XXXIX. The Case of Corpse Fraud
Han Daring found a small key under the skin of Yin Xiao's calf. This key is different from the common brass horizontal lock key, this key is small, like a Western gadget, but it is not like the key of a regular Western lock. The key is cylindrical, hollow in the middle of the cylinder, and has a hexagonal inner core embedded in it, so I can't tell what it is for.
Han Daring felt that this key might be an important clue, so he kept an eye on it, and did not give the key to Mei Ability, but hid it privately, preparing to show it to Lao Bai Xiao Jew, maybe he could find out what it was for.
The case was closed, and Mei took the case file and left Xiaoxiguan Prison with Han Dadaer and Fan. When I came out, it was almost dawn, and in just over ten hours, too many things had happened, and everyone was exhausted. Han Daring is tired, those two are scared, these two have no other skills except eating and patting sycophants, yesterday the prisoners rioted fortunately Han Daring was there, otherwise the two of them would have returned to their places directly.
Mei and Fan Tong are also heartless things, they were hungry as soon as they came out of Xiaoxiguan, looking around, looking for the car sent by the headquarters to send them, so where to find it, the driver of the headquarters can still wait for you here for a night? The quilt is not more comfortable than this, and people go home early to dream of Zhou Gong.
Han Daring's sour sand purple crab meal at noon yesterday made Mei and Fan Tong so happy that he didn't eat anything, and he didn't eat anything from yesterday afternoon to now, and he was busy solving the case and interrogating just now, but he didn't think that he was already hungry at this time.
Mei and Fan Tong ate and drank enough yesterday, but now they are also hungry, and they want to find a place to eat. Not far from the old city, there is a big old Li who sells wontons outside the south gate of the old city, and the wontons are authentic, but he specializes in making supper, and he has already closed the stall at this time. Fortunately, it was almost dawn, and the pancake and fruit stall for Ximen Takeaway had already come out, and the servants hurriedly spread a few sets of pancakes.
Fan Tong has a set of left hands and a set of right hands, and he does not delay his speech when he opens the bow on both sides, so he asked, in the second murder case, Wang Jinshan's heart was dug out, and he was also thrown out of the window? But I couldn't find it outside the window.
Han Daring casually said that he might have been eaten by Lu Xiaoyi, who was in the same room, but in fact, he also guessed randomly, there were several Sanyang Sect moles in the prison, and he might not have been thrown by anyone! Fan Tong felt nauseous after hearing this, coupled with the smell of blood he smelled yesterday, he felt that even the pancakes in his mouth were fishy, and he didn't even have the heart to eat the pancakes.
Mei was eating pancakes and drawing flatbread for the two of them, what case was reported to the top, as soon as the reward arrived, these two people would inevitably be promoted and make a fortune. Gao Gongxiang, who first got the moon palm stove, is the master apprentice of the Yihecheng chef monster Liu Si, and his skills are not bad, especially the "snow coat oil cover", which is used to pinch the nest purple crab...... He said how to come and go, how to make trouble, like he really knows how to do a race, and he is so hungry that he has no interest.
Han Da'er has heard of Mei's ability, he is a dog who lifts the door curtain, and he deals with it with his mouth. It's really called to do things with him, the eldest uncle carries his brother and daughter-in-law - it's not good to be tired, and when it's time to receive the credit, it's not him, and the credit must be taken by him alone.
In fact, Han Da'er's interest is to solve cases and arrest murderers, hoe rapists and thieves, so he doesn't care if he doesn't take credit. Anyway, it wasn't once or twice before that he was robbed by the director, he was used to it, but he guessed wrong this time, unexpectedly, within a few days of the case in this prison being reported, a paper promotion order was issued to the three institutes.
Han Daring'er is a second kick to the sky this time - he has been promoted! was promoted to three levels in a row, the level was the same as the director of the three institutes, and he was also transferred to the Investigation Department of the Tianjin Police Department, under Mei's ability, he was responsible for criminal investigation and solving cases, and hunting for murderers and thieves.
What's going on, if you let others go, Mei will definitely have the sole credit this time.
But as soon as Han Daring came to Gao Baosheng, he and Gao Baosheng were small, if they really took all the credit, Gao Baosheng would not be a man, Gao Baosheng's violent temper designated that he could not spare him, and he had to come to the door and smash their house!
Second, this case can be solved, Han Daring'er's credit is obvious to all, even if Mei doesn't report it, the prison warden has to report it, and in the end, he has to end up being a person inside and out.
The most important point is that Mei can see that Han Daring is a talent, and he is a good hand at catching murderers and solving cases, this time Mei was sent down as a commissioner, and he was promoted after solving the case, and he was in charge of criminal investigation in the Investigation Bureau.
Mei is a person, he is not very popular, and he can't find anyone who is willing to work under him, this Han Daring loves to solve cases, and he doesn't like to rob the merit, it is the talent that is rare, so he also reported Han Daring, of course, the credit is specified under Mei's ability, and he can't rob him of the first credit.
Han Daring has been promoted, and the most angry person is Li Bald, but there is no way! Now that Han Daring has become the leader of the Police Department, and he is at the same level as the directors of the three institutes, Li Bald can only hold back his anger secretly and clamp his tail and be a man.
Han Daring got a few days off, and he had to go to work in the main hall after the vacation. Seeing that his uncle's birthday was approaching in the past two days, his wife asked him to buy something and go to Huzhuang by the North Canal to see his uncle. Who would have thought that Han Daring would go this time, but he encountered a strange and strange thing - "deceitful corpse"!
