In the first class, two sheds were erected, and cement slabs were to be built on the roof and sides.

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Mao went down to the well to inspect, and in less than an hour, he went up the well with the workers working on the day shift.

At this time, the workers of the second shift had just finished eating and had not yet gone down the mine.

Just when the six workers of the second shift were sitting in the outhouse of the office waiting for the pre-shift meeting, in front of them, Wang Weidong and Zhou Mao gave each of the six workers who had just ascended the well 20 yuan.

"The tools and the log cement slabs are already underground, and the well can be lifted by a shed." Zhou Maocai said to the six workers.

In fact, Zhou Maocai is very hard, the workers in three shifts go down the mine at 7 o'clock in the morning, go down the well at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and go down the well at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night to arrange work tasks, and they also have to go down the well to check.

Two days later, Zhou Maocai ascended the well and showed Wang Weidong something gray like tofu residue in his hard hat.

"You see, the rocks at the fault have become like tofu dregs, and you don't need explosives at all, just use a pickaxe to plan. However, the excavation is becoming more and more difficult, and the roof gravel is smashed on the cement slabs, and some of the cement slabs are bent. Zhou Maocai said.

It is impossible to break directly if there are steel bars in the cement slab, but this also shows how much pressure there is on the roof of the scaffolding.

"Of course I want to go as fast as possible, but safety comes first, don't have an accident! I'd rather slow down than have an accident! Wang Weidong said.

Zhou Mao is an old technician with rich experience.

"In the future, the scaffolding will be excavated forward by half a meter, which will be faster and safer." Zhou Maocai said.

Wang Weidong also often went down to the work face to watch, and many places on the scaffolding were like the faucet was not tightened, and the water with chopsticks was flowing down.

Not to mention work, that is, after standing under the bottom for a while, the clothes will be soaked, and all the workers will be wet when they go up the well, and the clothes can be wrung out of the water.

In December, it was freezing cold, and I went down the well to the well and returned to the office to collect the money, and the outside of the wet clothes was frozen with a hard shell.

However, everyone is smiling when they receive money, and they can't make so much money in other coal mines.

Wang Weidong had to get up at about 10 o'clock every night, put the rice cooked by Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law during the day in a cauldron and heat it up, and wait for the six workers to go up the well to eat. Then he poked on the boiler and boiled the water, waiting for the workers to take a hot bath after they ascended the well.

The telephone was not installed until mid-December, and Wang Weidong immediately called Ou Xiaoyang to tell him about the situation here, and the roadway had been excavated more than 40 meters in half a month.

In the past half a month, not a single truck of coal has been produced from the coal mine, and all that has fallen on the top of the gangue mountain is something like cement mortar.

Wang Weidong is very troubled these days, and it can even be said that he is miserable.

He is itching uncomfortably now, and when he takes off his clothes, he can always find lice crawling on it, and he will kill them endlessly.

In the room, a layer of wooden planks was laid in the north and south, and more than 20 people slept in total. One lice may be on one person today, and it may be on another person tomorrow.

Every time Wang Weidong sleeps, he first catches lice in the bed, and then takes off his clothes and continues to scratch lice. But lice are emerging one after another!

At night, Wang Weidong took off his own big pants and sat cross-legged on the quilt to catch lice, and squeezed the booty to death with his fingernails.

Looking at the blood on his fingernails, Wang Weidong said regretfully: "It's all my blood!" ”

The child who was picking up coal sat next to him and watched him catch lice, and Wang Weidong turned his head just in time to see a lice playing in the child's hair!

"It turns out that you are the culprit!" Wang Weidong said angrily.

The next morning, Wang Weidong took the child to the barber shop in the township, and asked the hairdresser to push the child a bald old Liang!

He looked down at the hair that had fallen to the ground, and there were several lice crawling.

When Wang Weidong came back with the child, he also brought back a few children's clothes, and the child was wearing a pair of new Ula rubber shoes on his feet.

After coming back, Wang Weidong asked the child to take off all the clothes on his body and get into the quilt, and he took the child's original clothes outside and set them on fire.

Thinking that he didn't know how many lice died in the raging fire, Wang Weidong felt a sense of revenge.

Shi Guozheng still knew about the coal mine excavation roadway to find coal.

"At that time, Zhou Mao only told me a few times that I wanted to spend tens of thousands of yuan, and I didn't have a score in my heart, if I couldn't find tens of thousands of yuan of coal, I would go down the drain. Look at how many logs and cement slabs are piled up in the coal mine now, it's all money! Shi Dali said.

"Wang Weidong, that kid really dares to do it, throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars in front and back, right? Don't go out of the coal light and put money inside. Shi Guozheng said.

"I'm still waiting for him to find out that all the coal in the mine is gone, and the loss is skyrocketing, and I can't wait to hit the wall with my head!" Shi Dali said regretfully.

"Why are you so stupid? Now that Zhou Maocai is following him, it is estimated that he already knows the situation of the coal mine, and Wang Weidong should have thought about digging this piece of coal before agreeing to subcontract the coal mine. Shi Guozheng said.

"What the hell is this kid!" Shi Dali scolded.

At the beginning, Zhou Maocai asked Shi to vigorously dig through the roadway to find coal through the fault, Shi Guozheng and his son had no courage, and they were even more distressed about money, and now that Wang Weidong did this, they began to regret it again.

"This kid just doesn't clean up, I won't let him go!" Shi Dali gritted his teeth and said.

"Packing up is a sure, but not now! If he can't find coal in the future, Wang Weidong throws in more than 100,000 yuan and doesn't need us to clean it up, he has the heart to die. If coal is found, it will not be too late to clean it up. Shi Guozheng said.

"Yes, if he wants to take advantage of us, he thinks it's too beautiful, and he has a big snot bubble!" Shi Dali said.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law returned home. They cooked some extra food and left it for the workers to eat in the middle of the night, and Cao Baolu suppressed the fire with coal and took his daughter-in-law home.

As soon as the husband and wife returned home, Shi Guozheng came.

"Why are you here so late?" Cao Baolu said.

Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law hurriedly made Shi Guozheng a cup of tea.

"Don't be busy, we're all real relatives, don't be foolish!" Shi Guozheng said.

Seeing the husband and wife sitting down, Shi Guozheng asked with a smile: "How is it, you are doing well in the coal mine now?" ”

"That is, to deal with it, it is far worse than when Dali was the mine manager in the coal mine!" Cao Baolu replied against his will.

"Of course, what is our relationship? At the beginning, so many people wanted to do the work of the two of you, I blocked it back, and I will give you a good thing first! Shi Guozheng said.

"How much does Wang Weidong's kid pay you two a month?" Shi Guozheng then asked.

Cao Baolu glanced at his daughter-in-law first and replied against his will: "She is seventy a month, and I am eighty yuan." ”

"I'll just say, what did Wang Weidong come here for? It's to suck our blood! Shi Guozheng said.

Half an hour later, Shi Guozheng walked out of Cao Baolu's house with his hands behind his back, humming a little song and walking towards his home.

(End of chapter)