XVII. Huang Xian seeks revenge

This yellow immortal is the five immortals that the folk say, the fox, the yellow, the white, the willow, and the yellow in the gray. Fox, yellow, white, willow, and gray are foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, long insects, and rats.

It is said that these five kinds of animals are easy to cultivate into refinement after a long time, and the legend of these five immortals is widely spread among the people. is like the nine-tailed fox spirit in the god list, possessing Su Daji to cause chaos and cruelty to loyal ministers. There is also the legend of the white snake, the green snake and the white snake flooded the Jinshan Temple. There are also "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" and "Zi Buyu", all of which have described many such stories. Among them, the weasel, because it can often stand up, and its eyes glow green at night, so it is even more said to be miraculous.

Han Daring'er's police station is close to Haihe, not far from the old city and Nanshisan, the streets are very chaotic, mixed with fish and dragons, and there are often troubles. This refers to the old city of Tianjin Wei in the former Qing Dynasty. There are only four main streets in the city that connect the four city gates, and the four inner streets form a cross shape, intersecting in the drum tower in the center of the old city.

In 1900, the Gengzi Kingdom changed, and foreigners forced the Qing Dynasty to demolish the old city wall of Tianjin Wei, in order to make Tianjin Wei have no city defense capabilities. In fact, this is also a redundant move, in the old days Tianjin Wei Old City was quite small, most of the residents lived outside the city, and the city wall was just an ornament.

The circumference of the old city wall is only nine miles and thirteen steps, the height of the city is three zhang and nine feet, and the width is two zhang and five feet. Open on all sides, the largest is the north gate, and the plaques of the four doors are written "Zhendong", "Dingnan", "Anxi" and "Gongbei". After the city wall was demolished, the four walls were turned into four roads, which are now the four roads of east, south, west and north. Only the drum tower in the city remains.

In the old days, there was a saying in Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Wei had three treasures, "Drum Tower", "Fort" and "Bell Pavilion", and the Drum Tower said that it was the Drum Tower in the old city. Although it is called the drum tower, there is actually no drum upstairs, only a large bronze bell. The bell rings 108 times a day, and there are 54 bells in the morning and dusk. But it was also demolished after liberation, and it was not rebuilt until the new millennium.

Many people think that this fort is the Dagukou Fort in Tianjin, but it is not. In order to strengthen the city defense of Tianjin, seven forts were set up around the old city, Majiakou, Haiguang Temple, Sancha River Estuary and other places, which were also demolished by the eight coalition forces in 1901.

As for the bell pavilion, it is called the bell pickaxe in Tianjin, which is the Tibetan scripture pavilion in the ancient temple of Tianjin, because there are 48 one-foot-long bells hanging under the eaves, and the wind blows the bell and rings it is pleasant, so it gets its name. In the eighteenth year of Guangxu, because of the fire in the wood-panel factory next door, the company camp was burned down. So later, the slip of Tianjin Weisan Zongbao became, the drum tower was demolished, the fort fell, the fire burned the bell pavilion, and a treasure was not left for future generations.

There are four gates in the old city, and in the old years, there were sayings of "rich in the north gate", "poor in the south gate", "cheap in the west gate" and "expensive in the east gate". But this is the old saying, there will be a great Qing Kingdom at that time! The four gates connect the four streets in the city, there are more gold shops and silver horns in the north gate inner street, there are many poor people in the south gate inner street, there are many prostitutes in the west gate inner street, and there are many officials and salt merchants in the east gate inner street, and there is a Confucian temple that worships the Confucian immortal master, so many dignitaries live here.

There lived a banner man surnamed Guan in the West Gate, and after the death of the Qing Dynasty, he could only make a living by eating ancestral property. I want to enter the customs of the Manchu Eight Banners in the past, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the children of these banner people were abandoned by the country. This Uncle Guan was used to being lavish in his early years, and within a few years, the ancestral property was bought, and finally he moved to Tianjin Wei with some money left, bought a few small courtyards in the old city, rented out the houses, and lived by collecting rent. I live in the East Gate, in a separate courtyard in Qingshi Hutong.

When the Qing Kingdom was still there, this Uncle Guan was idle, but he didn't prostitute or gamble, and he didn't like to fight crickets and raise grass and insects, so he loved to raise pigeons and birds. In the courtyard against the east wall, rows of pigeon cages were placed, and the small yard was cleaned every day, and there was not even a piece of pigeon poop on the ground. If you are in the old town and you hear the pigeon flute buzzing in the air, you must be releasing pigeons again.

Early in the morning of July 15, Uncle Guan went to the Ximenli Police No. 2 to report the case, saying that there were goblins in the house, and that there were yellow fairies that were weasels, and all the pigeons in the family were killed overnight, and now the yard was full of pigeon blood, and it was a mess.

