Chapter 30 Chapter nine

He was indeed old, sitting on the ground warmed by the sun, panting heavily, panting with all the strength in his body, his chest, back, and stomach were all heaving violently.However, it is not enough, the air is not enough, the lungs can no longer expand to a larger area, and the lung holes that should be used to inhale and expel air have been occupied by coal dust and rock dust, and have been shrunk by several hundred Tens of thousands of times, tens of millions of times the "Xiaoheigelonggou" has occupied. His panting was tinged with phlegm, like a thin whistle. Yes, he is old, the young, powerful, unbelieving Wei Heizi no longer exists, the years conspired with the mine, and replaced it with an aging torso secretly, quietly, bit by bit his youth.

He simply dropped the shovel, pushed away the dung pan filled with sand, and lay down on his back.Facing the long sky, which was in a decisive battle with the twilight, he let the heat of the land soak into his body evenly.He really hoped to die like this, and slowly melt into one with the blue sky and the earth. No, you can't. He is only fifty-nine years old, not too old!He wants to wait for the young secretary of the town committee, he wants to watch Heigelonggou come back to life again, he wants to wait until the wellhead is opened, put on his overalls, put on a rubber shell cap, carry his beloved miner's lamp on his back, and go there again. Walk in the deep alleyway once.

He turned over and got up, patted the soil on his body, panted for a while, and then used a small shovel to shovel sand into the dung dustpan. When the shovel was half full, he carried it on his back and sent it to the base of the wall outside the garden. With the dung pan on his back, he stood up...