Lao Su Dao:

"The corpses of these two adults have some wounds on their legs, which should have been carried by the current and scratched in the river! Other than that, there are no external injuries! ”

Han Daring approached to see the two corpses. The corpse had been soaked for too long, and it had begun to decompose, and the stench was suffocating. He took the ginger slices handed to him by Lao Su and put them in his mouth, but he still felt that the corpse smelled very strange. He forcibly suppressed the feeling of nausea, checked the surface of the corpse, and sure enough, he saw a lot of scratches, the wounds were not big, but the strange thing was that the scratches on his legs were from the bottom to the top, in one direction.

He went to examine another corpse, and saw that the abrasions on his calves and thighs were also very similar to the corpse, and the scrapes were all from the bottom up. So he asked Lao Su:

"When you say the corpses are weird, do you mean these abrasions?"

Lao Su shook his head and said:

"No, the wounds of these two adult corpses are very small and not fatal, and they have been soaked in the river for too long, and it is not easy to distinguish between the wounds before and after death!"

Han Daring pointed to the child's corpse and asked:

"You're talking about this child's strange corpse?"

Lao Su nodded and said:

"The child had a bump on the back of his head and forehead, but it was very light and not fatal, in addition to the mud and sand in the cracks of the nails, there were some mosses, and there were aquatic plants and mud in the stomach and lungs, and the cause of death was indeed drowning. But the strangest thing is that the child's two ankles have traces of being caught, which are scars left before his death, but one is deep and one is shallow, and the scratch on his right foot is obviously much shallower! ”

As he spoke, he showed Han Daring the scratch.

When the child's body was found, Han Dada'er was working on the case outside the north gate, so he didn't see the child's body at that time, and when he arrived at the scene, the child had already been pulled to the epidemic prevention hospital. At this time, Lao Su pointed to him, and sure enough, he saw that the two ankles of the child's corpse were impressively imprinted with a purple and black and a blue and black slap print!

Han Daring looked at the scratches on the child's ankles and asked Lao Su:

"Don't you believe that there are water ghosts pulling feet in the Haihe River?"

Lao Su sighed and said:

"You've only been eating salt for a few years? There are many unspeakable things in this world, and I dare not say whether there are water ghosts or not, but this child was indeed grabbed by his feet and dragged into the river and drowned. ”

Han Daring carefully observed the scratch again, and finally saw that there were few clues to the three corpses, except for one or two suspicious points, and could not find any substantive evidence, so he asked Lao Su if he had left any samples of water in the stomach and lungs of the three corpses.

Although the order from above is not to let the trivial matter become a big one, anyway, if it is drowned, fill out the autopsy certificate according to accidental drowning, but Lao Su has always done things safely. Besides, the scratches on the child's feet were indeed weird, and Lao Su was afraid that there would be some omissions, so he had already left samples at the autopsy and put them in three glass jars. Even if Han Da'er didn't ask, Lao Su planned to hand it over to him and let him go for inspection.

Han Daring thanked Lao Su and left the epidemic prevention hospital with the sample and You Fei. At this time, it was almost noon, and Han Daring wanted to go to Mei Ruohong to help test the sample, so he asked You Fei to go back to the office for lunch first, and then visit the drowning child's home in the afternoon.

Han Daring took the sample to the laboratory in Bath, and when he passed by the mouth of the Sancha River by the Haihe River, he saw a large group of people surrounding the river, and he didn't know what was going on, so he hurried forward to take a look.

The old Tianjin people are the best to look lively, in order to see how big the family can be delayed, there is a shoe on the road and a sock quarrel, can surround a group of people to watch the lively. Han Daring squeezed into the crowd, but saw that everyone was silent, looking directly at the river, but the river was surging and empty, and there was not even a passing fishing boat. Han Daring watched it for a long time, but he didn't know that everyone was watching, so he turned around to leave.

At this moment, I suddenly saw the waves surging in the Haihe River, and the water splashed more than one person. This human race dragon jumped up in the air, his body turned over in the air, and his feet landed on the shore. The man was not tall, lean, dark-skinned, barefoot, but he was a half-grown child.

It is the strange person by the Haihe River "Langli Jiao-Wei Xiaowu"!

Tianjin Weishui dry wharf, since ancient times there are quite a lot of capable people, the mouth of the Sancha River often has a poke pole stand of strange people. These people showed their skills before, but in fact, they only wanted to make a name for themselves and earn a bowl of rice in Tianjin Wei.

Today, a foreigner set up a field on the bank of the Sancha River estuary to compete with the men who are proficient in water in Tianjin Wei, in order to become famous in Tianjin and gain a foothold in Tianjin Wei. He beat gongs and drums to gather a large group of people on the riverside, and took out a thumb-sized mountain ghost to spend money, and asked the onlookers to carve a mark on it with a knife, and then spent money into the Haihe River, and then plunged into the Haihe River, and soon burst out of the water, holding the marked money in his hand.

He poked a bamboo pole by the river again, wrapped ten silver dollars in a cloth bag and hung it on the pole, and said that whoever could fish out the mountain ghosts in the river in a stick of incense time would give ten silver dollars to whomever he wanted, and if he couldn't catch it, he would give it to the ten eldest sons, and then write a service word.

The more and more onlookers gathered, and the Tianjin gentlemen ate onions and garlic and did not eat Wang Ba (ginger). There are many Wei rivers in Tianjin, and people who live by the river and have good water characteristics abound. Many people volunteered to go into the water to make money, but they got nothing. The outsider was proud, seeing that the faces of the Tianjin gentlemen were about to fall to the ground, and at this time, a half-grown child squeezed in from the crowd to get money.

