Chapter 182: Skipping Two Ranks in a Row!

"Could it be…"

Yu Dazhang was about to form a hypothesis when his phone suddenly rang.

The moment he answered, Li Jun's voice came through the phone:

"Come to my office."

You're interrupting my work… Yu Dazhang replied helplessly:

"I'll be right over."

Arriving at the detachment commander's office, he knocked and went in, then Yu Dazhang sat down in the chair in front of the desk.

Then he took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and handed one to Li Jun.

After Li Jun took it, he looked at the cigarette pack in his hand.

"Don't you not smoke?"

"I don't." Yu Dazhang tucked the cigarettes back into his pocket and said with a smile:

"I like the feeling of handing out cigarettes, and before I came I had a premonition that you looking for me this time must mean good news."

The medals had been received, the merits had been confirmed, all that was left was the police rank and the bonus.

The bonus would be deposited directly into his salary card, so that left only the police rank.

"You little rascal, sharp as a tack."

Li Jun laughed and cursed, then lit the Huazi in his hand, took a deep drag, and continued:

"From now on, you are no longer a First-Class Police Officer."

As he spoke, he took out a pair of shoulder insignia from under the desk and handed them over.

After Yu Dazhang took them, he looked at the surface of the shoulder insignia right away.

The pattern on it was made up of a silver bar and two silver four-pointed stars.

One bar, two stars~

Second-Class Police Superintendent.

He stared blankly at the shoulder insignia, unable to come back to himself for a long time.

This time, unexpectedly…

Skipped two ranks in a row!

Li Jun smoked while observing Yu Dazhang's expression.

Seeing him staring at the shoulder insignia in a daze, he thought Yu Dazhang was dissatisfied with this rank promotion.

Two First-Class Merits, skipping two ranks was indeed a bit hard to justify.

But Yu Dazhang's years of service were simply too short; being able to skip two ranks was already a special exception from above.

One had to know that, under normal circumstances, promotion to Second-Class Police Superintendent required four years in the force.

Those four years were counted from the day of becoming a full member; the one-year internship didn't count.

So, for Yu Dazhang, it was equivalent to being promoted to Second-Class Police Superintendent four and a half years early.

"Dazhang." Li Jun chose his words carefully and gently advised:

"Don't have any thoughts about it; at your age, having this police rank is already very rare."

"Even if you graduate with a master's degree, a new officer becoming full member would at most get one bar and two stars, and that would only be under special recruitment."

Have thoughts about it? Yu Dazhang immediately came back to himself:

"What thoughts could I possibly have? I originally thought I could only be promoted one rank, but jumping two ranks at once—I couldn't be happier."

This really wasn't him being modest.

The years of service were right there; going from First-Class Police Officer to Second-Class Police Superintendent alone took three years.

The higher you went, the longer the years required.

You really haven't seen much of the world… Seeing that he was quite happy, Li Jun told him another piece of good news:

"This time the bureau applied for a position promotion for you, and it was approved after review; your current position is Section Officer."

Yu Dazhang's position after becoming a full member was Clerk; Section Officer was equivalent to being promoted one level.

With merits to his name, his future position promotions would go very smoothly.

With the identity of Section Officer, him taking on a squad leader role would be no problem at all.

"Thank you for holding me in high regard, leader."

As Yu Dazhang spoke, he took out the Huazi again; this time he directly picked up the lighter on the desk and lit Li Jun's cigarette for him.

Li Jun glanced at the cigarette pack again.

"Are you sprinkling rice to feed the chickens?"

"I'm just afraid it'd look bad." It wasn't that Yu Dazhang was reluctant.

Let alone one pack of cigarettes, even if he gave Captain Li two cartons he wouldn't bat an eye.

But doing that would change the flavor.

Handing out a cigarette is bonding; gifting cigarettes carries the suspicion of bribery.

Even though Li Jun was a detachment commander, his salary didn't allow him to smoke Huazi every day either.

"What bad influence." Li Jun said irritably:

"Keep one aside for me."

Back at the detachment.

Yu Dazhang checked the time; there were twenty minutes left before getting off work.

