As the New Year approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the convoy is doing more and more work. In the past, I had to wait in line at the entrance of the transportation company, but now I basically have to wait for the empty car, no matter how far or near it is.

Just going to the North Railway Station to pull coal can not be finished, three or four times a day, running for a week, the mountains of coal piled up on the freight yard not only did not see less, but also piled higher and higher, more and more.

It's not just the convoy that's happy, it's the new homeless people who are even happier. For those of them who still live in shacks, they can carry the winter through by eating one or two full meals a day in the harsh winter, and those who can't eat are likely to freeze to death.

Every two or three days, a steaming train rumbles into the freight yard from the west, full of coal. Coal can be transported by train, but there is no mechanical assistance for loading and unloading, and fuel is too expensive compared to labor costs.

In the hours leading up to the train, a large number of displaced people gather along the South and West 3rd Ring Roads and slowly move along the road to the North Station. At this time, the transport team on the way will take them for a ride, not only without collecting money, but also to find work.

It's really not the driver's heart, but a win-win situation. There are stevedores to load coal at the North Station, but there are often no after it is delivered to the place. So what to do? The ruthless driver unloads the truck himself, and even the cost of the stevedores is saved. But most of the drivers were not cruel enough to themselves and did not want to get soot, so they simply hired a stevedore from the homeless people to follow the car.

The albatross transport team is not ruthless enough, mainly because Hong Tao's leading role has not played a good role, and the upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked. But he didn't lose at all, and he still earned.

What's going on? The ancients said well, you can't eat and drink poorly, and if you can't calculate, you will be poor. In the field of calculation, Hong Tao cannot be said to be a leader, but also a professional player.

Since he started to transport coal every day, he led the team for the first time when he went to the freight yard of the North Railway Station. When I arrived at the place, I was not in a hurry to load the car, and I didn't even queue up, I just let people guard the carriage and run to the front to watch the excitement with my hands.

You said that there was nothing to see when loading coal, but he watched it with relish, not only watching, but also buying standing tickets, and distributing a box of more than a box of cigarettes to the little foremen who commanded the loading and unloading of the homeless, and chatted with people who had nothing to say.

"Brother Mouse, don't you let you stand by and watch the excitement?" When he came back, the scalper didn't understand and told the tiger about it. The tiger didn't understand it even more, if you want to say that there is nothing wrong with entertaining the security officers with small favors, people are managers, and they don't see each other when they look down.

What can you do with cigarettes for the stevedore? There is a weighbridge in the freight yard, even if the homeless people want to decorate you more, the people who look at the weighbridge are all regular employees of the station, and they are blind if they don't agree.

"You guys, your eyelids are too shallow, just looking at the two boxes of cigarettes is distressing, and you don't know the deeper meaning. Fat sheep, change my car board after eating! Hong Tao was contemplating all the time when he was eating, and he didn't take the ridicule of scalpers and tigers to heart at all.

The next day, I got out of the car as usual, and before I got on the Third Ring Road, I hired three homeless people as stevedores, saying that I would give a lunch to the five-cent wallet one day, and the big steamed buns were enough. As a result, I made two trips to the safety area in the north of the city in the morning, and when I came back for dinner at noon, the people in the courtyard were dumbfounded.

In the three carriages, Hong Tao only drove the lead car he was driving into the courtyard, and then removed a few screws from the car board, and when he opened them, he revealed a full pile of black powder underneath......

Steal coal! Hong Tao and Fat Sheep worked for most of the night, and welded a trapezoidal groove with a steel plate under the car plate, which is 1 meter wide, 2 meters long, 0.2 meters deep, and has a volume of almost 0.4 cubic meters. According to the density of coal, there are about 1.3 tons in one cubic meter, and it is almost 500 kilograms when this tank is filled.

But how to pretend to be? You can't just lift the pallet in the freight yard and put it in the slot first. Definitely not, even if the overseer is happy with Hong Tao. The coal blocks are large and small, and the large ones are not covered with the board, which is not a clear robbery, and it is too untechnical.

Hong Tao wants coal but can't be discovered, this is the technical work. He and Fat Sheep rebuilt a piece of the board as the lid of the trapezoidal groove, which was rough and full of seams.

