Cha Wenbin said to me: "This is the room where we inspected Zhou Bocai, where your cousin and grandfather lived back then." ”

"How do you know?"

"He told me last night." Cha Wenbin stuffed a bun into his mouth and asked me coldly: "Didn't I go to you last night?" ”

I remember, the one who waved to me on a donkey, didn't he...... I choked on a mouthful of steamed buns, almost out of breath, and waved my hand again and again: "No ......"

After eating, we went to Zhuangyuan Village again, and when we went there that day, it was for the funeral of the old lady, that is, the patriarch of the Zhou family. We are outsiders, but this is good in the first month, and there are many people visiting the door, so it doesn't attract much attention. I heard that they also disposed of Zhou Bocai's body that day, and there was no mess anyway.

Or the neighbor a while ago, I bought two bottles of wine, a cigarette, a pack of sugar, no matter how it is now the New Year. Sure enough, the man was very polite, and insisted on leaving us for lunch, and his mother-in-law saw that we did not come empty-handed, and her attitude improved a lot, and she killed an old hen.

This wine should be opened after three rounds of chatterbox, just leave this kind of thing to the fat man, and Cha Wenbin and I are only responsible for listening.

"Big brother, you've lived here for most of your life, let me ask you about something, did we have a lot of people here when we opened this mine opposite?"

"I've been here, the troops, at that time, our country was short of energy, and the troops came to open at that time, and there were more than 30 people living in our compound at that time.

"Then let me ask you personally, you must know him, just your next-door neighbor, the dead Zhou Bocai and his father-in-law, are you familiar with it?"

The man put down the chopsticks and said, "You said Lao Ga, of course you know." ”

As soon as I heard that there was a play, my cousin's grandfather's nickname was Lao Ga, but I know that there are not many people who call him this name, and it seems that this person is indeed reliable.

He continued: "Isn't Lao Ga's son-in-law the one given when he opened the mine, Zhou Bocai has a sweet mouth, and it is said that Lao Ga's girl was really smart at that time. Zhou Bocai and his father fell in love at a glance, and invited Lao Ga to the courtyard in three days, who would have thought that this uncle and his father-in-law had left one after the other. Hey, what do you ask him for? ”

"This Lao Ga is my cousin." I explained: "In the past two days, he has always given me a dream, saying that he used to have a good friend here before, let me take the time to take a look, he said that the friend is called Zhou Youfa, this doesn't happen to be you." ”

"Really?" The man's mustache was cocked.

"That's natural, or maybe he came over again today, he said you treated him well back then." Actually, I had already seen his name through the village watch posted at the entrance of the village, and he really believed it.

Zhou Youfa looked very happy, filled himself with another glass of wine, took two sips and said: "Hey, this old man really has a heart, not bad, it's a shame that I didn't save him in vain." ”

The fat man took over and said, "You also saved him?" ”

"That's natural, I want to ...... back then"

This wine talk, as soon as I talk about it, it will be endless, and I think it will be told to us until the evening, but this story is really not bad.

In the forties of the last century, my cousin and grandfather were once arrested by the Kuomintang and taken to Tongchuan, Shaanxi, where they were responsible for mining coal for Yan Xishan's troops.

In the late 60s of the last century, coal mines were discovered in southern Anhui, and coal miners were urgently needed at that time, so my cousin and grandfather naturally became a part of the coal mine in southern Anhui, and that coal mine was the one opposite Zhuangyuan Village.

At that time, my cousin and grandfather were already old, but as an old man with work experience in coal mines, he was still entrusted with the important task of being responsible for the safety management of the coal mine at that time, and to put it bluntly, he was a safety inspector. He had to go down the mine three times a day in the morning, noon and evening to inspect the coal mining situation, and he lived and ate in the mine 365 days a year.

Zhou Youfa was younger than my cousin and grandfather, Lao Ga, but he was from the village. At that time, there was not enough labor to dig the coal mine, so it was transferred from a nearby village, and mining was a hard job. Fortunately, people are diligent and sweet-mouthed, and they also got a job of safety patrol when they ran around, and became Lao Ga's follower.

At that time, Lao Ga was the squad leader, Zhou Youfa was a team member, and there were a total of five people in this safety patrol team.

It is said that the coal mine was not discovered by the locals, and suddenly one day several large truckloads of soldiers came and went to dig it, and there were a few leading people living in the village office.

The first batch of coal was dug up within a month, and it was reported that it was high-quality coal, and there was not a single coal in the next three months.

After another three months, only stones were opened, and after that, the troops withdrew one after another. The troops were withdrawn, but the things were still there, the equipment was still there, and they were all socialist assets, and a few people who were on the security patrol squad were retained, saying that maybe they would come back one day to continue driving.

