It took about two years from the preparation for the opening of the mine to the establishment of various facilities, because Natalie Town belongs to the township level, and this small coal mine covering an area of only a few dozen hectares was contracted to a family surnamed Yao in the spring breeze of reform and opening up.

Rich people love to play mysterious, what is the background of this Yao family, and why can they have such strong financial resources to contract an entire coal mine, no one can figure it out. People were curious to talk about it, but they never came up with a reason.

In fact, that movement had just ended, but everyone who had some assets suffered, and the property was either handed over or confiscated, so the family surnamed Yao must have suffered a lot, right? How did they keep their fortunes?

In the end, I guessed that a jack-of-all-trades who often went to the city and province stood up to reveal the secret: the family surnamed Yao was not in China at all, and the family moved to the United States during the Anti-Japanese War.

With the coal mine, the residents of Natalie Town have a source of livelihood. Young men began to wear miners' uniforms and carry shovels to work in the coal fields. Although the owners of coal mines are private owners, they are treated better than state-owned enterprises, and a laborer can earn more than 40 yuan in wages after working hard in the mine for a month.

The owner of the mine was probably also a nostalgic person, and after learning about the history of Natalie Town, he named the coal mine the White Pine Coal Mine, so that the townspeople would listen to it more intimately.

The more carefree life is, the harder it is to notice that time is flying, because year after year, the content of life is much the same. In this way, more than 30 years have passed like a white horse, the birch forest and the fire have long been forgotten, and Natalie Town has the White Pine Coal Mine to rely on, and the residents no longer worry about food and clothing, and the tradition of living in the world has been restored.

Chen Tongzhong, the little baby who was scared and cried, is now a middle-aged man with a family. The townspeople can forget the forests and fires, but they can't forget his grandfather, Chen He. When the hungry wolves rushed into the town like a tide, hundreds of people were all under the fangs dripping with blood, and it was Chen He's father and son who met them without fear of sacrifice and helped them escape the fate of their wives.

Chen Tongzhong is as simple and kind as his grandfather, and has a college degree, so at the age of 30, he was collectively elected as the new mayor, a position he sat for more than ten years.

As for the diary paper full of rice paste, after Chen Tongzhong went to college, his grandmother handed it to him. What kind of chicken is written on the piece of paper, Chen Tongzhong was confused at first, and when the word "computer" appeared, he suddenly realized.

With the advancement of the times, electronic products are becoming more and more popular, and Chen Tongzhong understands the operating principle of computers to some extent. Neumann, IBM of the United States these names. So he understood that the female doctor named Kahesha was using a very simple metaphor to explain the basic principles of computer work.

But what he can't figure out is that people in 30966 can only see the third generation of integrated circuit computers at most, and the technology that can really accommodate millions of components on a chip the size of a coin only appeared in the 80s of the 20th century. And as small as a grain of rice, the chip that can be secretly hidden in the body of a firefly, not to mention.

What is this piece of paper for? What kind of message is hidden between the lines? In the last sentence, what does Ivan mean by "don't assume"? What does my grandfather want his descendants to do when he keeps this page of his diary at a critical moment of life and death? Chen Tongzhong was puzzled.

--The suffering is not the end, even in the era of peace, the god of death will knock on the door of the Chen family without scruples.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the early spring is returning to the earth with hazy greenery. The wind blowing from the north is still biting, and the naughty boy pees on the snow, and he can still compete to see who has the longest ice urine column.

In Natalie's town, the people who went out were huddled in heavy lint suits, their mouths and noses covered with high collars, and only their eyes barely peeked out from under their dogskin hats. In the rolling eyes of Gollum, there was no longer the numbness that matched the cold, but full of restraint and fear, as if a wild beast would pounce from some corner at any moment and bite them in one bite.

This uneasy atmosphere arose all because of Chen Tongzhong's family.

After Chen Hao came back, Chen Tongzhong's half-crazy wife had almost gotten better, but her son died violently without warning, and a new blow hit her head, she was not only crazy, but also died of illness not long after.

Now Chen Tongzhong feels that he has already gone with his wife and son, and the reason why he is still walking alone in the world is because he always feels that there are still unfinished things waiting for him, so he can't let go of the world without worry.

As for what the unfinished business was, he couldn't tell, his whole mind was muddy, like a mess of hemp rope stuffed into it, and he couldn't figure it out at all.

From the day Chen Hao took his last breath, strange things in the town followed.

After he died on the couch, he was immediately taken to the Natalie Town Health Center. After being diagnosed as dead, the staff of the health center contacted the Suifenhe City Funeral Home and informed them to send a car to pull the person.

In fact, according to Chen Tongzhong's wishes, he would prefer to find a field by the coal mine behind the town and quietly bury his son. Thinking about the fire burned to ashes by his beloved relatives, even if he has studied and belongs to a reasonable intellectual, it is always difficult to accept.

However, he is the mayor of the town and must lead by example to abide by the laws and regulations, so no matter how reluctant he is in his heart, he can only agree to cremate his son.

Less than an hour after the phone call, a Jinbei van covered with black curtains drove into the small courtyard of the health center. Two young men in black suits jumped out of the car, and as soon as he saw them, Chen Tongzhong suddenly had a strange sense of resistance.

The two men each held an expressionless dead face, and the cold air of corpses exuded from all over their bodies. If you can touch their eyes, you may still feel a little vitality, but the winter sun is not strong, but they also wear dark sunglasses, unless they deliberately stare at them, they don't think they have eyes at all.

The fur hat tightly wrapped around his head, the brim was quite long, and it still couldn't cover Chen Tongzhong's gray temples. Coupled with the staggering steps of his walking, the people at the health center were about to shed tears when they saw it.

The corpse collectors from the city did not show any pity for the family of the deceased and respect for the deceased, and after entering the morgue, they grabbed the body bag containing Chen Hao and walked out.