Chapter 39: The Old Man

The cause of Zhang Weidong's death should be related to the Taoist priest who claimed to be surnamed Jia, and in the vast sea of people, it is more and more difficult to find this Taoist priest, and now Cha Wenbin is alone, with no brothers or friends around him, and I am afraid that he will no longer have such good luck if he is attacked again next time. Cha Wenbin, who returned home, thought about it a little strangely, why did that Jia Daoist pull Zhang Weidong's soul into that reservoir, and Zhang Weidong's soul was obviously not in a state of restraint when he came to find him, why did he return to the place where he was killed after that? Since Daoist Jia wants to destroy Zhang Weidong, why did he have to wait until he found out, he could have been unaware of it a long time ago, could it be that Daoist Jia deliberately wanted to find himself through Zhang Weidong, and then set his eyes on that reservoir?

That reservoir? Although Cha Wenbin is only in his twenties, he knows too well, the more clearly pointed things are, the more it shows that the place is a trap, and he has encountered too many such incidents, and from a comprehensive analysis, this kind of thing seems to be the consistent style of Nalomon. If it's Rohm, then what do they want? But one thing is clear, if it was really Romon, Cha Wenbin could have been lying at home, and it would be easy for Rohmon to find him, just sit back and wait. You must know that now that those jade rings have returned to their places, Cha Wenbin actually understands that his tranquility is only temporary, he is waiting, waiting for the last moment to come.

Taking advantage of the free time in the past few days, Cha Wenbin went to visit some people who had repaired the reservoir back then, and he wanted to know what Zhang Weidong meant by having a smiling face under the water. In the 10 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the great leader put forward a five-year plan, to catch up with Britain and surpass the United States, the people of the whole country are struggling in the hot socialist modernization construction, among which the large-scale steel smelting, the construction of hydropower stations is the top priority, in the south where the rivers are developed, especially in my hometown, there will be a small hydropower station every five kilometers on a small river. The working people used their wisdom to build dams on rivers and rely on dams to store water to generate electricity, which later proved to be almost a waste of resources, because the small rivers were simply not enough to provide enough water, and they also consumed the precious manpower and technology of the time.

Most of the people of that era had the experience of repairing reservoirs, and there were still two super-large reservoirs in the diameter of Anxian County, so I am afraid that they would not be able to repair it now, but at that time, the people relied on a strong force to rely on shoulders and legs to achieve a great project.

The Lonely Soul Gangzi Power Station was built by our town, which was also one of the collective tasks at that time, each town needed to have a certain amount of power generation to be integrated into the Xin'anjiang power grid, and only after reaching this standard, the village would be uniformly arranged to access high-voltage electricity. Upstairs and downstairs, electric lights, telephones, and electricity were a scarce resource at that time, and the responsibility for this project was directly responsible for the deputy secretary of the town brigade at that time, and directly led by the county engineering project department. It's a pity that these two main leaders have now left Anxian County after Li An's inquiry, but he found Cha Wenbin one of the other people in charge of the project at that time.

This man's name is Lu Liang, who is already 60 out of 5 this year, when he was the captain of one of the construction teams, one of the few people in the town who had the qualification of an architect, and he was one of the first batch of old college students after the liberation. Since then, he has been working in Anxian County, and before his retirement, he was a cadre of the Water Conservancy Bureau.

Cha Wenbin was taken by Li An that day, this Li An worked on the road in Anxian County, and he had a big face, but he also ran into a wall several times to see this Lu Liang. "I heard that this old man has a strange personality, Cha Ye looked at it for a while and asked, if he is really unhappy, let's go and find other people back then, why, this reservoir was built by a specially dispatched engineering team at that time, but guess what, I asked someone to check the files, and the engineering team has almost been wiped out so far."

"What do you mean? All dead? ”

"At that time, the construction of this reservoir, plus the people provided by the brigade, totaled about two hundred, but the number of locals was indeed small, and I checked the file to find out that this problem was, and it was thanks to the fact that you asked for it, so I kept an eye on it. It stands to reason that the scale of this reservoir is not too large, and it should be dominated by local labor, but the data shows that there were only eleven locals in the entire Anxian County at that time, and the remaining nearly 200 people did not have names but only numbers. ”

"Soldier!" Cha Wenbin immediately thought of this, and he said, "Do you mean that the remaining more than 200 people are also dead?" ”

