Chapter 134: The Mine
When a person is in a state of double stress both mentally and physically for a long time, this state of mind is easy to change, and some unpredictable things will occur. Let's just say that this mine operation, the only light source is the electric light pulled in by the side of the mine, there is only one light every four or five meters, the orange light is very limited in that kind of narrow and multi-person environment, are blocked by people's heads and bodies, in fact, they can't see anything clearly, which will produce a strange illusion, as if they are trapped in a dark and narrow cave, only endless ways forward, but can not find a way back, plus some strange things appear, it leads to the rapid spread of panic.
Hu Dabao followed his father to dig at the front of the mine, stepping on the wet soil that did not reach the instep, and Hu Dabao kept looking around the mine. At that time, they were very easy to mine, and they didn't even have a formal wooden pile frame to support the shaft wall, so they kept digging at an inclined downward angle, and they had to collapse several times a day. The collapse of the road ahead can be dug again, but if the place collapses in the middle of the road, it will be over, and you can be suffocated to death.
These laborers are all arrested and forced to work, and they are not voluntary, so for work, it can be said that "fooling foreign devils." "In short, it's how they save effort and how to come, when no one is watching in the well, they can be lazy, as long as there are no accidents, they are more comfortable below than above. It's ironic to say that the place where the mine stands up straight and stretches out his arms and pestles is much freer than the vast land.
Hu Dabo has always been a lazy master, when he was young, he was no exception, when others were working, he sat and slept with his hands folded around, and when he was about to go up to eat at the end of the day's work, he woke up and quickly touched his hand on the cinders at his feet. Then after rubbing it on his face and getting it dirty, he looked like he was working, just like everyone else.
This bearded father is also a son, so he is naturally used to not saying anything, but the situation is different now. They are coerced, and if the devils find out that someone is lazy, they will definitely have to be dragged out and stabbed to death in front of everyone. But Hu Dazhu was disobedient, let him work, he didn't do it, and when a devil came down to check, he got up and pretended, and when the people left, he threw things away and didn't work, his father had no choice but to do his share. I'm afraid that those laborers will gossip.
At that time, there was a master who was greedy for life and afraid of death, because he could always see that Hu Dafang was lazy and did not work, and he could also eat and sleep, which was unbalanced, so he planned to tell the devil about it, and wanted to use this matter to exchange for a white flour bun to eat.
But Hu's father was a skilled hunter and knew more than just animals. It's about people. When he was working once, Hu Da was still lazy on the side. The laborer who wanted to tell the devil about it looked at them in a sneaky old way. At first, Hu Dabao's father didn't pay attention, but then he gradually realized that something was wrong, and when he noticed it, when the laborer was about to climb out to find someone, he knocked down the laborer with a pickaxe from behind, and the others were dumbfounded. Don't dare to say anything.
Hu Dabao's father belongs to the kind of fierce people, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to take Hu Dabao to live in the mountains and forests for so many years, and after smashing the laborer, he stepped on his back and pinched his neck and asked him what he was going to do?
The laborer was beaten by him, and his big face was particularly fierce. was afraid to tell the truth, he wanted to go to the devil and tell a little fat man below that he didn't work, and then exchange this matter for a steamed bun to eat. Hu Da's father was about to have a seizure, but when he saw the other people who were thin and dirty, he thought that they were all his own people, how could he attack his own people, so he warned the laborer to screw off his head if he dared to tell the devil about it.
Hu Da Arm is looking at the excitement and being happy, who would have thought that his father would turn around and kick him after scaring the laborer, and kick Hu Da Arm in the face of the cinder, and when he got up, he didn't wait to ask what this was for, he was dragged by his father to work, saying that no matter how lazy he was, he couldn't keep him. Although Hu Dabao is meaty, he is not a fool, so he naturally understands what is going on, so he doesn't dare to be lazy and hurry to work.
But the worker who wanted to go to the informant and was beaten took the opportunity to get up, picked up the iron pickaxe on the ground and smashed it at Hu Dafang and his father, wanting to take revenge on him. As a result, both father and son reacted at the same time, and wanted to dodge sideways, but the pickaxe smashed into the air, and then Hu Dafang's father lifted his foot and kicked it on the ground, and fell with a pop.
After kicking over, Hu Dabao immediately wanted to rush over to make up for a few kicks, but when he got closer, he didn't raise his foot and found that something was wrong, the laborer was lying on his back in the mine, staring with his mouth open and not moving. The others hadn't reacted to what was going on, but some of them found out through the light that the worker had fallen on the head of a pickaxe and died.
The father and son didn't want to kill in the first place, but this happened like this, and they had to find an explanation. Fortunately, the rest of the laborers who worked together were usually helped by the father of the big beard, and the dead laborer wanted to be a traitor and betray his own people, so they planned to help the father and son and deal with the laborer.
