Binjiang Police Affairs-Chapter 398 - 283: Welcoming the Newcomer

Han Yu was very busy, busy working.

Early in the morning, he took Zhu Baogen and Xiao Yu to the warehouse at Bailong Port Pier, moving out the rollers and spiral stairs that his master had welded for the Criminal Investigation Fourth Squad years ago to install them on the river embankment.

After lunch, like collecting scrap, they went to a recycling station and bought a truckload of foam boards and plastic bottles, which, with the help of Jin Weiguo, Old Jia, and others, were packed into snakeskin bags, tied up with iron wires, fastened with steel wires, and used to build wave bridges in the shallow water area near the river.

Working in the shallow area, boats were indispensable.

had a deep draft and couldn’t make it there.

had a shallow draft but was given to the Linghai Police Bureau during the division.

The water security checkpoint set up at Bailong Port lock couldn’t be without a law enforcement boat, it had been taken by Old Zhang and Old Yan to the Bailong River, so they could only borrow the traffic boat from Bailong Port Passenger Pier.

While he was busily engaged in these tasks, a Volga sedan slowly drove up to the river embankment.

"Director Yu, Director Tong has sent someone over!"

Salted Fish, now a leader, had been repeatedly reminded by Uncle Li, Uncle Ding, and Uncle Zhang not to address him as before. Xiao Yu thought it made a lot of sense, though it felt a bit awkward to switch.

Han Yu saw him looking towards the shore, and subconsciously raised his head.

Just as Xiao Yu said, Director Tong stepped out of the car, stood on the river embankment, and waved over. Two new colleagues were busy with their luggage, and another new colleague was curiously looking at the dunship.

Jia Yongqiang was on duty answering calls on the dunship that afternoon and also saw the activity onshore; he quickly made his way up the floating pier to greet them.

Director Tong had participated in the commissioning ceremonies of the dunships, law enforcement rescue boats of the Port Supervision Bureau, and the inauguration of the water firefighting brigade of the sub-bureau, he knew Jia Yongqiang, smiling as he looked at the river and asked, "Director Jia, what are Salted Fish and Xiao Yu busy with?"

"They’re building a wave bridge for training, as your firefighting team needs to practice."

"All by themselves?"

"Your sub-bureau didn’t give them any money, who else but themselves can do it?"

Jia Yongqiang took a cigarette from Director Tong, then continued explaining, "The dunship has all kinds of tools onboard, and they know all the skills—mechanical, electrical; they even fix minor issues with dunship and 001 themselves."

Director Dong realized and was about to introduce the three newcomers when Jia Yongqiang’s walkie-talkie transmitted Han Yu’s voice: "Director Tong, why don’t you come aboard for a while, we should be almost done in half an hour."

"Sure, go ahead with your work."

"By the way, the dormitory for the new colleagues is ready, they can settle in first."

"Okay, keep an eye on safety while working on water."

"Don’t worry, the water is shallow here, no one would drown even if they fell in."

...

Fang Guoya finally heard the voice of his direct superior, but he was too far away to see what he looked like.

Curiously, he turned back to look at the rollers and spiral stairs installed in the morning, then at the wave bridge on the river that rose and fell with the surge, thinking about organizing firefighting training sessions—but why set up all these when they’re not training pilots.

Zhang Ping felt a deep connection seeing the dunship and couldn’t help asking, "Director Tong, is Bailong Port Passenger Pier far from here?"

Director Tong, while walking towards the dunship, smiled and asked, "Haven’t you visited?"

"No, our passenger ships used to sail on the Yangtze River Mainline; they didn’t come to North Branch Channel or Bailong Port."

"The passenger pier at Bailong Port is about two kilometers east from here."

Dock fire safety is very important.

Director Tong inspects the fire safety of the port every month.

Thinking that the firefighting team depended on the support of Bailong Port Police Station, and that the deputy director of the police station also served as the instructor for the water firefighting team, he quickly asked, "Director Jia, can your walkie-talkie reach Bailong Port Police Station?"

"Yes."

"Please call Director Liu and Director Jiang for me, tell them I’ve brought the new comrades and we’ll have a brief meeting shortly, please ask them to attend."

"Sure."

Gong Jian’s attention had been on the traffic boat on the river the whole time.

His senior and future direct superior were working on the traffic boat, and it’s said the superior’s fiancée not only worked at Bailong Port but also graduated from the Shipping School.

With his senior and senior sister looking out for him, he envisioned smooth sailing days ahead.

He was both excited and happy, silently resolving to work hard, avoid embarrassing his seniors and alma mater.

At that moment, Han Xiangning returned on her light motorcycle, busy arranging the new dormitory.

Upon arrival, she saluted Director Tong and then helped her fiancé settle the three new subordinates.

"The dormitories are cleaned, one for each person. Boss Fang, Brother Zhang, Xiao Gong, you can discuss among yourselves which room to take."

"It doesn’t matter, any room will do."

"You have to place your belongings somewhere first, though."

Han Xiangning smiled slightly, then added, "The water room is over here, kitchenette on the left; although there’s no canteen on the ship anymore, gas stoves and utensils are still available. You can cook instant noodles or warm up food brought from home.

On the right is the shower area; we installed a solar water heater last year, so you can shower directly when the weather is good; in bad weather, you’ll need to heat the water first. This electric water heater was also added last year, no need to use the coal stove to boil water like in the past."

Director Tong peeked inside and turned back with a smile, saying, "Not bad conditions here."

Fang Guoya was somewhat distracted, Zhang Ping quickly said, "Yeah, even better than the conditions on the passenger ships."

Gong Jian’s attention was captured by the spacious and smooth "old antique"—the floating pier, almost three times the size of a dunship on the surface of the water, looked so familiar.

It wasn’t until Han Xiangning urged them to bring the luggage inside the dormitory that he snapped back to reality, unable to resist asking, "Boss Han, this floating pier has been around for a while, right?"

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