With a few shouts, the car of the electrical organizer and the expert team automatically stopped on the side of the road. Bao Bao reluctantly stuck his head out of the car window and looked at the bamboo pole tied with a red cloth in front and the few people sitting behind the bamboo pole.
An old lady was eating melon seeds leisurely.
He secretly smiled bitterly, this may be the most original toll station.
Beginning in the first half of this year, three villages on Taohua Island began to relocate, and the seven-to-one leveling project began. The number of vehicles passing through Longwang Temple suddenly increased, and the villagers charged a toll here on the grounds that too many passing vehicles had damaged the roads in the village.
"This is really a huge profit." Lu Gong from the 12th Institute of Nuclear Power said with a smile, "A bamboo pole, a piece of red cloth, a few wooden stakes, Director Pan, how much do you think they can charge in a day?"
"It's two yuan for an ordinary car and five yuan for a truck. I think it can be thousands, right?" Because this is the only way to go to Taohua Island, and another section of the road has not been built yet, and there are a lot of vehicles coming and going.
Let’s estimate conservatively, well, these old ladies might really earn more in a day than he earns in a month.
"We are all old acquaintances." Bao Bao got out of the car and grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the plastic bag hanging on the post without paying. "Auntie, sister, look at how we move here every day, can you not do it today?"
Received?"
Just for this "toll station", he made many calls to the police station on behalf of the Telecom Office. People from the police station came, and the women withdrew. When the people from the police station left, they took up their posts again. Well, the enemy entered.
If I don't teach the Chinese people, I will quit this way.
Once, Liu Hong, the chief of Langya Subdistrict Police Station, decided to shut down this unlicensed "toll station" completely. However, the people in Longwang Temple were not vegetarians either. Several elderly people in their 80s and 90s were there.
After being carried out, he was very old and looked like he was about to collapse at the slightest sign of wind, which troubled the police and joint defense team members. If something happens to the old people, they will have to bear the responsibility.
It's the lesser of two evils, so this "toll station" has been erected on this highway in a grand manner for several months.
"It doesn't matter what we say," a middle-aged woman who looked like Zhuang's wife in "Golden Wedding" smiled and said with a good attitude, "This is all a village business, young man, do you think we took money to pretend to be ourselves?"
There is no such good thing in my pocket!"
"Instead of digging for gold, we are here to suffer in the cold and suffer, so we can earn some hard-earned money, right?" Another old lady laughed, and she looked at the car behind her, "Oh, are you from that nuclear power company?" She suddenly said
His face changed, his eyes looked like he saw a Japanese Japs, and Bao Bao was the traitor who led the Japs into the village, "No, you have to charge more for your car."
"Charge more?" Baobao was stunned, "Why? Then how much do you want to charge?"
"You can't dig for gold even if you come here. What will we eat and drink? No, you will have to pay more for your car. One hundred for each car. No bargaining." The old ladies lowered their faces. That means there is no negotiation. You have to live with it.
Just pass it, but if it doesn't work, find another way out.
Bao Baobao felt angry for a while, but thinking of Yue Wen's instructions, he could only nod his head firmly, "One hundred is one hundred. You lift the pole, and I will get on the bus and withdraw the money."
But he muttered the news of the price increase to the driver. When he heard that today's toll was fifty times higher, the driver became angry, "Director Pan, why should you give them money? This is not a cement road, and they are not afraid.
Roll!"
As he spoke, he vigorously activated the accelerator. The old women saw that it was not good and immediately put the lever down again.
However, in front of the car made of iron and steel, the bamboo pole was too fragile. With just a "pop" sound, the bamboo pole broke into two pieces.
"Okay, good hit!"
Baobao felt happy. If he hadn't been afraid of conflicts with the villagers these days, he would have destroyed this bird toll station due to his temper. What the driver did today was very satisfying.
But just when the car passed smoothly and had gone a long way, the driver said, "Director Pan, that's wrong, the car behind didn't catch up."
