XXXIV. Peel off the cocoon
Han Daring wanted to make a call. At that time, the phone was not like now, it was not the kind of number that was still required, or it was picked up after the dial, and the operator had to ask for the number, although the call line was long, but the interference was great. It's not everywhere, and it's not easy to find a phone in other places except government departments, the military, and police stations. Even fewer of the average household can install a telephone.
There was only one telephone in the prison, and it was in the warden's office, so several people left the main cell building and went to the warden's office.
At this time, it was almost half past three, although it was past dinner and it was not dinner time, but after all, it was the superintendent sent by Shangfeng who came to handle the case, so the warden asked the cook in the canteen not to seal the fire, and when the commissioner arrived, he set up a table of banquets and placed it on the first floor, in a single room in the prison guard's canteen. Don't care about the meal, get a good hospitality first, and talk about it if something happens.
Don't look at it in the prison cafeteria, this table of banquets is really not bad, (this is not bad, it means good, good) I dare not say that it is a variety of flavors, and it is comparable to the craftsmanship of a first-class restaurant.
Han Daring is bent on solving the case, how can he have the heart to eat. Although Mei is also confused, and he has no clue about the case, he has a big heart, and he thinks that the blessed people don't need to be busy, and the unblessed people run out of their intestines. Fan Tong lives up to his name, he is a rice bucket, and as soon as he enters the gate of the management building, he smells the smell of food in the canteen on the first floor. A vigorous straight swallow spit, the sour sand purple crab at noon, just now it was all cheap at the door of the morgue, and at this time, the five visceral temples began to beat gongs and drums early when they opened.
Han Daring ignored them and went to the warden's office to make a call. The prison warden accompanied Mei and Fan to sit at the table, Yan Zhensheng sat with another director and three section chiefs, and Chen Qi's rank was too low, so he could only run errands with Han Daring. In fact, the prison warden's arrangement was also to let Chen Qi keep an eye on Han Da'er from time to time to see what clues he found, so as to prepare for grabbing credit.
But Chen Qi was so busy that he even paid attention to the preparation of the banquet, and in the end he couldn't serve the table by himself, and he had to run errands. He was angry, and entered the warden's office, not caring about Han Daring, nor making tea or pouring water, he leaned on the leather sofa, took out a handful of melon seeds in his pocket, and read the newspaper while sipping melon seeds.
Han Daring made two phone calls, one was to call the police No. 3 to find Gao Baosheng, but Gao Baosheng happened to be not there, only You Fei was there, so he asked You Fei to go to the Taoist temple outside the east gate and other places to ask, the painting of Hell Futu painted by Yin Xiao. Although some of the teachings of this kind of secret society are very secret, and the chances of hearing about it are very slim, it is always necessary to try your luck.
You Fei was thinking about deserting at this time, going to shave his head and take a bath, and he reluctantly agreed, so he went to inquire first, but there would be news the day after tomorrow at the earliest. Han Daring couldn't wait so long, so he could only agree to ask for it, and Shicheng invited him to go to DD Western Restaurant to eat Western food, let him order whatever he wanted, and order a copy with the menu.
You Fei himself is greedy, but he is just an ordinary patrol officer, unlike Han Daring, who has studied foreign books, and his family still has money, so he can often go to eat Western food. Since the last time Han Daring invited him and Gao Baosheng to eat Western food in the water ghost case, he has been thinking about this foreign taste, and when he heard Han Dadaer say this, he happily agreed, and immediately went to the old city to inquire inside and outside.
In fact, You Fei had already known a few followers of the Sanyang Sect who lived nearby, but these people were all old men and old ladies, and they couldn't make any moths, so they didn't pay attention to it, and now they just went to help Han Daring to inquire about the news, in case they could find out, they would inevitably have to go to the Western restaurant to feast on it.
After leaving the phone, Han Daring called Bath's laboratory again, wanting to find Mei Ruohong. Before Mei Ruohong was sick, Han Daring went to visit her home, but was blocked by Mei Ruohong's father, and he didn't see him, and then he went to the Pasteur laboratory several times, and the people in the laboratory said that she was not there, and they didn't know if she was really absent, or if she didn't want to see him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the phone was connected, it was Mei Ruohong who answered the phone. Originally, Han Daring wanted to say something for a long time, but he didn't expect that the person who answered the phone was Mei Ruohong, and he opened his mouth for a while, and he didn't say a whole sentence for a long time.
Mei Ruohong knew that the last time Han Dada'er went to visit the patient, she was turned away by her father, and she waited for several hours, so this time on the phone, although her voice was still as cold as frost, her tone was much slower than before:
"What's the matter? If you don't talk anymore, I'll be sorry! ”
Han Daring said:
"Tell me about it!"
