Chapter 36 The miners are rewarded with 500 for each meritorious service in robbing coal

In Shanxi, there is a folk proverb circulating: "On the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, the Stove Lord goes to heaven, the master leaves school, and the students return to their hometowns." Just after the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month, the school gave the students a holiday, and the local coal mine also gave the workers a holiday, so that everyone could go home for the New Year. Liu Jinbao, the owner of the Daxing Coal Mine in Yaojiazhuangdong, is paying workers wages these days, but it is said that only 80% of the wages are paid, because the money from selling coal "has not arrived" in the mine's bank account.

In fact, Boss Liu deliberately lied to the workers. He had a small calculation in mind: he managed to spend a year training these outsiders into skilled workers, and by the end of the year, he must not let these workers lose.How can we keep these workers from leaving? He knew that the best way was to tie them down with money. In the evening of the second day, he invited the two "old men" who were in charge of the mine, as well as several "coal mine backbones" such as the underground pumping electrician and the safety worker, to have dinner at a restaurant in the county seat.

During the meeting, when talking about the issue of coal production, the "old man" said: "The miners often 'connect' with the alleys of the adjacent coal mines under the pit, that is to say, they are always robbing coal sources in front of us, and we have to think about it." Way to stop them in front." The electrician Er Shitou said, "I will find someone after the year, preferably someone who is brave enough to fight hard. Let's organize a 'death squad'. I don't believe we can't catch them. Hmph!" A few days later, that is, on New Year's Eve, people's families are busy buying new year's goods.

When Er Shitou went out to fight for jealousy, he "dropped in" to the house of his "good buddy" San Lengzi. San Lengzi is a well-known "village ruffian" in the local area, and everyone in the ten miles and eight towns knows his reputation for fighting. When he entered the door, he saw San Lengzi with a cigarette dangling from his mouth and a remnant cigarette butt in his hand, dipping it in the ink bottle and "drawing circles" on the red paper. San Lengzi explained that those who celebrate the Chinese New Year are unwilling to ask someone to write "pairs".

"We are uneducated, so we draw casually at home. It's really not good, just draw a few circles on the paper, anyway, it's enough to stick the red ones on the wall to have a sense of the New Year." He also went on to say that last year his family's pair was written by him. After the neighbor Aunt Zhang came to his house to read, she repeatedly praised his handwriting as "colorful and colorful, and the writing is really good". Know", which made him depressed again, who was proud of himself. Er Shitou took the "Princess Cigarettes" handed over by San Lengzi.This kind of cigarette is very popular in the local villages because of its low price and "heavy taste". Most farmers have this kind of cigarette in their mouths.

After Er Shitou explained his intentions, San Lengzi, who was worrying about how to earn money after the next year, was very excited. On the fifth day of the new year, the boss, Liu Jinbao, made a final "farewell party" for his "coal robbing death squad" in the county seat. During the dinner, the "old man" on the night shift said, from my experience, speed is what is needed to grab coal under the pit. The narrower the roadway, the faster it is. ", this coal seam area is ours. Er Shitou asked Liu Jinbao anxiously: "When digging under the pit, if we 'through' their tunnel, can our people 'shoot'?"

Liu Jinbao first handed over a "Butterfly Spring" cigarette, which is sold locally at 45 cents per pack. In the eyes of local farmers, only people with status smoke this "high-end cigarette", and then he said: " We have to reason and speak the law, and 'scare and scare' if necessary." San Lengzi said, "Hmph! If the law didn't care, I would have beaten them to death long ago!" In order to appease everyone, the boss, Liu Jinbao, first paid each of the "team members" who robbed the coal a three-day salary, a total of 500 yuan. Led by Leng Zi, they headed down the coal mine.