The Red Era: Living in Seclusion in a Siheyuan as a Boss

Chapter 558 When I Grow Up I Will Become You!!!

Last summer was an unforgettable day for Liu Yong. It was the day he reported to a police station after graduating from Yanjing People's Police College.

Liu Yong was only 19 years old, a 'new recruit'. When he first arrived, he felt extremely nervous and under a lot of pressure because the security environment in the area was particularly complicated at the time. Liu Yong was afraid that he was not doing well enough.

But it is undeniable that he felt a little excited and thrilled besides being nervous, and he was full of expectations and imagination for his future life as a police officer.

Influenced by his father, Liu Yong aspired to become a people's policeman like his father since he was young.

His family is a military and police family. His uncle and cousin are soldiers, his father is a policeman, his grandfather is also a soldier, and his mother is also a policeman. Now it is his turn, of course he has to take over the baton and continue the legacy.

The dreams of youth are like flowers that never fade. For Liu Yong, a new police officer who has just entered the police camp, it is the first blooming of dreams into reality, which sounds silent but is more audible than words.

Liu Yong, who had a "policeman dream" since he was a child, resolutely chose to apply for the police academy after the college entrance examination. After graduation, he passed the exam and became a glorious people's policeman as he wished, starting his career as a police officer.

This was the career Liu Yong wanted to choose himself, and his family did not force him.

Born in a police family, Liu Yong was taught by his father Liu Tielin and mother Guo Lin since he was a child.
Being a police officer is a sacred profession. One must always be self-disciplined and have a sense of awe and responsibility in everything they do and do.

The glorious image of a policeman was planted in Liu Yong's mind early on. For this reason, when filling out his college entrance examination application, he abandoned his favorite philosophy and Marx-related majors and filled out criminal investigation, just because he wanted to be a policeman.

"The moment he received the notice, he was very happy, and we were very happy too." Liu Yong's mother Guo Lin said that she has been a police officer for more than 20 years. Seeing that her child also wants to be a police officer, she is very relieved and proud of him.

"I hope he can follow his dream, live up to his youth, strive to surpass us and become a good police officer."

Yenching People's Police College has a long history and was established as a public security school in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The college is located in Nankou Town, Changping.

On April 81, 4, the establishment of the Yanjing People's Police School was approved, and its cadres and teachers mainly came from the Public Security School.

When the Police Academy was established, the Public Security School was retained, with two schools, two names, and one leadership team.

The Public Security School continued to train on-duty public security police officers until the establishment of the Yanjing People's Police College in 1984. The police college implemented a school-management system for the police school and the Public Security School stopped recruiting students.

In January 83, in order to adapt to the needs of opening up to the outside world, the Foreign Languages ​​College was established, offering two language courses, English and Japanese. After the Police Academy was established, the Foreign Languages ​​College was changed to the Foreign Languages ​​Department of the Police Academy.

During this period, the Police Academy strengthened applied and experimental teaching, formulated a series of rules and regulations such as student management methods and police management regulations, and worked hard to improve students' comprehensive quality.

In order to strengthen the on-the-job training of police officers, the Police Academy has carried out a variety of special business training, strictly managed and assessed trainees, and also leveraged its advantages in talent intelligence and information resources to strongly support and organically integrate into the relevant business work of the Municipal Bureau. The conditions for running schools have also been continuously improved.

The teaching staff of the Police Academy has been further strengthened. The academy has introduced a large number of teachers with bachelor's degrees or above, and hired a group of business experts from inside and outside the bureau with rich practical experience.

When the school was first established, it had seven majors: political investigation, criminal investigation, household registration management, pre-trial, traffic management, English, and Japanese.

It was in this year that Liu Yong was admitted to Yenching Police College.

When I first entered the police academy, the solemn school gate, neat formations, and loud slogans all demonstrated the majesty and glory of the police.

Here, every day for Liu Yong is filled with passion and challenges.

From the first ray of sunshine in the early morning to the twinkling stars at night, they are always sweating on the training ground and absorbing knowledge in the classroom.

Liu Yong has left the police academy now, but that time is forever engraved in his heart.

Whenever he encounters difficulties and setbacks, Liu Yong would think of the motto of the police academy: firmness, diligence, truth-seeking, and strictness. These eight words are like a lighthouse guiding him in the direction of progress.

When he first entered the police academy, Liu Yong vowed to live up to his family's expectations and become an excellent people's policeman.

At the age of 18, Liu Yong entered the school with a nagging desire for the noble profession of a people's policeman.

