Chapter 71 The first task after the Chinese New Year
Huan happily celebrated the New Year, but unfortunately there were too few people in the family. Two Dan returned to Wangjia Village 28th before the New Year. Uncle Wang was too stubborn and refused to come to the city to celebrate the New Year.
After the Chinese New Year, I had a lot of work to pay New Year greetings to my superiors and colleagues. I returned to Wangcun to pay New Year greetings to a group of people from Wangcun who had helped me specifically. Now I am a relative. Of course, the comrades who stay outside the city and the countryside should not forget it. This alone made him work hard until the eighth day of the lunar month.
When he was working formally, Old Man Sun also opened a small clinic in the next yard, hiring several doctors and apprentices with little reputation, which was considered to have a formal business.
Traditional Chinese medicine is still better in this era. Even Wang Jin himself doesn’t trust the level of Western medicine, let alone other people. Cao Rufang was an exception, and the Chinese people’s thoughts were still very conservative at this time.
When he returned to his territory, he first enjoyed the respect of his younger brothers. Before he could deliver his New Year's greeting, the person who sent a message from the prefect in the prefect's office arrived.
The originally noisy office immediately left, and most of the patrolmen were full of sympathy. They should have been in a good mood during the Chinese New Year, but when they encountered such disgusting things, they could only blame the boss for being unlucky.
Every time Wang Jin saw the rigid faces deliberately dressed up by the magistrate's magistrate's ruthless corpse, he couldn't help but feel sick. It's still during the Chinese New Year. The magistrate doesn't need to pick at this time if he wants to train people, right?
It’s not a big deal that he was so unhappy. Every time he was called by the prefect, he would scold him. Then the prefect reported his slander. Although he was unscathed, he was disgusted.
After the interrogation officer left, he slowly handled some backlog of official documents and discussed the recent patrol matters with several patrol leaders. After all, he got up and rushed to the prefect's office.
"Wang Jin, what did you do? It took so long to come. I don't know if there is anything to say hello to me?" The prefect who was roaring loudly in the lobby of the government office, saw that Wang Jin was late and furious.
"Sir, you also know that I had too many work on my hands at work just now, and my subordinates rushed over immediately after they had finished their arrangements. I hope he would forgive me." When Wang Jin saw that he was not just asking for trouble for him, he immediately lowered his attitude. As the saying goes, a senior official level to kill people, let alone more than one level? As long as he did not attack him, he would not be so stupid that he would provoke Shangguan's authority randomly.
Humph! The prefect waved his hand in annoyance and signaled Wang Jin to return to the team, and then said with a gloomy face: "I don't care what difficulties you have. In short, you must catch the hateful flying thief before the first month of the year, otherwise you will not be able to get it if you eat it!"
Wang Jin's heart moved, and gently touched Wang Ping, the new assistant to Nancheng who was standing in front of him with a bitter look on his face, and asked in a low voice: "What's going on?"
Wang Ping did not dare to neglect Wang Jin, his family, and quickly turned his head and replied in a low voice: "It's not the time of the Chinese New Year. The mysterious thief was making too much noise. The boss gave him a deadline to solve the case!"
Wang Jin nodded clearly, and a faint sarcasm hung on the corner of his mouth.
It's a bit strange to say that he had ordered Erdan to keep a close eye on the slum and wanted to catch the thief. I don't know if it was a shortage of money or other reasons. In short, this guy was very active during the Chinese New Year. His target was not limited to those unscrupulous businessmen, but even extended the devil to the officials and men in Anqing City.
Now, I stabbed the hornet's nest...
Those profiteers suffered little losses and did not make any statement with the idea of spending money to eliminate disasters. But how could the officials bear this anger? Moreover, they were not afraid that the patrol officers would beat them and used their own influence to impose duck pears on the prefect's yamen.
At first, the prefect took it seriously and casually ordered the patrol branch in the urban area to deal with it. As for the final result, he was too lazy to pay attention to it. However, as the number of officials killed increased, the impact of this matter gradually became bigger, and the branches that were ordered to capture the thieves were not in trouble, and finally even alarmed the governor.
The prefect was called to go to the governor's office for a meal. The anger was suppressed and directly scattered the anger on the heads of the chiefs of the district bureaus in various cities and repeatedly urged them to solve the case as soon as possible. However, at that time, the chiefs of the district bureaus had just taken office and were in the stage of running-in with their subordinates. In addition, the big guys were all looking outside the city, so it was difficult to complete this matter in a short period of time, so they were dragged on.
But who expected that this thief was so brave that he actually visited the newly-appointed governor's home on the 27th day of the 12th lunar month and stole a lot of money. Now the fun was so big...
Just as the officials of other yamen were preparing for the New Year, the prefect came and went tragically to the Governor's Office and the Governor's Office. He enjoyed the sound attacks of the two bigwigs, and his mood was completely ruined and lazy during the New Year. As soon as the officials of each yamen returned to normal work, he couldn't wait to call the bosses of each branch and issued a strict order to solve the case within a time limit.
After leaving the prefect's office, Wang Jin couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart when he saw his colleagues around him feeling distressed.
These guys are really not policemen!
When he returned to the Xicheng District Branch, he immediately found Erdan and asked about the mysterious thief.
Erdan suddenly felt energetic and waved his arms and said excitedly: "Brother Jin, it's really true. According to your instructions, we had brothers staring at the slums at the end of last year, and we found a clue."
Wang came in and signaled the second order to continue.
"If you don't observe carefully, it's really hard to find out. In the days when we were preparing New Year's goods, people in the slums suddenly bought a lot of New Year's goods."
"This is normal!" Wang Jin said in confusion: "Isn't it just a few days for a year? There are many job opportunities in Xicheng recently. I think they should have a few money on hand!"
Erdan nodded, looked at Wang Jin with admiration, and smiled and said, "That's right! After being sorted by Brother Jin, Xicheng District, it is indeed much more prosperous than before. The refugees and local slums have lived a little better life, but the number of New Year goods they bought is a bit too much. Although it seems normal on the surface and has not attracted the attention of others, after careful calculations by the brothers, I found that the total amount of New Year goods purchased in the entire slum is far greater than their income level!"
"How much more?" Wang Jin raised his eyebrows, but his heart was filled with pride.
"About half a silver dollar per household!"
"Can you be sure?" Wang Jin leaned forward with bright eyes.
Chapter completed!