It had only been a week since he joined, and Xiao Wu, who had just put on his police uniform, decided to treat himself by going to the theater to watch a movie. The line for tickets was long. Xiao Wu relaxed and waited until he reached the end.
"New cop, right?" someone next to him asked.
Xiao Wu was puzzled: "How did you know?"
"Cough, old cops don't line up to buy tickets."
"Oh," Xiao Wu understood, walked straight to the ticket counter, handed over the money, and said, "I'd like one ticket."
"New cop, right?" the person at the window laughed.
"How did you know?"
"Old cops don't pay for tickets themselves. Just go in, no one dares to stop you."
"Oh." Xiao Wu learned something new. He tried, and indeed, no one stopped him.
Once inside the theater, Xiao Wu casually found a seat downstairs. Before he even sat down, someone next to him asked, "New cop, right?"
Xiao Wu was really baffled. He felt confused but tried to act tough: "Who said that!"
"The old cops all watch movies upstairs; downstairs are all new cops like you."
Xiao Wu went upstairs and saw it was true—there were quite a few cops there.
Xiao Wu picked a seat and soon, the movie started. A cop next to him glanced at him coldly and said, "New cop, right?"
"How can you tell I'm a new cop?"
"Old cops don't sit properly like you to watch a movie—they sit like me."
Xiao Wu imitated the older cop, putting his feet up on the neck of the person in front. Sure enough, it was much more comfortable, and he started to feel like a real cop.
Continuation:
In a gloomy mood, Xiao Wu looked for a lady on the street to have some fun. After some fumbling, the lady asked, "New cop, right!"
Xiao Wu felt dizzy hearing it: "What's wrong?"
"Old cops aren't this polite; they always use force."
After his encounter with the lady, Xiao Wu decided not to embarrass himself as a police officer again.
The lady didn't pay the fee or the bar fee and strutted out.
The owner looked back and said, "New cop, right?"
Xiao Wu was on the verge of collapse, grabbing the owner by the neck and asking, "How can you tell just like that?"
Owner: "Old cops not only have to play for free, but they also have to collect ‘protection fees' when leaving!"
Xiao Wu thought: Damn!! Even a new cop is still a cop!So he said to the boss: Give me the protection money!!!
The boss said: New police, right?
Xiao Wu: ....
The boss: The old police would always have us deliver the money to them, who would come to collect it in person?
Xiao Wu, humiliated by the nightclub owner, decided to assert his police authority and embarrass the boss.
Hearing the obscene sounds coming from next door, Xiao Wu kicked open the tightly shut door and shouted sternly to a naked man and woman inside: "Don't move, I'm a police officer!"
The woman lazily sat up, hugging the man and squinting at Xiao Wu, saying: "New police, right?"
The man said: "He's the new police."
Xiao Wu sternly asked the couple: "How do you know I'm new police?"
The woman pouted and pointed at the man beside her: "Which veteran police officer doesn't know their director?"
Hearing it was the director, Xiao Wu turned and ran, and upon exiting, collided into someone's arms.
Looking up, it was a neatly dressed gentleman, and Xiao Wu apologized hurriedly.
The man smiled: "New police, right?"
Xiao Wu was about to explode: "You know too?"
"I'm the manager here, not a single veteran police officer doesn't know me."
Xiao Wu hastily escaped the nightclub, and outside, under the streetlight, he saw someone trying to break a bicycle lock.
He ran over to catch the person and take him back to the police station.
The person glanced at him: "New police, right?"
"No!! Come with me!"
"Still no, veteran police wouldn't care about this."
"What's wrong with being new police, new police represents a new image!"
"Hah, I've heard that back when your director was still new police."
Xiao Wu drove the police car straight to a friend's house, speeding along the way feeling exhilarated. Turning a street corner, someone suddenly emerged from the shadows riding a bicycle.
Xiao Wu couldn't brake in time, and with a bang, the bicycle and the person flew forward. Panicked, Xiao Wu got out and walked over. Seeing the person's leg bleeding continuously, a large pool of blood had already formed on the ground.
Without saying a word, Xiao Wu lifted the person and headed to the car. The person groaned and asked Xiao Wu: "Comrade, new police, right?"
Xiao Wu was puzzled: why is everyone asking me if I'm the new police today? Am I jinxed today?
The person groaned and continued: "Veteran police wouldn't care how someone got hurt, they would just pull the whistle and leave, unlike you, stopping to look at me, causing me so much pain now…" Before finishing, the person passed out.\Xiao Wu felt restless at home and came to read posts on the 'Youth Topics' forum, and along the way registered an ID called 'By the River'.\ 007 ran over and asked: 'A new cop, right?'\ Xiao Wu panicked. It's said that no one on the Internet knows you're a dog, so how could 007 tell a new cop from an old one?\ He hurriedly posted and asked: 'How did you know?'\ 007 replied in the post: 'Old cops here are all undercover; at least their registered ID should be something like 'Under the River'.'\ Xiao Wu resolved to turn over a new leaf and swore to become an old cop.\ One day, he passed by a cigarette stall and said to the vendor: 'I'll take these two packs of 'Zhonghua',' while picking up the two packs. The vendor looked and smiled, saying: 'A new cop, right?' Xiao Wu said: 'Damn it, how did you know?' The vendor said: 'Old cops never take cigarettes off the stall—they know they're fake. Old cops always say: Give me two packs of Zhonghua from the back.'\ After leaving the cigarette stall with the cigarettes, Xiao Wu thought to himself that smoking them himself would be wasteful, so he might as well find a place to exchange them for some money. So he went to a tobacco and spirits shop.\ 'Boss, take these two packs of cigarettes back.'\ 'How much do you want?'\ Xiao Wu thought for a moment—he absolutely couldn't let the boss know he was a new cop.\ 'A thousand yuan per pack.'\ Xiao Wu put down the cigarettes, took the money, and left.\ The boss said:\ 'You're a new cop, right? Old cops would just take the money without leaving the cigarettes.'
\—Fellow villager, open the door, fellow villager! We are the Red Army, we have organization and discipline, we don't take a single stitch or needle from the people. Villager, open the door! If you don't open it, we will fire!'
