At noon, most of the relatives arrived.

After Niu Tiangou and his wife came back, they hurriedly gave cigarettes and poured tea for their relatives, and Niu Tiangou did not forget to introduce each guest to Dr. Xue Lian.

Seeing Niu Tiangou bring back a fairy-like city woman, the joy of the relatives was beyond words, and several young cousins were even more envious.

Especially my aunt's cousin, who runs a barber shop in Nanshan Town, excitedly patted Niu Tiangou on the shoulder and joked: "This time, the daughter-in-law you guys picked up is a cap, much better than my brother." When his aunt and sister-in-law who were standing next to him heard it, she glared at him and closed her mouth.

Niu Tiangou hurriedly greeted his aunt and sister-in-law with a smile and invited her aside for tea.

After the lunch, the relatives talked about the new house, of course they knew that the construction of the new house was stopped, they were all rural people, and they were naturally familiar with the situation in the countryside:

"It's the same everywhere now, these guys from the construction management office simply regard the peasants' building houses as their way to make money, which village has not been charged by them? Charge a few hundred for less, and a few thousand yuan for a mouth! ”

"I built a house last year, and I paid 3,000 yuan to the village to ask for a homestead, and then the township approved the construction, and paid another 5,000 yuan, and I only gave a verbal notice to start construction, and I haven't got any documents so far."

"You still want papers? It's good to let you build it. When one of our villagers built a house, he sent cigarettes and alcohol to the leaders of the construction management office, invited a bunch of guests, and said a basket of good things, but in the end he was charged 3,000 yuan. ”

"Now when farmers build houses, there are too many units that charge too much, and in addition to the village, they all want to plug in the construction management office, the land and resources office, the planning station, and the financial office."

"Not only are there many units that charge fees, but the names of the fees are also strange, what is the cost of work, land approval fees, land tax, land compensation fees, land management fees, planning fees, cultivated land reclamation fees, land reclamation fees, and even more bizarre, I have a classmate who added a layer to his house in his town, and was also charged 5,000 yuan, saying what is the ...... 'air tax'! And only these dogs can think of it! ”

"Among these charges, I think the most powerful is the cultivated land reclamation fee, which is charged by the square, ranging from 30~80 yuan per square meter, and the standards are different in various places, I heard that some places charge hundreds of yuan per square meter, and you have to pay more than 10,000 yuan to build a slightly larger house, which is too dark!"

"Villagers can still understand the occupation of cultivated land to build houses, collect some land compensation fees, cultivated land reclamation fees, etc., but it is not pure nonsense to charge these fees for demolishing old houses and building new houses on old homesteads?"

"This construction involves thousands of households, which family will not get married when their children are older? If you get married, you have to build a new house, which one hasn't been charged by them over the years? Why is it that no one has joined forces and not paid these fees? ”

"Don't pay? They have a way to fix you! A villager in our village was ready to build a house last year, and spent 2,000 yuan to run a house in the town, and then he felt that the money was wronged, so he went to the town to ask for a refund, and the money was returned, but the certificate was also taken away, and the building of the house was yellow. As soon as the Chinese New Year was celebrated this year, he had to go to Zheng again, but he was told that he would have to pay 5,400 yuan! That's more than twice as much! See if you still pay it in? ”

"Hehe, if you dare to build a house without paying money, a hat of 'illegal construction' will be put on your head, and then it will be forcibly demolished and the wall will be pushed. Paying money is 'legal', not paying money is 'illegal', and now money is 'law'! ”

"The government does not have a clear regulation on the fees for farmers to build houses, and it will naturally be chaotic below, and the relevant departments can collect as much as they want, and they can collect as much as they want, and the interests of farmers are regarded as 'soft persimmons', and they can pinch how they want."

As they spoke, everyone's topic turned to the village cadres:

"The most hateful thing is that the village cadres also follow those departments to collect fees, what right do they have to charge the villagers who build houses? What do they take it for? ”

"What? It is deposited in the small treasury of the village for eating and drinking, spending indiscriminately, and embezzling and embezzling. Don't you see that every time someone comes down from the township or town, those village cadres have to accompany them to the restaurant, and their faces are drunk like monkey butts? Don't you see some village cadres going out to travel chic? Don't you see that the houses of the village cadres in many villages are better built than the villagers? They don't collect scrapes from the villagers, where does the money come from? ”

"The village cadres of our village not only collect compensation fees for building houses, but also collect various names of fund-raising fees, such as road construction, school construction, electricity reform, water reform, greening, and indiscriminate apportionment from time to time, land contracting fees, handyman fees, 'one thing, one discussion' fee, agricultural technology service fee, pond dredging fee, sanitation fee, etc., and even when the villagers' children need to issue a certificate from the village committee to go to school, join the army, get married, transfer household registration, take out a loan to buy a car, etc., they also have to charge 50 yuan for 'stamping fees'!"

