Chapter 10 ten

ten At the end of 1972, Mr. Li was sent to work as an accountant in a small coal mine in Anyang, Henan.The winter in Henan is full of wind and sand, black water flows in the ditches, and white ice forms around the water.When you look into the ditch, you will find small black squares mixed in the gray gravel at the bottom of the ditch.These little cubes are coal.Water flows out of the ground, and there is coal in the ground, so this kind of thing is brought out.After a gust of wind passed, dust accumulated on the leeward side.On the surface of the dust, covered with black fine powder.This matter also makes sense, because the wind blowing from the coal yard next to the railway will blow up the pulverized coal.In the morning, he went from the dormitory to the accounting office. When he saw these on the way, he felt that everything was in order, not like in a dream.

At that time, Mr. Li was skeptical about everything. When Mr. Li went to work in the accounting office, he wore the president's limp felt hat on his head.The brim of this hat can be put down to cover the whole face and keep the head completely warm.This feeling is good.Mr. Li likes, is willing, and desires to cover his head with a felt hat all day long.Because Henan is too cold in winter, the coal mines are on the mountains.Although there is coal to burn, the house is not well built and the air leaks, so the house is also cold.But when the section chief sees him wearing a felt hat in the room, he will be furious: don't make such a ghostly appearance to scare me, okay?As he spoke, he pulled the hat off his head.This thing doesn't make sense at all.

Mr. Li goes to work wearing a blue coat.The dress is very large and you get it for free.It's a very good thing, even if it doesn't make sense.The man who gave him this overcoat was the chief labor officer of the mine, a Cantonese.Mr. Li felt very cordial when he met him. This is because among the three languages ​​that Mr. Li can speak, Cantonese is second only to English.He just wanted to speak Cantonese with him.The chief of labor and management said: You "same plane" don't speak Cantonese with me, others will think we are scolding him.That's perfectly reasonable, and it's the same in the United States.You can't speak Chinese in front of Lao Mei.The Guangdong section chief gave him this overcoat, saying it was for labor insurance.Mr. Li asked, what is labor insurance, and the section chief in Guangdong said: labor insurance is the country's care for you.I didn't quite understand this question, and Mr. Li didn't ask deeply.There are also some strange things in the labor insurance, such as rubber raincoats, semi-rubber gloves, dust masks and so on.Mr. Li asked: I don't go down the well, why send me these.Someone next to him rolled his eyes suddenly and said: Want to go down the well?easy!Mr. Li quickly fell silent.After studying in the cadre school for two years, I learned a little.

Mr. Li also wears this coat when he goes to work.The section chief looked at him with a bitter face, and didn't come until Mr. Li was looked at: Is it cold, are you covering it like this?really cold?In such a situation, Mr. Li did not answer, but went to the window and looked carefully at the thermometer.After reading it, I felt confident, so I walked back and sat down.The section chief followed suit, looked at the thermometer, and said, "Fifteen degrees."I thought our house was a cold storage! Mr. Li knows that the cold storage where vegetables are stored is 15 degrees. Who says it's not cold?But he didn't say it.In a nightmare, you can say what you say.If you say this, the surroundings will immediately become cold storage, and you may not necessarily become an onion immediately.I have learned a lot in the cadre school. For example, if you hold your nose in the toilet, you will definitely be sent to pick up shit in the afternoon. It stinks to death. The section chief said that it is not cold at 15 degrees. Speak dissatisfied words smoothly, and catastrophe will follow.Mr. Li thought to himself: "This must be my Indian brother trying to turn me into an onion!"

In 1973, Mr. Li was already familiar with the tricks of his Indian brother, that is, what comes out of it is extremely effective.The basic rule of this game is that people ask you to do something, don't refuse; when you encounter uncomfortable things, you should endure it and don't complain.As long as these two rules are strictly observed, the senior brother will be helpless. Mr. Li wears two big woolen feet on his feet when he goes to work.He was not used to the northern climate and suffered from frostbite every year.In the past in the United States, there were cold days, and there were no chilblains at that time.There is no doubt that this must be the ghost of the Indian brother.Mr. Li thinks that the Indian brother's hand is not beautiful.Other things Indians do beautifully.Let's say, balanohematoma, a ridiculous prank.It's also a good idea to carry a big bag all over your head.In some places, the brother's imagination is astonishing, including asking him to live in Anyang, Henan. China certainly does not have such a place.But the place name is well thought out: Anyang.It looks like a place name in China!If I were an Indian, I would not be able to think of such a place name.But frostbite is bad, not at all real.I can't explain it when I see you in the future.Everything else is a joke, for a sense of humor, there is no sense of humor in chilblain, only malice.

Mr. Li is not dead-hearted in believing that what is in front of him is a nightmare or a hoax by the Indians.When I went to work in the accounting office that morning, I was facing a strong wind.There are sand grains in the wind, which brings a feeling of coarse gravel.It's hard to believe that an Indian can come up with such a feeling.The wind blows over wires, branches, and grass, making different sounds.It would be unbelievable to say that this voice was thought up by Indians.Human beings can only think about one thing at a time, and it is impossible to make several sounds at the same time.If it is said that all of this is arranged by the Indians, then it is also with the help of natural forces.That is to say, everything in front of me has both real and fictional components.The difficulty is how to distinguish which is fiction and which is real.

