Winter went to spring, and Tao Sansheng was very unhappy this Spring Festival, because his only son Tao Jinrong quarreled with him again. This kid is the last in the family, and there are two older sisters on it, who have been used to it by the whole family since he was a child, but he has a problem, he can't read books, and he refuses to work.

Seeing that his son has also reached the age when he should marry a daughter-in-law, but the family is poor, most of the money that Tao Sansheng has worked in the coal mine over the years has been squandered by Tao Jinrong, and now his son has no job and no money, and there will be no girl willing to marry into his family.

Tao Sansheng said that he would let his son go down the mine with him and go to the coal mine to work, so that he could have a hope for a few years, but Tao Jinrong refused to go at all, saying that it was dangerous, so he would not throw his life in it like his father. It's hateful that there is such a son under his knees, Tao Sansheng is afraid of annoying him, and he won't come back if he runs out again, then if the incense of his old Tao family is really broken, he won't have the face to see his ancestors after death.

Since his son is not successful, he has to work more on his own old bones, so just after the New Year, on the first day of the mine, he went out early to report.

DT City is located in the north, with many people and little land, coupled with long winters, agriculture is very underdeveloped. Fortunately, the local coal resources are abundant, and there are hundreds of large and small mines, and countrymen like Tao Sansheng, who have never read a book, point to these natural treasures to eat.

The place where Tao Sansheng works is a small coal mine, the area is not large, and there are not many people, but the age is very old, and what he knows seems to have existed more than ten years ago. The reason why I chose this is that the mine manager is good, the salary can be paid monthly, never in arrears, and the reputation is reliable; second, my eldest brother and second brother used to work here, but unfortunately they later encountered an accident, the eldest was paralyzed in bed, and the second brother was long gone, but after their accident, the mine was also taken care of by benevolence and righteousness, so Tao Sansheng naturally continued to work here.

This day is the day of the start of work after the year, after a year of hard work, many people choose to rest at home for a while, there are not many people like Tao Sansheng who are so active in work, and the mine looks deserted.

However, he still met an old acquaintance, Cao Hongwei, who is also the leader of his own group now. The two of them have been working together outside many years ago, and the two families are quite familiar. Later, the factory outside closed down, and they also returned to their hometown together, so they are brothers of the opposite sex.

Cao Hongwei's family conditions are also average, and when he starts work, he will go to the mine immediately, and he can make money one day earlier when he goes to work one day earlier, he saw Tao Sansheng, and immediately came over to say hello, "Old Tao, happy New Year! Come to work so early!"

"Like-minded friends, don't talk about me, aren't you here too?" Tao Sansheng squinted his eyes and replied with a smile, he has been in the underground for a long time in the past few years, but he is not used to the sun, and his eyes always like to squint.

"Hey, no problem, I'm a laborer at home, and my wife is not in good health, and I'm still waiting for money to treat my illness!" Cao Hongwei is a simple person, marrying his daughter-in-law and spending all his savings, but his wife broke her leg a few years ago, but she had no money for surgery, so she had to lie at home for conservative treatment.

Tao Sansheng nodded, "That's right, if you have money, who doesn't want to spend the New Year at home! Hey, if you have a daughter-in-law at home, you may be able to hold your grandson next year." But that little son of my family, really, don't mention it......"

He couldn't go on, he had a headache when he mentioned Tao Jinrong, and he could still talk to Cao Hongwei before, but now that his sons are married, he feels itchy when he looks at it, and the more he talks, the more angry he becomes.

At this time, Zou Qi, the chief dispatcher of the mine, came over, glanced at the signed book, and asked Cao Hongwei, "I said Lao Cao, why did your group come here today?"

"Director, it's a cold day, and it's just over the New Year, so it's good to be here. Cao Hongwei replied truthfully, he generally called Zou Qi the director, as the team leader, in addition to work, he also had to manage the people in his own group, and then contact the chief dispatcher,

Zou Qi counted again, there were three groups of people on this day, Cao Hongwei and Tao Sansheng were the least in this group, there were only seven in total, if there were few, they would not meet the requirements. He sighed hot on his frozen palms, "Then let's get to work! It's too cold outside, and it's better underneath." ”

"Great!"

Cao Hongwei ordered the people, took their respective tools, put on their helmets, and went down in the minecart.

Tao Sansheng was on the side, and after hearing the conversation between the two people, he always felt that something was wrong, as if there was a problem with the procedure, but he couldn't remember it for a while, so he had to get on the minecart. The minecart came to a place about three hundred meters deep underground along the road that had already been repaired and stopped, and Tao Sansheng remembered that something was wrong, so he immediately stopped Cao Hongwei in front.

"Lao Cao, that's not right. We didn't get the gas value in the mine and went down, but no one has touched this mine for more than ten days, is it safe down there?"