However, life in the police academy at the beginning of his enrollment gave him a heavy blow. It was not as "beautiful" as he had imagined.

While studying hard, they also have to accept strict semi-military management.

These rules and regulations, as well as clear orders and prohibitions, are like layers of "shackles" that bind the students tightly.

Many years later, Liu Yong finally understood that these "rules" were the powerful secret weapons that protected them from moving forward courageously.

The police academy implements military management. When getting up, doing exercises, attending classes, eating, and turning off the lights, students must obey the melodious trumpet sound. Housekeeping, clothing, and hairstyles must be uniform. Quilts must be folded like "tofu blocks", and washbasins, tooth mugs, and towels must be placed neatly. Student cadres on duty check and report every day.

Military training for freshmen is essential, and the training lasts for three months.

The first month's training was conducted by the squad leader of the Armed Police Detachment. The weather in September was still hot and there was no shade on the playground. We often had to march in the scorching sun and dust. Any student who was not concentrating and made mistakes in the movements would be ordered to step out and be punished by doing frog jumps or push-ups.

After a month, almost no one was spared punishment. Their legs and feet were swollen. They could walk on flat ground, but it was very painful to go up and down the stairs.

In the last two months, senior students from the previous grade served as instructors, and we felt a lot more relaxed. It was not until the end of the drill competition that we felt relieved as if we had passed a level.

The three-month military training not only improved Liu Yong's physique and standardized his military posture, but more importantly, it tempered his will, strengthened his sense of discipline and team awareness, and laid the foundation for his future police career.

Police academies are places where police officers are trained for the grassroots level of public security organs. Regardless of their majors, they learn everything from law, investigation, pre-trial, public security management, criminal technology, and grappling and fighting. To be competent in the police force, one has to be an all-rounder.

There is fierce competition among students. Everyone is striving for the goal of becoming an "all-rounder". They continue the spirit of hard work and study that they had in high school. They see who gets the highest scores in the exams. There is no such thing as "failing a course".

Among the many courses, Liu Yong is most interested in criminal photography and pistol shooting.

Mr. Sun, who taught them criminal photography, was humorous and treated his students like brothers.

After the theory was explained, the focus was on practice. Each person was given a Ricoh or Seagull camera and two rolls of black-and-white film. After taking the photos, they went to the darkroom to develop and edit the photos. This was the first time for Liu Yong and his group. Their best works were exhibited in the lobby on the first floor.

From the day I entered the police academy, if my first wish was to be issued a police uniform, my second wish would be to learn how to shoot with a pistol.

The back playground is backed by the old city wall. The tall and thick old city wall is a natural shooting range. First, you get familiar with the structure of the gun, practice disassembly and assembly, then practice holding the gun and aiming, and finally shoot with live ammunition.

Some people can't contain their excitement and nervousness, especially timid girls.

Liu Yong's class beauty, Miss Guo, fired the first shot. She screamed "Oh my God" and dropped the gun to the ground, scaring the coach and the classmates next to her into breaking out in cold sweats.

The courses that Liu Yong remembers most are Sanda fighting and boxing.

Mr. Liu from the academy is a versatile person. He not only teaches shooting, grappling boxing, and baton techniques, but also teaches Sanda fighting and knocking down skills.

Fall sideways, forward and backward. First practice on a cotton mat. After mastering the techniques, remove the mat and fall on the loess soil. Finally, fall on the concrete road.

"Group work" requires all students to fall to the ground in an even and uniform manner, while "assembly line work" is like dominoes, falling down in a row.

"Assembly line operation" does not allow you to fill in the gaps. Teacher Liu, with a dark and red face, shouted loudly: "Fall!" Even if it is a sea of ​​fire and a mountain of swords, you have to rush forward without hesitation.

Often, weak girls would fall down and cry, lying on the ground and never want to get up. The hard-hearted teacher Liu would bend down and ask softly, "Are you okay?"

When the girl cried and said, "It's okay," Teacher Liu walked away with a wry smile, revealing a mouthful of neat, white teeth.

Student Zuo from Team 1 unfortunately knocked out his two front teeth while practicing forward falls on the cement floor. He couldn't even eat and has been suffering from forward falls phobia ever since.

Liu Yong and the others also began to feel frightened. When they heard Teacher Liu yell, "Fall forward - ready, fall!" they suddenly felt a toothache.

Life in the police academy can occasionally be romantic.

