Out of the alley, there are two coal bunkers outside.

In the north, where coal is burned for heating, coal bunkers are the standard configuration of every household.

Some people have large yards, so they build coal bunkers in the yard, and most people's houses, like the Lin family, are built at the mouth of the alley or next to the root of the yard wall.

There are generally two types of coal: lump coal and face coal.

The lump coal is used to heat the fire and cook, and the flour coal is soaked with water and mixed into a paste, which is specially used to seal the stove, so that there is no need for a stove every day.

A little further on, there is a high pile of garbage, which the locals call the ash heap.

In this era, the utilization rate of living materials is extremely high, there is almost no household waste, and the main component of the ash heap is as its name suggests, most of which is coal ash produced by coal burning.

Dongfanghong Coal Mine is one of more than a dozen coal mines under the jurisdiction of Jinhai City.

Gimhae City was built in the fifties and is located at the foot of Yin Mountain.

The original site of the urban area was originally a barren mountain with no human population, but because of the exploration of coal mines after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state decided to develop it, and there was an influx of immigrants.

The Lin family moved from their hometown hundreds of miles away more than ten years ago, and it has only been more than ten years since they took root in Dongfang Red Mine.

Jinhai City is adjacent to the Yellow River, and its main industry is coal.

The up-and-coming city of Gimhae is a very inclusive city, with people who have migrated from all over the world, speaking a variety of dialects and eating the specialties of their hometowns.

People from N Province call people from any province or city outside N Province as nephews, while outsiders call people from N Province, regardless of ethnic minorities or Han nationality, as barbarians.

The barbarians and the nephews live in harmony, of course, there are inevitably fights and contradictions, but in general, they are still very tolerant of each other.

In front of the family home is the grain station, across the road, diagonally opposite the post office.

There is still unmelted snow on the streets, and there are no traffic lights and crosswalks on the road at this time, and of course there are not so many modern cars.

The two sisters stood on the side of the road waiting to cross the road, and Lin Zijiao looked around and looked at the street scene.

In her previous life, during the summer vacation of the year she graduated from elementary school, she came to live at her father's house for a period of time, and she was very impressed by it.

Lin Zijiao clearly remembered her shocking and envious psychology at that time.

Unlike the houses scattered everywhere in the countryside, one in the east and one in the west, the houses here are neatly built in rows, and the cement road is quite wide.

Although the road surface is in disrepair and looks tattered and potholed, it is a hardened road after all, and it does not get muddy when it rains.

Unlike in the countryside, when it rains, the road is so muddy that as soon as your feet fall, your shoes will be stuck in the mud and you can't lift them.

There are also workers' clubs in the mines.

It was the first time in Lin Zijiao's life that he saw a building, and there seemed to be a big store with all the goods inside, as well as a grain station, a health center, and a big pharmacy......

All of these once shocked her and made her secretly determined in her heart that she must study hard.

In the future, she will also walk on such a road, live in a house like this, and be able to sit on a chair with a backrest in the club and watch a movie.

Instead of walking for miles with a small bench, enduring mosquito bites, and watching the open-air movies screened by the commune's projection team.

Compared to the movies of the workers' clubs, what kind of movies did the projection team show?

The wind blew the curtain and swayed, and the characters in the movie also changed shape, not to mention the crackling of mosquitoes one after another.

But now......

Lin Zijiao looked at the street scene, smiled wryly and shook his head slightly.

What did she see?

A dilapidated street less than 500 meters long, the street is narrow, and there are only a few people on the road.

The workers' club, which had once been imposing and magnificent in her mind, now seemed to be nothing more than a low, dilapidated two-story building.

She had bitten her fingers countless times and looked at the big shops from counter to counter, looking dilapidated.

She didn't have to go in to think that the goods in the big store were not as complete as the small supermarket in front of the hospital where she worked in the future.

The young men and women who once made her extremely envious and led the trend now look malnourished and very rustic.

Standing in the post and telecommunications office, Lin Zishu held a pen tied to a string and considered every word.

The telegram was a penny per word, and she was thinking about how to write it to save the most money, and Lin Zijiao was still thinking about what she had seen and heard.

In just 40 years, our motherland has undergone earth-shaking changes and experienced rapid development.

Those people and things that were enviable and looked unattainable back then now seem so rustic and backward.

The same building and thing, in different states of mind, the difference is so great, it is simply heaven and earth.

The staff at the post office had a very good attitude and greeted Lin Zishu quite familiarly: "Xiaolin sent a telegram to your brother, are you busy these days?"

Lin Zishu read the list again, then handed it in, and said with a smile: "Busy is not busy, but the days are too short and bright in winter, and I am a little scared to go out in the morning." ”

Hearing her sister say that she would go out in the morning, Lin Zijiao immediately pricked up her ears, she knew that maybe the secret of her sister's going out at half past four in the morning was about to be revealed.

"What are you afraid of, anyway, you have a black knight escort, where do ordinary people dare to mess with you?" the post office staff laughed and teased.

Lin Zijiao's heart moved: Who is the Black Knight? Is he his sister's boyfriend?

In his previous life, Zishu's brother-in-law was named He Jianzhong, a railway employee, could it be that he appeared at this time?

Or is this black knight my sister's first boyfriend?

She pretended to look at her sister casually, but saw Lin Zishu looking smug and laughed: "That's it, my sunspot is very powerful." ”

Lin Zijiao smiled dumbly, it turned out that they were talking about sunspots.

The clerk took the telegram and registered the money, and said without raising his head: "How good is the work of the grain unit, I can eat fritters every day, I'm not too early, why don't we change it?"

There was undisguised envy in his voice.

"Just change, I still envy you for this clean and light work......"

The two were talking with a smile, and from the conversation, Lin Zijiao had already guessed Lin Zishu's work.

The only thing that made her a little strange was that this place opened so early, did she have to go to work at half past four?

The conversation between the two continued, answering Lin Zijiao's doubts.

“…… There is no way, the morning shift in the mine changes at half past six, and before six o'clock, people from work come to eat. ”

The clerk still couldn't hide his envy: "But you can rest all afternoon." ”

Speaking of this, Lin Zishu could only smile and not answer.