At about 9:52 a.m. that day, Cao Xinli, former secretary of the party committee of the Shengli Coal Mine, bumped into the miners who were going to lie on the Beijing-Guangzhou line at the east gate of the mine. At that time, Cao Xinli was holding two boiling water bottles in his hand and wanted to go to the mine boiler room to turn on the water, but he was completely unclear about the occurrence and development of the situation. When he understood that the miners who rushed out of the mine were going to lie on the rails, Cao Xinli was stunned for a moment. According to the old doorman who was present at the time, the two empty water bottles in Cao Xinli's hands immediately fell to the concrete floor, one exploded when it landed, and the other rolled onto the road and was flattened by the miners' big feet.

Cao Xinli barely had time to think about it, so he stumbled into the middle of the road and shouted to the crowd around him: "Comrades, you can't go!" The Beijing-Guangzhou line is the main traffic artery of the country, and an hour of interruption is a loss of hundreds of millions! We are industrial workers, and we can't do such a thing even if we starve to death! ”

As if they hadn't heard, people hurriedly walked past Cao Xinli one by one.

Cao Xinli was anxious, first sat on the ground, and then lay on the ground, wanting to block the rolling flow of people with his old body. On the morning of December 12, the retired former party secretary was ready to put his life on the line.

Several miners who participated in the lying track put Cao Xinli from the middle of the road to the side of the road in time, and said to Cao Xinli: "Old secretary, if you retire, don't worry about our business, we just want to let the central government know about the current situation of our Shengli Coal Mine!" After so many years of dedication to the country, and now they want us to be farmers, is this a reform?! This is official coercion and civil rebellion! ”

Cao Xinli said: "Comrades, this is a rumor, it must be a rumor!" I've only heard that there is such a thing as being a farmer?! How can the state make us industrial workers peasants? Remember, we are industrial workers! ”

However, before Cao Xinli could finish speaking, the miners who carried him had returned to the flow of people and disappeared without a trace.

Cao Xinli staggered to his feet, squeezed into the crowd again, and was accidentally knocked down by a stream of people.

The unexpected happened.

The people in the back didn't see the former party secretary fall to the ground, many pairs of big feet stepped on Cao Xinli, and a few of them also tripped themselves, and the flow of people was briefly chaotic for a while.

waited until the people behind found that Cao Xinli was trampled on, and someone carried Cao Xinli to the side of the road.

At this time, Cao Xinli, who was lying on the side of the road, had been trampled and couldn't move, and the old man knew that he was injured, his internal organs, and even his heart was bleeding. For so many years, he has watched this coal mine go from adolescence to today's decay step by step. When it was put into operation in 1960, the annual output reached 600,000 tons, and at its peak it reached 1.1 million tons. At that time, high yields were created every day, and high yields were created every month, and no one thought that it would be the same as people, it would be old, sick, and even die. I never thought that this terrible scene would happen in front of me!

How terrible it is that our industrial workers, the leading class of our country, have used all the methods used against the capitalists and against the Kuomintang authorities against the country in which they are the masters of their own affairs. What Cao Xinli was most worried about, what he didn't want it to happen the most, still happened. Although he has stepped down early from the post of party secretary.

Cao Xinli struggled and climbed on the road again, wanting to use all his strength to say one last thing to the miners: Comrades, we are industrial workers and the leading class of the country...... But there was no one on the road anymore, only the sound of footsteps, the powerful aftersound of the national anthem that had changed the word, still echoing for a long time in the gray air of the Shengli Coal Mine covered with coal dust.

The song is echoing, it is yesterday's song. It's "Dongfang Hong". It's "The Sea Sails by the Helmsman". It was with these songs that he sang these songs and took the leading posts of director of the mine's political department and secretary of the mine's party committee. It was in these songs that he walked up to the rostrum again and again to speak, and went to wear a big red flower to a class of model workers......

At that time, everything was so good, he was still young, and the mine was also young.

Reform? Haven't heard of it. Never heard of it.

Trouble? He dares! The current counter-revolutionary hat is in the hands of the revolutionary masses. Don't talk about making trouble, if you just say the wrong thing and inadvertently shout the wrong slogan, the revolutionary masses can put on the hat of counter-revolution for you, so that you and your family will not be able to turn over for three lifetimes, and see if you are honest or not?! Of course, this was excessive, but it was easy to do back then......

At this time, the old doorman who followed the flow of people to see the excitement returned to the gate of the mine, and found Cao Xinli fainting on the side of the road, so he hurriedly called some people over and sent Cao Xinli to the mine hospital.

However, it was too late......

