Author of this article: Qian Qiuyun, editor: Zhuo Ran, head picture from: Visual China
Remember Hegang?
At that time, a young man spent 58,000 yuan to purchase a 77-square-meter, second-hand small two-bedroom apartment with decoration in Hegang. “House prices are like green onions” and Hegang became popular overnight. Within a few months, another person who followed the young man to buy a house spent 30,000 yuan to buy a house in Hegang, only to resell it at a low price of 22,000 yuan.
While most people are complaining about housing prices, crowded city life, and the involuntary social environment, the existence of Hegang seems to stand out from the crowd, but selling houses at low prices also makes everyone realize that house values have risen and fallen. It often means the arrival and departure of an era.
The news of Hegang was soon forgotten as the hot spots of public opinion dissipated, and the promise of clamoring to go to Hegang to buy a house together was also forgotten. But across the country, there are actually many cities that are still performing strangers and tragedies similar to the “Hegang City”.
This microscopic story tells about a young man’s experience of buying a house in Shanxi Changzhi:
On October 13, 2016, under the lens of all reporters, Shigejie, the 90-year-old, 137.9-meter-deep South Auxiliary Shaft, was sealed by cement, and also announced the end of life of the earliest coal mine in China. . Since then, most of the workers in Shigejie coal mine have been transferred. People who heard the news a long time ago have already entrusted their relationship to find another way. Overnight, the crowds of small towns gathered to make birds and beasts.
Nowadays, this resource-exhausted city has become a real “ghost city”. Only the shops, banks and empty zoos with closed windows on the street suggest that people who come to see the house have actually lived here. In Shige Festival, 40,000 yuan can be used to purchase a 65-square-meter second-hand house in full, “the price can still be negotiated.”
Here is the true story about it:
Standing on the spot, looking up at the rows of buildings, the cold wind roared at the doors and windows, making terrifying noises. Not far away is the huge circular glass cover that is full of modernity like foreign visitors, which forms a sharp contrast with this dilapidated town.
“Come and see!” Li Shengchao walked in front of me, greeted me and let me pass quickly. I tightened two steps, and another row was emptyDownstairs, all the balconies were empty, and there were many without furniture. I could see the hillside in the background at a glance. I took out my phone, shaking and pressing the shutter.
This is a section of the Shige Festival in winter. The sun is very weak at noon, the whole community is empty, and the silence exudes desolation. My friend and I are going to buy a house here.
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Sheng Chao is my high school classmate. After graduating from college, he returned to old family management from Taiyuan, inherited his father’s career, and became a glorious soldier in a local coal mine. Coal mines are our pillar industry in Shanxi and the livelihood of most people. Even though it is getting worse now, in a fifth-tier city like Changzhi, coal miners still have a stable iron rice bowl.
Sheng Chao’s job now can only give him 2,400 yuan a month. When I learned the numbers, my pupils dilated and I was surprised. He smiled helplessly: “Fortunately, the local per capita salary is 1,900 yuan, I am already above the level.”
Also, he put his head in my ear quietly and told me that he was ready to buy a house. “Have you saved enough money so soon?” I looked envious. “What? The house here only costs 30,000 to 40,000, which is not enough for your salary for a few months.”
Isn’t that cheaper than the house in Hegang? My eyes widened, thinking about my renting an average price of 90,000 yuan per square meter thousand mansion house, compared with the easy purchasing power here, I instantly envy: “If you buy a house, take me to see it, okay?” /p>
By chance, half a month later, I temporarily returned to Taiyuan from Shenzhen. After a lot of time, Shengchao called and asked me to accompany him to the house inspection. I readily agreed. In this way, we jumped on the bus to Changzhi.
This is a small town with an unknown citizenship in Shanxi. It is hard to imagine that the high-speed rail has not yet been touched in 2020. As for the label of this city, Shengchao can’t remember it. Even if Changzhi’s specialty thermal coal is found in Shanxi, which is full of mines, it is not surprising. Three hours later, Shengchao picked me up at the bus station and took me on the road with a simple greeting.
