The train driver in the courtyard

Yu Dafei interrogated the 3134 driver team.

Wang Guozhen writes the accident report.

Dong Gong was directing the workers to pull out the derailed train and prepare to take it back for repairs.

Li Aiguo, the train driver, became the idler in the accident team.

After eating sorghum rice and cabbage and potato soup in the early morning, I asked for a draft paper from the lumberyard publicity office and wrote a "Feasibility Study Report for the Launch of Passenger Trains in the Forest Railway"

In his demonstration report, Li Aiguo demonstrated the feasibility of Sentinel Railway passenger trains from three aspects: the efficiency of saving workers from going up the mountain, the revenue created, and the jobs created.

Of course, in the end, he pulled the tiger's skin and pulled the banner, signing the name Li Aiguo, a special investigator of the accident investigation team.

"Director Zhang, please forward this report to the forestry leader."

Zhang Xinming was a little confused when he received the report. Investigating accidents had nothing to do with Sentinel Railway passenger trains.

However, he still accepted the envelope and drove a jeep to the Forest Service in Aershan City that day.

Comrades in the forestry department heard that it was a demonstration report proposing the opening of passenger trains, but they didn't pay much attention at first.

Since the completion of the Sentie Railway, there have been many such calls from below. They have become accustomed to it, and they originally planned to throw the report directly into the drawer.

But when they heard that the report was written by the joint accident investigation team from Beijing, they were as confused as Zhang Xinming.

Although the two are incompatible, the joint investigation team is of a very high level and cannot be underestimated.

What to do, please pass it to the higher-up leaders.

The demonstration report was placed in front of the forestry leaders that day.

"The two don't go together! What's going on?" The forestry leader was also a little confused.

But if you don't study it carefully, wouldn't you be blinded if your superiors ask about this demonstration report?
After all, the Joint Accident Investigation Team has a very high level.

With the idea that he would rather waste ten minutes than embarrass himself in front of his superiors, the forestry leader opened the demonstration report.

"According to statistics, the number of workers who go up the mountain every day is 1,542. Including the employees' families, there will be 3,000 to 4,000 ginseng diggers and herb collectors. This can create a net profit of 20,000 yuan for the forestry every year. , and can also provide more than 500 jobs."

Twenty thousand yuan, more than 500 jobs. The forestry leaders immediately became interested when they saw this data.

Previous proposals and demonstrations all talked about how the Sentinel Railway Passenger Transport can make it easier for workers to go up and down the mountain. They never mentioned that it can earn so much money and arrange so many jobs.

Profit is secondary, but the most important thing for the forestry service is jobs.

In these years, front-line workers and most of the leaders in forestry were drawn from all over the country.

Most of them bring their families with them.

Because this is a remote area, jobs are limited.

Men contribute to the country in the mountains, while women can only wash and cook at home.

The whole family only relied on the man's salary and lived a tight life.

Because of their financial difficulties, the workers often made trouble with their leaders.

The production workers were not very good-tempered and stood at the gate holding huge axes, which scared everyone who saw them.

It’s hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice, so forestry leaders can only try their best to do their work.

If there were so many jobs and a lot of problems could be solved, we wouldn't have to worry about being slapped with a brick wall when we go out in the future.

"As expected of the accident investigation team from Beijing, they have analyzed the passenger train to the core. I think it is very feasible.

Then gather all the team members and notify the comrades from the Forest Railway Office, and let’s study it together. "

An argumentative report under the banner of the accident investigation team caused a big stir in the forestry and forestry railways.

At this time, Li Aiguo appeared in a village four or five miles away from the lumberyard.

This village has a resounding name, called Shandong Haohan Village.

The people living in Haohan Village are all production workers recruited by immigrants from Shandong last year, and it is managed by the fifth section of the Forestry Department.

The exteriors of the houses in the village look old, and some of the mud plastered on the inside and outside has peeled off, revealing the wooden strips nailed inside, but they are much better than the workers' dormitories in the lumber yard.

What's more important is that the houses are all one-family-wide, with fire pits and stoves, so you can make a fire and live a good life.

Production workers from other places settled here and raised their children.

It can be expected that those children running around are like small saplings growing vigorously in the mountains. They will surely grow into towering trees in the future and contribute to the development of forestry.

In the future, there may be a relay between three generations of foresters.

But Li Aiguo did not object.

"Uncle, the station is here, where is my reward?"

