Chapter Fifteen Belongs To Your Honor

  Gao Xiang and Zhang Tong looked at each other, their joyful expressions gone, replaced by confusion.

  No, it's vague. This report seems to be inconsistent with the facts. It looks like a misinterpretation. Just then, the waiter brought up the dishes and Zhou team laughed:

  "Come on, let's eat first. Didn't you see that part where they bravely intercepted and threw stones, thousand-pound tops? Did you guys run away with fear when you saw the two auxiliary police officers, two female comrades, one was so scared that she almost became a hostage, and the other was hiding in the roadside ditch until we arrived, haha..."

  Both of them had a slightly flushed face, and under Zhou's repeated invitations, everyone finally started eating. Gao Xiang carefully asked: "So, Zhou, what brings you here?"

  "Next Monday, the municipal bureau leaders will come to our detachment to hold a case analysis meeting for the 4.12 big case, which is also a celebration meeting. Your Happiness Road Police Station is also one of the awarded units. Our whole detachment sincerely invites you two and Tian Miao Miao to attend! This is your honor!"

  Gao Xiang looked at Zhou's sincere face, then glanced at Zhang Tong, and finally picked up the bottle of Jiaduobao on the table and said: "Captain Zhou, I won't say much thanks, I'll use this as a substitute for wine and toast you a glass."

  Gao Xiang carefully asked again after putting down his drink:

  "Can I keep this?"

  The police officer nicknamed Xiao Luo asked him strangely: This is internal information that cannot be leaked outside. Why did you keep it?

  Gao Xiang said with a wronged and aggrieved expression:

  "I took it back home to show my mom and uncle, you don't know, Zhang Tong and I were wronged. Clearly we didn't do anything wrong, yet we were stopped and made to write self-criticisms, these days all I got was scolding. With this notice, it's easy to handle, I'll go find them to reason things out, what right do they have to scold me back and forth all day!"

  The three detectives couldn't help but find it a bit amusing, and Detective Hua was covering her mouth to stifle a laugh. He was still just a half-grown kid after all, and the difference from what they had expected was a bit too big.

  Officer Hua took advantage of serving Zhang Tong vegetables to ask, "What's wrong, Zhang Tong? You haven't spoken a word since earlier. What are you thinking?"

  Originally thought Zhang Tong was just making a sound because he was restrained, but unexpectedly the female police officer's question actually got to the bottom of things. Zhang Tong put down his chopsticks and said in a soft voice:

  "Am I a bit too straightforward? Can I say something about Zhou, Li and Luo?"

  Everyone's attention was now focused on Zhang Tong, she slowly said word by word: "Sorry everyone, I don't want to go."

  "Why?"

  "What's the big deal? There's no prize money anyway, and the credit still goes to the team. Am I right, Captain Zhou?"

  Zhou's team made Zhang Tong almost choke with one sentence, and hurriedly drank two mouthfuls of drinks before carefully sizing up Zhang Tong. Things really let this girl guess it, no substantial reward, just a collective third-class merit, awarded to the Happiness Road Police Station, letting the three of them go was recommended by Director Liu of the police station, and agreed by Deputy Director Su of the Municipal Bureau. Zhou had long understood that there was no way to ask for credit for auxiliary police without a police rank, and could only comfort them in this way.

  "I'm asking you, Zhang Tong, how can you think like that? Don't you have a share in the collective honor too?" Zhou's question made Zhang Tong somewhat speechless, and he irritably replied with a sentence.

  "It's like this, I don't have a good impression of the collective, and the collective probably doesn't have a good impression of us either. Sister Li, Team Leader Zhou, think about it, when the time comes, the three of us wearing our auxiliary police uniforms without badges or shoulder insignia standing together with you, would we be embarrassed? We're auxiliary police too, but we don't want to lose face."

  "Y-you..." Zhou Du's words completely left Zhang Tong speechless, and he pulled Gao Xiang to his feet, the two of them standing up as if to leave.

  "Come back!" A soft shout, policewoman Hua stood up and walked solemnly to Zhang Tong's side, saying: "Zhang Tong, Gao Xiang; whether you have grievances or prejudices against the police as a whole, I believe you both have a sense of justice, otherwise you wouldn't have stepped out at that critical moment. The five suspects in the 4.12 case used driving a black car as cover, and during the crime process, they successively raped and murdered three female university students, as well as one high school girl; they were all still children!! During the control and capture process led by Captain Zhou, two more comrades were injured, this is a particularly heinous and major case that occurred in our province this year, it's a heavy stone weighing on the hearts of all public security police officers. Now that the case has been solved, every one of us knows the role you both played in it, unfortunately my rank isn't high enough, nor is my position, I don't have the ability to get you substantial honors and rewards, what Captain Zhou and I can give you is our respect, no matter if you are a police officer or not, please accept our respect. Attention! Captain Zhou, Luo Lin, come, let's stand at attention and salute!!"

  Three people, with solemn faces, respectfully saluted Zhang Tong and Gao Xiang!

  A police car whizzed by, and the traffic cop measuring speed on the side of the road turned his head to spit disdainfully: What's so arrogant, are you a big shot just because you're a cop?!

  Luo Lin, who was driving, saw that the atmosphere in the car was a bit off and couldn't help but ask: "Captain Zhou, what's with young people these days? Nei Gao Xiang is such a loser; and this Zhang Tong, you guys say she's still a girl, how can she bring up bonuses as soon as she opens her mouth?"

  Zhou's team smiled and smoked, while Officer Li in the back seat replied: "Luo Lin, you're not that old yourself, yet you say others are young, haha. I think Zhang Tong is right, this is just how society is. We're always worried about funding within our department, aren't we? Without case funds, many times it's really frustrating. Take your team for example, don't many cases get put on hold? This time, the successful capture was thanks to those two."

  "Hehe, Sister Li, don't tease us anymore. When has your special police team ever been short of funds?"

  "You little brat..."

  In the afternoon, at the police station, Tian Miao was furious. A woman in her 20s dragged a middle school-aged boy in and claimed she had been harassed. The two old mediators were not present, and it happened to be a female officer, so Tian Miao had no choice but to take over.

  Who knew that the mediation had just begun, and this woman saw Tian Miao's face turn red with anger, and she became arrogant. She said that nowadays men are not good things, and Little Wang is so young to learn how to touch people's buttocks on the bus. Then she said, "I say, why do you police have such a low efficiency in handling cases? The facts are clear, but you still ask questions back and forth. Don't you know that I'm taking time off from work? I'm a big company, and this time off will affect my performance evaluation for the month. Hurry up and call his parents, they must compensate me for my losses."