On the way to Shige Festival
The unit where Shengchao is located is located in Wangzhuang Coal Mine in Tunliu County, Changzhi City. It is the only small mine owned by the “Fortune 500” Lu’an Group in Changzhi. Shengchao’s father has been a miner here for more than 30 years, and he got a lot of favors with his relationship and got him a place for him. Now he doesn’t need to go down, and he can get by with some documents.
“I really envy your little days, you can get a salary if you don’t go to work.” When I think of Shengchao telling me not to go to work in two days, I am envious in my heart. “Envy you fart, wait for death!” He sighed, his eyes never leaving the rough road ahead.
The narrow asphalt road has long been crushed to pieces by overweight trucks passing by all the year round, and we walked very bumpy. When large trucks pulling coal whizzed past, thick coal ash would always be thrown up on the bumps, and the dry branches on the roadside were dyed black. If it were not for the red and green front, I thought I had entered a black and white studio. . Compared with the blue sky and blue sea when you go out in Shenzhen, it is simply a difference.
Passing by Shengchao’s unit
I have been at the same table with Shengchao for three years, and we have been in close contact, but I don’t know that he works in such a bad environment. Even in the car, I was holding a mask tightly. Shengchao complained to me that he would not go to the wilderness to buy a house unless it was too exhausting to drive 40 kilometers back and forth to the city every day. “The air is so bad!”
Next, Shengchao and I complained about the housing prices in Changzhi: The per capita wages are low and pitiful, but the housing prices are as high as Taiyuan. His friend just bought a new house in the city,The price is 13 thousand. I refuted timidly. My sister only saw the wedding room at the subway entrance of Taiyuan. It was only more than 7,000, which is far less than the noble Changzhi.
Limited funds limit his choices. Shige Festival is right next to Wangzhuang Coal Mine. I heard many colleagues say that the houses there are very cheap, so I want to come to a place for lunch break and settlement. If it’s windy or rainy, I can’t drive the car, and the traffic restriction is broken. Anyway, this is half a home. “Only a set of 30,000 yuan, what do you think 30,000 yuan can do now?” He knuckles the steering wheel and smiles openly.
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“No, 30,000 yuan can buy such a luxurious house?” I looked at the antique Chinese villas on the side of the road and was shocked, especially when I saw that there was an Alpha nanny car with more than 1 million yuan on the side of the road. Shi sighed more directly: I didn’t expect to have such a style in the famous poverty-stricken areas of the country!
“What are you thinking! We haven’t arrived yet, this is a house in Renjia Village!” Sheng Chao woke up the jealous me. But the shock is still there. What kind of villagers can afford to drive millions of luxury cars? “Naturally it is a coal mining village.”
Passing by Zhangcun Coal Mine
Sheng Chao introduced to me in a humble manner, “We are passing by Nancun, a well-known Fucun Village in Tunliu County.The coal here is less than ten meters below the surface, and it is all high-quality clean coal.< /strong>“Before the confiscation, many villagers dig pits at home to mine coal and sell them. Several people have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy equipment and drill holes in their yards. “One car and one car to pull out is the cheapest. Ten yuan a ton, less than one-third of the market price.”
Not only Nancun, but Beicun, Zhangcun, and Huojiagou to the north are all coal-based villages. There are hundreds of factories in this area, covering coal mining, storage, cleaning, and logistics. In the upstream industry, there are hundreds of coal carts leaving here every day. The cars passing by are all humiliated, so the car wash has become a villageThe second sideline.
With the unique resources, many millionaires were born in these villages in the early 1990s. When the village is most prosperous, there are many luxury cars and villas, and the villagers wear one of the best brands. These wealthy local bosses went to Hainan to buy houses, Beijing nightclubs, and Hong Kong and Macau to gamble. “Shanxi people have money”, because of their magnanimity, they have long been notorious.
From 2007 to 2008, all private small mines in the village were integrated. Some were merged into state-owned enterprises, and some were returned to the village. It was even more blessing and rain and dew. At that time, each household could be allocated a year by taking a share. million. “At that time, during the New Year, we were traveling to Hong Kong one by one, and the mahjong hall in the village could still use Hong Kong dollars without the RMB, which was very arrogant.” Shengchao said.
In small cities, various relationships are intertwined. The reason Shengchao understands this is that the son of a family named Bai is the cousin of Shengchao’s classmates. It is said that their family’s income was more than one million yuan a year. Later, the cousin did not study well, got gambling and took drugs. The good days have taken a turn for the worse.
