Ergouzi, also known as my boss Zhang Peng, was born in a rural area in Zhongwei City. In the past, people in the rural area liked to call their children Ergouzi, Goudan and other names. According to them, children with such names will grow up healthily.
When Zhang Peng was seventeen years old, his father owed a huge sum of money due to gambling. He forced his mother to secretly take out the money saved for Zhang Peng to go to college in order to make a comeback, but in the end he lost everything. Zhang Peng's father was desperate and was chased by creditors every day. Finally, he could not bear the burden and jumped into the Yellow River to commit suicide.
Those creditors only cared about money and would not give up debt collection just because of the death of Zhang Peng's father. In the end, Zhang Peng's mother sold the family's fields and houses to barely pay off the debts owed by Zhang Peng's father. At that time, Zhang Peng resented his father very much. It was clearly his own fault, but he wanted to escape by death and put all the responsibility on them, an orphan and a widow. At the same time, Zhang Peng did not feel sad because of his father's death. At that time, a strange idea came into his mind, that is, death turned out to be such an easy thing.
Zhang Peng and his mother lost everything. Zhang Peng had no choice but to drop out of school. The mother and son also moved to Jiadao Village, far away from the village where they used to live, hoping to find a place where no one knew them and start their lives again.
Zhang Peng and his mother, who had just arrived, were lucky enough to find an uninhabited dilapidated earthen house and temporarily settled down there. Every day, Zhang Peng went out to do odd jobs to earn money, while his mother stayed at home to cook and wash clothes for Zhang Peng.
Three years passed quickly. Zhang Peng's hard work over the past three years alleviated the poverty of his family a little. He even bought an acre of land and asked his mother to grow crops and take care of the land. He did not expect to sell the crops, but just wanted to have enough for his family to eat.
One day, a former classmate of Zhang Peng introduced Zhang Peng to a mine on the border of Inner Mongolia to work. The job was mainly coal mining and the salary was surprisingly high. It was heard that the owner of the mine was from Zhongwei, which made Zhang Peng immediately tempted. He went home and told his mother the news, but was strongly opposed by his mother.
Because this job was too dangerous, although there was no TV at home at the time, his mother often heard news from the village radio about a landslide in a mine in a certain place and the death of many people. As she loved her son, she would never agree to let Zhang Peng do this job.
At first, Zhang Peng listened to his mother and refused the job. But one day a few months later, when he saw that the classmate who had recommended him for the job was already driving a motorcycle, he was extremely envious. You know, Zhang Peng couldn't even afford a bicycle at that time, but his classmate, whose family situation was not much better than his, bought a motorcycle in just a few months. This made Zhang Peng even more eager for that job.
Zhang Peng didn't want to make his mother worry about him, but he was worried about the job, so he lied that he and his friends were working outside, doing house decoration work, and the salary was also very high. Although Zhang Peng's mother was reluctant to let her son go, she didn't refuse because she saw that her son was so happy. Before leaving, she repeatedly told Zhang Peng to be careful. Zhang Peng, who said goodbye to his mother for the first time in his life, shed tears the moment he turned around and left, and secretly vowed in his heart that he must work hard to make money and let his mother live happily!
So, Zhang Peng followed his classmates to meet the owner of the mine. The mine owner was fat and big-eared. When he saw Zhang Peng coming to work, he immediately asked about his well-being and arranged food and accommodation for Zhang Peng. This made Zhang Peng more confident about his future, and he began to work hard in the days that followed.
Zhang Peng and his classmates did the same job, which was to go underground to dig coal. At that time, it was not as convenient as it is now, and coal mining relied entirely on manpower. Every day when Zhang Peng returned to the dormitory after work, he was covered in black, and only his two white eyeballs could be seen. He would get minor injuries from time to time, but these were nothing to Zhang Peng. When he thought of his mother at home, Zhang Peng had endless energy.
The rule of the mine is that there are two days of vacation every month. During each vacation, Zhang Peng would go home to visit his mother and bring her favorite red dates. His mother would also wait for her son to come back every month and cook the best meals for him.
The days passed one by one, and soon Zhang Peng had been in that mine for six or seven years. However, during these six or seven years, he did not become as rich as Zhang Peng had imagined.
In the first three months, the mine owner paid wages on time every month, but later on, he delayed paying wages almost every month, claiming that he had insufficient funds. In the end, he sometimes didn't pay wages for a whole year.
All the workers in the mine, including Zhang Peng, were complaining, but no one dared to resign on the spot because if they did, they would lose their salary. Zhang Peng did not expect that the boss would be such a person, but he could only swallow his anger and continue to work for him.
