At five o'clock in the morning, Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law got up to make breakfast, she first walked outside the door and opened a crack to look inside, and closed the door when she saw Wang Weidong still lying there.

After Wang Weidong got up, Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law poured hot water from the pot into the basin with a water ladle, and mixed it with cold water to let Wang Weidong wash his face.

When he was wiping his face, Shi Guozheng came out of another room and asked with a smile, "Got up?" You drank yesterday unconscious, and I thought you would have to sleep for a while. ”

"I really can't drink you, big brother, don't they live here?" Wang Weidong asked. He was talking about Shi Dali.

"The family lives alone in the township." Shi Guozheng's daughter-in-law replied, with resentment in her words.

"My grandson is in his teens, so it's better to go to school in the township." Shi Guozheng explained.

Shi Guozheng looks like he is in his early fifties, his son Shi Dali is in his early thirties, and his grandson is already in his teens, which is normal in rural areas, many people are like this, and there are many people who become grandfathers in their forties.

"I still want to go to the coal mine today, what if he is not here?" Wang Weidong said.

"It's okay, I'll take you there after eating!" Shi Guozheng said.

Breakfast was rice and pig's head meat, and Wang Weidong guessed that the pig's head meat should have been brought back from the old Wei family, who had eaten pig-killing vegetables yesterday, or that family sent it directly to Shi Guozheng's house.

It wasn't until the hot rice entered his stomach that Wang Weidong felt that yesterday's drunkenness was completely over.

After breakfast, Shi Guozheng put on a cotton hat and said to Wang Weidong: "Let's go, I'll take you to the coal mine!" ”

The village is only four or five hundred meters away from the coal mine, and the two of them looked at the gangue mountain in the distance, stepped directly on the harvested crops, and walked directly over.

Wang Weidong noticed that the winch on the gangue mountain was motionless, and he suspected that the winch had not been driven since yesterday, that is, the winch had not been pulled out of the mine.

The two walked into a row of brick houses forty meters across the inclined shaft of the coal mine. The door opened in the middle of this row of brick houses, and the cotton door curtain was lifted and the two people walked in, Wang Weidong felt that it was dark in front of him, but he still saw the four rows of pen characters on the left wall painted with red paint.

Under the four words of Tuanjie Coal Mine is the mine Changshi Dali, and the technical director Zhou Maocai is a few words.

With these typesets, it seems that the coal mine is much more formal.

"Someone in this coal mine is in charge of technology?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Absolutely! It was a retired old technician who was vigorously invited from the nearby Dakegou Coal Mine, and the technology was very good! Shi Guozheng replied.

Shi Guozheng was walking in the corridor with Wang Weidong, and he was just about to open the office door when he suddenly turned his head to look at an old man at the end of the corridor.

"Lao Chang, do you go down the well or Lao Zhu go down the well during the day shift?" Shi Guozheng asked sharply.

The old man squeezed out a smile and replied, "It's me."

"Why don't you go down the well if it's you? What should I do if something happens underground? Shi Guozheng asked more sternly.

"I'll just come up and take a sip of hot water and go down right away, nothing will happen. I was about to leave when I saw the leader of Shi Da coming. The old man surnamed Chang said with a hippie smile.

"Hurry down the well!" Shi Guozheng ordered.

Lao Changtou trotted away with the ceramic jar in his hand.

Until this time, Shi Guozheng walked in with Wang Weidong from the door of the office.

The office was empty, with two desks side by side with benches on either side, and a back room with two desks, chairs, and a bed.

Wang Weidong walked into the back room and looked at a drawing posted on the wall, which was about the Tuanjie coal mining area.

"Look at this large area, it is all approved from above and belongs to the scope of our coal mining! Is it big or not? Shi Guozheng asked proudly.

"Why is there no one in the office?" Wang Weidong asked.

"Dali didn't come over today, and the captain on duty was in charge here, and he should have taken the workers down the mine now. Let's go, I'll take you somewhere else! Shi Guozheng said.

Shi Guo was walking down the corridor and came to a large glass window.

"This is the charging room of the coal mine." Shi Guozheng pointed inside.

Wang Weidong looked inside through the glass, and there were more than 20 miner's lamps charging on the charging rack. The workers who go down the mine every day are to get the miner's lamp from the inside and go down the mine.

Shi Guozheng took Wang Weidong into the next room, the so-called table and seven or eight chairs nailed with woolen wooden boards, and a woman next to the stove was squatting on the ground peeling green onions.

When the woman saw Shi Guozheng coming in, she hurriedly stood up and said, "Oh Mom, why are you here?" ”

"Come and see you, you've all worked hard." Shi Guozheng said with a smile.

Then Shi Guozheng said to Wang Weidong: "She and her husband are both working in the coal mine, she cooks for the workers and is responsible for the charging room, her husband burns the boiler and manages the tools for going into the mine, what chisels, bolts, anchor heads and so on." ”

Afraid that Wang Weidong wouldn't understand, Shi Guozheng explained: "Most of the people working here are from nearby villages, and a few are blind streamers from other places, the boiler is prepared for bathing, and the Gu Tai is buried from the well, so it has to be washed, it is winter now, and it is too cold without heating." ”

There was a rumbling sound at the mouth of the well, and Wang Weidong walked to the window to look outside.

The winch turned, and a minecart full of coal was pulled out, and two dusty workers followed the minecart behind the minecart.

This is simply not tolerated under security regulations.

After the cart was pulled out, two workers took off the hook and pushed the cart loaded with coal along the small railroad track to unload it next to the large pile of coal.

Shi Guozheng walked up to Wang Weidong and said, "Do you see it?" Now there are dozens of truckloads of coal pulled out every day, and this is all money! ”

After unloading the coal, the two workers pushed the mine cart back and rehooked it, and then jumped into the mine cart, and the winch started and lowered the two people down the inclined shaft.

"Why isn't that Zhou Maocai, who is in charge of technology, here?" Wang Weidong asked curiously.

"I know that I am crooked all day long when I am engaged in technology, and I am annoyed to death, it is better if he doesn't come!" Shi Guozheng couldn't help but say.

Speaking of this, Shi Guozheng suddenly stopped, and he felt that he had lost his words.

"Our coal mine is so small that we don't have much technical work, and we don't have anything to do except draw drawings, so we can go back if we want to go home, and we can come to him if we have something." Shi Guozheng said. This time he was very tolerant.

At this time, a dirty eight or nine-year-old child walked in, and he saw Shi Guo here and hurriedly turned around and wanted to run.

"Stop, why don't you pick up coal in Gangue Mountain and run back?!" Shi Guozheng asked sharply.

The boy ran away as if he hadn't heard.

"This child's father was unlucky and stoned to death in the mine, and his mother ran away with 3,000 yuan in compensation, I think he is quite pitiful, so he stayed in the coal mine to pick up coal in the gangue mountain, and he ate and lived here." Shi Guozheng explained.