Yun Xi left Sanyuan Palace, and planned to go to Guangxiao Temple immediately, but Song Liang suddenly walked up with Song Qingshu and said, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to report to Your Majesty." ”

"What?" Yoon-hee asked. He looked at the faces of the two of them and felt that it was not a good thing.

"Your Majesty, the guard Song Qingshu saw that two abductors were kidnapping a child, so he went to rescue the child who was about to be abducted. But he found that these two crutches were not ordinary. ”

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After Song Qingshu saw that someone was going to kidnap the child, he told Song Liang that he wanted to rescue the kidnapped child. Because Yun Xi confessed: If you meet a kidnapper on the road, and it is difficult to report to him for a while, you can rescue the abducted person without his permission without affecting the guards, so Song Liang agreed to his request and asked him to rescue the abducted child.

Song Qingshu used light skills and walked over quietly, about to grab the two of them and rescue the child. But the two crutches were also very vigilant, and when Song Qingshu was less than two feet away from the two of them, he realized that he was coming to catch the two of them, grabbed the child and threw it at him, turned around and ran.

Song Qingshu took the child and hesitated: these two abductors also seem to have some martial arts, and they are more familiar with the roads of Guangzhou City than him, if he takes the child to chase him, he may not be able to catch up; But he didn't take the child with him, and he was afraid that the child would be lost again.

At this moment, Zhang Wuji and another guard named Feng Xishan rushed over with Song Liang's order. Song Qingshu immediately put the child in place, gestured to the two of them, and chased them out.

He is a master disciple of Wudang, although the martial arts in reality are not as internal as in martial arts, but the Wudang faction is a major faction in the world, and the disciples who study martial arts in the door are naturally very strong, and Song Qingshu can not be left as a guard at the beginning. So he quickly caught up with the two crutches and easily defeated both of them. Seeing that the situation was not good, one of them committed suicide by taking poison, and the other was knocked unconscious and captured by him just before he took out the poison and could not swallow it.

Of course, it is impossible not to alarm other people in the downtown fight, ordinary people have avoided it, and the patrol officers who are patrolling nearby see that the flow of people is wrong, and they also hurriedly rush over.

Song Qingshu showed the waist card of his imperial guard, and asked the two patrolmen to carry the corpse, and the two patrolmen to carry the stunned person to walk back to the outside of the Sanyuan Palace.

There was nothing to do on the road, Song Qingshu casually took off the hanging gourd from the waist of one of them and looked at it. But at this glance, he felt that this gourd was not quite right, and said to himself: "Why is this gourd so strange?" ”

"Senior Brother Song, what's wrong?" Suddenly, he heard someone say.

Song Qingshu hurriedly raised his head, and saw that he had returned to the place where Zhang Wuji and Feng Xishan were guarding the child he saved, and it was Zhang Wuji who was asking out loud just now.

"Wuji, look at this gourd," Song Qingshu said as he handed the gourd to Zhang Wuji: "I always feel that the appearance of this gourd is not quite right." I think I've heard my dad talk about something. ”

Zhang Wuji took the gourd, pulled out the stopper and looked at it, poured out the water inside, and then said in surprise: "This style of gourd is used to 'harvest'!" ”

"A gourd used to 'harvest'!" Song Qingshu also said in surprise.

"Brother Song, Brother Zhang, what does this 'Caisheng' mean?" Feng Xishan asked puzzled.

"There's no time to explain." Song Qingshu said this, and began to touch the body of the person who was knocked unconscious; At the same time, Zhang Wuji also began to touch the body of the person who was killed.

Song Qingshu took off this person's shoes and found nothing; and ripped him of his clothes; At the same time, he asked the policemen around him, "Do any of you remember this man?" ”

He just asked casually, and didn't expect to answer; But one of the policemen said, "Lord Guard, the younger one doesn't recognize these two, but most of them are Tanhu outside the city." ”

"Tanto? What is Tando? Why do you think they're Tanhu? Song Qingshu asked.

"My lord, Tanhu is the person who makes a living from fishing in Guangdong and almost never gets off the boat, and he is a ninth-rate."

"The appearance of these two people's feet, well, the little one doesn't know what to say, but unlike ordinary people, the little one has seen dead Tando in the past, so at a glance it can be seen that they should be Tanto."

"The Tanhu will never enter the city unless necessary, and the people who guarded the city gate in the past will not let them enter the city, but they all live on the sea skin outside the Zhenhai gate." The policeman said.

Hearing his words, the other policemen also said: "Lord Guard, they should indeed be Tanto, and the small ones look like them!" "Yes, my lord, it should be Tanto." ……

"Go and tell your leaders at once, and immediately send someone to search the Tanhu by the river." Song Qingshu searched for a long time and found nothing, so he stopped, and said loudly to the policemen in front of him: "This is 'harvesting and cutting', a big case that splashes the sky!" Now Your Majesty is in Guangzhou City again! If the case is delayed and the offender escapes, you will not be able to redeem your death! ”

Several patrol officers felt that the word 'Caisheng' was somewhat familiar from just now, and when they heard the words 'Caisheng Cutting', they remembered what it was, and they were immediately frightened.

