Binjiang Police Affairs

Chapter 1468: Chapter 256: As Expected of Master Ge!

In the early morning, the wake-up call sounded in the Linghai Reserve Camp compound.

Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang, having been in the military for decades, was accustomed to going to bed early and rising early. Despite having a late-night snack last night, he got up and washed as soon as he heard the wake-up call.

In the army, there are clerks to help clean the room, but in Linghai, there’s only Master Dai.

Once Master Dai helped tidy up, the two, accompanied by Hu Genhua and Ge Cunhua, walked into the compound and stood in front of the office building, watching the Special Warfare Group and the troops responsible for logistics in the Linghai Reserve Camp gather for roll-call.

Minister Yang of the Linghai Armed Forces Department arrived early in the morning and, with a smile, suggested, "Commander, there are many officers and soldiers, and the cafeteria is small. Breakfast is served in shifts. How about if we go to the cafeteria first?"

"Okay." Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang followed Minister Yang towards the cafeteria, took a few steps, then turned back to ask, "Xiao Dai, is that matter we talked about last night taken care of?"

"Reporting to the commander, it’s done. I’m not familiar with the situation here, so I asked President Zhang to handle it for me."

"Where are the things?"

"The items are in the car."

"Did we pay the person?"

"We did. President Zhang refused, but I insisted and gave it to him."

"That’s good."

...

Han Yu returned to the city last night. Considering that Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang, Li Shousong, and Dai Ming were visiting Old Ge at Lang Mountain, he didn’t go to Sanhe in the morning. Instead, he took a ride with the Smuggling Crime Investigation Branch Intelligence Department’s car, together with Xu Haoran, to Lang Mountain.

Xu Haoran came specifically today to accompany them.

The original task was to accompany Li Shousong and Dai Ming on Old Ge’s behalf, but unexpectedly, Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang was coming too.

Old Ge was pleased to have Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang come and decided to invite Secretary Wang along as well. Xu Haoran now had another task to drop Han Yu at the mountain’s foot and then rushed to Sanhe to pick up Old Wang, who was also retired.

On the left was the mountain road entrance, and on the right was the Customs Anti-Smuggling Pier.

China Customs boat 825 had returned and was docked next to the flat barge at the anti-smuggling pier. Naturally, Han Yu wanted to go up and have a look.

The anti-smuggling boat was made of steel; the seawater, containing salt, is corrosive to steel.

During the South Sea rotation, they were busy going out to sea to combat smuggling and had very little time for maintenance. Now that the task was finally completed, cadres and workers from the Water Anti-Smuggling Department took turns taking compensatory leave, with the main duty staff tasked with de-rusting, repainting, and maintenance.

As the Deputy Director of the Water Anti-Smuggling Department and the captain of boat 825, Jiang Shengqi was leading the duty shift.

Yesterday afternoon, he heard Old Ge say he wanted to treat the paratroopers who had fought the floods together to a meal and knew Han Yu was coming today, so he kept an eye out while working to see if Han Yu had arrived.

Seeing Han Yu walking alone along the pier towards him, he quickly took off his protective gloves and waved his arms to greet.

"Secretary Han!"

"Old Jiang, how are you all doing?"

"We’re all doing fine. We knew you were back for a while now and wanted to invite you for a meal, but Director Xu said you’ve been busy these days, so we didn’t call."

"We’re all among friends; no need for formalities like that."

The Second Officer, Liu Chuanjun, ran to the bow excitedly, saying, "Secretary Han, since you’ve been transferred to the Changhang Bureau, we should give you a farewell! You’ve been promoted, and we should help you celebrate."

With Jiang Shengqi’s help, Han Yu climbed onto boat 825 and, touching the machine gun, laughed, "I’ve just been transferred back to the Changhang Bureau, not to Hanwu. Although my job has changed, I’m still in Binjiang—isn’t that a bit exaggerated?"

"It’s not exaggerated; it’s only right. You’re our old boss."

"I’m not that old," Han Yu didn’t want them to go through excessive trouble and immediately changed the subject, "Where’s Xiao Gong?"

"Our superior granted us an additional one-month vacation. He’s on leave and went back home to prepare for his wedding."

"Preparing for a wedding?"

"He and his girlfriend are the appropriate age; his family also bought him a house in the city and plans to get married on New Year’s Day. He said he’s going to have two banquets, one back at home and another in Binjiang. Once final arrangements are made, he’ll send you an invitation card."

Xiao Gong is truly an old subordinate.

Ever since he completed his internship at the Port Authority, he’s been working with me. As their old boss, it would be inappropriate not to show some gesture when the time comes.

Nowadays, wedding gifts in Binjiang are not given with less than two hundred yuan. Han Yu instinctively touched his pocket, thinking he had only two hundred yuan in pocket money. It seemed he could only afford to give a gift for Xiao Gong’s wedding, so inviting Li Shousong and Dai Ming for a meal would have to be skipped.

Jiang Shengqi didn’t know what he was thinking about and, curious, asked, "Secretary Han, where’s Wei Tao? When will he be back?"

"He’s representing our Rescue Boat Team on a mission, dispatched for a month."

"What mission is he on?"

"It’s confidential."

"A confidential mission, pretend I didn’t ask."

Round and round he went, listening to old comrades recounting their South Sea rotation experiences. Han Yu indeed felt envious and regretted not being able to join them.

While chatting, a call came through over the radio from Liu Wei, who had gone ashore to watch out for guests’ arrival.

"Secretary Han, Secretary Han, the Military District’s second car has arrived!"

"Received, received, I’m heading ashore now."

"Maybe ask the driver to wait?"

"No need, I’ll walk up, consider it exercise."

Just after putting down the radio, Jiang Shengqi suggested, "Secretary Han, we have a car; I can drive you up the mountain."

"No need for such trouble; you carry on with your work." Han Yu walked to the starboard side and then proposed, "I noticed earlier, two sensors in the engine room seemed not to be working, remember to check on them."

"Rest assured, Secretary Han, we discovered those two sensors were broken. We’ll replace them as soon as the manufacturer sends them over."

"Alright, I’m heading up then."