Han Daring patrols and handles cases every day, and the interface has been relatively peaceful recently, there are no big cases, but he just caught a foreign goods seller. This kid set up a stall outside the south gate, peddling foreign rags from the Black Sea in Turkey, what bottles and jars a lot, there were jars of honey, I don't know if it was long hair or bad, and ate people to death, as a result, the family went to the three institutes to complain, and Gao Baosheng led the team to arrest people. At most, there is a fight, a report that has been deceived, and there are no other cases, and life is relatively leisurely.

In the past two days, it seems that it will be the August Festival. Tianjin people call the Dragon Boat Festival the May Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is called the August Festival. The August Festival is a traditional reunion festival, and every household wants to eat reunion cakes, which are moon cakes. At this time, the autumn is high and cool, the river crab is fat, Tianjin people are delicious, and the favorite food is seafood. As the saying goes, when eating seafood, it is not impossible to pass. It is said that every year when the two seasons of Hehai are fresh, even if the people of Tianjin have no money at home, they have to make up two dollars to eat a meal of seafood when they go to the pawnshop to make some clothes and quilts. Although it is an exaggeration, it shows that Tianjin people love seafood. The seafood mentioned here is the two fresh foods of the river and the sea, shrimp, crab, yellow croaker or something.

In the early years, the four most famous delicacies of Tianjin Wei were golden silk leek, cold winter iron finch, golden eye whitebait, and pinched nest purple crab.

Leek is also known as yellow leek, is the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi years, a vegetable farmer surnamed Zhu in the mustard garden in the cellar, let the leeks isolate the sunlight and cultivate, ten days and a half months can harvest a stubble, the taste is the best in late winter and early spring. It is said that leeks are great supplements, and the taste of scrambled eggs with leeks is even better.

The iron finch is a sparrow, also called the house finch (pronounced to be called "Jia Qiaoer") because after being caught, often do not eat or drink and crash into the cage and die, people think that its mind is like iron, so it is called the iron finch. In the cold winter, the iron finch feathers are abundant, the meat shop is fat and tender, and the people of Tianjin often use the methods of marinating, frying, smoking, sauce, slipping and other methods to cook, among which the "fried iron finch" is the most delicious.

There are many places where whitebait is available, but the whitebait in Tianjin is different, in autumn and winter, the mature whitebait swims from the sea to the mouth of the Sancha River of the Haihe River to spawn, and the eye circles of the whitebait change from silver to gold at this time to become golden-eyed whitebait. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the "Weihe silverfish" was already the imperial tribute. The whitebait meat has the aroma of cucumber, and the whitebait of Dongsanjiu has a unique taste. Combined with purple crab to make "whitebait purple crab pot", the taste can be said to be a must in the world.

The purple crab was born in the winning side and grew in the Haihe River, and this thing has a small button and a big one like a silver dollar. The crab roe is purple in pork liver, hence the name purple crab. When cooked, it is orange in color and has an extremely delicious taste. Purple crab was the imperial tribute in the early years, and it was an indispensable dish for the winter swallow wing seat of the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets.

In June, the purple crab in the nest, the crab shell has just been changed, as thin as paper skin, it is called the "oil cap", and the purple crab is eaten in the old days and there is the "seven tips and eight groups" of exquisiteness. In July, you have to eat a long umbilicus, which is a male crab with a pointed umbilicus. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, you have to eat the female crab of the umbilicus.

At this time, it is close to the August Festival, and the river crabs are plump, which is a good time to eat purple crabs.

Han Da'er loves crabs the most, especially purple crabs. His family has money, and when the season comes, he can't help but satisfy his cravings. Today, just in time for him to take a break, the family made him a "sour sand purple crab" for lunch. It is made by using shredded green onions, shredded ginger, and shredded red peppers, after basic seasoning, or steaming or boiling, and then pouring marinade. The taste is sour, sweet, sandy, slightly salty and slightly spicy, so it is called sour sand. In addition to the "whitebait purple crab pot" in winter, Han Dada'er's favorite food is this "sour sand purple crab".

