Chapter 40 Chapter Nineteen

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The cannon went off.Heigelongou woke up.Explosives, gunpowder smoke, and loud rumbling noises once again proclaimed the birth of a man. The small coal mine in Heigegou has officially started construction... On this day, an ordinary old coal digger died of severe silicosis.He did not have any relatives, and those who attended his memorial service were all his comrades.Liu Fang came from the provincial capital. The original unit sent the largest and highest-standard funeral team. The team leaders were Party Secretary Lao Qi and Chief Engineer and Mine Manager Li Jie.The young unemployed youth who pioneered the ruins also participated in the memorial service.They couldn't figure out who this old man was, and they alerted Liu Fang, an old consultant of the Provincial Coal Bureau, to deliver a eulogy.

They buried him in his own vegetable garden. Behind the vegetable garden are two tall waste hills. This is a mountain that has been artificially piled up over a long and long period of time. It is a mountain dug out from the deep underground with a single pickaxe. It is a magnificent symbol of the coal mine. Seen from a high altitude, it is round, like a period, and like two wide-open eyes.It ends the history of yesterday, and looks at today with the deep eyes of those who have come. Viewed from the front, it looks like a pyramid-shaped monument commemorating the hard work of generations.People don't live for monuments, however, human history needs one monument after another.

Viewed from the side, it looks like a giant lying on its side.It seems to be using a silent language to replace the generation after generation of miners who have been fused with the earth to say: We miners are deep and hot like coal, and we don't wear grandeur on our faces.We bleed desperately throughout our lives, and buried the best decades of our lives underground, and we made great sacrifices for the progress of mankind.It is because of our sacrifice that there is heat, energy and light in the world.We are not like people in other professions who build a bridge or a building for people to remember forever.We may leave nothing behind, but future generations will still remember us and cherish us. The era of coal use will not end, and any history will record our glory and great creation.