Chapter 500: Just Like That

Jiangfuzhen's banquet followed the principle of "everyone who can come, come," emphasizing liveliness and harmony.

When normal people hold a banquet, usually one person from each family attends, and at the same time, they bring a gift. Jiangfuzhen didn't have this rule. He allowed one gift per family, but any number of people could come.

"Allowed" meant that Jiangfuzhen's gift table usually didn't have a bookkeeper. If people wanted to bring a gift, they just stuffed it into the gift table. If they didn't stuff it, it didn't matter; they could just walk up to the table with their heads held high. No one checked, and no one asked.

As for why a gift table was set up, it was to facilitate those who brought more gifts to write their names on the red envelopes.

There were many rich people in Jiang Village, and there were many particular people. For example, Jiang Yuan's Eighth Great-Uncle, who was Jiangfuzhen's Eighth Uncle, liked to bring gifts to all the surrounding villages. He was old and didn't like to eat at banquets, but he loved bringing gifts, and often brought a lot, taking the joyful gazes and sincere gratitude of the banquet holders as the source of his happiness.

At most, the Eighth Great-Uncle would run to seven or eight places a day just to bring gifts. No need to worry about him not knowing where a banquet was being held; those professional banquet companies and individuals had the Eighth Great-Uncle's WeChat as a basic requirement.

Jiang Yuan and the others didn't quite understand the Eighth Great-Uncle before, but later, when live streaming became popular, everyone understood him.

Compared to rewarding female streamers online, the Eighth Great-Uncle only brought a gift of one or two thousand yuan, at most two or three thousand, but what he gained was not just the gratitude of one woman; he gained the gratitude of her whole family. Sometimes, if he was lucky, he could gain the gratitude of the ancestors of her entire clan for eighteen generations.

Jiangfuzhen's side was relatively simple. Not only did Jiang Village people come to eat, but people from outside Jiang Village could also come to eat without restriction. Anyway, there were so many seats. If they were full, the villagers who knew each other just pulled a chair and sat down.

By today, there were those who had ruined their families in Jiang Village, and there were those who came from outside to freeload. Jiangfuzhen never asked. He and Jiang Yuan had eaten from a hundred families for several years back then. Now that they were rich, they didn't care who came to eat.

Jiangfuzhen personally took the ladle and made it lively. He even set up a stage and invited local bands and singers to perform. Jiang Village's own band also went on stage. The one playing the drums was Jiang Village's entrepreneurial star, used car dealer and rental agency boss Jiang Yongxin.

Looking at Jiang Yongxin shaking his head excitedly, Jiang Yuan had a feeling of returning to college. College is the happiest time in many people's lives. If you want to add a BUFF to this time, it's that rich college students are the happiest people in the world.

After becoming an adult, the requirements to achieve the same happiness are high. At the very least, you need a halo of career success, and it's best to have a cheat.

Buzz, buzz...

Jiang Yuan's phone rang.

After picking it up and looking, it was Huang Qiangmin.

"Director Huang." Jiang Yuan's mood wasn't high, with a sense of fatigue today, not wanting to be sold.

Huang Qiangmin understood the aura Jiang Yuan was emitting and laughed: "You don't have to go out today; it's good news. You're very noisy there. Are you experiencing life in a nightclub?"

"I'm eating at a banquet in Jiang Village," Jiang Yuan said.

This answer was clearly beyond Huang Qiangmin's understanding. He paused for a few seconds, too lazy to ask again, and said: "I'll say the good news first. The special task force has applied for a First-Class Merit for you this time. If this can be evaluated, you'll be amazing. In just over a year, you've had two First-Class Merits. You're ranked nationwide."

Merit and awards in the police system are different from those in the military system. In the military, after a big battle, there might be hundreds of medals. But in the police system, the quota is relatively limited.

For example, the "Eight Tigers of Criminal Investigation" of the ministry, the most prolific ones solve more than 200 cases a year, and the big cases they solve are titled. But when it comes to merit and awards, getting two First-Class Merits a year is considered quite good.

Jiang Yuan's starting point is low, so he has more opportunities for merit and awards. Although not every case can be full, the level of attention is already very high. If it were an ordinary police officer, from the beginning of the year to the end, solving homicide cases when they should, and staying up late when participating in major cases, in the end, getting nothing is normal.

Jiang Yuan naturally followed Huang Qiangmin's words and thanked him.

Huang Qiangmin laughed and said: "Looking at their appearance, I guess they want to hold activities in Changyang City. Let's wait until there is a specific result. En, the good news is finished, let's talk about business. Director Song from the ministry has taken a fancy to you."

Jiang Yuan: "Director Song has good eyes."

"Don't worry, it's a job that doesn't require going out." Huang Qiangmin also knew that Jiang Yuan liked to stay at home, at least in Ningtai. Otherwise, he wouldn't have stayed to work at the Ningtai County Bureau.

However, people doing work don't necessarily have to have a local establishment. Units like the ministry or the provincial department can't release establishments; the establishments are already full.

Still taking the Eight Tigers of Criminal Investigation as an example, most of these eight tigers don't have ministry establishments and still hang their names and positions in their original units.

This is actually a matter of convenience for both sides. The ministry is certainly short of establishments. Even if police officers have establishments in the ministry, don't they want positions?

