Supermarket owner quits coal mines as miners for 3 years

He once made money in business but he dared to lose 70,000 in one night. In order to stop betting, he chose to work as a coal miner while operating two small supermarkets.

On March 31, Baiyan, Shiqi Town, Hanjiang District, Zhang Yongqiang, the discharge engineer of the Fengchun Coal Mine, ended the day's work and went to the ground.

Coal mining has always been a hard job. In the obstinate passage that does not see the sun all year round, I will not lift my waist for a long time. I will not be able to drink water and eat for more than a dozen hours in a row. I will also work hard in the ashes of the deaf.

What the underground workers have to endure is not only physical exhaustion but also the potential dangers that may arise at any time in the mine. In the next minute, the heart was suspended for one minute. No one knew what would happen.

However, at the Chongqing Energy Fengchun Coal Mine, a million-dollar owner (having opened two small supermarkets) also works underground, and has persisted for more than three years. His name is Zhang Yongqiang, who is 39 years old this year. Now he is a boss and he goes down as a miner. He has a wide gap between his two identities, and he likes the “miner” status more than the “supermarket boss”.

Under the mine is a miner. He goes back to the owner of the small supermarket. Zhang Yongqiang's double-faced life is somewhat different. This kind of life, which began in September 2008, has continued for more than three years.

Doing business is more profitable and easier than working as a miner. Why do Zhang Yongqiang go in for more than ten hours a day to go down? He said: "This is to stop gambling. For over a decade of doing business, my only hobby is playing cards. In the previous years, a lot of people lost money and won very little." In order to quit, he chose to meet. In the spring coal mine work, if there are still friends looking for him to make a match, he will immediately answer, "Which time does not exist, I have to go to work and go down more than ten hours a day."

Since 2009, he has not been gambling money for almost three years. He commented that his current life is very good, and it is a good time for many years.

On March 31, Zhang Yongqiang and his wife run a small supermarket in the local area.

This photo/Chongqing Morning News reporter Gan Xiayi photo

That day

The sky is dark, you are riding a motorcycle, running on the dark mountain road, running towards the coal mine

A bowl of small noodles, six o'clock down the mine, ten hours, you tired out of the well, eyes flushed

You haven't taken a break, driving a three-wheeled bike, running back and forth, and home delivery...

(March 31, 2012)

After working underground for 10 hours, another home delivery

At 4:00 a.m. on March 31st, the building's family home in the drywall area of ​​Jinjiyan Road on the Minjiang River was also immersed in the deep night. The pounding rain lightly hits the roof and the ground, and the air is cold. People are more attached to warm blankets than usual, and it is time to sleep.

Get up at 4 in the morning and head for the mine

Zhang Yongqiang's alarm clock rang at this moment and broke the tranquility of the early morning. He opened the quilt and turned off the alarm clock, put on clothes, washed his face and brushed his teeth. Cold water poured over his face, and he was awake momentarily. He took the sober, riding a motorcycle and set off.

The headlights illuminate the dark mountain road. There are dozens or hundreds of people riding motorcycles like him. They are all miners who rushed to the Chongqing energy Fengchun coal mine. The mountain road circled and 20 minutes later, they arrived at White Rock.

The small streets are still dark, but the rice shops are open. These small rice shops specialize in the business of early morning miners. A bowl of small noodles was 5 yuan and a bean curd rice was 7 yuan. Zhang Yongqiang and his colleagues sat down to eat breakfast. Everyone laughed and quipped a few words. Zhang Yongqiang, who wasn’t a smoker, took the cigarettes prepared for his colleagues from his bag and dispersed them generously. Because he is kind to people, he is very popular in the miners.

"If you are your own boss, you'll be like a miner. If you don't pay this salary, you're still tired." Colleagues took Zhang Yongqiang's cigarettes and could not help asking another question that everyone was concerned about. .

Zhang Yongqiang took a small face, yelled and said cheerfully, “It's not for money. It's for playing cards. I lost too much before. Now I have money to work, and I don’t get time to go out and play cards. , To work more to make it back.” Zhang Yongqiang is an optimist, he does not think it is too tired, he said that as long as they do not continue to lose money, then make big.

It's time to go down and it's a busy hour of 10 hours

After breakfast, at 5 o'clock in the morning, the shift schedule for the early morning miners will begin, and the captain begins to arrange the day's work for each downhole worker. Zhang Yongqiang carefully listened to the arrangements, changed clothes, and received tools. He used the phone locks used in the business to change wardrobes and put on work clothes to drill people in the mine.

From the time he left the mobile phone, he lost contact with the outside world and was no longer a small boss. In the more than ten hours underground, his only identity was to go down to the miners. The 12-man lineup of people started from the quasi- wellhead of the 523, and travelled along the track in the dark cavern. Turning, advancing, and then turning, the 7500-metre-long track will take 40 minutes. Zhang Yongqiang will make up for sleep.

