Reborn in the red years, I am farming in space

Chapter 690
after get off work.

As the miners rose to the surface, it was as if they had been reborn.

At 3:00 in the afternoon, when Luo Xuan and his group stepped out of the kiln, everyone looked at the yellow sun in the sky.

In everyone's hearts, there was a feeling as if they had just stepped into the world of heaven again from the nether hell.

Breathing the sharp cold wind and the freshly baked smog from chimneys big and small.

Everyone secretly sighed in their hearts: It's so good to be alive!

Every time the miners go up the well, there will be someone to greet them at the mouth of the well: that is the person in charge of the commissary.

——He has to count the miners and the food consumption in their net pockets.

The other miners basically didn't move much in their net pockets. The most important thing was to unpack half a bag of fried rice, or tear off half of that piece of naan bread.

As for the remaining half, returns are impossible.

The miners will take the half of the nang cake down the well to eat when they go down the mine next time.

This is not because the naan pancakes in the commissary are plentiful, but because no one is willing to eat a whole naan pancake at once.

——That's equivalent to eating the miners' own flesh and blood!

But this time, when the person in charge of the commissary counted Luo Xuan's net bag, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Fuck me, this guy!"
The person in charge raised his head and looked at Luo Xuan blankly.

"What? Your flesh hurts from eating?"

With a dark face, Luo Xuan grinned, like a grinning old man with a black face: "Are you not allowed to let him eat?"

The cheeks of the person in charge of the commissary visibly twitched a few times, "I love to eat! As long as the mine gives you the debt, you can eat as much as you like."

After Luo Xuan signed the sales slip, turned around and walked away.

The person in charge spit out: "This Luo Dabang! You are simply a fool. The money you spend working in the well for a day is not enough to fill your hole!"

A group of miners who were exhausted, as if they were dead but not alive, supported each other and walked towards the canteen of the coal mine.

in the middle,
All the miners, veterans and newcomers alike, were doing the same thing: spitting, picking their nostrils, picking their ears.

The old phlegm spit out was sticky, like well-mixed cement mortar.

What was dug out of the nostrils were all lumps of black slime.

It is estimated that if all the black and indescribable things dug out by this group of miners are gathered together.

I'm afraid there is no problem with a few pieces of briquette.

In everyone's ears, nostrils, and hair, there are layers of black slime and black coal ash.

It's endless, and it can't be cleaned up!

along the way,

All the voices of "bah" and "huh tui" come and go, endlessly.

Everyone is dirty, so don't dislike anyone.

The coal mine does provide hot water for the miners to wash.

But by this time, many new miners had already heard the experience of the old miners, and each of them was reluctant to spend money to fetch water to wash their faces.

"Comrade, here are two basins of hot water!"

Luo Xuan bluffed, "It's all on my account!"

The old man in the boiler room of the cafeteria, he should also be related to the mine, so he was able to get this fat job that could earn him the cost of the coffin.

Hearing Luo Xuan's shout, the old man asked with a puff of smoke, "All of you are black, like yams that have just been fished out of the fire, roasted to a pitch black! Who can tell who you are? Say ,What number?"

Luo Xuan took out the number plate from his neck and showed it to him, "No. 67021829."

After each miner arrived at the Doujiapan Coal Mine, everyone no longer had their own names, only a wooden sign with a number engraved on it.

The old man looked at the number on the number plate, turned around and went back to the room to take a pen and write it down in his notebook.

Then he took out two sugar porcelain basins from the shelf and poured two basins of hot water for Luo Xuan.

After washing his face, Luo Xuanzui walked slowly into the cafeteria at the tail of the line of miners queuing up for dinner.

In the cafeteria this afternoon, the scene from yesterday was repeated again: all the miners followed the barriers of the passage, lined up and entered the cafeteria one by one to eat.

The windows are still those windows, and the meals have not changed much.

Only this time, the miners have learned to be good: all of them are honest and squeezed into the queue at the No. [-] window.

Now everyone only dares to thresh the kind of chaff that has not been sieved, and there are even small stones, which are specially provided for free meals for miners.

The big guy no longer dared to go to the second window, and had dinner at the third window.

The miners who just got off work are very hungry.

Each of them was holding a rice bowl, like a hungry wolf that hadn't eaten for a long time, and everyone was impatient to pull yellow rice into their mouths.

"Nima! This thing is for people to eat?"

A miner had food in his mouth, and his tongue flicked around in his mouth, as if he was looking for something, "Ah bah! It's muddy, there's a lot of sand."