Along with the tragedy of his cousin, Nancun also ushered in an inflection point. In recent years, Nancun’s coal resources have become more and more depleted. Several collective mines in Nancun have been closed down one after another for reasons such as the eradication of evil and environmental improvement, and Nancun’s momentum has taken a turn for the worse. Many people left one after another, dumped a large number of luxury car watches, and specially spawned a group of Erdao dealers who cleaned up Shanxi coal bosses. I was amazed at this, In the same Shanxi, the existence of coal mines has become a bifurcation between heaven and mortal world.
A villager’s home in Nancun
The car stopped at a big stone lion at the entrance of a building. Shengchao pointed to it and said, “This courtyard house belongs to his colleague and friend. He specially invited a designer from Beijing. The design fee was only two million yuan.” However, this suite is now unoccupied, Shengchao Said that they all bought properties in Hainan, and when it was too cold in Shanxi in winter, they moved their family there for the winter.
Looking back at the houses on the whole street now, many people have moved away, and the village is gradually hollowing out. The clusters of villas are just so empty, looking very lonely.
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3 kilometers away from the destination, a T-junction appeared in front of us. Go to the left and you will see the winning super unit. A few meters to the right, you will see a striking white street sign on a blue background with the words “Shigejie Mining Area” written on it. We followed the sign and drove shallowly.
Street sign to enter Shige Festival
Along the way, Shengchao introduced me to the development history of Shanxi coal mines as a pedestrian. The Shige Festival is the starting point. This open-pit coal mine hidden in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains was looted and mined by the Japanese during the war. After the war, the country has made great efforts to reorganize and restore it. It has become the country with the highest output, the highest efficiency, and the lowest cost for many years. The “Five Good” enterprises with the best quality and the most capable organization.
1963 was the highlight of the Shigejie Coal Mine. It was personally established by Premier Zhou Enlai as one of the “five red flags of hard-working and thrifty enterprises in the national industrial and economic front.” “A flower in the sea of coal” has become synonymous with Shigejie, and the diligent and thrifty mine style is even more famous in China. I heard from my dad and them that at the time of liberation, my grandpa and them all picked up the tungsten wire from other people’s miner’s lamps. “
In its heyday, there were thousands of workers here. All equipment is the world’s top coal mining machinery, and its indicators rank first among coal mines in the country. The internal staff clubs, supermarkets, dormitories, hospitals, schools are all available, and it is as lively as a closed small society. Successive leaders of the country have visited here one after another, praising the Shige Festival spirit of enduring hardships and hard work.
“When my dad went to work in the 90s, one month laterWell income is higher than mine now! “Shengchao sighs. In the past, the miners used to buy cars with their New Year’s bonuses. As it is now, the group pays hundreds of thousands of employees and has to rely on loans.
The previous staff club
With the depletion of Shigejie’s resources, the golden age belonging to this place has passed away. The deserted street deeply reveals its cruel present: the dump trucks are gone, there are fewer cars, and even the screams are gradually disappearing. On the street, except for a few sporadic shops, most of the stores are pulling blue iron rolling shutters, letting the wind blow in the cold winter.
Closed shops all over the street
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which has long been closedOK
Closed Grain and Oil Department Store
In the run-down, a touch of red jumped into my eyes, It turned out to be a zoo, and when I walked in, there was nothing left. The sunken Monkey Mountain courtyard is full of unmelted snow. Shengchao heard from his colleagues that there was a monkey on the hill, but he is nowhere to be seen.
A zoo without animals, an empty monkey mountain
We heard the sound of reading from a nearby school from a distance, and we were overjoyed and ran over curiously to have a conversation with Uncle Wang, the doorman. The result was unexpected: There have been no students for many years. This year, I was just contracted by a private middle school to do closed tuition training for the high school entrance examination. At present, there are less than 60 students in more than 30 classrooms in a 4-story building.
