Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 162 The Fate of the Police Station
Zhengming District Public Security Bureau, Criminal Investigation Brigade, Brigade Captain's Office
Ren Guoqing stood smiling in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, a small piece of yellow food stuck to his hand, which he carefully put into his mouth.

A faint stench could be smelled in the office, but judging from Ren Guoqing's smiling eyes, the food in his hand must have tasted delicious.

Ren Guoqing returned to the sofa and sat down. He placed a plate piled high with the food he had been holding on the coffee table in front of a young policeman with a bitter face beside him: "Li Meng, eat up. It's out of season, but it still smells delicious."

Li Meng held her breath and feigned self-reproach: "Master, I didn't handle this case well, and I've brought shame to you and our Criminal Investigation Division! Now that the suspect has been apprehended, I should go and arrange the follow-up to the case!"

Perhaps he was too heartbroken, for his tone carried a touch of scholarly pride.

Ren Guoqing knew this wasn't the time to teach a lesson, so he packed up the dishes and didn't insist any further.

"After this incident, the brothers in the team should have no more complaints about Chen Shu, right? Is Wen Zhao from the Second Company convinced now? By the way, Commander Zhang praised Chen Shu highly this time, and also took this opportunity to express his opinion to me, saying that he needs to regain the fighting spirit he had when he was young."

Li Meng suddenly stood up, catching Ren Guoqing, who was engrossed in conversation, off guard.

He strode away, taking a deep breath as he closed the door: "Ren Da, I'm still not convinced!"

"Boom!"

Ren Guoqing looked at the tightly shut door with some surprise, picked up a small piece of durian and ate it. It was slippery, and the flesh rolled around on his tongue. It was soft and delicate, sweet and tender, making him crave more and more.

He smelled the delicious aroma filling the room and let out a satisfied burp.

It feels so good to have no cases weighing on my mind!
Office of the Executive Deputy Director of Zhengming District Public Security Bureau
"Okay, okay! It's what we should do!"

"Please rest assured, leader, Zhengming will definitely not hold Dongzhou back!"

"Yes! This time the case was solved in just 48 hours!"

"Yes, yes! I understand. Don't worry, I know about these things, and I definitely won't let the brothers down here feel disheartened!"

After hanging up the phone, Director Zhang, still beaming with joy, felt a little unsatisfied. After thinking for a moment, he pressed the secretary button on his desk: "Please ask Director Wu to come over."

A few minutes later, Director Wu from the Political Department, who had been comrades-in-arms with Director Zhang for decades, walked in carrying a bag of takeout.

"Old Zhang, Little Li is really nice. Seeing us old folks working overtime so hard, he didn't even tell us, just brought us several bags of noodles. Tsk tsk, he knows how to treat people. If you had put in a little more effort back then, you wouldn't have been stuck in this position for so many years. Sigh."

Xiao Li is Director Zhang's liaison.

As he spoke, Director Wu placed the bag flat on the desk, removed the outer transparent plastic bag, took out the transparent plastic bowl inside, opened the plastic lid, and a smell of green onions mixed with bone broth rose up with the rising white steam.

Director Zhang stood up and pressed Director Wu back into his seat. He then took a plastic bowl and disposable chopsticks and placed them in front of him, saying with a smile, "Why bring up these things at your age? By the way, I called you here to ask you something."

"Say it, I'm listening."

"Do you remember Chen Shu from Zhongshan Institute?" "Who? Chen Shu? I don't remember him."

Director Zhang was taken aback. He had originally intended to use this as a starting point for the conversation, but the other party had unintentionally diverted the topic. He patiently said, "Old Wu, that's the kid I specifically asked to be the squad leader of the Criminal Investigation Department during our last meeting."

Director Wu recalled for a moment and laughed: "So it's Zeng Hong's silly son, oh no, Little Iron Head. Haha."

Although he called her stupid, his eyes were full of smiles.

Director Zhang nodded in satisfaction, removed the packaging bag of the disposable chopsticks, and rubbed the two chopsticks together several times.

"He's done another great service this time, and I'm going to give him a big reward. I called you over to discuss what to give him."

Director Wu thought about the reason for working overtime these past few days. While he was asking the question, he had already largely accepted it in his heart: "No way? He was the one who just solved the murder case? Impossible. Didn't they say that the entire Criminal Investigation Division went to X Province to arrest people and brought them back? He's just from one police station, how could that be?"

He kept emphasizing that this was impossible, that was impossible. But seeing Director Zhang's ever-widening grin, he finally realized the truth and subconsciously chuckled and scolded, "This kid, how come he's always so lucky! How about we arrange for him to take a full-time position at the Criminal Investigation Department?"

Director Zhang pointed at the appointment letter on the table with his chopsticks: "Don't keep thinking about recruiting people for Ah Hu. He already has enough people on his side! The last squad leader didn't want to go, so let's not repeat that mistake this time, or we'll just embarrass ourselves. Think of a better idea."

After thinking for a moment, he continued, "I heard from Xiao Li that the department will release a second-class merit award quota at the end of the year. Why don't we give it to him?"

Director Wu took a sip of water to moisten his lips, then thought for a moment and said with some regret, "Although he solved the case, it's still officially under the Criminal Investigation Division. So giving him a second-class merit would be unfair and against the rules. How about we put him in the 'Outstanding' category and promote him to a higher police rank?"

Without a second thought, Director Zhang waved his hand and said, "They really made a great contribution; let's not bother with all this charade."

Police rank doesn't actually have much to do with job position. If you're capable enough, even a police superintendent can become a police station chief! If you're not capable enough, you'll just be a "two-bar-three" officer, and apart from a few hundred yuan more in rank allowance in your salary, you're basically just an ordinary police officer.

The exceptional promotion of police rank is only effective for the promotion of a first-level police inspector to a police commissioner, which is the "two bars and three" promotion. Wearing a white shirt is the only way to achieve this.

Director Zhang kept his hand raised but didn't pick up his chopsticks. He was thinking hard and hard, but couldn't come up with a good idea. Suddenly, he remembered that Chen Shu had arrested the criminal in the Lamborghini kidnapping case last time, but he didn't get any benefits.

I remember I almost got disciplined in the end!
Sigh, he's just not destined to take credit!
Unable to hold back, Director Zhang burst out laughing, but then quickly composed himself and resumed his serious demeanor.

Turning to look at Director Wu, who was still deep in thought with his brows furrowed, Director Zhang picked up his chopsticks and tapped the corner of his desk: "Old Wu, don't bother thinking about it. Didn't he just get promoted to grid police chief? Go back and make a note of it. When this guy's one-year term is up, just promote him to deputy director."

Director Wu looked up: "Aren't you going to assign me to a logistics department, administrative office, or operational team or something?"

"He's destined to be a policeman!"

Director Zhang chuckled, inserted his chopsticks into the still steaming bowl of noodles, scooped up a mouthful of noodles, and happily began to eat.

(End of this chapter)