If you don't go to the Northwest, you don't know what it means to be wild and rough.
If you don't go beyond the Great Wall, you won't understand the vastness of heaven and earth and the vastness of the celestial dynasty.
This time Luo Xuan went out to the commune under the pretext of going to Xijing City, the capital of Shaanxi Province, to inspect cosmetics filling equipment, and issued a "Travel Certificate".
Then Luo Xuan took a shuttle bus and rushed to Suimi County.
With his "Proof of Identity" and "Proof of Travel", he registered for a room at the "State-owned Suimi County Passenger Terminal Guest House".
After a while,
Luo Xuan used the excuse that the train was about to depart and checked out the room again.
During this period, there was no such thing as an hourly room.
And people in state-owned guesthouses like this don't care what your reasons are or why you check out.
Anyway, as long as you book a room, you have to calculate the money for the whole day.
The best thing you can do is return the deposit to the passenger in full.
After checking out of the room, Luo Xuan went to the cargo yard of Suimi County Railway Station and found the gang of tough coal truck drivers.
Then he quietly got on one of the coal trucks.
After two days and two nights of turbulence, Luo Xuan finally arrived at Wusheng Banner in the north, a place called Xuejiawan.
The vastness of the Northwest is beyond most people’s understanding.
Xuejiawan is already located north of the Great Wall, a full 400 miles away.
This place is truly outside the Great Wall.
Here, you can appreciate what it means to be frozen for thousands of miles and covered with snow.
Standing in the wilderness and looking around, the sky is really covering the surrounding fields. The sky is vast and the fields are vast.
The snowflakes blown by the north wind were flying all over the sky, making it difficult to distinguish the east, west, north, and south, and there was no sign of human beings or life.
As far as the eye can see, there is only the never-ending cold wind howling on the plateau.
Other than that, the surrounding areas were completely quiet, with not a trace of green within a hundred miles.
There were not even a few dead grasses to be seen.
Where did the cattle and sheep come from?!
Luo Xuan said goodbye to the kind driver who sent him here, and then picked up his heavy luggage.
Along the wasteland, the two faint tracks of axles were staggering towards the direction indicated by the driver.
Soon after, Luo Xuan only heard the roar of motors coming from behind him.
"Woo, woo--"
Before Luo Xuan had gone ten miles away, a shabby "Gaz" passenger car slowly caught up with him.
"Hey, fellow, what do you do?"
The car window was opened a crack, and a man with a cheeky face wearing a cotton hat with ear coverings stuck his head out from the crack of the car window, "Fellow, where are you going?"
Luo Xuan turned around and yelled loudly, "I followed the fellow villagers and came out to prepare to go to the coal mine for a 'wild meal'! Halfway through the road, I got out of the car and peed, and then got separated from the fellow villagers."
The wind was shrill and shrill, and the conversation between the two people continued intermittently in the cold wind inside: "Listen to your accent, fellow fellow, are you from Bashu?"
The man shouted for the bus to stop, then leaned out of the window and asked, "How many people are there with you?"
Luo Xuan yelled back at him, "I'm from QXN! This time, there were more than 20 fellow villagers who came out with me."
The man asked, "So they are from the neighboring province of Bashu. No wonder their accent is similar to ours. Where have your fellow villagers gone?"
Luo Xuan shook his head: "I don't know! Ever since I got separated from them, I have been walking towards the north, but I can't find them."
"How about you just follow us and dig coal together!"
The man opened the car door and then led two people to Luo Xuan, "Anyway, I only want to make money when I travel thousands of miles.
No matter which coal mine you go to work in the wild, you will still get your wages back to support your family. How about that? Come with us."
This man spoke in a tone that was asking for Luo Xuan's opinion.
In fact, while Luo Xuan was talking to the man in front of him, his two companions were already standing quietly behind Luo Xuan.
"Well, it seems like this is the only way it can be done now. Otherwise, what else can I do?"
Luo Xuan asked the man: "Brother, what is the price of the coal mine you are going to? Is it far away?"
The man grinned: "You come from the inland, you don't know how big the northwest is. Since it is a coal mine, how can it not be far away? But don't worry, the coal mine we are going to has enough wages!"
