Liu nodded at him symbolically: "Your association has done a good job, and the mayor has praised it. It's too late today, let's do it another day."
"Okay, okay!" Gu Baishun smiled stiffly.
After saying that, Director Liu also quickly left the hall.