"for you!"

Li Aiguo took out a handful of White Rabbit toffee from his pocket and handed it to a child.

The child took the candy and ran towards his friend, "Big Fatty, Second Fatty, the people in this city are so rich. I thought I could only get one piece of sour candy! Five white rabbit milk candies."

Good guy, a kid got a lot of gold coins out of him.

After adjusting his collar, Li Aiguo led Zhang Xinmin into the station.

The so-called station is actually a temporary work section used to gather lumberjacks and store lumbering tools.

Today, the advanced collective Qiu Yingxiong's logging team will start from here and go to the mountains to carry out logging operations.

Captain Wei Jin'an was already a little anxious after waiting. He slapped the table and said angrily: "The work section is just messing around. They asked us to take a guest into the mountain to visit. Do they really regard the deep mountains and old forests as a tourist attraction?"

The vice-captain hurriedly comforted him: "Captain, I heard from the work section Lao Yu that the guests coming this time are from the accident investigation team a while ago. He is not a simple person who can find out the truth of the accident. "

Train 3134 lay down at Daheigou Station, and all the workers inside and outside the mountains were watching.

Now that it has been removed, it naturally means that the accident investigation is clear.

Wei Jinan said impatiently: "Investigating an accident is two different things than going to log in the mountains. It's not like you don't know how dangerous logging is. If something happens, we will all be involved."

Before he finished speaking, Li Aiguo strode in with Zhang Xinming.

Zhang Xinming made a serious face: "Captain of the guard, if the superiors can entrust your hero team with the task of accompanying Driver Li into the mountain, that is because they trust your hero team.

What's going on? If you have any objections, I can report it to Duan Lili now and send a logging team over. "

Wei Jinan, who was still angry just now, turned red from suppressing his anger, and rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "Director Zhang, I didn't mean that."

He was caught for complaining, and the atmosphere in the station suddenly became awkward.

The lumberjacks were all stunned and at a loss.

"Haha." Li Aiguo laughed and took out a pack of large navy from his pocket and spread it around.

He smiled and patted Wei Jinan on the shoulder and said: "Comrade Captain, I can understand your concerns. I am also a worker and I know very well what it is like to lead a layman to work."

"Don't worry, Director Zhang and I will do our best not to affect your logging work."

Li Aiguo solved the problem, and Wei Jinan also breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully: "You must be Driver Li. Don't worry, we have taken this route into the mountains countless times, and there will be no problems."

The sun gradually rose.

The logging team still had production tasks, so without further delay, they drove three carriages pulling large flatbed rubber-tired trucks up the mountain carrying various logging tools.

Maybe Li Aiguo helped him out, or maybe Li Aiguo was also a worker. Wei Jinan also put aside his grudge at this time and took the initiative to introduce him.

“Now we use flatbed trucks which are slow, but if winter comes, we will switch to ice horse sledges.

Two horses, one behind the other, pull the ice sledge on the ice track.

A two-horse horse sledge can load 3-4 meters of wood in one trip, and the speed can be much faster.

Our team can deliver more than a dozen logs to Lengchang in one day. "

Lengchang is a place where wood is temporarily stored and is located where it can be pushed to the river for transportation.

The wood is then transported by flow to a lumber yard that can accommodate large trains.

"Don't cut trees too high, don't throw away big trees when building materials, use oxen and horses to transport materials and build roads, remember the distance when traveling..."

Along the way, Wei Jinan explained the things to pay attention to in the mountains.

His tone was very relaxed, but Li Aiguo felt that the job of logging was very difficult.

If nothing else, let’s just talk about reaching the logging point.

The logging team set out in the morning and ate a few cornbreads at noon without resting. They bumped all the way to the designated logging point in the afternoon.

It can be considered a long commute.

The naturally formed dirt roads in the forest area are very crude and bumpy, and cars often get stuck and missed. Li Aiguo had to push the cart with his butt stuck out several times.

For the same workers, the job of a train driver is much more comfortable.

The logging point is a forest of towering trees. The round and straight trees have stood in the mountains for hundreds of years. Their tall crowns cover the sky. Just standing in the forest makes people feel respectful.

"There's still some time before the sun sets. Let's take a break and smoke a cigarette before we start working later."

Wei Jinan and the deputy captain studied the production operation map, pointed to a large towering tree in front of them and said.

Knowing that they would have to work hard later, the lumberjacks all looked for a place and sat down on the ground.

