Chapter 74 Transferred to Huatugou

On the morning of the 15th, I finally found the community where Mr. Li was located, Li Hao and Yang Qianxun knocked on the door, and it was the owner of another team in the mine who opened the door to welcome them. When the two went in, there were already four or five people sitting on the sofa, but Mr. Li was not there, and a young man said that Mr. Li was not in Delingha. During the conversation, they learned that several people sitting on the sofa had come to ask for money, and they had been waiting for a long time. Li Hao asked them the reason, there were all kinds of circumstances, some said that they didn't pay enough last month, some like Li Hao and them, came to advance, and another just wanted to borrow some car repair fees to repair the car in Delingha, but the money was not enough. The two sat for a while, and felt that it was impossible to get the money if they sat down again, so they said goodbye to a few people and walked out, and when they got to the car downstairs, Li Hao called Mr. Li, saying that the dump truck needed to be repaired, and the transportation cost last month was too little, so they needed to borrow money, and they earned more than 40,000 yuan in January, so Mr. Li asked him to give it together. Mr. Li agreed, saying that it would be possible to call Li Hao's account tomorrow.

The two discussed, wait for one night first, and if he didn't give the money the next day, they could come back to find it. So I stayed at the hotel where I stayed last time. At noon the next day, Li Hao went to check the account, and the money had arrived. The two bought the food that the drivers ate on the way from Xiaocoal Mountain to Huatugou and drove back to Xiaocoal Mountain.

When they arrived at the mining area, there were not many people left, and because of the holiday, many people had already left the mining area early and went home for the New Year. Li Hao put down the car, found Mr. Zhang in the mine, and told him that the vehicle needed to be driven out for overhaul, and then drove back after the New Year, and then went to the security department to drive ten cars out of the way, returned to the driver's dormitory area, and asked the drivers to pack up all the things and load them on the car. I started packing up at one o'clock in the morning, and I didn't pack everything until five o'clock. Yang Qianxun hadn't cleaned up the things in his room yet, Master Sun came over and asked for the salary to be settled for him first, so he didn't go to Huatugou and wanted to go home directly. Yang Qianxun took out the money again and settled his salary clearly.

Yang Qianxun asked him: "Master Sun, come with us next year, in fact, everyone likes to eat your cooking." ”

Master Sun smiled and said, "I won't be here next year, and my family still wants me to go back and open a restaurant." ”

With the money, Master Sun went back to the backyard, and after a while, several drivers came to Yang Qianxun together and asked for the settlement of wages. So he patiently said to him: "I don't have so much money in my pocket now, after we drive the car to the mine in Huatugou, I will withdraw the money from the bank in Huatugou, and then settle it for you. ”

One driver said: "We didn't buy a train ticket, and we couldn't go home for a long time." ”

"Wrap it up with me, I promise to book you a train ticket." Yang Qianxun hurriedly took this errand on his body again.

A few drivers grinded for a while, and when they saw that Yang Qianxun really had no money, they went back. Li Hao watched the backyard clean up, drove the pickup truck to the front yard where Qianxun was, loaded all the things in Yang Qianxun's room into the pickup truck, and then returned to the backyard to ask the drivers to get in the car and start to set off.

Li Hao and Yang Qianxun drove the car to the parking lot, the drivers of the ten cars had all gotten into the car, Li Hao commanded the No. 1 car to drive out, and the rest of the cars started one after another, before he returned to the pickup truck and drove the car slowly behind the dump truck. Yang Qianxun looked back at the mining area where he had lived for more than two months, and the dust raised by the wheels of the pickup truck was raised high, and he could not see anything. The former lively mining area was quiet, and the air was still full of smoke and dust, and Yang Qianxun said goodbye to everything here in his heart, and was already imagining a new life with a bright future.

