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Chapter 203 "Dig, Dig" Part [-]

People never want to encounter things they don't want to see, but sometimes these things always appear dramatically.

One morning I lost my job.

It should be said that we are all unemployed.

Today the accountant drove a large pickup truck to the construction site and explained the news.

This incident happened half a month ago, but was only discovered yesterday.

The accountant choked up and said: "The boss of our coal mine, Yun Huateng, committed suicide by drinking pesticide at home. The pesticide he drank half a month ago was only discovered by debt collectors yesterday. The company still has 4739 million tons of coal in stock that cannot be sold. I have to come and collect my things. There is no need to go to the mine today, and there will be no need to go to the mine in the future."

"It took so long for it to be discovered?" one person asked in confusion.

"My wife and children have already gone abroad, and the boss is alone in China. I have too many debts and I can't think about it anymore," the accountant said.

Everyone started to shout and ask what to do next. The accountant continued: "This year's coal mines have all been stored in the warehouse, and many coal-using factories outside have converted to electrical production. The demand for coal in all industries is getting less and less. Some factories that have an immediate need for coal only purchase a small amount at low prices. This year, compared with last year, the loss was 50.00%. The loss was 40.62 billion yuan, and the profit was 60.74 billion yuan less than last year."

I barely understood the professional terminology used by accountants.My colleagues around me didn’t understand, and started asking in unison what to do next.

The accountant said again helplessly: "Boss Yun Huateng made money last year and expanded his scale. A lot of money was borrowed, and some machines are still on loan from banks. The losses are too big, and the coal cannot be sold. It's rotting in the warehouse. Now the entire mine and all the machines in it are going to be taken away by the bank, and we have no money. There are still 10,000+ here, let's just share one point."

Almost no one agreed, and they surrounded the accountant and started arguing.

But the accountant took out today's newspaper, and the headline was that a coal boss with tens of millions of assets committed suicide by drinking pesticide.The news that I was discovered by debt collectors after half a month at home was exactly what the accountant said.The news also mentioned the losses in the coal industry, and newspapers began to be circulated among people.

"If you don't take the last 10,000+ today, people outside will come to collect things tomorrow. By then you won't be able to get anything you want, don't you understand?" the accountant said helplessly.

After a helpless stalemate, the accountant squeezed through the crowd and walked to the side and called the foreman of each team.

The foreman sends the hair to the captain in his hand, who then takes the lead in distributing the hair.

Dahai took the lead in accepting the money, and by the time it was divided among the ten of us, it was already very little.

Each of the more than 300 workers in the entire mining area received more than 800 yuan in the end.

A group of people sat together in groups, friends against friends, and fellow villagers, thinking about their future plans.

The sea seemed to be as at a loss as I was. I sat on the ground and the sea sat beside me.

I never thought at this moment that the questions I was thinking about yesterday would come true today.

Many people began to pack their bags, and some said they planned to go home and farm.

Others clamored that they had saved a lot of money and planned to start a business partnership.

But most of them still hope to go together and ask if the mine next door is still hiring.

A foreman stood up and retorted with a wry smile: "Now the profit from a ton of coal without freight is not as good as a bottle of Coca-Cola. From the original net profit of 1000 yuan per ton of coal, to last month it was only a little over 300. Even if I haven't Say, haven't people been spreading the news about this recession recently? The machines here can mine thirty tons of coal a day, but the consumption of the machines is only 8000 yuan a day. This consumption does not include the losses caused by maintenance and breakage. , the more than 300 of us are not the only unemployed coal miners outside."

This seems to be a fact that weighs down on each of us.

I looked at the ocean and said, “Is there anywhere else we can go?”

Dahai shook his head and looked at the sky silently.

A few hours later, Dahai and I packed our bags. Dahai told me that he planned to go back and take over half an acre of his father's land.

But I was at a loss because my land had been rented out a long time ago.But I had no choice but to feel helpless, so I thought I might as well go home and take a look.

Dahai lives in the same village as me, and Dahai helped me pay the long-distance bus fare back.

At this moment, I remembered that Dahai paid the same price when I came here ten years ago.

Because it was the sea that took me to dig coal.

On the way, Dahai had only one request for me: when I get back, don't tell me that the two of us came back because the company went bankrupt.

Dahai thought about it all night on the long-distance bus and told me orally that he had a car and a house in a big city.The person who came back to visit relatives with 10,000+ asked me to help hide it.He also told me that I could use similar excuses to give myself some face.

When I thought about it and asked him how he wanted to come back to farm because he was just here to visit relatives.

Dahai just lowered his head and said, "Just keep it a secret for now, just take it one step at a time."

I agreed to help Dahai hide it, and Dahai thought about whether he should help me and came up with a good excuse.

I shook my head and didn't answer Dahai.

Because I don’t know how to say it, let alone how to make it up.

The outside of the village has changed to another look, and I have also changed to another look.

The small wooden houses in the village were turned into cement houses, and the muddy path at the entrance of the village was also paved with cement roads.

I just remembered that when I went out, I just said I was going to work, and I didn’t go back for ten years, not to mention that I had no contact information at all at that time.

At this time, Dahai and I were standing at the entrance of the village, and Dahai suggested staying in a hotel at the entrance of the village for one night before going back.

We looked at each other, and Dahai really didn't look like a successful person at this time.If the sea doesn't look like it, then I should be even more outrageous.

The hotel at the entrance of the village is over eight stories high, and we stayed in Room [-].

That is, No. [-] on the sixth floor. From this height, you can indeed see the whole village.

All the houses in the village are decent, but my house is a small brick house that looks out of place with the surroundings.

I thought about the words of Dahai. Dahai usually spent ten years and only left 10,000+.

I am not usually very spendthrift and have more than 40 yuan in savings.

More than 40 yuan is nothing in big cities outside, and you can't afford to buy a house.Even a nice-looking car costs far more than 40 yuan.

I like the look of the car, but I don't know how to drive it at all.

In the past ten years, I have learned almost nothing except working in the mines.

I thought about whether Dahai's suggestion needed to give myself an excuse, a reasonable excuse.

Dahai pulled me to buy a suit that day. I didn't buy a suit but we got a haircut with him.

Early the next morning, Dahai said he was going home first and helped me renew my hotel room for one more day.He told me to go back one day and pretended not to know him.Because he was afraid that I would say that I came back because I resigned. It would be unreasonable to say that one is a big boss and the other just resigned.

(End of this chapter)