That autumn, Liu Yong also took the lead in organizing an "Akita" editorial department, which published school literary journals from time to time, held literary lectures, and organized literature lovers to recite poetry at rivers, lakes, and mountains on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, Liu Yong and his colleagues had to obtain the support of the school's printing room to compile and print publications. The two teachers in the printing room were seniors who stayed in school from the previous class, and they always provided a steady supply of wax paper and ink.

Liu Yong distributed the wax paper to several enthusiastic classmates to carve the plates. They used Sundays to go to the printing room to apply ink and print one sheet at a time. After they were dry, they were carefully bound into books and cut neatly.

It takes a whole day to tinker with each issue of fifty copies, and my face and body are often covered in ink.

Watching the carefully edited and printed publications being circulated among classes, I felt a great sense of accomplishment.

Among all the courses, Liu Yong found computers and Police English as a Foreign Language the most difficult.

Mr. Fan, who teaches computer science, is handsome, elegant, and very kind to students. However, Liu Yong, a liberal arts student, finds it very difficult to learn programming.

Teacher Wang, who teaches English, is considered the most beautiful and elegant lady in the police academy. She is beautiful and dignified.

One year, Teacher Wang was named the Outstanding Lecturer of the Year, and her color photo was posted on the honor roll in the lobby on the first floor. The next morning, everyone discovered that Teacher Wang's photo was missing. Many boys, including me, Liu Yong, secretly regretted, "Why didn't we take the initiative?!"

Speaking of beautiful teachers, there are of course Teacher Jing and Teacher Zonggang.

They were both seniors who stayed in school. Teacher Jing was originally in the logistics department and seemed to have sold meal tickets. I remember that many boys always liked to run to the ticket window during the ten-minute break between classes.
Later, she went to work in the library and started a book-borrowing craze among the boys.

Teacher Jing's father is the famous calligrapher Liu Chengkai. Teacher Jing inherited her father's career and devoted herself to calligraphy practice. She has developed her own style and has become somewhat famous. The police training base, which was converted from a police academy, is full of her calligraphy works.

Teacher Zonggang looks petite and smart, but she has a name that is tougher than a man's. No wonder her classmates call her "Brother Gang".

"Brother Gang" has worked in the Academic Affairs Office for a long time. She is famous for her seriousness and perseverance. No matter what she does, she will do it well.

A few years ago, she participated in a large competition in the public security system and won first place in the whole of Yanjing in military pistol shooting.

The title of "sharpshooter" followed her again. Gang Ge was still the "goddess" in the eyes of all the new police trainees.

It goes without saying that the goddess is multi-talented. In Liu Yong's memory, she led the girls to perform Xinjiang dance at the school's welcome party, and she was still dancing until last year's "Spring Festival Gala" of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

The most profound scene is graduation and leaving school.

It was July 7th of this year. We gathered in front of the teaching building to board the bus by region. All the teachers lined up to shake hands and say goodbye to each student one by one. The March of the Volunteers was playing on the loud speaker, and most of the students were in tears.

Liu Yongjia was a local who stayed until the end, watching 165 classmates leaving the campus in eight cars.

I felt so reluctant inside, thinking about my classmates who were all living far away from each other and not knowing when we would meet again, I couldn't help but feel tears welling up in my eyes.

Although they were in school for only three years, the special nature of police school life made them both classmates and comrades-in-arms, and they forged a deep friendship.

Not only do they attend classes, train together, eat and sleep together, they also participate in emergency assemblies, cross-country training, and stand guard together. They cooperate with each other to stop cars and go out, follow the cars on the line to fight pickpockets and catch thieves, and experience the joys and sorrows of the struggle together.

Three years of youth have transformed Liu Yong and his peers from young boys and yellow-haired country girls when they first entered the school into heroic reserve police officers. Their transformation from a chrysalis to a butterfly benefited from the hard training of police academy life.

This tempering has been integrated into their blood and has become a conscious act, guiding them to work hard and steadily in their respective positions.

Most of the police academy graduates are assigned to work in grassroots police stations and criminal police teams. They are on the front lines of investigating and solving cases, maintaining public order, mediating disputes, and serving the people. The knowledge learned and skills acquired in the police academy have a wide range of uses.

During the three years in the police academy, I, Liu Yong, studied hard, trained diligently, and finally graduated with good grades.

After graduation, Liu Yong could have joined the criminal police team of the Municipal Bureau, but he followed his father Liu Tielin's advice and went to the grassroots police station, because grassroots frontline work is the most challenging place.

In early August, Liu Yong put on a brand new police uniform and reported to the county public security bureau.