After more than an hour, the car finally drove more than ten kilometers of dirt road, and on the side of the road, Master Sun insisted on getting out of the car. Li Hao stopped, gathered the drivers together, talked about the precautions along the way, and took out the food on the road from the back seat of the pickup truck and distributed it to the drivers. Then the pickup truck led the way, and the car continued to Huatugou. More than 800 kilometers away, there are only a few villages and towns, but fortunately, the vehicle has been filled with fuel in the small coal mine, but there is no worry about the vehicle stopping on the road because of the lack of fuel. But when I saw the gas station, I filled the fuel tank of each car again, because I was worried about the risk of running out of fuel on the road ahead. At two o'clock in the evening, the car walked on the road in the desolate wilderness, except for a short section of the road in front of the headlights, nothing could be seen on either side, Yang Qianxun was drowsy, Li Hao kept talking to her, she knew that it was because of Li Hao's wife, but she still couldn't help but keep falling asleep, waking up and falling asleep again. Li Hao shook her awake and asked her to open it for another while, she really couldn't hold it anymore. Yang Qianxun got out of the car in a daze and changed positions with Li Hao. Sitting in the driver's seat, he started the car, and the eyelids that kept fighting closed unconsciously, Yang Qianxun pinched himself hard, held it for a few minutes, and closed his eyes unconsciously again, opened his eyes to see that the car was still running on the road, Li Hao was still asleep in the passenger seat, and forced himself to open his eyes again and again, so that Yang Qianxun couldn't stop being afraid, because of his own napping, he drove the car into a ditch or hit someone else's car. Mental pressure and extreme tiredness, in the end, I couldn't hold it anymore and stopped the car. Li Hao felt the car stop and opened his eyes. Yang Qianxun said: "It's better to take a rest first, from here to Huatugou, it's sparsely populated, and there is no police to check the car, it doesn't matter when you go, this person is like this, it's too dangerous to drive, or stop and rest, there are quilts on the car, let the drivers cover the quilt and sleep, don't turn on the heating, sleep until tomorrow morning." ”

It seems that Li Hao really can't hold it anymore, and said, "It's okay." Then he got out of the car, waved all the cars behind him to stop, knocked on the windows one by one, and told them not to turn on the heating, in such a sparsely populated place, the oil was burned, and the car could not get out. The drivers also realized the seriousness of the matter, and no one slept with the heating on all night.

Yang Qianxun didn't know when Li Hao would return to the pickup truck, she was already tired and fell asleep immediately.

The warm sunlight shone on the face of Yang Qianxun, who was sleeping on the driver's seat, Yang Qianxun opened his eyes, took out his mobile phone and looked at it, it was already more than eight o'clock in the morning, and he woke up Li Hao, who was still asleep, Li Hao opened his eyes, woke up, and then got out of the car and knocked on the door of the dump car one by one, woke up the drivers, and drove on.

Yang Qianxun turned to the passenger seat, turned around and took out a bottle of water from the back seat, rinsed his mouth, handed it to Li Hao, took out another bread, opened it to Li Hao, took out one himself, and began to eat breakfast. Through the plastic bag containing the bread, Yang Qianxun saw that his hand was black and black, and he felt a little disgusted, and he didn't want to eat anymore, so he put the bread he took a bite of back into the big plastic bag at the back. Li Hao ate bread and asked her, "What?" Don't want to eat? ”

Yang Qianxun didn't explain, only said: "You drive faster, stop a little away from the convoy, it's convenient, and then wash your hands before eating." ”

"It doesn't matter if he's clean or not, that's the reality, don't be too particular." Li Hao said her.

Yang Qianxun always remembered to promise two out-of-town drivers to help them buy tickets, and Li Hao and her train tickets also needed to be purchased, so she kept looking at her mobile phone on the car, and once she had a signal, she kept dialing the ticket booking phone, and after working intermittently for a day, she finally gave the ticket.

