Police officer Chen Shu

Chapter 90 Clerk Chen Shu
Most universities have student unions, which are generally called student federations, student committees, student representative councils, etc. There are many names, which will not be discussed here.

Functionally, a student council is generally an organization elected from among the students of the school to assist the school in managing and serving the students.

The student council at the police academy is different.

Its full name is "Student Self-Management Committee," and as the name suggests, its only function is "to manage students."

Members were student officers from various platoons, and the platoon officers were appointed by the brigade teachers. In the quasi-military police academy, they wielded immense power.

At the train station, the young man whom Chen Shu called "Chairman" was Zhou Qinghu, the student council chairman of the 07 class of the police academy who studied in the same squad as him.

After graduating from the police academy, he stayed on as an administrative officer and became a teacher in the brigade, with a black background for his police rank insignia.

Compared to Chen Shu's excited shout and rush over to shake hands, Zhou Qinghu appeared much more composed.

He smiled and shook his head, saying softly, "I was planning to sneak out to see you tonight, but now I've managed to see you both. I can handle both business and personal matters at the same time."

As he spoke, he nodded with a smile at the spot where Lin Da was standing: "Secretary Chen, so many years have passed, and you're still calling me 'Chairman'? The teachers are all here, aren't you just embarrassing me?"

He was gentle in demeanor and spoke slowly and naturally, which was very pleasant to listen to. Perhaps due to his long tenure in a management position, he also possessed a certain air of authority.

Lin Dakai, standing to the side, was completely unpretentious. Upon hearing this, he walked straight to Chen Shu and Zhou Qinghu and said casually, "Chen Shu? You're Zhou Qinghu's classmate, Chen Shu? That's great. What are you standing there for? Come on, let's go eat first. I rushed over here today and didn't even have lunch."

Did the two of them discuss themselves on the high-speed train?

Upon hearing this, Chen Shu felt a little curious as to how the other party knew his name.

As a student in the same cohort as Chen Shu, and also a squad leader back then, Li Meng naturally recognized Zhou Qinghu, the student council president of the class of 09.

His attention had been focused on Lin Dakai, and he had noticed a police officer following behind him, but he hadn't paid much attention.

He suddenly realized what was happening and quickly interjected, "Yes, yes. The bureau has booked a table for us at the hotel, all of them are specialties from Dongzhou. Let's eat and chat at the table later."

As he walked to Zhou Qinghu's side, he opened his mouth to say something, but was unintentionally interrupted by Lin Dakai.

Lin Dakai waved his hand: "Why go to a hotel? Let's eat at the bureau! You guys, as soon as you get to a place, you do all this formality! You've wasted all that time you learned in college!"

After saying that, he walked straight towards the station exit.

Li Meng took a serious look at Chen Shu's retreating figure as he walked out.

On the way back, Chen Shu drove the car, Lin Dakai and Zhou Qinghu sat in the back seat, and Li Meng sat in the passenger seat, introducing the local customs and culture of Dongzhou City to the two newcomers.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the Dongzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. Hosted by Zhang, the executive deputy director of the bureau, and Luo, the director of the political department, they all had a meal together in a small private room in the bureau's canteen.

What's interesting here is that in previous years, the Dongzhou Public Security Bureau's canteen was outsourced to a property management company, which was responsible for the entire operation of the canteen, including daily management, procurement, and cooking. The bureau was only responsible for sending people to supervise.

The Public Security Bureau is a large organization with many people and numerous tasks, making it difficult to please everyone. In the bureau's WeChat group, there's always someone gesturing about the canteen's operations; it's been anything but peaceful for years. The property management company, while claiming to offer service, merely responds with meek compliance.

Two years ago, during the border defense reform, a group of border guards joined the municipal bureau. These people were all reassigned as police officers or auxiliary police officers with public sector employment status, including a mess hall team. Their expertise matched their job requirements, and they enjoyed working in the mess hall. So the bureau removed the original property management company from the mess hall and replaced it with these newly arrived police officers.

They did a very good job. In just a few days, they had the entire canteen in order. Since everyone saw that it was their own colleagues working so hard, they generally didn't complain.

However, there were a few nagging individuals who, at one point, found fault and started complaining in the group chat. The newly transferred police officers didn't stand on ceremony with them. They directly lashed out in the group chat and even waited for the officers in the lobby on the first floor with pots and pans when they left work.

After this incident, although it took the intervention of the bureau leaders to appease both sides and calm things down, the noisy cafeteria that had been causing trouble for years finally quieted down.

The group sat around a large round table in a small private room in the cafeteria, enjoying a delicious seafood meal featuring local Dongzhou specialties.

The table was filled with leaders, except for Chen Shu, a mere clerk. He chose a seat near the door where the food was served and sat down, focusing solely on eating.

After lunch, several leaders from the Municipal Public Security Bureau said their goodbyes and left. Li Meng then led everyone to the conference room of the Criminal Investigation Detachment.

Although Lin Dakai only brought two people this time, the municipal bureau leaders, with the idea of ​​mutual exchange and learning and also to show their respect for the visit of the provincial police academy leaders, specially arranged for the municipal bureau's criminal investigation detachment and relevant case-handling units of its subordinate branches to hold two study and discussion meetings in the criminal investigation detachment's conference room.

In the conference room, Li Meng stood at the front of the stage, explaining the ins and outs of the kidnapping case to her colleagues below with great enthusiasm.

A series of applause echoed through the conference room.

Lin Dakai and Zhou Qinghu were surrounded by everyone, sitting in the middle like stars around the moon. Lin Dakai listened attentively to Li Meng's explanation, occasionally raising questions and offering his own opinions.

Zhou Qinghu was basically chatting with the police officers sitting around him, but Chen Shu, who was sitting far away by the conference room door, couldn't hear what they were saying.

However, judging from the atmosphere, it was extremely harmonious.

After spending the day accompanying him, Chen Shu found it even more tiring than working at the police station. Tired as he was, the gains were immense. He learned many details of the Lamborghini kidnapping case for the first time.

Furthermore, he has benefited greatly from the latest criminal investigation methods and techniques, and is eager to try them out in his own cases as soon as possible.

It was past 7 p.m. when the study and seminar ended.

Lin Dakai declined the city bureau leaders' invitation to a private room in the cafeteria, and instead had a meal with Zhou Qinghu and Chen Shu in the cafeteria hall.

Li Meng wanted to follow, but Zhou Qinghu stopped her from the side.

Chen Shu was somewhat surprised that Lin Dakai treated him, an ordinary police officer at a local police station, in such a way. He was also certain that when he picked Lin Dakai up at the train station that afternoon, Lin Dakai hadn't recognized him, his student from ten years ago.

This was normal, though. Chen Shu had only intended to go through the motions with the driver and guide. Once they left, he would hurry back to the station to handle the case; he didn't have any other particular plans.

During the meal, Zhou Qinghu steered the conversation, and the three of them didn't talk about work. They mostly chatted about their police academy days from ten years ago and the new and interesting things that had happened at the academy in recent years.

Before leaving, Lin Dakai asked Chen Shu a question that shocked him: "Chen Shu, would you like to come to the police academy?"

(End of this chapter)