Chapter 498 Happy Days of Receiving Salary

Early in the morning, in a remote mountain nest not far from the mine.

Black Hawk lay on the carpet, looking at the tent cover with his blue eyes.

The pile of charcoal fire he pressed before going to bed had long been burned out, and there was no heat in the whole tent. The breath he exhaled from his mouth was a ball of white mist.

Suddenly, he felt a pain in his head, and his veins bulged. It was a matter of a moment that the pain was so severe that it was about to burst.

Black Hawk struggled to take out a stack of pills from under the pillow, stuffed them all into his mouth and swallowed them.

After a few seconds, the symptoms eased, and Black Hawk was completely exhausted and collapsed on the carpet.

"Why... the world is sick, but I am the one taking medicine..."

After a long time, he touched a small knife under the pillow again, and Black Hawk murmured: "To do big things, you must have guns and explosives after all."

He got up and put on his clothes quickly, put on a leather cotton hat, and went to the corner to find a large black box, which contained fuses, batteries, wires, electric meters, pliers, etc.

Next to the black box were several cans of gasoline with a strong smell and some cut-off water pipes.

The only thing missing was the detonator, but we could get it tonight, and hopefully the quantity would not be too small. Black Hawk closed the lid and walked out of the tent.

Hearing the noise, Elke got out of the tent and followed Black Hawk. Although he was Black Hawk's absolute confidant in the eyes of everyone, Elke knew that he was afraid of the man in front of him from the bottom of his heart at all times.

Whenever he wanted to escape from this extremely K-involved team, the scene of Black Hawk stabbing the innocent driver to death in front of him with an expressionless face would pop up in his mind.

Elke was sure that if he ran away, he would end up like the unlucky driver after being caught.

Even worse, because Black Hawk especially liked to kill chickens to scare monkeys.

Thinking of this, Elke couldn't help but shudder.

"Mr. Black Hawk, do you have any mission for us to perform so early?" Elke bent over and said respectfully behind Black Hawk.

"Today is the day when the Chinese dogs get their wages, and they will all get drunk at night. Elke, I want to give you a very important task, can you guarantee that you will complete it?"

Black Hawk turned around and his cold eyes fell on Elke.

Elke felt cold in his heart and buried his head a little deeper: "I will definitely complete it."

Black Hawk nodded with satisfaction, thinking that the originally disgusting bow criminal in front of him was well trained by him.

"When cleaning the coal mine, you are responsible for leaving one person alive. Let him use his mobile phone to call 110 and say that there was a fight in the coal mine and the police need to come to deal with it. Well, let alone a fight, if it is too serious, there will be no shortage of police. Just say that you caught a thief in the coal mine and asked the police to come and deal with it."

Black Hawk said it calmly.

But the more Elke listened, the colder his heart became, and his body couldn't help shivering. The warm leather cotton hat slid down his face from his head, as if taking away his last bit of blood.

He subconsciously shirked: "Mr. Black Hawk, didn't you say that there will be a sandstorm in the middle of the night and all the cell phones will lose signal? Then how can I make a call?"

"Wait until we kill all the people, the sandstorm will pass, and the cell phone will naturally be able to make calls." Black Hawk hugged his chest, with an indifferent look on his face.

The cold wind from the mountains blew on Elke's head again and again, making him shiver more and more intensely.

Gong Suifen, who had just been released from prison a few years ago, had dilated pupils and a terrified look.

Why, he was not as excited as he had imagined.

Only fear remained.

At night, in the mine operation area.

The machines roared, the voices were noisy, and the workers kept coming out of the elevator door at the entrance of the mine. Although they were covered in dust and sweat, they all showed excitement in their eyes.

Today is the day for the mine to pay wages, and there is no overtime work at night as usual.

Even the security guards at the gate ran to the office building and lined up behind the salary queue with shining eyes.

"Old man Li, aren't you watching the gate?" Someone spotted the security guard and asked jokingly.

Old man Li waved his hand nonchalantly: "Who is so full and bored that he comes to our poor mountain valley at night? Don't worry, no one will come!"

"Haha!"

The team collecting wages was full of laughter.

An old worker walked down from the second-floor finance office with strong steps. This man hung his safety helmet on the back of his neck, revealing most of his white hair. He was wearing a mining lamp and a self-rescuer, and his face was visibly happy.

"Old Zheng, why did you come to collect your salary without taking off your equipment! How much did you get? How much do you plan to keep for yourself this time?" Shao Min, a young man in the queue, joked with his eyes bent.

"Fourteen thousand! Are you little bastards jealous? The mine provides food and accommodation. I'll keep five hundred to buy cigarettes, and send the rest to my wife."

Old Zheng is quite old, he must be over fifty years old. He looks very old because he works underground all year round, and his face is full of wrinkles when he smiles.

But he has been in the mine the longest, knows the most, and has the kindest personality.

On weekdays, when new people come to the mine, they are all led by him. Over time, a small half of the workers in the mine are nominally his apprentices, so he is quite respected in the mine.

In the mine, the only hobby of Old Zheng is smoking.

"Your wife only takes care of two children, so why spend so much money? Don't work so hard, and end up giving it to Lao Wang next door!" Shao Min continued to tease, this is his way of expressing respect and closeness.

Old Zheng raised his arm and shook his fist a few times, but he didn't care in his heart. They are all brothers in the same mine. They see each other every day. After working together for so many years, they have become brothers.

They live in a remote mountain cave, going out early and returning late every day in the mines. Besides playing cards, teasing colleagues is the only entertainment activity.

"Tohuti! If you have time to laugh at me, why don't you find a wife to marry for yourself! You are already old, but you are still like a child!" Lao Zheng taught him a lesson seriously.

"The winch operators in the mine are all good girls, waiting for you, Lao Zheng, to introduce them to me! Lao Zheng, when will you introduce them to me? I have prepared the matchmaker red envelopes for you!"

"Haha! I have prepared the red envelopes too!"

"Tohuti, I heard your abacus in Urumqi!"

Everyone laughed and their eyes were brighter.

It can be seen that when talking about women, everyone's state is different from the previous salary. This is the normal state of coal miners. There are many coal miners here from other places, who have little education. They all think that although making a living in the mine is a bit tiring and dangerous, it is indeed a livelihood that can earn a lot of money, which is much better than screwing screws in the factory.

Coal mines are like this, mostly men, very few women. So there are a few women who always become the focus of conversation among the miners. When the men are together for a long time, they don't talk about other things. Every day they talk about who's wife is like this, who's wife is very wild, who has an affair with whom, etc.

Catching wind and shadows is some of the gossip when you are tired from work. Talking about these dirty jokes also gives you energy to work and time passes quickly.

Although they tell dirty jokes, you will find that the workers are very kind and tenacious after getting along with coal miners for a long time, because lazy people and slackers will never come to the coal mine to suffer this hardship.

Tuohuti ran over and stuffed a pack of new cigarettes into Lao Zheng: "Lao Zheng, save it for me. If I don't have money to buy cigarettes at the end of the month, you have to return it to me."

Lao Zheng knew what Tuohuti was thinking.

Since Tuohuti was promoted to a regular employee under his guidance, he would find various reasons to give him wine and cigarettes when he got his salary at the end of each month.

Cigarettes and alcohol are cheap goods in the supermarket of the mine, but the kindness that has been shown over the years is precious. Besides, Tohuti also has to support his younger brothers and sisters to study and his elderly parents' medical care, so the expenses are not small.