Reborn in the red years, I am farming in space

Chapter 689
There are many types of work in coal mines.

But there is no doubt that the team engaged in excavation is the most tiring and dangerous.

Just because the underground coal seam is like the layer of meat in the middle of the meat sandwich: the miners have to rely on the picks and steel drills in the hands of the miners to pry out and dig out the coal bit by bit from the cracks in the rocks.

If you encounter thicker coal seams, such as those with a height of more than 1 meter, the life of the miners will be better: after all, when encountering such thick coal seams, the miners who are responsible for digging coal can still stand up a little.

When digging this kind of coal seam, not only the arms, but also the waist and thighs are easy to use.

Moreover, this kind of thick coal seam is dug up quickly and can produce more benefits.

But if they encounter coal seams that are only 2 or 3 feet high, the miners will suffer: they have to dig on the working surface, lying down, kneeling, and lying down.
When encountering this kind of coal seam, not only is it difficult to dig, but the excavation speed is also very slow.

Even if the miners work for a long time, they can't create any benefits.In this way, relatively speaking, their wages are not much higher.

This time down the well,
The team of Luo Xuan, Jian Teng, and Brother Zeng belonged to the "excavation team", and they did the most dangerous and tiring work.

Fortunately, the coal seam on the mining face is not bad at present, with a thickness of 8 to 90 centimeters, allowing people to dig forward with their bodies bent and sideways.

Encountering this kind of coal seam is much better than lying on the working surface and slowly drilling forward like an earthworm.

The mining surface that Luo Xuan encountered this time was not bad at all.

but,

Gu Xiangyu and Lao Tong have been digging coal for a long time, and he has accumulated more experience.

According to them: Judging from the direction and thickness changes of this coal seam, the good life of our team may not last for a few days.

Looking at the coal seam, it tends to become thinner and thinner.

After digging the thicker coal, the big guys can only go to the rock crevices to search for the thin coal.
Luo Xuan worked very hard this time when he went down to dig coal!
It's just because I have already told Gu Xiangyu and the others before: I have to work hard, only in this way can I support myself.

Maybe at the end of the year, I can still send 5 or 60 yuan to my family!
Luo Xuan is in good health, he already has a lot of strength in his body, and he is precise and skillful in digging coal.

Soon,

On the working surface that Luo Xuan was in charge of, there was a huge pile of coal.

If he was really tired from work, Luo Xuan would use the excuse of using a large size to relieve his small hands.

Then go to the abandoned mine, dodge into the space to rest for a while, eat something to restore your strength.

When his physical strength recovered, Luo Xuan would return to the workbench, pull Jian Teng and Brother Zeng down without any explanation, and let him take over for them to continue working.

In fact, digging coal in the well is a bit tiring and bitter, but it can be tolerated.

The most frightening thing is the danger of landslides and roof falls all the time, and the coal ash dust that permeates the working face.

People who have been in the mine for a long time.

Even if he has been lucky for many years, he has always been safe.

But after all, he can't escape the fall, and he will be accompanied by "pneumoconiosis" and "spontaneous pneumothorax" for life.

When these diseases flare up, life will really be worse than death!
Digging coal under the mine is the most tiring job, and loading the truck is relatively easy.

So there are 6 people in a team, generally speaking, 3 people are responsible for digging coal, and 3 people are responsible for loading cars.

With such a rotation, everyone can take this opportunity to take a breather.

Luo Xuan worked too hard today, basically all the work of digging coal on the working face was covered by Luo Xuan.

Gu Xiangyu and Lao Tong, who were looking straight ahead, were stunned: fierce man, what is a fierce man?

In the past, Lao Tong thought that digging coal by himself was enough to work hard and work hard.

Now he saw that the pickaxe in Luo Xuan's hand was flying up and down, and large pieces of coal were constantly falling down from the coal seam.

Lao Tong and Gu Xiangyu couldn't help but sigh in admiration: This is the real fierce man!
Luo Xuan began to dig coal.

At the beginning, the coal was almost piled up like a hill, and it was necessary to be responsible for loading the trucks, and several people were still a bit too busy.

This is not to say that the five of them are responsible for loading the car, and they can't do a Luo Xuan.

Only because of the coal mining face, the roadway is narrow.

The more people there are, the more difficult it is to move around, and the efficiency of loading cars will be greatly reduced.

After Luo Xuan dug for half an hour, Lao Tong and Gu Xiangyu were pleasantly surprised and happy from the beginning, and the joy of taking advantage of it from the beginning.

Slowly, it turned into fright: Luo Xuan, boy, don't want his own waist?

Young men who are not married have good waist strength.

But I can't stand it anymore, Luo Xuan is so profligate like this!