Mr. Li went to work in the accounting office that morning, and the section chief was away, so he felt relieved.That section chief is very rigid, looking for trouble all day long.Mr. Li doesn't know how to make calculations, and always does calculations in his head.His mental arithmetic was very fast and he never made a mistake.But the section chief not only forced him to put the abacus on the table, but also forced him to keep turning the abacus beads during the calculation.So when he saw that the section chief was not there, he quickly put away the abacus, and he would go crazy when he saw this thing.

If the abacus was placed in front of him, Mr. Li couldn't help wondering what is the use of this thing.In his opinion, that thing seems to be something like a Buddhist bead, and it should be twisted constantly to show solemnity when calculating accounts.But the appearance of this prayer bead is so fucking complicated, it's simply not imagined.Then he sat comfortably with his feet up on the table, and thought over what he had seen this morning.He felt that as long as the section chief was not there, no one else was there, and only he was there, everything would be closer to nature.And when they appeared, everything seemed to be arranged by the Indian brothers.This arrangement has only one purpose, which is to drive him crazy.In fact, he didn't do anything bad, it's just that he pulled the toilet a few more times.Kill him for such a trivial matter, this Indian is too dark!

Mr. Li later said he thought he was going crazy at the time.On the one hand, he did not break away from the long-standing habit of scientific methodology, tried hard to identify the events in front of him, what was the antecedent, what was the consequence, how did it happen, and how did it end, trying to give an explanation that had nothing to do with his Indian brother.On the other hand, no matter how hard he tried, he always thought of the Indians in the end.At this point, I felt like I was going crazy: Think about it, we have been classmates for several years, and we have a good relationship, yet he hurt me so much!The only thing that can prevent him from going mad is that he often sighs in his heart and says: Alas!Let me just listen to it.Then I don't think about anything.

Someone came to the accounting office that morning and told Mr. Li that someone was looking for him down the mountain.Mr. Li locked the door, walked down the mountain, and saw the white house of the mine from afar.At that time, he was in good spirits, and he recovered from the problem of studying things to learn, thinking: The house is on the sunny side of the mountain, and the climate is better.Relatively dry and warm in winter.And it's at the foot of the mountain, so you don't have to climb the mountain when you come back from the outside.It is very suitable to put the party, government, industry and regiment of the whole mine there.And most of the houses in the whole mine are in a ravine above, which is dark and damp, which makes sense because the mouth of the pit is in the ravine.You can't let workers climb 400 steps to go to work, so that when they arrive at the work site (hand side), they will be out of breath and unable to work.Therefore, it is reasonable and not suspicious to divide this mine into two places.

The white walls and gray tiles of the house at the bottom of the mountain are very beautiful, which makes sense.Because that is the facade of the whole mine.But on closer inspection, it's not that great.The snow-white is just a layer of dust on the face.Where the gray surface peeled off, the main body of the wall was exposed, which was a large piece of yellow mud (adobe——Note by Wang Er).Looking up, the rafters under the lattice were not painted, and the wood was black because of weathering.Some of the glass on the windows are made of two or even three pieces, and the paint on the doors and windows is so thin that it can't even cover the wood grain.This is not difficult to explain, the economic situation in the mine is not very good. The mine manager should know the most about the economic situation of the mine.He said: Comrades, pay attention to thrift.We are local state-run Well.What the local state-owned enterprises are is quite difficult to guess, but it is not completely clueless.This is common on some cigarettes and matchboxes.Anyone who has these four characters, the quality is not good, and the price is not expensive.It's the same in the United States, big and well-known companies have high-quality products and sell them at a high price.A small, unknown company with cheap products and bad products.Some products in supermarkets are white labels, probably also local and state-run.It is conceivable that the local state-owned coal mines will not be well-off financially, and office houses are also very common. Even if he doesn't know what local state-run means, Mr. Li can guess the economic situation of the mine.The mine still drills and fires guns, and there are two battery cars, which break down every three days.When it was bad, Mr. Li would not work as an accountant, and went to help repair the battery car.Mr. Li said, I don't know how to repair batteries.But people say: It doesn't matter if you know it or not, anyway, you came from the mine, and you have never eaten pork, but you have seen pigs run away.Squat on one side and come up with ideas.This is because the battery car is broken, the underground The coal has to be pushed out manually.If the big motor breaks down, even the doctors in the infirmary have to squat down.She was bored, so she listened to her lungs for everyone.Just imagine a mine that cannot afford to hire engineers, so the accountants and doctors are sent to repair the motors. What a situation this is.There were three other cars in the mine, one of which must have been seen in an industrial museum in America.I can't think about this matter, and when I think about it, I think about my brother India. When Mr. Li walked to the door of the meeting room on the mine, his spirit was quite stable. This was because of the great success of the morning investigation.If it goes on like this, his psychology will soon be normal, and he will no longer be a fool.If this is the case, the line may not like him seeing that he is not like ET.If you don't like her, you won't marry, so now I may still have the opportunity to marry her.However, the years have passed, and everything has happened.There is no room for change in what has happened.