A bleak autumn wind blew, raising the messy dust on the yard in pieces, and rushed out of the courtyard gate with a whirl. Liu Feng had to squint his eyes to prevent the dust from obscuring his eyes, and waited until the wind passed and the dust disappeared, and then he saw that he was dressed in chic and bright casual clothes, hanging a layer of dust.

Feeling countless sand entering his mouth, he reached out to dust off his flowing short hair, like snow, and it choked Liu Feng to cough nonstop, hell! Depressed, under the guidance of Li Guifang, the director of the office, he came to his office, standing at the door, Liu Feng looked at the brand-new broken desk in the room in surprise, and was stunned.

Li Guifang's face was flushed, and she explained crampedly: "Secretary Liu, you see, this is the desk I bought from the county this morning, and it is the most high-end office supplies of our township government." But, along the way—"

Liu Feng suddenly smiled, waved his hand indifferently, and stopped Li Guifang. This desk is not bad, even better than the desk of Jiao Yunfei, the county organization minister. It's a pity that no matter how good the wooden furniture is, after more than 80 kilometers of "special road sections", it is really strange if it can still be intact.

Looking at the new but almost falling apart desk in front of him, he turned around and asked, "Director Li, is there no carpenter in the township?" ”

Li Guifang smiled apologetically: "Secretary Liu, there is a carpenter, but you have arrived before you have time to find it." Actually, the car that delivered the furniture was still in the yard, because—"

Looking at Li Guifang's stumbling appearance, Liu Feng's face was straight: "Director Li, you are the big housekeeper in the township, it's best for us to be open and honest with each other, is there any problem?" ”

Li Guifang was so ashamed that she almost wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into, and it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and this big housekeeper in Shan Yuxiang was afraid that no one would want to do it.

Said helplessly: "The township did not give freight. ”

Liu Feng was stunned, pointed to the desk and asked, "How can I buy furniture if I don't have money?" ”

Li Guifang lowered her head, eager to hide her face between the towering twin peaks, and replied in a mosquito-like voice: "The desk was bought by the county party committee, and there is a set of double beds, a large wardrobe, and the glass doors of the bookcase are all broken, which is really ugly, so I didn't put it in the house." ”

I see, there is really no poorest, only poorer! People sent a lot of things, and the township couldn't even afford the freight: "How much is the freight?" ”

"Three hundred!" Li Guifang replied.

Liu Feng smacked his tongue secretly, this freight is high enough, but thinking about that daunting road, he is relieved. Originally, looking at the information that Jiang Hua handed over to Shan Yuxiang, it didn't feel so real, but today I had a real experience.

No wonder Grandpa Tai said: "Without investigation and research, there is no right to speak!" ”

In a national-level poverty-stricken township, I finally have a preliminary intuitive insight.

took out four banknotes from his pocket, handed them to Li Guifang, and instructed: "Pay the freight, let the delivery person help me carry the bookcase in, and it will be regarded as an open bookcase." In addition, stevedores usually make repairs, so give them a hundred dollars, and let them do it. ”

Li Guifang took the money, promised in a low voice, and when she went out, she turned around and said, "Secretary Liu, I will account for this money, and I will return it to you if I have money in the township!" ”

Liu Feng waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, anyway, it's the office supplies I use, so I should report it myself!" ”

As Li Guifang left, Liu Feng began to look at his office, the walls had obviously just been painted, and they were quite detailed. The floor was paved with concrete, and there was a 60-watt light bulb on the head, and the fire was closed right next to the door.

The chair is still in good condition, it is the kind of solid wood chair with simple skin, and it seems that the chair of the county party secretary is nothing more than that. It seems that whether it is Shan Yu Township or Jiayu County, it is a prize to describe it as poor and white!

The dormitory arranged for Liu Feng in the township is next door to the office, and according to Liu Feng's guess, apart from here, Shan Yuxiang is afraid that there is no real estate. According to Li Guifang, the current office space of Shan Yu Township is the result of poverty alleviation by the Provincial Department of Finance in 1985.

Speaking of this building, there is also a small episode, Shan Yu Township is called Mourning Township by many people above, and it started from the completion of this building. The initial project budget was 500,000 two-story buildings, and this budget was still made by the brick family in the province, and these people worked behind closed doors without considering the special traffic environment of Shan Yu Township.

Originally, with the cost of materials at the end of the eighties, it was still very redundant. However, as soon as the freight is added, the budget will rise, and by the time the first floor is completed, the project cost has reached as high as one million.

This cost far exceeded the estimate of the Provincial Department of Finance, and it is said that the person in charge was wrongfully accused of corruption. Since then, Shan Yu Township has become a famous mourning township, and no leader is willing to come here to inspect.

Next, the Department of Finance did not have a follow-up appropriation, and the project was hastily completed, and there was no money for interior decoration at all. The walls were not scraped white according to the original design, but only painted with a layer of white ash, and as for the lighting, hehe, it is not necessarily useful to have light bulbs, because there are more than 300 power outages here a year.

The grain in the yard is pulled to prepare for processing together, so that the three-phase electricity of the township government can be borrowed. How did such a poor country create a huge debt in a year? It's weird!

