Chapter 13 Thirteen

The next morning, when Qingchun was at work, he ran into the director at the gate of the office.The director had just arrived, and his old-fashioned Audi drove slowly past her and stopped in front of the office building.The director got out of the car, did not enter the building, and stood under the steps waiting for her.She took a few steps and said hello and good morning.The director did not answer, but asked: "Did you go yesterday?" She knew that the director was asking about Xiao Tong, so she replied: "Go." "How is the job done, does he agree or not?" Qingchun shook her head, she followed the director into the office building, and for a moment didn't know how to describe the fruitless conversation at the lakeside of Yenching University last night.On the contrary, the director said out of curiosity:

"I expected it a long time ago. Nowadays, many young people, including some college students, have forgotten where patriotism education has gone. They are not interested in anything that has nothing to do with their own interests. They have no dedication at all. In the past 50s and 60s, If the public security agency asks someone to assist in completing a task, they are all scrambling to be the first, and that is their political trust. Times are really different.” The director seemed to be filled with emotion, and then said: “Be patient and do it. Let’s work. If you don’t want to, you can’t force it. You tell him that if the information he provides is of value to solve the case, of course, it must be of direct and decisive value. We can give some appropriate financial rewards, or Call it a subsidy. Now there is really no way, some people don’t work without paying.”

Qingchun listened with his head down, and finally said that he must hurry up and start working again, "But I don't think there is much hope. If he is really unwilling, he will have to think about this case." The director said: "Hurry up, if you hang on the outside line for a while, I think you must stop. You can't always stare so hard. When will it be the end? Your general way out is to engage in internal reconnaissance, and you can't rely on outside lines for a long time. .” The dissatisfaction in the director's words is of course clear and unmistakable.The case was going hard, mainly because there was no insider.Qingchun also understands that drug-related cases lack an insider, and it is difficult to win by relying on outside tracking and general investigation and control. This is also a rule.So when they accidentally discovered that Xiao Tong had some contact with Ouyang Tian's family, both she and Li Chunqiang realized that this was a good opportunity to wedge themselves in.

Xiao Tong's refusal was not as simple as the director lamented.From Qingchun's point of view, this young man is obviously not the kind of layman who purely seeks money, and it seems that he is not short of money.So is it unpatriotic?Is it a lack of social responsibility?It doesn't seem to be quite the case either.Qingchun knew the reason for Xiaotong's sudden attack last night, but he just didn't want to tell the director.She knew that Xiao Tong was angry because of her pragmatic purpose when she went to see him. Li Chunqiang's attitude was more intense than the director's. He seemed to have a natural hostility towards Xiao Tong.After listening to Qingchun's report with a serious face, he immediately said that this matter was not so simple to settle. "You can give him a few words when we talk next time. This is not because we are begging him. Assisting the public security organs in combating crimes and maintaining social order is the minimum obligation of a citizen. When the society needs you to fulfill this obligation, you Hiding is impossible! Where are you going to hide! If you insist on not doing it, we can also go to your school to report to the organization, and we will also stink you. At least you will not be able to pass the moral score. In the future, graduation assignments will also have to be considered.”

Qingchun didn't resonate with him, but said: "For this kind of thing, we still have to persuade people to volunteer, and it won't work if they don't." Li Chunqiang raised the bar and said, "Can you be voluntary without any pressure? You find him later, and I'll talk to him. You girls are too soft-spoken, no matter what you do, you break it apart and break it into pieces to make sense, sometimes it doesn't work. For some people, you have to be cruel, even coaxing and scaring." Ou Qingchun still advised Li Chunqiang to take it easy and let her continue to do the work to see the effect.Now she also knows a little bit about Xiao Tong's personality. She believes that if Li Chunqiang rushes up to talk with him shirtless, the talk will definitely happen.

