Wang Weidong opened the warehouse and went inside to sort out and count the materials, during this time, the roadway was simply digging in the thin mud, so there were very few tools and materials used except for shovels and pickaxes.

He turned his head and saw that the child had followed, reaching out to pull one out of the dozens of intertwined detonators.

"Don't move! Do you know what this thing is? Stay away from these things in the future, and beware of crashing into you! Wang Weidong reprimanded.

The child pouted and said, "This thing and explosives are only powerful when they explode together!" ”

"How do you know these things? Have you ever seen it in the well? Wang Weidong asked in confusion.

"In the summer, Shi Dali brought explosives to the river to fry fish, I went to see it, and the fish turned over and floated on the water." The child replied.

"Shi Dali, this bastard, actually took the explosive detonator outside without permission, don't look at this kind of thing in the future, it's very dangerous, do you know?" Wang Weidong warned.

He dragged the child out of the warehouse and locked the iron door of the warehouse.

The child was completely intuitive, and after he felt that Wang Weidong was good to him, he followed Wang Weidong like a fart every day.

Workers go down the well, rest and rest, and no one can be seen on the ground. Wang Weidong leaned against the wall to smoke and bask in the sun.

The child stood next to him and said, "A few nights before you came here, Shi Dali went to the coal mine and took a lot of explosives from the warehouse, and the detonator is such a big roll!" ”

The explosives are easily recognizable in a roll wrapped in wax paper and packed in a sealed plastic bag, and the detonator with a long colored wire is even more recognizable, so children should not be mistaken.

When he said a large roll, the child stretched out his hands and made a big circle.

"Was it the warehouse door that Cao Baolu opened for him?" Wang Weidong asked.

The child nodded.

"Don't tell anyone about this, let alone Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law!" Wang Weidong admonished.

Two old men carried their luggage across the railway in the direction of Tuanjie Village.

Wang Haifu pointed to the gangue mountain and the row of brick houses in the distance and said, "It should be there, and it will be there soon!" ”

The day after the phone was installed, Wang Weidong called the store near his home at the Xiangyang Chemical Plant, which had a toll phone.

On the phone, Wang Weidong asked the owner of the commissary to tell his father, Wang Haifu, and his father-in-law, Lao Chen, to help in the coal mine. People in their fifties happen to be in the prime of life, and they can go to the coal mine to exert their spare heat.

"Didn't you do a good job in Harbin City, why did you come here to open a coal mine again?" Lao Chen asked curiously.

"This kid is tossing around all day long!" Wang Haifu also complained.

The two of them walked to the gate of the coal mine with their luggage and wanted to ask if this was the Unity Coal Mine, and Wang Weidong happened to be seen by Wang Weidong, who was squatting by the wall and basking in the sun, when he was here.

He hurriedly got up and ran to the gate.

"Give me all the luggage, the two old comrades have worked hard!" Wang Weidong said while holding a luggage roll.

"Why did you come here again to work in the coal mine? I've heard people say that there are a lot of doorways here, and the water is very deep! Wang Haifu asked with concern.

"If you go into the house, you won't be able to tell for a while." Wang Weidong replied.

He first took the two old men into the Chase room where the workers lived, put the luggage on the wooden board, and Wang Haifu and his father-in-law Lao Chen will also live here in the future.

Then Wang Weidong brought the two people into the office.

"This is Zhou Maocai and Uncle Zhou, I invited him from Dakegou Coal Mine, and his skills are very good! This is my father, and this one is my father-in-law! Wang Weidong introduced to both sides.

All three of them have retired in the past few years, and they are about the same age, shaking hands with each other and chatting a few words.

Wang Weidong then told him how he came to the Tuanjie Coal Mine.

"Xiaomei's uncle is really not authentic, even his own relatives are cheating! But Xiaomei shouldn't know about it, she should just say that you have made money in the past two years when she went back to her parents' house, and she felt that she also had a glow on her face. Wang Haifu said.

"I'm nothing in Qu Wenfu's heart, and I can't promote him to be the director of security." Wang Weidong said.

"There are only more than 30 people in this coal mine?" Lao Chen asked.

"There are so many people now, and if we find a coal seam in the future, there will be more people to work." Wang Weidong replied.

Wang Weidong did not tell Zhou Maocai that he would subcontract the coal mine as soon as he found the coal seam in the future, and now he did not say anything to his father and father-in-law.

"In the evening, when Lao Changtou and Lao Zhutou handed over shifts, I was going to talk to the two of them, although I was only half a month, I gave them two and one hundred, and then let them go home, and then arranged for my father and father-in-law to watch the substation room." Wang Weidong said to Zhou Maocai.

"Lao Zhu should have no problem, but Lao Chang has no home at all, and he doesn't want to leave if he gives him a hundred yuan." Zhou Maocai said.

Next, Wang Weidong talked about the operation of the coal mine, the wages of the workers, the food, and the daily underground and work conditions.

"It seems that the salary is indeed a lot, but compared with the state-owned enterprises, the people who work here have no pension salary, no medical care, and no care about children's schooling and housing. Wang Haifu said very realistically.

Wang Haifu and Lao Chen were both idle people, and when they arrived at the coal mine, they immediately entered the fighting state, and the two of them came to the yard to measure the logs with a tape measure, and then put the logs on the shelves and began to saw the wood.

The underground scaffold is a trapezoidal structure, with a width of one meter and eight meters, and two legs are two meters long, so the log should be measured before going down the well, and the length exceeded should be cut into standard length with a large saw.

The child rode on the log, and the two brothers each held one end of the big saw and began to tug and saw.

Wang Weidong walked into the cafeteria and saw Cao Baolu and his daughter-in-law standing in front of the window looking outside.

Seeing Wang Weidong coming in, Cao Baolu asked, "Who are those two people?" ”

"One is my father, the other is my father-in-law, and when they heard that I was working in a coal mine, they came to help." Wang Weidong replied.

"Oh, the two uncles are here, do you want to fry two dishes for the second elder alone at noon?" Cao Baolu's daughter-in-law asked.

"No, we eat meat here every day, what kind of small stove do we have? Brother Cao went to the township supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a big plastic barrel, poured a barrel of liquor back, asked for good wine, and must not drink anything wrong! Workers who go down the well can not drink alcohol, and workers who ascend the well can drink three taels per person to warm up. Wang Weidong said.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, when several workers who were soaked up the well and walked to the office to collect the money, they were surprised to see two old men working in the yard.

Lao Chen looked at these workers who were shivering with water and said, "These workers are really capable!" It's almost time for us to be younger. ”

Wang Haifu said disdainfully: "At that time, we relied on spirit, and Wang Weidong, a deflated calf, relied on throwing money!" Can it be the same between the two? ”

(End of chapter)