South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

Chapter 187 Hou Sanjin Returns to the Compound for the New Year

In the following period of time, Yuan Mu successively met with Director Zhao of the Personnel Department, Director Lin of the Public Security Department, and Director Liu who has now been promoted to a department of the Railway Public Security Bureau. These were all people he was familiar with at the time.

Without exception, these people treat me very well and are very polite. This is the influence that fame brings.

On January 22nd, Yuan Mu took a train to Harbin. He came to Harbin to meet Zhang Meng, who was his first benefactor. Without his recommendation, he would not be able to return to Ningyang Criminal Police Team as a criminal policeman.

If he had not been a criminal policeman, he would not have been able to solve so many major cases. He was successively promoted to deputy captain and captain. It can be said that Zhang Meng was his guide in his career, and naturally he has to thank him very much.

That night, Yuan Mu went to Zhang Meng's house, and the two drank and talked a lot together.

Prison is actually not a good place. It is very difficult to achieve political achievements and it is also difficult to get promoted. Yuan Mu also advised him to find connections to transfer himself out and take up a position in other places.

Zhang Meng is at the section level. If he could be transferred to a local police station to serve as the chief of a police station, or even as the deputy chief, that would be fine. At least there would be hope.

Zhang Meng has been the warden of the prison for many years, but there has been no sign of promotion, which may be related to his personality.

Zhang Meng doesn't like to run around for connections, nor does he want to trouble his former comrades or superiors. In his own words, he is quite satisfied with his current position. He is not busy every day and is very leisurely. He drinks tea and reads the newspaper and the day goes by.

This way he will have plenty of time to spend with his wife and children. If he is transferred out, he will inevitably be busy and will not have as much time.

Although he said so, Yuan Mu could see from his eyes that he was somewhat unwilling, but there was no good way now. If one day he had the ability, he would help him.

Zhang Meng is a very capable person, at least he has strong execution ability, but I am powerless at the moment.

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On the morning of February 3, the day before New Year's Eve, several people appeared in the compound. One of them was wearing a thick cotton coat, a scarf, and a dog-skin hat. Behind him were two people each carrying two or three woven bags in their hands.

"We're here. This is the place." The leader stopped and looked back.

"Okay, then we'll put the things here for you, look there..." The two of them put the bag on the ground with a smile and then rubbed their hands.

"How could we be short of your money? Here it is!" The leader glanced at the two men and then took out a wad of money from his pocket, counted out a few bills and handed them to the two men.

"Oh! Thank you, thank you! Happy New Year!" The two men's eyes lit up when they received the money and then they thanked him repeatedly. Then, the two men holding the money turned around and left.

They were also very lucky. They were strolling in front of the train station when they met the other party. The other party said that he wanted to hire them to help him carry things. They would pay five dollars each when they arrived at the destination. How could they miss such a good opportunity? They all came happily to carry the things.

"Hey, who is this?" Just then, Mrs. Wu came out of the greenhouse with a basket of vegetables in her hand. She saw the man and walked up to him and asked.

"Mrs. Wu, it's me, Hou Sanjin!" The man laughed when he saw Mrs. Wu, then took off his scarf and laughed.

"Oh my god, it's Ma Jian's godfather!" Mrs. Wu recognized who it was and burst into laughter.

"Well, it's not the New Year yet, and I'm alone here, so it's boring. So I thought I'd come here to see my godson. I haven't seen him for a long time." Hou Sanjin said with a smile.

"It's a blessing for Ma Jian to have a godfather like you. You always think about him and buy him so many things as soon as he comes. I think you bought a lot this time!" Mrs. Wu said, looking at the six woven bags on the ground.

"Hi, it's just some little stuff. We'll talk later. I'll go check out my brother Yuan first." Hou Sanjin said as he leaned over and picked up the six woven bags with some difficulty.

"Okay, then go quickly, Xiao Mu is at home." Mrs. Wu said with a smile.

In the compound, except Yuan Mu, Wang Xin and the Lao Ma family, no one else knew Hou Sanjin's true identity, so they got along very naturally.

"Knock knock knock!" Hou Sanjin knocked on the door when he arrived at Yuan Mu's house.

"Who is it?" Yuan Mu's voice sounded soon, and then the door opened.

"Brother Yuan, it's me!" Hou Sanjin laughed immediately when he saw Yuan Mu.

"Oh, didn't you say you wouldn't come back this year?" Yuan Mu was a little surprised to see that the other party. Hou Sanjin had written to him before, saying that he was too busy in Shenzhen and might not come back this year. Why is he back now?

"Hi! I miss you guys. I have made all the arrangements in Shenzhen. No problem." Hou Sanjin smiled.

"I see you miss your child. Okay, come in quickly." Yuan Mu smiled and shook his head, then reached out and picked up a few woven bags and went into the house.

"Come sit down and warm yourself by the fire. It's quite cold outside, right?" Yuan Mu pointed at the stove.

"That's right. I'm used to living in Shenzhen. I can't stand coming back home all of a sudden." Hou Sanjin shuddered as he spoke.

Yuan Mu poured him a cup of tea and handed it to him.

"Warm yourself up first, and then we'll go to Lao Ma's house."

"Okay." Hou Sanjin took the teacup with a smile and started drinking from it in small sips.

Then Hou Sanjin seemed to remember something, put the teacup aside, then reached into his arms and took out an envelope and an account book.

"Brother Yuan, this is my account book for this year. Everything is recorded very clearly. This envelope contains your dividends. Please count them."

Yuan Mu was stunned for a moment and then started laughing.

"Looking at your performance, I guess you must have made a lot of money this year, right?" As he said that, he took the things, but he only took the envelope and not the account book.

"It's true that I made a lot of money, but it was all thanks to your financial support. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to grow so fast. Also, you didn't want to share the dividends, so I was able to reinvest and expand the business. Otherwise, my factory wouldn't have grown to this scale now."

"Okay, I won't look at the account book. I'll keep the dividends. I helped you out of compassion. I don't take money very seriously." Yuan Mu waved his hand.

Hou Sanjin's hand holding the account book froze.

"Brother Yuan, you should take a look. After all, you have a share in this industry."

"Forget it, I believe you, Sanjin. You know in China, money is not the most important thing. Do you know what the most important thing is?" Yuan Mu showed a smile.

"What?" Hou Sanjin was stunned.

"Power! Power! In China, power is the most important thing. No matter how rich you are, you can't compare to those with power!" Yuan Mu smiled while clenching his fists.