Wang Tao and Li Yangyang came to Shanxi coal mine to dig coal together, the two of them went to eat together, thought that tomorrow they would go down to the pit to dig coal, so they went to bed early, in the dream he earned a lot of money, went home to buy a lot of toys for his son, bought beautiful clothes for Yuhong, Yuhong was smiling at him, suddenly felt that something was pressing on his stomach, Wang Tao woke up with pain.
Wang Tao opened his eyes in a daze, and found out through the faint moonlight through the window that it turned out that Li Si, who was sleeping next to him, got up in the middle of the night to, and the light was not good and stepped on his stomach, Li Si said apologetically "I'm sorry" Everyone is a fellow countryman, Wang Tao is not easy to worry about him, and everyone else is snoring and sleeping, Wang Tao rubbed his stomach, waved his hand, and motioned Li Si to go to sleep.
After being stepped on by Li Si to wake up.
Wang Tao tossed and turned and couldn't sleep anymore, he thought of his wife and children in the distance, and he didn't know if his son was making trouble at the moment, is Yuhong okay at home alone? Can you eat a bowl of hot rice? Alas! Two months is a quick time, but it's still a long time. Wang Tao thought in his heart, this time he worked hard for two months to earn more money, and then went home to do his own business, saying that he would not leave his wife and children alone and come out alone. He is really reluctant to let Yuhong be at home alone, for fear that she will not eat well and sleep well, if it weren't for Yuhong not disliking his poor family and marrying him with all her heart, he will not say that he has a son now, and his daughter-in-law doesn't know that she is **. There is also the father-in-law's family, although they were reluctant to marry their daughter to him at first, but who wanted to marry their daughter to a rotten bag family to be wronged, but later the father-in-law still gave them enough face, and he spent so many things to marry them.
When the day is just bright, the whistle of getting up is blowing, people who are used to sleeping lazily at home suddenly hear the whistle and are a little uncomfortable, scolding their mother while wearing clothes, the weather is already a little cold, no one wants to go out of the hot quilt, but there is no way, the responsibility on the shoulders tells them to come out to earn money, not to sleep, so one by one put on clothes, the face is too lazy to wash, let alone brush their teeth, they rush to eat with a tin rice bowl.
Breakfast is cabbage stewed tofu, millet porridge steamed buns, although life is not too good, but it is also almost, at home in the morning are pickled radish shreds or pickled pickles, rural people generally do not fry vegetables in the morning, they will go down the well to contribute, Wang Tao deliberately played more meals, took two steamed buns and lay on the table on the side to eat, only to see Li Yangyang with chopsticks to tie four steamed buns, like a string of sugar gourds, while walking and eating, Wang Tao beckoned him to come and sit together. Li Yangyang saw Wang Tao, so he took two steamed buns and gave one to him, saying: "You must eat more for breakfast, I heard people who have been here before say that at noon, they always bring some dry food to solve the problem in the well, and they can only come up to eat a hot meal at the end of the evening." Wang Tao glanced at Li Yangyang gratefully, although the two of them were classmates when they were in school before, they didn't have too much interaction, at most they met and said hello, but they didn't expect that the two of them could care about each other like relatives in a different place.
After breakfast, change into work clothes, put on a helmet and headlamp and prepare to go down the mine, I thought that I would go down to a few hundred meters deep and isolated underground, Wang Tao's nervous palms were sweating, I used to hear people say that coal miners had high wages, but I didn't expect the miners to work in such a bad environment, looking at the black hole, the cable car up and down the mine is a simple iron basket-like equipment with a few pulleys installed underneath, there is no lighting equipment in it, all rely on the headlamp to illuminate, Wang Tao stepped on the black slime and sat in the cable car, Listening to the sound of metal rubbing, the cable car quickly rushed to the ground, Wang Tao closed his eyes nervously, his ears were like an airplane "buzzing", a while to the underground coal pit, a cold air came to the face, the following was dark and damp, the ground was full of slime, Wang Tao and Li Yangyang's main task as temporary workers was to dig coal in the small alley and then load it into the iron basket and then slowly transport it to the cable car. The main roadway looks quite spacious, there are brackets on the side, the small roadway can basically only accommodate a person to bend forward, and the top is also dripping down from time to time.
Since Wang Tao left, Yuhong regretted it, before Wang Tao cooked and washed clothes at home, she didn't have to do anything, just take the child, after Wang Tao left, she had to cook alone and take the child, sometimes the baby made trouble, holding her legs, she couldn't do anything, and the baby fell asleep, so she casually stuttered, and it was better during the day, especially at night, she slept alone with the baby, sometimes listening to the wind blowing outside the window, she was scared to hug her son all night and couldn't sleep, no way, She entrusted the chickens and sheep raised by Wang Tao to her neighbor Aunt Wang, and she went back to her parents' house with her son in her arms.
When her mother saw Yuhong coming back with the child alone, her heart couldn't help but sink, she thought that she was angry with the little couple of girls, and came back alone, Wang Tao used to go back to her parents' house by bicycle to support them, why don't you see Wang Tao today, her mother hurriedly pulled the child and asked Yuhong, "Why didn't Wang Tao come with you?" When Wang Tao left, he deliberately instructed himself not to tell his father that he was going to go down to the coal kiln, so that they would have to worry about it when they were older, so they didn't go back to their parents' house to tell her father-in-law before leaving, Yuhong Niang saw Yuhong shed tears vigorously, and her heart was even more nervous, Yuhong thought about it and seemed to be unable to hide it, so she had to tell her father and mother in 1510, Wang Tao wanted to go out to earn some money to make capital, and next year it would be good to open a fish pond at home, and his father scolded Yuhong when he heard it, you don't know how to stop him. Although the coal kiln is said to have a lot of money, but how much risk to take, in case there is something, you regret it too late, Yuhong Niang hurriedly said, "Bah, bah, bah" His father saw what you said, Wang Tao has already gone out, what is the use of you scolding Yuhong, don't say that unlucky words, Wang Tao will not go to two months and come back, let Yuhong live at home during this time, save a person to see if the child eats or sleeps well, whether it is good or bad at home, at least we can help her take the child.
Wang Tao finally packed a basket of coal, and he couldn't straighten his waist inside, so he had to lie on the ground, pushing the coal basket with one hand, and crawling forward with one hand, fortunately, there was a layer of iron sheet welded under the coal basket that was relatively smooth, and there was wet slime below, and it was not difficult to push, Wang Tao climbed on the ground carefully, for fear of touching the coal seams on both sides, and suddenly his hand was soft, he felt like he had touched something different, and quickly stretched out his hand, and shone it with his headlamp, and saw that his hand was yellow and stinky, Wang Tao felt sick to his stomach for a while, disgusted, wiped his hand on the slime on the side, he knew that this must be left by the previous group of workers, in fact, this is normal, as long as the miners go down the well, eat, drink and Lazar are all in it, only after work can they go up to take a shower and change clothes.
Wang Tao gritted his teeth and insisted, he knew that no matter what kind of work he did, it would be difficult at the beginning, and he might get better when he got used to it later, he only had one thought now, that is, to dig more coal every day, earn more money and go home, and there are still wives and children waiting at home? There is coal everywhere in the mine, and there is no concept of time, and the most exciting thing every day is to hear the foreman's whistle, as long as the whistle sounds, their day's work is completed.
Wang Tao put down the tools and was about to get off work, when he suddenly heard Li Yangyang's "ouch", he didn't know what was going on, and hurriedly ran towards Li Yangyang. (To be continued).