Chapter Twenty-Eight: Changing Sons and Eating

In the middle of the night, who will appear in the grove in a costume costume?

How is it possible for a person to be suspended in the air?

How could it float over?

With this series of questions, the village director took a flashlight, greeted a few young and middle-aged villagers, and went to the grove with Bao Chu and Su Mei. Hualong received a call from Su Mei and also drove to the scene with a team of criminal police.

The headlights shone on the grove as if it were daylight, and the detectives launched a search, and soon found a body in the forest.

A man hanged himself in a shroud in the woods.

After the village chief identified the deceased as the old woman named Zhang Tian, who came to this grove at night to hang herself, carrying a cane, a stool, a shroud and a roll of hemp rope. The old woman put on her shroud, which showed that she was determined to die, and the on-site investigation showed that she committed suicide. The way she hanged herself was very weird, to be exact, she was hanging herself on a clothesline.

Zhang Tian tied hemp rope to two trees, which looked like a clothesline. She put on her shroud, tied a knot with the waistband of her trousers at one end of the clothesline, and stood on the stool with her head in the loop. After hanging herself, her body is blocked by branches, and the moonlight casts the shadow of her head on the ground. Then, as the wind blew the branches, the old woman's body slid from one end of the clothesline to the middle, and she floated silently with her hands drooping and tilting her head.

The two sons of the village director were convenient in the forest, and when they saw this scene by chance, they were so shocked that they ran away without lifting their pants, Su Mei and Bao Chu happened to pass by, and when they heard the screams, they stood still on the dirt road, and both sides were startled.

The author of this article has collected all kinds of bizarre ways to hang himself, and a person can sometimes be very creative if he is determined to die. This last inspiration came from death, just to end his own life.

A bizarre murder occurred in a community in Chengdu, and the shocking thing is that the body of the deceased was found on the trees in the community. The deceased, a man and a woman, were hanged face-to-face on a tree branch three or four stories above the ground, and some speculated that they were martyred by suicide.

On the Longhai railway line, a worker hanged himself at the junction of two carriages, using a stick and a tie. The train with the corpse passed through many cities and was witnessed by many people, and that accidental glimpse was preserved in memory as a terrifying scene.

There was a peasant woman in Xiangxi who hung herself lying down, and it was very rare to hang herself in a lying position. She strangled her neck with a wire tied to the base of a corn threshing machine, and a wire was tied to her ankle to which a stone mortar was attached. She lay on the ground, kicked the stone mortar into the well with her foot, and strangled herself to death with the force of the stone falling.

Although the old woman Zhang Tian committed suicide, something strange happened, and the special case team guessed that she might know the secret of the juvenile serial disappearance.

Bao Chu said: In the countryside, it is not uncommon for some elderly people to make longevity clothes and prepare for their future.

Su Mei said: The old woman is so old, why did she commit suicide, she has lived a lifetime, why can't she suddenly think about it?

Drawing Dragon said: I think she may have really eaten human flesh.

Professor Liang said: If so, the village chief's words

It may have stimulated her and reminded her of some painful memories.

Bao Chu said: Where are those missing teenagers, who can't see anyone alive or dead?

Su Mei said: It's not kidnapping, it's not revenge, it's not kidnapping, it's not trafficking, if they are all killed, what is the motive for killing?

In addition to sexual motivation, there is another kind.

Professor Liang said: Cannibalism is also a motive for killing.

The next morning, the special case team came to Zhanghe Village, and the village director summoned some old people to sit under the old willow tree at the entrance of the village.

In 1960, Zhang Tian was 27 years old and had two daughters, Dani was six years old and Xiaoni was only one year old.

At that time, it was during the "three-year natural disaster" period, and several elderly people confirmed that Zhang Tian's Xiaoni starved to death that year.

Professor Leung asked: What natural disasters were there at that time, drought or flood?

An old man recalled: No, the wind and rain were good in those years, and there were no disasters here.

Professor Liang said: Then how can there be such a thing as starving to death?

The old people opened up the conversation and talked endlessly about that not so distant era, when people starved to death in the village from time to time. In those years, by the river and in the fields, there were many figures carrying baskets and looking for them. When the wild vegetables were eaten up, people began to eat grass roots and bark. According to the memories of some old people, elm leaves are the most delicious, sweet, can be made into elm leaf nests, elm bark can be dried and ground into noodles, there are many people who fight to peel elm bark. Sophora flowers are also delicious, but they have a short flowering period and are not enough to eat. Poplars are difficult to eat, have a bitter taste, and can poison people if they are not handled well.

Old man A patted the old willow tree with his hand and said: This tree was peeled and eaten at that time.

