What is the time? It's a red dragonfly parked on the ruins, white steamed bread shining in the sunset, a train whizzing by, the first lover I've never seen in my life; Is it a holy smile or tears on the eyelashes?

Time is a place called Railway Four Villages, hiding in Yangjiaping, Chongqing.

Take bus No.438 at Yangjiaping Zhigang Avenue and get off at Railway Sicun Station. As early as the 1950s, after chengdu-chongqing railway was opened to traffic, the railway department built a large-scale staff living area here. From the first railway village to the sixth railway village, the fourth railway village was the residence of the railway staff at that time, which was relatively prosperous.

Sicunchu impression

Turn into the roadside alley, the old building is narrow, forcing out the life temperament of deja vu in the last century. Going deep with the feeling, we can clearly feel that most of the old buildings are empty, and the emotion of things being changed has strengthened.

At the end of the alley, there is a door-to-door entrance, which frames a quiet railroad track and a huge mottled painting.

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Thinking is like swinging. Suddenly, a huge external force was added and pushed into the air. Even though I am fully prepared, I am still in a trance.

The picture of a harmonious neighborhood, approaching, has an indescribable intimacy. In a certain period of time in the past, such neighbors got together to do their own things, but there was a situation of making irresponsible remarks without saying a word. This is a kind of nonchalant memory.

Rusty railways are also memories. The family area where I lived when I was a child was next to the Hunan-Chongqing Railway. Trains shuttle every day. It was separated from many information in the past by years and turned into a unique timestamp, which was quietly engraved in my heart. When I met something similar, I began to wake up and naturally brought people back to the past.

Pull the reins and take a different route.

Abandoned railways pass through semi-old old houses and semi-old warehouses, as tenacious as memories. I know it has been filtered into a symbol by years, unlike its original will. But what does it matter?

Its nostalgia perfects its legend. People come here to wander around the track, pick up their past selves bit by bit, restore some things lost in evolution to themselves, and let the peace of mind be dealt with here, so as to give back to the future with a calm mind and not face the unknown with fear.

The changes in Chongqing are obvious to all, but the four railway villages stubbornly stick to a corner, and everything inside keeps its original style and simple and authentic temperament, which is quite suitable for the resettlement of homesickness.

It's my little secret. I'd rather walk on narrow tracks than cross sleepers. The distance between sleepers is always out of step with my stride. In the past, the span was bigger, but now it is smaller, which always conflicts with my habits.

Like a child, stepping on the tracks, walking towards the triangle road ahead. This is where the train turns around. In the past, the train had only one front. To get to the terminal, you have to get off and go back to the back of the train along another road to get on again. Later, the train had two heads, and it didn't have to turn around again, so it lost its function and was gradually forgotten.

Ge Jun Bookstore

There is a grocery store next to Sanjiao Road, and there is a military bookstore among online celebrities. Reading quietly in a quiet and ancient place, the appearance of the world becomes real because there is no distraction. This is my evaluation of this bookstore. But I'm not staying. I will continue.

Opposite the bookstore, it is an abandoned warehouse, and a large area of the wall has become a canvas for graffiti.

The location here is Huangjueping, sichuan fine arts institute's sphere of influence. Those young painters who are full of vitality and artistic vitality have turned this place into a paradise for creation.

Graffiti warehouse

The contrast between the old railway and the new art makes people can't help wandering on this railway, unrealistically expecting that the road paved with messy gravel and grass has no end.

Along the way, there are high walls on both sides In the hot afternoon sun, railways and warehouses are illuminated by the sun. And colorful colors meander forward, giving people a warm and bright feeling.

Going deeper, the hustle and bustle of the city suddenly disappeared, there were almost no tourists, and thoughts began to come alive. As it happens, I just saw the spine of a book in Ge Jun Bookstore with Silent Don printed on it.

I remembered the scene of Cossacks weeding in the vast fields on both sides of the Don River. An unfortunate chicken died under a pitchfork, and the guilty protagonist built a small grave for it?

I remember reading a yellowed newspaper in the quiet night when I was a teenager in the countryside of Chengdu Plain, and reading an unnamed poem: being displaced, freezing and starving. Who says the world is wide and there is nothing to rely on?

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The weather is very hot, and my mind is in a mess. Staring at the graffiti on the wall, my indulgent thoughts were forced back. Unconsciously stopped and walked, the road has come to an end.

This is a freight station, full of goods.

Began to turn back, this section of the track is overgrown with weeds and desolate everywhere. On both sides of the railway track, all the warehouse doors are sealed, only the graffiti on the wall tells the youth of art.

Standing on the railway covered with weeds and moss, the sun shone down, just like the sun shone on the child who began to think about the future decades ago.

road

After a pause, I took a firm step. We came from loneliness and were destined to return to loneliness, but there was no one who loved each other during that time. There has always been a scenery that people can't extricate themselves from?

Have time to visit Yangjiaping and Huangjueping four railway villages, which bear the memories of Chongqing in that era. Soon, it will disappear forever because of the construction of Huangjueping Bridge.

The orange past

Climb up those old orange carriages, which take you to distant places and carry our dreams many years ago?