Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 443 Brother-in-law?

After the instructors left, the dormitory was completely silent.

Jiang Hai sat leaning against the headboard, holding a red-headed document issued by the student affairs office in his hand, his eyes dull and lifeless as he stared ahead.

The other three roommates looked at each other, completely at a loss. Although they were all tall, strong young men, this was the first time they'd encountered such a situation. In a police academy with its strict hierarchy and quasi-military management, they could only silently endure it.

The instructors from before delivered this document.

The short, fat man was the first to break the silence, shouting, "Jiang Hai, what's the big deal! If you don't want to march tomorrow, you don't have to! Anyway, you can't march with your injured leg, so you can just rest in the dorm! You'll be fine again in eighteen days!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" The skinny man glanced at the short, fat man, sat down on the edge of Jiang Hai's bed, and gently advised, "Your sister explained that she couldn't march because of a leg injury. You were indeed injured, so it can't be considered deception. As for this 'warning' punishment, as long as the few of us leading the way walk around the notice board, your sister definitely won't see it."

The three-inch-tall man standing to the side nodded repeatedly: "I'll go and say hello to the other dorm rooms later. They won't be so clueless as to say anything at this time."

Jiang Hai didn't say anything, but he was naturally in a terrible mood. He didn't really care about the warning from the student affairs office or the suspension of his formation demonstration.

But he was afraid of one thing: he was afraid that Yan Chenxi, who had taken a day off to come all the way from Dongzhou to visit her younger brother, would be disappointed and think that her brother was useless at everything.

The incident at the steakhouse where he was tricked by a suspect into kneeling and vomiting had already given Yan Chenxi pause for thought. This time at the police academy, during the police parade in which all the freshmen participated, he was the only one forbidden from attending. How heartbroken Yan Chenxi, as his older sister, must be.

Seeing the atmosphere in the dormitory fall silent again, the short, fat guy couldn't contain himself and suddenly stood up, angrily saying, "Why don't we go find the captain? I heard that Captain Zhou is particularly reasonable! Why can't we have a police review on the river over such a trivial matter?"

"You're going over your head, that's a big no-no." The skinny man stood up, pressed down on the short, fat man's shoulders, and pushed him back into his seat.

"What should we do then?" asked the three-inch man, who was equally at a loss.

The skinny man pondered for a long time, as if recalling the scene of Jiang Hai being physically punished by the student affairs officer that afternoon. His eyes were filled with helplessness. After a while, he said, "There's nothing we can do. The two instructors just said that when there are official documents, these things are set in stone. All we can do is obey."

"Hey."

The three exchanged glances, finally focusing their attention on Jiang Hai, who had already lost his spirit.

I don't know how to get through this night.

The following morning, at a hotel near the police academy.

"Jingle Bell!"

The preset alarm rang on time. Chen Shu pulled an arm out from under the covers and turned off the alarm on his phone on the bedside table.

The weather in October isn't so hot anymore.

Today he wore a white long-sleeved shirt, versatile jeans, and as usual, a pair of AJ1 low-top sneakers that he had especially loved since his student days. He used to be reluctant to wear these shoes, and even if he bought them, he would hide them away and only look at them occasionally.

After graduation, I finally had a stable income and bought a few pairs of shoes, which was a small reward for myself among my few hobbies.

After calling out to Yan Chenxi, who had come with them this time, they went out and met up with the person in the next room. After having breakfast at the hotel, they carried a travel bag full of local specialties from Dongzhou and headed to the Donghai Provincial Police Academy.

Although this was at the invitation of the other party, as a former student of the police academy, Chen Shu automatically assumed the role of "host" and booked the hotel and train tickets without hesitation. There are quite a few universities in the Binjiang District of the provincial capital, and there are two extremely popular universities right next to the provincial police academy. Adjacent to the police academy is the alma mater of actress Zhou Xun, an arts school with a large number of beautiful girls; the one opposite the police academy is equally impressive, being the famous Donghai Province Medical University, which also has many gentle, aspiring female doctors.

When the two arrived at the police academy, the temperature, which hadn't been too hot before, suddenly soared. It was packed with parents visiting their children. Based on a rough calculation of the nearly one thousand new students admitted to the provincial police academy this year, the total number of parents present was definitely no less than two thousand.

Besides the new parents, some grandparents with gray hair also came from their hometown, along with other close relatives, making the family group of three or four thousand people an underestimate.

Since the police parade had not yet started, many new students were wearing police hats and brand-new uniforms and standing at the entrance to greet their parents who had come from afar.

A tall, young police cadet wearing a white traffic police peaked cap was surrounded by four or five people. One of them, an elderly man with white hair who looked very similar to the cadet, held the cadet's forearm with both hands and kept smiling and praising him as "handsome".

On the other side, a young man dressed in a black training uniform with a combat vest hanging on his chest, clearly a member of the tactical command department, was feeling a little embarrassed under the scrutiny of his parents: "Xiao Zhang, you've gotten so tanned! And you've lost weight! What happened?"

Not far away, presumably members of today's flag guard, a girl wearing a newly issued police uniform stood out among the usual uniforms. Her parents, who had come from their hometown, held her hands on either side, looking at her from left to right, their smiles beaming.

"Hey, where is Jiang Hai?"

Yan Chenxi followed Chen Shu as they searched through the crowd. Although it was her first time at a police academy, and everything was new and exciting, nothing could compare to her younger brother, Jiang Hai.

After more than two months apart, on the way from Donghai to the provincial capital, Yan Chenxi heard many stories of Chen Shu's hardships and duties during police training. Yan Chenxi felt extremely sorry for her younger brother.

Having just arrived at the police academy, he was anxiously looking around, hoping to find his younger brother as soon as possible so he could see for himself what Jiang Hai had become.

Chen Shu, standing to the side, remained calm. This police academy was no ordinary university; it had quasi-military management and a police model that was renowned throughout the country.

To put it jokingly, as long as Jiang Hai's name is still on the academy's register, he's a sure thing; he can be caught no matter where he goes.

"Here it is! Here it is!"

Jiang Hai stood beside the sentry at the gate, waving at Chen Shu and the others, and said with a grin, "Sis! Sis! Over here!"

When the siblings, who had relied on each other since childhood, met, there was naturally a lot of care and emotion involved.

Chen Shu waited quietly to the side, giving the two space, but he couldn't help but take a look at this new junior brother.

Perhaps due to more than forty days of intense police training, Jiang Hai, who already had a good build, looked like a small giant, though he had become a bit tanned, probably from being tanned by the sun every day during training.

"Brother Shu, you're here too."

After finishing his conversation with his sister, Jiang Hai shuffled over to Chen Shu's side, cautiously greeting him, feeling somewhat awkward. His parents were divorced, and his older sister was his mother. Today was an open day for parents, so bringing his sister along was somewhat of a favor, but what was with Chen Shu coming along?

Could it be that it's really happened, brother-in-law?

"What, you're not welcome?"

Chen Shu, unaware of Jiang Hai's inner thoughts, chuckled. The kid's behavior today was quite different from his usual lively self; he seemed much more composed, probably due to the effects of his recent police training.

(End of this chapter)