Ou Qingchun has been busy all day long. Those foreign public security organs who assisted them in secretly investigating Daye Company's branches have recently received information feedback, which needs to be analyzed and summarized one by one.Occasionally, when she has free time, she still thinks over and over again how to continue to win over Xiaotong next.Does she want to go to Yenching University to find the school leaders to explain the situation, and ask the school's party organization to come forward and understand?After thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is not possible. This kind of matter must be highly confidential, and looking for the school is tantamount to exposing Xiaotong.I also thought about going to Wen Yan, "Let her do the work from the side and act emotionally? But thinking of Xiao Tong's attitude towards Wen Yan, it is enough to prove that Wen Yan's words are insignificant to him. After thinking about it, there is no way to do it. When she got off work in the evening, she still decided to go to Yanda to meet Xiao Tong in person.

After work, she took out her bicycle from the storage shed in front of the building and pushed it to go out.The comrades in the reception room called her: "Qingchun, your brother is looking for you." She saw a person sitting on the chair in the reception room, and she couldn't believe her eyes.That person was Xiao Tong. "Xiao Tong, why are you here?" Qingchun greeted him very warmly and loudly.He stood up from the chair, walked out of the reception room silently, bowed his head and did not speak: Qingchun thought for a while, and said, "Come on, go sit in my office for a while."

With his schoolbag on his back, Xiao Tong obediently followed Qingchun into the building, and sat down in Qingchun's office.Colleagues have all left after get off work, and there is no one else in the office.Qingchun asked some insignificant questions such as did you just get out of school, what class did you take today, etc., while looking for a cup to pour water for him.The cup was found but the thermos was empty, so she asked Xiao Tong to sit for a while and went out to find water by herself.Xiao Tong just sat there silently, neither smiling nor moving nor speaking. When Qingchun went out to find water, Li Chunqiang entered the office.He originally wanted to see if Qingchun had returned home, but he didn't expect to see Xiaotong here.

"Hey, why are you here?" Li Chunqiang raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked, "Have you figured it out?" Seeing Li Chunqiang coming in to greet him, Xiao Tong sat there impolitely without moving and asked knowingly, "What did you figure out?" "What, what did Officer Ou talk to you about yesterday?" Li Chunqiang sat down on a chair opposite Xiao Tong, lit a cigarette, and took a sip before remembering to ask: "Do you smoke?" Xiao Tong said no to smoking. Li Chunqiang asked: "Do you have anti-drug education in your university now? It is required to have it now."

Xiao Tong said no. Li Chunqiang said: "One-third of the current criminal crimes in the world are related to drug trafficking and drug use. The annual drug trade in the world is as high as 800 billion U.S. dollars, second only to arms in the world trade. Do you know these figures? You know? Colombia, the Medellin Group, have you heard of this? There are more than 20,000 drug dealers in the world controlled by this group alone. A drug trafficking organization can go to war with the governments of many European and American countries, even the United States Inside, it's not peaceful, it's crazy enough. You really haven't heard of it, or are you pretending to be stupid with me? Of course, the drug crimes in China are not that serious, but now there is also a wave of drugs, and some drug dealers The organization regards China as a drug channel, and transports drugs from Myanmar and Thailand from mainland China to European and American countries through Hong Kong. Twenty percent of the drugs in the United States go from Hong Kong. Therefore, our country The anti-drug fight is also an important part of the world's anti-drug fight. This is a glorious thing. I don't know about you. I think you must be patriotic anyway. The society has given you the opportunity to go to college. You have to serve the society Bar……"

