"Forget it, I really don't have your strength now, even the job we took on the mine is temporary, and when this job is done, we don't know what to rely on to eat!" I reached out and patted Zhang Teng's shoulder and stuffed the money into his hand: "But thank you for your trust in me!"

"Brother Fei, I'm not afraid of being hungry, and when I can't eat, I can go home and eat, I'm really not a burden, you just take me with you!" Zhang Teng said without giving up.

"That's it, I've written it down, but with my current ability, I can't feed so many people for the time being, and if I mix well in the future, and it will stabilize, if you are still willing to be with me, when you come back at that time, I'll leave you behind, okay?" Seeing Zhang Teng's repeated insistence, I was embarrassed to always refuse him, so I gave him an ambiguous answer.

"Okay...... Brother Fei, then I'm leaving! If you have something, call me, I'll be on call!" Zhang Teng also heard the meaning of my words, and after accepting the money, he reluctantly agreed.

"Okay, you are the same, tell me if you have any difficulties!"

After seeing Zhang Teng leave with the other three young people, Shi Yigang looked at me a little puzzled: "Brother Fei, Zhang Teng wants to stay, you just let him stay, anyway, he said that he doesn't want money, and we can have one more person around us to help run errands, why not?"

"He said he didn't want money, but you really didn't give it to him? I don't want to be like the madman Tian, there are a large group of people gathered around him, but I can't even guarantee them a mouthful of food!" I laughed: "If you let him stay, then when you go to the mine, you must also take him, when everyone takes the same risk and makes money, are you embarrassed not to give it to him? At present, our only income is the money given by the mine, and one less person will share it, so when the Chinese New Year comes, I will be able to give you a little more!"

"Well, Zhang Teng, this guy, has a good character, but he is too timid, he didn't even dare to get on his hand in the fight in the mine today, take him to do something, he is likely to not only not be able to help, but also have to let us distract and take care of him!" Ah Zhen also disagreed with taking Zhang Teng.

"I still want to keep Zhang Teng as my companion, since you don't agree, then forget it!" Shi Yigang replied with a little disappointment.

"Are you afraid that if Zhang Teng leaves, no one will listen to your bragging!"

"Haha!" the crowd laughed.

......

With the experience of the first day, in the next few days, the mine became a lot more peaceful, the hunchback middle-aged never came again, Li Ping told me, the night we went up the mountain, Liu Aihua took 10,000 yuan in cash, went to the hunchback middle-aged home, in addition to the hunchback, although there are people to make trouble every day, but there are some excuses, such as the car pressed whose land, or the machine noise to whose children, and then most of these troublemakers are women, and there is no organization, very easy to dismiss, we follow the convention, the young troublemakers, directly started to violently drag away, those who are old, are good words to persuade to retreat, really do not leave, the mine secretly stuffed them with two or three hundred yuan, and it was gone.

In a blink of an eye, we have been in the mine for almost a week, Liu Aihua is good to me, every day up the mountain is the car to send it, and the money is not bad, after having money, I finally moved out of the dark and damp, charging 20 yuan a day basement, did not hesitate to change a room of 30 yuan, although the environment is still the same poor, but at least in the morning when I wake up, I can see the sun.

After going to the mine that morning, we made a round as usual, and then everyone shivered with cold, so we went to the rented house to warm up, and lay down on the hot kang, and soon I fell asleep.

When I was sleeping, my body shook violently, and I was woken up.

"Brother Liu, when did you come up?" I looked at Liu Aihua who woke me up, and sat up in a daze, because Liu Aihua socializes a lot in the city every day, so he is not in the mine every day, and the mine manager Li Ping is usually in charge here.

"Don't sleep, hurry up, take someone out with me!" Liu Aihua's expression was very anxious, and he hurriedly began to push Ah Zhen and them, and said quickly to Li Ping beside him: "Call all the people in the mine, including the two team leaders in charge of production, as well as the truck driver and the hook machine driver who are resting in shifts, follow me immediately!"

"Brother Liu, what's going on in the mine?" I heard that Liu Aihua was going to make the whole mine go out, and I suddenly became serious.

"It's not a big deal, it's just that it's not time to rush!" Liu Aihua looked at me with a headache: " There is a family in the village, which has nothing to do with the mine, but a few days ago his child was hit by a car, and the vehicle that caused the accident also escaped, I heard that his child was seriously injured and needed surgery immediately, as if even the bone marrow had to be replaced, this family was poor and couldn't get the money, so they came to our mine, and now they are standing on the top of the mountain, saying that they want to borrow money from us, and if they don't borrow this money, they will jump off the top of the mountain!"

"Then let them jump, his child is not hit by us, why ask us for money!" Shi Yigang got up angrily and said nonchalantly.

