Chapter 10 The Heart of Coal (Goldfinger)
It took half an hour for everyone to calm down. Fang Dajun drew the drawings again and used geometric physics to calculate the best data. This data can maximize the current threshing machine to make it more efficient.
Carpenter Jiang left happily with the blackboard in his arms, saying that he would prepare the materials overnight and come again tomorrow morning to ask him to come over to provide guidance.
The relatives also left, with excitement on their faces. According to Fang Dajun's estimate, the news of moving the threshing machine could spread throughout the seven production brigades of Jiaoshan Commune without waiting until dark. Don't underestimate the villagers' gossip ability. Guerrillas are our country's traditional strength.
"Dajun, then I'll go back too. I'll see you after work tomorrow!" Qin Da also offered to say goodbye.
"Qin Shou, wait first!" Fang Dajun greeted, then went to the kitchen, looked at the meat on the chopping board, picked up the kitchen knife and cut about a pound, then punched the skin, pierced two rice straws and tied them up, and the meat was held in his hand.
"Dajun, what are you doing? This is the commune cadres who provide you with health care."
"Take it, this meat is for your mother. We are all brothers, and we will live a good life together in the future!" Fang Dajun said and forced the meat to Qin Shou.
Why did Qin Da feel embarrassed to ask for it? But when he thought of his sick mother, he gritted his teeth and said, "Good brother, let's do it together!" This naturally refers to coal matters.
Fang Dajun happily sent Qin Shou away, just about to explain to his father, but his father said first: "Son, you have grown up and you are sensible!"
Fang Dajun simply said directly: "Dad, I want to do big things in the future and need Qin Da and the others to help me."
"Okay, as long as you don't break the law, the old man will follow you in everything you do." Fang Donghua expressed his attitude.
Fang Dajun was so old that he had never been beaten once, but he was beaten by a teacher when he was in elementary school. As a result, his father, who was not good at speaking, went to school to have a big fight with the teacher. He loved his son so much that he was so fond of Fang Donghua.
"Junjun, when did your mathematics and physics become so powerful?" Fang Yan asked incredible. She was holding the small notebook that her younger brother had just written for calculations, but she couldn't understand some of the formulas above.
Both parents were not educated and had never even attended elementary school. Fang Dajun had no scruples when he spoke. At this time, he replied with a stinky fart: "It's not that I'm awesome, but that you are too stupid. Why do you want to learn? I'll teach you how to wash my feet tonight."
"I'm too lazy to tell you that I'm going to cook." Fang Yan said this, but she didn't put down the notebook. The girl was born to be a little worse in mathematics and physics. The calculation ideas on the notebook inspired her a lot. I'm going to study it later.
At this time, Fang Dajun entered the Tao House in disappointment and leaned against the bamboo recliner. After a while, he felt uncomfortable all over. As a mobile phone controller, he would have to take out his mobile phone to pass the time at this time, but now, let alone mobile phones, there is not even a radio.
It was so boring. Perhaps it was because of the boring life in the countryside that I couldn’t vent my energy, so I finally moved to the bed, and as a result, there were so many children from each family.
"Fourth sister, fifth sister comes into the house!" Fang Dajun waved.
The two sisters trotted in well-behavedly. The six-year-old fifth sister is very thin and it is a bit difficult to cross the threshold of the peach house. "Brother, what's the matter!"
"Haha, let me hug you." Fang Dajun then carried the fifth sister into his arms. The fourth sister stood aside with some jealousy. Fang Damei smiled and hugged the fourth sister over again.
He smiled and said, "Do you want to go to study?" The fifth sister can't earn a job now, so the fourth sister helps to cut pig grass, and only has two divisions of labor. It only takes four cents a day, but this four cents deprives the fourth sister of her opportunity to study.
The tuition for primary school is only 2.80 cents. Including stationery supplies and lunch, it only costs four yuan per semester. It only costs one to sell a ton of coal.
"The fourth sister wants to study!" "The fifth sister doesn't want to study!"
Fang Dajun was quite surprised, "Fifth sister, why don't you want to study?"
"The fifth sister has no shoes to wear, they want to laugh at the fifth sister!" the little girl said ignorantly.
