At the entrance of No. 88 courtyard.
Qin Yu smiled and asked, "Lin Nian Lei, why are you here?"
"I came here to look at houses." Lin Nian Lei smoothed the ends of her hair and asked in passing, "What about you?"
"Coincidentally," Qin Yu froze, "I'm also here to look at properties."
"Huh?" Lin Nian Lei blinks her big watery eyes, "Don't you superintendents have dormitories?"
"Oh, there are too many people in the dormitory, I'm not used to living there, so I want to come out and rent a house."
"Oh."
Lin Nian Lei playfully nodded her head, and said with a generous stretch of her palm, "Since it's such a coincidence, let's get acquainted, I still don't know what your name is."
"My name is Qin Yu."
"Little brother Qin Yu, thank you!" The reason why Lin Nian Lei took the initiative to climb into conversation with him was actually to say these words.
Qin Yu knew that Lin Nian Lei was saying thank you because she had saved her life in the hutong, so he responded in a fake sympathetic manner, "Duty calls for duty, you don't have to be polite ...."
Lin Nian Lei sniffed in awe, "Hey, hey, salute to Ah Sir!"
"Let's go, go in piece by piece and take a look." Qin Yu actually didn't have much resistance to good-looking girls, but before, because of the limited conditions, he couldn't flirt even if he wanted to. Now that he's sort of settled down for the time being, his heart is more or less prickly, and he at least wants to chat more with pretty girls.
"I finished reading it, I've already booked it, my colleague went to buy something, we'll leave when she comes back." Lin Nian Lei responded warmly and generously, "You're going to rent here, you can still meet up later. When I start my paycheck, I'll treat you to dinner."
"Oh, then I have to see if the house is suitable first."
"I'm working at the net station, I'll definitely be traveling with the superintendent's side in the future, see you later."
"Ok leh!"
The two of them exchanged a few brief sentences, and Qin Yu took a step into the No. 88 courtyard. Because before he could ask Lin Nian Lei for a contact information, the other party left with a female colleague.
...
Inside the courtyard.
The old cat sat on a stone pier, waved his hand and shouted, "Qin Yu, here!"
"Coming." Qin Yu rushed over at the sound.
"I just heard you talking at the door, with whom?" The old cat asked in passing, "Did Qi Lin come too?"
"No, just ran into the girl who was kidnapped that day and casually chatted."
"???" The old cat froze for half a day, "Ran into that girl? Where is it?!"
"Don't act like you're going to eat someone, okay? She's gone."
"What is she doing here?" The old cat asked with great interest, "With whom? What did she tell you?"
"She works at the net station, and it's not far from our superintendent, so she came here to look at the house and happened to run into me." Qin Yu returned impatiently, "Why are you asking in such detail?"
"Did she rent the house in this courtyard?"
"Seems to have rented it."
"...!" The old cat frowned and contemplated for a long time, then suddenly looked at Qin Yu and asked, "Hey, do you still lack a roommate or something? I can cook."
"You're such a slut." Qin Yu was speechless.
"She really attracts me, bro." The old cat rambled on, "Why don't we share a room? Live together, I'm telling you ...."
"Let's talk about it, look at the house first." Qin Yu waved his hand and urged, "Hurry up, I still have to go back to the team later."
"OK, OK, look first."
As the words fell, the two of them took a step and walked into the main hall of the main house.
The house that the old cat showed Qin Yu was about thirty square feet, with some simple furniture inside, the walls were also painted, and the overall environment looked very clean, but the price was slightly expensive. The landlady asked for three hundred a month, and it had to be delivered in half a year.
This price is really not low, but also reasonable. The 88th house is located in the most centralized area of the Songjiang Municipal Government, close to the TV station, webcasting station, police department, traffic department and other departments, which is why Qin Yu and Lin Nian Lei were able to bump into each other. The two organizations were not far from each other, so if they didn't run into each other here, they would still have the chance to see each other in the future.
