Because Wei Yin was coming, Wang Zhong specially chose a high-end restaurant with private rooms and ordered a lot of beer. Being able to hang out with the bureau flower and her girlfriends was something Wang Zhong had only imagined before, but now it had become a reality, causing him to daydream even more.

Soon, Wei Yin arrived with her girlfriends, greeting Jiang Yuan and chatting with the others in a confident and relaxed manner. She worked as an office clerk, was pretty, knew a lot of people, and could chat with anyone. She talked to one group for a while, then moved on to another, making Wang Zhong feel frustrated.

"Hey, I don't think this is going to work," Wang Zhong said, returning to his usual role as an insignificant person after his previous bravado. He sat down next to Jiang Yuan and started to feel down.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Yuan asked.

This was his first time attending a colleague's gathering since he started working, so he naturally wanted to fit in as much as possible.

"We have too many wolves and too little meat...I'm afraid we'll never get ahead," Wang Zhong sighed.

Jiang Yuan followed his train of thought and said casually, "Don't be so pessimistic."

"How can I not be pessimistic? Look at Lao Huang, he wears tight clothes in the winter just to show off his abs. And you, tall, handsome, and good at your job...and then there's Guo Haitao, just wait and see, the restaurant manager will come over to suck up to him..."

Just then, the door to the private room was knocked open.

"Rare guests, rare guests. Captain Guo has arrived," the restaurant manager smiled as he entered, offering a box of Zhonghua cigarettes and lighting them up for everyone. Even Wei Yin and her friends started smoking and blowing smoke rings.

"Don't call me captain. I'm just a runner. If people hear that, they'll think I'm incompetent," Guo Haitao said, taking the cigarettes and lighting them for the others.

"How can we not call you captain? If people find out, they'll think I'm impolite," the manager bent down to light his cigarette and said a few more words before the waiter brought in a fruit platter and beer.

"Here's a fruit platter and beer as a token of our appreciation," the manager said, placing them on the table.

Guo Haitao tried to decline, acting like a relative giving out red envelopes during Chinese New Year.

"Just leave the fruit platter, we don't need the beer. We won't be able to finish it," Wei Yin said, putting an end to the back-and-forth.

Guo Haitao became more resolute and sent the manager and beer out of the room, saying, "The owner of this restaurant is too shrewd. I didn't expect someone to recognize me...Anyway, let's just enjoy ourselves."

"Guo's got connections."

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"Guo's the man."

Everyone ate watermelon and cherry tomatoes while teasing Guo Haitao. Wang Zhong also praised him for a while before turning back to Jiang Yuan and lamenting, "As tech guys, we really don't have much room to shine in situations like this.""Maybe we can scan the manager's fingerprints, and if he has committed a crime, we can arrest him," Jiang Yuan suggested reasonably.

Wang Zhong's mood was just right, and with a "pu" sound, he burst into laughter.

Jiang Yuan also picked up a bottle of beer to drink. In fact, he had just graduated not long ago, and his socializing with classmates and colleagues was quite different.

After drinking more alcohol, Wang Zhong became more active.

Wei Yin and her girlfriend always appeared extremely sociable. Even if the male colleagues of similar ages cooperated with each other, their emotions were only manipulated by her, like a novice entering the interrogation room for the first time.

The group of people finished their dinner with laughter and jokes. After leaving the restaurant, they all felt a little unsteady when the wind blew.

"Let me call a taxi for everyone," Guo Haitao, who was in the limelight, knew how to end things well.

Someone politely said, "No need, I'll take the bus back, it's the same."

"You're wearing pants. Take a taxi, it's less trouble," Guo Haitao pointed to the police pants.

Nowadays, as long as they are not on duty, the police do not wear their uniforms. Some people even change their uniforms or wear a coat when they go downstairs to buy cigarettes.

However, most police officers who wear uniforms are accustomed to wearing police pants all day long. They wear police pants not only when on duty, interrogating, or on patrol, but also when they go home after work. They even want to wear police pants when taking a shower, so much so that police dogs are always uncomfortable when walking around the police station because of the reflection of the police pants, which is commonly known as blinding the dog's eyes.

However, it is still worrying when someone drinks and wears police pants, so everyone tries to avoid it.

The colleague wearing police pants waved his hand and said, "It's okay. The light at night is so dark that if someone stares at your pants, it's better for him to recognize that it's a pair of police pants."

Several people laughed out loud, and someone took advantage of the chaos and said, "Then Wei Yin should wear police pants the most."

"I have everyone's protection," Wei Yin boldly pulled everyone into a united front and said, "Don't look around randomly. It's only when you see a white shirt that it's truly dangerous."

Guo Haitao laughed loudly, "The white shirts we see here should all be salespeople."

In the police world, only third-level police supervisors or above can wear white shirts. Below third-level police supervisors, all wear light blue shirts. As a senior police rank, third-level police supervisors generally need to be appointed by the director of a prefecture-level city. In the county bureau of Ningtai, the bureau chiefs all wear blue shirts.

However, there are relatively more white shirts in police academies and higher-level police departments. For the police officers in the county bureau, seeing a white shirt is like seeing an imperial envoy.

Although it was highly unlikely, the atmosphere of terror was successfully created by Wei Yin. Several people became obedient and lowered their heads to prepare to take a taxi.

Jiang Yuan coughed twice and said, "Let me have my friend drive you.""We have quite a lot of people." Wang Zhong reminded.

"It's okay, we have cars in our village that can go to the county." Jiang Yuan said as he made a phone call.

Because Ningtai County was not very big and located in a bustling area, it only took a short time for four Elfa vans to arrive in front of everyone.

"Brother Yuan." The first person to get off the lead car was Jiang Yongxin. He was a capable young man from the village who ran a car repair shop and also rented out cars while providing transportation services for the villagers. Since Jiang Yuan solved the electric bike case, even though there was no money returned, Wang Yongxin still called him "Brother Yuan" before and after.

"Counting from front to back, the four cars go in the direction of north, south, east, and west. Whoever wants to go where can get on which car." Jiang Yuan was the type of person who was too lazy to drive and always called for the village's cars to pick him up.

Wang Zhong and the others looked at the Elfa vans and were a little hesitant. When they saw Jiang Yuan getting on the car, Wang Zhong quickly grabbed him and said, "It's too expensive to call this car."

"Our village's own car, I usually settle the bill. It's okay." Jiang Yuan greeted Wang Yongxin and got on the car.

Wang Zhong couldn't help muttering, "This is the people from Jiang Village."

"People from Jiang Village also have the rich and the poor." Wang Yongxin walked over to greet the guests and said with a smile, "There are also people in Jiang Village who spend too much and only have two or three houses left. However, Brother Yuan's family is exceptionally wealthy. His father is called Fu Zhen, and it was decided when he was born."

"Get on the car, get on the car." Wang Zhong didn't hesitate anymore and chose the lead car to get on. The others murmured "Jiang Village" a few times and got on the cars one after another.

The four cars started lightly, taking everyone home and deeply imprinting the concept of "people from Jiang Village" in everyone's mind.