Binjiang Police Affairs
Chapter 160 - 130 I’m Just the Messenger

Chapter 160: Chapter 130 I’m Just the Messenger

At 8:45 in the evening, the lights were still on in the director’s office.

In the afternoon, Xu Sanye took almost all the blank cartridges and stocked handcuffs from the office and even borrowed a mortar and several boxes of shells from the Armed Forces Department.

One could imagine Xu Sanye was furious, and tonight the river would definitely see a "barrage of bullets and shells."

Director Yang and Commissioner Ding were worried. They feared that once Xu Sanye realized the blank cartridges were useless, he might use live ammunition in his temper, causing bloodshed, which would complicate matters greatly.

The two smoked and waited for news when unexpectedly, Director Wang, who had just been discharged from the hospital a few days ago, showed up.

"Old Wang, why aren’t you resting at home?"

"If I rest more, people will laugh even more."

Director Wang indeed had transferred from Bailong Port Health Center to County People’s Hospital, where he stayed for an entire week.

At first, lying on the hospital bed, he felt unsteady and as if the ground was shaking. He felt nauseous at any smell and couldn’t eat anything; whatever little he ate, he vomited back out, relying only on IV infusions for sustenance.

It wasn’t until the fourth day of hospitalization that he started to feel better, managing to eat some rice porridge with pickles.

He had lost a lot of weight after one boat ride, looking very gaunt.

Director Yang felt sympathy for him and offered him a cigarette, asking, "How’s your appetite today?"

"I’ve quit smoking, can’t do it, makes me nauseous."

Director Wang turned down the director’s kind gesture with a pained expression, "My appetite is quite good, I had two bowls of porridge tonight, but I still can’t eat greasy foods."

Director Yang couldn’t help but joke, "It’s good to use this opportunity to quit smoking."

Commissioner Ding seriously added, "Eating light is good, I increasingly miss the days when everything needed coupons. Back then, we could only get 24 pounds of rice, half a pound of meat, half a pound of oil, one bar of soap, and four packs of cigarettes per month. Wanting to eat more wasn’t possible, and everyone was lean. Not like now, overeating, which leads to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol."

"Commissioner, I’m already in such a state, is it amusing to joke about me?"

"I’m not joking about you, it’s just something I felt."

Director Wang murmured quietly, "I will never ride a boat again in my life."

Once bitten, twice shy.

Director Yang asked with a grin, "How will you visit your relatives in East Sea if you don’t ride a boat?"

"I won’t go; I don’t have many relatives there anyway." Director Wang, not wanting to continue this embarrassing topic, shifted the conversation, "Director Yang, how are things on Xu Sanye’s end?"

"Ding Xiangyang has gone over there, and we are waiting for a call from Ding Xiangyang."

"Why don’t you call Li Weiguo?"

"Li Weiguo and Zhang Mingdong are busy on the river using loudspeakers to arrest people and seize boats. They are too busy to report back to us, and we can’t reach them now."

"The river is not like the land, they’re both old, can they maintain control over those who care more about money than their lives?"

"Bailong Port Police Station has fully mobilized, and I heard they have organized a few workers to assist."

While they were talking, the phone finally rang.

Commissioner Ding quickly pressed the speakerphone, and heard Chief Ding from the Four Factory Police Station saying, "Director Yang, Commissioner, I apologize, I was extremely busy just now..."

"Cut the crap, get to the point!"

"Yes."

Chief Ding, composing himself, reported, "The waterway in Bailong Port Waters has been cleared. Just contacted through the radio, Xu Sanye and Little Salted Fish have escorted four passenger boats into the main waterway.

Though there are many boats illegally fishing for eel fry, the stretch of river is wide, and with their armed escort, issues weren’t significant."

Director Yang directly went to the important matter, "Did they open fire, did they shoot?"

"They launched three illumination shells, Zhang Junyan from Bailong Port Police Station fired three shots, and Xu Sanye had Little Salted Fish fire six shots, rest assured, all were blank cartridges, mainly as a warning."

"Are there still people fishing for eel fry in the Bailong Port Waters?"

"With both shelling and gunfire making such a big scene, boats from other places were almost scared off, moving towards Binjiang. Also, Li Weiguo, Zhang Junyan, and Jin Weiguo from the Port Supervision Bureau detained two foreign fishing boats and captured ten people."

Chief Ding, looking at his notebook, added, "These ten people not only blocked the waterway but are also suspected of damaging navigational markers, caught red-handed. Li Weiguo and Zhang Junyan, ensuring the waterway remains clear, are using small law enforcement boats and speedboats to escort the cargo ships just released through Bailong Port lock.

They really couldn’t spare the time for a detailed investigation, asking me in the name of the Water Police Division to handle the detention procedures and transfer these ten people to the detention center first."

Involving jurisdiction over the case, this was a serious matter.

Director Yang instinctively asked, "You have nothing on hand, how can you handle the procedures?"

"Old Li had Director Zhu from the Port Supervision Bureau give me Scholar Yu’s official seal. Xu Sanye foresaw the upcoming investigations and had already had Scholar Yu and Xiao Chen from the Security Department sign a bunch of blank documents beforehand."

"This... This is too unserious!"

"Director Yang, you know well, Scholar Yu has always been Xu Sanye’s puppet."

"Alright, handle the procedures quickly, keeping people detained on the dunship is prone to incidents, get the procedures done and transfer them to the detention center."

Director Yang was utterly resigned, he pondered and then asked, "What about the situation onshore, how many passengers are stranded?"

Chief Ding hurriedly said, "Currently, over five thousand passengers are stranded in Bailong Port, the waiting room is too small, absolutely unable to accommodate them, and it’s so cold outside. I coordinated with Old Gu from the Long-Distance Bus Station to open the bus station waiting room. The pier side also opened the ticket office and the conference room."

Thousands of people stranded in Bailong Port was no small matter.

Although Bailong Port Passenger Pier was not under Linghai’s management, if something unfortunate happened to any passenger, people would blame Linghai, and not run to the Port Authority in Binjiang.