Two of the most astute men immediately ran to the patrol police station in the north of Guangzhou; Immediately, more people reacted and also ran towards the patrol police substation in the north of the city. Song Qingshu hurriedly stopped a few people and said, "Someone has already gone to the patrol police substation in the north of the city, and a few of you will go to the police headquarters next to the Guangzhou Mansion, the Guangdong Provincial Prosecutor's Office, the Political Envoy's Division, and the Commander's Envoy Department to report. ”

These people were in a very frightened state at this time, and when they heard his command, they didn't care whether it was right or not, and hurriedly ran towards the place he pointed out.

Song Qingshu carried the dead body alone, and Zhang Wuji and Feng Xishan tied up the fainted person again, carried him to the vicinity of Sanyuan Palace, and reported to Song Liang.

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"'Harvesting and cutting'? What is 'harvesting and cutting'? Yun Xi listened to Song Liang's recital and asked puzzledly.

"Your Majesty, there are thousands of things to do on the rivers and lakes, from taking sheep by hand, lying and deceiving to killing people. And the most terrifying thing is this 'harvesting and cutting'. ”

"The so-called 'harvesting and cutting' is to turn a good person into a cripple or even a monster in order to better win the charity of passers-by."

"'Collecting' means taking, gathering; 'Sheng' means raw billets, mostly children, and "folding" means cutting with knives and axes. It's to grab a child, chop him with a knife and axe, and turn him into a strange crippled monster. Song Qingshu, who was standing on the side, explained.

Yun Xi suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head. He already understood what 'harvesting and cutting' was, and immediately thought of the Indian movie "Slumdog Millionaire" that he had seen in his previous life. It stands to reason that he has been here for more than ten years, but when he heard Song Qingshu's words, he clearly remembered the situation where the protagonist was almost crippled.

"The method of these men is to make a deformed head out of a kidnapped child: they buy a large vat, put the child in it, leave the head exposed, and knock off a large piece of it in the lower part of the jar for excretion. The child couldn't move inside, and after a few years smashed the cylinder. The child only has a head but not a body, and he is a big-headed baby, because his limbs cannot move, he is completely atrophied, and his arms and legs are as soft as cotton, which can be manipulated at will. It's like a monster. Wherever you go, it attracts a whole bunch of curious onlookers. ……”

There is also "animal making": destroying the skin around people, killing animals, skinning them and wrapping them while they are hot, and turning people into animals alive, used to beg for money. ”

"The 'harvesting' in 'harvesting and cutting' has another meaning: to kill the living, and to harvest the souls of the living for their use. When killing someone, there is a whole set of spell rituals, and after killing a person, the soul of this person is collected in the gourd*** The owner is driven to do trouble. ”

"His Majesty also knows that the Wudang faction also practices Taoist spells, although the minister has not officially become a Taoist, but I have heard the elders of the master introduce the magic and evil arts on the rivers and lakes, and I mentioned this 'harvesting and cutting'. Therefore, Chen and Zhang Wuji saw that something was wrong with the gourd he was carrying: although the gourd was indeed used to hold water for drinking, the shape was the gourd used for 'harvesting'. ”

"Mr. Tao Zongyi's "Nancun Dropout Record" records that such an incident occurred in the third year of Yuan Zhizheng (1343 AD): Zhongshu Province quasi-Shaanxi Provincial Counselor, Chahan Naoer Xuanwei Sicheng: Bazao Street Lijingfang Wang Bi sued ,......, (the story recorded in "Nancun Dropout Record" is very long, so I won't say it in detail, so as not to be suspected of cheating the number of words, interested people can check it)" Song Qingshu was still saying.

"Say no more!" Yun Xi suddenly said loudly. Song Qingshu immediately stopped talking.

Although Yun Xi has already been on the battlefield and seen tens of thousands of people fighting each other on the battlefield, he was still very scared and angry when he heard Song Qingshu's introduction just now: there is such a thing in the world!

"Immediately order the police guards inside and outside the city of Guangzhou to conduct a comprehensive search of the city, and arrest anyone who looks like a kidnapper or a beggar or has a suspicious appearance." Yun Xi slowed down and commanded.

"Your Majesty, just now the minister has already talked to a few patrol officers who met on the road, and they have already gone to the patrol police sub-office in the north of Guangzhou and the police headquarters in the city." Song Qingshu said.

"You're doing a great job!" Yun Xi said again: "I still remember that I just said that I captured a kidnapper? Song Qingshu You sent this person to the yamen of the inspection envoy and told the inspection envoy: You must pry his mouth open! And remember to tell those who search, not to kill those who are captured, and I want to see the prisoners alive! ”

Song Qingshu and others were ordered to pass on the decree.

After instructing this matter, Song Liang said boldly: "Your Majesty, can you still go to Guangxiao Temple?" ”

"I'm not going!" Yun Xi said, "I don't want to go anywhere now. Return to the palace. But you go and tell the host of Guangxiao Temple that in a few days I will pay tribute to the dead and save the soul, and I will still need him! ”

After instructing this, Yun Xi got into the carriage and returned to the palace.