My 1979

Before 2000, collecting electricity bills was not an easy topic for any power company.

There are real complaints about the payment of fees, the difficulty of collecting fees, and the withdrawal of funds from power supply companies has become a problem year after year...

Especially after the collection target changes from collective to individual, toll collectors have to go door to door to read the meters. Not only after reading the meters, they also have to collect fees, which takes up a lot of manpower and transportation costs.

If you meet someone with a good temper, you'll probably have to talk too much and sit on the bench. If you meet someone with a bad temper, it's easy to get bitten by a dog, but it's common to get beaten.

However, compared with stealing cables and transformers, stealing electricity is still a bit childish. If the poles were not made of cement or wood, they would not be retained at all.

The hard-working and restless Chinese people will not lag behind under the guidance of the concept of "get rich first". If they develop well, they will bring their relatives and friends to "get rich together".

"Zhang Zhuyang, did I lose your money or something? Are you annoying people like this every day?" Pan Guangcai looked impatient at the man standing in front of him with a canvas tool bag, "What about this power station?" It’s not run by your family, why are you working so hard every day!”

"I said, Lao Pan, you are deliberately making things difficult for others. I am the contractor for more than 1,000 households from Hewan to Lizhuang and Shangba. I have put all the money from selling big pigs this year. You are so sincere and deceitful." The man named Zhang Zhuyang looked angry.

"Who is embarrassing you? You said there is something wrong with my home appliance meter? I am not happy if you are making false accusations."

"I'm not blind." Zhang Zhuyang still felt aggrieved.

"Hey, Lao Pan, are you in trouble?" Li He listened for a while and couldn't stand it anymore.

"No, no." Pan Guangcai felt embarrassed.

"What's the point of a few dollars?" Li He never even considered saving face for Pan Guangcai after helping him so much. If he resented him because of this matter, it meant that he was blind and shouldn't have been so nice to him in the first place. .

"Annoying." Pan Guangcai finally took out a few cents from his pocket and threw them to Zhang Zhuyang.

Zhang Zhuyang took the money, smiled at Li He, and then went behind the wall of Li's house to read the electricity meter.

As soon as Li He entered the house, he followed Li He in, "Five dollars."

"Have a cigarette." Li He gave him another cigarette after giving him the money.

"Hey, if everyone was as easy to talk to as you, I wouldn't be so tired." Zhang Zhuyang sighed repeatedly, "These bastards are holding me back every day."

"We are old classmates, and I can't make things difficult for you if I make it difficult for anyone." Li He, who was a junior high school classmate with him, said with a smile, "I think I can talk pretty well in the village. When I meet someone who doesn't understand me, I can talk to him." .”

"Thank you." Zhang Zhuyang chuckled, "It's hard for you to take care of me like this, but I'm not as good as your kid. Your brother is the best in the county."

Li He shook his head, "He is still a child and has time to give advice."

"Don't embarrass me, he gave me some advice." Zhang Zhuyang took out the tea cup from his bag, "I'll pour some tea."

"Change the tea leaves?" Li He pinched some tea leaves for him.

"That's enough, that's enough, good tea."

Zhang Zhuyang sniffed with his nose raised.

"Absolutely." Li He filled him up with water and asked, "Did you contract the power station? Otherwise, why would you still be losing money?"

"Yes, there are more than 9,000 electricity consumers in 29 villages in our town. According to the scope of distribution and transformation, each of the seven or eight electricians in the collection team is divided into thousands of households to collect electricity. Our wages are linked to the electricity bill recovery. If we don't collect all, we will I have to put it on myself. Last year I confiscated all the big pigs that my family raised during the New Year and sold them to the township station for 300 yuan. Do you think this is easy for me?"

"It's not easy." Li He agreed deeply.

"And people have everything these days. There are more than 1,000 households, that is, 1,000 electricity meters. If you encounter someone who is unreasonable and unreasonable, not only will you not be able to collect the electricity bill, but you will also become angry." Zhang Zhuyang became more and more angry as he talked. .

Li He smiled and said, "It's just a power outage."

Zhang Zhuyang shook his head, "If only it were that simple. Anyway, this job is not easy to do. If I want to do it, I will be my grandson!"

"Take your time." Li He comforted, "Are you okay tonight? Why don't you rub it in here?"