As he spoke, the man stretched out his hand and dragged Luo Xuan to the car: "In the mine we went to, they had food and shelter. Every meal was filled with fat meat as thick as two fingers and as big as a palm!"
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When the man pulled Luo Xuan, he used very strange force: he pulled it forward twice, and then pushed it back once.
——He was testing, wanting to see how strong Luo Xuan was!
If you meet a person who can't eat anything and can't do anything well.
This man, the guardian would not hesitate to kick Luo Xuan out of the car!
As for whether the other party will freeze to death or starve to death in this ice and snow, the man doesn't care.
Fortunately, when Luo Xuan took the coal truck to reach Mengren's territory, he had already packed his bedroll and left it in the dirty truck compartment.
Before getting off the bus,
Luo Xuan did not forget to grab a handful of coal ash from the carriage and throw it on his face, smearing several layers of black ash on his neck.
Now I have a lot of soot on my body.
Then the water vapor melted by the wind and snow along the way, so harmonious
Now Luo Xuan's body was all black and sticky, as if he had just been fished out of the mine.
Wait until you get in the car,
Only then did Luo Xuan realize that the car was already packed with people. Because these farmers who came from Bashu and Nanyun provinces to "do wild food", they all carried a lot of luggage.
So we could only squeeze into a minibus with about 20 people, which seemed extremely crowded.
Fortunately, people are not particular about going out, so Luo Xuan set up camp in a small area in the corridor that was kindly moved by others.
The people in the car seemed to have lost much interest in chatting at this time.
The scenery outside the window was desolate, which was completely different from the hometown where they grew up.
It is said that in this desolate and empty desert, if you travel by car for a long time, many people will gradually experience hallucinations and even lose their self-control.
This leads to a complete breakdown of their will and their madness.
The man who is the leader obviously understands these things.
He stood up, clapped his hands and shouted at everyone: "Folks, don't sit around in silence! Come on, let's talk about how much money you plan to earn when you go back next year."
These are people who are willing to leave their wives, children, and elderly parents behind, and travel thousands of miles to come here.
Which one of them didn't take the huge risk to go out for a wild meal because their family was so poor and they couldn't get enough to eat?
Now when the man said this, someone in the carriage responded: "I want to save 200 yuan and go home!"
The man smiled and said: "Then can you tell me what you plan to do with this money when you go back?"
The man counted on his fingers: "My family has owed the production team a total of 73 yuan and 65 cents over the years. When I go back with the money, we have to settle the collective debt first."
"With the remaining money, I plan to buy 10 pairs of chickens and two little goats, one male and one female."
The man's face was full of longing for a better life: "I still have to take my dad to the big hospital in the county for a good physical check-up.
I want to give my mother-in-law some nice clothes. Ever since she married me, she has never been afraid of being laughed at. I haven’t even bought her a vest!"
Others said, "My family's suffering is probably more severe than yours, Yang San!"
I have to save at least 300 yuan to treat my parents and pay back the famine in the production team."
For a while, everyone in the carriage was talking about their plans and dreaming about their own dreams.
This dilapidated GAZ was leaking air from all directions, and it wasn't actually very warm inside.
But the hard-working people in the carriage were discussing passionately and dreaming warmly.
The man clapped his hands: "It's too small! Your hopes are too small! Let me tell you, the coal mine we are going to is very profitable!
The wages he gives us are so high that they can scare you to death!"
"As long as we work hard for them, it will be easy for you to save 4,500 yuan in one year, not to mention the extra time."
The man smacked his lips and smiled, "This is all the money you saved after you went to other people's mines, ate and drank a lot, and occasionally went to take out the water!"
Listen to what the man said.
The car suddenly became excited: "Wow, isn't it? Can you save so much money?"
"Saving 400 to 500 yuan a year? Those public servants on the street, both of them are making a living, can't save that much."
"Brother Yang, you shouldn't lie to us because you haven't seen the world and just talk nonsense!"
Hear this,
The man was unhappy and said, "Who are you talking nonsense? Erhuo! You have to know, what are we doing? We are going down the well to dig coal!"
"You also know how unpleasant it must be to do this business in our hometown? It is said that someone died and was not buried in his previous life, so he did this."
The man patted his chest and promised, "Don't compare the small coal mines in your hometown with the big coal mines here!
