Yue Haohan has been working at the Longwang River Bridge Construction Headquarters of the Township Government for nearly two months, and there is no sign of building a bridge over the Longwang River.

Yue Haohan was in the headquarters office, doing nothing all day, drinking tea and reading newspapers at work. Occasionally, Wu Tao, director of the Party and Government Office, would arrange something else for him to do that didn't matter.

Longwang River Bridge Construction Headquarters Office, close to the Wulong Township Party and Government Office, the whole room is smaller than the Party and Government Office, about 20 square meters, there are two desks side by side against the wall, the desk with his back to the door is Yue Haohan sitting, the innermost desk is the accountant Miao Xiaoqin's, behind Miao Xiaoqin's desk, there is an iron cabinet in the corner of the wall, next to the cabinet is a big window, through the window, the whole Wulong Township compound can be seen clearly; Accountant Miao Xiaoqin spends most of her time working at the agricultural machinery station, and occasionally comes over, but also sits for a while and leaves.

Working in the courtyard of the township government, different from the time in the Heiyazi management area, there are only a few people in the management area, and they are all elderly, one or two people who do not seek to make further progress in their careers, they are all looking like they are indisputable, the township government is different, in addition to the members of the party and government team, there are many clerks in each office, because there are few things in the headquarters office, it is relatively idle, and from time to time some people in the township government organs like to run over to chat with Yue Haohan and pass the time.

Yue Haohan always remembered the words that Luo Xianjie warned himself when he went home on the last National Day, holding a pair of thoughts, watch more, listen more, and speak less; Therefore, when others were chatting, most of the time, Yue Haohan just listened and did not interject.

After working at the headquarters of the township government, the township considered that it would take a while to build a bridge, and first of all, it was necessary to solve the problem of food and accommodation in Yue Haohan. Where to live, Yue Haohan lived in Deng Xuanfa's house in the first few days, but that was not a long method; Later, Yue Haohan found Wu Tao, director of the Party and Government Office, several times, because the township government had no free housing, Wu Tao found the head of the agricultural technology station and arranged a room for Yue Haohan at the township agricultural technology station.

Wulong Township Agricultural Technology Station is located in the center of Wulong Township Market Town, located next to the national highway leading to Yanshan City in Jianghan City, the house is a red machine brick and tile house built in the early eighties, two of which are the office of the agricultural technology station, one is the store department that sells seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, and the remaining rooms are used as dormitories for single workers of the agricultural technology station; Among them, the easternmost house, adjacent to the forestry station, was uninhabited, so Wu Tao found the head of the agricultural technology station and talked to it, and arranged for Yue Haohan to live.

Next to the agricultural technology station is the township forestry station, and the building of the forestry station is similar to that of the agricultural technology station, except that there are a few more houses than the agricultural technology station, which is a slip of fifteen houses, and in the house of the forestry station, there is also a timber inspection station of the county forestry bureau; At the beginning of the year, Jiangyang County set up a joint road traffic checkpoint, which was composed of public security traffic police, industry and commerce, transportation, forestry, animal quarantine, tobacco, taxation, agricultural tax, salt industry, plant quarantine and other departments.

The dozen or so staff members at the joint checkpoint, except for Station Chief An Wanli and Station Chief Xu Mingshan, are older and in their 40s, and the rest of the staff are young people in their 20s.

In addition to reading books every day after dinner, Yue Haohan went to the joint checkpoint next to him, where the same group of young people entertained and chatted together, because those young people did not have much interest in the people in the Wulong Township government office, so Yue Haohan and those young people were also very casual and open.

Entering Wulong Township in December, the night was particularly cold, after dinner that day, the sky was scattered with snowflakes, Yue Haohan returned to the living room of the agricultural technology station, read the book, felt a little frozen feet, wanted to go to bed, but it was still early to see the time, so he had to hold the book in his hand and stomp his feet in the room while reading, at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Yue Haohan opened the door and saw Zeng Jianhui at the joint checkpoint, standing at the door wearing an industrial and commercial uniform; Zeng Jianhui was 25 or 6 years old, and was an employee sent to the joint checkpoint by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau; Zeng Jianhui was a graduate of the Central South Provincial Institute of Business Administration, and was assigned to work in the market management section of the county industrial and commercial bureau, and had been working for more than four years. Seeing that Yue Haohan opened the door, Zeng Jianhui smiled, walked into the room, and said, Haohan, what are you doing in the room alone, is there a woman hidden in the room.

Yue Haohan said, Jianhui, what are you talking about, where can a woman come from? Do you arrange one?

Zeng Jianhui said, if there is no woman, why do you close the door so tightly.

