"And how much does this benefit cost?" Mu Minshun needs to calculate the cost of time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that the customs officer who could speak Chinese counted the number of staff members, stretched out four fingers and said: "It was originally 35 dollars, but now I add an extra one and I come in, then it will cost 40 dollars." ”

"$40?" Mu Minshun exclaimed in amazement, according to the exchange rate at the time, a dollar was about 8.5 yuan, and 40 dollars was 340 yuan. Thinking of this layer, Mu Minshun said the first time to challenge the unspoken rules: If you want a benefit, check ...... You can be light!

Perhaps the Chinese customs thought that they had heard it wrong, and after confirmation, they still got the same answer, so they shook their heads and left on their own, apparently to report to his superior, and after a while, the Chinese customs came with another customs officer and said to Mu Minshun: "Then please Comrade Mu to pull over for inspection, there are still many vehicles waiting for customs clearance, don't hinder others!" ”

Mu Minshun asked Lao Wang to drive with the customs officer to stop at the designated position, the customs officer was not in a hurry to check, said that it was almost noon, and then came to check after eating, Mu Minshun felt a little boring, sat in the co-pilot seat of the truck and dozed off, and Lao Wang is experienced, he knew that the inspection would not end without a day or two days, so a person got out of the car, found a travel agency, seized a bed and then went to a familiar small restaurant, ate and drank enough, and returned to the travel agency to go to sleep.

Mu Minshun, who had no experience, sat in the co-pilot seat stupidly, waited for a noon, didn't see anyone to pay attention, he was hungry again, but he was waiting to be inspected, and he couldn't leave casually, so he bought a boxed lunch nearby, and after eating half full, he bought a novel that men like to read from the stall and sat in the co-pilot seat and read it with relish. This Mu Minshun can be regarded as stubborn, and this approach can be regarded as carrying it with the Lao Customs. As for the Lao customs, it wasn't until about four o'clock in the afternoon that a staff member came slowly with a toothpick in his mouth, watched Mu Minshun read a book in the passenger seat, and muttered with a Chinese: "Hey...... Are you ready for an inspection? ”

"You can check it at any time!" Mu Minshun said with a natural face:

"Ready to check? Has the goods been moved? Why are you still in the car? Do you want us to get in the car and check it? The staff member said with a look of disdain:

"What? Still unloading? Mu Minshun thought about it and felt that something was wrong, unloading and loading here? Isn't it possible to rely on one person alone? If you invite someone to come over to unload, the cost is almost 100 yuan, Mu Minshun was born as a porter, for this job he is clear, unloading is relatively cheaper, you can also participate, call two people is enough, one person thirty, sixty yuan is enough, loading is a little troublesome, one person has almost forty, two people have eighty, some people may ask: when loading and unloading all invite a person, isn't it cheaper? The reason is this truth, the key is to see how long the customs inspection, the customs to really grind foreign workers, inspection for a day, you can't let the workers wait for a day, right? For this progress, the workers will not be willing! Thinking that the cost was a bit high, the staff saw that Mu Minshun was a little hesitant, so he pretended to say good things and said: "Comrade, we are all from socialist countries, we are all in the same camp, and we will not embarrass each other in many things, so let's do it, this is not necessarily to be checked, I will also help you talk, this benefit fee, it is indispensable, you give the benefit fee, and the customs will naturally be much more convenient, do you think it's okay?" "Although Mu Minshun is stubborn, he is not stupid, what the staff said is nothing more than to come over and be a peacemaker, the meaning is very clear, don't be stubborn over there, pay the benefit fee, and take advantage of each other. Mu Minshun was originally stubborn, and after thinking about the reason for this staff, he immediately refused: "If I could have paid the benefit fee, I would have paid it a long time ago, and I could still delay my efforts with you?" Mu Minshun thought about it again: Isn't it just a truckload of goods! It's not that he hasn't moved, and then he said vigorously: "I'll unload the goods, when will you come to check?" "As soon as the staff heard about this battle, it was equivalent to saying that they were dead! Laughing without smiling, he dropped a sentence: "Wait!" After that, he left on his own!

This matter has come to this point, Mu Minshun began to blame the driver Lao Wang, not to mention that there is something to do for the time being, your Lao Wang left by himself, according to common sense, how to say that you should also communicate with the wooden shop card, and the wooden shop card came forward and called the Lao side, and all the problems were solved. But now? I couldn't find you Lao Wang, so I left myself here, what is it? A carload of goods here, do not dare to leave without permission, can only stay in the car full of grievances, if you can drive, hate to drive in the car, break through the checkpoint, and leave by yourself. After more than two hours, Mu Minshun saw that the Laotian customs got off work, stopped the customs clearance and inspection of the goods, and he could relax a little, and he didn't have to wait stupidly for the customs to come over to check at any time......

Compared with the border of Laos and China, it can really be described as "worlds apart". The author once watched a documentary about the U.S.-Mexico border, and there is a scene in it that makes the author remember vividly: there is a U.S.-Mexico border, the passage from Mexico to the United States is overcrowded, and the queue of vehicles is long, while the passage from the United States to Mexico is very smooth, the U.S. border police are worried that people entering the country will carry drugs, arms and even hide a person across the border, so every car is checked very strictly, it takes more than ten minutes to check a car, and there are many people entering the United States. So there is overcrowding. At this time, an aerial camera explained very clearly: the left side of the picture is in the United States, which happens to be a small town, there are bars, shops, and people drinking coffee in the square, bathing in the sun, and the right side of the picture is Mexico, the road is lined with temporary houses built of iron sheets, after the rain, the road is muddy, and people are gathered in groups of three or five, looking at the side of the United States with binoculars from time to time. According to the narrator, the temporary houses made of iron sheets were illegally erected and were popular with three groups of people in Mexico: stowaways, drug dealers, and pregnant women. Perhaps the reader understands the phenomenon of the first two need for this temporary housing: it is convenient for smuggling and easy for people to take drugs, but for pregnant women, they do not understand why they need this kind of temporary housing. In fact, the reason is very simple, this has a lot to do with the law of the United States: as long as you give birth to a child in the United States, no matter what nationality your parents are, the child can be considered an American. As a result, Mexican pregnant women ran to the U.S.-Mexico border as soon as they were in labor, and when they were about to give birth, they desperately went to the U.S.-Mexico border to give birth. Pregnant women in Mexico are really hard enough, in order to give birth to an American baby, regardless of personal safety, desperately "rolling" into the US border, and finally it depends on the luck of the child, the moment it comes out, just within the US border, then congratulations: get the US identity, if not...... I can only express regrets! The U.S.-Mexico border is truly a paradise and a hell! (To be continued) (To be continued.) )