Chapter 156 Good things should be mine

The child picking up coal ran into the office and whispered to Wang Weidong: "Just now outside the cafeteria, I heard Cao Baolu's wife telling Lao Changtou that Shi Guozheng asked Lao Changtou to go to his house at night."

"Are you lying to me?" Wang Weidong asked.

"I'd be a puppy if I lied to you!" the child said with eyes wide open.

"If what you say is true, I will buy you half a catty of mini cakes tomorrow. Don't tell anyone about this!" Wang Weidong said.

Under the temptation of half a catty of mini cakes, the child has been secretly staring at Lao Chang's head since lunch.

At noon, Lao Changtou drank some wine during his meal and went back to sleep. The child also sat on the bed in Datong bunk and stayed close to Lao Changtou.

After sleeping until about four o'clock in the afternoon, the resting workers on the Datong bunk were divided into several groups to play poker. Old Changtou sat and watched for more than an hour before walking out of the coal mine.

He did not expect that his every move was being monitored by a seven or eight-year-old child.

The child hurriedly ran into the office and said to Wang Weidong: "Hurry up, Lao Changtou has already gone out!"

Seeing Wang Weidong's slow movements, the child came up and pulled Wang Weidong's arm.

The two people walked to the gate of the coal mine. Although it was night, the snow was completely white. Old Changtou could still vaguely see his back after walking dozens of meters away.

"Let's go!" the child urged, holding Wang Weidong's hand.

"You don't have to go. You win. I'll go to the rural supply and marketing cooperative to buy you candy tomorrow." Wang Weidong said calmly.

Lao Changtou's son and daughter-in-law live in Tuanjie Village, but now the father and son are at odds with each other. Wang Weidong has not seen Lao Changtou go to the village for such a long time. He does not go during the day when he is resting. Why is he suddenly sneaking around at night?

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Two hours later, Old Changtou came back. At midnight today, he was going to pick up Old Chen's team and go down the well to inspect the transformer room.

But when Old Chang was about to change his clothes and go down the well, Wang Weidong said to him: "Uncle Chang, you don't have to go down into the well tonight. I just want to go down into the well to take a look at the working surface, and then I will watch it for you in the transformer room, starting tomorrow.

Just do some odd jobs on the well. When you are old and have rheumatism in your legs, don't go down the well."

"How dare you ask the mine manager to go down to the mine and take my place on duty!" Old Changtou refused.

"It's okay. If there is work in the future, just do some work. If there is no work, just stay there. The coal mine will not deprive you of a meal!" Wang Weidong said boldly.

Wang Weidong changed into his work clothes and belt, put on the miner's lamp and went down the mine.

Lao Chang lay on the bunk, tossing and turning, unable to sleep. He was having an ideological struggle. In the end, he still felt that he could not offend Shi Guozheng and must complete the task.

At twelve o'clock, the workers who went up to the well had already finished bathing, eating and lying down and fell asleep. Lao Chang quietly got up and walked to the outhouse, changed into the cotton clothes he wore when going down the well, and quietly walked into the well entrance carrying a miner's lamp.

The light beam of the miner's lamp swayed in the more than 100-meter-long inclined shaft, and the boots made a thumping echo on the ground.

Lao Chang was not afraid of being discovered. At this time, the workers were working at the working surface a few hundred meters away, and there was no one near the wellhead.

Walking down the inclined shaft, Lao Chang walked towards the chamber where the water pump was. He squatted next to the water pump, held the miner's lamp in his mouth, took out the wrench stuffed in his pocket and began to unscrew the screws on the junction box of the water pump motor.

Unscrewing the four screws, Chang Chang took out a two- or three-inch length of wire from his pocket, bit open the rubber at both ends of the wire with his teeth to expose the copper wire inside, put on his gloves, held the wire, and brought the two ends close to the terminal

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As long as the wires are connected to two terminals, the water pump motor will be burned out immediately. When the water pump stops working, the underground water cannot be drained. After three or four hours, most of the underground coal mine will be soaked in water.

