Thirteen prisons

Chapter 36 Ruins
The next morning, before dawn, the chef took them into the mountain.

Because it had just rained, the roads in the mountains were extremely slippery.Lao Hu was better, his physical fitness was in place, Zhou Yuan walked extremely collapsed, walking down the mountain road for more than an hour, he almost fell down from exhaustion.The chef looked very relaxed, and he stopped and picked a lot of wild mushrooms along the way.After the rain, the wild things in the mountains grow wildly. The chef said that he can pick dozens of catties a day, save some for the guest house, and dry the rest to sell, which is a good way to make extra money.

Only Lao Hu could answer a few words with him from time to time, Zhou Yuan was so tired that he couldn't help but ask how far he was.

"Wangshan ran to death. If it wasn't for the flash floods, we wouldn't have to work so hard. There is also a mountain top, which is opposite to the broken mountain road, and then it will be a three-mile hillside road." The chef gloated. Said bluntly, in his eyes, these city people are asking for trouble.

I will see the dead end road in a short while.It was really scary. I don’t know where the flood came from, but it slanted the road out of a big pit with a depth of seven or eight meters. Under the pit, there was a dim yellow and muddy flood river. The rain had stopped for several days. The water potential is still not small. I don't know if the rainwater from several nearby mountains has gathered here.

Seeing the opposite mountain road less than ten meters away, Zhou Yuan and Hu Dongdong could only look at each other and smile wryly.If they follow the original path, it won't take long. It can only be said that they are unlucky.

The three of them turned around and continued walking up the mountain. As the chef said, the rest of the road was a slope.But here is no longer a mountain path that pure mountain people have stepped on for many years, but a newly built war preparation road when the machinery factory was built, which is much easier to walk than the mountain road just now.Just the cook reminding them of the rain and gravel on the top of the mountain.After all, there has just been a mudslide here.Seeing the jagged rocks towering above the head, as if monsters with green hairs are jumping down at any time, the feeling is really thrilling.

The only consolation is that the scenery along the way is very good.Green forests and grass, blue sky and white clouds, the mountain peaks are as majestic and continuous as ink paintings. Looking down from the halfway up the mountain, the white clouds and mists seem to be sticky and attached to the mountain, gradually dissipating and flying under the evaporation of the sun, which looks like a dream.Moreover, the air just after the rain is extremely refreshing, and the throat is moist. From time to time, the chef throws over two wild wild fruits picked by the roadside, and takes a bite of sour, sweet and smooth.

Infected by this pure natural and beautiful environment, Zhou Yuan suddenly felt an ethereal feeling in his heart, thinking that all things are indeed connected, and being in touch with nature is really good for people's emotions.He even thought that if the disease was not cured, he could die in such a beautiful place, which would be considered a good home for himself.

After walking wildly for another half an hour, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw that the road in front of him began to slope downwards. After walking not far, the road to combat preparations came to an end, and a dense forest appeared in front of those end of the road.Farther away, a piece of black looms faintly from among the trees, and upon closer inspection, it is a flat artificial building with a slightly slanted angle.

"Here we are." The chef looked at the sky and said, "I won't go any further. I'll go to the stream over there to wash the mushrooms. Go in by yourself."

"Have you ever been inside?" Zhou Yuan asked looking at the looming buildings in front of him.

"Who dares to enter this place? I don't know how many years it has been abandoned, and there is no one. About eight years ago, someone came here to buy a forest farm, but after entering, he was so scared that he said it was haunted, so he left. I have never been here again. In the past two years, people in the town have made more stones for ancient gardening and sculptures, making more money than dumping wood, and this place has gradually become deserted."

The chef lit a cigarette and smoked: "I said, if you want to watch it, hurry up. This place killed many people during the Cultural Revolution, so it's not a good place. After watching it, leave as soon as possible, and you can go back at night."

Zhou Yuan doesn't believe in ghosts and gods very much, but he believes that staying overnight here is definitely not good. This kind of place is so humid that mushrooms grow, and they didn't bring any outdoor accommodation.

Hu Dongdong directly threw a pack of cigarettes to the chef: "Then thank you, please wait for us here."

The chef took the cigarette and looked at his watch: "I'll wait for you until three o'clock at most. If you don't come out at three o'clock, I have to go back, otherwise I won't be able to go back before dark. The road in the mountains is not easy to walk at night. something happened."

They knew that the chef was telling the truth, thanked them and went in.After bypassing some trees, there is a dilapidated wall in front of us, and there are still some remnants of "I dedicate my youth to the motherland" painted on the wall.

Seeing these vague words, they were sure that this was indeed the site of the Huaguang Machinery Factory.

"Do you remember what the next sentence of this sentence is?" Lao Hu pointed to the wall and said.

"Dedicate your youth and your children." Zhou Yuan remembers Yan Yi telling them stories. When he came to Daba Mountain, he saw this slogan. Will spend a lifetime here at a loss.

It was just an ordinary slogan, but looking at the dilapidated wall, the two of them could strongly feel the atmosphere left by that era.From the fence to their front was a broken iron fence gate surrounded by overgrown grass.