The case in the old city was originally under the control of Ximenli No. 2, and it was not Han Daring's turn to intervene. But the second institute in Ximen Li is now a group of dragons without a leader, there is no serious person in charge, something is coming, you push me, I push him. It turned out that the head of these two institutes was called Xia Hongbin, and because of his loud voice and straight temper, he got the nickname "Startled". A few days ago, there was a bump in his house, and the bumper was the ghost possessed by the folk, and the second girl in the family died suddenly a few days later.

These days, he has been busy with family affairs, and he can't afford to get sick when he is in a hurry to bring the fire, so he can just get out of bed at this time. The second institute is in charge of the old city, and there are few people in the office, and these pieces of materials under his hands are eaten, taken, carded, and have the ability to exploit the people.

It just so happened that today Gao Baosheng went to the official office in the old city to do business, and met Uncle Guan who reported the case. He and Xia Hongbin have been buddies for many years, and when they saw that in the second office, in addition to sweeping the floor and watching the gate, there was only a fat policeman named Wang Fu left, and the rest of the patrol police went out, so he asked the policeman You Fei who followed him to call Han Daring in the office and go to Uncle Guan's house to make a scene.

Han Daring came to the door of the second institute and saw a bald man in his fifties, dressed neatly and neatly, pacing at the door with an anxious face. Han Da'er is bold and curious, but he doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but the more he encounters this kind of strange case, the more excited he becomes. As soon as he arrived, he urged You Fei to go with him and hurry to Uncle Guan's house to have a look, and talked while walking on the road, asking the reason for the matter.

There are a lot of temples near the east gate of the old city, and Uncle Guan is superstitious, so he goes to burn incense and worship God every once in a while. A few days ago, he went to burn incense outside the East Gate, and met a friend who lived on Xishi Street and was engaged in the leather business. The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they went to Jinsheng Teahouse together to drink tea and listen to things.

His friend's surname is Qian, and his name is Qian Sanben. Originally, he was a personnel outside the Guan, and he was also a flag man, and he got acquainted with Uncle Guan when he entered Beijing in his early years. Later, the Qing Dynasty died, and Qian Sanben lived outside the customs for a long time, and was familiar with the leather business, so he made a fortune by selling leather goods. A few years ago, he went to Tianjin Wei to sell leather goods, and saw that the people of Tianjin Wei were full of flowers, so he stayed here to settle down.

Qian Sanben and Uncle Guan are both flag people, and they are old friends reunited, so they can't help but talk about the world and have a lot of fun. At that time, Lao Qian gave a pair of yellow velvet ear hats to Uncle Guan. It is said that the best fox is made, and the fox refers to the fur of the fox's chin, under the neck, and part of the front abdomen, which is the warmest part of the fox's body. Originally, I made a whole set of coats and hats. Now that the coat and hat have been bought, there is only one thing left in his hand, which is left for Uncle Guan to play.

Uncle Guan is also the master who has eaten and seen, and he wants to put it in the past, the hat of the sea dragon, the coat of the fox, the house is stacked, this thing is not rare at all, he is not even too lazy to look at it, whoever wants to give him this thing is simply deliberately cold.

But first, these two have been friends for many years, and some of them are flag people. The second came from the hardcore crops to fall, and Uncle Guan moved from the imperial city to Tianjin Wei, and there was no one to make a living, relying on rent collection to survive. Uncle Guan has also been accustomed to the cold and warm world over the years, and has become more pragmatic, so things that were not good things in the past are much rarer in his hand now, so he accepted them happily.

After drinking tea, Uncle Guan invited Qian Sanben to go to the "Neutral Garden" in the east gate to have a pot sticker, and later went to Yuqing Pool to take a big bath together. The weather in June and July should have been unusually hot and humid, but a few days ago, there were two heavy rains in succession, and the sky was getting late and a little cool.

Uncle Guan had just walked outside the east gate, and suddenly there was a gust of wind, and he had just finished taking a bath, so that Xiao Feng slapped his whole body and felt excited. The clothes on his body were a little thin this month, and he remembered the pair of ear hats that Qian Sanben gave him, so he took them out on a whim and tried them. But just as he was about to put on his ear cap, he suddenly saw two points of green light shooting towards him in the small passage. He looked intently, and saw the big weasel with yellow hair, in the middle of the road, the person stood up, and two points of green light appeared in his eyes, staring straight at him!

At this time, I looked at the ear hat in my hand, and the color was clearly the same as that of the weasel. And there was a faint smell of weasels. Suddenly, the weasel in the aisle stared at him with dead eyes, and with a green glow in his eyes, he writhed towards him......