Alas, when I was young, I didn't know how precious the waist is, and when I was old, I looked at the hole in the silk and wept
Luo Xuan was digging too hard, and Lao Tong and Gu Xiangyu, who were watching directly, were surprised, happy, and terrified.

And then later.

Looking at Luo Xuan like a mole burrowing into the fluffy ground, he dug out a big hole with a click.

Gu Xiangyu and Lao Tong couldn't sit still anymore: "Hey, little brother Luo Dabang, take it easy and dig slowly!"

Luo Xuan has always said that his name is Luo Dabang since he came to the mine.

That's why Gu Xiangyu thought that Luo Xuan was really called "Luo Dabang".

"Slow down, slow down, bastard!"

The old fellow exclaimed: "In this broken coal mine, model workers are not selected, and advanced ones are not judged. Brother Luo Dabang, what are you doing so fast? Besides, that kind of honorary title depends on hard work, and you can be judged." of?"

Gu Xiangyu also quickly persuaded: "Brother Luo Dabang, my lord, my lord! Why are you doing it so fast? Let me tell you, there is no such thing as a production model in this Doujiapan coal mine." Say!"

Lao Tong hurriedly chimed in: "That's right! The big guys are taking some wages to eat and drink. And I heard that the person in charge of this coal mine has a daughter who weighs 180 catties. Not even the one on the skin.

Another 179 catties, that's still summer weight!Brother Luo Dabang, don't plan to be the son-in-law of the person in charge of the coal mine. His daughter eats handle meat and eats 3 catties for a meal! "

Luo Xuan once joked that he would marry the daughter of the coal mine manager.

This matter has spread throughout the coal mine through the mouths of the new miners.

Gu Xiangyu and Lao Tong, there was a reason why they wanted to stop Luo Xuan from digging coal so fast.

These two guys!
They were really terrified: after finally catching Luo Xuan, he was really a good miner and worker who was willing to work hard.

Then you have to cherish it and let him work for a long time.

It’s like a rich peasant in the old society, who bought a good mule that was willing to work hard and was willing to give up his strength. Then you have to take it slowly, and you can’t use it all at once!

Those two people tried their best to persuade him there, and Luo Xuan continued to dig desperately.

Gu Xiangyu really had no choice but to shout: "Stop! Stop digging."

Luo Xuan stopped and asked, "Why, Brother Gu, are you unwilling to let the miners produce more and contribute more to the mine?"

"Uh no, it's not."

Gu Xiangyu waved his hands again and again, then lowered his voice and said, "Actually, let's dig coal, uh, actually digging is almost enough!"

Jian Teng is not stupid.

When he heard what Gu Xiangyu said, Jian Teng took up the conversation and asked, "Brother Gu, are you afraid that if you dig too much and too fast, the mine will lower our unit price?"

Gu Xiangyu nodded: "That's it. We all belong to the same team, and the coal dug out by everyone is mixed together, so we all earn the same amount at the end of the month."

"If we dug too much, we completed the production task, far surpassing other teams."

Gu Xiangyu explained: "Then there are only two possibilities: increase the production quota for other teams in the mine; or reduce the unit price of coal for our team."

Old Tong nodded: "No matter what the result is, it's not a good thing for us.

So mining coal is almost enough.Don't lag behind others, but don't be too advanced. Get it? "

If the excavation speed is too fast, the coal mine will lower the unit price, there is no doubt about this.

This guy is really willing to do it, and he is also very cunning and scheming!
Their high wages are not for nothing
Lao Tong's salary is higher than others, one reason is that he works hard at digging coal.

But the part of his higher salary is actually extremely limited.

In fact, the excess part of the salary that really fell into his pocket was mainly because he was a spy in the coal mine.

Laotong gets an extra 72 yuan in subsidies every year.

It’s like other miners digging coal. If they can send back 80 yuan a year to their families, Lao Tong can only get 100 yuan at most because he works harder.

Plus the "reward" of 72 yuan that was rewarded to him by the mine.

So Lao Tong, he can send back more than 170 yuan by the end of the year.

——Only a hardworking boy like him can do this.

Luo Xuan followed the advice of Gu Xiangyu and Lao Tong, and then slowed down the speed of coal mining.

The reason why I just risked my life to dig coal like that.

Luo Xuan just intends to express a position to them, to make them believe in him: he really wants to work hard on his own so that he can earn some money.

This is to prove that I have no intention of escaping from the Lijiapan Coal Mine at all.

It's not that you really want to earn pocket money by mining coal. Are you poor?
This time when we went down to the well, we didn't know how long everyone had been working on the coal mining face.

Anyway, after several hours, Gu Xiangyu shouted: "Take a rest! It's time to add some fodder to myself."

So the big guys obeyed his call, and took out their own food from the net pockets they brought when they went down the well and began to eat.

