Chapter 33: The First Expedition to the Little Coal Mountain

I left my room early in the morning, went to the wonton shop for breakfast, went to the gas station to refill the gas, and then drove off. There was no problem with the sports car on the road, and when he walked to the alien ruins, he didn't stop, he only glanced at the car twice, and Yang Qianxun briefly introduced the situation about the alien ruins he saw on the Internet to the two. After the alien ruins, all the way forward, except for the mountains on both sides, there are no villages or people, and occasionally vehicles pass by, and the road seems quiet and wide. They walked along the only road for about two hours, and when they arrived at an overpass that the driver said, they drove up from the fork next to the bridge and saw the sign of the humble Little Coal Mine. When I got off the road, the snow on the dirt road had not yet melted, but the traffic had already broken two ruts, and it was faster than the dirt road to walk up. The car drove slowly, ten minutes has been driven into the mountain, at this time, there are open-pit coal mines on the side of the road, coal is piled on the side of the road, the car is parked on the edge of the coal pile, in front of a low dirt mountain, the coal digger dug a very deep hole, the hole is also set up with a shed, under the shed, some people are loading. According to the instructions of the street signs, Li Hao kept driving forward slowly, and they were going to the innermost Xinyang Coal Mine. The road is uneven, more and more difficult to walk, Li Hao adjusted the speed of the car to three or five kilometers per hour, slowly moving forward, and finally walked through the pothole, turned into a valley, the road became a one-way street, Li Hao was more careful, for fear that there would be a big car suddenly rushing out, fortunately, passed safely, turned a corner, the road began to widen, the road was much better, far away, I saw a gate with a simple wall, a small yard at the gate, a row of barn cars and semi-trailers parked at the gate of the courtyard, Li Hao drove the car over, Stopping at the gate, a young man in camouflage came to the door and asked them, "Where did you come from?" Who to look for? ”

Liu Zhiyang immediately got out of the car, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it over, saying, "We made an appointment with Mr. Zhang from the mine to come and talk about coal transportation." ”

The young man took the cigarette, listened to Liu Zhiyang's words, smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang is inside, walk along this road, go up a step, and you will see two rows of houses, you can go there and ask." ”

Liu Zhiyang said thank you and sat back in the car. The crossbar at the door was pulled open by the young man, Li Hao drove over, Liu Zhiyang rolled down the back window, and greeted the young man in camouflage with a smile: "Thank you!" ”

The car drove into the gate, there was no shadow of snow on the road, a car drove past them, and the soil and dust raised directly made the opposite car unable to see the road and direction in front of him. Li Hao drove up the slope and turned into the courtyard in the middle of the color steel house.

Stopping the car, the three of them got out of the car, a commissary stood at the intersection, and from time to time there were grizzled drivers who walked out with their purchased items inside. The door of a room opened, and a young man with unkempt hair walked out of the door with dishes and chopsticks, poured out the water in the bowl, and stood at the door looking at them, Liu Zhiyang beckoned to him: "Dude, we are looking for Mr. Zhang in the mine here, how to find him?" ”

The young man asked, "It's Zhang Jinhu, right?" He pointed to a door on the opposite side with his hand: "The third room on the left." ”

"Thank you!" After Liu Zhiyang finished speaking, Li Hao took the lead and walked towards the room that the young man pointed to.

Li Hao knocked on the door, the three of them stood at the door and waited, the door opened, and a man in his fifties stood at the door and looked at them, asking suspiciously, "Who are you?" Oh! Let's sit down first. ”

The three of them walked into the small room, which was very clean, and there was a large iron stove against the wall, and the water on the stove was boiling and steaming white. The man took out the round stools stacked on top of the wall, placed them on the side of the wall, and said, "Please sit down." ”

Li Hao said: "You are Mr. Zhang, right?" My surname is Li, and I heard from a friend that you need a car here, so I came and asked. ”

The man sat down and said, "I'm surnamed Zhang, come, sit down and say." ”

After listening to Li Hao's introduction, Mr. Zhang said: "We have enough vehicles here for short-distance transportation, and we don't want it for the time being, but we need dump trucks, and the distance from the mine to the coal yard needs to use dump trucks to pull coal and slag stones, and at least thirty or fifty units are needed. ”

Li Hao thought for a while and said, "Dump truck? It's okay, if you need it here, we can get a batch of dump trucks, but, I don't know how the freight is? Is there any money to be made? ”

Mr. Zhang said: "The average cost of a trip is five yuan, and there is a little difference according to the distance, but the difference is not very big, generally between four and five to six yuan." The vehicles we have now here can earn 30,000 or 40,000 yuan if they run normally in a month. As he spoke, he took out the salary list of one of their groups and handed it to Li Hao to see. Li Hao took a closer look and removed the fuel fee (the oil is supplied by the mine and then deducted from the freight. Some of each car earns more, some less, and the most is really more than 30,000 yuan, but most of them are more than 10,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan. Mr. Zhang explained: "Some cars are too old, they are always repairing cars, and they can't do their work, as long as the cars are good, they can make money." ”

