Now everything matches the clues I found before!
I thought about those strange paintings in the closet, could it be them? But the people in the painting are completely ancient.
I was finally able to pace back and forth in the room, but Lao Qiu's room was very small, and I had to turn around after taking two steps.
Bai Kai couldn't stand it any longer, and said he was dizzy, and pointed at Lao Qiu when he asked me to sit down. I just remembered that I still haven't figured out what happened to Lao Qiu!
Lao Qiu was pointed at by Bai Kai, which made him a little cautious, looking at his expression for a while, he wanted to speak, but he just didn't open his mouth.
In the end, Bai Kai used words to entice him, saying that the reason Lao Qiu was here was to keep a secret.
Only now did Lao Qiu tell me everything.
It is said that the hat factory was organized by their village earlier, and it was said that it was for the welfare of the people, but in fact it was a few village cadres who used the people in the village to make money in disguise. But at that time, everyone's income was not high, the place was too cold, and farming was hard and difficult, so everyone was happy to work in the factory.
At that time, the main hats made in the factory were leather hats unique to Northeast China. The local products were rich, and every family was a hunter. When the sales volume is not large, even raw materials do not need to be purchased, and a few people are organized to carry shotguns to the mountains for a walk, and everything is available.
Later, the cadres in the village went out to sell, and accidentally took several orders from Russia. The scale of this factory has changed from a small workshop in the early days to what it is now.
But blindly expanding production, in that era, was obviously very dangerous.
The result is that after the foreign orders are completed, the factory is completely idle, and the workers do not start work for several months. The workers can't bear the status quo one by one, either go home to farm, or secretly sell some things in the factory. In short, this factory is about to close down.
At that time, Lao Qiu had already made up his mind to become a farmer honestly. But at this moment, the factory unexpectedly received another order, and it came to life strangely.
Lao Qiu said that the situation at that time was very strange. First, a few people came to the factory. They were obviously urbanites in their attire, but each of them was very serious, and the village cadres took them to inspect the hat factory several times inside and out. After leaving, the factory began to rush to make a strange-looking hat. The reason why the hat is strange is that it is much taller than the hat at that time. When wearing it, there is always a gap on the top of the head. In the environment of the Northeast, it is better to wrap it as tightly as possible, so that it can resist the cold. So the workers were very impressed with this hat at that time. Lao Qiu couldn't help being curious, and once asked the village cadre who received those people if the design of the hat was wrong. The village cadres told him that this is what those people have repeatedly asked for, and there is no mistake.
At that time, the quantity of this batch of hats was quite large, and more than a dozen people worked overtime to complete the work. About five or six hundred pieces were made. When it was time for delivery, there were a lot of people who came to pick up the hats, more than a hundred people. This situation stunned Lao Qiu and others, thinking that the factory was about to be demolished. What's even more strange is that these people didn't use a car or something to pack the hats away, but after each person put on a hat on the spot, they drove away in batches. But because the number of people who came did not reach the number of hats that the other party ordered, there were a lot of hats left. Don't want those people either. So the workers took a lot home. Lao Qiu left this hat at that time, but he didn’t wear it for a long time. The hat he had worn for a long time was accidentally lost, so he found another one. wearing it.
After those people left, people in the village talked about it for a long time. I don't know who said it, but the number of people who should come is more than 500, which should be the same as the number of hats anyway. But they must have had an accident, and a lot of people died, so there were only a hundred or so left.
Lao Qiu thought of the faces of those people when they took the hats, and they were very heavy. It seems to be consistent with the rumors in the village.
But this matter can only be regarded as talk, and it will pass soon. After that, the factory was really deserted for a while, and then a few more people came.
The people who came this time were almost the same as last time, and they were also from the city. However, he is obviously more qualified than those people, and he speaks very politely. Anyone who sees smoke. Several of them were dressed in refined manners, much like intellectuals. People in this village have the most respect for scholars, and everyone gets along very happily. Lao Qiu also made a special trip to hunt hares and invite a few people to eat at home. At that time, in Lao Qiu's opinion, two of these people were obviously cadres. The others have always listened to the instructions of these two people. When they usually talk, it is obvious that these two people do not speak, and it is difficult for others to express their views.
Lao Qiu naturally had a deep impression on these two people, so he didn't know their names. I only know that one of them is surnamed Wan and the other is surnamed Yuan.
They must all be engineers in the city or something.
These people ordered a lot of leather goods unique to Northeast China in the factory. The quantity is not large, but it takes a lot of work to make. At that time, there were not many people left in the factory, and the production capacity was very low. So these people lived in the villages around the factory for many days, and they always seemed to wait for the things to be made and take them away.
However, this is just a resemblance, because before the things were finished, the person suddenly disappeared one day and never appeared again.
The money for making the leather goods has already been paid by the other party. With such a sudden disappearance, everyone was at a loss. The society at that time was not as profit-oriented as it is now, and the folk customs here were still very simple. The other party did not leave any contact information, but the village still sent two people with leather goods to the city to inquire. But the mountains and rivers are vast, and they don't even know which city those people came from. In the end, he had no choice but to give up, An Sheng waited for those people to come back. Such a wait, but never waited.
Lao Qiu later realized that these people didn't come to buy leather goods at all, and the leather goods were just an excuse to stay here. But as for what these people were here for, he couldn't figure it out.
After that, there is nothing to explain, and the factory was completely ruined (closed down) afterwards. Lao Qiu went back home and continued to live a normal life.
When talking about this, Lao Qiu's face suddenly darkened. He looked at Bai Kai, as if he was asking for his opinion.
Seeing Bai Kai nodded, and then continued talking.
One year after this, the millennium had just passed, and Lao Qiu was already in his fifties at that time, and he hadn't hunted for many years. Suddenly, my hands were itchy, and I just went into the mountain with a soil gun. This entry happened just in time for the arrival of Blizzard, and based on his many years of experience, he should be able to save the day. But after all, regardless of age, something happened accidentally, he stepped on the air, rolled down the mountain, hit a tree trunk, and died directly.
Lao Qiu said that it was difficult to explain the specific situation at that time. Anyway, he had digested it for many years before he could let this matter get tied up in his heart. He crashed into a tree and woke up to find himself in a room. He thought he was rescued by kind people, but when he got up, he found a young man guarding the room. But before he got up to thank the young man for saving his life, the young man told him something first.
It was this matter that made him digest for many years before he calmed down.
That is, Lao Qiu is dead. The body is still frozen in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast.
And the current body was borrowed by the young man for him, so he is considered dead as well as alive. On weekdays, this body is not his, only at night when the yin energy begins to fill up, and this body begins to sleep. He can move freely.
It was difficult for Lao Qiu to accept this at the time, but he had no doubts about the many stories of animals that were born into humans and then integrated into human society prevailing in Northeast China. Besides, a completely unfamiliar face in the mirror proved that what the young man said was true.
This ending was not according to Lao Qiu's wishes, but it was better than death after all. In fact, Lao Qiu is not afraid of death, but he can't let go of his wife and children at home. Even now, he still often quietly goes to his original home to help. But it was all at night. Although my family members were aware of it, they rarely communicated with each other. However, Lao Qiu was content with watching from such a distance.
The young man told him that saving him was not without conditions. The condition is that Lao Qiu will return to this abandoned factory. Lao Qiu didn't know how the other party convinced the real owner of the body. Anyway, since Lao Qiu agreed, when he woke up at night, he was already in this empty factory building.
The young man told him that after that, there would definitely be some strange people coming here.
He didn't know when those people would come, so he had to arrange someone to guard here.