In fact, this kind of car plate is the normal state of the transport team, the previous three cars were too exquisite, the car plate is not only tightly seamed but also bites the tenon, in Wang Gang's words, wasting so many good wood recipes, too loser!

But now the rough and crevices of the car plate are not to be adopted by the locals, but are used by Hong Tao to steal coal. When the wagon is loaded with coal and hits the road, the constant vibration and jolting will cause fine coal dust to leak through the gaps into the trapezoidal trough.

When the carriage leaves the freight yard, it will be weighed, and then a delivery note will be issued, which indicates the approximate weight, and the error of dozens of catties is allowed, for fear that the coachmen will unload part of the coal and sell it for money.

However, the unloading location sometimes has a weighbridge, sometimes not, Hong Tao can decide how much coal to steal from this trip according to whether there is a weighbridge and whether the unloading unit is strict or not. More than a few hundred catties, as little as a hundred and ten catties, how much to steal, it all depends on whether the stevedores in the yard cooperate.

Why, because only the coal will leak down, and the slightly larger coal will not go down. This is Hong Tao's cunning, he smokes and chats with those little foremen and stevedores every day, for nothing else, just to listen to the greeting when loading.

The place I went to this time was not strictly managed, and if I wanted to steal more, I said hello to the stevedore, and loaded less coal and more coal powder; On the contrary, if the inspection of the place you go to is stricter, then load more coal lumps and less coal powder.

It is often a box of cigarettes with a few good words, a few hundred catties of coal will be in hand, and the value of the two is very different, not to mention a box of cigarettes, a cigarette is also earned. Anyway, the coal in the yard is not for the stevedores, the most important thing is that they have no responsibility whether they know it or not, and they are happy to sell it.

Then again, if the inspection of the delivery place is particularly strict, what if the coal has to be weighed basket by basket? It doesn't matter, Hong Tao will lift the cover plate and even remove the coal powder, which will not take advantage of the public at all.

You say he's a thief, I'm sorry, take the thief and take the stolen goods, who stipulates that a hidden slot under the car is a thief? I'm here to pretend to be soft and soft, and our carriage is not specially made for transporting coal, so it's normal to run the transportation on weekdays to avoid being robbed.

Since the end of November, Hong Tao has used this method to continuously pull coal dust into the small courtyard at a rate of about half a ton a day. In fact, you can steal more, for example, if you modify all three carriages, you have to get back a ton and a half a day.

But he didn't do that, and it was a lot of work to renovate all three carriages, and the welding of trapezoidal grooves alone used up all the steel plates that had been recovered from the Red Zone these days. Iron plates can be used to dismantle cars, but welding rods have to be bought, and those things are quite expensive.

Could it be that welding rods are more expensive than coal? No, the main reason is that he didn't come back from stealing coal to sell it to make money, but to get some briquettes for the homeless people in the new sixth district to burn for the winter.

They live in modest shacks and are certainly not willing to buy too much coal for heating. The winter in the capital is still very cold, and he has suffered this kind of hardship in Xinjiang Province, and he doesn't want the new displaced people to eat it again.

is still the same set of logic, on the premise of not affecting his own life, he is willing to use his brain more, put more effort into it, and try to help others as much as possible. This is not just a question of whether his mind is good or not, but the responsibility of being a traverser. After all, after living so many lives, if you are still like ordinary people, you can only take care of yourself.

The coal dust has been brought back, how should it be distributed to the new displaced people? Door-to-door delivery ...... Hong Tao wouldn't do such a stupid thing. If you want to become a Buddha of all families, if you don't have the confidence of aircraft and artillery, the ending is often very tragic.

Because of the kindness that eventually suffered a big loss, Hong Tao has experienced it more than once, and he can't always fall into a pit. So he doesn't give, only sells!

All the homeless people who come to Xiaolou to help shake the briquettes can take away 10 catties for free for every 100 catties shaken, and they can also buy 20 catties in installments. Whoever has the strength will come, I'm a fucking thief, I can't shake the briquettes anymore, and then go door to door like the third grandson to pay a smile on my face, that's not called a good person, that's called a big fool!