In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the great powers of various countries regarded the territory of the Qing Dynasty as a piece of fat, and came to China with firearms and ships, eager to get a piece of the pie.

In that late Qing Dynasty, when the government was decaying and incompetent, and the country was weak and the people were poor, those sects that were fighting the people and helping the people to destroy the foreign countries and in the name of religion carried out superstitious acts of deceiving gods and ghosts one after another, and one after another, they sprung up one after another in various places.

Since the Jiaqing period, after the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in Sichuan and Shaanxi was suppressed, this is another sad era in which superstitious gods and Buddhas can save the common people. Those so-called divine soldiers and the whole people, with the help of superstitious means, harvested a large number of believers in various places, on the surface it was the so-called support of the Qing and the destruction of the foreign, but in fact it was a farce made in order to seek personal interests and power.

Being able to treat foreigners as ghosts, splashing foreign guns and cannons with feces and urine, known as exorcising ghosts and punishing evil spirits, this kind of thing is simply stupid in the eyes of modern people, and it is a joke at all, but at that time it made the people believe it.

Think about it, most of the foreign guns and cannons at that time were ignited and fired by gunpowder, and the buckets of and urine were splashed over, but if they got closer, they could extinguish the fuse. As soon as the fuse is extinguished, the gunpowder is damp, and the gun naturally cannot be fired.

Then you will use spears and knives, cold weapons and slashes indiscriminately, and you can hack and stab one or two foreigners to death at will, and you will be able to blow this battle into a complete victory and a great victory. This doesn't have to be put into modern warfare, it's just a few decades later, and the development of guns and artillery is more advanced than it is now, and your, urine, and spear are enough to choke on you no matter how close you are.

Of course, cold weapons have their own benefits, and the broadsword team of the 29th Army made the Japanese frightened. But that was a real battlefield fight, and everyone was fighting to the death, knowing that their bodies couldn't stop the guns, and still moving forward without fear of life and death. It is completely different from those cults that fight invulnerability and send ordinary people to death.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the leading superstitious organization was the Boxers, who compiled their slogans into limericks.

What "God helps boxing, boxing, just because the devil is in trouble in the Central Plains." Men are five Lun, women commit adultery, and ghosts and children are all born of children and mothers. If you don't believe it, look carefully, the devil's eyes are blue. ”

What else is "the gods are angry, the immortals are resentful, and they go down the mountain together to spread the word." The immortal comes out of the hole, the god goes down the mountain, and the fist is passed on by the human body. Breaking railroads, pulling out poles, and urgently destroying steamships. ”

These people also proclaimed many senior brothers, senior sisters, all of them were arrogant, and they really went down to the mortal race with the gods. They claim to have invited God to come up, and they are invulnerable.

At that time, in Tianjin Wei, there was a Boxer Boxing Club that exclusively accepted women, because these women who joined the club were wearing red clothes and red pants, the older combed high bun and tied red headscarves, and the young combs grabbed the bun and tied the red head rope, holding a red folding fan in their left hand and a red light in their right hand, so they were called "red lanterns"!

The red light shines on the senior sister Lin Hei'er in power, known as the "Yellow Lotus Holy Mother". Legend has it that she has a Taoist method, not only is she invulnerable, but with a red fan in her left hand, she can ascend to the sky step by step and soar in the air. Wherever the red light shines on the right hand, there is a sea of fire!

Okay! It's all time to catch up with laser weapons!

In fact, although the Holy Mother of Yellow Lotus is evil, this Lin Heier is just the daughter of a boat owner in the Weinan Canal in Tianjin. Because her father and husband were arrested and killed by foreigners, she held a grudge and fled to Jinghai Duliu in Tianjin, and with the help of Yihequan, she returned to Tianjin Wei, and set up a red light to illuminate the altar by the canal behind the Hou family, calling herself Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus.

At that time, most of the people who joined the red light were lower-class women, in fact, Lin Heier herself used to be a boat prostitute. Once these people were successful, under the banner of divine soldiers and boxers, they burned churches everywhere, killed foreigners, and fought against foreigners, they were indomitable and fearless of life and death, and gained a large number of believers. At that time, who dared to say that the red light was a deception to the gods and ghosts, and when these senior sisters did it, those believers alone could tear you alive.

But all this ended with the defeat of the Boxer.

At the time of the change of Gengziguo, there were more than 100,000 or 200,000, and it was also said that 350,000 people who were known as the gods and boxers who were not as good as guns were renamed "Tiger God Camp" by the Empress Dowager Cixi. They cooperated with more than 100,000 Qing troops against the Eight-Nation Alliance, which was more than 10,000 and less than 20,000.

Doesn't it always say that you are invulnerable, and you can ask God to possess you, it's time to see the real chapter, and it's too late to regret it at this point. The result can be imagined, except for a group of senior brothers and sisters who were blown away by artillery fire, most of the divine soldiers and boxers were scattered at that time, and the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing City in less than a day. The defeat of the Boxer also disintegrated with the red light.