In the past six or seven years that Zhang Peng has been working, he has only received salary for more than two years, and the rest of the money has been delayed by his boss. One day, Zhang Peng finally got another month's salary. He bought some red dates and went home to visit his mother, but found that his mother's face was pale and her lips were purple, with a trace of blood at the corner of her mouth. She was lying on the bed and could not be awakened no matter how much he called. Frightened, Zhang Peng rushed his mother to the hospital. After examination at the hospital, he found out that his mother was suffering from leukemia, and it was already in the late stage.
At that time, Zhang Peng felt like the sky was falling. He begged the doctor to cure his mother, even if it meant selling his blood. The doctor said it was too late and at best chemotherapy could prolong his mother's life, but this was only a temporary solution and not a permanent cure.
Zhang Peng didn't care about all that and decided to pay any price for his mother's chemotherapy. However, when he learned about the cost of chemotherapy, the huge amount of money instantly overwhelmed Zhang Peng.
During those days, Zhang Peng ran around everywhere to borrow money, but he was not familiar with the people in Jiadao Village. Who would be willing to lend him money? After his mother learned about her condition, she refused to let Zhang Peng pay for chemotherapy. If Zhang Peng did so, he would never be able to turn over in his life.
Zhang Peng was not willing to do that and only threatened to commit suicide to get his mother to give up the idea. Suddenly he remembered that the mine boss still owed him a large sum of wages. With that money, chemotherapy would not be a big problem.
So Zhang Peng immediately went to the home of the mine owner in Zhongwei City and begged him to pay his salary to him first so that his mother could get treatment. However, the boss changed his previous friendly attitude and sternly drove Zhang Peng out of the house. Zhang Peng was extremely angry, but for the sake of his mother's illness, he had to swallow his anger and beg the boss every day. Finally, the boss couldn't stand Zhang Peng's tossing and turning, and actually moved out.
After losing news of his boss, Zhang Peng was so anxious that blisters appeared on the corners of his mouth. He returned to the hospital dejectedly, intending to discuss with the hospital whether he could have chemotherapy for his mother first and pay the money in a few days.
However, when Zhang Peng arrived at the hospital ward, he received extremely shocking bad news. His mother had pulled out the infusion tube and oxygen mask herself. When the body was found this morning, it was already cold.
Looking at his mother's cold body, Zhang Peng cried and fainted several times. Especially the note his mother left for him, which made Zhang Peng collapse.
Live well. Your dad has become a burden to us, and I don’t want to be a burden to you for the rest of your life. The only regret is that I didn’t get to hold my grandson.
A son wants to support his parents but they are no longer around. Zhang Peng, who once vowed to let his mother live a happy life, is now furious to an unprecedented degree. On the one hand, he feels very incompetent and unable to treat his mother's illness. On the other hand, he hates the mine owner. If the mine owner had paid him his salary at that time, then this would never have happened to his mother!
After returning home, Zhang Peng buried his mother's body in the middle of his one-acre field and planted a jujube tree next to it, hoping that his mother, who loved eating red dates, could eat them often in the underground.
After burying his mother, Zhang Peng began to have thoughts of revenge. He did not leave his name on the tombstone, took away all the valuables in the house, and set out on the road back to the mine.
After arriving at the mine, Zhang Peng did not show his emotions and continued to work as usual. The mine owner also continued to exploit his workers as if nothing had happened.
Three days later, Zhang Peng went to the mine to work. The mine owner came for a routine inspection. Zhang Peng found an excuse to lead the mine owner to a remote place, and then he picked up the hammer in his hand and smashed it hard on the mine owner's head!
After a muffled sound, blood spurted out of the mine owner's head. The mine owner was so frightened that he even forgot to call for help. He fell to the ground and kept backing away, asking Zhang Peng what he wanted to do. He said he would be willing to pay any amount of money as long as he didn't kill him.
Zhang Peng had a ferocious look on his face as he approached the mine owner step by step. He suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist. His eyes were about to spit flames of anger. He reached out to cover the mine owner's mouth and spoke softly in his ear.
"I just want to see what color your heart is! Is it black or red?"
Afterwards, Zhang Peng used the dagger to cut open the mine owner's belly. Without blinking, he reached out and took out the still beating heart. The mine owner's eyes widened and he eventually ended his life in fear.
After taking out the heart, Zhang Peng was still not satisfied, so he picked up the hammer in his hand and smashed the fat body of the mine owner into pulp, letting the blood and flesh splatter on himself. Then, Zhang Peng, who was furious, found the explosives for blasting the mine in the tunnel, walked out of the mine himself, ignited the entrance of the coal mine and blew it down, killing all the workers inside.
Since the mine owner's coal mine was an unlicensed black coal mine and the workers were not registered, no one knew whether Zhang Peng was alive or dead. In their opinion, the honest boy had been crushed to death by the collapsed coal mine, but they did not know that a heart-digger was born because of this.