There are about two kinds of badgers, the one in northern China is generally called the badger or the dog badger, and there is another badger in the tropical rainforest called the pig badger, which is slightly different. The most famous thing about this animal is its fat, which is boiled into oil and is a good treatment for scalds, badger oil. In fact, the meat of this animal is also very delicious, at least Hong Tao thinks it is very delicious, in the previous life when he was stationed here to fish, the same fishing friends came with dogs, and the two dogs barked from the early morning, so noisy that people couldn't sleep, and they came together in the morning to find that they had killed a badger in the open space by the water.

After seeing this badger, he didn't say a word, he went up with a knife, and pulled out the skin after three times and five divided by two, and then pointed to the thick layer of butter on the skin and introduced to everyone, this is badger oil, he took it home to boil it for everyone, and then the next time they meet, they will divide it. As for the badger, it was not wasted, it was directly chopped into pieces with bones and meat and thrown into the pressure cooker to stew.

It was the first time Hong Tao ate badger meat, and he was a little resistant at first, but after tasting a few bites, he couldn't stop the car. The meat is delicate and tastes a bit like pork, but it's not as greasy, so it looks good on its own or stewed with other ingredients.

However, Hong Tao no longer tastes badger meat Yaxing, the wine table has entered a white-hot battle, now everyone is a little drunk, and they don't care about the leader, the subordinate, who is the host and who is the guest, basically talking is a cup, there are all kinds of names, and there is no name at all, just drink.

Hong Tao's amount of alcohol is not bad, this thing is half on talent and half on exercise, even if those township cadres are not weak hands, but Hong Tao has never let them fall down, even if they drink, they have to pull Deputy County Magistrate Qiu and Deputy Director Dou to drink together.

When did the banquet end, how did you come back, and where is it now? These questions are all remembered after Hong Tao opens his eyes again, and his mind is a little clearer, and his memory is still stuck in the banquet, everyone toasted because Hong Tao sent a circle of cigarettes, and sat on the seat after drinking, looking at Katie who was eating Haisai, and sighed that this girl has a really good appetite, and then it was gone, according to Beijing dialect, this is a broken drink.

But these questions are not the key, the key is what I said out of the ordinary after the fragment. Or did something out of the ordinary, no. Fragments are not the same as getting drunk and sneaking under the table, a bit similar to not remembering that you are crazy after getting drunk, people are still sober after the fragments, they should eat, drink, and chat, in their previous life, Hong Tao had accompanied customers and fragments more than once, and the most ruthless time he actually accompanied customers to the swimming pool for half an hour after breaking the fragments, and it was a blessing that he did not drown.

"What did you do after the banquet yesterday? You don't remember? When Hong Tao asked Katie about what she had done yesterday, Katie didn't understand the state that Hong Tao was talking about.

"Nonsense, I remember asking you again! Let's start with the meat of a badger wrapped in bread. Hong Tao was most impressed by Katie's eating appearance at that time. The broth ran down her cheeks, and she still had time to put another piece of fish in her mouth.

And then ...... Then the deputy director Dou dragged us to take a boat and went around the reservoir, but several people vomited on the boat. Including you, and then you came back, you slept until now, you were hungry or not. I'll get you some food, I'll pack all the badger meat that I haven't eaten and bring a few cakes! "Katie's language generalization skills are very strong. In a few words, he finished talking about Hong Tao's experience in the afternoon, and then brought up the issue of eating.

"Let's put the badger meat aside, and then I will buy badgers for you to eat every day, and I asked if I said anything on the boat yesterday, and with whom?" Hong Tao really convinced himself as a little sister-in-law, very worried about whether she would become a big fat man of more than 200 pounds as soon as she passed thirty, you said that if you dislike her at that time, it is not suitable, do not dislike her, and I am afraid that I will be crushed to death by her in bed.

"Pan has been pulling you to chat, you seem to be telling Pan about your fishing here before, you also deliberately let the boat stop in one place for a while, and then you cried, that Qiu County Magistrate said that you are touching the beautiful scenery and have love. Then let the boat come back, let us stay on the second floor of the restaurant, and wait until you sober up before leaving. Oh, by the way, County Magistrate Qiu asked me to sue you, and when you are free, I will call him and say that I want to talk about the contract, this time you are considered wishful, you don't have to drink like this in the future, right? "Katie is really not a foodie, her memory is not bad, and she can understand Chinese and English, and she can barely make do as a translator."

"Is there any special sign in that place where the boat was parked, do you remember?" Hong Tao trembled in his heart, didn't care at all about the negotiation of the contract, and continued to ask.

