This old worker's surname is Zhao, he is over 50 years old, and everyone calls him Master Zhao.
After he took a sip of wine, he started telling us stories.
He said that about twenty years ago, in the early 1980s, not long after the woodwork factory was built, the first factory director was named Qiao. He was straightforward and neat, and everyone admired him.
At that time, the efficiency of the factory was also good, and everyone was very motivated. People in that era were relatively simple and didn't have that much thought. They just wanted to do a good job.
But there are naughty and disobedient people everywhere, and the woodworking factory is no exception.
One day, Factory Director Qiao criticized a young man who had just been in the factory for a short time, saying that he was not serious about his work and often violated the factory's regulations.
Originally this was just a small matter, just a few words from the leader.
But early the next morning, the workers found Factory Director Qiao dead in the office covered in blood, and there was a bloody wooden board at the scene.
There is a long nail on the board.
During that time, Director Qiao lived in the factory. He worked very hard and often didn't go home, so everyone was used to it.
But everything was fine, why did he die suddenly?
At the same time, everyone also discovered that the young man who was criticized by Factory Director Qiao yesterday was also missing.
Everyone quickly called the police, and when the police came to investigate, the first suspect was the young man.
When we arrived at his house, we found that the boy had indeed run away.
His family members said that the child got sulky when he came home yesterday and didn't say anything to any questions. He didn't even eat dinner. He packed up his luggage and left early in the morning, saying he wanted to go out and make a living.
His family was also shocked to learn that Factory Director Qiao had been murdered, but his father swore that it was definitely not his son who did it.
Because his son had been sleeping at home last night and didn't go out at all.
But no one would believe me when I testified about my son, and the young man was immediately listed as the number one criminal suspect!
The police issued a wanted warrant and pursued him in various ways.
A year later, the young man was arrested in a factory in the south. When he was brought back for interrogation, he insisted that he did not do it.
He said that he was very angry that day, but he did not leave the house at all, let alone kill Factory Director Qiao.
At that time, criminal investigation methods were not very advanced, but an old police officer saw that he was definitely lying. Even though he tried to deny it in every possible way, he could not clear himself of the crime.
The day before, he was criticized by Factory Director Qiao, who was killed that night. Early the next morning, he packed up and ran away.
If he was not a murderer, there would be no murderers in the world.
This big hat was firmly placed on his head.
It happened to be a severe crackdown at that time, and he was shot to death in less than a month.
But this is not over yet. A few days after the young man was shot, the police arrested a woman on charges of hooliganism, promiscuous relations between men and women, and collecting money. To put it bluntly, she was a J girl.
The woman confessed to many people, one of whom was the young man who had been shot.
A pair of confessions were given to the police and something was wrong.
On the night when Director Qiao was killed, the young man did not sleep at home. After get off work, he went to stay at this woman’s house for one night and paid her 30 yuan!
In other words, he had no time to commit the crime at all.
The young man indeed lied about this matter at the beginning and did not dare to say that he spent the night out.
Because at that time, the crackdown was very strict, let alone prostitution, even if you whistled at a girl on the street, you might be pulled and shot.
I remember when I was a kid, a neighbor of mine died like this.
He wasn't whistling at the girl, but two women were fighting on the street and their tops were torn off. He impulsively took advantage of the chaos and touched them, and was shot.
No one may understand it if you say it, but that was the way it was in those days. If you don’t believe it, you can search it online and find out.
Therefore, the young man died innocently and unjustly. He did not kill Factory Director Qiao at all.
But the person has already been shot, so he can only make the wrong decision. Besides, prostitution at that time was also a capital crime, so it didn't count as a wrongful death.
But there is no airtight wall in the world. When word spread about this incident, the young man's family went around to complain, saying that their son had been wrongly killed.
So the case was reopened.
This in-depth investigation yielded new clues.
There was only Director Qiao's fingerprints on the nailed board, and after many investigations, they found that Director Qiao probably committed suicide.
In other words, he took the board and smashed the nails into his own head.
But this reason is not valid. Why would he do this?
After a long investigation, the final conclusion was that Factory Director Qiao accidentally fell down and hit his head on a nail on the board, resulting in accidental death.
But no one believes this conclusion.
The unlucky young man was finally cleared, but his life was gone. No explanation was given later, and the matter gradually faded away.
The cause of Factory Director Qiao’s death was never revealed.
After that, strange things happened constantly in the woodwork factory.
First, when a worker was working, he suddenly lost consciousness and fell into the machine.
The machine in the carpentry factory is a chainsaw.
The man died on the spot, his head was split in two, and he died miserably.
Some time later, when a man was working overtime in the factory at night, he saw someone waving to him outside the gate.
The man followed him in confusion, but ended up walking into the river for some reason. If he hadn't been discovered and rescued, he would have almost drowned.
Later, accidents became more frequent in the factory. In just two or three years, two people lost their lives, killed by chainsaws.
Another person had his arm torn off by a machine, and another person had half of his ear cut off.
Master Zhao was also crushed and had one of his hands broken. He could no longer work and left the carpentry factory.
Later, the factory's efficiency plummeted, because accidents always happened, people were frightened, and it was difficult to recruit workers, so many young people were unwilling to come.
In the 1990s, the woodware factory wanted to restructure, but no one was willing to take over, and it was completely gone.
When Master Zhao talked about it, I realized that so many strange things had happened in Ganqing Woodware Factory.
I vaguely feel that I am afraid that I cannot handle this matter alone.
That afternoon, when I saw Uncle Ma, I told him about the incident.
Uncle Ma's date with a female online friend this morning must have gone smoothly. When he came back, he crossed his legs and sang a tune. I was too embarrassed to ask him what he had been doing all morning.
As soon as he heard me talk about the Zhong San family and the bizarre incident at the woodwork factory, he said to me: "This matter is actually not difficult. There is a meadow near the woodwork factory. It is normal for there to be some kind of monster in it. The carpentry factory has taken over other people’s space, so it would be strange if they don’t cause trouble.”
This really woke up the dreamer, so I asked Uncle Ma if he knew anything?
Uncle Ma was in a good mood, so he shook his head and told me stories about the Hanjiawazi area.
He said: "Your guess is correct. Zhong San's wife must have been possessed by some kind of spirit, which is the person you saw in the office. The reason why he let you see him is probably because he didn't want you to see him." I want to drive you away because you are nosy. Because that area is originally the habitat of many animals..."