To supplement the physical strength consumed in large quantities due to coal mining.

Under the mine, due to the high labor intensity and low temperature, the energy consumption of the human body will be very large.

Therefore, when going down the mine, regardless of whether the miners are willing or not, the canteen of the Doujiapan Coal Mine will considerately stuff the miners with a net bag of "Friendship Energy Supplement Pack".

There are fried rice, yak butter tea, biscuits and naan cakes in the net bag.

In addition, there is a small paper bag of white sugar, and one or two tablespoons of salt.

As for those experienced miners, he would bring a thermos pot of boiling water down the well himself, so that he could use it to prepare fried rice and make oil tea.

For this net bag, the commissary will not collect cash from the miners on the spot.

Instead, after the miners go up the well, the people in the commissary will come to count the items left in their pockets and check what the miners have consumed?
Then use this to set prices and keep accounts.

Then the commissary will take these accounting vouchers and go to the person in charge of finance at the coal mine to settle the bill.

The canteen of Doujiapan Coal Mine has very good service.

Of course, their charges are not low: a pack of Camellia oleifera costs 1 yuan, and a catty of fried rice sells for 6 cents, and in terms of weight, it is still the kind that is short of catties and less than two.

All the miners who can go down to dig coal are big-bellied men, and if they eat a catty of fried rice underground, they can only eat half full.

"Eat, open your net pockets and eat."

Gu Xiangyu himself only prepared half a catty of fried rice, but held up a bowl to urge Luo Xuan and Jian Teng to eat more: "If you don't fill your stomachs, how will you get the strength to work later?"

And that old fellow even went as far as to dig through the pile of coal that was light in weight and slightly mixed with a little bit of yellowish-brown coal.

Then put it in your mouth to chew slowly, and occasionally drink two sips of boiled water, and swallow the chewed cinders to reduce the hunger in your stomach.

Brother Zeng was curious: "Old Tong, why do you eat coal?"

The old fellow smiled, and handed a piece to Brother Zeng: "Try it?"

Brother Zeng shook his head: "How can I eat this thing?"

"Eat it! It's actually quite delicious."

Old Tong gnawed the coals slowly, "I heard people say that the coals are made of what kind of trees? Then you said that in difficult times, we still eat less bark?

In the future, if you have such a heavy family burden as mine, I believe you would rather eat coal than spend a penny indiscriminately. "

"Coal can actually be eaten. I don't know about other places, let's just say the year before last."

Lao Tong sighed, "The No. 6 mine tunnel is blocked, and those 12 miner brothers trapped inside. Didn't they survive by eating coal and drinking their own urine?"

Mine No. 6 "blocked"?
A small-scale landslide at the bottom of the mine turned into an understatement in Lao Tong's mouth.

And as for whether coal can be eaten?It is easy to explore this issue, but it attracts bricks.

But in fact, the human body is said to be able to digest the nutrients contained in 12 grams of coal every day.

Because when the coal seam was formed, there were not only trees, but also rosin and even the carcasses of marine animals.

Before these things are completely petrified, the gastric juice of the human body can digest them.

It's just that not all kinds of coal can be eaten, that requires a lot of experience, and you have to be able to choose.

Lao Tong is obviously a master at it: the coal he picks is the kind of coal that is light in weight and has a yellowish brown color.

Gu Xiangyu doesn't eat coal, he only eats fried rice.

Because of the price of fried rice, among all the food varieties in the net bag, it is the cheapest.

Jian Teng asked: "Brother Gu, if I eat this catty of fried rice, then half of my salary today will be lost.

When I got back to the well, I would fetch another pot of hot water to wash my face and wipe my body, which would cost more than 1 cents.

When I can’t bear it any longer and buy another piece of meat to eat, then I’ll be done in vain after a day? "

Gu Xiangyu smiled slightly: "What do you think? So no matter how much we are willing to do it and how we save money, if we can save 5 or 6 yuan a month, it is not bad."

"Eat! It's up to him."

Luo Xuan unpacked the camellia oleifera and fried rice in the net bag, and took out the piece of naan bread: "Come on, Brother Zeng and Brother Jian, I will treat you to this meal."

"What do you want?"

Brother Zeng and Jian Teng resolutely refused to accept these foods: "Brother Luo Dabang, you work together, we have already taken advantage of you, how can we still eat your food, isn't that drinking your blood? "

Luo Xuan stuffed the food to the two of them: "Eat! Anyway, the mine gives each of us new miners a credit line of 50 yuan. Let's fill our stomachs first."

Luo Xuan needs to pay for the things in the net pocket.

And Gu Xiangyu gave Luo Xuan and Zeng Erge a jar of boiling water each, and he also took money.

A mug of boiling water costs 1 cents
(End of this chapter)