The coal seams here are thick. If you tell me, it will scare you to death!
A shovelful of money costs a few cents, a shovelful of money costs a few cents. Are you worried that you won’t be able to save a few hundred yuan in a year?”
Hearing what the man said, there were also people in the carriage who were smarter and started calculating the accounts with their fingers on the spot: "The workers who go down the mine belong to high-risk industries.
Calculated according to the salary standards of level 23 special industry workers in Category 9 areas, it is 53 yuan a month. Hey, Yang San, Zhu Dawa.
Speaking of which, if we save a little more, we can really save around 500 yuan in one year!"
The man laughed and said, "That's right! It's better to use your head, Jian Teng! You can settle the accounts in one go and be smart about it."
As he said that, the man reached out and poked Luo Xuan on the shoulder, "Hey, brother, you are so lucky! You got separated from the fellow villagers on the way, and you still met us.
Why don't you come and tell us how much money you plan to save to go back?"
Luo Xuan scratched his head: "I want to make money from the entire coal mine."
The man was stunned: "I think you are a cauliflower snake trying to swallow a buffalo; are the ants trying to breed the pangolin?"
Luo Xuan chuckled: "I married the daughter of the person in charge of the coal mine. Doesn't this mean that the coal mine belongs to me?"
"Hahaha--"
In the carriage, bursts of laughter suddenly sounded: "Hahaha, this little brother is a bit interesting."
"That's right, our fellow countryman really dares to think."
The man also laughed, "What are you talking about? The coal mine we are going to work in is a serious public enterprise after all! He is not the person in charge of the coal mine, he belongs to his own family.
Even if you marry his daughter, the coal mine will not fall into your hands!"
That coal mine is a public unit?
What a liar!
It's clear that some lawless elements have corrupted some people.
Then he lost his shit, opened a kiln in a deserted place privately, and started doing that "unfair" coal kiln business!
If it were a state-owned coal mine, they wouldn't have to worry about recruiting miners, right?
On the contrary, only this kind of shady coal mine will deceive and deceive people, and use any means to recruit people to dig coal for it!
But I can't say anything about this now: it's not just the bearded man, but also his accomplices who won't let me go.
What's more important is that the group of people in the car will not believe what they say and the truth.
People have a kind of luck mentality: the bunch of hard-working people in the carriage have traveled thousands of miles to work here.
Along the way, they didn't know how much they borrowed for travel expenses and how much money they paid for food and lodging.
If you jump out and say at this time, it is a private kiln and you cannot go there.
These people in the carriage have invested so much money and energy into it.
How could they change their minds and go home willingly just because of a word from me?
After they return, what kind of faces should they use to face their relatives?
Do they just have to explain to their families that they heard a guy on the road say that the coal mine was inaccessible?!
It's impossible even if you think about it.
therefore,
Anyway, they are going to be fooled and they will wake up after being deceived, so they might as well say something light-hearted.
At least,
This way, everyone can get rid of the inner torment and loneliness on the road.
The minibus driving on the deserted plateau was as small as a small black ant crawling on the silver-white beach.
On the high plateau of the northwest.
It seems that the mountains are not as steep and steep as the mountains in the southwest.
But in fact, if you pay a little attention, you will know: this is a land plateau, and there is nothing surprising on the surface.
But in fact, this is a land plateau that covers an extremely wide area. However, due to the lack of reference objects, it gives people the illusion that it is "just that".
If someone really wanted to go for a walk, these seemingly inconspicuous plateaus, not to mention the ruthless wind, snow and low temperature, could kill them at any time.
Just talking about the vast area it occupies, if one wants to get out of a plateau, it would take at least a day and a night!
The bus squeaked and squeaked, like an asthma patient, huffing and puffing with white or black fumes.
In the middle of the night, we drove forward for several hours.
Only then did we finally reach our destination: Doujiapan Coal Mine.
And the reason why this broken car had to be driven in the middle of the night even at the huge risk of crashing the car and killing people.
The first reason is that it is very dangerous for a bus to stay overnight in the wild.
If there is an engine failure, all the people in the car will definitely turn into popsicles the next day.
Another more important reason is probably the need for confidentiality.
It can be seen from this that the Doujiapan Coal Mine
