Bai Kai and I bought the nearest plane ticket and left, and when we arrived at the airport, we had to transfer to the train.

It took two days to get to the place.

I don't know how to describe my feelings along the way, I have never confiscated the factory, and I don't even have a clue how to sell the factory after I bought it. Also, I don't know what will happen this time, so I'm very uneasy.

The information about this factory was not heard by me, but sent to the door on my own initiative.

I've been in this business for a long time, and I've paid for ads on many trading websites. Later, a large part of my business was connected through guò channel.

But what was different about this plant was that they didn't find me or my employees at the advertised contact number. Instead, I sent an email directly to my email address.

The content of the email is very simple, roughly this plant is for sale, the price is negotiable, and the contact person is Laoqiu. After that, there is the address of the house.

There are a few photos of the factory in the annex, all of which were taken a little early, and the pixels are very low. Judging from the photos, the factory was still in operation at the time of the shooting, and there was no assembly line, only a few employees were making zuò hats on the workbench.

Supposedly, this kind of email is usually treated as spam, but now everyone in this world has it, and if you can't keep it, it's a prank or a disguised fraud. But after accidentally looking at the photos, I decided to see them for myself.

The reason is very simple, I think the workers' zuò hats in the photo are very familiar. No, I guess, these hats are the ones I've seen before.

The old man had worn it before, and I had seen it up close in Fang Wanjin's shop.

Although the photo is not clear, it looks like there is no difference in the outline. I'm going to take a look at this hat anyway.

Bai Kai didn't know about the hat before, and after I told him, he also said that he had to go this time. The email itself is mysterious, and it must be boring. And even if we do run for nothing, it's better than thinking about photos at home.

Northeast China is very cold, and I am from the north, so I am very adaptable.

Bai Kai is a little choking. We prepared down jackets. In the end, I gave him both to wear, and he still yelled coldly.

The place we went to was a small border town, I had never been there, and I had always heard from friends that there was no life here, and there were often smuggled guns or drugs at the border. It's blatantly sold on the road.

So when I arrived at the place, Bai Kai and I were very cautious, even if we stayed in the hotel, we still had a brief look at the surrounding situation, but whenever something happened, it would not be brainless.

The hat factory is located on the outskirts of the town, about a 30-minute drive from our hotel. It's not that far in a big city, but in a small town like this, it's already a distance to walk back and forth in the city three times.

The hotel we stayed in was one of the best in the area, but it was technically a guest house. But the heating is very powerful, and after Bai Kai entered the house, he quickly wore only a pair of pants.

After a night's rest, we set off early the next morning.

The town is quiet, and there are no so-called taxis, only minibuses that keep going back and forth in the town, stop as soon as you wave, get on the bus and give money, and get off when you get to the place where you want to go.

Bai Kai and I sat in this kind of car, and found a place to rent a motorcycle. The two of them went bumpy along the road out of the city to the factory.

The factory is not difficult to find, mainly because there are really no buildings next to it.

Looking at it from afar, it's very dilapidated. Everywhere I looked, none of the windows were glassy.

When I arrived at the door of the factory, the large iron fence door was closed, and the iron chain on it was rusty. If you look inside, you can see a lot of snow.

I called out to Lao Qiu, but no one answered.

I didn't have much hope, so I held on to the door to see if I could get through.

Halfway up, a little old man came out of it. The old man was very short, wearing a leather jacket and leather pants peculiar to the Northeast, and a hat on top of his head. Strictly.

I saw the hat at a glance 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 a cigarette, trying to get close.

As a result, the old man just babbled and waved his hand, and Bai Kai and I looked at each other. A mute?

I asked him tentatively, are you Lao Qiu? We're here to see the house.

The old man nodded his head twice, and turned to lead us inside.

After passing through a small yard, I entered the factory.

I don't know if it's still heating inside, but it's very warm anyway. The plant is not large, only three or four hundred square meters. The whole factory was empty, and there was no facility in sight. The old man pointed to a makeshift hut in a corner of the factory and led us inside.

The hut was obviously where the old man slept, and the furnishings were simpler, a camp bed, a small coal stove, and the rest were washbasins and kettles and stuff.

I sat with Bai Kai for a while and took a sip of the hot water poured by the old man. began to ask the old man what the general situation of this factory was.

Because the old man was dumb, it took a lot of effort to communicate, and we could only ask him by asking yes or no, and we didn't ask anything for a long time.

In the end, Bai Kaina couldn't help but tell me to go out and see for myself.

When I went out, I asked Bai Kai, did you see anything wrong with this factory?

"You don't have eyes, do you? What's the problem with this place, the ghosts are freezing to death! Bai Kai sneezed and said, Xiao Que, do you think this factory is the same as the one in the photo?

I looked around, and the things in the factory were gone, and it was difficult to compare, because the walls or floors of this kind of factory were basically the same, and it was impossible to distinguish them in detail. So I asked Bai Kai, you mean, this house is also a replica?

Bai Kai said, that's not it, I quietly looked at it when I came in just now, you come with me.

Bai Kai pulled me to a corner of the factory, and there were many broken bricks scattered on the ground. Bai Kai pulled the broken bricks apart with his feet, and pointed to the road, you see.

I leaned down, and saw that there were indeed some marks on the ground, and how I looked at them and felt familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen them.

I asked Bai Kai, what is this? Did you pee?

Bai Kai said, pee your grandmother's claws, this is the traces left after the cement is dry, someone has stirred the cement here, and this plant has been modified recently!

I immediately remembered that when I was a child, when my neighbor's house was built, I remembered that I went to see it. At that time, the construction was relatively simple, sand, stones, and cement were all piled on the ground, and the sand was filtered with iron nets casually, and a pit was made on the sand pile, and the cement was mixed directly in it. Next to it, they transported the mixed cement basket by basket and added bricks to build the house.

I said in my heart that this factory was going to collapse before? Normally, if there are cracks in the wall, it is also repaired with cement, and I don't know how many years this place has, and it is normal for it to be broken.

I turned back to look for the old man, only to see him already watching us from the door of his hut.

I asked him, has this factory been under construction recently?

Seeing the old man nodding, I asked again, where is it repaired?

The old man stretched out his hand and pointed to the wall behind me, again. I said in my heart that Lao Tzu's analytical ability is still good, and this wall really went wrong before.

Who knew that when he turned around, he saw Bai Kai looking at the wall with a strange face, and asked the old man inexplicably, was there something on the wall before? Covered with cement?

As soon as I heard this, I chuckled in my heart, and 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 in other places." Bai Kai stretched out his hand and touched it again, this place is facing a window, and that window is also very strange, and the position of the opening is nondescript.

I turned my head to see that there was indeed a window on the opposite wall that didn't look right, first of all, this window opened in a very special position, a lot higher than the others. It seems very abrupt. I looked around at all the windows in the factory, and this one was the only one.

Secondly, outside this window, there is a small platform not far away, which is not built, but has been leveled with a tool such as a shovel on a small dirt slope.