When Tao Sansheng heard this, Cao Hongwei immediately slapped his head with a hard hat and said, "Oh, you said that I really forgot about my memory." ”

It stands to reason that Zou Qi, as the chief dispatcher, will gather the underground safety data before the start of work every day, and then notify the team leaders of each group. But today is the first day after the New Year, and Zou Qi has just arrived from home, so he ignores this matter.

Soon after the absentees went down the mine, Zou Qi immediately remembered this incident and hurriedly went to the monitoring room to inquire, but the monitoring computer was not turned on. It will take a while to start the detection, and for the safety aspect, the mine is very strict, Zou Qi did not dare to be careless, and immediately arranged manpower to speed up the recovery of data.

However, this can also be remedied, each team leader is equipped with an independent gas measuring instrument, which is also stipulated by the relevant parties, and it must be monitored underground at any time to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Cao Hongwei took out the measuring instrument he was carrying, fiddled with it for a while, swayed it in mid-air again, and looked at it again, "Well, it's okay, the proportion of gas is only 1.3 percent, it's normal!"

Tao Sansheng's hanging heart can finally be put down, he was just worried about not having problems as soon as the New Year came, and there was always a bad premonition in his heart, but the value was normal, so there was nothing to worry about. But he didn't know what was wrong today, since he saw Zou Qi and a few people, he always felt panicked, and he was uncomfortable anywhere.

"Lao Cao, you give me that instrument to use, and I'll check it again. Tao Sansheng wanted to see the safety value with his own eyes.

"What's wrong with you today, what a fuss, I've never seen you so afraid of death before!" Cao Hongwei laughed, and the others around him also laughed.

Hearing the word "death", Tao Sansheng became even more nervous, he insisted on taking a look at the data on the measuring instrument, Cao Hongwei didn't care, he simply handed the measuring instrument into Tao Sansheng's hands, let him slowly tinker, and then took the whole group to start working.

Tao Sansheng did not use a measuring instrument, but it has been set up, and the number displayed is the gas percentage. In the previous training, he remembered very carefully that there is a danger if the proportion of underground gas exceeds 5%, and the current value is indeed only 1.3%, which is still a lot worse than the danger value, and it is indeed within the safety range.

Seeing that the others were already in full swing, Tao Sansheng was not good to stand aside and be stunned, after all, the mining volume of each group was calculated together, if one of them was idle and the others were busy, then the others would have opinions.

Tao Sansheng has always been the hardest working one, and he naturally did not want to be left behind, and began to shovel up with a shovel and shovel coal into the cart.

But he didn't know what was going on today, he just couldn't concentrate, and he kept looking at the detector while working, and the value went from one point three to one point six, and then to one point two, and his mood changed with the change of numbers. When the number gets bigger, it's nervous, and when it gets smaller, it's a little looser.

Another cart was full, and Cao Hongwei led people to move the cart to the conveyor belt, and then took down an empty cart.

Tao Sansheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, this time he casually glanced at the eye detector, but his eyes suddenly widened, and the values on them jumped sharply without warning, from one point five, to two point six, then to four point eight, and then to five point five!

"Lao Cao, it's broken, it's broken!" Tao Sansheng was panicked and didn't choose to say anything for a while, so he shouted it out one by one.

"What's broken? You can make it clear!" Cao Hongwei didn't care, and was already ready to continue digging coal into the new cart.

Tao Sansheng saw that the value had come to seven o'clock, completely out of control, he put the detector directly in front of Cao Hongwei's eyes, panting and speechless.

Cao Hongwei put his eyes on it and looked, "Oh my mother!

Tao Sansheng was speechless, and Lao Cao suspected that the detector was broken. But watching the data soar all the way, Cao Hongwei finally felt that something was wrong, he threw away the shovel directly and took the detector with his dirty hands.

At this time, the value reached 8.4, and it continued to rise, Cao Hongwei and Tao Sansheng glanced at each other, knowing that something was wrong, and immediately shouted, "Dangerous, the gas concentration is too high, don't light the fire!"

When the other five people in the group heard this, they all immediately stopped moving, and as miners, they all understood what it meant to have a high gas concentration.

"Don't panic, as long as there is no open flame, no matter how high the concentration is, it will not explode!" Cao Hongwei is the team leader after all, and he can be stable at the critical moment, "Let's run up quickly, report to the leader, and ...... quickly"

Hearing the leader's command, the big guys immediately rushed towards the road they came, they needed to rush to the parking position and catch the minecart that took them down, if they ran by manpower, it would take longer.

In the chaos, the detector was squeezed to the ground, and Cao Hongwei didn't take care of it, so he didn't pick it up. Before falling to the ground, Tao Sansheng saw the last value, nine .three, which was the concentration at which gas was most likely to be detonated.

"It's coming, hurry up!" Cao Hongwei bore the brunt of the attack, shouting as he ran, and not far away was the location of the minecart.

However, before his shout fell, a huge "boom" sound came out, Tao Sansheng subconsciously threw himself on the ground, holding the back of his head with both hands, and then felt a sharp pain in his hand, and then he was unconscious.