Lingnan loves to drink soup, especially baby soup is the most delicious and tonic. According to legend, this baby soup needs to be made from six or seven months old babies supplemented by health Chinese medicine, boiled and simmered slowly, and its price is so high that it is not available to ordinary people.

Huang Pizi was killed, although it set off a heated discussion in Luoyang City, but after the heated discussion, the families who lost their children were still worried. They all hoped that the court would help them find their children. Chang Tai heard the legend of baby soup out of nowhere, and he was a little uneasy for a while, as if a big pot appeared in front of him, and it was those missing children who were stewed in the pot.

With such a guess, Chang Tai naturally couldn't talk about it with his colleagues, and after thinking about it, he could only go to Xing Ruyi.

"I've heard such rumors, but isn't it too risky to sell babies to Lingnan from here?" Xing Ruyi knew that Chang Tai had been busy with the case of the child's disappearance recently, and he had not rested well for many days, so he made tea for him. "Besides, Brother Chang also said just now that to make baby soup, you need to use six- or seven-month-old babies, but most of the children lost in the city are about two to three years old. These children already have the ability to be independent, but they cannot survive on their own, although they are conscious, but their consciousness is not strong, and they are suitable for being trafficked, but they are not suitable for being boiled. ”

"Ruyi means that these children have been sold elsewhere?" Chang Tai tapped his fingers on the tabletop, and the whole person fell into deep thought again.

"Ruyi is just a guess. At present, it is a prosperous age, and the people can live in peace and happiness, whether rich or poor, and there will be no shortage of children in the family. Occasionally, there is a transaction, and most of them are the family members of those who have committed crimes, or they are sold to others as slaves, or sold into flower houses as prostitutes. For such a young child, it is not easy for people to make a move, and it is not easy to ask for a price. ”

"Where's the beggar?" Chang Tai thought of Huzi and the things that Huang Pizi had done. The disappearance of the children in Luoyang City is inextricably linked to this yellow skin, although he tried his best to cover it up, he never denied that these things were related to him.

"Brother Chang thought of this, Ruyi also thought about it, and also sent people to the surrounding state capitals and counties to check. Although there are beggars, they are all fatherless, motherless, poor and helpless since childhood. ”

"No trafficked children?"

"Nope! And most of those children are older enough to beg on their own. Although there are people behind it, it is not the yellow skin, but the leader of the beggars. In addition to deducting some food rations, he didn't criticize the children too much. ”

"It's not baby soup, it's not selling, it's not begging, where will those children be taken by the yellow skin? Will it be the same as Huzi, it's all gone! ”

Chang Tai's words made Xing Ruyi's heart sink. She has had such speculations, and they are even worse. The fox is a demon, and what she is best at is finding the living, and she has ghost arts, and the easiest thing to check is the dead soul in this world. But the fox searched all over the world, and she asked all the shadows, but she found nothing.

"Yin Chensi has already gone out to check, I hope he can bring some useful information this time." Xing Ruyi looked at the sky outside, and to the west, the edge of the clear blue sky was tinged with a strange red.

"Brother Chang, do you know where Luoyang City is to the west?"

"Do you mean the western suburbs, or further west?"

"Western suburbs, is there anything different over there?" Xing Ruyi narrowed his eyes, and from Chang Tai's words just now, he spied a hint of a different aura.

"It's no different. To the west of Luoyang City, less than five miles, there was originally a village. The people in the village, most of whom are surnamed Wei, make a living by smelting iron and forging iron. Later, for some reason, a fire broke out in the village, and overnight, the house collapsed. The people in the village are dead, wounded, and some have not been traced to this day. After the fire, the imperial court also investigated for a while, and finally concluded that a family in the village accidentally caused the flame to leak out during the forging, which caused the fire. As for those who are missing, they are also treated as dead. ”

"How come I've never heard of such a thing?"

"I also listened to what the previous head catcher said, and after careful calculation, it has been more than ten years. At that time, you and I had not yet come to the Divine Capital, and even if we did, we were just children, where would we remember such a thing. ”

"And now? Is it still ruins over there? ”

"It's not! It's an arsenal under the control of the imperial court! ”

"Arsenal! How could it be built so close to the capital? ”

"This matter, speaking of it, is also a bit strange. It was about four or five years ago, when I was already working as a fast catcher in Beijing. One day, when I was patrolling the streets, I saw a Taoist priest from a distance, leading a group of officers and soldiers to walk out of the city. It just so happened that one of the officers and soldiers in that group was someone I knew well, so I asked a few questions. Only then did I know that the village in the western suburbs was often haunted, and this haunted thing had reached the ears of the Holy Queen. The Holy Queen was sympathetic to the people's feelings, and often felt uneasy in her heart, so she invited a monk from the White Horse Temple to recite the scriptures. Who knew that halfway through this sutra, the monk actually bled to death with seven orifices. For a while, people were even more panicked, and even passers-by had to walk around the village for ten miles, and the villages that were originally nearby were gradually vacant. The Taoist priest, claiming to be from Zhongnan Mountain, has no Taoist name, volunteered to go to catch ghosts. The Holy Empress had no feelings for the Taoist priest, but she couldn't think of any other way for a while, so she could only allow it. ”

"So what? Hunt ghosts and catch an arsenal! ”

That's an afterword. According to the soldiers who accompanied him at the time, the Taoist priest performed an extremely grand ritual, although the process was a bit dangerous, but fortunately, everyone was safe in the end. After the ceremony, the Taoist priest slept for seven days and seven nights, and the first thing he said after waking up was to ask the holy queen to issue an order to build an arsenal in the place where the practice was done, and the forging master could only choose the descendants of the Wei family. Even if he is not a descendant of the Wei family, at least he must be surnamed Wei. ”

"The Holy Queen is approved?"

"Naturally, it's accurate. First, the haunted thing in the village spread more and more, and the people who made the trouble were panicked, and secondly, the monk who came to the White Horse Temple to chant the scriptures died too bizarrely, so that the holy queen also had some jealousy in her heart. There is also a fourth point, which is just a rumor, and the truth is no longer distinguishable. ”

"What's the fourth point?"

"According to legend, the Taoist priest once made it clear to the Holy Empress that the village was a place of darkness, and there were many dead souls, so it became an unapproachable ghost for the living. The forger, whose life belongs to fire, holds a killing weapon in his hand, so only the forger can approach it. chose the surname Wei because it was originally the village of the Wei family, and they protected each other with the same surname to avoid disasters. The most terrifying thing is that the Taoist priest also told the Holy Queen that the weapons forged in the ghost snake are ghost weapons, and serving soldiers with ghost weapons can become ghost soldiers. ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)