At that time, Tianjin Wei gangsters were rampant, gangsters are not the same as gangs, this kind of people dominate the ground and are called pot gangs, they all call themselves Ba people, and the common people call them miscellaneous places. Miscellaneous eight used to refer to the card points in the pai gow, pai gow has a ground bar, there is a heavenly card, if the ground card is with a mixed eight is a good deck of cards, and later said that people use this word to change the taste, specifically referring to those who are poor and impoverished.

There are several pot guys in Tianjin Wei, mainly entrenched in places related to wharves and warehousing, such as Haihebian, Liangjiazui, Dengjiajiayuan, Chenjiagouzi and other places. At that time, there was also a saying that said: "Chenjiagouzi Niangniang Temple, the small boat costs 500, and the big boat needs to be hanged" refers to this group of pot guys entrenched here, guarding the river to collect protection fees, and paying attention to "holding fish with white hands and picking cakes on the flat ground". This gangster is also particular, in the former Qing Dynasty, the old gangsters had to wear embroidered shoes, and those who were particular had to wear embroidered shoes from the Jin Jiuxia shoe store in Quanyechang.

Comb the big braid feet and wear embroidered shoes, the big braid is not thrown to the back of the neck, the big braid is pulled to the heart, hanging in front. I also have to put a merry ointment on my head, which is a plaster the size of my fingers, one on the side of my temples, and a jasmine flower on my sideburns. When walking, he held his waist with his left hand and held the placket of his shirt with his right hand, limping and dragging the retreat. Why? Because of this, he seems to have been through a hundred battles, folded his legs, laid down, and folded, and it seems that he is old-fashioned and old-fashioned. Just this strange ghost look, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the gangster is a beauty, there is face!

A few days ago, Tianjin Wei rained one after another, and the streets were peaceful for a few days. On this day, the clouds finally cleared and the sky cleared, and the pot guys by the Haihe River came out to move, and stopped the boat at the mouth of the old Sancha River after crossing the Yanguan pontoon bridge and not reaching the Jingang Bridge, and collected the boat money, and a young boxer came out of the boat. In his early years, this boxer practiced martial arts with the descendants of Jinmen Huo Daxia, and practiced a good martial arts, and he had the ability to get close to thirty or twenty people.

A weak guy in the pot guy was kicked over by this boxer, and his body flew into the river. This guy climbed up from the river in the soup chicken race, but the trouser leg suddenly died, he waded through the river mud and dragged the leg up to take a look, and couldn't help but be startled, only to see a ball of aquatic plants hanging on the trouser leg, and the aquatic weeds entangled a dead child who was white all over!

Tianjin Wei old saying goes, nine rivers under the tip of Tianjin Wei, three pontoon bridges and two passes, outside the south gate is Haiguang Temple, outside the north gate is the North Pass, the south gate is the military field, the drum tower fort is built in the center, three buttresses and four cannons, and the yellow tram goes to the customs. These three pontoon bridges are the Yanguan pontoon bridge, the banknote pontoon bridge, the Xigu pontoon bridge, and the two passes.

The banknote pass, also known as the North Pass, is the checkpoint that collects taxes on the goods of passing ships in the old days. The banknote pontoon bridge is on the south canal outside the north gate of the old city of Tianjin, and was rebuilt into an iron bridge at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The Yanguan pontoon bridge is located outside the east gate, and it crosses the Haihe River along Shuige Street. In the past, there were many people at the ferry outside the East Gate, and people often fell into the Haihe River, so a pontoon bridge was built here. The bridge was rudimentary, made of thirteen large boats connected and covered with planks. Because there is a large amount of salt on the bank of the river, the salt official hall is also located here, so it is named the bridge Yanguan pontoon. The surname of the person who donated money to build the bridge was Meng, so there was also a name "Menggong Bridge".

