Chapter Ninety-Six: Midnight Police

The night in the village is quiet, and the night without moonlight is almost pitch black.

Residents will be very frugal in their use of electric lights in their homes.

At night, we usually follow the sporadic dim lights to see if there is any "emergency" or illegal activities such as gambling.

If you are traveling by bicycle at night to carry out tasks, you will tie a flashlight to the handlebar to use lighting, otherwise it is extremely unsafe.

Most of the residents who go out for night walks also have flashlights in hand.

It often happens that during the inspection, we encounter local residents and us in horror using electric lights to look at each other and ask each other, which is often a false alarm.

There are no special circumstances, such as the employees of the local steel window factory who commute to work at night and hardly touch pedestrians at night.

There is one exception, and that is in the evenings when there are open-air movies.

As long as the unit's screening team plays an open-air movie at the battalion headquarters, or the local mobile projection team goes to a certain village to show an open-air movie, the young and middle-aged people from the neighboring villages will spontaneously gather at the screening point.

It can be said that this is their most important cultural life and social platform.

The most active people in this issue are the young people who are not married.

They usually travel in groups and slowly form small circles.

Groups of unmarried men and women, because of their age, similar personalities, or because of social relations such as clan surnames and in-laws, created a unique grassroots social group of that era through the medium of watching open-air movies.

No one has ever given them names, but outsiders have a habit of calling them "the boys" and "the little girls".

Their number is also relatively fixed like the current WeChat group, and it will increase or decrease due to various reasons, or even disperse the group, and then form a new group.

Because a lonely boy will be looked down upon by everyone, and a lonely girl walking at night without street lights is a very difficult thing.

Young men often have friction and even rough behavior between groups because of a movie-watching position and an unfaithful language, but it generally does not develop to the extent that it seriously harms the other party's body and requires us to intervene to deal with it.

It can usually be calmed down on its own, or mediated by the elders present.

The bond between the boys and the girls is delicate.

In general, there is a clear line between girls and boys, but there are also cases where they are grouped together.

But I heard more that the boys took advantage of the girls when they were crowded to watch a movie or the end of the show.

Even in some road sections, they deliberately coaxed and collided, taking the opportunity to do "next" behavior.

Girls who are bullied are generally afraid to speak up.

And their weakness fuels their evil deeds.

There is a saying that goes, "If you walk too much at night, you will always encounter ghosts!" ”

The kind of "frolic" with the rural regional culture is one step away from the criminal behavior in criminal law.

On an early autumn evening, an open-air movie was shown in the village where the township was located.

After the end of the scene, a group of boys in Tangao Village played a common trick on a group of girls walking behind on the way back to the village.

This time they weren't so lucky, and they fell into a catastrophe that they would regret for the rest of their lives.

These girls were not silent, knocked on the door of our police station, and called the police!

What prompted them to embark on the road of defending their rights in accordance with the law was not their awareness of the illegal nature of this violation, but the fact that a girl was not only physically harmed, but also lost a beloved Shanghai brand watch.

In those days, a watch worth about 120 yuan was not an ordinary object.

An average worker's salary for nearly three months may not be bought.

The police situation has aroused great attention from the leaders of the county public security bureau.

The relevant police forces were quickly assembled, and the investigation work began late at night!