When Qingchun came back with a thermos, Li Chunqiang was still eloquently eloquent in his positive education on anti-drug awareness.Xiao Tong, on the other hand, was cold and indifferent, sitting there seemingly listening but not listening.Qingchun poured water for Xiaotong and asked Li Chunqiang: "Why haven't you left yet?" Li Chunqiang said, "Isn't this helping you with your work?" Qingchun said, "Really." She turned to Xiaotong and asked, "Did you talk well? Our Captain Li can speak straight." Only then did Xiao Tong speak, and he said, "Qingchun, I just want to talk to you." Qingchun looked at Li Chunqiang, and Li Chunqiang asked angrily, "Hey, young man, did you listen to what I said so dryly just now?" Xiao Tong glanced sideways at Li Chunqiang: "What did you just say?" Li Chunqiang was so choked that he couldn't speak for a long time, "You say you are young, you don't understand at four or six, why are you so stupid!" Qingchun hurriedly eased the atmosphere with a half-smile, and said, "Forget it, Chunqiang, you go first, I'll talk to him." Li Chunqiang said, half annoyed and half threatening: "Don't talk to him, talk to their school. This person doesn't listen to any reason. How does this school educate you!" Ou Qingchun's face became serious: "Chunqiang!" She suppressed her voice and said, "Let me talk about it!" She was afraid that Li Chunqiang's anger would make the matter deadlocked, and then the future work would be even more difficult. Li Chunqiang shut his mouth.He said: "Okay, let's talk!" He walked to the door resentfully, turned around and said to Qingchun, "I'll wait for you in my room." The room calmed down, and there were only two people left.Qingchun leaned on the table, thinking about where to start this conversation, but Xiao Tong spoke first: "I want to know, do you want me to do this, or do your leaders want me to do it?" Qingchun smiled strangely, and said, "Is there any difference? I went to you because I consulted with our leader, and we made a joint study and decision." Xiao Tong stared at her and said, "I just want to know, what do you want from me?" Qingchun said: "Me? Of course I hope you can cooperate with us." Xiao Tong still stared at her and said, "Okay then, I will do it, and I will do it for you!" Qingchun smiled and said, "No, you are not doing it for me. You are working for the country and contributing to society." Xiao Tong said: "I can do other things for the country and the society. Serving the country and serving the society doesn't have to be a spy. Don't label me as patriotic or not. I will do it for you. If you don't need , forget it. Then let your Captain Li hire someone else. I’m just as patriotic if I don’t do this!” Qingchun listened in a daze.Xiao Tong kept saying that he did this for her, but she didn't know whether she was moved or disturbed.But she nodded her head in appreciation. "Okay, then I'll thank you." Xiao Tong stood up and picked up his schoolbag, as if he was about to say goodbye, but suddenly asked: "I promised you this thing, can you promise me one thing too?" Qingchun thought, this is a condition to be submitted, and she didn't know what "price" Xiao Tong would offer.But her face was very calm, and she asked, "Tell me, what do you want?" "I want you to stop treating me like a little brother. A kid. I'm not a kid anymore." Qingchun knew exactly what Xiao Tong wanted, but she could only pretend to be confused: "You are younger than me." "Are you so unacceptable to people younger than you?" "As I said, I'm very happy to recognize you as my little brother." "I also said that I don't want to be your little brother." "Then what are you going to do?" "I want you to treat me as an equal friend, as your most trusted and best friend!" Both of them were silent, and after a while, Qingchun said: "It's okay to be equal, but you want to be the most trusted and best friend with me, it depends on how we get along in the future. This can't be appointed by mouth. " Xiao Tong thought about it, and it seemed that this principle was impeccable.He nodded and said, "Okay, then I will work hard. But you have to make sure that you don't make friends with me to complete your task." Qingchun thought that college students nowadays like to engage in such metaphysical things, so let him say whatever he wants, as long as the case can be solved smoothly, he can say whatever he wants.So she promises: "Of course, we make friends for pure friendship. But as friends, we should earnestly complete this task together. And there is one thing you must remember, you can't be willful in work. Everything is under my command, otherwise You're going to spoil things." Xiao Tong seemed to have relaxed, his attitude was not as serious as before, he said: "No problem, I will follow your command!" Qingchun smiled.Xiao Tong also smiled, a little shyly.Qingchun said, "Let's make a deal." Xiao Tong replied, "It's a deal." The two walked out of the office together.When saying goodbye, Qingchun said: "I have to return the crystal photo frame you gave me last time. I can't afford such a heavy gift." Xiao Tong said: "It doesn't matter how light or polite you are, the key is your heart. How can you return someone's heart." Qingchun said: "Our public