At 12:42 p.m. on that day, Cao Xinli, former secretary of the party committee of Shengli Coal Mine, died on the operating table at the age of 65 due to a ruptured liver and spleen in Shengli Coal Mine Hospital......

After Liu Fengzhu learned that Cao Xinli was trampled and sent to the mine hospital, she immediately called Cao Wuping and Cao Wucheng's two sons.

The eldest son Cao Wuping was not found, and the comrades in the city's ** duty room said that Mayor Cao was dealing with a very serious emergency with Secretary Wu and Mayor Shu, and he could leave a message if he had anything.

Liu Fengzhu didn't leave a message, put down the phone, and immediately called the mobile phone of her youngest son Cao Wucheng.

Cao Wucheng's mobile phone was on, and he got through with a call.

However, before Liu Fengzhu could speak, Cao Wucheng first gushed out: "Mom, to tell you an exciting good news, the Pailou District Court has officially accepted my administrative lawsuit. Your mayor Cao finally let me be put in the dock, which means ......"

Liu Fengzhu was really angry, dragging the old women's usual crying and scolding: "Cao Wucheng, you evil obstacle!" Something big happened in the Victory Mine, your father was trampled on and was about to die, and you still told me these things! Are you trying to force your mother to death? Do you still have a little bit of humanity?! ”

Cao Wucheng panicked and said, "Mom, don't worry, don't worry, I'll drive over immediately." ”

However, when Cao Wucheng drove the "golf" car he bought after his bankruptcy to the Shengli Mine Hospital, Cao Xinli had already choked his breath. Liu Fengzhu's face was full of tears, and she sat with dementia guarding Cao Xinli's body, like a sculpture of a victim.

When Cao Wucheng uncovered the white sheet covering Cao Xinli's body and cried for his father, Liu Fengzhu was still obsessed and did not wake up for a long time, always feeling that her husband Cao Xinli's death was not real; I always feel that the little son in front of me with a mobile phone and a famous brand is very unfamiliar, and even his crying voice is also very unfamiliar.

I really don't know why, when, and how it happened?

The past is like smoke, and scenes appear in front of Liu Fengzhu's eyes.

It seems that just yesterday, the husband who was the party secretary in the mine came back, a few plates of side dishes and a pot of warm wine, the husband drank two sips, and also let Wu Ping and Wu Cheng, the two sons who worked in the mine, drink two sips. When he drank until he forgot his shape, he would also press his voice and make a few punches. At that time, there were no big officials in the city, no millions of large sums of money, only warm family affection, father-son love, mother-son love, and brotherhood. At that time, there was no reform, the family was not wealthy, and like the ordinary cadres and workers in the mine, the home of the secretary of the party committee of the mine did not even have a color TV, a black and white TV, and a bunch of children from the neighborhood came to watch the strange. At that time, Wu Ping and Wu Cheng were so good that her mother, even if she died, she couldn't forget that they shared a prosperous egg when they were young. The little brothers called the eggs chickens, and instead of cutting them with knives, they carefully divided them into chicken legs and chicken wings. Whoever divides and who picks it up later, the little brothers have never been angry.

Later, Wu Ping went to university and progressed, from the mine to the city, from the mayor of the district to the mayor. The old man held the shelf in front of him, and he couldn't close his mouth happily behind his back, and how many times he said to her on the bedside pillow, "Okay, Wuping is better than me, and he may be able to progress to the province in the future." ”

Later, Wu Cheng resigned, started a business, first made a small fortune, and then made a big fortune, I heard that he ate 5,000 yuan for a meal in the ** hotel in the city, which was worth his father's salary for a year. I heard that he made more than 100,000 yuan when he changed hands in a business, and his mobile phone and car kept changing.

The neighbors were really envious and said, "Sister-in-law Cao, you are really blessed, and your two sons are so promising!" One is a big official, and the other is a big money! The feng shui in this world has been taken up by your old Cao family! "But how do they know her Liu Fengzhu's suffering! Since there are big officials and big money, a family can't even eat a reunion dinner, and the grandfather and son will quarrel as long as they meet, and they will do it. Of course, it is mainly two officials who deal with a large sum. Today, it is getting out of control, the old husband fell on the road blocking the workers from lying on the tracks, and the brothers completely tore their faces regardless of life and death, and went to the court to start a lawsuit.

If only we could turn back the clock, if we could go back in time, how nice it would be! Her mother doesn't want big officials, she doesn't want big money, just two good sons who are obedient and filial, she just wants to warm up good wine and pour good tea for them after they get off work, and hug her grandson and granddaughter to watch them eat, drink and laugh together in harmony......

However, it is no longer possible, and the time full of family affection is gone.

Liu Fengzhu cried loudly......