"Even if you are a miner, even if you have worked hard in the mine, are you qualified to own this money? How many miners are there in your mine? They just haven't become mine directors. If you want to talk about qualifications, they are also qualified.
Are you qualified to get this money?" Qin Hai retorted without giving up any ground.
Before, Qin Hai thought about paying attention to his conversation skills, but after hearing Sha Renyuan's reasons, he couldn't help but feel a little hot-headed, and he couldn't control it when he opened his mouth. When these words came out, he screamed secretly in his heart.
Oops, I seem to be too forthright.
Sha Renyuan choked on Qin Hai's words and was speechless for a long time. He reached out to pick up the wine bottle and poured himself another glass of wine. When the wine glass was brought to his mouth, he stopped and just sipped it.
After half a mouthful, he said leisurely: "Young man, let me tell you a story."
"Please." Qin Hai said.
Sha Renyuan said: "That was almost thirty years ago... I can't even remember some things. To put it simply, there was a roof collapse accident in one of the tunnels in our Jianxing Mine, and the roof collapsed.
The coal seam was so thick that it blocked all the openings out of the tunnel. At that time, a mining team of 14 people was working in the tunnel. When the roof collapse occurred, everyone in this team was still alive, but they could not persist outside.
The day the men dug up the coal seam.”
"Then what?" Qin Hai asked casually. What Sha Renyuan said was not enough to shock him. This was not because he was hard-hearted, but because in that era, coal mine accidents were not really a rare thing.
"The leader of the mining team, everyone calls him Lao Xingtou, is an experienced old miner. He remembers that next to this tunnel, there are several old tunnels that the Japanese dug in the past. If they can be dug,
If we find those old lanes on the stone wall, this group of people can hope to escape alive." Sha Renyuan continued.
"So, have they found those old lanes?" Qin Hai was attracted by Sha Renyuan's story and couldn't help but ask.
"Found it," said Sha Renyuan, "Old Xingtou is like a gopher. He can smell the location of the alleyway with his nose. He led the entire team and dug through the tunnel with only a little dry food.
We walked through more than a dozen stone walls and 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, and it is hard physical work to drill through the stone wall, which consumes a lot of energy. The miners' bodies can no longer withstand it, they... they
One by one, they fell in the tunnels. When they finally found the air outlet, among the 14 people, only Lao Xingtou and the youngest miner were left. The youngest miner was able to survive because of everyone.
I thought he was too young and refused to let him do the heaviest work to save his physical strength. In other words, everyone saved his life with their own lives."
"What's the end?" Qin Hai's heart was beating violently, and he was finally moved by this tragic story.
"Finally, Old Xingtou fell under the air outlet. Before he died, he said to the youngest miner... He said: Xiao Sha, you are the youngest. You haven't married yet, so you can't die. You have a flexible mind.
, I will definitely be able to become a cadre in the future. Our families and children are all counting on you to take care of us." When Sha Renyuan said this, tears fell from his eyes.
No matter how dull Qin Hai is, he can still tell that the "Xiao Sha" in the story is the mine manager in front of him. He said that his mine manager also sacrificed his life in the mine. If you want to dig deeper, this is not only
It was his own life, and the lives of thirteen miners including Lao Xingtou.
"Old Xingtou. What a good person he is. He also has a good drinking capacity. Like this little brother, he never gets drunk no matter how much he drinks. In this life, I will only accept his drinking capacity. It's a pity..." Sha Renyuan
Unable to speak any further, he raised his hand and spilled all the wine in the glass that he had only taken a sip on.
Qin Hai was silent. He vaguely guessed something, but he was not sure about it. He just waited quietly for Sha Renyuan to reveal the answer to him.
"I survived." Sha Renyuan said, "Relying on my own efforts, I slowly became a squad leader, foreman, and mine director. I never got married, and the 13 elder brothers left behind 13 old sisters-in-law and
I have 20 children, and I take care of them just like I take care of my sister-in-law, mother and children. Today, those children back then have all gotten married and had children. Lao Xingtou’s grandson is 22 years old this year. He was here last time
I said: Grandpa Sha, I want to go down the well. I gave him a big ear scraper on the spot."
"Why?" Qin Hai asked.
"Why? If you go down the well, your life will no longer be yours. Old Xingtou and the others lost their lives down the well. Can I let their descendants take this risk again?" Sha Renyuan said with eyes wide open.
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 these 13 big brothers to live outside the well. It is safer outside the well, but the wages are lower than going down the well.
