Murder

Regardless of the wars or the rivers and rivers, the profession of patting Hanako has continued to thrive in the towns and cities without interruption.

There are men and women in Paihuazi, and most of them are ordinary in appearance, even kind and gentle, never vicious.They confuse children very cleverly, using candy balls, small toys, jokes or words to trick them. Children who are not on guard are easily taken away by paws, and they will never be able to reunite with their parents since then.

"The laws and regulations of my court impose heavy penalties on this kind of behavior." Sima Feng said, "In the first few years, anyone who abducted and trafficked children or damaged them to the point of disability was all sentenced to death. It has not weakened, but the deterrent effect is not strong enough."

The criminal law was drafted by the ancestors of the Sima family, and Sima Feng knew it all too well.

Song Beiyan rummaged through the herbs and came over to listen.

"I'm familiar with this sign." Chi Yebai drew a square on the ground, and wrote the character "人" in the center of the square.The herringbone is bigger than a square, and the head and feet exceed the frame line, like a person who has escaped from prison.

"The Huainan area was hit by floods and droughts ten years ago. The situation can be described as horrible. Some people had too many children and couldn't keep them. They were either sold to traffickers or left to fend for themselves. During that time The human traffickers in Huainan are extremely rampant. There are as many as 360 or four paihuazi who were killed within a year. There are more than 300 people, each of whom has abducted and trafficked at least [-] children, and there are at least [-] children a year. This is just one The number discovered during the year." Chi Yebai said quickly while recalling, "This mark also appeared in that year. Among the prisoners who were executed with sticks, more than two hundred had this tattoo on their shoulders. "

"What does this tattoo mean?" Song Beiyan asked, "It's just a deformed prisoner character."

Chi Yebai sneered coldly: "It means that those children are in dire straits, and Pai Huazi is to save them from the dire straits, so that they will no longer be bound by the pain of this moment."

Song Beiyan: "...What a big tone."

He thought for a while, then whispered: "But if it is true as you said, Huainan was horrible at the time, then Pai Huazi abducted the children to other places, and many of them survived. Although Chen Yunyue was forced to marry many times Married, but she is still alive, isn't she luckier than the rest of the children who can't escape?"

"You only know one, not the other." Sima Feng's tone sank, and Song Beiyan could hear depression and hidden hatred from his words, "Child, have you heard of 'human dog'*?"

Song Beiyan was about to say "no", but Chi Yebai had stopped sharply: "Don't say such things to children!"

Sima Feng ignored Chi Yebai's stop: "Abducting and selling children elsewhere in exchange for head money is a way of making money, and there is another way of making money without selling children, which is to make 'human dogs'." Huazi soaked and fed four or five-year-old children with medicine juice, so that they grew rough black hair; they carefully chopped off their hands and feet, connected the four paws and tail of a black dog, and then dragged them to beg, saying that they were from Nanyang. A strange beast, look at ten coins, touch twenty coins. Some children live longer and can talk, they teach him to recite some simple poems, such as the most familiar "human nature is good". One sentence, those onlookers applauded happily, and threw down the money happily. Do you know how much is the sentence 'the beginning of man'?"

Song Beiyan felt cold all over, and tiny bumps appeared layer by layer on his arms.This is a tragedy in the world that he has never heard of and never imagined.

"No... I don't know..." He was terrified, more afraid than hearing the boatman talk about skinning dead bodies on the boat, he unconsciously grasped Chi Yebai's hand tightly.

Chi Yebai patted him on the shoulder, and added in a low voice: "One tael of silver for a word. This job is too lucrative, so many people try it wholeheartedly. Perhaps only one child in a hundred can survive these pains , and become a tool for them to show off and make money. Last year, there were [-] cases of 'human dog' cases in various places. You can count how many children died in vain behind this."

Song Beiyan felt nausea in his stomach and almost vomited.

"This is 'Human Dog', and so are 'Human Bear' and 'Human Sheep'. 'Human Sheep' are mostly little girls, the skin and flesh on their backs have been scalded, and freshly peeled sheepskin is bloody applied, and slowly We grew up together. I once handled a case of 'human bear'. The boy was 15 years old when he was trafficked. He could write. He was sold to a beggar by patting Hanako. The beggar turned him into a human bear. Fortunately, he took advantage of the beggar's ignorance and bit off his finger to write on the floor of the cage to ask for help. If it wasn't for this, no one would know that the strange beast was born like this."

Chi Yebai noticed that Song Beiyan was trembling all the time, grabbed his wrist with his backhand, pulled him to his side and hugged him, and patted his back: "You only know that people like Chen Yunyue can survive properly, but you don't know that those who are made into The child of this kind of monster. When patting Hanako to abduct and sell a child, can they predict what the child's fate will be? They only do this for money and selfish desires. When the transaction is completed, the child will be fine It's not because of his kindness, but the misery of that child's life was all caused by patting flowers."

Song Beiyan nodded repeatedly in his arms.He didn't know why, when he heard these things, he felt chills in his bones.He has not told Chi Yebai and Sima Feng that he is also a child without father and mother, and was picked up and raised by his adoptive father Wen Xuanzhou.If it weren't for Wen Xuanzhou, would he also have stepped into the fate of a "human dog"?

As long as he thought about it for a moment, he immediately trembled with fear.

"Besides, you think it's good for Chen Yunyue to survive... Who knew she couldn't live with her parents and relatives? Who can say that her current way of living is better than starving and freezing in her hometown? Some people would rather die than die. Willing to suffer this kind of abuse." Chi Yebai stroked Song Beiyan's back, his voice was soft, "Xiao Song, you are not her, you can't judge whether it is good or bad for her."