But they only have one way in the mine, which is to dig down to find the veins, and every day there will be devils who come down to check the progress of their work, and the place below is too small to hide, unless they are dragged to the top, they will definitely be discovered by the devils, and when the time comes, when they look at the cause of the laborer's death, they will definitely have suspicions. Although the lives of the Chinese people were not valuable to them at that time, and there were too many deaths, the people who could move in the mine were considered to be a labor force, not because of the accident in the mine, it was inevitable that they would not endanger others, so they were ready to make a fake landslide to fool this matter.
The fake accident is actually very simple, that is, dig up more soil on the side, bury the corpse, and when the time comes, go up and report it, just say that the landslide crushed people, and those devils naturally don't care much.
After making this decision, Hu Dafang and his father dug in front, and the others retreated slightly, so as not to be affected by the real collapse of the digging. But I don't know what's wrong, the father and son dug for a long time, and widened the end of the mine a lot, which also didn't form a small landslide, so Hu Da and his father planned to dig a little more. Then bury the dead man with earth and it will be done.
But even the last few pickaxes, which actually dug into the hard things in the dirt, made a crisp sound. All of them were stunned when they heard it, and they thought they had dug up the minerals, so they all ran over to pick up the soil, but they didn't expect it. After the dirt was removed, a hard, flat stone appeared from the side of the mine, and it seemed that there were patterns on the stone, and if you looked closely, there seemed to be traces of artificial carving, as if it were a stone wall.
Although what they are digging now is a new mine, it is now twenty or thirty meters deep, and there are barren mountains and mountains around it, and there are no urban people, and there are relatively few traces of human activity in the past, but how can there be a man-made carved stone wall in such a deep place? Isn't that strange?
Those laborers don't know this. They used to be farmers at most, or hunters in the mountains, and few of them were literate, let alone understand this kind of thing. But although these people are illiterate, at least they are not stupid, and they feel that the stone wall dug up by accident is likely to be left by their ancestors.
Out of curiosity, the dozen or so people working below continued to dig around the stone tools, and the excess soil was used to disguise the site of the collapse. Cover the dead body of the laborer.
But as the surrounding soil slowly cleared away, the area of the stone wall was very large. And there is also a deep slit in the middle, and on both sides of the middle of the slit, there seems to be decorative iron rings, which looks especially like a door, a stone door.
Dig out the door from the ground, that is for people who were still very superstitious at that time. It's a particularly terrifying thing, because everyone knows that there is a netherworld underneath, and there are things like Lord Yama, bull heads and horses, and ghosts, and the underground door is naturally what ghost door is closed, and the place where it passes must be the underworld. Maybe there were Yin soldiers guarding behind the door, but when these people were frightened, they howled and climbed up.
Although Hu Dabao and his father didn't believe it much, they were infected by the terrifying emotions of these people, and they felt more and more terrifying when they looked at Shimen.
After they came out in a fuss, they shouted that the ghost door was closed, and what kind of imp was going to come out, run fast or something. At this shout, the whole mine went crazy and ran everywhere, not even the bayonets and machine guns that were usually trembling, and directly triggered a riot.
When Hu Dabao and his father came out, the mine went crazy, and the gunshots kept ringing out from the crowd, and they wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but they didn't run a few steps before they collided with the Japanese officer named Matsumoto Suke. Hu Dafang's father reacted suddenly, so he carried it to smash Matsumoto Suke, but the person had a gun in his hand, so he shot it directly and hit Hu Dafang's father in the stomach. But just as the second shot was fired, Hu Dafang rushed over with red eyes, knocked Matsumoto down and pressed him under him, and hit Matsumoto Suke's head with his head, knocking him out directly.
At that time, the scene was relatively chaotic, and not many people noticed what happened on Hu Dabao's side, Hu Dabao dragged his father up, and escaped from the path behind the mine half-dragged and half-dragged. But I didn't expect to go far, and there was a gunshot behind him, it turned out that Matsumoto Suke was only in a short coma, and after waking up, he chased it out, and shot Hu Da's father again.
The Matsumoto suke shot as he ran towards them, and his father stood behind him, and the blood from the several shots ran down his trouser legs. The Matsumoto was a very murderous soldier, and after he ran out of bullets from his pistol, he pulled out a bayonet that could be pressed on the front of his rifle and ran over, intending to stab the father and son who were about to escape. But as soon as he got closer, Hu Dabao and his father reflexively threw him to the ground, and he was firmly pressed by his weight, and Hu Dabao reacted at that time, and lifted the stone on the ground and smashed Matsumotosuke's head open, but his father was no longer able to do it, and the injury was too serious.
But soon a few devils chased after him, Hu Dabao and his father used his last strength to push Hu Dabao down and fell into the thick weeds on the side, although he escaped a catastrophe, but he saw his father dragged back by those devils, leaving a blood mark on the ground. (To be continued......)