Material Empire

"Even if you are a miner, even if you have worked hard in the mine, are you eligible to own the money? How many miners are there in your mine? They just didn't become mine managers. If you want to talk about qualifications, they also have Are you qualified to get the money?" Qin Hai retorted without giving up.

Before that, Qin Hai wanted to pay attention to his conversation skills, but when he heard Sha Renyuan's reason, he couldn't help but feel a little hot-headed, and couldn't control his mouth. When these words came out, he also screamed in his heart, he seemed to be too straightforward.

Sha Renyuan choked on Qin Hai's words, and was speechless for a while. He reached out to pick up the jug and poured himself another glass of wine, when the glass came to his lips, he stopped, took only half a sip, and then said leisurely: "Young man, let me tell you a story. "

"Please." Qin Hai said.

Sha Renyuan said: "That was almost 30 years ago... I can't remember some things clearly. To put it simply, there was a roof fall accident in a roadway in our Jianxing Mine, and it collapsed. The coal seam was so thick that it blocked all the exits from the roadway. At that time, a mining team of 14 people was working in the roadway. When the roof fell, all the people in this team were still alive, but they couldn’t stick to the outside. The day the men of mine dug the seam."

"And then?" Qin Hai asked casually. What Sha Renyuan said was not enough to shock him, not because he was hard-hearted, but because in that era, coal mine accidents were not very rare.

"The leader of the excavation team, everyone calls him Old Xingtou, is an experienced old miner. He remembers that beside this roadway, there are several old roadways dug by the Japanese in the past. If it can be dug Shibi, if you find those old alleys, there is hope for the people in this group to escape alive." Sha Renyuan continued.

"So, did they find those old lanes?" Qin Hai was attracted by Sha Renyuan's story, and couldn't help asking.

"I found it." Sha Renyuan said, "Old Xingtou is like a gopher, he can smell where the alley is with his nose. He led the whole team, relying on only a little dry food, to drill through the road." After searching more than a dozen stone walls, we finally found an abandoned air outlet."

"So, everyone is saved?" Qin Hai asked.

"No." Sha Renyuan shook his head and said sadly: "Because there is not enough food, it is a heavy physical labor to dig through the rock wall, which consumes a lot. The miners' bodies can't bear it anymore. They...they One after another, they fell down in those tunnels. When they finally found the air outlet, among the 14 people, only old Xingtou and the youngest miner were left. The reason why the youngest miner survived was because everyone I thought he was too young, and refused to let him do the heaviest work, which saved his physical strength, that is to say, everyone saved his life with their own lives."

"What about the end?" Qin Hai's heart was beating violently, he was finally moved by this tragic story.

"In the end, the old Xingtou fell under the air outlet. Before he died, he said to the youngest miner...he said: Xiaosha, you are the youngest, you have not yet married, you can't die. You have a flexible mind , I will definitely be a cadre in the future, and we will count on you to take care of our family members and children." When Sha Renyuan said this, tears dripped down from his eyes.

No matter how dull Qin Hai is, he can still tell that the "Xiaosha" in the story is the sand mine manager in front of him. He said that his mine manager also died in the mine in exchange for it. It was his own life, and the lives of thirteen miners including Lao Xingtou.

"Old Xingtou, what a good person, and he has a good drinking capacity. Like this little brother, he will not get drunk no matter how much he drinks. In this life, I will obey his drinking capacity alone, but it is a pity..." Sha Renyuan Unable to continue, he raised his hand and spilled all the wine in the glass that he had only sipped on the ground.

Qin Hai remained silent. He vaguely guessed something, but he couldn't be sure. He just quietly waited for Sha Renyuan to reveal the answer to him.

"I survived." Sha Renyuan said, "Relying on my own efforts, I gradually became the squad leader, foreman, and mine manager. I never got married. The 13 big brothers left behind 13 old sister-in-laws and 20 children, I take care of them like I take care of my sister-in-law, mother and children. Today, those children are also married and have children. Lao Xingtou’s grandson is 22 years old this year. I said, "Grandpa Sha, I want to go down the well. I gave him a big slap on the spot."

"Why?" Qin Hai asked.

"Why? If you go down the well, your life is not your own. Old Xingtou and the others lost their lives down the well. Can I let their descendants take this risk again?" Sha Renyuan said with widened eyes.

Heizi interjected, "Then why do they want to go down the well?"

"You can get more money by going down the well." Sha Renyuan sighed, "I have arranged for the children and grandchildren of the 13 big brothers to live outside the well. It is safe outside the well, but the wages are lower than going down the well." Much more. The coal mines belong to the state, and the salary is not up to me. When they were young, I earned money alone and subsidized 13 families. But now they have 20 big families, how can I make up for it? Come here. Besides, they are all in their tens of years, how could they let Uncle Sha subsidize them with their wages?"