The one next to it has a miner's tooth, which is not good.

At this time, there was only a sound of "click", and the miner stretched out two fingers, and took out a tooth that fell out of his mouth: "This meal... I really can't eat it! It broke my teeth. .”

"Mamai!"

The second brother Zeng also scolded: "There is a lot of sand in the rice, let's eat slowly, and we can make do with it. Damn it! This dish has no oil or salt, how can we serve it with rice!"

The person in charge of the No. [-] window in the dining hall, he is obviously familiar with this situation for a long time.

The man knocked on the vegetable bowl and sneered: "Want something delicious? Window No. [-] sells stewed pork noodles today. Window No. [-] has stewed vegetables, white rice, and big white steamed buns. You should go eat it!"

"Want a good meal? I also have spicy oil and fermented bean curd here."

The person in charge's face and tone of voice were full of contempt: "You guys are here to buy! One by one. You don't bring a penny, and you still want to eat stir-fried vegetables?"

"Look at that little brother."

The person in charge of window No. 67021829 pointed at Luo Xuan, "The miner No. [-], he is willing to eat big stew! Is the oily pork belly, sauerkraut, potatoes and vermicelli delicious? You are reluctant to spend money, complain Who's coming?"

The man was furious with cynicism, and the miners eating in the dining hall did not dare to say a word.

Jian Teng resisted the pain in his throat, and forcibly swallowed the yellow rice in his mouth, "Brother Luo Dabang, if you eat like this, at the end of the month you will not only not get your wages, but you will also owe a fortune to the coal mine. Brother , bear with it, you still have to save a little."

Second brother Zeng also felt sorry for Luo Xuan's money: "Brother Luo Dabang, although we have entered a black mine, we must be careful and save a little. Otherwise, we may not be able to get out of this coal mine in our lifetime."

Luo Xuan asked them, "Do you think no matter how economical we are and how hard we work, we can really get out of this coal mine?"

The two villagers were surprised: "What do you mean? Luo Xuan, can you tell us in detail?"

"You guys go get a better meal first, and let's talk about recovering your physical strength."

Luo Xuan said, "Don't be so frugal! The money saved was actually fed to the Black Heart Wolf in the end."

Jian Teng and second brother Zeng looked at each other.

After all, he still listened to Luo Xuan's words, got up and ordered another stew and white rice.

It's just that when they go to eat, they still don't forget to tell the chefs in the kitchen not to serve them the so-called "boutique stew".

The reason why Luo Xuan asked them to change the food in the basin was actually a test for the two of them whether they believed in him or not.

After all, it costs almost 2 yuan to pack such a meal.

And when facing money, it is the best way to test a person's trust in himself.

Seeing that Jian Teng and Zeng Erge passed the test.

Luo Xuan said: "I want to ask you a few questions. First, if you think we work hard in this mine and save everything, how much money can we save to go home throughout the year?"

"6, 70 yuan."

The second brother Zeng replied: "If you can save so much, it's probably as good as the sky."

Luo Xuan nodded: "For three years, we saved 3 yuan. But after these three years, do you think our bodies will be destroyed? Will we suffer from pneumoconiosis, which can never be cured?"

"Probably."

Second Brother Zeng's expression began to become serious, "For 200 yuan, I turned myself into a useless person, and I will become a burden to my family from now on, this thing, it can't be done!"

Luo Xuan continued in a low voice: "Moreover, we must not encounter roof falls, landslides, gas and other things within these three years, so that we can get the 3 yuan safely."

Jian Teng gulped down the stewed vegetables, and tears fell into the rice bowl, "But on the way here, we have already spent nearly 20 yuan in travel expenses.

If we quit now, don't say whether the coal mine will let people go or not.

Let’s just talk about our travel expenses, I don’t know how to face my parents when I go back, and I don’t know what to use to pay my brother’s tuition.”

"It is impossible to release people in coal mines."

Brother Zeng sighed, "Don't forget, each of us is still burdened with a large amount of debts from the mine! And when we pay off the old debts, we don't know how many new debts will roll over!"

He was right to worry: for those miners who have worked in the coal mine for a long time, the Doujiapan Coal Mine may only be considered a debt for him.

And for these new miners who have not yet created benefits for the coal mine.

The Doujiapan Coal Mine is definitely not that generous.

They have a lot of ways to increase the debts of the new miners: for example, the interest on the toll paid by the mine.

Or increase the unit price of miners, who consume items in coal mines.

