Chapter 1: The Ghost Building

(1963)

On the construction site of a factory dormitory building in Jinsong, Beijing, a competition of "competing for energy, planting red flags, and striving to be the new expert of socialist bricklayers" is in full swing, and both commandos have sent their best bricklayers, and as the brick walls continue to rise, the surrounding cheers continue. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Chongzi, Xie Laoliang, and Liu Erbao hid in a corner of the construction site and smoked a cigarette.

Zhang Chongzi took a sharp breath and suddenly said, "Lao Liang, you usually have the most ideas, but you can say a damn word, can you do it?"

Xie Laoliang still frowned, squinted his eyes, spit out the smoke ring unhurriedly, and only spoke after touching half a cup of tea: "Are you eating accurately?"

"Hey, then I need to say, I often do this in my hometown, I dug up the bluestone slab, look at the soil color next to it, I know that it must be the old bucket (ancient tomb), because the old bucket is used in the triple soil, and other soil is different, and the bluestone slab has animal patterns, it must be the bucket lid (tomb stone), the bucket cover is the tomb road below, rest assured, I eat accurately. ”

"Did anyone see the slate when you dug it?"

"No, they are all in the east to calculate the bricklayer competition, no one has seen it, as soon as I dig it, I will quickly bury it with soil, just wait for us to come up with an idea before we do it"

After all, Liu Erbao was young and afraid of things, and before Xie Laoliang could speak, he quickly interjected: "Brother Chongzi, digging an ancient tomb is a big crime, it is terrible to be caught, and if you don't sentence you to death, you have to squat for ten or eight years, I feel a little drumming in my heart."

Zhang Chongzi glared at him: "You little rabbit cub knows a fart! This is called reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, if you run into a fat bucket, there is gold and silver agate, and you can eat half a lifetime to make one, and we will be digging in the construction site to pull bricks in the pit for the rest of our lives? Do you say this is the reason, Lao Liang?"

Xie Laoliang still frowned, squinted, smoked unhurriedly, and saw that the cigarette fart was about to burn his hands, so he twisted it on the brick and said: "It's also this reason, Chongzi, if you want to take it, let's do it."

"Okay", Zhang Chongzi took another puff of cigarette and threw the rest of the cigarette fart to the ground, "Say fucking we'll do it tonight, Erbao, do you want to do it?"

Liu Erbao hesitated for a while, and finally his heart was crossed, "Dry!"

That night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, Zhang Chongzi, Xie Laoliang, and Liu Erbao took shovels, pickaxes, ropes, and candles, secretly left the shed, and came to the west of the construction site where Zhang Chongzi found the stone slab.

"This is it," Zhang Chongzi whispered.

"Erbao, you stare to see if there is anyone, me and Chongzi are digging the soil," Xie Laoliang said.

Liu Erbao looked around nervously, for fear that someone would see it, Zhang Chongzi and Xie Laoliang dug the soil carefully, and after a while, they dug up a bluestone slab. Zhang Chongzi was overjoyed, and hurriedly worked with Xie Laoliang to slowly pry open the slate with a pickaxe, and moved it to the side, revealing a black hole under the slate, and a damp and rotten smell poured up.

Looking at the dark entrance of the cave, the three of them were a little dumbfounded, but Zhang Chongzi was bold, "Lao Liang, Erbao, I'll go down first, if the candle is not extinguished, it means that the air is fine, and people can enter, I pull the rope, Lao Liang will go down, Erbao is timid, sentry for us outside, if someone comes, hurry up and signal us." ”

After speaking, Zhang Chongzi tied the rope around his waist and let Xie Laoliang and Liu Erbao pull the rope with one hand and hold the candle with the other, and slowly got into the hole.

After about half a cigarette, the rope tightened, Xie Laoliang knew that Zhang Chongzi sent a signal to let him go, so he told Liu Erbao to keep watch carefully, and he took a candle and pulled the rope and slowly drilled into the hole.