Legend has it that when the city of Tianjin was broken, the red light was wiped out by the foreign soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Lin Hei'er, the Holy Mother of Yellow Lotus, was also captured by foreign soldiers. Among these foreign soldiers, there are many people who know the red light, and they have seen the act of burning the church with the red light to kill foreigners, so when they see the leader of the red light, they hate them so much that their teeth itch. Now that Lin Heier is in their hands, what else can they do!

They tortured and tortured Lin Heier to death, and after his death, they also took out Lin Heier's body and brain, made it into a specimen, and pulled it to European countries for exhibition.

Of course, there are also rumors that Lin Heier was shot by foreigners in the court of law, and before the execution, a red light suddenly appeared, a red light flew from the sky, and where the red light illuminated, it became a sea of fire, burning countless foreign soldiers, and Lin Heier also flew away in the red light. Later, she once appeared in Shandong and other places to recruit people and horses to form red lanterns, but this is just a legend, and there is no real evidence.

Decades later, there was a murder in the concession, a British-German in his fifties died tragically at home, was cut in half, sprayed with blood all over the house, the door was locked, and a few Chinese characters were written on the wall with human blood.

"The red light is holy, and the punishment is like a law!"

Later, after the investigation of the Ministry of Industry, the dead German was once a member of the German army in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and he was also one of the culprits who tortured and killed the Yellow Lotus Mother Lin Heier back then.

A few days after this case occurred, a similar murder occurred in the British Concession, a young British businessman hanged himself in a hotel room with the door locked. After the Ministry of Industry Bureau patrolled the arrest, he searched for clues in the room and found that on the white sheets in the room, there were also a few big characters as red as blood: "The red light shows the saint, and the heavenly punishment is like a law"!

But with the age of this young man, Gengzi may not have been born at that time, even if the ghost seeks revenge, he should be wronged and have a debtor, and he can't just kill a foreigner to make up the number, right?

Later, the Ministry of Industry Bureau verified and learned that the young man's father was a member of the British army of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and he was also one of the culprits who killed Our Lady of the Yellow Lotus, but he died of illness a few years ago, so this ghost sought revenge and found his descendants.

Today, Han Daring and Mei Ruohong went to DD Western Restaurant for dinner, and met Bai Chongwei and Martin G Fusx, the inspector of the Detective Section of the Ministry of Industry, and also dined here. After Han Da'er and Martin inquired about Xinghe Trade, a fat foreigner at the table next to Mei Ruohong suddenly fell to the ground, his abdomen burst, and his internal organs flew to the ground, but the wound was not full of gunpowder and explosives remains, and the fat man was more like being killed by an invisible force.

In the previous Xiaoxiguan ghost case, although there was also a deceased who was dissected and died, but it was his own person who sat in the buckle, this time Han Dada'er witnessed it with his own eyes, no one approached in front of him, and he couldn't even find a suspect.

Bai Chongwei heard about the recent legend of evil ghosts killing people in the concession, so he asked Martin, a police officer from the Ministry of Works. Han Da'er didn't know why, so he asked Bai Chongwei about the cause of the incident, and only then did he know that there were two murders of the Holy Mother of Yellow Lotus in the concession.

Martin turned to look around the fat man, only to see that the food was scattered on the ground, the soup and wine were scattered all over the floor, and the tablecloth was also scattered on the floor.

After a while, a big red character slowly appeared on the tablecloth, just like the two unsolved cases in the concession, both of which were "red lights show saints, and heaven will punish and kill like a law"! Obviously, it is also the same case of the ghost of the Yellow Lotus Virgin.

Han Daring doesn't believe in these ghostly things, but although he is a policeman in the Chinese realm, he has no right to handle cases in the concession. He kindly suggested that Martin bring in some policemen and cordon off the scene, so that no one would leave, maybe the murderer was among them.

Who knew that Martin, an Englishman, had changed his modest and courteous gentlemanly demeanor just now, and became very arrogant, and he didn't hear Han Daring's words. When Bai Chongwei introduced it, he only said that Han Daring had saved his life, and did not mention Han Daring's work, so he didn't know that the young man in front of him was actually a Chinese detective from Jinmen.

Martin said in English:

"Mr. Han, it is the duty of our police to investigate the case, and this is within the concession, so I don't need your opinion!"

Han Daring was kind-hearted, but he ate a big neck, how could he be so angry, even if it was against Bai Chongwei's face. But just as he wanted to reply, and then thought that he would have to ask him for help in the future, so he could only swallow the words back into his stomach for the time being.

Han Daring thought, since he pointed out the way and people didn't go, then who cared about him, anyway, it was a foreigner who died, and it was a case in the concession, so he simply turned his face to the other side, out of sight and out of mind.

