Chapter 42: Rumors and Legends
Ren Song never dreamed that he would meet a famous villain in Luozhong, the fat man of Dongmen Bridge, who was passed down orally by Luozhong for several generations to catch children and cut meat and sell them for a living. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
I remember that my grandmother once said that this fat man not only cut the meat on the children's body to sell, he also likes to eat, and the children he caught are half eaten and half sold, because the boy eats a lot of meat, Yuanyang is sufficient, and he is immortal, and during the difficult period of the fifties, I saw a fat man selling meatloaf at Dongmen Bridge, and it was very cheap for five cents a piece.
Until later, there are more and more lost children in the city, some old people remember the legend of the year, have reported to the public security organs, asked to find the fat man, the relevant departments heard the news, specially went to the Dongmen Bridge to find the fat man to verify, but the person disappeared mysteriously, it is said that because of the insistence of the old people, the police at that time the police specially excavated the backyard of his house, but this time there was nothing.
Since then, although the public security department has avoided the rumors many times, the old people insist that it is Wang Fatzi who is to blame, and think that this time the bones were not dug up, and the fat man's methods are more clever. It is said that there was a time when families with children were extremely nervous, and some children were not even allowed to go to school. Since then, this "fat man who eats children" has become a famous demon in Luozhong, from Ren Song's mother's generation, all the children have been warned not to approach the fat man, not to go home late, and so on.
And by the time Ren Song was born, this legend was no longer very popular, and young people didn't believe that there was a monster in the world that could eat their own kind ruthlessly. Even if there were, they would have died a long time ago, and who believed the fallacy of eating children's flesh and immortality, except for the bhikshu king in Journey to the West, I'm afraid no one would believe this kind of nonsense. So it is impossible for that fat man of the Qing Dynasty to live until now.
Until Ren Song was four years old, someone once again ate a human finger from a foreign fat man's meatloaf sold in Dongmen Bridge, and suddenly, the whole Luozhong City boiled again, it is said that the person who ate the human finger immediately reported to the local police station, and a lot of police were dispatched to arrest the foreign fat man, and it is said that the fat man was chased and beaten by many old people all the way on the way to the police station. And many people gathered at the door of the police station where he was being held and waited for news, until they were later escorted to the detention center by the city bureau's car.
After that, there was no news, and there were even rumors that the fat man was not sentenced, because he knew the secret of immortality, so he was taken away by the national scientific research institution, according to a neighbor of the fat man, the next night I saw the fat man go home to pack up and leave in a police car, etc......
This rumor spread more and more, until later even the leaders of the municipal party committee were alarmed, the phone directly called the public security bureau, and finally the city bureau issued a notice, saying that the meat patty was eaten with bamboo shoots, and the comrade who reported the case was wrong, as for the fat man, he was not surnamed Wang, but also a compatriot of ethnic minorities, because the masses reacted too radically to this incident, and the police of the police station in order not to affect national unity, so they deliberately let him stay in the bureau for one night, and when there were few people the next night, he was sent to his residence to take the line of affairs and left Luozhong.
In the eighties and nineties, the words of the public security organs were still authoritative, although many people questioned them later, especially those who were old, but the younger generation no longer believed that there was a fat man who ate human flesh in the world, at most he was scared and scared by the adults in his family when he was a child.
Therefore, at the moment before seeing this old monk, Ren Song still believed in the notice issued by the Public Security Bureau, and did not think that a fat man could live until the laurel fairy behind him said his nickname, Ren Song knew that the fat man was really a person!
Looking at the skinny old monk in front of him, the scars on his face were like crawling with twisted centipedes, and Ren Song, who looked at him repeatedly, said a little strangely: "Wang...... Fatso? "For the first time in my life, I saw a skinny fat man, could it be that he didn't eat children's meat after leaving home and was hungry and thin?
"Good, good!" The old monk smiled at Ren and said, "The old man wasn't fat back then...... When the bandits besieged the city, because of a thought, they did a lot of evil results, until they met Senior Sister Yin, I knew that my Buddha was compassionate, and since then I have entered the Liberation Gate...... It's a pity that many causes and effects are always difficult and have been entangled until now, sins, sins! ”
"That's true!" Ren Song looked at the old monk in surprise and said, "So, in the fifties, you were also the one who sold meatloaf at Dongmen Bridge?" Could it be that children can really live forever if they eat too much meat? ”
"Good, good!" The old monk glanced at Ren Song, muttered a sentence in his mouth, and the laurel fairy next to him frowned, and was about to speak when he heard the old monk Yuantong continue: "If immortality is so easy, then there will be no short-lived people in this world...... Therefore, Ren Shizhu, after the army left the city, I was afraid of being caught, and I originally planned to escape, but I ran into the infant senior sister Yin......"
"In infancy?" Ren Song and Sun Qiuhong were both shocked, a demon who prefers to eat children touched a little baby girl, and the consequences were ...... Although they knew that the old nun was not dead, the two of them couldn't help but be a little nervous in their hearts, but they heard the old monk continue: "Yes, the senior sister was less than three months old at the time, just a little baby, and the old man was hungry at that time......
"Huh?" The little girl beside Ren Song exclaimed again, although the girl wanted to calm herself down, but the words "the fat man who eats children" flashed in her heart, but she couldn't sit still. I was about to ask, but I heard the old monk continue: "At that time, the little baby was raising his hand for me to hold her, for some reason, the moment the poor monk caught her with his hand, the original boredom and chaos in his heart dissipated, and there was only one word left in his heart: "Zen!" ””
From that moment on, the poor monk no longer had earthly thoughts, hunched his sister, became a monk, and died of a serious illness the next year. So the fat man in the fifties had nothing to do with the poor monk at all, and the man didn't eat children, but he did sell human flesh, which was obtained from the dead in mass graves! As for the fact that there are many missing children, it is because many families cannot afford to give their children to relatives or pass them out, and it has nothing to do with poor monks...... the old monk continued.
"Okay, okay, even if you're a fellow, you don't have to catch up here!" Just as the old monk was talking about the past, the laurel fairy on the side suddenly appeared and stopped: "Little brother Ren, I'm going to see Wang Lingguan!" Are you going to go together? ”
(To be continued.) )