Even set up a name directly,

Directly tailor-made some "management fees", "intermediary introduction fees", "sanitation fees", "accommodation heating fees" for the kind of miners who want to leave.
People are knives, I am fish.

These weak miners, what else can they do besides accepting the slaughter obediently?

It was done by Doujiapan Coal Mine.

It is extremely difficult for the miners to pay off their debts and leave this ghost place neatly!

Unless the kind of miner who is determined to leave here at any cost has money in his family and is willing to use the money to redeem others.

If not, these new miners want to rely on their own efforts to pay off their debts and leave here?

That is impossible
Knowing that they couldn't leave anymore, Second Brother Zeng and Jian Teng suddenly became preoccupied.

"Should we just run away?"

Jian Teng asked cautiously, "Brother Gu Xiangyu, isn't he planning to drag us to escape together?"

"eat first."

Luo Xuan didn't answer his question, "After dinner, let's go back to sleep."

The three finished their meal in silence.

At this time, Lao Tong, the "team leader", was notified by the people in the mine to go to the office for a meeting.

The rest of the miners, dragging their tired bodies, went back to the dormitory to rest.

Jian Teng, who was sleeping on the Datong bunk next to Luo Xuan, was about to say something.

But Luo Xuan gave him a wink and stopped him.

It didn't take long before the thunderous snoring was heard in the miner's dormitory
Luo Xuan was snoring in his nostrils, but he was secretly breathing in his luck, nervously regulating his extraordinary meridians and internal organs.

About half an hour later.

At this time, Luo Xuan has recovered his physical strength, and at the same time adjusted his body functions to the peak state.

Suddenly heard the sound of the door.

But it was the old fellow who had gone to the mine office for a meeting, and had already returned from the meeting.

After Lao Tong, who was about to fall apart from exhaustion, also lay down on the Chase bunk to sleep and snored.

Gu Xiangyu raised his head quietly, and watched carefully for a while towards the people on the two rows of bunks.

He saw some miners talking in their dreams, some crying in their dreams, and some miners trembling in their sleep.
Gu Xiangyu got off the kang quietly, put on his clothes secretly, and then quietly went out
Luo Xuan sensed that he had gone far away.

Then he stretched out his hand and pushed the sleeping dead Jian Teng to wake up Second Brother Zeng.

The three of them wore thick padded jackets and went out for a stroll.

At this time, Gu Xiangyu was sitting in an office of the coal mine, reporting to the director in charge of coal mine safety work: "Director Li, our team should be fine at present."

Director Li combed his hair back, his forehead was a little bald, and his bald scalp was shiny with oil.

"I don't want should, might, seem!"

Director Li threw a cigarette to Gu Xiangyu, but it was a pity that he threw it a little crookedly, so that Gu Xiangyu missed it and was lying on the ground to take it out from under the chair.

"I need something to be sure of! Every day I take care of so many things, who the hell has the leisure to stare at those new guys in your team every day?"

Director Li said leisurely, "There are three newcomers in your team, and one is old Tong, one you, and the other is Lianpao, right?"

"Yes, yes, Director Li, you have a really good memory."

Gu Xiangyu picked up the cigarette, and approached Director Li with a flattering face, "Director, start a fire? I haven't smoked for a long time, and I'm almost starved to death!"

Director Li put the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray casually, "Tell me about those three newcomers, do you have any plans to escape?"

Gu Xiangyu carefully put the cigarette in his hand into his pocket, and hurried forward to pick up the cigarette butt in the ashtray.

Then I saw him use two fingers to straighten the slightly bent and deformed cigarette butt.

I can't wait to put my mouth on my lips: "Ahem, no! Director, I assure you, those three guys in our team have no intention of running away at all!"

Director Li said calmly, "Oh? Tell me the basis for your judgment."

Gu Xiangyu chuckled: "I followed what you taught me, Director, that I was going to run away. I asked if they would like to be with me? As a result, Director, guess what happened?"

Director Li glanced at Gu Xiangyu coldly, and then asked word by word: "You, let me guess?"

Hearing Director Li speak like this, Gu Xiangyu was so frightened that he trembled all over!

"Clap clap-"

"The little one is wrong, Director, you have a lot of adults, don't worry about the little one!"

While Gu Xiangyu slapped himself, he hurriedly talked about their performance down the well, and gave Director Li a report like pouring beans into a bamboo tube.

just,

When he was underground, he and Lao Tong told Luo Xuan not to dig so much coal, so Gu Xiangyu naturally wouldn't say anything.
(End of this chapter)