After a while, Li Guifang led someone to carry the bookcase into the office, and after a tense busyness, soon, the bookcase was placed in place, the desk and the large wardrobe were processed, and finally it looked a little bit there.

Sending away the stevedores, Liu Feng's stomach gurgled, and Li Guifang's face turned red: "Secretary Liu, you see, my housekeeper is really incompetent, and I forgot to arrange for you to eat." Our township government doesn't have a canteen, so you can be wronged and come to my house to eat, okay? ”

Liu Feng was stunned, eating is really a big problem, no wonder when he came, County Magistrate Jin specially asked people to load soybean oil, rice and white flour from the canteen. However, this person's fire is also a problem, and you can't always go to someone's house to eat, right?

Liu Feng asked, "Is there a restaurant here?" ”

Li Guifang replied: "There is an unpretentious snack opposite the school, but the conditions there are very poor, so you should go to my place to eat." ”

Liu Feng scratched his head, so he was no longer entangled, and laughed: "Then it's troublesome Director Li!" ”

"No trouble, no trouble!" Li Guifang smiled and hurriedly led the way.

As soon as I arrived in the corridor, I saw Deputy Township Mayor Pei Wenhua and Lu Chunlai, and Deputy Secretary Gao Sheng walking together. Goldman Sachs has a big waist and a round waist, purely a strong man in Kanto, and his voice is rough: "Secretary Liu, you are new to the city, and a few of our old guys will pick up the wind and wash the dust for you, how about going to have a drink together?" ”

Liu Feng said with a smile: "Don't hide it from the three of you, you are hungry and panicked, and you want to go to Director Li's house for a meal, or not, all the way?" ”

The last sentence was said to Li Guifang, without waiting for Li Guifang to agree, Pei Wenhua clapped his hands and smiled: "Okay, good, even Director Li's food can still be handled, Secretary Gao, I will be cheap for you today!" ”

Goldman Sachs said with a smile: "That's it, just let my old hen live a few more days, go back and find a reason, and then solve it." I just don't know, does Director Li welcome us uninvited guests? ”

Li Guifang smiled like a flower, a young woman in her early thirties, but she also had a bit of charm, but she was working in the township government, probably deliberately, and she was dressed very old-fashioned: "Welcome, of course welcome, all the leaders are here, it is really an honor for my family." ”

looked at Liu Feng, and said, "Or, come slowly, the leaders, and I'll go back and prepare first?" ”

Liu Feng, Goldman Sachs, Pei Wenhua, and Lu Chunlai slowly walked to Li Guifang's house, and listened to Goldman Sachs's introduction: "The only small store in our township is opened by Li Guifang's family. ”

Pei Wenhua sighed: "No, now the township owes Director Li's family, I'm afraid there are fifty or sixty thousand, right?" ”

Liu Feng was taken aback, in such a poor place, fifty or sixty thousand, almost one-third of the GDP of Yuxiang alone.

Lu Chun, the deputy township mayor who had been silent, came to see Liu Feng and said embarrassedly: "Aren't you afraid of Secretary Liu's jokes, if you want to talk about entertainment expenses, our township basically doesn't have it, didn't you leave without seeing County Magistrate Jin?" Not only the county leaders, but even the ordinary clerks are reluctant to come here, and they can't even eat, who wants to come? ”

Pei Wenhua and Goldman Sachs smiled awkwardly, and Lu Chunlai continued: "This is the above to understand the hardships of our township, and I know that there is really no condition. The township owes money on credit to Director Li's house, all of which are office supplies such as pen, ink, and paper, and it seems that they haven't settled the bill for four or five years, right? ”

Pei Wenhua nodded: "The earliest of the three of us was in the autumn of 86, when Director Li was still a clerk, hehe, let her be this unlucky director, it is not a kind of compensation." ”

Liu Feng was completely speechless! I thought that I had a thorough understanding of the "national poverty-stricken township" at that time, but now I know that the truth is far beyond my imagination. If, according to Pei Wenhua, the use of office expenses for a year is limited, then how did the huge fiscal deficit come about?

What a headache! For the first time, Liu Feng felt that the temporary job investigation was far from being as simple as he imagined. There is only one main street in Shan Yu Township, which is the road in front of the township government, and the central primary school is separated by a house to the east of the township government.

Li Guifang's home is just across the street from the school, and it is estimated that it was also for the convenience of opening a store at that time. In this era, in the countryside, the stores facing the street were not popular, because the site was small, and the area of the vegetable garden was crowded.

The small village store makes such a little money, it is not as affordable as a variety of gardens, at least, most of the year's vegetable money is saved, some will operate, and there will even be a little surplus. The most important thing is that the customers faced by the rural stores are all poor blind dates, and credit is the most common thing, and the average family cannot afford it at all.

Goldman Sachs looked at Liu Feng and looked back at the brick house between the township political axe and the central school, sighed, and said: "Secretary Liu, it was originally a supply and marketing cooperative, and it was the most beautiful building in Shan Yu Township back then. It's that the freight fee is too expensive to go back and forth, and the supply and marketing cooperatives will be yellow. ”

"Oh," Liu Feng sighed secretly, this Shan Yuxiang really has a little bit of a rabbit not, "That house has been so empty?" Why not reuse it or simply dispose of it? ”