Chapter Seven: Returning to the Tracking Path for Obsession
The next day, I added a lock to Xiao Luqi's door, took Mo Mo back, and called my aunt to ask her to feed her cat food every day. After Mo Mo ate the "refined food" of baby rats for a few days, her mouth became naughty.
I had no interest in ordinary cat food. I reluctantly decided to starve this guy for a few meals.
I let it play on the newly purchased cat climbing frame by itself, while I opened the Ding Ding map and entered the three words "Linjiazhai". The location soon appeared, in the southern suburbs of Shanghai, on National Highway 1501 in Fengxian District (also known as "Linjiazhai").
"Suburban Ring Line"), about 50 kilometers away from me.
But when I enlarged the map, I found that there were actually seven Lin Family Residences in Shanghai! There were two each in Fengxian, Chongming, and Jinshan, and one in Pudong. Which one is the real Lin Family Residence No. 37?
No matter how many there are, just look for them one by one! I jumped in the car and went straight to Fengxian District. After driving for an hour, I finally arrived at the location shown on the map. Unexpectedly, this place turned out to be dotted with suburban villages, surrounded by large tracts of land.
field. I was walking slowly on the ridge of the field when I met a farmer uncle wearing shabby work clothes and walking toward me with a hoe on his shoulder. I went up to him and asked him if he knew where the Lin family residence was.
"Just this." He pointed to a dilapidated and low-rise bungalow.
"Oh..." I looked and walked, thinking that I didn't know if there was a house number here.
"What are you looking for?" (Shanghai dialect: What are you looking for?) the farmer uncle suddenly said.
"I'm looking for Lin Family House No. 37."
The uncle suddenly laughed and said: "Are you looking for a place? You can't come to a place like this!" (Shanghai dialect: Are you looking for this place? You can't come to us!)
"What do you mean?" I was confused, "Uncle, can you speak Mandarin?"
"I have met several people who came here to find No. 37 Lin Family House before. It took me a long time to figure out that the Lin Family House you are looking for is not here at all. After the liberation of that place, the old residence was demolished and converted into a workers' residence.
New Village.”
As soon as I heard this, I knew I had met someone who understood. I quickly handed over the cigarette and asked, "What do you call me uncle? How do you know this?"
The uncle took the cigarette, took a puff of it happily, and said: "My surname is Cui, and my name is Cui Dian. Young man, you don't know that this is normal. This was just after liberation, so it was several decades ago."
It was a big deal in the past. I was still young at that time. However, demolishing old houses and transforming them into workers' new villages was a big deal in the past. It was specially approved by Chen Yi, the mayor of Shanghai at that time. The workers' new villages were something learned from the Soviet Union.
They were all built with Soviet-style small western-style buildings. In those days, if you wanted to live here, you had to be examined by three generations of your ancestors, and you had to be a working class person with a well-established background, and you had to be a model worker.
Only those who live in Workers' New Village can live in the Workers' New Village. When you move in, you have to beat gongs and drums, not to mention how much scenery there is! Who doesn't know about this kind of thing, and who doesn't know about it?" The uncle named Cui Dian excitedly recounted the history of that era,
As soon as he opens his mouth, he talks endlessly.
I nodded and said, "So, the Lin Family House has disappeared now and has become part of the Workers' New Village?"
Cui Dian said "Yeah" and said, "Yeah! It's gone a long time ago! The No. 37 Lin Family House you mentioned is probably over Caoyang Road and Wuning Road. I haven't been there in a long time, so
Not clear anymore!”
I said goodbye to Uncle Cui Dian and drove all the way back to the city, heading straight to Caoyang Road and Wuning Road.
I didn't go to any community, but went straight to Caoyang Park at the intersection of Caoyang Road and Wuning Road. The reason is simple: since the Workers' New Village was built shortly after liberation, the Lin Family Residence matter has a longer history. This kind of thing
, non-elderly people won’t know. And the park is a gathering place for the elderly. I guess I can tell you where to go. I entered the park and looked around at people who looked older, and finally met me on the path in the park.
I came across an old man with pale hair who was over seventy years old and was taking a walk. He quickly went up and asked, "Do you know where the Workers' New Village is?"
"Workers' New Village? How can there be a Workers' New Village here?"
"It probably changed its name. It was called Workers' New Village a long time ago."
The old man narrowed his eyes and looked at me and said: "Hey, young man, you still know Workers' New Village? This place name has been out of use for many years!"
"What is it called now?"
"Now, from Caoyang Village 1 to Caoyang Village 8, it is the boundary of the Workers' New Village."
I broke out in a cold sweat. "Caoyang Village"? This place is only one kilometer away from the gate of the dormitory area of the school where I used to study. If three or five classmates walked together to eat near East China Normal University to see girls, they would be there every time.
Have to pass through this place.
Unexpectedly, this inconspicuous and shabby-looking Caoyang Village was actually built on the original site of an extremely weird and mysterious ghost house!
The old man stared at me and said, "Young man, why do you ask this?"
I was stunned and quickly apologized and said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, the place where my grandfather lived before liberation was later built into a new workers' village. He always talks about the old house to me. No, I will come to see it as soon as I return to China.
Look at the places my grandpa mentioned and feel nostalgic."
The old man said: "Hey, this is still an old neighborhood? Where did your grandfather live before?"
"Hmm..." I said, pretending to be thoughtful and reminiscing, "I think I live at No. 33, Lin's house. What do you call me, grandpa?" As I said that, I handed over a Yuxi cigarette.
"A rich man!" The old man took the cigarette and said, "My surname is Fang, and my name is one word. But having said that, if you can find it in other places, you must be looking for this Lin family residence.