After 40 minutes, the people and vehicles arrived near the 540 substation. Zhang Yongqiang walked off the miner's lamp and walked off for a few minutes. The wind inside the cave was particularly large, and it was still cold in the coat. Zhang Yongqiang and his colleagues lined up to go to the 640 plane in a hanging car. There is a vertical drop of 70 meters from 540 to 640, which can only be achieved by hanging a car.

The miners called the hanging car to sit on a monkey car. This is a device similar to a bicycle saddle. It hangs on a suspended steel cable. The man grabs the pole and sits on a cushion. He curls up and dangles and is dragged a little to move. It's like climbing monkeys. Sitting on a monkey car, the dark slope behind him is not bottoming out. The miners’ experience is: Look forward, don’t look back and scare yourself.

Under the monkey car, the mine hole was narrower. Zhang Yongqiang carrying a wrench and carrying the barrel of oil to the deeper operating surface with the light of the miner's lamp. In the cave, in addition to footsteps, there were sounds of wind, water flow, and movements from other colleagues. Intimidation is a blast, and the whole cave is followed by vibrations. The mine often flings things down.

At around 4 pm, the Chongqing Morning Post reporter waited at the 523 wellhead of the Fengrun coal mine in Chongqing and waited until Zhang Yongqiang had just discovered the mine. He wore a helmet and a miner's lamp, and a heavy wrench hung over his waist. The overall color of the work clothes and liberation shoes were not visible. At this time he looked tired and his eyes red.

At this point, it was 10 hours before he dropped mine at 6 o'clock in the morning. Originally, Zhang Yongqiang should ride in a car at 2:00 pm. However, because the water flow in the mine was too large and the water in the battery of the person's car was short circuited, Zhang Yongqiang and other early-workers could not wait to pick up their cars. They walked for nearly two hours. Come out from the cave. Zhang Yongqiang caught in the miners, and they are as tall and strong, their faces are red and black, and their bodies are dirty.

After going up the well, the door-to-door delivery

15 minutes later, Zhang Yongqiang took a shower and changed clothes. When he appeared again in front of the Chongqing Morning Post reporter, we had completely failed to recognize him. Zhang Yongqiang holds a large-screen mobile phone, and then continues to telephone contact business, is completely smart and competent boss looks like. Flat head, pale face, brand-name sportswear jacket, wearing a bright orange lapel T-shirt, wearing a leather belt, stepping on the black shoes, very spiritual.

After putting on clean clothes, Zhang Yongqiang immediately checked the missed calls and responded one by one. Zhang Yongqiang spent too much time in the underground. Usually there are 5 or 6 missed calls after he got out of the well, and as many as a dozen of them, most of them let him deliver goods. From more than ten minutes after changing clothes, Zhang Yongqiang has been handling missed calls.

Zhang Yongqiang is currently driving two small supermarkets. One is in charge of his wife and the other is taken care of by his parents. The orders for both stores are sent by him. Once out of the mine, Zhang Yongqiang immediately took a bike home, put on a large three-wheeled motorcycle, loaded the goods one by one according to customer requirements delivery.

"Big vegetable oil, you know, immediately send it." "A bag of rice, a bag of flour, good." Zhang Yongqiang answered the phone and recorded the customer's request. Often ordering a restaurant, he ordered a barrel of 180 kg of vegetable oil, and some restaurants booked rice, flour, and condiments. Do not need paper and pen, Zhang Yongqiang quickly remembered in mind, immediately ride a motorcycle back to Jinjiyan, starting delivery.

Zhang Yongqiang's small supermarket is located on Jinjiyan Road. In the shop of more than 40 square meters, grain, oil, non-staple food, fruits, daily chemicals, condiments, and dry goods are abundant, and the varieties are abundant. Basic households can basically buy them.

The shop is not only a retail business, but also a wholesale, nearby restaurants, canteens and remote shops, also from him. After Zhang Yongqiang gets off work every day, the accumulated shipments have already been piled up.

After the well was out, other colleagues went home to rest. As soon as he got home, he was busy transferring pieces of tobacco, alcohol, condiments, and rice to three-wheeled motorcycles and sent them door to door. Far customers are two or three kilometers away from Zhang Yongqiang's small shop. After work, colleagues often find him busy riding motorcycles near Jinjiyan.

those years

(1990s)

You are a farmer's child. When he was a teenager, he was a small worker selling fruits and vegetables.

The money is good, you say that you drive a big truck, like a money-carrying vehicle

Money comes too fast too much. You lost, indulged in gambling, lost 80,000 overnight

Money does not cherish the water, lost 80,000 overnight

In Jinjiyan, Zhang Yongqiang has been running a small business for more than ten years. Everyone has guessed that he has already had over one million. "Where there are so many, if not gambling that year, the output will be added, but it is not only so much." Zhang Yongqiang does not like people to say that he is very big, he often joked that if there is so much money, you do not have to be so tired every day .