While Lao Chang was concentrating on what he was doing, a man jumped on him, pushed him to the ground, and then punched and kicked him!

The miner's lamp in Lao Chang's mouth fell to the ground, and it was immediately dark, and only Lao Chang's wailing could be heard.

"Stop fighting. If you fight again, you won't survive!" Lao Chang shouted.

Wang Weidong turned on the miner's lamp and shone it on Lao Chang's bruised and swollen face.

"You old bastard who repays kindness with vengeance! Go back and pack your things right away and get out of the coal mine!" Wang Weidong said.

"Weidong, I have no choice. If you ask me to leave the coal mine, I will be homeless. You have mercy on me!" Lao Chang lay on the ground and begged with his hands clasped together.

"Stop talking nonsense and get out now! If you don't leave, I will call the police and arrest you!" Wang Weidong threatened.

The next morning, Cao Baolu and his wife didn't see Lao Changtou at lunch. Normally, even if Lao Changtou was looking at the transformer room down the mine, he would come up and finish the meal before going back down. But today, they didn't see him at all during the day.

The shadow of Lao Changtou.

"Lao Chang asked me for leave last night and said he had urgent matters to attend to in the city today." Wang Weidong explained to Cao Baolu and his wife.

The couple looked at each other and looked at each other.

In the evening, Cao Baolu returned to the village and went directly to Shi Guozheng's home.

He told what happened today that he didn't see Lao Changtou, and also told Wang Weidong's explanation.

"No one can compare to this old guy Baden when it comes to flirting. If you ask him to do something serious, he'll get mad! He told me very well last night, but he was so timid and ran away when he got back." Shi Guozheng said through gritted teeth.

"What else can that old guy do now besides eating?" Shi Dali said from the side.

"Bao Lu, thank you for your hard work. It's too late. Go back." Shi Guozheng said.

Seeing Cao Baolu go out, Shi Guozheng turned to his son and said, "Look for a walking tractor tomorrow!"

At around nine o'clock the next night, Wang Weidong and Zhou Maocai were sitting in the office chatting when the lights suddenly went out.

Wang Weidong hurriedly walked into the corridor and saw that the lights in several rooms were out.

"There's a power outage?" Zhou Maocai said in the darkness.

Wang Weidong returned to the office, found a flashlight in the dark, and ran to the wellhead. Sure enough, there was no electricity underground!

Large coal mines have double power supply, so if one line loses power, it can be switched to another line immediately, but small coal mines cannot have such conditions.

Wang Weidong ran quickly towards the township government. He wanted to see if there was also a power outage in the township.

After running four to five hundred meters, Wang Weidong suddenly stopped. A telephone pole fell to the ground on the side of the road. It seemed that the problem was here.

What to do? Wang Weidong had no idea for a moment. If it couldn't be repaired in two or three hours, the shaft would begin to flood.

Zhou Maocai stood in front of him and saw Wang Weidong running back with a flashlight.

Wang Weidong returned to the office and started calling Yu Deliang.

It took three or four minutes for Yu Deliang to answer the phone.

"Brother Yu, it's me, Weidong! There was a sudden power outage in our coal mine. Do you know the people from the power supply bureau below? Can you ask them to come over and repair it quickly? One of the telephone poles near the coal mine fell down." Wang Weidong said into the microphone.

Said anxiously.

After putting down the phone, Wang Weidong said to Zhou Maocai: "My friend said to help as much as possible, but we also need to make more preparations. Let the workers lift the well immediately, and I asked my dad to lay bricks at the door of the transformer room, so that we can survive for a while."

"If the people from the Power Supply Bureau can't repair it within three or four hours, the well will still be flooded. It's night now, and the people from the Power Supply Bureau will be even slower to come," Zhou Maocai said.
Chapter completed!