After Hou Jun explained, Chang Kun finally understood that the gun rope was the rope used to fasten a gun.

Railway police officers always carry their guns on their belts to prevent them from being stolen.

These days, even the police are so cautious, which shows how outrageous the public security situation is.

Lei Guohong walked ahead, leading Chang Kun and Hou Jun to the station waiting room.

"Chang Kun, this is the waiting room. Our main task here is to maintain order and catch thieves."

Hou Jun added from the side, "Junior brother, as long as we wear these clothes, basically no thief will dare to cause trouble. Catching thieves is the job of the plainclothes officers."

"Brother Monkey, could we please stop calling you Junior Brother? It feels a little strange..." Chang Kun felt a bit embarrassed being called Junior Brother all the time.

At that time, Journey to the West was not as popular as it is in later generations, and people were unaware of the joke about Monkey King and his second disciple.

Hou Jun looked at Chang Kun with surprise upon hearing this: "Oh, is my junior brother shy? Okay, I'll call you Chang Kun from now on."

Chang Kun nodded. That was more like it; he certainly didn't want to be the second junior brother...

The three of them moved from the waiting room to the platform. Chang Kun sensed a number of pickpockets and thought to himself, "This is a good place to train my skills. I can get skills by catching pickpockets. That's great."

However, on his first day here, he wasn't thinking about showing off. Since he had been transferred here, there would be plenty of time in the future.

When Lei Guohong is in his office, he always has a smile on his face, and he looks like a kind and gentle uncle.

But once he entered the platform, his expression immediately turned stern, making him intimidating.

"Junior brother, whether you're on the platform, in the waiting room, or on the train, you must keep a straight face and never smile. If you smile, people won't be afraid of you," Hou Jun whispered to Chang Kun, imparting his secret.

Chang Kun was exasperated; he was told not to call his junior brother "Junior Brother"...

"You! What's in that bag? Open it and see!" Lei Guohong, who was patrolling ahead, suddenly walked up to a bald man and stared at him with sharp eyes.

The bald man was stunned. He was waiting for the train when the police officer suddenly wanted to open his bag.

All I can say is that these days, don't expect any freedom or human rights. If they don't like you, they can search your bag and body at will.

That bald guy deserves it; who would shave their head so bald and shiny?

"Comrade, I...I didn't do anything!"

"I told you to open the bag, what are you nagging about!"

The bald man dared not say another word, and tremblingly opened the burlap sack at his feet: "Boss, it's just some scraps of cloth. I was thinking of taking it back to sew a pair of pants for my kid at home."

Lei Guohong gestured for Hou Jun to step forward and inspect.

The scraps of cloth were scattered all over the ground. Hou Jun carefully examined them, then turned to Lei Guohong and shook his head, indicating that he had found nothing.

He checked the bald man's pockets, the corners of his clothes, collar, and shoes, but still found nothing unusual.

At this moment, Lei Guohong lit a cigarette, slowly took a puff, and observed the bald man's expression. Seeing that he showed no sign of guilt, he finally asked, "Why did you shave your head? Where do you make a living?"

The bald man was taken aback, touched his bald head, and said softly, "Boss, I... I'm balding. I really didn't have much hair left, so I shaved it all off."

"Pfft!" Hou Jun burst out laughing.

He had just said not to laugh on the platform, but it's no wonder he couldn't help it; nobody would have guessed that he shaved his head because he was balding.

"Ahem!" Lei Guohong's face turned slightly red. He had originally wanted to find a typical example for Chang Kun to see, but he didn't expect to make things awkward for himself.

"Alright, you can pack up yourself. Be careful, there are a lot of thieves around here." He gave them a word of advice and then hurried on his way.

Chang Kun suppressed a laugh and followed Lei Guohong's steps.

After wandering around the platform for a while, the three of them returned to the waiting room.

"Alright, be serious, you're never serious!" Seeing Hou Jun still winking at Chang Kun, Lei Guohong scolded him with a smile, though he himself couldn't help but laugh.

Just then, a series of sobbing and crying sounds came from the side.

The three turned to look and saw an elderly woman in her fifties or sixties with gray hair, lying on the ground, tears streaming down her face. Her throat seemed to have become hoarse from crying, and her sobs could barely be heard.

"Sigh, what's happened this time?" Lei Guohong muttered, turning around involuntarily.

Hou Jun also stopped smiling and followed, not forgetting to grumble to Chang Kun: "Everywhere is having a hard time right now. We see situations like this at the train station every day. It's only because our master is kind-hearted that he's meddling in other people's business."

"Grandma, what's wrong?" Lei Guohong walked up to her and asked.

The old woman looked up through her tearful eyes and saw that they were three police officers. She quickly got up and said in a flustered voice, "Comrades, don't send me away. I'll leave as soon as I find what I need."

"Don't worry, no one's kicking you out. What's going on?"

Perhaps because she had been sitting on the ground for too long, the old lady stumbled when she stood up and was helped up by Lei Guohong.

"Thank you, comrade. I saw quite a few people being kicked out today. I thought..."

Lei Guohong and Hou Jun coughed lightly. The waiting room was not a place for migrant workers or disaster victims. The railway police often did this to clear out people who looked like refugees from the waiting room.

The whole country is making great strides forward, how can the capital city have such a nuisance?!

"Grandma, what's the matter? If there's nothing else, we're leaving!" The old lady rambled on and on without getting to the point, and Hou Jun got a little anxious. He and his master always played good cop and bad cop.

"Hey, I'll tell you, I'll tell you..." The old lady's logic was unclear, and it took her a long time to explain herself.

To put it simply, in a typical theft case, the old lady lost thirty yuan, fifty jin of grain coupons, and her train ticket in the waiting room.

These banknotes were borrowed from her relatives in Beijing, just like Granny Liu.

The family relied on these banknotes to survive during this famine year. After losing them, the old lady was so angry that she wanted to kill herself.

With no money and no tickets, the old lady had nowhere to go. She hadn't eaten or drunk anything all day and was searching everywhere for the money and tickets she had lost.

But those banknotes were clearly stolen. Where could an old woman find them?

After listening to the old lady's story, Lei Guohong sighed deeply.

He wanted to help, but he was powerless to do so.

There are countless petty thieves in the station waiting room; where can one find the old lady's lost belongings?

"Monkey, go to the state-run restaurant across the street and buy some cornbread for the old lady." There wasn't much else he could do. Seeing the old lady looking weak and listless, Lei Guohong felt annoyed. He encountered these kinds of troublesome things every day, and he couldn't help her all of them.

Hou Jun agreed and quickly left.

"Auntie, where did you lose your money?" Chang Kun walked up to the old lady, sensing the eight or nine pickpockets in the waiting room, wondering if any of them had stolen from her.

"Apprentice, there's no need to ask. The money and food coupons have been lost for a day. Where else can we look for them?"

Lei Guohong patted Jian Chu on the shoulder. When he first joined the Public Security Bureau, he was just like Chang Kun, eager to solve all the problems. But over the years, he has come to realize that some things are beyond human control.

Upon hearing Lei Guohong's words, the old lady felt despair. Her body swayed, and tears streamed down her face again.

Chang Kun smiled slightly:

"Lost for a day, and it's already gone? If we catch all the thieves, we'll find it, won't we?"

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