Chapter Ninety-Four: Human Blood Steamed Buns

Three look at Beijing to advance, five miles of single cards, ten miles of cards. Yang Zhi still had the coil given by Wang Lun, so he had to use it at this time. Fengzhou went to the county, bought some wine and meat, and invited Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to eat from time to time, but they got along happily.

The sun sets in the west, and the evening breeze cools. Three on the road, overnight at the hotel, Xiaoxing Post Road. In this way, I walked for a few days and came to the Daimyo's Mansion.

It is really the prosperity of the Central Plains:

Haze auspicious clouds, Menglong purple pavilion; Melt the rui qi, and cover the building. Raise your eyes to the Qinglou painting pavilion, and look at the embroidered bead curtain. Jin Cui is shining brightly, Liu Mo Huaqu is smiling smartly; Luo Qi is fragrant, and the music of the teaching workshop is tuned according to the orchestra. Sitting quietly in a sedan chair, beautiful ladies and ladies; Shake the golden whip, son and grandson. A collection of treasures from all over the world, all of which are easy to return to the market; The smell of the Huanhuan area is in the kitchen. The trick is amazing, and the spirit of luxury is long. The road is full of flowers, and there is no limit to spring outings; The flute and drums are noisy, and there are several night banquets. Li Shu sang all the songs, and Jiao'e sang Taiping words together.

It turned out that the Beijing Daimyo Mansion stayed behind in the division, and he was the most powerful when he went on the horse to manage the army and the people when he got off the horse. The left-behind call is Liang Zhongshu, Shijie; He is the son-in-law of Cai Jing, the imperial master of Tokyo, and he has to be used compared to his son. He was also a capable man, and he managed the Daimyo's Mansion in an orderly manner.

The three of them walked on the street and saw houses on both sides, many tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses and so on. The pedestrians in the market include weak scholars, pretty young women, white-headed old men, and tooth-changing children. Shoulder to shoulder, the river is endless. There was a lot of shouting and selling, and there was a lot of noise around them.

"But when I got to the realm of the Daimyo's Mansion, the journey was hard!" Although Zhang Long is an Angzang man, he has been a little unbearable to travel for several days.

At this time, Yang Zhi took the shackles and hugged his fists at Zhang Long and Zhao Hu apologetically. "Along the way, the two Dumen will take care of it, and they will be reported later!"

Zhao Hu also returned the gift to Yang Zhi, sighed and said: "Who doesn't know the name of the command, it's just that the luck is not good!" ”

Zhang Long also said: "Commander Yang should only be relieved and make meritorious contributions in the army early!" ”

While the three of them were talking, they suddenly saw more pedestrians on the road and rushed to the vegetable market together.

"Go to the vegetable market to see the spring duel! The Cai brothers are here! ”

"Hurry up! Otherwise, there will be no good location! ”

"It is said that the whole class of the two courts has been dispatched, and the supervisor is Liang Xianggong."

After listening to a few words from the crowd, Yang Zhi and the others also knew what was going on. Yang Zhi remembered that he was a criminal, and his expression was depressed.

"This Daimyo's Mansion Spring Finale, three or four years ago, I also encountered it once." When Zhang Long saw it, he hurriedly changed the topic. Liang Xianggong sat on the watchtower directly opposite the torture platform, and the vermilion blood sticks were thrown down from the upstairs one by one. After each stick hit the ground, a prisoner's head fell off. ”

Zhao Hu also remembered what he had seen and heard in the Daimyo's Mansion, and said to Yang Zhi: "It's not that these people are afraid of marijuana, and they don't take their lives in their eyes, but go to find medicine!" ”

Originally, Yang Zhi was still wondering why the people of the Daimyo Mansion were so eager for execution, but at this time, it was somewhat clear.

Nowadays, there is a custom of warding off evil spirits and driving away demons in the Daimyo's mansion. Whenever someone gets a "bump", hits a ghost or a god, or is haunted by a ghost, the witch god and the man will give the patient a kind of human blood steamed bun. This kind of human blood steamed bun is very particular and must be obtained from the murderer executioner.