This kid is "Wei Xiaowu", nicknamed Langlijiao!

Wei Xiaowu has just turned fifteen years old, his family lives by the Haihe River, he was born and grew up by the river, he was born with a strange water nature, he plunged into the river, he could stay underwater for half a day, eat and sleep in the river, and not go ashore for three days and three nights. It is said that this kid has gills behind his ears and can pant in the water, and he is the aquatic tribe in the river.

In fact, Wei Xiaowu is just a poor child of Tianjin Wei, his father died early, and there are four older brothers on it, all of whom died during the war a few years ago, and only he and his mother are left in the family. He is filial piety, knowing that the old lady loves to eat fresh food from the river and the sea, so he often goes down to the river to fish and catch shrimp. There are steamboats pulling coal on the Haihe River every day, and he often fishes out the coal in the river, and usually does odd jobs to earn money to support his wife.

Today, I saw a foreigner poking a pole at the mouth of the Sancha River, and the old and young masters of Tianjin Wei were cold, so they squeezed into the crowd and wanted to show their skills. He didn't rush down to the river to get the money, but asked for an iron needle at a stall on the street that sewed clothes and mended broken shoes. He took the iron needle to the outsiders, asked the outsiders to bend the needle socket, and then drew a way on the iron needle, and the outsiders had the final say on how many lines they rowed, and after the stroke, he threw the needle directly into the river.

Wei Xiaowu and other outsiders threw the needle into the Haihe River, took off their jackets and plunged into the river, and it didn't take long for them to get out of the water and jump onto the shore, holding their hands high, holding the mountain ghost money in their left palm, and holding the iron needle in their right hand, rowing the bent iron needle in the Daowo. When the outsider saw this, his jaw dropped in shock.

The crowd cheered and thundered, and the cheers and applause were endless. The outsider didn't say a word, didn't bother to pack his things, squeezed out of the crowd and fled in dismay. Wei Xiaowu put on his clothes, took the ten yuan hanging on the bamboo pole, and was about to turn around and leave, but he heard someone calling him behind him, and turned his head to see that it was Han Da'er.

Wei Xiaowu said with a happy face:

"Brother Han! Why are you going? ”

Han Daring has known Wei Xiaowu for a long time, knows that he is a filial child, and it is not easy to live with the old lady, so he often helps the mother and son, so Wei Xiaowu also regards Han Daring as a big brother.

Han Daring smiled:

"You kid is really good, I, who have never believed in ghosts and gods, think that you are the dragon king's child!"

Wei Xiaowu grinned and said:

"Hey! When I met an old Tan'er from other places here, how can we have a place for him to stand in Tianjin Wei, and I just happened to make a little money! ”

Han Daring said:

"You haven't eaten lunch yet, you've just gotten cold after getting out of the water, let's drink mutton soup!"

Han Daring rode a bicycle and carried Wei Xiaowu to the northwest corner.

This northwest corner refers to the position of the opposite corner of the west city wall and the north city wall of the old city of Tianjin, and later the old city wall was demolished, and the two city walls in the northwest were changed to the west road and the north road, and the northwest corner of the city wall also became the place name.

There is a mosque not far from the northwest corner of Tianjin, and there are many Hui people living nearby, many of whom sell cut cakes, beef and sheep sauce, and sheep soup here.

Mutton soup is haggis soup. After the Battle of Jingyan in the Ming Dynasty, King Yan succeeded to the throne, was moved from Nanjing to Beijing by the capital, and built a city in Tianjin, not far from Beijing, and set up a garrison, at that time there were many immigrants, including a large number of Hui people. Legend has it that the mutton soup was brought to Tianjin by the Hui people, and then gradually improved from the original mutton soup to the later mutton soup.

The mutton soup is inexpensive but tastes great, and with two sesame pancakes, it is a meal. If you have a lot of money in your pocket, you can also order a plate, sheep scorpion, or sauce haggis, and then two taels of white wine, the flavor is better. At that time, the sheep soup was not as clean and hygienic as it is now. In the old days, there were many people who set up stalls to sell mutton soup by the Haihe River, and they were specially sold to the poor people who carried the work and drove the feet, and the sanitary situation can be imagined.

There are many people who rely on the water to eat by the Weihai River in Tianjin, if you go down the river, the body is cold, and the body is cold, come to a bowl of hot mutton soup, sweat all over, and ensure that the stomach is warmed and the cold is all over the body.

Han Dada'er and Wei Xiaowu sat down in a small restaurant in the northwest corner and asked for 20,000 sheep soup, a plate of sheep scorpions, and two stacks of baked cakes. Wei Xiaowu is the age when half of the child eats away from Lao Tzu, and it is really not enough to eat less baked cakes. The two chatted while eating, and talked about the recent haunting of the Haihe River.

Han Daring asked Wei Xiaowu, it was raining a few days ago, did he see any suspicious people by the Jintang Bridge of the Haihe River. Wei Xiaowu drank the sheep soup and said:

"A few days ago, it rained heavily, and the miscellaneous courtyard where my family lived was flooded, and the water in the house was about to go to the kang.

Han Daring was a little disappointed, but when he saw Wei Xiaowu bite the baked cake, he hesitated slightly, so he hurriedly asked what was going on, but Wei Xiaowu said with palpitations:

“…… Yesterday, it was getting dark, and my mother wanted to eat fish, so I went down to the river to touch the fish...... The result is at the bottom of the river...... But I ran into a water ghost river fish! ”