When the dishes were served, before the chopsticks were moved, I heard three knocks outside the door. Han Daring got up and went to open the door, thinking in his heart, I don't know who it is, so unproductive, just rushing to the door.

When I opened the door, there were servants standing outside the door, in front of him was the captain Gao Baosheng, followed by two people I didn't know, one was about the same age as Gao Baosheng, more than thirty and less than forty, with a long face and short beard, thin eyebrows and small eyes, combing a big back, wiping a head of oil, shiny and shiny, and flies had to fall on it. The other is a little fat man, who looks white and fat, with a small nose and small mouth on his face, and the fat doll with a goldfish painted by the young man of Yangliu, looks about the same age as Han Da'er.

As soon as Han Da'er saw that it was Gao Baosheng who brought him, he hurriedly let him into the house, and just in time for the meal, he invited this family to eat together. Gao Baosheng wanted to excuse himself, but the little fat man looked up at the purple crab on the table, and he was about to stay, and swallowed saliva in his stomach. The big back was not polite, and said something "but disrespectful", and sat directly at the table.

At this meal, Gao Baosheng looked directly at the big back and the little fat man, but he didn't see the big back. The little fat man was not seen, and the food on the table was like the one in the dump box, and all the food was drawn into his mouth. A large plate of sour sand purple crabs, let the little fat man kill more than half of it alone. Han Daring's parents saw that it was brought by their son's boss, and they couldn't say anything, but the more they looked at the big back and the little fat man, the more disgusted they became. But Han Dada'er and his father are also people in the trading field after all, and he is a city government, so he still laughs and vigorously distributes vegetables to Gao Baosheng and a few people. During the banquet, Gao Baosheng introduced the old couple to look at each other's identities with big backs.

This big back head turned out to be a "commissioner" sent by the "Chang Director" of the Tianjin Police Department, surnamed Mei, called Mei Bensheng, and became "Mei Ability" when he was called Lian. As his name suggests, he has no ability at all, and he relies on his subordinates to solve the case, and the merit is first-class. He is famous for his credit, and the black pot is carried by others, so no one wants to work under him.

Mei was sent down as a commissioner this time to supervise a strange ghost case that just happened in Xiaoxiguan Prison!

In the old years, there were many bridges in Tianjin, and there were many passes, such as there was a North Pass outside the North Gate, which used to be the banknote pass for collecting taxes, and mentioned two passes of Tianjin Weisan Road pontoon bridge before, one of which was the banknote pontoon bridge, also called Beidaguan Bridge. In the old days, it was also divided into the upper and lower gates with the North Pass as the boundary.

There is also Xiaoguan, which is next to the Jiajia Bridge on the Admiralty River, which used to collect salt and nitrate taxes. Because "nitrate" and "small" have the same sound, and it is smaller than Beidaguan, it is called Xiaoguan. There is also a fixed tax customs "Changguan" established in Changguan Hutong. Then there is the small Xiguan outside the West Gate.

In the early years, there was a customs outside the west gate of the old city of Tianjin to collect taxes, so it was named Xiguan, because Xiguan was smaller than Beidaguan and called "Xiaoxiguan". In fact, when it comes to Xiaoxiguan, the first reaction of the old Tianjin people is not the tax pass, but the prison.

In the old days, there was always an adult who scared the child to "send you to Xiaoxiguan if you are disobedient", and the Xiaoxiguan mentioned here is Xiaoxiguan Prison.

In 1902, Yuan Shikai appointed Ling Fupeng, the prefect of Tianjin, to Japan to inspect the prison system, and later in 1904, he set up the "Tianjin Xiyi Institute" in Tianjin, which was the predecessor of Tianjin Prison. At that time, it was called a training center for inmates to learn crafts and techniques to reform them and make them contribute to society.

