Chapter 61: Special Talents of the Security Team

  Recruitment of safety group members, I spent only three days to complete it. This time I recruited a total of 55 people, except for the original 10 student union members, the other personnel were all voluntary students from various departments and grades who joined our safety group. In addition, three teachers also wanted to join our safety group, but were politely declined by me. Teachers are generally married with many things to do and not much time to patrol.

  Du Yifei and Wang Huaming officially became the deputy leaders of the security team, with Du Yifei managing the female members and Wang Huaming managing the male members. This recruitment brought in 40 male members and 15 female members. After discussing with Du Yifei and Wang Huaming, I decided to divide all personnel into eleven teams, each consisting of five members. Du Yifei was responsible for coordinating three female teams, while Wang Huaming took charge of the other eight male teams.

  We consider dividing the team like this because there are places such as girls' dormitories where boys should not enter, we let the girls' squad be responsible for patrolling these places, and other places will be taken care of by the boys' squad.

  I was also responsible for liaison with Yihwa University, so I also became a shopkeeper who only took care of the overall direction and handed over all the details to Du Yifei and Wang Huaming.

  Du Yifei was more meticulous, she counted the strengths of all members of the safety group and assigned them tasks. For example, Ma Feifei, who had been working in the student union for a long time, was very thoughtful in assigning work tasks, so Du Yifei let her be the captain of a girls' team, responsible for coordinating the work of that team.

  Du Yifei's meticulous statistics made me realize that many of my classmates had special talents. Some of them were physically fit and suitable for patrolling remote areas; some were good at observing and could serve as a scout for a small team; some were skilled in interrogation techniques and could serve as backup investigators; some were good at writing and could serve as recorders; some were skilled in sketching and could serve as portrait artists for suspicious characters... In short, with Du Yifei's statistics, the work of our security team went smoothly, and everyone was able to make contributions in their area of expertise, making the most of their talents.

  I have to admire Du Yifei's meticulousness, and I also have to admit that she is doing a great job as the deputy team leader. So I was very reassured to hand over the work of the girls' team to Du Yifei. Of course, Wang Huaming is also very good, he sets an example for everything, takes the lead, and plays a leading role.

  After the safety team's work got on track, I contacted Yi Hua University. The contact information was given to me by Secretary Sun from Zhou Zifan's office, with only a phone number and no name of the contact person.

  So when I called over, I directly said: "Hello, I'm Jin Cang. May I ask which teacher of Yi Hua University are you?"

  The person who answered the phone seemed stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise: "Are you Jin Cang? I...I'm Liu Yifang, do you still remember me?"

  I remembered the young teacher Liu Yifang from Yi Hua University, whom I had met before, and smiled: "It's Teacher Liu, of course I remember you. I didn't expect that it would be you who contacted our school, that's great, familiar people make things easier to handle, haha..."

  In my memory, Liu Yifang was a very beautiful woman, full of confidence, with a great figure, but somewhat cold, I've never seen her smile.

  Liu Yifang said, "The person in charge of contacting your school this year is not me. I just happened to be here on business and answered the phone for someone else. But don't worry, that person is also an acquaintance of yours, and it will be easy to get things done."

  I caught the hint of laughter in her words and asked: "Which acquaintance is it?"

  Liu Yifang paused for a moment, as if handing the phone to someone else. I heard the voice coming from inside the phone: "It's me, Jin Cang, do you still remember me?"

  I furrowed my brow and thought for a while before saying: "Teacher Li Zheng?"

  The speaker smiled: "You still remember me, that's great. Last time thanks to your help, otherwise I might have left school long ago..."

  I smiled: "Teacher Li is too polite, those are things I should have done."

  Li Zheng, I have a deep impression of him. After the incident with the students from Yi Hua University, he was so scared and kept saying that he would be expelled. I also thought so at that time, but unexpectedly, he is still in school now, and it seems like he has even been "promoted".

  Li Zheng said, "Our two schools have always been sister schools, and you and I are old friends, so this year we want to organize several activities between the two schools. I've made a preliminary plan, which I'll send to you later. Take a look and give me your opinions or suggestions."

