Bai Kai and I bought the nearest air ticket and set off, and we had to transfer to the train after arriving at the airport.
It took two full days to finally arrive at the place.
I don't know how to describe my mood along the way. I have never confiscated the factory building, and I don't even have a clue about how to sell the factory building after I bought it. Moreover, I don't know what will happen this time, so I am very disturbed.
I didn't inquire about the news about this factory, but I took the initiative to send it to my door.
I’ve been in this business for a long time, and I’ve spent money to advertise house purchases on many trading websites. In the later period, a large part of my business was contacted through this channel.
But the difference in this factory is that the other party did not find me or my employees according to the contact number on the advertisement. Instead, he sent an email directly to my mailbox here.
The content of the email is very simple, basically the factory is for sale, the price is negotiable, contact Lao Qiu. After that is the address of the house.
The photos of the few factory buildings in the attachment are all taken a little early, and the pixels are very low. Judging from the photos, the factory building was still in operation when the photo was taken, and there was no assembly line, only a few employees were making hats on the workbench.
Ordinarily, I usually treat this kind of email as spam. Now everyone in this world has it. But after accidentally looking at the photos, I decided to go and see for myself.
The reason is simple, I think the hats made by the workers in the photo are very familiar. No, I thought, these hats are like the ones I've seen before.
The old man had worn it before, and I had a close look at it in Fang Wanjin's shop.
Although the photo is not clear, but from the outline it looks like there is no difference. I'm going to take a look at this hat no matter what.
Bai Kai didn't know about the hat before. After I told him about it, he also said that he had to go this time. The email itself came in a mysterious way, and it must be tricky. And even if we did make the trip for nothing, it would be better than sitting at home thinking about pictures.
The Northeast of China is very cold, I am from the north, but I am quite used to it.
It's enough to be in vain. We both prepared down jackets. In the end, I gave him both to wear alone, but he was still yelling cold.
The place we went to was a small border town. I had never been there before, but I always heard from friends that it was not safe here, and there were often guns or drugs smuggled in at the border. It's a blatant sale on the road.
So when we got to the place, Bai Kai and I were very cautious. Even if we stayed in the hotel, we still took a brief look at the surrounding situation, but if something happened, we wouldn't run away without thinking.
The workshop of the hat factory is on the outskirts of the small town, about a 30-minute drive from our hotel. This is not far in a big city, but in this small town, it is already enough to walk back and forth three times in the city.
The hotel we stayed in was considered the best in the local area, but strictly speaking it was just a guest house. However, the heating was very effective. After Bai Kai entered the house, he was so hot that he only wore a pair of underpants.
After a night of rest, we left early the next morning.
The small town is very quiet, and there are no so-called taxis. There are only minibuses that drive back and forth in the small town. They stop at a wave, and you get on the bus and give money. When you get to the place you want to go, you can get off with a shout.
Bai Kai and I took this kind of car, and found a place to rent a motorcycle. The two of them walked to the factory along the small road out of the city.
The factory building is not difficult to find, mainly because there are really no buildings next to it.
Looking at it from a distance, it is very dilapidated. There was no glass in any of the windows I could see.
When we arrived at the gate of the factory building, the big iron fence door was closed, and the iron chain on it was already rusted. Looking inside, you can still see a lot of snow.
I called Lao Qiu, but no one answered.
I didn't report any hope at first, and held the door to see if I could turn it over.
Halfway through the climb, a little old man came out of it. The old man is very short, wearing a leather jacket and pants unique to the Northeast, and wearing a hat on his head. Seriously.
I caught sight of the hat and almost fell off the door. The hat was exactly the same as the one I had seen before.
The old man opened the door for us, and I handed him cigarettes, trying to get close.
In the end, the old man just babbled and waved his hands, and Bai Kai and I looked at each other. Is a dumb
I tentatively asked him, are you Lao Qiu? We're here to see the house.
The old man nodded again and then turned around and led us inside.
Pass through a small yard and enter the factory building.
I don't know if it is still heated inside, but it is very warm. The factory building is not big, only three or four hundred square meters. The entire factory building was empty, and there were no facilities in sight. The old man pointed to a temporary hut in the corner of the factory building, and led us in again.
This hut was obviously the place where the old man slept, and the furnishings in the room were simpler, with a camp bed, a small coal stove, and the rest were things like washbasins and kettles.
I sat with Bai Kai for a while and took a sip of the hot water the old man poured. So I started to ask the old man, what is the general situation of this factory building.
Because the old man is dumb, it took a lot of time to communicate. We could only ask him yes or no all the time, and we didn't ask anything for a long time.
In the end, Bai Kainai couldn't hold back his temper and simply asked me to go out and see for myself.
When I went out, I asked Bai Kai, did you see any problems in this factory
"You don't have eyes, do you? What the hell is wrong with this place? The ghosts are freezing to death!" Bai Kai sneezed and said, Xiao Que, do you think this factory building is the same as the one in the photo
I looked around, and everything in the factory building was gone. It was difficult to compare, because the walls or floors of this kind of factory building were basically the same, and it was impossible to distinguish them in detail. So I asked Bai Kai, what do you mean, this house is also a replica
Bai Kai said, that's not enough, I just watched it quietly when I came in, you come with me.
Bai Kai pulled me to a corner of the factory building, and there were many pieces of broken bricks scattered on the ground. Bai Kai pulled the broken bricks away with his feet, pointed and said, take a look.
I leaned down and saw that there were indeed some traces on the ground, which looked familiar no matter how I looked at them, but I couldn't remember where I saw them.
I asked Bai Kai, what is this? Did you pee
Bai Kai said, pee on your grandma's claws, this is the trace left after the cement has dried, someone has mixed the cement here, this factory has recently been modified!
I suddenly remembered that when I was young, when my neighbor’s house was being built, I remembered that I went to see it. The construction at that time was relatively simple. Sand, stones, and cement were all piled on the ground. The sand was filtered through iron nets, and a hole was made on the sand pile, and the cement was directly mixed in it. Next to it, the mixed cement is transported up basket by basket, and bricks are added to build the house.
I thought this factory was going to collapse before? Usually, if there is a crack in the wall, it must be repaired with cement. I don't know how many years this place has been. It is normal for it to be broken.
I turned back to look for the old man, only to find that he was already watching us from outside the door of his hut.
I asked him, has the factory been started recently
Seeing the old man nodding his head, I asked again, where did he repair it
The old man pointed to the wall behind me, again. I thought to myself that Lao Tzu's analytical ability is still good, and there was indeed something wrong with the wall before.
Unexpectedly, looking back, Bai Kai was looking at the wall with a strange face, and asked the old man for no reason, if there was something on the wall before? Covered with cement
As soon as I heard it, my heart skipped a beat, and I saw the old man nodding again.
I asked Bai Kai, what could be on the wall
"I don't have clairvoyance, but you can see that the cement in this part is obviously newer than other places." Bai Kai stretched out his hand to touch it and said, this place is facing a window, and that window is also very strange, it is open The location is nondescript.
I turned my head and saw that there was indeed a window on the opposite wall that didn't look quite right. First of all, this window opened in a very special position, it was a large block higher than the other windows. It seems very abrupt. I looked around at all the windows in the factory, but this one stood out.
Secondly, the outside of this window was facing a small platform not far away. The platform was not built, but was leveled on a small slope with a shovel or the like.