Old man B said, "I have eaten dirt, and at that time, I was lying on the bed hungry, and there was only one skin left in my stomach, and I couldn't open my eyes, and I had bitten my sleeves and mouths. I was hungry, so I took a big clay jar and filled it with some Guanyin soil and ate it as fried noodles.

The old man C pointed to a kind of loose stone and said, "I have eaten stone noodles, smashed this stone, ground it into noodles, stirred some leaves, and dried it on the pan of the pancake to eat.

The old man said: In those years, I was so hungry that I couldn't stand it, and there were man-eating miles, I saw it with my own eyes......

The old man knew that he was speechless, and some other old people also chose to remain silent on this topic and left one after another. Professor Liang left the old man, the old man's name was Zhang Youmin, in 1960, when he was still a five-year-old child, he was hesitant and found some excuses, claiming that he was too young to remember at that time, and refused to talk about it anymore.

The village director once heard his father talk about Zhang Tian's cannibalism, and Professor Liang came to visit.

The old father of the village chief told some horrific things about that era. In 1960, many people were so hungry that they couldn't stand it and ate people, and as soon as the bodies of the starved dead were buried in the ground, some people dug up the graves at night and cut off the flesh of the dead. Some villagers, whose children were starving to death, couldn't bear to eat their own children, so they exchanged with their neighbors

And food. Zhang Tian's and his neighbor Li Laohan were exchanging their children to eat, Zhang Tian's Xiaoni starved to death, and Li Laohan's young son also starved to death, they discussed it and decided to let the other party help bury it, in fact, they knew that the exchange and burial was actually given to the other party to eat. At that time, the cadres of the brigade convened a meeting of the members, and Zhang Tian had just cooked Li Laohan's young son in a pot, she broke a calf, carried it in her arms and went to the meeting.

The oil lamp was dim, and the cadres of the brigade were preaching the highest instruction, that is, reading a piece of news about "10,000 catties per mu", and the members of the club were drowsy when they listened to it, Zhang Tian sat in the corner, felt out a small foot from his arms, hid it in his sleeve, and quietly gnawed it.

Everyone smelled the smell of meat and turned back one after another, and Zhang Tian was silently crying while eating.

At that time, this incident was widely spread and could be said to be a household name, but the cadres of the brigade were worried that the higher authorities would blame them, and warned the villagers that cannibalism was a rumor, and no one was allowed to talk nonsense, otherwise it would be slandering the people's commune.

Many years have passed, and the people at that time chose to forget, but this painful memory has always remained in Zhang Tian's heart.

Eventually, she hanged herself.

On April 23, 1961, the provincial public security department wrote a "Report on the Occurrence of Special Cases" (referring to cannibalism) to the provincial party committee, which stated that "since 1959, a total of 1,289 cases have occurred." In just one province, there are more than 1,000 cases of cannibalism, and how many provinces are there in the country?

Painting Dragon, Bao Chop, and Su Mei went to Li Laohan's house, which is a typical rural family, with a pigsty and a kennel in the courtyard, and ** portraits are still hung in the hall, the corners of the walls are covered with cobwebs, all the furniture is crumbling, and everything is so shabby. There is an incense burner on the table of the Eight Immortals in front of the portrait, and there is a tea jar with a handful of plastic flowers inserted in it, and the remaining words "serving the people" on the tea jar are blurred and legible.

The three of them showed their identities as police officers and explained their intentions.

Li Laohan said that although he and Zhang Tian were neighbors separated by a wall, they never interacted with each other, and even when they met, they did not speak.

Su Mei asked: She is dead, have you heard?

Li Laohan said: This old woman, if she dies, she will die, and it has nothing to do with me.

Bao Chu asked tentatively: Old uncle, did you have a young son who starved to death in 60 years?

Li Laohan's face was pale, he didn't say a word, and after a long time he said: No.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, the TV at Li Laohan's house was on, and it happened to be playing "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and the queen mother in the TV series said: "What you don't have this time is just a child, and the next time is yourself." ”

The three of them asked a few more questions, Li Laohan suddenly became angry and drove the three out of the door, he picked up a basin of washing water, and scolded and wanted to splash it on the three of them.

Li Laohan gritted his teeth and said:, you are the public security, I am not afraid of the old man, if you dare to ask nonsense, I will fight with a few of you, I have a cerebral hemorrhage and heart disease, I will kill you.

The three of them hurriedly walked out, and at this time, Li Laohan's dog ran back, put down a bone in its mouth, and barked loudly. Everyone saw that it was a tibia, and the flesh of the soles of the feet still remained at one end of Bai Sensen's bones.