However, people familiar with him helped him with his calculations. There were several properties and two stores. His total worth was more than one million. And this small million-dollar boss is totally built up from scratch.

Zhang Yongqiang's hometown is catching water. After graduating from elementary school, in 1987 he went to a construction site in Banan District to work as a small worker. By 1992, Zhang Yongqiang returned to the Minjiang River. At that time, he drove to the Jinji Rock with a small train. He drove the wholesale vegetables from the water every day, and transported them by train to Jinjiyan for sale twice a day.

From Jinjiyan Station to Shanglu Vegetable Market, there is a steep staircase with several hundred steps. It is more than one meter wide and it is difficult to go empty handed. Zhang Yongqiang also has to carry more than 100 kilograms of vegetables every day. Because he was able to endure hardships, he soon had some savings and started to work on grain, oil and fruit.

Zhang Yongqiang likes to sigh. The business of the 1990s was so good that it was easy to make money in those years. At that time, he sold from Beijing Lagan Tang to Chongqing. "Monopoly business, no one is fighting, the good harvest of oranges, transported to Chongqing and sell it from the price, three pieces of 4-5 to a pound, and Chongqing is the money to move." This is Zhang Yongqiang himself as of now, his successful business.

According to Zhang Yongqiang, the transportation cost from Hubei to Chongqing is about 7,000 yuan, and the price of the canned citrus to Chongqing is 3.5 to 4 yuan per pound. And this fruit line he developed on his own can bring 12 tons of candies from Hubei each week. For him, the big trucks that pull fresh fruits and vegetables are just as cute as armored cars, and they bring him a steady stream. Income.

The money is a good earning, but the hard work is also unthinkable to others. There were times when Zhang Yongqiang was trapped on the Guanshan Road in Lushan for many days. When he was hungry, he could only find a few candies in his car to get hungry. The transport of canned citrus is winter, long-distance transport occasionally run into snowstorms or roadblocks. Fortunately, the candied fruit is frozen and it is not a big problem to delay on the road for a few days. However, Zhang Yongqiang, who was holding the car, said that he was suffering. Not everyone can stand it.

Zhang Yongqiang not only entered Bingtanggan from Hubei, but he also went to Shaanxi to pull apples. It was precisely because of these experiences that Zhang Yongqiang said that it was not at all for him to be hungry for more than ten hours.

Zhang Yongqiang is competent and can endure hardship. According to him, his business should grow bigger and bigger. However, he later became a fan of playing cards with his friend who was doing fruit business.

Zhang Yongqiang particularly likes to spend golden flowers. At that time, he went to the other place to transport fruit. When he reached the hotel, he immediately asked a few friends to close the door to bet. "Badge and back, lose more and win less, make more money, after all became others." Now Zhang Yongqiang recalled those who lost the money, still feel pain in my heart.

Zhang Yongqiang’s wife, Yang Chonggui, initially disagreed with her husband’s going into the well and felt too dangerous. He later told him that he was gambling and supported him immediately. "If he didn't play gambling, he wouldn't have to dig the mine right now. It's enough to sit and eat." Yang Chonggui jokingly said that Zhang Yongqiang had earned a lot of money, but he later lost it, as long as he can stop betting. Both are strong.

How much does the husband output? Yang Chonggui was not clear. She said that her husband did not have much money to take home. The money earned from the fruit business was exported. Zhang Yongqiang told reporters for a long time. Many years ago, his wife asked him to go to Chongqing to buy a house, more than 100 square meters of the house, when the price was 1900 yuan a square meter. “Come back and pay my wife to buy a square meter of 2,400 yuan per square meter, and the opening price has risen by 500 yuan.” The “rising” price of the house price made him deduct more than 70,000 yuan of private money and filled out the gambling debts.

"It was ridiculous at that time. When you went to Shaanxi, you wouldn't enter the fruit first. You slammed in the house and gambled until the third morning from the night before." Several business owners don't do business, and they gambling in the house. Calling and asking questions to be done well, we collectively lie to say that the fruits cannot be received and we have to wait for a few more days. In fact, all of them are trying to make time for gambling.

In order to gamble, Zhang Yongqiang said that some of his friends had talked about the deceit of the blind, but his hands were angry. He lost a lot of seventy-eight million a night, but he won more than once and won less than 40,000 yuan. "If there is a win or lose, how much has been lost for so many years, I really can't tell." The only thing Zhang Yongqiang can calculate is his well-run fruit business. In fact, he did not bring him much wealth because he earned a lot of money. The money is not put in for a while, and the next time you purchase, you may run into a loss.