Much more. Coal mines belong to the state, and wages are not something I have the final say on. When they were young, I earned money alone to support their 13 families. But now they have 20 big families, how can I make up for it?
Come here. Besides, they are all dozens of years old, how can they let their Uncle Sha use his salary to subsidize them?"
"So, the money you want is..." Qin Hai hesitated and did not express his guess.
Sha Renyuan said: "You are right, I want these 200,000 yuan just to give it to these children. I have thought that 10,000 yuan for a family is enough for them to live comfortably. Nowadays, young people have to talk about marriage.
Such a grand event, with the money that their Grandpa Sha has prepared for them, these children should be able to marry beautiful wives. This way, I can have an explanation when I go to heaven to meet those old brothers."
"So you want this transaction to be safe and confidential." 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 existed.
, all that remains is endless sadness.
"Sha... Director of the sand mine, we all understand how you feel. However, are there some risks for you to do this? Anyway, you are still in your position. Why not do it in batches, with a smaller amount each time?" Liu Ziwen
He suggested stumblingly. He was originally a timid person, and he was a little wary of Sha Renyuan's approach. Now that he heard that the inside story was like this, he had a little more respect for Sha Renyuan out of thin air, so he
Make plans for him.
Sha Renyuan said sadly: "I don't have time. Last month, I found out..., forget it, you don't need to know these things. You all know what I think, okay, please give me an accurate answer."
."
"This..." Qin Hai faltered.
The reasons given by Sha Renyuan made Qin Hai really unable to refuse. However, Qin Hai was a little uneasy after being offered such a high kickback. After all, this was not a matter of a few packs of cigarettes or a few bottles of wine, but a full 200,000 yuan.
Yuan. This amount was shocking in that era.
"Director of the sand mine, I think your idea is inappropriate." Heizi, who was brought by Qin Hai as a humanoid wine barrel, suddenly interrupted, making Qin Hai stunned for a moment.
Sha Renyuan turned his head, looked at Heizi with squinted eyes, and sneered: "Young man, what do you think is wrong with my idea?"
"Director of the sand mine, let me tell you a story, okay?" Heizi said calmly. He really deserves to be a loan shark in Pingyuan County, and he seems to be somewhat calm at critical moments.
Sha Renyuan laughed dumbly: "Okay. Young man, I would 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 a few people on the street outside the gate of your Jianxing mine, and I saw a guy with a shaved head at the table next to me.
A young man was gambling with others. 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. Now I understand, he should be
Are you talking about the grandchildren of the 13 miners’ families?”
"Damn it, this must be the kid from Wang Lao Er's family. This kid hasn't learned well since he was a child!" Sha Renyuan's face was ashen and he cursed through gritted teeth.
After Heizi told this story, he stopped talking. He just gave Qin Hai a look, which meant that he didn't know how to talk about the truth, and he would leave the rest of the things to Qin Hai. These days, Qin Hai sent Heizi
He wandered around several coal mines in Quwu to inquire about relevant information. Unexpectedly, he accidentally bumped into a young man who was being protected by Sha Renyuan.
Heizi himself is a child of a cadre family, and he has also had the experience of falling out of society, so he is extremely sensitive to this kind of thing. When he told this story at this time, he clearly sent a very good speech to Qin Hai.
Qin Hai took Heizi's words knowingly and said to Sha Renyuan: "Director of the sand mine, this story told by Xiao Fu is very inspiring. You can get money for these children, but can you protect them for a lifetime?
If these children don't live up to their expectations, if you give them so much money, I'm afraid you're not helping them, but harming them."
"Alas!" Sha Renyuan patted his head and said dejectedly: "The most derelict part of my duty is that I failed to take care of these children. There are no elders in their families to supervise them, and as a mine manager, I usually don't have much time to do so.
Never mind them. In the end... in the situation Xiao Fu mentioned, I also know that very few of these children are up to par, and most of them... are embarrassing their grandfather."
As early as when Heizi finished telling the story, Qin Hai already had a good idea. Seeing Sha Renyuan's mind wandering, he said: "Director of the sand mine, as the old saying goes, it is better to teach a man a fish than to give him a fish.
People make fish. Instead of giving these kids 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. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
ps: The story of the laneway is based on Sun Shaoshan's short story "Eight Hundred Meters Deep". I would like to express my gratitude. Regarding the stories in these two chapters, Chengzi does not want to make moral judgments. He just wants to say that this is society, not a simple sentence. Or it can be summarized incorrectly.
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