Yue Haohan said, don't you see snowflakes in the sky? It's cold, brother, it's like your checkpoint, a few large pots of charcoal are burning vigorously, and you are not afraid of no charcoal grilling, brother, I am freezing to death in this house.

Zeng Jianhui said, I came here to call you to go over there to roast the fire, the charcoal fire is very big, in the first half of the night tonight, it was me and Li Qingming of the tax bureau and the two of us were on duty, Li Qingming got two bottles of Yangjiang Daqu, and the three of us reimbursed it.

In the early nineties, the joint road checkpoints all over the provinces were really a freak, seriously restricting the circulation and development of the commodity economy, and in the central and southern provinces, almost every county had joint checkpoints at all traffic crossings, and even some towns and villages also set up checkpoints to check the passing vehicles. A joint checkpoint composed of various departments of the county government is responsible for collecting taxes and fees on special agricultural and sideline products in transit. At that time, working at the checkpoint was called keeping the card, and the work of keeping the card was also very hard, and it was necessary to take turns to be on duty at the guard box during the day and night, 24 hours a day, rain or shine, so all units generally arranged for young people to go to the checkpoint to guard the card.

When I arrived at the duty room of the joint checkpoint next door, there were two pots of charcoal fire in it, and it was burning, and when I saw Yue Haohan coming in, Li Qingming smiled and said, Haohan is here, you and Jianhui will bake the fire here first, I will go and bring the wine and copper hot pot, and by the way, I will wash some vegetarian dishes, and there will be a car pulling vegetables to come over soon, we stopped and got some fresh vegetables, and today we dried up two bottles of Yangjiang Daqu.

Li Qingming went out of the duty room to prepare, Zeng Jianhui poured a cup of tea for Yue Haohan, and the two of them sat in front of the charcoal fire and chatted, Zeng Jianhui held a tongs in his hand, holding the charcoal fire in the brazier, and said, Haohan, Li Qingming will come in a while, we will get two sacks of charcoal to help you carry it to your room, roast when you are cold, Wulong Township, a place where ghosts do not breed eggs, is very cold in winter.

Yue Haohan said, Jianhui, this is not good, what should you do if you stationmaster know? Don't talk about you?

Zeng Jianhui said, ball! The stationmaster, he can't control us, he is the traffic police team, I am the industrial and commercial bureau, he wants to manage us, besides, the charcoal used on duty here every day, is it not me and Qingming and us?

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Jianhui, this is not good. I'm going to get cold, so I'll come to your side and make a fire.

Zeng Jianhui said, it's okay, between our brothers, who is with whom, don't see each other! There are more charcoal trucks pulling from here every day, as long as Qingming and I collect less taxes and fees from the bosses, they consciously leave a few bags of charcoal and calculate their own accounts, and the bosses are willing to do the same. If you need it at home, just ask, and I'll get it for you.

There was a sound of a truck outside, Zeng Jianhui dropped the tongs in his hand, picked up the reflective sign to check the vehicle, and said, Haohan, you sit for a while, there is a car coming, I will go and see what is pulling.

Zeng Jianhui walked out of the duty room, and after a while, a man who looked about fifty years old, holding two cabbages in his arms, entered the duty room and put it down, nodded at Yue Haohan, nodded with a smile, turned around and went out again, after a while, the man held a bundle of green onions and a bundle of garlic seedlings, and entered the duty room with Zeng Jianhui, the man put down the green onions and garlic seedlings, took out a pack of cigarettes, took out a cigarette and handed it to Zeng Jianhui, and said, Captain Zeng, you smoke a low-grade cigarette of mine.

Zeng Jianhui said, Lao Hu, neither of us smokes, you go and bring your cup, pour a cup of hot tea and drink it on the way, there is still a distance from here to Yanshan City, it is cold, drink some hot tea to warm your body.

Lao Hu went to the car and brought a big plastic cup, Zeng Jianhui put some tea in his cup, and then filled the cup with boiling water in a boiling water bottle.

After Lao Hu left, Zeng Jianhui sat down by the brazier and said, vast, this Lao Hu is a good person, he is from Yangping County, Zhongzhou Province, and he has to send a cart of vegetarian vegetables to Yanshan City every other day. This old Hu was grateful, and every time he took a part of the food in the car and gave it to the canteen at the checkpoint.

Yue Haohan said, Jianhui, why do I think that a joint checkpoint should not be set up on the road, this lot of taxes and fees should be paid at the source, and a card should be set up on the road to collect it again, isn't this a double collection?

Zeng Jianhui said, in fact, I also think it is very unreasonable, I don't know what is going on here, who wants to keep the card here in this cold day, but the above is arranged, there is no way.