Fang Dajun was both angry and funny. He was sure that his parents had saved a lot of money. He even knew where the money was placed. He hid it in a big wooden cabinet and wrapped it in a handkerchief. Even if it didn't have a hundred, it should have dozens of dollars.
The money was saved for him to get his wife. It was a big deal to pick up his wife. It was necessary to arrange new houses and new furniture and hold a banquet. All of these cost money. My mother had said before that she would build a brick house for him when he picked up his wife.
Of course he wouldn't use the money from his parents, but he could ask his fourth sister and second sister to study first. School has been going on for several days now. The second sister has to go to the county to go to high school, which is not a small amount, but the money for fourth sister to go to elementary school can be easily taken out now.
"Son, come out quickly, your Uncle Li is back!"
Hearing the shout, Fang Dajun quickly sat up, put down his two sisters and walked out. Uncle Li was no one else, the one who dug him out of the coal hole, and he was his neighbor. The house on the left belonged to Li Jianjun.
As soon as I crossed the threshold, I saw Li Jianjun just walked into the dam. He had black long-sleeved clothes, a pair of straw sandals under his feet, a mineral hat made of bamboo, a bamboo basket on his back, and a large shovel on his left shoulder, which the villagers called foreign shovels.
Li Jianjun is tall and has a national face. He is an honest man. He can support two laborers by digging coal. He is extremely strong. However, he is unlucky. He got a somewhat mentally retarded wife and can only get five points of work. In addition, his two sons have some brain problems. He is still in his teens and doesn’t work at work and likes to steal things.
The burden of the whole family fell on Li Jianjun, so he had to dig two trucks of coal every day. The brigade considered to calculate one and a half labor for him again and again. In fact, it was because Li Jianjun lost half a truck of coal labor.
Because the coal mining is twice as high as others, it is too late to get off work and just came back.
"Uncle, thank you today. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't have come out." Fang Dajun thanked sincerely.
"Haha, what's the matter? Everyone has to work with you when you see it." After a pause, Li Jianguo said to Fang Donghua again: "Brother Hua, I've brought some crushed coal sand back. You'd better find a place to bury it."
"Okay, it should be. If you don't mention it, I almost forgot about it." Fang Donghua said with a look of fear.
Fang Dajun understood after thinking about it. This was the burial of some of his coal and sand. In superstitiously, he should find a Feng Shui treasure land to bury it, burn some paper money, and respect the little devils from all sides, so as not to have bad luck in the future.
At this time, my mother and second sister came out of the kitchen. My mother was carrying half a basket of eggs in her hand, and my second sister was holding a bucket of steaming meat in her hand. This was a sign of gratitude, the traditional customs in the village.
Li Jianjun was not polite either. The two families were originally neighbors and had a good relationship. Besides, their lives were indeed poor, and their two sons had not had any meat for several months.
Fang Dajun and his family thanked each other again, and followed Li Jianjun to put down their baskets and go home with eggs and meat.
Fang Dajun suddenly remembered something. He worked in a coal cave for a year and had never encountered such a situation where large areas of coal soil collapsed as soon as he was dug. Nowadays, the coal cave is completely man-made and does not use explosives, so it is almost impossible for such sudden collapse to occur.
At that time, I seemed to have dug up some hard object, and the sound was a bit like a iron slap, and then the coal sand in front of me collapsed with a bang.
"Son, why are you pouring out these unlucky things?" Fang Donghua was shocked when he saw his son pouring the sand in his back basket into the dam.
"Old man, I'm looking for something, it's okay." This matter is difficult to explain. Fang Dajun quickly dug up. The coal-accompanied creature is coal sand. The color is slightly more color than coal, and it is not as hard as coal. This cannot be burned. Generally, if you dig three trucks of coal, you have to clean one truck of coal sand. When you are not lucky, you will dig more coal sand than coal.
"It's really there!" Fang Dajun really found a hard thing with a fist, which was very black and shiny, and it was quite different from the coal sand poured out. He could see it at a glance.
"Son, what are you holding?" Fang Donghua asked.
"I don't know what it is. I just dug this thing and dug the hole wall and kept it as a souvenir." Fang Dajun echoed while playing with the little black block.
Chapter completed!