Chapter 11 Harvesting and Cutting

Harvesting is the use of disability or deformity to beg.

In the old days, it also referred to mutilating people's lives, cutting off limbs, and collecting their ears, eyes, and viscera, etc., and used them to combine medicines, so as to deceive patients to achieve the purpose of defrauding money.

According to the "Qing Barnyard Copy": during the Qianlong period, there were two people in Changsha City, leading a dog, slightly larger than the usual dog, the first two toes were longer than the dog's toes and claws, the hind feet were like bears, with tails and small, and the ears and nose were like people...... Dog hair all over the body. Able to speak and sing all kinds of songs, all according to the verses. The audience is like a blockage, fighting for money in order to get a song.

"Qing Barnyard Class Copy" records five deformed beggars in Yangzhou City: a man's upper body is like an ordinary person, and both legs are soft, if there are muscles and bones, someone holds his upper body and rotates it, like a noose. A man has a baby on his chest, his skin and flesh are one, his facial features and four bodies are complete, and he can move and speak. A man's right arm is only five or six inches, his right hand is as small as money, and his left arm is longer than his knee, and his hand is as big as a pamptona fan. A man's umbilicus is larger than a cup, and he can suck the taba mushroom (the foreign transliteration name of tobacco), and the cigarette comes out of the mouth when it is piped into the umbilicus. A woman has small feet, towering breasts, and a beard like a halberd under her chin. So there was a great crowd of spectators.

"Lanfang Notes" also records a similar situation: in the past, in the capital, there were people who made money with strange people...... All kinds of strange shapes...... A woman in Zhenze City, fifteen years old, beautiful and footless, kneeling and begging for money.

Two passengers who met on the train once said:

One said: "In my place, there is a child with white hair, all white body, all the people say that he was abandoned by his parents, since he was about 5 years old, I have seen him wandering around, and now he has grown taller, and he is still wandering, I often think that I am afraid that he has been so wandering all his life, and no one has ever cared about him, although almost everyone in our city knows him." ”

Another said: "Last year we saw a strange man on the street, his feet were swollen to the point that they were transparent, estimated to be four times the size of normal feet, and what was even stranger was that his ass was growing in front, and he was rolling and asking for money, and many people were looking around." ”

On April 26, 1983, someone threw a freak in the garbage bin next to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Huangbo District People's Hospital in Huacheng. The fetus has two heads, one large and one small.

This monster is most likely a product of **.

The baby was still alive and there were thousands of people watching, but the next morning, when people went to see it again, they found that the freak was gone.

After about ten years, the garbage bin is long gone, and people have forgotten about it. An elderly beggar and a young beggar appeared at the bustling train station in Hwaseong. The young beggar had a large tumor on his neck, which resembled a head, and his facial features were faintly visible.

His name is Han Shaojie, many people call him Master Han, and he is the freak in the garbage can.

There are many strange people hidden in the people. There is a Gu cultivator in Yunnan who can poison when shaking hands, there is a Chinese medicine practitioner in Shijingshan in Beijing who can turn a man into a woman, a Taoist in Wudang Mountain can run six steps on the wall, and the palm pattern of Qigong master Wu Chuanshun is the word "king".

Young Master Han must have undergone a special surgical treatment, and it was a miracle that he survived.

We'll see a ghost below.

On the morning of October 21, 1996, a man came to Hwaseong with a big bag on his back. In the northeast corner of the train station, where there was still an iron fence that had not been removed, he put his burden on the ground, and there was everything in the baggage, bedding, clothes, a kettle, half a bag of flour, a big rooster, and a child slowly crawling out of the baggage.

That autumn, the sanitation workers swept the leaves into the corner, and the child sat on a pile of leaves, looking at a few white clouds in the distance. His father was squatting beside him, holding a teapot and drinking boiled water. After a while, the child's body began to twitch, his eyes closed, and then he suddenly opened and bared his teeth. His teeth were black and his skin was purple, and his hands were stretched out vigorously, first with five fingers together, then with his hands outstretched, and the two fingers were drawing vigorously.

The child's face was unusually angry, his black teeth bared open, and he let out a low roar. Passers-by stopped to watch, and the father handed the chicken to the child, who grabbed it and bit the chicken's neck, and the audience exclaimed. The child began to greedily suck the blood of the chicken, and the wings fluttered, and after a while, they drooped softly. After the child drank the chicken blood, he looked blankly at the people around him.