Schools with less than 60 students
When Shige Festival was the most prosperous, Uncle Wang was already working as a doorman. He recalled the scene of hundreds of students at the time, “They were all the children of nearby employees. When they went to school, Wuyang Wuyang came to the head, and there were stalls on this slope.” But in the past five or six years, the people who came were just It’s getting less and less, and he doesn’t know where to go: “It’s also possible that I have transferred schools with my parents one after another, or it may be to Changzhi (urban area) , I went to work in Taiyuan.”
At present, there are less than a hundred people left in Shige Festival. The property and the party and government offices are still standing here as a clear banner. They have a firm belief. As long as they are still working here for a day, it will be a sign The earliest coal mine in China has not yet died.
The actual death occurred in the late autumn of 2016. On that day, under the lens of all reporters, the mouth of this 90-year-old and 137.9-meter-deep south auxiliary shaft was sealed by cement, and the nameplate on it recorded the end like an epitaph. The moment, closed time: October 13, 2016.
Since then, Shige Festival has completed its historical mission. No more coal is drawn from the wellhead to continue to provide light and heat to the world, and all employees are also diverted to nearby brother mines. “In fact, it is not completely exhausted, but there are still a lot of high-ash, high-sulfur, and low-calorific value coals. It is not worth the effort to mine.” Shengchao corrected my statement.
That year, most of the workers in the Shigejie coal mine were transferred. People who had heard the news a long time ago had already entrusted their relationship to find another way. A colleague in the same office building of Shengchao escaped from Shigejie. Five years ago, he was in the most central research room and saw that the coal mine collapsed soon after struggling to the Wangzhuang Coal Mine. The business management section of the staff.
Most of the low-level workers who did not move were forced to transfer. Some switched jobs to the group’s peony seed oil factory, and some directly bought out their seniority. Overnight, the crowds of small towns gathered to make birds and beasts.
Uncle Wang’s hometown of Huguan is not a formal worker in Lu’an. Alone, he has lived on the Shige Festival for many years. He is too old and has no plans to find a way out. The concierge for 600 yuan a month has become his final destination.
When I was about to inquire about something, Shengchao’s call came. BuyerAlready come and wait for us.
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Down the ramp is the address we agreed with the seller. This is a family community, which has just been painted. It used to provide collective accommodation for people working in Shige Festival. The yard was clean and tidy. The notice board made the announcement of paying hot water and heating stay on October 23. “Here we have all the water, electricity and heating, but no one!” Shengchao said with his hips akimbo.
Shigejie Xiyuan Community
The more you go in, the more barren you feel. Except for one or two private cars, there are almost no traces of life in the community. Every building looked up, it was full of black holes, empty windows, not even curtains, and could see through to the next door at a glance.
Sheng Chao’s expression turned ugly, “It looks like a ghost town no matter what!” I swallowed too, I only knew that there were few people here, and I didn’t expect to be more lonely than I thought.
I was thinking about it. I heard the seller’s voice from a distance. A middle-aged man named Li with a flat head and glasses met us together and greeted us warmly: “Are you young couple going to see the wedding room?” Laugh, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, we directly acquiesced in our relationship.
At the entrance of the corridor, no traces of residents can be seen from the glass
We followed him upstairs all the way, while listening to the introduction, “In 2015, I will go to Changzhi (urban area), and the house keeps giving My master lives. There is a lonely old man, and there is complete water, electricity and heating.” I asked curiously about the one-month rent. He mysteriously stretched out three fingers and whispered: “10 yuan a day, 65 square meters, it is regarded as filial piety. Old man.”
Brother Li’s House
Said that the door was opened and the old man was not there, a shabby old man appeared in front of me: mottled walls were everywhere, the wooden floor was curled because of age, the bedding was spread on the bed and was not cleaned, the kitchen It was covered with greasy dirt, the toilet was less than 1 square meter, and the shower head was on the toilet. Shengchao and I frowned one after another.
Seeing that we were not thinking about it, Brother Li hurriedly said that the bed and cabinet were newly purchased. If we bought all of them and sent them directly, they would warmly close to us.
He used to be a tile inspector who went down the mine, and the old man was the team leader of the mine before. He has to go to every work face, and he has been following. The master used to live in the nearby Song Village with his family, but after the death of his wife, his son rented it here, and occasionally came back to see him for a day or two.
Song Village has gradually become hollowed out in recent years. Young people have gone out to work, and many of those who stayed behind have come to Shigejie to buy houses.