The baby was startled, and suddenly looked back, and couldn't help but feel a thump in his heart. Several women were surrounding a China Nuclear Power vehicle, and Mrs. Zhuang was lying under the wheel, shouting with tears in her eyes.
However, Lu Gong from the No. 12 Nuclear Research Institute got out of the car and clasped his hands. It was obvious that his words had no effect on Mrs. Zhuang. What he said was either blown away by the north wind or suppressed in Mrs. Zhuang's body.
Amidst the crying, nothing could be heard.
The baby felt his heart sinking infinitely. The driver didn't say anything and didn't need to turn around. The car fell back like it was flying.
"Call someone, call someone. Are all the men in the Dragon King Temple dead? Are they being bullied to the doorstep?" The leading woman had already taken out her cell phone and called.
People in Pingzhou have a proverb called Bandits and Pirates, which means that people who rely on mountains are like bandits, and people who rely on the sea are like pirates. The Dragon King Temple is at the foot of Girl Mountain. People in the village can fight, know how to fight, and love to fight.
Everyone in Pingzhou knows it.
"Auntie, get up. The car didn't hit you when you got up. What are you doing lying on the ground? It's so cold in the winter..."
The tree wanted to be quiet but the wind was not stopping. Yue Wen was most afraid of something happening, but something happened anyway. The baby became anxious and immediately felt his mouth was dry.
But Mrs. Zhuang didn't seem to feel the coldness on the ground at all. She still lay in front of the car without moving, but the expression on her face was very rich. She was dripping with runny nose and bursting with tears. She was willing to endure as many hardships as she wanted.
Some staff members of China Nuclear Power Group were laughing, while others were sighing. Lu Gong also felt that his words were not working well here. He smiled, looked at the baby, and returned to the car.
This smile was meaningful. Seeing that there were more and more people around him, and if it continued like this, something might happen. The baby felt anxious and subconsciously pulled the middle-aged woman. "Get up, get up and talk."
"Here comes someone, he's playing hooligan!"
The baby was stunned for a moment. Logically speaking, these three words would never happen to him or this middle-aged woman, but he was stunned and shouted out of the woman's mouth.
"You are such a hooligan!" The driver was angry and yelled, and the baby immediately agreed with him.
"He is just acting like a gangster," Mrs. Zhuang still refused to give in. Everyone saw it, "He touched me, he touched me!"
The baby's little face was blue and purple with anger, his hands were tied and had nowhere to put them, and his lips were trembling. Even though he was usually very articulate, he was speechless now.
If Liu Yuanyuan knew about it, it wouldn't be a big deal. One time when she was in a shopping mall, she just took one more look at a woman in her forties, and she pinched herself and laughed at her for having such a strong taste!
Damn it, if she knew what happened today...
The staff of the China National Nuclear Power Corporation sitting in the car also saw this scene. They looked at the middle-aged woman and then at the young baby, and they all laughed out loud.
But not long after I laughed, I heard the roar of vehicles, and several cars drove past from the mountain and the village.
The car stopped, and a dozen people jumped out immediately. Some were carrying tools, and some were bare-handed but wearing helmets. It seemed that they all came well prepared.
"Where are the gangsters?" A man coming down from the mountain asked Mrs. Zhuang loudly.
"Second uncle, that guy from the nuclear power company is a gangster." Sister-in-law Zhuang pointed to the baby.
Lu Gong, who was sitting in the car, had a smile on his face. The reputation of China Nuclear Power Group was at stake, and he couldn't just sit idly by. However, looking at the dirty-dressed and glaring villagers, he hesitated again, not knowing what to do.
You shouldn't get off the car.
"Okay, the village committee will make the decision for you, but where are the people?"
The man called Second Uncle looked up at the crowd, but only saw the vehicles and staff of China National Nuclear Power Corporation. The young man just now had long disappeared.
"There's him too!" Mrs. Zhuang also found that the baby was missing, but the driver of the electricity supplier was still there. She stretched out her hand and immediately several villagers walked over with eager eyes...