"Hey, I won't bother you anymore." Seeing that Li He's family didn't even have a woman, Zhang Zhuyang didn't want to stay here, although he also had the intention to restore the old friendship with Li He. After all, multiple friends lead to many paths, not to mention Li He. Peace is still a road.

"I got a rabbit and a pheasant on the street today. In the evening I called a few people over and they started. From now on, no one in Li Zhuang can pay your electricity bill, let alone steal it." Anything that can be done to help, Li Kazuya is happy to do it.

In fact, if it weren't for meeting Zhang Zhuyang, Li He would have almost forgotten their past. Although the two of them didn't get along particularly well at school, they could be said to be pretty ordinary.

But he still slowly unearthed the things in his memory. Probably one winter, when he lived in the Datongpu dormitory of the school, the other party gave him a pair of socks. Although they were old cotton socks, they made his Feet comforted a winter.

This may be a very small thing for Zhang Zhuyang or even something he has long forgotten, but for Li Laoer, whose life is full of pitfalls, it is particularly important because it was the only winter when he did not wear rubber shoes with bare feet.

"Then I'm welcome." Upon hearing Li He's offer to help him solve the village's electricity bill problem, Zhang Zhuyang was reluctant to leave this time.

He is not from Li Zhuang, so it would be great if Li He could help him establish a relationship.

"That's just being polite." Li He patted him on the shoulder.

Zhang Zhuyang looked at his watch and said, "It's still early. Let me check around the village first. Come back?"

Li He smiled and said, "I'll go with you. Whoever you say is difficult to deal with, I'll go with you."

"I won't embarrass you. After all, you are all from the same village." Zhang Zhuyang was very moved.

"Let's go, it's all pretentious to say too much."

Zhang Zhuyang pushed the bicycle, and Li He followed behind.

To Li He's embarrassment, Zhang Zhuyang's first thorn was Fatty Chen.

At this moment, he was preparing to go out with a shovel on his shoulder. When he saw Li He coming, he smiled and said, "I was planning to have a drink with you in the evening."

He turned a blind eye to Zhang Zhuyang who went straight to the back wall of his house to read the electric meter.

"Have a conflict with him?" Li He pursed his lips in the direction of Zhang Zhuyang.

"Hey, you're too old to tolerate him." Fatty Chen pursed his lips, "If I weren't afraid of being accused of bullying, I would have whipped him."

"He is my classmate in junior high school. Please give me some face. If you are really short of a few dollars, I will give it to you." Li He took his cigarette and lit it, and then waved to Fatty Chen's father, " busy."

"Erhe, come inside and sit down."

Li He nodded, "You are busy with your business."

Father Chen smiled and carried the vegetable basket and continued to work on his own.

Fatty Chen said, "Don't be ashamed of me. It's just a matter of a few dollars."

"Then it's settled, go to my nanny's house tonight, hare pot."

When Li He saw that Chen Yongqiang gave the money to Zhang Zhuyang, he didn't say anything more and took Zhang Zhuyang to the second house.

The second house, to Li He's surprise, turned out to be Liu Laosi's house. The wires strung out of his yard were openly clamped to the main line outside the yard with two clamps, and the electric meter did not read at all.

It was rare for Liu Laosi not to go out. At this moment, there were a lot of bricks piled in front of his house. He was mixing mud and mortar to build a chicken coop.

Li He handed him a cigarette and said with a smile, "It's not easy for my classmates."

"Oh, you should have told me earlier." Liu Laosi was at least better than people like Chen Yongqiang and Pan Guangcai. He knew how to save face and looked very embarrassed. He took the initiative to move a ladder to Zhang Zhuyang and pointed to the thread on the wall, " You can figure it out, but we don’t understand either.”

After Zhang Zhuyang removed the private connection, he handed over fifty yuan and did not let Zhang Zhuyang look for it. He just rubbed his hands and said, "Look at what happened. If he knew about your relationship, he would also can not be like this."

Zhang Zhuyang just smiled and didn't say anything, just letting Li He speak.

"Don't forget to come to my grandma's house tonight."

After Li He finished explaining to Liu Laosi, he didn't pick up the tea his wife had made. He just took Zhang Zhuyang and continued to the next family, the Sang brothers.