The mining area in the upper reaches of the Min River was full of miners' minions, catching the miners who had fled to the outside and arresting them to return to work. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This is a typical mining village, where most of the people who live here are miners, who are still miners going back generations.

It's not a city, it's not a county.

In a humble wooden house, a mother holds five shivering children, the youngest of whom is curled up like a mouse found by a cat, crying so breathless that it sounds like it is about to be choked.

"Don't cry...... Don't cry, if you cry again, the people of the Wang family will arrest you! ”

The mother threatened the child like this, and the youngest child seemed to hear the name of the monster, and trembled his lips to stop his crying, but where could he stop instantly, choking and trying to pull back, and being choked by snot could only turn the cry into a big gulp.

The older child hugged his mother tightly and cried, "Mom, I'm hungry ......"

The mother sighed, looked at the empty bamboo basket, and took out a black cake with green hairs from it.

He rubbed the green mold on it, tore it open and handed it to the child. The children did not pay any attention to the strange musty smell on it, and swallowed the bread in three or two bites.

Even when they were young, this bit of bread was not enough to fill their bellies, but the sensible children stopped talking.

From time to time, there were footsteps outside the window paper, and my mother knew that it was the Wang family's gunman and the sheriff's man.

Five days earlier, the men had opened the door and read out the sheriff's sentence against her husband.

"For instigating a strike, he has violated the Public Security Law and the Employee Ethics Act, and is convicted of 17 crimes, including spreading rumors, inciting rebellion, and affecting the normal operation of the mine.

They searched the house and found no sign of her husband, so they stayed at the door.

This is not a city, nor a county seat, and the control of the grassroots is simply not up to here, and the sheriff is elected locally and has the power to enforce the law and adjudicate.

Now the woman's husband doesn't know where he's hiding with the miners, but the mother knows that her husband isn't dead and is still alive.

This has always been the case, and the largest coal mine owner is one of the three elders of the village, so there is no need to mention his name, just mentioning his surname is enough to scare the children who cry at night to stop crying.

The county guard has changed one term after another, and the county order has changed one stubble after another, and the water is general.

The father of the Wang family succeeded his son, and the father of the sheriff succeeded his son, and he was beaten with iron.

Every few years, the county council meets, and the head of the Wang family always attends, which is the elected representative.

It was like that for years, for decades, for decades, until something changed last year.

Two people claiming to be from the Mexican Party came to the mine, and one of them was apparently a former miner, as can be seen by the way he walks and some of his movements.

They brought a new type of miner's lamp, which was said to check coal mine gas to prevent explosions.

The man of the two who had worked as a miner stayed here and quickly became friends with them, but it is said that he stopped going down because he injured his waist in the mine.

This guy is here to set up a small grocery store and peddle some quirky stuff.

Many miners say that he is a good person, and sometimes when a miner is sick or needs money urgently at home, this person who runs a grocery store will take some out of it, and basically no interest will be charged.

This good man knows a little bit of trade, and sometimes does a little bit of simple carpentry work, or by repairing houses, doing some little blacksmith work, or something like that.

People say that this is a craftsman from Mincheng, as for the Mo Party or something, it sounds very strange but I don't know what it does, I only know that these people are good people, and they have sent safety lamps that can reduce gas explosions.

The miners lived a tired and simple life, and they liked to drink and gamble at night, sometimes fighting, or scolding the Wang family when they were drunk.

After changing owners from this grocery store, seven or eight miners gradually shifted their evening entertainment to this small grocery store.

At first, I also drank alcohol, and then when I drank too much, I listened to this man who is said to have traveled to many places to talk about some outside things, and then I listened to this person read them some stories, some stories that made people sound very uplifting.

Starting with a few novels based on the rebellion of the serfs of the Houbo Kingdom a long time ago or the great revolt of the miners a few decades ago, I gradually began to talk about something else.

Poverty, misery...... These things can resonate, and then talk about the sheriff, the Wang family mine owner and the like.

The sheriff came to inquire several times, apparently trying to get the man out of the way, and searched all of the man's belongings under the pretext of being suspected of rebellion, but unfortunately found nothing prohibited.

Soon after, the small grocery store began selling items called explosives and detonators, which were used in mining, and the grocery store was firmly established and no longer driven away.

When the night was boring, the people gathered at the little grocery store came and went, and eventually a dozen people became regulars, and the woman's husband was one of them.

Later, the small grocery store formed the first miners' cooperative, and the employees did not know what this cooperative was for.

The owner of the small grocery store, the good man in the eyes of everyone, said that it was just for the employees to cooperate with each other, to help each other if they met someone who was having a hard time, or to get together to get justice when everyone was in a bad situation.

On the day of its establishment, other people from the Wangjia Mine came here, and they had to rely here to listen to what these people had to say.

