d out of his mouth tightly held a stick two feet of willow, one end of the stick with a small oil lamp light, small oil lamp is not bright, but the smoke from a large, spicy eyes also makes his throat, he marched half kneeling barefoot in the front, with the pick minus ballast, reoccupy wicker baskets off ballast dumped outside the mouth of the cave, "is now a lean coal, the coal, if we will dig the hole bigger, so dont choke." He said to himself, "du du rang rang while digging also like to son said, in fact he knows its just his helpless expression of this kind of life.

The early light to dark night, in the mountains from the spilling of the sky glow, HongLaoSi devoting into mine, and at noon, he has been back and forth in and out of the mine more than 10 trips, too tired to even speak too, the down drag from the mine coal basket will it upside down a button, but sleep in his consciousness would not be in want to other. This time, HongLaoSi in mines the mouth of a good nights sleep sleep, and enjoy that brings him the midday sun. After wake up, he will be hard to pull out again tired acid ma arms and legs, rubbed by breeze luo hurt knees and feet, and gave him a son to start eating the first meal, then go to grahame HuoKou set on the first day to see that any prey harvest. Son do rice are fixed, are all the same, at every meal is thin like water surface with wild vegetables porridge. Sometimes cut his son embalm baked roebuck or pheasant meat added, is his rebuke. He thought it was his most proud of booty, three bay also have no what can one do with wicker buckle trapping roebuck, he could not bear to eat, again afraid flies produce maggots in the flesh, can take down the meat to hang it on a shelf with smoky dry, down the mountain at home to mother and two children to eat. Son would sometimes put those already dried roebuck bone or pheasant bone in the water with a little YeCong he boiled soup to drink, this is the thick taste of soup always reminds his memories of the sea. In the home, this season is not someone to sea fishing, should complement the nets, dry fish, dry season, the first half fish, seasonable mending their nets, year after year, day after day, if it werent for war and ZhuaBing, a fishing woven mesh point of pickled fish, after this time a feed is no problem, the total is better than to the landlord house coal here. But thats life, it will not be the way you think makes you do things seriously. Below the place looked a bit worthless gray place, is my home, he want rice came here two years ago, a year ago he took his wife and three children from fujian home fled here, home again good, also war raged, and hard here but it can save. "

HongLaoSi have never been to the city, he even dont know the way to town. This time into the city for three days, not only let HongLaoSi nest in the mountains again two years later saw the life outside the mountain, also let his bold enough to get up. This stems from his again in three days and Bai Liangcai coexist with Bai Liangcai make more, drink water of a river, with what he can do what we want and not afraid of other people? He began to counsel to catch some fish to the city to sell more, this will let the whole family can have a good point, it will dilute some wife had come here to escape the war to complain about. HongLaoSi also deep remorse for this purpose, originally want to here is xanadu, who wanted to here was a mountain in the arms of the winds were hard to come in a poor village. 40 families mostly tibetans, and the rest of the han people in addition to farming is to give the landlord idea home do long, a year a few rare full meal. Although HongLaoSi read a few years in the old book, can know a few words here and had never seen a book is the same, no one can understand your knowledge, no one could sense of your ability. Several times, HongLaoSi moved again want to leave, but think about the days the soldiers panic horses, where not all the same? More concern is that hes afraid to soldiers caught again, to do what the man is ghost not ghost "yellow skin".

Because the fish had money, HongLaoSi in particularly good mood, work to exceptionally well, also despise one day, his coal pit excavating the five or six feet deep, dig out the coal gangue is extraordinarily black, extraordinarily bright, even threw it into the pile of smoke, can he know that this is not far from the coal seam. He widened the roadway, and in the lane every point on the lamp light, leisurely in the mines in and out, and her hands rested on her hips appreciate the mouth of the cave: "son, such as coal, we give idea home ten cars, we wont do their home long, we sell the