Although the national coal-to-gas conversion has saved a lot of the trouble of making fires and adding carbon, it is still not as cheap as living in a building, plus the inconvenience of using toilets and water in winter; this also makes the almost dead Shige Festival hooked again. There was a trace of resurrection, which reminded him of putting the house on the intermediary.
“If it weren’t for the job’s loss, I’m really reluctant to leave the house for 10 years.” Brother Li has been to Shige since he was 21.The festival has gone down, and it has been 17 years now. Here he raised a son and a daughter, got a good wife, and made a bunch of dead brothers—Here are all his youthful memories.
The house was a collective property owned by the unit at that time. In 2009, he paid 100,000 yuan to buy it out and changed his name to himself. But if we want to buy it, we cannot change it. “You can directly give the house book to you. It must be a big property right, but I don’t know why it seems that I can’t change the name now.” In terms of housing introduction, this suite also supports provident fund loans for 20 years, with a down payment of 18,000 and a monthly payment of 238 yuan.
The homeowner originally wanted to pay 60,000 yuan. Seeing that we were not willing, Brother Li took the initiative to give way and stretched out four fingers: “The price can be negotiated, but the minimum cannot exceed this number.” We both looked at each other, said some greetings, and quickly left.
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“The price here is too much moisture!” I complained before people walked far. “Hegang is a city anyway, all parts are complete, Shige Festival is completely dead, what do you buy a house for?” Then I started to teach Shengchao with half a bottle of real estate knowledge:
You can’t ask for this kind of decoration. You must reinstall it. Even if it’s a simple installation, the cost of demolition and rectification is 50,000 yuan. The house is in a mess, and you can’t live in it without 100,000 yuan;
There is no vegetable market or supermarket nearby, life is also a problem;
You don’t know how many years of work you have worked here, and you can rent a very good one for 500 yuan a month. Why bother to buy a real estate that you can’t get away with and occupy the quota…
As soon as I said, Shengchao was dissatisfied and even frustrated by me. I sighed and asked. There are so many people in this world. I really don’t know that these people who say that the houses in Shigejie sell well will sell the houses to them. Who is it?
After five minutes, we have the answer.
An empty central community
The second seller could not be contacted, so we went directly to the appointed Zhongxing community to inquire. With Zhongxing Street as the boundary, Zhongxing District is divided into two districts, north and south, and we walked into the south district nearby. The seller was up for an appointment, but unexpectedly found a promotional note that someone was eager to sell. With curiosity, I tore off a contact information and went to the phone.
As soon as I finished introducing myself, the eldest sister on the other side started chattering about what I bought for three months, the largest basement in the whole Shige Festival, complete water and heating, and a wide view of the park. She has an urgent tone. The appearance indeed fits the adjective of “urgent sale”. Seeing that we had not made up our minds, the eldest sister rushed downstairs to pick us up.
The corridor was dim and narrow, and the voice-activated lights were broken. Reluctantly, we followed her up to the fourth floor. It was a pleasant surprise to see: This is a small two-bedroom with 58 square meters. Although the decoration is old, it can be occupied. The small living room is covered with a children’s carpet, piled with toys, and there are leftover meals and bottles and jars on the table.
The home of Sister Chen and her son
The eldest sister said that she spent 30,000 yuan to clean up and looked a bit human. The heating and sewage were all repaired. It was terrible before. Shengchao and I looked at each other and smiled. Just half an hour ago, I had a taste of the actual power of these four words. “Quan Shige Festival, so I am willing to replace these old bones!”
The eldest sister claims to be Chen. She works in the lamp room of the nearby Changcun mine. She is usually responsible for charging the miner’s lamps of the workers who go down the mine. My hometown is a remote rural village in Changzhi County. After getting married in 2010, I lived with my husband in Beiyuze Town. The year before yesterday, I discovered that my husband had a relationship with a female colleague in the unit’s trade union and divorced.
For the custody of her son, Sister Chen broughtThe child left home and rented near Changgang at the beginning. The mother worked in farming, and his father had died a long time ago. There was no help around him. He was exhausted from picking up his son every day and waiting for him. In addition, colleagues came in nearby and were often talked about by people.
