"Are you willing to continue working here after I take over the coal mine?" Wang Weidong asked.

Cao Baolu and his wife couldn't answer Wang Weidong's question for a while.

As far as the two of them are concerned, of course they are willing to stay and continue to work.

However, this question has to go back to the village and ask Shi Guozheng, Shi Guozheng nodded before the two of them dared to stay and continue to do it, if they shook their heads, they could only go back to the village and not do it.

Wang Weidong looked at Cao Baolu, even if he cooks and burns the boiler, if he can keep the coal mine materials, he must be the most trusted person of Shi Guozheng's father and son.

"You are Shi Guozheng's relatives?" Wang Weidong asked.

Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law both smiled awkwardly and did not answer, if they didn't answer, it would be enough.

Wang Weidong walked out of the so-called canteen and walked down the corridor into the Chase room, where the workers lived.

The office door was locked, and he had to come here.

The house is padded with bricks, and the wooden planks are laid on the bricks as beds, and two rows of wooden planks are laid from east to west in the north and south of the house, and there are more than a dozen broken quilts on the wooden boards, and the quilts are rolled up indiscriminately, and the black mattress is not visible in the original color at all.

Six people were sitting on the bed and talking nonsense, either bragging or talking about women. The people who do the night shift have gone down the mine, and these people should be on the day shift.

Farmers in several nearby villages went home after taking a shower in the shengjing where they worked in the coal mine, and the people who lived here were so-called blind streamers running errands.

"That kid is playing bull in front of me, can I get used to him? When I went up, it was an electric cannon, and it hit him with blood from his nose and mouth! A man with long hair and a scruffy beard said with foaming at the mouth.

He's boasting about his glorious history of traveling north and south.

In fact, these six people are all old and bearded, and they can't see their looks if they don't look carefully. There was a strange smell in the room, and there were torn clothes on all four radiators, and the strange smell was coming from the clothes.

When I came up from the well, my clothes were wet, and I put them on the heater to dry, and the next day I went down to the well and continued to wear them.

Seeing a living person walk in, the eyes of the six people were focused on Wang Weidong.

"Where yours? Are you gaha? The braggart man asked in an unkind tone.

He was bragging just now, and now he is just verifying and showing it in front of others.

While Wang Weidong was pondering how to answer this question, the man then asked, "Did you also work in the coal mines?" ”

"Yes, Shi Guozheng asked me to start working in December." Wang Weidong replied about getting off the donkey.

As he spoke, he took out his cigarette case and gave cigarettes to the six people in the room one by one.

"Universe, the smoke is good." The other said, holding a cigarette.

Wang Weidong had made a very serious mistake just now, his tone was not hard enough when answering questions, and he should not have smoked.

For many people, this attitude is not because he is cultivated or kind, but because he is soft and easy to bully.

Sure enough, the man who bragged just now put the cigarette in his mouth and then stretched out his hand and said, "Another one!" ”

Wang Weidong smiled again and handed him one, and when he saw that someone had succeeded, the other five people also stretched out their hands to continue to ask for cigarettes.

Wang Weidong sent another round of cigarettes, and then looked around, as if looking for a place to sleep.

"You didn't bring a quilt with you to work yourself?" A worker asked.

"No, my luggage won't be delivered tomorrow." Wang Weidong replied.

The person who bragged just now immediately raised his arm and pointed to the luggage on the wooden board, glared at him and said, "I'm telling you, you can't sleep without people's luggage!" A few of them went down to work, and if they come back tomorrow morning and see you sleeping with their luggage, they will have to cut you! ”

"I don't sleep with their luggage, I just lie on the plank and will stay overnight." Wang Weidong replied.

He took two bricks from under the plank and put them on top of the plank as pillows, then put his cotton hat on the bricks and climbed on the plank and lay down.

Seeing Wang Weidong's pitiful appearance, the six of them all laughed.

"Who am I to come to work in the coal mine and wear a dog? I'm not used to anyone! The braggart worker said triumphantly.

At this moment, the child who was picking up coal on the gangue mountain timidly walked into the house.

"Why did you come back? Go to the boiler room and get me a jar of boiling water! A worker said with a large tea jar.

"Give me a punch too!"

"Give me a punch too!"

Four or five workers all took out the tea jar and said.

The child ran out with a large teapot in one hand, and after a while he cautiously came back with two jars full of boiling water, and after putting it down, he ran out with two teapots.

After finishing the work, the child walked to the plank, only to find a person lying on the plank without a blanket.

There were four heaters in the house, and the temperature in the room was still very high when Wang Weidong just lay down, and Wang Weidong fell asleep after lying down for a while.

Cao Baolu, who burned the boiler, pressed the fire of the boiler with coal before nine o'clock in the evening, and returned to the village with his daughter-in-law. The heating slowly cooled down, the temperature in the house also decreased, and after another two hours, Wang Weidong was woken up by freezing.

The lights had been turned off, and Wang Weidong couldn't help but shiver with cold.

Suddenly, half of the quilt was covered on his body, and Wang Weidong reluctantly turned around to see two bright eyes looking at him.

"Let's both cover half of it." The child said.

Wang Weidong didn't speak, although he didn't have a mattress, but the quilt was not so cold on his body, but Wang Weidong couldn't sleep anymore, because the quilt emitted a coaxing smell and he couldn't sleep at all.

Finally managed to survive until five o'clock in the morning, Wang Weidong got up and walked outside the house, moving his body in the cold wind, breathing dry and fresh air.

Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law have come to the coal mine, re-open the boiler to boil water, and in two hours the workers will go up to the well to take a bath, Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law is washing a large pot of potatoes, the workers who go up the well plus the workers who go down the mine have a total of more than a dozen people to eat, all of them can eat, and the potatoes in the pot will cost ten catties for each meal, although there is no need to peel them, it will take a long time to wash them just twice.

Cao Baolu walked into the cafeteria and looked down at his wife who was washing potatoes and said with a smile: "The one surnamed Wang, who slept on the wooden board last night without being cared for, may have frozen crooked!" ”

"Such a person can also contract coal mines?" Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law asked curiously.

In her impression, no one with money and status can endure hardships, and Shi Guozheng did not suffer less when he was young, but later he commanded others to work with his small hands behind his back, and he didn't even touch the hoe handle again, and even the vegetables grown in the front and back gardens of his home were volunteered to do for him.

Such a person is a person with status, and a person with status is not a person who calls others? But looking at Wang Weidong's appearance, it doesn't look like it at all.

"Turtle, in the future, he will contract this coal mine, not to mention Shi Guozheng, even these workers can play him to death!" Cao Baolu gloated.