In 1905, in order to connect the tram, it was jointly funded by China and the Italian and Austrian concessions to be rebuilt into an iron bridge, with cement paved in the middle lane of the steel girder frame and wooden bridge slabs on the sidewalks on both sides. The bridge can be opened by electric power and opened three times a day in the morning and afternoon, so as to facilitate the passage of boats and boats, and take the meaning of "solid as gold", named Jintang Bridge. The iron bridge became the property of the Chinese government, which was managed by the Chinese side by patrolling and arresting, and the repair cost was raised by the Chinese side and the bridge was repaired by itself.

A few days ago, there was a torrential rain, the Haihe River was swollen, and even the Jintang Bridge was flooded. When a few people crossed the bridge one after another, they were washed into the river, and it was windy and rainy, and the bubble disappeared in a blink of an eye, and no one dared to cross the river from the bridge for a while.

Yesterday evening, there was a child who lived by the Haihe River, six or seven years old, who was playing outside when the rain stopped. Although the rain has stopped, the water level of the Haihe River is still high, and the bridge deck of Jintang Bridge is still submerged in water. It was getting late, and it was raining heavily for days, and there was no one around, and no one paid attention to the child playing on the bridge and wading in the water, but when it was dark, the child had not returned home, and the adults of the family looked around, but there was no trace, but today, the gangsters who were thrown into the river were brought up from the water.

When the news reached the child's house, the adults rushed to see that it was true, and they beat their chests hoarsely and cried.

This family is still this one child, but what can I do if I die, Tianjin Wei River has many potholes, most of the children who grew up by the river know water, and in the hot summer, there are often children swimming in the river with bare butts. In that year, Tianjin Wei was not allowed to drown one hundred and eight, so it was common for a dead child to appear in the river. It's just that there's one section that's very strange.

The child was dragged to the shore, his belly was bulging, his mouth and nose were watery, he was covered with aquatic plants, and his skin was pale, and a discerning person could tell that he had drowned. But the child's two feet and necks each have a palm scratch, which is printed in black and purple. The common people are superstitious that they were caught by the feet of the water ghosts in the river and dragged into the river to drown.

In addition, in Jintang Bridge before, there were a few people who crossed the bridge and fell into the water and disappeared, and some people said that there were water ghosts in the Haihe River who took stand-ins. Within two days, a small boat bound for Tongxian County in Beijing suddenly capsized when it was about to reach the mouth of the Sancha River, and half of the seven or eight people on board drowned.

Tianjin Wei suddenly spread rumors, saying everything. Some people swore that a few days ago, they saw a treasure holder in the south who went down to the river and stole the water-dividing sword under the mouth of the Sancha River. The treasures of the town river are gone, so the water ghosts in the river make a monster, overturn the boat, and pull people into the water to get a stand-in. Some people say that it is the red Jiao in the Chilong River, swimming into the Haihe River to eat people by means of heavy rain, and overturning boats and pulling people down the river are all red Jiao's monsters.

The people of Jinmen were panicked, and the people set up a dojo to worship the river dragon king, praying that the dragon king would appear and capture the water ghost and catch the red Jiao. Although the folk sacrifice was very fierce, Han Daring disdained it. He didn't believe in any ghosts and gods, and felt that something was wrong. Since the case was solved and the Sanyang Sect was exposed, he was always afraid that this evil sect would have a plot in Jinmen, so he involuntarily contacted the Sanyang Sect with the case, so he proposed to Gao Baosheng that the case should be strictly investigated.

Gao Baosheng reported to the station, and the director still used that set of rhetoric, either as an accident and hastily closed the case, or directly listed as a strange and chaotic unsolved case, so many people died in several rivers in Tianjin every year, and he didn't care about a few more drowned ghosts.

Li Bald was also present at the time to help, saying that the people sacrificed to the river dragon king and set up a dojo, at this time he said that there were no river demons and water ghosts, and he had to file a case for investigation, isn't it just doing against the people, which is equivalent to throwing bombs in the thatched house - arousing people's anger (dung). Although Gao Baosheng superficially agreed to the director, he secretly agreed with Han Da'er to investigate secretly, and asked You Fei to help him privately.