Seeing that her son was at school again, Sister Chen made a ruthless decision to buy a house. Only in this way can she quickly escape from the original environment and return to a long-term sense of security. Taking the 50,000 yuan in compensation from the divorce and a little bit of her own savings, Sister Chen spent 70,000 yuan on this apartment in June this year.
At the time, I only heard that it was cheap, and she paid for it without saying a word. In the end, she didn’t expect that the school here would cut off the second, fifth, and sixth grade directly because of the lack of students. Sister Chen regretted it and had to let her children go back to Changgang to study after one year. There are four commuter buses to and from Changgang every day, but the time is not accurate. It takes 1 hour to wait for one trip in the cold wind.
Compared with the past, life in Shige Festival is more tiring and cumbersome: there is only a supermarket, no hospital, and the police station with only 3 policemen. There must be a fixed time for grocery shopping, otherwise there will be no time to be hungry on the day. So she decided to leave the room in a hurry.
“At that time, I even spent 95,000 yuan on the decoration. If you want it sincerely, you can give me 90,000 yuan! My basement still has doors and windows, and it cost a lot!” 95,000 yuan , Far more than our psychological acceptance capacity of 30,000 yuan, Shengchao and I bid farewell to leave timidly, as if lack of money has become a sin.
I was stopped by the elder sister before she left far. She chased up and asked: “You can tell me how much you want, as long as you can accept me, I will leave. It is really a problem for my child to go to school here. See you Driving is definitely convenient.“
Sheng Chao and I looked at each other and turned to test the opponent’s bottom line. The eldest sister was silent for a moment and asked if it would be okay to add 20,000 yuan more, “I bought a suite for 50,000 yuan, and I also posted the decoration, which is really not expensive.” We thanked each other and left contact information to say goodbye.
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“50 thousand yuan is not bad, but there is really no one.” Shengchao, who has never liked to interact with people, even complained about the quietness here. “Unexpectedly, even our lone gentlemen are afraid of no one.” I laughed and teased a few words and asked seriously, “Are you really going to stay here for the rest of your life? You should be able to see your future life, which is the next stone.” Gejie!”
Sheng Chao doesn’t speak any more, he doesn’t know, WangAlthough the output of Zhuang Mine has been rising, mining surveys have calculated its life cycle. It is conservatively estimated that the mining will be completed within five to eight years, and his father has retired, and he can’t talk about it. Then, where he will go will be a big question.
Sheng Chao stood on the river of time and clearly saw the coordinates of his life: “I was in my 30s at that time, and I haven’t learned the fart in the past few years. By that time, there will be many old and young people. It is probably not as good as that Brother Li.”
After 2016, Wangzhuang Mine has never been a newcomer. Young people represented by Shengchao are the freshest blood in Wangzhuang Mine, even if the blood is almost 30. They have been exposed to the Internet earlier and are sensitive to information, so many people take precautions. Some test civil servants, some test banks, and others enter the government department even as a temporary job.
Sheng Chao swayed, hesitating to choose.
My desire to buy a house was knocked back step by step: “At a good age, if you don’t have any heart to like peace and stability, it’s fine. You read so well and work so seriously but exile your youth here. I really feel heartache for you!”
I hate iron and steel. I have always had better results than me in the Super League, but the only child in the family can’t go far. The university only enrolled in our only one in Shanxi, 211, and I believe in Ma Youyan. Was admitted to a hospital in Guangdong.
The division of our lives begins here. After graduation, I stayed in Shenzhen to enter the Internet industry, and Shengchao returned to my home coal mine. Although the connection has not been broken, the difference is getting bigger and bigger. I live like a social animal, working overtime day and night, and my salary has risen all the way; but Shengchao has become more taciturn, and I haven’t heard from the circle of friends for several years. Had it not been for the accidental reunion half a month ago, I would not have known that his life was such a dull and struggling life.
“Actually, I also hesitate to change. I am the only one in my family. If my parents are old and I leave them behind, I will definitely feel sorry for them.” Shengchao’s voice is getting lower and lower, fearing me. Reproachfully, “When I just graduated, I wanted to go to Beijing for the postgraduate entrance examination, but my dad just found a relationship and urged me to go home after saying anything. I applied for the job after two.”