security personnel have the 'Eight Disciplines and Ten Points of Attention'. Aren't you making me make mistakes?" Xiao Tong said: "If you want to return it, I won't do it for you, you have no human feelings at all!" Qingchun was stunned for a moment, and said: "Okay, I won't refund it to you." Seeing Xiao Tong smiled, he said: "I'll make another request to you, don't keep threatening me with this in the future, it will be vulgar if you do this again. .” Xiao Tong grinned: "I know." That night Qingchun slept very peacefully.She hasn't slept like this for a long time, so that when she reported to the department the next morning, as soon as she entered the door, Director Ma smiled brightly: "There must be good news, otherwise Qingchun's face Why are you so rosy!" Qingchun and Li Chunqiang reported to Director Ma the result of her "negotiation" with Xiaotong yesterday.Of course, she omitted the "additional conditions" that Xiao Tong put forward at the end.The director was surprised and satisfied that Xiao Tong straightened his mind so quickly and agreed to be a "special case" of the police, and expressed his concern and attention to this special case. "Who do you plan to be in charge of daily contact with him in the future?" Qingchun glanced at Li Chunqiang and said, "Let me get in touch, I know him to a certain extent." Li Chunqiang answered immediately: "Du Changfa can contact you, or I can contact you personally. I think this kid is too hot-tempered, so I'd better find a gay man to deal with him." Qingchun said: "For this kind of people, you can only use softness to overcome rigidity. Gay men tend to handle conflicts harshly. And..." She wanted to say "same-sex repulsion", but she felt that the words were inappropriate, so she didn't say it. Director Ma nodded, agreeing with Qingchun's opinion, and asked: "Are he and Ouyang Lanlan definitely not in a relationship? If there is an emotional relationship between them, then he must not be used." Qingchun said, "No, I've learned all about it, absolutely not." Li Chunqiang asked, "Why are you so sure?" Qingchun said: "I had a side-to-side discussion with him about this issue. I have been working for many years, and he is just a twenty-one-year-old student. I still can't tell who he likes and who he doesn't." The director didn't bother with this question anymore, and asked: "How do you contact him?" Qingchun said: "I took the BP machine. Hand-held phone. I gave him the number of the direct line in the office, and I also gave him my home phone number. I also have his BP machine number. In case he finds something urgent You can find me anytime." Director Ma reminded: "Teach him the basic skills and basic rules of doing this kind of intelligence work, the precautions and confidentiality requirements for your communication. Don't expose yourself before the work is done. To him I, you don't want to reveal too much, he has too much knowledge, if he doesn't get it right, he will ruin things. The task you give him at the beginning can be specific, but try not to be too complicated." The report to the director lasted for an hour, and basically the way to proceed with the case and the issues to be paid attention to were all agreed upon one by one.After coming out of the director's room, Li Chunqiang was abnormally silent.They walked along the corridor to the criminal police office, their steps seem a bit dull.Qingchun looked at him sideways and met several times. Seeing that Li Chunqiang hesitated to speak, Qingchun simply asked: "What's the matter, do you feel worried?" Li Chunqiang shook his head first, then asked: "What do you think of Xiao Tong?" Qingchun didn't know what he was referring to, so he could only answer positively: "There is no better way out for this case now, I can only let Xiao Tong go in and try. A dead horse should be treated as a living horse doctor. Are you afraid that he and Ouyang will have a better solution?" Lan Lan has been in touch for a long time, boys and girls can't control the development of their relationship, breaking through the relationship of ordinary friends?" Li Chunqiang said: "Didn't you say that Xiao Tong has no interest in her? I'm not worried about the two of them, but I'm worried about his treatment of you...how should I put it, are you clear about this?" Qingchun looked at Li Chunqiang, she stood down, looked at him without blinking, and asked, "What did he do to me, what do I know?" Li Chunqiang looked away and said, "I think he's interested in you in that way." "which aspect?" Li Chunqiang looked at Qingchun squarely: "He may like you!" "Really?" Qingchun faced Li Chunqiang's gaze calmly and said, "So I made you worry." After Qingchun finished speaking, she turned around and walked straight to her office.Li Chunqiang frowned, and said behind her: "Qingchun, I'm talking about work!" Qingchun stopped and turned around. In the dimness of the corridor, she could see that her eyes were very transparent.Her voice seemed a distant echo in the surrounding emptiness: "Okay, let me tell you, the most important thing in my life, Ou Qingchun, is work. Nothing attracts me more than work. So in this criminal police team, I will always be the best. You Don't worry, captain!" Qingchun said.