Tunnel construction office of National Highway 312 in Nandu.

As a construction worker on the national highway, Zhao Jinbao has been working here for half a year.

For half a year, I didn't go home once, and my wife and children wanted to die. Holding a photo of the child in his arms, when he was resting, Zhao Jinbao took a look at it, and when he saw the little guy smiling in the photo, Zhao Jinbao's tired body was full of strength.

For the sake of the children, for the sake of the family, we must work hard.

Zhao Jinbao often encourages himself like this.

It is not good to eat and sleep well on the construction site.

What I eat is generally stewed vermicelli with cabbage, then big steamed buns, and pickle soup, at most full.

The sleeping place is even worse, as they usually sleep in makeshift tents on the side of the road because of the road.

In the summer, the tent is hot and stuffy, the mosquitoes are bigger than the flies, buzzing and staring at you, and it is more difficult to get a good night's sleep than to climb to the sky. I finally survived until autumn, the weather was cooler, and the work was a little more refreshing, but unfortunately autumn passed too quickly, and winter came immediately.

Nasty winter, damn winter. What road builders hate most is to do heavy work in the winter. The ground was frozen harder than stones, and even with a shovel, I couldn't shovel the frozen dirt. Coupled with the howling north wind, many teammates of the construction team all got chilblains, and the hands that were originally covered with calluses immediately cracked as soon as they worked, revealing red and tender flesh, and a gust of wind blew, which hurt you to grin.

Zhao Jinbao was very tired, he was homesick.

But if the construction here is not completed for a day, he will not be able to go home for a day. The leader of the team said that it is necessary to ensure the smooth flow of the road of National Highway 312 before the Chinese New Year, and to build this section of the road for transporting coal into a flat asphalt road.

Zhao Jinbao never had any lofty ideals, nor did he have any lofty sentiments, he just thought about his wife and children hot kang head, wanted to have a good night's sleep in the winter, and looked at the children's smiles.

Early in the morning, Zhao Jinbao was woken up by a worker and said that he was going to work again. The worker didn't know where to get hot water, washed his face, and then handed him the basin.

Zhao Jinbao looked at the dirty hot water, hesitated for a moment, but still held a hand and splashed it on his face, it is better to wash his face with dirty hot water than to wash his face with cold water.

When Zhao Jinbao bared his teeth, armed himself, and wore two white cotton gloves on his hands to rush to the construction site, he saw more than 30 workers all trembling, rubbing their hands, holding shovels and hoes in their arms, listening to the leader's speech on the spot.

This time, the leader from above is said to be from the road department, and the man is a big fat man.

The big fat man stood under the umbrella, and someone held the umbrella to help him face the cold wind.

The man holding the umbrella looked very thin, much thinner than the big fat man, but he was still very determined to help the fat man hold the umbrella, with a frozen snot on his mouth, and a smile full of excitement on his face.

Under the umbrella, the big fat man is not wearing a thick padded jacket like Zhao Jinbao and them, but wearing an eiderdown jacket that can cover his buttocks.

I heard that this kind of eiderdown jacket is very thin and light, and it is stuffed with duck hair, which is very warm when worn on the body.

Zhao Jinbao let go of ducks in the countryside when he was a child, and those ducks dared to swim in the water in winter.

Zhao Jinbao thought again, when will the salary be paid, he will go to the city to buy a duck down jacket, the child's mother is afraid of the cold, that woman always likes to drill into her arms when she sleeps in winter, buy her a jacket of this kind, she will not be afraid of the cold in the future, but she will still let her drill into her arms.

Just when Zhao Jinbao was thinking wildly, the fat man in a duck down jacket began to speak with his hands behind his back, he said that he had worked hard for 30 days in the end, and what the people were looking forward to, and that the leaders above attached great importance to it, and finally said that in order to unswervingly carry on the line of reform and opening up, he hoped that the comrades would work together to repair this section of the road before the year.

At that time, Zhao Jinbao thought, what your baby says is better than singing, you can try to shovel mud with a shovel in winter, and it is strange if you don't tire your baby to death.

So the fat leader in the back didn't hear anything Zhao Jinbao said, he was in a hurry to work, not because he loved this job, but because he was standing here listening to people and was as cold as a grandson, and he couldn't move, so he could warm up a little.