"What I care about is not that they want to jump off the cliff, but that the big boss of the mine today wants to send someone down to inspect, when we talked on the phone yesterday, I also swore to him that everything is normal on this side of the mine, and the production is in full swing, if his people come and see the chaos in the mine like this, it will be difficult for me to explain! If this matter is known to him, he will suspect that there is a problem with my ability, then the next time the two sides want to cooperate, I will be very passive!" Liu Aihua explained a few words worriedly, and then continued: " Xiao Fei, now there are only a few people in our mine, all of them are under your command, the people on the big boss's side are almost here, I have to pick them up, before I come back, you must take these two people away, even if my brother asks you for help!"

"Don't worry, Brother Liu, even if you lift it, I will also carry people down!" I saw Liu Aihua's anxious appearance, nodded and comforted him, and then went down to put on my shoes, beckoned Ah Zhen and them, and rushed over to the direction of the mine with seven or eight workers and drivers.

On the road.

"Brother Ping, isn't this mine Brother Liu's, why did a big boss suddenly pop up on it?" I turned my head and asked Li Ping.

"Yes, the investment and land acquisition of this mine were all completed by Brother Liu himself, but he had nothing to do with it, so he found another person to partner, and the other party didn't pay a penny, but he was responsible for the affairs of the official, ensuring that the mine could produce normally, and the money earned was also four or six cents, and Brother Liu only accounted for forty percent!"

"Who is this person on the other side, who wants to be so black?" I was a little surprised to hear that Brother Liu's partner was going to take away sixty percent of the shares if he only moved his mouth.

"It's a very bullish bastard, I heard that he was mixed with Zhang Kang, and he is also the nephew of the director of the Mineral Resources Inspection Department of the Municipal Public Security Bureau!"

"So powerful!" I was stunned when I heard this, I didn't know how big an official the director of the Mineral Inspection Department of the Public Security Bureau was, but I knew that Zhang Kang was the most famous bastard in Ayang.

"Otherwise, what do you think, if it weren't for him, we wouldn't even have a mining license, how dare we produce in broad daylight!"

I walked and chatted with Li Ping all the way, and when I wanted to inquire carefully, I walked to the mine, and when I looked at it from afar, I saw a woman standing on the top of the mountain that had been dug out halfway, and her figure swayed with the cold mountain wind, she was dressed as an authentic peasant, and her army-green cotton jacket reflected a dark face with unclear facial features.

I looked at the woman on the top of the hill and asked the workers watching the excitement on the side, "Why is there only one person standing in it, don't you say it's a family of two?"

"There were still two people just now, but they waited for a long time, and there was no person in charge of the mine to talk to them, so the man left, and only this woman remained!"

I looked at the woman on the top of the mountain, and I also had a headache, and after rolling up my sleeves, I walked to the bottom of the mountain, and shouted at the top of my voice: "Sister, you come down first, let's talk about what you have to say!"

The woman heard someone talking below, and looked at me from the cliff fifty or sixty meters away: "Are you the person in charge of this mine?"

"I am!" I wanted to trick this woman down, so I agreed without hesitation: "Sister, it's windy up there, it's quite cold, if you come down with something, let's talk about it!"

"Big brother, I beg you! Save my son!" When the woman saw me admit it, she cried with a "wow", and knelt on the ground with a plop, and kept kowtowing to me on the top of the cliff: "My son is only twenty-five years old, and he has suffered such a big disaster, and all the livestock and tractors in my family have been sold, but the hospital said that the money is not enough, so they will not have surgery...... Brother, I beg you, you are all mining workers, you don't care about this little money, you lend me the money, and I will repay you as a cow and a horse for the rest of my life! I beg you! I can't watch my son die! You are all bodhisattvas, I kowtow to you!"

'Woohoo!'

The bitter cold wind swept through the entire valley, slapping the pine trees on the cliff, and the only thing left near the mine was the helpless cry of the woman except for the howling of the cold wind.

"Eldest sister, you come down first, tell me about your family's situation, and then I will report to the boss that I will lend it to you if I can borrow it!" I am a soft-hearted person, seeing the appearance of a woman, my nose is sore, and I am also a little moved, but what I told her is a lie, I know that I have no right to decide, and I also know that with my weight, I can't convince Liu Aihua at all, let him take so much money for no reason, to lend it to a stranger who has no ability to repay, I said so much, I just want to simply deceive her, so that Liu Aihua can deal with the partner.

"Really?!" After hearing my reply, the woman froze in place in disbelief: "Brother, my son is lying in the hospital now, waiting for this money to save his life, don't lie to me, if you don't have this money, our family will be finished!"

"Really, you come down!" I gritted my teeth, blinked vigorously, and nodded slowly.

"Okay! you wait for me!" the woman confirmed, and was about to descend the mountain, when she stumbled and almost fell.

Five minutes later, the woman climbed and climbed to the foot of the mountain, and ran towards me with great strides.

"What are you doing!" Suddenly, a man's roar came from behind us.

'Brush!'

I subconsciously looked back, more than ten meters behind me, a man about fifty years old, wearing a wet military coat, was glaring at the woman in the distance, with a gust of wind blowing, the man's direction immediately came a pungent smell of diesel, instantly filled my nose.