After this newcomer came from the countryside, the countryside that had been like backwater for decades gradually underwent some changes. This man taught the people in the countryside to make honeycomb coal from cinders for cooking, helped repair the spinning wheels in the hands of the women, and organized a small cotton spinning cooperative to transport the yarn spun by the women to be sold outside for much more than the purchase price here, and sometimes taught the boys some fighting skills.

Rumor has it that this man is a dynamite salesman, and others say that this man has fought as a soldier before, but in any case, this man has a firm foothold in this small village.

Half a year ago, in an accident, the town's miners' association showed its strength for the first time. For the first time, the seemingly powerless miners fought for what they wanted, and won more than a silver coin for the deceased, which was said to be a decree, not much, but few people knew about it, and those who knew often did not say it.

The people of the Wang family didn't like this person, but they could only buy new explosives from here, so they sent a few people to say goodbye, but this person was unmoved.

Later, another "miner" from several mines went to the small grocery store to threaten him, but this person did even worse, strapped explosives and detonators to his body, and told them: "As long as you can't kill me today, your family's life will not be your own in the future." ”

It was a hooligan-like phrase, but it was very much in the temper of the miners, and soon the woman noticed that her husband had blood on his finger when he returned from there, and it was said that a dozen people had worshiped the man as a brother.

The woman didn't know what her husband had heard there, but she knew that he was a good person, and when her husband came back that day, he said with a smile and a fool's mind: "I may be able to join the Mexican Party soon, and I will be the same person as that person in the future." ”

When I came back that day, I hummed a song I hadn't heard before, the tune was unheard before, the words were vague, and it sounded simple and easy to remember.

Ten days ago, the accident in which more than 20 people were suffocated to death in the mine happened, and the woman's husband escaped that day and did not die.

Everyone knew what was going on, and they all knew that the twenty-odd people could have been immortal. This has happened a few times in the long, stagnant silence of the past, and people have become accustomed to it, but this time is different.

The next day, the man in the small grocery store surrounded the Wang family's house with the miners, demanding an explanation.

The miners won once, and this time many people stood together, blocking the gate of the pit and the Wang family, and no one could enter or leave unless an explanation was given.

The woman also went with her, remembering what the owner of the grocery store and the good man were talking to her husband and the miners, and the woman felt for a while that it made sense, and she stood there for a while after the food was delivered.

As a result, that night, the man died, and the next day the body was found in the river, and everyone knows who did it, but there is no evidence.

The sheriff inspected it and said it was a death case and it could be closed.

The magistrate then read out the verdict in front of the striking miners: "If all persons do not return to work by tomorrow morning, in accordance with the Law on Employees' Associations, the Law on the Prohibition of Excess Wages for Apprentices, and the Law on the Stabilization of Mines...... and so on, such acts will be regarded as rebellion, and in the worst case, they will be hanged. ”

That night, the woman saw her husband for the last time, and he dug out a silver coin from a corner of the wall, which was a private money that had been secretly accumulated for a long time for gambling or drinking.

The woman had known that her husband had hidden some money, but when the money was taken out, the woman was terrified, knowing that her husband was telling her that she would not go back to work tomorrow.

"It's okay, that person told us about the law, and if we do this, we won't be sentenced to death at all, and it's not a rebellion at all."

"I don't know what the Mexican Party is, I just know that they are here to make life better for us people."

"I don't know why they do something for unrelated people, but now it's irrelevant, he's my brother, he's my big brother, even if I'm not an inker, but he has something to do with me."

"Now the mine has just received a large order, and this is the time to let the people of the Wang family know that without us, his coal will not fly out on its own. I won't go back to work, even if I am beaten to death by those bastards, it will make his Wang family unable to make up coal and miss this opportunity to make money! ”

"This is the revenge of a little man like us...... The only revenge that can be done. ”

After saying these words, he left home that night and never returned.

The next day, more than half of the miners fled to the nearby mountains and forests, where they were paralyzed by a dozen days of dry cakes.

Subsequently, the sheriff announced another decree: if you don't go back, you will be sentenced.

The gunmen and hooligans searched the town for traces of people, detained everyone who "broke the law", kicked open the woman's door and searched the house, and charged the woman's husband with the charge of rebel leader.

"As soon as I got home, I went to the gallows. Your husband is the leader of the rebellion. ”

It was the fifth day that they had been guarding the door like this, and the original dry cakes had grown green mold, and it was said that three people had been caught and beaten.

The woman looked at the child in her arms, caressed the silver coins that her husband had left for her to buy wine and gambling, and gritted her teeth at the hunger in the ninja's belly.

Thundered......

There was a commotion outside, someone shouted loudly, and the woman's heart suddenly clenched, and she didn't care about anything, and pushed open the window to wonder if her husband had been arrested.

But standing on the street in the distance was a group of people she had never seen before.

The sheriff and the people of the Wang family confronted these people, and one of the strangers stood up, holding his head high, and said something that hid his sadness.

"Let's bury the ashes of our comrades."