Chapter 31: Winning an Award

  Sleeping on the bed is indeed much more comfortable than sleeping on the sofa, Tang Xiaosheng slept soundly on the bed in Little Dragon Girl's bedroom until dawn, and even had a beautiful dream during that time.

  Although he woke up and saw a beehive on the ceiling with his first glance, his spirit was still quite good.

  When he got out of bed, Xiaolongnv was already busy in the kitchen, and breakfast was almost ready. Breakfast was still eight-treasure porridge, but today she didn't put as much salt as before, and the taste of the porridge was basically passable.

  After finishing breakfast, Tang Xiaosheng originally planned to continue learning the acupuncture skills of "Jiuyin Zhenjing" with Little Dragon Girl, but unexpectedly received a call from Lin Shishi asking him to go to the police station.

  He was hailed as a hero by the police department's leadership for his honesty in turning over 1 million yuan he found the night before. The leadership of the bureau highly praised Tang Xiaosheng's integrity and decided to award him the honorary title of "Advanced Individual with Integrity in Beijing".

  For this honorary title, Tang Xiaosheng actually took it very lightly. More importantly, he didn't like being packaged into a perfect image. He knew his moral standards were far from reaching that height, so he wasn't too interested in the police station's commendation.

  However, he eventually went to the police station anyway.

  Because the leaders of the bureau attach great importance to this matter, last night they organized Tang Xiaosheng's integrity into written materials and applied for a reward from the "Jinghua City Integrity Fund".

  "Jinghua City Pick-up Gold and Silver Foundation" also responded quickly, making a response in the morning, deciding to reward Tang Xiaosheng with "Jinghua Pick-up Gold and Silver Special Reward Fund" of 5,000 yuan to encourage him.

  Rumor has it that there's a bonus to be had, and Tang Xiaosheng's interest in the matter increased significantly. For him, 5,000 yuan is not a small sum of money; as long as he can get the money with a clear conscience, he'll accept it readily. Besides, since it was the police bureau leader who personally extended the invitation, he has to show some respect.

  Since they were going to receive an award, their personal image had to be improved first. Before heading to the police station, Little Dragon Maiden and Guo Xiang carefully groomed Tang Xiaosheng from head to toe, paying attention to every detail of his attire, shoes, socks, and hairstyle.

  After everything was ready, at 10 am, Tang Xiaosheng went to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau alone. When he arrived, he was greeted by Detective Lin Shishi.

  When Lin Shishi saw Tang Xiaosheng's outfit, she was slightly stunned and joked: "After dressing up like this, you're still quite handsome."

  After some small talk, under Lin Shi's leadership, Tang Xiaosheng arrived at the director's office and met the deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. The deputy director was a middle-aged man named Bao Zhiming, around 50 years old, with a big belly, looking very kind.

  As soon as they met, Deputy Director Bao Zhi Ming gave Tang Xiao Sheng a thumbs up and shook hands with him. He couldn't stop praising his actions: "You're the young man who picked up the gold but didn't keep it for himself! That's amazing, not even taking 1 million yuan is truly rare!"

  In such a situation, Tang Xiaosheng was actually very unaccustomed to it, but he could only force himself to accompany the guests with a few polite words.

  According to Deputy Director Bao Zhiming's original intention, he planned to hold a grand and solemn commendation meeting, and then open it to the media, to comprehensively publicize and report Tang Xiaosheng's personal story in the city, allowing citizens to learn from his spirit of not taking what is not his.

  However, Tang Xiaosheng firmly refused such an arrangement. He felt that the hat was too high for him to wear, and he was just lucky enough to pick up the money.

  Deputy Director Bao Zhiming is also considerate, and in the end he still respected Tang Xiaosheng's idea. He didn't hold any award ceremony, but personally presented a silk flag with "Integrity Advanced Individual" to Tang Xiaosheng, and the two of them took a photo together.

  Of course, in addition to the banner, there is also 5,000 yuan.

  However, the money was not obtained for nothing. The police had contacted Beijing TV Station's Life Channel early on, and after receiving the award, Tang Xiaosheng accepted a brief personal interview with the station's reporter at the police station.

  The reporter being interviewed was a young woman, about 26 years old, with long hair and clear eyes, looking quite pretty. However, since meeting Little Dragon Girl, Tang Xiaosheng's immunity to beauties had increased several times. Ordinary beauties no longer had much attraction for him.

  "Mr. Tang, don't be nervous either, just say whatever you want to say, and let's just have a normal conversation." The beautiful reporter kindly reminded him before the interview began.

  "Alright." Tang Xiao Sheng was actually not nervous at all. Although it was his first time being interviewed, with years of acting experience, his mental quality was much better than ordinary people.

  "Mr. Tang, may I ask that when you picked up the one million at that time, what was your first reaction?" The female reporter asked in a calm tone.

  "Pick up the money and take it back home." Tang Xiaosheng said without thinking.

  "So why did you finally decide to call the police?" the female reporter asked curiously.

  "Because I found the wallet was too heavy and couldn't be lifted." Tang Xiaosheng said seriously.

  The female journalist smiled and said: "One million yuan just slipped away from you like this, now that you think back, will you regret the decision you made last night?"

  "Too late for regrets!" Tang Xiaosheng paused and added, "But it's already too late."

  The female journalist asked again: "If you had another million now, would you still report it and hand it over to the police?"

  "It depends on the situation," Tang Xiaosheng said with a smile, "If there are still beautiful female journalists coming to interview me after I surrender, I think it's very likely that I'll surrender again."

  The entire interview process was not long, only about ten minutes, and there wasn't much content to talk about. After the interview, Tang Xiaosheng took a photo with the female reporter as a memento, and he also made a request. He hoped that if the content of this interview was really reported in the media, his true identity information would not be revealed.

  Tang Xiaosheng didn't mind becoming famous, but he just didn't like to become famous in this way. He really didn't want to walk on the street in the future and be pointed at by others saying "Look, that's the good guy who picked up 1 million and handed it over voluntarily" or "Look, that's the idiot who picked up 1 million and handed it over voluntarily".

  After finishing the interview, Tang Xiaosheng didn't stay for long, took 5,000 yuan and a silk flag, and hastily left the police station, immediately returning home.

  XXX

  "Long'er, Xiang'er, I'm back."

  "Big brother, you're so amazing! You've only been here for a few days and you've already received an award." Guo Xiang held the Jin Bu Xi Wei advanced individual flag that had been awarded to him, looked around the room, and muttered to himself, "Where should I hang this flag?"

  Tang Xiaosheng smiled faintly and changed the subject: "Let's talk about hanging the brocade flag later, let's go shopping first."

  Since getting to know Little Dragon Girl, Tang Xiaosheng has never bought anything for her. He also feels that he is not doing a good job as a boyfriend, although it was fake from the start.

  The 5,000 yuan reward from the police was an unexpected income, so he decided to splurge and buy something for Xiaolongnv.

  As soon as she heard that they were going out to shop, Guo Xiang was over the moon and immediately found Tang Xiaosheng's second-hand DV camera, planning to take it with her to film. For the past two days, in order to avoid being kidnapped by creditors, she had not left the house, staying at home all the time, feeling a bit stifled.

  Compared to Guo Xiang, Little Dragon Girl's reaction was rather dull, seemingly not too interested in shopping. For a seasoned homebody like her, perhaps staying at home is the most comfortable state.

  She just saw Tang Xiaosheng and Guo Xiangxing's excited appearance, she didn't want to pour cold water on them, so she had to compromise herself and accompany them to stroll around casually.

  Afterwards, all three of them changed their clothes and left the residence together, heading towards a nearby Walmart store.