Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 152 Spirit and Money

Wang Weidong opened the warehouse and went inside to sort out and check the materials. During this period of time, the roadway was simply digging in the mud, so there were very few tools and materials used except for shovels and picks.

When he turned his head, he saw that the child also came in and was reaching out to pull a detonator out of dozens of tangled detonators.

"Don't move! Do you know what this is? Stay away from these things in the future, and be careful not to collapse!" Wang Weidong reprimanded.

The child curled his lips and said, "This thing is powerful when it explodes with explosives!"

"How do you know these things? Did you go down the well and see them?" Wang Weidong asked wonderingly.

"In summer, Shi Dali went to the river with explosives to fry fish. I went to see them. The fish turned white and floated on the water." The child replied.

"The bastard Shi Dali actually brought the explosive detonator outside without permission. Don't look at this kind of thing in the future. It's dangerous, do you know that?" Wang Weidong warned.

He dragged the child out of the warehouse and locked the iron door of the warehouse.

The child is completely intuitive. He feels that Wang Weidong treats him well and follows Wang Weidong every day like a follower.

The workers went down the well, rested and rested, and no one was seen on the ground.Wang Weidong leaned against the wall, smoking a cigarette and basking in the sun.

The child stood beside him and said, "A few nights before you came here, Shi Dali went to the coal mine and took a lot of explosives from the warehouse. The detonator is as big as a roll!"

Explosives are wrapped in black wax paper in a roll and packed in a sealed plastic bag, which is easy to identify. The detonator with long colored wires is even easier to identify, and children should not be mistaken.

When it came to a big roll, the child stretched out his hands and made a big circle.

"Cao Baolu opened the warehouse door for him?" Wang Weidong asked.

The child nodded.

"Don't tell anyone about this, let alone Cao Baolu and his wife!" Wang Weidong urged.

Two old men walked across the railway with their luggage in the direction of Tuanjie Village.

Wang Haifu pointed to the gangue hill and the row of brick houses in the distance and said, "It should be there, and we will be there soon!"

The second day after the telephone was installed, Wang Weidong called the canteen near his home in Xiangyang Chemical Factory. There was a pay phone in the canteen.

On the phone, Wang Weidong asked the owner of the canteen to tell his father Wang Haifu and his father-in-law Lao Chen to help in the coal mine. People in their 50s are just in the prime of life and can go to the coal mines to use their waste heat.

"Didn't you do a good job in Harbin, why did you come here to open a coal mine again?" Old Chen asked puzzled.

"This kid is messing around all day long!" Wang Haifu also complained.

The two of them carried their luggage and walked to the big iron gate of the coal mine. They wanted to ask if this was the United Coal Mine, and whether Wang Weidong was seen by Wang Weidong who was squatting by the wall basking in the sun when he was here.

He hurriedly stood up and ran to the gate.

"Give me all your luggage, you two old comrades have worked hard!" Wang Weidong said while holding a luggage roll.

"Why do you come here to work in coal mines again? I heard people say that there are many ways to do this, and the water is very deep!" Wang Haifu asked with concern.

"Let's talk in the room. I won't be able to tell for a while." Wang Weidong replied.

He first took two old people into the Datong room where the workers lived, and put their luggage on the wooden boards. Later, Wang Haifu and his father-in-law Lao Chen would also live here.

Then Wang Weidong brought the two into the office.

"This is Zhou Maocai, Uncle Zhou. I invited him from the Datonggou Coal Mine. He is skilled! This is my father, and this is my father-in-law!" Wang Weidong introduced to both parties.

The three of them have all retired in the past few years, and they are about the same age. They shook hands and chatted with each other.

Wang Weidong then explained in detail how he came to the Tuanjie Coal Mine.

"Xiaomei's uncle is really dishonest. He even lied to her own relatives! But Xiaomei probably didn't know about it. She probably just told you about the money you made in the past two years when she returned to her mother's house. She felt that her face There is also brilliance." Wang Haifu said.

"I'm nothing in Qu Wenfu's heart, and I can't promote him as security director," Wang Weidong said.

"There are only more than 30 people in this coal mine?" Old Chen asked.

"There are only so many people now. If the coal seam is found in the future, there will be more people working." Wang Weidong replied.

Wang Weidong didn't tell Zhou Maocai that he would subcontract out the coal mine as soon as he found the coal seam in the future, and he didn't tell his father and father-in-law now either.

"In the evening, when Lao Changtou and Lao Zhutou are handing over shifts, I am going to talk to them. Although it is only half a month, I will give them [-] each and let them go home, and then arrange for my father and father-in-law to watch the substation. room." Wang Weidong said to Zhou Maocai.

"Lao Zhu should be fine, but Lao Chang doesn't have a home at all, and he wouldn't leave even if he was given 100 yuan." Zhou Maocai said.

Next, Wang Weidong talked about some things about the operation of the coal mine, workers' wages, food, daily underground and working conditions.

"It seems that the salary is really high, but compared with the state-owned enterprises, the people working here have no pension salary, no medical care, and they don't care about children's schooling and housing. After careful calculation, that's what it is!" Wang Haifu said very realistically.

Both Wang Haifu and Lao Chen couldn't stay idle. When they arrived at the coal mine, they immediately entered a fighting state. The two came to the yard to measure the logs with a tape measure, then put the logs on the rack and started sawing.

The underground scaffolding is a trapezoidal structure with an upper width of 1.8 meters and two legs of two meters long. Therefore, the logs should be measured well before going down the well, and those exceeding the length should be cut to a standard length with a large saw.

The child was riding on the log, and the two elder brothers each held one end of the big saw and began to pull and pull the saw.

Wang Weidong walked into the cafeteria and saw Cao Baolu and his wife standing in front of the window looking out.

Seeing Wang Weidong coming in, Cao Baolu asked, "Who are those two people?"

"One is my father and the other is my father-in-law. When they heard that I was working in the coal mine, they came to help." Wang Weidong replied.

"Oh, the two uncles are here, do you want to cook two dishes for the two elders alone at noon?" Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law asked.

"No, we eat meat every day here, why do we have a small stove? Brother Cao went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the village to buy a big plastic bucket and filled it with white wine. If you want good wine, you must not drink it! The workers who go down the well can't drink. Masui's Each worker can drink two or three to keep warm," Wang Weidong said.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, several workers Masui, who were drenched all over their bodies, went to the office to collect the money. They were surprised to see two old men working in the yard.

Lao Chen looked at the workers who were shivering from the cold and said, "These workers are really capable! It's almost as good as when we were young."

Wang Haifu said disdainfully: "At that time, what we relied on was spirit, while Wang Weidong relied on spending money! Can the two be the same?"

(End of this chapter)