Song Beiyan was speechless, clutching Chi Yebai's skirt tightly.

Sima Feng watched impatiently, but couldn't tear him away immediately, so he simply stood up and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Chi Yebai asked.

"Go to Liu's house and have a look. Tools are needed to make and preserve human skin lanterns. I'll go to Chen Yunyue's room to have a look. And she really can't subdue a strong man, but if those dead people were killed Lost consciousness, even a child can stab and strangle them to death. I can't figure this out, so I'll think about it." Sima Feng looked back at him, "Are you coming or not?"

Chi Yebai hesitated for a moment, then stretched out a finger to push away Song Beiyan who was leaning on him.

"Come."

Pale white lanterns had been hung outside Liu's house, one on the left and one on the dark door, like a howling ghost with staring eyes.

Except for a few wives, the Liu family has no males.The women didn't cry in the mourning hall either, they were all very calm, they only asked Sima Feng and Chi Yebai when they would execute Chen Yunyue.

Chi Yebai was not good at dealing with it, Sima Feng put on a serious look and dealt with it for a while, and the women led them to the small courtyard where Chen Yunyue lived.The yard is slightly remote, and it is tightly attached to the wall of Liu's house.The women said that because Liu Qiao, Liu Feng, and Liu Junfu all died after marrying Chen Yunyue, Chen Yunyue had been regarded as a malevolent star and Kefu's hard order, so they were arranged to live in this remote courtyard.

Although the courtyard is small, Chen Yunyue has made it very tidy. The courtyard is full of various flowers and trees, and it is full of faint fragrance.

Turning around and seeing the women had gone outside to wait, Chi Yebai got up and jumped onto the roof.Looking up, there is only a small road between this courtyard and the Taoyuan on Qingping Island.

When the evening wind picked up, peach petals danced wildly.Chi Yebai checked the distance with his eyes, and looked down at Sima Feng standing on the ground smiling at himself.

"Find what?" he asked.

Sima Feng shook his head: "Nothing."

The peach petals blew into Chi Ye's white hair and clothes, he jumped to the ground, lightly shook his sleeves, immediately countless soft crimson flower pieces fell from his clothes.The ground was black and blue, Chi Yebai and Sima Feng couldn't help but look down at the falling petals.When he looked up again, Sima Feng was looking at him and smiling.That smile was beautiful and gentle, Chi Yebai's heart skipped a beat, unable to meet his eyes, he immediately turned his head.

"This place is very close to Taoyuan." Chi Yebai whispered, "It's not difficult to climb out at night."

"I'll go to the house to have a look." Sima Feng said.

As soon as he finished speaking, both of them frowned at the same time, looking up at the wall.

Song Beiyan's head protruded from the wall, lying on his stomach and trying to jump in.

Sima Feng: "...What are you doing here again? Didn't I ask you to sleep at home?"

Song Beiyan: "I'm afraid."

As he said, he kicked his legs again and again to climb over the wall.

Sima Feng: "If you're afraid, you can overcome it by yourself. What's the use of asking us?"

Song Beiyan snorted: "I'm not looking for you, I'm looking for Big Brother Chi."

Sima Feng: "..."

Chi Yebai carefully got him off, and beat him on the head helplessly.

Song Beiyan's eyes lit up as soon as he landed.He snatched the lantern from Sima Feng and quickly walked around the yard.

"Oh my mother." He was both excited and nervous, "This yard is not simple."

Those two people immediately stepped in front of him: "Why is this not an easy method?"

"This is hookworm grass, this is the white five-star, this pile of purple flowers is aconitum and delphinium, the corner of the wall is flavescens, the ones that bloom the most beautifully, yes, yes, yellow ones are day lily and Yellow Rhododendrons." Song Beiyan pointed to the two of them one by one, "These flowers and plants are all poisonous, and those who are mild are unconscious or weak, and those who are severe are short of breath and will die easily."

He took a few glances, and couldn't help but added: "It seems that it has been planted for many years, and the branches are so strong."

Sima Feng and Chi Yebai quickly exchanged glances.Both of them understood what the other was trying to say.

If the murderer was really Chen Yunyue, she might have killed more than two people.

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*Human-dog, human-sheep, and human-bear: from the "human-dog" incident in Changsha during the Qianlong period and the "human-bear" incident in Huqiu City, Suzhou, recorded in "Qing Barnyard Banknotes".In ancient my country, the crackdown on human trafficking was extremely severe, especially for those who were damaged and disabled (called "harvesting and cutting off" in ancient times). In the Ming Dynasty, they were executed by Lingchi, and in the Qing Dynasty, they were executed with sticks.Paihuazi and the family of the beggar were exiled to the frontier, and the accomplices were executed.But even so, "human dog" and "human bear" still frequently appeared in historical materials during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there were more than one cases.

The author has something to say:

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"Qing Barnyard Banknotes" is a set of books compiled by people in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China (I regard it as a collection of materials). Interesting addition.At present, I only know that Zhonghua Bookstore has a complete set of thirteen volumes. I have seen a few copies in the school library before. It is very interesting...but it is very expensive orz.Wait for this year's Double Eleven to win!Yes it's an Amway, if the school library has it don't hesitate 1

Similar things have never disappeared because of social civilization and economic development.It may become more stealthy, more difficult to detect.

I'm sorry to write here and couldn't help but express some emotion, I hope it won't affect everyone's mood when reading the article, sorry.