"It's a vampire." A spectator shouted.

"He's sick." The child's father replied, and after speaking, he stretched out the broken tea jar that he had just drunk to the audience, "Help me with a few dollars, treat the child, and sell the house and land at home." ”

"Rabies." A well-informed driver who traveled south and north said, but was soon denied by others, because rabies is afraid of light, wind and water, and bites.

"He also bites," explained the father, "not rabies, the big hospitals have been gone, and no one can see it well." This is hysteria, possessed by demons, and loves to suck blood when it occurs. ”

My father told people around him that he was from Changao Village, Wangou Township, Jinta County, Shaanxi Province, and that he had come here across five provinces with his trouser legs rolled up and the mud from his hometown.

The child's mother died early, and she lived with her grandmother since she was a child, and her grandmother had a withdrawn personality and a coffin in the house for many years. Once, when the child was in a daze in his sleep, he felt that something was brushing over his head, and he waved it with his hand, and he felt that it was a human hand. The child saw the disheveled grandmother sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at him, and stretching out her hands to caress his face slowly. The child couldn't help but open his mouth wide in fright, and he couldn't make a sound at all. The next day, the child asked about the grandmother, who was unaware of it. Since then, my grandmother has done a lot of weird things, such as constantly pulling the switch wires of electric lights in the middle of the night, or chopping a knife on a cutting board at two o'clock in the morning, and there is nothing on the cutting board.

Late one night, the child woke up in the middle of the night and saw a horrible scene: the grandmother was standing under the pepper tree in the courtyard, with her back to him, her head bowed, her hair hanging down. The child called out to Grandma, who slowly turned her head, looked at him, and began to cry - the cry was so terrible that it was like a ghost crying wolf. A black cat jumped out of the corner in fright, usually the grandmother is slow, but at this time she is extremely agile, she bent down and caught the black cat, the cat scratched her, she bit the cat's neck angrily, and drank blood.

After a while, the grandmother returned to the house with her arms stretched out and jumped back into the house like a zombie, and instead of going to bed, she lifted the coffin and lay straight inside.

These strange behaviors are all caused by sleepwalking, and after the death of this sleepwalking old lady, the child begins to become in a trance, and does not say a word for the whole day. Every time the child became ill, his hands and feet were stiff, his teeth were bared, he was shouting for blood, and when he saw the blood, he licked it greedily. When the child was examined at the children's hospital, his condition worsened. He jumped out of bed, stood on his feet together, stretched his hands horizontally forward, and then jumped like a real zombie, biting people on sight.

In the past few years, the father and his son have started the road to seek medical treatment, and eventually the family has lost their wealth and lives on the streets.

Vampires are actually a strange disease - patients with porphyria. There are not many such strange diseases, and there are only about 100 cases in the world. A young man was caught in a village in the Kaliningrad region of Russia and slashed a woman with a knife and then sucked her blood, and a 17-year-old criminal named Hademen in England killed a female neighbor and drained her blood. British doctor Lee Ellis discussed in detail the characteristics of porphyria in a paper entitled "On the Origin of Porphyria and Vampires", which is a genetic condition due to the disorder of the heme production mechanism in the patient's body, resulting in the skin becoming white, or blackening, and the teeth turning black-brown.

In 1993, there was a ladyboy beggar at Hwaseong Railway Station, a fat woman in a shirt, who spoke in a man's tone, had a beard, and would take off her pants to show the audience when there were more people rewarding money.

In 1996, Young Master Han became the darling of the train station, and people rushed to watch him and the big tumor around his neck, and almost everyone thought that the tumor was a head, that is, he had two heads.

This is not a simple begging, but a kind of performance, and the crowding and commotion of the audience around is not stingy, which is also one of the entertainment that the common people can enjoy. The blood-sucking child was nicknamed the zombie doll. The zombie doll's father built a simple shelter with plastic sheeting and a few thin bamboo poles at the iron fence, a nest to shelter from the wind and rain. At that time, the Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau had not yet been established, which meant that the cleanliness of the city had not yet been established on the basis of the right to make a living. If someone had been to the Hwaseong train station in 1996, they would have seen a rickety child in a shack in a nearby illegal building, and a mother might say that the child was about 6 years old, but in fact he was 10 years old.