The common currency of the Ninth Special Administrative Region is the Asian Dollar, which was issued not long ago, while the common currency of the world is the Union Dollar issued by the Union Savings, an organization under the United Government. Of course, the EU zone side also had its own currency, the Euro, but let's not talk about that for now.
The exchange rate is roughly, 1:6 Asian Dollars for the Allied Coin.
The Asian dollar has a high purchasing power since it hasn't been issued for long, and if you do a rough calculation, it's probably about ten times the purchasing power of the previous yuan. So three hundred Asian dollars is equivalent to three thousand dollars before. As for Qin Yu's current salary, it's only five hundred a month, so if he rents this house and removes food and drink, he basically doesn't have much money left for a month.
This is also a reflection of the current life of the people at the bottom of the Ninth Special Administrative Region, where the cost of living is getting higher and higher every day, and because all kinds of resources are withering away, the relative number of people with fewer positions makes for a very low income. So why did Qi Lin dig his heels in and try to get on the second level police officer? That's because with a higher title, the salary goes up.
The old cat saw that Qin Yu had taken a fancy to the house, but was a bit distressed by the three hundred dollars a month rent, so he whispered, "In the Superintendent of Police, apart from timid people like Qi Lin, who just have their heart set on being a dog-licking loser, the vast majority of people don't have the idea of living entirely on their salary. I see that you are not a good thing, and you will definitely have to engage in some gray income ... in the future."
"Do you have gray income?" Qin Yu asked with squinted eyes.
"Yes, how could I not?"
"What gray income do you have?"
"I just specialize in bullying the ones who pull P strips, and I'll clean them up if they don't pay their share." The old cat responded shamelessly.
"...!" Qin Yu was speechless.
"Don't get together, rent it, I can come and stay for a while in the future." The old cat persuaded again.
Qin Yu deliberated for a long time, thinking in his heart that he might not be able to find a better and cheaper house for a while, plus this courtyard is really close to the Superintendent of Police, so he hesitated for a while and responded, "OK, rent it, for half a year first."
...
After going to work in the afternoon.
Inside the three groups of office areas that are less than fifty square feet, nine youths are wearing uniforms and standing across the room.
Yuan Ke looked at the crowd smilingly and said, "A few brief words. Although Qin Yu just arrived, he actually killed the big bandit Matsushita and successfully solved a kidnapping case. So after careful study by the Division and the team, it was decided to temporarily appoint Qin Yu as the leader of the first team's third unit."
The crowd looked at each other for half a day before loud applause rang out.
"Qin Yu's personal third-class merit has already been reported by the Division, and his rank will be raised by the day, so don't have any other thoughts in your minds. As I said before, as long as you're good, then I'll be sure to promote you if you work in the first team, it's the same for anyone." Yuan Ke finished and reached out to pull Qin Yu, "Get to know everyone."
Qin Yu stepped forward at the sound of his voice, wearing a regular light green police uniform with two crutches on his shoulders, saluting and shouting, "My name is Qin Yu, please take care of me in the future."
In the crowd, Qi Lin stared blankly at Qin Yu with indescribable bitterness in his heart.
Just dozens of hours ago, he had personally picked up this newcomer back into the team. But it hadn't even been two days, and the person had become his leader. This kind of feeling ... makes people really feel a little bad.
"I'll reiterate once again, everyone who wears this outfit has to abide by the rules here. Although Qin Yu is new, if any of you want to bully, bullshit, and affect your work, don't say I'll turn the other cheek." Yuan Ke smiled and instructed the crowd before turning back to Qin Yu and saying, "Alright, you guys chat."
"Alright." Qin Yu nodded, "Thank you, Team Yuan."
"Said it, no need to be polite." Yuan Ke drifted away.
