66. Antecedents of the case
Yan Sandao was ambushed in Chengdu that year, and escaped with injuries. He was wanted by the three provinces, so he could only hide his whereabouts, and he traveled all the way from the southwest to the north. Fortunately, he studied in Shandong and learned flying knife skills, so he was no stranger to the northern region, so he settled in Shandong to avoid the wind.
Although everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that there is Yan Sandao, and they all know his notoriety, but there are few who have really seen him and know him.
In addition, at that time, photographic technology was not yet popular, and there was no photo that could be identified. On the official documents of sea fishing in various places, there is only a plausible portrait. Thanks to this, except for the three southwestern provinces, Yan Sandao was in other places, even if he swaggered through the downtown area, no one recognized who he was.
At that time, others were in Shandong, just in time for the recruitment of the Zhilu Coalition Army, he didn't dare to use his real name, let alone mention a nickname, so he joined the army under the pseudonym "Zhen Huairen" who was apprenticed to learn art. became a soldier of the 14th Army of the Zhilu Allied Army at that time.
He tried his best to hide his skills in the army, thinking that after a few years of limelight, and then return to the southwest, at first he was afraid that people would hear the southwest accent, and he didn't talk much, but after a long time, he gradually learned the official dialect of the north, but he also tried to hide his original accent when he spoke, so no one found anything different in the army for a year and a half.
In the army, he also met a strange man who could speak ventriloquism, this person had a smart brain, and in his early years, he was a scholar and a little learned.
When I was in my hometown, I once bluntly exposed that a group of swaggering and deceiving gods and ghosts had tricks that caused ignorant villagers to beat me. This gang of crooks is secretly hooking up with very powerful local government officials. Unable to stay in his hometown any longer, he had to flee to other places.
On the run, he joined a grass stage troupe that performed circus. Because he is clever, he learned some boxing and kicking from the class master, and also learned the unique skill of ventriloquism. He followed the team to perform all the way, hungry and full, and had nothing to live, but saw many people who were deceived by gods and ignorant people, but gained a lot. He uncovered the tricks of the magic stick several times, but was besieged by superstitious villagers.
Seeing that the ignorance of the foolish people was all over the world, and it was difficult to be civilized at all, this person felt a disgust in his heart, and finally turned his heart sideways, and through the unique work of ventriloquism, he and the grass platform team also engaged in pretending to be gods and ghosts to deceive, and he actually made a lot of money. But the good times didn't last long, this person and the head of the grass platform team, because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, quarreled at the beginning, and then used force, and he accidentally stabbed the class owner to death during the fight.
His true temperament is already ruthless, and at this time, the murderer is extremely frightened, and it arouses the vicious temperament hidden in his heart, so he simply kills all the others in the grass platform team. A fire was set to the ground. But this incident was accidentally broken by passers-by.
He pretended to be a god and a ghost here, and pretended to be a master who invited gods to attract immortals every day, so many people in the local area knew about his case, and this passer-by quickly reported the case. After the incident, he was injured 12 times in a row, and was arrested everywhere at the yamen, and since then he can only change his name and surname.
Later, he felt that it was safer to be a soldier than to wander around. Feeling that there will always be no public people, he went to the army to find suspects, and it happened that the Zhilu coalition army was recruiting new recruits, so he signed up to join the army as a big soldier. This person was the later Netherhand Envoy of the Sanyang Sect, who was secretly executed in Xiaoxiguan Prison - Yin Xiao!
In fact, Yin Xiao is just a pseudonym, although he usually hides his skills, but he was recognized by Yan Sandao, who was "sympathetic" at a glance. And Yin Xiao also saw that Yan Sandao was by no means a good type. At first, the two were afraid of revealing their true identities, so they tested each other, and later used force in secret.
This Yin Xiao is not an idle person, although he is not as skilled as Yan Sandao, but he is thoughtful and has a lot of tricks, so the two of them are also on a par. After coming and going, there was a sense of pity for each other, and it didn't take long for them to form an offensive and defensive alliance, and after the rumors passed, they went out to make a fortune together!
Later, in the Northern Expedition, the Zhilu coalition army was defeated. Yan Sandao and Yin Xiao's Sun Dianying troops were also recruited, and later stationed in Ma Lanyu, Jixian County, Hebei Province, and were ordered to suppress bandits.
