Chapter 23 Tax Collector
Soon, with Chen Pingping’s advice, Xu Boan selected a single-family villa with an area of more than 400 square meters and a total price of 16 million.
The villa has three floors, eight bedrooms, three living rooms and four bathrooms. It comes with a loft of more than 50 square meters and a small courtyard of more than 30 square meters. It is fully decorated and has all the furniture and appliances. It is mainly a one-bag move-in. Heart-warming, it is simply Chen Pingping’s dream love room!
Seeing Xu Boan sign and pay by credit card in one go, Chen Pingping seemed to be dreaming.
Chen Pingping might grit her teeth and dare to buy a car or house worth millions. After all, her shop is worth three million.
But for this 16 million-dollar mansion, let alone Chen Pingping, if she was not worth 100 million, she would never dare to spend so much money to buy a house in full!
At this moment, Chen Pingping was extremely confident that her old classmate Qi Xiaoxue did not understand her ex-husband well enough.
After working for a long time, when we came out of the villa area of the Central Villa, the sky was already dark.
Xu Bo'an sent out the invitation enthusiastically: "I'm sorry for delaying you for so long, and even the business in the store. Give me a chance to treat you to dinner, which is also a way for me to express my apology! "
Chen Pingping smiled softly and said frankly: "Actually, I should invite you. To be honest, I can get a lot of commission for promoting this business. When my commission comes, When it arrives, I’ll give it back to you, so don’t worry about it.”
Xu Bo'an waved his hand: "Don't let outsiders get away with it. The money you earn based on your skills is yours."
Great! I, Chen Pingping, really didn’t make a mistake.
However, Chen Pingping still said: "That's a lot of money. You can probably still get it after paying the tax..."
Xu Bo'an stopped Chen Pingping again: "Yes, you still have to pay the tax. , which means that the money you earn is more reasonable, so I won’t mention it again!”
What Xu Boan didn’t expect was that when he talked about tax collection here, something happened in Kaoshan Village at the same time! An amazing coincidence.
The original site of Kaoshan Village was not a temporary residence for immigrants under the mountain temple.
Two men dressed as police officers walked into the mountain village, their faces showing impatience.
“Hey, Lao Jiao, if you said that we should collect taxes in this day and age, wouldn’t that offend people!” A young officer said helplessly
“Huh, Offended? I didn't see a single person along the way!" The policeman named Lao Jiao walked listlessly.
Earlier, the officer casually pulled a piece of dry dogtail grass on the roadside and bit it in his mouth, and said inarticulately: "Oh, who says it's not the case? The villagers are really fine. Why don't you just run around and just keep your ancestors' property?"
Lao Jiao rolled his eyes and said: "You're not talking nonsense. You don't know what the drought has been like in the past few years. The villagers don't have the official monthly salary to survive, nor do they have the money in Xishan Market Town." A wealthy member of the clan can live on his own money, who wants to wait here to die? "
"Oh, it's not easy either." The officer just sighed and was about to continue on his way, but his eyes suddenly wandered. After passing a place, his eyes were instantly pricked by bright light.
"Old Jiao, look, what is that!" As he spoke, the officer quickly raised his arm and pointed to a courtyard to the side.
The officer named Lao Jiao looked in the direction of his colleague's finger, and his eyes suddenly widened.
It was a stone courtyard. The stone courtyard walls had collapsed due to age and disrepair. People could have an unobstructed view of the courtyard.
A gleaming silver spear was leaning against the earthen wall of the cave dwelling in the courtyard.
“I have a spear, my fourth uncle! This is definitely a good spear. It looks better than the spear passed down by Mr. Yan, the Inspection Department. How can there be such a thing in a mountainous village? Such a treasure!"
"Haha, Lao Jiao, he is hiding a weapon, we are going to make a contribution," the officer said happily. Lao Jiao smiled contemptuously and said: "Making meritorious services? Hey, silly boy, meritorious services are of no use. Capt. Wang and Boss Yan can be promoted based on their merits. You and I are just making ends meet." , No one cares about it, so what if you have meritorious service? Can you still become an official? "Stop dreaming."
The young officer seemed to have been poured cold water on him, and he was a little emotional. He muttered lowly: "What do you mean, Lao Jiao? Is it possible that we just pretend we didn't see them and ignore them?"
Lao Jiao sneered and said: "No matter what? Huh! How is it possible? According to the laws of our Da Jing Dynasty, those who hide weapons secretly will be sentenced to one and a half years! As government servants, how can you and I turn a blind eye to this kind of behavior!"
"Then what should we do?" The young guard asked puzzledly.
Lao Jiao looked at the younger generation with a smile and said in a tone of imparting experience: "Haha, staying in jail for a year and a half is a hard life. Tell me, how much does it cost to redeem it? !”
The young officer looked like he suddenly understood: “I understand, you mean, let them pay for it...”
Lao Jiao smiled happily and stopped his colleagues from continuing. Go on: "Hey, what we can buy or not, education is the main thing. We are all villagers from ten miles and eight villages. If someone is willing to give us a thank you fee, we have to be unkind!"
Young The guard clapped his hands happily: "Haha, Lao Jiao, you are so smart! No wonder you can do such a small salary every month. You can do it for more than 20 years. You are really capable. How much should we charge for this matter? Ah! "
Lao Jiao leisurely raised a finger.
"How much, one hundred copper coins!" the young officer asked hopefully.
Lao Jiao sneered and said: "Sending beggars, you need this amount to bring clothes to the prison. What I said is consistent, if it is less than this amount, there is no need to talk about it!"
Great Scenery There are as many as a thousand copper coins in the imperial court, which are worth one tael of silver!
The monthly salary of the officers is only 500 copper coins.
The young officer swallowed hard and said in disbelief: "Always! Oh my god, if we add two to one and make five, each person can get five hundred copper coins, which is a full month's salary. ."
Obviously this was not the first time that Lao Jiao had done this. He said with some disgust: "Look at you! You are so worthless! Why, you can't really make 500 yuan a month. Copper coins can support the family. "
The young guard said hesitantly: "Fortunately, I can still have dozens of copper coins left every month if I go out to eat and drink!"
Lao Jiao sneered: "Huh, that means you can feed one person and the whole family is not hungry. Think about it, if you marry your mother-in-law, will the dozens of copper coins you have left be enough for her to eat and drink? Enough for her to buy clothes. Yanzhi, do you want snacks? What if you have another child?"
The young officer smiled awkwardly and said, "It's not enough for this poor family."
Lao Jiao shook his collar and said magnanimously: "Why are you in a hurry? Human potential is unlimited. Even if he can't come up with the money, it's not an exaggeration to sell this spear for a lot of money."< br>
While talking, Lao Jiao and the young officer did not go through the courtyard gate, but climbed in from the low part of the courtyard wall and went straight to the shining silver spear.
Before the two of them touched the spear, they heard a rush of footsteps.
The voice came before anyone arrived: "Grandpa, I'm here to pick you up. Look what good things I brought, candy and bacon. Take a few bites and we'll be on our way!"
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Lao Jiao and the other two people in the yard were immediately dumbfounded!
Caramel? Cured meat!
In this day and age, can anyone still afford such rich things? Or in a poor place in the backwaters of Kaoshan Village?
(End of this chapter)