The so-called corpse fraud, also known as corpse transformation, means that after a person dies, the corpse moves again. Legend has it that after death, the body rests for seven days, which is called the first seven. In the first seven days, if a wild cat jumps on the body in the middle of the night, and it happens to be thundering and lightning at this time, the everlasting lamp in front of the spirit will be extinguished immediately, and the corpse will jump up and pounce on the living, which is a fraudulent corpse.
When the corpse is being tampered with, if the corpse hugs the living person, it will clung to the surface and lie down. Although the corpse no longer moves, you can grab the hands of the living person and race two steel hoops and iron tongs, no matter how hard you try, you can't break him. But you can't let the corpse be buried with the living, so you can only break the limbs and bones of the corpse, or simply cut off the corpse's hands.
If it is said that the deceased is an outsider, it is easy to do, if it is his own father and mother or a close relative in the family, who can be ruthless, so if there is a white thing, the cat owner at home has to send the cat away, and someone must guard the spirit, saying that it is to guard the candle and lantern, in fact, the main thing is not to let wild cats, weasels and other small animals approach, turn around and cheat the corpse.
But what if it's unfortunate and the body is really deceived when doing white things? In fact, there is another way, which is to take a flat pole or a wooden stick, knock down the corpse, let the corpse grab the wooden stick and flatten, the big deal is to saw off the two ends of the flat pole, and then put the dead in the coffin, and let the dead take the flat pole to be buried, it is better than cutting off the arm and knocking the hand, so that people can not have the whole body after death.
This folk method is not nonsense, it was written in the former Qing Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai". Liao Zhai wrote a story called "Corpse Change", which is about a dead man tricking the corpse and attacking the living, when the living had no choice but to run around the tree, and the corpse finally hugged the tree, and the living were able to get out. But generally doing white things at home, where is it so vigorous, there is just a big tree for the corpse to hold. Besides, the wooden stick is always easy to find, in case the corpse really holds on to the tree and doesn't let go, if you want to be buried, you have to saw the tree, it will take a lot of effort!
In short, there are countless people who have heard about these rumors of defrauding corpses, but few have seen them with their own eyes. As for the Huzhuang corpse fraud case, what is going on, you have to listen to me tell you from the beginning......
Han Daring's mother's mother's family, originally lived in Huzhuang by the North Canal, Han Daring's grandfather was an apprentice in the antique shop on Guodian Street in his early years, and after becoming an apprentice, he also opened a shop, so the family moved to Yushi Street, the family has a son and a daughter, the daughter is Han Daring's mother, and the son is Han Daring's maternal uncle.
After Han Daring's parents got married, his uncle inherited the family business, and the business has been doing well, and he really made a lot of money. His uncle originally liked to be quiet, and always wanted to move back to Huzhuang to live, but after the death of his hometown, he simply moved back to Huzhuang, turned over and expanded the old house, and bought a lot of land, and became a landlord. In his spare time, he was planting flowers and grass, fishing and planting vegetables, and in that chaotic year in the world, I don't know how comfortable my life was.
Seeing that his uncle's birthday was approaching, Han Da'er's mother had been suffering from rheumatism recently, so he asked him to buy something and go to Huzhuang to see his uncle.
Han Dada'er knew that his uncle loved to eat Hehai Erxian, so he hurried to the Jingangqiao Fish Market. The fish market, also known as the fish pot gang, is controlled by some bosses and bullies, relying on the supply of fishermen in the upper and lower reaches of the Haihe River, and trading fish here all day long. Fishing boats are unloaded at any time and sold to fishing dealers. At that time, carp and crucian carp were available in the fish market all year round, and hairtail, yellow croaker, prawns, crabs, etc. were supplied seasonally, and the most famous was the whitebait of the Sancha estuary.
At this time, the season was right, and Han Daring deliberately came to the fish market early in the morning to ride a bicycle to buy his uncle's favorite whitebait purple crab. After buying, he went to Liu Ji Sauce Beef Shop, bought a large package of sauce beef, bought vine flower cake and walnut cake in Xiangde Zhai, as well as a bottle of Venus brand rose dew and a bottle of Wujia peel. There were a lot of things hanging on the front handlebar and the rear seat frame, so I rode along Li Gongci Street and went to the direction of Huzhuang in the North Canal.
Han Daring rode past Mujiazhuang to Beicang, and not far ahead is Huzhuang.
Mujiazhuang, behind the Tianqi Temple, has always been a settlement of Hui people in Tianjin. And the north warehouse from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties are the land of Tianjin Weitun grain, the Qing Yongzheng period is more in this place to build the warehouse of the grain in this place, because the location is in the north of Tianjin, so it is called the north warehouse, the place name is still used today.
When you arrive at Beicang, not far north along the North Canal, there is a large piece of Zhuangzi, which is Huzhuang. Huzhuang is close to the canal, some fishermen, the rest are some farmers who farm, the people are simple and the people live in peace, and there is a peaceful and peaceful scene inside and outside the village.
Han Da'er's uncle lived in a house in Zhuangzi, and as soon as he rode into Zhuangzi in his car, he saw a family not far away doing white business. People have birth, old age, sickness and death, but Han Daring saw at a glance that this white thing is different, because other families do white things, and the gate is pasted with the four big characters of "Forgiveness and Poor Reporting", but in addition to these four big characters, this family also pasted a "ghost spirit talisman" written on yellow paper and red pen on the lintel!