In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, Sun Dianying led his troops to blast open the Dongling Tomb, which was the culmination of thousands of years of tomb theft prevention. Openly excavated the burial goods in the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong.
Yin Xiao and Yan Sandao, both of whom were born as thieves, although it was inconvenient to shoot in the theft, but in the process of transporting the treasures, the two joined forces to steal several of the rare treasures that were buried with them, and fled from the army.
When the two were selling stolen goods, they met the Sanyang Sect by chance. Yan Sandao thought that the other party wanted to eat black, so he fought with the leader of the Sanyang Sect, the "Yellow Robe Ancestor", and almost lost both people and money.
He thought he was skilled, but he didn't want to have mountains outside the mountain, he just sat in the well and watched the sky to see the leopard. Before he came out of Sanhe, Yan Sandao was received by the yellow-robed ancestor, and Yin Xiao was also beaten by a master wearing a monkey-faced mask beside the yellow-robed ancestor, so that he couldn't get up.
The yellow-robed ancestor felt that they were both talents, so he persuaded each other. said that he didn't want any funeral goods, and promised to be more rich and noble, and wanted to take the two of them for his own use.
Both of them were born as bandits, and they knew that heroes did not suffer immediate losses, so they temporarily joined the Sanyang Sect. After joining the sect, these two people were quickly promoted to the twin envoys of the Sanyang Sect, Yin Xiao was the envoy of the Netherworld, and Yan Sandao was the envoy of Shura.
The two of them were in charge of the branch altar, and there were hundreds of sect members under their hands, and money came more easily than before, since then, their selfish desires and ambitions have swelled, and Tie Xin has become the backbone of the Sanyang Sect.
Under the planning of the sect leader Huangpao Ancestor, they wanted to use Tianjin Wei as the foundation to seek greater power and wealth.
Han Da'er broke the Nine Bends of the Sanyang Sect's Shura Branch, and abolished Yan Sandao's pair of tricks. He asked Zhu Tianfei to go home first to report his safety, and then personally escorted Yan Sandao back to the main hall.
He worked tirelessly for a day and a night and tried his best, only then did he smash the conspiracy of the Nine Bends, and when he returned to the main hall, he felt physically and mentally exhausted, and he fell asleep on the sofa in Mei's office, regardless of whether Mei was happy or not.
In fact, this time, Han Da'er was able to escape from the underground river, and broke through the Nine Bends Sanyang Sect Altar. Mei is beautiful and snotty bubbles, and her heart has long been happy. Patronizing and arranging people to surprise these Sanyang Sect members, how can there be time to deal with Han Daring!
There are one or two hundred people in the Sanyang Sect Branch, but most of them are ordinary people who have taken hallucinogens, and as for the real backbone, there are only about thirty. Therefore, except for these 30 or so who were detained in the prison waiting for interrogation, the others were directly sent to the shelter in Xiaoxiguan to be detained, and after they had ascertained their identities one by one and checked whether they had committed crimes, they were either locked up or released according to the severity of the circumstances!
The retribution of these thirty or so backbones in the main hall can be counted!
As the saying goes, people are bitter worms, and they can't fight if they don't fight, and at that time, there was no civilized trial, and the interrogator just "beaten" with one word! The hands of these policemen in charge of torture are really black, and the screams coming from the interrogation room will make anyone "tremble" when they hear it, and they will really cry and howl with ghosts and wolves, if others hear it, they will have chills down their spines and goosebumps!
Except for one or two who were directly punished but swallowed directly, there was no one who did not recruit the rest of the people. The most damaging thing is that one was beaten and tortured inside, and there was a group of people waiting for interrogation outside.
After entering, before the whip and soldering iron were raised, these people were all bald, and some of them were afraid that they would speak slowly and leak out, and even confessed to the cases they had not committed.
At first, Yan Sandao, like Yin Xiao, was also a dead duck with a hard mouth, an iron mouth, steel teeth, and a copper tongue, and the one who bites his mouth is called a death. But the heat of the police department is not something that ordinary people can endure. Sensei said that Yan Sandao is the king of Yama, and he has to kneel here to be a little ghost. After a few non-punishments, he didn't ask what to say.
