一太阳快到头顶的时候,石小秀和两个工友走出了矿井。正是一天中阳光最强烈的时候,他们不得不眯着眼睛,像个醉汉一样东倒西歪地行进。把身上的矿灯和矿帽扔给值班房里的大婶,石小秀就和大家分开走了。矿工们下了班,第一件事是洗澡。跟别人不太一样,石小秀不去免费的公共澡堂。他洗淋浴,收钱的那种。洗澡是一个煤矿工人每天必须要做的功课,在其他矿工看来,这是很平淡的一件事。石小秀洗澡,则更像是在进行一个仪式。 As the sun approached the top of the head, Shi Xiaoxiu and two co-workers stepped out of the mine. It was during the strongest sunshine of a day that they had to squint and run like a drunkard. Shoulder miner’s lamp and mine cap to the house on duty, Shi Xiaoxiu and everyone away. Miners are off duty, the first thing is to take a bath. Unlike others, Shi Xiaoxiu do not go to free public baths. He took a shower, the kind of money. Bathing is a homework that coal miners must do daily, something that other miners see as a very mundane one. Shi Xiaoxiu shower, it is more like a ceremony.