Although the delivery distance in the countryside is long and the road is difficult, there are also advantages, that is, there are few deliveries, in addition to the township government, the village committee has many newspapers and magazines, and there are few registered letters, telegrams, remittance slips, etc., which must be handed over to the person to sign for the delivery. In many cases, he only needs to hand over the scattered letters and magazines to the village committee, and does not need to deliver them to every recipient.

Of course, the postman should carefully clean up the order of the delivery before coming out of the sorting room of the post office, otherwise a careless person may miss the recipient's place, and when you turn back, a long way back and forth will delay a lot of time.

Jiang Xinwei was physically fit and could ride his bicycle fast for a long time, and seeing that there were not many deliveries left in the mail bag, he decided to spend some time dealing with the dead letter at hand.

A dead letter is a letter from the recipient whose envelope the postman could not find.

Handling dead letters is also a basic job of the postman, and he will not return the letter all at once, and only after many attempts to find the recipient can he return the letter to the sorting room, which will process it. Under normal circumstances, after asking the postman, the person in the sorting room will put a note on the envelope that says "No such person found" and then return the letter to the sender.

However, the postal department pays much more attention to dead letters from overseas, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and the sorting room will also arrange for experienced old postmen to try to find the recipient again, until all efforts fail, and they have to return it.

The dead letter that Jiang Xinwei had in hand was still left by his predecessor. They have been looking for the recipient for more than three months, but to no avail. The sender is a Chinese-American, but the recipient column is written "Master Xuankong", and the addressee address is "Huanglitang Temple, Shiqiao Town, Fengjia County, Yiyang City".

Not to mention that no one knows who Master Xuankong is, no one knows where the Huanglitang Temple is, and they don't even know whether this Huanglitang is the name of the place or the name of the temple. Jiang Xinwei and his predecessor inquired about many old people, and they all said that there was no such temple around Shiqiao Town.

The letter was not returned for such a long time because the writer wrote this paragraph on the back of the envelope: "The contemptible person was injured during the Anti-Japanese War, and Master Meng Xuankong risked his life to save his life. After the injury, the contemptible people moved to the United States, and they worked hard for many years and had a little assets. Now that the destiny of heaven is coming, I am willing to donate some of my assets to Master Xuankong to repay his life-saving grace. Because of the old age, the past has been forgotten, and I sincerely ask the nobles at the post office to help the contemptible people find more, hoping to find Master Xuankong or his descendants, and I am grateful. ”

Now is a critical period of reform and opening up, because of the embargo of Western countries, all sectors of society attach great importance to overseas relations, and the country is not only trying to maintain relations with overseas Chinese, but also hopes that they will invest in China.

Just a few words behind the envelope, not only talking about the Anti-Japanese War, but also talking about donations, plus "a little asset", naturally attracted the attention of some people, some officials learned the news, personally instructed the postal department to make every effort to find, in order to comfort the hearts of overseas travelers.

As a matter of fact, everyone in the post and telecommunications system knows the significance of handling dead letters, and not only the leaders attach importance to it, but also often see in the media praising the deeds of postmen who successfully handle dead letters.

Director Zhu Keqi once told him that as long as he saved this letter, he would have hope of turning positive.

Regularization, that is, the transition from temporary workers to regular workers, not only means that wages and benefits are almost doubled, but also means that the status of the employer has skyrocketed, and people who are no longer discriminated against.

There are many benefits of becoming regular, and the difficulty of becoming a regular is also extremely huge, and it is not that the boss of an enterprise in the 21st century can say that he can become a regular, but also has to have the official recruitment index of the government personnel department.

For Jiang Xinwei, a traverser, what he cares about is not those already pitiful wages, if he wants to make money, there are so many opportunities in the future, whether it is stock speculation or investment in buying a house, he can make a lot of money.

Now he is most concerned about how to improve his status, you must know that the current state policy does not allow the establishment of private enterprises with more than seven employees, he wants to do a career or want to lay a good foundation for the future career, he must develop in the state-owned units, quickly accumulate contacts and increase the power of all parties, wait for two years after the state encourages individuals to establish private enterprises can be the first time to start a business and take off, can also be mixed in the state-owned units.

If you want to improve your status, you can't always be a part-time worker, and only regular workers can be promoted and can use their skills in the workplace.

Therefore, since Jiang Xinwei crossed over last night, he has been thinking about how to gain a foothold in the unit as soon as possible, how to strive for the opportunity to become a regular as soon as possible, and how to win valuable recruitment indicators from many temporary workers.

If you can save this dead letter, you will undoubtedly have one more bargaining chip than others.

Seeing that the old men in front of him were playing with the two young children, he rode close and asked politely, "Grandpa and grandma, let me inquire about something, okay?"

An old man shrewdly asked, "Young man, do you postman want to ask about the recipient?"

Jiang Xinxu got out of the car and said, "Yes." I have a letter here from the United States, looking for a temple called Huang Litang Temple, have you ever heard of this temple? Was there such a temple here before liberation?"

The old man muttered while thinking: "Huanglitang Temple? The City God Temple and the Guanyin Temple all have ......"

An old man's ears were a little back, and he asked loudly: "What temple are you talking about?" After Jiang Xinwei said it loudly again, the other party asked again, "Which emperor, which Li ......?"

Jiang Xinwei simply propped up the bicycle, picked up a branch from the ground, and marked the four characters on the ground.

An old lady almost lost her teeth, and said in a leaky voice, "Wang...... Grain...... Time...... King...... Grain...... Time...... I haven't heard of how a temple can have such a strange name? ”

When she says it's ugly, she doesn't care if she mispronounces it or understands it wrong.

The local dialect here is not divided between "Huang" and "Wang", just as "Xin" and "chest" are not distinguished, people pronounce his name Jiang Xinwei, many times it sounds like they are pronouncing "Jiang Bust", and some even pronounce Jiang Fierce.

At this time, an old man listened to the old lady's chatter and asked loudly, "Could it be called 'Wang Litang'?"

The other old man objected: "Wang Litang?...... There was no temple there, and there was only one Taoist temple before liberation, but it was bombarded by artillery when it was about to be liberated. ”

Jiang Xinwei's heart moved: Could it really be a pronunciation deviation? He hurriedly asked, "Where is Wang Litang?"

The old man said a little proudly: "If you ask Wang Litang, the young people now don't know, it has long been changed to the advance brigade, and now it is called the advance village, more than ten miles away from here, you have walked it." That Taoist temple seems to be called ...... Call...... , Hey, look at my memory, I forgot about it. When I was a child, I went to my cousin, and in the deep mountains and old forests, there were only bricks and tiles left. ”

Hearing that it was Qianqian Village, Jiang Xinwei didn't ask any more, and after thanking him, he said goodbye to the enthusiastic old man and continued to move forward.

Back at the post office, it was not yet time to get off work.

Jiang Xinwei handed over the five ordinary letters he received all the way to the business office, and then went to the sorting room to handle the relevant handover procedures.

Remittance slips, parcel slips, telegrams, etc., all require the recipient to sign on the receipt, and these receipts must be handed over to a special person for acceptance and keeping.

The sorters in the sorting room are still working, and they are carefully sorting the deliveries from the county post and telecommunications office in the afternoon according to the delivery area. Jiang Xinwei saw that the workbench he used had already placed a lot of letters, parcel lists, non-secret official documents from government departments, and ordinary telegrams that needed to be delivered tomorrow......

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