Liu Erbao waited anxiously outside the cave, and waited for a long time without seeing Zhang Chongzi and Xie Laoliang come up, Liu Erbao really couldn't wait, and pulled the rope, wanting to send them a signal to hurry up, but he felt that the end of the rope was loose, as if there was nothing, Liu Erbao hurriedly pulled the rope up, and found that the rope had been broken, what was going on? Liu Erbao was in a hurry, and he didn't care about being afraid that someone would find out, so he whispered at the entrance of the cave: "Brother Chongzi, Lao Liang, what are you doing? Come out quickly." ", Come out quickly, a few words haven't been finished, only to hear Zhang Chongzi in the cave yelling: "Damn, what the is this, run, ah......" , and then there was a heart-rending sound, as if it was Xie Laoliang's voice, and then, before Liu Erbao could react, an arm stretched out from the hole, an arm that was almost only bone, full of blood, and then a head, a human head, a human head that could be vaguely seen, and a thing was held in the hand on that arm, and the two eyes of the human head looked at Liu Erbao helplessly and desperately, and only said two words: "Take it, run quickly......" Before he could finish speaking, the arm and the head were dragged into the hole again, and only the object in the hand fell out of the hole. Liu Erbao could vaguely recognize that it was Xie Laoliang's voice, and then he came back to his senses, quickly picked up the things on the ground, and ran to the east of the construction site with a rolling belt. Liu Erbao sat down on the ground, his eyes were full of tears, he looked at the things in his hand blankly and put them in his pocket.

Hearing the voice, the workers who rushed to the scene picked up Liu Erbao and helped him back to the shed.

Later, Liu Erbao only told people that they encountered a bomb planted by the Japanese in the west of the construction site, and Zhang Chongzi and Xie Laoliang were both killed, and only he escaped. The Public Security Bureau sent someone to dig at the west side of the construction site, but they didn't dig up anything but some scorched pieces of wood, and the matter was over.

Later, a dormitory building was built on the site.

(1984)

Around 84 years, a major event happened in Beijing, and at that time, people, especially those living near Jinsong, were all panicked. Everyone is rumored that the old dormitory building where Li Lao lives is haunted, and this building is the dormitory building built by Liu Erbao and them on the construction site in 63 years.

According to the people who lived in the building, every day when it was dark, you could hear the miserable cry in the building, lingering in your ears, and you could see the ghostly fire flickering around you, and the lights in the corridor flickering on and off, which was enough to frighten people.

In the dead of night, when the family entered the dream, the people in the building felt that the building was very lively, chatting, moving things, fighting, and scolding children were all clear, but when people opened the door, the sound stopped suddenly, leaving only the neighbors who watched with probes looking at each other.

Later, no one dared to live in that building, and it was demolished during the renovation of the city, and a school was built on its original site.

(more than 20 years later)

In the early morning of October in Beijing, it was a little cool, and I wandered around the hutongs near Huanghuamen in Jingshan alone, and I looked like an idler. It's not because I'm a lover of hutong travel, and I'm not a hutong skewer, but mainly because I've always longed for this feeling of lounging.

After working as a software engineer for eight years, I have become numb from the bones, and I feel that I have become software, and I am executing the programmed programs step by step every day. It is said that those who have been in this business for a long time have some psychological problems, either relying on some low-level hobbies to give themselves some psychological comfort, or they are so boring that they have to give others money to push them down from the places where their legs are weak, and look for the feeling of flying freely. Although I am not a person who has detached myself from low-level interests, I also don't want to ruin my image of integrity that has always been glorious and great in the eyes of the little girl in the neighborhood, on the other hand, I am born with a fear of heights, and it is possible for me to poke others down with a bamboo pole from such a high place, but it is absolutely impossible to push me down, so I suspect that both methods of relieving stress are ineffective for me, so after making some savings by recently making some savings by flipping up the house, I finally decided to liberate myself, quit my job, and prepare to soho, find some business I like to open a small shop。

Therefore, this stroll is by the way with some purpose, to see what small investment and quick results can be done, but I didn't expect to encounter a strange thing.

Speaking of adventures, one of my little Zhang Meng has a hobby, often go to Sanlian Taofen Bookstore to read, not how he loves to read, in fact, since I knew him when I was a child, I have the impression that he is not only interested in the text on the back of foreign paintings, but also dizzy to see other words, there are seasickness, motion sickness, it is said that he is called "faint words", I asked him why he always goes to Sanlian Bookstore, he impassionedly told me to read books for the rise of China... Damn,, in fact, it's because the Sanlian Bookstore is warm in winter and cool in summer, saving money on air conditioning, and there is a place to sit, the most important thing is that there are many beautiful women reading books, thinking that one day they can have an adventure and know a beautiful woman or something.

Of course, I didn't encounter such an adventure that he didn't pursue, but something real, but one can't believe it actually happened. It was this morning that changed the course of my life.

Is all this a coincidence or a design?