The story of pushing coal

In the seventies, I was married and had children. I wanted to build a few houses in an empty garden, but I had financial difficulties and couldn't afford to buy bricks.

I wanted to make some bricks out of cement, and although my uncle bought cheap loose cement, it was not easy to make bricks for four houses. After making a hundred and ten pieces, I felt that it was difficult to do, and I turned to buying coal and burning bricks. I have a brother whose nickname is "Wanshitong", and he has an uncle who burns kilns in Sanxian Village, and he says that if there is a big smoke and fire of coal, he can burn tens of thousands of bricks with the raw billets on his kiln. So where does good coal come from? Because he also built a house with bricks, he worked hard to find out where to sell good coal. He said: "If I have a coal ticket, I have to rely on the relationship to get good coal." "He means to buy coal by my mind, why don't you do it, go out and try it, try your luck!"

So, he found my brother-in-law and uncle, brought enough coal tickets, pushed a small car, and went to the Yidu coal station, where there was no good coal, and then to Zibo, where there was a small coal station. What to do, always can't run a trip in the air, forced to helpless, then loaded with secondary coal, they loaded coal, I talked with the famous master, I said: "Big brother, don't you have good coal on the station?" He said: "Yes, there is, or Feicheng No. 1, but it is not that acquaintances do not give, if you are relatives, friends, and related households, you may sell something to you." I said, "My family wants to build a house and burn bricks, can't you open a favor to give points?" He said, "If you can buy me some grain, you can sell you some good coal." I said, "Next time I'll buy you grain, I'll buy some more coal by the way, okay?" He said, "Yes, you can't be dishonest." "So, I bought it, let all the installed sub-coals out, and loaded them with Feicheng No. 1 coal."

I loaded seven hundred pounds with the big man, and I said I would put five hundred pounds on him, and I said that I would load him with seven hundred pounds. The over-praised master said, "A person who is big with a toad can push these things?" Do you want him to die? I said, "Master, Don't worry, even if you climb, you have to climb home." In order to thank the master for his kindness, the shop bought two boxes of good cigarettes and gave them. Fortunately, the two masters sent them out two miles to go. This time, I was really tired and exhausted after more than twenty miles away from home. The dwarf lay on the ground and talked about the pile, not wanting to go a step. Seeing that it was getting late and I had to think of a way, I said to the big man, "You two are slowly moving forward, and I will go to the town finance department to find an uncle to pick you up." In this way, it was very dark when I arrived in town, they had all eaten, and after I explained the situation, the uncle said to a colleague: "You go to the kitchen to braise two cakes, and so-and-so and I go to Siri to pick up two fellow coal pushers." It took about two hours for Mo to come back, and after eating and drinking, he laid a big table in the office and fell asleep. We got up early in the morning and went home triumphantly.

Months passed, and we didn't deliver food, why! My family is poor and has no money to buy it! In retrospect, I feel very guilty, if it is now, I have fulfilled my promise, and maybe I have made a real friend.