plum city

Chapter 26 The Dust of Time

Last night, the little grandfather said to Fang Yan: "Ye School is also a foreigner, but they have a very good relationship with the people from Meicheng. It seems that there has never been a fight between Meicheng and Ye School people, let alone Meicheng." People who come specifically to hunt down foreigners from the school."

Fang Yan became interested and asked: "Why?"

The little grandpa twirled his fingers and said:
"A school is a university, and there is also the Yanzhou Normal School nearby, which is a technical secondary school. They are all like this. They will not be unable to get along with the locals in Meicheng. One is probably because they are educated and have to be polite in their dealings.

"Also, their students are all children from poor families from all over the country. They are not as impressive as the Hangcheng guys. They speak Mandarin on the street, while the Hangcheng guys speak Hangcheng dialect. I, I, are ten One condom after another, whose father are you? I’ll give you my fists to see how many condoms you have.”

Fang Yan laughed and thought, Hangcheng people’s catchphrase of “I” is that going outside will indeed attract hatred.

The little grandpa said: "Really, the people in Ye School are the best. Look at the three schools in a row, Yan Normal School and Yanzhou Middle School in the middle. If we want to go in to play football or something, they have to guard the entrance. They won't let us in. They have to find someone inside to take us in. The school doesn't care. The door is open and we can come in and out at will.

"Students in Ye School can all be read as accountants. They have four eyes, are elegant, and are not very active. There are only a few in the whole school. We went to play football, and these few active students were like We play together, or they form a team, and we from Meicheng form a team, and we all come to compete, which is great."

The little grandpa laughed when he said this and said:

"There is another thing that everyone in Meicheng knows. Late at night, in the middle of the night, there is a fire somewhere in Meicheng. As soon as the alarm from the police station goes off, in less than 10 minutes, people from the school will come out. Men and women line up, and everyone has their hands They all took washbasins and buckets and ran out like one, two, one, two, to help put out the fire. As long as there was an alarm, they would run to wherever there was an alarm."

What the little grandpa said was very visual, one, two, one, two. Fang Yan seemed to really see men and women lined up in a neat square formation, each with a washbasin and bucket in their hands, running past him. , he couldn't help but laugh too.

The city gate of Yanzhou City was open. Fang Yan rode through the city gate and saw a blue brick building next to it. There was scaffolding outside and it was being renovated.Past the construction site is a high fence, and on the high fence is the playground, where the little grandpa and the others used to play football.At the end of the playground is a five-story house. The house is very dilapidated. Judging from the style, it was built in the 70s and [-]s.

This was the main building of the original Ye School, their teaching building and library, and also the workshop and office of the Meicheng Knitting Factory later.

A road passes by the side of the teaching building. On this side of the road, there are two basketball courts. The bungalow behind the basketball courts was the original teacher's office of the school.Some men and women are playing basketball on the basketball court.

Fangyan parked his bicycle next to the basketball court and walked along the road. Behind the teaching building was a slope. Fangyan walked to the top of the slope and saw a volleyball court above it. The wires hanging the net were still there. , but the above network has disappeared.On both sides of the volleyball court, there are two large bungalows, both with blue bricks and red tiles.

These houses should be older than the previous teaching building, and similar to Meicheng Hospital. The buildings in the 60s and [-]s are basically blue bricks and red tiles, or red walls and black tiles.

The building on the right is obviously a canteen. There is a row of more than a dozen terrazzo pools against the wall outside the house, and on top is a simple shed with fiberglass tiles.

The building on the left should be the assembly hall that Fangyan is looking for, which is also the original warehouse of Meicheng Knitting Factory.The wooden door was closed, and the padlock was left. On the gable above the door, a five-pointed star was made of cement. Under the five-pointed star, there was a line of words made of cement: "Long live the invincible XXX thought! Long live !Long live!"

The words and the five-pointed star were originally red, but now they are mottled and their appearance is a little blurry.

Fang Yan walked to the door and pushed the door inward with his hand, opening it a crack.He lay on the crack of the door and looked in. It was so dark inside that he couldn't see anything clearly.

Fang Yan walked to the side. There was a door on the side and several windows. The glass of one window was broken.

Fang Yan walked over, leaned against the window and looked inside, finally able to see clearly inside.He saw that everything inside had been emptied, and there was nothing. The ground was full of pits, and thigh-thick logs on top formed herringbone beams. The joints were reinforced with U-shaped nails. The wood had become It was dark black, and even in dim light, Fang Yan could see that the reinforced nails were already rusty.

Fang Yan looked inside, his heart tightened, and he seemed to be in a daze. He seemed to have seen what the young grandfather said, that the beautiful foreign woman was inside. He looked at her, and she looked at him, and she looked familiar.When he was wondering whether this woman could be his biological mother, the woman smiled at him.

Fang Yan shuddered and woke up. There was nothing in front of him.

Fang Yan sighed softly.

After leaving here and continuing to walk inside, he saw a wall that separated a courtyard. There were five or six four-story houses in the courtyard. The houses had no balconies. There was an iron rack for drying clothes outside each window. It was already rusty, and it looked like it was originally a student dormitory.

There was a small door on the partition wall. When Fang Yan walked past, he was surprised to find that there was a reception room inside. There was no one in the dormitory inside. There was actually an old man sitting there in the reception room.

Fang Yan was overjoyed. Judging from the old man's age, he should have memories of everything that happened here.

But as soon as the old man opened his mouth, Fang Yan was disappointed. The old man had a foreign accent and was not from Meicheng. Fang Yan asked three times if you knew the Meicheng Knitting Factory, but the old man didn't hear clearly and looked at him blankly.

Fang Yan waved his hand and thanked him.

When we got here, we basically walked around the entire old campus of Ye School. Fang Yan started to walk out. When he reached the slope behind the teaching building, Fang Yan was stunned for a moment.

He saw the girl sitting painting in the patio of the B&B yesterday afternoon. She was walking up from the slope with a painting folder on her back.

The girl also saw him, and was also stunned. The two looked at each other for a few seconds. Fang Yan wanted to say hello to her, but the girl's eyes were too cold, as if she was thousands of miles away. Let me tell you, even a person No need to say hello.

The girl turned her head to the side, and then walked past Fang Yan.

Maybe it was a psychological effect, but Fang Yan felt like she was being carried by a cold wind when she walked over.

When he reached the bottom of the slope, Fang Yan looked back and saw that the girl had disappeared.

Fang Yan stood there stunned for a while, and then remembered that he had just said that the woman looking at the warehouse seemed familiar. In fact, when he thought of her, he completely replaced her with this girl. He had never even seen that woman. Why? Maybe deja vu?

It was such a coincidence that I had just replaced this girl on the top, walked down, and met her here.

Dialect shook his head.

(End of this chapter)