When the executioner was executed, he prepared a lot of steamed buns in advance, and after the killing, he took advantage of the pass to spray blood and dye all the steamed buns. It is said that this blood-stained steamed bun can drive away demons and ward off evil spirits. As a result, the price of this kind of blood steamed bun is high.

"According to legend, this kind of human blood steamed bun originated from the two brothers Cai Fu and Cai Qing!"

"Cai Fu, known as the "Iron Arm", was imprisoned in the two courts of the Beijing Daimyo Mansion, and abandoned the executioner; Cai Qing, Cai Fu's younger brother, Ren Xiao Prison, is also an executioner, born to love a flower, for this reason, they all call him "a flower" Cai Qing. ”

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, you and I will tell a story.

The two brothers Cai Fu and Cai Qing grew up in the yamen, and they saw that there was a lot of oil and water in other errands, and they were all dedicated to execution, so they had no extra money to fish. My heart is very unbalanced, so I also want to make some oil and water.

On this day, Cai Fu and Cai Qing went to the execution again. Outside the court, kneeling were the families of the executors. A large bundle of burning paper is piled up next to the family to be burned after death.

Burning paper for people turned out to be a very common thing, and it was also a custom that had been passed down since ancient times, and the Cai brothers were used to it, so they didn't take it seriously at all.

A few days later, the two brothers went to a friend's house. A friend is burning paper for a deceased relative. In the casual conversation, I talked about the origin of this paper burning.

Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun invented papermaking. But no one buys the paper that is made. The husband and wife came up with a way - to play dead. After Cai Lun's "death", his wife cried while burning the paper he made. Soon, Cai Lun "lived".

Cai Lun told everyone that the paper burned by his wife is money in the underworld. He used the money to buy off the imp of Hades and let him go...... Since then, Cai Lun's paper has become a sought-after commodity, and after people died, they followed suit. Over time, it became a folk custom.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and Cai Fu and Cai Qing put this matter into their minds. They thought, our ancestor Cai Lun and his wife can make plans to promote their own goods, why don't we make a fuss from our own advantages? So, I tried my best to come up with the "human blood steamed bun".

It's not okay for them to sell human blood steamed buns themselves, they have to find someone to sell them. Who to look for? Naturally, they thought of the witch Shenhan. At that time, there was a shortage of doctors and medicines, and there were many patients, so the witch god Han rose from time to time and became the "savior" of the patients. The two quietly colluded with these people and jointly concocted a set of nonsense about "human blood steamed buns to drive away ghosts".

Since then, the witch Shenhan has used the human blood steamed buns obtained from the executioner Cai Fu Cai Qing to "cure diseases and drive away evil spirits". The more this method is spread, the more divine it becomes, and the more it spreads, the more evil it becomes. Cai Fu Cai Qing made a fortune, and the witch Shenhan also made a fortune. Over time, it spread among the people and became a "custom" in the area of the Daimyo's Mansion.

Saying this, Yang Zhi and the three of them went to the Criminal Prison Department of the Daimyo Mansion, and Zhang Long and Zhao Hu received the official document and said goodbye to Yang Zhi.

On the same day, Yang Zhi knew that Liang Zhongshu didn't have time to interrogate him, so he rested early.

On the second day, he stayed in the promotion hall, and Liang Zhongshu was promoted to the hall for questioning. The two public servants Xie Yang Zhi went to the front of the left-behind division hall and presented the official documents of Kaifeng Mansion.

Liang Zhongshu read the official document, and then looked at Yang Zhi and sighed, he also knew Yang Zhi when he was in Tokyo.

When I saw it, I was ready to ask for it. Yang Zhi did not allow Gao Taiwei to be reinstated, used all his money, sold the treasure knife, and thus told the truth about killing Niu Er one by one.

Gao Yu's character, Liang Zhongshu knows it, and sighed. In your heart, you are jealous and jealous, but you sent me a tiger general!

Liang Zhongshu opened the flail in the hall and left Yang Zhi in front of the hall to listen to it, which was the treatment of his cronies.