At this time, a person walked in with two bowls, and Mr. Zhang saw the food brought and asked them, "You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Without waiting for them to answer, he said to the man who came in with the bowl: "Tell the kitchen, make two dishes, and bring some noodles, I have three friends here who haven't eaten yet." ”

Li Hao hurriedly smiled and said: "Thank you, Mr. Zhang, we came from Delingha in the morning, and it took us more than four hours to get here, and we were really hungry." ”

Mr. Zhang said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the scene to have a look." ”

Li Hao and the three of them followed Mr. Zhang out, walked out of the residential area, and stopped at the slope they drove through when they came, Mr. Zhang pointed to the deep ditch about ten meters wide dug in front of him and said: "The distance is not far, some places are deeper, some places are farther, not only to transport coal, but also to pull soil and slag, and the freight is the same." ”

Yang Qianxun stood on the slope and looked down at the front, the wide earth ditch dug out by long-term coal digging, on both sides of the ditch, there are stepped roads, from a distance it looks like a layer of winding mountain road, dump trucks keep shuttling back and forth on the road, and the dust set off is diffused from time to time, submerging the passing vehicles, only revealing a vague shadow; Looking down at the bottom of the ditch, a sprinkler truck slowly sprayed water, slowly driving to the depth of the ditch, on the opposite side of the sprinkler truck, a dump truck pulling coal, lined up in a long line, is slowly climbing up from the pit, Mr. Zhang said: "I am just one of the people in charge of this mine, and there are two, are not here, the three of us partnered, from a Jiangsu boss to buy this mine, Jiangsu boss lost money, five years ago sold the mine to us." The amount of coal produced is OK, and I have made some money in recent years, and one of my partners went to Tianjin and wanted to order three Cayenne, and went over to see if there was a current car, and I may have to book it first. ”

Li Hao said with a smile: "Buying three Cayennes at a time is not a matter of a little money!" ”

Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "Let's go in for dinner, it should be about the same." ”

After returning to Mr. Zhang's room and drinking a cup of tea, two women in their thirties walked in with dishes and a small pot, and it seemed that the meal was ready. Mr. Zhang said politely: "On the mine, just eat something under these conditions." ”

Chatting while eating, the meal was quickly finished. After drinking another cup of tea, he exchanged phone calls with Mr. Zhang, saying that they would contact him after the New Year, and the three of them looked at the time and asked Mr. Zhang about the way to Golmud, and said goodbye to him and drove away from the coal mine.

Li Hao was half-lying in the back seat, and Liu Zhiyang drove the car for more than an hour, crossing nearly 20 kilometers of dirt roads. When I arrived on the highway and looked at the time, it was already more than four o'clock, Li Hao said: "One hundred kilometers ahead, there is a town called Da Chaidan, we will go there for one night, and then go to Golmud tomorrow, otherwise, more than 300 kilometers away, we have not walked, I don't know if there is a place to live along the way, it is always not good to spend the New Year in the wilderness." ”

Liu Zhiyang drove along the highway where he came, and headed in the opposite direction towards Dachaidan in front. Li Hao said: "Actually, it's not bad to raise a dump truck!" It just needs people to live here for a long time to manage. ”

Liu Zhiyang said: "Go back and ask for the Chinese New Year, find a reliable relative or friend to come over, we will buy ten or twenty dump trucks, and put them here, we should also be able to make money." ”

Yang Qianxun said: "Look at this place, it is more desolate than the Muli Coal Mine, the Muli Coal Mine has become a village and town by itself, where there are car repairers, sellers, and even small hotels, but here, the nearest Dachaidan from here, is more than 100 kilometers away from the coal mine, which means that even to buy a dish, you have to drive back and forth more than 200 kilometers, a day!" When the time comes, so many of our cars will come in, and according to the general manager Zhang in the mine, they will fire themselves. ”

Liu Zhiyang said: "Yes, if you want to cook, you must have at least a pickup truck to go out and buy things." This place is not good to treat! ”

Li Hao said: "There is still time, think about it again, think about it thoroughly, if we can talk about it for the New Year!" After thinking for a while, he said: "If you want to make money, you can't be afraid of hardship, and if you have to endure hardship, you can become a master!" ”

The three of them galloped on the open road, and hundreds of camels on the meadows by the roadside were leisurely grazing on the meagre hay on the ground. Yang Qianxun said curiously: "It's the first time I've seen so many camels!" You see, the man is riding on a camel! ”

Li Hao said sullenly: "What's so strange about this? You're curious about everything! ”

Liu Zhiyang turned his head to look at Yang Qianxun, and laughed: "Sister, let's try it too?" ”

Yang Qianxun hurriedly shook his head: "Forget it, look at those camels are dirty!" ”

After walking for more than an hour, the car drove to Dachaidan Town, the tallest building in the town has four or five floors, it looks clean and tidy, in this kind of sparsely populated place, it is also a big town, Liu Zhiyang drove a few back and forth in the town, and did not find anything worth paying attention to, so he found a hotel that looked good, and the three of them got out of the car and went in to handle the accommodation procedures.