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Chapter 156 Good Things Should Be Mine II
The coal picker ran into the office and whispered to Wang Weidong, "I heard Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law outside the cafeteria telling Old Changtou that Shi Guozheng asked Old Changtou to come to his house at night."

"Didn't you lie to me?" Wang Weidong asked.

"If I lie to you, I'm a puppy!" the child said with his eyes wide open.

"If what you said is true, I'll buy you half a catty of cakes tomorrow, don't tell anyone about it!" Wang Weidong said.

Under the temptation of Banjin Xiaorensu, the child has been secretly staring at Old Changtou since lunch.

At noon, when Changtou drank a little wine, he went back to sleep when he was eating. The child also sat on the bed of Datong bunk and guarded near Changtou.

Sleeping until four o'clock in the afternoon, the workers resting on the Datong bunk were divided into several groups to play poker, and the old Changtou sat by and watched for more than an hour before leaving the coal mine.

He didn't expect that his every move would be watched by a seven or eight-year-old child.

The child hurried into the office and said to Wang Weidong, "Hurry up, the old man has already left!"

Seeing that Wang Weidong was moving slowly, the child pulled Wang Weidong's arm when he came up.

The two of them walked to the gate of the coal mine. Although it was night, the snow was covered with a vast expanse of whiteness. After walking tens of meters away, Lao Chang could still vaguely see his back.

"Let's go!" The child urged, holding Wang Weidong's hand.

"You don't have to go, you've won. I'll go to the village supply and marketing cooperative to buy you sugar tomorrow." Wang Weidong said flatly.

Old Changtou's son and daughter-in-law live in Tuanjie Village, but now the father and son are in the same situation. Wang Weidong has not seen Old Changtou go to the village for such a long time. went?
Two hours later, Lao Chang came back. At midnight today, he was going to pick up Lao Chen's shift and go down to visit the substation room.

But when the old Changtou was about to change his clothes and go down the well, Wang Weidong said to him: "Uncle Chang, you don't need to go down the well tonight, I just want to go down the well to see the working face, and then I will watch for you in the substation room, starting tomorrow You just do some odd jobs on the well, and you don’t go down the well when you get old and have rheumatism in your legs.”

"It's so embarrassing to ask the mine manager to go down the mine and take over for me!" the old man refused.

"It's okay. If you have work, you can do it. If you don't have work, you can stay. The coal mine doesn't need a bite of food for you!" Wang Weidong said boldly.

Wang Weidong changed into his overalls and belt, put on a miner's lamp and went down the shaft.

Lao Chang lay his head on the bunk and tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. He was struggling ideologically, and in the end he still felt that he could not offend Shi Guozheng and must complete the task.

At twelve o'clock, the workers of Masui had already had a bath, had a meal, lay down and fell asleep. Chang Chang quietly got up and went to the outhouse to change into the cotton clothes he would wear when going down the well, and walked quietly into the mouth of the well with a miner's lamp in his hand.

The light beam of the miner's lamp swayed in the more than 100-meter-long inclined shaft, and the boots echoed when they stepped on the ground.

Lao Chang is not afraid of being discovered. At this time, the workers are working on the working face hundreds of meters away, and there is no one near the wellhead.

Go down the inclined shaft and go to the chamber where the water pump is located.He squatted next to the water pump, put the miner's lamp in his mouth, took out the wrench stuffed in his pocket, and started to unscrew the screws on the junction box of the water pump motor.

Unscrewing the four screws, Lao Chang took out a piece of wire two or three inches long from his pocket, bit the rubber at both ends of the wire with his teeth to expose the copper wire inside, put on gloves and held the wire close to the terminal .

As long as the wires are connected to the two terminal posts, the water pump motor will be burned immediately, and the water pump will stop working and the underground will not be able to drain water outside. After three or four hours, most of the underground coal mine will be soaked in water.

Just when Lao Chang was concentrating on doing things, a person threw himself on him and pressed him to the ground, and then punched and kicked him!
The miner's lamp in Lao Chang's mouth fell to the ground, and it was immediately dark, only Lao Chang's wailing could be heard.

"Don't fight, if you fight again, you will die!" Lao Chang shouted.

Wang Weidong turned on the miner's lamp and shone on Old Chang's bruised and swollen face.

"You old bastard who will take revenge for your kindness and revenge! Go back and pack your things and get out of the coal mine!" Wang Weidong said.

"Weidong, I have no other choice. If you let me leave the coal mine, I will be homeless. You have pity on me!" Lao Chang lay on the ground with his hands folded and begged.

"Stop talking nonsense and get out immediately! If you don't leave, I'll call the police and arrest you!" Wang Weidong threatened.

The next morning, Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law didn’t see Lao Changtou at breakfast or lunch. Normally, even Lao Changtou would come up to eat in the substation when he was eating, but he didn’t see him at all during the day. The shadow of the old man.

"Old Chang asked me for leave last night, saying that I have something urgent to do in the city today." Wang Weidong explained to Cao Baolu and his wife.

The husband and wife looked at each other.

In the evening, Cao Baolu returned to the village and went directly to Shi Guozheng's home.

He told about the fact that he didn't see the old man today, and Wang Weidong's explanation.

"No one can compare to this old Baden flirt. If you ask him to do something serious, he will be mad! He told me well last night, but he was timid and ran away after going back." Shi Guozheng said through gritted teeth.

"What else can that old thing do now except eat?" Shi Dali said from the side.

"Bao Lu, you've worked hard, it's too late, let's go back." Shi Guozheng said.

Seeing Cao Baolu go out, Shi Guozheng turned to his son and said, "You find a walking tractor tomorrow!"

At around nine o'clock the next night, Wang Weidong and Zhou Maocai were sitting in the office chatting, when the lights suddenly went out.

Wang Weidong hurried into the corridor and saw that the lights in several rooms were all off.

"The power went out?" Zhou Maocai said in the dark.

Wang Weidong went back to the office to find the flashlight in the dark and ran to the wellhead, but sure enough there was no electricity in the well!

Large-scale coal mines have dual power guarantees. If one line loses power, it can be transferred to another line immediately, but small coal mines cannot have such conditions.

Wang Weidong ran in the direction of the township government. He wanted to see if there was a power outage in the township as well.

After running for 500 meters, Wang Weidong stopped suddenly, and a telephone pole on the side of the road fell to the ground.It seems that the problem is here.

What to do, Wang Weidong had no idea for a moment.If it can't be repaired in two or three hours, the underground will start to flood.

Zhou Maocai stood in front of him and saw Wang Weidong running back with a flashlight.

Wang WeiDong returned to the office and started calling Yu DeLiang.

It took three to four minutes for Yu Deliang to answer the phone.

"Brother Yu, it's me, Weidong! Our coal mine suddenly had a power outage. Do you know the people from the power supply bureau down there? Can you tell them to come quickly and fix it? A utility pole near the coal mine fell down." Wang Weidong spoke into the microphone Said anxiously.

Putting down the phone, Wang Weidong said to Zhou Maocai: "My friend said to help as much as possible, but we have to make more preparations. Immediately ask the worker Masui, and I will ask my father to lay bricks at the door of the substation room. This will last for a while."

"If the people from the power supply bureau can't repair it within three to four hours, the underground will still be flooded. Now it's night, and the people from the power supply bureau come more slowly." Zhou Maocai said.

(End of this chapter)