The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 181 Marine Patrol
Four o'clock in the morning, Baoan BF Lounge.

"Comrade, get up and go to the sea."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll be up soon."

Jiang Cheng was woken up. The light in the room was bright, but it was still dark outside.

After calling his comrades to wait at the door, Jiang Cheng put on his pants and coat and went out.

After I finished the transaction with Zhang Jincai last night, I was kept here for the night. Zhang Jincai is the captain here. Don't be confused by the title of captain, he is actually a company-level cadre.

This is just like setting up a study group in a local area. The word "group leader" sounds of a low level. Every student in an elementary school class can be a group leader, but the inspection team may also be led by a group leader.

So in some places, if you hear someone being called squad leader or platoon leader, you can assume that the person is not in a high position. But if you hear someone being called captain, don't think of it as the Young Pioneers.

Yesterday, Captain Zhang promised to let Jiang Cheng pick some of the seafood caught today. The octopus, octopus, squid, etc. he mentioned really depended on luck. Because they were not professional fishermen, their fishing nets were not big.

Jiang Cheng asked Captain Zhang if he could go to the boat and choose one himself, but he didn't expect the other party to agree so easily.

The main reason is that Jiang Cheng's identity and family background are too upright in the country, and no one would suspect that he has any bad intentions.

Born as a farmer, he joined the army and learned how to drive a car. Now he has a wife and a job, and the key is that the job is also popular, as a driver of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative. He also has parents and a younger sister in his hometown.

Captain Zhang thought that if Jiang Cheng was allowed to go to the beach alone without anyone watching him, he would not sneak across to the other side.

Most of those who choose to go to Hong Kong are unemployed. After all, going there is risking one's life. If it weren't for the hardship here and the many people who have gone there writing to say how good it is, this wouldn't have happened.

After Jiang Cheng went out, he followed the comrade who led the way and left this place, and then went directly to a small boarding gate.

The boarding gate was just a simple wooden platform with several patrol boats parked nearby. Under the guidance of the leader, Jiang Cheng boarded the patrol boat. After the leader explained, the people on the patrol boat knew why Jiang Cheng came aboard and let him stay in the cabin.

The patrol boat comrades could not go out to fish specifically, they had to come back after a round of patrol. Jiang Cheng sat on the patrol boat and had to let them take him for a walk before they could fish.

The patrol boat started quickly, but at a slow speed. It was mainly used to check the conditions on the sea and the beach, and would only speed up if any problems were found.

"Comrade, do we usually see people sneaking across the border here?" Jiang Cheng asked the personnel who were observing the situation while standing in front of the guardrail of the patrol boat.

"If you want to see us arresting someone, you have to be lucky, or you may see us doing it this time." The inspector who was questioned said with a smile.

Smuggling is a life-threatening situation. The inspector saw that Jiang Cheng was interested in the smugglers and told him some information.

As patrol officers, it is their duty to catch anyone they find. But there are still some lines of defense that can be ignored.

Because in some places, even if you don't catch them, it's still very risky. For example, in some places, at the mouth of the bay, some people swim directly from there to the Xiangjiang River, and it takes five hours to swim.

That was really risking their lives. Even if we didn't catch those people, the death rate of those people who swam to the Xiangjiang River in the dark was very high. In order to save effort, many people got some ping-pong balls or found some light and buoyant objects to swim in the sea. The inspector chatted with Jiang Cheng for a long time, and Jiang Cheng suddenly found that there seemed to be something going on in the sea in the distance. The distance was far, and the sky was still dark, so he could only see a few black shadows moving on a floating object.

"Comrade, are there people sneaking across the border?" Jiang Cheng asked. It wasn't that he wanted to remind the inspector, but the inspector saw it as well.

The inspector nodded but didn't give any instructions.

"We've passed the area. It's up to those people's lives." said the inspector.

"We've passed the area? Aren't we going to catch those people?" Jiang Cheng asked a little confused.

"They have already reached the deep sea area. If we chase them, there is a good chance that they will jump directly into the sea. If that happens, they will be in danger of death. We are all compatriots, there is no need to do that." The inspector replied.

Jiang Cheng listened to the inspector's words and looked at the dark shadows in the distance.

The sea was a bit rough in the morning, and because of the distance, Jiang Cheng couldn't see clearly what those people were riding. But standing on the patrol boat and looking over there, it felt like it hadn't moved for a long time.

At this speed, you're really risking your life.

However, the attitude of the inspectors also made Jiang Cheng feel at ease. As long as he didn't run into the gun, he could just treat them as decoration. Based on some gaps in their patrols, Jiang Cheng felt that it would be easy for him to go to Hong Kong.

Ignoring the people floating on the sea, the patrol continued. Perhaps someone knew the time when the BF patrolled the coast, or perhaps someone on the shore was hiding in a hidden place waiting for the patrol boat to appear.

When the patrol boat passed some areas, some people would immediately take advantage of the opportunity to swim to the other side.

In some places that are close, as long as you swim quickly over a certain distance, even if the patrol team comes, they will not chase you in the sea. But there are also patrols on the Xiangjiang side, and the closer the distance, the more patrols there are.

When Jiang Cheng's patrol boat was returning, he saw a spectacular scene: there were both men and women in the sea.

When the inspectors saw them, they blew whistles, some with guns, some with noose. Those swimming in the front swam forward desperately. In fact, the inspectors would not chase them after they swam beyond a certain area, but no one knew what the so-called area was.

The whistle alone can only serve as a warning, and only those who are close to the shore will return and flee. If they don't flee now, when the BF personnel on the shore arrive, no one will be able to escape.

As for the people in the water, it would be useless even if the patrol boat approached. At this time, there was no sense of morality. They all thought that if you caught other people, you might not have time to catch me.

In the end, the inspector still opened fire, mainly to drive some people back, not to shoot directly at people. Generally speaking, shooting is allowed only when there are a large number of people trying to force their way through the checkpoint.

Those who are caught will be detained in a nearby shelter for ideological education.

Jiang Cheng memorized the general patrol route, and it was indeed the same as the map he copied down, with some places being poorly patrolled. But to reach those places in Xiangjiang, there were more than ten kilometers of sea, and it was really the most risky to row there by raft or rubber boat.

But for Jiang Cheng, it may be the safest and most stable.

(End of this chapter)