On the potholed mountain road, a dump truck climbed up with a big throttle.

Lin Jiang sat in the passenger seat, his body swayed with the ups and downs of the car, feeling that his five organs were rolling, and he really missed the feeling of sitting on the head of a bull in his heart.

Eighty kilometers of road, Lin He's car is faster, and it will take less than two hours to arrive.

The cart couldn't go fast, and it took four hours to get to the mining site.

The car stopped in the yard, Lin Jiang felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart, and he was so weak that he didn't have much strength, so he barely jumped out of the car, and stood next to the car with a package of clothes, and suddenly felt strange and timid.

No one sent it, and I ran to this mine alone, and I never felt that life was so gloomy.

But soon, Lin Jiang saw an acquaintance.

Chen Xiulan came out of the fire room and was surprised to see Lin Jiang, and asked, "Lin Jiang, why are you here?"

Lin Jiang squeezed out a smile that was more ugly than crying, and said, "Brother asked me to exercise for a few days." ”

Chen Xiulan asked, "Aren't you going to school?"

Lin Jiang said: "Come on, my brother let me exercise for half a month." ”

Chen Xiulan was puzzled: "It's good not to go to school, why are you running here to exercise?"

Lin Jiang was embarrassed to death, he didn't know how to answer, he really wanted to cry.

Zhou Jiancheng quickly came over from the scene, led Lin Jiang to a house, and said: "You live in your brother's house, you will start eating soon, and after lunch, let Lin Guobiao take you to the scene, half a month is not long, have a good experience!"

Lin Jiang cried with a sad face, and there was a feeling of darkness.

Soon, Chen Xiulan and Li Xiurong came over, asking what was going on.

Zhou Jiancheng said: "I don't know the specifics, yesterday his father called and said that this baby is not good at studying, so he was sent to the mountain to let him experience it, and followed Lin Guobiao to smash stones for half a month." ”

Chen Xiulan looked surprised: "What's the matter, Lin Jiang is studying very well, he will be the first in the county in the third year of junior high school, and he will be either the first in the grade or the second in the grade when he is in the first year of high school, why don't he study hard?"

Zhou Jiancheng said: "I don't know about this, you have to ask his father." ”

Lin Jiang drooped his head and said nothing, feeling very embarrassed.

Students who have never been in contact with society suddenly come to a strange place, it is certain that they are not adaptable, and it is normal to panic and fear, especially Lin Jiang feels that he is not disgraceful, and he always feels that others are laughing at him.

At noon, Lin Jiang hid in the house and didn't go out.

Chen Xiulan came over and shouted, and then he took the rice bowl and went to the fire room.

After eating, Lin Jiang followed Lin Guobiao, the leader of the stone-smashing tube, to the mine.

The place with the most people in the mining field is the stone breaking field, nearly a hundred people, all of them are young and strong young men, and for Lin Jiang's arrival, everyone in the stone breaking field expressed a warm welcome. The mining farm is so big, it is difficult to hide things, why did Lin Jiang come to the mountain, and when he was eating, the news spread all over.

Lin Guobiao asked Lin Jiang to smash it and let him follow a young man named Zhang Tao.

The hammer head is made of pig iron, the size of two fists of an adult, and it is very heavy, and it is very difficult to pick it up.

Zhang Tao took Lin Jiang to a big stone with a big rebound, let Lin Jiang watch, grabbed the handle of the hammer with both hands, picked up the hammer with all his strength and smashed it on the stone, with a bang, a spark appeared on the stone.

It took more than a dozen smashes in one breath to smash down a piece of iron ore with a big head.

Zhang Tao looked at Lin Jiang and said, "Come along, this work is simple, just use a sledgehammer to smash it." ”

Lin Jiang was eager to try, walked to the other side and smashed the sledgehammer a few times, and his excitement immediately disappeared. The hammer weighing more than 20 pounds is too heavy, and it takes not only strength but also endurance to do this work.

Gritting his teeth and smashing it more than twenty times, Lin Jiang felt that his arms were weak, like noodles.

But looking at the stone again, it only smashed a mark, and not even a little dust was smashed down.

Zhang Tao paid attention to Lin Jiang while working, and saw Lin Jiang grinning with a sledgehammer, he could only shake his head helplessly, and it was hard to say anything, this is the boss's younger brother, just to experience life, he can't say anything.

After a while, Lin Guobiao came and asked Lin Jiang: "How is it, is the money here easy to earn?"

Lin Jiang cried with a sad face and said, "I can't smash it." ”

Lin Guobiao sat on a big rock, motioned for Lin Jiang to sit down, and said: "It's not okay to smash it, that's how your father came to the mine back then, your family wants to eat, if your father also says that it can't be smashed, who will earn money to support you?"

Lin Jiang drooped his head and didn't speak, feeling that life was dark.

Lin Guobiao said: "Look at these young men, if they lie at home and have money to spend and eat, who wants to come here? If you have your brother's ability to be a big boss, it's okay if you don't study hard; if you don't have your brother's ability, then study hard to get into a university, and in the future you will sit in a cool room without wind and sun, otherwise you can only come here to smash stones like us." ”

Lin Jiang was silent, he understood these truths, but he had never felt them personally.

Now that I am in it, I understand it a little.

Lin Guobiao patted him on the shoulder: "It's only half a month, and it's over if you hold on." ”

After saying that, he left, and when he left, he also told Zhang Tao to take Lin Jiang to do a good job.

……

Lin Jiang didn't work for half a month, and he went down the mountain in just one week.

Lin Guozhong went to the mountain and asked Lin Jiang: "Is it okay to do it, do you want to go to school or do you want to work?"

In just one week, Lin Jiang experienced the darkest and most difficult period of his sixteen years of life, the migrant workers who smashed stones only worked the day shift, not the night shift, and had to get up to work before dawn every day, and only finished work when it was almost dark after the sun set in the afternoon, at least 14 hours a day, and after returning from work every day, he was so tired that he didn't even want to eat, and it was dark to think about it.

And the most terrible thing is that although Lin Jiang has a good appetite and is never picky, he can't eat the big pot of rice on the mountain.

In just one week, the person has lost a lot of weight.

Dad asked if he wanted to go to school or work, did he need to say the answer?

Lin Jiang rubbed his arm and said, "I want to go to school." ”

Lin Guozhong asked, "Do you still play games?"

Lin Jiang said: "Don't play anymore." ”

Lin Guozhong said: "Then clean it up, if you don't go to school well, don't go to school, and hurry up to work to earn money." ”

Lin Jiang swallowed a stomach of bitter tears, and he didn't pack his things, so he followed his father down the mountain.

When he left with the head of the bull, Lin Jiang even had a feeling of seeing the light of day again, and he almost cried.

A week is not a long time, but it made him really realize how difficult it is to make money, thinking that if he can't get into college, he will have to work in the mines in the future, he shuddered, and he didn't want to come to this place for a second time in his life.

In his previous life, Lin Jiang's game addiction was cured in this way.