Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 150
Wang Weidong stood up abruptly, spitting everywhere.

He pointed to his thigh and said, "It's already November, and the women there are still wearing skirts!"

Han Guiqin covered her face with her hands and said tremblingly, "Oh my god, aren't they afraid of the cold?"

"Don't be afraid, beauty freezes people, beauty beats severe cold!" Wang Weidong said as he sat down slowly.

He is telling Han Guiqin about his wonderful experience after going abroad.

For Han Guiqin, these things were too novel.

Han Guiqin chatted with Wang Weidong for two hours in the office before reluctantly standing up to say goodbye.

"Do you have a flashlight here? It's too dark outside. I'm afraid to go back alone." Han Guiqin said embarrassedly.

The flashlight is in the drawer in the office, but Wang Weidong said: "I don't worry about leaving you alone after walking so far. I will go to the worker's room to get your pockets and send you back."

If Han Guiqin was lent the flashlight, Han Guiqin would have to go to the coal mine to return the flashlight a day or two later. Wang Weidong could not allow Han Guiqin's scheme to succeed.

After speaking, Wang Weidong walked out of the office and came to the room where the workers lived. Ten catties of melon seeds could not hold more than 30 workers' points, and the pockets for melon seeds were already empty.

"She's gone?" Zhou Maocai asked.

"Not yet, I'll take her back." Wang Weidong replied.

He turned his head and saw the coal picker sitting by the bed, holding melon seeds in one hand and stuffing them into his mouth with the other.

"Eating so many meat slices at night, go out for a walk with me!" Wang Weidong said, holding the child's arm.

When Han Guiqin saw Wang Weidong dragging the child into the office, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth inadvertently.

"Let's go, I'll take you back." Wang Weidong said.

The three walked out of the coal mine and walked towards Tuanjie Village stepping on the ridges of the fields.

"Through the chat just now, I think you are very cultured." Wang Weidong complimented.

"Two years ago, the county selected a group of junior high school graduates to train in the county to become English teachers. I was pushed down, otherwise I would be a teacher now." Han Guiqin replied regretfully.

In the 80s, all English teachers were taught from the third grade of elementary school to the upper middle and primary school. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a large number of English teachers, but they are simply not found. The country has stopped English teaching for more than 30 years, and there are not many people who can speak English.

There is no choice but to adopt centralized assault training. Many high school graduates and even junior high school graduates in Heilongjiang Province are concentrated in counties to learn English for a few months, and then sent to rural areas to work as teachers in various primary and secondary schools in cities and towns.

Many young people turned over and got formal jobs because of this.

However, Han Guiqin lost the opportunity to be a teacher due to some reasons.

"Your gentlemen are also farmers?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Yes, I'm not promising! When I was not married, I looked pretty and had a shameless face. When I got married, I hated me because I couldn't farm, feed pigs, or cook, and looked at me like a thief every day!" Han Guiqin replied angrily.

When she spoke, she deliberately turned her head and glanced back.

After sending it to the entrance of the village, Han Guiqin said to Wang Weidong: "Just send it here, it's too late, let's go back."

Wang Weidong turned around and walked back with the child. After walking tens of meters, he vaguely saw a person squatting there in the bare crop field.

"Who is that? What are you doing squatting there so late?" Wang Weidong asked wonderingly.

"Shit!" the child yelled.

Not long after Han Guiqin came home, her husband opened the door and walked in.

"Following behind like a secret agent!" Han Guiqin said.

"Who is that person with the child?" Han Guiqin's husband asked.

"He is Wang Weidong who subcontracted the coal mine, and that child was an orphan who was thrown in the coal mine. Wang Weidong deliberately brought the child to me to avoid suspicion." Han Guiqin replied.

"Shi Guozheng is using this coal mine to deceive people, and you are also an accomplice! How could Shi Guozheng be so kind to let you bring melon seeds to the coal mine? I don't know what kind of plan he is trying to play!" Han Guiqin's husband said.

Han Guiqin didn't answer.

Wang Weidong returned to the coal mine and let Zhou Maocai live in the office, while he lived in the Datong room where the workers lived with his luggage.

He spread the quilt beside the child.

"I haven't asked you yet, where is your home? What's your last name?" Wang Weidong asked the child lying under the quilt.

The child closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep and did not hear.

The next morning, twelve former workers of the United Coal Mine lingered and refused to leave.

A worker asked Wang Weidong who was getting up and getting dressed: "Comrade, can we work here too? Don't worry, we promise to do a good job!"

"No, you've also seen that there are enough people working. I let you eat two meals yesterday and let you sleep here tonight. It's the best of humanity. You must leave today!" Wang Weidong replied very simply.

Twelve workers tied their luggage with rope and carried it on their shoulders and left the Tuanjie Mine to find work in other mines near the Hedong Mining Bureau.

There was no work for the whole morning. Since the afternoon, four trucks loaded with logs and cement slabs drove into the coal mine. Zhou Maocai instructed the workers to pile the logs and cement slabs near the mine mouth.

Another ten loads of logs and cement boards were unloaded the next day.

On the third day, [-] logs and thousands of cement slabs were piled up like a hill in the open space of the coal mine.

Zhou Maocai chose a location underground and set the direction with a compass.

"We will start working officially tomorrow, and we will see coal within two months!" Zhou Maocai said to Wang Weidong.

"You have the final say on production matters, and tomorrow I will go down the well to see how the digging was done," Wang Weidong said.

After breakfast the next morning, Zhou Maocai held a pre-shift meeting for six workers in the outhouse of the office.

"I've already chosen the location and direction. I'll use mine trucks to transport six logs and cement slabs down the well, and after digging one meter and one meter of scaffolding, I can go up the well and get paid!" Zhou Maocai said.

These workers are all experienced workers who have worked in the Datonggou Coal Mine for several years. After changing their clothes and boots, they took the miner's lamp and put on their safety helmets. Put the car down the well.

The workers went down the well carrying twist drill pipes and explosive detonators.

Twist drill pipe is generally used when drilling in coal seams. The rock at the fault is relatively soft, and it is more convenient to use electricity to drill holes.

When Wang Weidong and Zhou Maocai went down to the working face, the workers had already started working. The workers used twist drill pipes to drill more than a dozen 1.2-meter-three-deep holes in the places Zhou Maocai had drawn with chalk. One worker inserted the detonator into the explosives. The medicine roll was inserted into the bottom of the borehole and then connected. Zhou Maocai pulled Wang Weidong out tens of meters away and hid behind the corner of the alleyway.

boom!
Wang Weidong felt the roadway vibrate, and then there was a popping sound from the gravel.Thick yellow smoke like thick phlegm slowly spread over, and the wind inside the wind belt blew away the smoke from the working face, and the six workers returned to the working face to start working.

"Let's go, they still have to work for three or four hours. Then I will go down the well to check whether the scaffolding they erected is qualified." Zhou Maocai said to Wang Weidong.

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