Chapter 35: Down the Mine
"Thank you, thank you......" Xu Zhi immediately understood, and instantly calculated how much he could get, although it was still far from his expectations, but it was very good to be able to earn so much money in a month. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Saying goodbye to Lao Feng out of the small coal mine, Xu Zhi looked at the gloomy sky, a little contradictory, he didn't have no other way to find someone these days. In fact, the fastest way to get money is to go to the chess and card room to gamble! Xu Zhi is completely sure, relying on his hearing, he can easily win 1,000 yuan, or even 2,000 yuan! Moreover, he is also completely sure, even if that Brother Liu makes a move, he can easily get out with the technique of flying needles! However, gambling is gambling, and the money is not coming from the right way, Xu Zhi will definitely not take that road until he has to do so.
Of course, this choice made Xu Zhi face another problem, Xu Zhi thought that colleges and universities would open in September, but he took a closer look at the admission notice of YZ City Institute of International Economics and Trade, only to find that the opening date of this school is August 10th, and between August 10th and October 1st is the day of military training for freshman students. Xu Zhi's summer vacation is less than a month, and it is really difficult to earn a thousand yuan in less than a month.
Fortunately, although Lao Feng couldn't find him an easy job, he did get a lot of wages, which made Xu Zhi happy. Xu Zhi was happy, Xu Aiguo was not happy, walking on the road, she persuaded and said: "Zhi, let's not go to the mine, okay?" Sister looked at the mine too dangerous, I used to always hear that the mine collapsed, someone was buried alive, and my sister didn't care. But as soon as I saw the mine today, I knew that you were going to go down, and my sister panicked. You better not go. ”
"It's okay, sister," Xu Zhi smiled, "It was all a long time ago, and I haven't heard of it recently! ”
"Who said many years ago! Didn't the coal mine collapse the year before last? Six were buried alive, and when they were dug out, only two people were alive, one was so hungry that he gnawed his palms, and the other drank his own urine every day, don't go, my sister won't marry Chen Mo, let's think of another way......
"Sister, I've promised Uncle Feng, why don't I have to go for two days!" Xu Zhi smiled, "You think of other ways at home, I make money in the mine, won't I make enough money when the time comes, and don't let my father and mother worry about it?"
Xu Aiguo didn't convince Xu Zhi after all, and took Xu Zhi back to the village.
Xu Zhi is not stupid, he took advantage of his sister's cooking time, slipped into his own cornfield, and broke more than fifty corns into his own space. After breaking the corn, he shaved some unripe sweet potatoes from the ground. When he returned home, he touched some edible food and put it in the space, and he had learned the idiom of preparing for a rainy day before the college entrance examination.
Knowing that Xu Zhizhen was going to the mine, Xu Guohong was very unhappy, but when Xu Zhitian left before dawn, he still got up and sent Xu Zhi to the entrance of the village. Although he didn't say a word, Xu Zhi also felt warm in his heart, his father is a father after all, and if he loves him...... Sometimes it's not easy to say.
When Xu Zhi came to the mouth of the mine, it was just dawn, and a middle-aged man with a small stature and wearing canvas clothes was standing in front of a dilapidated tin house, lecturing nearly twenty people.
Seeing Xu Zhi coming, the man looked up and down and shouted, "You are the college student?"
"Yes......" Xu Zhi didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly stepped forward and agreed, "My name is Xu Zhi." ”
"Old Feng is crazy!" the man shook his head, "You can also go to the mine?"
"Uncle......" Xu Zhi hurriedly shouted, "I'm also eighteen years old, of course I can go to the mine!"
"You ......," the man pointed to a young man who was half a head taller than Xu Zhi and said, "Look at how strong he is!"
"Okay!" the young man walked out, came to Xu Zhi and stretched out his hand and said, "Come on......"
Looking at the man's hand, Xu Zhi knew that he was going to wrestle with himself, but he didn't even stretch out his hand at all, and said with a smile: "No comparison, I don't have as much strength as you!"
"You're quite interesting!" the young man glanced at Xu Zhi and looked at the middle-aged man.
"If you don't compare, you can't go down the well!" The middle-aged man didn't let Xu Zhi go, and said word by word, "I don't know your strength, I can't give you a job!"
"I understand!" Xu Zhi thought that the middle-aged man was embarrassed by himself, but at this time he realized that he had misunderstood, so he hurriedly answered and stretched out his hand.
Even if Xu Zhi had a chance, after all, the time was too short, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the young man pressed his wrist down!
"What can you do with this strength?" the young man did not bother to snap his wrist a second time, and shook his head back to where he had been standing.
"Uncle......" Xu Zhi said straight to the point, "I need tuition to go to college!"
"Alas......" the middle-aged man sighed, pointed at the young man and said, "Black egg, you take him!"
"Okay!" The young man named Hei Dan'er agreed happily, waved his hand at Xu Zhi, and motioned for him to stand beside him.