Zhou Yuan went to the door and took a look: "This place is really desolate, the door is locked, what should I do?" The lock has not been opened for many years, and it is covered with rust.He tugged at the lock and chain, looked at the keyhole again, shook his head and said to Hu Dongdong: "It's useless, you can't open it even with a key, it's rusted to death. Should we go through the door or the fence?"

"No need." Hu Dongdong walked to the door, observed it carefully, and aimed hard at an iron railing at the lower right corner of the door. The joint of the railing had been severely eroded by wind and rain over the years, and it broke with a kick. , There was a gap of about forty centimeters on the door.

Lao Hu lowered his body and went directly to it.Since Lao Hu was fine, Zhou Yuan also squeezed through the gap.

Because no one has lived here for a long time, the grass inside is taller than a person, with yellow and green, a barren and dilapidated appearance. There is a gatehouse on the left hand side inside the gate, which should be a sentry post on duty. And the wall paint has long since peeled off, revealing mottled red wall bricks inside.

Continuing to walk in, it didn't take long to see a very dilapidated two-story tube building. The iron stairs were outside the building, and there were laundry wires downstairs, with rag sheets of no color visible hanging on it.Zhou Yuan said: "This should be a staff dormitory, right? It can be regarded as a small town."

Lao Hu took a look at the house and disagreed: "I don't think it's as good as you think. How can people who were not married before live in a separate room? That house looks like a dormitory for singles. Yan Yi and the others recruited workers to come in. They should not be very old, and it is estimated that only a few of them are married."

Now that the two had found Huaguang Machinery Factory, they were not in such a hurry. They walked slowly all the way, discussing a few words from time to time.Even if you don't find a clue today, just follow it up tomorrow.

The more they walked, the more surprised they were. This place was much bigger than they thought before.Next is a row of flat-roofed four-storey buildings, which are extremely bleak and dilapidated after staying for a long time. Looking over, you can see that the window frames are all crooked. Naturally, the window glass has long since disappeared, and the red slogan on the wall has also become weathered. Incomplete, exposing the red bricks inside, like scars one by one.Only one or two words can be vaguely seen, and the slogans at that time were nothing more than words like "work hard, persevere", and they didn't bother to take the time to distinguish them carefully.

The buildings along the way are similar, after all, it was relatively poor at that time, and the collective concept, so the architectural style is also the former Soviet style, the style is not very beautiful, but it can be seen that it is very strong, such as these abandoned houses, although dozens of It was repaired years ago, but the red bricks exposed on the wall haven't changed much. Although they are old, they still look solid.So even if it is a dilapidated scene, they can roughly imagine that in that era, it must have been a bustling scene.

It's just that now it's as quiet as a dead city.The further you go, the better the road will be.They discussed it and understood that the idea of ​​construction at that time was from a strategic point of view, so the factories were built in a scattered manner, and the entire factory area was very wide and divided into several areas.Therefore, each factory area is connected by cement roads. Although the roads have been dilapidated over the past few decades, they are still much easier to walk than mountain roads.

After walking for a while, there is a small flat land with a single two-story building.In front of the building there is a concrete space, on which there are seesaws, carousel seats and the like.The color of these toys has peeled off, and the child's old cotton shoes are still lying on the concrete floor. I don't know how many years old, and the black cotton inside is exposed at the damaged parts.In short, there is an indescribable weirdness in looking at it.

"This should be the kindergarten at that time, right?" Zhou Yuan squinted his eyes and guessed that there were many soot paintings on the walls outside the small building, all of which were drawn with simple single lines. They should be graffiti by the children in the kindergarten back then. .Seeing these things suddenly, he felt a little panicked, like a scene from a horror movie.

Going further inside, there are some large buildings appearing one after another, which should be factories. It seems that they should be in the industrial area.The slogans on the red brick wall of the factory building are also different from before. Most of them read slogans such as: "Grasp the revolution, promote production, promote work, and promote war readiness".

The scale of the factory buildings is not small, they are all about ten meters high, and the gates alone are two or three meters high.Along the way, the surrounding area was very quiet, but suddenly there was a dull "click" sound from a nearby factory building. Zhou Yuan was startled, and Hu Dongdong frowned: "Zhou Yuan, did you hear that?"

Zhou Yuan hesitated: "Do you want to go in and have a look?"

Lao Hu nodded: "What are you afraid of in broad daylight? I don't believe there are ghosts and monsters."

The gate of the factory building is open, because no one stays there all year round, some abandoned equipment is completely rusted, and the surrounding steel bars are exposed and rusty.Some walls have even collapsed.

The two walked in and took a look, Hu Dongdong pointed to the front and said, "Look there."

Zhou Yuan hurriedly looked up, and saw a machine for unknown purpose, and a thick iron chain was still shaking slightly, which should have made the noise not long ago.Hu Dongdong let out a sigh of relief: "Although I don't know what it is, it's probably a bit of a spectacle. The principle of this machine should be that kind of alarm device. It will be activated every half a month or a month. It's a bit like a production alarm."