Then he secretly glanced at Chen Qi, who was sitting next to him, and saw that Chen Qi was reading the newspaper by himself, and he didn't pay attention to his phone call at all, so he half-covered the microphone with his hand and said in a low voice:
“…… That one...... Are you well? ”
Mei Ruohong Road:
"That's it! I'm so good, you won't come to see it yourself! And what do you want to test? ”
Han Da'er coughed dryly and said:
"If you don't test anything, it's ...... I would like to ask you about the composition and toxicity of cinnabar! ”
Mei Ruohong Road:
"Cinnabar is a sulfide ore that contains mainly mercury sulfide, which is mercury. A small amount of it is basically harmless to take at room temperature, and it is toxic when heated to 70-90 degrees Celsius. ”
Han Da'er asked again:
"It is often said that cinnabar can be preserved, just because it contains mercury, right?"
Mei Ruohong Road:
"That's right! A small amount can detoxify, insecticide, and preservative! Nothing else! ”
Han Daring hurriedly said that he would invite Mei Ruohong to dinner in two days, but Mei Ruohong just replied coldly, "Let's talk about it" and hung up the phone.
Han Daring sat in front of the phone and waited until it was almost five o'clock before he received a call from You Fei from the office. You Fei went to the nearby Taoist temple, but everyone is a serious monk and old Taoist, who knows what Sanyang Sect is about these evil things.
Fortunately, in the south gate of the old city, there lived an old man who believed in Sanyangjiao, whose surname was Wu De. This old man Wu believed in the Sanyang Sect in his early years, and he wanted to become an immortal, and persuaded his wife to eat the elixir together, but he directly sent his wife back to the west. His son hated him and moved away, and he lived alone in a small bungalow in the old city, living by picking up baskets. (Tianjin people are called picking up the basket)
In the afternoon, You Fei took the bottle to burn the pot, found Old Man Wu, and learned some things about the Sanyang Sect from him.
It turns out that the so-called "Hell Floating Massacre" is a kind of immortal-seeking spell of five ghosts crossing the tribulation. This method of becoming an immortal originated from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a lost secret technique of the famous Taoist Ge Hong, "Fangwai Danding Technique". Legend has it that Ge Hong had a disciple back then, whose surname was Huang Chuping, and his Taoist name was Chi Songzi. This person later became an immortal, and he was the very famous Wong Tai Sin in Nanyue. Legend has it that this person was recorded in Ge Hong's "Fangwai Danding Technique", with five human stalks, five prisons, and five tribulations, before he became an immortal.
The so-called human spirit is the five sinners. Generally speaking, it is to kill five sinners in five ways, let the five sinners go through the five tribulations and five prisons instead of themselves, and refine the souls of the five people into pills in the cultivator's body, and finally achieve the Tao by themselves.
This lost "Fangwai Danding Technique" was somehow found by the Sanyang Sect, and the Sanyang Sect believed that the so-called Five Prisons became immortals, which was actually a method of borrowing life to cross the catastrophe. You must find five people with the same attributes as the cultivator's birth date, and kill them by draining their intestines, digging out their hearts, skinning, burning them, and breaking their bodies, and then use their mudras and mantras to unify the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased person, and help them survive the five tribulations, so that they can become true immortals in the flesh. But you must find someone who has committed a crime, and you have to have the same yin and yang attributes as your birthday. In the prison, except for the prison guards, everyone has committed crimes, and this place is the most suitable. It is said that the two prisoners who died, like Yin Xiao, were born when the lunar year was cloudy and the moon was cloudy, and this can also be matched.
Han Daring thought to herself, it turned out that the so-called Hell Floating Massacre was not a prophecy of evil ghosts killing people, but a kind of evil art to cross the catastrophe and become immortals. He originally thought that Yin Xiao knew that his execution was approaching and that time was running out, so he wanted to deliberately make trouble and escape from prison, but now it seems that it is very likely that he wants to become a true immortal in the flesh before the execution.
Of course, Han Daring didn't believe in any theory of becoming an immortal, not to mention the truth or falsehood of this Hell Futu Becoming an Immortal Evil Law, could it be that the few people who died really came out of Yin Xiao's desire to become an immortal? So why make up the fifth demon killing method? What's the point?
At this moment, a bell suddenly rang in the prison, and Han Daring hurriedly asked Chen Qi, who had been staying next to him, only to know that it was the electric bell for the prisoner's roll call time every day. Han Daring looked at the big clock in the warden's office, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and Mei had eaten this meal for two hours, and he hadn't finished yet.
Han Dada'er didn't care about them, and asked Chen Qi to take the key to Yin Xiao's cell in the warden's office, and wanted to go to the main prison area to interrogate Yin Xiao. When I got out of the warden's office, I just arrived on the first floor, and I ran into Mei and Fan Tong, who had just finished the table and were full of alcohol.
At this time, the door on the first floor was suddenly pushed open, and a person dressed as a prison guard broke in, and when he saw the prison warden, he shouted:
"It's amazing! Xia Jiuliang, a prisoner in the main prison area, was skinned and died in a small black room! ”