At first he thought it might be a way out, but he didn’t expect it to be a dead end. Just started work, Shengchao is very energetic, and takes the initiative to complete everything. He hopes to work hard for two or three years and then find a relationship to be promoted to a sub-division, but in less than a year, he sinks with the general environment:< /p>
No matter how much you do here, no one says hello. People with a little power alwaysI want to find something for you. I don’t understand professional leaders, colleague sloppy and gossiping neighbors. This makes the winning team from a serious university overwhelmed. He began to suffer from insomnia all night, was upset and irritable, was diagnosed with anxiety, and later took more than half a year of sick leave.
Life presents an absurd nature: He found that his salary was a lot of money. After coming back, he figured it out, what kind of promotion? What salary increase? Simply slap the ass and stop doing it. Every month, the salary is accurate to two decimal places, which sounds very refreshing, with retaliatory pleasure. Only when he saw me again, he saw the changes and found that the gap between us was getting bigger and bigger.
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I returned in the morning without success. I was disappointed after seeing two places. We wandered around in the street, trying to find something to eat to help our indigestion. It turned out that the only breakfast shop was also closed because the time had passed. .
At this moment, I suddenly saw the mine park in Shigejie. In the cold wind, there was no greenery and comfort of the park, only a piece of dry yellow. In line with the four-character travel secret of the Chinese “come all come”, I am excited to pull Shengchao into the car.
Mining Park Monument
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Some equipment of the original mine was dug out and stood on the hillside. In order to highlight their achievements, they were dyed in brilliant colors and made introduction cards.
It was also at this time that I learned about the vastness of the underground coal world: not only there are trains passing by, but it is also divided into several layers. The purpose of this machine is engraved on every piece of iron plate, but now, they are useless with the Shige Festival.
Former Shanxi Provincial Party Secretary Hu Fuguo’s inscription to Shige Festival
As the Taihang Red Tourism Base and the pioneer of the coal industry, Shigejie is born with many political propositions. All the leaders will visit this once glorious coal sea as long as they inspect Shanxi, but once they leave, the real desolation will be restored here, as I have seen.
An uncle in the reception room was lonely watching the TV, trying to ask him something. He saw me taking pictures with my mobile phone, but he asked us vigilantly if we were reporters. “A lot of reporters came to report in the past few years, but no one has come in these years! There is no coal, what else to report!” He waved his hand and snorted smoke, vomiting a cloud of mist. .
The uncle only sweeps the park every morning when the sun comes out to make people look like they are still in business. Besides, he spends his day watching TV. He said that the park has been empty in the past few years. Originally, he wanted to transform into a green coal mine to develop tourism. However, where there are tourist attractions that are bare here, they have been abandoned.
The uncle turned to ask about our business, “I don’t hear your accent like a local.” I nodded. “Now the young people are gone, whoever has the ability is still in the coal mine”, fearing that the uncle would say something, I immediately changed the subject, lest my friend Shengchao looked ugly. But he is very generous: Yes, I think Wangzhuang Mine and Changcun Mine will run out of coal in the future, so if you have the ability or not, you have to leave.
On the way out of the mining area
On the way back, Shengchao received a MMS from Sister Chen, and took full pictures of the balcony and bedroom from all angles. The price can be negotiated if you like. We both looked at each other and smiled, Buying it again will really hit our hands. Not far away, the smoke is still gray, no different from when we came.
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One month later, the first subway in Taiyuan finally opened. I watched their excited first experience in the subway in the family group, and also gave Shengchao a message: “I have time to go back to Taiyuan and sit and fight for five or six years. There is finally a subway at the school gate!”
When we graduated, the subway began to dig, and now we see Lutong, which indicates that this second-tier city at the end of the crane in the national capital has finally entered the era of rail transit. After a while, I waited for the news from Shengchao: I will be able to sit more often in the future, and I plan to resign and return to Taiyuan to develop.
After a small gathering, Sheng Chao reconstructed himself. But the outside world has long been changing, and the blue sky of Taiyuan is not much better than that of Changzhi. Apart from the locals, who cares that Shanxi was once the richest province in the Republic of China? As for the Shige Festival, where housing prices are low, it won’t be long before people will forget its story.