Tang Shoude took two of his men and personally sent Ah Q to report to the Kuaiji Patrol Station.
The Kuaiji Patrol Bureau is on Baziqiao Straight Street, not far from Fuhe River and just a few hundred meters past Jieqiao.
The office location is a temple, the Dragon King Hall.
The incense continues, the gods are in the front hall, and the tools of dictatorship are in the backyard.
There are more than a dozen houses with a vegetable garden behind them. They were originally part of the temple, but now they belong to the patrol station because Ah Q saw a man with a pockmarked face watering the ground and weeding.
In the early days, everyone who played with guns burned their faces.
There are chicken and duck sheds, pig pens and other thatched houses around the vegetable garden. There is a fish pond in the middle. The pond is dark and looks more like a cesspit.
The house number of the Kuaiji Patrol Bureau is hung on the side door of the backyard, and the back door is on Guihua Lane.
Ah Q entered through the side door, and the sweet-scented osmanthus had not yet bloomed.
In the backyard, chickens and dogs were barking, and several children were chasing and beating them.
Ah Q thought he had gone to the wrong place, but when he looked back, he saw that it was the patrol station, yes.
There are a row of mud houses with several clotheslines outside. Men's and women's clothes hanging on the ropes are fluttering in the spring breeze.
I can't find the office door number. In the Shanyin Bureau, every department has a white iron door number with black letters, but there is none here.
Ah Q was puzzled and followed Tang Shoude.
As soon as I walked, I walked into a hall in the middle of the row house. It was the size of two rooms and the space was quite large. There were seven or eight wooden desks arranged in a pile in the middle, and there were filing cabinets, tea tables, and coat racks against the walls.
This is the office. It turned out to be a collective office.
Then I saw a bamboo rocking chair under the back window. A big fat man was lying comfortably on it. A group of children were lining up to help him rock the rocking chair. After shaking for a while, a wick cake was given out and replaced by another one.
Seeing someone coming in, the fat man waved the children away, got up, and greeted enthusiastically: "Officer Tang, long time no see!"
Tang Shoude and others stood at attention and saluted: "Hello, sir!"
This person is Wang Tingfang, the chief of Shanyin Patrol Police.
The fat man laughed and said, "Sir, sir, I don't want this here!"
He turned around and looked at Ah Q again, patted his shoulders and squeezed his arms, like a buyer of cattle and horses looking at his eloquence. After looking at Ah Q for a while, he said doubtfully: "I don't see many pieces of meat. Why did the princess praise you so much?" Does it look like a flower? Come on, let’s get to know King Lake of Kuaiji!”
Ah Q saluted with a bang: "Zhao Denggui from Kuaiji has come to report! Please give me instructions, sir."
Wang Tingfang was stunned and laughed loudly: "I'm shocked! How come you, a raw melon seed, look more like an old melon seed than an old melon seed!"
He lowered his voice again and said, "Tell me, did my aunt start a small stove for raw melon seeds?"
"Little aunt?"
Ah Q was puzzled and immediately realized, Zai Yi.
Ah Q's face turned red.
The fat man was very happy: "Make melon seeds, or melon seeds!"
Everyone laughed.
Ah Q also touched his head and smiled.
The fat man shouted outside: "Is anyone out of breath? Come here!"
Several women slipped in.
The fat man laughed and scolded: "A bunch of naughty bitches can't move when they see raw melon seeds, so they should all be waiting at the door!"
Women are not inferior either:
"I'm not going to show off to you, you old bastard!"
"Tell me, Lao Saogu, do you want to kill a chicken or a sheep?"
"There was still half a jar of wine last time."
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The fat man opened his eyes and scolded: "Why are you making such a fuss! You won't even show me face in front of the guests! Keep your skin tight and listen to me!"
He pointed at Ah Q and said: "Today the new brothers have joined the gang, let's let the pig go. It's a must! Let's all have a dinner together and call all the dead ghosts out there to come back and eat meat. If you want more wine, how much old wine do you still have? Three jars? Not enough! No more! Go buy three altars, twenty years of flower carvings!"
Tang Shoude and others were about to return, but the fat man was not willing to let them go, so he ordered the women to hold them back and make sure they finished eating the pig meat before leaving.
The group of women were all family members of the policemen, and they were very efficient in their work. Ah Q was also shocked when he saw several women letting go of a pig in an instant.
Four tables were set up at noon, two for patrolmen in the hall, one for women in the kitchen, and children eating meat in a circle near the flower bed.
The fat man introduced Ah Q to everyone. They were a group of gangsters, all of whom were reluctant to meet each other. They ate large pieces of meat and drank from large bowls. Naturally, Ah Q ate the most.
Fortunately, Ah Q was well prepared and persisted until the end. Tang Shoude and the others had already slipped under the table.
There are obvious differences between the Shanyin Bureau and the Kuaiji Bureau. There are more new students in Shanyin and more rough guys in Kuaiji, and they are all veterans brought by Wang Tingfang from the city defense camp, generally in their twenties and above.
A few years ago, the Green Battalion was abolished and turned into a patrol battalion. Only 100 people remained in the 200-strong Green Battalion, with one general officer and equipped with new fast guns.
The boss is Zhang Yunliang, a member of Zhang's family in Shaoxing. This man is greedy and retains people regardless of their skills and only their connections.
Those with the surname Zhang stayed, those with relatives stayed, and others who gave money stayed.
Wang Tingfang was a foreigner from Fuyang, Hangzhou. He was a team officer, equivalent to a platoon leader, but he was dismissed and his compensation was withheld. In anger, he led dozens of brothers to parade on the streets of Fuya. Fu Zhizhi was furious and wanted to arrest Zhang Yunliang, but the Zhang family's master at the governor's office in Zhejiang interceded and gave him a fine and probation.
It just so happened that the imperial court was carrying out a large-scale patrol work, and Fuyu Green Camp was turned into patrol police on the spot. Wang Tingfang became the chief of patrol police in Kuaiji, where he has been until now.
Because the patrolmen's salary is meager, their salary is only half that of Green Camp, which is no more than that of a hotel boy. Over the past few years, more than half of the Kuaiji patrolmen have left, and now only these twenty or so are left.
