"Liu Dianzhong: Footprints of Wind and Dust" Chapter 4 The Son Inherits the Father's Business Chapter 4 The Son Inherits the Father's Business

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After Liu Dianzhong returned to Tangshan, he found a job in the mechanical and electrical department of Tangshan Steel Mill, and the type of work was also good, with a monthly salary of 32 yuan. Because the unit is far from home, he rides his bicycle to work. One day Liu Dian passed through a downhill section in the middle of the way, because his driving skills were not high, he was flustered for a while, forgot to pinch the brake, and as a result, he knocked down two people in a row, and he also fell a big heel, fortunately, he did not hit the wall, otherwise his life would be gone.

After only 40 days in the steel mill, my father suddenly fell ill and died of vomiting blood. The family has no backbone, and life has become more difficult. Stepmother, three younger siblings, plus themselves, the five people all rely on the 32 yuan salary in the temple to support.

In order to support his family, the temple was fierce, exchanged jobs with others, and became a coal miner under the kailuan coal mine. In the past, due to the lack of developed science and technology, working underground was not only tiring, but also particularly prone to casualties, although the treatment of underground work was relatively high, but most people were reluctant to do it. The father in the temple had been a coal digger all his life, and had a deep understanding, and when he was alive, he advised his son many times, but if there was any other way out, do not work underground. However, at this time, in order to solve the family's eating problem, Liu Dianzhong had no other choice.

The Tangshan Mine, where Liu Dianzhong is located, is the best mining area in Kailuan, and it is also a typical and model of the whole country at that time, which is the time when the slogan of "Learning Daqing in the Country, Catching Up with Kailuan" is shouted the loudest, and of course, it is also the most tired mining area in the coal mining industry.

Every day the miners get up at 5 o'clock and have to prepare to go down the well after breakfast. Generally speaking, it takes 8 hours to work underground, and it is good to be able to go up to the well at 5 pm. When eating at noon, you can't come up, bring dry food before going down the well, on pickles, Liu Dianzhong can eat 8 two pancakes at a time, but it won't be long before he is hungry. Working, sweating all day, the temple could not stand it, but it did not take long to adapt, and was also rated as a fourth-level worker, with a monthly salary of 56 yuan, plus allowances and underground subsidies, almost seventy or eighty yuan per month, and the family's livelihood could be maintained.

At that time, underground coal mining, the conditions are better with a coal cutter, and the only bad conditions are with pickaxes, which is extremely dangerous, and there is a possibility of gas explosion and collapse at any time. There was such an "adventure" in Liu Dian.

Whenever they have to go to the well after work, the miners always habitually use shovels to knock on various columns of uneven length in the mining area to see if these pillars are still reliable after a day of mining. The miners, in their own experience, knew from the sound of a shovel hitting a pillar that there was no danger. These columns are topped with steel frames that were erected to prevent landslides. One day the latte in the temple struck a large pillar lightly a few times, and found that the sound was very heavy. "Not good, there is danger!" This corresponds to a saying in the bookstore: no coincidence is no book. When the pillar was knocked on in the temple, it was also the moment when the pillar was unstable after a day of mining and shock, and it was about to fall. He noticed that the pillar was falling, so he pushed it with his hand, turned around and jumped out with a rolling belt. Almost at the same time, the large pillar with the steel frame on the top fell down with a "whoosh" sound, fortunately, it did not press on Liu Dianzhong's body, so Liu Dianzhong picked up a life.

Afterwards, the temple was very afraid, and he fell asleep at less than 8 o'clock in the evening, and in the middle of the night he had a nightmare, and the heavy snoring suddenly turned into a hoarse life-saving sound: "Help, the steel frame is pressing on me..." The shouting not only woke up the family, but also woke up the neighbors left and right. After the temple woke up, he wiped the cold sweat from his face, and suddenly understood in his heart that it was a dream. He sighed and said, "The stimulation under the well during the day is too great." ”

Although working in the well is tiring, it is generally comfortable, and the mental pressure is often unbearable. Most of them are socialist builders who are willing to contribute to the coal cause of the motherland, but there are also many people who are forced by life to go down the well because of the high treatment underground, and some people are punished for going down the well because of historical or political problems, thus forming a relatively complicated situation of underground miners at that time. At that time, there was often such a situation, a person in the well in all aspects of the performance, but once in the well changed, the most prominent performance is to love to quarrel, fight at every turn, and even fight to the death.

Whenever he recalled this past, the clear expression on the face of the palace became dark, and he said: "At that time, a co-worker who mined coal with me, that is, Li Baozhong, who later became the party secretary of the Qianying Coal Mine, once discussed such a question: Why do people become wild when they go underground? The answer is very simple: it was the time when there was a lot of talk about politics and class struggle, and as soon as I arrived at the well, I had a bit of a 'labor reform' meaning. If you don't do a good job, you will be said to be a class enemy making trouble, and you will be criticized after you go to the well. It can be said that it was the political atmosphere and the underground environment at that time that made people transgender. ”