Han Daring knew that the Jintang Bridge was flooded a few days ago, and several people who were swept into the river by the water were all washed away by the river, and a few corpses have not been found until now, only the body of the child who was brought out by the pot gang by the river in the sea the day before yesterday should still be in the epidemic prevention hospital now, if you don't go to it quickly, when the child's corpse is taken away by adults, it will be difficult to investigate, and the child has been dead for the shortest time, maybe some clues will be found on the child's corpse.

Han Daring wanted to investigate the clues of the water ghost case, but it was inconvenient to say it in the office, so he said that he was going to do something, and he would go to the epidemic prevention hospital with his newly bought bicycle. As soon as he went out, he saw You Fei standing at the door of the police station waiting for him, it turned out that Gao Baosheng asked You Fei to assist him in investigating the case, so he rode on a car and took You Fei to the epidemic prevention hospital.

Lao Su of the epidemic prevention hospital was not a lively person, and he was unjustly imprisoned for several years, and his personality became more and more withdrawn and weird. Even Han Dada'er, the only one who could talk, had never seen him smile, let alone You Fei.

You Fei saw that Lao Su didn't give a good face, he was sleek, knowledgeable, and interesting, and he didn't have the same knowledge as Lao Su, so he let Han Daring understand the situation with him alone, and he was in the backyard of the epidemic prevention hospital, sitting on half a brick and smoking against the wall.

Han Daring'er came this time in a deserted way, afraid that the child's body would be taken away by his family if he came late, so he would not be able to find any clues. When I passed by the northwest corner, I only bought a bag of haggis and rolled with a few donkeys. This donkey rolling is the bean flour cake, the Jiang rice noodles roll bean paste, and the outside rolls a layer of bean noodles, just like the little black donkey rolling on the ground, rolling a loess The name is very expressive.

Lao Su said:

"You don't have to bring something every time you come, you don't hate me as a bad old man, it's enough to have this heart!"

He didn't need Han Daring to open his mouth, he already knew his intention, and took him to the morgue after speaking. As soon as he pushed the morgue open, a foul smell came to his nose, and he had just finished examining the body of the child who had drowned in Jintang Bridge, and there were two adult corpses next to the child's corpse.

The two corpses had protruding facial features and pale skin, swollen like a ball, and smelled incomparably stinking. Next to the corpse was a torn white rubber glove, and upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a complete human hand skin!

Lao Su Dao:

"The police who came to transport the corpse were so rough that they even dragged off the skin of the corpse."

Han Daring knew in his heart that this corpse should have been soaked in water for too long, so the epidermis had been separated from the body, and with a little force, the skin of the hand could be pulled off like a glove, commonly known as "water gloves"!

Lao Su Dao:

"This is also just delivered in the morning, there is water in the lungs and stomach, there is also some mud and sand and water weeds, and there is also mud and sand between the fingernails, it is drowned, and it has been soaked for several days!"

Han Daring said:

"I guess I was washed away by the water at the Jintang Bridge a few days ago and drowned!"

Lao Su usually didn't raise his eyelids when he spoke, but at this time, he rarely looked up at Han Da'er and asked:

"Oh! How do you know? ”

Han Daring said:

"I don't know what to do, the corpse was drowned, it rained a few days ago, there were no people on the street, it was impossible for anyone to swim in the rain, the boats on the river also rested for a few days, those people on the water are all proficient in water, how can it be so easy to be drowned. Only a few people who fell into the water and disappeared on the Jintang Bridge, and the bodies were never found. This corpse was not sent by us, so it should not have been found nearby, it may have been washed into the river of other segments, I am right! ”

Lao Su looked affirmative, nodded slightly, and said:

"Not bad! It was found in the river in front of Kakeji Temple! Both of them live in the city, and they said that they were missing after crossing the Jintang Bridge in the two days when it rained! ”

Han Da'er asked:

"Are you sure you drowned?"

Lao Su Dao:

"It's drowned, yes! But there's something weird about the corpse! ”