  I responded with a "good", just about to speak, when Li Zheng said again: "I plan to visit your school next week and bring some things over. Do you have time next week? I'd like to have a good chat with you then."

  "I thought for a moment: 'Next week should be fine, let me know in advance when you come, and I'll arrange the time to wait for you.'"

  Li Zheng smiled: "Alright then, let's talk about it again when we meet next week."

  I put down the phone and looked at Du Yifei who was walking towards me, smiling and asking her: "Is there something?"

  Du Yifei shook her head, but immediately nodded: "It's like this, two members of our female squad can't participate in the patrol today due to physical reasons, so I came to tell you."

  I stood up, pointing to the chair and said: "You sit down, I'll pour you a glass of water. Such small things you can handle yourself, no need to tell me. If there's still a shortage of personnel, I happen to have a few on hand right now that can be temporarily assigned to your girls' team."

  Du Yifei sat down: "Is there anyone else who wants to join our security team? It seems that your face is indeed big enough."

  I handed the water to Du Yifei and picked up a few files: "These are the students who have applied to join the security team in the past few days. Take a look, if there's anyone suitable, temporarily assign them to your girls' squad."

  Du Yifei took a glance and stood up, saying: "I still have class this afternoon, I'll leave first. Are you going back to eat lunch? Or we can go together to the newly opened Hot Pot City outside to eat hot pot?"

  "I'm busy saying: 'Don't go yet, I still have something to say.' After a pause, looking at Du Yifei sitting back, I continued to say: 'It's like this. I took a look at the files of the people recruited this time, and there is one who used to be a soldier, and even a special forces veteran who came to school after retiring from the military. I want to arrange this person to the management layer of the security group, do you have any suggestions on this?'"

  Du Yifei frowned and said, "I know this person, he's indeed a retired soldier who came back to school for further studies. He's a local, so he knows more about local things. I think we can let him be our liaison officer. Firstly, he can coordinate well with the outside people on various matters. Secondly, his identity can also play a certain deterrent role - outsiders in society aren't as easy to talk to as us students."

  I nodded: "Then let's assign him to your and Wang Huaming's office, okay? By the way, your offices have been assigned by the school, just next to mine. You go take a look first, if anything is missing, I'll contact the school logistics."

  Du Yifei was overjoyed: "That's great, I've been worried about this matter. With an office, we have a base for activities, and then we can truly exercise our rights and fulfill our obligations."

  I laughed: "Sounds good, but I still don't know what you're thinking? Alright, you go ahead and busy yourself, I'll be going to class soon too."

  Du Yifei left, and I also need to prepare for class. Although I'm very busy now, I still want to complete my studies, so I still attend classes every day as usual, not daring to slack off.

  When I entered the classroom, many classmates had already arrived. I found a seat and sat down, opening my notebook and textbook, just about to take a look at the content of this lesson, when I heard Xiaoli's voice coming over: "Jin Cang, I have some good news to tell you."

  I glanced at Little Li sitting next to me and smiled, "What's the good news? Judging from your excited look, isn't there a new school beauty emerging?"

  Xiao Lizi widened his eyes: "How did you know? I'll tell you, since Du Yifei was taken down by you... hey, why are you hitting me?"

  Xiao Li's speech was interrupted, he stood up angrily and was about to explode, but after seeing the person who interrupted him, he immediately sat down and pretended to read a book.

  As I turned my head, it was Li Huanhuan standing behind Little Li, now holding a mobile phone ready to hit Little Li's head.

  Xiao Li was too afraid to move, so I had to speak up for him: "Why do you want to hit him? Don't be too excessive, or we guys will riot."

  Li Huanhuan hadn't spoken yet, but Xiao Lizi hastily said: "Hit me, it's okay, I can take it..."

  "I feel very strange: 'You little boy has lost the face of a man, you didn't even mention Huanhuan sister... Are you saying that the new school flower is not Huanhuan sister?'"

  Xiao Lizi made a bitter face and said: "You guessed it, the new school flower is indeed Li Huanhuan... This isn't what I said, it's what everyone voted for online, it's already been announced on the campus network..."

  Li Huanhuan snorted and said: "A bunch of boring guys! Jin Cang, don't bother with them, they're just a group of idle people talking nonsense..."