As he spoke, Li Qingming held a bamboo basket in one hand, which contained washed cabbage, garlic sprouts, coriander, and spinach, and carried a large copper charcoal hot pot in the other hand.

The hot pot was done, and the three of them poured a large cup of Yangjiang Daqu, while shabu the vegetarian dishes in the bamboo basket, while slowly drinking the Yangjiang Daqu in the cup, Li Qingming took a sip of wine, smacked his mouth, and said, Haohan, you said that you, a graduate of a key university, why did you come to work in this ghost place, it was too condescending.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, I don't think it's good to talk about being bent or unyielding, and now I'm used to it.

Zeng Jianhui picked up the wine glass and said, come and touch one of the three of us!

The three of them took a sip and put down the cup, Li Qingming said, vast, I'm not saying that Wulong Township is poor, I mean that the people in the Wulong Township government are very ghostly, and the entire Jiangyang County, who doesn't know that Wulong Township is monolithic, is it possible that the leaders of the county party committee and county government are blind? If you don't join them here, can you have a good life?

Zeng Jianhui said, you don't see that Wu Youde Niu B boom, every time he walks on the streets of Wulongxiang, his head is the same as who owes him money for eight lifetimes, which is more than the flavor of Feng County Changyun.

Yue Haohan didn't want to talk about the rights and wrongs of the township with them, so he raised his wine glass and said, Come, cheers to the three of us brothers! Don't talk about annoying things, drink two bottles of wine, and go to sleep under the covers.

The first glass of wine had just been drunk, and the sound of a car sounded outside again, Li Qingming put down the cup and said, you two drink slowly first, I'll go and see what kind of car is pulling, this month's tax task has not been completed.

Li Qingming went out to stop the car, Yue Haohan asked Zeng Jianhui and said, Jianhui, do you still have tasks every month?

Zeng Jianhui said that there is no task who will stay up late here and go to bed early.

At this time, at the window of the duty room, a man in his thirties, holding a driver's license and a driving license in his hand, handed it in from the window, Zeng Jianhui took the documents handed over, and after registering on the registration book, he asked, what is the car pulling?

The man said, pull the pigs.

Zeng Jianhui said that it is necessary to pay business administration fees and business taxes.

The man said, I have already handed it over, why do I still have to pay it? I handed it over to you, can I pay it back in the market in Yanshan City? With your ** and business administration fee bills here, can they be deducted in the market?

Zeng Jianhui said, I don't know much about this, anyway, if you pass from here, you must pay fees and taxes. As he spoke, he pressed the man's driver's license and driving license under the registration book in the duty room.

Li Qingming entered the duty room from the outside, his nose was red from the cold, and he stomped his feet after coming in, and said, it is a large cart of live pigs, there is no delivery list, I just counted it briefly, about fifty heads, ten yuan per head, and a tax of 500 yuan, Jianhui, how much is your business administration fee?

Zeng Jianhui said, one head is two yuan, if it is fifty heads, I will charge a business administration fee of 100 yuan.

After settling the account, Li Qingming went to the window and said, boss, the business tax plus the business administration fee is 600 yuan, we will issue you a bill, and the money will be paid and you will be released.

The man stood in front of the window, crying and mourning, and said, big brother, there is really no way, I came from Zhongzhou Province, passed through eight checkpoints, and has already paid more than 4,000 yuan, and now I only have more than 300 yuan left on my body.

The man was afraid that Li Qingming would not believe it, so he took out a stack of ** and business administration fee bills from his body, handed them in from the window, Li Qingming took it and looked at it, there were Zhongzhou Province, some neighboring counties, and a simple total, there were really more than 4,100 yuan.

After reading it, Li Qingming handed the stack of bills to the person outside the window again, and said, boss, there is no way, we have to pay it here, you can't leave if you don't pay it, or you wait until dawn to deal with a pig and pay the taxes before leaving?

The man didn't know what to say, he held his head in his hands, tears kept circling in his eyes, and the whole person just lay on the window of the duty room at the checkpoint, and did not say a word again.

Li Qingming didn't say anything more, from the window of the duty room, returned to the table, picked up the wine bottle, filled the cups of the three people, and said, Haohan, Jianhui, come, let's continue to drink.

The person outside the window sneezed at this time, Yue Haohan held the wine glass, had no interest in drinking it again, looked at the person outside the window, and said, Qingming, Jianhui, forget it, you just let people go, go all the way, the weather is cold, you look at him a big man, he almost cried, and he probably caught a cold.

Li Qingming said, it is still the vast brother with a good heart, okay, just listen to you, if you don't charge a cent, we will charge less, let him pay 100 yuan, I will collect 80 yuan tax, and Jianhui will charge 20 yuan in management fees.