In 1913, in the second year of the Republic of China, the Beiyang government renamed the Xiyi Institute "Tianjin Prison". A few years later, it was changed to "Zhili No. 1 Prison". In the 17th year of the Republic of China, the Nationalist Government changed it to the Third Prison of Hebei Province, but the people of Tianjin Wei still called it, Xiaoxiguan Prison, or directly called Xiaoxiguan. When it comes to Xiaoxiguan, it basically means prison.

In addition to the third prison in Hebei near Xiaoxiguan, there is also a bone club and a white bone tower, so there are many legends of ghosts and spirits.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a mass grave outside the west gate of Tianjin, where the corpses of many civilians from other places were buried. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, a large family surnamed Jin established the "Yuli Hall" here to adopt the elderly men and women and the sick and infirm, which is a charity hall.

Yuli Hall only accepts the living, and the dead are still unattended, and continue to be buried indiscriminately outside the West Gate. Most of the corpses are buried in thin-skinned coffins, commonly known as "dog encounters". Because the burial is not deep, wild dogs often dig out the coffin, hit the coffin lid with their heads, and compete for the flesh and bones of the corpse. At that time, outside the West Gate, the white bones were noisy and miserable. During the Qianlong period, the Tianjin gentry "Hualongzao" joined forces with like-minded gentry to write to the official office, and was approved to open an official land and set up a bone club. Since then, there have been special people to collect the bones of the ownerless and bury them.

As for the white bone tower, it was also built during the Qianlong period, this tower is for the gods and buried the bones, it is a gray brick building, the pagoda of octagonal six levels. The shape is similar to Hangzhou Liuhe Tower, the height is only two zhang Xu, the tower body is hollow, and there is a door opening on the lower floor. The interior enshrines the statue of Lotus Tai Guanyin, and some people can't see what the statue is, so they call it the white bone Niangniang.

Later, the surrounding places gradually became called the White Bone Tower, the White Bone Tower gradually became a place name, from the Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, here has always been a murder execution ground, and the people feel creepy every time they hear this place.

In the old years, the eighth day of the fourth month of April was "the city god pardoned the lonely soul", the common people worshiped the city god, the people found someone to pretend to be the yaksha ghost and the lonely soul wild ghost, the ghost took the steel fork, chased and drove away the wild ghost between the barren graves and mounds, called "pardon the orphan", the location is near the white bone tower.

Therefore, the two places where the bones are buried, the Bone Cover Society and the White Bone Tower, often tell some supernatural stories, such as what "White Bone Corpse Demon", what "Ghost Marrying", and "Pagoda Town Demon" or something...... Whenever the common people mention this place, they always feel eerie and terrifying, and their backs are cold!

A few days ago, there was a case of gut-pumping and throat-cutting in Xiaoxiguan Prison, and because it happened in prison, it has always been kept secret from the outside world, and the case is very tricky and difficult to solve.

Then there were haunted rumors in the prison, saying that Tianjin Wei Dashui washed away the White Bone Pagoda and suppressed the five unjust ghosts under the tower, and took the opportunity to escape from the pagoda to suppress it, but was shocked by the feng shui situation in Xiaoxiguan and was imprisoned in the prison.

Because when Xiaoxiguan Prison was built, it was a "trapped dragon bureau" specially set up by high-ranking people, specifically to suppress prisoners who were extremely angry. Speaking of the White Bone Corpse Demon, even the Nine Heavens Divine Dragon has to be trapped by this pattern. But who knows that this year, catch up with the flying stars of the nine palaces, the two black stars fly into the middle palace, the two five are in the same palace, and the qi of the five yellows and two blacks fuels the yin qi of the five unjust souls and fierce ghosts, and they want to take advantage of the lives of people born when the five lunar years are cloudy and cloudy, break through the trapped dragon situation of the prison, and escape.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, there was really another bizarre murder case in the prison. The head of the National Police Agency was furious and ordered a strict investigation of the case. But everyone below you push me, I push him, and no one dares to take over. The director of the department appointed a person to be the supervising commissioner to come down and investigate the case. This person is Mei's ability!

Today, Gao Baosheng led Mei to visit suddenly, just to ask Han Daring to help solve this strange case!