  I smiled and said, "It's not nonsense either. The eyes of the masses are indeed sharp. You were already outstanding to begin with, being elected as the school flower is a matter of course."

  Li Huanhuan pushed Xiao Lizi to one side and sat down beside me, looking at me very gently: "You also think I'm pretty, can be the school flower? Then I'll admit that I'm the school flower, hehe..."

  I felt that Little Li and some other classmates were staring at me with a very intimidating gaze, so I hastily said: "Don't do this, you'll make it difficult for me to take a step in school in the future."

  Li Huan smiled and said, "Don't worry. With me around, who dares to bully you? Besides, didn't Du Yifei also give up being the school flower because of your influence? You can actually help me out, so I won't have to constantly pay attention to my image and go against my own will."

  I saw that Li Huanhuan didn't plan to let me off easily, so I said: "That's very simple, just find a boy to help you and it'll be fine."

  Li Huanhuan looked puzzled and hastily asked me: "What does it mean?"

  I lowered my voice and laughed: "You go find a boyfriend, then let everyone know, I guarantee that no one will treat you as the school flower again."

  Li Huan was taken aback for a moment, then also chuckled softly: "Then I'll find you, anyway... you know what I mean."

  I hastily glanced around at my classmates, seeing many of them staring at me, and said: "Do you want to kill me? One Du Yifei has already made many classmates hate me, and with your words added on top, who knows if they'll flay me alive. This joke can't be played, I still want to live a few more years!"

  Li Huan smiled slyly: "Then you just watch and do it. It's just that I can't go home for lunch, so you'd better behave yourself, or else I'll have to tell others that you're my boyfriend!"

  "I'll bring you lunch at noon, so you don't have to go out to eat. How's that, is my performance okay?"

  Li Huanhuan smiled and stopped talking, turned around and left the classroom. She wasn't in our major, so she didn't need to be here listening to class with us either.

  Xiao Lizi then came over and said to me: "Jin Cang, you're really something, daring to simultaneously pursue two school flowers at the same time, tsk tsk..."

  I raised my hand to hit Little Li, scaring him into a quick dodge. I whispered menacingly to him: "If you dare say that again, I'll definitely get Li Huanhuan to come over and beat you up."

  "Hey, don't do that, we're brothers, you can't betray me like that." He paused for a moment, then smiled and said: "I didn't realize it before, but you're actually a ladies' man!"

  I frowned and didn't speak, and Xiao Li continued to say: "Not making a sound is equivalent to admitting it, haha... Jin Cang, you little kid don't be shy anymore, getting the school flower is an unparalleled honor. If it were me, I would have let the whole world know long ago, but I wouldn't choose to be silent like you."

  "I stopped him from speaking: 'Don't say anything more, the teacher is coming.'"

  Xiao Li immediately shut his mouth, but still looked like he wanted to say something.

  I no longer pay attention to him and prepare to start class. The teacher is a new professional lecturer, who teaches very vividly, and we all like this new teacher.

  This class is two hours long. After the teacher finishes speaking, he leaves and we are left to study on our own in the classroom so that it's easier for us to remember what we've learned.

  It was then that Little Lee had the opportunity to speak with me: "My grandfather has arrived, he wants to see you after roll call. When do you have time? Can you go with me to meet my grandfather?"

  I remember the old man I met at the Gathering Fragrance Pavilion, who was also Little Li's grandfather. At that time, Little Li's grandfather was leaning on a cane, and the top of the cane had a very large cat's eye stone, which left a deep impression on me.

  So I laughed and said, "How about tonight? Tonight I'll go back with you to your home, then we can meet your grandfather. By the way, what's your grandfather's name? I couldn't possibly keep calling him 'grandfather' all the time."

  Xiao Lizi fell silent for a moment, then finally said: "My grandfather's name is Li Xinfu, you can also call him 'grandfather'. We are brothers, isn't my grandfather your grandfather too?"

  I nodded: "That's it, but I know the old man's name is not bad either. By the way, what does your grandfather do? Why bring bodyguards when going out? The four black-clad men last time were all your grandfather's bodyguards, right?"

  Xiao Li nodded and said slowly, "They are my grandfather's bodyguards. Actually, my grandfather is the head of our family... This is not a legend, it's all true, you'll understand when I finish speaking."