There is never a shortage of people watching the excitement on the streets. As long as he turns into a zombie, jumps a few times, bites the neck of a chicken and drinks blood, then it will attract a large number of people to watch, and some people even come to see him from other places, which also makes his father earn a lot of money every day.

Since the zombie doll came to the Hwaseong Railway Station, Young Master Han has been begging for less and less money. Young Master Han was beaten a lot, it was an old man who beat him, the old man picked him up from the garbage can, raised him, and originally expected to be able to use this deformed child to make a small fortune, all of which was disrupted by the zombie doll, the audience all ran away, and the child from hell defeated the two-headed demon snake.

We should remember the old man's name: Sanwen.

He looked like a murderer, with small eyes almost hidden by unkempt eyebrows, always showing fierce eyes, wide back, looped legs, strong muscles, and calloused hands indicating that he had suffered a lot. In his early years, this old man followed a circus through the rivers and lakes, and he knew all kinds of ways to tie people and things, such as mandarin duck knots, poor man's knots, lice knots, sailor knots, tortoiseshell ties, and back hand ties. He told many anecdotes about the stones of Changbai Mountain, the wood sinking to the bottom, the crows to smoke, and the yellow eels to be denatured.

Probably since 1990, Sanwen Qian has been begging for a living at Hwaseong Railway Station.

On November 19, 1996, it rained, and Sanwen came to the zombie doll's shack. The zombie doll's father was boiling a pot of boiling porridge, and Sanwen went up and kicked it over, and said angrily, "This is my territory." ”

"I don't know." The father replied.

", wherever you go." Sanwen Qian said.

"I'm not going anywhere." The father took a stick in his hand, which was as thick as an arm, and he snapped it in two on his knee, "I can beat you in the face," he continued, throwing the stick, "and it will be fine with your bare hands." ”

Sanwen Qian tilted his head and said, "Okay, you wait." ”

The next night, Sanwen Qian brought two people named Hanako, and Young Master Han brought a rusty machete. They stood in front of the shack and did not speak, and the father of the zombie doll quickly saw the situation in front of him, this farmer, during the wheat harvest season, there will be such a peasant in every field - he plopped down and knelt down: "Please, don't hit my baby, he is sick." ”

"Hit me." He said, holding his head.

San Wenqian stood aside indifferently and stood by, the machete in Young Master Han's hand didn't come in handy, and it was bent after a few cuts. Two middle-aged beggars rained down on the father's body, and one of them grabbed his father's hair and slammed it into the ground, and after a while, the father fell to the ground and did not move.

"Stop." The three-money pulled away the middle-aged beggar.

"He's dead?" The beggar asked worriedly.

"Not dead," said Sanwen Qian, probing his father's snort, "and he fainted." ”

At this time, a child rushed out of the shack, this 10-year-old child stood in front of his father, his body was rickety, but from the momentum it looked more like a giant. He bared his teeth, baring his black gums, causing a beggar to take two steps back. Young Master Han stepped forward with the useless knife, and the child punched Young Master Han's big tumor, which made Young Master Han scream. The other beggar pushed the child to the ground, and the child roared and bit the beggar's calf like a mad dog.

"Let's go." Sanwen Qian said.

The boy stood there, his hands clenched into fists, and let out a low roar.

A month later, the father saved enough money to send the child to the hospital, but the doctor was helpless about the disease, and did not find any abnormalities in the CT, MRI and biochemical examinations, only the examination of brain waves. They resorted to exchange transfusion, a risky treatment that worsened the child's condition and eventually died.

When the Chinese New Year was approaching, a middle-aged beggar appeared at the entrance of Hwaseong Railway Station, wearing a black cotton jacket, a telephone line tied around his waist, his left hand into his right sleeve, and his right hand into his left sleeve. He crouched on the ground, his face buried deep in his arms, and a broken bowl in front of him.

Two men stopped in front of him, one of them pulling the coins from the broken bowl with his hand: "That's it? ”

He looked up and saw Sanwen Qian and Young Master Han.

"Where's your baby?" Sanwen Qian asked.

"He's dead."

"What's your name?"

"Big monster."

"Alas, it's cold enough, big monster, please drink, do you want to go?" Sanwen asked him.

The big monster looked at the three cents, silently packed up his things, and the three of them walked into a food stall restaurant. That night, they were all drunk and talked a lot to each other, that is, from that day on, a gang of evil forces with beggars as the main members appeared here.