Time Travel: Volume 1! Starting from a Small Mountain Village

When Long Lifan arrived at the brigade headquarters, she looked up and saw several bicycles neatly arranged on one side of the building.

Around them, members of the community were commenting on the cars. They probably knew they belonged to the police officers, but although they were curious, they kept a distance and dared not touch them.

Dongwan Brigade is notoriously poor; from village officials to villagers, they don't own a single bicycle. This shows how hard life is for the villagers. Although they dared not try it themselves, watching up close satisfied their curiosity.

Just as she was about to go inside, a man in uniform came out of the room and greeted her warmly: "Comrade Long, hello!"

"Oh, you're Chief Huang!"

Long Lifan's mind raced, and she finally realized who the man in front of her was. Wasn't he the police officer who led the team to arrest human traffickers at the commune that day?

At the time, because Chief Huang was in a hurry to bring the human trafficker to the police station, he only asked for a brief information about himself. The two didn't exchange more than a few words, and Long Lifan might not have recognized him if he hadn't been in uniform.

Just then, several more people appeared in the house. In addition to Lin Guodong and his two companions, there were three other men who were also wearing police uniforms.

Two young police officers followed behind, while a middle-aged man in his fifties walked at the front. He was tall and imposing, exuding an air of authority. His face had a few wrinkles, but those wrinkles held a maturity and composure unique to his age.

"Comrade Long, let me introduce you. This is Director Luo of the County Public Security Bureau, and these are Comrade Zhao and Comrade Zhang!" Director Huang hurriedly introduced them to Long Lifan, while also saying to the man behind him, "Director Luo, this is Comrade Long, the educated youth I told you about."

"Hello, leader!" Long Lifan greeted Director Luo with a smile.

"Are you a sent-down youth?" Luo Yonghao carefully examined the young girl in front of him, then asked, "Where are you from?"

"Shanghai Stock Exchange." Long Lifan didn't know why her boss was asking her these questions, but she answered truthfully nonetheless.

"Oh." Luo Yonghao narrowed his eyes, not wanting to think about anything anymore. After a moment, he finally uttered a single word.

"I heard from Chief Huang that you were a great contributor to the capture of the human traffickers last time." Luo Yonghao smiled and continued, "Now that I heard you're actually a girl, I'm a little curious, so I asked Chief Huang to show us what this great contributor looks like."

"You flatter me, sir. I was just doing what a Chinese person should do. I'm nothing special," Long Lifan replied calmly, showing no sign of smugness at Luo Yonghao's words.

"If we're talking about heroes, it's you police officers. Without you providing us with a good social environment, we would probably have to live in fear whenever we go out."

After hearing this, Luo Yonghao showed a rare smile, which stunned the two young comrades next to him. In their impression, the director didn't seem to smile. They didn't expect that the young girl's words could make the usually stern director change his expression.

"Hey, you can't say that!" Luo Yonghao was a little excited, but he still said, "As public security officers, protecting the lives and property of the people is our job. We don't deserve your praise."

"To be honest, the human traffickers arrested this time were part of a gang that had committed dozens of crimes in Pingwu County alone. We dispatched a large number of police officers to track them down, but to no avail."

"If they hadn't been caught at the Red Star Commune this time, who knows how much longer they would have remained at large. We really have to thank you for your help in solving such a big case."

"A gang?" Long Lifan had thought it was just the four of them, but it turned out to be an organized group. "Then they..."

"Don't worry, they've all been caught." Luo Yonghao said with considerable pride, "When Chief Huang brought the people to the county public security bureau, we interrogated them overnight and finally caught them all in one fell swoop."

"That's good!" Upon learning that all these people had been apprehended, Long Lifan felt a surge of satisfaction. Thinking of the women and children who had been trafficked, no one knew how much she hated human traffickers.

"And what became of them..." Long Lifan wasn't quite sure how human traffickers were dealt with in this era. She knew, however, that the treatment of human traffickers in later generations was far too lenient, and she always felt a sense of indignation whenever she thought about what she heard online.

"What else can we do but eat peanuts!" Luo Yonghao snorted coldly, clearly showing his hatred for human traffickers as a police officer.

"That serious!" A hint of doubt appeared in Long Lifan's eyes. She remembered that in this era, human traffickers were not sentenced to eat peanuts.

“You don’t know this.” A look of sorrow appeared on Luo Yonghao’s face as he said sadly, “This gang committed more than just trafficking women. They also specifically targeted good-looking women to abuse. Three of the women couldn’t bear it and were driven to jump off a cliff.”

"They really deserve to die." Long Lifan hadn't expected that group of people to have committed such crimes. It's good that they ate the peanuts, so they won't harm others after they get out. She hoped they would be good people in their next life.

"Who says otherwise! They're not even human, they're beasts!" Luo Yonghao was also extremely agitated when he mentioned the evil deeds of those people.

"You don't know that when we found their hideout, there were more than ten women being held there. They confessed that they were planning to ship the goods in a couple of days. Luckily, they were arrested because of you. Otherwise, these more than ten families would have been torn apart." With so many women missing, he, as the police chief, was undeniably responsible. Even if his superiors didn't say anything, he couldn't get past his conscience.

"We've been busy dealing with this for the past few days, making sure to rescue every single person they've trafficked!"

"I hope so!" Long Lifan thought to herself, but she felt these things weren't so easy to resolve. The villagers in remote areas had a weak sense of law and didn't see it as a crime; they felt they had paid for it. Would those families who bought the girls just stand by and watch their wives be rescued like that?

"Xiao Zhang, bring the things over here!" Luo Yonghao waved his hand, signaling to a young policeman behind him.

The young policeman nodded, then pushed a bicycle parked to the side over. He took a red flag from the front and handed it to Luo Yonghao.

"Long, thank you for your contribution to the security of Pingwu County. This banner represents the Pingwu County Public Security Bureau's appreciation to you." Before he finished speaking, he unfurled the banner, which read:

Acts of bravery

Eliminate violence and maintain peace

The eight large characters were strikingly eye-catching, and even Long Lifan, a transmigrator, was deeply shocked by them. This was the first time she had received such an honor in both her past and present lives, leaving her somewhat at a loss for words.

"Leaders, I am truly unworthy of such a title!" For a moment, even she, usually so eloquent, was at a loss for words.

“Hey, Long Zhiqing, please don’t say that.” Luo Yonghao interrupted her and continued, “These eight words are the most direct and positive evaluation of you. If you feel unworthy of them, I don’t know who else can bear them.”

"Oh, right, here's a bicycle." Luo Yonghao pushed the bicycle in front of him and said, "It's a reward for your act of bravery, please accept it."

“This…” Long Lifan thought the banner would be enough, after all, in this era, honor is more important. She didn’t expect there would be a material reward as well, especially a bicycle.

She could afford to buy a bicycle herself. Not long after she went to the countryside, Hu Lili and Jiang Nian'an talked about it, but she considered that there was not a single bicycle in Dongwan Brigade, and it would be very abrupt for them to buy a bicycle, so she rejected the suggestion.

Unexpectedly, the county public security bureau rewarded me with a car this time. Although it doesn't look new, it's still quite eye-catching.

"Sir, well, I'll accept the banner, but let's just forget about the car!" Long Lifan refused.

"Actually, this is not just a statement from our Public Security Bureau. You don't know, the families of the rescued women also contributed their heartfelt wishes."

“I was thinking that those things would be troublesome to carry, and you might not be able to use them by yourself, so we finally suggested changing your reward to a bicycle.”