The tall cop and the short cop lived together, having bought a house and moved into it together.
Neither of them was married, but each had a girlfriend.
Since they started extorting passing trucks with the Chief of Police, their wallets had steadily fattened. Each month, they had to take shifts for about twelve to fifteen days, and every day the interstate highway was a gold rush!
A truck could yield two to five yuan in "fines," and stopping twenty or thirty trucks a day was equivalent to an average person's monthly salary.
In other words, working a month for them equaled a year's work for an average worker.
The comfortable life brought by money made them unwilling to marry.
If anyone studied this, they would find that the more economically affluent a family is, the later its members of marriageable age tend to marry.
Money offers them a broader world, giving them a greater desire to enjoy and explore the world, rather than prioritizing procreation.
