Chapter 571: The Deputy Captain Position Isn't Very Auspicious

"Stop drawing castles in the air for me... Yu Dazhang isn't stupid."

It sounded like he was being promoted to Deputy Captain, but in reality it just meant doing the corresponding work while earning an ordinary criminal investigator's salary.

You think I'm stupid or something?

No proper title, no proper authority — all the work, none of the credit.

"Forget it, I'll just stay at the sub-bureau." ··

Yu Dazhang waved his hand:

"Polite refusal."

The Captain clearly didn't want to let him off so easily, so he kept persuading:

"Don't worry. As long as you come, the Deputy Captain position will sooner or later be yours."

"I can guarantee you that this position will stay vacant until your rank is raised."

He paused briefly, as if giving Yu Dazhang some time to think, then continued:

"Before that, you can exercise the authority of Deputy Captain. I don't think anyone would object, and you have the ability for it."

The Captain's tone grew even more sincere:

"As for the higher-ups, you don't need to worry. I'll go talk to them. I'm sure they'll agree too."

They may agree, but I don't... Yu Dazhang muttered to himself.

Within the system, everything had to follow organizational procedures — you couldn't just get promoted on a whim because someone took a liking to you.

And they even reserved a position for him.

You dare leave it open, but I don't dare take it... Yu Dazhang waved his hand again:

"Polite refusal."

"Why?" The Captain looked genuinely puzzled.

"That's not the position I want." Yu Dazhang said with a wry smile:

"Besides, the Deputy Captain position isn't very auspicious."

Not auspicious? Hearing those three words, the Captain couldn't help but glare at him.

The inauspiciousness was something you created yourself.

Seeing that Yu Dazhang wouldn't budge, he had to settle for the next best thing:

"I can see you're dead set on staying at Hongkou Sub-bureau. How about this — if one day you want a change of scenery, come to me. I promise I'll fight for a good position for you."

"Po—" Yu Dazhang opened his mouth, then finally just nodded:

"Alright, when the time comes, you'll be the first place I consider going."

Hard to refuse such warm hospitality... Yu Dazhang felt too embarrassed to refuse again.

Still, he genuinely did feel the Deputy Captain position was a bit inauspicious.

He'd wanted to advise the Captain to go pray at a temple, but then thought — in his past life, even the most famous abbot in the country had been arrested by the police.

Before that, a patriotic entrepreneur who only spent fifty thousand yuan a year had his ancestral graves collapse too.

There really aren't many genuine things left in this world.

Meanwhile.

Province N.

In the provincial bureau's meeting room, Captain Hua was listening to the task force's briefing.

"The number of people has now increased to twelve."

One officer said:

"According to the factory owner's confession, the other party took people away under the pretext of borrowing them, and never returned them. Since the deadline hadn't arrived, they didn't press for them back."

Another officer immediately added:

"That so-called factory was actually just a shell company — the legal representative was a stand-in paid to fill the role."

"They called it a garment processing factory, but there wasn't even a single sewing machine inside. Those people just hung up a sign at the factory entrance and went through the motions."

Nearly four months had passed since the enslavement case, but it still wasn't fully wrapped up.

Yu Dazhang had only experienced the case-solving process here back then — after solving the case came the case-handling, meaning the police conducting a full review of the case.

The difficulty of this enslavement case lay with those enslaved mentally disabled individuals.

First, they had to verify their identities, then have family members come to claim them. Whether they would continue working at the current factory depended on the families' wishes.

And the problem arose at the family-claiming stage.