"Can I take the liberty of asking about your cousin's graveyard and the place where the lady from Wanfu committed suicide?" Wu Ling asked.
The middle-aged man's expression was a little confused, but he still answered Wu Ling's question, "My cousin has moved to the cemetery now, and everyone in our family is buried there. The girl from Wanfu... I heard that she jumped into the well, but I don’t know which one it is. No one has used wells in recent years. Many wells have been filled in, and I don’t know if they are still there.”
"Is that so... This incident should be the biggest vicious incident in Qingcha Village, right? Apart from this, have there been any casualties?"
The middle-aged man's expression was still puzzled. He stumbled and then said: "It should be gone. I know it is gone. We are still very peaceful here. After that incident, the tea farmers basically stopped. "
"Well. We also discovered an interesting phenomenon here. There seems to be no special religious power in the local area. There is only one temple, and the incense in the temple is not strong. Some of the cities where the tea shops we visited before are more or less related to Buddhism and Buddhism. It has some connections with Taoism and pays more attention to the antique atmosphere.”
The middle-aged man's expression was a little soothing, "Well, that's how it is here. No one here believes in this, and no one has ever believed in this. That temple was only built more than ten or twenty years ago. It's the one above The arrangement was initially made by a host transferred from other places. However, his work did not go so smoothly. How can I say..." The middle-aged man laughed a little, "I just don't believe it. Anyway, I don't believe it. We still sell tea as usual. The temple had just been built and some activities had been held, but the results were not good, so that was it.”
"That's it. Thank you for cooperating with our interview today."
"You are welcome."
At this point, the video suddenly switched and was edited to the entrance of another tea shop.
The tea shop in the picture also uses a crude antique building. The signboard is in regular Chinese characters, with no bells and whistles and no seals.
The screen swept by, the video suddenly turned into a black screen, and the progress bar reached the end.
On March 21, 2009, we contacted Shao Lin, the general manager of Wanfu Hao. Audio file 05420090321.wav.
"Hello, Manager Shao. Thank you for taking the time to accept our interview."
"No, no, it's because of the hard work of several reporters that they came to our small place at this time."
"Manager Shao should already know that we met Manager Yang from Tongren yesterday. From him, we roughly understood the basic situation of Qingcha House. The business scale and business strategies of the two companies are similar. Is that right? "
"Well, it's almost the same. In this small place, we are just two small tea shops. Fortunately, the tea trees here have good yields and can meet the requirements of suppliers, so we can operate until now. Compared with real time-honored brands and those big companies , it’s a long way off.”
"From Manager Yang, we heard about an old incident, which can also be said to be a vicious incident in the past. Does Manager Shao know about this?"
"Are you talking about the fight between tea farmers?"
"Yes. Can Manager Shao please elaborate?"
"That matter... Since Manager Yang told you, it should be clear, right? Our two tea shops want to merge, but the tea farmers are opposed. Originally, it was a normal communication and negotiation. They have leaders and representatives. . However, we had little experience and failed to control the situation at the scene, which led to the fight. In this matter, we have an unshirkable responsibility and it was our work error. We also dealt with the aftermath properly. You see With the current development of Qingcha Village, we can also understand that that incident has no impact on Qingcha Village."
"That was the case with the brawl, but what about the fire?"
"That incident... Sigh... That was really a tragedy. The fire was both an accident and man-made. Because just after the fight, our two families were dealing with the matter, appeasing the tea farmers, making arrangements, and... There is compensation... Originally, these tea farmers were responsible for picking tea during the tea picking season. At other times, they took care of the tea trees. Some of them had free time and worked at our house. Well, they were basically security guards and helpers. We all distributed them according to their work and paid them. Salary. But when something happened at that time, my grandfather gave them leave, leaving only a few old people to help in the warehouse and at home. With less manpower, there was more work to do, plus the aftermath... I don't know exactly how the fire started. Afterwards, the fire brigade here... Oh, the militiamen were doing this at that time. They were not very professional. After checking again and again, nothing was found. It was just a rough guess that the electrical appliances were faulty. There was a problem, maybe a leakage, a short circuit, etc. When the fire broke out, it was during dinner in the evening. Except for my eldest cousin, who was not feeling very well that day, she lay in the room sleeping. When she escaped, she was a step too slow and burned her face and Except for the arm, everyone else is fine.”
"I heard that your cousin committed suicide later?"
"Yeah. At that time, there was no plastic surgery or anything like that. Her face was burned out. The women in the family were all crying, saying that she couldn't get married and that she was useless... That's the kind of thinking. She suddenly I just can’t think about it.”
"Can I ask how she committed suicide?"
"Jumped into the well. She jumped into the well. After she was discharged from the hospital, she locked herself in her home. Most of my house was burned down, and we could barely live in it at that time. She sneaked out at night, and no one knew. The next day, my aunt, It was her mother who discovered that the person was missing and searched everywhere. At that time, it took about three or four days of searching before she found the person from the well. I was only ten years old at the time, so I just went over and took a look, and the body... was soaked in water. It’s swollen…”
"Where is the well?"
"Eh? What do you want to see? This, this matter has nothing to do with tea, right?"
"Manager Shao, is that well in the tea garden?"
"Uh... Well, okay, I won't hide it from you. This happened a long time ago, and the well had been filled in long ago. It was filled in after the accident. I was also afraid of rumors that the well water soaked in the corpse was used to water the tea trees. Give people something to drink... During that time, I was busy with the aftermath, and no one went to the tea garden, and the tea trees in the tea garden were not watered with that. But I was afraid that the matter would not be clear. "
"In other words, it was originally in a tea garden? I wonder if we can go and see where the well is?"
"This..."
"Below our newspaper office, we also have a small journal that publishes some stories. Manager Shao, you may feel unhappy when I say this. After all, the deceased is your relative, but this whole thing actually constitutes a very good story."
"It's not unpleasant... It's been so long since that incident, and our family doesn't have any taboos about it. My cousin did die like that, that's the fact. If you are willing, I can take you to see it."
"thank you."