"So, the money you want is..." Qin Hai hesitated, but didn't express his guess.

Sha Renyuan said: "You guessed right. I want the 200,000 yuan just for these children. I figured it out. A family of 10,000 yuan is enough for them to live comfortably. Now young people have to talk about marriage. With the money Grandpa Sha prepared for them, these children should be able to marry beautiful wives. In this way, when I go to the sky to meet those old brothers, I can have an explanation."

"So you want this deal to be safe and secret." Qin Hai understood, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and didn't know what to say. The previous disgust towards Sha Renyuan no longer exists now, and what is left is only endless sadness.

"Sha...Mine Manager Sha, we can all understand your feelings. However, is it risky if you do this? Anyway, you are still in your seat, why don't you install it in batches, and reduce it each time?" Liu Ziwen Suggested stammeringly. He was originally a timid person, and he was a little apprehensive about Sha Renyuan's approach. Now that I heard that the inside story turned out to be like this, I had a little more respect for Sha Renyuan out of thin air, so I made plans for him.

Sha Renyuan said sadly: "There is no time. Last month, I found out... Forget it, you don't need to know about these things. You all know my thoughts. Can you give me an accurate answer? .”

"This..." Qin Hai hesitated.

Qin Hai couldn't refuse the reason Sha Renyuan gave. But given such a high rebate all of a sudden, Qin Hai was also a little nervous. After all, it was not a matter of a few packs of cigarettes or a few bottles of wine, but a full 200,000 yuan. This amount was outrageous in that era.

"Mine Manager, I think your idea is wrong." Heizi who was brought by Qin Hai as a humanoid wine barrel suddenly interjected, which made Qin Hai stunned for a moment.

Sha Renyuan turned his head, squinted at Heizi, and said with a sneer, "Young man, what do you think is wrong with my thinking?"

"Mine Manager Sand, let me tell you a story too, okay?" Heizi said calmly. He really deserved to let off loan sharks in Pingyuan County, and he really looked calm at critical moments.

Sha Renyuan couldn't help laughing: "Okay, young man, I'd like to hear your story."

Heizi said: "My story is not very far away, it happened three days ago. I happened to be playing billiards with some people on the street outside your Jianxing Mine Gate, and I saw a shaved-headed man at the next table. The young man at the time was betting with other people. I remember he said at that time, "My grandpa Sha is the mine manager, can I still rely on your money?" I didn't understand this sentence at the time, but now I understand that he should be The grandchildren of the 13 miners you were talking about?"

"Damn it, this must be the kid from Wang Laoer's family. This kid has never learned well since he was a child!" Sha Renyuan scolded with a livid face, gnashing his teeth.

After Heizi finished telling the story, he didn't say a word, but gave Qin Hai a look, which meant that he didn't know much about the truth, and Qin Hai would take care of the rest. These days, Qin Hai sent Heizi to wander around several coal mines in Quwu to inquire about relevant information, but he unexpectedly ran into a young man under the shadow of Sha Renyuan.

Heizi himself is a child of a cadre family, and he has also had the experience of getting lost in society, so he is extremely sensitive to such things. When he told this story at this time, it was clearly a very good speech for Qin Hai.

Qin Hai took Heizi's words knowingly, and said to Sha Renyuan: "Mine Manager, the story Xiao Fu told is very inspiring. You can get money for these children, but can you protect them for a lifetime? If these children do not live up to their expectations, if you give them so much money, I am afraid that instead of helping them, you will harm them."

"Alas!" Sha Renyuan patted his head and said dejectedly: "The most negligent part of me is that I didn't manage these children well. There are no elders in their family to discipline them, and as a mine manager, I usually don't have much time to go to the mine. Don't care about them. In the end... Xiao Fu said about the situation, I also know that among these children, there are really not many up-to-date, most of them...are embarrassing their grandpa."

As early as when Heizi finished telling the story, Qin Hai already had a very good idea. Seeing Sha Renyuan's thoughts fluttering, he said: "Mine Manager, as the old saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Instead of giving these children money, why not give them a chance to make money?"

"What opportunity to make money?" Sha Renyuan's eyes lit up, and he vaguely saw some new hope.

The story of the laneway is based on Sun Shaoshan's short story "Eight Hundred Meters Deep", for which I would like to express my gratitude. Regarding the stories in these two chapters, Cheng Zi does not want to make moral judgments, but just wants to say that this is society, which cannot be summed up in a simple sentence of right or wrong.

This week's update is a bit unstable, Chengzi is working hard to adjust, please watch Chengzi's actions.

Finally, I asked timidly: Can you reward a few monthly tickets? Orange will find a way to add more thanks.