Xu Zhi was overjoyed and hurriedly stood up.
The middle-aged man said a few words, glanced at everyone, and said, "I'm going to a new mining area today, you guys are smart!"
"Yes!" Xu Zhi was puzzled, but he still agreed like everyone else.
"Let's change your clothes!" the middle-aged man said, waving his hand.
Everyone stopped talking and poured into the tin room behind them, and Xu Zhi was also carrying a schoolbag with a set of old clothes in it. However, seeing everyone go in together, Xu Zhi hesitated for a moment and did not follow.
"College student ......" The middle-aged man looked at Xu Zhi and beckoned, "Come here!"
"Uncle......" Xu Zhi walked up to the middle-aged man and said with a smile, "You can call me Xu Zhi." ”
"I don't have a good memory, so I'd better call you a college student!" The middle-aged man looked at the clothes in Xu Zhi's hand and said, "Why don't you change your clothes?"
"Hehe, yes!" Xu Zhi was not embarrassed to say, "Maybe it's not used to it yet, it'll be fine in a few days!"
"It's a few days!" the middle-aged man said with a wry smile, "You really want to dig coal here!"
"Uncle, I really need money, otherwise I wouldn't have begged Uncle Feng!"
"If you want money, you have to die first!" The middle-aged man looked at the tin room and said in a low voice, "The lives of our people are not worth much, and if you give them away, you will give them away, but you are a college student, you can't abuse yourself so easily." I think there are many ways to make money besides digging coal, and you can think of other ways, such as ......"
For example, "What, the middle-aged man can't say anything, if he knows, he naturally won't stay here!"
"Alas, uncle......" Xu Zhi sighed, "I am from the village of Xiluoling, do you say that if I have another way out, I will come to the mine?"
"Forget it, then I won't say anything! wait until you go to the mine yourself...... You'll know!" said the middle-aged man, someone had already come out of the tin room, he waved his hand and said, "You go and change your clothes, go down with everyone, don't fall behind, otherwise it's easy to get lost inside!"
Xu Zhi responded and hurriedly went to change his clothes, he didn't take this sentence seriously. But when he held a worn-out miner's lamp in his hand, carried a rather large basket on his back, bent and followed Hei Dan'er into the mine, walked through a very long narrow road, and then looked at the holes, and many mines that were simply supported by branches with bark, he finally understood the meaning of the middle-aged man's words.
It's completely different from the mine he saw in the movie!
Where is the minecart that I said I was going to have gone? Where is the tunnel where I have said I have been able to take advantage of the tool?
When Xu Zhi told Hei Dan the question in his heart, Hei Dan almost laughed and bent over!
He smiled breathlessly, and replied: "College student, you are mistaken, what you said is what the Nixiang Coal Mine looks like! Oh, even the Nixiang Coal Mine only has one mine like that, which was used during the inspection above, and the others are not much better than here." ”
"Whoa......" Hei Dan was just as he was talking, when there was a sound of dirt falling, and the middle-aged man's scolding voice came immediately, "Hei Dan, ...... a little light"
"Yes, yes......" Hei Dan hurriedly agreed, didn't dare to laugh anymore, and whispered to Xu Zhi, "Although Team Zhang looks scary, he has a good heart, he used to be a ...... in the Nixiang Coal Mine"
The black egg roughly said the middle-aged man's affairs, and at this time, Team Zhang had already led everyone to the location of a mine, Team Zhang swept the mining lamp in his hand a few times, and said, "Take your own things!"
The crowd didn't say much, and as Team Zhang's miner's lamp swept by, they picked up the sharp-beaked hoes, shovels, hammers and other things left on the ground.
Xu Zhi didn't know what to take, so Hei Dan picked up a shovel for him.
"Let's go ......" Team Zhang looked at it, didn't say much, waved his hand, and let everyone follow, and he was the first to go.
After walking for another ten minutes, the mine road had come to an end, Team Zhang stopped, took out a piece of paper from his arms, and someone next to him immediately raised the mining lamp to shine it.
Team Zhang squinted his eyes and looked at it, pointed in one direction and said, "Dig here!"
"Okay!" the three men greeted, almost standing side by side, raising their sharp-beaked hoes, and began to dig desperately!
Then a few more people hurriedly used shovels and other things to get the stones away.
Xu Zhi was puzzled and wanted to ask, but when he heard only the sound of clanging in the mine, he still shut up knowingly.
However, it was only ten minutes, and Xu Zhi suddenly frowned, because he could already hear clearly, and in the depths of the direction that Team Zhang was pointing, there were some other clanging sounds.
"What's going on?" Xu Zhi was puzzled, looking at these stones that were not coal at all thrown behind him.
"Poof......" Just as he was thinking, one of the people's hoes landed as if they had pierced something, making a muffled sound.
"Stop ......" Team Zhang hurriedly shouted with joy on his face......