After Yan Sandao was tortured several times, Han Da'er also woke up and followed the interrogation.
Han Daring remembered that the stone lions were chiseled in the small courtyard, so he asked the reason for the stone lions and the origin of the stone lions.
You may ask, isn't that stone lion the gate of Shuixi Village, the pair of stone lions that the Southern Barbarians held back the treasure at the beginning, but in fact, it is really not!
Because when escorting these thieves back to the main hall, Han Daring deliberately went to Shuixizhuang, but saw that although Shuixizhuang was ruined and desolate, the pair of stone lions were still standing at the door.
Yan Sandao couldn't survive the punishment, so he told the reason. According to his confession, the place of Jiudaowan'er was originally favored by Yin Xiao first. Because in the hands of the Yellow Robe Ancestor, the leader of the Sanyang Sect, there is an ancient book called "Yin and Yang Yantianlu", which not only records some demonic and evil methods, but also writes some unknown ancient legends.
It mentions that in ancient times, before Tianjin Wei retreated from the sea and returned to the land, there was a "country without end". Legend has it that this endless country has countless treasures, among which there is an ancient artifact called "Yuanqiao Immortal Mirror". It is said that this fairy mirror can conjure yin and yang, bring the dead back to life, and with its help, you can soar in the daytime.
In the Ming Dynasty, someone once found this endless country, and later this person hid the clues to the endless country in three stone beasts in Tianjin Weizhen.
There were originally a total of nine stone lions outside Shuixi Village, and legend has it that these nine stone lions were the stone beasts that suppressed Tianjin's Weidi Qi. The clue to the search for the endless kingdom is hidden in the bodies of three of the stone lions.
At that time, the stone lion of Shuixizhuang was specially carved by the craftsman for the garden, and it was originally just an ordinary gatekeeper stone beast, but on the way to transportation, it was replaced by someone for the current stone lion, so the appearance is slightly different from the ordinary stone lion.
In the early years, the stone lion outside Shuixi Village was once chiseled open, as for whether it was done by the Southern Barbarians and whether they found anything, these Yan Sandao is not clear.
Regardless of whether the record in the so-called "Yin Yang Yantianlu" is true or not, anyway, the "Yellow Robe Ancestor" has always believed in the existence of the endless kingdom and those three clues. Therefore, he sent the disciples scattered in Tianjin to search around. Naturally, the stone lion in Shuixizhuang had been looking for it a long time ago, but it found nothing.
Later, Yin Xiao trafficked human beings and escorted the box containing the woman from Xigu, but the box containing the person accidentally fell into the water. Because he was afraid that people would find out that there were people in the box, he ordered his men to go into the water to salvage it. I didn't want to be in the Xigu River, and found a stone lion sunk in the river, half-hidden by silt, and the appearance was the stone beast depicted in "Yin and Yang Yantianlu".
Yin Xiao ordered people to go down to the river and dig stone lions in the water, and sure enough, he found an ebony box in it, which also confirmed the authenticity of this part of the account in "Yin Yang Yantianlu". But not long after taking out the box, the Yellow Robe Ancestor, the leader of the Sanyang Sect, disappeared before he could touch the box, and even the three major protectors under him disappeared one after another.
At this time, in addition to the two major envoys, there were only seven sect masters and thousands of sect members left in the Sanyang Sect, and everyone killed and framed each other in order to compete for the position of the sect leader, making the sect very chaotic.
At this moment, the master beside the sect leader, the masked man temporarily took the position of the sect leader, and he temporarily led the whole sect, so that the Sanyang Sect would not fall apart.
The identity of this masked man is a mystery, and even Yin Xiao and Yan Sandao don't know his true identity, let alone the seven sect masters. This man is quick-witted, very skilled in martial arts, and ruthless, and no one dares to make another mistake for a while, but they each secretly recruit believers and run their own business.
The masked man asked Yin Xiao to call out the ebony square box found by the stone lion, but Yin Xiao already had his own calculations, he kept the ebony square box properly, and planned to collect clues by himself. Without waiting for the masked man to come to the door to ask for the ebony box, Yin Xiao was captured at the scene of the crime and imprisoned in Xiaoxiguan Prison.
