Chapter 167: A Shadow Lying on the Window (Mid-Autumn Festival)
The boy hesitated for a moment, then whispered "Thank you, sister". At first he ate cautiously, then he ate faster and faster, and he quickly finished a large bowl.
Liang Xiaonan had already signaled the stall owner to cook another large bowl. After he finished one bowl, Liang Xiaonan gave him another bowl.
Wontons are different from dumplings in that they have very little filling. As a boy in his teens, one bowl would not be enough, and two bowls would probably be enough. Besides, Li Gang has been hungry for who knows how long.
Yes, Li Gang, the boy is the Li Gang whom Liang Xiaonan met in Nanfeng Town, who went to the coal mine to dig coal with his cousin as a worker, the son of Li Jianhua and Xiaoqin.
Li Gang ate two large bowls of wontons in one go, and his body was no longer so cold. He was so excited that he was speechless.
That day, he drank a bowl of spicy soup with his mother at the sesame cake shop in Nanfeng Town. He was only thinking about going to the coal mine to work as a worker with his cousin, and didn't pay attention to others at all, but Liang Xiaonan remembered him.
Even after eating and drinking, he didn't know that Liang Xiaonan was the person who drank spicy soup with him that day.
Liang Xiaonan said: "How did you end up here?"
Seeing that Li Gang didn't know where to start, she said, "Just start when you leave Nanfeng Town."
"My father was seriously ill and needed soybeans, but we had no money to buy them. My mother begged my aunt and asked my cousin to take me to work in the coal mine. My cousin happened to come home and agreed to take me to work as a worker, saying
I can have 20 yuan a month.”
Liang Xiaonan also heard this news at that time.
Li Gang said that he followed his cousin Daming to the coal mine. After arriving, he found out that his cousin had not become a regular worker in the coal mine and was just a temporary worker.
He gave the introduction letter of the brigade to the mine, and the mine leader asked him to work first, but always suspected that he was not 18 years old.
He followed the adults down the mine every day and worked without seeing the sun for a month. The mine gave him 30 yuan, and his cousin sent the money back to Nanfeng Town for him. Then in the second month, the mine cleaned up the workers and all temporary workers
All were fired.
At that time, a man told the laid-off temporary workers about the newly opened coal mine there and asked if they were willing to go. He also said that it was a national coal mine, but it was relatively new and lacked skilled workers. He could give him 60 yuan a month.
60 yuan is the salary of a regular worker. My cousin and Li Gang both agreed. We can't just go back to Nanfeng Town. It's embarrassing.
They got into each other's bus, with the curtains drawn, and kept pulling them for a long time. After getting off the bus, they found that they were in the mountains. They were not state units, but private coal mines. They were not given any rest, they were not fed, and their wages were withheld.
And got beaten.
Cousin Daming worked for a month and asked for his salary. The team leader beat him up and told him that his salary would be settled at the end of the year. If he didn't want to work, he could leave.
The cousin wanted to take Li Gang away, but wherever he could go, the two brothers were beaten severely! Later, Li Gang and his cousin tried their best to escape.
The two ran away separately, and the people on the coal mine chased them desperately. Li Gang didn't know where they were, so he ran blindly in the mountains for half a month, eating bark and grass roots. When they got to the bottom of the mountain, he saw an opportunity and ran out on the truck, and followed the train.
Jianning.
When he came to Jianning, he couldn't find a job because he was young and lacked energy. He went to the dock to help people carry some goods every day, and sometimes helped people on the street.
After he finished speaking, he wiped away tears several times.
Liang Xiaonan knew that black coal mines existed not only now, but also in the future. There were more dynasties in the past and a long history. The more advanced the communication era, the more such evil forces existed.
Liang Xiaonan asked him where the black coal kiln was, but Li Gang couldn't tell him. He only remembered that it was in a barren mountain.
She had no choice but to give up and said to him: "Winter is here, and the humidity and cold in the south are terrible. You'd better go home as soon as possible. I'll buy the ticket for you, and you can go back by yourself."