Li Aiguo turned around and saw an old tree stump with a smooth top. He was about to sit down, but was stopped by Wei Jinan.

"Driver Li, you can't sit on an old tree stump in the mountains. People in the mountains say it's disrespectful to the mountain god. Some people in the mountains also say it means that the tree stump is where [Old Boss] puts his hat. In short, you can't sit on it." Wei Jinan also said. I felt that as a production worker I couldn't do these shabby things, and my voice became quieter and quieter.

Li Aiguo was a man who did as the Romans did, so he didn't pay much attention. He found a place to sit down, took out a cigarette and handed it to Wei Jinan.

He smoked a cigarette and looked at the old tree stump and said, "This statement is not necessarily a feudal thing."

The old tree stump itself is moist and prone to breeding a lot of bacteria. Sitting on it rashly may lead to bacterial infection.

Some snakes and insects like to sit around tree stumps. If you sit on them accidentally, you may scare the snakes and insects and get bitten.

There are also many broken stubbles on the surface of the old tree stumps. They are sharp and pointed. The consequences of sitting on them without precautions can be imagined.

With a lack of medical treatment in this mountainous area, any risk could be fatal. "

The lumberjacks from the logging team had already surrounded him at some point.

Everyone's eyes widened and they nodded: "I really thought it was a bad habit! I didn't expect there to be so much knowledge in it."

Li Aiguo chuckled: "The rules that have been passed down for hundreds of years naturally have their own uniqueness, but they have just been misinterpreted."

"As expected of a big train driver, he knows a lot."

With this explanation, Wei Jinan felt at ease.

Otherwise, they, warriors who believe in materialism, would always feel uncomfortable and panicked in their hearts if they followed the confusing old rules in the mountains.

After resting for a while, the logging team chose a big tree that two people couldn't reach and started felling it.

Unlike the bent-handle saws and pot-belly saws used by the workers in the work shop, the logging team used chain saws.

Wei Jinan determined the felling position and measured the distance based on the terrain and the shape of the big tree's crown, and the chain saw hand started the saw.

A sudden sound broke the tranquility of this primeval forest.

Sudden.

A black figure jumped out from the nearby trees and ran towards this side.

The figure was very tall, covered with black hair, holding up sharp claws. There was blood in the gap between the burnt yellow teeth in the open mouth, and the saliva flowing from the corner of the mouth was mixed with bright red.

This is a black bear that was disturbed while eating!

The black bear was disturbed from his meal, and his heart was filled with anger, and he wanted to pounce on the two-legged beasts and tear them into pieces.

"What the hell, black bear!" Wei Jinan subconsciously turned around to get the shotgun.

Three or four members of the logging team also turned around and ran towards the flatbed truck.

But it's too late,

The Northeastern black bear is the fastest black bear in the world, running at a speed of 56 kilometers per hour, almost twice as fast as Usain Bolt.

In the blink of an eye, the black bear had already rushed to the vice-captain standing at the outermost edge.

When I saw the black bear, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart and break out in cold sweat.

The black bear in front of me was as huge as a mountain, which made people feel chilling.

The black bear's eyes are full of ferocity and bloodthirsty, making people feel extremely frightened.

The deputy captain is responsible for the measurement work, and the only weapon in his hand now is a soft ruler.

Feeling the stench coming from the shop, the vice-captain threw the tape ruler to the ground and closed his eyes.

He waited quietly for the tearing pain to come.

But heard a bang.

Li Aiguo instantly pulled out his pistol and fired at the hairy black bear.

For fear of accidentally injuring the deputy captain, the shot only hit the black bear in the chest.

The bullet penetrated the thick bear skin, and blood flowed out. The black bear screamed, turned around and ran away.

From the arrival of the black bear to the moment he was shot and escaped, the whole process only took three to five seconds.

But as if a lifetime had passed, the vice-captain's legs softened and he squatted on the ground.

"How's it going, Lao Yu, are you okay?" Wei Jin'an rushed over and helped him up.

"It was too dangerous. Fortunately, Driver Li fired."

The deputy captain wiped the sweat from his forehead, broke away, and walked to Li Aiguo: "Driver Li, you saved my life, I owe you a life."

"Nothing is owed, we are all workers and we are all one family."

Li Aiguo inserted his pistol into his waist and asked curiously: "We checked the site before logging just now, but we didn't find the black bear. Where did it jump out from?"