How many positions can the ministry have? And, how many can top-level case-solving experts reach the level of the Criminal Investigation Bureau? How many subordinates can they have?

By contrast, people staying in local police bureaus not only save the trouble of establishments, but their positions can also be improved rapidly.

It is only local police bureaus that have sufficient manpower and material resources to train talent. Later, even if it's just a captain, there are hundreds of people under him. This is a resource that is difficult to obtain in the ministry.

And when they need people, they just have to open their mouths.

Ordinary municipal bureaus and county bureaus have no resistance in this regard.

Jiang Yuan could only ask: "What kind of job doesn't require going out?"

"They have a batch of footprints and want you to read them," Huang Qiangmin said.

Jiang Yuan's footprint identification skill has been upgraded to LV5, and when he was surveying the building of the Huang Li gang, it was temporarily upgraded to LV6. Song Tiancheng is a person who knows the goods. He hasn't seen Jiang Yuan's fingerprint identification and other technologies, but he has seen Jiang Yuan's footprint identification with his own eyes, so he wants this.

Hearing that it was reading footprints, Jiang Yuan agreed. Going anywhere to read this is fine. If you don't have to go on a business trip, it won't be a waste of time.

"I'll return to the team tomorrow morning. Let's see after tomorrow morning. Can you let them send an email or something to me?" Jiang Yuan said.

"That works." Huang Qiangmin confirmed the matter and felt very relieved, then said: "I'll have someone clean up your office..."

Jiang Yuan hurriedly said: "That's not necessary..."

"Dudu..."

Huang Qiangmin had already hung up the phone.

The next day.

Jiang Yuan set an alarm early. As soon as it rang, he climbed up.

He was embarrassed to really let people clean his office. Besides, civil servants with special status should be the type with plenty of time, time to clean their offices slowly, sit down and drink tea when tired, and then get up and work hard to clean.

If there wasn't even free time to clean the office, the degree of hardship would be too high.

He got up, took a shower, changed his clothes, and came out of the room, only to see his father, Comrade Jiangfuzhen, sitting in the kitchen, observing several pieces of meat back and forth.

Jiang Yuan checked his watch. Good guy, it wasn't even 8 o'clock, and he was going to start boiling meat?

"Dad, up so early today? What are you looking at?" Jiang Yuan walked over and asked.

"Oh... the meat boiled in the past few days isn't as delicious as before." Jiangfuzhen came back to his senses, pinched the meat with his hand, and said: "I'm looking at where the problem is."

"Where is the problem?"

"The quality of this beef from Old Zhu's ranch has dropped a bit. Look at this muscle fiber; it's dropped more than one grade compared to before. I have to talk to this kid." Jiangfuzhen put down the half-cooked beef.

Jiang Yuan understood: "So, someone said the meat you made wasn't good yesterday?"

"It wasn't that it wasn't good... just not as delicious as before!" Jiangfuzhen frowned as he spoke.

"At least it's not your pot." Jiang Yuan comforted his father.

Jiangfuzhen nodded with relief, then sighed and said: "In the end, I didn't check it strictly! This Old Zhu, I have to talk to him properly!"

Jiang Yuan smiled, said a few more words, and left first. Jiangfuzhen had several ranches he was familiar with, but as for control, it was out of the question. He could probably only scold the other party until they apologized.

Jiang Yuan's Special Task Force for Accumulated Cases.

The office and desk were indeed cleaned up neatly. I don't know if it was the newcomer of this session who suffered, or if the subordinate of the special task force was picked.

Jiang Yuan didn't care about that much. He sat on his chair and turned twice, feeling the long-lost office atmosphere.

In someone else's territory, it's really not as wanton as in one's own territory.

Dong dong.

Huang Qiangmin knocked on the door and entered. Needless to say, it must be that Jiang Yuan entered the door, and someone reported to him.

Jiang Yuan wasn't surprised and stood up to tease: "Director Huang, so impatient?"

"Let me introduce you. These are two comrades from the ministry, Cui Xiaohu and Li Haochen." Huang Qiangmin didn't answer Jiang Yuan's words and introduced them quite formally.

In fact, it was so. For the Ningtai County Bureau, two cadres from the ministry, even if they looked like they had just graduated, didn't need to talk about rank; they were leaders by nature.

Jiang Yuan greeted them and said unexpectedly: "Director Huang said yesterday that he wanted to read footprints. I thought sending an email or something would be fine..."

"Because the data volume is relatively large, we brought it over." Cui Xiaohu smiled, revealing two tiger teeth. His round face looked a bit honest. He put the briefcase he was carrying on the table, opened it, and took out a hard drive.

Jiang Yuan blinked: "A hard drive of footprints?"

"That's not the case, it's a town's." Cui Xiaohu put down the hard drive and added: "It's a homicide case in the capital, which has been investigated for 3 months, and there has been no result. There is half a bloody footprint at the scene. We had already given up hope, but later Director Song saw your footprint identification and told us to try again."

Cui Xiaohu spoke quite calmly, without much expectation, nor any resistance. Speaking of which, he was also a person who had seen the world. Being in the ministry, he had seen and known countless experts from all walks of life. He didn't think highly of Jiang Yuan's ability, but since the leader had ordered it, he would do it properly.

"Fine, let's try it." Jiang Yuan was also very calm. Footprints, well, it's just like that. ===== CHAPTER 501 =====