Chapter 114 Miners: Going to the coal mine is to earn a bag of "flour money"

Li Yucheng, an old man at the east end of Wangjiazhuang Village, is based on the famous "old coking style" in the local area. In recent years, due to the strong development of the coal coke industry, the damage to the local environment has become increasingly serious. The mountains do not grow grass, and the land does not produce grain. Old man Li has one son and five daughters. Before the implementation of the rural joint production contract system, a "big family" like him with "less labor to earn work points and more mouths to eat rations" had always been a well-known short-term household in the production team.Later, when the production team distributed the land according to the head, the 8 members of his family were allocated 16 mu of land. After a few years, the only son had not yet graduated from junior high school, and the next few daughters left him a large piece of land and married each other.At this time, old man Wang couldn't help but secretly rejoiced in his heart. The daughter who was in the production team and allocated land for his family with her head now belongs to someone else's family.Therefore, the nearly 20 mu of land in my family was cultivated by myself and my only son.

It is a pity that most of these lands are around several coal mine coking plants on the edge of the village. He didn't notice it at first, but later he gradually realized that the crops he planted were smoky and smoky all day long in the surrounding coke ovens, and they failed every year. Later, people stopped farming altogether, resulting in the abandonment of large areas of land. With no land, the rations of the whole family were taken by the young and strong laborers of various families to go to the coal mines to earn money to buy noodles and vegetables to live. In the local area, the price of a bag of "foreign noodles" (50 catties of wheat flour) is 55 yuan, and a good laborer can earn 4 to 5 yuan if he goes to work every day. If he works all month, he can also earn two bags of "foreign noodles" , not including the money to buy food.

The miners work in the coal mine first, and do not receive wages at the end of the month. They "receive" a few bags of flour, and the flour money is deducted from their wages.