The car drove forward, far away, the front was like a mirror, clean and bright, Yang Qianxun asked Li Hao strangely: "Why do you feel that the road ahead is gone, it seems to be all water?" ”

Li Hao said: "The last time Xiao Guo and I passed by here, I saw that there was water on both sides, and the road was flat, and there was a lot of water on the road, all of which were frozen, but it was no problem to drive over slowly." ”

Li Hao drove the car to a piece of ice ballast, drove over cautiously and gently, parked the car on the side of the road, Li Hao got out of the car and turned back, stood on the edge of the ice ballast, and directed the dump trucks behind him to pass by one by one. Then he drove the pickup truck, chased the car in front and continued to lead the way.

After walking more than 100 kilometers, I saw many small shops on the side of the road, so I asked everyone to stop the car, walked into a small restaurant, drank a bowl of noodles per person, and continued walking. At more than three o'clock in the evening, 800 kilometers of travel, more than 20 hours, finally arrived at Huatugou, the car stopped at a gas station, lined up, all the drivers were tired and quickly fell asleep. Li Hao and Yang Qianxun were also tired and quickly fell asleep. At seven o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawning, Yang Qianxun was in a daze, felt that the car was moving, opened his eyes, and saw that Li Hao was already driving the car, slowly moving forward on the road. Seeing her wake up, Li Hao said: "It's too hard all the way, while everyone hasn't woken up, go to see if there is any breakfast to eat, and after eating go to the company office in Huatugou in the coal mine, let them find a place to park for us, let's not drive to the mine first, and after the Chinese New Year, in the repair shop in Huatugou, each car will be overhauled first." ”

After driving the car for more than half an hour, they finally saw a breakfast shop selling fried buns, the two stopped the car, first ate six fried buns each, drank a bowl of millet porridge, and then packed a fried bun and millet porridge for each of the drivers, and drove the car back to the parking gas station.

The drivers were eating, Li Hao and Yang Qianxun drove again, and when they arrived at the door of the coal mine in Huatugou, the company had not yet opened, and the two waited until half past eight, and finally someone came down and opened the door locked with iron chains. Li Hao explained his intention, and the man led them to the second floor, where a chubby man in his thirties, holding a towel, opened the door while wiping his hands, and welcomed them into the office. Li Hao introduced Yang Qianxun: "This is Mr. Geng. Yang Qianxun immediately greeted him with a smile: "Hello Mr. Geng, when I work in your mine in the future, I will inevitably trouble you." ”

The two sides exchanged politeness, Li Hao said: "Mr. Geng, our car has already driven over, parked at the gas station that just entered Huatugou, you find us a place, we will stop the car, overhaul the car after the New Year, and then drive to the mine." ”

Mr. Geng said: "There is a parking lot opened by my fellow countryman, it is very safe, you can park your car there, but the parking fee is 20 yuan a day, I will go to him and tell him about it, charge less." Let's go, go now. ”

The two went to the parking lot first, and after some bargaining, the boss saw that they had so many cars parked for a long time, and promised to charge ten yuan a day for each car.

The drivers parked the car, took their luggage, and gathered in front of Yang Qianxun. Yang Qianxun took out a piece of paper and said to the two drivers in the field: "I have already booked a train ticket for you from Golmud back to Xining and then home yesterday, you can take your ID card to get the ticket." Then he took out the salary sheet and gave them the drivers' wages on the spot. The drivers received their salaries, said goodbye to Yang Qianxun, dragged their luggage, and took the bus to Golmud at the nearby Huatugou bus station.

After seeing off the drivers, Yang Qianxun walked into the small office in the parking lot, where Mr. Geng and his fellow countryman Li Hao were sitting and talking. Yang Qianxun went in and asked Li Hao: "Have you talked to Mr. Geng?" Let's leave early, and try to get back to Xining tonight. ”

A few more people said a few more words, and the two said goodbye to Mr. Geng, drove the pickup truck that had unloaded the items in the rear body, and walked towards the journey back to Xining.