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Continued from the previous article. At the order of the head catcher, the crowd dispersed in the barren slope and searched for the bodies of the murdered children.

As for my great-grandfather, he went back to the county government with the head of the arrest. Because my great-grandfather had seen the appearance of one of the evil Taoist priests, I wanted to invite my great-grandfather to the county government to describe the old man's appearance, and let the master draw a picture of the old man.

On the way back to the county government, they encountered a large group of people, including government officials and officers and soldiers, and there were hundreds of people. This is the reinforcement sent by the county magistrate to support, it seems that the county magistrate has spent a lot of money this time and sent all the officers and soldiers guarding the county seat.

This seems to be the end of the matter. After the government took over, he had almost nothing to do with my great-grandfather, and since that day, he, like other villagers, can only wait for the government to solve the case as soon as possible.

In addition to working every night, my great-grandfather would occasionally go to the barren slope with the villagers who had lost their children during the day to take a look, but the barren slope had been sealed off by the government, and the idlers could not approach, they could only look at it from a distance once or twice at a time, but they couldn't see anything, and they didn't know how far the case had progressed. Those villagers who lost their children, every time they came and went home in disappointment, everyone sighed, their mood is understandable, my great-grandfather will comfort them at this time, "Let's go home first and wait for the letter, don't worry, the case will be solved soon." ”

In fact, my great-grandfather knew very well in his heart that even if the case was solved, their children would not be recovered, but he could not bear to say these words out of his mouth, and at the same time, he also had a layer of worry, worried that those officers and soldiers would open the jar without knowing what was going on.

One day a month later, early in the morning, my great-grandfather had just laid down to fall asleep after eating at the fifth watch, when there was a noise in the street, which woke him up again.

My great-grandfather raised his head and listened carefully, and the people outside were boiling, gongs and drums were noisy, as if something big had happened in the village, he hurriedly got dressed, and walked out of the house in three steps and two steps.

At this time, when the sky was bright, my great-grandfather came to the street and saw that the main road in the village was crowded with people. On both sides of the road were the people of the village, and in the middle of the road was a group of officers and soldiers, who seemed to be passing through the village along the main road.

My great-grandfather thought it was strange. When he walked up to take a look, and then inquired with the villagers on the side of the road, he learned that the evil Taoist priests who had stolen the children had been caught by the government and were parading through the streets, saying that they wanted to visit all the nearby villages that had lost their children.

When my great-grandfather heard this, he hurriedly stood on the side of the road and looked at the procession of people with the villagers.

At the front of the line, two people dressed in short shirts, one on the left and one on the right, carried two gongs to open the way, walking, knocking, and shouting.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Parade in the streets! The fathers and villagers came to see it, and the bad guys grabbed the children......"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

"Parade in the streets! The fathers and villagers came to see it, and the bad guys grabbed the children......"

Behind the gong, followed by the head catcher and several catchers, one by one with their chests held high; Behind the arrest, there is a team of officers and soldiers armed with knives and guns, and the queue is neat and majestic; Behind the officers and soldiers, three old oxen pulled three wooden cage prisoner carts, and several officers and soldiers armed with spears followed the sides of the prisoner carts to patrol.

My great-grandfather looked into the prisoner car again, and saw that the three people locked up in the prisoner car were all dressed as Taoist priests, with their hair combed in buns, hairpins inserted, and light blue Taoist robes. There are three people, two old and one young, one of them is old, my great-grandfather looks familiar, it is the old man who pretends to be a red ghost, and the other is old, my great-grandfather does not know and has never seen it, and the remaining young man is about fifteen or sixteen years old. According to my great-grandfather's suspicion, it was the young man who pretended to be a green ghost.

The three guys looked terrified at this time, and they seemed to be terrified. However, now that I know that I am afraid, why did I go earlier?

At this time, the eyes of those who lost their children cracked when they saw these three guys, not only them, but the entire villagers of Sanwangzhuang gritted their teeth, including my great-grandfather.

The women followed the prisoner van, scolding and crying...... Children searched the streets looking for rocks and threw them into the prison vans...... The men in the village......

We should have all seen the scene of the ancient street parade on TV, those ordinary people are throwing rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves and the like at the prisoners, in fact, this is not the case, throwing rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, where is there such a gentleness.

In reality, the lightest ones are smashed with stones, and Sanwangzhuang is even more powerful here, and the common people are all using sharpened wooden sticks to reach into the cage and poke them down, and when they poke them down, they will be screaming and blood-red.

Before the street parade team left the village, the three wicked people had already been poked into bloody people, and the robes were full of holes and bloodstains, and they looked very relieved. As an aside, this is the retribution they deserve!