"Sister, I..." He instinctively wanted to refuse, but then changed his mind, "Sister, I will go back and find a way to pay you back."
Liang Xiaonan said: "Okay, you go back first, and I will go find you then."
"Do you know who I am?" Li Gang said in surprise.
"I know, isn't your name Li Gang? You just told me whether your home is in Nanfeng Town." Liang Xiaonan asked this while chatting with him.
The stall owner said to Li Gang: "Listen to this comrade and go back quickly. It's getting colder and colder. It's very chaotic outside. Meningococcal meningitis is breaking out. You are the only child at home. If something happens to you, think about your father."
How can my mother live?"
Li Gang stopped being pedantic and nodded and listened to his sister.
Liang Xiaonan first took Li Gang to a nearby store and bought cotton-padded clothes, trousers, shoes and hats. He took Li Gang back to the guest house and asked him to take a bath in the public bathhouse of the guest house and put on new cotton-padded clothes.
Mr. Xie and Cao Yuan both lived next door to her. When they heard the noise from her side, they came out to see what was going on. Liang Xiaonan pointed at Li Gang and said that he was a fellow from Yu County, without explaining much.
Cao Yuan saw that she bought a new cotton coat for Li Gang and asked how to buy a ticket tomorrow, so he said, "I'll book a bed for him."
He wanted to accompany Mr. Xie and protect Mr. Xie, and the two of them lived in the same room, but it was absolutely impossible for Li Gang to live with them. Cao Yuan opened a bed in a multi-person room for him, which was enough to make Li Gang excited.
Guest houses, especially the Red Star Guest House, were places he could not enter.
There is no TV in the guest house now, and she doesn’t have a computer or mobile phone to play with. She can’t keep farming and farming...
So, she took out a book from the space.
Because she was going to Modu to collect old objects, she had been supplementing her knowledge. She was rummaging through the space library to see if there was any information to look up, and she actually found a book called "Appreciation of Paintings and Calligraphy Art Works" for her.
This book is a set of six volumes, covering bronzes and silk paintings from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, seal cutting from the Han Dynasty, calligraphy from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and contemporary calligraphy and painting. She has popularized her knowledge.
When she took her eyes off the book, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning and she immediately fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Cao Yuan told Liang Xiaonan that he had bought the ticket for Li Gang. Li Gang said that Li Gang did not need to send it to him because he knew the train station.
Liang Xiaonan bought 10 sesame seed cakes for Li Gang and gave him 10 pounds of soybeans, saying, "That's all I have, and it's not safe for you to bring too much."
Nowadays, food is very expensive. I really asked Li Gang to try carrying 100 kilograms of soybeans, and he dared to be killed on the road.
Li Gang vowed in his heart that he would repay Liang Xiaonan for the rest of his life when he went back. He has no ability now, so he shouldn't say anything, and it will be in vain.
Cao Yuan and the others originally thought they could drive to Modu at night, but when they entered Gusu, they saw the sky was overcast and the wind was blowing violently.
Nowadays, many cars do not have radios, but Volga cars have radios.
After listening for a while, I heard on the radio that there might be the biggest offshore hurricane this winter.
"Let's stay in Gusu for one night." Although Xie Haoyun was anxious to return to Modu, nothing was more important than his life.
Typhoons are no joke. In the first half of this year, a tornado landed at sea, uprooting big trees in Modu. More than 10,000 houses were uprooted and smashed. Dozens of extremely strong high-voltage transmission towers were damaged.
Twisted and pulled up, many people died.
They found the best guest house in Gusu City. Liang Xiaonan slept until midnight when she heard the violent wind outside and the sound of shattering glass. Her window was also shaken by the strong wind and made a "fluttering" sound.
She is from the south and was used to this kind of typhoon weather in her previous life. However, she heard a different sound. It was the sound of human footsteps.
He ran towards her without any secret in the wind and rain. After a while, she saw a dark figure lying on her window.