"Remember, you pointed it out to us, there is a lonely little tree on the mountainside, you used to fish in front of that tree, but from the water's edge to the small tree, it must be at least 20 meters high, a hundred meters away, and it is full of sour jujube trees and weeds, Qiu County Magistrate and Director Dou both said that you drank too much, the water level has never risen there, and when the water level is the highest, there must be a height difference of 10 meters from the small tree, dozens of meters away. Then you cried, knelt on the boat and kowtowed to the tree, and then you sailed back. Katie vividly learned Hong Tao's virtues at that time, and laughed at Hong Tao's drunken behavior.

"It seems that this wine will have to be drunk less in the future, and it is very dangerous to lose words after drinking!" Hong Tao listened to a sweat, although from Katie's narrative can not see what she has done out of the ordinary, but I am afraid that there are people, there is Pan, a female spy lurking on the side, if you can't do it, you have to expose a little, although her Chinese is not good, but her brain is too easy to use, and her logical analysis ability is amazing.

"Well, Pan also said that you should drink less alcohol in the future, and she said that drinking like you is not good for the brain. By the way, shall we leave tonight, or will we leave tomorrow? Katie asked about Hong Tao's schedule.

"It's past 10 o'clock, you don't know the road, let's leave tomorrow morning." Hong Tao looked at his watch, it was more than 10 o'clock in the evening, there are few places with street lights on dozens of kilometers of provincial roads from here to the highway, it is better to stay here for one night, although it is not a high-end hotel, but the room is still good, at least clean and warm.

On the way back to the city the next day, Hong Tao didn't take Pan's tone, but this woman didn't seem to have happened, just persuaded Hong Tao to drink less in the future, pay attention to his health or something, and nothing else was abnormal.

The sooner this contract is signed, the better, if it is delayed until the spring, the flood in the upper reaches of the river, the current contractor is estimated to be reluctant to go, even if the time comes to use Pan's relationship to find someone to squeeze him away, the price he has to pay is huge.

However, the process of signing the contract is not something that Hong Tao can control, although Qinglong County and the county water conservancy bureau have agreed to the change of contractor, but they have begun to argue on the issue of cost. It turned out that the contractor's annual contract fee was 2.7 million yuan, and he had not paid the contract fee this year, and there was still a difference of about 500,000 yuan, but he didn't want to make up for it, so he used various reasons to prevaricate.

For example, he built a few huts in the reservoir for the warehouse patrol staff to live in, and there were two speedboats, and he couldn't take these things with him, so he had to convert them into money and hand them to the county. In addition, he said that this year's fish farming has lost a lot of money due to the release of water from the reservoir, and this loss cannot be borne by him alone, so the contract fee must also be reduced or exempted accordingly. After pulling back and forth several times, Hong Tao saw that it was going to be March, and they could afford to drag it out, but they couldn't afford it, so they gritted their teeth and took the remaining less than 300,000 contract money by themselves, so that the negotiation could be regarded as the next link.

What's next? Of course, it's the lubrication fee, what is the lubrication fee? In other words, it is a benefit fee, you ask the officials of the government department to go to the province and the city to help you stamp and run the procedures, people can't go in vain! Just get out of the car and take care of the food! People will help you go through the process, who will make up for the loss of mental worries to reduce brain cells and live for a few days! Naturally, whoever does the work will compensate.

Pan and Katie have no objection to this, and Pan has been in China for almost two years, and has been mixed between real estate developers and the government, where the water is much deeper than a small contract like Hong Tao. The contract fee here is only about 3 million when it is fully calculated, and even if the benefit fee is given to Party A according to 10%, it is only 300,000. Those big projects and big projects, the ones that can't be said to be hundreds of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the units behind you are not 100 million, dare to go out and say that this is a project! It is not enough to attract foreign capital, and not to mention 10 percent of these investments, even if one percent is exposed, it will cost several millions.

However, it is not enough to just give money, some leaders are willing to accept money, and some leaders are unwilling to accept money, and people can't let you ruin this reputation. Hong Tao caught up with such a one, Deputy County Magistrate Qiu and Deputy Director Dou are easy to say, but the real decision is the secretary of the county party committee, who is said to be a decent official, so Chiguoguo's use of money must be counterproductive, thankless, and he has to find a way.

And this kind of thing has to go to the county work meeting to go through the process, and it is not decided by anyone who pats the brain, so although he did not come forward, the bulk of the lubrication fee is in their hands, and these two deputies are just sent out to do specific work. (To be continued......)