At this time, several logging team members also figured out the origin of the black bear.

A red deer the size of a small donkey was lying in the woods more than fifty meters away from the logging point. Only half of the red deer's body was left, and part of it had rotted.

Because of the cover of the dense forest, the loggers did not notice the black bear eating.

Li Aiguo narrowed his eyes: "Black bears actually eat scavengers? If you encounter a black bear lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, wouldn't it mean that you are dead?"

Wei Jin'an said: "Black bears not only eat carrion, but also bury their prey to enjoy it the next day. People in the mountains know this. Only fools would pretend to be dead in front of a black bear."

Li Aiguo: "."

He felt that there was a lot of knowledge spread in later generations that would deceive people.

"It's a pity. This red deer must have been killed by a black bear for several days. Most of it has rotted and there is no way to get a bargain."

Wei Jinan shook his head with regret, walked up to Red Deer, stretched out his right hand, and dug his fingers into Red Deer's eyes.

At first, Li Aiguo thought he wanted red deer eyes.

Who would have thought that Wei Jin'an dug out the red deer's eyeballs and threw them to the ground, then put his hand into the eye socket and took out... took out... piles of yellow millet-like things were taken out from the eye socket.

"This thing is called Chimahu. It is specially used to treat convulsions in children. Lao Zhang, take it home and give it to your eldest son."

Wei Jinan handed a handful of yellow millet grains to a lumberjack in his thirties.

"Thank you, Captain."

The woodcutter took out the iron waist lunch box and carefully put the yellow rice grains into the lunch box.

Just when Li Aiguo was confused, Zhang Xinming whispered in his ear: "That thing is red deer's eye droppings."

Li Aiguo: "."

Ahem, the big forest is very magical.

After what happened with the black bear, the logging crew was supposed to get back to work.

A lumberjack turned to look at the direction in which the black bear had disappeared, and suddenly asked: "The black bear is injured, and it shouldn't be able to escape very far. Do you want to go?"

He looked at Wei Jinan and lowered his voice and said, "My eldest son is getting married next month, so we must prepare a banquet and treat everyone to a meat meal.

I specifically reported to the work section to apply for meat stamps, and the section gave me three kilograms of meat stamps. "

"The black bear just now was seriously injured. It should be hiding somewhere now. If we chase it, we should be able to catch up." Wei Jinan was also moved.

Although there are many wild beasts in the forest, none of them are easy to deal with.

Take the black bear as an example. Unless they hit the black bear directly in the eye, their native shotgun will not be able to kill it at all.

Not to mention the faster Tiger.

On weekdays, a team of professional hunters like a logging team can only bully small things like pheasants with their hunting rifles.

That little bit of meat is not enough to stuff between the children's teeth.

"We have more than a dozen shotguns, and Driver Li is a sharpshooter."

Wei Jinan turned to look at Li Aiguo: "Driver Li, what do you think?"

"Done it!" Li Aiguo has eaten bear paws, but he has never hunted a bear himself! This time I am going to have a good time.

Zhang Xinming was afraid that something would happen and wanted to stop him, but when he saw that the comrades in the logging team were all energetic, he could only pick up an old shotgun and follow him.

Everyone followed the blood stains on the ground in the mountains.

A place two or three kilometers away from the logging point.

Ma Xiaolu, the leader of Mashan's gang shop, and a group of lumberjacks were cutting down big trees.

Hearing the sound of gunfire, Ma Xiaolu frowned and raised his hand to signal the lumberjacks to stop.

"Boss, these are the production workers at the bottom of the mountain. What should we do now?" The deputy boss looked at the fallen tree, his brows knitted into knots.

The big trees in the mountains are divided into areas.

Their appearance here has crossed the line. If the people under the mountain find out, there will definitely be trouble.

It’s just that this batch of wood will be sold overseas.

The customer over there has prepared the little yellow croakers. If the transaction is delayed, the Mashan Gang will definitely deal with him.

Ma Xiaolu listened for a moment and said with a smile: "It's okay, they are at least three kilometers away from us. As long as we don't shoot or make a big noise, they won't find us."

Ma Xiaolu called the mountaineers over and lowered his voice and said, "Please be quiet for a moment. If anyone dares to deliberately disturb the people on the mountain, I will cut off his cow and stuff it into his mouth!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Laoshuan exclaimed: "The leader of the horse, black bear. A black bear is charging over!" (End of Chapter)