"I don't know this, those are all numbers that can't be verified, but our local eleven people are together with that Lu Liang, and now only he is still alive, and the remaining ten people almost all died in the same year, and the cause of their death I went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to ask someone to check, and there is no detailed record. What's even more strange is that the families of these people also moved out of Anxian County one after another that year, and the specific whereabouts are also unknown. Today, I also give this sentence to Cha Ye, you are a capable person and the matter that you care about is definitely not a trivial matter, brother, I am naturally not afraid, just kindly remind me. ”

This answer was beyond Cha Wenbin's expectations, and even far beyond his imagination, he could never have imagined that there would be so many unknowns hidden behind such a thing. The past that has been sealed for decades seems to be reluctant to be mentioned, and he deliberately conceals something, but now he seems to have opened a corner of it, and Ang Lee's reminder is not unreasonable.

It was a five-story building allocated by the government, and Mr. Li said that Mr. Lu lived in the one on the west side of the third floor, and that he had a wife who had been dead for five years and had liver cancer. There is a daughter who is very good at studying, and later went to rescue the Americans who were living in the dire straits of capitalism, and now he lives alone in this building, deep in the depths, and the people who leave the office will send someone to come and see them every other month.

Holding the address given by others, Li An stood at the door with a gift in his hand and knocked on the door, and after a while, there was a cough in the inner room, and then he asked, "Who?" ”

"I, Ang Li, Xiao Li, Director Zhang said that I have already greeted you."

The door opened, and there was a smell of incense, Cha Wenbin couldn't even see the person's face clearly, the house was too dim, it was in the daytime, the sun outside had just climbed up the hill, and the women were busy drying their clothes on the way here, but when they arrived here, a cold and depressed seemed to make people feel that it was winter all of a sudden.

"Come in." The man coughed lightly and then got out of the way, looking at the posture, Li An forgot to raise his foot for a while, he asked, "Did Secretary Lu just get up?" ”

"I don't like the smell of light," the old man moved slowly, and after a while, Cha Wenbin saw that a kerosene lamp was lit inside! That's right, it's indeed a kerosene lamp, and there are still people using kerosene lamps in this cadre building! "Just sit here." The old man pointed to a set of sofas beside him, and Cha Wenbin and Li An went in one after another.

The entrance is the living room, with two rooms on the left and right, as well as the kitchen and bathroom, all the doors are closed, and the curtains are drawn on the front balcony, so that no light can penetrate in. There was a yellowed thread-bound book on the coffee table, and Cha Wenbin glanced at it, it was the Diamond Sutra of Buddhism. The old man leaned on the sofa and pulled out a cigarette to Li Andao: "What is the matter with you coming to me, Xiao Zhang didn't say specifically, only said that you want to consult me about some things in the building, do you want to turn over the house or build the bridge?" ”

"Neither," Cha Wenbin took over and said, "I want to ask you how to repair this reservoir?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Liang's face suddenly changed, the cigarette in his hand was only half lit and slowly put down, he gently pushed the ashtray in front of him and said, "Is it the child of the old man?" ”

"No," Cha continued, "this Westerner thinks that people are born sinful, so they have to go to church every week to confess. This Buddha is the same, the older people are, the more they can't let go of some things in the past, so they always want to use Buddhist scriptures to resolve those past events, Mr. Lu is not only an intellectual, but also a retired national cadre, how can he also look at this Diamond Sutra when he is old. ”

"You can go out," the old man said without the slightest politeness, and directly ordered the eviction, "It is not up to you to say whether I am doing well or not, young man, please put away your self-righteous judgment, I do not welcome you here." ”

"Merlin Town, Lonely Soul Gangzi." Cha Wenbin continued: "I don't think Mr. Lu will forget this, you were one of the construction leaders that year, and now those who participated in the construction of the reservoir with you are no longer there, are you afraid to go with them or have been praying for the deceased back then." ”

Without waiting for Lu Liang to speak, Cha Wenbin said again: "Just a few days ago, someone lost his life in that reservoir, and he told me that he saw something strange, so I wanted to ask Mr. Lu what happened in that reservoir back then, and why a water conservancy project that was intact from the architectural form and has a functional function has been abandoned to this day." I've also heard that it's because of some supernatural phenomena in the hydroelectric dams, but this reason is not strong enough to explain the people who have died and those who have disappeared. ”

Li An didn't expect Cha Wenbin to be so aggressive when he came up, he thought that this time he would definitely be blown away by this old man, but he didn't expect that Lu Liang lit a cigarette again and said softly: "Can you tell me who you are first?" ”