Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 136 Seeing Flowers in the Fog II

Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law got up to make breakfast at five o'clock in the morning. She first went to the door and opened a crack to look in. Seeing Wang Weidong lying there, she closed the door.

After Wang Weidong got up, Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law poured hot water from the pot into the basin with a ladle, and mixed cold water for Wang Weidong to wash his face.

While wiping his face, Shi Guozheng came out from another room and asked with a smile, "Are you up? You were unconscious from drinking yesterday, I thought you had to sleep for a while."

"I really can't drink you, brother, don't they live here?" Wang Weidong asked.He was talking about Shi Dali.

"Their family lives alone in the village." Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law replied, with resentment in her words.

"The grandson is in his teens, so it's better to go to school in the village." Shi Guozheng explained.

Shi Guozheng looked like he was in his early fifties, his son Shi Dali was in his early thirties, and his grandson was already in his teens. This is normal in the countryside. Many people are like this. There are many people who are grandfathers in their forties.

"I wanted to go to the coal mine today, what if he's not here?" Wang Weidong said.

"It's okay, I'll take you there after dinner!" Shi Guozheng said.

Breakfast was rice and pork head meat. Wang Weidong guessed that the pig head meat should be brought back from the old Wei's family who ate pig-killing dishes yesterday, or that family sent it directly to Shi Guozheng's house.

It wasn't until the hot rice entered his stomach that Wang Weidong felt that yesterday's drunkenness was completely over.

After breakfast, Shi Guozheng put on a cotton hat and said to Wang Weidong, "Let's go, I'll take you to the coal mine!"

The village is only 500 meters away from the coal mine, and the two of them looked at the gangue hills in the distance and directly stepped on the harvested crops and took a shortcut and walked directly there.

Wang Weidong noticed that the winch on the gangue hill was motionless. He suspected that the winch hadn't been driven since yesterday, that is to say, the winch hadn't pulled the gangue out of the well.

The two walked into a row of brick houses 40 meters away from the inclined shaft of the coal mine.The gate opened in the middle of the row of brick houses, and the cotton door curtain was lifted and two people walked in. Wang Weidong felt that his eyes were dark, but he still saw the four characters of Unity Coal Mine written in red paint on the wall on the left.

Below the words of Tuanjie Coal Mine are the words of mine feldspar Dali, and technical director Zhou Maocai.

With these few lines of characters, it seems that the coal mine is much more formal.

"Is there someone in charge of technology in this coal mine?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Of course there is! It's a retired old technician Dali hired from the nearby Datonggou Coal Mine, and his skills are outstanding!" Shi Guozheng replied.

Shi Guozheng was leading Wang Weidong in the corridor, when he was about to open the office door, he suddenly turned his head and looked at a timid old man at the end of the corridor.

"Old Chang, will you go down the well during the day shift or Lao Zhu?" Shi Guozheng asked sharply.

The old man squeezed out a smile and replied, "It's me."

"Since it's you, why don't you go down the well? What if something happens down the well?" Shi Guozheng asked more sternly.

"I just came up to take a sip of hot water and then went down immediately. Nothing will happen. I was about to leave when I saw the leader of Shida coming." The old man surnamed Chang said with a playful smile.

"Go down the well!" Shi Guozheng ordered.

Old Changtou trotted away holding the ceramic jar.

Until this time, Shi Guozheng opened the door of the office and walked in with Wang Weidong.

There was no one in the office. Two desks were placed side by side with long chairs. There was also a back room in the office. There were two desks, two chairs and a bed in the back room.

Wang Weidong walked into the back room and looked at a drawing on the wall, which was about the mining area of ​​Tuanjie Coal Mine.

"Look, this large area is approved by the above to belong to the scope of our coal mining! Is it big?" Shi Guozheng asked proudly.

"Why is there no one in the office?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Dali didn't come here today because of something. The captain on duty is in charge here. He should have taken the workers down the well now. Come on, I'll take you to another place!" Shi Guozheng said.

Shi Guo was walking along the corridor and came to a place with a large glass window.

"This is the charging room of the coal mine." Shi Guozheng pointed to the inside and said.

Wang Weidong looked inside through the glass, and there were more than 20 miner's lamps charging on the charging rack.The workers who go down the well every day get the miner's lamps from the inside and go down the well.

Shi Guozheng led Wang Weidong into the next room. There was a so-called table and seven or eight chairs nailed with wool boards. Next to the stove, a woman was squatting on the ground peeling green onions.

Seeing Shi Guozheng coming in, the woman stood up quickly and said, "Oh my god, why are you here?"

"Come and see you, you have all worked hard." Shi Guozheng said with a smile.

Then Shi Guozheng said to Wang Weidong: "She and her masters both work in the coal mine. She cooks for the workers and is in charge of the charging room. Her masters burn the boiler and manage the drilling tools, such as drill rods, anchor rods, anchor heads, etc. .”

Fearing that Wang Weidong might not understand, Shi Guozheng explained: "Most of the workers here are from the nearby villages, and there are a few blind people from other places. The boiler is for bathing. They came up from the well to bury girls The old ones have to be washed anyway, it’s winter, it’s too cold without heating.”

There was a booming sound from the mouth of the well, and Wang Weidong went to the window to look out.

The winch turned, and a mine cart full of coal was pulled out, followed by two dusty workers holding the mine station behind the mine cart.

It is simply not permissible to do so in accordance with security regulations.

After the mine cart was pulled out, two workers unhooked it and then pushed the mine cart loaded with coal along the small rails to unload beside the large coal pile.

Shi Guozheng walked up to Wang Weidong and said, "Did you see that? There are dozens of truckloads of coal pulled out every day. It's all money!"

After the two workers finished unloading the coal, they pushed the mine car back to the hook again and then jumped into the mine car. The winch started and the two men were lowered down the inclined shaft.

"Why isn't Zhou Maocai, who is in charge of technology, here?" Wang Weidong asked in wonder.

"Technical people know that they are chattering all day long. It's annoying. It would be better if he didn't come!" Shi Guozheng couldn't help but said.

At this point, Shi Guozheng stopped suddenly, he felt that he had made a slip of the tongue.

"Our coal mine is so small and we don't have much technical work, and we don't have much work outside of drawing and drawing. If you want to go home, you can go back, and if you have something to ask him, you can come and catch up." Shi Guozheng said.This time he spoke very leniently.

At this time, a dirty eight or nine-year-old child walked in, and he saw Shi Guo was turning around and trying to run away.

"Stop, what are you doing back here when you're not picking coal at the dry gangue hill?!" Shi Guozheng asked sharply.

The child ran away as if he didn't hear it.

"The child's father was unlucky and was killed in a mine, and his mother ran away with 3000 yuan in compensation. I think he is very pitiful, so he stays in the coal mine to collect coal on the gangue hill, where he lives and eats." Shi Guozheng explained.

(End of this chapter)