This Lao Ga's style of doing things is serious, although the troops are gone, but his safety patrol work must continue. One day, it was his and Zhou Youfa's turn to have a class, and the two of them went down to the mine with a miner's lamp to inspect. The mine was beaten diagonally, the slope was not large, and a railroad track was built, which was only one and a half meters, and people had to bend over, and there were black cinders on both sides, and they walked more than 100 meters deep.

Halfway through, Lao Ga's miner's lamp broke, Zhou Youfa suggested going back to change the bulb, and Lao Ga insisted on continuing to inspect. The two shared a lamp, and the end of the mine was originally sealed, with a few wooden planks, saying that it was to prevent anyone from entering and stealing coal. Lao Ga is to check the head, unfortunately they encountered a landslide, the soles of the feet were originally used a layer of wooden planks, after a long time, the terrain here is low, the mountain is against the river, the humidity is heavy, the planks have rotten.

"Crunch", Zhou Youfa only heard Lao Ga, "Ah! "There was no shadow when I screamed, I lowered my head and shone it with a miner's lamp, good guy, there is a pit that goes down vertically, and I only hear the "banging" of the water inside.

"Save ...... Help me! ”

This week, when you heard Lao Ga's cry for help, he didn't run, so anxious that he found a piece of rope in the mine, tied his waist and went down, only to find that Lao Ga had floated out along the current more than ten meters away, and was hugging on a big stone tablet.

Lao Ga was rescued by Zhou Youfa in this way, but he also had a lame leg.

It stands to reason that Lao Ga is a work injury, so he applied for a report with the above, and a few days later, the above person picked up Lao Ga, and another day later, the above person informed that it was a permanent seal of the coal mine, and by the way, the inspection team was disbanded.

What about Lao Ga? After being in the hospital for more than half a month, he was sent home, which was three years ago.

"I heard that his son and son-in-law went to make trouble above, saying that they wanted a sum of compensation, but I don't know if they gave it?"

I shook my head, there are almost no such parties, and I don't know where to go to verify, but according to their personalities, I think eighty percent of them will go through.

Zhou Youfa sighed and said, "Hey, Lao Ga is a hard-working person. ”

I asked, "Then why did the coal mine open again?" ”

"Later, I don't know what's going on, another group of people came, saying that there was a new discovery in the coal mine, but this time, none of the people in our village were hired, all of them were fresh faces, no, they have been working in full swing for more than two years."

At this time, we got up and said goodbye: "Okay, big brother, it's too late this day, you rest early, we should also go." ”

"It's so late, there's no car to go out here, I'll stay here tonight."

"Don't get in the way, the three of us will walk quickly, there is a guest house in the town, so I won't bother you."

Leaving the yard, we didn't go anywhere, Cha Wenbin said to live in the abandoned Chase Shop, but the fat man firmly disagreed, he probably had a shadow of the events of that day, we had to walk to the town, there must be more than ten miles of mountain roads.

Cha Wenbin walked and suddenly asked me, "Xiaoyi, what do you think about this?" ”

I said, "There's something going on. ”

Cha Wenbin responded: "Well, the case within the case." ”

At this time, the fat man was anxious: "Can you two not engage in the connection with the spies, and make up the code, can you say something that the revolutionary comrades can understand?" ”

I said to the fat man, "Don't you think there's something wrong with that?" ”

"What's the problem?" Cha Wenbin asked me rhetorically.

"There was a small detail when I listened to Zhou Youcai in the afternoon, I don't know if you paid attention to it? He said that when Lao Ga fell, he was holding a stone tablet! Fatty, what are you doing? ”

"I'm a bad lord, I'm not with you the tattered king!"

"I said, what did you do before?"

The fat man said puzzledly: "It's also a rag." ”

I reminded: "I'm talking about the rags, the underground! ”

The fat man patted his thigh and said: "Yes, damn, why didn't I think of it, then this matter is clear, it is estimated that Lao Ga saw something below, and then it was known again, so the abandoned coal mine was ...... again"

"Yes, I also noticed a detail, the road we came here in the past two days is so small, the weeds on both sides have covered the original roadbed, proving that there has been no large traffic here for the past two years. The coal mines have been claiming to be mining, but what about the things they mine? ”

Cha Wenbin said: "There is a problem with a first-class official moving here, and we can't make a big discovery." ”

"So what are you waiting for, go and see!"

There is a large river between the mining area and Zhuangyuan Village, the river is more than 50 meters wide, and there is no bridge, and there is a small boat that is about to be broken by the river, tied to the stones.

"I don't want people to go over, and I don't want to open such a big mine together, and it doesn't communicate with this side, and there's really a problem!"

"So, Fat General, in your opinion, how to move this move?"

"Then you don't need to ask, just kill it and see if you understand!" After that, the fat man was ready to go into the water and pull the boat.

At this time, Cha Wenbin pressed the heads of me and the fat man down, and said in a low voice: "Shh, there is movement on the other side......"

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I went out for a while after the live broadcast in the afternoon, and I came back late, so I'll change it today