The boy hesitated for a moment, said "Thank you sister" softly, at first he took small bites cautiously, and then ate faster and faster, and soon he finished a big bowl.
Liang Xiaonan had already signaled to the stall owner to cook another big bowl. After he finished eating one bowl, Liang Xiaonan gave him another bowl.
Wontons are different from dumplings, they have very little filling. A boy in his teens would not be able to get enough after eating one bowl, and two bowls would probably be enough, not to mention that Li Gang has been hungry for some time.
Yes, Li Gang, the boy is the son of Li Jianhua and Xiaoqin who Liang Xiaonan met in Nanfeng Town and went to the coal mine to work as a worker with his cousin.
Li Gang ate two large bowls of wontons in one go, and his body was not so cold anymore, so he was a little speechless with excitement.
He drank a bowl of Hu spicy soup with his mother at the sesame seed shop in Nanfeng Town that day. He only thought about going to the coal mine with his cousin to work as a worker, and didn't pay attention to others at all, but Liang Xiaonan remembered him.
Eating and drinking enough, he didn't know that Liang Xiaonan was the one who drank Hu spicy soup with him that day.
Liang Xiaonan said, "How did you end up here?"
Seeing that Li Gang didn't know where to start, she said, "You start with leaving Nanfeng Town."
"My father was seriously ill and needed soybeans, but we had no money to buy them. My mother begged my aunt to ask my cousin to take me to work in the coal mine. My cousin happened to come home and promised to take me to work as a worker, saying You can have 20 yuan a month."
Liang Xiaonan also heard these news at the time.
Li Gang said that he went to the coal mine with his cousin Daming, and only after he arrived did he know that his cousin had not been a regular worker in the coal mine before, but was just a temporary worker.
He gave the letter of introduction from the brigade to the mine, and the mine leader told him to do it first, but he always suspected that he was under 18 years old.
He went down the well every day with the adults and worked for a month without seeing the light of day. The mine gave him 30 yuan, and his cousin sent the money back to Nanfeng Town for him. Then in the second month, the mine cleaned up the workers. All were fired.
At that time, a man told the dismissed temporary workers about the newly opened coal mine there, and asked everyone if they would like to go. He also said that it was a national coal mine, but it was relatively new and lacked skilled workers. They could pay 60 yuan a month.
60 yuan is the wages of regular workers, my cousin and Li Gang both agreed, Nanfeng Town can’t just go back like this, it’s shameful.
They got into each other's passenger car, the curtain was drawn, and they walked for a long time. After getting off the car, they realized that they had entered a deep mountain, where it was a state unit, but a private coal mine. No rest at all, no enough food to eat, wages deducted and beaten.
Cousin Daming worked for a month and asked them for salary, but was beaten up by the monitor who led the team, saying that the salary was settled at the end of the year, and if he didn't want to do it, he would leave.
Cousin wanted to take Li Gang away, but if he could get away, both brothers were severely beaten! Later, Li Gang and his cousin tried their best to escape.
The two escaped separately, and the people on the coal mine chased them desperately. Li Gang didn't know where he was. He ran blindly in the mountains for half a month, eating tree bark and grass roots. Jianning.
When he came to Jianning, because he was young and lacking energy, he couldn’t find a job at all. He went to the pier every day to help people carry some goods, and sometimes he helped people a little on the street.
After he finished speaking, he wiped away his tears several times.
Liang Xiaonan knows that there are black coal mines not only now, but also in the future. There are more dynasties in the past and a long history. The more underdeveloped the era of communication, the more such evil forces exist.
Liang Xiaonan asked him where the black coal kiln was, but Li Gang couldn't tell, he just remembered that it was in a barren mountain.
She had no choice but to give up and said to him: "Winter is coming, and the cold and wet in the south is also terrible. You should go home as soon as possible. I will buy the ticket for you, and you can go back by yourself."
"Sister, I..." He instinctively wanted to decline, but changed his words again, "Sister, I'll go back and find a way to pay you back."
Liang Xiaonan said: "Okay, you go back first, and I will find you when the time comes."
"Do you know who I am?" Li Gang said in surprise.
"I know, isn't your name Li Gang? Is your home in Nanfeng Town? You said it just now." Liang Xiaonan asked when chatting with him.
The stall owner said to Li Gang: "Listen to this comrade and go back quickly. It's getting colder and more chaotic outside. Meningitis broke out. You are the only child in your house. If something happens to you, think about your father." How can mother live!"
Li Gang is no longer pedantic, nodding and saying that he listens to his sister.
Liang Xiaonan first took Li Gang to a nearby store, bought cotton-padded clothes, trousers, cotton-padded shoes, and a hat. He took Li Gang back to the guest house and told him to take a bath in the public bathhouse of the guest house and change into new cotton-padded clothes.
Mr. Xie and Cao Yuan both live next door to her. Hearing her movements, they came out to see what was going on. Liang Xiaonan pointed to Li Gang and said that he was from Yu County, without explaining much.
Cao Yuan saw that she had bought a new padded coat for Li Gang, and asked how to buy a ticket tomorrow, so he said, "Let me book a bed for him."
He wants to accompany Mr. Xie, protect Mr. Xie, and they live in the same house, but it is absolutely impossible for Li Gang to live with them. Cao Yuan opened him a bed in a multi-person room, which is enough for Li Gang to be excited.
The guest house, especially the Red Star Guest House, was a place he could only hope to enter.
Now there is no TV in the guest house, and she doesn’t have a computer or mobile phone to play with, so she can’t keep farming...
So, she took out a book from the space.
Because she was going to collect old things in Modu, she has been cramming up on relevant knowledge. She rummaged through the space library to see if there was any information to check, and she really found a copy of "Appreciation of Calligraphy and Painting Art Works".
This book is a set of six volumes, from bronze wares and silk paintings of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, seal cutting of the Han Dynasty, calligraphy of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, to contemporary calligraphy and painting. She has popularized her own knowledge.
When she pulled her eyes out of the book, it was already 2 o'clock in the morning, and she immediately fell asleep.
Early the next morning, Cao Yuan told Liang Xiaonan that he had already bought the train ticket for Li Gang.
Liang Xiaonan bought 10 sesame seed cakes for Li Gang, gave him 10 catties of soybeans, and said, "That's all I have, and it's not safe for you to bring too much."
Now that food is expensive, Li Gang is really trying to carry 100 catties of soybeans, and dare to be killed on the road.
Li Gang vowed in his heart that he would repay Liang Xiaonan for the rest of his life when he went back. He has no ability now, so he should not say anything, and it would be empty.
Cao Yuan and the others originally thought that they could drive to Modu at night, but when they entered Gusu, they saw the sky was overcast and the wind was blowing violently.
Now many cars do not have radios, but there are radios in Volga cars.
After listening for a long time, I heard the radio saying that there might be the biggest sea hurricane this winter.
"Let's stay overnight in Gusu." Although Xie Haoyun was anxious to go back to Modu, nothing was more important than his life.
The typhoon is not a joke. In the first half of this year, a sea tornado landed and uprooted the big trees in Modu. More than 10,000 houses were uprooted and smashed, and dozens of extremely strong high-voltage transmission towers were destroyed. Twisted, pulled up, many people died.
They found the best guest house in Gusu City. Liang Xiaonan slept until midnight when she heard the sound of strong wind outside and the sound of breaking glass.
She is from the south, and she was used to this kind of typhoon weather in her previous life, but she heard a different sound, it was the sound of human footsteps.
Running towards her undisguisedly in the wind and rain, not long after, she saw a dark shadow lying on her window.
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