After the exam, it was like unloading a heavy burden, and I was relaxed.

"I'll be accepted!"

From the moment I handed in the last paper, I was confident in it.

Sometimes confidence is more important than anything else, and you can go a little further with perseverance and steady.

Because I didn't have too many worries, I threw down my books and threw myself into intense work.

At that time, everything revolved around the strike hard, and later I gradually understood that it was called central work.

The work of the center is a "program", and only then can the program be seen and the results can be reaped.

Soon after, the second concentrated arrest operation of the First Strike Hard Campaign began.

We all call this a "dragnet", and that's the second net.

In this net, the harvest of our money warehouse is a bit big, and the arrest targets, criminal detention targets, custody and review targets, etc., add up to double digits.

This is perhaps the largest number of arrests ever made in the region.

The dragnet operation was carried out in the evening, and the chief prosecutor of the county procuratorate brought a group of people to the office that morning to take command.

Two military jeeps quietly parked in the playground of the institute, the gate was closed, and the small door on the side was also opened and closed at will, and a tense and mysterious atmosphere spread throughout the institute.

The people who came down from the county and all the cadres in the office were holding meetings in closed conference rooms.

We were told that we were all in the house, that we were not allowed to go out, that we had a good rest, that we had a mission at night.

Everyone knows in their hearts what is going to happen.

"How many people are we going to arrest?"

When Shen Guoxing occasionally came out of that "secret room", I asked him gently.

He shook his head, didn't say anything, put the index finger of his right hand to his lips and smiled.

When I was eating lunch, I saw the true face of the prosecutor general up close. He is much younger than Director Huang, and is said to be a highly talented student who graduated from the University of Political Science and Law.

I had long heard some mysterious legends about him, and looked up to him with admiration from afar.

When I was in high school, I memorized the name of the chief procurator of the Supreme People's Procuratorate at that time, and I knew that the position was very important.

I didn't expect that a few years later, he would become the deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department in charge of our team, and I would write speeches for him, and I would have some friendship with his children.

Once, on a more intimate occasion, I talked to him about the scene of the lucky encounter with him, but unfortunately he no longer has any mark, let alone me, the little squad leader.

In the afternoon, the leaders continued to hold a meeting, and the main leaders of the township and the leaders in charge of politics and law were also called over for a meeting, and the leaders of the battalion headquarters also came, presumably to study the plan for the arrest operation.

That night, all the participating public security personnel and township cadres gathered in the township meeting room, announced the grouping, tasks, and discipline, and acted in groups according to a unified time.

I took a team with me who was responsible for catching the illegal logging of collective forests.

It takes nearly an hour to walk from the township to Yuao.

There were four of us, one of whom was a man and a woman who were cadres in the township.

We didn't turn on our flashlights or say anything along the way.

Quietly moving forward by the moonlight.

When I arrived at the door of his house, I briefly laid out the plan and division of labor for the arrest.

After knocking on the door, we found that this A was not at home, so we summoned his mother to the township to cooperate with our investigation.

After an interrogation conversation, his mother told A's whereabouts.

"At his sister's house in Tsuruura."

To get her to say this, we worked until just over four in the morning.

How to ensure that A can be arrested and brought to justice on the same day has become the main task of the on-site command and leadership, and another net collection operation has quietly begun. We don't dare to rest until we finish our mission.

The nervousness of the first half of the night and the excitement of the second half of the night all translate into hunger, sleepiness and anxiety.

My comrades and I waited in the conference room for instructions.

The two eyelids pressed down heavier and heavier, and I tried to hold on to not closing my eyes.

I saw a man and a woman on the other side of the township cadre, the woman had fallen asleep on the table, and the man was also leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes.

Lin Hua, who was on the side, didn't seem to be sleepy, and said to me: "Squad leader, you sleep for a while, I'm not sleepy." ”

I said, "I'm fine, you're asleep." ”

Within two minutes, there was a soft snort from the side.

I was afraid of being taken to sleep, so I quickly got up and walked out the door.

The sky had already brightened, and the opposite hill showed a few hints of reddish glow.

I took a few deep breaths of air, and was about to move my body when I saw the director come out of the office of the secretary of the township party committee.

"Xiao Zhang, come here."

He waved to me. I followed him into the office in small steps.

"You take someone to the station right away, and you must catch A by tonight."

"This is the address of his sister's house."

"You can call the local police station for full support!"

Director Huang has been proud all night at this age, and he can't see tiredness at all, and he is still very bold and powerful in assigning tasks.

"Ask Assistant Lin from one of your groups to go with you!"

After the secretary of the township party committee finished talking to me, he said to the township leader in charge of politics and law on the side: "You go and explain." ”

The leader in charge of politics and law lives in Zhongbao Village, and often comes to the office to have a drink with Director Huang, as if he has also been a soldier.

However, he was very polite to us and occasionally had a drink with him.

"You're going to have to work hard, Lao Zhang."

This is the only person I have ever called "Lao Zhang" during my stay in Xiangshan.

I once asked him once: "You are as old as Director Huang, why do you call me Lao Zhang." ”

He said it wasn't because of age, but because of respect.

When we arrived at the conference room, he woke up the male township cadre and introduced him to me: "This is Lin Jiping, the agricultural and forestry assistant in the township. Then he conveyed the task assigned by the secretary to Assistant Lin.

"You obey Lao Zhang's arrangement and do your best to assist him!"

Listening to him get down to business also feels a little oily.

Assistant Lin and I immediately got up and went downstairs, he went to the office on the first floor to pick up a briefcase, and went to the station to wait for the train.

We took the earliest bus and set off to Dan at about 7:30.

I wanted to go directly to Seokpo, because Hepo is an island outside Seokpo, and you need to transfer to a ferry there.

When I went to the ticket office, I saw that the first few tickets had been sold out, and the earliest tickets would depart at 10:30.

It was the market day in Danse, and the waiting room built like the old commune hall was packed with people, filled with the smell of chickens, ducks, pig feces, and the cacophony of the local vernacular.

We came to the door.

Assistant Lin thought for a moment and said to me: "I'll go to the cotton mill to find someone, and we will wait in line at 10 o'clock." ”

"Okay, I'll go have some more breakfast."

At this time, I felt as if I hadn't eaten the two fritters I had eaten before getting on the bus in the township, and I felt cold on my upper and lower body, including my stomach. After that, we walked together to the four-way intersection in front of the playground in front of the station.

At the intersection, he turned to his right hand to the cotton mill on the side, and I turned left into the alley that led to Xiangshan Middle School.

I walked about ten meters forward, and I felt that my legs were getting heavier and heavier, as if I had been tied to dozens of pounds.

I really want to lie down on the side of the road and sleep beautifully.

Sleepiness strikes the desire to eat without a trace.

I stopped, regretting leaving the station.

After a moment's hesitation, I turned around and walked back, and I felt a passerby next to me look at me suspiciously.

I don't know any of this, I just want to finish this journey as soon as possible and let my body find a place to lean on.

Unexpectedly, during this more than ten meters of travel, I made a decision that I still don't understand.

At the intersection in front of that station, I didn't turn into the station.

Instead, I went in that direction to the cotton mill!