That year

(September 2008)

Outsiders say that you are a million people, envy and envy.

The family can't speak hard. Every time you go home, your eyes are red and your pockets are empty.

You can only feed snakes again. The old father took a drink and he awoke you.

Father's word, to stop gambling as a coal miner

Zhang Yongqiang tossed on this, hard-earned money continuously lost from the table, he said that time is indulging, thought about gambling, but in any case can not give up. "All the friends who are doing business with each other play cards. I don't say how they fight, I can't hold on for a long time and I've been dragged in." Before 2008, Zhang Yongqiang's life was mainly to go out to earn money, and the remaining time was playing cards. He liked to bet on it. Jinjiyan is famous on the road.

Outsiders look at Zhang Yongqiang as the successful boss. The business is doing great, but the family has clear talents. He didn't save much money. In 2008, the 65-year-old father watched Zhang Yongqiang, who played both nights and nights with red eyes. He said earnestly: "Hey, he only feeds snakes!" This sentence was like drinking, and Zhang Yongqiang woke up.

He recalled that for so many years, he started from drip-dripping vegetables, and he finally managed to make the fruit business bigger. The money he earned was like flowing water. He rushed to the poker table and tossed it.

After this conversation, Zhang Yongqiang completely sobered up, he was determined to gambling, good business. But gambling was much more difficult than he had imagined. He tried several times, and once he went to the field to buy goods, he took it to the table and left behind. Zhang Yongqiang described his life. The pain was during that time. He wanted to quit but he couldn't control himself.

In September 2008, Zhang Yongqiang entered the work of the coal mine in the spring. For more than three years, he has experienced some dangerous moments. He still feels scared when he thinks of it.

He was deeply impressed by a blowout accident. Some time ago, he and his partner Peng Ming were operating near the 610, and suddenly encountered a jack collapse. The two then separately went to nearby to find sleepers and other materials to boost.

Peng Mingchao went into the wind lane to find, Zhang Yongqiang went to the return lane, just walked out of 80 meters, suddenly heard a loud noise behind him, a gust of wind rushed over, scared Zhang Yongqiang dare not return, ran forward.

"Gas came out. I should have been heading into the wind lane. It was safer. But I couldn't go back. I had to run to the front and look for opportunities to enter other roadways." After more than 10 minutes, he passed through the damper. In other lanes, he met Peng Ming, who was anxiously looking for him. Peng Ming rushed forward and shouted Zhang Yongqiang's name and asked him if anything happened. When the accident occurred, Zhang Yongqiang was in danger at the return lane. If the gas concentration was too high, he might be trapped and could only rely on emergency equipment to breathe.

Afterwards, when they returned to 610, they saw that the two people were still shocked and scared. Their previous position had been completely buried by the tons of coal that had spewed out. The rigs and other equipment were buried in the coal. Fortunately, both of them had gone away and had to be buried by the spewing of coal. A matter of a few seconds may be a matter of life and death. When Zhang Yongqiang recalls that moment, his sense of fear slowly rises. All his heart is fortunate. He is fortunate that the jacks are paralyzed. Fortunately, they did not delay and immediately went to other places to look for sleepers. The life and death tests were conducted downhole, but the two returned home as if they were all right. They did not mention anything to their families.

Especially Zhang Yongqiang, he never tells his family about underground activities. No matter what it is, he says that it is safe underground. In fact, doing physical work in the underground was a common problem. On Peng Ming's back, the black and white marks and the wounds were dense. He said that they were all sprayed by the gushing gas. Huge pressure gas spews out of the borehole and often hurts people. However, Zhang Yongqiang and Peng Ming have long been accustomed to it and have not taken it seriously.

They said that they did not tell their families, mainly because they feared they would not let them continue to go down.

He is an excellent miner

Annual income of more than 70,000 yuan

Zhang Yongqiang’s colleagues said that Zhang Yongqiang’s income is higher when ordinary miners. He got five or six thousand yuan a month in his hand, which is higher than that of the captain, almost twice that of his colleagues.

Zhang Yongqiang and partner Peng Ming, with the drainage team in the spring of coal mines, two operating a drilling rig, one for drill pipe, doing things are notoriously willing to bear. “Going down the well, you can only find more money, so be willing to do well, earn more money.” The two are very understanding, often stay in the underground is a dozen hours, longer than other colleagues. Opened the last year's salary list of the drainage team, Zhang Yongqiang's annual income is more than 70,000 yuan, ranking first in the team, more than 4,000 yuan more than the captain.

In the same queue, most colleagues earn more than two or three thousand dollars. The main task of the drainage team is to extract the gas in the cave and calculate the income according to the workload. Therefore, through the salary scale, it can be roughly estimated that Zhang Yongqiang and his partner's workload is about twice that of other partner teams.

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