Chapter 38 Chapter Seventeen

The "little coal bag" carried the Heigelonggou coal mine full of holes. One by one, Li Jie's predictions came true: the workers expressed their dissatisfaction with this stupid practice with silent actions.At the beginning, it was a coal car in the underground mine, and the coal in the coal car was picked up into my empty coal bag, and I went up to the well to do my job.After the mine discovered this problem, they sent special personnel to take care of the coal trucks, and everyone scraped the alleys and dug randomly on both sides of the clean alleyways.At first, a few people worked quietly, and later, it became an organized and leading action. Sometimes, the monitor on duty led a group of workers to dig collectively. After being transported to the well, it is considered as saving coal.At this time, all non-production units in the mine went down to produce coal, and each unit set up its own coal-saving working face.With the acquiescence of the mine, the porters and repairmen mined the coal pillars with a frantic zeal.The catastrophe of Heigelonggou has come quietly when most people are not aware of it.

The coal pillars mined by the transportation and maintenance work area next to the big well mouth are as thick as 3.5 meters, with a daily output of 700 to 800 tons, which temporarily reversed the situation of underproduction in the mine.Lao Qi was happy, so he simply let a coal mining area drive in. At this time, even the deputy mine manager in charge of production couldn't bear it anymore, and hesitantly asked: "Isn't it a bit risky to do this? According to the coal mine operating regulations, in principle, the insurance coal pillars near the wellhead are not mined, and the coal pillars are mined out." The surface subsides, causing the well to tilt."

Lao Qi waved his hand and said: "That's nothing! In the early years, the coal pillars were too large and too conservative. Now, the mind needs to be freed. Besides, our mine has already entered the aging period, and it will be scrapped one day later, one day sooner. Yes. We must strive to get more coal for the country before it is scrapped.” The one who was sent to mine the coal pillar was the second coal mining area where he was located.How stupid he is, he still worked so hard and earnestly when digging the grave for Heigelonggou!In the first shift, he punched more than a hundred coal holes by himself.

After filling the explosives, it was time to fire the cannon. Li Jie rushed down from the well and grabbed the cannon from his hand. "Old Wei, you can't do this! If you continue like this, the No. 3 and No. 4 wells will be finished! The Heigelonggou will be finished! If you want to set off these explosives today, blow me up first!" He was stunned, seeing Li Jie cut off the firing line two by one.Ji Er, he came to understand again, and felt that what Li Jie did was wrong, it was disrupting production. He stretched out his hand to grab the blaster, and said earnestly, "Lao Li, don't be in a hurry, and don't mess around. It's not for fun if the cannon is fired! Why will the well end? Tell me!"

Li Jie began to speak, speaking quickly and methodically, while speaking, while drawing simple patterns and formulas on the ground.However, he could neither understand nor understand.At that time, he really regretted that he had worked in coal mines all his life, but he couldn't understand what a coal mine engineer said.If he had known this earlier, he would not have done many stupid things! Gradually, some workers on duty gathered around, and the district chief also came and ordered him to fire the cannon. The district chief said to engineer Li Jie: "Lao Li, you shouldn't tell Wei Heizi or us about these things. If you want to tell them, you should talk to the head of the mine. The bounden duty of soldiers is to obey, and we workers are completely If the production task is not completed, it is I, not you, who will be beaten in the control room! Lao Wei, I am the district chief, you should listen to me. Let go!"

He hesitated, hesitated, and connected the firing line.He picked up the blaster, and put his hand tremblingly on the button of the blaster. "stop!" Like an angry lion, Li Jie stepped in front of him in two steps, took down the cannon again, tears almost dripped from his eyes: "Old Wei, district chief! You know too little! If you have studied "Mining "Study" and "Mine Engineering", you will definitely oppose this suicide mining method like me! Comrades, the Japanese once occupied our coal mine for seven years. In order to plunder our coal resources , Random digging, but they have never picked insurance coal pillars! We can't do things that even the Japanese dare not do, and they don't want to do it!" He continued as if pleading: "Don't How about setting off the cannons? I'll immediately call Secretary Qi and I'll talk to him!"

The district chief was moved by Li Jie's sincerity and agreed to his request. The call was received from the underground to the ground, and to Lao Qi's house. Lao Qi became angry and yelled at the phone: "Comrade Li Jie, if you have different opinions, you can raise, speak, and state, but it must not affect production! If the cannons of this class don’t go off, I’m asking you!” Lao Qi's voice was so loud that many people heard it. The other party had already dropped the microphone, but Li Jie was still standing there dumbfounded.Suddenly, he burst into tears and said: "This mine can be mined for another ten years, ten years! It can't end like this, it can't!"

He turned his head and ran towards the working surface filled with explosives. "Come back, come back, danger!" What happened to him at this time?Why was his faith in Liu Fang shaken all of a sudden?Why did he suddenly feel that Li Jie is the possessor of the truth?Is it just sympathy and pity for the weak and the weak?No!He felt in a trance that his heart beat to the same beat as Li Jie's.He loves Hei Ge Di Gou, and Li Jie loves it too!It is so desperate to love!If what he brought to the black brother was death, then he would rather die with the black brother. He resolutely dropped the blaster and rushed into the deep coal hole.

The district chief stamped his feet and cursed: "Grandma, you're crazy! Let it go! Let it go!" No one dared to let go.No one can bear to let go. "What are you afraid of? They are still far away from the working surface, there is a safe distance, let them go!" Finally the blaster rang. Hundreds of shells exploded rumblingly, like a series of muffled thunder that had been suppressed for a long time, the air was trembling, billowing thick smoke filled the small coal hole in an instant, and the powerful air wave pushed Li Jie and him down. ... If there was anything to be comforted with, it was that at the last moment he came to himself, dimly, though he could not redeem the black brother.

A few days later, the derricks of the No. 3 and No. 4 wells tilted one after another, and the borehole was flattened.Heigedigou Coal Mine operated in a dismal year under extremely chaotic conditions, and managed some small mining operations, but was finally forced to give up. In the winter of 1978, they were all evacuated to Baihekou New District, 300 miles away. His life as a miner ended accordingly. In the year of the mass evacuation, he was fifty-four years old, and he was diagnosed with silicosis.He didn't want to leave, and suddenly felt that he was old and could no longer punch and kick to open up a new world.He stayed on this land, on this land that was his and knew him.

Here, he exhausted his life's energy and the best time of thirty years.Here, his father, brother, friends and brothers are buried, as well as his dreams and hopes.Here, he was injured four times, broke his leg, burned more than half of his body, and injured his arm twice by falling gangue.A part of his life has turned into a roadway, coal gangue, soil, and eternity.He left most of his life here, and he didn't want to take a small part of his life away from home. In the first year, he served as a left-behind employee, and after that, he went through the retirement procedures. He stubbornly believed that Heigelongou was not dead, but just asleep.He still has to wait for it to wake up and tell it about his regret and guilt.He believed Black Brother could forgive him as much as he could forgive it.