Chapter 268 Investigation
"Captain Lei, Director Wang, have you two finished your work?" Bai Tiezhu greeted.
"Yes, the work has been done. Did you two catch anyone?" Wang Dongyao asked.
"We caught a Buddhist monk, this is Li Si, a habitual thief in the neighborhood." Li Weimin said in distress, "Boy, this is the third time you have fallen into my hands. I told you that you can't learn to be a good person instead of hanging around on the streets."
Unexpectedly, Li Si said confidently: "No one wants me in the factory. I can't even eat enough doing odd jobs there. If I don't steal, I will starve to death."
"Hey~ You still think you're right? The whole country has implemented a food rationing system, and even my family has started to eat double-mixed noodles. You eat white flour buns at home every day, and have meat every now and then. If you don't follow the right path, just say so. Don't make excuses casually." Li Weimin seemed to be quite familiar with this Li Si.
Bai Tiezhu explained that Li Si and Li Weimin were indeed distant relatives.
The two families often had dealings with each other more than ten years ago, before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
At that time, both families were relatively wealthy. Li Weimin's family ran several rice shops and a grocery store.
The things that Li Si's family runs are a bit gray, but they have a lot of floating wealth.
Then before the founding of the People's Republic of China, this city experienced several waves of defeated troops, which combed the Li family several times, and from then on the Li family fell into decline.
Li Si's parents were also useless. After their family fell into poverty, they died of anger.
Li Si's three older brothers also met with accidents around the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then Li Si's family fell into complete ruin. Li Si himself was even less ambitious. In the past few years, he learned the Buddha's craft from somewhere, but he was not skilled enough and was often discovered. Basically, he was arrested and jailed every few months.
The few of them continued patrolling, and Li Si just followed them. Then the few of them mediated a dispute between neighbors.
A small problem led to a big dispute, and the two families had already started fighting before they arrived.
It seems that the dispute was caused by the use of a public toilet. This kind of thing is difficult to deal with because everyone thinks they are right, so the way Bai Tiezhu handled it is also very interesting. After stopping the fight, he gave each of the two families thirty lashes of the board. After discussing with the street office staff who came, he gave a verbal warning and required each household to clean the public toilet for a week.
It can be considered as a contribution to the community. By the way, cleaning the toilets is voluntary work, so there is no pay. Even the cleaners who used to be paid will monitor them and ask them to clean the toilets well.
Both families felt that they had been wronged, but they did not dare to question the treatment for fear of being punished even more severely. These days, problems are handled so simply and crudely.
There is nothing much to say about the following patrol. Following Li Si's cries of hunger, several people came to the police station.
"Speaking of Li Si, I sometimes wonder if he comes here just to make a living." Deputy Director Liu is also in charge of guarding the detention room.
Deputy Director Liu took out a steamed bun from the detention room and threw it directly to Li Si inside and said.
This steamed bread is of the lowest quality. It is made from a mixture of sorghum flour and corn flour. It is slightly black in color and is very different from the steamed bread made purely of corn flour and erhe flour. However, everyone ignored Li Si's wailing and went to the cafeteria to eat.
The supplies in the small canteen are quite rich. The steamed buns are made of two-mix flour, the dishes are stir-fried cabbage and stewed sparrows, and there is also shredded potatoes with a lot of oil and salt.
This chef's income is not that good, just at the level of making home-cooked meals.
Wang Dongyao shook his head and finished eating everything.
The cafeteria in the institute only provides one meal at noon.
"What is Aying going to do this afternoon?" Wang Dongyao asked.
"For the afternoon, I don't think there is anything planned. Let's go visit the nearby alleys and see how effective the street office's system of managing uncles is."
The position of manager is unique to this era and would not be set up in ordinary courtyards, such as a quadrangle courtyard with one entrance and some smaller double courtyards.
However, in some larger two-courtyard and three-courtyard houses, these courtyards are generally home to a dozen to twenty households, and some even to more than thirty households, with a population ranging from more than one hundred to more than two hundred people.
At this time, it is necessary to appoint a person in charge to prevent enemy spies from hiding in such a mixed courtyard.
At the same time, the uncle in charge is not only responsible for guarding against enemy spies, but also has the obligation to assist the street office in management. He is a non-staff member of the street office, but he actually has no extra income, so everyone chooses people in the courtyard who are respected and helpful to take on this responsibility.
Depending on the number of people, the number of managers in a large compound ranges from three to five.
However, these are generally large courtyards with three entrances, so there are usually three uncles in charge.
After eating, Lei Dianying and I breathed in and out for a while during the break. We didn't dare to breathe too much, otherwise the little food in our stomachs would be used up.
Then, around five or six in the afternoon, when the workers began to get off work, the two of them prepared their things, each riding their bicycles, and began to count the slums within the jurisdiction of the police station.
It is mainly easier to make a statistics when everyone is gathered together, and by the way, take a look at the recognition level of this so-called "big boss" system among the people around.
In order not to attract the attention of enemy spies, Wang Dongyao and Lei Dianying planned to take it slowly, starting from the outermost part of the jurisdiction and gradually moving towards the interior of the jurisdiction .
The first compound to be investigated was the so-called No. 109 Nanluoguxiang shantytown, which was a quadrangle courtyard of a former third-rank official . It had three courtyards and was home to more than a dozen households and about a hundred people.
"Hello comrades, we are police officers. We are here to check the security issues in the slums. If you have any questions, please find the uncle in charge of the compound." Wang Dongyao greeted the ladies enthusiastically.
"Hey~ Public Security Comrade." An old lady came out and said, "I am the second old lady who is in charge of our courtyard."
"Someone go to the middle courtyard and invite the first master and the third aunt from the backyard to come out."
"Hey, public security comrade, please sit down. I'll go call someone first." One lady took another small stool, and another lady gave up her small stool to sit on.
Wang Dongyao didn't mind giving the newly taken out and cleaner-looking seat to Lei Dianying, and he sat in the seat that the old lady gave up.
When everyone was gathered, Wang Dongyao began to ask, "Second Auntie, you just said that you live in the front yard and usually sit here to paste matchboxes. Then you must know if there are any strangers walking around our yard recently."
"Don't be too nervous, just treat it as a casual chat and say whatever you want."
Wang Dongyao quickly became friends with the aunts and uncles.