Zhou Yuan was puzzled: "This place has been around for so many years, can there still be electricity?"

Hu Dongdong shook his head: "This is not sure. Yan Yi said that this place belongs to a factory that produces military supplies. Generally, this kind of unit will have some backup measures to ensure safety, such as the generator set for combat readiness. Once the power is cut off here , those combat-ready gensets will start themselves."

The two walked down the big iron chain all the way, and sure enough there was an iron ladder underneath, which had not been used for many years, and dust would fly up when blowing on it.However, it was still strong after stepping on it, so I walked down the iron ladder, and sure enough, I saw a steel machine like a tank in the basement. The green indicator light on it had been covered with a lot of dust, but it was still on. with.

Lao Hu smacked his lips: "It can still work in 40 to [-] years. The quality of this engine is many times stronger than the current engine."

"If you think it's good, take it home." Zhou Yuan was a little anxious. The factory area is so big, and he doesn't know when he will find traces of Lin He's visit: "Let's go to other places quickly."

Lao Hu is not in a hurry: "If my guess is correct, Lin He came here, seven out of ten went to the warehouse where Wudou used to be. We still have enough time, so it's rare to come here once. Let's take a look around, here Everything is a trace of history, don't you feel very emotional?"

Seeing that Lao Hu was so confident, Zhou Yuan didn't say anything more.After going up the ladder again, Hu Dongdong suddenly said: "What do you think is that big pool in front of you?"

Zhou Yuan followed Lao Hu and saw a large square pond, three or four meters deep.A sign was erected next to the pool: "Sulfuric acid is dangerous, stay away!" The sulfuric acid inside was gone long ago, only a white skeleton was inside, and it was obvious from the skull that it was the remains of a human being.

When the two were looking down, the skull suddenly moved, and Zhou Yuan was so frightened that he grabbed Hu Dongdong.I saw a small mouse crawling out of the dark eye socket of the skull, and burrowed in through the floor drain of the pool.

Only then did Zhou Yuan heave a sigh of relief, the corpse had been severely corroded, and it looked tragic.Zhou Yuan said: "This should be the victim of the martial arts back then? The death was terrible, and he was thrown into the pool of sulfuric acid." In that turbulent year, anything could happen.

Hu Dongdong pointed to the rotting clothes fragments on the corpse and said: "Probably not, it looks more like the corpse was dumped here after it was abandoned. If it was soaked in sulfuric acid, there should be no fragments left on the clothes."

In either case, it was a long time ago.It's just that the appearance of this pair of human bones makes people feel a little uncomfortable.I also lost the interest to continue to wander around the factory area.

After walking from this factory building, the two smoked a cigarette, studied the direction, and then continued to walk deeper.

After walking for about 20 minutes, a hill tens of meters high appeared.Against the mountain wall, there are two semicircular buildings that look like they are inlaid into the mountain.Needless to say, this should be the military warehouse that caused the fighting mentioned more than once in the story of Yan Yi's Cultural Revolution.

It's just that the small building next to this warehouse is no longer there.To be precise, it turned into a pile of ruins, and it should have been demolished after the incident.

There is always a gap between imagination and reality. When I first saw this warehouse, I found that it was much bigger than what Yan Yi described in his story.The warehouse gate alone is six or seven meters high, and two people standing in front of it are somewhat disproportionate.I don't know what this warehouse used to store.

When I got closer, I found that the gate of the abandoned warehouse was full of messy grass and mottled. The paint oxidized for many years was cracked like the face of an old man with vicissitudes of life. There was no trace of people's activities here.Only the two vague words "war readiness" on the door still retain the old atmosphere.A few big holes had been rotted on the top of the gate due to the erosion of time. Looking from the outside, the inside was dark with a musty smell. This kind of dilapidation reminded Zhou Yuan of the tragedies Yan Yi said. A desperate Red Guard girl, a strange death scene.When he finally found this place, he became nervous.

The door here is still locked.Looking at the big lock that was as thick as an arm, Zhou Yuan had no choice but to look for a bigger stone around to see if he could break it open. The door is estimated to be [-] centimeters thick, and it is impossible to kick it open this time. Bar.Unexpectedly, Lao Hu looked at the lock and laughed: "Don't look for stones, go in."

As he said that, he actually took off the lock just like that.Pushing hard against the door with his shoulder, the heavy wooden door creaked a few times, and was slowly pushed open a crack.

Zhou Yuan came over in admiration: "How did you do it?" He picked up the heavy U-shaped padlock, only to find that it had been sawed off. Compared with the rusty lock body, the break looked like Much newer.

"Is this what Lin He did?" Zhou Yuan suddenly realized that since Lin He had been here before, he would definitely find a way to get in.I couldn't help but admire Lao Hu even more.

The door was gradually pushed open, and the sunlight outside the door shone brightly in the dark warehouse, and Lao Hu suddenly said, "Look, what is this?"

(End of this chapter)