Impression of the Mine (Prose)
Author: Zhuo Weiyan
Unknowingly, I have lived in the mine for more than 20 years.
Xiayukou Mine, this mine that carries the joys, sorrows, joys and dreams of my childhood, makes me feel more inclusive and powerful when I integrate into its embrace, especially When the whole family is related to it, they will even have a kind of "blood is thicker than water" affection for it.
I don’t want to hear other people’s “disdainful” words when talking about coal mines. The “contempt” in my heart makes my self-esteem hurt and at the same time extremely disgusted with them, even though it is currently in a “cold wave” "period. Because to me, "coal miners" are respectable and the loveliest group of people.
Children's words are unbridled. This sentence caused me to be severely scolded by my mother during my childhood. It was already time to get off work that day, and my father hadn't come home yet.
On a small red square table with a few simple home-cooked dishes, mother and daughter sat on a small bench around the food, quietly waiting for their father to come home. "I haven't come back at this time, will something happen to dad?" As soon as I finished speaking, my mother's chopsticks hit my head. Accompanied by the scolding: "Can you speak? You are not allowed to say such things again." After a while, my father came back, and my mother quickly stood up and served food to my father. With an expression of joy after relaxing her tension and anxiety, she greeted us to eat quickly. .
Sometimes, my mother would ask my sister and me to deliver meals to my father. On the way, we often see coal miners who are preparing to go down the mine or who have already ascended the mine. The people going down the mine are talking and laughing while receiving the miner's lamp. The workers going up the mine have tired faces and can only talk. Their teeth are white when they laugh. of. When I met them for the first time, I felt a little scared. I couldn't believe that there was such a group of people in the world.
My father is a man and truck worker in the transportation area. When he saw the man and truck appearing at the entrance of the tunnel, he knew that his father was coming out. At this time, my sister and I would slowly walk to the car. After it stopped, our father would jump off the front of the car, take the food in our hands, and watch our father pick up the rice bowl and use chopsticks to quickly pick up the bowl. When the food was served, my sister and I would play nearby or stand and wait for a while. It was not until our father disappeared at the tunnel entrance in his car that we returned home.
After arriving home, my mother will carefully wash the dishes and chopsticks that my father has used after eating and put them away until the next meal is delivered. Occasionally, my mother would buy some eggs in that era of material scarcity, and then put them in a large white porcelain bowl and lock them in the cabinet under the desk. We would eat a good meal while adding nutrition to my father. of. At this time, my father would often eat some symbolically and give the rest to my sister and me.
Slowly, it took a long time to deliver meals to my father, and I became accustomed to seeing "coal black men" going up or down the well on the way. The affinity I feel for the mine now may come from my father’s car and his figure when he jumped out of the car, as well as the group of “coal black men” talking and laughing on the way.
Later, I started working in a mine, and my wife was a worker in the ventilation area of ??the mine. I hoped that he would be safe every day when he went down the mine, and I would not allow my daughter to tell the truth, for fear that good things would not work or bad things would happen. spirit. My mother's hard work and my father's "black" face when he jumped out of the car also made me feel even more how difficult the working life of these "coal black men" is.
They are not only explorers with "power" deep in the earth's core, but also include hard-working, intelligent, brave and fearless working people.