Finally waited for the fat leader to finish what he wanted to say, and a large group of workers stood in the cold wind, already frozen like popsicles, especially Sun Mazi, who lived in a shed with Zhao Jinbao, and his lips were black, and his feet kept jumping on the ground. Zhao Jinbao felt that if the fat man talked for a while, Sun Mazi would definitely freeze to death.

Just when Zhao Jinbao was thinking nonsense, suddenly, he felt a chill in his neck. He touched it with his hand, but he didn't touch anything, and then he found that the people who were standing with him and listening to the speech were in a commotion, and even the big fat man looked up at the sky in surprise, and then Zhao Jinbao saw the most spectacular scene of growing so big--- the goose-feather-like snow fell one after another, covering your eyes and blocking your view......

"It's snowing!"

"It's snowing heavily!"

The workers were pleasantly surprised.

"Damn, why is it snowing all of a sudden?" the big fat man complained unhappily dissatisfied with God's arrangement.

The thin man who helped him hold the umbrella had a rare opportunity to wipe the hanging snot and comforted: "Maybe it's just a little bit next while, the weather forecast says, it's not big." ”

"Well, I hope so. This section of the road must be completed before the end of the year, this is the task given to me by my superiors. The fat man was a little worried, and he stopped being impassioned just now, and scolded Fang Xuan.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, as if to bury the whole world, and the workers are excited, and they are waiting, waiting for the snow to fall harder, maybe the upper part will give them a holiday to rest, so that they can go home to see their children and wives.

Let's make the blizzard more violent!

Some workers who have read Gorky's "Petrel" open their arms and summon the wind and snow in the sky.

Zhao Jinbao thinks they are crazy, but they are crazy and cute.

……

No one expected that there were more than 30 days before the New Year, and there was a rare snowstorm in Nandu.

The blizzard roared without warning, blocking traffic, electrical circuits, and many important transportation routes.

This time, the Nandu Meteorological Radio was completely slapped in the face by God, and the information they gave deceived the masses of the people, making the proletarian workers forget to reserve clothes to cope with the blizzard, especially many families even forgot to reserve coal.

In the winter, coal is indispensable.

The coal stove needs to burn coal, and only when the coal is burned can the water be boiled, can there be water to cook rice, and there is water to brush teeth and wash face......

At this moment, people's livelihoods began to be closely linked to coal, but there is no need to be afraid, there is still so much coal in the market...... Sober people only then realize that the coal on the market seems to have been bought out.

Fortunately, there is still coal in the three major coal yards, and people are still not in a hurry, and they should save some or some of them.

But at this time, I suddenly found that the price of coal had risen.

What's going on?

The reason given by the three major coal yards is that the snowstorm blocked the route of coal transportation, and now the coal from outside cannot be brought in.

What the?

Can't get coal in?

People were a little surprised, and a little angry.

Liu Weidong and his group are getting more and more excited, this is a good thing, the coal can't be shipped in, we are crazy to increase the price, and the coal in the coal yard can be sold wildly.

In just one week, the original 150 pieces of coal a ton soared to 200, 230, 250--- and continue to soar.

At this time, the talents of the entire southern city found that it was becoming more and more difficult to buy coal. Not even money can buy it.

Liu Weidong also found that the coal in their three major coal yards was almost sold out, and there was no coal to sell.

"I'll pay 300 yuan for a ton and sell me coal!"

"I'll pay 350 yuan for a ton, so sell it to me!"

"As much as they give, I will add fifty to a ton!"

The old customers of the three major coal yards began to tear their faces and raise prices frantically, and even the inferior coal that they didn't look down on in the first place became the sweets they snatched.

Liu Weidong, Lu Jianguo and Lu Kui, the three coal tyrants who control the coal resources of Nandu, couldn't laugh.

In the face of the banknotes that everyone was holding in their hands and ready to smash at them, they couldn't accept it, because they ran out of coal!

You can't make money if you have money, which is perhaps the biggest irony in the world.

At this time, Liu Weidong, nicknamed "Old Ghost", squinted his eyes and involuntarily looked at the north of the city and the coal mountain that Chen Tianlang had hoarded.

It's not a coal mountain, it's a gold mountain.