  "We were originally from the capital city, and our family was divided into four branches. I'm a descendant of the third branch. To put it simply, my great-grandfather's generation had four brothers, and they split the family into four branches. My grandfather is the head of our Li family's four branches, and all important family matters must be decided by him. Every family has its own rules, which every descendant must follow. One of the rules states that every adult member of the family must work for the family for 15 years. Although my father is my grandfather's biological son, he still had to follow the family rules, so he was sent here to work for the company. It just so happens that my father has almost completed his task and will receive compensation from the family, after which he can return to the capital city."

  I'm a bit puzzled: "It's already this era, why are you still living in a family-style way?"

  Little Lee fell silent for a moment, then looked at me and said: "Perhaps you don't know, now many big families are still living like us, in a family-style life. However, the current family-style life is different from before. Take us as an example, apart from being raised uniformly by the family when we were young, after growing up, we have to work for the family for 15 years, everything else is already the same as you. We have our own small families and our own private lives, and after working for the family for 15 years, we can work or start our own business on our own, at that time, everything is free..."

  I think I've figured out the lifestyle of Xiao Lizi and his family. To put it simply, every person is raised by their family during school, then works for the family for 15 years after graduation. After that, they're free to do whatever they want, and the family no longer restricts them. It's like being a member of the working class, where you're managed by your company or unit during work hours, but are free to arrange your own schedule after work.

  Such a family lifestyle is also keeping up with the times.

  Xiao Li's words were not yet finished: "My grandfather is because you saved me, so decided to recruit you to join our family, become a member of our family with a different surname. Our family's members with different surnames can enjoy the same treatment as us, and must also follow our family rules. Of course, if you are not willing to be bound by the family rules, you can also negotiate conditions with our family before joining."

  Xiao Li said, looking at me with a face full of expectation. I didn't even think about it and refused his proposal: "I won't join your family. I'm a person who fears being constrained, your family rules don't suit me. Besides, I don't want to join the lifestyle of your family either, I've already gotten used to living freely. Please tell your grandfather not to mention this matter again."

  Xiao Li Zi said somewhat disappointedly: "I will respect your opinion. So are you still going to my house tonight to see my grandfather?"

  I was originally going to refuse, but seeing Xiao Li's expectant face, I could only say: "I'll go tonight, don't worry."

  Xiao Li was a bit happy and said "I'll wait for you tonight", then stood up and prepared to leave the classroom.

  I looked at the time and it was almost up, so I left the classroom with him and came directly to my office in the library. My office, which is actually just a activity room, but sounds better that way.

  At this time, Du Yifei had already come with Wang Huaming and said to me: "The big group leader is finally back, I'll tell you some good news, we've found another very capable person, come take a look, this is her resume."

  I let out an "oh" and took the file folder handed over by Du Yifei, just glanced at it, and couldn't help but exclaim: "That's too amazing, actually a world champion?"

  Du Yifei smiled and said, "I didn't expect that our school would have a world champion come to study here. Jin Cang, this girl named Gan Yun is the gymnastics champion, she's only twenty years old this year, because of an injury she can no longer participate in competitions, so she retired and came to our school as a freshman. Gan Yun's physical quality is very good, completely meeting our requirements, why don't you just recruit her?"

  "Will her injury affect her ability to act?"

  Du Yifei shook her head: "No. She just can't participate in gymnastics competitions anymore, but compared to ordinary people, she's still very impressive."

  "I nodded: 'Then let's hire her. You handle the specifics.'"

  Du Yifei left happily, but Wang Huaming said: "I also received an application from a male classmate. This classmate is not ordinary, take a look and see if you want to accept him too."

  I feel that our school is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden, one by one, classmates jump out, and they are all very powerful characters. After reading the file and resume of this classmate mentioned by Wang Huaming, I have to admit that our school is indeed a place where dragons and tigers are hidden. This classmate turned out to be the two-time national high school long-distance running champion, also a national reserve athlete, plus a member of the amateur mountaineering association, etc., looking like a sports genius.

  I won't let someone like that go, so I immediately had Wang Huaming recruit him. Our security team needs people like that, and the more the better.