Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 543 Back at the Police Station

With a thud, a stack of documents was thrown at Xiao Wei. Xiao Wei turned his head and glanced at them. Director Lin was grabbing something else to throw at him.

As the crowd at the door parted, Engineer Wang and several workers squeezed in: "Why are they fighting? I had a bad feeling when I saw people running this way. You, kid, why are you so hot-tempered?" He reached out and pulled Xiao Wei aside, but the boy got up and tried to rush over again, only to be blocked by the workers that Engineer Wang had brought.

"What happened?" Engineer Wang asked Xiao Wei.

Xiao Wei wiped his face, checked that there was no bleeding, and said, "It's just inexplicable. I ran into an unreasonable family that was making trouble for no reason."

Wang Gong looked Xiao Wei over and asked, "So how did they start fighting? Did you suffer any losses?"

A group of elderly women surrounded Director Lin's son, showering him with concern and offering him tissues to wipe his face.

"Lawless! Utterly lawless! This kind of scoundrel should be in jail! I'll sell everything I own to get you in there!" Director Lin was still roaring. His son, wiping the blood from his nose and chin, said to Xiao Wei, "Come on, you son of a bitch, give me your number. This isn't over."

"Make way, move aside, move aside, what are you all doing crowding around? Nothing better to do?"

The crowd, which had been packed tightly inside and outside the house, reluctantly dispersed a little, and three policemen walked in.

"What's going on?" The lead policeman looked around the room.

Xiao Wei, who lives near the door, said, "I ran into a group of unreasonable people. They came over and started fighting for no reason."

The police officer asked, "Did you call the police?"

Xiao Wei pointed to the large, elderly woman and said, "She's the one who signed up."

The lead policeman sized Xiaowei up and down a few times, then turned to ask, "Does he need to go to the hospital?"

Director Lin said, "Use it, look how badly they beat us, we're in the hospital."

Her son said, "Why go to the hospital? I'm fine, just a little blood from my nose."

The lead policeman nodded, looked around the room with its askew tables, chairs, and files strewn all over the floor, pointed to a corner, and asked, "Whose are those?"

Xiao Wei turned his head and looked over. It was a pager. He touched his waist and said, "Mine. I don't even know when he ripped it off." He walked over, picked it up, and looked at it. The chain was broken, the back cover was cracked, and the pager clip had been blown off, but the machine itself was fine. He looked down and searched the ground, picking up the blown-off pager clip.

The lead policeman said, "Alright, let's go, everyone to the station. Disperse, disperse, what are you all doing standing around like that?" The people who had been blocking the door dispersed again, and the three policemen came outside. Xiaowei and Engineer Wang followed them out, and Xiaowei said, "Engineer Wang, call Xiaohui."

Engineer Wang asked, "Don't I need to go with you?"

Xiao Wei said, "No need, it's okay. Just call Xiao Hui and let him know."

One of the policemen said to the lead officer, "Chief, there's not enough room to sit down."

The police chief turned to look at the group of elderly women following behind and said, "Are you planning to go as a group? The ones who are fighting can go, and the ones who are reporting the crime can come along. The rest of you can go do whatever you need to do."

Xiao Wei straightened his torn clothes, stuffed the pager into his pocket, and said, "I drove myself, so take my ride."

The station chief glanced at Xiao Wei and said to the young policeman, "Wang, you ride with him in his car."

Xiao Wang answered and asked Xiao Wei, "Where's the car?"

Xiao Wei pointed to the car a few dozen meters away, then turned to Xiao Liu, who had followed him out, and said, "Sister-in-law, come to the Electric Power Guesthouse at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. It's on the second floor. My name is Xiao Wei. Don't work here anymore. Oh, right, take this back to Brother Zhang. It's your family tree. It was taken out of the rafters. I opened it and took a look. No one else touched it." He took the family tree out of his bag and handed it to Xiao Liu.

The bag was quite sturdy; the strap was only slightly wrinkled after being pulled on by Director Lin's son for a while, but it wasn't damaged.

Xiao Liu took the family tree and nodded. This person looked like the honest type, the kind of person who was often bullied at work.

Xiao Wei said, "You won't make any money here, and you'll just have to put up with all the mistreatment. Why don't you come work for me? You'll be working here anyway."

Xiao Liu nodded, holding the family tree in both hands.

Officer Xiao Wang said, "Dude, hurry up, Chief Liu has already left."

Xiao Wei nodded and said to Xiao Liu, "I'll definitely come at 10 a.m. tomorrow." He then turned and walked towards the car.

"What's wrong, buddy? Is this a fight? Need help?"

Xiao Wei turned his head and saw it was Liu from the power supply station, the guy who helped with the transformer last time.

Xiao Wei asked, "Da Liu, what are you doing here?"

Da Liu pointed to the alley next door and said, "Maintenance. Just say so if you need help, did you suffer any losses?"

Officer Xiao Wang glanced at Da Liu sideways, but Da Liu didn't care at all.

Xiao Wei said, "Could you help me disconnect the electricity from the neighborhood committee in a little while? I mean disconnect it, not cut off the power. It won't be connected again. Give them a refund for the electricity meter application fee; I'll pay for that."

Da Liu said, "Okay, I'll take care of this for you once it's done here. Are you going to the police station? Do you need me to come with you?"

Xiao Wei said, "No need. Xiao Hui will be here in a bit."

Da Liu said to Officer Xiao Wang, "Be polite to my buddy, don't cause trouble."

Xiao Wei waved his hand, pulled Xiao Wang to the car, and took out his keys to open the door. Wang Gong said from the roadside, "Xiao Wei, the call's over. Xiao Hui's coming right now; he's going straight to the police station."

Xiao Wei nodded, got into the car, started the engine, and after Xiao Wang was seated and the door was closed, he accelerated and drove towards the police station.

The police station isn't far away; it's only a little over three kilometers from the neighborhood committee, just a few minutes' drive away.

They didn't speak the whole way. When they arrived at their destination, Xiao Wei parked the car on the side of the road and habitually looked around. The police station was an old two-story building, surrounded by several bungalows. A little further on, there were two two-story red brick buildings and a bungalow courtyard.

After locking the car doors, Xiao Wei asked Officer Wang, "Is this whole area under your police station's jurisdiction?"

Xiao Wang straightened his police uniform and said, "Let's go in." He then led Xiao Wei inside.

Director Liu is the deputy director. At this moment, Director Lin, the burly old lady, and Director Lin's son are sitting in Director Liu's office. Director Lin is crying and recounting her grievances and Xiao Wei's unreasonable and vicious behavior.

Xiao Wang led Xiao Wei into Director Liu's office and said, "Director Liu, we've brought the person back."

Liu turned to look at Xiao Wei, then pointed to the wall and said, "Stand there."

Xiao Wei glanced at Director Lin's son sitting there, then at Deputy Director Liu, and said nothing. He then walked to the wall and stood there as instructed.

"Director Liu, this is a local thug, completely unreasonable. I repeatedly told him that this is a neighborhood committee, a state agency, but he wouldn't let it go and kept making a scene, even cursing at me. He just started cursing without warning. I'm so old, you know what I mean. My son only asked, 'Look at what he did to me.' This kind of person needs to be put in jail. He's a fish that slipped through the net in the crackdown, a capitalist restoration. He won't last long."

(End of this chapter)