That day, Liu Yong stood in front of the mirror, looking at himself in police uniform, and felt extremely proud.

On the day of assignment, Liu Yong was assigned to the central police station in the county.

The director's surname is Sun, and his name is Sun Jianguo. He is in his forties and looks very friendly. He patted Liu Yong on the shoulder and said, "Xiao Liu, you are a college student. We will count on you in the future." Liu Yong smiled innocently, feeling very happy.

To be honest, Liu Yong was a little uncomfortable when he first started working.

The work at the police station was not what he had imagined. It was not as thrilling as he had imagined, but rather a bunch of trivial matters.

Liu Yong was busy answering calls, taking statements, and mediating disputes.

Fortunately, there was an old policeman named Wang Dawei who often gave him guidance.

He said: "Xiao Liu, our job as police officers is to serve the people. The people's small matters are our big matters." Liu Yong thought it made sense and gradually adapted to it.

Police salaries are not high these days, and Liu Yong earns 90 yuan a month. Although not much, it is not bad, and his family is well off so he doesn't care about the salary.

Liu Yong has a childhood sweetheart. Her name is Li Mei, she is a nurse at Liujiazhuang Hospital and she is one year younger than Liu Yong.

Li Mei's father is also an old policeman and an old comrade-in-arms of Liu Yong's father Liu Tielin. The two families are close friends.

They grew up together. Li Mei has a gentle personality and Liu Yong likes her very much.

It's just that due to busy work, they don't have many opportunities to meet.

Once, Liu Yong went back to Liujiazhuang on his day off and happened to meet Li Mei who had also returned.

They went together to the small hill behind the compound, where there was an old locust tree, which was where we often played when we were young.

They sat under a tree and talked about their respective work.

Li Mei said: "Brother Yong, now that you are a policeman, you must do your job well."

Liu Yong patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, I will definitely become a good policeman."

These days, some remote counties in Yanjing still don’t have many entertainment venues.

Liu Yong and Li Mei, who came to visit him, would occasionally go to the movies outdoors together, or listen to news and storytelling on the radio.

Although their life is simple, they all feel quite satisfied.

In this way, Liu Yong's police career began.

Liu Yong travels through the streets and alleys of the county town every day, handling various cases and mediating neighborhood disputes.

Although it was hard work, Liu Yong felt very fulfilled.

Every time Liu Yong helps people solve problems and sees the smiles on their faces, he feels that it is all worth it.

As the days passed, Liu Yong gradually became familiar with the police's work.

I get up at 6 o'clock every morning, put on my police uniform, and ride my bike to the police station to work.

On the way, Liu Yong would see breakfast stalls on both sides of the street and smell the aroma of fried dough sticks and soy milk. He always felt energized.

At the police station, Liu Yong and his colleagues handle various cases.

Sometimes it is a neighborhood dispute, sometimes it is petty theft, and sometimes it is a traffic accident.

Liu Yong remembers one time, they received a report that someone had stolen a bicycle.

Liu Yong and Wang Dawei rode their bikes around the city and finally found the stolen bike in an abandoned warehouse.

When he caught the thief, Liu Yong was so excited that he felt like a criminal policeman on TV.

In addition to work, Liu Yong did not forget to cultivate his relationship with Li Mei.

Li Mei used his connections to transfer Liu Yong to work in the county town.

Sometimes when he got off work early, Liu Yong would ride his bike to the hospital to pick her up.

They would go for a walk in the small park in the county together and talk about their work and life.

Li Mei always listened to Liu Yong talking about the police station with a smile on her face, and Liu Yong also liked to listen to her talk about interesting things in the hospital.

Sitting on a park bench, watching the sun set.

Li Mei suddenly asked Liu Yong: "Brother Yong, do you think being a policeman is hard?"

Liu Yong thought about it and said, "Although it is hard, I think it is worth it to be able to help others."

Li Mei smiled and said: "Then I will be blessed in the future, I have a police husband to protect me."

After hearing this, Liu Yong felt so happy that his face turned red.

……

On that day, on the streets of the county town, a farmer named Wang Shusen was pinned down and taken away by more than a dozen people.

The people who arrested him were none other than police officers Liu Yong, Wang Dawei and others from the police station.

Wang Shusen was arrested because the police suspected that he was a criminal hiding among the people - the main culprit in a series of home robberies.

Two days before Wang Shusen was arrested, a similar home robbery occurred in the neighboring county of Fang County, but according to investigations, Wang Shusen had not been to Fang County at the time of the incident...

(End of this chapter)