"This also requires them to work hard to collect it, our village secretary, directly took the 9,000 yuan of pollution money paid to the village by the nearby factory to the daughter-in-law for medical treatment, without any formalities, the villagers can only talk in secret, no one dares to fart in front of them."

"Alas!" A relative sighed and said, "At present, the rural grassroots cadres have been indiscriminately collecting fees, raising funds, and apportioning fees, eating and drinking public funds, spending indiscriminately, and embezzling and embezzling public funds, and they cannot be said for three days and three nights. ”

“……”

"Why hasn't anyone complained about these things?" After standing aside and listening for a long time, Niu Tiangou finally couldn't help but ask.

"Sue? Easier said than done. The fourth uncle looked at Niu Tiangou and smiled helplessly, "Let's just talk about the indiscriminate charge for building houses, so many government units are involved, who are you suing?" If no one sues, it will be 'the people will not raise it, and the officials will not be held accountable'. You don't know all about these messy things at the grassroots level? They are just too lazy to wade into this thankless troubled water, and they just turn a blind eye to the 'harmonious society'. ”

"The main reason is that the villagers don't know the law. If the villagers master the knowledge of the law and insist on filing a collective complaint, even if the law enforcement departments above can 'pretend', they have to deal with it for the sake of face, right? The brother-in-law said one of the reasons.

"It's still the villagers who don't dare to go against the government. If you don't know the law, you can hire a lawyer, but no one has the courage to pick this head. Gu Lao said the second reason.

"Do you think lawyers dare to go against the government? Even if someone is willing to invite them, they may not dare to pick this head, besides, it costs money to hire a lawyer, who wants to bother with that? Someone immediately retorted.

"I see, the main thing is to protect the officials. It is not said that it is a lawsuit against a town-level government unit, but it is also difficult to sue a village-level cadre. My uncle said the third reason, "You think, there are inextricable links between village-level cadres and township-level cadres, and between township-level cadres and county-level cadres, and they have already formed a network, and in addition to work cooperation between them, there is also a tacit understanding between bribery and bribery, village-level cadres should 'respect' to township-level cadres every year, and township-level cadres should 'respect' county-level cadres every year. Pull out the radish and bring out the mud', and finally involve yourself, so you will do everything possible to protect it, and treat the complainant as a 'complainant oil' and 'Diao Min' to suppress, so that you have no way to sue. ”

"The key is to fear retaliation afterwards." My uncle, who is in his sixties, said the fourth reason, "Let's just tell the village-level cadres to charge the villagers for building houses, even if you win, deal with the cadres, and cancel the fee, the other village cadres still hate you to the core?" Everyone is in the same village, you look down and don't look up, and if you ask them for something in the future, will they pay attention to you? If you lose, you will be even more miserable, and if you offend them, you will wait for them to make things difficult for you and retaliate against you in the future. ”

The relatives have a point. Listening to their words, Niu Tiangou couldn't help but think of what he had experienced in Tuhuang Township Middle School and Xinxing Township Middle School in Beihe Town.

Nima, all the cadres are the same, and there are ** everywhere at the grassroots level!

……

The wedding feast takes place at 5 p.m. and is simple and straightforward, eliminating all red tape.

The second brother pasted a couplet in front of the small earthen house, and then set off a firecracker in front of the courtyard, and the wedding feast began.

However, Niu Tiangou was more satisfied with the couplet. The banner of the couplet is "a match made in heaven", the left is "red makeup with a concentric knot", and the right is "green trees bloom and tilian", which contains a "heaven" of Niu Tiangou and a "lotus" of Xue Lian.

Niu Tiangou did not let his father accept the congratulatory gifts of the villagers, he did not want to add burden to the villagers, so the banquet only held four tables for the relatives, although the tables were few, but it was extremely rich, and it was much more affordable than the "flower shelf" dishes in the hotel.

Those who came were close relatives, there was no hypocrisy and pretense when toasting, and there was no fighting and persuasion, casual harmony, the elders smiled kindly, the peers laughed witty, bursts of laughter and laughter, full of strong family affection and sincere blessings.

Touching glasses with everyone and listening to their simple and enthusiastic words, Niu Tiangou felt extremely cordial and warm......

The wedding banquet was eaten until dark, except for my sister, brother-in-law and grandson, who were forced to stay by my mother because of the long distance, the rest of the relatives left after the banquet.

When the fourth uncle left, he instructed Niu Tiangou: "When it comes to building a house, see if you can go to the town to find a relationship and reduce the cost, it's not a matter to stop work like this, don't fight with them for any reason, let alone think about what to sue, remember, ah?" ”

"Hmm." Niu Tiangou nodded solemnly. He knew that the fourth uncle was also anxious about his nephews' new house, afraid that he would be young and vigorous and have a stiff relationship with those guys.

Alas, peasants are always the weakest ones who can swallow their anger.