At this time, the head catcher who was walking at the front of the procession caught a glimpse of my great-grandfather, hurriedly walked out of the procession, and pulled my great-grandfather to a place where there was no one on the side of the road with a smile on his face.

The head catcher shook his hands and said to my great-grandfather with a smile on his face: "Mr. Liu, this time the county government can solve the case, you are indispensable, the county lord has reported this matter to the Lord Futai, the Lord of Futai said, he will quickly report to the court, and in the future, a cadre will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and your name will also be included in the report list." ”

When my great-grandfather heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand in fear and said, "What credit do I have, this case is a case between you and the county master, and I don't want to reward it." ”

The head catcher still smiled, "Mr. Liu, you are too humble, if you don't provide clues, where can we solve the case, to put it mildly, you have the greatest credit, and when the imperial court approves it in the future, you will be rewarded with a hundred and ten taels of silver." ”

My great-grandfather is not a person who sees money, he doesn't think that the court is happy to reward him with one hundred and ten taels of silver, because this one hundred and ten taels of silver is not an ordinary heavy, it is exchanged for more than a dozen lives!

Then my great-grandfather thought that if the court really rewarded him with a hundred taels of silver, he could give it to the families who had lost their children. Thinking of this, my great-grandfather finally showed a smile, arched his hand towards the head catcher and said, "Thank you, the official, if the court really rewards me with one hundred and ten taels of silver, I Liu Yi invites the official to drink." ”

When he heard this, he laughed, and he seemed to be waiting for my great-grandfather to say this.

At this time, the prisoner car had gone away, but the people of Sanwangzhuang still did not give up, following the prisoner car to smash stones and poke them with sticks.

Scolding, smashing, and screaming still resounded in the pre-dawn sky......

The head catcher turned his head to look at the team in the distance, and bowed his hand to my great-grandfather again, and said, "Mr. Liu, I still have official business today, let's talk about it another day, and there will be a date later." With that, the head catcher turned around and ran after the prisoner cart.

My great-grandfather remembered something at this time, and after being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly took a few steps and grabbed the headcatcher, "Official, official, wait a minute, I still have something to ask you." ”

The head catcher glanced back at my great-grandfather in confusion and stopped, "Mr. Liu, what is the matter, just ask." ”

My great-grandfather went straight to the point, "Is there a hole in the barren slope?" ”

The catcher nodded slightly, "Fill it in." ”

"That'...... Have you touched anything over there? My great-grandfather looked nervous when he asked this.

This made the head catcher, who was good at observing words and colors, very confused, "Well, according to you, not only those jars, but also those things in the caves, we can't even move a straw rope, and they are all buried." ”

When my great-grandfather heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, that's good......" Immediately, my great-grandfather remembered one more thing, "What about that letter?" I remember you put him away. ”

At this time, the head catcher seemed to suddenly realize and understood my great-grandfather's true intentions, and immediately laughed, "Mr. Liu, you ...... You are really benevolent and righteous, admire and admire ......" The head catcher said, hurriedly clasped his hands into fists again, and arched his hand towards my great-grandfather, "Mr. Liu, although rest assured, that letter has already burned it, immortal pill formula, who doesn't want it, if this letter falls into the hands of gangsters, it will be another disaster!" ”

When my great-grandfather heard this, he laughed, "Then in it, then in it, the official is wise, the official is wise, the official is wise......"

Half a month later, that is, in the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, around the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in 1870, the Tongzhi Emperor issued a secret edict to clear Taoism and thoroughly investigate the case of missing children.

Because it is a Taoist edict, this is not recorded in history, and few people know about it, but it is occasionally mentioned in some Taoist history classics.

It was in the second half of this year that Taoism in our country was regarded as a catastrophe, and many Taoist temples were secretly burned all over the country, and countless Taoist people were secretly arrested and killed.

Although the secret edict was aimed at the Taoist priests of the Qingshui sect of the cult, some local officials in order to show their merits, so that many decent Taoism were also affected by the pond fish, and many Taoist doctrines and classics were burned and destroyed in this year, just like the literary prison of the Kangqian period, which also caused the incompleteness of today's Taoist doctrine, and many Taoist techniques and Danfang were lost, so far there was a fault.

This has to be said to be a big loss in the wonderful treasures of our Chinese Taoism, which makes people sigh, if it comes down to the end, it is undoubtedly a mouse feces taught by Qingshui, which spoiled a pot of porridge!

Half a month later, at the beginning of September, the banks of the Yellow River at this time had entered the busy season of farming. Because my great-grandfather's family had been begging for food in the Yellow River for generations, or holding boats or fishing, and the family had no land, at this time, he still worked at night and slept during the day.

That morning, while my great-grandfather was sleeping at home, there was a knock on the door......