Before being arrested, Yin Xiao took a fancy to the terrain of the alley in Jiudaowan'er, and wanted to use this place as the new Netherworld Altar of the Sanyang Sect, replacing the old altar hidden in the village outside the East Freight Yard. At this time, Yan Sandao took over the grain store of Jiudaowan'er, and instead established his own Shura altar here.
Yan Sandao took over the excavation of the tunnel here, originally wanted to borrow the formation form of the original alley, but the original formation had already been broken, he could only find a master, using three-dimensional paintings, ecstasy incense, copper wire walking lights and traps and other means, with the rumors of ghosts hitting the wall spread everywhere, and excavated the tunnel like an ant's nest, and built this place into an impregnable nest.
When digging the tunnel, Yan Sandao understood why Yin Xiao chose to build a branch altar here. It turned out that in the backyard of this grain store, there was half a stone pier buried in the ground, and the original shopkeeper and the guy of the grain store didn't care, thinking that it was just a stone, the surface of the stone was smooth and cool, and it was a stone bench race, and they often sat on it in summer to chat and enjoy the coolness.
Yan Sandao dug it up and took a look, only to find that this was also one of the nine stone lions in the town, it turned out that before Yin Xiao bought this grain store, he saw that this stone pier was a part of the stone lion, so he wanted to build the branch altar here, in order to dig the stone lion and take out the clues.
Yan Sandao ordered his cronies to dig out the stone lion and put it in the small courtyard, and closed the doors and windows, and ordered them to dig secretly to find clues, in fact, this kid also wanted to keep the clues for himself, for fear that the masked man would know the news.
Yan Sandao took over Yin Xiao's human trafficking business, and merged with his original business of selling tobacco and soil. At the same time, it also used the hallucinogen configuration method taught by the yellow-robed ancestor with the "Yin and Yang Yantianlu". Using opium extract and deer flower toadstool, it is blended into a mind-controlling hallucinogen, in a vain attempt to develop more followers and increase power.
But I don't know if it's a recipe problem, or a mistake in the production process, this hallucinogen has not been successful, so I can only continue to feed the people hallucinogens, which is the so-called "White Yang Holy Water" of the Sanyang Sect.
He also prayed that he could find the clue to the endless country in the stone lion, but his subordinates chiseled all over the stone lion, but they couldn't find it!
It was at this time that Han Da'er found out here, and it was only then that the things that happened in the previous document happened, so that the last Nine Dao Er's branch altar was destroyed, and Yan Sandao himself was blind to a pair of tricks and became a waste.
Han Daring asked about several Tanglin national treasures found in the cellar of the grain store.
Originally, Yan Sandao and Yin Xiao were indeed soldiers in Sun Dianying's army back then, but after the Tanglin robbery, the two stole a few treasures and escaped from the barracks. But as soon as Han Daring asked about this, he was hesitant, obviously hiding something.
Fan Tong, who was present, saw that Yan Sandao's words were insincere, and remembered that when he interrogated "Wenqumen Tianquanzi - Chen Qi" in Xiaoxiguan Prison, he had scared him to mention non-punishment. I don't know where Fan Tong found a few pig bristles, so he has to start punishing Yan Sandao.
Han Daring felt that this method was too lacking in morality, and wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, without this method, I am afraid that he would not be able to ask the truth about the Tanglin National Treasure.
Fan Tong, this kid, not only knows how to eat, but also has a lot of bad tricks. This time, he didn't use words to scare, and directly ripped off Yan Sandao's clothes and pants and was about to do it. He forgot that Yan Sandao had scrapped the move, and he couldn't see what he wanted to do at all. He also thought that Yan Sandao was fighting to death, so he couldn't help but say it.
Yan Sandao can be regarded as unlucky, worse than falling into the hands of the stepmother, the bristles burrowed into the nipples and the horse's eyes, and the pain on the spot was so painful that it screamed for a long time, and the screaming did not look like a human voice!
After a moment's work, before Han Da'er could continue to ask, Yan Sandao took the initiative to explain the truth.
It turns out that there is another batch of Tanglin national treasures whose whereabouts are unknown, and now they are stored somewhere in a secret place in Tianjin Wei......