At this time, Martin called the manager of the restaurant, showed his police ID of the Ministry of Industry, and asked him to call the police of the Ministry of Industry, and then closed the door of the restaurant.

Han Daring was almost angry after hearing this, isn't this the same as what he said, what's the difference? Repeating it is tantamount to a wise decision he made, right?

Not long after, a black van stopped at the entrance of the DD restaurant, and a team of foreign policemen wearing black police uniforms and black helmets got out of the car. After entering the restaurant, the leader of the team talked to Martin for a few words, and then asked the police to pull up a cordon, block the restaurant, and then all the guests, including the waiters, managers, cooks, and even those who sweep the floor and clean the toilet, all questioned one by one and made a record of the questioning.

By the time they were done, it was almost midnight, and the trams had stopped outside. But after checking and checking, I didn't find any clues, everyone present, except for the waiter, no one had ever approached the table at all, and the chef and waiter were not suspicious. The police could only write down everyone's identity and address, and then let everyone go.

Han Dada'er originally bought a ticket for the Tianle Cinema in Quanyechang, and wanted to invite Mei Ruohong to watch the play after eating Western food, but who knew that she would meet Bai Chongwei, and later this strange sudden case occurred, and all the arrangements were disrupted.

At this time, it was getting late, and there was no one on the road, only the street lights in the concession were still on. At this time, the tram also stopped, Han Daring didn't ride a bicycle, so Bai Chongwei proposed to send them home, but Mei Ruohong wanted to go, so he politely declined.

Han Daring and Bai Chongwei made an appointment to visit the "George Brown" who lived in the British Concession in two days. He didn't worry that Mei Ruohong was a girl walking alone at night, so he accompanied Mei Ruohong for a walk on the street and slowly walked back to her house.

Han Daring didn't eat at lunch, and when he patronized to inquire about the news at dinner, he didn't eat at all, and later there was a murder. Han Daring accompanied Mei Ruohong on foot, Mei Ruohong was tireless and in a good mood, but Han Daring was so hungry that he was concentrating on his back, and when he sent Mei Ruohong home, his stomach was already drumming.

I didn't eat today, and I didn't watch the play, Han Daring felt a little sorry, so she made an appointment with Mei Ruohong to go to Quanyechang tomorrow, this time to go to the Huagong restaurant on General Foch Road, and then go directly to Tianle Theater to watch the latest "Journey to the West".

To tell the truth, Mei Ruohong is not interested in this kind of drama at all, but as long as she can be with Han Dada'er, she is very happy in her heart. It's just that Mei Ruohong's personality is dictated, sometimes she always seems moody, giving people a feeling of being cold and difficult to get close to, in fact, she is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, although she is cold on the outside, but she is very warm and soft on the inside.

When Han Daring walked home, it was almost midnight, and he saw a person walking forward on the street with a wonton pick. This person is the old Li of the South Gate takeaway supper. This old Li sells supper until midnight, and at this time he is picking up and is walking home.

Han Daring often eats his wontons, so he knows Da Lao Li. So he hurried two steps to meet him, stopped him, and asked if he had anything to eat.

When the elder Li saw that it was Han Daring, he put down his pick and said:

"Han Tou'er! You're lucky, the wontons aren't sold out tonight, and there are still two bowls left, so I'll make a fire and cook them for you! ”

Da Lao Li found a sheltered place on the side of the road, put the picks off, lit the tandoor, and boiled soup to cook wontons. He saw that Han Daring was hungry, so he took out a few steamed buns and handed them to Han Daring, which was left over from the pancakes, although it was a cold steamed bun, but the authentic Tianjin Wei steamed bun was not soft or collapsed even if it was cold, and it was not pimpy at all when bitten.

Han Daring sat on the maza, eating steamed buns, waiting for the wontons, and remembered the case that happened tonight. He has nothing else to do, he is interested in strange cases, although this case is not under his control, but he always can't suppress this curiosity. There are no clues now, but he always feels that this case is not over, and maybe there will be a follow-up.

At this time, chaos was also healed, and he drank two sips of wonton soup while it was hot. At this time, it was already early winter, and in the middle of the night, the cold was very long, and a small wind blew, and it went straight into the bones. Now in the mouth of the hot soup, suddenly the whole body is warm, and I only feel that the wonton soup tastes extremely delicious, but I can't taste the soup with what is hung. Neither like bone broth nor fish broth, he casually jokingly asked:

"Da Lao Li! Your soup is delicious, but it doesn't look like broth and bone broth, or fish broth, so don't be a soup with human flesh hanging anymore! ”

Da Lao Li hurriedly said:

"Okay! Han Tou'er, don't talk nonsense! Let others listen, who can buy my wontons again! I'm wearing a secret recipe at home, and I can't really tell ......."

At this time, the eldest elder Li looked behind Han Da'er, Han Da'er knew that there was someone behind him, and this person was reaching out to Han Da'er's back......