Inside the office area, Qin Yu blinked and looked at the crowd, smoothly pulling out a box of Zhonghua from his pocket that he usually couldn't afford to smoke, smilingly rushed to the crowd and said, "As for me, I coincidentally stumbled upon a good thing, and became a captain by mistake, but my personal experience is definitely a bit poorer when compared to you guys. So in the future, we have to rely on you to help us with the case. Come on, relax and have a smoke."
Qin Yu said that this was a polite way to start the conversation, with the intention of getting closer to everyone, but he didn't expect a relatively older youth standing on the left side of the crowd to take the cigarettes in his hand, and skillfully tore open the wrapper and said, "Oh brother, you've got the goods... you can get baked cigarettes?"
Qin Yu was stunned and responded with a smile, "A gift from a good friend."
The man Qin Yu talked to was called Zhu Wei, an old man from the third group who had been on the job for four or five years. Yet, due to his personal style of dealing with things being more flinty, he had not been able to walk up. But if Qin Yu hadn't come, the team would have selected him to be the team leader. After all, his seniority was there, and he usually got along well with Yuan Ke.
Zhu Wei pulled out a cigarette and lit it, taking a hard drag before handing the box to the others.
"Sit, all sit." Qin Yu greeted.
"Snap!"
Right at this moment, Zhu Wei suddenly reached out and slapped Qin Yu's arm, saying with a big smile, "This is still fun to play with, and it feels good to smoke. Brother, you're open-minded and don't buckle, haha!"
There was nothing wrong with that, but Zhu Wei's slap hit the bruise on Qin Yu's arm. The day he went up against Panasonic, his arm was grazed by a stray bullet, and it hadn't fully healed yet.
"Hiss!"
Qin Yu was slapped painfully, his brow furrowed as he took a step back and turned his head to look at Zhu Wei.
"Brother Wei, the group leader has injuries on his body." Qi Lin had already changed his name to Qin Yu at this time, and had unconsciously called him Team Leader.
"F*ck, what's wrong?" Zhu Wei looked at Qin Yu with a big grin and asked, "Where's the injury?"
Qin Yu swept a glance at Zhu Wei and answered with a smile, "I let a bullet graze me when I was grabbing Song Shim."
"A little grazed? That's no JB matter, just go back to the hospital and get some medicine." Zhu Wei shows his teeth and says, "Don't take the shot, this thing can't die, now half a month's salary is gone for a shot."
Hearing this, Qin Yu narrowed his eyes at Zhu Wei and didn't say anything else, only greeting the others as they took their seats.
After all ten people in the three groups sat down, the people talked softly.
During the initial conversation, Qin Yu got a general idea of the situation of the three groups.
The staffing of this group plus him was ten people, with three Thai Gs, one non-Z, and six nationals. However, the Ninth Special Administrative Region's Chinese was an official language due to its location in the northeast of the previous country, and they had not lived here for a short period of time, so they had all practiced their Chinese fluently, and they all had some northeastern accents as well.
After a simple communication, everyone started to do their own work and began to study the drug trafficking gang information.
...
As time came to night, Qin Yu had just finished checking the two dilapidated Group 3 police cars downstairs and turned around to return to the office, only to find that no one was in the room anymore, only Qi Lin and that non-Z brother were left, fiddling with the clue book.
"Where is everyone?" Qin Yu asked.
"Brother Zhu took them out on an errand." Qi Lin returned.
Qin Yu frowned, "We said we'd be studying the case and have a meeting at night, so why did he suddenly lead people out to run errands? Is there any case?"
"No, it seems like he led someone out to do some personal business."
"... It's not even the end of the day yet, and he led someone away without even saying hello?" Qin Yu muttered expressionlessly.
Qi Lin was silent for a long time and didn't answer.
Qin Yu frowned as he sat in his chair, looking down at the landline phone and gently tapping his fingers on the desktop.
What does Zhu Wei mean?
Is he trying to play himself?
On the first day of officially leading the third group, Qin Yu's test came.