We're not here. Come on, come on, sit down and talk. What's your name, young man?" After saying that, Mr. Fang sat on a bench beside the park path.
I also sat down and said, "My surname is Lin, bless you. Grandpa Fang, how did you know you couldn't find it?"
Old man Fang Yan stroked his pale beard on his chin and said, "My surname is Lin. No wonder I am a descendant of the Lin family home. Haha, I used to live in the Fang family home. The Fang family home and the Lin family home are next door. Of course I know."
The old houses of the Lin family have been uprooted, even the foundations are gone! Now they are all turned into lakes!"
"Lake?" I asked doubtfully, "Why didn't I know there was a lake near here? Where is it?"
"It's in the West Palace, oh, you may not know, this place is called the West Shanghai Workers' Cultural Palace. There is a big lake inside, that's where it is. I remember it was 1959, yes, that was the first three years of natural disasters, 1959
In 1961, construction of the Cultural Palace began. It was not until 1961, when the three-year natural disaster was over, that the Cultural Palace was opened. The Cultural Palace occupies a large area of Fangjiazhai, Linjiazhai, Chenjiazhai, Chenjiabaanyang, Wangjialong, and Zhangjiaqiao.
Get up." Mr. Fang Yan said, stroking his beard as if reminiscing about the past.
As soon as he said what he just said, I was shocked and shocked: "Xigong, how could I not know? I have been there countless times and I didn't tell you that the villa where Chen Ziqi lives is there. But I didn't expect that this place is so peaceful."
The Lin family residence is related.
I hesitated for a moment and asked: "Grandpa Fang, there is something I heard my grandfather talk about, but he was always vague. You happen to know more, so I came to ask you..."
After hearing this, Mr. Fang Yan narrowed his eyes and asked, "Do you want to ask about No. 37 of Lin Family House?"
I was stunned and said: "Grandpa Fang, how did you know?"
Mr. Fang Yan stroked his beard and said: "You young people just like to pursue these strange things. Well, you are also a descendant of the Lin family house after all, so I will talk to you. That was in 1956, at that time
There was a murder case, and the Public Security Bureau seems to call this the Wuning Road Massacre Case."
I nodded and thought to myself, the address of the West Shanghai Workers' Cultural Palace is No. 225 Wuning Road, and No. 37 Linjiazhai is also Wuning Road. Even if the house number changes, the address is still the same. It seems that there is something right about this.
Then, Mr. Fang told me a lot about No. 37 Linjiazhai. In short, it was Ye Xianguo, the head of the house. It is said that his hometown is Bazhou, Hebei. He came to Shanghai with his wife and three children and lived there.
No. 37, Linjiazhai. One night in the middle of the night, Mr. Fang, who was still a teenager, heard people shouting outside the window. He went downstairs and asked his neighbors. Only then did he find out that the Public Security Bureau received a call to surrender, saying that he had killed someone. However, after the police arrived at the scene,
, blood was seen all over the floor, up to the ankles, but the body and the murderer were nowhere to be found in the room. Neighbors said that the hostess of the house returned to her parents' home with her child half a month ago, and the male host Ye Xianguo had not appeared for a long time.
And according to the forensic judgment, the amount of blood on the ground came from at least six people.
Then one day, when Mr. Fang was playing on the street with a few playmates, he found that the gate of No. 37 Lin Family Residence, which had been sealed, was open, so he told the adults. The police rushed there, but they still couldn't find anyone. They were just walking in the street.
The two police officers in front felt a red shadow floating in front of their eyes, and they immediately investigated the entire house, but found no secret room in the mezzanine. One of the two police officers in the front quickly became insane, and the other disappeared mysteriously. Because
If the suspect cannot be caught, the case will go unsolved.
Two years later, in 1958, someone suddenly visited No. 37, the Lin family home that had never been occupied. He was a cobbler who called himself Xu and was an active counter-revolutionary. He was reported and arrested by the Public Security Bureau. What happened to this man after that
None of the neighbors knew what was going on. But after a long time, they heard that Ye Xianguo had been arrested. From the rumors coming from the police, it turned out that Ye Xianguo had been a temple blessing member of the Jade Emperor Temple for three generations. It seemed that he had some adventures. He worshiped in a
A Lishan Taoist named Liu Zhiming learned some "Taoism", joined the "Yi Guan Tao" which was relatively popular at the time, and became a Dharma protector.
As for the fate of Ye Xianguo, no one knows. However, it is conceivable that such a feudal and superstitious "counter-revolutionary element" will inevitably die. After another half a year, the construction of the Workers' New Village began, and when the foundation was excavated, the ground floor of No. 37 Linjiazhai was built.
A large vat was dug out from a depth of three meters, and inside it turned out to be Ye Xianguo's wife and children. Although they had been buried underground for four years, they were still alive and showed no signs of death. Some people said that they were just under the Taoist law.
Some people pretended to be dead, and some people said that their souls traveled to the far horizon with Ye Xianguo, and their bodies were preserved here... There are various theories.
However, when it was time to take these three corpses for cremation, it was discovered that they had disappeared for no reason. From the scene of the disappearance, it seemed that the corpses did not seem to have been stolen, but seemed to have escaped with their own feet. Later, I did not know why.
After the Lin family house was demolished, an irregular lake was dug and then built around the lake to build the Huxi Workers' Cultural Palace.
After Mr. Fang Yan finished telling this, he narrowed his eyes and said, "Xiao Lin, after telling this story, you will be satisfied, right?"
I nodded and smiled: "I see. This is so weird. My grandpa didn't explain it in such detail. It's really interesting. Thank you Grandpa Fang!"
After saying goodbye to Mr. Fang Yan, I went straight to the West Palace.