After sitting back down at the desk, he opened the notebook again. "What was I about to do earlier?"

Looking at the names of characters after character in the notebook, Yu Dazhang was momentarily stunned.

Once a train of thought is interrupted, it's hard to pick it back up — that has nothing to do with IQ, it's a kind of mental inertia.

He thought for a long time but still couldn't get into the zone. Seeing it was almost quitting time, he simply stuffed his notebook into his bag, stood up, and walked out.

What's the rush to look into a cold case? Clock out first.

Based on past experience, Yu Dazhang believed that the more complicated a case, the less one should rush, because the moment a person gets anxious, they easily get tunnel vision.

Once you fall into a thinking blind spot, it's hard to climb out on your own, so don't rush anything — take it slow.

"Not a bad excuse."

Yu Dazhang muttered to himself as he walked out of the branch bureau.

The moment he settled into the driver's seat, he called Qu Tuotuo:

"I'm off work. Want me to come pick you up?"

No errors in any chapter — first release, full content, all in one read!

At noon when he was eating in the cafeteria, Qu Tuotuo had already asked to meet him that evening.

She didn't say what it was about, so Yu Dazhang naturally took it as an ordinary date.

"Dazhang, I have something to tell you — don't get mad, okay?"

Qu Tuotuo's voice sounded a little careful, with a touch of nervousness.

She cheated on me? Listening to her, Yu Dazhang felt a bit uneasy, but still forced himself to stay calm and said:

"I promise I won't get mad. Go ahead."

"I told you last time that my dad wants to meet you alone, that…" Qu Tuotuo hemmed and hawed, then finally gritted her teeth:

"I said yes for you."

Doing me a favor, huh… Yu Dazhang figured Qu Wannian must have gone to her again, so he replied with a smile:

"It's not a big deal. Sure, I said yes. Has a time been set?"

His earlier refusal to meet wasn't because he was afraid.

He hadn't flinched in front of high-ranking leaders of every level, let alone some Qu Wannian.

Because of the connection through Qu Tuotuo, he didn't want things to get too stiff between them.

"It's today." Hearing that he'd agreed, Qu Tuotuo's voice instantly brightened:

"Come to the company. My dad says he'll wait for you in his office."

Hearing that Qu Wannian was waiting for him at the company, Yu Dazhang couldn't help but freeze.

Not even trying to keep it under wraps?

He'd assumed Qu Wannian would pick some private restaurant to meet him.

Or just talk in the man's luxury car.

Last time they met, Qu Wannian had made it clear he didn't approve of them dating, so he definitely wouldn't want others to know about this.

Going straight to his office — wouldn't everyone at his company see them?

The bigger and more proper the company, the more gossip there is.

What was Qu Wannian thinking?

With his doubts in tow, Yu Dazhang arrived at the Yisheng Group office building.

Office buildings of a listed company like this generally have access control. Before Yu Dazhang could step forward to ask, a man in a suit came up to him.

"Mr. Yu Dazhang?"

"That's me."

"I'm here on Director Qu's orders to wait for you. Please, follow me."

Yu Dazhang then followed him into the elevator.

On the tenth floor, the man led Yu Dazhang past two levels of office space, introducing things to him along the way.

"Mr. Yu, this is the Marketing Department."

"This is the Sales Department."

"And here is…"

The employees working at their desks looked up one after another at the sound of his voice, glancing at Yu Dazhang.

After climbing two more flights of stairs, he finally arrived at the door of Qu Wannian's office.

"Aside from Director Qu, no one else has the authority to take the elevator straight to the twelfth floor. Please understand, Mr. Yu."

So much fuss… Yu Dazhang said nothing, just gave a small nod.

The man then pushed the door open a crack and nearly squeezed his way into the office.

A few seconds later, the office door swung open, and the man gestured for Yu Dazhang to enter.

Once inside, Yu Dazhang walked straight to the seat across the desk and sat down.

He waited until the man had stepped out before he spoke:

"Did Director Qu want to see me about something?"

Qu Wannian frowned slightly, looked at Yu Dazhang, and said:

"You should call me Uncle, or Uncle by marriage."

(End of chapter)